archived-code-general

[hasty haven]

It ended up being a lot more complex and requiring way more steps but i love the way it looks

Had to generate 2 different lookup tables

[ashen yoke]

hm it may be possible to use a single shader with triplanar and 3d texture even for this case

[hasty haven]

I was thinking about generating some surface geometry like little pebbles depending on what it is

probably a second renderer

[ashen yoke]

that sounds like something you dont need to bake

(and also can be done on the shader)

[hasty haven]

Oh yeah, maybe a compute or vertex shader

[ashen yoke]

https://github.com/Velorexe/unity-geometry-grass-shader

[hasty haven]

There was one by i think AstroCat that looked very clean and was interactive

It would require some modifications to work with multiple players though

This looks very nice too

[ashen yoke]

doubt debris and clutter need to be syncd

[hasty haven]

Nope, at this point its only the byte array underneath everything

how its drawn can be on the client side

[naive swallow]

Any easy way in C# to give named values to the result that comes from an array like this?

(string caller, string func) = token.Split(".");

Essentially, I want to avoid using result[0] and result[1] and give them more meaningful names all in one line.

[leaden ice]

how pythonic of you

[naive swallow]

Precisely

[leaden ice]

I don't think so, short of modifying the function to return a tuple

[naive swallow]

I've been bouncing between them and am saddened it doesn't work this way in C#

[leaden ice]

which you obviously can't here

[naive swallow]

Yeah, just wondering if there's anything I can do it because this error seems promising:

It's just that string arrays don't have a Deconstruct operator

Wondering if there's a namespace that gives it one?

[leaden ice]

in Go there's a convenient Cut function which is great when you know it's only going to be split in two:
https://pkg.go.dev/strings#Cut

idk if C# has that
you could write one with IndexOf and Substring

[ashen yoke]

what can cause a pod which has [SerializeField] string guid;
with ISerializationCallback,
to have a value in editor, but at runtime the string is empty?
its a scriptable, debugged, value is present in editor,
at runtime in OnAfterDeserialize the string is empty

[naive swallow]

Eh, I'll just use two lines. No biggie I guess.

[raw coral]

i need some more help. in my game you fly in the sky. i want the creatures that live in it to move even when you're not moving. like you can stay still, but the animals still move. how would i do that?

[naive swallow]

Why would you be moving have any effect on other things moving? That's something you'd need to go out of your way to implement

So if they don't move unless you're moving and you don't want that, get rid of whatever you did to make them do that

[leaden ice]

public static (string, string) Cut(this string s, string splitOn) {
  int index = s.IndexOf(splitOn);
  if (index >= 0) {
    return (s.Substring(0, index), s.Substring(index + 1));
  }
  return (s, null);
}``` Or you could write 6 lines!!!

[naive swallow]

[raw coral]

i see, i didn't even implement it yet, i was lost on the first step lol

[ashen yoke]

mistery, i can see in OnBeforeSerialize that the string is set to a value, at runtime its gone

[pure cliff]

nah cause .Split() doesnt return a specific number of items, it can return anywhere from 1 to n items

[naive swallow]

Yeah, makes sense. In Python if you do that sort of tuple deconstructing everything it doesn't have an output value for just gets discarded. That's probably too loosey-goosey for a big boy programming language that can actually become machine code on its own

[pure cliff]

you can just do s[0..index] now :3

[leaden ice]

I'm sure you can

but I'm too old school to know how to do that 😆

[pure cliff]

the best part is that you can do [n...^1] which is ❤️

[leaden ice]

The only one I'm proficient with is s[^1]

[pure cliff]

yeeee, I was so hype when that functionality was announced

no more myString.Length-1'ing

Since I have both of you two here @leaden ice @naive swallow either of you ever seen this before?
#archived-code-general message

its really harshing my workflow when like half my stuff gets underlined as a warn/error when I have explicitly setup my editorconfig for it to be ignored :/

[naive swallow]

I'm far too much of a peasant to have Rider

[pure cliff]

same issue on Visual Studio too O_o

its like the IDEs are loading the .editorconfig file... and then promptly ignoring it in the actual editor o_O

[leaden ice]

I have not and to be honest I've never touched something called an "editorconfig" file

not even sure what that is

[pure cliff]

when you click these bois, it generates the .editorconfig file which customizes what error severity various things are

[leaden ice]

can't you just disable those inspections in Rider?

there's a lightbulb thing in the bottom right

[pure cliff]

thats what that is yeah

thats what the editorconfig file is 🙂

[leaden ice]

I see

I thought that stuff went in your home folder somewhere

[pure cliff]

it does yup, right next to the .sln and .csproj files

[leaden ice]

rather than being a project level setting

but those are in the project itself

[pure cliff]

it can actually even go lower and the rule is a .editorconfig applies to any files at its level or lower

[leaden ice]

alright well, I'm not sure 😉

[pure cliff]

so you can even add a second .editorconfig file in say, /Assets/Scripts/Foos and it will "override" all settings for the Foos folder and lower

or at least... its supposed to

but for me none of my editor configs seem to actually be applying, but resharper and VS show it as loaded and the settings as applied in both of their Preferences menus

like if I open my Code Style in Rider, you can see it is indeed "seeing" the .editorconfig file

but then its just... not actually applying in the editor itself, its so weird

I feel like somehow Unity is at fault here, like its somehow messing with this or something

cuz it works fine in a normal dotnet application, it is only an issue for Unity projects O_o

[leaden ice]

could be

unity does all kinds of things with the cs project

have you double checked that your Rider integration is up to date?

[ashen yoke]

try different package version

they are commonly bugged

[pure cliff]

yeah just installed it yesterday evening

[pure cliff]

issue is for both Rider and Visual Studio tho :x

like they both have this same weirdness

[ashen yoke]

probably both packages are bugged

¯_(ツ)_/¯

im still on a very old vs package because new ones break 2019

tried to fix it myself but at some point just decided that fuck it

rider one isnt by unity tho right?

[gray mural]

#💻┃unity-talk

[crystal dagger]

Hey

                headTrans.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(headTrans.rotation, value2, timeCount * 3.5f);
                if(headTrans.rotation == value2)
                {
                    Debug.Log("PASSEI");
                    secondTime = true;
                    timeCount = 0.0f;
                }

For some reason

SOMETIMES headTrans is, and sometimes it's not value2

Any idea?

[leaden ice]

Slerp will not give you exactly the second parameter ever unless the third parameter is >= 1

do not compare with ==

[crystal dagger]

How so?

I'm new with this

I program in C/C++ but i'm new to unity

[leaden ice]

do something like

if (Quaternion.Angle(value2, headTrans.rotation) < 0.01f)``` for example

[leaden ice]

it's not a unity thing

it's a simple math thing

[crystal dagger]

Yeah, but i'm not familiar with a function i cannot read how it exactly works.

[leaden ice]

If you go some percentage between a and b, you will never reach b

ever heard of Zeno's paradox?

[crystal dagger]

I'll test this soon, thanks for helping me

[leaden ice]

Slerp/Lerp are basically functions that say "move x% from a to b"

so you will never reach b

unless the percentage is 100%

the only exception would be that you go so incredibly close you actually got there due to floating point imprecision

[river sentinel]

So I'm trying to make EventArgs work, but now I'm wondering if that's even the right things to do for what I'm trying to achieve. Endgoal: Make it possible to transfer multiple parameters through a UnityEvent in the inspector.

Like, I want to pass a string and a bool value, to interact with this: ```using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public static class EventChecks
{
public static Dictionary<string, bool> checks;

public static void InitializeChecks()
{
    checks = new Dictionary<string, bool>();
    checks.Add("testCheck", false);
}

public static void SetCheckValue(string checkKey, bool checkVal)
{
    if (checks.ContainsKey(checkKey)) return;
    checks[checkKey] = checkVal;
}

}

[leaden ice]

1. This isn't going to solve your problem
2. EventArgs is a poor pattern for Unity due to memory/garbage collection

UnityEvent only supports one parameter

you can't change that

[river sentinel]

dang, so what do I do in this case?

[leaden ice]

Simple workaround is something like this:

public string s;
public bool b;

public void DoSomething() { // call this from the UnityEvent
  SetCheckValue(s, b);
}```

[river sentinel]

So basically, another component handles the actual event. That makes enough sense, at least.

[leaden ice]

could be another component, could be the same one

[river sentinel]

I was just wondering if there was a way that I wouldn't need to do that, but if it's the best way ...

[leaden ice]

the point is just delegating the parameters from elsewhere

[leaden ice]

wait one other thing here

are you setting these parameters statically (in the inspector) or dynamically?

e.g. by calling myUnityEvent.Invoke(x, y)

if it's the latter you should be able to do it just by declaring your UnityEvent as UnityEvent<string, bool>

fi it's statically (in the inspeector) you must do a workaround like I shared

[river sentinel]

I wanted to have a UnityEvent that would call this: public void SetEventCheck(string key, bool value) { EventChecks.checks[key] = value; }

[leaden ice]

yeah that's not what I'm asking though

I'm asking how you are sending the parameters into it

from the inspector, or from code?

like where is the UnityEvent defined and invoked?

[river sentinel]

Typically I set it up so I can send the parameters from the inspector, for workflow reasons.

[leaden ice]

ok so if you want the inspector you are stuck with the workarounds

[river sentinel]

what's the other methods?

[leaden ice]

public UnityEvent<string, bool> myUnityEvent;

void FireEvent(){
  myUnityEvent.Invoke(someString, someBool);
}```

in this case the parameters come from the code somehow

of course you could then set someString and someBool separately in the inspector for this component

[river sentinel]

I think I do that for using V3s as spawn coordinates for a warp event. I set up coordinates and call upon the corresponding index for that.

It's just likely to get more cluttered if I try to do it with variables ...

unless I have events that change the variable index before invoking an event that changes the value ...

that way I could do everything without additional components, it'd just be a couple more events each time I want to change a check's value

frankly I'd like to work with someone to take a look at the event system I've made so far and just learn if there's a better way to do what I'm trying to do. My current method is just queueing unityevents to fire in sequence ...

My EventManager: https://pastebin.com/Xdm5YaCW

[karmic zealot]

My OnMouseEnter code not working in some GameObjects. But it works in copy of the game object I use. Only different is their position.
How can I solve that?

[river sentinel]

@karmic zealot Can I see your code?

[rigid island]

do you have a collider?

[karmic zealot]

Yes

[river sentinel]

what objects does it work on?

[karmic zealot]

They are exactly same

only the positions

And CSelAreas

[river sentinel]

can we see the GOs in editor?

and what exactly is CSelArea#?

[rancid frost]

How is this posible?

The hex vertices are rendered using the position
the position is the center,

how come to 3 direction arrow is not properly centered on the hex?

[karmic zealot]

I'm trying to select something

[river sentinel]

ohh, a selection, got it

[karmic zealot]

is something wrong

[river sentinel]

I'm not sure ...

I'd ask to call to better see what's happening but I'm not in a situaton where I can atm.

what is in the scene? Can we get a view of that?

[leaden ice]

is the mesh origin set up correctly?

[karmic zealot]

When I change it's position it works

Or when I change its colliders trigger setting

[crystal dagger]

Works like a charm

Thanks sire

[rancid frost]

what do you mean?

[river sentinel]

Again, it would help to see what's actually in the scene itself

[leaden ice]

where did the hex mesh come from?
Where is the origin of the 3D model? Is it correctly in the center?

[rancid frost]

Mesh are clones of the Hexcell

its transform is zero zero

[leaden ice]

how is it hex shaped

is that through a shader? Or what

[rancid frost]

quad

[leaden ice]

quads are rectangular

how is it being rendered as a hex

[rancid frost]

vertices

[leaden ice]

?

please use complete thoughts!

[leaden ice]

Ok so you're modifying the mesh at runtime in code?

this is just an array

[rancid frost]

yes

so that is the vertex corner

        public static Vector3 GetPosition(int x, int z)
        {
            Vector3 position;
            position.x = (x + (z * 0.5f) - (z / 2)) * (HexMetrics.innerRadius * 2f) + (x * step);
            position.y = 0f;
            position.z = z * (HexMetrics.outerRadius * 1.5f) + (z * step);

            return position;
        }

you pass in coordinates to get spawn location

[leaden ice]

where's the code that modifies the mesh

[rancid frost]

pretty simply nothing complicated

[leaden ice]

wait also before we go down this rabbit hole too far:
Is your tool settings set to "Center" or "Pivot" on the left here

[rancid frost]

wow

that fixed the problem 🙂

[leaden ice]

oof

it should be on pivot

is it on pivot now, or center?

if you changed it to center, that's still a problem

[rancid frost]

now its on center

[leaden ice]

yeah it's still a problem

your mesh generation code is producing vertices off center

[rancid frost]

hmmm

I thought so, but cant be

[leaden ice]

also this code only seems to clear the mesh

it's not adding any vertices or anything

except to this "Vertices" list which seems unused here

[rancid frost]

Well

they are drawn in another method

[leaden ice]

ok so where does "CombineVertices()" come from

maybe just show the whole script

in a paste site

[rancid frost]

Center position = Position = "(4.33, 0.00, 7.50)"

[rancid frost]

you sure, its 700 lines?

[leaden ice]

yes I'm sure. Use a paste site

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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

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

[rancid frost]

https://pastebin.com/rwn5WWzK

[rancid frost]

there u go

This is from another class, but here is how the hex are spawned

[rancid frost]

Also, the vertices are well made

[leaden ice]

ok here's your problem:

            for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
            {
                Vertices.Add(VertexCorners[i] + Position);
            }```

you should not be adding Position here

because in the mesh, the positions should be in local space

not world space

The mesh should be positioned by its Transform

likewise this way you can share a single Mesh for all of the hexes

[rancid frost]

uhhh

ironically, that is what I did before hand

the problem however was its very hard to get the position of the surrounded hexes

I did eventually figure it out, but another thing was that since my shader relied on the position(notably) the Y position of vertex to color it

my shader was always wrong

Here is an example

if you want to create slopes between the hexes, you will have to spread them out and link them together

however since the position are all local, you have to do some trick math to get them

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure about all that but the transform.position is where the gizmo will be

[leaden ice]

in the shader you can get the world space or local space position of the vertex

whichever you need

[rancid frost]

how?

[hidden flicker]

pretty sure this is a code issue

getting these three error messages

[leaden ice]

mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, v.vertex)

or uhh float3 worldPos = mul(unity_ObjectToWorld, float4(v.vertex.xyz, 1)).xyz;

[dusk apex]

Are you doing any Editor scripting?

[hidden flicker]

unsure what that means

also it randomly fixed itself?

[dusk apex]

False positives. Those aren't your code.

[hidden flicker]

...what?

[dusk apex]

You didn't write the lines of code. They're likely not relating to something you've done. It isn't an issue you can fix by coding.

[hidden flicker]

ok

[thin hollow]

I have the following code that adds unique identificators in my objects. But I've stumbled upon a problem: it fires up on a prefab even when I just select it in the browser. Which results in every prefab I place in the scene getting same GUID.
I tried to set field to "0" when I have asset selected in the browser - it just instantly generates new GUID.
While I want prefabs to get unique IDs, but only when I drag them into the editor OR instantiate them in the game, and not when I load level or do anything else (Supposedly this should be prevented by the check that GUID isn't empty before trying to assign it. It is for my save game system, persistent level states and serialization, so I need them to be as static and invariable as they can be).

How can I fix my code?

    public abstract class DynamicObject : MonoBehaviour, ISaveSystem
    {
        [SerializeField]
        internal string objectID;
        internal void OnValidate()
        {
            if (!Application.isPlaying && !EditorSceneManager.IsPreviewSceneObject(this))
                AssignGUID();
            if (PrefabUtility.IsPartOfAnyPrefab(this))
                PrefabUtility.RecordPrefabInstancePropertyModifications(this);
        }        
        /// <summary>
        /// Assign GUID to the object if it doesn't have one already
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="force">Normally, GUID will be assigned only if the field is empty. This will force new GUID to be created no matter what.</param>
        internal void AssignGUID(bool force = false)
        {
            if (objectID == String.Empty || objectID == "0"|| force)
                objectID = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
        }

[vivid wind]

Would anyone happen to know of some resources that could help me get started with implementing a system to prevent distance objects from being active and activating them as the player gets close? I'm looking to implement a large Maze game with no area transitions ideally. So I presume I need a system in place to activate entities and other scripts as the player approaches rather than having everything loaded and running.

[thin hollow]

You could do a global game state singleton (if you do not have one already) with a List of game objects, and make it iteratively check distance from player to every object in that list every second of 5 seconds (depending on how fast your player can move and how long straight paths are in your maze), turning them off and on depending on the required distance, and then all objects that should be culled in this fashion add themselves in that game manager list upon Start();

Alternatively you could make that list sit in the player script itself, but this is not a good way to do it.

[lucid wigeon]

Can you even pass around "plain classes" in the inspector? Can they be assigned as a component? That's a fundamental question I came up with. If not, I see not point in using a "plain class"... maybe everything should be a Monobehaviour. Initially I thought "plain classes" are clever to encapsulate data. But it seems they cause more problems than they're worth.

[vagrant blade]

Non mono classes cannot be used as components in the editor, no.

[leaden ice]

The point of MonoBehaviour is that it's how you create a custom component

[lucid wigeon]

To clarify I'm asking about keeping a reference to plain class in the inspector. Otherwise I have to instantiate this plain class separately in each component.

[leaden ice]

if you aren't making a component, you don't make a MonoBehaviour

[lucid wigeon]

But let's say I want to store player health in a class like public class Player{ int playerHealth; } .... when I create new Player() can I pass that around in the inspector somehow? Except by passing around in code.

I cannot have 2 components using one instance of this plain class, right?

[vivid wind]

Any class can be instantiated as many times as you want, unless it needs to be static/singleton. Are you trying to access the health for reading the player's health from things other than the player?

[lucid wigeon]

Let me prepare another example maybe

[Serializable]
public class Player {
    public int playerHealth;
}

public class Component1 : MonoBehaviour {
    public Player player;
}

public class Component2 : MonoBehaviour {
   public Player player;
}

If I do this, each component will have its own instance of Player object, right?

If I edit values in Component1, then Component2 will have a separate set of values

[vagrant blade]

Yep

[vivid wind]

Ahh you want dependenciy injection I suspect. You want to store the player health in one central location, and access it from other components, correct?

[lucid wigeon]

Forgot [serializable]

[lucid wigeon]

In that case, yes

So, now, is there any other way to do this, except to turn the plain class into a component, and attach to a Gameobject? Like so:

public class Player: MonoBehaviour {
    public int playerHealth;
}

public class Component1 : MonoBehaviour {
    public Player player;
}

public class Component2 : MonoBehaviour {
   public Player player;
}

Now it should be only one instance of Player, right? If assigned using the inspector

[vivid wind]

So if the class wasn't a MonoBehaviour you'd do something like this for the Constructor public MyClass(IPlayer playerData). However, due to component framework of unity, you can't get access to the constructor to implement this easily. You'd typically want to implement a "Singleton". There are some issues with doing this, as it gives allot of things access to a set of data which is not usually ideal but it is something done to overcome unity's framework without having to use something like Zenject.

There are some really good videos that taught me about this, as I've run into this question allot eairly on.

I'll grab some links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpM0C6quQjs implementation and good overview here.

Basicly you have like a GameObject called "GameManager", game manager contains a component monobehaviour containing the data you want to access. You write some code into the awake function that ensures that when the class is instantiated, it is the only one and sets itself to a public static on the class itself (Component1.Instance). Then you can access that data via that reference i.e Component1.Instance.Player.GetHealth() or something like that.

[lucid wigeon]

Thanks. Although 80% of this video says not to use singletons xD

[vivid wind]

singletons are kind of a flashpoint for developers, I think because the idea of making something publicly available anywhere is not considered good code professionally. However, for smaller, idie games it should be acceptable so long as you are aware of the drawbacks and concerns. https://youtu.be/iQvCGHPomr0 goes more indepth why it could be ok to use Singeltons.

[lean sail]

sometimes u do need them, his example really didnt make too much sense though. A singleton means you have one, but then his counterpoint was saying "now what if you have an armored player?"
Which either isnt an issue or that just means the singleton never made sense to begin with

its something you should just use if theres only ever supposed to be one. Like a save system is a good example, you dont need 2 different scripts saving to your one pc. Another example i use in my game is a checkpoint system, each level only has 1 list of checkpoints but thats per design

[hidden flicker]

why do gameobjects move when they're inactive?

[lean sail]

is this gameobject perhaps a child of another moving gameobject

[dusk apex]

What do you mean? You're allowed to modify it and whatnot but it shouldn't be visible etc

[hidden flicker]

i don't mean it actively moves. i mean that when the gameobject is active, it's in one place, and when it is inactive, it is in another place.

[lean sail]

then you'll have to show your code, because you are leaving a lot of detail out

[dusk apex]

You're going to have to show us what you mean because that likely isn't the case

[lean sail]

i can guarantee that if i open a new project, put a cube in the scene, toggle it inactive/active, it wont have moved

if it does then ill need an exorcism, which isnt a code issue

[hidden flicker]

inactive position

active

[lean sail]

and this is true

[hidden flicker]

suddenly it fucking moves

also, in the editor, the rifle appears here. right in front of the camera

when you PLAY, it moves

and only the mesh moves! not the arms! which are both children of the same gameobject!

[lean sail]

i really dont get why you're sending screenshots, all i asked for was code. The first 2 images literally show that your object's local position doesnt move

meaning that your parent is moving

[hidden flicker]

very new to unity, don't know what info to provide :)

[lucid wigeon]

Do you rather have separate action for each event type or have enum for that?
A)

public delegate void EntityClickedAction();
public event EntityClickedAction OnPlayerClicked, OnBuilderClicked, OnEnemyClicked, OnAnimalClicked;

or
B)

enum EntityType { Player, Builder, Enemy, Animal }
public delegate void EntityClickedAction(EntityType type);
public event EntityClickedAction OnEntityClicked;

Personally for me the giant drawback for B) is that you need a giant switch statement to handle that. And in A) you can have neat little methods with handlers for each type.

[hidden flicker]

figured it out. accidentally added an animator to the mesh

[lean sail]

well these are delegates, not actions. Id say it depends though on what you want. Do subscribers care about if a "Player, Builder, Enemy, and Animal" are all clicked? Do they only care about one or a smaller subset?
It can be fine to have a lot of events, I would just look at adding your own custom add/remove function because I believe every event would be allocating for every instance of this class. Instead you could just have it allocate when something actually cares to subscribe to it since a lot of events often go unused

[low cave]

Is there a way to make a public variable be of type ParentClass, and assign ChildClass (inherits from ParentClass) to it?

[lean sail]

do you mean just
ParentClass varName = new ChildClass();
that should be fine by itself

[low cave]

is there a way to do that from the editor with public variable?

dragging ChildClass to a ParentClass variable doesn't work

@lean sail

[lean sail]

really all I can say is that it does work

because you havent shown much about your project

[spring creek]

Hmm, it should. Unless you are talking about interfaces, which it sounds like you aren't

[low cave]

I have an Attack class and a Player that needs to reference an Attack, and the different attacks inherit from Attack. I need to reference that inheriting class for the attack.

[low cave]

Interfaces meaning the editor?

[lean sail]

no, like a c# interface

[spring creek]

No. C# thing. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/interface

[swift falcon]

am i wrong to hate the inspector for connecting up objects? I feel that it creates an unsearcbable coupling.

[lean sail]

show what you're actually doing, because still this is just a high level description.

[low cave]

I'm trying to drag a c# script that inherits from Attack from the Project window into here

[swift falcon]

maybe i can search the inspector for the couling? code makes it clear to me and is search able

so if i where to say that all couling should happen using code in the future if at all possible, that wouldn't be too strange, right?

[lean sail]

how would you get around the case where 2 instances of 1 script needs different scripts plugged in? You'll just be adding more code for no reason

[swift falcon]

i see

that is a good point that i didnt of.

so there is a case where using the inspector isn't worse

good to know. thank you

so outside that case i would be well served with my ruling?\

[lean sail]

is this object in your scene? can you please not crop screenshots, id rather see a large screenshot telling me more info so i dont have to play 20 questions

[low cave]

I'm trying to drag StaticAttack into Main Attack from the bottom Project window

It's not in the scene

Well the player with the main attack isa

but not the StaticAttack script

[lean sail]

you can do whatever you'd like, but sometimes using the inspector is just easier. If its a difference of GetComponent<> in awake vs dragging it in the inspector, no ones gonna really fight you on that.
And also for level design, some things really are just easier to drag in the inspector. Like if you have a button that opens a very specific door, and lots of these button -> effect things, then it'll be hard to set this up through code when something like unity events already exist.

[lean sail]

well 2 things: you cant drag an actual c# script into that field, its asking for a component (on a gameobject)
and it has to live in a scene, since it has to be on a gameobject

[swift falcon]

but there is no way to search the inspector for the links, i just have to remember them?

[spring creek]

The inspector just displays things, it doesn't functionally affect anything. It's a tool to bypass a lot of boilerplate. You can find anything connected through the inspector using code like normal.

[lean sail]

the inspector shows you the links

[swift falcon]

but if i have a ton of object how do i find something someone else did in the inspector and didnt document?

[lean sail]

if your system is complex to the point that you're going through 50 gameobjects linked together, you probably need to change something

[low cave]

thanks i put the script onto an empty object and it works

[swift falcon]

i hate that i can have an object selected and i cant find where it's been inserted into the other obejcts

unless i can and i dont know how?

[lean sail]

well I dont think thats what you want, it should probably be on the player. At the same time, its kinda odd to have all these attacks just sitting on the player as monobehaviours

[low cave]

i think it'll be fine but ig i'll see

thanks for the help

[lean sail]

the closest thing I know would be right clicking a component and pressing Find references in scene

[swift falcon]

snap. where is that button?

[lean sail]

exactly where i said itd be, you right click a component and press Find references in scene

doubt you'll really find much use in this though, if you dont know what an objects purpose in the scene is

[swift falcon]

i dont see it

[lean sail]

That's cause it's not a component

I mean the things like 'transform'

[swift falcon]

so i can't see where it's been dragged into something

[lean sail]

For the actual gameobject im not sure. For the components of an object, you can

[swift falcon]

right

thank you for your help

as a noob to unity this would be a great feature

as is i tear my hair out

[dusk apex]

You should probably not ever be referencing the game object as type GameObject but instead as the specific component type. Unless you're simply changing the activeness or name...

[swift falcon]

@dusk apex i wish i understood what you meant

it sounds like you are saying dragging game object into components willy nilly is a bad idea

which is my thesis

[dusk apex]

If it's the correct component type, it'll take the reference as the specific component type

[swift falcon]

hmm, still not following

sorry

what i am trying to do is make my code/project more understandable and searchable for all the coupling that exists because the coupling seems a lightmare now in my project

[dusk apex]

Reference the game object as the specific component type

[rain minnow]

Generally, you know what needs to be linked and referenced for your objects. You mainly drag references from the same GameObject or its parent

You wouldn't randomly have GameObjects referenced in a bunch of other GameObjects (scripts). That really doesn't make sense . . .

[dusk apex]

This is relative to code. You can drag whatever you're wanting into the slot. It'll only accept something with the specific component type.

[rain minnow]

Curious, what about it seems nightmarish?

[dusk apex]

Then you'll be able to find references of the component etc

[spring creek]

I'm not sure why you guys think they are referencing gameobjects instead of, say, text? Did I miss an inspector photo?

They have like 30 text objects in the scene and don't know where each one is referenced. That would be the same issue if they did public gameobject or public text

Which is an architecture/organization problem hahaha

[swift falcon]

I can search the code for this connection: bookmarkplus = GameObject.Find("boomarkplus").GetComponent<Button>();

i cant search the ui if do it as far as i can can tell

[dusk apex]

They were saying find reference using the inspector wasn't applicable because they would like to search using the Game Object in scene. I'm sure either they're misunderstanding how component reference works or are simply referencing Game Objects, which they should not be.

[swift falcon]

there is something sublte going on here that i am not following i think

[rain minnow]

Everything in the scene is attached to a GameObject. I asked what their nightmarish problem was bcuz I only saw them ask about linking and coupling objects in the scene . . .

[swift falcon]

as is i dont like changing the scene if i can do it in code because then its search able and i dont have to worry avbout merging the .unity files

[dusk apex]

If you type public Button play in code and drag the button object into the inspector field. You're referencing the Button component and it can be searched for via component using what was previously suggested.

[swift falcon]

that is where i am, but it seems there is a higher plane of existance i am missing out on

[spring creek]

Well, i know that...
I was talking about what dalphat is saying, because they seem to be thinking the opposite of what the actual issue is.
John wants to search which component references this object which has text on it. Instead of which text does this component field reference.

Which would be the same problem no matter what type the field is.

Does that make sense?

[swift falcon]

i'm not seeing that and by god i want to

[spring creek]

Dalphat is saying search via the field in the INSPECTOR, instead of the hierarchy like you're trying

[dusk apex]

#archived-code-general message

[spring creek]

Which is a perfect solution to what you want, just reversed

[swift falcon]

i think i need a screen shot. sorry

ok

let me try

[spring creek]

To explain a little more clearly, I assume you have text fields in foreground maybe? Select that in the hierarchy (on the left). Right click that field (the box you drag things into) in the INSPECTOR (the one on the right) and click find. It will show you which object the field is referencing (regardless of the type of the field)

[swift falcon]

i see.

i hope this will help me going forward. thank you all for your kind help.

[atomic sinew]

Hello everyone. For some reason I can't get AddListener to run.
This is the event: https://hatebin.com/slavumfptr
And this is the listener: https://hatebin.com/fnjdwjsrhr
The "Messenger" is referenced in Item's parent class.

[fervent jacinth]

how does the smooth variable work in lerp functions? i never really understood it

[lean sail]

Did u debug if the event is ever being invoked?

[atomic sinew]

Yes. The event itself works. If I add the Item via the + in the inspector, it all works as intended.
I can't do that though because the item sits in a separate scene that gets loaded additively.

[lean sail]

If the listener isnt working, it's probably not taking the correct instance of Messenger then

[atomic sinew]

And sorry for forgetting comments. The relevant lines in the first script are 17 and 51.

[atomic sinew]

Hm. The parent class grabs the Messenger based on a tag and also finds it. And there's only one Messenger.

[wintry crescent]

Hi, I have an UnityEvent, and I want to call a function
public void MyFunction(MyEnum enum) but I don't seem to be able to select it in the inspector. Can you not call functions with enum parameters with a generic UnityEvent?

[lean sail]

I dont see any issue with the code, and the part where grabbing the instance is not in these classes so it might be an issue in finding the messenger. Or maybe its awake hasnt run when the event is invoked

[wintry crescent]

I could do UnityEvent<MyEnum> but that doesn't let me select the value of said enum in the inspector, which is what I need.

I have set MyEnum to Serializable

[atomic sinew]

This is the parent class: https://hatebin.com/gfjmamrczk

[thin hollow]

Bump

[lean sail]

Maybe try using a singleton instead of tag searching. At least itll guarantee theres only 1

Otherwise I'd just suggest running through the debugger

You'll see all the values that way

[dusk apex]

i hate that ||i can have an object selected and ||i cant find where it's been inserted into the other obejcts
You can find all objects that have referenced the component.
Not sure where you're getting
Instead of which text does this component field reference.
from though

What I'm referring to.

[spring creek]

Yes.... i know that. But he was trying to search from the HIERARCHY.

[atomic sinew]

I put AddListener into CustomStart() and now it works! I'm sure I had it there before I tried Awake(). Hm. Maybe it works sometimes and sometimes not because of some initialisation weirdness. I'll check. Thanks!

[spring creek]

#archived-code-general message

So I just read between the lines

Lets not muddy up the channel though. He's gone, and it doesn't really matter anymore unless they come back

[dusk apex]

He simply misunderstood what was advised.
I believe that actually finding the objects that are referencing the instance is what what's wanted and that by searching via component, it will work.
Thus why I brought up how is not likely or wanted to reference something as type GameObject (unless you're really wanting no other feature) and that searching via inspector-component would be perfectly suitable.

[spring creek]

Yes... that was my whole point. He misunderstood what was being suggested, so we had to come to his level and redirect him....

But w/e. Again, it's not relevant anymore. Have a good one

[silk cairn]

whoops not code

[vivid wind]

Can you overload the instantiate call to create and set a new guid for the new object?

[lean sail]

ah typically you would do it on Start(), where you leave Awake() to be for self initialization. I assumed it wouldnt be an issue since you would probably get a null error and you said this object was spawned later

[vivid wind]

Oh here i think you can use this to determine if the context is the prefab rather than instance if (!PrefabUtility.IsPartOfPrefabAsset(gameObject) && !PrefabUtility.IsPartOfPrefabInstance(gameObject))
{

[spring creek]

You are negating both. Shouldn't the second check be true? If you want an instance.

Never used that though, so i dunno

[vivid wind]

I think you are right, I haven't used it either, would need to test it works as expected and probably have an editor only directive too. Hopefully though it will let the OP determine if its the prefab and set it to empty, then on start/awake/onenable create a new guid if empty, or something like that.

[rain minnow]

you can't because your custom enum is not a base type or doesn't inherit from UnityEngine.Object. you can just create a class field of your enum type and select the value you want, then use that field when the method is called from the event, or

use an int (enums are named ints) and cast it back to the enum where the method is called. then you can set the integer from the inspector . . .

[wintry crescent]

ugh, such a silly workaround. Neither exactly works for me.
Unity HAS a proper enum selector, and it's amazing. Why don't they just use it there? that's ridiculous.

[thin hollow]

Thanks, PrefabUtility.IsPartOfPrefabAsset(gameObject) just did the trick!

[rain minnow]

because it's not a primitive type: int, float, string, bool, etc. . . .

[wintry crescent]

I assume UnityEvent is using reflection, to get the functions and arguments, when selecting what to call. It is 100% possible to tell apart an enum field from an int or a string field, in the function parameters, with reflection. They need to create an input field in the inspector for that particular parameter anyway. Different one for a string, different for an int, different for bool. Then why didn't they add an enum one as well? That's just such a missed opportunity.

[wintry crescent]

also. int, float etc. all derive from ValueType, which derives from Object, the C# class.
System.Enum, which all enums derive from, also derives from ValueType, so yes - it seems to be a primitive, or at least pretty similar

[next pawn]

Looking for help with A* Pathfinding

[quartz folio]

I presume they haven't done it because an enum can be any type of integral type and they don't want to add some more logic to figure out what needs to be serialized, but I agree it can be done and probably should be done, at least for enums that use int as their backing type.

[rain minnow]

enum is not a primitive type (data types built into the language) as any "custom" enum we create must derive from enum. we do not derive from int, float, string, bool, etc., to create our own variables. yes, it's a value type, but that does not denote it a primitive type. a struct is also a value type but it's not a primitive type. an anum can have flags, be used as bits and represent multiple integral types

as you can see under the hood, the PersistentListernerMode selects the type of primitive to use for the argument, then Arguments assigns the value as it only consists of the primitive types that can be used within the inspector for events . . .

[spring creek]

C# has a property for that if you want to verify yourself.

typeof(Enum).IsPrimitive;

[unique cloak]

Hey guys I have this code which is basically to iterate through a dictionary of items with a decrementing timer as the value property in the dictionary. When the timer hits 0, I want to remove the kvp from the dictionary, but I cant modify a dictionary while enumerating through it so I add the values to a list which I then remove and clear afterward.

    public void DigestiveSystem()
    {
        foreach (KeyValuePair<PlantBehaviour, float> plant_kvp in plants_consumed)
        {
            plants_consumed[plant_kvp.Key] -= Time.deltaTime * ecosystemScriptableObject.tickspeed;
            if (plants_consumed[plant_kvp.Key] <= 0)
            {
                to_be_removed_plants_consumed.Add(plant_kvp.Key);
            }
        }
        RemovePlantsFromDict();
    }
       
    public void RemovePlantsFromDict()
    {
        foreach (PlantBehaviour plant in to_be_removed_plants_consumed)
        {
            if (plants_consumed.ContainsKey(plant)) {
                plants_consumed.Remove(plant);
                Destroy(plant.gameObject);
            }
        }
        to_be_removed_plants_consumed.Clear();
    }

For some reason, this is still telling me I'm trying to modify the dict while enumerating through it, i.e. InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute. Any ideas as to how I could correct this?

[rain minnow]

Because foreach iterates over the entire collection . . .

[quartz folio]

foreach (KeyValuePair<PlantBehaviour, float> plant_kvp in plants_consumed)
        {
            plants_consumed[plant_kvp.Key] -= Time.deltaTime * ecosystemScriptableObject.tickspeed;

You are writing to the collection during a foreach, you can't do that

[spring creek]

Just fyi, string is not a primitive. It can be massive and stored on the heap. All primitives are allocated on the stack

[halcyon venture]

    void HitTarget(Vector3 pos)
    {
        audioSource.pitch = 1;
        audioSource.PlayOneShot(hitSound);

        GameObject GO = Instantiate(hitEffect, pos, Quaternion.identity);
        Destroy(GO, 5);
    }
``` uh my audio isnt playing. anyone know why? this function is 100% being called by the way.

and my computer speakers are fine

and its assigned

[unique cloak]

Thanks gentlemen, appreciate the extra set of eyes

[quartz folio]

Try going through my troubleshooting steps, if it's not in it and you find another solution let me know https://unity.huh.how/audio/silence/muted-audio

[halcyon venture]

ok

[halcyon venture]

wait you made this site? cool. has helped me a lot 🙂

[halcyon venture]

oh i acidently clicked mute audo

may bayt

by bad

[rain minnow]

I'd use a different collection to store and access the values so you can use a reverse loop, or decrement i in a regular loop to compensate for index shifting (when removing an element) . . .

[quartz folio]

Glad to help 🙂

[rain minnow]

It's a valuable resource . . .

[halcyon venture]

ye.

[copper blaze]

i'm trying to use unity events to communicate game logic to my ui using events, is it okay to fire an event every frame (in the update method) or is it bad for performance?

[wispy wolf]

https://dotnetfiddle.net/dQNw7U This works

Its two foreach loops, which isn't ideal if this is going to happen a lot (like multiple times per frame)

[unique cloak]

This is what I wrote

    public void DigestiveSystem()
    {
        // Loop through main and reduce timers on alt
        foreach (PlantBehaviour k in plants_consumed_main.Keys)
        {
            plants_consumed_alt[k] -= Time.deltaTime * ecosystemScriptableObject.tickspeed;
        }

        // Loop through alt and reduce timers on main
        foreach (PlantBehaviour k in plants_consumed_alt.Keys)
        {
            plants_consumed_main[k] -= Time.deltaTime * ecosystemScriptableObject.tickspeed;
        }

        // Loop through main and if timers are <= 0, remove values on alt
        foreach (PlantBehaviour k in plants_consumed_main.Keys)
        {
            if (plants_consumed_main[k] <= 0)
            {
                plants_consumed_alt.Remove(k);
                Destroy(k);
            }
        }

        // Alt is now the correctly updated dict
        // Set main to alt
        plants_consumed_main = plants_consumed_alt;
    }

But its still throwing the error saying I'm trying to modify dict while enumerating through it

[rain minnow]

Yes, it's a reference type, my bad 😞. Threw it in with the rest of them. Also, value types are only allocated on the stack when used as local variables or method parameters. If declared as a field in an object, it's stored on the heap as part of that object . . .

[unique cloak]

I just used two dicts main and alt

which both have all the values in them

[spring creek]

I meant CAN be allocated haha. But you are absolutely right. They have to be ABLE to, but don't necessarily have to be, and often aren't as you said

[soft shard]

Usually UI gets updated when something specific happens, and isnt usually every frame that specific thing happens, what are you trying to do where you might need an event to happen in Update?

[copper blaze]

updating a cooldown timer

[rain minnow]

typically, events are used to avoid this. it should only fire when an update or change has occured . . .

but it's not uncommon. input is used in a similar way . . .

[copper blaze]

what if i want to display the remaining time on the timer?

[soft shard]

Another way you can handle a timer is with Time.time, which will tell you the time in seconds, since the scene loaded, you could instead use that to know when your event started, pass the length the timer should run for, and know when it ends by subtracting Time.time from the event time value

[rain minnow]

this would be much easier if you created a list of a custom class/struct or tuple that stored the PlantBehaviour and the time or create a time field for the PlantBehaviour class . . .

[analog relic]

Anyone know if there's a way to make Texture2D CPU-only? (so that it doesn't take up any memory on the GPU. Or is it that way by default? A little confused)

[unique cloak]

Good call thanks sport

[copper blaze]

i ended up using a coroutine ty for suggestion tho

[rain minnow]

that's what i use for my custom timer. i had a tuple of <timer, Action> but ended up adding Action to the timer class itself, though i could have created a class to hold them both as fields . . .

[wispy wolf]

When you make a code block start with three backticks and cs like '''cs (idk how to escape in markdown) and it will highlight the syntax

Which line does it specifically say is causing the problem?

[unique cloak]

Gotcha thanks, was wondering how to do this, it's alright I'm gonna go back and rewrite it w/ a custom class

[rain minnow]

oh, forgot to give an example. here is one using a list of tuples . . .

public class EcosystemScriptableObject : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField]
    private float _tickSpeed = 0;
    
    public float TickSpeed => _tickSpeed;
}

// Some class.
[SerializeField]
private EcosystemScriptableObject _ecosystem;
private List<Tuple<PlantBehaviour, float>> _plantsConsumed = new();

void DigestiveSystem()
{
    var (plant, timer) = default(Tuple<PlantBehaviour, float>);
    var  count = _plantsConsumed.Count;
    for (var i = count - 1; i >= 0; --i)
    {
        (plant, timer) = _plantsConsumed[i];
        timer -= _ecosystem.TickSpeed;

        if (timer <= 0)
        {
            _plantsConsumed.RemoveAt(i);
        }
    }
}

[unique cloak]

Thanks

[gray mural]

anyway, you cannot selialize it

if you want, you have to create a struct

[craggy veldt]

That looks like the old System.Tupple
Nowadays you can just do this with valueTupple List<(SomeClass myClass, float myFloat)> and yeah it can't be serialized.. kinda unfortunate

[edgy ether]

ok so i have a question about using "new" within my Update() methods inside a script.

if i use "new" under Update(), does that mean it will keep creating a whole new variable every update frame? it's not reusing the first one it made?

i'm asking because im trying to actively think about ways to optimize my code

[craggy veldt]

yes it will create the new instance of it every frame

[ashen yoke]

you need to understand the difference between variable and object

variable itself is allocated on the stack, in the method scope, once execution leaves the method the variable is gone

[edgy ether]

ah

[ashen yoke]

but the object the variable points to is not, it stays in the heap memory waiting to be garbage collected

and by calling new on classes you allocate a new object

which then the variable points to

[quartz folio]

though that depends whether it's a class or a struct, and where the struct might be declared/stored

[ashen yoke]

doesnt happen with structs, they are also allocated on the stack

[craggy veldt]

struckt can also be (accidentally)allocated on the heap e,g defensive copy

[ashen yoke]

in general doing new Vector2 is ok, no garbage generated, doing new MyClass() will allocate an object on the heap each time, piling them up until gc

[edgy ether]

aaah!

alrighty then, imma go ahead and take that off of update then. although the terminology for class and struct is still blurry for me, it might be better if i just manage it at start

thank you very much for the info. i've always just been looking and seeing what things did, but i never had a full idea of what happens under the hood when i put it to practice 😅

[ashen yoke]

if you want to unblur it you need to understand the difference between heap and stack memory

they are not different physically, but how it is treated/cleared

structs are designed to utilize the stack mechanics, so they have properties that stem from that, objects are designed to be stored in the heap

there is much more to it, but this is the key factor in why they behave so differently, and why structs dont cause heap allocations and why they are passed by value

[edgy ether]

ah ok, well im going to google this up and read up on it more. thank you guys for the information 🙇🏾‍♂️

it'll be good to get a better understanding of how it works behind the scenes ^^

[lean sail]

best way in terms of what? its like 2 lines of code

have some central code that reads/writes your json so you dont have different scripts (all implementing the same logic) trying to do this at the same time

🤷‍♂️ ive never used TextAsset, i just get the file with system io

[mellow sigil]

TextAsset is by far the easiest method if you don't need to write to the file

[halcyon pelican]

So, I have a problem I need solving. I have an animation of a little mining guy hitting a rock

Each time he hits the rock, I want him to slowly reveal a rune that is only active when he clicks on the little miner 4 times. When it reveals the rune, clicking on the little miner character shouldn't do anything else. I was thinking that I have some kind of variable that slowly clicks up to 4 times starting at zero, at which point it can be captured for magical power.

How do I do that with a separate code from what I have here? At this point, this code works perfectly well for what it does and I don't want to add to it because it already has so many other animations linked to it.

I feel like I"m going insane!

[cosmic rain]

Think in terms of OOP. Where does that behavior belong to? What object performs it?

[lucid wigeon]

Not sure what you mean about unused events? Can't you just remove it if it's not used?

[halcyon pelican]

The code is attached to the Sprite doing the animation hence why im having trouble since i want the miner to be clicked but not the rock itself

And since it only links to th3 animation of the miner, i was thinking i of just doing a variable increase thing

Where each increase just changes the sprite of the rock

This is a visual novel so dont worry about other rocks that need to be affected or something

There's only the one rock that gets mined to reveal the rune

[lean sail]

if you have many instances of an object, its possible not every event will be subscribed to. Think of a button, you can have 100 buttons on screen and theres a lot of events associated with each one (like onclick, hover enter, hover exit etc etc i dont actually remember more names)
So if you're just subscribing to the on click method, a lot of events are unused but they exist because someone might wanna use them

[cosmic rain]

What's the problem with making only the miner clickable? I feel like there's some context missing that makes it impossible for me to understand your issue...

[halcyon pelican]

The code only works to trigger the miner's animation. It doesnt activate additional animations outside of the one its attached to

[cosmic rain]

Isn't that what you want though? To animate the miner and nothing else? Then what's the problem?
That message only makes me more confused.
You should really restart your explanation and maybe attach some video/screenshots making it clearer if you have trouble explaining in words.

[halcyon pelican]

The miner is hitting a rock, a seperate object. The rune is on the rock after the miner hits the rock 4 times. I dont know how to impliment

1. Every time the trigger for the miner's animation activating, increase "number of times rock hit" by 1

And

2. Linking the variable of "number of times rock hit" to different sprites because as the miner hits the rock, the rock will degrade.

[cosmic rain]

The miner script could have a reference to a script on the rock.
Each time the miner hits the rock(on animation event for example), call a method on the rock(rock.Hit()). The method would increment a counter variable on the rock and when it reaches the desired count, activate your rune logic or whatever you want to do.

[halcyon pelican]

Hmm

Is it possible to make the reference a new script or do i have to add it to the miner's script?

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by "making the reference a new script". That sentence doesn't make any sense.😣

[lucid wigeon]

I see... In button example how would you remove unused events? Isn't it unknown which one will be clicked until it's clicked?

Anyway, how much cpu and memory could be used to be subscribed to a couple of events?

[lean sail]

well yes you wont know which is clicked, but you know which is subscribed to because someone would've called the add/remove function

[lean sail]

if its just a few events then it doesnt matter, but i was just saying it because you asked about having 1 event vs many. If you have many and its on many objects, it can somewhat start to be an issue

[halcyon pelican]

In a new script ...

[cosmic rain]

Why would you put the reference in a new script..?

[halcyon pelican]

Cause as said before, the script on the miner is one used in other objects but i can just make a seperate version for the miner if it needs to be in the same script

[timid badger]

hey guys, so im newbie in photon and i have a problem that when i play w/ two players the players swap the controls idk what is the problem can anyone fix that?

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using Photon.Pun;

public class FirstPersonMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5;

    [Header("Running")]
    public bool canRun = true;
    public bool IsRunning { get; private set; }
    public float runSpeed = 9;
    public KeyCode runningKey = KeyCode.LeftShift;

    Rigidbody rigidbody;

    PhotonView view;
    /// <summary> Functions to override movement speed. Will use the last added override. </summary>
    public List<System.Func<float>> speedOverrides = new List<System.Func<float>>();


  
    void Awake()
    {
        // Get the rigidbody on this.
        rigidbody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        view = GetComponent<PhotonView>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(view.IsMine)
        {
            
            // Update IsRunning from input.
         IsRunning = canRun && Input.GetKey(runningKey);

         // Get targetMovingSpeed.
         float targetMovingSpeed = IsRunning ? runSpeed : speed;
            if (speedOverrides.Count > 0)
            {
             targetMovingSpeed = speedOverrides[speedOverrides.Count - 1]();
             }

         // Get targetVelocity from input.
            Vector2 targetVelocity =new Vector2( Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * targetMovingSpeed, Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * targetMovingSpeed);

         // Apply movement.
         rigidbody.velocity = transform.rotation * new Vector3(targetVelocity.x, rigidbody.velocity.y, targetVelocity.y);
        }
    }
}

[halcyon pelican]

Where do i even put the the reference linking to the rock.

[cosmic rain]

It could be an extending(sub) class with the specific functionality. It could also be a separate script that does only the rune logic.
You'd add the reference as a serialized field, same as you do with most references.

[rancid frost]

A bit late, but I got everything working. Thanks!

[unique cloak]

    [System.Serializable]
    public class Class_A
    {
        //fields here
    }

    [System.Serializable]
    public class Class_B 
    {
       //fields here
    }

    [System.Serializable]
    public class Class_AB
    {
        public List<Class_A> class_a;
        public List<Class_B> class_b;

        public Class_AB()
        {
            class_a = new List<Class_A>();
            class_b = new List<Class_B>();
        }
    }

    Class_AB class_ab = new Class_AB();

Why can I not see class_ab in the inspector? this is inside a scriptable object

[cosmic rain]

Do you actually expose a serialized field of that type..?

[unique cloak]

Class_AB class_ab = new Class_AB();

the bottom line?

[tired elk]

because you didn't specify it as public

[cosmic rain]

This is not a serialized field.

[tired elk]

by default fields are private and are not exposed

[void remnant]

Hello, when I run the code bellow, an error pops up:
NullReferenceException: Do not create your own module instances, get them from a ParticleSystem instance
UnityEngine.ParticleSystem+MainModule.set_startSize (UnityEngine.ParticleSystem+MinMaxCurve value)

        var hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, transform.right, range);

        var main = Emmitter.main;
        if(hit.collider != null)
        {
            main.startSize = hit.distance;
            transform.localPosition = hit.distance * 0.5f * Vector2.right;
        }
        else
        {
            main.startSize = range;
            transform.localPosition = range * 0.5f * Vector2.right;

        }

In the documentation it says that yuo have to do this it this way (by storing ParticleSystem.main in a variable)

Why does the error appear and how do I fix it?

[cosmic rain]

What line is the error thrown at?

[ashen yoke]

is main a struct?

[void remnant]

In the documentation it says that it's not a normal struct

it's something different and I don't need to reasign it

a sort of interface

HEre's the line where the bug happens:

 main.startSize = range;

if I do it this way, it doesn't compile as Emitter.main is not a variable

Emitter.main.startSize = range;

I also tried

main.startSize = new ParticleSystem.MinMaxCurve(range);

still doesn't work

Here's a piece of code in a different script that works

        var mainSystem = Emitter.main;
        mainSystem.startSpeed = speed;
        mainSystem.gravityModifier = gravityIntensity;

        Emitter.Emit(1);

How can this work and the previous one not?

[leaden ice]

Is the particle system disabled by chance?

[void remnant]

Wait! I think I'm on to something... When I place the Gamobject with this script attached before I start the game, everything works just fine. But when I instantiate it at runtime, something breakes

[leaden ice]

What is Emitter referring to

Is it a prefab, or is it the instance in the scene

If it's the prefab that'd be why

[void remnant]

a prefab

[leaden ice]

Well yeah

That makes sense then

[void remnant]

wait how

[leaden ice]

Poor error message but, you're trying to mess with a particle system that isn't really initialized

It doesn't exist in the world

It's just a prefab

[void remnant]

one sec

[leaden ice]

Calling Emit on a prefab is similarly wild

[rancid frost]

How is this possible?

My array is returning all zeroes, but the static variables are set

[void remnant]

but I instantiate the prefab

//gun script
if (GetComponentInChildren<BulletT>(true) == null)
            Instantiate(bullet, transform.Find("ShootingSpot"));
//bellow is the bullet script
    void Awake()
    {
        Emitter = GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();
        Debug.Log(Emitter);
    }

[leaden ice]

Your code could have changed the values in the array after it was created for example

[rancid frost]

Would creating a variable reset the static onces?

[leaden ice]

Not really sure what you mean by that tbh

[rancid frost]

where is it being reset?

[void remnant]

oh wait, I think I know what happened. Thanks @leaden ice

[rancid frost]

could it be that the static array is initialized before the static variables are?

[prime sinew]

what does SetHexSize even do?

[lucid wigeon]

Doesn't it need to be

[SerializeField]
Class_AB class_ab = new Class_AB();

?

[prime sinew]

okay, so what are you trying to do with
HexTile hex;

what are you trying to reset?

[rancid frost]

Im creating a mesh using a group of hex

I created static variables to hold the hex sizes...which are uniform for all hexes

[prime sinew]

first things first, doing HexTile hex; like that has nothing to do with static variables. That's just creating a local variable of type HexTile

[ashen yoke]

outerRadius is const?

[rancid frost]

just static

[ashen yoke]

how does it compile even then

[prime sinew]

so what are you trying to reset?

[rancid frost]

im initiating static variables from another class

but the array for some reason is not updated

[ashen yoke]

TIL there are no limitations on static fields in initializer

which is very bad and you shouldnt do it

because exactly of your issue the order of init is undefined

[rancid frost]

so the array is getting init before the variables are then?

[ashen yoke]

right now yes

on next launch maybe not

undefined

[tired elk]

This or making the field public.

[ashen yoke]

@rancid frost instead of that just use InitializeOnLoadMethod or RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod

if you need the statics

actually not "or" but both for it to work correctly in editor as well, if you need it at edit time

[rancid frost]

ok, will do

[ashen yoke]

also where do you set the fields?

i dont see it

they are all 0

oh

no that would never work, the initialization happens when static contructor is invoked

so it will happen before you assign any values externally to those fields

thus they are zero

[rancid frost]

ok

[rancid frost]

since the array is not a method, i cant use those

[ashen yoke]

you dont use it on array

static class Util
{
    public int[] array;

    [RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod]
    static void Init()
    {
        array = ...
    }
}

this at least will ensure that the static constructor is called before everything else

not the first time you access static members of that class

plus not everything is allowed to be called from ctor, so this is a safe init point

[rancid frost]

ok

Is there a way to edit these values from editor?

I know static variables cant be edited from editor, I thought perhaps making it a singleton

[ashen yoke]

instead of that you should use a scriptable object

which you can then make a singleton if you need

so access would be something like

HexSettings.instance.stepDistance;

[uneven monolith]

Yeah scriptable objects as static variable holders are rly powerfull

[tired elk]

Having it as a singleton doesn't make much sense tho'

[uneven monolith]

I mean yeah u can just make it serializeable reference, or find it with resources folder find

Anyway the strength of SO is that u dont have to make new instance/object for it in every scene like you would with monobehaviour singleton

[rancid frost]

so SO = singleton?

[uneven monolith]

No

SO= Scriptable Object

ignore my brain lagging

But scritpable object can be singleton or not, doesnt rly matter that much, i think singleton is unnecessary, because it only saves the hustle of adding it to every object where u need it in inspector(which i myself avoid with custom attribute fields and other fancy stuff, but lets not go deeper onto that)

[rancid frost]

I see

so, if I am sure Im only gonna use it once and wont modify, I should go with SO

[ashen yoke]

no

[tired elk]

It's not that

[ashen yoke]

SO is simply a serialized class

data object, for configs, definitions etc

it is treated as just another asset on disk in the project that you can edit with inspector

[tired elk]

See it as a prefab that just holds your variables

[rancid frost]

ok

[lucid wigeon]

can you create SO simpler than adding definition and menu annotation and click menu -> scriptable object -> create my scriptable object?

[tired elk]

Depends on the use case, but you can instantiate it as you would with a prefab

[lucid wigeon]

what's the use case for that? doesn't it defeat the purpose of SO?

[tired elk]

Tool dev when your SO is a template for some object your tool would generate

At runtime, it's not necessarily interesting

[lucid wigeon]

ah, ok

[tired elk]

But, imagine you have an item editor to create fancy swords, shields, and so on, it is useful

[lucid wigeon]

so that's to generate and save SO dynamically I understand

instead of clicking create and filling out SO properties manually

[lucid wigeon]

Do you try to write your scripts so that anything that is possible will work in the editor? E.g. for generating terrain you don't need a game instance and just a custom editor with "Re-generate" button. So that you can fiddle with that instead of hitting "Play" all the time. Is that good or a waste of time?

[rain minnow]

Yeah, I couldn't exactly remember the syntax and didn't have an IDE at the time. That looks more familiar . . .

[trim schooner]

Only you can answer that question for your use case

[ashen yoke]

things like these can accelerate content production massively

you just need to weigh cost/benefits

[lucid wigeon]

Ok, thanks

[simple ridge]

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to do a Physics.CheckSphere, but only for a specific collider?
I know I could just do OverlapSphere and then loop through checking if that sphere was in the list, but that seems inefficient to me given I only want to test against 1 collider rather then many. Is this possible?

[primal wind]

Use a layer or tag

A tag would be better

[tired elk]

You can put the specific collider on a special layer and make your CheckSphere use a layermask

[simple ridge]

It would be a bit hard to do this given I'm using tags and layers for these spheres already for something else. Is there a way to do this without layers and tags?

colliders* not sphers sorry

[quaint rock]

you could use methods from the collider its self

[fervent furnace]

Create a script or put some variable on the script that can help you distinguish different gameobjects

[quaint rock]

colliders have there own ClosestPoint and Raycast methods

that only act on said collider

[simple ridge]

Does the collider have (is contained within sphere) type methods? I'll look into that. thanks

[quaint rock]

what type of collider is it?

also you could just say screw it, and do a regular sphere check, and just filter the results based on a component

[ashen yoke]

2d/3d?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.ComputePenetration.html

for 3d

[primal wind]

I had no idea that was a thing

That could be useful in the future

[tired elk]

But I think it doesn't really answer their problem. I think their idea was to ignore all but a specific collider. ComputePenetration would still require to loop through colliders which entered the overlap sphere (from what the example show I mean)

[quaint rock]

either see if you can do what you want based on the per collider methods

or jsut filter out the results

[ashen yoke]

i dont understand, if you already know the specific collider why loop?

[quaint rock]

either by holding reference to the good colliders and comparing

or checking for a component

[simple ridge]

Its meant to be a 3D pickup interactable system for VR, so interactable items sit on a interactable layer (then get shifted to a different layer so they don't interact with the hands for a few frames after release). I'm working on expanding this to two hands to allow for the second hand to look like its changing its anaimation if its attempting interaction and is within range of the given collider. This is more or less done now but right now I'm using a distance check. I want to make this more robust and have it be that if the collider that invokes the interaction is still colliding during a "holding phase" then change animation, rather then just doing it arbitaruly with a distance check (as there could be much larger or smaller objects)

[quaint rock]

k but what i said would still work

[simple ridge]

This seems good, can you create colliders as tempuary objects rather then having to use components?

[simple ridge]

Yeah I think I am just going to do that

[quaint rock]

regular OverlapSphere, then you check the results contains the collider you care about

[tired elk]

Right. But why would the OverlapSphere object hold a ref to the other Collider ?

[simple ridge]

Collider[] result = UnityEngine.Physics.OverlapSphere(_transform.position + _transform.rotation * _sphereCollisionTestOffset, _sphereCollisionTestRadius, _interactionlayerMask);
return result.Any(resultsCollider => collider.GetInstanceID() == resultsCollider.GetInstanceID());

This is what I think I'll go with for now, just filter the results and see if the spehre I care about is in there. But I am intrested to see if there are better ways of doing this though

[quaint rock]

since there is already a interactable layer, you are not going to need to loop that much

though i would use the NonAlloc version

why use instanceid

you can just compare the colliders directly

[simple ridge]

Good point xD

[quaint rock]

they are reference types and will compare by pointer

[simple ridge]

Removed the instance ID part now

[ashen yoke]

confused me, initially it was a specific collider test, turned out to be actually finding a specific collider

[quaint rock]

well its a certain collider he just wants to know if its in a certain radius

[tired elk]

Why use physics if it's just a distance test ?

[quaint rock]

also, if its 1 collider and 1 raidus to check

distance is enough

though guess he wants to account of the size of the collider

[tired elk]

If it's a primitive collider, you can access its size and adjust your distance formula without using Physics. It would cost less.

[quaint rock]

thats assuming its not a mesh or a compound collider

[tired elk]

But, I don't know their exact use case, so I'll assume they know what they want

[quaint rock]

also 1 physics call is not worth opmtizing

like not at all,

[simple ridge]

I assume distance check would need to use the closet point on a sphere. Which I can get with the collider, but what would happen with the point is inside the collider?

[quaint rock]

have done plenty of games with hundreds of raycasts per frame, and perf is fine

would just make it work in the way you best understand and move on to other things to solve

[tired elk]

Since they were talking developing for VR, I assumed the less it costs, the better it would be

[simple ridge]

Yeah probs for the best, I'm jsut just obessing over the performance

[quaint rock]

we are still talking 2 things of very similar performance, so would go for corectness and ease of understanding above all

[tired elk]

And I agree with this statement lmao

[quaint rock]

perf you learn with experience what to worry about. but generally make it right and easy to understand and only if there is a issue profile and learn why

10 or 12 years ago, i am sure i used to obess over small things like that too, just kinda comes with learning

[simple ridge]

Yeah xD

Thanks btw for helping out!

[glad briar]

Hi everyone, I came here with a question, I actually try to make some UnitTest on my unityGame et learn about Assembly, I create a Assembly for test and my principal application and I wanted to create another assembly for my Object models, but I have a problem, in my assembly I linked the Application assembly (the main prog) and the Entities assembly, in my application, nothing change it’s work good, but, I wanted to move my player script in a model and I use some script in my main assembly.
So the question is: did I have a possibility to use some script from the main (if I link the Application assembly to the Entities assembly he gonna make a loop so a new error) or I need to recreate my player object?

[rancid frost]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/add-a-reference-to-assembly-csharp-in-assembly-definition-file.541161/

[glad briar]

i did this

but if I do this in my entities and link the main project ( Application) I get a error because I create a loop

I don't know if this gonna help but i create a schema of my problem

[lament river]

Any idea why invoking UnityEvent doesn't play particle effect? It does invoke other methods correctly and the particle system plays correctly if I press the editor's Play button

[swift falcon]

I doubt this is possible to do in any easy way but...

Can I somehow get the material ID of where my raycast hits?

[vast current]

idk if this is the right channel for this but I want to make real-time voxel models in my game, so i have instantiated some gameobjects for the general shape of the voxel and i want to 'scan' over these game objects and generate a mesh which converts them to voxel, does anybody know how i can do this?

[steady moat]

You should follow a tutorial on how to do it.

There is multiple one out there

[vast current]

you could use hit.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material to get the material?

[steady moat]

sharedMaterial*

[vast current]

ok i'll have a look thanks

[swift falcon]

Yeh but there are multiple materials, so it's getting the correct one

[steady moat]

You can get all material of a given mesh

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-sharedMaterials.html

[swift falcon]

Yeh that's not the issue, I was hoping there might be some kind of way of the ray cast telling me what face was hit so I can get the ID from that

But I guess I'm going to have to just have colliders for different material ID segments and pull an ID from that... Not how I'd like to do it but I think that's the only way?

[steady moat]

You mean https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit-triangleIndex.html ?

Which you can use with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.GetSubMesh.html

[swift falcon]

Hmm that might be the way, thanks

I'll have a look

I see so the Submesh is rendered seperately because of the shader on it, so that'd be my material ID

[vernal bridge]

hello im not sure if this is the right channel but does anyone know why this happens?

[fervent furnace]

so what happens?

[swift falcon]

It gets locked in an animation

The animator states might not be set right so it's not exiting out of that run animation

Or your code isn't updating it right

[steady moat]

#🏃┃animation Might be because of exit time.

[vernal bridge]

i observed that when i disabled the constraint for the freeze rotation option the problem didnt occur

[rigid island]

code?

[vernal bridge]

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

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Animator anim;
    private SpriteRenderer sprite;
    private float dirX = 0;
    
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        sprite = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    private void Update()
    {
        dirX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(dirX * 8f, rb.velocity.y);

        UpdateAnimationUpdate();
    }
    

    private void UpdateAnimationUpdate()
    {
        if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, 14);
        }
        if (dirX > 0f)
        {
            anim.SetBool("running", true);

        }
        else if (dirX < 0f)
        {
            anim.SetBool("running", true);
            sprite.flipX = true;
        }
        else
        {
            anim.SetBool("running", false);
        }
    }
}

[rigid island]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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

[prisma birch]

So I have been going absolutely crazy trying to find the culprit of this twitch on my player character's left arm. At first I thought this might be an animation problem (the hints and IK controls are the visualized gizmos) but none of them are moving in a way that should cause this. The twist is this only happens in some of my scenes. Does anyone know what I might be missing?

[static matrix]

is there a fix the non-uniform parent thing? or do I just have to suffer

[leaden ice]

rule of thumb: don't do non uniform scaling on any objects that have children

[static matrix]

but what if I have to?

[leaden ice]

Is your object far away from the origin in world space?

[leaden ice]

you never have to

[static matrix]

it seems ineffecient to make a different model for every stretched cube that happens to have children

[leaden ice]

show me your hierarchy, I'll show you how you can rearrange it

[leaden ice]

you are doing it wrong

[static matrix]

ok ok one second

[leaden ice]

you are doing this:

Cube (MeshRenderer, scaled)
  Child```

You should do this:

Empty Parent
  Cube (MeshRenderer, scaled)
  Child```

[static matrix]

good point
I have tried to do that and Im doing it more

bro at the start of this project I was making all of my mats emissive 💀

[steep herald]

is there an existing attribute/easy hack to have a field of a subclass be serialized above the fields of their parent class in the editor?

[pallid cedar]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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```
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[prisma birch]

Wow, that looks to be the issue somehow.

[leaden ice]

Try to keep your objects within ~1000 units from the origin

[prisma birch]

All of my scenes are placed relative to one another, ie a zone in the north will be much further on the Z.

[leaden ice]

if you have a large world you will need to use a floating origin technique

Otherwise this will be a constant issue

[prisma birch]

Yeah I've heard of this although I didn't realize how quickly it can become a problem. The issue is happening right around 900 units from the origin. How does it work? I'm curious why the issue is only presenting itself on this one obscure case on the player's idle animation.

[leaden ice]

that's just hte nature of floating point numbers

the distribution is such that they are much more concentrated around the origin

and it drops off very quickly

half of all possible floating point values are between -1 and 1

float is a 32 bit value so only a finite number of numbers are possible to represent

[prisma birch]

Yeah that makes sense. I'm just confused why it's only presenting itself on one aspect of the animation and no others.

[leaden ice]

as you get further from the origin, the distance between these values increases, hence less precision

[thin aurora]

You can also see it happening to part of the shadow

[leaden ice]

it's actually also happening in the shadow

under the right chin

[thin aurora]

I guess those are the ones who can't get an accurate value

The rest probably has some sort of precise value

If you move the character it probably happends to the rest too?

[olive karma]

hey, so Im making a game and I need to code so that the camera and the character are 0.266m away from each other so I coded a script that makes the camera always be 0.266 more on the Z axis but now when I look the other way I see my own body

and I did that cuz I want the player to be able to look down and see his legs

can someone suggest something that can make for example the character always teleport 0.266 behind the camera on the Z axis in that rotation, cuz I programmed the character to rotate and move with the camera

[prisma birch]

@leaden ice @thin aurora I believe that is just the way my toon shader presents itself from the scene camera. I'm not noticing a difference in shadow quality between 0, 0, 0 and 1500, 0, 1500

It seems the only thing behaving differently is that arm

[olive karma]

!image

can I post images here?

I am trying to make this game where the distance between your character and the camera is 0.266, the camera is in front of the player and when you look down you see your own body. Everything works well but when you start rotating the character does rotate but since the camera is 0.266m in front of it and you rotate 180° you see your own eyes.

How do I fix this issue I brainstormed of ideas how I can fix this but just can't implement them. I tried making the character basically orbit the camera while rotating and the same with the camera. Can someone please try to help me?

[rigid island]

eh just cull the face meshes from the camera

[olive karma]

but its also doing it with the legs so if I disable viewing the legs I wont see them in the front and I want to see them

[rigid island]

your head shouldn't even be able to rotate past the shoulders anyway

if you rotate past that your body would turn

[olive karma]

yea but I just made code that rotates the camera anywhere while moving the character with it

[olive karma]

would you be able to vc cuz its hard to explain by words

[rigid island]

negative

[rigid island]

time to change it then

[olive karma]

do I have to tho

[rigid island]

also part of the problem though i bet is near clipping plane

[olive karma]

I dont think so

well I guess I am going to change the code

ty

[vast current]

Ive got an array of vector3s where i want voxels to be placed using a custom mesh renderer, does anybody know how i can cycle loops through the positions and create the voxel faces at each one, I can't find a tutorial just for this

[leaden ice]

Use a for loop

[vast current]

i've got that, im just confused on what all the vertices and tris need to be

[versed loom]

Are these animation events bad for performance, since it says they are the same as SendMessage?

[lusty echo]

Hi, I'm attempting to create a low-poly model of a room and would like to animate each component - the planks, doors, windows, etc., - flying into their correct positions. I've considered using a shader and vertex color but would prefer a method that offers more control. Does anyone have suggestions on the easiest way to achieve this?

[steady moat]

Animate in what way ?

[steady moat]

Yes and no. They are definitely not performant, however it should not cause an issue.

[lusty echo]

Like every element fly in

[steady moat]

What do you mean ?

A 1 time animation ?

[versed loom]

got it, thanks

[lusty echo]

Finally two animation, first when room appears, and then element fly out when before I remove room

[steady moat]

Just use an animator if it is always the same motion or use code otherwise.

Definitly not shader

[lusty echo]

But it's ok if you have a lot separate meshes instead of one

Because I have to have all elements separately

To animate every planks etc

[steady moat]

Yes, you can as many as you want item.

[lusty echo]

Ok so other question, I imported model from blender and Its automaticly created a prefab with all meshes, and right no I want add script to this prefab end get all children meshes how I can hande it?

[leaden ice]

pull the prefab into the scene
right click it -> Prefab -> Unpack Prefab Completely
Do whatever you want with it
Save as a new prefab by dragging the object into your project window/assets folder

[dusky pelican]

Hello, i made a ScriptableObject for creating quests. But the problem is when i start the scene some values are going default every time here is the before start and after start

Just three of them going default

[leaden ice]

you'd have to show code

the instance ID of the second object shows that it was created at runtime

the first one is an asset

[dusky pelican]

Ah so

I need to make an init

for it

Thank you! I will do it. Probably %99 will be done

[leaden ice]

System.Serializable is not needed for a ScriptableObject

[rocky jackal]

I need some help with rotations. I need to calculate the difrence between 2 objects and apply it to a third one but i get a difrent rotation everytime and i couldnt find a solution online.

[leaden ice]

Quaternion diff = toObject.rotation * Quaternion.Inverse(fromObject.rotation);
affectedObject.rotation *= diff;```

should be that

[rocky jackal]

thank you, that worked

[austere lodge]

hey im having issues with a model i rigged with maximo does anyone reconize the issue?

[leaden ice]

not a code question

[austere lodge]

Sorry

[weak nexus]

okay, so my friend followed some of sebastian langue's prod landmass generation and we're not done with the series yet and ours is slightly different than his but not too different, but our issue anyways is that our chunks are inconsistent and dont offset correctly as shown here, only some of them are connecting fine but very few only

i dont know which part of the code would affect this, i do know the codebase because i learned it a bit as well but i don't know where to look for this

we got past threading to the "seams" episode

[orchid bane]

Is it important to keep namespaces? Rider constantly puts them in for me but I don't feel a need for them

[leaden ice]

Namespaces are good for organizing your code. If you don't feel they're helping you, you don't need them

they are an organizational tool only

they also let you use the same class name twice (by having it in different namespaces)

[pure cliff]

Its a good habit to be in, I believe the compiler can produce a better result if you setup namespaces for it correctly

I want to say in some way or another your compile time improves, because without namespaces the compiler basically has to search your entire project for everything, whereas namespaces substantially reduce its search space for <thing>

[latent latch]

I usually divide my enums out via namespaces

[pure cliff]

I think also it helps with recompiling, because the compiler can check if a given namespace is "dirty" and determine if it needs recompiling?

Like if you have files in NamespaceA and NamespaceB, and you make changes to a file in NamespaceB, it will only recompile the stuff for NamespaceB, because it can tell that nothing changed over in A.,.. I think

compilers are like 95% ancient black magicks so, its prolly 1000x more complicated than that

[jaunty sleet]

Does anyone know the difference between declaring a two dimensional array like this: int[,] array; or like this: int[][] array; ? Is the difference just that with the second option you can have different length arrays in the second dimension?

[pure cliff]

exactly, the first one is always a "Rectangle" so to say

[jaunty sleet]

Ok, cool. I just found out about the second option. Using a list of arrays is annoying to get different length ones, this is much better

[pure cliff]

Depending on the purpose of the object, you may also wanna consider a Hashset<Vector2> or etc

[jaunty sleet]

It's arrays of indexes, so I think this one makes more sense

For the state of user choices in different parts of my menu, so when they come back to it the same choice is still selected

[stark thicket]

Hey all, I was wondering if any of you have worked with WebCamTextures before. I am trying to get the webcam into a 48x48 Color32[], and figured a good way to do that would be to read the WebCamTexture in as a 48x48 texture. However, after calling webcamTexture.Play() it seems to immediately change the texture back to 1920x1080. If I don't call webcamTexture.Play(), it seems to be stuck at 16x16, I have no idea where it's getting that from. Any help is MASSIVELY appreciated!

https://hatebin.com/atgegprhbs

[spring creek]

Do you mean always a "square" in the first one? Otherwise, I'm now confused about the difference. I thought the SECOND one had different lengths (thus, a rectangle) but the first has the same lengths (thus, a square)

[cobalt gyro]

    {
        currentWeaponIndex += (int)Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");
        weapon.currentWeaponData = weapons[currentWeaponIndex];
        
        if (currentWeaponIndex < 0)
            currentWeaponIndex = weapons.Count - 1;
        if (currentWeaponIndex > weapons.Count - 1)
            currentWeaponIndex = 0;
    }``` for some reason the variable "currentWeaponIndex" isn't looping, does anyone know why?

[stark thicket]

In case anyone comes across a similar problem, I am possibly making some headway with Graphics.Blit()

[lapis egret]

Make sure nothing is setting them?
I recommend ctrl+shift+f and find all instances of that variable. (Or ctrl+t for symbol search)

[leaden ice]

if oyu're on Windows, Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel"); is going to return values like -120, 120

you're also doing weapon.currentWeaponData = weapons[currentWeaponIndex]; before you wrap the index

so you'll end up getting an error before it happens (and also stopping the wrapping code from running)

[lapis egret]

wrap the index?

[simple egret]

The two if statements. Wrap the value around for it to not get out of bounds

But yeah and the 120, -120 will actually depend on your Windows settings, you're better off checking if the value is positive or negative and adding/subtracting 1 accordingly

[lapis egret]

Ahh yeah I see it now

[cobalt gyro]

ty it works now

[elfin tree]

Can anyone point me towards a solution for using the New Unity Input System across multiple scenes as it's not possible (or I do not know how) to assign functions and objects from other scenes to be triggered by key presses? Thanks

[leaden ice]

The input system is really not relevant to the question. You're basically just asking at this point how to have objects reference objects from other scenes

and there are tons of ways to do that, such as:

• using singletons
• using opportunistic assignment (assigning references when instantiating things, or colliding with things)
• using Find-style functions like FindWithTag

with the input system in the mix it would just involve either your scripts getting references to the input system constructs, or the scripts that handle input getting references to the other scripts to do stuff. Either way can work

[elfin tree]

I can do that part, my issue is assigning an object + contained function to an actionEvent in the New Input System at runtime (not even sure if doable).

[leaden ice]

InputActions have events for performed, started, canceled and you can subscribe to those at runtime

they are normal C# events

that is one possible way to do it

[elfin tree]

Oh okay, will read into that, thanks.
Do you happen to know how to access them?

Or could point me towards the right doc

[simple egret]

inputActions.yourActionName.performed += ...

[leaden ice]

idk what actionEvents is really

that's not what you need

depending on what _playerInput is, will determine the answer

[elfin tree]

It's a default New Input System thing (afaik)

[leaden ice]

if it's an instance of the built in PlayerInput component, you'd do something like _playerInput.actions["MapName/ActionName"].performed += MyFunction;

[simple egret]

Okay so that doesn't require you to subscribe to events from your own script

[elfin tree]

That's it I think

[leaden ice]

you could also just assign the unity event to a function on the object itself, and then delegate from there however you wish in code

either with your own event, or... whatever else you want to do

[simple egret]

This component does it for you, and you have some options to have the events relayed to you

[elfin tree]

That's how I decided to handle multiple scenes, could be not the best way to go about it but that's what I got so far

[elfin tree]

interesting

[simple egret]

It's one of the few ways to receive input. You could also tick "Generate C# class" on your input actions asset, and then create a new instance of it here and there, on each script that needs to receive input

Even in multiple scenes

On multiple objects at once

[leaden ice]

note then that those instances will be separate

[elfin tree]

hmm, so does the function have to be something special?

[leaden ice]

which might be ok for you and might not

[leaden ice]

it needs to follow the delegate type

[leaden ice]

first off that's not how you subscribe

you don't call it

get rid of the ()

[elfin tree]

Ah and method needs callbackcontext, i see

[leaden ice]

second - it has to match the delegate type:

Action<InputAction.CallbackContext>```

yes

it needs that InputAction.CallbackContext parameter

and to return void

[grand gale]

in inspector, i have a small silly button to generate nodes called Create
what this does is call Create on a class Navmesh
Create goes through all objects in the scene (this is gonna be changed since its slow and kinda pointless, but it works for now), and creates a node for each vertices each object has
Nodes are valid, their positions and everything.
However, in the following code:

public void OnDrawGizmos() {
    foreach (Node node in Nodes) {
        foreach (Node connection in node) {
            Gizmos.DrawLine(node.position + Vector3.up, connection.position + Vector3.up);
        }
    }
}```
The lines only appear for a frame (unless the scene view is frozen, such as doing something outside of the scene view, but still a frame technically), why is that? They also don't re-appear, even though ``Nodes`` doesn't get cleared or anything

[orchid bane]

I have a camera controller which is supposed to follow the player. It subscribes to the player spawner to start following after the player is spawned. However the player spawner happens to work before the camera controller (both things happen in awake). How would you solve such a problem?

[elfin tree]

@leaden ice @simple egret any idea what could wrong here?

[leaden ice]

what is line 21

[elfin tree]

If the string is wrong it will give a different error so "Game/Toggle Console" is correct

[elfin tree]

It's the line shown above in the screenshot

_playerInput.actions["Game/Toggle Console"].performed += GameServices.ConsoleKeyInputsTemp.InputToggleConsole;

[leaden ice]

what is GameServices.ConsoleKeyInputsTemp.InputToggleConsole?

[leaden ice]

and GameServices.ConsoleKeyInputsTemp?

[leaden ice]

so - are you sure that's not null?

Yeah it's probably null

it's not getting assigned until Start

[elfin tree]

ahhh...

let me give that a try

[leaden ice]

And you're doing this subscription in Awake

you should reverse it

That GameManager thing should be Awake

and the subscription should happen in Start

[hidden flicker]

how could I reference the player rigidbody to the grenade? i want to add the velocity of the player to the velocity of the grenade gameobject

[leaden ice]

I would just do this in the script presumably on the player that throws the grenade

[hidden flicker]

how would you do that

[leaden ice]

have it directly reference the player's RB

and add the velocity when throwing the grenade

[hidden flicker]

how might i have it directly reference it and get that information to the script

[leaden ice]

the same way you did it in the grenade script

make a public field

drag and drop it in

[elfin tree]

@leaden ice that was indeed it (plus other extra me errors), tyvm, i'm now able to reproduce it for other actions/scenes!

[leaden ice]

I would do it something like this:

public Rigidbody playerBody; // drag and drop
public Grenade grenadePrefab; // drag and drop the prefab here

void ThrowGrenade() {
  Grenade newGrenade = Instantiate(grenadePrefab);
  newGrenade.Throw(playerBody.velocity + whateverOtherVelocityYouWant);
}``` @hidden flicker

[hidden flicker]

ok thank you

[naive swallow]

I have an interface that is only implemented on MonoBehaviours. If I make a variable of type interface, it doesn't serialize in the inspector, I think because it doesn't know it's a UnityEngine Object. I can't System.Serializable an interface either. Is there a way I can drag in a MonoBehaviour implementing an interface into a variable of that interface's type?

[swift falcon]

Is there a best practice for determining if a Rigidbody (not Rigidbody2D) is grounded? I'm working on a hierarchal state machine w/ a grounded super-state.

[leaden ice]

Using SerializeReference on the field I believe

[naive swallow]

Hm, it shows up in the inspector now, but there's no box to drag in

[uneven monolith]

U cant serialize interface iirc

[stark thicket]

Ok double update: I actually don't know if I've made progress. The rendertexture seems to not actually take on the values assigned to it

[somber nacelle]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/serialization/interfaces

[elfin tree]

Is there a simple way to use lighting settings from an additive scene, loaded at runtime?

(instead of settings from the scene used to load the additive scene which happens by default)

[weak nexus]

would anyone know anything about this

[leaden ice]

Unity uses the lighting settings from whatever the "active" scene is currently

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.SetActiveScene.html

[hidden flicker]

I'm trying to get the grenade to invoke the explode method in the explosion script, but i'm getting the "object reference not set to instance of an object" error.

[leaden ice]

sounds like you didn't assign explosion in the inspector

[uneven monolith]

What line gives that error(it reads on the log and also u should be able to double click it to open right that line)

[hidden flicker]

16, grenade

[uneven monolith]

Your ss doesnt show lines ;-;

[hidden flicker]

the prefab has the script, though.

[leaden ice]

it's the one with invoke

[hidden flicker]

oops lmao

[leaden ice]

and this is the reason for the error

[uneven monolith]

Yeah, sounds like it

[hidden flicker]

the grenade prefab has the explosion script

[leaden ice]

but you didn't assign the field

[uneven monolith]

Show inspector of grenade

[leaden ice]

this looks like a totally different script

[hidden flicker]

wait wrong screenshot

[leaden ice]

where's the Grenade script here?

[hidden flicker]

at the top

[leaden ice]

as per this screenshot there should be an explosion field on it

[uneven monolith]

No that has just capsule collider, rigidbody, and explosion

[hidden flicker]

theere we go

[leaden ice]

the fields in your inspector aren't matching the ones in your script. That means you have two different scripts or you haven't saved your code

[hidden flicker]

solved it. the reference to the explosion script said explosion, so i thought it had autoreferenced

it had not

[uneven monolith]

Autoreferencing isnt a thing in unity

||😭😭||

[hidden flicker]

i mean i think it's done it before???

[elfin tree]

thanks, exactly what i was looking for

[leaden ice]

never

you are misremembering

[hidden flicker]

:(

[swift falcon]

I'm working with a hierarchal state machine, and in my grounded super-state (currently my only existing state), for some reason, my character's rigidbody just won't move. The following is my code in FixedUpdate().

  //Vector3 moveDirection = new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y);
  //moveDirection = _sc.Player.transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
  //moveDirection *= _sc.Speed;


  _sc.PlayerRB.MovePosition(new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y));

[leaden ice]

MovePosition takes in an absolute position. It's not relative

at the very least I would expect _sc.PlayerRB.MovePosition(_sc.PlayerRB.position + new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y));

Also why are you calculating this moveDirection variable and then ignoring it?

[swift falcon]

Sorry, let me provide more context:

There is an InputManager script that manages all the inputs. The movement input is read as a Vector2. move is a reference to the movement input being read as a Vector2 (this reference is not in the FixedUpdate()). I should have commented out a certain part of the code before sending.

[leaden ice]

I thought that much was obvious

my comments still stand

[swift falcon]

move = _sc.PlayerInputManager.imMovementInput;

^^^ This is being set in OnEnter().

[leaden ice]

none of that changes what I wrote. It reinforces it actually