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[heady iris]

that is not a scriptable object

it is a plain old C# class

is that intentional?

[pure dragon]

yeah i changed it, still doesnt show

[heady iris]

it should still work fine

[pure dragon]

apparently not

[rigid island]

what is HeartType

[heady iris]

show me a screenshot of the HealthManager component in the inspector.

[heady iris]

also, what version of unity is this?

[somber nacelle]

have you also made sure to save your HealthManager script after adding the list field?

[pure dragon]

2021.3.11f1

[heady iris]

i would ensure this, yes..

[pure dragon]

yep. I assume its something to do with the unity engine/library cause there doesnt seem to be anything wrong with my code

[heady iris]

and make sure that compilation happens -- you should get a popup for a few seconds

and then console should be empty.

[somber nacelle]

click the HealthManager script in your assets folder and look at what it shows in the inspector. do you see what you are expecting to?

[pure dragon]

yep, also regenned meta files a few times

and also deleted and remade the scripts

reimported all

and reloaded unity

[simple egret]

Do you have a custom inspector set up for that script? I would expect the file name to appear in a read-only field at the very top of the component

[heady iris]

oh yeah

good point

that's a custom editor

[pure dragon]

nothing fancy at all just a couple of floats and values

[heady iris]

that's not what SPR asked

they are asking if you've defined a custom editor for this class

[pure dragon]

no, no custom inspectors i mean

[heady iris]

it sure looks like you do, because there should be a grayed-out field called Script at the top

[pure dragon]

damn your right might be onto something there

[somber nacelle]

name the class (and obviously the script file) something different (without using the actual refactoring tools) and remove then re-add the component and see what happens.

[pure dragon]

no i dont but that could be a clue

[heady iris]

ctrl-shift-f your project for CustomEditor

[rigid island]

can you screenshot inspector for HealthManager but in Debug Mode

[pure dragon]

yes ok so a new script called Test2.cs works fine at displaying the health

[somber nacelle]

it for sure sounds like you have a custom inspector for that type that you need to find and fix (or just stop using altogether)

[pure dragon]

yeah i think thats it mightve been a custom inspector i deleted and forgot about

[simple egret]

Please do this

Search all the files in your project for custom inpectors

[rigid island]

has to be, also you're missing this on your script

[heady iris]

the dots! the dots!

[rigid island]

wait nvm I thnk the screenshot is just cutoff

[heady iris]

so this is what they meant by DOTS

more weird dot menus

[rigid island]

in debug mode though you should be able to see if it's correctly link

[pure dragon]

oh i see CTRL SHIFT F on VScode

[heady iris]

right

that does a project-wide search

[pure dragon]

ah yep thats it

some random defunct tiny script i forgot about

thanks

[rigid island]

when someone asked if you had custom inspector doesn't that click to be a reminder of what you did ?

[pure dragon]

no i thought that custom inspector was affecting a UI class not the health class itself

plus i wrote it ages ago thought its not worth the effort and left it alone

[quartz folio]

I've already documented these debugging steps for anyone that doesn't want to waste time in future https://unity.huh.how/programming/serialization

[rigid island]

I mean they did say ALL Custom

but glad it's solved

[pure dragon]

yeah thanks for that

[rigid island]

bookmarked

nice too see Debug mode is mentioned 🙂
thought I yelled at deaf ears

[soft shard]

If you had a custom inspector for your UI class, and your UI class is holding a reference to your health/hearts, then Unity would let you handle drawing the variables you choose instead of serializing them for you

[somber nacelle]

damn you really got everything covered. your site is such a gold mine of troubleshooting tips

[pure dragon]

damn this is actually cool thanks

[rigid island]

mans a JS pro Xd

those charts are kinda hot ngl

[quartz folio]

I also updated the physics messages one with a sidebar and better clarity at the start based on the last annoying one we ran into a day or two ago

[soft shard]

Speaking of physics, I came across your shape debugger for raycasts and such a while back, incredibly helpful git

[rich leaf]

Hey. Is there a way in unity to instantiate a unique scriptable object at runtime?

I have a chest prefab that stores items. If I have a second chest that can be spawned by the player, i need it to have a seperate inventory than the first chest. How can I do this?

On the script attached to the chest, I've tried:

    _chestInventory = Instantiate(chestInventoryBlueprint); 
    chestMenuPrefab.inventory = _chestInventory;

(where chestInventoryBlueprint is an InventoryObject that is set up how I want all my chests to be set up ie number of slots, allowed items in each slot, etc...) in the start() method. The inventoryobject. is a scriptable object However, it seems like if there is a second chest prefab in the scene, they still share the same inventory with each other.

[heady iris]

so removing an item from one causes the other to also lose an item?

does this also modify the original asset?

[rich leaf]

No, the blueprint is not modified. And yes, removing an item from one causes the other to lose it

Like its succesfully creating a clone of the blueprint, but the problem is that all the prefabs share the same clone

[heady iris]

i wonder if they're winding up with the same list reference

but since it's serializable, then i wouldn't really expect that...

[leaden ice]

Instantiate makes a unique object

[somber nacelle]

if you call Instantiate on a ScriptableObject is clones it, including the currently set properties, no? Wouldn't it make more sense to use CreateInstance to create a brand new instance of the ScriptableObject with none of the properties set to the existing values?

[leaden ice]

Your question pivots on what kind of data exactly is stored inside the SO and whether it's serialized, etc...

[rich leaf]

_chestInventory = InventoryObject.CreateInstance<chestInventoryBlueprint>();

As in this?

[heady iris]

show us your code

we're spitballing here

[somber nacelle]

thisis what i was referring to https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScriptableObject.CreateInstance.html
but you have to provide more context

[heady iris]

at the very least: one paste for the SO, one paste for the chest

[rich leaf]

_chestInventory = Instantiate(chestInventoryBlueprint);
chestMenuPrefab.inventory = _chestInventory;

[deep fable]

If I have a quaternion that is made using Quaternion.LookRotation(direction) and I want to rotate the quaternion along the direction axis by X degrees, how do I do it?

[heady iris]

i am asking you to share the entire script

we are looking at random lines of code here

it's like trying to debug through a mail slot

[deep fable]

Like I have a capsule that has no rotation (so it points up and so the direction is Vector3.up) how do I rotate the capsule along Vector3.up???

[rich leaf]

The script for which? The chest object or how the inventory system works?

[heady iris]

Both.

Show us the code. We are just guessing what's going on here.

[rich leaf]

In the chest script that is the only code

[heady iris]

^

no, that is not the only code, because that would not be a valid C# class..

[rich leaf]

that references the inventories

[heady iris]

please, just do it

!code for how to share it

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[rich leaf]

One min, i want to try using the other method really quick. For the creating instance suggestion,
'''
_chestInventory = InventoryObject.CreateInstance<InventoryObject>();
'''

is there a way to make _chestInventory inherit all of the properties of the blueprint now?

[heady iris]

you have not shared your code

i am not going to provide advice until you share your code

[somber nacelle]

wasn't the entire issue that you thought all of the inventory things were using the same instance of the scriptable object because they shared the same property values?

but seriously, you need to share more context or you won't get accurate help

[rich leaf]

The issue is that at runtime, any changes to one would affect the other. I wanted them to be instantiated with the same properties to start, but when the player is interacting with them it only affects the one

[somber nacelle]

well you still haven't shown enough context so until you do you're not going to get any help 🤷‍♂️

[rich leaf]

Im not really asking for help to debug my code in specific, i am trying to understand how it works in unity with scriptable objects

[brisk axle]

hey there, assuming I'd like to make a rogue-like game with classes. would the best way to achieve this using a GameManager class that holds all the powerups (offered at the end of every level), the selected class, etc.? kind of a game state, I guess

[tropic quartz]

I'd really like to see the bit where you declare your variables, for one. Like what access modifiers that _chestinventory has.

[heady iris]

someone has to keep track of it

seems reasonable

[brisk axle]

so it wouldn't be an anti pattern to use it for that purpose?

most tutorials I've found regarding gamemanagers simply keep track of the game is paused and things like that. selected classes, powerups, etc. seems a bit more "higher" level

[heady iris]

you can't get much higher level than a singleton game manager :p

I guess that it might be smarter to just have the player object hold the powerups

[brisk axle]

that would also make sense

[near cave]

When creating a 2D game, should i use multiple tilemaps to differentiate between layers?

[somber nacelle]

yes, not a code question btw

[near cave]

For example, a tilemap for the ground layer, a tilemap for walls, a tilemap for objects ect

oh my bad, didn't see its code only

[rigid island]

#💻┃unity-talk next time 😉

[weary marlin]

can someone help me out with parent/child transforms? im having trouble with getting myhead around it

ill try to explain what im trying to do

i made this first using a single monobehaviour but decided to separate each wall segment into a separate prefab

and laying out tiles within the single wall segment works fine however im having trouble layout out the segments into a square afterwards

i thought applying a transform to the prefab itself would apply it to all children recusively however that isnt happening

using Assets.Prefabs.Wall;
using UnityEngine;
using Zenject;

public class WallBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Pivot;
    public GameObject WallSegmentPrefab;

    [Inject] private DiContainer diContainer;
    [Inject] private IWallConfiguration wallConfiguration;
    
    void Start()
    {
        for (int seg = 0; seg < wallConfiguration.SegCount; seg++)
        {
            var distanceFromCenter = -(Constants.TileHeight + Constants.TileWidth * (wallConfiguration.ColCount / 2.0f + 0.25f));
            var wallSegment = this.diContainer.InstantiatePrefab(this.WallSegmentPrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, this.gameObject.transform);

            wallSegment.transform.Translate(0, 0, distanceFromCenter);
            wallSegment.transform.RotateAround(this.Pivot.transform.position, Vector3.up, seg * -90.0f);
        }
    }
}

using Assets.Prefabs.Wall;
using UnityEngine;
using Zenject;

public class WallSegmentBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject TilePrefab;

    [Inject] private DiContainer diContainer;
    [Inject] private IWallConfiguration wallConfiguration;

    void Start()
    {
        for (int col = 0; col < wallConfiguration.ColCount; col++)
        for (int row = 0; row < wallConfiguration.RowCount; row++)
        {
            var tile = this.diContainer.InstantiatePrefab(this.TilePrefab, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, this.gameObject.transform);

            tile.transform.Translate(Constants.TileWidth * col, Constants.TileDepth * row, 0);
            tile.transform.Translate(-(Constants.TileWidth * (wallConfiguration.ColCount - 1.0f) / 2.0f), Constants.TileDepth / 2.0f, 0);
        }
    }
}

specifically, these lines in WallBehaviour seem to have no effect:

            wallSegment.transform.Translate(0, 0, distanceFromCenter);
            wallSegment.transform.RotateAround(this.Pivot.transform.position, Vector3.up, seg * -90.0f);

which are supposed to move each segment away from center (defined by an empty Pivot GameObject placed in the center and rotate by multiples of 90 degrees

[soft shard]

If your game manager is mostly just holding references and firing or subscribing to events, I think that sounds like a fine approach, though if your powerups are something that gets spawned in the scene, maybe it should be controlled by a "director" or "service" instead, if its just specific objects thats requesting powerups, it might make more sense to put those powerups in a ScriptableObject and reference it on the object(s) that need them - the game manager could keep track of a "game state" though (which could act similar to a state machine with classes as states or a simple enum if states act morel like checks over needing to execute any logic), for example, you could make the current state a property, and fire a event when the state changes, maybe some of those methods could work for your game

[weary marlin]

regarding my problem - it looks like the wall behaviour is executed completely before wall segment behaviours are instntiated

i assumed the code would be run synchronously

and that the InstantiatePrefab(wallSegmentPrefab) would execute WallSegmentPrefab's Start() method

[bright relic]

im trying to figure out how to write a script for procedural mesh generation, my goal is to create a gridbased mesh just like the picture i added from a heightmap i could make in asperite. i think i can write a script so all the horizontal faces will be at the right position. i just cant find any resources on how to connect those faces with vertical faces https://gyazo.com/eb58b8bbcb8dfdaf2d135c17725dfe89

it would probably be easiest to just make cubes extended to the height they need to be at, but for performance and texturing i'd like it if it were a plane with extruded faces

[thorny onyx]

what would be the best way to make a physics based update on the press of a button

cause in fixedUpdate the button isnt always registered

and in update the physics is varied by the framerate

i could make a variable thats activated but i feel like my code gets cluttered that way

already too cluttered

[heady iris]

check for input in update

respond in fixedupdate

[rugged storm]

yo I have a dictionary of tiles with their key being it's position, defined as cs public Dictionary<Vector2, Tile> tiles;

[slate urchin]

I'm having an issue with this code:

        if((MonstersSearching[i].Stamina <= 2 || OfflineResting[i])&& offlineSearchingDone[i]>0){
        float decreasePerSecond = 50 / (Mathf.Log(MonstersSearching[i].AgiV / 100f, 4f) + 1f);
        if(MonstersSearching[i].Resting){
        MonstersSearching[i].Stamina += MonstersSearching[i].ConV * 0.01f;
        offlineSearchingDone[i] -=decreasePerSecond;
        OfflineResting[i] = true;
        if(MonstersSearching[i].Stamina>=MonstersSearching[i].ConV){
            OfflineResting[i] = false;
        }
        }
        } else{
            
            lootTable.SearchingCommon(MonstersSearching[i].Location);
            int ForUncommon = Random.Range(1,61);
            int ForRare = Random.Range(1,10001);
            int ForRelic = Random.Range(1,1000001);

            if(ForRelic == 1){
                lootTable.SearchingRelic(MonstersSearching[i].Location);
            }

            if(ForRare == 1){
                lootTable.SearchingRare(MonstersSearching[i].Location);
            }

            if(ForUncommon == 1){
                lootTable.SearchingUncommon(MonstersSearching[i].Location);
            }

            MonstersSearching[i].Stamina -= 1;
            offlineSearchingDone[i] -= 50;
        } }```
the game will not load. if i remove MonstersSearching[i].Stamina -= 1; it loads fine. or it will run fine if i remove:
```if(MonstersSearching[i].Resting){
        MonstersSearching[i].Stamina += MonstersSearching[i].ConV * 0.01f;
        offlineSearchingDone[i] -=decreasePerSecond;
        OfflineResting[i] = true;
        if(MonstersSearching[i].Stamina>=MonstersSearching[i].ConV){
            OfflineResting[i] = false;
        }
        }
        } else{```
I dont understand why Stamina is causing issues.

[rugged storm]

whats a good way to find a 2x3 group of tiles where tile.isEmpty = true for all of them? (basically find a area of tiles that are empty?)

[lucid valley]

!code

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[lucid valley]

also probably you'll need to learn how to use the debugger

breakpoints will help you here

but i'm just gonna guess you have an infinite loop due to that while loop never finishing

[slate urchin]

i guess, i added breakpoints to notepad++ but they arent carrying over to unity. so ill probably need to install a new code viewer

[lucid valley]

please use a proper ide

visual studio is recommended

!ide

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[lucid valley]

and remember to configure it

[slate urchin]

everytime VS loads microsoft says invaild and kicks me out

[ashen yoke]

invalid what

[shut wadi]

Hello all ! How can I change the alt negative button of my Input Manager via script ?

[somber nacelle]

#💻┃unity-talk message
and don't crosspost

[shut wadi]

I thought this channel might be more appropriate ^^

[rugged storm]

yo I have a dictionary of tiles with their key being it's position, defined as

public Dictionary<Vector2, Tile> tiles;```
what's a good way to find a 2x3 group of tiles where tile.isEmpty = true for all of them? (basically find a area of tiles that are empty?) i want to use it return a list of tiles where ill spawn the player.

[timber cloak]

I whould probly not use a dictionary for that. i think that a 2d array might work better where the index can be the postion instead and then the tile as the value

[leaden ice]

You should use Vector2Int not Vector2

Dictionary is a good idea if the data is sparse

[leaden ice]

As for the actual question just use a for loop

To check the 6 spots

[timber cloak]

but whould that not be harder as to check the postions in order or/and make sure they are next to each other needs alot more code and power

[rugged storm]

ah i thought just pick a spot, look at its neighbors in the relevant area and check them and if it fails pick a new one? but I'm not sure how to repeat it until it actually finds a valid option, or how to detect if there is no valid option and just make a new set of tiles

[leaden ice]

No it wouldn't be harder

[leaden ice]

To repeat code use a loop

If you check every coordinate and find nothing, time to make a new set

[ashen yoke]

because you are using v2 instead of v2i the float discrepancies will produce errors in hashing

[heady iris]

for a given corner, you see if any tiles exist in the corresponding 6 spaces

[ashen yoke]

instead of v2 you should floor it into v2i so that the hash of (0.1,0.5) == (0.004, 0.999)

because both positions are in the same cell

[rugged storm]

oh yeah ill switch that, Ive been slowly switching the Verctor2s to V2Is in my script I just missed that one

[leaden ice]

There shouldn't be any need to floor things

[ashen yoke]

depends heavily

if all the values are in positive space yes you can just cast

if it goes into negative youll get problems

[leaden ice]

It should all be in integer coordinates in the first place. The exception being maybe a query to check the coordinate of a mouse position or something

[slate urchin]

it was invalid license, i fixed it. trying to figure out how to debug now.

[rugged storm]

I want to randomize it not just find the first valid result so could it be a good idea to make a copy of _tiles, randomize it's order and then do a foreach loop on? exiting the loop once I find a valid position, and if i make it to the end without finding one making a new tileset?

[ashen yoke]

anyway if you have a sparse set you can keep bounds or min/max and update it on inserts

so that you have at least known area or you can use each existing node in the set and keep visited set

so that you do the search around existing nodes

[leaden ice]

You could do that, sure

[rugged storm]

okay cool

[leaden ice]

You have to be careful not to make an infinite loop here

[rugged storm]

well im doing foreach, so it will eventually hit the end of the tiles,

at which point if we haven't already returned a list of tiles in the area I need, it will return null probobly and then what I'm calling this FindAreaOfTIles() will handle that accordingly

[leaden ice]

Right but you mentioned trying again if you don't find a legal space

What if that keeps happening?

[rugged storm]

i think ill just do a for each loop and break out of that loop with a return if I don't find a space, if I go through it all and don't ill just have it return null and then that will tell the game that there is none so it will then restart the grid making process instead of moving on to spawning the players in thoes tiles

[leaden ice]

Right:

restart the grid making process
Is what I'm worried about.

What if you restart the grid making process and there's again no legal spaces?

[rugged storm]

it would basically just do the whole process again,

it wont move forward in the logic unless I tell it to progress the gamestate

so it will keep looping untill eventually it works

and i mean technically theoretically it could repeated make invalid boards... ill add like a fail safe that throws an error if it runs like 100 times without working

[heady iris]

i would just give up, destroy some tiles, and spawn the player :p

in fact, if the tiles aren't super well-structured (maybe they're just random junk in a field), you could use that as a spawning algorithm

carve out tiles to make room for whatever needs to be spawned

[slate urchin]

thank you, found the issue, i had 2 different rest methods, one was being set to true but the condition that was check wasnt being changed.

[rugged storm]

yo ive made it to this so far but how do i pull back out to the foreach loop?

[lean sail]

!code

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[lean sail]

Also, what do you mean "go back to the foreach loop", you are still in the loop. Do you mean continue?

continue wouldnt actually exit the inside for loops

[rugged storm]

yeah, would that go to the foreach loop or continue the for loop?

oh

[lean sail]

you would need to add a bool then to exit those early. Or put your for loops inside a function and return early

[oblique spoke]

Wrap it in a method and return, set a bool flag and check it on each iteration to fall out of loops or goto.

Could also set the iterators to the max value and continue

[dusk apex]

Or goto (which may have legitimate uses here, although I don't really like it) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/jump-statements#the-goto-statement

[rugged storm]

acutally i think ill do that

[lean sail]

u scare me

[rugged storm]

IK its not the best way

[dusk apex]

Yeah, setting h to areaHeight and calling break would escape the two loops.

[rugged storm]

but its simple and doesn't seem thaaaat bad...

[oblique spoke]

Yea setting the iterators could have some side effects in loops where the outer loop does logic after the inner loop

[lean sail]

honestly just putting it in a function is better, and looks cleaner so no one sees your n^3 loops

wow magic, my O(n^3) became O(n) by putting it in a function

[heady iris]

computer scientists hate him!

[rugged storm]

so just throw the whole foreach loop into it's own method? or make a method replacing the inside of the foreach loop? with a method

[dusk apex]

void n2InnerLoop(Tile tile)
{
    for(...)
    {
        for(...)
        {
              if(...)
                  return;
        }
    }
}
foreach(...)
{
    n2InnerLoop(tile);
}```

[lean sail]

Only the loops u wish to exit from

[rugged storm]

alr

[grim copper]

    {
        
        recoil.DoRecoil();
        audio.Play();
        CameraRecoil.RecoilFire();
        animator.SetTrigger("Shoot");

        
        readyToShoot = false;

        //find the hit position
        Ray ray = fpsCam.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0)); //ray that goes through the middle of the view
        RaycastHit hit;

        //check if ray hits something
        Vector3 targetPoint;
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
            targetPoint = hit.point;
        else
            targetPoint = ray.GetPoint(75); //Just a point far away from the player

        //calculate direction from the targetpoint to the attackpoint
        Vector3 directionWithoutSpread = targetPoint - attackPoint.position;

        //calculate spread
        float x = Random.Range(-spread, spread);
        float y = Random.Range(-spread, spread);

        //get a new direction and add spread
        Vector3 directionWithSpread = directionWithoutSpread + new Vector3(x, y, 0); //Just add spread to last direction

        //Instantiate bullet/projectile
        GameObject currentBullet = Instantiate(bullet, attackPoint.position, Quaternion.identity);


        //Rotate bullet towards shoot direction
        currentBullet.transform.forward = directionWithSpread.normalized;

        //Add forces to bullet
        currentBullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(directionWithSpread.normalized * shootForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
        currentBullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(fpsCam.transform.up * upwardForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

this is an annoying bugI've got a code that shoots/instantiates projectiles at a certain velocity from the barrel of a gun. they work fine but when i shoot too close to walls the bullets pretty much just don't work and dissapear and whenever i look down enough they shoot in exactly the opposite direction into the players face.
i tried fixing it but it wont work

[dusk apex]

Well, it can't just disappear.. where does it go?

[grim copper]

so the bullet has a script attached to it

basically on collision it destroys itself

cuz it fires prefabs

[dusk apex]

So it immediately destroys itself. Sounds like a functioning behavior.

[grim copper]

yeah but it never collides with the wall

[dusk apex]

What gives you that impression?

[grim copper]

like you can shoot while standing in the door frame and if you go too close to the sides it 'collides'

[dusk apex]

Staying close to the wall implies it's going to hit the wall asap.

[grim copper]

i can maybe send a video would that help

the more annoying bug is when i tilt down it shoots the opposite way

[dusk apex]

Log when it hits something and the thing it hits. Check if it's hitting the wall.

[grim copper]

okay

[lean sail]

also play it frame by frame assuming the bullet takes more than a frame to hit something

so u can see where it is

[grim copper]

how?

[lean sail]

either pause the game manually or insert a debug.break when u shoot so it pauses the game for u

[grim copper]

im gonna record a quick video

[lean sail]

try and debug what happens yourself given what we said first 👍

[grim copper]

yeah

[dusk apex]

As for the floor, log the direction or debug a ray that'd illustrate the direction shot: cs Debug.DrawRay(attackPoint.position, directionWithSpread.normalized * shootForce, Color.red, 5f);

[grim copper]

Okay thanks, I did what you said and wrote this line of code:
Debug.Log("the bullet has collided with" + collision.gameObject.name);
on collisionenter

[lean sail]

(dont forget to turn on gizmos to see the debug ray)

[dusk apex]

Hmm, why did you apply a second set of force relative to camera up?

[grim copper]

it claims to be colliding with the walls but its impossible

[grim copper]

that code is mostly from a tutorial

[dusk apex]

That doesn't answer the question though

[grim copper]

wait lemme see

this?

currentBullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(fpsCam.transform.up * upwardForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

[dusk apex]

The console never lies. Figure out why it thinks it did.

[grim copper]

Well it confuses me because im standing in a doorframe and shooting at a target infront o fit

Should I send a quick video it can probably explain better than I could

whoops

im standing a doorframe

which i can walk through just fine

when i hug the sides

[lean sail]

that just looks like ur colliders arent proper

[dusk apex]

Is there a collider there?

[grim copper]

yeah its just a probuilder collider

[dusk apex]

Colliders could possibly stop the bullet.

You still haven't shown the log or the drawn ray.

[grim copper]

sorry, the log says 'collided with arch (my walls)'

[lean sail]

Also the bullet may not be spawning where we think it is, so draw some lines to show where the bullet spawns and its path. did u play frame by frame?

[red scarab]

I sent a build to my friend for beta testing. Nothing fancy just a 2D game, the entire .zip is 22MB and has a .exe ... his Norton antivirus is blocking it, claiming "telepathy.dll is unsafe" and "Unity.Timeline.dll is unsafe" and so on and so on... what am I supposed to do so the builds don't get flagged by antivirus?

[dusk apex]

Debug.Log("the bullet has collided with" + collision.gameObject.name, collision.gameObject);```

[dusk apex]

Yeah, that's a thing. Unless you're rich or your application is popular.. your application will be receiving those messages for a while.

[lean sail]

he would have to allow it in Norton

[lean sail]

Also Norton is really really bad..

[grim copper]

ignore that line 21 error its just complaining i disabled my enemy

it happens with enemy enabled too

[red scarab]

Anything I can do on my side?

[lean sail]

unless u put the game on steam, probably not

its possible for malware to exist in a game, antiviruses will check for it

[lean sail]

highlight the actual collider for yourself too, its impossible for us to see where these rays are in 3D space because of depth perception

[grim copper]

the player collider?

sorry if im being stupid

[lean sail]

the wall it is colliding with

[grim copper]

it's highlited, those little white lines i believe

ik its usually green

[lean sail]

i see a single white line across the bottom, which would indicate to me that your bullet shouldnt pass through that at all

[grim copper]

yeah, but i can pass through the door just fine

[lean sail]

theres a few cases here,

1. your wall collider doesnt exactly line up with the mesh
2. the bullet doesnt spawn where its supposed to and is taking a path that looks like it goes through the entrance but doesnt.
3. both cases above
4. you have an extra collider somewhere

[dusk apex]

Not really. Here's a discussion on Reddit (it's also been discussed here many times but the posts are difficult to find) https://www.reddit.com/r/itchio/comments/tngwpd/my_game_is_blocked_by_windows_defender/
tldr, it's not worth your time or money to bypass this. Just hit the button to run anyways. Eventually it may be unflagged by defender - maybe.

[lean sail]

and more that arent directly related to the collider

[grim copper]

i'm gonna send another video rq

[lean sail]

dont rely on me to look at your scene please. Im not gonna inspect your collider size and compare it to the bullet path

pause the game as soon as the bullet hits the wall maybe and debug everything to see whats really happening

[sour zealot]

Help...

[dusk apex]

Right, so there's a collider there.

[lean sail]

your rays as well might be not accurate since i dont know what u wrote. Your rays might be showing the intended path but the bullet mightve not taken that entire path

[grim copper]

yeah ur right

[sour zealot]

im getting this error, its in the third person starter assets pack: 'PlayerArmature' AnimationEvent 'OnLand' on animation 'JumpLand' has no receiver! Are you missing a component?

[vagrant blade]

Your animation JumpLand has an animation event calling OnLand but there's nothing for it to target.

[grim copper]

Okay well I've just figured something out

[rugged storm]

any glaring issues?

[lean sail]

u tell us, does it work?

[grim copper]

I think it's just my probuilder colliders are terrible

because i made a doorframe out of box colliders with blocks and it worked fine

[rugged storm]

fine I was just asking here cuz i have to do some other stuff to implement it

[sour zealot]

fixed it

thanks

[grim copper]

Okay well i've fixed my doorframe collider issue by just messing with the bullet's rigidbody somehow but there is still the issue of whenver i look down the bullet fires in the exact opposite direction and even the rays just show it like completely firing from the attackpoint the opposite way it's supposed to

[lean sail]

a rigidbody alone shouldnt have done much... but im glad it worked

that might be if it collides with the player hand/gun/floor/anything when it spawns, it might instantly bounce back. Unless u have it destroy on any collision at all

[dusk apex]

Log your target point, attack point position and camera point.

The resulting direction would be the result of those two.

[grim copper]

well idk i just tried disabling the rigidbody on the bullet, broke the code so i enabled it again, made it kinematic to see what it'd do, it broke again so i reenabled everything and it fixed itself..

[dusk apex]

If origin is below target (you're shooting from the camera and not the attack point with the ray check) the shot would be in the opposite direction.

[grim copper]

yeah its meant to just shoot to the middle of the screen

thats what the ray is for

but i'll do that rq

Okay I aimed all the way down

target point pos (4.60, 2.37, 10.65)
attack point pos (4.76, 1.71, 10.99)

[dusk apex]

So the target is above the attack point.

Meaning you'll be shooting up.

target - attack = direction

[grim copper]

right

[dusk apex]

This is occurring because the initial raycast is from camera and not the attack point.
After determining the point of collision relative to the camera, use a ray generated from the attack point as the actual shot ray.

Wait.. I believe that's what you did.

Issue is the attack point is below the expected collision.

ie your gun is through the floor etc

[grim copper]

I thought so too at the beginning but it isn't

[dusk apex]

Depends if you're wanting to shoot through the floor or whatnot, you'll need to implement a feature for dealing with shots where your gun (attack point) is through the floor or below the collision point.

[grim copper]

yeah

[dusk apex]

Basically camera sees the collision point above the attack point so shots are being fired towards yourself.

You may be hitting other things such as your lower body with the initial contact point though - only you'll be able to determine this with debugging.

[grim copper]

If that were to happen the bullet would just destroy itself

the rays show that it just goes the opposite way

[dusk apex]

Bullet shouldn't be able to hit itself. Check what you've hit when shooting down.

The log would tell.

[grim copper]

It doesn't hit anything as it just shoots into the sky

[dusk apex]

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
{
    Debug.Log($"Camera ray hit: '{hit.collider}' at point {hit.point}");
    targetPoint = hit.point;
}
else
    targetPoint = ray.GetPoint(75); //Just a point far away from the player```

[solemn raven]

what the hell is that ?

Should not be capturing when there is a hotcontrol
UnityEditor.EditorGUILayout:PropertyField (UnityEditor.SerializedProperty,UnityEngine.GUILayoutOption[])

should i ignore it ?

[dusk apex]

Editor question, maybe ask #↕️┃editor-extensions if it's true (are you doing something with the Editor and serialization?)

[solemn raven]

oh yeah i'm , i have a custom editor, i think it's gone for now , maybe it was a glitch or something

[solemn raven]

but thanks a lot for the support ❤️ ❤️

[dusk apex]

Alright.. maybe it's this btw https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/should-not-be-capturing-when-there-is-a-hotcontrol-message-thrown-after-double-clicking-on-runtime-error-and-exiting-playmode..

You'll know if it's related or not

Basically:

This can be reproduced with the steps listed at https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/should-not-be-capturing-when-there-is-a-hotcontrol-message-thrown-after-double-clicking-on-runtime-error-and-exiting-playmode
The specific issue is marked as "Resolved", but still appears in the latest version of Unity (As you have seen)

[rugged storm]

I think ill be taking your advice, before I was reluctant because did not feel like making a way to change a tile live, but its probably something I should have anyway so might anyway

lmao i wonder if one day someone will play it and get a map thats litterally entirely unwalkable besides where the players spawn, and a path to the enemies(which i will also be checking for making sure exists)

[heady iris]

i suppose there are two ways to produce a level

one is to generate features, and then subtract the ones that get in the way

the other is to figure out what areas can be filled in, and then generate features in them

[fluid lily]

So I am having an issue of compile times. I am using assemblies, but it is taking 1-2min everytime I save a change to a scripts, and that combined with 1-2min to get into play mode is a killer on productivity. The playmode I have fixed by using a test scene, but the compile time is still there.

My assemblies have like 50+ scripts each, so maybe time to split them down some more? Can you have sub assemblies?

Also is there a setting to stop unity from compiling while I am in VS?

[heady iris]

you can tell unity to only reload when commanded

i do that

[fluid lily]

Cool, because if I am creating a new script it makes sense to reload after each change, but I am currently just cleaning code up, and it is eating so much of my time lol

[heady iris]

i wish i could tell it to hold off while I'm moving scripts around

[fluid lily]

indeed

[viscid kite]

what's the best way to implement a hit stop on say a per hit basis? Should it simply be a global timescale set to 0 for a short period of time or something else?

[heady iris]

that's what I've done in the past

a very short period of 0 timescale

some effects may need to then be set to use unscaled time

e.g. a camera shake during the stop

[viscid kite]

eye sea

[heady iris]

also, if you do this in a coroutine, make sure to use WaitForSecondsRealtime 😛

[fluid lily]

I see what you did there

Or eye sea what you did there

[silk tinsel]

is there a way to change the position of a sprite renderer component relative to the gameobject it is attached to?

[somber nacelle]

change its localPosition instead of position

or rather, make it a child of the gameobject and do so

[silk tinsel]

that still changes the position of the gameobject in world, not the component itself

i need the sprite renderer to be attached to a gameobject but be visually at a different location than the gameobject itself. I can't attach it to another child gameobject

[somber nacelle]

is this actually not a code question but rather a "my sprite isn't in the right position when i add it to the gameobject" question? because that would just be changing the pivot point of the sprite

[silk tinsel]

no I need to update it at runtime to be at a slightly different position than the actual gameobject it is attached to for pixel snapping purposes

[leaden ice]

Change the pivot point of the sprite

[silk tinsel]

but if I change the position of the actual gameobject it leads to desyncing between the gameobject with the sprite renderer component attached whenever sub-pixel motion occurs

[silk tinsel]

can the pivot be updated at runtime?

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Sprite-pivot.html

Of course

[silk tinsel]

it isn't letting me set it, according to rider it only has a getter

I'm just trying to set it to a random offset here for testing purposes

[leaden ice]

Well that's annoyingly undocumented

[somber nacelle]

yeah i went and look and the docs don't show it as readonly, but it definitely is https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/4b436cf82aaff7a0719e373ee8af4f4625f05638/Runtime/2D/Common/ScriptBindings/Sprites.bindings.cs#L134

[silk tinsel]

yeah it is lol

[leaden ice]

Options then are:

• create a new sprite with a different Pivot
• try to change it with reflection
• move the GameObject

[silk tinsel]

been searching the documentation for something I can use that isn't readonly

perhaps I'll have to do it at a rendering level

which will not be fun

because it needs to be sprite-agnostic

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Sprite-textureRectOffset.html maybe? I'm not sure what's different about this vs the pivot

[silk tinsel]

moving the gameObject leads to the desyncing issue

[silk tinsel]

sadly this is also readonly

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure I understand the desync issue but I'll take your word for it

[silk tinsel]

basically if I move the gameobject the spriterenderer's gameobject is parented to, any subpixel-motion doesn't apply and so if you move in sub-pixel intervals over time it will desync

whoops sorry hit enter early

and this needs to support non-zero offsets of the child gameobject with the spriterenderer to the parent gameobject

so I can't just use the parent gameObject's position value to calculate the new snapped value

I guess theoretically I could introduce a third gameobject into the mix

it's not elegant but it might work until I can get under the hood and figure out if I can offset it at some point in the render pipeline

[leaden ice]

Or just a Vector3 to track the sub pixel motion

The accumulated sub pixel motion

[silk tinsel]

that would require any motion applied to the gameObject to be done to the subPixel Vector3 rather than the object's transform

which is something i'd like to avoid

as this is meant to be a project-agnostic system

[leaden ice]

Apply whole number motion to the GO and the remainder to your variable

[silk tinsel]

actually yeah you're right

that might work

[leaden ice]

And when the variable accumulates a whole numbers worth you consume that

[silk tinsel]

true I wasn't thinking about it right

thank you I will try that

[somber nacelle]

you can probably store them as a Func<IEnumerator> so that you don't start executing any of the coroutine's code until you Dequeue and then invoke it in the StartCoroutine call. I haven't tested this though

[silk tinsel]

this worked, thank you so much!

[somber nacelle]

just tested, this is the way to do it. @wide fiber

[lament bloom]

This definitely looks like a valid collision, right?

I'm not sure why, but it's just not getting registered

[hexed pecan]

How are you moving the axe?

[lament bloom]

an animation

oh i think i know what's going on

I'm using OnTriggerExit

but sometimes due to the way the animation works

the axe's mesh collider is actually disabled before it leaves the player's collider

and so the call is never made

[hexed pecan]

I would probably just use physics queries for melee weapons

[wide fiber]

ok i will try this! thank you!!

[swift falcon]

any chance would anyone know why the ui on my hotbar is broken on the second client? its multiplayer and im using mirror, the UI recognizes there is an object there just the sprite doesnt load

[cosmic rain]

What object? And how do you load the sprite?

[swift falcon]

the sprites is loaded from a scriptable object

this is the second client

this is the first

[cosmic rain]

So what's exactly not loaded?🤔

Also there seem to be 7 errors in the first screenshot

[swift falcon]

there just misc errors unrelated, (footstep audio)

in the first pic if you look at the hotbar

the sprite isnt there

[cosmic rain]

Where do you add items to the hotbar?

[wise kindle]

hii, can we put collider-related questions here?

[swift falcon]

the bottom row corealates to the hotbar so what ever item is in there the will show in the hotbar

its drag and drop

[cosmic rain]

If they're not code related, then : #⚛️┃physics

[wise kindle]

thanks ❤️

[cosmic rain]

I mean, in code...

[swift falcon]

wait

ill upload to a file for easier readibilty

what website can i upload it to

i forgot what its called

[cosmic rain]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[swift falcon]

https://gdl.space/kodolehaqa.cs

[cosmic rain]

Ummm... Wat? Where is that even called from?

[swift falcon]

thats called everytime theres a ui change

[cosmic rain]

If you share code, please provide the whole context. If you can't decide what's related, share the whole script.

Don't just copy-paste part of a method.

[swift falcon]

one sec ill share the whole script but you did ask where i added objects to the hotbar

https://gdl.space/soxiwureda.cs

[cosmic rain]

Ok, for starters, don't use try catch to handle your ui logic...😅

[swift falcon]

alrighty noted 😄 haha

[cosmic rain]

Add debugs along your code. Make sure your refresh ui methods is even being called.

If it is, then your try catch is probably catching some kind of error. Remove the try catch and instead make proper null checks. Add debugs there as well.

[swift falcon]

alrighty one moment ill try it rn

yeah its being called

[cosmic rain]

And fix the other errors or disable the code that generates them. You don't want to go through a bunch of errors looking for the right one...

It's blasphemy to keep errors in your console without addressing them.

[swift falcon]

the error is because the footstep audio isnt networked haha so its getting a null reference

[cosmic rain]

Then disable the relevant code.

Or are you planing to publish your game with these errors?

It doesn't matter what causes the errors. It's not normal to just ignore them.

[swift falcon]

nah i was just going to fix it later as it isnt game break

its in my trello todo list for misc stuff to fix

[cosmic rain]

Well, it might get in your way of solving other issues. But suit yourself

[swift falcon]

i got rid of the try catch and added a null check but that still didnt solve the issue unfortunatly

[swift falcon]

ive just disabled the relavant code for that

so ill just fix the footstep audio at another date

[cosmic rain]

Well, what happens now? Are there errors? Share the updated code.

[swift falcon]

no errors and the updated code is https://gdl.space/wedutadoxa.cs

i tried with 3 clients the sprite only shows on 1

[cosmic rain]

Ok, that could only mean that
items[_index].GetItem()
of the right slot(assuming it's right) is null.
Add debugs along your code as I suggested before to know if anything before that stage is going wrong.

Look at where you're adding the items to the slots and makes sure there's no problem there.

[swift falcon]

Yeah the hotbar item is null

[cosmic rain]

Great. Now figure out why it's null. Probably because you're not setting it.

[wild warren]

In the previous week unity made a change in remote config and it messed up all my project,

I added obselete to configManager still didn't work

I also replaced unity.remoteConfig to unity.services.remoteConfig

And configManager to RemoteConfigService.instance

Still no luck

Am I missing something????

[rotund burrow]

i have an object that needs to overlap sphere around it every update. should i add another collider with a trigger for that? but then the radius and later shape to check will change. right now i have a script that overlaps sphere and filters through the returned array, but it's sloppy.

[latent latch]

Are you asking if overlap is more performative than using colliders*?

Technically, a collider will do similar checking over an array with all other colliders in the vicinity, so what you're doing isn't exactly that different from just using a collider. One plus of checking with overlap, you get to control how much it checks for colliders instead of every (fixed?) update.

Of course if the game object is small or traveling quickly, you'll want to check as much as possible.

[indigo haven]

Hey good day.
I have this code:

public static IEnumerator BacktrackerRecursivo(Celda[,] laberinto)
    {
        // Stuff
        
        while (pilaVisitados.Count > 0)
        {
            if (GeneradorLaberinto.EjecuccionPorPresion)
            {
                while (!GeneradorLaberinto.EjecutarUnaVez)
                    yield return null;
                GeneradorLaberinto.EjecutarUnaVez = false;
            }
            else
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
            
            // Stuff
        }
    }

This code does stuff but waits for the user to press a key (the condition in the while) before doing each iteration of the while.
I want to know if i can make that if-else into a function becouse i have it repeated in more than 1 method

Any advice?

[green ice]

Hi guys,if when i spawn a prefab when game starts i want that when this prefab click a button call a method contained in a script attached at an object in the hiearchy that is there since before the game starts how can i do it?

[trim schooner]

Stop cross posting.

[ruby fulcrum]

is there any way to render a tool (eg a gun) so that it doesnt mesh into walls, but at the same time isnt see-through

i used the method where you render it on a seperate camera ontop of the main camera, it worked but theres the issue of the tool being see through

[hexed pecan]

Is that the perspective of your game?

[ruby fulcrum]

yes

in run

[hexed pecan]

The dual camera method makes sense for a first person game, not so much for this kinda game

[ruby fulcrum]

oh

[hexed pecan]

I'm not sure what you want it to look like though

[ruby fulcrum]

it meshes like this

[hexed pecan]

So you want to render it on top of walls, but not be seen thru walls

Thats contradictory

[ruby fulcrum]

actually i got a better idea

ill just use a mesh collider instead

[indigo haven]

How would you make a corrutine wait until the player press a key before continuing?
Like the function does stuff then waits for a key press before continuing doing stuff

[mellow sigil]

yield return new WaitUntil(() => Input.GetKeyDown("space"));

[dusk apex]

IEnumerator Dialogue(string[] texts)
{
    var wait = new WaitUntil(() => Input.anyKeyDown);
    foreach(var text in texts)
    {
        ui.text = text;
        yield return wait;
    }
}```example

[indigo haven]

This get executes 2 times per presion

[mellow sigil]

What is a presion?

[indigo haven]

When you press space i mean

[mellow sigil]

What happens then?

[indigo haven]

Two executions of the stuff that should happen once

[dusk apex]

You'll need to provide more context to get better help

[mellow sigil]

well you have the coroutine running twice then

[indigo haven]

Okay i will explain more, sorry for the confusion

[trim schooner]

you missing the > from that () = Input.. ?

[dusk apex]

Coding using a mobile keyboard isn't so fun.

[indigo haven]

I have a maze and im making corrutines to be able to show the process of making the empty maze into a proper maze using algorithms.
To do so i have decided to make the algorithm a corrutine and make the iterations of said algorithm wait until the user press space to do a iteration (like, you press space and a cell fo the maze gets build)

I have this code:

public static IEnumerator BacktrackerRecursivo(Celda[,] laberinto, Vector2Int posicionInicial)
    {
        // Stuff
        
        while (pilaVisitados.Count > 0)
        {   
            posicionActual = pilaVisitados.Peek();
            laberinto[posicionActual.x, posicionActual.y].EstadoActual = EstadoCeldaEnum.Actual;
            
            if (GeneradorLaberinto.EjecuccionPorPresion)
            {
                
                while (!GeneradorLaberinto.EjecutarUnaVez)
                    yield return null;
                GeneradorLaberinto.EjecutarUnaVez = false;
            }
            else
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
            
            // Stuff
            
        }
    }

This works more or less. I can translate if needed but the variables are a static variable to make it execute just once and a condition to see if it must be execute by waiting 0.5 secs or by presing space

[trim schooner]

It's how the pr0s do it 😄

[orchid bane]

I don't have method .Schedule() for job, what do I do to get it?

I use 2021.3

[late lion]

Which IJob interface does your struct implement?

[orchid bane]

The IJob

[late lion]

The Schedule method is an extension method under the Unity.Jobs namespace.

[orchid bane]

IDK what to say, I have using Unity.Jobs

[late lion]

It's definitely in 2021.3. So either you're implementing the wrong interface that also has the name IJob, or your IDE is wrong and it will compile in Unity.

[heady iris]

show your code

[orchid bane]

[BurstCompile]
    private class FindNearestFoodJob : IJob {
        private readonly Vector3[] _foodPositions;
        private readonly Vector3 _headPosition;
        private NativeArray<Vector3> _nearestTarget;

        public FindNearestFoodJob(Vector3[] foodPositions, Vector3 headPosition, NativeArray<Vector3> nearestTarget) {
            _foodPositions = foodPositions;
            _headPosition = headPosition;
            _nearestTarget = nearestTarget;
        }

        public void Execute() {
            float sqr = float.MaxValue;
            foreach (var foodPosition in _foodPositions)
            {
                float distSqr = (foodPosition - _headPosition).sqrMagnitude;
                if (distSqr < sqr)
                {
                    sqr = distSqr;
                    _nearestTarget[0] = foodPosition;
                }
            }
        }
    }```

var job = new FindNearestFoodJob(foodPositions, headPosition, _nearestTargetNative);
        _jobHandle = job.Schedule();```

[late lion]

Your job is a class, not a struct.

[orchid bane]

Oh

Thanks

[heady iris]

yeah, I thought that looked a little funny

[late lion]

Also, you can't use managed arrays in jobs. You have to use NativeArray

[orchid bane]

Should it be like this instead?

var job = new FindNearestFoodJob(new NativeArray<Vector3>(foodPositions, Allocator.Temp), headPosition, _nearestTargetNative);```

[late lion]

That will introduce a memory leak because you're not disposing the array.

[orchid bane]

Should I dispose of it at the end of the job? (inside)

[cosmic rain]

I don't think that's possible in a job(that would be on the other thread)

[orchid bane]

Where do I do it then?

[cosmic rain]

Create a local variable outside the job and dispose of it later when getting the results of the job.

Doesn't have to be local I guess

[orchid bane]

Should I Dispose of it right before giving it a new value then?

[cosmic rain]

That's one option, but I think unity would be angry at you if you keep it alive for several frames.

Could be mixing up with something else🤔

[orchid bane]

Gonna try

[late lion]

You also need to use TempJob or Persistent if you want to pass it into a job.

[orchid bane]

Okay, thanks

[swift falcon]

sigh im back again :/ i seriously want to off my self, i found out the root problem of my problem earlier and its because the inventory isnt synced up with the server

but idk how to sync it, i cant find any decent references

[cosmic rain]

Well, that's more of a #archived-networking question.
You'd either user rpcs or some kind of synced properties to sync data between server and the clients.

[swift falcon]

i want the inventory to be server authorative but again i cant find a single reference 😭

[hard estuary]

Have you tried serializing it with INetworkSerializable?
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/advanced-topics/serialization/inetworkserializable

[swift falcon]

im using mirror haha

[cosmic rain]

Server authoritive means that the logic is controlled on the server and the client only displays the visuals. Shouldn't be too difficult.
If you can't figure it out, maybe it's too early for networking..?

[swift falcon]

i dont really see any other way to learn than to try it, its just i cant find anything usefull that i can learn off

[worldly hull]

my team uses a chaotic setup for backends

cant recommend that to u , it gonna ruin ur game

somehow it works tho

[cosmic rain]

Learn more general cases of syncing data between server and the client and apply it to your specific case.

[hard estuary]

Back when I used Mirror I used BinaryFormatter to convert data into a byte array, and then sent the data as byte array via ClientRPC. It's not comfy, but it did the job. 🤔 But it's recommended to avoid BinaryFormatter.

[swift falcon]

what would you recommend for differnet cases for syncing data between server and client?

[swift falcon]

i want to move to fishnet so bad but im somewhat familiar with mirror i feel like migrating would be utter aids

theres more reference material for fishnet to learn off

[worldly hull]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7urNgLPJiQ
theres already some tutorials showing how to breakdown binary formatter stuff

[swift falcon]

ive heard of this Binary exp

[worldly hull]

welp, only use it if u know what ur doing

and u have the confidence it wont bring ddos or other bad stuff to ur server

[swift falcon]

cant you restrict the amount of data being formatted? so it doesnt cause dos ?

fuck i need sleep :/

but i wanna finish :/

[hard estuary]

Here is some example of syncing variables on clients:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLp1PzPKvE
This user has a whole series of Mirror tutorials.

[swift falcon]

its outdated tho

alot of stuff from those series have been made obsolete

[cosmic rain]

Anything. Movement, log in information, etc...

[swift falcon]

i will look into it

[digital fern]

Hello there, having some thoughts right now on how should i implement my "Game manager script".
Should i :

1. Make a static class "GameManager" which is never linked to a GameObject and accessed globaly through the engine ?
2. Make a "GameManager" MonoBehaviour, instantiated in a preload scene, accessed through singleton throughout the game ?
3. Make a "SpecificSceneManager" MonoBehaviour, instantiated in each scene, accessed only during the specific scene i am and destroy by switching scenes (which are used as "states")

Somehow, the [2] options seems the best choice to me

[swift falcon]

i would personally choose singleton but some people have have there problems with singletons

[heady iris]

I usually just make a component that makes itself available via a static field

If it needs to survive between scenes, it would get marked DontDestroyOnLoad()

[digital fern]

Were you there 3 min ago 🤣

[heady iris]

one suggestion: do it more like this

[hard estuary]

It kinda depends on what your manager does. Instances of managers are handy in multiplayer games (e.g. you can have a separate manager for every match instance). I suppose instances also could be handy if you wanted the possibility of having several instances accessible at the same time, kinda like tabs in a web browser or project files in Photoshop.

If you're 100% sure you're never gonna need it duplicated, then any solution will do.

MonoBehaviour managers are quite handy if you want to configure them or debug their values in the inspector.

[heady iris]

public class GameController : MonoBehaviour {
  private static GameController _instance;
  public static GameController Instance {
    get {
      if (_instance == null) {
        _instance = FindObjectOfType<GameController>();
      }
      return _instance;
    }
  }
}

this lazily initializes the singleton

this is useful if you want to have other things find this guy in their own Awake methods

[heady iris]

if you do it this way, I'd suggest also checking that Instance == null

if it isn't, log a warning that you have two GameControllers

[digital fern]

Thanks for your reply !

[digital fern]

Thanks for your reply !

[agile tulip]

Howdy all! I'm trying to remove a outline on a Instantiated object but it's not working. Can anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

GameObject buildedItem = Instantiate(BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel);
Outline removeOutline = buildedItem.GetComponent<Outline>();
removeOutline.OutlineWidth = 0f;

[digital fern]

Thanks for your reply !

[heady iris]

is it throwing an error?

[agile tulip]

Nope

debug log also gives

[heady iris]

is this some kind of custom component? I don't reecognize it

[swift falcon]

i would do

public static GameController instance;
private void Awake() {
    if(instance == null) {
       instance = this;
    } else {
      Destroy(this);
    }
}

so you know its only initalized 1 time

[agile tulip]

Yeah it's a asset, it works when I use it on BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel but I want to remove it only on the Instantiated object

[swift falcon]

i just completely removed mirror from my project and un networked all my scripts and im going to migrate to fishnet as it seems more reliable

[thin aurora]

Why are you using FindObjectOfType to find the type that contains the literal property? You can just do _instance = this

[heady iris]

this is a static method

it is a lazily-initialized property

[swift falcon]

why the snake case tho

[heady iris]

it's a convention for private fields

[thin aurora]

Also, talking aobut improving the system, I suggest you make sure that there's not multiple instances of the given type

[thin aurora]

private field

[swift falcon]

ah yes

[thin aurora]

Ah right, this was an alternative instead of doing it in Awake

[heady iris]

ya

[thin aurora]

There's not a whole lot of reason to lazily initialize it, though

[heady iris]

it's a little more code, but it completely avoids problems with ordering

[swift falcon]

whats wrong with just doing what i said tho haha

[thin aurora]

Nothing really

[heady iris]

yeah, it's fine

we're bikeshedding here :p

you probably shouldn't have singletons trying to talk to each other in Awake

[swift falcon]

fair enough was just wondering haha if theres anything wrong with that lol thats how i normally do it

[heady iris]

so it wouldn't come up anyway

[hard estuary]

This lazy initialization sounds like a good way of avoiding blockers in build, but I would suggest adding a warning log to it so developers will know there were some issues with the initialization order and patch it up later.

[digital fern]

Do you make a difference between game modes and game states ? Or do you implement both using FSM ?

[hard estuary]

Honestly, it's hard to tell. I suppose in some cases I would go for completely independent scripts and sometimes I would use some kind of FSM. FSM would be great if you can't simply turn off the other game modes, which would allow the player to choose what mode he is using right now (e.g. in the pause menu he shouldn't be able to interact with his game except resuming the game, and during the game, he shouldn't be able to interact with pause menu except entering it, but there is a chance both things will be active at the same time). I suppose FSM would work well for implementing mini-games and such. But there is no need for FSM if every game state is separatable beings, such as levels in games (you can't be at the 2 levels at once).

[agile tulip]

Still nobody that can help? #archived-code-general message

[digital fern]

what is the asset you are using

[gleaming sparrow]

cant u just destroy the Outline component as a whole instead of setting it to 0

[agile tulip]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/quick-outline-115488

[digital fern]

Did you try to disable the outline Component 'removeOutline.enabled = false' ?

[agile tulip]

It doesn't destroy the outline :S

GameObject buildedItem = Instantiate(BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel);
var removeOutline = buildedItem.GetComponent<Outline>();
Destroy(removeOutline);

[agile tulip]

Doesn't work either

[gleaming sparrow]

what is the outline script

can u send snippet

[digital fern]

i dont know then

[agile tulip]

https://github.com/chrisnolet/QuickOutline/blob/master/QuickOutline/Scripts/Outline.cs

[digital fern]

The is a outline mode hidden

set is outline mode

[agile tulip]

Well the thing is all code should work but somehow the GameObject buildedItem = Instantiate(BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel); looks like it's not defining the buildedItem

If I use it on BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel it's all working

But I only want to target the Instantiated object

[gleaming sparrow]

BuildingMenuItem is a static class I assume?

[agile tulip]

yes

[gleaming sparrow]

yeah makes sense it'd do it for all objects then... hmm

maybe u need to add your own custom func to the Outline script to make it happen

[agile tulip]

But it should still be possible to destroy the outline component on the Instantiated object right? :S

[fresh widget]

Anyone here who has ever used Runtime Hierarchy and Inspector? I am having a problem that the text in hierarchy and inspector is not visible anymore when I play my game. Why am I using it? Because I am making an AR game which can't be debugged in editor while playing.

[gleaming sparrow]

yes but if i understand what youre saying correctly, you already tried that and it didnt work

[agile tulip]

Yes indeed very weird

[gleaming sparrow]

what is this BuildingMenuItem class

[agile tulip]

It holds the prefab that is selected to build

[gleaming sparrow]

is it your own class or did it come with the asset

[agile tulip]

my own

[gleaming sparrow]

is buildedItem actually the obj that holds the outline comp? are u sure

like not a child of that obj or smthn

[steep herald]

Using FinalIK, some asset from the store, I'm running into issues manually controlling the execution order of the solvers.

In my tests, by accident, I realized that disabling and re-enabling the actual solver components in the order than I want will cause them to execute in that precise order.

I was able to confirm the behaviour with the simple class below. I added 5 instances, enabled them in the order I want and their update order will follow the order in which they were enabled.
e.g.

public class PrintFoo : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private string foo;

    private void Update() => print(foo);
}```
Does anybody know if this behaviour can be relied upon? Will this be persistent across platforms?

[agile tulip]

buildedItem is the Instantiated of BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel which should hold the outline component

first time I try to target a Instantiated object

[gleaming sparrow]

it should* but does it? need to be certain

[agile tulip]

I assume so else the outline wouldn't work I think

[gleaming sparrow]

does buildeditem have any children

[agile tulip]

The outline stays active so

[gleaming sparrow]

?

[agile tulip]

GameObject buildedItem = Instantiate(BuildingMenuItem.newItemModel);

[gleaming sparrow]

that doesnt rly answer my question

youre instantiating a prefab

a prefab can have children

can u show me ur buildedItem prefab in the editor

[gleaming sparrow]

oke no children

[agile tulip]

I now see the Outline component isn't part of the prefab, but get's added to it when I click the menuItem

[gleaming sparrow]

i think i see

[agile tulip]

but I think that still wouldn't be the problem?

[gleaming sparrow]

i think it's editing the material and setting it once

meaning, the material is permanently edited

meaning removing the component wont do anything as it already fulfilled its task

is there any way you could confirm this theory?

[agile tulip]

Yeah I can check if the component gets deleted

[gleaming sparrow]

it would have been a problem if the component was on a child, bcs then it wouldnt have been gotten with GetComponent and thus wouldnt do anything

[gleaming sparrow]

nah im sure that happens. thats fine

i just think that the material is edited

so removing the component after its been edited wont do anything

u need to find a way to revert the material to its original

maybe u can save a duplicate?

do keep in mind that it shouldnt have the same reference, because the material doesnt get changed per-object.

[agile tulip]

confirmed

[gleaming sparrow]

it gets changed in its root, so it applies to all objects with that material

ahhh

its its own material

thats good actually

u should try grabbing the outline fill and mask materials and remove them from the object

if u just manually delete them at runtime, does the outline disappear? if so, then we've found the root of the problem

[agile tulip]

can't change it but it does show some glitching

[gleaming sparrow]

hmm well try to remove those materials with code and i think you should have your solution

List<Material> myMaterials = GetComponent<Renderer>().materials.ToList(); and then the first 2 i assume

u may need to refresh something afterward to clean up or smthn

[kind nymph]

My question is about Unity Matchmaker. I want to have rival's name when matchmaker responses match id( also ip/port) to each client. I'm using photon fusion and transfer names by using RPC's. But it is too slow to transfer names. I need to show rival's name before being connected to photon. Thanks.

[agile tulip]

List<Material> myMaterials = buildedItem.GetComponent<Renderer>().materials.ToList();
Debug.Log(myMaterials);

like this? sorry also first time to target materials

The code above gives this error: error CS1061: 'Material[]' does not contain a definition for 'ToList' and no accessible extension method 'ToList' accepting a first argument of type 'Material[]' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[heady iris]

ToList is an extension method added by System.Linq

[steel vortex]

How can I combine the Asstes, https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/animations/low-poly-animated-modern-guns-pack-urp-234191 with https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/fps-animation-framework-238641

[ember ore]

Anyone knows what the hell this error means?

Or where it comes from?

[heady iris]

what is this a screenshot of?

[ember ore]

Android logcat when i run my unity app

It fires them like every second

[agile tulip]

Okay now I get System.Collections.Generic.List1[UnityEngine.Material]
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
GridController:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/GridController.cs:68)`

[heady iris]

the ToString method for a list just spits out the type

[agile tulip]

How can I delete/target elements from it now?

[thin aurora]

List has a Remove method that allows you to pass an item inside the list to be removed

[cosmic rain]

Are you sure it's even related to your app?

[thin aurora]

Alternatively find it using First/Single/FirstOrDefault/SingleOrDefault/Where, and then use Remove.
Depending on the method you need to handle it differently.

[agile tulip]

myMaterials.RemoveAll(x => x.name == "OutlineMask (Instance) (Instance)"); doesn't work, how should I target the elements?

[agile tulip]

List<Material> myMaterials = buildedItem.GetComponent<Renderer>().materials.ToList();
foreach (var x in myMaterials)
{
  if(x.ToString() == "OutlineMask (Instance) (Instance) (UnityEngine.Material)")
  {
    Destroy(x);
  }
  if (x.ToString() == "OutlineFill (Instance) (Instance) (UnityEngine.Material)")
  {
    Destroy(x);
  }
}

Fixed it, thanks all for the help! ✌️

[heady iris]

that's a little scary...

you probably just want to check which shader the material has

Material mat = // ...
mat.shader == shaderField;

where shaderField is a field of type Shader

you would assign the shader you want to get rid of

[ember ore]

I have a "Task" object in an synchronized method.
How can i wait for the task to finish? Theres no callback

[agile tulip]

Material mat = // ... ??

mat = x ?

[heady iris]

just get the material from somewhere

was just an example of what you could do

in this case, yes, x is a Material

[ember ore]

Anyone?

[heady iris]

wouldn't that just be Wait()

this will block the thread, of course

[agile tulip]

How do i define shaders?

[heady iris]

public Shader shader;

bam, shader field

[agile tulip]

Yeah that i get but

Shader check1 = Custom/Outline Fill;

[heady iris]

you can't just write a name like that

public Shader shader will create a field

you can then assign a shader to that field.

[agile tulip]

Aaah

[heady iris]

I do believe you can look up a shader by name, but you might as well just assign a reference so that it's guaranteed to be right.

[thin aurora]

The fuck

I mean, there's probably a better way to check the stuff to remove than their name

[heady iris]

we are improving it

yes

[thin aurora]

This just screams prone to error

[heady iris]

that's why we're having the current conversation

bonus: you'll be able to write it like this

var materialsToDestroy = buildedItem.GetComponent<Renderer>().materials.Where(x => x.shader == shaderToDestroy)
foreach (var mat in materialsToDestroy) {
   Destroy(mat);
}

although, this seems a little odd

destroying the materials instead of just, say, assigning null into the material slots

I guess it works out the same. materials will make unique copies of the materials for that specific renderer

so destroying them won't affect anything else

[heady iris]

note the lack of ToList -- you do not need to explicitly turn that sequence into a list if you're just gonna iterate over it once anyway

[knotty cargo]

I have a settings menu in my game (two separate ones: one for the pause menu and one from the main menu) that can control volume and a few other gameplay settings. What's the best way to handle this? Right now, I have a Settings class that is a singleton and works as a place to store current values so I can reference it from different game objects to use those values. I feel like there's a more conventional method, though..

[heady iris]

sounds reasonable to me!

[agile tulip]

var materialsToDestroy = buildedItem.GetComponent<Renderer>().materials.Where(x => x.shader == checkOutlineFill || x.shader == checkOutlineMask);
                    foreach (var mat in materialsToDestroy)
                    {
                        Destroy(mat);
                    }

it is 💪

[heady iris]

tada

bit of a long line

one way to improve that is to put line breaks before the Where

foo.GetThings()
   .DoStuff()
   .DoMoreStuff()
   .Microwave();

this is a common pattern when using LINQ

each operation gets its own line

[agile tulip]

Epic stuff! Thanks for all the help and explanation buddy! 💪 👊

[heady iris]

no prob

[ember ore]

Any idea why those artifacts are occuring?

[dusk apex]

Doesn't look like a coding question but ensure that the normals are correct.

Non coding questions should be asked in #💻┃unity-talk or it's specific channel #🔎┃find-a-channel

[abstract panther]

hi, i have an isometric tilemap and am trying to allow the user to hover over the tiles and click to select them. however, i have a problem where the tile that my cursor is on is not actually the one that is being selected when i hover. the image shows an example, where the red is the cursor.

        // Get the mouse position in world coordinates
        Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        Vector3Int tilePos = world.WorldToCell(mousePosition);
        tilePos.z = tileZ;

        // Try to get a tile from cell position
        TileBase tile = world.GetTile(tilePos);

here is the code i am using to get the tile that is being hovered over. this code is in LateUpdate. is there an issue here?

[rigid island]

are you sure the Z is correct?

[abstract panther]

oh perhaps it is not, let me check give me one second

actually just to make sure, how would i make sure the z is correct

[rigid island]

I think you can see it in the tilemap

[abstract panther]

hmm where in the tilemap? here is a ss of what i see

and here is the inspector

[rigid island]

it should be on grid, what did you set yours too ? I see it's a variable

hmm yeah 0 should work..

[rigid island]

that Z as Y though is sus that could be it maybe, I never used ISO before just hex/squares

[abstract panther]

hmm maybe, ill try making it a not z as y tilemap and then see what happens

nice that fixed it

thanks @rigid island now its time to figure out why that might have fixed it by first figuring out what z as y means

time to spend hours reading unity docs!

[rigid island]

just the way it's laying out the tiles I guess in respect to unity's world coords

[abstract panther]

hmm yeah but im not sure what Z as Y means in particular

like i understand that its taking whatever Z is and somehow putting that information in the Y coord, but i dont know how it does that...

[rigid island]

ahh

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/200515/trying-to-get-sprite-from-isometric-z-as-y-tilemap
interesting reads here too, not sure it relates

[abstract panther]

in this case is y the vertical axis? like its going up and down?

[rigid island]

ahh 2d hella confusing xD
i remember the pain of figuring that out with hex tiles, i had to change sort axis into some weird number. It was not fun xD

tilemap itself is easy tho

[abstract panther]

yeahh -0.26 lol they are pulling numbers out of their ass

[rigid island]

magic numbers xD

[heady iris]

i presume the value depends on the view angle

[abstract panther]

lmao thank you though, at least i know what makes it work so that i can figure out the rest of the details

[abstract panther]

yeah, likely

[heady iris]

it would be nice if it was a root of something

maybe divided by another thing

[agile tulip]

I'm working on a 3d tilemap as well. For me on the grid Z becomes Y

but everything I place on top just uses the normal cords

But I'm also really utilise the 3d space and models, don't know if you have it same or you are just using 2d that looks 3d?

[abstract panther]

yeahh so i ended up using normal iso instead of z as y iso, party because i also want stacked tiles to have different z values because in my game only the bottom most tiles can be selected as i had in my question above

but yes i am just using 2d that looks like 3d

[agile tulip]

I would say if you want to stack, use multiple grid layers

[abstract panther]

i am using a 2d tilemap, i am not making 3d models and fixing the view as isometric with the camera

[abstract panther]

yeah good idea

[abstract panther]

is this what ur doing

[agile tulip]

bottom one Order in Layer

[agile tulip]

no I have a 3d space

[bronze crystal]

why is my sphere not sticking: ```private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Stickable"))
{
transform.parent = collision.transform;
Debug.Log("sticked");
}
}

private void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
{
    if (collision.collider.CompareTag("Stickable"))
    {
        transform.parent = null;
        Debug.Log("unsticked");
    }
}```

[desert shard]

do your logs get printed

[hard estuary]

Do both objects have colliders? Does any object has non-kinematic Rigidbody?

[bronze crystal]

foreach (ContactPoint c in playerRigidbody.GetComponent<Collider>().contacts)

error CS1061: 'Collider' does not contain a definition for 'contacts' and no accessible extension method 'contacts' accepting a first argument of type 'Collider' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[simple egret]

That line of code cannot report that error

Ah, better

Contacts can only be fetched from collision callbacks like OnCollisionEnter. Colliders themselves don't have such knowledge of contact points

[bronze crystal]

i try to implement a mechanic

where a player can stick on a bigger sphere which rotates

and if you push spacebar you jump and you can move free again, no gravity.

[west blade]

working on a full body fps character, what methods are used to keep the camera from shaking around with an animation while parented to the character’s head?

[bronze crystal]

@simple egret you know why my player keeps bouncing?

    {
        if (isSticking)
        {
            // Set velocity to zero
            playerRigidbody.velocity = Vector3.zero;

            // Calculate the offset based on the size of the sticky object's collider
            Vector3 offset = stickyObject.GetComponent<Collider>().bounds.extents.y * Vector3.up;

            // Calculate the player's position relative to the sticky object's rotation
            Vector3 relativePosition = Quaternion.Inverse(stickyObject.rotation) * (transform.position - stickyObject.position);

            // Set the player's position to be just above the sticky object, taking into account the sticky object's rotation
            transform.position = stickyObject.position + stickyObject.rotation * (relativePosition + offset);

            // Disable the player's rigidbody gravity and velocity
            playerRigidbody.useGravity = false;
            playerRigidbody.velocity = Vector3.zero;
        }
        else
        {
            // Enable the player's rigidbody gravity
            playerRigidbody.useGravity = true;
        }
    }```

[simple egret]

Ah that's a question

The lack of ? at the end of the sentence made me doubt

Anyway, you should not ping specific people into your question as it's a brand new one here

[bronze crystal]

my bad thought you were already answering my previous one

[simple egret]

The previous one yes, that one is a new one

But no, I don't know why it bounces. Is execution even reaching into that if statement there? Where you set .velocity = Vector3.zero

Canceling out the velocity should probably be done in OnCollisionEnter so it's as fast as possible

[serene bridge]

Does anyone know why the ConcurrentBag.Clear method is not showing up in my Class Library within Visual Studio? I have my Target Framework set to 4.8. If I create a script within Unity the Clear method shows up. Just not in the external class library . . .

Nevermind, I guess the frameworks do not have support for the Clear method. I guess I misunderstood the frameworks. I thought you got Standard 2.0 (or 2.1) support plus more features with them, but it looks like Standard actually includes features that the frameworks don't?

[soft shard]

That may depend on how your character is setup, but generally, you either want to control the position and rotation by code, or attach your camera separate from your bone rig, for example, this is how ive setup mine - the "node" is a container that holds scripts like input, movement, etc but it doesnt move itself, "root" contains colliders and rb, thats the only child that moves, attached to it is a (cinimachine) camera and the animator parent that holds the rig/animations depending on the character I want to spawn, I take it a step further and put the head mesh of the rig on a different layer and make sure the camera does not render that layer to avoid clipping at weird angles and animations

[west blade]

Would you mind showing me in a vc? I'm not really following

[soft shard]

I cant vc, but I can try to elaborate, which parts are you confused by?

[solid rampart]

Does anybody know how can i access the classes and methods of a module in unity? I'm trying to see how it's used bcs there is no enough documentation

[dusk apex]

Which one in particular?

[somber nacelle]

here you go, it's as simple as doing this

[west blade]

When your character looks down, does it bend over slightly or does the head remain still and only the camera moves down?

[solid rampart]

I know screenshoting using camera is a bad practice but I'm on discord phone soo 😂

And the photo is clear anyway 😆

[soft shard]

I never understood that, unless your PC doesnt have internet access, couldnt you just log on Discord on your PC? Any solution you get, youd have to implement on your PC anyway, right?

[soft shard]

In my game, no the head will remain still when the camera rotates down, im working on a multiplayer game so over the server, others do see the characters spine bend - if you do want the camera to bend with the characters spine, you could maybe create a second transform rig of just the spine and head, and have them tilt with your mouse input

[solid rampart]

I'm in hurry plus the problem description is in the text not the photo the photo is just to illustrate what I'm trying to say in case it wasn't clear

[fresh widget]

..

[west blade]

i see how i would get that to have the effect of the spine bending for the camera's pov but from an exterior point of view, the character would still be straight, wouldn't they?

[soft shard]

Correct, because the rigs spine would be controlled by your animator, unless you use IK overrides to influence the rotation yourself, either setup on your rig (for example, from Blender if you made it there) or theres a Unity IK rig package that uses the Jobs system and some other IK controls to let you still play for example a "breathing idle" animation but also rotate the spine or hand or whatever while that animation plays, im sure there are other IK solutions or git projects as well

[west blade]

I just got IK working to keep my character's hands on their weapon as a test with hopes of going in that direction

[soft shard]

Fair enough I guess, though your photo shows several namespaces, when you say "module" are you referring to a specific namespace, or Unity package or dll file or something else?

[ocean pewter]

probably a total noob question but are there curve datatypes we can use outside of animation? For example, scaling floats for character attributes etc. Do people just use animation curves for this or is there some other asset type more suitable?

[soft shard]

Im sure you can apply a similar setup for your spine too, im personally still learning IK setups myself, and used the IK rigger package, it was quite confusing to get (mostly) working how I wanted, but if your approach for hands work, I dont see why it couldnt be applied to the spine too

[west blade]

Thanks for the chat, I'm probably going to go with IK and have a target rotate around the head location or somewhere similar with the mouse Y motion. It's pretty intimidating diving into something without a direct tutorial for the first time in unity

[soft shard]

AFAIK, without 3rd party assets, you can use AnimationCurve and Evaluate the time, or use a relevant Mathf.Lerp or Vector3.Lerp etc, or MoveToward if you dont want easing at the start/end of the value change - with 3rd party assets, there are packages like DoTween and im sure many others, thats just the first that comes to mind

[ocean pewter]

Ok thats what I was figuring. Thank you

[gloomy mortar]

@fringe drift

How should I post the code?

[ocean pewter]

Oh I think I have DoTween from some humble bundle ages ago lol Never checked it out. So thats what its for?

[somber nacelle]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[soft shard]

Let me know if you get it working, a lot of more specific problems probably dont have exact tutorials so theres a lot of trial and error with problem solving, but im sure you can find tutorials on IK in general, some of that knowledge you can maybe translate to your problem

[gloomy mortar]

@fringe drift https://gdl.space/itowehebiq.cs

[solid rampart]

I'm referring for the first nameapace for example I'm trying to use a speech recognize feature in it but don't know how or what are the methods to use

[somber nacelle]

i'd bet you have NullReferenceExceptions in your console that you are ignoring

[soft shard]

Its a wrapper for animation and lerping and curves and stuff, yeah its quite a good and popular one, though I personally have not used it, just heard good things about it from people who have

[somber nacelle]

can confirm that DOTween is pretty good. it's also fairly easy to use

[fringe drift]

No errors right?

[ocean pewter]

and just for the record, you use commas beautifully 😉

[quasi lily]

Following this tutorial to implement third person shooting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbM4CkqtOuA&t=14s

But getting less than ideal results

I think the bullet is colliding with the player when it comes out the weapon but like, I have no idea how to fix that + the player is able to shoot backwards around corners

[fringe drift]

Maybe try to do a debug in awake

[gloomy mortar]

tried. When should the awake fire? First time you access a internal method or property, right?

[soft shard]

If its a Microsoft namespace or System namespace, you can likely find it on MSDN, if its a Unity-specific package, its probably on the Unity packages documentation (which is separate from the regular class documentation), or you could search through IntelliSense as you type the namespace in a function to see what you can access, and if its documented (which most likely will be) the summary of those functions should give you a good idea of how its meant to be used

[fringe drift]

If i understood you right yes, is the gameobject active where the script is attached to

[gloomy mortar]

its currently not attached to a gameobject. I instantiate it inside of another script

[soft shard]

Awake fires immediately after the script is enabled (assuming the game object its attached to is also active), if your not initializing properties, it should technically be fired before you call a property

[fringe drift]

You should maybe try to attach it maybe its the problem if it is check the instantiate line/-s

[trim rivet]

Anyone know why this code seems to execute the while loop instantly and ignore the WaitForEndofFrame yield?

The parameters are all coming in correctly

[simple egret]

Debugging done? You shouldn't post in multiple channels

[trim rivet]

well yeah, it didn't help me much.

[gloomy mortar]

hm, currently its not attached to a game object, but is instantiated in a script:

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

public class BattleSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }

    public bool StartBattle()
    {
        BattleManager manager;
        
        string text = manager.AnnouncerText;

        SceneManager.LoadScene("Combat Scene01");

        return true; 
    }
}

[trim rivet]

I'm hoping for somebody to tell me that I misunderstand how while loops work there's definitely something I'm missing

[somber nacelle]

there is nothing here instantiating anything

[simple egret]

The loop is good

[fringe drift]

Where is Start battle called

[simple egret]

Can you show where you call this method?

[gloomy mortar]

A while loop is what you call a head-controlled loop. It will always check the "while" condition before running the code.

[gloomy mortar]

in a game object, through a key down ("B")

[trim rivet]

This is what calls the method, which then calls the coroutine

[simple egret]

You're not starting it correctly!!!!

See #archived-code-advanced message

[trim rivet]

The stats class then either starts the coroutine if the healthhealduration parameter is > 0, else performs the heal instantly

[soft shard]

What is Yielders? Is that a class you made? Also are you sure your yield break isnt running before your EndOfFrame gets to? Also are you possibly running multiple coroutines or are you starting it from a Coroutine variable?

[simple egret]

Oh, please show where the coroutine is started

Why would you post another method

[desert shard]

crosposting!?

[trim rivet]

This is where the coroutine gets started

[gloomy mortar]

OK. How do you instantiate a singleton class? I am at a loss rn. It seems the structure of it is correct... but its never instantiated through the awake

[desert shard]

context

[somber nacelle]

i will point out again that you need to put it on a gameobject in the scene

[fringe drift]

With what script do you add the component @gloomy mortar

[gloomy mortar]

No. I wanted to initiate it without adding it to a game object. I will fix that.

[simple egret]

Okay, what's that Yielders.EndOfFrame? Try replacing with new WaitForEndOfFrame();

Or even yield return null that delays a frame

[trim rivet]

yeah I have already, same result

[gloomy mortar]

So you have to make a game object with BattleManager attached in every scene to access it?

[somber nacelle]

if you want an example of a Singleton that will lazy load, you can take a loot at (or even just steal) mine https://github.com/boxfriend/Utils/blob/master/com.boxfriend.utils/Runtime/Utils/SingletonBehaviour.cs

[desert shard]

If its a monobehaviour yes

[gloomy mortar]

alright

[fringe drift]

Yes

The BattleManager Manager; line is not enough to instantiate a script

[simple egret]

Log the value of elapsedTime after you add Time.deltaTime to it. Make sure it's lower than duration after the 1st iteration of the loop. If that's right, then your coroutine might be running multiple times, affecting the variables faster

[heady iris]

this simply declares a field that can contain an instance of that type

unfortunately, merely declaring that I have a parking spot for my Ferrari does not cause me to own a Ferrari

[gloomy mortar]

I know, thats usually how that works. I was not 100% how awake works, so I thought it listens to access to members of the class.

[heady iris]

Awake runs when a MonoBehaviour is instantiated.

[gloomy mortar]

OK

[heady iris]

(although if it starts out disabled or its gameobject is inactive, then Awake only runs after it becomes enabled)

[gloomy mortar]

Thank you for the help 😄 I gotta get used to how unity does things. Prior I did buisness programming for C#.

[soft shard]

This chart may help understand how Unity functions fire: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[simple egret]

You can think of Awake as a sort-of constructor call. It's executed when the object this script is on is created

[gloomy mortar]

ah ok. 🙂 Thank you.

[gloomy mortar]

thank you too

[west blade]

Mind if I DM?

[trim rivet]

Logged all values repeatedly, something weird is going on

anyway I'll move on to an alternative solution

[gloomy mortar]

I think I figured a lot out. Managed to use the BattleManager class to fill the text dialog boxes in my combat screen 🙂 thanks again for the help.

[loud stratus]

Hey, guys! Can someone told me and give me a very detailed explanation of what actually is the serialized field??

[heady iris]

there's not a lot of detail to provide

"serialization" is the process of turning an object into data

[loud stratus]

Alright then

[heady iris]

and then "deserialization" is the opposite: data to object

a serialized field is one that Unity knows how to turn into data and back again

[loud stratus]

So, for which purposes we are using them?

[heady iris]

if something is serialized, it can be shown in the inspector and is saved in scenes/prefabs

by default, only public fields are serialized

so [SerializedField] is used to say "i want this to be serialized"

even if the field is not public

[loud stratus]

So, it works like public?

[desert shard]

Not really

[heady iris]

i would not think of it that way

public is an access modifier. It controls which classes are allowed to see that field.

[SerializeField] has no effect on that.

[desert shard]

[SerializeField] is private. but expose it to the unity inspector

[loud stratus]

Is this in advanced programming, I am a beginner and I have not learn it yet

[desert shard]

its hard to explain if you don't know the concept of serialization xD

[heady iris]

you do not need to understand the guts of the system

all you really care about is that:

• public fields get serialized
• non-public fields with [SerializeField] get serialized
• only some types are serializable

[loud stratus]

I want to understand just the logic and when I get to that I will learn how to use it

Alright

[desert shard]

85% of variables you declare will probably be SerializeField

or should be.

[loud stratus]

Can I find it in documentation?

[heady iris]

i'm bad about keeping fields private

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeField.html

[loud stratus]

Why it seems to me very hard to understand and also it seems to be very complex?

Do I have to learn all of that

[heady iris]

not really, but you should at least understand why you need to slap [SerializeField] on private fields

: so that unity knows to save them

[gleaming sparrow]

Serializefield private just means it shows up in the unity inspector but it cant be accessed via other scripts bcs its still private

[loud stratus]

Alright, I catch it

[loud stratus]

So, you actually don't have the permission to call that scripts variable in the other script if I am not wrong right?

[heady iris]

only the class that owns a private field can see it, yes

[gloomy mortar]

OK. Maybe I can help.

Lets take a big picture, right? You see colors, you see a form and you see certain strokes with pen or brush.

Thats the "object", aka an element that is hard-typed and has many attributes attached.

A serialization is the path to make this picture into a generally recognizable string of data, which can be reconstructed to be used again.

It is like a translator from a specific language into a universal one.

[heady iris]

you'll get a compile error if you try to use a member that you don't have access to, and your code editor will not suggest using them

(a "member" just being anything attached to a class, like a field or a method)

[soft shard]

Sure, if you make some progress you could either ping me here or DM me, thats fine

[gleaming sparrow]

Yep

[sour zealot]

im making a multiplayer game using photon and my script is not working, I am getting no errors.

Launcher.cs: https://hatebin.com/vynjjmjcle
MenuManager.cs: https://hatebin.com/pzccajpvds
Menu.cs: https://hatebin.com/awllqgznkp

[wild pivot]

this will probably sound dumb but im incredible confused. I manually assign this in the inspector and it works fine. But in builds it doesent seem to work.

Would it make a difference if it was public instead?

[knotty sun]

no

[wild pivot]

agh im so confused, for some reason theres a part of my project which just doesent work at all in builds, but works perfectly in editor

[dusk apex]

Maybe you ought to explain what doesn't work etc

[wild pivot]

yea true, alright lemme write this out

[knotty sun]

have you looked in the player .log to see what is happening?

[wild pivot]

wheres that? in the build?

[knotty sun]

ffs. google unity log files

[sour zealot]

im making a multiplayer game using photon and my script is not working, I am getting no errors.
Launcher.cs: https://hatebin.com/vynjjmjcle
MenuManager.cs: https://hatebin.com/pzccajpvds
Menu.cs: https://hatebin.com/awllqgznkp

[wild pivot]

but theres no issues in the editor which is what this is for right? the problem im having is in the build

[knotty sun]

yes, and a run build will write a player.log file
do you think I am telling you this for the good of my health?

[dusk apex]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html

Player-related log locations

To view the Player log, open ...

[simple egret]

Which of these scripts? You posted three here. Also what doesn't work about them? Seems like you've put logs here and there, is everything getting executed at the times you expect?