archived-code-general

[pliant locust]

yeah

[urban berry]

I'm in the middle of a "Reimport All" so my own editor is indisposed at the moment so I'm going strictly by memory

[pliant locust]

oh damn

[urban berry]

okay, so this is good news. The inventory slot IS being affected, just... not in the way you wanted

[pliant locust]

so how do i fix it?

[urban berry]

Argh This is really hard without a working editor

grumble

[pliant locust]

could we call and i present my screen or nah?

ugh damn

[urban berry]

I mean honestly right now I would be poking at the settings for the grid layout component

just to see if I can get the inventoryslot to change its spacing

and to do this when there are multiple inventoryslots attached

[pliant locust]

i dont know

i cant figure out how t ofix it

im tring everything

[urban berry]

ok that import is done

now I'mma try this out

[pliant locust]

kk

do u want the video im using

?

[urban berry]

I'm just duplicating your setup

[pliant locust]

oh ok'

Just use

[urban berry]

try stretching the width of your toolbar

[pliant locust]

UI - Image

[urban berry]

it's only set to 8px, I think

[pliant locust]

8.4

so set mine to any 8?

[urban berry]

yeah, something like that

no I mean, stretch it to like, 800px

just to see if it moves those slots apart

cause it should look sorta like this

[pliant locust]

800 goes WAY off my screen

i did 50, nuthin, 100, nuthin

[urban berry]

because this is my setup

could be that there's a canvas scaler at work

[pliant locust]

the child allignment is supposed to be set as middle center on the grid layout group

[urban berry]

like there's some settings here

I'm gonna try putting my grid layout object on the root like you did

oh yeah, it works...

[pliant locust]

bru-

what did i do wroongnggggg

[urban berry]

and I set the Child Alignment to Middle Center like you did

[pliant locust]

then what did i do wrong???

[urban berry]

the slots have nothing on them, just rect transforms

I'm gonna play Spot The Differences

[pliant locust]

thats mine

the exact same as urs

[urban berry]

how's the root of this UI set up?

[pliant locust]

root?

[urban berry]

got a screenshot of the canvas? also.... this is probably outside of the realm of code and more of a thing for #📲┃ui-ux

[pliant locust]

yeah here

here's the tool bar and inventory slot too

[halcyon venture]

will playerprefs be reset when i build into webGL? like rn in the editor i have some player prefs saved but when i build the game will they reset

[crimson atlas]

what's wrong with centipedePrefab = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Assets/Prefabs/Centipede/Centipede.prefab");?

[urban berry]

yeah I'm pretty sure your toolbar node is too narrow

[urban berry]

I don't think so.

[pliant locust]

what do you mean narrow?

[urban berry]

I playerprefs saves to the registry and those values will stay until something comes along and overrides them

[urban berry]

it's only 8.4px wide so it's mashing all your slots on top of each other

[pliant locust]

well when i widen it it doenst fix anything

[urban berry]

how far are you widening it? it must be the width of a slot x the number of slots you want it to hold

so if a slot is 100px wide and the capacity is 8 slots then it must be at least 800px wide

[urban berry]

I don't understand your query

are you receiving an error?

[knotty sun]

Resources.Load will only work from a folder named Resources or sub folder therof

[urban berry]

thank you, I practically never use that Resources folder and that never occurred to me

[crimson atlas]

yeah it was null when i tried to instantiate

where is the editor layout information stored?
is there a way to manually type the width of panels in pixels or something somewhere? even editing a file if necessary?

[pliant locust]

i cant fix it

[urban berry]

So, as Steve astutely pointed out, since Resources.Load rummages through all folders marked Resources, it couldn't find your file in there

[pliant locust]

i dont know whats wronnggggg

im trying what u said and it's not working

[urban berry]

Hedgger, I really hope you can get your problem solved but I think you'll find more experts in #📲┃ui-ux -- this is the place for code!

[pliant locust]

sorry moat

[urban berry]

this stuff is beyond my pay grade!

[pliant locust]

sorry 😭 lol

what if i send u the video i used?

[urban berry]

I wish you luck and I hope you can get it solved - I know how infuriiating it can be

[pliant locust]

would that help at all?

[urban berry]

I am, like many others in this channel, not an expert in UI We've definitely reached the meagre limits of what I know.

If you solve this thing you'll know more than I do

[pliant locust]

k

sorry for using ur time lol

have a great rest of your evening

thanks!!

[urban berry]

good hunting

you got this

[jaunty sleet]

Does anyone know of a way to move objects by script without playing the game? I want to do this to make a tool to help me make my game, and to save me from having to manually move objects

[cobalt gyro]

is there a way to search for a file via scripting

[rigid island]

yes ofcourse

[cobalt gyro]

for example: searching for a scriptabe object and putting it in a class

[rigid island]

scriptable object only lives within the project files

[tropic quartz]

I haven't really dabbled with editor tools, but are you maybe looking for something like this?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUI.PropertyField.html

Also if you just need to align a bunch of objects or randomize positions there are a few numeric field expressions for it.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/EditingValueProperties.html

I've used them before to line up a bunch of objects without having to move them all manually.

[warm stratus]

hey, I have some red circles and i wan t to preserve aspect and be in the anchors points like the preserve aspect in Image but for parent gameObject someone knows?

[urban berry]

I have made scriptable objects that act as dictionary indexes for other scriptable objects

so that way they only have to be pointed to this one scriptable object and then they can get other scriptable objects via an enum

and in other situations where I needed even more modularity I used Addressables and stored addressable references and I have these scriptable objects loaded in advance during an init stage

so there are many ways to go about this

But I think if you're looking to say, throw scriptable objects into a folder and be able to search that folder and load them up, it probably won't work at runtime

you're better off serializing that sort of data in JSON and just export it separately because those operations will work at runtime

[light rock]

look at the AssetDatabase class

as long as they’re in a folder called “Resources” then AssetDatabase can find them at runtime

[urban berry]

...isn't AssetDatabase in the UnityEditor namespace?

[light rock]

nope it’s intended for runtime use

the restriction is that it’s limited to only folders labeled Resources, and subfolders

[urban berry]

TIL

[soft shard]

You sure? I dont think youd be able to make a build of your game if its using AssetDatabase code (outside a Editor folder)

[light rock]

i’ve definitely done it before

[mossy snow]

you're mistaken, if you actually make a build it would fail

[light rock]

ohhhh hang on

the class i’m thinking of is called Resources

but yeah that’s the class you want if you want to find assets at runtime

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

[elfin tree]

Hey, so I'm deforming a terrain at runtime. Since there are multiple terrains, it happens that the deformations are along the edges and go a bit too deep, creating a bit of a gap where you can see through. How could I, through code, blend the edges together or clamp them or something? Thanks!

[heady iris]

How are you doing the deformations?

[cobalt gyro]

thanks

[light rock]

the resources class not the assetdatabase class

[elfin tree]

Modifying the heightmap of a Unity Terrain (Data)

[heady iris]

right, but what method are you using?

It looks like you're only deforming one terrain tile at once, causing the seams if your deformation tries to hit two tiles at once

[elfin tree]

A bit like a brush basically, but cause it would be too costly to just have one big terrain I think. I need to keep the terrain small and just use a bunch

So I'm trying to find a workaround to make the edges come together after deformation

[heady iris]

I think you'll be interested in https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainTools.TerrainPaintUtility.html

It collects heightmap data from one or more terrain tiles and gives you a texture

you then draw on that texture and send it back to be applied

[tacit portal]

when my game suddenly needs to load 5 mins for something, should i be concerend, or just restart unity? 😆

[heady iris]

(This is part of the Terrain Tools package)

[elfin tree]

Seems quite hard to find code examples of this so far

I think maybe BeginPaintHeightmap

[heady iris]

well, here's an example of how I used it

https://gdl.space/jonaqiweho.cpp

i use this to stamp a texture into the terrain

"Terrain Add" is a custom shader I made to do that.

[twin hull]

maybe that?

[shut elm]

Hi, I have the problem that some time ago I probably coded a bug in the world generation that occurs in a specific case when unloading and reloading chunks. The bug causes a complete freeze of the Unity Editor. I don't have an error message and since the changes in this scripts were more than a month ago I have no idea where to look. How would you proceed in this case? Is there a way to at least find the "problem script" or something similar?

[heady iris]

that would be if you asked for an area that has no terrain on it

this is just an issue of needing to deform two piecces of terrain simultaneously

(which Terrain Tools handles for you)

[twin hull]

maybe make a thread? i'll want to know when you figure it out

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainTools.PaintContext.html

[mossy snow]

get into frozen state, attach debugger, hit pause

[elfin tree]

Yeah I don't mind making a thread, just annoying that everything above wont be in it haha

[swift falcon]

Hello y'all, I want the trail renderer to NOT go through the lighter blue note, but rather be hidden/not visible/stop emmiting past it's position... and I don't know how to do this... Does anyone know?

[soft shard]

Depends on whats being loaded, you could try restarting the engine, if it doesnt solve the problem, you could try checking the profiler and "background tasks" window to see what might be taking the time, if its editor-specific it could just be a slow in your workflow, if it happens at runtime too, that could indicate a performance problem, likely if this didnt happen before it could be related to a memory leak (for example, unmanaged events) or a editor window doing work on the main thread or something else

[elfin tree]

do you know what kind of tool could kind of smoothen or blend?

still not sure where to start, cause in your case you were applying a really specific shape

[heady iris]

you would run a blur shader on the texture

[elfin tree]

on the heightmap you mean?

[heady iris]

yes

the heightmap data gets put into a render texture

[elfin tree]

that sounds like a pretty daunting task

pretty bad with shaders usually avoid them

[heady iris]

start by just getting it to set the height to a specific value

then you can worry about implementing something more complex

(so, a shader that just sets the color)

[elfin tree]

yeah.. might end up doing that

still hoping to find something similar to what i'm trying to do

[shut elm]

uhm, i guess that won't work because the entire unity editor frezes, I can't even pause the game or do anything

[elfin tree]

so at least i have some building blocks

[mossy snow]

? that makes no difference to the debugger

[heady iris]

that's fine.

hit pause in the debugger, they mean

[shut elm]

I'm pretty new to unity, how can I attach a debugger?

[heady iris]

you'll do it through visual studio.

[shut elm]

ohh, alright

thank you <3

I get the exception "Frame is not in module" when trying to pause the visual studio debugger, what does that mean?

[heady iris]

you might be pausing on the wrong thread, or something like that

i haven't used visual studio much recently..

or it's just pausing outside of your code

[shut elm]

hm okay

okay, if I watch the taskmanager unity uses more and more ram, so I think there somewhere a infinite loop. I guess I will search for that manually

[molten temple]

https://paste.ofcode.org/38GyTT2DBGq4fh7mgyKvY8r the player is not flipping positions to match tthe direction theyre moving in... anyone know why and/or how to fix?

[tropic quartz]

You are setting inputHorizontal in start. Then checking for it in update. But I don't think it ever changed aster Start because it's not in update loop?

[shut elm]

found it, thanks for your help <3

[molten temple]

ill try it moving it, thank you for the idea

omg its working

[stoic wing]

Haihai! Looking for a little help within the animator for Unity. Basically I have a paramater set to the angle of a bone. When the angle changes, the bone changes. I want to convert this paramater into ∆ so I can then say "if [∆ paramater] is greater than 0.3 (since it's a float) then xyz" but I'm unsure exactly how to convert this float point to ∆

[heady iris]

I don't understand what "a parameter set to the angle of a bone" means

Is this an animator parameter that is controlling a blend tree?

[stoic wing]

So I'm using the VRChat SDK for this so there may be some missing context. Within the SDK they have their own Bone system. In this, there is an aplility to set a float based on the angle of a bone. In this screenshot, I have used "Jiggle Test_Angle"

[heady iris]

ah, okay.

sounds like you just need to add a transition based on that parameter, then

so that the transition is possible if the parameter is greater than 0.3

[stoic wing]

The problem with that is the ground 0 needs to be fixed whereas the ground 0 in this case can change. To explain it more simply, I need something that says "is it moving"

[heady iris]

"the ground 0"?

oh, you're asking for a way to measure the rate of change

[stoic wing]

Like the basis, like a base number where if its moving its higher or lower but if its not moving it's equal

[heady iris]

i don't know if you can accomplish that with just the animator

[stoic wing]

Yeah, I'm sorry I'm dumb at explaining things

[heady iris]

I actually detect something like that on my VRC avatar by just using a very loose physbone

if it deflects far enough, then I figure it's moving fast enough to count

[stoic wing]

Okay! Can you share how you did that? That's basically what I'm looking for lol

[heady iris]

I use the _Angle parameter

i use this to detect that I'm swinging my fist

[stoic wing]

So what I'm concerned about is this. I'm using the bone as a 3d bell on a choker. I basically want to make an animator that says if the bell is moving, turn on/play an audio source for a jingle but if the velocity is high enough to play a longer version of that jingle. I'm concerned that if I get turned upside down or made to where it's not movingbut at a high angle it will still play the sound

I think I'm overcomplicating things as usual 😂

[heady iris]

oh yeah, that's exactly the kind of thing I detect

just turn off gravity on the invisible physbone

it will deflect based on how fast it's getting moved

(also, i dunno if you're already there, but !vrc would be the appropriate server to ask this stuff in)

er

!vrchat

[tawny elk]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[heady iris]

i keep forgetting that one

[stoic wing]

Ah, thank you!

[wild bane]

Why we don't have an includeLayers property in CharacterControllers?
Is there a way to specify layers a given controller can collide with?
https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider-includeLayers.html

[heady iris]

is setting the layer of the object the controller is on not enough?

includeLayers is just for extra control

[wild bane]

I need this extra control

[heady iris]

why?

[wild bane]

Some runtime flags can arbitrary change whether the CharacterController can or cannot collide with other colliders

And creating a new layer for every flag combination is simply impossible in this case

[heady iris]

actually

[wild bane]

Makes no sense for includeLayers not being exposed for CharacterControllers

[heady iris]

the docs say that it does have includeLayers

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider-includeLayers.html

only in 2022.2 onwards

but that's also the case for colliders

wait

🤦‍♂️

[wild bane]

You sent the Collider page, not CharacterController

[heady iris]

whoops, sorry

[wild bane]

But yes, it is a newer Unity feature then

[heady iris]

i must've tabbed over or something

[wild bane]

Time to update

Ty 🙂

[heady iris]

no, no, it's not on CharacterController

I had wound up on the Collider page and got confused

[wild bane]

It is on the CharacterController, but it is listed as something inherited from the Collider class

[heady iris]

oh right! it derives from Collider

i forgot that

task failed successfully

[wild bane]

I hope my project doesn't break with the update

[storm aspen]

for a hero shooter would i use multiple imput action frames for each hero

[heady iris]

well, that's what version control is for!

i bumped to 2023.1 on macOS and i'm having some issues with the editor hanging. maybe I shouldn't have done that...

the longer I wait the more annoying it'll be to re-apply my changes on top of the old 2022.2.x commit

[wild bane]

ooof...my project is 100% code-based, no assets, so I think I should be safe

[heady iris]

it also likes to crash when exiting play mode

as it just did

[crimson atlas]

which one is more performant?
!myList.Any() or myList.Count == 0

[rain minnow]

I'd run a performance test but one uses LINQ and the other compares integers . . .

[crimson atlas]

count it is then

dude it's like 15 seconds every time i save script and go back to unity
also another good 15-20 seconds to enter play mode
is there a way to reduce those times?

[eager yacht]

You can basically remove the enter play mode time by disabling Reload Domain in the settings https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/DomainReloading.html just have to make sure to abide by a few new requirements (mainly around things like statics), but I disable it in every project. I keep the Reload Scene option enabled just so that my objects are reloaded.

[crimson atlas]

awesome. just turned it off

what about some "incremental build" stuff.
does it apply to the visual script saves i do? or is it just for actual game builds?

[eager yacht]

That's for actual builds

Rebuilds the parts that changed since the last build, instead of the whole game again

[crimson atlas]

so can't avoid the 15s after saving scripts?

[rain minnow]

You can use assembly definitions . . .

[eager yacht]

1. Faster CPU, helps to a certain degree
2. Smaller codebase
3. Proper use of assembly definitions (misuse can make it worse)

[nova axle]

Hello, I'm trying to make my inventory work with an XBOX controller. Specifically, I want to show description of hovered items. I use IPointerEnter/IPointerExit to show desc. when hovered over with mouse. These however don't fire up when I use controller's UI navigation. Best I can think of is check for changes in an update loop but that seems stoopid. Any pointers would be highly appreciated.

[eager yacht]

If the item inherits Selectable, you can utilize the existing navigation system with overriding OnSelect and OnDeselect (item selection is when the navigation sets a new obj as active)
https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.OnSelect.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.OnDeselect.html

Or I think you can use the interfaces to piggy back off of a selectable already on the same object (like a button), although I haven't used these on their own myself.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.ISelectHandler.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.IDeselectHandler.html

[nova axle]

That works absolutely splendidly!

Now I have to wonder. Are both necessary? IPointerX for mouse and ISelect for navigation? Or would ISelect suffice by itself?

[eager yacht]

Select for mouse (without a prior element selected) requires a click, so most likely the former

[nova axle]

Isn't "select" the same as "hover" though? It works as such in my case. PointerEnter fires when mouse is hovered over button. OnSelect fires when I navigate to the button via Dpad, none of which actually 'press' the button actually. Or am I missing something?

The only difference being the UI navigation requires some initially selected element to "kick off" from.

[crimson atlas]

link me a good read?

[eager yacht]

Select is when the object is active with the event system, hover is its own thing. So when you click a button, it sets that object as "selected" and now you can arrow around to other elements through the nav system. Or if you use gamepad, and manually set some object as active with the event system, it functions the same way when you dpad around.

So yeah basically your second message

[nova axle]

So, to further try to draw connections with stuff I'm more familiar with, would selected be similar to focused? E.g. in the HTML environment?

[eager yacht]

Yeah basically

[nova axle]

Alright, that gives me a better picture. Anyways, I really appreciate the help. It works wonderfully now.

[crimson atlas]

is there a most popular way of storing settings in a file?
seems unity doesn't have an ini parser?

[rain minnow]

Don't have one on me now (on mobile at the park) but Google: assembly definitions unity to link to theirs . . .

[dusky lake]

Unity does have a json parser (and a free one that extends on it in the asset store for more functionality), which is why I just used json

[rain minnow]

You'll find there isn't the most best way but many with different use cases. You can use json or an SO . . .

[heady iris]

i'm not sure there's even such a thing as an ini format

json would be ideal for storing settings

[eager yacht]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file

[heady iris]

as in, a single, coherent specification

as the wikipedia page notes, there are many dialects

there are definitely ini formats

[eager yacht]

True, most games I see with it (a ton of games, even in recent years) tended to use the basic structure of a few headers and basic keypairs. Or they just shoved all of em in a single header

Ark does the single header approach

[zinc flare]

hi, Ive come to a massive roadblock with my procedurally generated game, and I need help. I'm trying to procedurally add a stylized grass shader to a mesh, but nothing ive tried has worked. ive tried many different shaders and placing methods. I need ideas on how to begin rendering and placing this much grass automatically

thanks

[heady iris]

is the problem in putting the grass shader on the mesh, or about placing the mesh?

[zinc flare]

putting the grass on the mesh

[dusky lake]

Hey, what would be the least expensive conversion of NativeArray<float3> to Vector3[]? Linq Select and then ToArray() is awfully slow and I'm new to the NativeArray stuff

[crimson atlas]

is there a way to freeze my game and then check the runtime value of the local variables of a function i'm trying to debug?

[prime sinew]

Yeah, the debugger

[prime sinew]

Check the pins in #💻┃code-beginner
There's one on debugging

[crimson atlas]

thank you!

[cobalt gyro]

if i want something to change color should i make the base asset white/monochromatic

[lean sail]

you dont have to specifically make the materials white in the asset. if you use the mesh alone, it wont have the materials attached, and itll just be white. You can edit the materials color however you want

[leaden ice]

#📲┃ui-ux

[rough fjord]

Oh. Goodbye then

[soft shard]

Im working on FSM AI and so far have implemented 2 working approaches but im not sure if my second approach has any drawbacks over the first - the first approach has states as just classes and specific "types" of AI create instances:

public class FSMState { ... } //virtual funcs
public class IdleState : FSMState { ... } //override funcs

public class SomeAgent : Mono
{
IdleState idle;
AttackState att;

void Start()
{
idle = new IdleState(this);
att = new AttackState(this);
}
}

The second approach turns FSMState into a scriptable object instead, that way SomeAgent can hold a List<FSMState> which can be assigned from the inspector, then I dont need a super specific type of AI to test states, the SO base also has the same virtual functions for transitions and updates/coroutines, are there any drawbacks to using SO's in this way as opposed to new instances in super specific scripts? Does it make sense to use both approaches, having SO's for generic enemies and regular classes for super specific AI like bosses?

[tiny mantle]

!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.
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Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[tiny mantle]

I have looked through this code so many times and still cannot figure out why it isn't procedurally spawning grass objects https://gdl.space/kiwenijefe.cs

[leaden ice]

Have you taken any debugging steps, such as adding log statements?

[tiny mantle]

all i wouild be able to log is the position x

[leaden ice]

You would be able to log "Spawning an object"

that's all you care about right now

since you said "it's not spawning objects"

[tiny mantle]

yeah

[leaden ice]

so.. do it

see what happens

does it print? How many times does it print?

that will tell you a lot

[tiny mantle]

I have it log the spawned tiles when it creates them already

[leaden ice]

you're doing this: Debug.Log($"Tiles: {spawnedTiles}");

which tells you nothing

doesn't that just print List[]GameObject or something

[tiny mantle]

I should log it with the position too, right?

[leaden ice]

No you should put a log where the Instantiate is

to make sure it's getting called and how many times it's getting called

get rid of the log in Update

to remove spam from console

[tiny mantle]

Should i also have it say where it spawned the object?

[leaden ice]

if you want sure

but that's not that important yet

we just want to know if it spawned at all first

[tiny mantle]

no spawning

not a single debug.log message came through

[leaden ice]

good

that tells us a lot

now time to put another log here:

GenerateInitialTiles```

print out tileDistance

so we can see if for (int i = 0; i < tileDistance; i++) is even going to do anything

perhaps tileDistance is 0 for example

[tiny mantle]

where exactly should i put it

[leaden ice]

before the loop

[tiny mantle]

which one, there are two

[leaden ice]

there is only one loop

inside GenerateInitialTiles

[tiny mantle]

it prints out a single zero

[leaden ice]

exactly

so tileDistance is 0

hence the loop never even runs one time

that's why it's not working

set tileDistance to something higher than 0 😉

[tiny mantle]

wait, line 14 was already

    public int tileDistance = 50;

[leaden ice]

irrelevant

that number is meaningless, you set it in the inspector

that number is only the default for when you create a new instance of the script

[tiny mantle]

it works now

i set it to 50

now i just need to find out why they spawn together

they are supposed to be multiple tiles apart

[leaden ice]

keep debugging 😉

[tiny mantle]

I found out why, I promise i'm not stupid, I just went to working on Unreal and I wanted to make a 2d game, unreal doesn't have 2d, so I tried to remember what I could for Unity

[leaden ice]

I was not thinking/accusing you of stupidity 🙏

[tiny mantle]

I kmow, my thoughts just start going places sometimes

this game is cursed

My computer is possessed

[swift falcon]

The more ide's I have open the more demons start swirling around my pc.

[eager ingot]

Anyone know how to increase both acceleration and deceleration at the same time with addforce? I tried adding drag, but that just makes the acceleration far, far slower than it should.

[lean sail]

Use a vector with a larger magnitude..?
Drag is like if you had a giant parachute attached to you

Not really sure what else this question is supposed to mean. If you add more force, you get more velocity. If you add more counterforce, you get less velocity

[eager ingot]

I see I see. I managed to fix that issue, but now I have another issue: I am using addforce for jumping, but after doing a completely normal upward arc, it chooses to float down instead of fall down

[lean sail]

did you remove the drag you set?

theres a few reasons it could appear to float (but i assume you just mean slowly falls),
like your object scale is too large,
you adjusted gravity,
you have an upwards force being applied which counteracts gravity,
you have a super fast brain and it just appears slow but it is you who is fast

[eager ingot]

I wound up having to re-add drag and mess around with the rigidbody a bit

That's how I fixed the weird movement lol

[lean sail]

you likely dont want drag

[eager ingot]

Yeah. I tried methods that didn't involve addforce, but every single one of them resulted in my character teleporting through walls

Even changing velocity lol

[lean sail]

adding to velocity and addForce are both viable options for changing the velocity of a rigidbody

both are almost the same anyways. You can achieve the exact same results, the only difference is addForce happens during the physics part

[eager ingot]

Another issue I had was that I really have no idea how to use velocity in terms of jumping

[lean sail]

most just add an impulse, addForce allows u to input what ForceMode you want

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForce.html
the docs go well into detail

[eager ingot]

Yeah, I currently use the Impulse forcemode for jumping

[eager ingot]

Huh. Just for a test, I tried adding a constant downward force to the player to see what would happen to the gravity. It's moving at literally the exact same speed as before.

A constant, steady slow fall instead of a gradually increasing one

[lean sail]

i assume you still have drag set then

[eager ingot]

Yeah. I wanted to see if adding an extra force would offset it.

[lean sail]

why add drag then in the first place if you are just gonna need to offset it

[lean sail]

^

imagine if you were running around with a parachute at all times, and instead of taking it off, you asked a friend to help push you around

that is essentially what you are doing with drag

[eager ingot]

I really don't, but then the directional movement gets screwed up with how floaty it is

Like it's like walking on ice without drag

[lean sail]

so you do need to offset it..

[cunning escarp]

Is there a way to get the SpriteRenderer.color in HSV values instead of in RGB?

[lean sail]

you can add drag temporarily to slow it down, but theres a ton of ways to slow down rigidbodies. Depends on what your game is

[lean sail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Color.RGBToHSV.html

[cunning escarp]

Thanks

[eager ingot]

I'll look into it

[frosty pawn]

Hello. Is there a way to copy values from one ScriptableObject instance to another (of the same type). I mean it should be just copying it's serialized data but I see no methods for that.

What I'm trying to achieve is:
I clone my original SO on start by Instantinate() method and I want to be able to apply changes I made during runtime back to original instance. So by default changes can be made in runtime and they won't override original values but if I want I can do it.

[cold egret]

- I struggle to find any information of yield return allocations. What factors affect allocation size when using yield?

[cold egret]

- Afaik SO values are reset in builds every time you close your game, so i doubt that you can

[frosty pawn]

I'm not about working in build but in editor

[cold egret]

- Ah. In editor you can modify the asset only after you load it. In game objects it's resources/adressables. In editor it's asset database. As for saving an instantiated SO, i haven't heard of any way

[frosty pawn]

I'm asking how can I copy values from one instance of SO to another, not about how to modify assets which isn't loaded

[tepid geode]

is it possible to use properties package with builtin components? for example if I try to set anything on Transform it doesn't work. property bag is there, just doesn't contain any properties.
package works fine with everything in my assembly, just not with engine ones. is there any additional steps to setup it for engine classes?

[cold egret]

- Well, value by value, manually ¯_(ツ)_/¯

- In c# there's a clonable interface, but SO don't implement them. You can however derive from SO, implement the interface and use it. Here's another article on this topic https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78536/deep-cloning-objects

[frosty pawn]

Yeah, I mean of course without doing it manually 🙂 I'm in case where SO have 100+ fields (production realities)

[cold egret]

- Well, the article i linked should solve this in the dirtiest, but the easiest as well way. In a nutshell, it serializes the instance and loads it back immediately. Of cource the class has to be serializible, which i believe it already is

[leaden cipher]

is 0.2 seconds good for coyote time?

[royal pulsar]

Is inheritance generally a better approach than interfaces when making a FSM?

[loud wharf]

I'd probably say yes.

[hollow hound]

Trying to use OverlapCircle (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html) with this overload:

public static int OverlapCircle(Vector2 point, float radius, ContactFilter2D contactFilter, List<Collider2D> results);

like this:

            var colliders = new List<Collider2D>();
            Physics2D.OverlapCircle(
                transform.position,
                3f,
                ContactFilter2D.NoFilter,
                colliders
            );

Getting:
Cannot resolve method 'OverlapCircle(UnityEngine.Vector3, float, method group, System.Collections.Generic.List<UnityEngine.Collider2D>)', candidates are:   int OverlapCircle(UnityEngine.Vector2, float, UnityEngine.ContactFilter2D, System.Collections.Generic.List<UnityEngine.Collider2D>) (in class Physics2D)   int OverlapCircle(UnityEngine.Vector2, float, UnityEngine.ContactFilter2D, UnityEngine.Collider2D[]) (in class Physics2D)   UnityEngine.Collider2D OverlapCircle(UnityEngine.Vector2, float, int, float) (in class Physics2D)

[mellow sigil]

ContactFilter2D.NoFilter is a method

If you don't want to filter the results then just use OverlapCircleAll

[hollow hound]

It says "Use non-allocating method 'OverlapCircleNonAlloc'" to not allocate memory, which "will be deprecated in a future build and it is recommended to use OverlapCircle instead."

[hollow hound]

ContactFilter2D.NoFilter() gives an error: Cannot access non-static method 'NoFilter' in static context

[mellow sigil]

What says? AFAIK OverlapCircleAll is the recommended method

[marsh wadi]

you can not call non-static methods like that, you have to create an instance of the ContactFilter2D object first

[hollow hound]

I belive this is rider hint. Not official unity recommendation, but there is a reason for this hint, right? It can't be just random fake hint.

[hollow hound]

So is it intended to create empty objects to call noFilter to use this function whithout filtering? Seems like there should be more straightforward approach.

[marsh wadi]

dont know, but i wouldnt dig too deep, if it works it works, something like new ContactFilter2D().NoFilter()

[hollow hound]

Ok, thanks

[marsh wadi]

I created a custom log handler to forward logs from Debug.Log and friends to Unity.Logging, like so:

[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
public void LogFormat(LogType logType, UnityEngine.Object context, string format, params object[] args)
{
    switch(logType)
    {
        case LogType.Log:
            Log.Info(format, args);
            break;
        // .. other log types here
    }
}

// .. somewhere in start
Debug.unityLogger.logHandler = new RedirectLogger();

However I get strange results. The first time after compiling it works for some of them (as in first image). When I then stop play and play again, none of them work anymore (?!) (second image).

I'm sure it has something to do with the object[], but I'm a little confused here... Unity.Logging.Log.Info and friends don't take params, just a regular object[], so I don't really understand its behavior here.

Perhaps a code-gen issue... it looks like it creates a function expecting only one argument when the params are forwarded 🤔

[ashen yoke]

do you have assembly reload disabled?

forgot InitializeOnLoad?

[marsh wadi]

I suppose that could explain why it only breaks the second time

although it's very strange to have only part of the code working, no?

[ashen yoke]

breakpoint in assignment, ensure it does it

[marsh wadi]

I can break in the code, it just works properly the first time I play after compiling for the Info message (but not for the warning message)

[ashen yoke]

ah right

im confused why not just use Debug.logger

nvm

[marsh wadi]

it's for a dedicated server build

[ashen yoke]

let me check how i did my logger maybe ill get ideas

[marsh wadi]

ha, actually, the first time when it works, I can't break on the Info one, so there's definitely something related to that (I have no idea how it succeeds to replace only half a function though!!)

[ashen yoke]

i dont think agressive inline is the cause, method probably wont be considered for inline

[marsh wadi]

agreed

[ashen yoke]

all symptoms tell me there is something there dangling from previous playsession

still trying to access dead objects

[marsh wadi]

yes, this seems to be the case; if I put the breakpoint on the switch statement it doesn't work even the first time after compiling

the interesting part is also that the "previous" playsession has the same code.. I guess it's very likely this bug won't reproduce itself once I quit the editor

if it doesn't I'll write a bug report

[ashen yoke]

you are loading assembly over existing?

or just modifying cs file?

[marsh wadi]

just modifying the file

[ashen yoke]

you refresh asset db?

[marsh wadi]

anyway the real issue for me is that I can't forward the logs because it just writes me System.Object[] instead of using the array contents.. I'll have to come up with something else I guess

[marsh wadi]

I'm just letting unity do its recompilation, nothing more

[ashen yoke]

is there something in log that should look into an array?

Log.Info(format, args);

is format?

[marsh wadi]

it uses code gen to create the proper overloads, so it just takes the object[] as an argument for the first format item

[ashen yoke]

why not interpolated strings?

[marsh wadi]

i suppose I could work around it with a switch statement for the number of items in the array, which makes me cringe, but if it works ^^"

[marsh wadi]

doesn't matter in this case, it seems the Debug.unityLogger.logHandler interface gets its items handed to it as "{0}", params

I created this monstrosity, which does the job 😅 😅

switch(logType)
{
    case LogType.Log:
        switch (args.Length)
        {
            case 1: Log.Info(format, args[0].ToString()); break;
            case 2: Log.Info(format, args[0].ToString(), args[1].ToString()); break;
// ... etc
}

it doesn't accept objects either so a manual ToString() was necessary

[marsh wadi]

thanks for your insights btw ! 🙏

[ashen yoke]

barely any

[marsh wadi]

maybe you feel like that, but it's nice to have someone on your side 🙂

[elfin tree]

Looking to blend/stitch/adjust the height maps of theses two terrains at runtime.
Currently the two terrains start flat, and then get deformed, and I'm stitching AFTER the deformation. (image of the result below)

I did try a bunch of things but nothing worked out so far, last attempt didn't seem to do much but maybe I'm missing something?

public void StitchToBottom(Terrain terrain, Terrain bottomNeighbor)
    {
        TerrainData data = terrain.terrainData;
        int resolution = data.heightmapResolution;

        // Take the top y-column of neighbors heightmap array
        // resolution pixels wide (all x values), 1 pixel tall (single y value)
        float[,] edgeValues = bottomNeighbor.terrainData.GetHeights(0, resolution - 1, resolution, 1);

        // Stitch with other terrain by setting same heightmap values on the edge
        data.SetHeights(0, 0, edgeValues);
    }

Also tried with SetHeightsDelayLOD but I think that's just a performance thing, shouldn't matter when it comes to it working or not. Maybe the fact the terrainData is duplicated prior affects it?

[warm stratus]

Hey, how to get the width and the height of a rectTransform like this with code? i tried .rect.width but it seems like it s not right

[trim schooner]

.sizeDelta

or something like that

[leaden ice]

.rect.width should be correct

[trim schooner]

googling unity rectransform height width in code will get you the answer

[leaden ice]

it also kinda depends which coordinate space you want the answer in

.rect will give you canvas space size (which further depends on the canvas render type)

[daring cove]

Hey,

I'm trying to add a Listener to a button that changes the vehicle in the game.
The SpawnVehicleByIndex method is not registering in Unity as shown in the picture.
The user can't click on the button.

Ideas 🤔

// the button is being generated here
Button button = Instantiate(prefab, transform).GetComponent<Button>();
// setting up the button with the listener
button.onClick.RemoveAllListeners();
button.onClick.AddListener(() => { SpawnVehicleByIndex(vehicle.index); });

public void SpawnVehicleByIndex(int index)
{
    GameState.Singleton.selectedVehicleIndex = index;

    MissionAssembler.Singleton.DisableVehicle();
    MissionAssembler.Singleton.UseVehicle(GameState.Singleton.selectedVehicleIndex);
}

[leaden ice]

AddListener does not add a persistent listener in the inspector

it's a runtime only listener.

[daring cove]

The image is taken at runtime

I'm not quite sure what a persistent listener is

[rain minnow]

When you add a listener using code it does not appear in the inspector . . .

[leaden ice]

persistent listeners are the ones that show in the inspector

[rain minnow]

Persistent listeners are methods attached to an event (the button) using the inspector . . .

[daring cove]

Okay I see now.

but the method is not invoked by clicking the button

is there a way to log all listeners?

[leaden ice]

Add Debug.Log to it to make sure

[daring cove]

The method has a Debug.Log in it but I removed for display

Debug.Log($"SpawnVehicleByIndex '{index}'");

[leaden ice]

is your button graphically responding to your mouse input?

[daring cove]

When the user clicks the button it does not go in to the clicked state.
The user has to hold TAB to see a menu where the button is could this be causing this?

// simplified
bool isActive = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Tab); 

menu.SetActive(isActive);

if (isActive) Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
else Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;

[wild bane]

When setting a CharacterController transform position directly, then moving it with "Move" at the same frame, the transform position is restored to the one before setting the transform position. Is there a way to fix it?

[heady iris]

If you want to teleport a CharacterController, disable it before you set its position

then reenable it

[wild bane]

That is what I'm doing. I just wasn't sure this was the "right" way to do that

[leaden ice]

Sounds like you might not have an event system in the scene

or perhaps there's another UI element blocking things

[wild bane]

But looks like it is preventing the character from activating some physics triggers. I'm still not sure if that is the reason, tho

[heady iris]

i forget how character controllers interact with colliders in general

i.e. if they trigger physics messages, as a rigidbody would

[leaden ice]

they don't

[wild bane]

Strangely, after updating to Unity 2022.3.3, I don't have to disable the character collider to teleport it anymore

[heady iris]

is this in FixedUpdate or Update

[wild bane]

Update

[heady iris]

hm, dunno, would have to look closer

[wild bane]

And yes, if you keep enabling/disabling the CharacterController, it will fail colliding with some physics triggers

I've just tested it

[heady iris]

wait, do you mean it won't collide, or that it won't receive physics messages?

[wild bane]

Wont receive OnTriggerEnter/OnTriggerExit

In my case, OnTriggerExit

Sounds a bit random, but when I don't disable the CharacterController, it doesn't happen at all

[daring cove]

Hey thanks I was missing the EventSystem component and Standalone Input Module.
Now the button works.

[lapis sierra]

        {
            // Get the current stage and mission from GameDefinition
            int currentStage = GameDefinition.currentStage;
            int currentMission = GameDefinition.currentMission;

            // Get the currentValues based on the current stage and mission
            currentValues = GameDefinition.stageMissions[currentStage, currentMission];

            // Return the currentValues
            return currentValues;
        }```
I get an error code: CS0120 in the line             currentValues = GameDefinition.stageMissions[currentStage, currentMission];
I have been diggin abit and I cant find any solution can anyone help me out here?

[warm stratus]

ok i hope it s correct, i did all of my code with that, i did that

logoParentRectTransform.anchorMin = new Vector2((1-(sizeX / logoParentRectTransform.rect.width)) / 2, 0);
            logoParentRectTransform.anchorMax = new Vector2(1 - ((1-(sizeX / logoParentRectTransform.rect.width)) / 2), 1); ```

but idk why the value on the picture (anchor X) Xmin not = 1 - Xax

What?? i did just a variable to simplify my code and it works ?? that s strange but cool

[heady iris]

those formulas are very hard to read

one minus one minus uhhh

i don't know

break them up

[warm stratus]

yes i broke the formulas and it works idk why i don t know what was wrong with my code

[warm stratus]

ok i have this code, but it don t work for the second part

private void Awake()
    {
        RectTransform logoParentRectTransform = logoParent.GetComponent<RectTransform>();

        if (logoParentRectTransform.rect.width / ratio > logoParentRectTransform.rect.height)
        {
            float sizeX = logoParentRectTransform.rect.height * ratio;

            float anchorMinX = (1 - (sizeX / logoParentRectTransform.rect.width)) / 2;
            logoParentRectTransform.anchorMin = new Vector2(anchorMinX, 0);
            logoParentRectTransform.anchorMax = new Vector2(1 - anchorMinX, 1);
        }
        else
        {
            float sizeY = logoParentRectTransform.rect.width / ratio;

            float anchorMinY = (1 - (sizeY / logoParentRectTransform.rect.height)) / 2;
            logoParentRectTransform.anchorMin = new Vector2(0, anchorMinY);
            logoParentRectTransform.anchorMax = new Vector2(1, 1 - anchorMinY);
        }

        logoParentRectTransform.offsetMin = Vector2.zero;
        logoParentRectTransform.offsetMax = Vector2.zero;
    } ```

this code should do like preserve aspect on an image but for a RectTransform here

[leaden ice]

Could you just use https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-AspectRatioFitter.html ?

[warm stratus]

oh there is a feature for that... thks

[warm stratus]

ok thks in 2 clicks it works

[vestal summit]

yo! How am I supposed to ignore a layer in a Physics.Linecast. I used the layermask on it but it ignored every single layer for some reason

[leaden ice]

Use a layermask

but do it properly 😉

(show what you tried and explain what you want)

[wind palm]

If you get the layer mask for the layer you want to ignore, you can use ~ to inverse it.

var mask = ~LayerMask.GetMask("MyLayerToIgnore");

[vestal summit]

I don't use java

[wind palm]

That's not Java

If you know the ID of the layer you can make that more performant too.

var mask = ~(1 << layerId);

[leaden ice]

what lol

[wind palm]

They've seen var and didn't know it was valid C#

[vestal summit]

nah sorry bro I thought that was java for a sec

[fervent furnace]

~ <- this is bitwise not operator....

[vestal summit]

kinda tired rn didn't even look

[leaden ice]

var is not valid Java. or at least it wasn't 10 years ago when I did Java

[wind palm]

Also it would be JavaScript not Java I believe

[fervent furnace]

a more advanced way to ignore some target layers is (-1)^(some layers) and everybody will ask why dont you just use ~

[night sparrow]

does anyone have an easy wat to check collision with circle circumference?

i don't care about what's inside the cricle, i want to test if there's any object in it's circumference, like a raycast, but circular

[vestal summit]

I'm trying to prevent the linecast hitting some layers

[wind palm]

Any reason that you cannot just use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html ?

[leaden ice]

show how ignoredLayers is defined

[fervent furnace]

circularcast

[vestal summit]

instead of preventing the linecast from hitting the assigned layer it ignores everything

[leaden ice]

you said that already

#archived-code-general message

Give more information if you want help with it

[vestal summit]

ok gimme a sec

[night sparrow]

can i filter by distance from center?

[leaden ice]

btw a layermask tells you which layers to HIT, not which to IGNORE

[leaden ice]

yes the radius of the circle

[wind palm]

Yes

[night sparrow]

so you're suggesting getting all the colliders and then filtering by distance, that can work

[vestal summit]

.

[leaden ice]

you are misinterpreting the docs

a layermask tells you which layers to HIT, not which to IGNORE

it can be used to ignore things by excluding them from the mask

[wind palm]

It depends what you're trying to achieve.

If you need to check if anything is in the circle, you'd only technically need one.

[night sparrow]

i want to check if anything is in the edges of the circle

i don't care about the middle

[vestal summit]

that doesn't work either

[leaden ice]

YOu still haven't shown your mask

so it's hard to help without any details

[wind palm]

I don't have a 'best' solution for that.

You could perhaps do two overlaps and compare which ones aren't in a smaller exclusion zone (in the centre).

[leaden ice]

note that you also have that if statement inside which is checking a tag

[vestal summit]

right now the mask has no layers assigned to it

if that's what you need

[leaden ice]

then the linecast will never ever hit any object

[vestal summit]

OH SHIT

dude my brain

I can't

6 hours of sleep ig

[night sparrow]

I looked at ContactFilter2D, sadly there isn't anything about distance.
How i'm currently thinking of implementing it is to get all the colliders, and with for-each loop filter the ones that have distance < minimum

[leaden ice]

so you want obejcts inside a ring

[night sparrow]

yeah

[fervent furnace]

there is circular cast....
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.CircleCast.html#:~:text=contact with it.-,A CircleCast is conceptually like dragging a circle through the,written into the results list.

[leaden ice]

you could do:

• OverlapCircle then filter by distance
  OR
• two overlapCircles and take only the objects that are in the larger circle and NOT in the smaller circle

e.g. with HashSet.ExcludeWith

[night sparrow]

Oh that's wonderful, didn't know that existed. Thanks!

[night sparrow]

the second solution sounds buggy af, if there's a collider which exists in the ring but also in the smaller radius it gets excluded, not good

[leaden ice]

both solutions have that problem

because they don't really account for the size of the thing

[night sparrow]

i can potentially get the furthest point/ closest point from center of the circle (don't have an easy solution as to how) then filter from there. (if furthest - closest in ring -> return)

[leaden ice]

one option is to predfine a few extremity locations on the objects (perhaps with empty child objects) and check each of them for distance to center

if any are within the ring, you're good

[wide dock]

Ok, I've been struggling with this for a while now...
Loading Scriptable Objects with Resources.LoadAll sometimes just works and sometimes not.
It worked for a while and then it stopped, now I'm getting the second Exception more often than it actually works properly. The instance get's called by my AssetPostProcessor to check for any new Scriptable Objects.
Any ideas what might be causing that (and more importantly - how to fix this)?

[jaunty needle]

How do I get a random rotation on this axis?

    {
        while(true) 
        {
            Vector2 randomPos = new Vector2(Random.Range(minWidth, maxWidth), Random.Range(minHeight, maxHeight));
            
            Instantiate(beanPrefab, randomPos, Quaternion.identity);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(spawnDelay);
        }

    }

Instead of Quaternion.identity

[leaden ice]

I've kind of found LoadAll not to be that reliable for this use case (scriptable singleton) I just hardcode the resources path

should be faster that way hopefully anyway?

[jaunty needle]

Anyone?

[wide dock]

So just writing
Resources.Load<MissileLibrary_SS>("Scriptable Singletons/MissileLibrary")
should work then?

Or are you talking about something else entirely

[leaden ice]

yes that

[tropic quartz]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Rotate.html This uses Eulers instead of quaternion.

I'm not entirely surei t's what you wanted tho

[jaunty needle]

I want to spawn the beans

with a random rotation each time

on that axis

[night sparrow]

after looking slightly deeper into it, found that unity has a method that calculates closest point to bounds, but not furthest.

What i'll end up doing it calculating the closest point to center, closest point to ring edge by extending the closest point to reach the edge, draw a line from said to points and check if it happens to be inside the ring (image for visualization)

[wide dock]

I see, I'll do it this way then, thanks

[tropic quartz]

Oh. I mean you could just randomize a number and set transform.rotation if they don't need to move.
You can get a reference through newBeanOrWhateverName = Instantiate(...)

[leaden ice]

note that Bounds is not the actual edge of a collider, just the AABB

[night sparrow]

it's closest point to certain bounds https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.ClosestPointOnBounds.html

[jaunty needle]

ahh alright, random between 0 and 360?

[tropic quartz]

Yeah

[heady iris]

Quaternion.AngleAxis

you give it an angle and an axis

it gives you a rotation around that axis

[stoic vault]

trying to write a limit framerate script to cut down on performance load but so fari its not working help?

[heady iris]

just set Application.targetFramerate

that's it

[stoic vault]

where do i type that in?

[stoic vault]

ERROR: program using top level statements must be an executable

[heady iris]

well, you need to put it in a method...

put it in something that runs at the start of the game

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Application-targetFrameRate.html

[leaden ice]

basics of code still apply...

[stoic vault]

thanks i'm super rusty i just had to add code into the script i already had

it worked btw lol

[rugged storm]

this script is for passing in my of map data(a Element[,]) getting the groups of elements as lists of dictionaries, and then identifying it's edges but I'm having trouble with the last step, if a shape has a vertical pillar of elements with a thickness of 1 it seems to hang but I cant figure out where as the only while loop has a limit

I think I may fix it on my own after more trouble shooting but another pair of eyes could help(I've already been troubleshooting for like a day)

https://pastebin.com/fLcbFmCi

[leaden ice]

while (currentPoint != startPoint && iter < pointsOnEdge.Count + maxIter);```

infinite loop right here

nothing can possibly change because there is no content to the loop

(line 131)

oh i'm an idiot didn't notice it's a do/while

There's another while loop on line 41 though @rugged storm

[rugged storm]

i dont think this loop would be causing issues as i thoght that part of the script was done but ill check it and place a limiter on it

checked it but it still seems to hang when there is a 1 element thick column of elements

[leaden ice]

when you say "hang" what do you mean?

are you getting the log on line 134?

[jaunty needle]

guys please help fast how do I make two 2D colliders not collide with each other but collide with other stuff

[leaden ice]

layer based collisions

[jaunty needle]

pls I only have 58 minutes

[rugged storm]

like unity just freezes up what it does when a while loop goes on infinity, and i have to force close it,

[leaden ice]

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

[rugged storm]

i'm not getting any debug logs

[leaden ice]

even with your escape hatch?

the maxIter thing?

[jaunty needle]

no

i said 2d

there is no matrix in 2d

[leaden ice]

um you're wrong

there is a matrix in 2d

and it works the same exact way

[jaunty needle]

damn

yes yes I am

thank you

[rugged storm]

seemingly, maybe i need to wait longer before force closing but max iter is only 100 and the count of pointsOnEdge isnt that big

[leaden ice]

if that's not stopping it then the infinite loop is elsewhere

I recommend attaching the debugger and pausing while it's frzoen to see where the thread is

[rugged storm]

You can do that???

[leaden ice]

yes

[rugged storm]

alright will try

ik about the debugger and use it sometimes but did not know you could just pause it at anytime to find the current thread

[cedar solar]

hi i was trying to make a different background ambience depending on your current location but at some point the "background sound" stops and I'm struggling on making a loop. Can anybody help me pls?

[rugged storm]

okay how do i figure out which thread is doing the thing i need to figure out?

[leaden ice]

the main thread

[rugged storm]

how do i know which one is the main one? this is the screen i have rn

[leaden ice]

It will be called Main thread or something along those lines

go into the dropdown and look at all the threads

[leaden ice]

just look through all the ones that aren't clearly the wrong thread 😉

.e. ignore the iothread, reaper, burst threads etc

[rugged storm]

i think i found it,

its on like 167 if (nextPoint == startPoint || (pointsOnEdge.Contains(nextPoint) && !resultGroup.Contains(nextPoint)))

everytime I unpause and pause its stuck there? waaaait is me modifying I during causing this?

[leaden ice]

right so that just tells us the infinite loop is that for loop there

i.e. the startPoint is never being reached
nor are edge points

[jaunty needle]

guys how do I decrease a countdown fast pls

i'm sorry

like this

[rugged storm]

It shoudl just drop out and fail if its not reached

ahhh i think I never reaches Neighbors.Count + currentIndex; Because i %= Neighbors.Count;

[leaden ice]

i %= Neighbors.Count;

yeah

[jaunty needle]

anyone pls

[leaden ice]

subtract things with the - operator?
¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jaunty needle]

I have like 34 minutes left this is so scuffed

[jaunty needle]

No but I want to do it each second

[leaden ice]

Time.deltaTime

[heady iris]

you want it to always display a whole number?

time for a format string

[jaunty needle]

yes

pls

i remmeber that

but forgot it

[heady iris]

timer.text = $"{timeLeft:N0}";

$ enables string interpolation. Anything in {curly braces} gets evaluated and turned into a string

[rugged storm]

would it be fixed if i just set something = to i and alter that?

[heady iris]

so it uses a variable named timeLeft

after the : comes the format specifier

N0 means it's a number with 0 decimal places

[jaunty needle]

    IEnumerator DecreaseTime()
    {
        while(true)
        {
            timeToPlay--;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        }
    }

Nevermind I am doing it this abhorrent way

[heady iris]

I forget if rounds up or down

[heady iris]

This also works.

[rugged storm]

i set a int pointer = i and change and use that now so it no longer hangs, the do while loop fails all the time tho but gets caught so i still def have some code to fix, but now i dont have to force close unity when things break

this whole things was just to make the 2d array of my map data into polygon collision but honestly at this point it might of just been faster to make my only phsyics engine that direcly checked map data..

@heady iris the other day you said that polygoncollider2ds cant be convex but i dont get why not? it appreats to work fine

without the graphics so you can better see the colider

now i just need to properly draw the edges instead of just the positions of each block along the edge

[heady iris]

I didn't say they can't be concave.

I said that the algorithm you showed -- sorting the points in a clockwise fashion -- would not work for non-convex shapes

[rugged storm]

OOh

[heady iris]

(most random shapes are non-convex)

convexity basically means that there aren't any insets

i'm not sure if you'd actually call non-convex shapes "concave", actually..

[rugged storm]

well yeah ofc that's why I was trying to write new code

and now it does, well it support shoapes without strctures like these, i just noticed thoes two white squares, im not sure whats causing them to appear, maybe related

Oh i figured it out thoes should be rendered red it was a glitch with my draw world script, but they actualy should not as only the elements which are on the edge of thier current body should be red and there are no elements in thoes locations

(It rendered white becuase i was adding the color read isntead of settings it, on the black elements it was black+red which si red becuase black is 0 but the sky color, cyan+red=white)

https://pastebin.com/fLcbFmCi ive updated this to reflect the fixed to keep it from hanged, would anyone mind helping my figure out why the script falsely thinks there are edges of blocks located there?

it seems pointsOnEdge is not being properly set

[rugged storm]

actually nm i was wrong i think part of the issue is that im adding current point twice to currentEdgePoints

[full nacelle]

How can i make Image with fill type Radial360 to start filling at custom angle, e.g. 35°

[leaden ice]

deepnding on what your image is - just start it at top or right and rotate the image

[full nacelle]

I didn't think about rotating image 👀 Thanks 👍

[marble halo]

So i've got a problem where explosions hit a single enemy multiple times because of the limb hitboxes

[heady iris]

you'll need to filter out duplicates from the same enemy

this can be as simple as ignoring a collider if you've already seen one with the same Enemy component on/above it

[marble halo]

I was thinking of having it work like tf2 where the capsule around the character takes explosion damage

[heady iris]

oh yeah, that's a reasonable plan.

[potent sleet]

your limbs should be the hitbox

and not the capsule

[heady iris]

you would want to make a separate layer for the big collider

[marble halo]

https://pastebin.com/M9iv4jn0

but im not sure how i can do this with IDamageable

[heady iris]

do what?

[marble halo]

wait i think i have an idea

[deep cobalt]

Hello, I am overriding the GameObject's transform position(because have a script simulating custom physics for it), but I want to be able to drag the gameobject in the editor, but since the position is overridden by my physics, trying to drag the gameobject with the move tool in the editor doesn't work, the object's position is locked.

Is there a way to get the event or value of the editor's move tool if the user drags and moves it by one of the axes? (so then I can add that to my physics object's position)
Thanks

[marble halo]

Have the enemy bones on a different layer so hitscans can hit them

[languid mantle]

Hello, My name is Daan and i am working on a game that has gardening aspects. I am trying to get the tiles to dynamically update like in Stardew valley, where if you have two tiles with a one tile seperation (that are ready for planting) and you place another between them. They all connect to make a larger bed. However my code isnt working exactly how id like and i dont know why. You can see in the image that they dont always update properly. If youd like more info please just let me know, here is my code in paste of code -https://paste.ofcode.org/RkZmYKBPzkghHY8y5XdNkd

I think that should work. I hope i did this right, im new here so if not please let me know as well.

I have been trying all day to fix this and i got it working with just the initial dry tiles. But then i wanted to update it so that the dry, tilled, and wet tiles all update and you can have dry tiles attached to wet tiles etc. But now if i place a dry tile next to another dry tile they both update without either being clicked and turn into tilled tiles. I am very confused

[leaden ice]

Delete all of your code and use Rule Tiles
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/using-rule-tiles

[languid mantle]

😂 No way, I cant believe ive spent two days on this and there is already a system in place. Well thats helpful, thank you. I will give it a shot :)

I came from working in C and making games from bare scratch so thats probably why that carried over. Thank you again!

[heady iris]

ha :p

If you know what you're doing in general, but don't know much about unity, I'd suggest skimming the !learn material

[tawny elk]

🧑‍🏫 Unity Learn can offer you over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience! Make sure to check it out at https://learn.unity.com/

[heady iris]

just to learn what's out there

[neat python]

If you are a complete beginner is this the best way to learn?

[heady iris]

well, also use unity learn

but follow throughly from the beginning

[neat python]

So I should use unity learn? Got it

[leaden ice]

Unity only inlcudes the assemblies included in the chosen .NET profile

e.g. https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/release/3.0/docs/versions/netstandard2.1.md

sure, just find a dll and drop it in

[plain hare]

Anyone here using Rider ?

[heady iris]

ask your question.

[plain hare]

Is there any point in starting Unity via Rider Debug Mode ?
(i'm used to doing this with Unreal Engine 😄 )

[leaden ice]

no

[plain hare]

So assuming Rider is connected per say to the Unity editor, when Unity crashes i should have a proper report on what's what and what caused the crash without starting the Editor via Rider ?

[leaden ice]

Rider will not get Unity crash reports in any circumstance

[plain hare]

oh

[leaden ice]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/where-to-find-the-crash-log.779012/#post-5184257

[plain hare]

cheers, i thought it would be similar to UE

[leaden ice]

Very little will be similar to UE

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

[plain hare]

Would you recommend using the backtrace for proper crash reports ? Or any other options out there?

[leaden ice]

I generally have very little interest in editor crashes in the rare occasion they happen

In Unity if your C# code "crashes" it's usually going to cause little more than an exception to printed to the console

it will not generally crash the editor

if the editor crashes that's usually due to a bug in the editor itself, and you can certainly submit those crash reports to Unity

[plain hare]

true, thanks for your insight

[civic folio]

What is { get; private set; } used for?

[leaden ice]

that is the syntax for an auto-implemented property in C#

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/auto-implemented-properties

[frosty pawn]

how would you name t in such functions like Lerp where t is inside [0, 1] but when I can't name it like that because it is more like a progress

[ashen yoke]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.DisplayProgressBar.html

[frosty pawn]

so progress it is 🙂

[civic folio]

Thanks, that made it clear but what's wrong with setting a variable "normally" without a function inbetween?

[leaden ice]

The answer is somewhere between "nothing" and "it violates the principle of encapsulation" depending on who you ask, and what the context is.

also this way allows you to have a public getter but private setter, for example

[heady iris]

public fields mean that you can't trust that a field won't just...change

[somber nacelle]

using an auto property instead of a field will also allow you to refactor later to add validation code or something without having to change other objects

[hard viper]

well the whole point of making a variable public is because you do want it to be exposed and change externally

[potent sleet]

directly changing value externally 👎

[leaden solstice]

Point is separating interface and internal data layout 😄

[hard viper]

i like directly changing values. I have always hated defining a whole extra method just to change something. It might as well be public at that point lol

the benefit being being able to search for changes, ig

[leaden solstice]

What if you want to change it's functionality, it is easier when you already have it as property

Otherwise you gotta update all the usages

[hard viper]

you mean change what the property means?

or change what happens when you update that property?

[ashen yoke]

public has 2 components read and write

in case of a field you cant separate those

[potent sleet]

also much rather have OnPropertyChanged () thx

[leaden solstice]

More of this. For example you want to update/notify when the value change

[ashen yoke]

hating properties is a weird thing in c#, i would understand hours long arguments over this in other languages but in c# its deeply ingrained

so much that people expect that if something is a property it is intended for public access, and rarely you see public fields, in statics for example

[light rock]

heres what i do: i have a public field -- when it comes time for me to add validation, i just turn that field into a property. just faster to code that way

[wide terrace]

Ah that's fascinating - INotifyPropertyChanged? I haven't seen that before - looks super nifty 👌

[leaden solstice]

Yeah C# property is much convenient compare to Java etc

[ashen yoke]

sure you can have a public field and then later encapsulate it with a property, but at that point that field was already read/write and a whole codebase grew around it with assumption that it will always be read/write

[leaden solstice]

You can do that when you are not writing shared code or library.

[ashen yoke]

so to avoid all of that confusion it is simpler to make it a property from the start, and read only if its intended to be readonly

[potent sleet]

yeah it's really cool, I've encountered often with regular .net apps , they use properties a lot and this is good way to autoupdate UIs

[ashen yoke]

in my code if anything is accessible from outside in the main codebase and not utility tooling, its a property

[hard viper]

I think the answer is to have good foresight over what you will need.

[ashen yoke]

clairvoyance you mean

[hard viper]

writing a method just to read and to write for every single public field you put into a class is lunacy

[light rock]

in 99% of games its pretty easy to just right click and find all references. you know how much code youre breaking when you do that

[ashen yoke]

elaborate why?

[light rock]

i agree with snoop

also i feel like this discussion is getting out of hand at this point. no?

[hard viper]

it’s just unnecessary. If you know that updating a field might lead to some additional baggage in future, then you should probably dress it up for future.
But not every field needs that

[light rock]

properties in c#

[ashen yoke]

why it is unnecessary and why not?

[leaden solstice]

Uhh no, when your code is used by many other people? That's not ideal.

[tropic quartz]

I think only learned about properties after I took codecademy courses on my freetime, I rarely see them mentioned in context of Unity.
But I'd imagine that they make any kind of big project (especially with multiple programmers) far less nightmarish, since you know nobody can write to that thing that should only ever be read etc.

Reduce the risk for errors and don't usually take that much time to set up either.

I should probably use them more often.

[pure dragon]

whats the best way to make a state machine where the states can be easily changed?

[potent sleet]

Animator

not best, just easiest

[pure dragon]

public Dictionary<string,ICommand> moveCommands => new(){ {"run" , new RunCommand()}, {"walk" , new WalkCommand()}, {"jump" , new JumpCommand()}, {"teleport" , new TPCommand()}, };
this is what i have so far, its going to be compositional and the states call these commands via the dictionary. There must be another way to do this other than using strings though, right?

[ashen yoke]

strings are fine, enum is fine

in case of strings wrap them in static class

static class MoveCommand
{
    public const string Run = "run";
    public const string Walk = "walk";
}

fsm.SetState(MoveCommand.Run)

functionally identical to enum, almost

with strings you can add insert runtime generated states if needed

[steel elk]

If you want to give a named value to something for ease of use use enum, if you want to display the value to the user use string, don't use strings for internal values which aren't displayed

[ashen yoke]

or editor created states

since you dont rely on hardcoded values

but for it to work you would also need to have transitions

[pure dragon]

Thats very smart

[pure dragon]

Yeah enums are good although you cant make child enums so they are quite limited in that regard

[leaden solstice]

Child.. enums? 🤔

[pure dragon]

as in you cant ovveride enums or add to them in a child class

and you also i dont think can use polymorphism for enums

[orchid grove]

is there an easy way to make movement not fps dependent?

[pure dragon]

FixedUpdate()

[leaden solstice]

Multiply Time.deltaTime?

[orchid grove]

alright

im not a programmer myself, but a friend i know is and hes struggling with it a lot but refuses to ask for help anywhere

[rugged storm]

    private static void DiscoverAndAddElements()
    {
        // Get all types in the assembly that inherit from Element
        Type elementType = typeof(Element);
        Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetAssembly(elementType);
        Type[] elementTypes = assembly.GetTypes()
            .Where(t => t != elementType && elementType.IsAssignableFrom(t))
            .ToArray();

        // Create instances of each element type and add them to the dictionary
        foreach (Type type in elementTypes)
        {
            if (Activator.CreateInstance(type) is Element element)
            {
                elementTypeDictionary.Add(element.ElementID, type);
                //elementDictionary.Add(element.ElementID, element);
            }
        }
    }```
i have this script, in the final if statement how could I sort out specific things that inherit from a seperate class that also inherits from element?

like say i dont want to add any thing that inherits from the "Seeds" Class and the but the seeds class it's self inherits from Element

also ingeneral is this a good way to go about getting everything that inherits from a specific class and putting it into a list without hardcodeing them into a list?

[winged mortar]

Make the seeds class abstract and check whether the type is abstract or not

[ashen yoke]

IsSubclassOf

[ashen yoke]

in general having

Assembly.GetAssembly(elementType);
        Type[] elementTypes = assembly.GetTypes()
            .Where(t => t != elementType && elementType.IsAssignableFrom(t))
            .ToArray();

in every place you need to get reflected data is bad, create a static store for reflected types, then access it anywhere you need, construct once, query later

[hollow hound]

Is there a way to use Random.Range(float, float) with exclusive max/min? Or is there some analogue?

[winged mortar]

He has elementTypeDictionary right?

[ashen yoke]

yes for element type

[ashen yoke]

what will it exclude?

float.epsilon? some other value?

[hollow hound]

max or min value. Like the int overload.

[ashen yoke]

so if max is 0.88213991 it should not include it, but 0.88213990 is ok

[hollow hound]

if max is 1f, I don't want to get 1f.

[ashen yoke]

but 0.9999999 is ok

[hollow hound]

Yes

Well, I'll use NextDouble()

[ashen yoke]

i really dont know, i dont even know how to clamp it

since what do you clamp it between

1f - float.Epsilon equals 1, so you would need to if it with direct comparison, and then clamp it at some arbitrary lower value

i may not understand something but this seems like undefined territory riddled with float precision issues and weird arbitrary constants

[steel elk]

Specifically, Time.deltaTime turns a value into "per second", so moving something 5 * Time.deltaTime units on X will move it 5 units per second

[lean marlin]

I am planning a livestreaming screen sharing environment. Is it possible to integrate zoom for the screen sharing on the screens that will be in the building? If not...what are the options to get screensharing into the environment. Any help is appreciated.

[leaden ice]

float min = -2, max = 2;
float random = Random.Range(float.BitIncrement(min), float.BitDecrement(max));``` I suppose

[hollow hound]

I guess System.Random NextDouble works for me.
"A double-precision floating point number that is greater than or equal to 0.0, and less than 1.0."
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.random.nextdouble?view=net-7.0

[ashen yoke]

lets look at how they did it

[leaden ice]

that's inclusive on the min side

[ashen yoke]

that is also .net 7

nvm they are identical

[steel elk]

Would clamping between 0f and 1f - Mathf.Epsilon not work

[ashen yoke]

no

[leaden ice]

1 - Epsilon will not work

[leaden ice]

pretty sure this is the best way

[ashen yoke]

ok so what they do is they store internally the values as ints

[hollow hound]

Yes, I need exactly that, inclusive on one side and exclusive on the other.
Maybe I should have specified it, because "max/min" don't look like min xor max.

[ashen yoke]

and the internal max int is ensured lower than the max bound

[leaden ice]

when you say 1 - epsilon what you actually want is float.BitDecrement(1f)

[ashen yoke]

then they InternalSample()*(1.0/MBIG)

to convert to double

[hollow hound]

Thanks for the alternatove solition

[ashen yoke]

so yeah having it as int bypasses all clamping problems just by the nature of it

[ashen yoke]

BitIncrement is not in 4.8

not in standard either

[rugged storm]

This is just called once when the project is ran and saved to that Element type dictionary and I have a separate static method Wich retrieves a type from the dictionary based on the inputed id

[ashen yoke]

i understand, but you most likely will eventually have hundreds of such callsites

all calling reflection api and retreiving same data

anyway doesnt matter not an issue at this point

i think ive seen unity providing a central reflection data class somewhere in changelogs

[steel elk]

The constant is 0.99999994f and seems to compare without issue manually assigning it, but I would comment appropriately since it's very magic-numbery

[worn holly]

How can i make it so that, in a swipe-detector code the swipe isn't only registered when the touch ends? Like to detect the swipe without taking your finger off the screen?

[ashen yoke]

you can track position delta, have some thresholds for velocity difference between current and previous, test for magnitude and direction

also a timer

[hollow hound]

Is it posiible to create generic type based on the class type?
I want method in parent class that return object of the parent class and overridden method in child class that returns object of the child class.

[ashen yoke]

you can construct generic types and use them in activator

Type t = typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(typeof(int));

[hollow hound]

I want something like this:

   public record Base
    {
        public float FloatField;
        
        public virtual T Foo<T>() where T : Base
        {
            return this with { FloatField = 0 };
        }
    }

   public record Child:Base
    {
        public string StringField;
        
        public override T Foo<T>() where T : Child:Base
        {
            return base.Foo() with {StringField = ""}
        }
    }

[ashen yoke]

return base.Foo<T>()

where T : Child

should work

i just dont understand whats the point

it already inherits Base and has access to its members, why does it have to be generic?

and it wont work

[hollow hound]

I want it to return Child in Child class

[ashen yoke]

you cant override and change signature

[heady iris]

are you trying to make the return type more specific?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-9.0/covariant-returns

i'm not sure if that'll work here

covariant return types let you make a derived type's overriding method return a more specific type than the parent type's virtual method

[hollow hound]

Looks like what I need. Thanks, I'll check it

[heady iris]

and I believe unity is on C#9.0 right now

[hollow hound]

Getting "Target runtime doesn't support covariant return types in overrides." 😢

[heady iris]

what's your api compatibility level in the player settings?

might change if you target .NET Framework instead of .NET Standard

[hollow hound]

Where should I change it?

[heady iris]

project settings -> player

[hollow hound]

I set .NET Framework, still not working.
It worked after I added additional files to project (https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/22949#issuecomment-784082929)

[neat lagoon]

It's not ideal, but you could do something like this instead, assuming you don't want to bypass the safeguards.

public record BaseRecord {
    public float floatField;

    public BaseRecord Foo() {
        return this with { floatField = 0f };
    }
}

public record ChildRecord : BaseRecord {
    public string stringField;

    public new ChildRecord Foo() {
        return (ChildRecord)base.Foo() with { stringField = "" };
    }
}

[hollow hound]

Thanks!

[crimson atlas]

why is not allowing me to override (to save) this reference to this debug TMP field?

[soft mica]

Is there a built in method somewhere which would allow me to find the SkinnedMeshRenderer component on an avatar from one of its children, even if the root of the avatar is itself a child of another object?

I know transform.root exists, but that won't work if the root of the avatar is a child of another object.

And I know I I could traverse up the hierarchy to find the first parent that contains an animator and then search for the component in the children of that, though that would probably traverse the armature first which would be a lot of work for nothing. I guess I could look at only those children that are direct descendants of the avatar root to figure out which one has the component.

But I'm kinda hoping and thinking that Unity has a method already built into it for this specific case.

Specifically what I am trying to do here is I am trying to allow a component on a child to access one of the avatar's blendshapes. Hence the need to find the skinnedmeshrenderer component.

And I don't want to just have a field that I have to fill in in the inspector because that would require me to fill that in for every avatar I create, which is just extra work for nothing and another potential bug in the long run.

[heady iris]

there can be many skinned mesh renderers

[ashen yoke]

EditorApplication.delayCall += () => { SceneView.FrameLastActiveSceneView(); SceneView.FrameLastActiveSceneView(); };

[steel elk]

.NET Framework is older and no longer receiving updates

[ashen yoke]

.net standard is just as old

[heady iris]

oh, do i have them backwards

i struggle to keep those things straight

[ashen yoke]

its the same thing but standard is more limited due to cross platform

[heady iris]

.net this, .net that

To minimize the garbage collector overhead, avoid methods such as Assembly.GetTypes and Type.GetMethods() in your application, which create a lot of C# reflection objects at runtime. Instead, you should scan assemblies in the Editor for the required data and serialize and/or codegen it for use at runtime.

😬

[ashen yoke]

c++ style reflection when

[heady iris]

does c++ actually have it now

[ashen yoke]

always did with libraries

[heady iris]

ah, right

[ashen yoke]

you just scan code construct reflection data as code at compile, access it at runtime

[kind niche]

just wondering, is it possible to have markers and clips on the same timeline trackasset?
figured it out nvm 🙂

[steel elk]

Honestly was kind of a mess until they started unifying things later

[wild drift]

What's the modern/correct way to rotate an empty along 1 local axis, i.e. the equivelant of edit only X, Y or Z euler value directly?

[heady iris]

transform.Rotate is an option

[wild drift]

I cant get it to do a local rotation

[ashen yoke]

it has an override

public void Rotate(Vector3 eulers, Space relativeTo = Space.Self);

[wild drift]

Nice this override version works perfectly thanks

[light rock]

GetComponentInParent<SkinnedMeshRenderer>() searches ALL parents all the way up to the root. not just the parent immediately above

[leaden ice]

transform.Rotate uses local space by default

doing Space.Self is the default

[outer juniper]

I want to make custom navigation movement depended on navmeshagent. Like I want to keep doing best use of navmeshagent's pathfinding and local avoidance. What to do in that case?

[rigid island]

custom?

[outer juniper]

dont wanna use autoupdate position

also determinism is another thing to worry about

[rigid island]

make your own a* pathing?

[wind palm]

I've recently done this for vehicles as NavMeshAgents are worthless due to the turning behaviour, and it's nothing less than a pain.

If you use this as a resource:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UniteAustinTechnicalPresentation/blob/master/StressTesting/Assets/Scripts/Utils/PathUtils.cs

What you have to do isn't pretty either. Due to the current unreliability I have required to temporarily result to try/finally statements which I will eventually weed out.

using var result = new NativeArray<PolygonId>(maxPathLength, Allocator.Persistent);
using var query = new NavMeshQuery(NavMeshWorld.GetDefaultWorld(), Allocator.Persistent, maxPathLength);
        
var from = query.MapLocation(start, Vector3.one * 10, agentId);
var to = query.MapLocation(end, Vector3.one * 10, agentId);
var status = query.BeginFindPath(from, to, areas);
int maxIterations = 1024;
...

var pathResult = query.GetPathResult(result);
var straightPath = new NativeArray<NavMeshLocation>(pathLength, Allocator.Temp);
var straightPathFlags = new NativeArray<StraightPathFlags>(pathLength, Allocator.Temp);
var vertexSide = new NativeArray<float>(pathLength, Allocator.Temp);

try
{
    int straightPathCount = 0;
    var pathStatus = PathUtils.FindStraightPath(query, start, end, result, pathLength, ref straightPath, ref straightPathFlags, ref vertexSide, ref straightPathCount, maxPathLength);
    if (pathStatus == PathQueryStatus.Success)
    {
        path = new Vector3[straightPathCount];
        for (int i = 0; i < straightPathCount; i++)
        {
            path[i] = straightPath[i].position;
        }
        return true;
    }
    path = default;
    Debug.Log($"Nav query failed with the status: {status}");
    return false;
}
finally
{
    straightPath.Dispose();
    straightPathFlags.Dispose();
    vertexSide.Dispose();
}

[outer juniper]

Looks like DOTS

if only there was more guides and proper Hybrid approach

I have a game where around 5000 units will be common

but dont know how to keep it at 60 FPS at as much as low-end devices possible

[wind palm]

Do not forget the editor has additional overheads.

[outer juniper]

yeah that too. I can hardly reach 2000 with all crazy optimizations possible

like turned off animator

at far distance

[leaden ice]

for 5000 units you need DOTS

especially on mobile

[outer juniper]

can mobile RAM handle that much?

[leaden ice]

RAM is not going to be the limiting factor

CPU is

and probably GPU too

[wind palm]

Usually if the GPU and CPU are bad, the RAM will follow.

[leaden ice]

8GB+ is plenty of memory for 5000 objects

it's not a problem of memory

[wind palm]

Assuming every phone has 8GB of RAM.

Which they do not

[leaden ice]

no but many do

[outer juniper]

isnt 2-4 GB common for mobile? Even less on older mobiles?

[rigid island]

hopefully you do have a main script that controls all unit movements instead of each unit having their own pathfinding/navmesh agent logic ye?

[outer juniper]

rare to see 4GB

[outer juniper]

currently keeping it temporary to navmesh autoposition. For climbing and few other stuffs, turning it off and back again

[leaden ice]

8GB is pretty standard these days, even for midrange phones

anyway it doesn't matter

DOTs is not going to use significantly more memory

it is going to make significantly more efficient use of both your CPU and your memory though

[wind palm]

The first midrange phone I just checked out had 6GB, being a Samsung.

Samsung's £250 phone has 4GB however.

[rigid island]

just saying, if each unit has their own script for pathfinding you are looking a lot of wasted cpu power

[outer juniper]

3 GB my phone

[leaden ice]

ok I really don't see why we're discussing phone memory, it's not really relevant

[rigid island]

Profiler tools will be your best friend

[wind palm]

Mostly because you said:

8GB is pretty standard these days, even for midrange phones

[outer juniper]

Anyway I couldn't get working with DOTS too much. Really feels soooooo complex

[wind palm]

It's just a learning curve

[leaden ice]

if you want 5000 units, it's really the only way to go

yes it has a learning curve

[outer juniper]

want to do Hybrid approach but all tutorials and guides outdated

even few new ones got deprecated stuffs which were months ago

[wind palm]

If you learn in a side project, you can learn how to implement a hybrid approach

[outer juniper]

i want to do slow transition to DOTS

hold on lemme show a script

[wind palm]

Anyhow, I provided a hint in the direction you want for a custom navigation on a navmesh; linking someone's work who works for Unity.

[outer juniper]

public void InitializeUnit()
    {
        id = idCounter++;

        string gameObjectName = gameObject.name; // Register stuffs

        string[] gameObjectNameParts = gameObjectName.Split();
        if (gameObjectNameParts.Length != 0)
        {
            gameObject.name = gameObjectNameParts[0];
        }

        gameObject.name += " " + id;
        units.Add(id, this);

        // from here I want to reference to a entity somehow be it be through Entities.Add() or Get an Entity from pooling
        // after that call OnSpawnEvent

        OnSpawnedEvent?.Invoke(this);
    }

[wind palm]

Are you trying to remove any numbers at the end of a GO's name?

[outer juniper]

private void OnDestroy()
    {
        units.Remove(id);
        // later remove reference from 
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

[wind palm]

You'd probably have better luck using Regex

[outer juniper]

that's a way of identifying stuffs better way and keeping away extra nonsense like (Clone)/Variant/etc. But that's not the point here

I want easy access between Entities and MonoBehavior. Like I want to call old MonoBehavior stuffs from Entities and vice versa

[wind palm]

PraetorBlue would probably be better here to help you if they're around, in this regard.

[outer juniper]

@leaden ice clue?

[leaden ice]

is there a question here?

[outer juniper]

TLDR; that's the code I got and I want my MonoBehavior to keep track of Entity for easy access to datas related to it. Vice versa as well from Entities to MonoBehavior