archived-code-general

[heady iris]

stuck forever

[hasty haven]

Thanks thats probably it, so my second question:
Does refresh rate matter here if I have max fps setting right below this?

[ashen yoke]

you mean targetframerate?

[hasty haven]

The fps setting is just SetTargetFramerate()

Is refresh rate more of a native setting than that?

[dusk apex]

Either increment is always false, resolution count is less than one or current index is greater than resolution count.

[ashen yoke]

targetframerate is a limiter, not sure they are connected in any way to display output but ill test

need to know for sure

[hasty haven]

Sounds good, i'm trying to whip up a settings menu this weekend for my Next Fest demo.
Valve people wanted to play it early

Right now the settings are basic but I could expand to allow refresh rate

[ashen yoke]

yeah they are not tied

[hasty haven]

// See if current resolution has index
        for(int i=0; i<resolutions.Count; i++) {
            if(newResolution.ToString() == resolutions[i].ToString()) {
                currentIndex = i;
                break;
            }
        }

Ill just do this, theres no comparison for those structs built in

Maybe later on can do a dropdown or something but just need a working one for now

[ashen yoke]

wont test, it just doesnt make sense, since your game can run at 1000 fps but will display only 60, so update loop and rendering are decoupled and
targetFramerate is update capper, while resolution is actual screen output cap

[hasty haven]

I'm setting uncapped fps to 666 just because

Who woulda thought the build had all these refresh rates

[undone beacon]

I'm adding UI content to be parented to my scroll view, and I'm seeing these red lines in the Unity Editor for some reason. What does it mean? Also it's not rendering my Panel UIs in the scrol view, but everything else

[cosmic rain]

It means that the UI is inverted, either due to size or scale being negative.

[ashen yoke]

your anchors are incorrect most likely

[undone beacon]

everything renders fine if I just instantiate as a child of the canvas. but making them the child of the scroll view cause this

er, causes the error in the screenshot above.

[zealous juniper]

Good morning, any/everyone! So here's my current issue with my code. In the project, my error is, "Assets\ActivateGrabRay.cs(12,31): error CS0102: The type 'ActivateGrabRay' already contains a definition for 'rightDirectGrab' and 'leftDirectGrab' too". https://paste.ofcode.org/VjWANy7GEvy7RtnfxJmPyv

[ashen yoke]

the issue is explained in the error

[zealous juniper]

I am new, so I do not understand the error nor do I know what to do. Please enlighten me.

[heady iris]

a class can't have two members with the same name.

therefore, you get an error: the type ActivateGrabRay already contains a definition for rightDirectGrab

[ashen yoke]

already contains a definition for 'rightDirectGrab' and 'leftDirectGrab'

already contains

[zealous juniper]

Soo, do I just change the class names then?

[ashen yoke]

is rightDirectGrab a class name?

[woeful furnace]

Hey so I have this triangle I used a procedural mesh for which fills in these moveable points. I want to fill in the triangle to go from r g and b with their respective location. Like this

[zealous juniper]

I pasted a link to my code, y'all be able to see it, if that helps.

[heady iris]

    public GameObject rightDirectGrab;

This declares a field of type GameObject

[ashen yoke]

i saw it from the error, all the rest is me trying to help you understand what is wrong

[heady iris]

    public XRDirectInteractor rightDirectGrab;

This declares another field of type XRDirectInteractor

Both fields have the same name. This is illegal.

[zealous juniper]

Now I understand.

So how do I fix it, just change one of the rights to something else?

and lefts

[ashen yoke]

use unique names for variables within the same class

in the above case you can use the type name

public GameObject go_rightDirectGrab;
public XRDirectInteractor xr_rightDirectGrab;

[zealous juniper]

Ahh, okay okay 🙂 haha.

In my mind, my brain said: "Now you're learning boyo! xD"

[zealous juniper]

Testing rn: standby...

[zealous juniper]

Results: Multiple Errors (ss provided)

[heady iris]

well, yes, you changed the names of things

so now anywhere that used the old name needs to be changed to use the new name...

if I renamed public int foo; to public int bar;, every reference to foo would be broken

note that your IDE should be able to seamlessly rename variables. if your IDE is not set up properly (i.e. you aren't getting error highlighting and autocompletion suggestions in your code editor), you should really fix that now

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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[zealous juniper]

I went to the first link website there, but how do I use it in Unity?

[heady iris]

follow the instructions for whatever editor you're using

[zealous juniper]

Will do

[lapis condor]

so I'm trying to get my project ready for vr but every project I've tried comes up with a null exception from the ParseArguements file I've tried everything I knew and dont know if im just a bozo i have the error and the code in the file.

`using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Unity.PlasticSCM.Editor.ProjectDownloader
{
internal static class ParseArguments
{
internal static string CloudProject(Dictionary<string, string> args)
{
string data;

        if (!args.TryGetValue(CLOUD_PROJECT, out data))
            return null;

        return data;
    }

    internal static string CloudOrganization(Dictionary<string, string> args)
    {
        string data;

        if (!args.TryGetValue(CLOUD_ORGANIZATION, out data))
            return null;

        return GetOrganizationNameFromData(data);
    }

    internal static string ProjectPath(Dictionary<string, string> args)
    {
        string data;

        if (!args.TryGetValue(CREATE_PROJECT, out data))
            return null;

        return data;
    }

    static string GetOrganizationNameFromData(string data)
    {
        // data is in format: 151d73c7-38cb-4eec-b11e-34764e707226-danipen-unity
        int guidLenght = 36;

        if (data.Length < guidLenght + 1)
            return null;

        return data.Substring(guidLenght + 1);
    }

    const string CLOUD_PROJECT = "-cloudProject";
    const string CLOUD_ORGANIZATION = "-cloudOrganization";
    const string CREATE_PROJECT = "-createProject";

}

}`

[somber nacelle]

update or remove the Version Control package

[lapis condor]

man I'm sorry I found where it is but I don't know how to delete or update it. could you please tell me

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-ui.html

[lapis condor]

thanks probably should of thought about that

[lunar forum]

When you instantiate a game object, how is the Instance ID determined? I ask because I am spawning enemies every X seconds and out of curiosity wanted to debug.log the instance ID's and noticed that 1 would be a positive number, and the rest (theoretically for as long as I would let the game run) were negative numbers.

[somber nacelle]

the positive number is the actual prefab asset, instances in the scene will have negative instance ids
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

[lunar forum]

Hm. Interesting. I have to remember to check the docs first. I default to coming here for what end up being very easy to answer questions if I had just read the docs first.

[heady iris]

they're often enlightening!

although it can be hard to know where to look, exactly

i guess i'd just google "unity instance id" in this case

your google results will vary with your search history, but I do get GetInstanceID as the second result

(on bing lol)

tfw we have a emoji but no bing emoji

this is so sad

[terse raven]

does anyone know a good tutorial for a menu thats short but useful?

[lunar forum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWjA6dixV4

[terse raven]

tyvm

[lunar forum]

That one gets to the point pretty quick.

[terse raven]

nice

[lunar forum]

Isn't very pretty

But works

[terse raven]

well, only if it works, right?

its good

if it works

ig

alr

pretty much to the point

good

[lunar forum]

Yep. Then it's basically rinse and repeat. I use that method for slapping stuff together just to get a MVP together.

[tiny turret]

i have a question for you programmers

what is the easiest way to find people to make a game inspired in another game that people barely remember of? (Little Big Planet is the game im talking about)

[somber nacelle]

!collab

[tawny elk]

📢 Collaborating and Job Posting

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Please use the forums:
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• Non Commercial Collaboration

[tiny turret]

i dont think anyone wants to collab on a "Fan Game" of a game that got shut down by sony

or well, a franchise of games

i alredy have a post there

[somber nacelle]

way to find people to make a game
that's literally what collaborating is.

[tiny turret]

so if that works thats that

[tiny turret]

i know about that

but if that doesnt work i mean

[somber nacelle]

well if the resources the bot linked don't work out for you then you can try and find people elsewhere 🤷‍♂️

[tiny turret]

btw how did u make that text on the top row?

nvm

Like this?

yes

[wise kindle]

I'm making a game where if you interact with a sink, it makes the object you're holding wet. Is there a specific line of code I could use that could make the object watery/reflective?

[potent sleet]

probably shader, use shadergraph or find premade one

[wide terrace]

It... depends on your application. Each cell should have a reference to the same object... if you want it to. But then you're saying they should all be unique. I'm not clear on your intended outcome, nor what you currently have in place

[cosmic rain]

I'm not sure if that does anything at all

What does Get return?

Probably doesn't matter what it returns. Unless maybe the returned object overrides the assignment operator.

[wide terrace]

But what are you calling "a reference" here?

[cosmic rain]

basically it creates a local variable referencing whatever you Get(). Then you assign the value to that variable. When the execution goes out of scope the local variable is destroyed.

This is the same as your code:

var reference = Get(a, b);
reference = value;

The original element that you get or the collection that holds it are not affected in the process.

[wide terrace]

Tangent: can you actually "return a pointer" in C#? I know I could do it in the C world, then assign a new value to the deferenced pointer - but I haven't seen that in C# as of yet

[cosmic rain]

Before even tackling your issue, your code is invalid. It doesn't do anything...

[cosmic rain]

You can do that in an unsafe context, but it's kind of a violation of the C# principles.

[wide terrace]

Good to know. Maybe even preferable - thank you :)

[cosmic rain]

Is that not the actual code that you're using?

When asking for help, please provide the actual code, because some context might be lost otherwise...

They're probably gonna say the same.

*Going to have a look in the C# discord👀

[wide terrace]

I'd like to follow along as well... I need uh.... !csharp

[tawny elk]

You can format your multiline code block with C# highlighting! Just add cs to the start of it. Highlighting example below!

class Fluffs : FluffyCat
{
    public void PetCat ()
    {
        Debug.Log ("Petting Cat.")
    }
}

[wide terrace]

!cs

[tawny elk]

You can format your multiline code block with C# highlighting! Just add cs to the start of it. Highlighting example below!

class Fluffs : FluffyCat
{
    public void PetCat ()
    {
        Debug.Log ("Petting Cat.")
    }
}

[wide terrace]

bah

[cosmic rain]

They probably refer to https://discord.gg/csharp

[wide terrace]

Thank you 😁. I know there's a command to get that invite, but I clearly fumbled

[cosmic rain]

This is totally different to what you shared though

[wide terrace]

Sure... my confusion was assigning a value to a value returned from a method call though

interesting

[cosmic rain]

it returns a ref okay.

in C# by "reference" we imply an instance of a class. The ref keyword is indeed similar to C++ references.

So, if you want to clone the object, you need to construct a new instance and copy all the fields from the original instance.

If you're dealing with unity Objects there's the Instantiate method, that basically clones the instance.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

Then you'll need to construct a new instance manually with new YourValueClass(params)

If there's polymorphism or interfaces involved, you could define a Clone method on the base class/interface and implement it in each of the subclasses.

Yeah, like a copy constructor.

There are many ways to go about it. It shouldn't be too different to cloning heap objects in C++.

Umm... What's Array2D.Fill() and Get again?

Yes. It does that.

You'll need to loop the array and assign a new Wall() to each element if you want them to be unique.

Probably. I don't think you should be thinking about performance at this stage...

Then maybe use structs? It kinda feels like you're diving head-deep into something complicated without understanding C# properly. You can't apply the same logic as C++. Gotta understand that.

C# and unity can be as performant as C++. If you do your learning properly.

[glad plover]

If an item is given, it should not be added to the inventory and the ammunition county should increase. How to solve this?

[daring lake]

hey im trying to make a bullet shoot and hit the player to take damage and then delete itself, it isnt deleting itself and it isnt doing damage either

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyBullet : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int damageAmount;

    public float bulletSpeed = 5f;

    public Rigidbody2D theRB;

    private Vector3 direction;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        direction = PlayerController.instance.transform.position - transform.position;
        direction.Normalize();
        direction *= bulletSpeed;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        theRB.velocity = direction * bulletSpeed;
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {

        if(other.tag == "Player")
        {
            PlayerController.instance.TakeDamage(damageAmount);

            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}

[cosmic rain]

It depends on the use case. There are situations where a reference would be more performant.

[glad plover]

    {
        [SerializeField] private AmmoClipItem ammoItem;
        [SerializeField] private Rigidbody _rigidbody;
        [SerializeField] private PickUpSnd pickSnd;             // access to the pick up sound class
        [SerializeField] private GameObject outline;

        private readonly float _impulseStrength = 200f;

        public Item Item { get => ammoItem; set {} }

        public PickUpSnd PickSnd
        {
            get => pickSnd;
            set => pickSnd = value;
        }

        public GameObject Outline
        {
            get => outline;
            set => outline = value;
        }

        private void OnEnable()
        {
            gameObject.name = ammoItem.Name;
        }

        #region Server

        [Command(requiresAuthority = false)]
        public void CmdInteract(GameObject playerObject)
        {
            var isSuccess = PickupItem(playerObject);
            _rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.up * _impulseStrength);
            RpcInteract(playerObject, isSuccess);
        }

        private bool PickupItem(GameObject playerObject)
        {
            var armorManager = playerObject.GetComponent<ArmorManager>();
            if (armorManager.IsNoSpaceForAdditionalAmmo(ammoItem.ammoType, ammoItem.AmmoCount)) return false;

            armorManager.GiveSomeAmmo(ammoItem.ammoType, ammoItem.AmmoCount);
            Destroy(gameObject);

            return true;
        }

        #endregion

        #region Client

        [ClientRpc]
        public void RpcInteract(GameObject playerObject, bool isSuccess)
        {
            if (!isSuccess) return;
            
            PickSnd.PlayPickUp();
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }

        #endregion
    }```

[ashen yoke]

depends

a giant chunk of memory you have to copy all the time vs a null test or ref compared

whats that pattern called flyweight?

also AOS/SOA

[obtuse portal]

😐

[ashen yoke]

broken library most likely

can also be corrupted asset

[obtuse portal]

Should I kill the Unity task, delete the library and re-open? The issue originally was that Visual Studio package was giving errors after I upgraded to 2.0.18

[ashen yoke]

roll it back to 0.14 through manifest edit

whats the project size in gb?

[obtuse portal]

2.44GB

[ashen yoke]

yeah nuke library

also .vs and temp for good measure

and the csproj and sln

[obtuse portal]

Is there a size threshold that I should look out for going forward?

[ashen yoke]

im just comparing to my experience with 200+gb projects that took sometimes 2 days to rebuild lib cuz of some corrupted assets

what i mean is that you dont need to keep state of each cell in the cell

[obtuse portal]

Daaang

And you mean the .vsconfig file?

[ashen yoke]

you can share same cell data class reference and use ref comparison and allocate closely the cell data, swapping with new instances only on persistent changes

[ashen yoke]

no

what i wrote verbatim

[obtuse portal]

Ohh the folder

[ashen yoke]

"show hidden files" if you dont already

[obtuse portal]

Yeah I see it

[ashen yoke]

yeah even with ref you are bumping into struct length

will it fit into a cache line? how many reads you will need to read the whole thing?

yes and can you guarantee it?

with object references you can share a single instance over many cells

it will remain in cache

its pretty much the same exact thing

class array in c# is the same as ref/ptr array in c++

same problems

cache lines, copy semantics

SOA is great also the read lines from each array will remain in cache, but you can layer grid properties

i.e. at any point you append another array with some primitive type

to express some new cell property

[cosmic rain]

If it was easier, you probably didn't really do that much for performance in it anyway.

So no point being picky about it in C# either

[ashen yoke]

i feel like my point is not being cached

[cosmic rain]

Then implement it.🤷‍♂️

[ashen yoke]

System.ICloneable is a thing

extension methods as well

[obtuse portal]

You just saved me countless hours of headache. Thank you.

Also the manifest file solution. Can't believe it was that easy

[ashen yoke]

rule of thumb for the future if it takes more than 30 mins without going into "asset x, asset y..." nuke it

probably even shorter just hard to tell since project size matters

but id guess anything below 10 gigs is a safe bet if its around 5-10 minutes

also there are scenarios where you simply cant find the corrupted asset

there are thousands of them and 1 is broken and break import

its important to organize project, and dont keep redundant "maybe will use later" assets in the project

[obtuse portal]

Agreed. This is sort of a throwaway prototype so I've not been as vigilant as I normally would be. Just frustrating as hell how many projects I've had to nearly abandon because of the engine itself going haywire.

Back in business for now though, so thanks again!

[ashen yoke]

99.99% of cases you can fix

[cosmic rain]

You need to explicitly define constraints for T in your method

You're probably confusing generics with C++ templates. They're not the same...

If you want to keep on developing with unity and C# you'll need to learn it properly...

[simple sable]

Hey guys, I have a small problem here.

So at some point in my code I start a coroutine, and this coroutine has a line that looks like this "yield return new WaitForSeconds(seconds);". So the coroutine waits that amount of seconds before running the code that comes after.
But I also make a check in Update() and if the condition is meet then I try to stop the coroutine with StopCoroutine("CoroutineName"); because I don't want the code that comes after that yield to run anymore.

Though, for some reason, the coroutine does not stop, even though the condition is meet (and, the rest of the code in the coroutine gets executed).

I would really like to know what I'm doing wrong.

[potent sleet]

assign StartCoroutine to a Coroutine variable
then stop that

eg

Coroutine myCoroutine;

void TheMethod(){
myCoroutine = StartCoroutine(MyRoutine());}

void Update(){
if(stuff)
StopCoroutine(myCoroutine);
}```

[swift falcon]

public GameObject cubes;

public static void Use (string itemName) {

    if (itemName == "wow1") {

        cubes.SetActive(true);

i get error that cubes isnt static its public but im trying to refernce it

in a static thing

[potent sleet]

anything in static class needs to be static

and you can't assign it in the inspector if it's static

[simple sable]

Oh, that works!

Is that the general way of doing it? Looks a bit strange to me.

[swift falcon]

if i make cubes static then i cant drag it onto the inspector thing

frik

[potent sleet]

Yeah it's usually how it's done

[swift falcon]

cud i reference the object in scene then like

StorefrontDemoScene.Main.wowEnabled.SetActive(true);

[simple sable]

Oh, I see. Thank you very much!

[potent sleet]

why is this class static in the first place ?

just make the instance of it static

so you can access public methods/whatever else public, directly through that instance

[swift falcon]

uh

public static GameObject cubes;

like that?

if i do that

i cant drag it

to inspector

[potent sleet]

no that's not the instance of the class..

the class this is in ?

[swift falcon]

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class UseItem : MonoBehaviour {

public GameObject cubes;




public static void Use (string itemName) {




    //Debug.Log ("Custom item usage executing for item: " + itemName);

    if (itemName == "wow1") {

        cubes.SetActive(true);

its in public class

[potent sleet]

is there a reason you don't just make this UseItem class referenced in another script instead of doing anything static ?

like [SerializeField] private UseItem useItem; or public UseItem useItem

then just drag the script in

access it this way

[swift falcon]

uh

i get errors if i dont have that part static

cuz it came with a bunch of other like scripts n stuff

uh i can do

GameObject.Find("wowEnabled").SetActive(true);

but the problem is it cant find it cuz its not enabled

hm

it can disable it tho

i use playmaker for scripts

so i enable them then have the playmaker do stuff

[potent sleet]

you use playmaker, why are you in a #archived-code-general

this should go in #💻┃code-beginner at very least then

you seem to misunderstand some fundamental c# concepts

[broken light]

what is a way to use inspector to filter "types" of components i want to find from physics colliders

i want to collect a list of all objects that have a component that i want to decide from a list of types

not sure how i would set that up though

i cant use layers either

[wet saddle]

I have an player appearing animation, which should be played on start. But I think it's playing even before the scene is loaded and I am not able to see it. Is there any way to delay it?

[gray mural]

yes, with Coroutine, for example

[gray mural]

You need to have a list of components with Colliders in your script?

[broken light]

No I said components

Of types I care to select

[gray mural]

I see

so you just need to find GameObjects and then use .Select of LINQ I guess

GameObject[] allGameObjects = FindObjectsOfType<GameObject>(includeInactive: true);

// for example
GameObject[] withRigidbody = allGameObjects
  .Where(w => w.GetComponent<Rigidbody>() != null).ToArray();

[leaden ice]

If you're doing that why not just use FindObjectsOfType<Rigidbody> in the first place?

[gray mural]

I know that, I have just shown the way to find something else for him

ofc you can do smth like that too:

Rigidbody[] rigidbodies = FindObjectsOfType<Rigidbody>(includeInactive: true);

[broken light]

My current approach is a class with an enum

So I can bit flag to get all objects with the signature but it's annoying having add enums for new components

[knotty sun]

how about

List<Type> types;
List<Component> selected;
Component[] components = FindObjectsOfType<Component>
foreach (Component c in components) {
if (types.Contains(c.GetType()) selected.Add(c);
}

[hoary quarry]

I would like to get some more help on this one if possible, i updaetd the code and will now post a vid
https://gyazo.com/c2f06c6a29ecbb839c1d46257543ab61 😄

[gray mural]

what is the issue?
is it player?
how do you control them?

[hoary quarry]

Well i'm not sure it's a character controller btw, and it just does this, i can;t go further then that radius and when i let go of the contruls/buttons it moves to the top middle position :/

[gray mural]

full script ??

!code

[tawny elk]

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[broken light]

In unity list type when serialised only let's me place game objects

Into the list

[knotty sun]

then make a wrapper for it

Type is, iirc not serializable by default

you can use nameof and Type.GetType to convert between strings and actual Types

[rotund burrow]

how would i check an area for the highest y point in there optimally? assuming you can do this by just raycasting from above everywhere

[gray mural]

what do you mean?

[rotund burrow]

imagine you have a black and white heightmap and you want to get the whitest point. i'm not working with them just making an analogy.

[gray mural]

you can use Bounds class ??

[rotund burrow]

it's collider based? the area can have multiple objects

[gray mural]

it can be collider based too, collider does have Bounds Component

[rotund burrow]

i mean it cant be collider based

anyway i think i'm overcomplicating it

i just need to do a step down function. teleporting the player down on steps

[gray mural]

@rotund burrow

Collider collider = GetComponent<Collider>();

Vector3 maxPoint = collider.bounds.max;

[rotund burrow]

so the idea was to check if player is in air and its y velocity is around 0, then check if the distance to the ground is short then you can tp there

[gray mural]

see Bounds struct https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Bounds.html

[gray mural]

// smth like this ??

if (isGrounded && Mathf.Abs(rigidbody.velocity) <= 0.2f &&
    Vector3.Distance(transform.position, grond.transform.position) <= 0.2f)
{
    // tp there
    transform.position = grond.transform.position
}

[rotund burrow]

yeah i know how to code it the problem is the ground isnt flat

[gray mural]

what? English, please

[warm shadow]

How do I make it so a recursion function breaks out if it has run x amount of times?

[gray mural]

someInt += 1;

[warm shadow]

yes i tried that, but it never breaks out

Ahh, never mind, fixed it

[gray mural]

I am glad then

[gray mural]

check the distance, yes

[rotund burrow]

what distance?

[gray mural]

you need to check the distance between the player and the ground I guess

according to our previous conversation

[rotund burrow]

steps, stairs

it's walking downstairs

[gray mural]

ok ??

[rotund burrow]

i dont get you

[gray mural]

I think I do not get you

say what you need to do

otherwise I should guess

[lyric panther]

what's rendered vs what's shown. there's a lot of extra renderering done that's just hidden. is there a way for the camera to only render a certain portion of the screen? similar to blenders "render region" function

[cold parrot]

That would be wasteful. To do it efficiently you would adjust the camera settings to give you the desired region.

[lyric panther]

?

that's what i'm trying to do

The current rendering is wastful, it's rendering regions that aren't being shown, i'd like to render only was visable

[cold parrot]

I don’t understand, just change the fov or focal length

[lyric panther]

it's a portal effect, i have two cameras, one main camera and one rendering the view through the portal. the main camera is on the left, the portal camera is on the right. the portal camera needs the same FOV as the main camera otherwise the portal effect is ruined

[rotund burrow]

okay let's try again. Player is going downstairs i want to teleport it on the next step instead of it falling there. The problem is checking the distance between player and next step. You cant just do one raycast down, because there might be holes in the ground or the step after next step (which is lower and that will teleport you inside of the stairs). IDBB you cant check distance between transforms, let's say all of the ground is one object.

[lyric panther]

the red regions are being rendered when they don't need to be rendered

the areas shaded in red are never shown and so are a waste of time being rendered

for one portal it's not that bad but when you have a few it tanks performance

[gray mural]

you'd better pin me first

please, show your stairs, cause I don't really get why you cannot use Raycast

[rotund burrow]

it's like the image above

[gray mural]

show inspector, please

and also say, where should player be teleported here?

[gray mural]

then you should spawn Raycasts from Bounds 4 bottom borders

and spawn player on the hitInfo's position

[rotund burrow]

okay i think this discussion just isnt worth it. I'm gonna do a raycast check from behind the player. meaning the point of the collider where -velocity hits it. it's not a general solution but will work for now

[gray mural]

it will work with the solution I have provided above

or if that's too hard, you can decrease player's position until they are grounded

[rotund burrow]

i have a cylinder so you would have to do like 9 raycasts and then compare the distance of each one

[gray mural]

then decrease player's position until they are grounded

[rotund burrow]

right i can just... push the player down

it would be similar to teleporting

just a fast push, funny how i didnt think about it

[gray mural]

rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.down * pushForce, ForceMode.Impulse);

[rotund burrow]

yeah i know how to code. thanks for your idea but you're being condescending.

[gray mural]

what is this supposed to mean now? I was just trying to help you

[dawn nebula]

Does anyone have a resource for getting repeating textures for things like distortion/noise maps?

[rotund burrow]

nevermind i'm just cynical. thanks for your help

[hexed pecan]

Usually I'd either generate it in the shader (Gradient Noise node, Voronoi node) or pre-generate it in a texture in Photoshop/GIMP/etc

Offsetting a UV coordinate with noise will produce some nice distortion too

[hexed pecan]

SphereCast 😉 Works well with capsule colliders

Or CapsuleCast but usually SphereCast is enough

Don't have to worry about holes smaller than your capsule because the sphere won't fit through

[cold parrot]

If the door is a render texture the portal cam renders to, then it will only render whatever that doorframe covers

[lyric panther]

that's what i'm trying to do but it renders the whole scene

[lyric panther]

the portal camera renders to a render texture, that render texture is then mapped onto the door. the things that the doorframe covers are still rendered just obscured

[silver wharf]

why is MonoBehaviour undefined and what can i do about it?

[hexed pecan]

Follow the !ide configuration steps

[tawny elk]

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or underlining errors, please configure it:

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[warm shadow]

Why is the ObjectList empty, then i return it, but the lists i join are not empty, Code:

public WaveObjectData[] GetObjects()
{
    List<WaveObjectData> objectList = new List<WaveObjectData>();
        
    for (int i = 0; i < tileTypes.Length; i++)
    {
        objectList.Union(tileTypes[i].objectDataList).ToList();
    }

    return objectList.ToArray();
}

[hexed pecan]

Looks like Union returns a new list as a result. You are not doing anything with the return value

Maybe you want objectList = objectList.Union(...).ToList();

[warm shadow]

ahh, so it should say objectList = objectList.Union(tileTypes[i].objectDataList).ToList();?'

[hexed pecan]

Yepp

[warm shadow]

okay, thanks, ill try it

[gray mural]

does anyone know, how to check when user is holding the mouse button while over the GUIElement or Collidion in script?

// this code works just when button is pressed (the target is destroyed then)
// I need it to be destroyed, when the button is held too

private void OnMouseDown()
{
    if (CompareTag("GoodTarget"))
    {
        Instantiate(explosionParticle, transform.position, explosionParticle.transform.rotation);

        scoreManager.ChangeScore(1);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
    else spawnManager.GameOver();
}

[hexed pecan]

Btw, objectList.AddRange(tileTypes[i].objectDataList); could work too, and probably more performant 🤔

Oh wait does Union check for unique values

If thats the case and its needed then nvm

[warm shadow]

yes, that works too, thanks for the tip

[warm shadow]

don't think i need it so, give me the same result

[hexed pecan]

Yeah ok go with AddRange

[hard estuary]

For GUI elements:
https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.IsPointerOverGameObject.html

[gray mural]

is it better than raycast from to the mouse position?

[indigo haven]

Hey good day.
Today i present you a question with some math content (so i need help xd).
I want to get from a list of n elements at least 1 element at random an n elements at maximum and i dont want to have the same probability for each of the elements to be selected.
Any ideas?

[hexed pecan]

I think thats pretty much what EventSystem does

[hard estuary]

Honestly, I haven't ever checked if Raycast works on UI elements, so dunno.

[hexed pecan]

Depends on the raycast, there's even EventSystem.RaycastAll
https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.RaycastAll.html

[heady iris]

there's a separate graphic raycaster component

[hexed pecan]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.GraphicRaycaster.Raycast.html

So many raycast functions

[gray mural]

ok, so I have this. Now I need to check UI's tag and destroy it if it's tag is "GoodTarget"

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
    {
        if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
        {
            Debug.Log("Clicked on the UI");
        }
    }
}

How do I get information of that UI

[dusk apex]

Which part? Checking tag or destroying?

[heady iris]

tfw no MeshCast

[hexed pecan]

Literally unplayable

[gray mural]

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
    {
        if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
        {
            // if it's tag is "GoodTarget" => Destoy(thatGameObject);
        }
    }
}

[dusk apex]

Also, why not use the pointer callback instead of polling in Update?

[hexed pecan]

We have it for convex meshes at least!
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.SweepTest.html

[heady iris]

nice

[cold parrot]

there is nothing else to tell you, make the desired framing fit the texture, then nothing else will be rendered. if you mask the texture, obviously you produce waste.

[gray mural]

what do you mean?

[dusk apex]

Example: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.html @gray mural

[gray mural]

oh, yeah

[dusk apex]

You'd be able to evaluate which mouse button was pressed as well: https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.PointerEventData.html

[brave radish]

Hi im triying to make a 2d game with top down view and I'm trying to get my player to get in and out of the car,does anyone know how to do it?

[gray mural]

@dusk apex should I use it in the script that's attached to the target, right?

[lyric panther]

you do not understand a word i am saying

[hexed pecan]

Even AAA games can't get "getting in and out of cars" right lol

[dusk apex]

On whatever's responding to being clicked

[gray mural]

yeah, thank you

[heady iris]

clang

I would say to start with a simple teleport: you hit a button, and now you're in the car

then, you can figure out how to make the player just...lerp into the car

and then maybe throw in sound and animations for a door opening

[hexed pecan]

Yep, make it work first. Then make it look smoooth @brave radish

[dusk apex]

Make sure to thoroughly read the description, to avoid potential minor inconveniences @gray mural

[brave radish]

Yeah im triying to make it simple but when I press the key assigned to in the car and colliding with it, it doesnt works

[narrow summit]

I'm trying to see if my player is colliding with any of the colliders that are children of one gameobject. From everything I've seen online this should work, and the "s" that separates the two similar methods is clearly there. However, this is still acting like GetComponent (singular) and is only giving me the collider of the first child among them. How do I get them all?

[hexed pecan]

Show your code and object setup

[desert shard]

my vs is constantly getting stuck on errors that don't exist. is there a way to stop this from happening? restarting the IDE every 10 minutes is infuriating

[warm shadow]

So I'm having an issue, but its across 4 different scripts, should I just share them all on separate paste sites?

[hexed pecan]

Yeah put the scripts in separate links

[warm shadow]

okay

[hexed pecan]

Ok so for this to work, you would have to press down space on the exact physics frame that you enter the collision

[desert shard]

you also need to configure IDE

[hexed pecan]

I would use a trigger collider, detect the availability in OnTriggerEnter2D/Exit2D, check the input in Update and do the action only if something is available

Or use collisions but change GetKeyDown to GetKey... But having to touch the car isn't the best for game feel

[warm shadow]

So, I'm trying my hand at a wave function collapse, and it works great when using the object list in this script: https://gdl.space/tamawuduwa.cs, but I wanted to change over to a TileType system, to cut down the setup time, so I don't have to set up each rotation for each tile, and also store them as Scriptable objects, but now it is not working with my new system, then I check it in the foreach loop in script above. Here are the other ones: TileType: https://gdl.space/evahocikab.cs, WaveObjectData: https://gdl.space/yahonoyuwe.cs. Can anybody help me, i know it's quite a lot, but I'm really stuck.

BTW the CreateOtherTiles() is run in an editor script using a button in the inspector.

[heady iris]

what does "it is not working" mean?

[warm shadow]

it means that the tiles that should be the same are not the same and my generation scripts cant use them, i check for this on line 24 in this script: https://gdl.space/tamawuduwa.cs

[heady iris]

by default, comparison is done by checking for reference equality

you only get true if the two things are literally the same object

[warm shadow]

okay, så not of the values of the things are the same?

[swift falcon]

is there a way to tell 2 different scriptable objects apart?

for instance

one is a consumable and one is a armour object

[heady iris]

i'm a little unclear what's going on here: you're making a list of WaveObjectData, then adding lists of WaveObjectData data from various places to it

then you're checking if every element in that list is also in objects?

[heady iris]

well, if they have different types, then they won't be compatible in the first place

i'm guessing they have the same type

[calm heath]

how would I display the points that I got on one scene to another scene. Like how would I make the points I got go to the death scene

[swift falcon]

both derive from 1 base scriptable object class 😄

[heady iris]

1: do not cross post

2: did you read my answer?

[calm heath]

oh sorry didnt know you were talking to me

[warm shadow]

yes, each TileType has a list of WaveObjectData, that is the different orientation of that Tile, Then then get added together in one big list, that holds them all, that is then referenced with my old system of just making all the WaveObjectData by hand. The old method works, but the new doens't and i don't see what the difference is

[heady iris]

it'll be because objects has different instances than objectList

even if the data is the same

they are two unrelated objects

so, you'll need to implement your own Equals method if you want to test for equality properly

[swift falcon]

in inventory all item types are compatible but i need a way to check if the on i click on is a armour SO

[heady iris]

you can always use the is operator

i do that for my own game which also has an inventory system w/ multiple derived types :p

[warm shadow]

okay, but i still don't see what the difference would be from my generation script, that just call the GetObjects() method, to get the list, and with the old objects is works, but with the new objectList it doesn't

[heady iris]

it feels weird to do that -- it usually indicates you're doing OOP wrong

[heady iris]

and why do you think it doesn't work?

strictly because the elements of objects aren't contained in objectList?

[warm shadow]

because it doesn't generate the world with the objectList, but it does with the objects, and i thought if i checked if they were the same, which they should, then i might come closer to the issue

[heady iris]

you can only check if they're the same if you implement a meaningful Equals method

!code

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[keen solstice]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

[RequireComponent(typeof(BoxCollider2D))]
public class clickable : MonoBehaviour
{
    void OnMouseEnter()
    {

        if (gameObject.tag == "inventory")
           {Debug.Log("Add to inventory");
            mousecontrollerscript.instance.Pickup();}
        else if(gameObject.tag == "viewable")
        {
            mousecontrollerscript.instance.View();
            Debug.Log("view");
        }
        else
        {
            mousecontrollerscript.instance.Default();
    }

        }
    


    void OnMouseExit()
    {
        mousecontrollerscript.instance.Default();
    }
}

(I feel like this is a very verbose way to get the cursor to change on entering certain objects. any easier ways?)

[heady iris]

simplify until you can find the problem

knock it down to one kind of tile

[swift falcon]

i didnt know there was an is operator tbf ty ❤️

[heady iris]

also handy:

if (obj is FooType foo) {
  foo.Whatever();
}

[swift falcon]

not too sure how i would match it against ArmourItem tho ngl

if(nearest_slot is ArmourItem) {
                // do code
}

be like this?

or this

if(nearest_slot.GetItem() is ArmourItem kk) {
                // do code
}

i think the second one makes more sense actually

ill test it out with a debug.log

[heady iris]

i mean, that depends entirely on how your classes work

what is the type of nearest_slot?

[swift falcon]

its a class that holds slot information

but can also return the item

[heady iris]

is it a parent class of ArmourItem?

if not, then that first one would be bogus

[swift falcon]

First one is probably bogus

or most likley bogus

[heady iris]

your IDE would probably complain about it always being false

[swift falcon]

Yeah came up with a yellow warning

ill try this for now

ill see what output i get

[heady iris]

the result of nearest_slot.GetItem() will be assigned to kk if the cast works

[swift falcon]

ahh i see

thats pretty handy

is working fine 😄

also, i dont know if my system is practical. i have a script called ArmourIdentifier that sits on the armour slot and you can set it to what the armour slot is for instance if its a helmet in the inspector you can set it, then i reference that script and check it against the SO

[warm shadow]

Okay so i found an issue, in this script, the FourSides doesn't rotate the sides correctly, https://gdl.space/evahocikab.cs, here is a picture of the outputs: is should have rotated it so it is north and west that are road, but it doesn't

[heady iris]

i had a lot of fun implementing this exact thing in an ECS game..

lots of ways to screw up the rotation, specifically

[warm shadow]

Okay, but I really don't see the issue, it look all fine to me...

[swift falcon]

to compare 2 enums do you need to cast them to a int?

[warm shadow]

Don't know what i did, but it works now

thanks for all the help : )

[heady iris]

that was roughly my experience, haha

i was writing code to figure out how to rotate two tiles to make certain faces touch

it was very messy

[heady iris]

no, they'll implicitly convert to ints

[warm shadow]

yeah, I renamed a variable and then it worked, no idea why

[heady iris]

i'm guessing you want equality checking?

[heady iris]

i first went through the authoring data -> runtime data conversion, then did a ton of work in a bursted job

so it was a nuisance to reason about

[narrow summit]

hey, can someone please review this?

[swift falcon]

tried to do it that way but my editor was screaming at me so i had to cast them to ints

[heady iris]

show your code.

it's fine for me if I compare two enums

e.g. EnumType.A < EnumTypeB or EnumType.A == EnumType.B

not so much if one is an int

[swift falcon]

i think its becauae

there techincally 2 types but same values

[heady iris]

again, show your code.

[deep fable]

Hi! I am using position handles to move the target position (a Vector3) of an IK system, but apparently when I use the handles the new position is not serialized. Like if I change the position and then I enter in play mode, the change is there. But when I exit from play mode, the position is reverted back to the previous one

This is the code of the position handle:

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    [UnityEditor.CustomEditor(typeof(FabrikSolverAuthoring))]
    public class CustomEditor : Editor
    {
        public void OnSceneGUI()
        {
            var authoring = target as FabrikSolverAuthoring;
            authoring.Target = Handles.PositionHandle(authoring.Target + authoring.GlobalOffset, Quaternion.identity) - authoring.GlobalOffset;
        }
    }
#endif

It basically makes position handles useless since what I do is reverted back after 1 play

[heady iris]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.PositionHandle.html

you need to wrap that in a change check

you should mimic what the example code does

[deep fable]

Oh thanks, I'll try!

[heady iris]

i'm guessing that, if you don't do this, unity never notices that you made a change

thus the behavior

[deep fable]

And if I have 2 handles in the same script (for 2 different variables)? I do a EditorGUI.EndChangeCheck for both of them?

[heady iris]

i dunno about that -- i guess i'd just put both in the same change check

[deep fable]

It works, thanks ❤️

[gray mural]

Does anyone know how to create nice mouse effect, when dragging the left button?

I mean drawing with mouse actually

[heady iris]

a what?

so you want to be able to paint with the mouse, basically?

[gray mural]

that's like additional effect

when mouse is moving, it should have like tail (I guess)

[heady iris]

oh, you want a mouse trail

you could use a TrailRenderer

[gray mural]

ok, thank you

[knotty sun]

LineRenderer will do it as well

[gray mural]

how to I "name" those type of methods?

volumeScrollbar.onValueChanged.AddListener(_ =>
{
    // do smth
});

like "delegates" or "listeners"?

[knotty sun]

you dont, they are lambda expressions, they not have a name

[gray mural]

delegate ??

[knotty sun]

no, lambda if you need one

[gray mural]

ok, thank you

[heady iris]

it's a lambda

if you're asking what to call it

[delicate crane]

Hi,
I'm currently working on a tilemap based game in unity and tried to create a custom RuleTile.
In this I override the RuleMatch function like this:

public override bool RuleMatch(int neighbor, TileBase tile)
    {
        switch (neighbor)
        {
            case Neighbor.This: return CheckThis(tile);
            case Neighbor.NotThis: return CheckNotThis(tile);
            case Neighbor.LowerLevel: return CheckLowerLevel(tile);
        }
        return base.RuleMatch(neighbor, tile);
    }

Is there any way to get information about the (relative) position of that neighbor that is being checked in regards to the tile with that script on it?

[desert shard]

transform.parent.DORotate(startingRot, 0.2f, RotateMode.FastBeyond360); how do you do a full 360 revolution tween on a single axis with dotween? since the start and end rotation will be the same

[hidden plank]

    {
        GameObject obstacle = Instantiate(prefab, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        obstacle.transform.postion += Vector3.up * Random.Range(minHeight, maxHeight);
    }```
`Assets\spawnObstacles.cs(25,28): error CS1061: 'Transform' does not contain a definition for 'postion' and no accessible extension method 'postion' accepting a first argument of type 'Transform' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)`
Why does it say transform doesn't habe position

[heady iris]

which line is the error coming from?

oh

postion

that is not how you spell "position"

[hidden plank]

oh somehow i missed that lol

thank you

[heady iris]

i mostly just use autocompletion

[hidden plank]

for some reason i dont get autocompletion on visual studio

[heady iris]

ah, you need to fix that!

!ide

[tawny elk]

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[heady iris]

it will make your life much easier

follow the instructions from top to bottom, to make sure that everything is set up correctly

although, before you start, try clicking "Miscellaneous Files" in the top left

if that has no other options, then go ahead and do the steps

but it's possible it's all set up properly already, and that you just don't have the project selected

[hidden plank]

I will

thank you so much

is there a big difference between using visual studio code and visual studio for unity?

[near monolith]

is this where is ask whats wrong with my code?

[hot torrent]

            for (int i = 0; i < SMR.materials.Length; i++)
            {
                SMR.materials[i] = PhaseMat;
                Debug.LogError("assogner mat " + SMR, SMR.gameObject);
            }
        

This code does not change the material SMR.materials[i] properly to PhaseMat... any idea why?

[heady iris]

do you have any other code that could be assigning to the material slots?

[simple egret]

Pretty much, but make sure to read the #854851968446365696 so you know how to ask a good question!

[hot torrent]

nope... the only other instance i edit these materials, is when i assign a different main texture to display a player has been damaged.

[heady iris]

!code

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[simple egret]

Well, completely ignored the instructions in the read-me altogether

[hot torrent]

._."

[heady iris]

zoop

[balmy dove]

https://gdl.space/lapokigeto.cs
I'm trying to make it such that when I press Boost, and only Boost once, will cause the character to hop (ie. If I tapped Melee and Shooting, the mech should not hop, and double tapping or holding it down will cause it to not hop as well)
but currently while i got the latter done, regardless of combination I did the chara will always hop as long as the boost button was pressed

[heady iris]

please

[simple egret]

Please post !code correctly

[tawny elk]

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[heady iris]

#854851968446365696

that was twice in a row now

[ancient sail]

my bad

I have a problem where my raycast2d is too inconsistent, can someone help pls
https://paste.ofcode.org/HKuuCVhSmRWQ9jCZ3RbCsd

[simple egret]

Not sure if this is the cause, but the direction you pass as argument 2 to Raycast should be normalized. That way its length doesn't depend on the distance between the two objects

Also, your GetComponent in your if statements are not needed, as .collider is already a Collider2D

[balmy dove]

help pls?

[ancient sail]

I fixed, it still cant see player when he is moving around the enemy

[simple egret]

In FixedUpdate, all of your new WaitForSeconds don't do anything here. You need to be in a coroutine and you need to yield return them in order to have an actual wait happening

Here all your code executes at once

[balmy dove]

do I just make the FixedUpdate start a coroutine with the coroutine store everything else in that case?

(so that's why yield return new causes the visual studio error to ring)

[simple egret]

I'd make a coroutine with an infinite loop in it, and start it once, in Awake or Start

[balmy dove]

alright

[simple egret]

And for the error, yielding can only be done in a coroutine so that's probably why

[silver wharf]

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[simple egret]

You need to debug a bit, log whether your raycast detects anything, and if it does, logs the name of the object it detected

With that set up, make sure you get the right object detected

[regal epoch]

hey im getting this error:
Gradle failed to fetch dependencies.
what do i have to do get rid of this error

[simple egret]

Mobile? Ask in #📱┃mobile

[regal epoch]

no trying to resolve in unity error

[somber nacelle]

and it's not an error with your code. it's an error trying to build for #📱┃mobile

[regal epoch]

but im not trying to build it to my phone, so how does it have to do with mobile? sorry ive been using unity for 3 weeks now im a bit new

[ancient sail]

I fixed it, thanks

[somber nacelle]

does this error happen when you try building the project?

[regal epoch]

no, it happens when i try to resolve the project

building to my phone doesn't have any problems

[somber nacelle]

wtf does "resolve the project" mean

[simple egret]

Unity doesn't work with Gradle does it? Or latest versions do but I doubt that since it's for Java stuff

[somber nacelle]

afaik the only thing unity uses gradle for is building for android

[regal epoch]

assets -> external dependency manager -> android resolver -> resolve

[somber nacelle]

would you look at that, it is an issue you should be asking #📱┃mobile about

[simple egret]

Yeah that's not from your code

Unity is screwing up something here

[regal epoch]

oh my bad

you guys don't know what it is by any chance?

[simple egret]

No, we're C# devs

The android pros in the channel you've been linked to a few times do, though

[desert shard]

This should not be going down at all, Does anyone see whats wrong here:
https://paste.myst.rs/credpi86

[heady iris]

are you repeatedly hitting reroll here?

[somber nacelle]

we'd probably have to see that singleton, but i'd imagine objects are probably being dequeued from the generatedUpgrades queue

[balmy dove]

added, but now it got worse

it now doesn't register Sub1/Sub2/Sub3 at all

[desert shard]

Yea, each time I press Reroll, the func with the Debug.LogError is ran

[desert shard]

the UpgradesManager?

[somber nacelle]

yeah, we'd probably also need to see anywhere else that the queue is accessed

[desert shard]

https://paste.myst.rs/6pgcz26t this is the upgrades maanger

[silver wharf]

Why is MonoBehaviour not defined and what can I do about it? I already double checked the IDE setup and nothing seems to be wrong.

[somber nacelle]

wdym by "not defined"? are you referring to the lack of syntax highlighting for it? because that would mean your IDE is not fully configured

[silver wharf]

its also not autofilling unity syntax like Input.GetKeyDown

[somber nacelle]

!vs

[tawny elk]

Visual Studio guide

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please configure it using the link below:

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[silver wharf]

i already went through that

but it still doesnt work

[somber nacelle]

if you have actually gone through everything in the guide then regenerate project files and restart visual studio

[simple egret]

Looks like that since the original amount of upgrades is not a multiple of 3, it dequeues too much when you have less than 3 of them. Your for loop at the top should probably not have 3 as the upper bound, but the max between 3 and [upgrade list count]

[silver wharf]

still doesnt work

[desert shard]

the UsableUpgrades list should not be shrinking

that's the issue

since I add the previous ones back to it if you reroll

[somber nacelle]

show that you've installed the unity workload and set your external preferences correctly

[silver wharf]

k 1 sec

[somber nacelle]

are you certain that you aren't calling Dequeue or Clear on the queue anywhere else?

[heady iris]

i would specifically check if generatedUpgrades contains what you think it does at the start of the reroll function

[desert shard]

I am using Dequeue in various places

Not too savvy with Queues tbh, not Often I use them

[somber nacelle]

When you use Dequeue it removes the first object in the queue so if you don't put it back then suddenly your queue has fewer objects in it

[desert shard]

I use Dequeue on the first generation. then when reroll is pressed, I dequeue it too

oh. perhaps I should have a list along side the queue then?

to add them back if rerolling

[silver wharf]

@somber nacelle

[somber nacelle]

yeah i didn't need you to ping me again.

[silver wharf]

mb

[somber nacelle]

regenerate project files there and double click a script in unity to open it

[silver wharf]

i tried that

it doesnt work

[somber nacelle]

prove it. do it again now and screenshot what the entire IDE looks like with the solution explorer in it open

[simple egret]

Show VS open with a script in view. As well as the solution explorer on the right

[silver wharf]

the solution explorer is the project tab right

[simple egret]

No in VS

[somber nacelle]

no, it's a tab inside of Visual Studio that is literally called Solution Explorer

[silver wharf]

ok

[simple egret]

View > Solution Explorer if it's closed

[somber nacelle]

do you happen to have more than one version of VS2022 installed?

[silver wharf]

wdym that one version

[simple egret]

Nah VS is just freaking out here

Where it says Incompatible on the right, right click that and select Reload With Depedencies

[silver wharf]

OH

it works thx

[hushed needle]

Hello, I have a problem, with this code this is not true that all the cubes should be red in my scene?(i have some tiles in my scene).

[heady iris]

well, if none of the nodes are walkable, they'll all be red..

[hushed needle]

walkable: (line 62)

[mental rover]

are you doing something strange like creating a new instance of something on each reroll? your code looks fine from what you've shown, but perhaps you can verify in OnRerollPressed the state of generatedUpgrades - it's behaving as if it's not adding anything back to the UpgradeManager

[hushed needle]

yes but this is my scene and idk why

[heady iris]

that doesn't tell me very much

is this a 2D game?

you're using a 3D physics query there

[desert shard]

it's the Queue Shenangians. now I populate a list when I enqueue upgrades. then if I reroll I just add the list range back to UsableUpgrades then clear the list. Works like a charm

[hushed needle]

yes

[desert shard]

ezpz

[heady iris]

use Physics2D methods.

[cerulean oak]

whats the problem here?

[heady iris]

well, you tried to use await in a non-async method...

[mental rover]

hmm.. what's queue used for at all then?

[somber nacelle]

you read the error, right?

[dusk apex]

The error is pretty straight forward

Google how to use await and async c#

[cerulean oak]

yes but I dont wanna make the method async

[wide terrace]

Then you cannot use await

[dusk apex]

Don't use await

[simple egret]

Then you can't use await in it

[desert shard]

Honestly I can't remember, made this over a year ago, it's quite complex to give an answer straight away 😂
https://paste.myst.rs/ksbrrtqj but feel free to give it a looksie

[cerulean oak]

so how do I await for the task to finish then?

[dusk apex]

Google. This isn't unity specific

[simple egret]

Maybe there's a .GetValue() that's synchronous

[dusk apex]

There's a whole lot of info out there on how to use await.

[cerulean oak]

but im lost

like how do I turn from an bunch of async stuff into finally waiting for the async stuff to end

[heady iris]

pretty sure you can just start the task and then check if it's done in a coroutine

importantly, you can't run it on another thread and have code immediately run on completion

since only the main thread is allowed to mess with the game's state

[somber nacelle]

looks like it's probably firebase which actually has a ContinueWithOnMainThread extension method

[heady iris]

well that's nice!

[cerulean oak]

yes, but in this case I want the main thread to pause

until I get the value

[heady iris]

so you want your entire game to freeze

[cerulean oak]

yes

i'll implement a loading screen and stuff later

but for now I just want to do some quick dirty stuff

do I just while (!task.IsCompleted);

xd

[somber nacelle]

i mean is there not a non-async overload for GetValue?

[cerulean oak]

doesnt seem to be nope

[mental rover]

tbh, I'd suggest putting that in your code and seeing what happens - might be an important step in understanding what's going on

[cerulean oak]

pretty sure if I do that the game actually counts as frozen because it doesnt yield

[heady iris]

well, it's always gonna "count as frozen"

the only question is whether it unfreezes at some point

[hushed needle]

Thanks, I was following a video for my code and didn't know that.

[heady iris]

this assumes you are using 2D colliders, of course

[cerulean oak]

yes but the OS will say its frozen and attempt to close it

[heady iris]

you could very well be using 3D colliders in a 2D game

[heady iris]

after a period of time

this is why non-blocking logic is very important...

[cerulean oak]

ok i'll just implement the loading screen

[mental rover]

yes, but in this case I want the main thread to pause
you said you want that to happen though?

[heady iris]

you asked how to set off a grenade and now you're surprised that there's a giant hole in the wall 😛

[cerulean oak]

in java you can just join a thread to the main one

to wait for it

[heady iris]

if you join a thread, you block until that thread finishes

so, the exact same thing happens

there is no wiggle room here

if you block the main thread, the game freezes

[cerulean oak]

the difference is the while(true); uglyness

[heady iris]

that's basically what a WaitForCompletion method would do

and it's also exactly what .join() would be in Java

just sit there until it's done

[fervent furnace]

will unity allow you to sleep the main thread?

[cerulean oak]

while() doesnt yield tho

[heady iris]

yes

because it's synchoronous

it blocks the main thread

[fervent furnace]

i just use await task.delay() and hope it will give up the cpu

[heady iris]

the exact same thing happens if you join a thread in Java

[wide terrace]

There also appears to be a Task.RunSynchronously(), which seems to be a fancier way of blocking

[cerulean oak]

thats all I wanted yes

[fervent furnace]

i dont if there is conditional signal in c#

[cerulean oak]

[heady iris]

it doesn't matter how you make the main thread wait

a busy loop or sleeping or whatever

the game will freeze

you blocked the main thread.

you only have two options:

• block until the data is available
• don't block and deal with the data not being available yet

[fervent furnace]

oh wait, if you only need to do one task and the main thread must wait for it finish, why dont you put it on main thread?

[cerulean oak]

because the library creates the task

not me

[heady iris]

what type does that function return?

actually, I'm specifically interested in the result of Child()

[fervent furnace]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.xml.xmlreader.getvalueasync?view=net-8.0
this one?

[heady iris]

what type is that thing returning?

[cerulean oak]

no, firebase rt database get

[heady iris]

can you point me to the documentation for the type returned by Child?

[somber nacelle]

probably this https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/unity/class/firebase/database/query#getvalueasync

[heady iris]

i guess that's right

and GetValueAsync is returning a C# Task

wasn't sure if it was something ~special~

[cerulean oak]

https://firebase.google.com/docs/reference/unity/class/firebase/database/database-reference

but yes its just a C# task

do exceptions not get printed when im on a different thread?

[rugged storm]

float randommod = Random.Range(90, 111) / 100;```
random mod sometimes returns 0, how?

[cerulean oak]

because im starting to lose my mind over code not working

[rugged storm]

(infact almost always returns 0)

[fervent furnace]

try Random.Range(90f,111f)
you are using the int version of random.range

[heady iris]

i do remember something like that happening

maybe

[somber nacelle]

if you aren't actually awaiting your tasks and you aren't handling exceptions in them, then you probably won't see them happening. as a rule of thumb, don't do unity stuff on a different thread because that will generally make it fail silently

[rugged storm]

this is the whole snippet of code if the issue is elswhere here

[cerulean oak]

yeah im only doing the stuff with gameobjects on the main thread, but I still want to see the exceptions of my fuckups

and my debug.logs

[prime sinew]

You were already answered

[rugged storm]

Oh my b somehow i did not see them

[lucid valley]

you are doing int / int, 90 / 100 is 0 (so 90 to 99 will always be 0, 100 to 111 will always be 1)

[rugged storm]

Ty!

[fervent furnace]

await is not creating a new thread, i think you can see unity exception......
there should be some way to wait for a task finish also block main thread
i see this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.task.start?view=net-8.0

[cerulean oak]

no await doesnt create the thread

the task does

and the exceptions inside the task arent seen in the console

[simple egret]

Awaiting waits for the task to finish and unwraps the exceptions that may have happened in it, so no await means no exceptions reported

Also valid if the async method you called returns void

[heady iris]

I want to let the user work with an node graph at runtime. Is there any way to re-use anything from Unity here, or am I gonna have to hand-roll this (or find an asset)?

[somber nacelle]

all the node graph stuff is in the editor assembly, no? so you'd probably have to hand roll it

[heady iris]

yeah.

[cerulean oak]

there is an asset in the store, but its pretty pricey iirc

[balmy dove]

I'm in a jam rn

I thought by putting the IF daisy chain in Awake, I can do the "if two buttons are pressed then use a special weapon and override their individual function" thing as a coroutine
But instead the program did their individual function and entirely didn't register the double input function

[heady iris]

it won't be super elaborate. it'll basically be paths for events to flow through and a few nodes to respond to those events

this will not be turing complete, so help me god

i imagine it's not that hard if you're willing to accept some performance tradeoffs (e.g. reevaluating the entire graph every time you change anything)

and maybe not having the best ergonomics

[wide terrace]

I think you'd pretty much have to factor in some sort of delay

[balmy dove]

Please do elaborate

The two button input (overriding their original function) kind of works regarding to melee and boost when they are bunched together in a fixed update function
But at current state they don't work for some reason even when that if statement remained in a Start function (and if it's fixed update the game crashes immediately)

[wide terrace]

If A or B is pressed, wait 0.5 seconds before triggering ability A/B respectively. If the other key is also pressed in that timespan, trigger special ability.

It doesn't seem feasible that a human could consistently hit both keys in the same frame simultaneously, so a little delay would account for the timing issue

[rugged storm]

in my SRPG, I have party members

public class PartyMember
{
    public BaseAlly Ally;
    public Stats CurrentStats;

    public PartyMember(BaseAlly ally)//Make a new party member based off ally defaults
    {
        Ally = ally;
        CurrentStats = new Stats(ally.baseStats);
    }
    public PartyMember(BaseAlly ally, Stats stats)//Make a new party member with specific stats
    {
        Ally = ally;
        CurrentStats = stats;
    }
}```

and when I start a level spawn them I instantiate(PartyMember.ally) to the board and set it's stats to PartyMember.CurrentStats, my issue is, When the level is finished how do I go about properly updating the partymembers (I have stored in a list of partymembers in a scriptable object). my though was to have each PartyMember and BaseAlly have an ID and check if thoes match and copy the stats over if they do but im having trouble assigning the IDs properly and im not sure if thats the best way anyway

[sage kite]

So I want a thought bubble to spawn above my character with text inside of the bubble, i have made a script that spawns the bubble and changes the text to what i want it to, but the text dosen't spawn inside the bubble

Idk if I'm setting it up wrong?

[potent sleet]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
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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.
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[potent sleet]

and holy shit..

[sage kite]

the file is too long

[potent sleet]

you should be using a JSON or XML

[potent sleet]

did you even read the bot text dawg/

also this belong in #💻┃code-beginner tbh

[sage kite]

lol

Not a beginner tho

[potent sleet]

yeah everyone says that until it's proven otherwise xD

but anyhow, post the code properly please

the text is cutoff

[knotty sun]

that looks like ChatGPT crap

[sage kite]

That's beacuse it is

[potent sleet]

possible,those comments do look ssus

no shit..

[sage kite]

lmao

[potent sleet]

flawed logic = gpt

[knotty sun]

no support for that crap here

[potent sleet]

"Not a beginner tho
"

uses GPT

bravo

[sage kite]

Fast and works kinda?

[potent sleet]

clearly doesn't

[sage kite]

Something wrong about using that?

Christ why are you guys so toxic tf?

[potent sleet]

no but we don't generally support helping GPT crap

it's server rules

[knotty sun]

yes, you generate crap then expect us to fix it for you

[dusk apex]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[ember wedge]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[sage kite]

Aigth aigth, ill look up another solution i guess, got any ideas of how to make text and an object to spawn together?

[potent sleet]

spawn it at the same Vector2/3 position

general rule , WorldSpace and UI are on different coordinates

UI is screenspace

[cold minnow]

I've been using GPT to help me identify what the code I need to write does. You've still gotta debug it yourself but you can use it to get a general idea of how the code might operate

[dusk apex]

Or use world space ui

[sage kite]

I'll look into it I guess

[dusk apex]

That's fine. The issue is usually:

Chat GPT would be useful in seeing how the ai implements something you've done or understand. It isn't so useful for beginners to learn with as they're likely going to be copying code blindly - likely not able to verify the ai solution. You can quickly produce risky error prone code with it though - usually at the expense of requesting debugging from others.

Goes with:

Tldr: Debugging AI solutions (suggestions) isn't favorable as anything and everything could be not working. || Minimum expectation is that the person writing the code knows what the code does (they've got to, they're the ones who wrote it) or have a tutorial to be evaluated. ChatGPT is confident and can be useful for generating error prone samples (quickly) but folks aren't wanting to be fixing AI mistakes - they'd rather try helping you understand a tutorial that's concrete (non changing) or expand your own knowledge (one step at a time and not simply having a lot of code with no insurance that any of it works). "Where did they get this from or who told them to write this" - which is often followed by "don't do it" not because it's being lazy but because nobody really wants to fix stuff that nobody really cared or bothered to make sure is working.||

[cold minnow]

Oh yeah absolutely. Completely agree which is why I've changed how I use it. I now get it to present me with three answers, one correct, two incorrect and I have to identify the correct code and why it's the correct solution.

Though of course 99% of people would ask it to do that job for them and then come here asking others to fix it 😛 I understand why it's frowned upon generally speaking

[potent sleet]

I like GPT when I need randomly generated content
Like
give me a list of 40 random names comma separated

menial tasks are ok

[dusk apex]

That would be efficiently using the generator - and you'd know when he's done something wrong.

He's just doing the manual labor, you know what you're needing already.

[potent sleet]

Robot 1-X

only futurama fans know :P

[ashen yoke]

chat gpt code is like a professional programmer on hallucinogenics

[cold minnow]

But this has also been a learning experience for me too 😛 I'll be sure to make sure I've thoroughly understood anything it's created before I bring any code here. I have had a ton of luck getting it to create a GUIStyle Pause Menu that displays the last rendered frame on screen whilst pausing rendering in the background. I'm having such a blast with Unity in general right now

[dusk apex]

Maybe save the data to disk or have data that persists between scenes.

Assuming the complications of level completion refers to scene load and retaining data

[potent sleet]

Quick curiosity ,

does anyone know how to get TryGetComponent to work like GetComponentInParent ?

iirc with my testing it doesn't traverse up the hirerchy

[ashen yoke]

write your own

[potent sleet]

ah.. thought I might..

thought so
annoyed typing
var parent = thing.GetComponentInParent<Foo>();
if(parent != null)

[vapid bough]

im getting null reference exception from this line. does anyone know why?

to be clear i did define playerCam

[dusk apex]

Player cam is null

[vapid bough]

nope

[dusk apex]

There is no camera with main camera tag in scene

[vapid bough]

there is

[dusk apex]

Camera.main would return null when there is no camera with main camera tag in scene.

You've got to check the tag.

The compiler is almost never wrong

[vapid bough]

looks fine

[ashen yoke]

then its not present at the time the of the assignment in your script

[dusk apex]

The error possibly lies elsewhere - you haven't shown us the error from the console tab.

[ashen yoke]

or that

[vapid bough]

alot of this

[dusk apex]

Human error is likely probable

[vapid bough]

this is line 64

[dusk apex]

Show us the player controller script

[vapid bough]

im using fish-net

does that have to do with something?

[dusk apex]

It should've been a move function call from the player controller that threw the error

[vapid bough]

this is my move function

[dusk apex]

How to post!code

[tawny elk]

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[ashen yoke]

where does the camera assignment happen

[vapid bough]

hold on il paste this code i the thing

[primal wind]

Also which is line 64

[dusk apex]

External code service is recommended

[vapid bough]

https://paste.myst.rs/lcx9rcx0

[ashen yoke]

when is OnStartClient called

[vapid bough]

when you connect with the fish-net server

before awake

im 99% sure of that

[ashen yoke]

then thats the problem

either move or lazy init

[vapid bough]

the script is in a prefab it only exists after you connect

[ashen yoke]

i dont see other explanation

nothing prevents anything from calling methods on prefabs

before instantiation, or instantiate disabled, call/init, enable

[vapid bough]

they need to be in the scene to call the update fuction no?

or is that not how unity works

[ashen yoke]

since i wrote similar systems that hijack scene initialization my guess is that the framework youre using is loading first, disables all roots in the scene, performs init, then enables

probably easy to test if you add Debug.Break() in OnStartClient

and observe scene state

if the objects were disabled before awake, there wont be an awake until they are enabled again

similarly if you disable prefab before instantiation there wont be awake

[vapid bough]

your right

[unreal valley]

What are some troubleshooting methods to do to find out why a Class will not show in the inspector even if it is labeled with [Serializable]

[vapid bough]

update runs before start client

[somber nacelle]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/serialization/custom-types

[ashen yoke]

show the class declaration

[unreal valley]

using System;
using UnityEngine;

[Serializable]
public abstract class JobBase
{
    public virtual string JobName => "No Name Job";
    public virtual LevelingSystem LevelingSystem => new LevelingSystem();
}

[dusk apex]

Abstract classes aren't serializable?

To the Unity inspector that is.

[ashen yoke]

abstract classes arent instantiatable

[unreal valley]

Ahhhhhhhh. shoot.

[ashen yoke]

you cant create an instance of it

[dusk apex]

They wouldn't know what kind of child should be shown in the inspector

[unreal valley]

Should I go the ScriptableObject route then I guess...?

[ashen yoke]

there is SerializeReference attribute

but it requires you to understand quite a lot

[unreal valley]

What is the jist of that?

[brave radish]

So how could i do it to have a better game feel?

[ashen yoke]

its only serialized within the same mono

no cross mono refs serialized

[twin hull]

why is it abstract in the first place

[unreal valley]

Ill take a look into it.

[ashen yoke]

or rather within the same serialized unity object

[dusk apex]

I don't see any abstract methods, this could very well be a regular class?

[unreal valley]

Uhhh. tbh not 100% sure. But i thought to build up the Base Job and then create all the differences within other scripts that inherit it

[ashen yoke]

abstract is used to enforce that this class should only serve as a base for other

[unreal valley]

Yeah thats essentially what I was going for

[swift falcon]

can I use DontDestroyOnLoad in a way that when switching scenes (each has their own player object) and you go back to the first one the position remains?

[twin hull]

abstract locks it basically

just remove abstract and it will work

[unreal valley]

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

public class Job_Warrior : JobBase
{
    public override string JobName => "Warrior";
}

[ashen yoke]

its fine to not have any abstract methods in abstract class

[unreal valley]

I know its bare bones, but its what I was going for.

[ashen yoke]

its also fine to treat it as a normal class, adding fields etc

the purpose still will be served

[unreal valley]

What do you mean?

[ashen yoke]

you cant instantiate it, only inherit

[twin hull]

yes, but we're not chatgpt

[unreal valley]

Like, the Job_Warrior class?

[dusk apex]

Maybe use scriptable objects to hold instances of job data and simply use a job component to reference these data?

[unreal valley]

Yeah, I feel like that might be easier for me honestly.

[ashen yoke]

yes use unity methodology save yourself headaches

when in rome

[twin hull]

@unreal valley your entire problem is just that you added abstract. for what you wanted to do, it's not needed.

[dusk apex]

You'd forgo having to use polymorphism or inheritance simply to define data such as name and whatnot, that would do so through inline code.

[ashen yoke]

how is that a problem

[unreal valley]

I was trying to be smarter than I actually am and was going for a OOP approach

[dusk apex]

More design friendly outside of pure code.

[ashen yoke]

was refering to

[twin hull]

it's not like OOP is wrong in this case, not required either though

abstract is a keyword for "do not use this, ONLY inherit"

[ashen yoke]

yes

question closed

[primal wind]

So it's like an implicit interface?

[twin hull]

honestly i don't even know why abstract exists, never used it

[ashen yoke]

interfaces cant have non method members and implementations so no

[primal wind]

Oh yeah

I honestly never used abstract

so i don't know much about it

I only learned about it because of our Java classes

[unreal valley]

Yeah im just going to scrap what I was doing and go with SciptableObjects lol

[swift falcon]

abstract methods are ment to be overridend xD

[gray mural]

is it true that FindGameObjectWithTag is bad to use?

[unreal valley]

Just make a Job Class that grabs the data from the SO

[ashen yoke]

@unreal valley and there you can use abstract

[swift falcon]

virutual methods can be override and also use the same code from the base function

[ashen yoke]

abstract class Job : ScriptableObject

[primal wind]

all Find methods are bad if used in Update, FixedUpdate or even some kind of loop

[twin hull]

i'd actually recommend not using SO

[gray mural]

what about Start and/or Awake?

[primal wind]

It's fine

[gray mural]

nice then 🙄

[primal wind]

As long as you don't spam it it's fine

[ashen yoke]

the Find grows slower with amount of gameobjects in the scene

[primal wind]

Yeah that too

Oh i just had a dumb idea. I'll have to add it later

[unreal valley]

Im confused by this, why would I need it abstract at this point?

[ashen yoke]

so you dont create instances of Job

[twin hull]

@unreal valley you never need to abstract anything.

abstract is essentially a lock.

[fervent furnace]

if there are few references to be assigned, manually assign them unless the script have to store many references to GO

[ashen yoke]

on accident, for example, youll enforce that only concrete Job implementations can be created

it simply a good practice that in case of data can save you some headache down the line

[unreal valley]

So do I want the Job an SO or the JobData an SO?

[twin hull]

@unreal valley literally just erase "abstract" in your class and it'll work

idk why i need to repeat it so many times

[ashen yoke]

i was meaning the backing data class, so JobData i guess in this case

[unreal valley]

I did, and it shows, but nothing is there.

[ashen yoke]

for one there is nothing in the class to serialize

[unreal valley]

private void Awake()
    {
        Job_Warrior warrior = new();

        jobs.Add(warrior);

        foreach (JobBase job in jobs) jobNames.Add(job.JobName);
    }

[ashen yoke]

unity wont serialize properties and methods

not without [field:SerializeField] but its a bad practice imo

[eager aspen]

im having a weird issue when spawning a prefab. So basically I have a script that has the sole purpose of spawning a random sound effect player.

    {
        chooseClip();
        createSoundSource(worldPosition);
        soundSource.spatialize = true;
        soundSource.maxDistance = maxDistanceFor3DSound;
        if (randomizePitch)
        {
            soundSource.pitch = Random.Range(pitchRange.x, pitchRange.y);
        }
        soundSource.clip = chosenClip;
        soundSource.Play();
        Destroy(soundSource.gameObject,clipLength);
    }

private AudioSource createSoundSource(Vector3 position)
    {
        GameObject g = Instantiate(new GameObject(),transform.position,quaternion.identity);
        g.name = "soundPlayer";
        soundSource = g.AddComponent<AudioSource>();
        soundSource.playOnAwake = false;
        soundSource.loop = false;
        return soundSource;
    }```

the issue that im having though is that it is *Also* Spawning a empty game object with nothing on it just named "new game object" ive isolated it to this script (if i dont call play audio it doesnt happen) but i cant see why its spawning two objects.