archived-code-general

[wintry bluff]

the error above

[nova moon]

Not at all what I said to put. cam = Camera.main;

[wintry bluff]

the camera is not names main

[nova moon]

it doesn't matter

[wintry bluff]

ok

[nova moon]

It's not checking the name

It's checking that your camera Tag is set to MainCamera, which you need to check in Unity.

[hoary sparrow]

alternatively, you can add the [SerializeField] attribute to the "cam" variable, and drag the appropriate camera manually, if you only use a single camera in your game

[wintry bluff]

now i got this error right back lol

[nova moon]

show code.

[wintry bluff]

problem here

in line 77

[nova moon]

No. Show me the camera code in Start()

[wintry bluff]

oops

[nova moon]

Ok, now in Unity, check the camera Tag to make sure it has MainCamera in there. show a pic of it please.

[nova moon]

It's not tagged as main camera.

[nova moon]

yes now that is correct. Try it now.

[wintry bluff]

yayy it works thank you so much

im ok with graphics and stuff not as good with code

[nova moon]

As a side note, this is all extremely beginner level stuff. You should be asking your questions in the #💻┃code-beginner area. And I'd also strongly suggest following tutorials and solving issues like this on your own if you want to learn.

[wintry bluff]

yea got it

[hoary sparrow]

I have one weird issue, where random bullets speed alternates between the intended speed of 3 and 3.4 each frame.
A friend suggested a weird fix of multiplying the speed by any number and it somehow fixes it.
Is there a less hacky way of doing so or does any of you know what could be the actual issue source?

[heady iris]

I'm guessing you're getting hit by floating point inaccuracy.

If the result of ClampMagnitude has a magnitude slightly less than MaxSpeed, the first condition will fail

hmm, but you're saying it's flickering between the min and max speed?

i noticed you aren't using deltaTime in the third block, which doesn't sound right

[hoary sparrow]

it's flickering between the max speed of 3 and a value above it, which is 3.4

[heady iris]

does additiveVelocity happen to be 0.4?

[nova moon]

That's what I was just looking at too

[heady iris]

notice how you check if the speed is too high before you add to it

that's the wrong order

you should change the speed, then clamp it

additionally, you should change the speed by additiveVelocity * Time.deltaTime, not just additiveVelocity

otherwise, you're changing the speed by a fixed amount every update, no matter how much time that update covered

[hoary sparrow]

this is how that looks

[heady iris]

i would do that math in the update function, not ahead of time

wait

is that a private field ?

[hoary sparrow]

it is in the update function, just above it

[heady iris]

ah, so it's a local variable

context helps :p

show me your code.

!code

[tawny elk]

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[hoary sparrow]

yea, I did a bad crop, sorry

[heady iris]

just share the entire script

[hoary sparrow]

This is the whole bullet script, in general it's for a bullet hell game https://paste.ofcode.org/sLdv2xn8SXLyQWvwm6ZrwJ

[heady iris]

by the way, you can just write transform.forward

instead of (transform.rotation * Vector3.forward)

[hoary sparrow]

huh, neat

[heady iris]

who calls Tick?

and what is the value of AccelerationSpeed in your example?

[hoary sparrow]

here are all the bullet pattern values

and tick is called by the bullet manager in its update function

[heady iris]

ok, yeah

20 * 0.02 = 0.4

every tick, the bullet speed changes by 0.4

once the speed is at 3, it will oscillate between 3 and 3.4 forever

I'm guessing that the resulting vector after clamping has a magnitude SLIGHTLY less than 3

due to floating point error

so it was actually something like 2.9999997 and 3.3999999

if the velocity is slightly less than 3, then the first block is skipped

and you add 0.4 to the velocity

I would just clamp the velocity after acceleration

[hoary sparrow]

oh ye, now that I added this and a check based on it, it now all works perfectly, thank you!

I knew I was messing up some fundamental

[warm forum]

I'm giving it effort.

[rotund burrow]

Raycast misses some object when i call it in awake/start (doesnt miss with a timer) ?

[leaden ice]

collider positions are not generally updated in the physics system until the physics simulation step of the frame. This will happen after Awake generally in a new scene

You could try calling Physics.SyncTransforms() to force the syncing before your raycast

This is especially a problem if you're placing/spawning some objects and then expecting them to be raycastable immediately

[rotund burrow]

sync transform doesnt work

[leaden ice]

then perhaps the objects in question are not in the right place, are missing the appropriate colliders, or the raycast is not in the right place

you'll have to do some debugging

Or maybe your layermask(s) are wrong, if being used.

[rotund burrow]

i disabled layermasks to test

[leaden ice]

you'd have to share more details and investigate all of the above

[rotund burrow]

first time it hits another object, second it hits the right one

[leaden ice]

then the answer is simple - there's another object in the way at that moment

also:

new Vector3(16, 0, 4) + Vector3.up * 50``` can be simplified to:
```cs
new Vector3(16, 50, 4)```

[rotund burrow]

it's just a test

there's no object in the way cause i know where i placed them

[leaden ice]

you just said it hits another object

what object is it hitting

[somber nacelle]

why not print what it hits instead of making assumptions

[leaden ice]

and how do you know which object it is hitting?

[rotund burrow]

i mean it doesnt matter (actually it misses the right object and then hits another)

[leaden ice]

why doens't it matter? It seems like it matters quite a lot

[rotund burrow]

okay i printed. anyway, what my problem is: 1. this solution seems stupid. 2. i have a OnDrawGizmos method that needs that raycasthit info but if i do the timer it returns null reference when i pause the game.

i mean i could do null check there but i still dont see the gizmos.

[leaden ice]

you're printing the position of the hit, not the name of the object that was hit. That would be important/relevant information

[leaden ice]

ok so which object is the "right object" and which is the "wrong" object

[rotund burrow]

cube is the right one

[leaden ice]

ok so something called "Plane" is in the way of your raycast at the beginning

[rotund burrow]

first it misses the cube, then it doesnt, plane is below the cube, nothing moves

[leaden ice]

is the cube spawned in at runtime?

[rotund burrow]

no

[prime fossil]

Heya,
Recently I've installed unity 2023.1b.16 on my Ubuntu 22.10 laptop. I have also installed both VSC and VSC-insider but when I go to external editors in preferences. Neither of them show up.

I've checked if Visual Studio Extension is up to date

and couldn't seem to find one specifically for VSC

[thick socket]

have you tried closing and reopening unity

[prime fossil]

yep

did not seem to change anything

[swift falcon]

well... uh... joints certainly are funky

[prime fossil]

here is an image(if it helps)

[swift falcon]

seems that animations make them apply force to the main hand and rotate infinitely

[prime fossil]

I've also reinstalled VSC and VSC-insider

[heady iris]

do you have the relevant package installed in Unity?

[prime fossil]

relevant package?

[prime fossil]

do you mean the extension?

[heady iris]

no, there is a unity package you must install for editor support

[prime fossil]

I see

can I get a link?

[heady iris]

follow the instructions

!ide

[tawny elk]

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or underlining errors, please configure it:

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We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[heady iris]

Since 2019.2, it is required to use the Visual Studio Code Editor package. The built-in support for opening scripts from Unity and getting csproj and sln files generated has been removed.

[prime fossil]

thank you

I think this is the problem

hmm I can't seem to find the extension. I've been checking the packet manager

and tried adding it manually

installing it by git gives me following error

not sure what /home/bokken/build/... path is

not a user in my pc

also tried adding it by name

didn't gave me an error nor add it to the list

redoing it worked

idk what I did different this time

uh is it bad that it is deprecated?

[prime fossil]

anyways it worked thanks!

[heady iris]

why are you installing it via git?

:p

but yes, just install it normally

and the package is, indeed, now deprecated

unity decided they don't need to support an extremely popular text editor for uh

[checks notes]

reasons

[prime fossil]

haha

unity devs probably have a reason

anyways it works flawlessly so can't complain

^^

thanks a lot!

[heady iris]

np!

[swift falcon]

so I am planning on using fixed joints for my VR grabs, but it seems that I've encountered an issue - for some reason having a fixed joint component with no attached body locks the rigidbody in place completely. Is there a way to bypass that? (joints cannot be disabled, tried that) I wasn't able to find any relevant info online, perhaps there's a way to do better physics-based grabbing?

[fervent furnace]

idk if it is appropriate to ask my problem on this channel:
i want to draw line connect some GO with a sprite renderer using handles.drawline method, and the sprite should be rendered over the red line. i try using Handles.zTest, it cannot help, are there ways to perform the desired effect?

[potent sleet]

huh why not use linerender ?

[fervent furnace]

since it may draw line from one point to many other points, eg the bottom white square is drawing line to the two square on top

[potent sleet]

i dont understand. so line renderer can't do that ?

[fervent furnace]

i think line render cannot render a "tree" shape like this
if i use line renderer to render the lines the code will be much complicated (since the line have to be determined in run time) and need to use many GO to hold the line renderer

[leaden ice]

isi this intended for an editor script, or in the game itself?

[fervent furnace]

in the game

[vestal summit]

Anyone know how to pass a parameter of the class it self something like this:

{
    void Update()
    {
        Name(BlahBlah);
    }

    public void Name(BlahBlah blahblah)
    {

    }
}```

don't ask the reason why I'm doing this. Just tell me cause it's a little complicated. I've been working on this issue for a little while

[fervent furnace]

"this"

[leaden ice]

you can't use Handles in the game

it's editor only

Use LineRenderer or something like https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/particles-effects/vectrosity-82

I would just start with LineRenderer for now (you can make one LR per line you want to draw) to start with, and if you have a performance issue you can optimize it later.

[heady iris]

you want this

[fervent furnace]

how about in editor? i may not build the game in future

[heady iris]

oops, missed the answer

[leaden ice]

in the editor you can use Handles just fine

Handles.zTest should work fine

[vestal summit]

wha?

[leaden ice]

Abbot and Costello moment

[heady iris]

this is a keyword

[vestal summit]

oh

[heady iris]

it gives you the object on which the current method is being called

thus, it only exists in non-static methods

[leaden ice]

what is the keyword???
No no what, this

[heady iris]

no, this is the keyword!

this is this

[vestal summit]

no no what is this

[heady iris]

this isn't that

[vestal summit]

what this is this

[heady iris]

this one

[vestal summit]

this this

[potent sleet]

this is this

[vestal summit]

what is this this

[heady iris]

for reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/this

[vestal summit]

this

[fervent furnace]

i tried to set the ztest to comparefunction.less and the z value of each two points to a positive number so that the sprite is closer to camera, but the lines are still on top of the sprite

[rotund burrow]

is there a method to copy ref type array? like an array of class objects

[fervent furnace]

just copy the array or clone all the objects that stored in array?

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.array.clone?view=net-7.0 to create a copy of any array (doesn't matter if it's an array of ref types or value types)

[rotund burrow]

from google search i learned it's called deep copy

[leaden ice]

Unless you want a deep copy, in which case you will need to copy all of the member objects yourself

[leaden ice]

yeah you'd have to say that

there is no generic way to create a copy of a reference typed object in C#, it really depends what those objects are and exactly which data needs to be copied.

[rotund burrow]

okay i'll make something myself

[heady iris]

yes, you need to have a way to correctly make a new, independent copy of each reference

for example, copying a Transform would be...weird

you'd need to instantiate their game objects, I guess

[leaden ice]

yep, it really depends what they are

[heady iris]

big brain move: blindly copy the memory

i don't need serialization. i already have memcpy.

[nuclear explosion]

[fervent furnace]

wont work if you have a pointer to pointer (reference to reference) sadly...

[heady iris]

well, yeah, you'd do it recursively, I guess :p

and it would explode even harder

i often see newbies asking about "deep copying"

it sounds like such a convenient concept

but it winds up raising a bunch of questions

[fervent furnace]

i change the material and it works

[amber heart]

How do I use an enum block palette from my C# class in a compute shader for voxel terrain? There doesn't seem to be an enum type in HLSL

Should I ask in #archived-code-advanced ?

[potent sleet]

#archived-shaders maybe?

[amber heart]

Ah, Ok

Thx

[left gale]

Does anyone have some time to help me get this setup correctly so that I can attach visual studio to a player and get symbols loading for managed code built completely separately from unity?

[bronze crystal]

i have void Start() { //Create a pool of bullets PoolManager.AddInstances(bulletPrefab, "bullet", 20); }

    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            // Get an instance of a bullet from the pool
            GameObject bullet = PoolManager.GetInstance("Bullets");
            bullet.transform.position = transform.position;
            bullet.transform.rotation = transform.rotation;
            bullet.SetActive(true);
            bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = transform.forward * ShipModel.Speed;
        }

    }```

the pool script is on a empty gameobjct in the scene

but i get error no reference to instance

[simple egret]

The full error message contains a stack trace, which points to the line of code the exception was thrown from. Once you have that, you can determine what can be null here, and debug further.

[bronze crystal]

its complaining about this function within the poolmanager script. ``` public static GameObject GetInstance(string groupName)
{
var group = FindGroup(groupName);
var prefab = group.Objects[group.LastObjectIndex].Prefab;
group.LastObjectIndex++;
if (group.LastObjectIndex >= group.Objects.Count)
group.LastObjectIndex = 0;

    return prefab;
}```

lastOjbectIndex

[simple egret]

Seems like lastObjectIndex is an int, which cannot be null.

The method contains multiple lines. The stack trace will point to one specific line.

[bronze crystal]

yes, var prefab = group.Objects[group.LastObjectIndex].Prefab;

[simple egret]

Either group, group.Objects were null, or what group.Objects[group.LastObjectIndex] returned was null

Need to debug more, and check which one

[bronze crystal]

weird because they spawn a couple of bullets to use

[simple egret]

Okay? That doesn't tell me which one of the three is null

[stuck robin]

what linq query would you use instead of IndexOf for finding an item in a list (with duplicates)? i need to be able to grab the specific index of the item

        int selectedIndex = itemSlots.FindIndex(slot =>
        {
            ItemSlotData itemSlotData = slot.GetComponentInChildren<ItemSlotData>();
            return itemSlotData != null && itemSlotData.item == item;
        });

unfortuantely just grabs the first item in the list

[leaden ice]

I wouldn't use Linq. I'd use IndexOf or a for loop.

[stuck robin]

hmm okay, i think i get you

[simple egret]

Might be related to your issue: GetComponentInChildren<T>() also searches on the object, before looking at its children. If slot has a ItemSlotData attached, it'll pick that one up first.

[stuck robin]

ah yeah okay hmm, i'll have to think about how to structure this a bit more. cheers.

[leaden ice]

I mean the FindIndex thing here should also work fine

if it's grabbing the first item in the list then... that item is the item.
Possibly your == operator for whatever item's class is is screwed up

[slow salmon]

Hello, i have a small problem, im trying to trigger an attack animation at a certain distance, i did the code for it but it doesnt seem to work. Instead, my object does the attack animation all the time and not only at the distance i want it to
I made a bool parametre for the attacking animatio too
oh and i have declared the stopping distance above too

[latent latch]

If you're playing the attacking animation when it's false then you've an animation transition problem probably, otherwise check your logic again.

[tough geyser]

Need some help here :) I'm somewhat new to gamedev (been trying things out for some time but never made a game) and I'm making a small local coop game, though idk how to link, let's say one controller device to player1 and the other one to player2. I was used to the old way of making up the controls (when there wasn't the player controls tab) and now I'm just lost, Idk if it's easy or really difficult, seems also that I only fall on videos that don't really help for what I'm trying to do. (mostly trying to make that kind of "Player1 press X to join" kind of thing)
[ I actually don't know if it's a built-in functionality in Unity, so I'm dropping this here considering it probably needs some coding ]

[topaz ocean]

how could I take an array of gameobjects and convert it to an array of the transforms of those gameobjects

[latent latch]

foreach over the gameobjects and access their transforms via dot operator, then add to your new array

[latent latch]

The new input system has a more intuitive system for multiple devices if you want to go with that.

[tough geyser]

neat, didn't know that at all, I mean I thought about it but I didn't dig enough to see that it is an actual thing I guess :) thanks

[topaz ocean]

return gameObject.Select(go => go.transform).ToArray();
does this work?

[latent latch]

there's plenty of tutorials for multiple gamepads, but if you've run into problems try asking in #🖱️┃input-system for more support

[leaden ice]

sure

well, you'd want myArrayOfGameObjects.Select( ... // the rest

[topaz ocean]

gotcha, its just what an AI spit out when I asked it the same question

wanted to validate that it actually works

[latent latch]

good time to practice your forloops though

[jaunty sleet]

How do I determine which canvas is drawn on top if I have multiple canvases in my scene?

[oblique spoke]

Sort order on the canvas, at least if they use the same Render Mode.

[swift falcon]

Confused. Why is "item" coming back as "null"? Here is the code https://paste.ofcode.org/35dAE7iU3rtncSZ82ByqnUr

it only happends when I open the inventory for the second time

everything is fine the first time I open it while having the item

[simple egret]

item only gets set when you call AddItem(Item). Are you sure you're executing that method every time you create (open) the inventory item?

[knotty sun]

Because you are logging in Update which may be executed a million times before you call AddItem

[simple egret]

Seeing the logs in depth from that video, it works as expected. When you open the inventory for the second time after picking the item up (timestamp 0:12) "New Item" is logged a second time. Another InventoryItemController is created somewhere else, and that one never got AddItem called on it, and it's the one logging. Now as for why it creates multiple, it's a bug in one of your inventory scripts

[swift falcon]

I don't think another "InventoryItemController" is made. Because "NewItem" would have logged twice every time I reopened the inventory

[simple egret]

No, not if you never execute AddItem on the second one

You can verify that by modifying your log in Update to Debug.Log("Null", gameObject).
Then run the game, and once you start getting the "Null" log, pause the game (do not stop play mode), and select the log in the console. The object that sent it will be highlighted in the Hierarchy

You just have to select the object and look at its Inspector, ensure that there's one, and only one InventoryItemController attached to it

And of course, that it's the right object that has the InventoryItemController

[swift falcon]

maybe it's another script messing it up

[simple egret]

You can view private variables in the Inspector by switching it to debug mode

Right-click the inspector tab at the top, and select debug

You'll see lots of info and your private fields. Repeat the same procedure pause-select-inspect but with debug mode active, and check that the item in the inspector is not null nor missing

Also it can turn item to null if you ever call DestroyItem() on that instance

[stuck robin]

hmm, what would I use instead of IndexOf, if the object i'm looking for is a scriptable object and not a gameobject?

As this snippet just returns the first matching item rather finding the specific indice

        //Find the index of the selected item
        int selectedIndex = itemSlots.FindIndex(slot =>
        {
            ItemSlotData itemSlotData = slot.GetComponent<ItemSlotData>();
            return itemSlotData != null && itemSlotData.item == item;
        });

[simple egret]

As in, ItemSlotData is a scriptable object and not a component?

[cerulean oak]

how do I make a TextMeshPro text resize a layout?

[swift falcon]

never used this debug before

[simple egret]

Welp, says "None" so it's null. Maybe we're looking at the wrong script after all, and you're passing null into AddItem

Can you throw an exception in that method if the item is null?

Something like

void AddItem(Item newItem)
{
    if (newItem == null)
      throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(newItem), "AddItem received null, not normal!");

    item = newItem;
}

[stuck robin]

Oh wait wow I can totally use the ItemSlotData to grab the index.

[swift falcon]

Does this need an reference ?

[simple egret]

What?

You replace the existing AddItem with this one

Or just add the if statement and the throw in the one you have right now

[simple egret]

Click the light bulb icon there

It'll tell you

[swift falcon]

Fixxed it

but

nothing gets logged

[simple egret]

Then AddItem is never executed on that instance

The exception will appear as an error though, so make sure you're looking at the right log

[swift falcon]

This is the instance https://paste.ofcode.org/PH9Bcv9D2xmjw3aweA7hiy

[swift falcon]

Nothing. Just to make sure, this is correct right?

[simple egret]

Yep looks good to me

[swift falcon]

yea thought it was weird that the "if (newItem == Null)" is a little transparent

[simple egret]

Yeah it's because there's a way to simplify the whole thing that will both set item and throw the exception if it's not there. Looks like this item = newItem ?? throw new ... but we're not doing it because Unity doesn't like the ?? specifically

[swift falcon]

ah I see

So we are stuck now

[simple egret]

Back to InventoryManager, the loop on line 114 shouldn't be made at all. You should get the InventoryItemController from the obj you just created on line 75

And set the item somewhere after line 75. That way, it avoids using GetComponentsInChildren which can return the components in an undetermined order, which might be the actual issue here

You might be assigning the new item to another slot by mistake, because GetComponentsInChildren isn't guaranteed to give you the components in the same order each time it's called
And even if it does, it's bad practice, you have a loop that creates the elements, you should use that to set everything you need

Also each time you open the inventory it deletes and re-creates the slots... not very performant

[swift falcon]

So just delete the entire loop?

[simple egret]

Yes, and get the component from obj after line 75, and call AddItem on that

obj.GetComponent<InventoryItemController>().AddItem(item)

[swift falcon]

what do I do with InventoryItems = ItemContent.GetComponentsInChildren<InventoryItemController>();

delete it?

[simple egret]

The whole method yeah, lines 110-118 in the link you posted, gone

And consequently, line 89

As everything is now done in ListItems()

[swift falcon]

@simple egret

[simple egret]

Well that was it, it was the GetComponentsInChildren returning in a random order

[swift falcon]

yeah stupid little mistake

thank you!

[viral marlin]

Hey there, My school's using unity playground to stop us from having to code but I do have some coding knowledge but I'm not too sure why I'm getting this error:
Assets_INTERNAL_\Scripts\Editor\Movement\CameraFollowInspector.cs(77,45): error CS1501: No overload for method 'FreeMoveHandle' takes 4 arguments

This also only happens on my computer and the one at my school runs it fine'

[knotty sun]

that would suggest 2 different incompatible versions of Unity

[viral marlin]

yeah

not getting any message though saying that this project is going to be upgraded

but wouldn't surprise me as it seemed someone else had a similar error for another thing

[knotty sun]

you need to see where CameraFollowInspector. is coming from and install the version compatible with your Unity version

or use the same Unity version as your school does

[hidden compass]

        Target = Hear.GetDetectedPlayer();

        // If the player is not heard
        if(Target == null)
            Target = Sight.GetDetectedPlayer();

        if(Target != null)
        {
            //Player Detected
            //YadaYada

hello, is there a clever way to combine all this code?

maybe a Ternary is all thats needed..

[simple egret]

Does Target derive from UnityEngine.Object? Or is it a plain C# class?

[hidden compass]

its just returns a Transform

[simple egret]

So it derives from U.Object

Can't get any shorter than that

[hidden compass]

lol

[viral marlin]

Best I can do is get to the script where it is, not anywhere else on the internet

[knotty sun]

it must be a part of some asset or package

[viral marlin]

yeah

seems to reference some internaleditor stuff

well call I should say

might just try doing previous versions until I get no error

[knotty sun]

its horrible but

Target = (Hear.GetDetectedPlayer() == null) ? Sight.GetDetectedPlayer(); : Hear.GetDetectedPlayer();

I do not understand why people seem to associate writing less code with writing better code when often the opposite is true

[hidden compass]

ah, i dont.. im aware less != better. but i like to experiment and change things around.. i changed it to a ternary just like the one u posted
will i keep it? maybe not. i might change it back.. but i'll comment it and keep it around to better familiarize myself w/ the shortened or just different syntax

just something that keeps me invested in trying out new things i suppose 👍

[knotty sun]

the code you originally posted is
A) More efficient
B) More readable

[smoky pike]

I need to make my camera follow the player while also maintaining a increasing velocity upwards. My current code simply follows my object, how do I add a force that makes the camera move up increasingly.
`
targetPosition = new Vector3(gb.transform.position.x,gb.transform.position.y,-1)

    transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position,targetPosition, ref velocity, smoothTime);

`

[hidden compass]

you tried adding a float value onto the .y component of the vector you create for targetPosition?

[smoky pike]

yes, but it just creates an y-offset to the player

the offset doesn't increase

[hidden compass]

increase the float

are u using cinemachine?

[smoky pike]

no just a normal camera

2D

[hidden compass]

u can increase the float in the update loop just add it to the vector3

seems to me thatd work, unless ur setup is differnt than i picture

[smoky pike]

so like
`
targetPosition = new Vector3(gb.transform.position.x,gb.transform.position.y+10f,-1)

    transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position,targetPosition, ref velocity, smoothTime);

`

i tried doubling the float value but it just changes the offset and not the actual velocity of the camera

[hidden compass]

void Update()
{ myFloat += Time.deltaTime; }

Vector3 myVector3 = new Vector3(0, myFloat, 0);```

oh yea well that would just increase the offset ^ of the thing ur following and not actually increasing the camera's vel as well

but thats teh same thing.. ur increasing ur velocity and the thing ur following isn't so ur offset will grow

[honest basalt]

Hey! Ive been using unity for around 6 months but i cannot figure out how to make a closet enter-exit system that puuts you in it? does anybody have any stack overflow forums i could use?

[hidden compass]

like a hide mechanic?

[smoky pike]

ah yes tysm that worked

[honest basalt]

yeah! trying to recreate a horror game lmao

[hidden compass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTtW57u_cfg&ab_channel=SpeedTutor found one in javascript

its pretty similar to c#, and could be converted over if u tried

[honest basalt]

alright! thanks bro

[lean sail]

just from skimming that tutorial, i dont think its that good. pretty bad coding practices

[smoky pike]

hmm there seems to be a problem, the camera ends up not keeping the player at the center of the camera as a result of the added velocity when the camera does SmoothDamp

the added smoothdamp makes the player go off the screen faster than it should.

[tall coral]

Does anyone have a tutorial that describes delegates, unityevents, other events, etc. in really simple terms? I've watched 3 so far and none have made sense.

[hidden compass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdiN18PR4zk&ab_channel=SebastianLague

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5R4C8BLEOc&t=6s&ab_channel=SebastianLague

[tall coral]

Awesome, thank you. This guy seems like he teaches in my learning style lmao

evreryone else just dumps all the facts and features and not how they're used

[prime sinew]

I recommend this one
https://youtu.be/UWMmib1RYFE

[zealous tide]

how can i parent the main camera into each player prefab that i spawn

[prime sinew]

Instantiate has a parameter where you can set the parent

[exotic aspen]

Howdy folks. I am attempting to modify my game to allow some user modding. For example, I have created prefabs for each unit type and scripts to define behavior and stats. So initially I broke the stat loading out into JSON files accessible to users after the game is installed. Beyond that I'm a little stuck. What strategies could be employed to allow sprite/animation replacement? Is there perhaps some guides or resources I could learn from here?

[zealous tide]

sorry?

[night harness]

If the answer is no thats cool, Does unity have a built in way of drawing text/numbers as a gizmos like how you can draw lines and cubes?

or would you have to provide them as sprites manually and stuff

[prime sinew]

You're asking how to set the parent of spawned objects?

[wide terrace]

Handles.Label might fit the bill https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Handles.Label.html

I think Llamacademy has a nice intro to them

[zealous tide]

well the camera should become a child of the prefab

not the otehr way around

[night harness]

these look slightly out of my depth but i think I can modify the example code and stay in my lane. thanks a ton king

[prime sinew]

You're spawning using instantiate?

Instantiate gives you the reference to the spawned object. So just use that, and the reference to the camera, then do the parenting

[zealous tide]

oh nevermind i got it thanks

[humble trail]

Does anyone know what is the simplest way to render 2D images in unity? like by programmatically setting each pixels color, lets say i just want to render a gradient or anything arbitrary

[tall coral]

That one also helped a lot, thank you!

[cosmic rain]

You render 2d images either with a ui Image, a sprite renderer or a quad/plane mesh with a your image texture.
Either of those takes a texture. You can modify the texture on the CPU pixel by pixel, but that's gonna be slow. An alternative is a custom shader that does whatever you want.

[tall coral]

Is there anyone that properly teaches how to create a save and load system and actually explains the code they're using?

[cosmic rain]

Some tutorials I guess.🤷‍♂️
Save and load is an advanced enough topic for them not to explain every line of code.

[swift falcon]

look for the tutorials that are longer than 10-15 min I suppose

[tall coral]

Yeah, I guess so. It just sucks that they've used like 8 different things I don't know.

[cosmic rain]

Break it down and research the things that you don't know separately.

That's how you learn.

[tall coral]

Yup, a project for another day lol

[humble trail]

Thank you! ive tried the setting pixels on a texture method and it was really slow so im gonna go the shader way

[golden sapphire]

So I'm getting to the point in my game where I need to start considering saving and storing information...

I've got some UI panels that will be storing different information such as relationship levels, bestiary, a calendar, inventory, etc. At the moment, they are all just individual canvases that are enabled or disabled with the information store inside their children. Would you suggest putting a DontDestroyOnLoad function on these objects? Or should I be storing and retrieving this information through scriptable objects or playerprefs or something like that?

[lean sail]

You will run into issues storing them with scriptable objects, and playerprefs have limitations. Json should be fine for this

[lean sail]

Saving it in an SO wont save throughout sessions

[twin hull]

singleton or SO for easy global access, load/save to JSON for persistence

[golden sapphire]

hmm...so for the JSON persistence stuff...Are we talking like exclusively for loading information from a saved game? Or should I be storing things in JSON that persist between scenes too such as the relationship info/inventory/bestiary? I initially thought I would just have a DontDestroyOnLoad on each of the UI parent objects, but is that a no-no?

[twin hull]

@golden sapphire are you aiming for webGL at all?

[golden sapphire]

I have no idea, if I'm honest...I'm just creating a pixel RPG in Unity lol 😅 should I be aiming for webGL?

what is webGL? 🙊

[twin hull]

do you want it to play in browser or just downloadable?

[golden sapphire]

ah just downloadable, I think...I always expected to either kickstart or steam release it in like 3 years when I actually finish. Don't really know too much about that stuff since I'm assuming it's well down the line

should I be aiming to release it in a browser?

[lean sail]

Well you'll need to store it to json anyways everytime the information updates otherwise a crash would cause the user to lose info they gained. Unless u have a save system that the user invokes or is area based like souls games campfires

Store what the user has seen*

[golden sapphire]

hmm sounds like I should look into this JSON stuff then...

[lean sail]

Only if u want it to be on a browser. Doesnt sound like u do though

[twin hull]

@golden sapphire

using System.IO;

     public static bool CheckIfFileExists(string fileName)
     {    return File.Exists(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, fileName)); }

     public static void SaveFile(string fileName, object saveObject)
     {    string saveData = JsonUtility.ToJson(saveObject);
          File.WriteAllText(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, fileName), saveData); }

     public static T LoadFile<T>(string fileName)
     {    return JsonUtility.FromJson<T>(File.ReadAllText(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, fileName))); }

     public static void DeleteFile(string fileName)
     {    File.Delete(Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, fileName)); }

[lean sail]

I wouldnt exactly use json utility

But the idea still is the same

[golden sapphire]

oh wow, is this a save/load system you just whipped up?!

[twin hull]

no i just had VS open

stripped webGL part

[golden sapphire]

ahh I see! Hmmm I'll have a think about the webGL browser thing

[twin hull]

basically you just need to make a class that stores data that can be saved in json, and that's the object you pass around

[golden sapphire]

and is it better to pass around this object with all of the data in it (sprites, strings, etc.) and load them up in every scene? Is it faster than DontDestroyOnLoad?

Currently, I have one scene per location.

[twin hull]

DDOL will lose everything once you close the game

it's used on a singleton which is one of the things you can use to hold the current profile

[golden sapphire]

oh, yeah i thought that might be the case, so I'll be implementing some sort of save system with multiple slots eventually to save that stuff

I'm just walking out a door at this point into another scene and figuring out how to bring across the UI info to the next scene, hah

[twin hull]

and you shouldn't hold sprites, just the most basic stuff that you need to restore the save

e.g. instead of sprite an index

[golden sapphire]

ahh so put it in a dictionary or something?

[lean sail]

if your game is heavy, its very likely u do not want it on a browser. Typically people first think of if they are making a browser game, or a downloadable one. It really sounds like u just want a downloadable one

[twin hull]

dictionary can't be saved in json iirc

[lean sail]

you can save its keys then its values

not the actual dictionary, just lists of it

[twin hull]

aiming for a game playable in browser is a good idea in general though, you can switch out of it in later stages but early on it's easier to let others playtest

[golden sapphire]

oh true, i didn't think of that...

[twin hull]

itch has a really nice patching system, the only problem was the saves breaking

which is solved with a small workaround

[lean sail]

well if you havent designed a game in mind to be built on a browser, theres no point coding one for a browser after you've already started coding...

that is some major requirement changes

[golden sapphire]

oh, hah. well yeah, I'm pretty noob and my code is all over the place, so maybe just download will have to do

[twin hull]

@lean sail that depends, for just the code it's not a problem unless you're using async. for an artist, yeah HDRP won't work on browser i guess.

[golden sapphire]

I only just learned how to use delegates this week. before then I was just putting references to everything in every single script 😅 lol

[lean sail]

I just think its not good advice at all, browsers will never be strong enough to run the same game.

[twin hull]

references are usually the better way though

[twin hull]

it's not about the end result but prototyping / playtesting

[lean sail]

i guess that'd have some use case for low fidelity prototypes

[golden sapphire]

okay, so I've come to the following conclusion then regarding the 'storing data' thing:

DontDestroyOnLoad for UI canvases between scenes
JSON to create a save file system to store all data between gameplay sessions

Does this sound right? Or should I be using singletons or SO's or something instead of the DontDestroyOnLoad?

[twin hull]

which is >99.9% of the games in early stages

[lean sail]

well yes, low fidelity's use case is specifically early stages

[west lotus]

Thats just called greyboxing

[twin hull]

JSON is just a file in system, you need a separate class that you'd update with stuff to save before calling it

[golden sapphire]

okay, so I'd make some sort of 'GameManager' object, attach a script with all of the goodies in it, then during save that would convert that info to JSON?

[winged mortar]

I'd go for SaveManager but yes

[golden sapphire]

and then for persistence between Scenes (which is currently one location per scene), should I be using DontDestroyOnLoad, or should I be just pulling the data from this 'SaveManager' script each time?

[winged mortar]

[golden sapphire]

hah okay fine. I just get scared about shooting myself in the foot due to my early design choices...Guess it's all part of the journey though 😛

[lean sail]

u can make either work, but itd make more sense to use your save manager

[winged mortar]

Depends on how important your project is, you cant know everything from the start and even when you think you know everything from the start you are still going to run into issues anyway

[golden sapphire]

well I'll start with some DontDestroyOnLoad and see if it slows anything down between scenes. Then when I finally do implement my save system, I'll see if its any faster pulling the data from that each time I load a scene up.

[prime sinew]

Hey Ben, how'd the UI thing go?

[lean sail]

you wont notice any speed difference

[winged mortar]

Not worth spending years architectung a solution when it's all about the final product anyway

[golden sapphire]

oh, your change selection idea worked! I can now switch between entries and have the right window change as per the selected item!

thanks for teaching me delegates ❤️

[prime sinew]

Happy to hear that

[normal cedar]

How can I apply BuildNavMeshSettings?

[lean sail]

no issues unless your file is massive, but you shouldnt be storing each text for the bestiary that the user finds. If its already stored in another JSON, u dont want to store it twice (one for raw copy and one for user version). Just store some ID maybe to link which the user found.
If you store the entire text again it might be a tiny tiny bit slower, im talking like 0.01 seconds lol

[golden sapphire]

okay! i'll keep that in mind 🙂

[twin hull]

basically store the state, not the objects.

[golden sapphire]

okay, this will be my mantra🙏

oh actually, a more generic question here...Why is my project 20 gigabytes already?!

what is stored in the 'Library' Folder of the project? Because that's where all the weight is by the looks of it

[lean sail]

do you have a lot of packages downloaded? or lots of models

[golden sapphire]

i didn't think I had 20gb worth of packages...but yeah, it bumped up from like 900mb from my previous backup to 20gb 🤢

Here are the ones in my project atm

hmmm the only assets I really have are pixel tilemaps

all of the junk is in my 'Artifacts' folder by the looks of it? What's in here?

[winged mortar]

(keep the two json files)

[golden sapphire]

oh nice! I was worried I'd have to create multiple 20gb backups lol

when I've backed up so far I've just been copying the folder and saving it somewhere...I'd be fine to skip this 'Artifacts' folder then?

[lean sail]

what exactly are u copying when backing up your project..

u should be using some version control

[golden sapphire]

the whole project folder...am I doing it wrong? 😅

[lean sail]

yes

[golden sapphire]

i've never had to use a backup luckily, but I suppose I should make sure I'm doing it right now while I'm early!

[winged mortar]

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/what-is-git

Try and read this

[lean sail]

you need version control if you want to use backups or just have a history of your code somewhere.
I recommend git, mainly because i think perforce and plastic arent good yet and are still trying to replicate what git does

And git will be a useful skill for every other branch of computer science

perforce and plastic obviously will work for the basics, but from what ive seen both are just lacking in features compared to git

to me, theres no reason to have version control integrated into unity. github desktops UI is insanely good

[golden sapphire]

okay, I'll give this 'Git' thing a go this weekend.

[swift falcon]

hi guys so i tryna build survival tempolate pro and i got 2 errors tht say Access is denied.

legit nothing else

any help would b great lol

[lean sail]

is that some asset?

[swift falcon]

im legit brand new

so i added n downloaded the asset n then i got tht error

[lean sail]

this doesnt sound like a coding question in particular

[swift falcon]

its a error im getting in unity.

[lean sail]

try #💻┃unity-talk or googling issues related to this

[swift falcon]

i have this is my last option lol

[lean sail]

well this just isnt a coding question

[twin hull]

considering that asset wasn't free, maybe you can contact the creator?
he does have discord and email on store page

[lean sail]

i assume its either an issue with copying files around, the file being locked due it being open elsewhere, or a stolen asset

[swift falcon]

its not stolen cuz i bought it from unity asset. and i think its honestly a copying issue idek doe

ill do some more digging n see i fi can fix or find the solution

[prime sinew]

hey, i definitely back this up. Definitely get the hang of git. Unfortunately don't have a dependable resource on it that I can share

[fluid lily]

Does unity serialize Range[]?

[prime sinew]

what's Range[]?

[fluid lily]

I know there is a [range()] attribute for int.
Also it is System.Range a data type meant for ranges

Sorry. Range is a data type for ranges, Range[] is a array of them(though now I think about it you probably weren't asking what an array is...).

[lean sail]

that seems pretty easy to test, i dont think it even serializes range in the first place

doesnt matter if its an array or not

[rotund burrow]

if i buy some script library will i be able to see all of its code?

[cosmic rain]

Depends on how they share the library. It could be compiled into a dll. If they provide source code, they usually mention that in the asset description.

Although, you might be able to see the dll code too, just not edit it.🤔

[lean sail]

Decompilers also arent 100% accurate, sometimes it's more tedious to try and understand than it's worth

[cosmic rain]

I meant metadata included in the dll. But I guess it doesn't really qualify as source code.

[primal wind]

Up until now i haven't had any issue with the results of dnspy, even tested it on apps i made and it was pretty accurate

As a modder it's pretty much necessary to use it

[heady iris]

sometimes it throws up when given coroutines

[neon plank]

Weird question, but, how can I replicate the effect of Quaternion.AngleAxis(float angle, Vector3 axis) without calling that method? I mean, what code has under the hood? Decompiling Unity show that it class an unmanaged function... so there is not much to see.

[severe geode]

i think it just make "rotate degree" from "around axis"
and after u got rotate degree so just create them with Quaternion.Euler(m_rotateAxis)

[neon plank]

From internet I got something like this:

float halfAngle = Mathf.Rad2Deg * angle * 0.5f;
Vector3 normalizedAxis = axis.normalized;
float sinHalfAngle = (float)Math.Sin(halfAngle);
float cosHalfAngle = (float)Math.Cos(halfAngle);
Quaternion result = new(normalizedAxis.x * sinHalfAngle, normalizedAxis.y * sinHalfAngle, normalizedAxis.z * sinHalfAngle, cosHalfAngle);

Thought I'm not sure if it is correct

[rotund burrow]

how would i make something like a navmesh sample position method for my own pathfinding?

[static matrix]

I'm trying to get a spear to stick to a wall (3d) and was wondering how to do that. I thought I could do it with joints, but it gets all buggy with a fixed joint

 private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
    {
        var Hit = new RaycastHit();
       var joint = gameObject.AddComponent<FixedJoint>();
        Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out Hit);
        joint.anchor = Hit.point;
    }

heres the code

  var Hit = new RaycastHit();
        var joint = gameObject.AddComponent<FixedJoint>();
        Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out Hit);
        joint.anchor = Hit.point;
        GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
        GetComponent<Rigidbody>().ResetInertiaTensor();

This works slightly better

I basically want spears to stick to walls like they do in rain world

nvm

different question
if(!Physics.Linecast(transform.position, Player.transform.position, out Hit, NotMonster))
This will pass if there are no colliders between the start and end right?

[severe geode]

yes

[static matrix]

cool

sorry that was a very stupid question

other very stupid question how do I get the direction between two positions

I've done this before hold on

[lethal plank]

i think my shortcut support is turned off
anyone know where it is?

[static matrix]

Actully wait ive only ever done this in 2d

nvm maybe i got it

[steep herald]

@static matrix (end position - start position).normalized

[static matrix]

that worked incrediably well wow

like
concerningly well

[thin aurora]

You mean autocomplete?

[static matrix]

im programming! Things aren't supposed to work the first time!

[lethal plank]

the blue part

[sharp acorn]

It happens sometimes, savor the moment

And dont get used to it

[static matrix]

yeah lol

I hate how unity renders planes its very annoying

ca I turn it off

the only from one side part

[lethal plank]

my same binding performed while im performing shortcut

[sharp acorn]

I know how you can do it in your custom shader, but idk if you can do it with the default shaders

If it is the case, the name for not rendering the backface is "face culling"

bear in mind though, it's a waste of resources to render the backfaces of most of the 3d models

[static matrix]

nah, i made my wings on my moth planes

so i need both sides

[lethal plank]

see nothing from InputSystem.cs

well found it

[topaz plaza]

Any idea why my 3D TextMeshPro is offset so hard even tho my settings say it's 0,0 on x,y ?

[jaunty iris]

Hello i have a problem whit my food tag detector here is the code and here is a descripton.
This script is used to build food by combining specific ingredients. When an object with a collider enters the trigger area of the plate, the script checks if the object has all the required tags. If it does, it destroys all nearby objects within a specified range and replaces the plate with a completed food prefab.

The script uses an array of required tags, which represent the ingredients needed to build the food. When an object collides with the plate, the script checks if the object has all the required tags. If it does, it destroys any nearby objects and replaces the plate with a completed food prefab.

using UnityEngine;

public class BuildingFood : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string[] requiredTags; // Tags that the prefab should have
    public GameObject doneFoodPrefab; // Prefab to replace the plate when all tags match
    public float range = 1f; // Range for the box collider
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        // Check if the colliding object has all the required tags
        bool hasAllTags = true;
        foreach (string tag in requiredTags)
        {
            if (!other.gameObject.CompareTag(tag))
            {
                hasAllTags = false;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (hasAllTags)
        {
            // Destroy all objects within the range of the box collider
            Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapBox(transform.position, transform.localScale * range);
            foreach (Collider collider in colliders)
            {
                if (collider.gameObject != gameObject) // Skip the plate itself
                {
                    Destroy(collider.gameObject);
                }
            }

            // Replace the plate with the done food prefab
            Instantiate(doneFoodPrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);
            Destroy(gameObject); // Destroy the plate
        }
    }
}
||

[trim schooner]

!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.

[trim schooner]

Yeah, follow the rules. Share things properly so it's easier for people to help you

You obviously didn't bother to read #854851968446365696 properly/ at all/ just ignored it after it was suggested you read it before

[topaz plaza]

no you are branded 4 life now

nobody will help you ever again

I am joking

[thin aurora]

Please just stick to the purpose of this channel

Just knock it off and the other conversations will make the messages disappear

[trim schooner]

Looks like the burger hits a collider above the plate and then falls off

So it isn't doing the trigger event

[jaunty iris]

ya that because i dropped it but still after that is still not working

[trim schooner]

Does the burger work if you put it on first?

[jaunty iris]

nah

[severe geode]

i see u burger Rigidbody -> useGravity = false

that why you burger is not drop

check the code player drag drop object
about function dragBurger

[ionic zenith]

hi, I have a rolling ball, but when I go to fast using (rb.AddForce(speed)), My ball tends to bounce upwards on a flat surface. Anyone know how to prevent the ball from bouncing upwards at high speeds?

[severe geode]

please show you vdo

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith Either your world has colliders sticking out, or speed is some vector with a non zero Y value

[ionic zenith]

i just have a plane (100x100) to test it and it still bounces when going to fast

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith what is speed?

[ionic zenith]

Vector3 moveDirection = (cameraForward.normalized * verticalInput) + (cameraRight.normalized * horizontalInput);
        moveDirection.Normalize();

        float currentSpeed = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) ? speedBoost : speed;

        rb.AddForce(moveDirection * currentSpeed);

[steep herald]

Add this after movedirection.normalize()

print(moveDirection.y);

[ionic zenith]

when rolling at default speed, it doesn't bounce, but when using speedboost (is at 10f), it bounces

ok

[steep herald]

If y is non-zero, then with low speed it'd make sense that gravity makes your issue seem almost non existant, whereas with high speed you'd notice it

[ionic zenith]

it prints all zeros

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith Is your ball the default unity sphere?

[ionic zenith]

yes

sphere collider

[swift falcon]

How is everyone

[ionic zenith]

im good :), what about you

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith Right so you have a single plane, the code above, the default sphere collider, and nothing else?

[ionic zenith]

yep, nothing else

i think its my rigidbody

[steep herald]

It shouldn't behave like this, and I cannot say this is a behaviour I have observed in the past.

For the hell of it, try making a custom physics material, turn down the bounciness to 0 and see if it still occurs?

[ionic zenith]

tried that xD, not working, it seems that it works now on a flat plane

but i tried adding different planes (all 10x10) in a grid to make it 100x100, then it bounces

maybe, there is a little gap i can't see

nope, not the case, it's so weird

[swift falcon]

Pretty tired but glad you're well

[steep herald]

Try overlapping them slightly and see if it still occurs?

e.g. 11x11 at 10m intervals

[ionic zenith]

tried that, i tried overlapping the colliders, but it still makes it bounce when going fast, but on a plane it doesn't bounce

IT WORKED

@steep herald there actually was a little litlle gap

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith Solver iterations?

[ionic zenith]

like, a 0.01 mm gap

[elfin vortex]

How do I rotate an object so it faces the player's position, but at the same time it has a lagged aim? I'm trying to make a laser beam that shoots instantly but at the last position of the player when the laser beam was getting ready to shoot. Can anyone help me do it?

[swift falcon]

I've seen weird bugs tbh, I've had xaml say my assembly is missing but work anyway lol

[ionic zenith]

what do you mean with that?

[ionic zenith]

xaml? like WPF?

[severe geode]

use transform.LookAt

[swift falcon]

Yeah wpf

[ionic zenith]

nice, i used wpf for a while, its sometimes complicated

[trim schooner]

find out what the difference is between the tomato and the meat

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith It's possible default solver iterations count caused issues at high velocity. Increasing this would probably fix the insane depenetration issue

[swift falcon]

Ones a vegetable and ones a fruit

[steep herald]

but if you got it to work, then no need to play with that as it has performance impacts 🙂

[ionic zenith]

yes, thanks for your help man

[static matrix]

my script keeps freezing
like the guy stops moving when it isnt supposed to

[swift falcon]

Can you show us it ?

[static matrix]

uh sure
its lengthy but il ltry

[swift falcon]

Just grab parts that's related to the issue

Minimal reproduction

[static matrix]

Thats the problem im not sure which bits cause the problem

[swift falcon]

Can you send it in a hadtebin

[static matrix]

wut is that

[swift falcon]

Haste*

https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin

Paste the code here and share the link

[static matrix]

ok

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

[swift falcon]

Also what you could do is for parts of your code print a debug and see which part doesn't actually print the debug

[static matrix]

ohh wait i might know

i could be fool

it probably goes back to prep

easy fix

[swift falcon]

Let us know if it works

[static matrix]

sure

yeah working now

now I just need to keep it going through walls

[swift falcon]

Awesome

[static matrix]

I could try and rig up a navmeshagent but that has some other issues, especially with a flying thing

hmm

ah well Ill figure it out

[swift falcon]

What kind of issues

[static matrix]

ive had this convo about 400 times

ill figure it out

besides it doesn't go from wall to flying well

[ionic zenith]

nah @steep herald doesn't work anymore, i found out that when I roll over 1 collider (plane collider), i don't bounce
but when i go over multiple colliders (grid 100x100) with 10x10 planes, there are multiple colliders and then it bounces up when rolling fast over these planes, any idea?

(sorry for ping btw)

i already tried increasing the default solver iterations and velocity iterations, but still doesn't work

[steep herald]

@ionic zenith What did you increase it to?

[ionic zenith]

12 for default solver and 24 for velocity iterations

i even tried 100 and 100 on both, no difference

the ball just bounces up when it rolls over multiple colliders fast

@steep herald fixed it, there is this setting:

it was 0.01 by default and i set it to 0.000000001

weird, but i fixed it somehow

[steep herald]

You will still encounter your problem at higher velocity

If your game does not allow for much higher velocity, then congrats on your fix 🙂

If so, then you will need to either batch your colliders into a large one to avoid the depenetration kickback that occurs when a new collision is detected (e.g. at your intersections)

[high violet]

i am getting these errors , does someone know how to resolve these?

[harsh bobcat]

code would probably be helpful

but that usually means you defined a function twice or something along those lines

[west scaffold]

I have these moethods in my sign controller class,
||public void Interact();
private static void FindTextMeshProInScene();
public static void ToggleTextBox(bool inputtog);||

I wanted to have the game search for textmeshpro only once when the first sign is interacted with (hence the static), but I just realised that each sign I have in a level may be running the controller seperately, how can I make the game run findtextmeshpro only once each scene and if I assign the same script to multiple gameobjects in unity how does the engine translate it behind the scenes?

[shy spire]

Weird question, but, is increasing the fixed timestep good practice when collisions are not accurate enough?

It feels wrong for some reason

[west scaffold]

It will have a negative effect on performance

[shy spire]

That makes sense, is that all? I don't know why I feel so fearful of this

My collisions weren't right on 60 fps, so I changed the timestep from 0.02 to 0.01, on a small 2d pixel art game, so I'm guessing it will not have too bad of performance issues

[worldly hull]

fixed Update or fixed execution is just letting ur code executing without affected by frame rate
it will still have some influences if u have extreme FPS rates

if u increase the time steps, it means fixed update will execute the code more, so its just making ur code more consuming

fixed update is 1/ steps right?

then it should be

[west scaffold]

I don't know enough about the physics system to say if that is all, but Bard said there is a Physics Visualizer tool that can help, and you can change your colliders to a box collider, but there shouldnt be any disastrous consequences for it

[worldly hull]

ur code will be executing 100 times per seconds instead of 50

[west scaffold]

yeah I read somewhere that fixedupdate alredy does that

[worldly hull]

1/0.01 = 100

if theres a fps freeze, the compensation will be very very huge

lets say the game frozen for 5 seconds

on 6th seconds , normal fixed update will execute 250 times

but in ur case it will be 500 times

but i guess it wont happen tho lol, 2d pixel art shouldnt be so heavy

[leaden ice]

This won't actually happen btw

[worldly hull]

oh it wont?

[shy spire]

I understand how the fixed update works, I'm just scared that changing the time step will affect something else

[west scaffold]

@shy spire Use the Continuous Collision Detection option in the project settings

[leaden ice]

FixedUpdate has a "maximum allowed timestep" setting in the time menu

default is 0.1 seconds

[shy spire]

I'll look into it

[worldly hull]

then its actually not that bad lol

[shy spire]

I know, but the problem is happening on a Circlecast in code, not a collider

Usually the Continuous Collision is enough

[leaden ice]

yep, what will happen is the physics simulation will actually only advance 0.1 seconds over that 5 second gap (or whatever the max is set to), meaning of course the game actually will slow down while that's happening

it's to prevent this exact problem of bad performance leading to more FixedUpdate leading to worse performance death cycle

[shy spire]

I set up tunneling prevention code but it still skips sometimes

[shy spire]

Great, thank you all for the clarifications

[west scaffold]

Your welcome

[west scaffold]

I'd appreciate it if someone can tell me about the way the same script on multiple gameobjects work

[leaden ice]

I have no idea why you would want a static FindTextMeshProInScene method at all TBH.

Shouldn't the sign controller just have a reference to its own text component assigned in the inspector?

[west scaffold]

Yes, I just wanted to make scene setup easy when creating levels

[ionic zenith]

how do I set the lighting settings in code?

i've been trying different things like RenderSettings and stuff, but I don't find the right thing

[leaden ice]

depends on which render pipeline you're using

and which lighting settings you want to change

[ionic zenith]

I have this in my code

public LightingSettings[] lighting; ```

and I would like to set 1 of these in this box through the code

@leaden ice any idea?

[leaden ice]

not sure what you're asking exactly. Like how do you get the reference?

[ionic zenith]

like, i have an array with lighting settings:

and through coude, it has to select 1 and apply it to the scene

i got it to work with skyboxes

RenderSettings.skybox = skyboxes[randomIndex]; ```

how do I do this with the lighting settings?

[leaden ice]

can't you drag the lighting settings assets into here in the inspector?

[ionic zenith]

yes, but the problem is: I need to generate lighting based on the skybox.
My game choose a random skybox, if it is night, then it has to apply these 'night lighting settings'

or do I bake lighting at runtime?

then it destroys the gameobject with the script, which is not possible

yes

[leaden ice]

gameObject

transform would be the Transform of course

transform.parent.gameObject

[warm stratus]

Hey, i did a code to smooth the movement of a fps rigidbody player

private void LateUpdate()
    {
        SmoothedCamera();
    }

    private void SmoothedCamera()
    {
        float LerpAmount = lastPositionTimer / Time.fixedDeltaTime;
        playerCamera.position =
            new Vector3(Mathf.Lerp(beforeLastPosition.x, lastPosition.x, LerpAmount)
                , Mathf.Lerp(beforeLastPosition.y, lastPosition.y, LerpAmount)
                , Mathf.Lerp(beforeLastPosition.z, lastPosition.z, LerpAmount));
        
        lastPositionTimer += Time.deltaTime;
    }
    
    public void ResetLastPosition() //fonction called each FixedUpdate within playerMovement
    {
        beforeLastPosition = lastPosition;
        lastPosition = transform.position + localCameraPosition;
        lastPositionTimer = 0f;
    }

And why is it a bit jittering? but not a lot?

[ionic zenith]

i know how to fix it

put your rigidbody to 'interpolate'

[lean sail]

Not entirely related but why not just lerp the vector instead of each individual float

[warm stratus]

he is interpolate and continious

[warm stratus]

ok i will do that but... it won t fix

[ionic zenith]

oh, ok, then... idk

[hard estuary]

You shouldn't use Time.fixedDeltaTime in LateUpdate. You probably meant Time.deltaTime

[warm stratus]

no it s not the proble;

[leaden ice]

this isn't how Lerp works either btw

[leaden ice]

it is 100% a problem

but it's not your only problem

Silly question - why not just use Cinemachine?

[lean sail]

I feel like something is off with that reset last position logic

[warm stratus]

i used /Time.fixedDeltaTime to put to 1 the Lerp Amount instead of 0.02 ig

[leaden ice]

which shows a complete lack of understanding of how Lerp works

[warm stratus]

with Lerp 5 6 0.5 it makes 5.5 right?

[leaden ice]

yes

[wide terrace]

I guess that lerpAmount will pretty much always be 0 if the timer's reset in FixedUpdate()

[warm stratus]

but it s divided by Time.fixedDeltaTime and i think with that it will be between 0 and 1 between 2 fixedUpdate

[wide terrace]

LateUpdate() is called every frame. FixedUpdate() is called multiple times per frame (under normal circumstances, I think). 0/anything is 0

[leaden ice]

If you're just going for an actual linear interpolation you could just be using MoveTowards here

You could also use SmoothDamp if you want it "smoothed"

[warm stratus]

???

[warm stratus]

i just need a linear interpolation

ok i try MoveTorwards

[warm stratus]

ah no i don 't need that

[leaden ice]

MoveTowards will be simpler

[warm stratus]

but if float LerpAmount = lastPositionTimer / Time.fixedDeltaTime;
playerCamera.position = Vector3.Lerp(beforeLastPosition, lastPosition, LerpAmount);
dont work...

[leaden ice]

playerCamera.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(playerCamera.position, lastPosition, Time.deltaTime * speed);

[warm stratus]

i need to lerp the coord between beforeLastPosition and lastPosition between 2 fixedUpdate (idk if you understood)

and i move this

[languid hound]

Why are raycasts just randomly acting up? I'm raycasting from the top of the arm to the floor but its randomly just going up and it wont actually touch the floor

        if (Physics.Raycast(arm.transform.position + Vector3.up * arm.transform.localScale.y / 2f, Vector3.down, out rayHit, 100f))
        {
            target.transform.position = rayHit.point;
        }

Huh?

Every GameObject of the arm is on the layer creature

Oh wait I'm not even using the LayerMask

Sorry I have a different issue I can go to another channel for

[warm stratus]

Without my code it s terribly not smooth but with it s smoothed but there a bit of jittery

private void CameraMovement()
    {
        //rotation of the entire body
        transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, mouseMovement.x, 0) * mouseSensibility * Time.deltaTime);
        //rotation camera up and down
        playerCamera.Rotate(new Vector3(-mouseMovement.y,0,0)
                       * mouseSensibility*Time.deltaTime);
        xRotation -= mouseMovement.y * mouseSensibility * Time.deltaTime;
        //rotation clamped to these values
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);
        playerCamera.localRotation=Quaternion.Euler(xRotation,0f,0f);
    }
}

i found the piece of code that produce the jittery and why???

[somber nacelle]

don't multiply mouse input by delta time, mouse input is already frame rate independent and anyone teaching otherwise is wrong. when you remove that make sure to lower your mouse sensitivity variable both in the script and the inspector

[warm stratus]

i don t think that cause the jittery but thanks

[somber nacelle]

it is exactly what causes jittery camera controls

[warm stratus]

ok not it don 't work either

[strange jacinth]

Are you updating camera in LateUpdate?

[wide terrace]

Changing the camera position in a FixedUpdate() will be desynchronized from the frame rate, which could cause jitter. If you meant between two LateUpdate()s, I don't think there's a reason to lerp the camera's position between just two frames, because it would never render a frame with the camera at an intermediary position

[warm stratus]

yes

[warm stratus]

it is in LAteUpdate (i lerp the camera position bc i use a Rigidbody)

[strange jacinth]

Try also to set it by rigidbody.position, for me in cinemachine helped

[warm stratus]

what do you mean?

[strange jacinth]

Sorry. I had to read it again, I thought it's position based problem.

How exacly is this jittering?

[warm stratus]

ok wait i record

[warm stratus]

hmm record is not exactly

the same as what i see

that bc i stream on discord also wait

no it s not like what i see when i record

i have an idea i put the FixedDeltaTime to like 1

ah but

the mouse movement is strange when i move it s jiterry AA

[strange jacinth]

Ok, gimmie a second

[warm stratus]

yes?

[somber nacelle]

show your updated code

[warm stratus]

for camera movement or smoothed?

[somber nacelle]

the code that rotates the camera based on your mouse movement. you know, the stuff you claim is jittery

[strange jacinth]

The code that rotates seems ok, I would remove delta time since it will cause frame dependency in rotation

[warm stratus]

i removed

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

public class MoveCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
    //refs
    private Transform playerCamera;
    
    //inputs
    private Vector2 mouseMovement = Vector2.zero;
    
    //constants
    private float mouseSensibility = 1f;
    
    //var
    private float xRotation = 0f;

    private void Awake()
    {
        playerCamera = transform.Find("playerCamera").Find("camera");
    }
    
    private void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        GetInputs();
        CameraMovement();
    }

    private void GetInputs()
    {
        //mouse inputs
        mouseMovement = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y"));
    }
    
    private void CameraMovement()
    {
        //rotation of the entire body
        transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, mouseMovement.x, 0) * mouseSensibility);
        //rotation camera up and down
        playerCamera.Rotate(new Vector3(-mouseMovement.y,0,0)
                       * mouseSensibility);
        xRotation -= mouseMovement.y * mouseSensibility;
        //rotation clamped to these values
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);
        playerCamera.localRotation=Quaternion.Euler(xRotation,0f,0f);
    }
}

[strange jacinth]

Wait, why are you rotating playerCamera twice?

[warm stratus]

no i am not (ok yes but one time the player and one time up and down)

[strange jacinth]

I would try commenting out line with playerCamera.Rotate, since later you're setting playerCamera.localRotation

[warm stratus]

the localRotation is to Clamp the value

but i have an idea

i try just to rotate the player first to see what make the jittery*

ok just the body Rotation makes jittery

[somber nacelle]

didn't you say you were updating the camera in LateUpdate? this is being done in Update not LateUpdate

[warm stratus]

Ahh yes probably, (by the way when i use just up and down it don t jitter)

i try update

ah no i am in Update

[somber nacelle]

yes, that was exactly my point. you are updating the camera's rotation in Update instead of LateUpdate. rotate the player in Update and the camera in LateUpdate

[warm stratus]

Ahh

[warm stratus]

but when i do just rotation of the player in Update it s jittery

[twin hull]

it might be an overkill but why not just use cinemachine with (new*) input system?

requires no code to set up and has examples of how to do everything

[somber nacelle]

don't even have to switch to the new input system to use cinemachine, it works with the input manager

[twin hull]

new input system is just nice to have long-term

[sudden hinge]

I made a guide on how to use Jobs + Burst in Unity. Does someone have the time to quickly look over it before I publish it?

Fair enough

Sure, ill DM you and put it in #archived-resources

[warm stratus]

hmm, i will wait until i am really desesperate to switch to cinemachine i think

lol

ok it s definettely just this line the proble;
transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, mouseMovement.x, 0) * mouseSensibility);

[strange jacinth]

Cinemachine looks at terryfing at first glance, but it's quite well documented, and after you toy with it it becomes nice easy to use package

[warm stratus]

i don 't need cinemachine bc i just have 1 Problem

i g

[lean sail]

its way less terrifying than building your own camera system thats gonna attempt to replicate what cinemachine already does

theres no point building your own unless u need specific functionality. Even then, u can always add functionality to your main camera on top of it

[strange jacinth]

Unless you're setting rotation elsewere it should work correctly. The only thing i can think of with this line is sensibility ("sensitivity" for input) can be too large [?]

[strange jacinth]

Basics first

[warm stratus]

i made to 1f the sensibility

[lean sail]

Building your own camera system is not basic when you want it to be good. Also I'd say it's better for new people to just use cinemachine as a plug and play solution while they actually figure out fun stuff like moving the character properly

[strange jacinth]

Can't argue with that

[lean sail]

Cinemachine is definitely more basic than building your own

[warm stratus]

i need just to fix 1 line of code and it s done i already done what i wanted but i am just remaking my game with rigidbody and i don t wan t more than this

[strange jacinth]

How about casting yaw (yRotation) to variable and later performing transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0, _yaw, 0);

[warm stratus]

😮 that s a good idea i test right now

[warm stratus]

same problem...

AHH

i think i found something

[warm stratus]

when i rotate with transform the Rigidbody is confused and make jittery of idk

[lean sail]

Is the rigidbody itself jittery or the camera

[warm stratus]

how do i know that?

the rigidbody is jittering but it s normal bc it s not updated every frame

Ohh no i think i am stupid

qh no oof

[magic terrace]

could someone help me out with an issue im having

[strange jacinth]

What's the issue?

[granite nimbus]

is doing System.Type.GetMethod() bad for performance?

[magic terrace]

I have an enemy that i want to look towards the direction its walking, its kinda doing that but with its side. when i try to manually rotate the enemy 90 degrees it just snaps back when the game starts so idk how to fix this

[strange jacinth]

Sounds like rotated graphics at first

[magic terrace]

is there a way i could find out what the issue is somehow? and if so how may i fix this

it has been troubling me for a while

[strange jacinth]

Can you show code?

[magic terrace]

yes

this is my script attached to the enemy

it has a patrolling and chasing function which works

and some animations which also work

[lean sail]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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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.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[magic terrace]

sorry

new here

[strange jacinth]

There's nothing in this script changing rotation other than NavMeshAgent, so it should be either animation that's rotated or some game object. If you want to see gizmos rotated with object set space to local

[ionic path]

question - did Unity change how Dictionaries are referenced?
I followed a tutorial and for some reason, Unity keeps saying NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object in relation to the code public void LoadData(scr_GameData data) {data.SP_pickUpsCollected.TryGetValue(id, out SPwasCollected);}

I know it understands what data is, and this works with normal ints and bools, but it's just acting up when it comes to Dictionaries, any ideas as to why?

[lean sail]

Dictionary is a c# thing, not a unity thing..

You have a null reference somewhere though. Debug to find out which part it is

[magic terrace]

it could be the animation how would i deal with this? sorry if im asking a lot

[regal violet]

Hello guys, i am currently working on a game based on synthwave style. I would like to make a background with that kind of tile (cf. picture)
Do you think I should make a sprite that I tile or I create a simple square with untiy, duplicate it and add particles ?

[lean sail]

It's likely you missed a step in the tutorial as wwll

[strange jacinth]

No problem.
Easy, but not elegant solution would be to intoduce GO with counter rotation as parent of the animation.

[steep herald]

@regal violet Use 2 planes and adjust the tiling till you like the effect. Fog depends on your setup

[cold parrot]

You could just use that picture if its for a background. Maybe share more how that background is supposed to behave and integrate with the game?

[magic terrace]

How can i do that?

[regal violet]

I would like to have one plane actually, not really like the actual image (with one at the top and one at the bottom)

[steep herald]

@regal violet I don't understand, can you elaborate? You want a single, flat grid rather than 2 parallel grids?

[regal violet]

Yes, something like one of the grid from the picture but totally straight

With the color

So basically just square as background 😄

[steep herald]

As for the color, you want simple pink grid or you want the fog effect(which I can only assume would make little to no sense on a flat grid)

[regal violet]

But I am interested to know what would be better, having X square with particles or have X sprites ?

Not the fog (for now)

[strange jacinth]

Sometimes imported meshes have different rotations dependent on export settings, blender usually does -90 on x

[steep herald]

1 plane with a fairly low resolution square and tile that till you like the results @regal violet

[magic terrace]

so i do a counter rotation on its parentobject?

[regal violet]

I am concerned about the final render. I am afraid to use sprite, it might not render great

Ok I will check

Thanks for your reply

[strange jacinth]

Yes

[steep herald]

@regal violet Just so we're clear, you can set the tiling property on the material. I'm not suggesting you tile several planes to recreate the effect

[regal violet]

Ok, I will give a look on tile for material, didn't really work on visual with unity 🙂

And if I want to cut my background with a random line

I can modify the UV of the material ? 🤔

I saw something like this in some youtube videos

[steep herald]

🙃

[granite nimbus]

        public ButtonInvokeAttribute(Type type, string method, object methodParameter = null, string customLabel = "")
        {
            this.type = type;
            this.method = method;
            this.methodParameter = methodParameter;
            this.customLabel = customLabel;
        }

so I have this constructor in an attribute (PropertyAttribute)
but for some reason it doesn't let me pass in this (which is just a ScriptableObject)
saying it's static member. I don't quite understand what it means and what is wrong and who is static (except ConversionSystem is static, but I don't see how is it related at all)
I literally use this in a scriptableobject (which is not static...) and it says it's static, what 🤷‍♀️

[lyric oriole]

Does anyone know how to make a grid placement system for a sphere

cus im making a game where you have an orbit camera and you have to place buildings

[rose willow]

When I exported my game it had a bug of making my character spin around for some reason and when I played in the editor it was fine. Can someone help?

[leaden ice]

attributes are all implicitly static

they're part of the class definition itself, not part of an instance

why would you ever need to pass this into the method anyway

[granite nimbus]

how am I allowed to construct them then?

[leaden ice]

You can construct them with statically accessible things

[granite nimbus]

it is a button and I need to pass data through.
I ended up just doing another method GetConfigData inside this scriptableobject, and passing this method to attribute as well. it works but I'm not sure it's the best way of doing it

[leaden ice]

there is no this at the time the attribute instance is created

it's tied to the field declaration

basically the attribute is instantiated when the class / assembly is loaded

not when an object of this class is created

[granite nimbus]

so I circumvent this with passing GetConfigData method instead of passing data itself🙂

seems like the best way then

not method, method name* and then use System.Type.GetMethod

which feels super dumb tbh but I don't see better way

originally I tried passing in Action delegate but it doesn't work for aforementioned reasons too👍
feels incredibly stupid to have to do all these roundabout ways to just have a simple button invoking a simple method

[dusk apex]

Whatever the case is, the attribute isn't associated with instances of the class but defined with the class itself - you'll not get a different attribute per instance of the class (there's only one)

[granite nimbus]

there's only one

can't really wrap my head around that. so when I do
[MyAttribute("One")]
private int myField;
[MyAttribute("Two")]
private int myOtherField;

who is only one there? attribute? but I clearly have two of them, no? I call the constructor 2 times🤷‍♀️
🤯

[dusk apex]

It's defined with the string constant as the argument type and done so well before any instances are created

What's the confusion?

[granite nimbus]

there's 1 instance of attribute per field, not per class that I use it in?
but they're "kinda static" so I don't understand🙂

[dusk apex]

What you were suggesting with the prior was cs public string key; [MyAttribute(key)]//Error

[simple egret]

They're not really static, at least that's how they appear into the decompiled code. They're a bunch of bytes attached to whatever the attribute decorates

[granite nimbus]

this makes way more sense now👍

[heady iris]

they're also only ever accessible through reflection, iirc

[granite nimbus]

so, is passing in method name and doing System.Type.GetMethod() really the best way of passing a method to attribute for it to invoke it?

it doesn't sound to be efficient at all

[simple egret]

class C
{
    [Sample(W = 5)]
    private int _y;
}

class Sample : Attribute { public int W { get; init; } }

Compiles into

.field private int32 _y  // the field itself
.custom instance void Sample::.ctor() = (  // attribute declaration
    01 00 01 00 54 08 01 57 05 00 00 00
//  --------------------|--|-----------
//  Unknown data ^ | Prop name ('W') | Value (int 5 / on 4 bytes)
)

[granite nimbus]

makes sense, thank you

[swift falcon]

Discord mobile has themes now

Mines a midnight blue

[ashen yoke]

you can attach attribute to a class as well

[granite nimbus]

I have problems understanding what am I actually constructing with the constructor of the attribute😄

[ashen yoke]

an object

attribute itself is just a regular class object

[granite nimbus]

yeah but above they told me it's "implicitly static"

[ashen yoke]

alright a static in c# is also an instance

i dont know exactly how its glued in the clr but its part of the meta data

and all the meta is stored separately and loaded through Reflection api

[granite nimbus]

I know, but what am I constructing with the constructor😄
various instances of... static class? what😄

[ashen yoke]

that is not static in a keyword sense

it is static in a sense that the data is written once at compile time

[granite nimbus]

ok so this makes sense actually👍

[night harness]

Is there a way to set a mesh's read/write in editor? .isReadable is read only

[ashen yoke]

after that yes you can access the actual objects that store metadata but only for read, unless you plan to runtime compile/construct classes with roslyn

[night harness]

debug inspector doesn't show it either

[ashen yoke]

uh yes with reflection i think

if you dig into google/unity forums youll find examples dating back to 2009 or something

[night harness]

😭

[ashen yoke]

maybe they added some EditorMeshUtility in recent versions

they been adding those a lot lately

[granite nimbus]

I just needed this clue that static there doesn't mean the same as static in keyword sense. now it makes perfect sense

[ashen yoke]

void foo() => System.SerializableAttribute serializable = new System.SerializableAttribute();

valid code btw

[night harness]

can't find anything like that. that's really dumb.

theres a way you can turn read/write off, but not on

[ashen yoke]

i remember i did it years ago, it was slow but doable

lets exclude xyproblem, what is you actual goal

[night harness]

i have meshes in my assets because i think its cluttered to have a mesh in a fbx file when the mesh is the only thing in there

and I have some stuff trying to access them

[ashen yoke]

you mean you serialized meshes separately as subassets?

[night harness]

i dont know if this is considered subassets

[heady iris]

no

sub-assets would be in a little fold-out list

[night harness]

ye i figured

[ashen yoke]

so the type of those is?

[night harness]

mesh

[ashen yoke]

just raw mesh without importer

[night harness]

yes

[ashen yoke]

well, i never worked with those, but the approach i usually take if i need to automate something like "all read/write enabled meshes for generation are in this folder" is i write an asset post processor

and it would receive an importer object in which you can conditionally toggle anything based on the asset path

but i have no idea how raw meshes behave there if they even have importer associated with them

[night harness]

it doesn't even need to be automatic

I'm fine doing it manually if it exists

[ashen yoke]

alright, can you open it in notepad and find the property in the file?

[night harness]

.. I actually haven't tried that

[ashen yoke]

you have serialization set to text?

[night harness]

no clue but yeah thats totally readable in text lemme try that

yeah looks like that does it. someone should tell unity so they can add a checkbox somewhere 😛

[ashen yoke]

btw you can automate that too

with a simple ```cs
File.WriteAllText(File.ReadAllText(path).Replace("readwriteproperty = false", "readwriteproperty = true"))

[night harness]

I haven't done anything with direct files before, in what context would I do this in?

[ashen yoke]

when you are tired of editing files in notepad

ah you mean where

a context menu for example

a menu item in the editor

like right click > toggle read/write

[night harness]

yeee

never done anything like that before so trying a jank odininspector button as a component and might look into that

[ashen yoke]

just make sure you make a commit before all that

[night harness]

smart smart

@ashen yoke tried just having this but doesn't seem to be working, should I be saving somewhere?

    [Button("Enable Mesh Read/Write")]
    public void SetMeshReadWrite(Mesh mesh)
    {
        string path = @meshPath + mesh.name + ".mesh";
        Debug.Log(path);
        if (File.Exists(path))
        {
            Debug.Log("File Found!");
            File.WriteAllText(path, File.ReadAllText(path).Replace("m_IsReadable: false", "m_IsReadable: true"));
        }
    }

it finds the file

[ashen yoke]

refresh the asset db

AssetDatabase.Refresh()

you can also get the currently selected object in editor

Selection.object

then AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(..)

you would have to convert asset path to absolute path

since it starts at "Assets/"

[night harness]

oo fancy, looks like it still isn't working though

🤔