archived-code-general

[wide fiber]

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "Legs", menuName = "Position")]
public class RandomRangeSO : ScriptableObject
{
    public int minValue = 0;
    public int maxValue = 10;

    public int GetRandomValue()
    {
        return Random.Range(minValue, maxValue);
    }
}```

it seems not to work? did i do anything wrong?

pls advice 😦 i thought i had this.

[heady iris]

what does "it seems not to work" mean?

that could mean basically anything

[wide fiber]

oh means like it didnt select my maxvalue for some reason 😭

i've been playing over and over again

[radiant marten]

is GetRandomValue() being called?

[wide fiber]

but none reaches my max value

[wide fiber]

yess

[heady iris]

yes, because if you look at the documentation...

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

Return a random int within [minInclusive..maxExclusive) (Read Only).

maxExcusive is exclusive, so for example Random.Range(0, 10) will return a value between 0 and 9, each with approximately equal probability.

[wide fiber]

.....

oh... ok. i think i got it hahaha. thank you!!

so bascially i will just set my "max value" higher

[heady iris]

correct

add one if you intend for this to produce 0,1,2,...,8,9,10

[main token]

Hey, I got a scene that has a grid of points, and I want to find the any two points that has the least distance between them. I'm using Recursion/DAC to achieve this. However, it only seems to be accurate about 50-60% of the time. Is there anyone who can spot what I'm doing wrong?
https://gist.github.com/Cruxial0/3e450d32eecca674e5ce36f6c8d6dfe9

here's an image of what I mean if my explanation wasn't good enough lol

[heady iris]

DAC?

[main token]

Divide and conquer

[heady iris]

i would not expect that to work

[main token]

this is actually one of it's most common use cases

so I think it should work just fine

[heady iris]

ah, I see, you sort it first

[heavy lynx]

is there a method to reset a scene in unity?

[hard sparrow]

Should Audio Manager be a singleton, and have objects just do AudioManager.singleton.Play(x), or have it be a regular class and play sounds through events?

(or some other way)

[dapper forge]

Today at work Linq has failed me hard and I need someone to explain to me what just happened. My code looked something like this:

private List<Player> players;
public void OnPlayerDead(Player player){
  player.gameObject.SetActive(false);
  if(players.Select(p=>p.gameObject.activeSelf).Count() > 1)
    return;
  //Do some logic to indicate that last player standing won
}

So basically whenever a player dies I deactivate him and unless there is only one active player left I exit the method.
I dont see anything wrong with this code, yet it gave me a hard time couse apparently this Linq expression always returned just a collections size, like this Select() wasnt even there... wtf?????
When I switched to basic counting with foreach:

int c = 0;
foreach(Player p in players)
  if(p.gameObject.activeSelf) c++;
if(c>1)
  return;
//Do some logic...

i was getting a result i was expecting to get, which assured me that Linq was the problem, but I still dont know why the heck did it trolled me like that...

[heady iris]

Why do you believe this was the case?

Did you get a compiler error?

[dapper forge]

no error whats so ever, only problem I had what that this if statement was always true

[dapper forge]

well... couse i made the same operation with foreach loop and Linq appereantly wasnt behaving the same

[late lion]

What the Select is doing there is converting it into a IEnumerable<bool>. Those bools can be true or false and Count just counts them. What you probably wanted to use was Where.

[heady iris]

ah, yes

i mentally glossed over that

"Select" is a funky name.

[late lion]

Or you can use Any, which can be a little faster because it stops when it finds the first one.

[heady iris]

It makes it sound like you're picking things out of the enumerable

[dapper forge]

OH RIGHT!!!!

[heady iris]

these names were all picked to match SQL terms, iirc

[dapper forge]

i totaly should used where, find, os something liek that...

ok so now i see where the error is... a man after 8 hours of work simple forgets what Select is used for XD

[heady iris]

ha, I missed it at first too

"yeah, that's a predicate, so it'll filter it..."

[dapper forge]

didnt do SQL for like 3 years so yeah... this part of a brain already did a ahrd reset on itself XD

[dapper forge]

but this logic would not fit here. I wasnt searching for first active player, but needed to know how many players ARE active

[heady iris]

ah, this checks if there are at least two players

[radiant marten]

if I'm implementing an IList<> and it's expecting to implement CopyTo() is there a way to just pass through the original IList<> method, similarly to doing return base.CopyTo()?

[final wasp]

Does anybody know any good recources for non-grid-based runtime level editors or related things? I can't really find anything around it. Right now I'm doing mesh generation and IDK if that's gonna be the best choice for what I'm trying to do -- which is using the meshes to create the levels. I just started with it so I don't really have much but that's why I'm asking for rescources anyone knows about.

[late lion]

Oh, I misread. If you don't expect many items in the collection, then Where(p=>p.gameObject.activeSelf).Count() > 1 is fine. But it means it will iterate over all the elements. LINQ doesn't have a AtLeast method, but it's easy enough to implement:

public static bool AtLeast<T>(this IEnumerable<T> source, Func<T, bool> predicate, int count)
{
    var c = 0;
    foreach (var element in source)
    {
        if (predicate(element) && ++c >= count)
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    
    return false;
}

[heady iris]

this would only be possible if the function had a concrete implementation

and I do not believe it has one

[late lion]

IList<> has no implementations. Interfaces usually don't implement their own members (and they couldn't until relatively recently)

[radiant marten]

alright thanks!

[swift falcon]

What is this error?

CommandInvokationFailure: Unity Remote requirements check failed
D:\Unity\2022.1.11f1\Editor\Data\PlaybackEngines\AndroidPlayer\SDK\platform-tools\adb.exe forward tcp:7201 tcp:7201

stderr[
adb.exe: error: no devices/emulators found
]
stdout[

]
exit code: 1
UnityEditor.Android.Command.WaitForProgramToRun (UnityEditor.Utils.Program p, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.Command.Run (System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.Command.Run (System.String command, System.String args, System.String workingdir, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.ADB.RunInternal (System.String[] command, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.ADB.Run (System.String[] command, UnityEditor.Android.Command+WaitingForProcessToExit waitingForProcessToExit, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)
UnityEditor.Android.ADB.Run (System.String[] command, System.String errorMsg) (at <609ac2fedadc4dc2918b42b474cb9a97>:0)

[regal epoch]

hey i cannot use my phone to test my game. I've followed multiple tutorials to connect and run the game on my phone, but it just is not working. It gives some errors every time

[winged tiger]

you don't have any devices connected

[simple egret]

Looks like you didn't enable USB debugging on your phone. ADB is the utility that allows debug communication over USB.
That's not a code issue though, #📱┃mobile would be better suited

[winged tiger]

maybe yes O_O

anyway

I have 2 objects with a box collider, the gray one (the green line is pointing at it) and the one with the big collider. The problem is the yellow line it where Raycast hits, and the green one is pointint to the position of the hit object. The object with the big collider is the child of the first one. Why that happends?

 void Update()
    {
        RaycastHit nht;
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out nht, 5))
        {
            Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, nht.point,Color.yellow);
            Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, nht.transform.position,Color.green);
         }
     }

[heady iris]

the position is where wherever the pivot point of the object is

[winged tiger]

yeah but it still points to that gray object I checked

I don't see any sense in that

why it does that

[heady iris]

nht.transform is the transform for the object

[winged tiger]

yes

[heady iris]

ah, I see: so you currently have one object selected, and you were expecting the green line to be drawn to the gizmos on it

but it's being drawn to another object

[winged tiger]

yes

[heady iris]

is it set to Pivot, not Center?

top left corner of the scene view

[winged tiger]

it it set to pivot

[heady iris]

well, then your must be hitting the gray object's collider first

it's kind of hard to see what's going on from a single image

[winged tiger]

hmm

[winged tiger]

there's no way that happend

[heady iris]

wait, are there two colliders on the same object?

[winged tiger]

no

it worked like 15 minutes ago ;-;

and out of nowhere it stopped

[heady iris]

ah, right, it shows colliders for child objects

[winged tiger]

yeah

[heady iris]

so which one of these is "bolt"?

or whatever has the collider on it

[winged tiger]

this one is bolt

[heady iris]

what happens if you deactivate it and try shooting the same ray?

[winged tiger]

still nothing

[heady iris]

what is "nothing"?

[winged tiger]

wait

oh

[heady iris]

hmmm

oh, by "it" I meant the bolt

the thing with the thin flat collider

[winged tiger]

oh

works as expected

the ray is hitting on the ground behind

[heady iris]

in the raycast method, use Debug.Log to log the object you hit

do it like this

Debug.Log("Hit", nht.gameObject);

[heady iris]

ah, right, you can just look at the name

can you show the inspector for the exhaust and bolt objects?

[winged tiger]

wait

this is the exact same situation

selected it the "bolt"

and it's the child of the right one

[heady iris]

i'm kind of colorblind

can you make one of the lines blue?

[winged tiger]

sure

[heady iris]

i think i can tell which is which, but that's still hazy :p

[winged tiger]

blue is nht.point

[heady iris]

so blue is where the ray actually hit, and then green goes to the transform

[winged tiger]

yes

if unparent the "bolt" one (the blue line hit) it works

[heady iris]

ah

https://forum.unity.com/threads/raycast-on-child-gives-parent-name-in-hit-transform-name.57172/

you want to get the collider you hit

I've never actually used transform directly from a raycast hit

so i didn't think of it

nht.collider.transform should be what you expect

[winged tiger]

oh

I'll try

oh my god

thank you <33

[heady iris]

i never actually knew about that behavior

i've always just assumed you had to get the collider out first

no prob :p

now I know, too

[winged tiger]

now we know lmao

[regal epoch]

hey i cannot seem to run my game on my phone. it just keeps closing. This is what the console says:

[dull yarrow]

How do i create a clone but wthout the references?
I have this list of GameObjects and i am copying like this enemiesListClone = new List<GameObject>(enemiesList);
But somehow, if i delete the gameobjects of the first list, the clone list objects gets deleted too

[heady iris]

yes, because you didn't make copies of the actual game objects

you could do something like this...

List<GameObject> cloned = new();

foreach (var enemy in enemiesList)
  cloned.Add(Instantiate(enemy));

this would create a copy of each enemy

[dull yarrow]

But can i create a copy without instantiate?

[leaden ice]

you are creating only a copy of the list. Your new list is full of references to the same GameObjects the old list was pointing to.

[leaden ice]

You can't.

[dull yarrow]

I cant? But i can create a list of GameObjects without instantiate them
Shouldnt clone be possible too?

[leaden ice]

You cannot create a list of GameObjects without instantiating them

the objects must have been created at some point

either they're in the scene at the start, or you Instantiate them (or create them with new GameObject())

[dull yarrow]

  playersList.Add(newChar);```

This is how i created my playerList without instantiate

[leaden ice]

characterPrefab is not in the scene

it's a reference you had already

to an object that exists already (in this case, probably a prefab from your assets folder)

that code does not create any new objects

it adds a reference to an existing object to a list

If you want to create new objects, you must actually create the new objects

[dull yarrow]

yes, a prefab that i have
if i did thisplayersList.Add(newChar); --- > change some variable in the newChar object; playersList.Add(newChar); --- > change some variable in the newChar object; playersList.Add(newChar); --- > change some variable in the newChar object;
This will create a list of 3 objects with diferent values in the variables

[leaden ice]

no it won't

unless newChar is a value-typed struct

[swift falcon]

Upon impacting with ground (landing after jump) my player experiences a sudden drop in horizontal speed (2d), doesn't seem to be anything in my code - happens even when nothing affects the object

any ideas what causes the issue and how to solve it?

[leaden ice]

If newChar is a normal GameObject or Component reference, it will give you a list with 3 references to the same object which you have changed 3 times

it will not create any objects
You'd have to show more code, especially the declaration of playersList and the type that it is a list of to be sure.
But assuming it's a class and not a struct, you will not create any objects this way

[hexed pecan]

Friction might be causing it. You can adjust it with a physics material

[swift falcon]

oh so there's friction by default even without materials

huh

alright, thanks

I assumed that it was 0 by default

[hexed pecan]

Apparently friction is 0.4 by default in 2D

Or 0.6. Did a quick google

[heady iris]

the default is gonna be a value that's physically plausible

so, probably not 0 :p

[swift falcon]

yeeeeah this seems really bad

it seems that friction is in fact, drag

[hexed pecan]

Default 0 would be weird for sure 😄

[swift falcon]

because setting it to 0 results in objects being yeeted after any amount of force is applied

0.4 by default btw

huh, weird

nvm

solved it

[hot torrent]

how do i use/import splines into my project?

[swift falcon]

was a fuckup on my side

[leaden ice]

From the package manager

[hot torrent]

Its not being found (in the pkg manager)

[leaden ice]

If you can't see it there press the + and "Add by name" and use "com.unity.splines" as the package name

[hot torrent]

thanks!!

[dull yarrow]

I see what you are saying
My game have a character list that in each level the game spawns the characters of the list
Instead of a list of gameObjects, should i make a list of lets say a class with each char data, and then when i instatiate, i apply the data of the list to the instatiated objects
And when switching between levels, because i need to keep the characters data, before destroying the characters instatiated, i need to save the data of them in that first list that i created
Is this a better way of doing it?

For now i am creating a list of gameobjects the way i showed and then i instantiate them
But i am having problems to pass those objects between levels because of list copying

[leaden ice]

I think the best practice here is to separate your character object into two things:

1. A pure data representation of the character. This would be a Plain Old C# Object (POCO) which has everything you need to describe the character. For example its name, current HP, max HP, experience level, whatever you want/need. Let's call this "CharacterData". It should be serializable so it can be part of your saved game data.
2. A GameObject representation which maybe has a Character MonoBehaviour script on it. The Character script should be able to accept a "CharacterData" reference and behave/build itself according to that object. It can also modify the character data as things happen in the game. (For example the character gains experience points, that would be recorded in the character data object).

You can then have some kind of DDOL data manager script which is responsible for tracking the CharacterData objects through scene loads etc, as well as recording that data and loading it to/from save files.

When you spawn characters, you'd use some kind of identifier for the character data object and spawn your prefab and initialize it with the character data object as needed.

[heady iris]

i need to do that on my end

i'm adding a lot of lists of stats to my Entity class...

so I guess I should extract that into a nice CharacterData

[leaden ice]

The specifics of all this are really going to depend on the needs of the particular game.

but that's generally the approach I take.

[heady iris]

i'm making the 359432nd soulslike game

so i'm gonna have to save and load some of your stats

when you collect enough uhhhhhh beans

i don't like this

i'm trying to keep the Entity class definition pretty short

so this should help

also this leads to some of the worst lines of code I've ever seen

vitals.Add(new() { vital = baseVital.vital });

this used to be even worse: vitals.Add(new() { vital = vital.vital });

[leaden ice]

I don't like that you have CoreStateValue and VitalValue. Can they not share one type, like a MutableValue or ModifiableValue or something

[heady iris]

They're conceptually different

"core stats" are the things you level up, like strength

"vitals" are health and stamina

[leaden ice]

I think ideally you could narrow this down to like a single
List<MutableStat> or something, but yeah I have no idea how your game works

[heady iris]

They do both derive from Stat, since they all have things like names, descriptions, and icons

i'm gonna go hit this with a hammer until it stops making me unhappy

[leaden ice]

health can't be levelled up?

[heady iris]

It's derived from your core stats

[leaden ice]

Can't you make your health bar longer in Souls?

I see

[heady iris]

Yeah, but you do that by leveling vitality/vigor/whatever it is

i forgor

it's all robot-themed

the fun part is that all of these things are ScriptableObjects

i got really annoyed by enums

[leaden ice]

Gave me nostalgia for Armored Core

[heady iris]

one awkward thing is that there is now no clear definition for "health" anywhere

like, there's no Stats.Health

so, instead, I just give an entity a list of vitals that kill it if they get to zero

i guess this'll let me do something funky later, like an enemy that dies if it runs out of energy

[hexed pecan]

This can make it interesting, gameplay wise

As long as its indicated somehow

[heady iris]

yeah

it minimizes the amount of "hard coded" stuff

the entity just gets...some vitals...and some core stats

i'll have to see how it pans out tho

[high violet]

i am trying to make a webrequest to get some data and i want that if it gets an error or something happens and i don't get the data it should re-run the function(which makes the webrequest) till it succeeds , the function is this:-

IEnumerator ObtainSheetData()
    {
        UnityWebRequest www = UnityWebRequest.Get("https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/something");
        yield return www.SendWebRequest();
        if (www.timeout > 2 || www.result == UnityWebRequest.Result.ConnectionError || www.result == UnityWebRequest.Result.ProtocolError)
        {
            Debug.Log("error " + www.error);
            Debug.Log("Offline");
        }
        else
        {
            //Something
        }
    }

[simple egret]

Wrap all the code in this method in a while loop

And break; out of the loop when it succeeds

Or a for loop, if you want a max amount of tries before it gives up

[dull yarrow]

Thanks alot for the reply!
POCO is something unity related?

[heady iris]

Plain Old C# Class

basically, any time you just have a class that isn't a MonoBehaviour or something similarly special

oh wait, Praetor defined the acronym :p

it's not a unity-specific term

[leaden ice]

Nope it's a generic term in C# (and similar to terms like POJO in the Java programming language)

[heady iris]

oh, like that pokemon phone game

(please laugh)

[hexed pecan]

Pokemon go, poco, whats the difference

[leaden ice]

(I don't get the joke)

[heady iris]

pogo

[leaden ice]

oh

Like the sticks?

Pogo stick?

I'm old

[heady iris]

pokemon go :p

[hexed pecan]

Praetor you make me feel young

[shy spire]

Out of sheer curiosity, is constantly setting a boolean to true on updade faster or slower than checking if it is false and only setting it to true in that case

[leaden ice]

Nah I played Pokemon Go when it came out

[heady iris]

i'm starting to feel old as people miss homestar runner and MrWeebl references

[heady iris]

basically no difference

[leaden ice]

probably faster - assuming it's a plain field and not a property

[steady moat]

When I see a lot dictionaries. 🫣

It might be because of wrong choice of design. People that tends to use a lot of dictionaries forget about what is class. It seems to me that you could use the Decorator pattern to wrap the concept of your stats. That being said, it is hard to judge with only a peek.

[heady iris]

oh wait, nvm, definitely faster to just set it

i misread

[heady iris]

The lists contain classes that store a specific stat's current value

[shy spire]

Make sense, thanks

[heady iris]

the dictionaries are there so that i can easily grab the value of a specific stat

I'd just make them dictionaries from the start, but you can't serialize those

[steady moat]

You should just need 1 dictionaries at most from my understanding. VitalBase and VitalValue seem to share a lot

[heady iris]

oh yeah, that's unexplained

[steady moat]

Kinda false. You can hack something.

[heady iris]

VitalBase stores information like "what's my base health and base health regen?"

VitalValue stores the runtime value, after computing your max health based on VitalBase and your stats

I could mush them together, I guess, but I kind of prefer to separate the authoring data entirely

[heady iris]

I have tried using those SerializableDictionary thingies before. I could give it another go..

[steady moat]

You can make an object (Vital) which contains the base and the runtime value ?

[heady iris]

Vital itself is the ScriptableObject that holds information describing the stat

e.g. the LocalizedString for the name and description

[steady moat]

Then what is VitalBase ?

[heady iris]

e.g.

[heady iris]

a specific entity's base value for that vital

different guys might have different base health

also i just noticed that the Decrease Verb string is entirely wrong

whoops

i only have English strings right now anyway

[steady moat]

Can you just have Value that contains Base ?

[heady iris]

I could mush them together, yeah

That's how it worked originally, actually

It doesn't feel that much better to separate the authoring data entirely from the runtime data, so I might put it back the way it was

it's just annoying to have extra fields in the inspector that are gonna get clobbered in Awake

[steady moat]

I mean, make a custom inspector.

[heady iris]

true

hey, that reminds me: i need to fix this mess

it's using a visual element with a Row flex direction

[hexed pecan]

OCD intensifies

[winged tiger]

what

[leaden ice]

you've defined an extension method inside your class

which isn't allowed because it's not a static class

[winged tiger]

that's all I defined

[leaden ice]

Yeah that last method is an extension method

[winged tiger]

oh

[leaden ice]

because the first parameter uses this

[winged tiger]

ohhhh

didn't see it there

thanks

[solemn rune]

Hya. I got a public List of floats that I'm populating in a script. I dont see the List update in the inspector though. How would I manage to do this?

[leaden ice]

• Make sure you have no compile errors
• Make sure the list variable is not static
• Make sure it's inside a MonoBehaviour or plain class marked [Serializable]

[steady moat]

• Make sure the script is added on a GameObject

[leaden ice]

Wait I'm thinking we've misinterpreted the question. The list is showing but not changing/being populated after supposedly doing so in code perhaps?

Is that correct @solemn rune ?

Could you show the code?

[solemn rune]

Yeah correct. Also in a non static class, monoscript attached to a gameobject, no compile errors

public List<float> allForwardAxes; and confirmed that floats are added through allForwardAxes.Add

[leaden ice]

Can you show the actual code?
!code

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[leaden ice]

Ideally the whole script

[solemn rune]

Aaaand found the error.

[steady moat]

🦆

[solemn rune]

I'd like to pretend it was a very hard to find, very obscure problem.. But no, I was looking at the wrong gameobject (with the same object).

Thanks though!!

[steady moat]

Will add the: - Make sure you are looking at the correct GameObject in the list.

[leaden ice]

Glad to be of service

[heady iris]

i got yanked away by a fire alarm

the ultimate exception

[warm stratus]

Hey, i have a problem, i use rectTransform to get the position of a ui element in the canvas but it depends of the scale of the UI gameObject, how can i get the position that not depends of the scale please?

private Vector2 GetSelectedLevel()
{
int levelX = (int)Mathf.Round(-levelsTransform.anchoredPosition.x / sizeMultiplier);
int levelY = (int)Mathf.Round(-levelsTransform.anchoredPosition.y / sizeMultiplier);
return new Vector2(levelX,levelY);
}

private void Actualiser()
{
    Vector2 levelSelected = - GetSelectedLevel();
    float smoothSpeed = 10f;

    levelsTransform.anchoredPosition =
        new Vector2(Mathf.Lerp(levelsTransform.anchoredPosition.x, sizeMultiplier * levelSelected.x,
                smoothSpeed * Time.deltaTime)
            , Mathf.Lerp(levelsTransform.anchoredPosition.y, sizeMultiplier * levelSelected.y, smoothSpeed * Time.deltaTime)
        );
}

[solemn rune]

I do have another question as well: Is there an (easy) way to implement a Quadratic Bezier curve in the editor? I currently use quadratic bezier curve equations (so 3 points, 1 start, 1 end and 1 control) for a couple of things, but all calculated in script, I'd love to be able to visually see the curves in the editor / be able to change the 3 points

I've seen all sorts of implementations over the years, but non that seem Built In. Would I need a 3rd party solution for that?

[hexed pecan]

Maybe you want the Splines package?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.splines@1.0/manual/getting-started-with-splines.html

[heady iris]

bingo

I've only used it a little, but it's been nice so far

[hexed pecan]

Other than that, there is Handles.DrawBezier for editor. But youd have to implement the controls yourself

[solemn rune]

yeah its specifically for the editor. Looking into Handles.DrawBezier

well, even more specific: I need it to be in a window in the inspector

[hexed pecan]

You can draw Handles in the inspector too

Just did something like that recently

[heady iris]

ooooooooooooo

[solemn rune]

interesting. Yeah something like that is what I'd like

[heady iris]

that's purdy

[solemn rune]

but then quadratic not cubic

looking into it now

[hexed pecan]

For a long time I also assumed that Handles are for the scene view only lol

[heady iris]

the tasteful specular highlight

[hexed pecan]

Yeah had to add a gradient!

And some shadow for depth

[solemn rune]

yeah looks nice!

[heady iris]

now make it emit a loud grinding noise as you move the handle

imagine if the unity editor made sounds as you used it

[hexed pecan]

Yeah gotta have that immersion

[hexed pecan]

That's so 2000's lol

[heady iris]

i need that generic mouse click sound

You've got errors!

played once for every error, sequentially

[solemn rune]

do you have any recourses on how to use handles (DrawBezier) on the inspector? I've scanned a few google pages, but no dice so far

[hexed pecan]

I think I had some clipping issues with DrawBezier - like it was clipping in the Z weirdly. There's surely a fix for that (GUI.BeginClip etc?)
But I ended up just drawing the points with Handles.DrawAAPolyLine

You can use MakeBezierPoints to get the points without actually using DrawBezier:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.MakeBezierPoints.html

[tacit plover]

hey, I've been scratching my head around this issue: I want to have the player rotate around circular objects (in 2D), smooth, but also stick it to the object. the idea is that the "planets" attract the player and once he hits one of them, he is "glued" to the planet and rotates around it. The planets can also move though, so I can't just simply move the player in a circle. I figured out how to move him by adding a surface effector, but the player's movement jitters. Any ideas?

[hexed pecan]

@solemn rune TLDR; I used MakeBezierPoints + DrawAAPolyLine

[tacit plover]

I forgot to mention, the player has a circular shape as well

[dark salmon]

whats it called again like when you have 30 bullets in your scene and instead of instantiating new bullets when you shoot the game just pulls from that list

[wide terrace]

Object Pooling

[dark salmon]

thanks g

[solemn rune]

Gotcha, thanks! Fiddling with it now

I also never knew I could use Handles in the inspector.. Trying to figure out how to do that right now 🙂

[steady moat]

Usually, I use Parent/Child for sticking object on an other dynamic object.

[tacit plover]

yes, but I want to make it actually stick to the object, because it could bounce off or just slightly not touch the object anymore after touching. I still want the player to move around it though

I just want to figure out where the jittering comes from: there's no movement, no friction, no other external forces whatsoever

[steady moat]

What are the forces in play ? Do you move your Player ? Do you move your planets ? Do you have Gravity ? Do you use Rigidbody ? Is it Kinematic ?

[tacit plover]

also, the planet attracts the player anyway, so there is no need to make it a child

[tacit plover]

as I said, no movement, the only force once the player is on the planet is the planet attracting the player, no friction, no gravity, rigidbodys yes and all are dynamic

I want to figure out a way the player is moved around the planets in a realistic fashion, e.g. he shouldn't like move to the right, hit a planet, and then suddenly switch movement direction on the planet

[hexed pecan]

When it comes to jittering, its often a problem with not using interpolation and/or using the wrong way of moving the rigidbody (like moving it via the transform)

Could be a camera timing issue too

Seeing a video of the current behaviour would be helpful

[steady moat]

I suspect it might be a bit more complicated in this instance as it is bouncing off the planet and not truly jittering.

[tacit plover]

I yeah, though I just decided to scrap the idea of using a surface effector to move the player (since it looks really unrealistic and weird) so there's no jittering anymore

but now I need to find another way of moving smoothly

[steady moat]

I think you might have force on the rigidbody that plays itself. You should use a non physics solution with a Kinematic Rigidbody.

[tacit plover]

I said all rigidbodies are dynamic before

[hexed pecan]

Yeah I have no idea if effectors respect interpolation at all

[steady moat]

Dynamic ? Kinematic is not the same ?

[tacit plover]

and I want to have them dynamic because the planets should also be moved when hit by the player

[steady moat]

Kinematic means no force will be apply on the player.

Then you calculate yourself the force.

[tacit plover]

sorry I meant no jittering anymore my bad

[steady moat]

It gives you the maximum amount of control.

[clear tiger]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hexed pecan]

Yeah I assumed that. So do you currently need a way of sticking to the planets since you removed the effector?

[tacit plover]

I'm sorry, a small other issue I'm facing: why is that grey outline there?

[hexed pecan]

I see a lot of gray but no outlines

[tacit plover]

no I programmed the gravitational force from the planets myself, the effector was just for moving the player around the planet which well didn't seem to work smoothly

[hexed pecan]

Oh that whole dark gray thing

[tacit plover]

yeah sorry I mean that grey thing

[tacit plover]

yeah

[hexed pecan]

Okay. If I understand what youre saying, you need to use the planet's up vector (which you can get with (selfPos - planetPos).normalized) instead of the world's up vector in your movement calculations

[tacit plover]

it's still there even when unchecking emission

[tacit plover]

do you mean for jumping off the planet or for what? because I am doing that already

[hexed pecan]

For moving around the planet

Or maybe I don't get the issue at all lol

[tacit plover]

uhm

selfPos - planetPos).normalized
this is just the direction from the planet towards the player right?

because I want the player to move around the planet, not away

[hexed pecan]

Yeah. So do you want to walk around the planet?

[tacit plover]

yeah, but not through controls but rather smoothly all the time

[lament bloom]

having a bit of an issue where CalculatePath on my NavMeshAgent returns false (no complete or partial path) but just using SetDestination works perfectly as expected. is there any way i can get CalculatePath to produce the path that SetDestination is calculating and following?

[tacit plover]

wait imma make a short video

[hexed pecan]

Not through controls
Yeah im lost

[hexed pecan]

Try using NavMesh.SamplePosition to snap the start position to the NavMesh before you use CalculatePath

[tacit plover]

I want the player to move around the planet all the time, the only control about the game is when to jump off a planet

[hexed pecan]

Ah okay so you need it to constantly rotate around the planet

[tacit plover]

well not rotate but move

[hexed pecan]

I mean it's round so isn't that the same

[tacit plover]

but yeah if you want to call it that

well yes

[hexed pecan]

You can limit its position from the closest planet by directly changing its position (with rb.MovePosition), adding a force, changing the velocity, or using a Joint

Disable that limiting when you jump, and enable it when you get near another planet again

You can fade in and fade out the effect too

[lament bloom]

im not sure i understand what you mean by this; what does snapping the start position entail?

[tacit plover]

I don't really get what you mean

what do you mean with limit its position?

[hexed pecan]

My mistake - I thought youre using NavMesh.CalculatePath which is a separate method

[lament bloom]

i think you meant to reply to me

[hexed pecan]

Yes

[lament bloom]

👍

[hexed pecan]

Two messages saying "i dont get what you mean" 😆

[tacit plover]

all the planets attract the player, except once he hits a planet, then only that planet is attracting it

[lament bloom]

yeah im not sure why CalculatePath on the agent is failing to produce a path when SetDestination works just fine. I hoped to use the method on the agent so that it would take into account the stopping distance, but if it's failing to produce a path, it probably still isn't doing that

[hexed pecan]

With limit its position I mean move it towards the position which it should be on the planet

You could make a joint that rotates around the planet for example

[tacit plover]

which joint, I already said that the suurface effector made it look weird?

[hexed pecan]

Surface effector is not a joint, I mean the physics joints
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Joints2D.html

Not too familiar with the 2D joints but maybe a DistanceJoint2D

Use that to limit the distance from the planet, but also add a force towards your left/right direction, rotated by the direction from the planet

[lament bloom]

am i crazy or should this debug statement always print out navMeshAgent enabled: True?

[tacit plover]

but like the gravitational force is already used for that, I just need a way to the move the player

ohhh

[heady iris]

what does StopNavigating do?

[tacit plover]

but that would not really help since at some point left and right switch up

[lament bloom]

code literacy is so crazy thanks for pointing that out

[vale karma]

I already made a few 2D games in unity. And would say that can do stuff on my own to a certain degree. Now I wanted to make my first 3d game and because I really like Karlson the game. I thought it would be nice to add the karlson movement and just a few obsticals I got everything set up but I just cannot get the movement to work right and the the proportions are just of. Would love to get some help. Thanks

[tacit plover]

didn't dani make a video showing the controls/movement script?

[shell scarab]

only post in one channel

[hexed pecan]

Thats why I'm saying you should add a left/right force relative to the planet

[vale karma]

Yeah I used it but for me the controls are mixed up and the camera has a vertical tilt

[tacit plover]

oh okay

[tacit plover]

I will try that tomorrow

thanks for the help

oh yeah for the material question, does somebody have an answer?

[tacit plover]

I tried it out, but the movements is jittery once more

[hexed pecan]

^

[tacit plover]

oh wait the jittery movement goes away with the distance joint, interesting. thank you!

[hexed pecan]

Nice 👍

Are you sure though? How are you moving the rigidbody?

[tacit plover]

how can I check whether the player should move to the left or right? because without it it makes him change direction sometimes

[hexed pecan]

You'd have to do some math when entering the planet

[tacit plover]

hmm weird now it's even jitterier than before

[hexed pecan]

To see if you should keep moving left or right upon entering the planet, maybe something like this would work cs var selfNextPos = selfPos + selfVelocity * Time.fixedDeltaTime; // Predicted position var planetToSelf = selfPos - planet.position; // Direction from planet to self var planetToSelfNext = selfNextPos - planet.position; // Direction from planet to player's predicted position float angle = Vector2.SignedAngle(planetToSelf, planetToSelfNext); // Angle between current and predicted direction

See if angle is less or greater than 0 and make it move left or right based on that

[tacit plover]

now it's smooth but I have a new problem: when the player is exactly at 0 degrees (under the planet), he keeps moving left and right really fast

wait now it works

weird

[hexed pecan]

Just realized this could just be done with a dot product or angle check from self to planet

[tacit plover]

can't I maybe somehow check whether the current velocity is closer to aimline.left or aimline.right (aimline is a line that show up in the opposite direction to the planet)

[hexed pecan]

Yeah thats pretty much what I described in the second message I think

[vernal wharf]

Question: I have multi-additive scenes with my first scene as the bootstrap scene, and my next scene as the game scene. Within the game scene I load the player, but for some reason the player gets loaded in the first scene (bootstrap) scene instead. How do I get my script that's in my game scene to load the player in the game scene instead of the bootstrap scene?

[hexed pecan]

You could actually just try this cs float angle = Vector2.SignedAngle(selfVelocity, planetPos - selfPos); bool movingLeft = angle < 0;

Basically checking if the planet is left or right, relative to your velocity

(Might need to invert it to angle > 0)

[lyric forge]

So I found this tutorial I was going to look at for making a rhythm game, since I'm using a rhythm system in my current project. He used the old input system, but I use the new input system with two keys, space and enter.

What should I do

[simple egret]

Set up the new input system so you catch inputs in your code, like the old one

Create an Input Actions Asset, make an action map, add some actions. Enable code generation for the asset, create an instance in your script, subscribe to the input events, and that's pretty much it. Setup questions are better off asked in #🖱️┃input-system

[lyric forge]

Okay, that's what I've done, but he justn uses one variable so it got me confused

[hushed needle]

hello. i am new to unity and this is so weird for me. when i run into a box collider, this weird thing happen. anyone know how to fix it?

[humble hinge]

If I have a series of textures of concentric colors, and I want to procedurally create 3D-looking blob objects based on the colors. For instance, in this image, I'd want a blue blob in the center, a green blob around that, and an outer red blob, all based on the color shapes in the textures on the 3 planes. Then I could hide the outer blobs based on hit, revealing the inner blobs.
First, I thought if I could get the pixel data with world coordinates for each pixel and then spawn metaballs that are spread out on the mesh, that would work. So, maybe GetPixels would work, but my final textures are on a wide cone, rather than a plane. I looked for ways to extract world coordinates from the location of a pixel in a texture, but could not find anywhere someone had done that.
Then I thought raytracing might hold the answer, but that's very new to me and wondered if someone could point me in the right direction, if you think that may hold the answer.

[hexed pecan]

How are you moving the rigidbody?

[hexed pecan]

You should move it in FixedUpdate and with a proper physics method, either rb.AddForce, rb.velocity or rb.MovePosition

Currently you are using transform.position to teleport it forward. It ends up inside the collider, and it will be pushed back in the next physics update.
That leads to the jitters you showed

[hushed needle]

oh

thank you so much

[hexed pecan]

Np. You probably want to enable Interpolation in the rigidbody settings too, so it looks smooth

[winged tiger]

can I ask somewhere a blender vs unity technical question?

[heady iris]

probably #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[winged tiger]

oh thx

[rustic ember]

How would I calculate how many degrees this dotted line should be rotated to go from one red dot to the other?

[uncut plank]

Mathf.atan2

[rustic ember]

I want it to work the same way that a gun would rotate around the player to face the mouse

[rustic ember]

Probably. Let me see

[hexed pecan]

Say it praetor

[rustic ember]

Oh no

[leaden ice]

You probably don't need to know the number of degrees.
If it's a linerenderer you just set the points.
If it's an object you're rotating you just set transform.right equal to the direction from one to the other

But I suppose it depends on what you're actually doing

[rustic ember]

It's an object. Thank you though 🙏 🙏

This is what I needed

[rustic ember]

Can the direction be a vector with a magnitude of more than 1?

[simple egret]

Sure, but that's not considered as a direction vector anymore

[rustic ember]

But does it work?

[simple egret]

To put in transform.right? Sure

[rustic ember]

Perfect

[leaden ice]

Yes the magnitude is ignored

[hexed pecan]

Wait that looks like a board game I know. Afrikan Tähti

[rustic ember]

Never heard of it

Actually yes

It's called Africa's Star in my country

[hexed pecan]

I'm not surprised, but I had to check lol

[rustic ember]

In Danish

[rustic ember]

That's not what I am making though lol

[hexed pecan]

Ahh well then it makes sense. Its designed by a Finnish person

[rustic ember]

Ah yes, of course

[humble hinge]

If this isn't the right channel to ask this question, could someone direct me to the correct one?

[rustic ember]

I don't know, but I would ask in #archived-code-advanced

[deep oyster]

this doesn't really coutn as code but not sure where else to put it. Why does my editor play button look like this? I'm not using any extensions

you can see the button on the right is using the correct resolution

[humble hinge]

Thanks

[rustic ember]

#💻┃unity-talk

[deep oyster]

ah, thanks

[rugged storm]

hay im trying to add A* pathfinding but when it has to move left or up it just returns null, clue with whats going ? Heres my pathfinding script: https://gdl.space/apomasicac.cs

(I am very new to C# and this is my first time doing something like this so my code is prob a little jank)

[heady iris]

i finished refactoring (so that stats are all stored in a separate class), and it's really pleasant when, the moment you fix all the compiler errors, everything goes straight back to working perfectly

i guess that's a good sign, haha

[heady iris]

what returns null?

Findpath?

[rugged storm]

Yes

[heady iris]

ok, so that implies it's getting to the end of the function

is this on a grid?

GridManager.Instance

probably yes, then!

[rugged storm]

Yeah a grid of tiles managed by GridManager

[heady iris]

does GetNeighbors work right?

if it ALWAYS fails to go up or left, then it feels like that's the problem

[rugged storm]

I think it has something to do with GetNeighbors() script but im not sure why its not working

[heady iris]

oh

if (currentNode.Position.x - 1 <= -1)

isn't this only true if you're out of bounds

that feels backwards

[rugged storm]

OH ty cuz my tired brain would not of been looking at this till tomarow before i saw that i used the wrong comparison symbol

[heady iris]

ha, no prob :p

I TA'd a class that taught data structures a year or so ago

so I saw plenty of things like that

[rugged storm]

and also all the up ones have the same issue but inversed

[heady iris]

here's how I usually phrase these things

if (x > 0)
if (x < width - 1)
if (y > 0)
if (y < height - 1)

rather than adding the -1 and +1

[rugged storm]

ah yeah that would prob make it slightly easier to read

[heady iris]

also, it would be even more readable if you just made a predicate for it

InBounds(int x, int y)

or InBounds(Vector2Int pos)

as desired

and then you can be really fancy by making a list of offsets

List<Vector2Int> offsets = new() { new(-1,0), new(1,0), new(0,-1), new(0,1) };

and then just try adding each offset to the current position

and checking if that's in bounds

[heady iris]

this is roughly what I did when writing the most overly fancy solution for the first homework assignment :p

the nice thing here is that this makes it easy to, say, let you move on diagonals

just add more offsets

[rugged storm]

ahh, keep that in mind next time I need to do that. for now i'm stinking with what I got cuz its already written

[rugged storm]

Little extra Help, path is the list returned by Findpath() here, issue is DrawLine isnt appearing?(it is running the for loop because when i put other code after it that code executes)

        for (int i = 0; i < path.Count - 1; i++)
        {
            
            Debug.DrawLine(new Vector3(path[i].Position.x, path[i].Position.y,0), new Vector3(path[i + 1].Position.x, path[i + 1].Position.y, 0),Color.red);
        }

[molten thicket]

Hey guys,

I have a question regarding replacing characters in a string 🙂

I'm playing around with Replace()

I'm curious to know how you would replace " with \ " given \ " is used to escape the " character:

```string ImprovedABI = ABI.Replace(""", """);````

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[heady iris]

"\"" translates to a string whose contents are "

\\ is how you encode a single backslash

so...

replace "\"" with "\\\""

you could make this a little easier to read by using single quoted strings

you can also use verbatim strings to simplify further

replace '"' with @'\"'

oh wait...' is for character literals in C#!

i forgot about that

Got a little mixed up with Python there.

[heady iris]

so, that'll be the best way to do it, I'd say

[rugged storm]

@heady iris any clue about my issue with Debug.DrawLine? am i using it incorrectly?

[heady iris]

do you have Gizmos enabled?

you toggle them separately in scene and game view

also, they will only live for one frame by default

[rugged storm]

Oh, how thats prob it then

that in fact was the problem lol the duration

[pearl trench]

Why am I getting this error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"? I have an InventoryItem class that contains an Item class variable. I have a list of these InventoryItems and I am trying to check if the item in each InventoryItem is null or not by "if (inventoryItems[i].item == null)"

[leaden ice]

Seems the list or array itself is null

As in - are you sure you actually have a list?

If it's not serialized you'll need to have created it manually

[pearl trench]

but in the inspector it shows the array with inventoryItems

[leaden ice]

Show your actual full error message and the full code if you would

[pearl trench]

I make it using this "inventoryItems = new InventoryItem[inventorySpace];"

[heady iris]

inventoryItems[i].item would cause an exception if any element in the array was null

null.item

essentially

[leaden ice]

Yeah that too, or at least the item at index i

[molten thicket]

Thank you for the input on this @heady iris

Will give it a shot! 🙂

[heady iris]

however, I should ask

...are you doing this to escape a string?

there might be a smarter way to do that

[pearl trench]

wdym excape a sting?

[leaden ice]

Not you, he's talking to @molten thicket

[heady iris]

to escape a string is to get rid of patterns that might be meaningful in a language

for example, you might escape this:

"<b>Hello!</b>"

as

"<b>Hello!</b>"

...to make it safe to put in a webpage

< is the escaped form of < in HTML

[molten thicket]

I'm trying to build an editor extension that format this hell:

[heady iris]

are you trying to generate valid JSON?

or are you parsing and then pretty-printing JSON

[molten thicket]

Haha well I'm trying to:

1. Remove all line breaks / spaces (Needs to be single line)
2. Replace all " with /"

So the above screenshot, should end up looking like this:

"[ { \"anonymous\": false, \"inputs\": [ { \"indexed\": true, \"internalType\": \"address\", \"name\"`....

[heady iris]

getting strong XY problem vibes here

what is the end goal?

like, where is this data going?

[molten thicket]

Quite literally just formatting as the class I use to send this through ethers.js requires the ABI to be formatted like the above

[heady iris]

the ABI?

[leaden ice]

You could always just parse this with an existing off-the-shelf JSON parser and then spit it back out pretty-printed

Newtonsoft JSON can do this

with like 2-4 lines of code

looks like it's valid JSON already

[molten thicket]

Yeap but am trying to create an editor extension for new users to smack their ABIs in there and the extension will make it all nice and pretty for them.

I'm new to Editor Extensions - Does Newtonsoft work there as well?

[leaden ice]

I don't see why not

[molten thicket]

ABIs are application binary interfaces 🙂

It's used in Solidity

[heady iris]

ah, I wasn't sure if that was the right acronym here

[molten thicket]

Haha no stress!

[leaden ice]

Here's a snippet of one way to do this with Newtonsoft JSON
https://gist.github.com/frankhu-2021/b6750185b19fd4ada4ba36b099985813

under no circumstances would I recommend trying to do this manually through string parsing.

[molten thicket]

@leaden ice & @heady iris

Both your solutions worked in their own ways 🙂

I've mixed them to create a solution that works for me

Thank you very much as always for your help 😄

[heady iris]

trying to approximate anything with string replacement is

hm

a great way to generate bug bounties

[dim spindle]

What is solidity?
Where im from (joke) ABI is what defines stuff like where return variables go and how parameters are passed to functions in C

[molten thicket]

Haha that's funny but also very interesting to know the different acronym meanings throughout programming @dim spindle 🙂

Solidity is a blockchain programming language. Just don't associate it to crypto and all that stuff. I'm currently playing with it to see if I can create some shape of on-chain game state. Where game servers might (potentially) no longer be required.

[dim spindle]

Not trying to be rude but why wouldnt i associate it with crypto lol your username if nft pixels

Is*

Sounds interesting tho

[molten thicket]

That's fair - I didn't think this pseudonym would live this long to be honest haha! It's similar to having an email address '[e-mail]' when you're 10 and living it after you turn 21 haha. Mistakes have been made.

[leaden ice]

I've had the email address I created when I was about 11 for more than 20 years now 😱

[molten thicket]

No way! xD

Is it really cringe? 😛

[leaden ice]

I cringe when I give it to someone in person or on the phone yes. but it's my go-to "spam" email so I always give it to companies etc so when they inevitably spam me it goes there

[molten thicket]

Hahahahaha

At least you're making it work for you

[leaden ice]

I won't say it here for obvious reasons but it's a combination of the name of a MegaMan character and just a word I thought was "badass"

[quaint rock]

im still using the same gmail i made when i was 14

though mostly as a spam catcher as well, with most real stuff going to my own domains email

[molten thicket]

Glad to see we're all in the same boat

[glossy basin]

Hello there, I have a optimization question here;

I have a code that generates a procedural mesh using the Jobs system and burst system

Currenty I am using a single job that creates all stuff the mesh needs (vertices, triangles and uvs)

So my question is, is this approach right? or should I split the process in 3 jobs (a job for generating vertices, another for UVs and another for triangles)?

[leaden ice]

It depends:

• On the data
• On the algorithm
• On whether some vertices take longer than others to process
• On how parallelized it is / can be

There's no simple answer

[rugged storm]

Yo I'm not even really sure how to search this up so I'm coming here for help, how would I retrieve a specific file by name via a method that inputs the name of the file I need can that be done? In more specific I want to make method that will change the cursor image to one of many images in a folder, referring to the image by name as the argument passed into the method.

[leaden ice]

Use Resources.Load

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

[rugged storm]

ty !

[glossy basin]

Then, repliying to your questions

-The data is a 1D array that contains block data (this is a voxel game like minecraft ) that contains an enum (Defines the block type, i.e BlockType.Stone)
-The algorithim I am using is just a single for loop that iterates through the lenght of the chunk data lenght and for setting blocks at x y z, I just get the lineal index from the loop accordingly
-The vertices output is not really big for now, maximum vertices I could possibly get is 2k+ the average is 1200
-I am currently using a Ijob instead of an IjobParallelFor, I would like to do this in parallel but since I can not read the lenght of a parallel writer native list (this is needed for calculating triangles) I can not use that (Actually my question secretly aims to repliying this especific question, so I can calculate vertices in a standard job and then setting up UVS and triangles in parallel (probably useless?) )

[rugged storm]

and I presume id accept a string that is the filename and in the method add that to a string which is the path.

[leaden ice]

I think you should focus on ways to parallelize this.

If you can get this into an IJobParallelFor (or 3 of them,. one for each task) you will reap massive benefits.

[glossy basin]

Alright, I will do it then, thanks!

[leaden ice]

the job could for example write the indeces of the vertices generated for each chunk into an array for the later jobs - something like that

[glossy basin]

By the way my code is already really fast because the data generation is indeed in parallel and also process the data using a 1D array instead of 3 for loops

[leaden ice]

Also if it's already really fast - make sure it's worth spending your time optimizing this

[glossy basin]

I am just looking for ways to get burst and jobs maximum potential

[leaden ice]

if the whole thing runs in like 0.1ms, it's probably not worth working on this right now

otherwise you're just bikeshedding

[glossy basin]

How could I measure how much time a chunk takes to generate?

[leaden ice]

Use the profiler

[glossy basin]

Oh wait I think I got it

[glossy basin]

I was thinking about TimeSInceStartup, but this is better 😅 , thanks

I got another question, I am generating my chunks using using GameObject newChunk = new GameObject($"Chunk{chunkCoordinates.x * 16} {chunkCoordinates.z * 16}", new System.Type[]... instead of instantiate(); I have not implemented object pooling yet for this.

I was thinking , should I go with addressables for this approach? I have never used it before, but reading through it, I imagine it can be highly beneficial at the time of creating a lot of chunks (I assume addressable is way faster than using new GameObject or instantiate) I am getting a bit of garbage collection and its not very noticeable but from time to time I can notice GC spikes on the profiler

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure I understand how addressables would be applicable here

Addressables are about loading existing assets at runtime

It's basically a more flexible and memory efficient version of Resources.Load (plus a lot more features but that's the gist of it)

[tame gust]

can anyone tell me why the hit.triangleIndex is always -1, no matter what i do.
I'm just using a raycast, and since it has a hit, it also should return the hit triangle.
For testing purposes, i used the unity primitives, cube etc. They also return -1.
It feels like a bug for me, but not sure, anyone else expierienced this?

[glossy basin]

I thought of loading a prefab which contains the base components of my chunk (MeshRenderer, MeshFilter, MeshCollider) insead of adding them at runtime via new GameObject(System.Type[]...)

but looking at the profiler I can tell it takes no ms doing that, so it is worthless I think

[ashen yoke]

Triangle index is only valid if the collider that was hit is a MeshCollider.

[tame gust]

dang, i just solved it, i was adding a collider manually, but apparently in the import settings, if u check generate collider it works

[iron urchin]

i am looking for someone who has a really solid foundation of Marching cubes for Asteroid Generation in my project , one that would be willing to work with me to teach me more about it and how to use it
I have watched videoes but i find them to be lacking in explanation in some major areas
while i understand the idea behind marching cubes and how the faces are generated, i am having issues with understanding how to apply textures and at different depths specifically

[ashen yoke]

probably something like triplanar shader with vertex color per voxel "biome"

[vagrant bramble]

CinemachineFreeLook Jitter/Deforms during Rotation

[sweet basin]

Hey everyone, is there a way to just increase the force on my jump when I'm moving up the slope? This way, the jumping is fine when am moving upwards but if I go downwards with the additional force I jump a lot higher than I should.

[dusk apex]

It's a cross post from #💻┃code-beginner

[thin kernel]

What is a good way to load an image?

The "Resources.Load<Texture2D>()" works perfect, but my images located on the server, and Resources folder does not exists in build, so I can use it with build-in files only.
I tried to use texture.LoadImage(), but it takes way more time and memory usage for every image is insane (about 30-100mb). Is there a way to reach the same performance as with Resources.Load function, but with dynamically loaded images? I don't understand why it have such a poor performance for the exactly same task...

[potent sleet]

assetbundle or addressables

[urban marsh]

Hello everyone !
I use this code in a script attached to a prefab. It is supposed to rotate the prefab 90° in 0.3f, but the loop makes it rotate just a Fixed Update too much, which makes it rotate 96° instead, and it makes things look ugly (because the 2D prefab rotated begins vertically and is supposed to end horizontally).
I previously used a Debug.Log to display the rotationTimer, and it looks like the problem comes from have a 0.19999998s fixeddeltatine instead of a 0.2s sometimes.
How should I have this work correctly ?
I was thinking about adding a "rotationLeft" float added in the code which keep track of how much rotation has been done to make sure we do not go over the max. any other idea ?

private float rotationAngleMax = 90;
private float rotationDuration = 0.3f;
void Start() {
    isRotating = true;
    rotationSpeed = rotationAngleMax / rotationDuration;
    rotationTimer = rotationDuration;
}
void FixedUpdate() {
    // Rotation
    if (isRotating) {
        transform.Rotate(0, 0, rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        rotationTimer -= Time.fixedDeltaTime;
        if (rotationTimer <= 0) {
            isRotating = false;
            DoTheThing();
        }
    }
}```

[somber ether]

Use animation then. With animator you can press the record button, rotate your object to where you want it, then press stop. Easy animation. In a new animator controller you can add the animation to play. That animation you can easily adjust the time it takes to rotate

Through code you can start the animation, or just have it play by itself on awake

[urban marsh]

Oh ? I haven't looked into animations yet ^^"

[somber ether]

If it truly must be code for rotation, try a coroutine

[thin aurora]

Pretty sure this can just exist in an Update method

[ocean prawn]

what i was thinking

[somber ether]

Definitely look at that. You can look on youtube, its good to learn either way

The other guys are right about one thing, you can use Update() instead of FixedUpdate(), it may be more accurate. However, again if you are going to need precise object movements and want a good workflow for it, try animations

[visual fractal]

Hello, I'm having a problem connecting a text mesh pro to a script to change the score in a game. I try to place the text into the score slot, and it refuses to attach. (I'm a beginner to Unity but not to C#)

[ocean prawn]

use textmeshprougui

[thin aurora]

Sounds like you're using the wrong type for the variable to attach it to. Is it a TMP_Text?

[ocean prawn]

this ^

make sure your "using TMPro"

its not "Text"

[visual fractal]

Ah, ok. I'll try that. Thanks.

[ocean prawn]

the text one is legacy

[visual fractal]

That fixed it, thanks.

[ocean prawn]

[visual fractal]

Aaaaaand now something else has gone wrong. The variable player of Score has not been assigned, apparently.

[ocean prawn]

just means that a variable hasnt been assigned

are you trying to instantiate a null or something ?

[visual fractal]

I'm trying to get the score number to change with the distance the player has gone. It's the same piece of code as last time.

[ocean prawn]

has the variable been assigned a value ?

[visual fractal]

I think so.

[ocean prawn]

in the inspector ?

[visual fractal]

It wasn't something wrong with the score variable, it was with the player variable. Thanks.

[ocean prawn]

[visual fractal]

I now feel like a beginner at code as well. The code is exactly the same as it was when it was working, and now there's an error.

Assets\Scripts\Score.cs(11,10): error CS0111: Type 'Score' already defines a member called 'Update' with the same parameter types.

I feel really dumb, not knowing what's going on.

[ocean prawn]

does it inherit from anything besides monobehaivour ?

[visual fractal]

Score or Update?

Or both?

[ocean prawn]

score

[quartz folio]

you probably just accidentally duplicated your script

[ocean prawn]

this also

[visual fractal]

Oh, wait, I fixed it. Stupid capitalization.

[ocean prawn]

[visual fractal]

I feel like there's something going horribly wrong with my code. It's not working at all anymore, not even an error or a warning.

[ocean prawn]

did you decapitalise your Update method ?

[visual fractal]

Yes.

[ocean prawn]

Update has to be captilised

same with Start and Awake

[visual fractal]

Ah.

That was what was causing the problem earlier, but ok.

[ocean prawn]

this just means you have a function/variable and a function/variable with the same name

[thin aurora]

If your !ide is set up correctly Unity methods should have a special color assigned to them. In Visual Studio they will be blue instead of yellow.

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[thin aurora]

So if you mistook some capitalization, it should have been yellow.

[ocean prawn]

^

[visual fractal]

Finally, no more errors. The game's running normally.

Thank you.

[ocean prawn]

[vestal crest]

how to calculate needed force to reach target?

[slow crag]

Hi! I've got a mathematical issue where I want to project a 3D boxcast box through a 2D selection box's representation in the world (drag-to-select from RTS games).

I've recorded a 1 minute video to explain the issue along with a visualization of the problem. I think there is one line of code missing but I can't figure out how to get it to work.

And here's the related code (relevant method is SelectObjectsInBox)

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[ocean prawn]

are you using this to select units ?

[slow crag]

Yes, that is the idea

[ocean prawn]

you could go with the rts box unit selection method instead of a box cast

[slow crag]

Imagine two units being on the same tile. One is on the ground, one is flying 10 tiles above (but same x,y position). If you were in top down and dragged a box, you'd select both of them. If you were zoomed in with the camera angled, you'd only select the ground unit. The flying unit would be out of the selection box.
That is my entire point and why I'm "overcomplicating this"

[ocean prawn]

ther other method should still work

[quartz folio]

I don't understand what space _initialMousePosition and _currentMousePosition are in, it seems to be world but it wouldn't make sense if it was ah it makes sense if this is side on

[ocean prawn]

^

whats MouseWorldPosition()

referring to

[slow crag]

Yes, they are indeed in world space

The reason is that you can click and hold a mouse at some position in the world, and you can pan the camera using WASD and that point will remain "sticked" to that part of the world

[quartz folio]

So this game (despite being top down) is Z up and on the XY plane

[slow crag]

yes

a bit confusing with all the perspective swapping, sorry

[quartz folio]

So, when your camera looks directly at that plane, your mouse position matches up with XY and your logic makes sense

[slow crag]

exactly

[quartz folio]

when it's not looking down that plane, the X and Y magnitude are nonsense

you want the X and Y magnitude in the local space of the camera.

[slow crag]

How can I get that? I barely got to this point, math, vectors and magnitudes confuse the crap out of me

Do I need to convert world coords to camera local space and then use that for the height of the box?

[quartz folio]

Vector3 currentMousePositionCamera = cam.transform.InverseTransformPoint(_currentMousePosition);
Vector3 initialMousePositionCamera = cam.transform.InverseTransformPoint(_initialMousePosition);
float xSize = Mathf.Abs(currentMousePositionCamera.x - initialMousePositionCamera.x);
float ySize = Mathf.Abs(currentMousePositionCamera.y - initialMousePositionCamera.y);

Something like this

Presuming the camera's transform is not scaled weirdly

[slow crag]

I'LL BE DAMNED.

it works.

thank you!

I hate using the word literally

but I've LITERALLY spent the last 3 days

trying to figure this out

I knew it was a couple lines of code but had no idea what I was conceptually looking for

It's still a bit off

but I think it'll get the job done

players will mostly probably select units in the "tactical" top-down mode anyway

[ocean prawn]

the method i was talking about used bounds

ive never seen any tutorial use boxcast is all

[slow crag]

Me neither, this is very specific usecase because of my game design

and how I want it to work

[ocean prawn]

since

[strange ferry]

Hello people, I have a script in the yellow dot, and I want to get a component in the blue dot game object, but these objects are inside other objects in the scene, how do I traverse up the hierarchy only two steps? Thanks

[quiet briar]

Hi there 👋
I'm not quite sure, if this behaviour is intended: I'm trying to attach an OnClick event to a button in Unity 2022.2. It is a TextMeshPro button. I added my script, with the method I want to call on click to another game object and dragged the game object into the object selection field in the OnClick event. But here comes the strange part: I can only select methods in the corresponding scripts, which names start with lower case letters. Why tho? 🤷‍♂️
(P.S.: I'm new to unity, but not to programming)

[quartz folio]

I kinda doubt that's the reason https://unity.huh.how/interface/unity-events/method-requirements

[quiet briar]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class StartProduction : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void startProduction(int itemId)
    {
        Debug.Log($"Click! {itemId}");
    }
}

When I write the Method with a capital S at the start, It wont show up in the inspector.

[quartz folio]

well, go through my list, including the links at bottom of the paragraph

[mellow sigil]

It's not a good idea to name methods the same as the class anyway. Does it still not show if they have a different name?

[ocean prawn]

@quiet briar hes right it should produce an error

you cant have functions with the same name as their enclosing type

[pearl cypress]

Is it possible to use SharedArrayBuffers with Unity?
So have an array in WebAssembly, and let it be shared with an array in Unity?

Thanks in advance guys

[thin aurora]

The reason is probably because your method shares the same name as the class, which is not a good idea to have in general. I suggest you rename the class to StartProductionBehaviour

[grizzled needle]

Hello all, I am making a laser reflection game and I don't know how to color the line renderer after going through a color filter, it needs to be colored from that point forward.

The only reasonable solution is to color it with a gradient based on the total distance and the distance between points, is there a more straightforward solution?

[dusk apex]

Use multiple line renderers

[grizzled needle]

now I'm rewriting the code to do this, but I thought I'd ask, maybe there are other solutions, thanks anyway for the answer

[strange ferry]

Is that expensive on the CPU?

[quiet briar]

Alright, this I will try. Thank you!

[ocean prawn]

dont line renderers have gradients ? (ive never used them)

[strange ferry]

Not necessarly I think

You can do a solid color gradient

I mean

Raycast

not gradient

ll

[ocean prawn]

wdym

i havent used the line renderers but i know you can set the gradient to fixed

and then just set the color keys from code

if you wanted straight transition

but maybe its not that simple with line renderers

[strange ferry]

I mean you can do a line renderer that is for example plain red color, you can also add gradients.

For line renderers you can show them in the scene view using Debug.DrawRay

Or do a line renderer with the exact same points in space as your raycast

[dusk apex]

You'd simply have extra line renderer component/objects.

[grizzled needle]

thanks for the advice, I'll try now with fixed gradient, I will come back with the result, maybe it will help others

[regal epoch]

im working on a project with a friend. on pc, the game looks just fine. We have an input screen where you can input all the player names. on pc, the first name is on top, then the second name just below that etc etc. on my phone, somehow the list gets filled in a completely different order. The first name is on the 4th place, the second name on the first, etc. wth is going wrong

the name locations have already been defined. when you input a name, the next "location" gets this name in its textfield and then appears on screen

    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(nameInput.text))
        {
            //wrong input
            Debug.Log("Please enter a valid name");
        }
        else
        {
            string[] newNamesArray = new string[nameList.Length + 1];

            // Copy the current namesArray to the new array
            for (int i = 0; i < nameList.Length; i++)
            {
                newNamesArray[i] = nameList[i];
            }

            // Add the new name to the end of the new array
            newNamesArray[newNamesArray.Length - 1] = nameInput.text;

            // Set the namesArray to the new array
            nameList = newNamesArray;
            currentName = nameInput.text;
            Debug.Log("Added " + currentName + " to the game");

            //clear the nameinputfield
            nameInput.text = "";

            //update the gui
            UpdateNameGUI();
        }
        string nameString = string.Join(",", nameList);
        PlayerPrefs.SetString("Names", nameString);

    }```

[regal epoch]

I did some debugging. On my phone, instead of number 10 there is "test", and instead of number 7 there is "test2". These are exactly the ones that get filled in first on my phone. First the "test", then the "test2". But there is no test or test2 in the scene or in the script

[leaden ice]

How does UpdateNameGui work?

[regal epoch]

    {
        for (int i = 0; i < nameGuiList.Length; i++)
        {
            nameGuiList[i].SetActive(false);
        }

        if (names.Length != 0)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < names.Length; i++)
            {
                if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(names[i]))
                {
                    nameGuiList[i].SetActive(true);
                    nameGuiList[i].GetComponentInChildren<TMP_Text>().text = names[i];
                }
            }
        }
    }```

[leaden ice]

How did you populate nameGuiList?

[regal epoch]

Wait i'll send the full script of this scene

oh nvm its over the character limit

    {
        //Load existing playernames
        string namesString = PlayerPrefs.GetString("Names");
        names = namesString.Split(',');
        if(names[0] == "") { Array.Resize(ref names, 0); }

        //initialize nameGuiList
        nameGuiList = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("NameGui");
        UpdateNameGUI();
    }```

[leaden ice]

Ok there's the issue

You're populating the list with FindGameObjectsWithTag.

You're assuming that's going to put them in hierarchy order, but there is no such guarantee of ordering

It can and will give you the objects in any order and it can vary across different hardware

[regal epoch]

ah okay thats sounds logical

is there a way to prevent this random ordering?

[leaden ice]

Populate them:

• manually in the inspector
• by getting a reference to their parent and iterating over them with e.g. GetChild(i)

Assuming they're all siblings in the hierarchy yes?

[abstract nimbus]

uhm what are these errors? They suddenly appeared and I get them upon launch

[leaden ice]

Just some internal Unity editor UI issues

[abstract nimbus]

so nothing to worry about?

[regal epoch]

yes they are

[abstract nimbus]

weird 🤔

[kind niche]

is it possible to add things to the setter of a built in variable?
for example i am trying to get the change of cursor.visible so i would want to do

visible{
  set{
    event?.invoke(...);
  }
}

[leaden ice]

No

[kind niche]

welp

[leaden ice]

Make your own wrapper function and call that instead

[kind niche]

im sorry whats a wrapper function again?

[leaden ice]

Just a function that calls the other function

[kind niche]

oh

alright then well thanks

[halcyon gull]

Hey
Trying to implement push notifications into my game and wonder what's the difference between Unity Mobile Notifications package and Firebase?

Or when should I use one over the other?

[thin aurora]

Only if they're a virtual property

[kind niche]

i fixed my problem before
thanks though 🙂

[hushed needle]

Hello, I have a problem that I don't even know what i must learn for it. I want the direction my character is looking to change with the cursor like this:

Does anyone know what I need to learn for this? or what i need to do?

[heady iris]

i don't really understand what's going on here

what are the short pairs of lines?

[hushed needle]

cursor locations

[heady iris]

so should the player just snap to one of four directions?

it looks like those arrows do not point directly to the cursor locations

[hushed needle]

yes

[hushed needle]

yes like enter the gungeon

[heady iris]

gotcha

that's not too much work

I guess I'd just do...

[leaden ice]

I'd just do:

Vector2 vp = Camera.main.ScreenToViewportPoint(Input.mousePosition);
int quadrant = 0;
if (vp.x > 0.5f) {
  quadrant += 1;
}
if (vp.y > 0.5f) {
  quadrant += 2;
}```

this will give you a number 0-3

of which quadrant you're in

[heady iris]

yeah, that's reasonable to get a quadrant

[hushed needle]

oh nice

Thank you

[heady iris]

you could also get an angle and then round it

[hushed needle]

i saw a video about this and I understood almost nothing

[heady glade]

I want to ask a question about coding but I'm not sure of how do I properly portray that question

The objective is to set the player falling speed to be faster when he's in the air

So he jumps normally and will fall faster than he accends because I'm multiplying the ``Rigidbody.velocity.y` when it reaches a value lower than zero.

The code works and I already stored the things I need in a variable, but I do not know how to apply it to the player.

[heady iris]

ah, you need to change how intense gravity is for the player, then?

is this 2D or 3D?

[heady glade]

2D

[heady iris]

good news: Rigidbody2D has a gravityScale field

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-gravityScale.html

[heady glade]

whut

,_,

that has to be a coincidence XDDD

[heady glade]

Well I have good and bad news

[heady iris]

although, you will probably not want to use rb.velocity.y * 1.5f as the gravity scale :p

[heady glade]

The good news is that it's surely doing something :D
The bad is that it's not something I want to happen D:

[heady glade]

yeah

realised that XD

what do I do?

hmmm

[hard sparrow]

Is it possible to use DOTween like a coroutine? In this case I just want to make an animation play for like 0.2 seconds then change to a different animation, and I don't want to be bothered with a coroutine.

[heady iris]

probably just use a constant!

1.5f would be 50% more gravity

[hard sparrow]

something like DoWait(0.2f).OnComplete(etc); would be nice. But it isn't actually a thing.

[heady glade]

what's a constant?

[heady iris]

like, 1.5f

[heady glade]

But that's a positive value no? I want to multiply it so I goes negative when needed

[heady iris]

This is the gravity scale: the intensity of gravity

It defaults to 1

It's not the acceleration caused by gravity: it's a multiplier

[heady glade]

The I'd also need a else statement to make it go back to normal no?

[heady iris]

Right.

if you are falling, make gravity strong

otherwise, make it normal

[heady glade]

Weirdly enough the result of the last experience was me flying to heaven

but I still didn't made a heaven so flying to blank

[heady iris]

if your Y velocity was negative when you set that, your gravity scale would become negative

so gravity is now flipped

[heady glade]

Is that the correct code?

[heady iris]

Your velocity should not be involved.

You just want to make gravity stronger if you're falling, not based on exactly how fast you're falling

(and this would give you negative gravity again)

[heady glade]

[urban marsh]

Hello everyone !
I have a little problem with some collision triggers :
the player in my game can cast some spells which create damaging areas. They instantiate a prefab, which has a trigger-collider2D, and have a script attached using OnTriggerEnter2D to find enemies hit by the zone.
I have a problem with a particular spell and some particular "enemies".
some potential targets are immobile : they have a static Rigidbody2D.
some spells create a zone which grows by scaling but do not move.
these spells do not trigger on these enemies, I guess because Unity think it does not need to check colliders between things that do not "move".
It's a problem for me, since these spells can have their damaging area touch the enemies and not deal damage.
Is there a way to have this work ?

[heady iris]

rb.gravityScale = rb.velocity.y < 0 ? 1.5f : 1f;

perhaps

that's the ternary operator: condition ? ifTrue : ifFalse

[hexed pecan]

Are the spells instant or do some of the live for multiple frames?

Im thinking you could use OverlapCircle or some other query instead

[heady glade]

There's something not correct, it's not adding 1.5f but changing the gravity to 1.5f and never going back

[urban marsh]

multiple frames.
The one that's currently causing problems is one that scales up and down in a second.

[heady iris]

where do you run this code?

[heady glade]

player

[hexed pecan]

Ok, I dont think scaling an object, especially if its rigidbody is static, will give you trigger events

[heady iris]

in Update?

[hexed pecan]

@urban marsh Check this matrix
https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-messages/3-trigger-matrix-2d

[heady glade]

yes

[heady iris]

show me your code

[leaden ice]

I think the better way to do this would be using OverlapSphere or whatever in larger and larger radiuses over time

[urban marsh]

the spell has no rigidbody, the enemy has a static rigidbody. But I understand what you mean.

[heady glade]

Prepare yourself mentally for it, I started coding 3 days ago

[heady iris]

!code

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[heady iris]

use a paste site, btw

[hexed pecan]

OverlapCircle would be the most reliable way here

[urban marsh]

OverlapCircleAll (the all version), right ?

[oak idol]

Hey guys, what is the correct way to import a video file into Unity?
With an audioclip for example we can use UnityWebRequestMultimedia.GetAudioClip() and then convert that into a clip using DownloadHandlerAudioClip.GetContent(). I could not find an equivalent for video clips.
I know we can play a video file directly using the local URL, but I need to be able to save that file locally in the persistentDataPath because we later export that file to our server. How could I go about doing that?

[heady glade]

https://hastebin.com/share/hotahosaqu.csharp

[heady glade]

Again, prepare yourself to look at that, it's ugly.

But it did get the job done

[heady iris]

looks fine

[heady glade]

[heady iris]

        if (rb.velocity.y < 0)
        {
            rb.gravityScale = rb.velocity.y < 0 ? 1.5f : 5f; // <<<
        }

[heady glade]

[heady iris]

you wrapped it in an if statement that only runs if Y velocity is less than zero

so it'll never be able to run that if velocity isn't less than 0

just get rid of the if statement

[heady glade]

Where should I store the statement?

[heady iris]

exactly where it is

just remove the if

and the extraneous braces, I guess

this will, every frame, set the gravity scale

no matter what

which is what you want

[heady glade]

Looking back, I feel like we should have made a thread

well it's done now

[heady iris]

all good :p

i'd make a thread if we went on much longer

[heady glade]

there's only a little problem now, but I think I can fix it, it's not adding to the scale but changing the scale. Whoever it does change at the right time and goes back to normal.

[heady iris]

Right, you don't want to add to the scale

you just want to set it

Or do you also control the scale in another place?

[heady glade]

I don't, but I was interest about this player data concept I've seen recently

Something like this

[heady iris]

ah

I don't know the context for that exactly

but you could absolutely have a field called baseGravityScale

and then use that to calculate the gravity scale

[heady glade]

It's a big 400 line context so yeah, that will be for a next project I guess

[urban marsh]

Thanks !
I've implemented the solution using OverlapCircleAll and it works ! 🙂

[reef merlin]

Hello everyone, I made a script to rotate my character in the x and y axis to look around but it only works for the Y axis anyone have a solution? Here are my only 2 scripts (everything is well filled for Serializefield)

[hexed pecan]

Are you using Cinemachine?

[reef merlin]

i don't think so

what is this ?

[leaden ice]

• Double check that the scripts are on the correct objects and fields are assigned to correct objects
• Double check that the senstivity values are correct

[hexed pecan]

Its a package. But nevermind then

Code looks ok

[plush hedge]

Earliest executable code possible ?

[pearl swallow]

void Update()
    {
        distanceFromPlayer = Vector3.Distance(player.position, transform.position);
        spiderMesh.SetDestination(player.position);

        if (distanceFromPlayer >= 35)
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = true;
            inRangeFire = false;
        }

        else if(distanceFromPlayer<35 && distanceFromPlayer >= 20)
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = false;
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = false;
        }

        else if(distanceFromPlayer <20 && distanceFromPlayer >= 15)
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = false;
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = true;

        }

        else
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = true;
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = true;
        }

My game object keeps moving even though navmesh.isStopped = true. It should stop and move when within certain ranges from the player. navmesh.SetDestination (player.transform)

[spark shore]

Hey – I'm looking to implement a mobile JoyStick and Panning any suggestions on how to implement before getting started? Thank you!

[potent sleet]

you're calling set destination every frame

is just gonna overwrite isStopped

[pearl swallow]

Oh-

Where would be a better place to set the destination? At Start?

[potent sleet]

put set destination inside the distance check when you want them to move, I assume when they are far from player

replace isStopped = false with set dest

[pearl swallow]

        if (distanceFromPlayer >= 35)
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = true;
            inRangeFire = false;
        }

        else if(distanceFromPlayer<35 && distanceFromPlayer >= 20)
        {
            spiderMesh.SetDestination(player.position);
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = false;
        }

        else if(distanceFromPlayer <20 && distanceFromPlayer >= 15)
        {
            spiderMesh.SetDestination(player.position);
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = true;
        }

        else
        {
            spiderMesh.isStopped = true;
            transform.LookAt(new Vector3(player.position.x, transform.position.y, player.position.z));
            inRangeFire = true;
        }

I was about to try this. So basically this?

No, still moving

[potent sleet]

put debug inside (distanceFromPlayer >= 35) see if it's called

[vale karma]

So i used The Karlson movement code and the movement is fine. But sadly the obsticals that I created are not solid. To make the the objects solid I give them a custom layer that works fine for my ground plane but for some reason all objects that I place on the plane are not working right.

[potent sleet]

why are you crossposting

[pearl swallow]

It's called

[potent sleet]

does it work if you replace isStopped = true to spiderMesh.SetDestination( spiderMesh.transform.position);

[pearl swallow]

No

It kinda makes it spazz out more.

[potent sleet]

maybe you have 2 if conditions running at same time

do you have any other scripts controlling movement ?

[pearl swallow]

I don't think so..

        if(inRangeFire == true)
        {
            if(fireCountdown <= 0)
            {
                GameObject venom = Instantiate(venomShot, venomSpot.position, transform.rotation);
                venom.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddRelativeForce(Vector3.forward * (100f * distanceFromPlayer));
                fireCountdown = 6f / fireRate;
            }
            fireCountdown -= Time.deltaTime;
        }

This just detects the inRangeFire is true, thus it can fire.

And it grabs the navmesh of what its attached to at Start()