archived-code-general

[steady moat]

You know that they will happens don't you ?

You just calculated everything that would happens

[pure cliff]

Yeah but I need to do some kind of min max system cuz it may, or may not, need time compression or even stretching, but also with a clamped min and max

Let's say attack anim is 6 frames, movement is just a translation so can be any speed but it's 1 unity unit.

Let's say attack-move-attack. So if I had a min of lets say 15 frames, that's 6 frames to attack, 3 frames to move, 6 frames attack again

Effectively I can have a list of (float minTime, float maxTime) for each entity

And then I have to pick the "right" time that satisfies all of those?

[steady moat]

Why min and max time. You know how much time it will take ?

[pure cliff]

I don't, the times are mutable, I have to pick the right value

[steady moat]

There is just one outcome possible when all action has been chose doesnt it ?

[pure cliff]

I can speed up or slow down any entities animations and movements

So some enemies may have an ability that takes 1s, some may just be idling which will have a min of 0 and max of infinite

[steady moat]

You know how much time it would take given a normal execution. Then you just normalize it.

I do not understand why you have a min and max. It seem clear to me that if you are doing a turn by turn, when all action are chosen, there is only 1 outcome.

[pure cliff]

I guess there is no max, I can infinitely slow down anything, so its just mins right?

[steady moat]

I'm not talking about slowing down or not.

I'm talking before even doing any of that.

You know that it is going to take Xs for entity A and Ys for entity B.

The you just normalize

[pure cliff]

Not everyone is same time to complete their turn by default, but I want them all to stay in synch so anyone who is "too fast" I wanna slow down to match the slowest

[glacial loom]

hello I don't really understand, which class does this go in?

[pure cliff]

The child class

[steady moat]

Read on polymorphism

[steady moat]

So, it is not a turn by turn (tradional). Everyone plays their turn at the same time ?

[pure cliff]

Exactly yeh

But in synch cuz multiple turns can be "queued"

[steady moat]

Then how could you make it works ? If anyone can just play whatever they want at anytime.

[pure cliff]

Player can click 3 squares over, which is 3 turns worth of movement, so every other entity will do 3 turns of actions

[steady moat]

So, it is turn by turn. Everyone choose an action, then it is executed at the same time.

[pure cliff]

But I pre-calc all the 3 turns of moves first, then hand everyone their queues of actions.

But to avoid weird looking playout, I want them to know how long each turn will take so everyone stays in sync

[pure cliff]

yup!

[steady moat]

Then, you still know how much time it is going to take.

You can just normalize the time.

For every entities

[pure cliff]

Exactly

[steady moat]

Then what is the issue ?

[pure cliff]

The tricky part is just that the player can do more than 1 move in 1 round due to auto attacks

[steady moat]

This also is known

[pure cliff]

Doing the sort of shrink/grow math to make it fit

[carmine wind]

Vector3[] faceDirections = {
transform.up, -transform.up,
transform.right, -transform.right,
transform.forward, -transform.forward
};
....
private bool CheckFaceCollision(Vector3 faceDirection)
{
    Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, faceDirection);
    RaycastHit hit;

    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 1, LayerMask.GetMask("Floor")))
    {
        if (Mathf.Approximately(Vector3.Dot(ray.direction, Vector3.up), 0))
            return true;
        return false;
    }

    return false;
}

I have this script to check if my cubic box is laying flat on the floor but it doesn't seem to be working I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.
it's supposed to do a raycast to see if it hits the floor and also at what angle. if it's perpendicular it's sitting flat

[steady moat]

Why wouldnt it be ?

[pure cliff]

Mostly just trying to work the math out

[steady moat]

You know how to normalize stuff don't you ?

[pure cliff]

I think it's all just min times and I just pick the slowest min time, theoretically

[steady moat]

You divided all by the larger

[pure cliff]

But then maybe I still need a static const min time any given round can be?

[steady moat]

There is no need for a min.

Nor a max

Just the longest

[pure cliff]

Well I want to specify that certain actions cannot go any faster than x

Like "this can't take any less than 0.6s" to avoid the anim looking bad

[sinful ginkgo]

I have tried everything i could think of including the answers in the forums to fix it but it still shows the same error

[steady moat]

You just need to take care of that when you find the longest

In fact, you could even use this as the normal time.

[pure cliff]

It seems like I just assign a min to everything, plus one static "round" min that makes it so rounds can't go any faster than say, 0.5s, and I just get the max of them all to get the fastest I can possibly go without exceeding any limit

I can then nicely default it to 0 on my MBs and only need to set it for animations that actually need a min

That... might work

[steady moat]

If you find the largest, then normalize base on it. Everything will be longer. I would start by that, this is simple.

If it really looks goofy, you could then figure out how to properly make the action longer to fit the longest one.

[sinful ginkgo]

I had reimportet the same package 3 times and it magically fixed itself so fixed I guess

[carmine wind]

could anyone help?

[heady iris]

when is faceDirections being declared and assigned?

and have you done anything to verify that it's actually raycasting in the way you expect?

i.e. using Debug.DrawRay

[leaden ice]

the dot product would be 1 if they were approximately aligned. But you likely want to do hit.normal not ray.direction
and a simpler way to check is like if (Vector3.Angle(hit.normal, Vector3.up) < 1)

if you're not using the hit normal I don't see the point of the raycast

[carmine wind]

ok I'll try both of your suggestions

[leaden ice]

also I'm unsure why you even need to a do a raycast in the first place

shouldn't you just compare transform.up to Vector3.up?

[lean sail]

it still can be rotated by laying flat, so you just compare the transform.up to like vector3.up, -vector3.up etc

or all the transform.up etc to vector.up

[heady iris]

if the ground is flat, then a raycast perpendicular to the ground's normal vector will never hit it

[carmine wind]

it can rotate and still be laying on the floor. it's a cube so on different sides

[heady iris]

also, Mathf.Approximately is still a very tight tolerance

i wish there was a convenient Mathf.Distance method

Mathf.Abs(x-y) < 0.01f works, I guess

[leaden ice]

ok so compare the angles of each side with vector3.up

I don't see what the raycast is for

[carmine wind]

it could be in the air

actually no I'm using it in OnCollisionStay nvm

[elfin tree]

Hey, I have this code (image 1) that takes a terrain that's already in the scene and generate copies around it, it works, only thing is, it seems like the instantiated ones are not quite like the initial one in their position, probably due to the way I instantiate them and a gap is created ONLY BELOW THE STARTING ONE, any idea how I can resolve this?

[lean sail]

!code please that is unreadable

[tawny elk]

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[elfin tree]

sorry, here you go!
https://hatebin.com/iqzqqrifvw

[hidden compass]

ur using intialTerrainPos.x for both the X and Z coord

not sure if that might be causing the gap

[elfin tree]

that was exactly it, tyvm!

[hidden compass]

np

[slim flower]

I have a quick question, Im making a scriptable object that acts as the info for a team, it has inside of it a int for a index, int for score, and a list of a component which all the players have which acts as a list ofa ll palyers on that team. When i try to edit or add values to this list, for example. (Teams is a list of all of the scriptable objects):

Teams[index].Players.Add(player);

this returns an error saying something is null. How can i fix this. The code for the list "Players" in the scriptable object code is

public List<TeamTag> Players;

i dont understand why this isnt working. Any help is appreciated :)

[leaden ice]

either Teams Teams[index] or Teams[index].Players is null

you have to figure out which

you can attach the debugger or use Debug.Log

[slim flower]

I have

[leaden ice]

and?

[slim flower]

none of them seem to be

[leaden ice]

one of them must be

Show your investigation steps

[slim flower]

let me check again

[leaden ice]

and what the results were

[slim flower]

alr

oh wait

i think i may be stupid

dont i have to initialize the list by using the code

= new List<TYPE>()

._.

[leaden ice]

yes that will be necessary if the list isn't being serialized by Unity

[slim flower]

thank you

let me try to do that

ahhaha i cant believe i forot about that part

everything seems to work now

thank you so much, i cant believe i was so stupid

[tawdry jasper]

I installed the official newtonsoft json package, but in vscode it flags using Newtonsoft.Json; as an error?

[somber nacelle]

Regenerate project files

Also if you're using assembly definitions don't forget to reference the assembly

[static matrix]

im doing a random movement thing, and my animals keep moving up and to the right
is this a psudorand problem? or is it something in my code (Ill send it if its more likely to be the latter)

[somber nacelle]

Show code

[static matrix]

Tile TryGetValidTile()
    {
        start:
        List<Tile> AdjTiles = TileOn.GetAdjacentTiles();
        Tile TryTargTile = AdjTiles[Random.Range(0, AdjTiles.Count)];
        if (TryTargTile)
        {
            if (TryTargTile.IsWater)
            {
                goto start;
            }
            else
            {
                return TryTargTile;
            }
        }
        return TileOn;
       
    }
//_________________________TILE SCRIPT_________________
public List<Tile> GetAdjacentTiles()
    {
        List<Tile> adjacentTiles = new List<Tile>();
        adjacentTiles.Add(GetComponent<Tile>());
        var TilesUp = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(0, 0.85f));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesUp);
        var TilesDown = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(0, -0.85f));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesDown);
        var TilesNE = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(Offset.x, Offset.y));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesNE);
        var TilesSE = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(Offset.x, -Offset.y));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesSE);
        var TilesSW = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(-Offset.x, -Offset.y));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesSW);
        var TilesNW = GetAdjacency(transform.position + new Vector3(0, Offset.y));
        adjacentTiles.Add(TilesNW);
        return adjacentTiles;
    }
//MORE TILE SCRIPT
 Tile GetAdjacency(Vector3 direction)
    {
        var Check = Physics2D.LinecastAll(transform.position, direction, Tiles);
        if (Check.Length > 1)
        {
            return Check[1].collider.GetComponent<Tile>();
        }
        else
        {
            return thisTile;
        }
    }

first one is animal script

this is not my finest code

idk, I dont mess with mobile or MP

[molten thicket]

I wouldn't recommend it xD

Fixed my problem - I'm an idiot.

2 days of troubleshooting and I forgot to add the code under the correct switch case 🥲

[languid hound]

Is there a way to stylize GUILayout?

For example changing the text with rich text or maybe if its possible even getting a reference to the GameObject (If its even on one)

Right now doing <u>text</u> does nothing

[dusk apex]

direction implies that it isn't a position. What you're providing it above aren't directions but positions.

[static matrix]

? in which part

[dusk apex]

Every call to GetAdjacency(...) above.

Direction would be target position minus initial position.

[static matrix]

oh, that gets the adjacent tile in the provided direction

[dusk apex]

Not initial position plus offset. This would only yield another position.

[static matrix]

its a linecast, not a raycast
I named it poorly, it should be endpos

[dusk apex]

Alright, makes more sense now.

Assuming this isn't being spammed recursively, you could print the members of the collection or inform us what's happening and isn't.

[static matrix]

about that

[lean sail]

is there a way to make a prefab reference itself, without it swapping the reference to be the instantiated object?
I know theres the whole asset database solution but just wondering if theres a different method. This is for some network object pooling thing where I want the object to return itself to the pool, and the pool needs the prefab reference

[static matrix]

example of all the things going right

(Yellow dots)

click, select none

scroll up

do you see "none" now?

[thick terrace]

could you just set the reference on the instance after you retrieve it from the pool, assuming you have both the prefab and instance refs at that point?

[lean sail]

oh yea i guess i could lol idk why I didnt think of that

[thick terrace]

it would be nicer to have unity do it for you but i think it'll always "fix" direct serialized refs

[lean sail]

yea understandable, itd probably be way more of a pain if it didnt assign the reference tbh

[stark nimbus]

is there a way to simplify this?

        string CooldownToString(double cooldown)
        {
            string left = string.Empty;
            TimeSpan passed = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cooldown);
            if ((int)passed.TotalDays > 0) left += passed.Days + (passed.Days == 1 ? " day" : " days") + (passed.Hours == 0 && passed.Minutes == 0 ? " and " : (passed.Hours > 0 || passed.Minutes > 0 ? ", " : " "));
            if (passed.Hours > 0) left += passed.Hours + (passed.Hours == 1 ? " hour" : " hours") + (passed.Minutes == 0 ? " and " : (passed.Minutes > 0 ? ", " : " "));
            if (passed.Minutes > 0) left += passed.Minutes + (passed.Minutes == 1 ? " minute" : " minutes") + " and ";
            left += passed.Seconds + (passed.Seconds == 1 ? " second" : " seconds");
            return left;
        }

it works, but I couldn't think of a way to specifically not show 0 seconds without throwing off the logic that separates every component with either a , or an and

[steady moat]

Can you just use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-timespan-format-strings ?

[spark shore]

any thoughts on why this 9 sprite is rendering so weird on the canvsas? Is it cut correctly? Thank you!

[quartz folio]

#📲┃ui-ux (this is a programming channel)

[spark shore]

ok thank you

[stark nimbus]

CooldownToString((double)86405.0f)

TimeSpan.FromSeconds((double)86405.0f).ToString()

(double)90061.0f)

[somber nacelle]

why do you keep writing float literals and casting them to double? 🤔
just use a double literal. also float should be able to be implicitly cast to double

[stark nimbus]

it was just to show how this code works

[somber nacelle]

probably exit time on the transition. but #🏃┃animation

[steady moat]

@stark nimbus did you take time to read the article I sent ?

[stark nimbus]

yes, I know how .ToString() format methods work, for both TimeSpan and DateTime

[steady moat]

And, you know that you can format them ?

[stark nimbus]

yes.. and which one does this?

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-timespan-format-strings?source=recommendations

[steady moat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-timespan-format-strings

TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(3, 42, 0);
Console.WriteLine("{0:%h} hours {0:%m} minutes", ts);
// The example displays the following output:
//       3 hours 42 minutes

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-timespan-format-strings#:~:text=Back to table-,The "h" custom format specifier,-The "h" custom

[stark nimbus]

it still doesn't make my code any different, other than replacing left += passed.Hours with left += $"{0:%h}", or left += passed.Minutes with left += $"{0:%m}", etc...

[steady moat]

It is a 1 liner

[spring creek]

I mean, you did ask for how to SIMPLIFY it. And those changes don't make it functionally different, just MUCH simpler

[leaden ice]

there would be no left +=

[stark nimbus]

my code adds a , between days/hours/minutes if there are more than 3 element to show, and will show and before seconds if there are more than 2 elements to show

[leaden ice]

The whole thing would be something like left = "{0:%d} day, {0:%hh} hour, {0:%m} minute, and {0:%s} seconds";

[surreal nymph]

hi can any of you help me with sum

[stark nimbus]

that would show "1 day, 0 hours, 0 minutes and 1 second"

[surreal nymph]

its unity related not much code related if thats ok

[leaden ice]

you can make them conditional

[somber nacelle]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[surreal nymph]

i put it in general

ok

[quartz folio]

Don't cross-post

[surreal nymph]

ok sorry

[stark nimbus]

I thought there would be a ToString format that would do exactly what I want, but apparently not

[steady moat]

I see, then no, I am afraid there is no huge difference that you can do. Except maybe using string interpolation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[stark nimbus]

the only problem I see with my code is

I can't get rid of x seconds at the end without throwing off the logic that separates each element with either a , or an and

so it will always show seconds, even if it is 0 seconds

unlike days, or hours, or minutes, which won't show if they're 0

[steady moat]

That is because you concat the "and" or "," after instead of before

Also, it is kinda hard to read. I suggest you use variable and more spacing.

[stark nimbus]

string CooldownToString(double cooldown)
{
    string left = string.Empty;
    TimeSpan passed = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cooldown);

    if ((int)passed.TotalDays > 0)
    {
        left +=
            passed.Days +
            (
                passed.Days == 1 ?
                " day" :
                " days"
            ) +
            (
                passed.Hours == 0 && passed.Minutes == 0 ?
                " and " :
                (
                    passed.Hours > 0 || passed.Minutes > 0 ?
                    ", " :
                    " "
                )
            );
    }

    if (passed.Hours > 0)
    {
        left +=
            passed.Hours +
            (
                passed.Hours == 1 ?
                " hour" :
                " hours"
            ) +
            (
                passed.Minutes == 0 ?
                " and " :
                (
                    passed.Minutes > 0 ?
                    ", " :
                    " "
                )
            );
    }

    if (passed.Minutes > 0)
    {
        left +=
            passed.Minutes + (
                passed.Minutes == 1 ?
                " minute" :
                " minutes"
            ) +
            " and ";
    }

    left +=
        passed.Seconds + (
            passed.Seconds == 1 ?
            " second" :
            " seconds"
        );


    return left;
}

lol

[dusk apex]

How to post !code

[tawny elk]

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[dusk apex]

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[stark nimbus]

I was very sleepy when I coded this, didn't even think of it

[steady moat]

private static string Pluralization(int value, string singular, string plurial)
    {
        return value == 1 ? singular : plurial;
    }

    private static string ConcatEnumaration(List<string> values)
    {
        string value = "";
        for(int i = 0; i < values.Count; ++i)
        {
            value += values[i];
            if(i < values.Count - 1)
            {
                string joint = i == values.Count - 2 ? " and " : ", ";
                value += joint;
            }
        }
        return value;
    }
    
    static string CooldownToString(double cooldown)
    {
        string left = string.Empty;
        TimeSpan passed = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cooldown);
        
        List<string> values = new List<string>();
        if ((int)passed.TotalDays > 0)
        {
            string days = $"{passed.Days} {Pluralization(passed.Days, "day", "days")}";
            values.Add(days);
        }
        if (passed.Hours > 0) 
        {
            string hours = $"{passed.Hours} {Pluralization(passed.Hours, "hour", "hours")}";
            values.Add(hours);
        }
        if (passed.Minutes > 0) 
        {
            string minutes = $"{passed.Minutes} {Pluralization(passed.Minutes, "minute", "minutes")}";
            values.Add(minutes);
        }
        if (passed.Seconds > 0)
        {
            string seconds = $"{passed.Hours} {Pluralization(passed.Seconds, "second", "seconds")}"; 
            values.Add(seconds);
        }

        return ConcatEnumaration(values);
    }

It can be simplify even more.

But at least, it is more readable

[stark nimbus]

that was exactly it. thank you

string CooldownToString(double cooldown)
{
    string left = string.Empty;
    TimeSpan passed = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(cooldown);

    if ((int)passed.TotalDays > 0)
    {
        left +=
            passed.Days +
            (
                passed.Days == 1 ?
                " day" :
                " days"
            );
    }

    if (passed.Hours > 0)
    {
        left +=
            (
                passed.Days == 0 ?
                string.Empty :
                (
                    passed.Minutes > 0 || passed.Seconds > 0 ?
                    ", " :
                    " and "
                )
            ) +
            passed.Hours +
            (
                passed.Hours == 1 ?
                " hour" :
                " hours"
            );
    }

    if (passed.Minutes > 0)
    {
        left +=
            (
                passed.Days == 0 && passed.Hours == 0 ?
                string.Empty :
                (
                    passed.Seconds > 0 ?
                    ", " :
                    " and "
                )
            ) +
            passed.Minutes +
            (
                passed.Minutes == 1 ?
                " minute" :
                " minutes"
            );
    }

    if (passed.Seconds > 0)
    {
        left +=
            (
                passed.Days == 0 && passed.Hours == 0 && passed.Minutes == 0 ?
                string.Empty :
                " and "
            ) +
            passed.Seconds +
            (
                passed.Seconds == 1 ?
                " second" :
                " seconds"
            );
    }

    return left;
}

works perfectly

[stark nimbus]

I did make an attempt with an Array yesterday, and then with an int that I would increment or decrement

[stark nimbus]

but this is much better

[heavy wren]

I have a script that generates a cube of varying levels of detail from Unity's primitive plane mesh. It will work perfectly fine until the "countPerFace" exceeds 50, then the generated mesh starts to breakdown and I don't know why. Here is the MonoBehaviour, just plug in primitive plane mesh https://hatebin.com/lcywojqrzb

[quartz folio]

Try changing the mesh's indexFormat to UInt32

(it may not work, it's just a hopeful guess)

[brittle sparrow]

I'm trying to figure out how ContactPoint2D's are formed upon OnCollisionEnter2D, and this a piece of data I obtained (the red dots are the precise points of contact, the thing that collided was a boxcollider onto the collider shown)

why do the three points stack like so? And why was there a repeating contactpoint (the one in the middle of the stack had a twin)

the better read I can get on how contactpoints behave exactly, the better code I can produce for it regarding platform collision and response

or, perhaps wait, I should first get my tile renderer to make all tiles square regardless of tile bitmap shape

my question still stands in curiosity though, thank you very much for your time

got a similar effect even with both being box colliders

is the first, outlier one usually the normal one?

like the first index sort of thing

kind of feels that way

[copper blaze]

is there a way to add select individual tiles for functionaity using unity's tilemap2d system?

[brittle sparrow]

you mean like, take a tile and give it a special behavior?

[obtuse cedar]

I'm making a roguelike and I would like to know a clean code approach to customizing aspects of the game.
such as if I have an ability that makes projectiles explode when it collides with something
would I put the explode on collision method into the base class of a projectile and enable it on the projectile object?

[latent latch]

Layer and collisional logic is fine for the top logical layer for something like a projectile controller.

[brittle sparrow]

i would put the explosion trigger on the projectile itself too

i'm not sure if it'd put the behavior script on the object itself though

i make lots of controllers

i use controllers for UI too

[latent latch]

if we're talking about rb collisional methods it would have to be on the object, otherwise you can sphere cast for collision/targets

[hard viper]

i had this exact same issue. is the rigidbody of the thing colliding with the tilemap set to Continuous or discrete mode?

[brittle sparrow]

oh.. not sure at the moment, laptop's closed

but wait, it's always the default one

so whichever one that is

[hard viper]

then that is definitely wrong

[brittle sparrow]

ouch..

[hard viper]

because that is discrete

[brittle sparrow]

so continuous

i was so ready to pull out raycasts every frame

if that works idk

[hard viper]

discrete mode moves the hitbox and checks where it lands every frame, so you clip into the collider, and THEN it ejects you

continuous mode interpolates. is more expensive, but then you don’t get bullshit like what you are seeing now

you still want to do a bit of correction.

what I do is I take the point of contact, and the normal vector for that contact, and move a small bit into the tile collider (like contactpoint.normal * -0.05f)

then use that point to check for what tile you hit. Which I assume is what you are going for

then if the tile you find is null, check perpendicular to that point, on both sides slightly

[brittle sparrow]

will check later!

[hard viper]

just to make clear. red = point of contact. black = normal. green = moving -0.05f * normal from contact. If you don’t find a tile, move to check blue points, which is moving perpendicular to normal in both directions.

you need this because unity rounds positions like crazy, and your check WILL land on the very edge of a tile, and click the wrong thing, if you don’t correct.

the 0.05f is a const declared at the top. obvs

[woeful furnace]

Yo so im working on a geoguesser type game. Im storying the locations as a sprite and vector 2 + an id. These are stored as a scriptable object. There is a dictionary of these, Im struggling to get the length of the list and remove items from it.

[hard viper]

what list? you have a dictionary

[woeful furnace]

Im mean dictionary yea

[lean sail]

you should probably take a moment and rewrite what you just wrote

"storying the locations as a sprite and vector 2 + an id" makes literally no sense

[hard viper]

mydict.GetKeys.Length or something

[woeful furnace]

Its stored in a scriptable object

The dictionary is a dictionary of scripable objects.

[hard viper]

Dictionary<Vector2Int, SO> ?

[lean sail]

there is a Dictionary.Count if thats what you want

[woeful furnace]

Its not allowing me to do that.

[hard viper]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2?view=net-7.0

[lean sail]

can you specify...?

is someone physically stopping you from using this

[hard viper]

.Remove to remove a key

myDict.Count should get you the number of keyvalue pairs

[woeful furnace]

public Location[] locationdata;

This is how its stored

[lean sail]

that is not a dictionary

[hard viper]

that is not a dictionary

[woeful furnace]

I called it a list at first

[hard viper]

😂

[woeful furnace]

And you corrected me

[hard viper]

well it is not a list either

[lean sail]

you literally wrote dictionary of these

[woeful furnace]

I dont know I dont spend all my day reading documentation with an anime pfp

I only use c# for unity.

[hard viper]

well, go learn about Dictionaries

[woeful furnace]

Im used to [] being a list

from python

[hard viper]

[] is an array

[woeful furnace]

List and arrays are practically the same.

[hard viper]

it’s like a list that can’t change size

do not mix up lists and arrays

[leaden ice]

In python yes. In C# no

[lean sail]

you really should specify what you actually want to do, because i still have no clue if theres even a problem

[hard viper]

arrays are fast as shit because you don’t need to manage them changing size, because they don’t change size

lists can change size, let you insert elements, search and sort easily, append/remove…

[leaden ice]

You cannot "remove" items from an array. If you want that functionality, use a List

[latent latch]

im lazy so I use lists

[woeful furnace]

Ill do that

[leaden ice]

This is just a matter of you thinking C# works like Python. It doesn't

[hard viper]

or a dictionary, depending on what you need

dictionary is like if you need the key to access the information to not be an integer

like if you want to connect a bunch of Vector2Int to LocationSOs

[leaden ice]

Python has dictionaries so hopefully they're familiar

Of course C# dicts are type safe 🙏

[hard viper]

LocationSO[] is an unchanging array of LocationSO to quickly access by order.
List<LocationSO> is a more flexible datastructure that can grow/shrink sort LocationSOs as you go along.

[woeful furnace]

Yea I really only use Python and typescript. For most of my stuff like Leetcode and the like so thats what im used to.

[hard viper]

Dictionary<Vector2Int, LocationSO> is an object where you put in a Vector2Int and it spits out a LocationSO that you assigned to it

[woeful furnace]

C# and c++ I do use but for unity and unreal so just messed up the syntax.

[lean sail]

Has anyone had values just randomly get completely jumbled, is there something I did that would cause this? Kinda lucky i even found where my error is quickly but my code is simply just

[SerializeField] List<Vector3> spawnPosition = new();
    void Awake()
    {
        if (spawnPosition.Count == 0)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("No spawn points set");
            spawnPosition.Add(Vector3.zero);
        }
    }

the only other code just reads the value of spawnPosition
response.Position = spawnPosition[spawnPointIndex % spawnPosition.Count];

the values were originally like (0, 0, 0) (0, 15, 0) and something else i forgot

[leaden ice]

all of those numbers are essentially 0

uhh except the top left and top right

which are very large negatives

show the rest of your code?

[lean sail]

yea those 2 were causing issues when i was trying to show someone my game 😆

[lean sail]

most of the code is unrelated. its for spawning in multiplayer, spawnPosition is only used in the sample i showed
https://pastebin.com/ZyGQQW2d

[leaden ice]

wondering if somehow the networking is involved 🤔

[lean sail]

id hope not because i didnt make it a network list, not even temporarily. Although now that i think about it.. i definitely never set this list to be anything in this scene thats causing issues

so maybe thats more of the issue

[leaden ice]

How are you setting the spawn points in the first place?

just in the inspector?

[lean sail]

im just typing them in rn yea

its just for testing purposes atm

[leaden ice]

what are theyu supposed to be?

[lean sail]

its where players spawn, so they all spawn in slightly offset positions from each other

oh yea wtf I checked another scene that I never opened after making that list and its the same issue

meh maybe unity is trying to grab some values that it thinks it has stored and is just filling it up with garbage. just happy i actually found it in a few minutes

[copper blaze]

is there a way to wipe all the tiles from a tilemap?

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.ClearAllTiles.html ?

[copper blaze]

is there a way using the editor and not with calling a method during runtime?

[leaden ice]

couldn't you just Reset the tilemap?

[fervent furnace]

you should learn how to use tilemap palette to select large area

[pure cliff]

Hey we got that

(a, b) = (b, a)

Now!

[spring sand]

Does anyone know if it's possible to customize the window's handler? (unsure if that's the name)

[gloomy stirrup]

that full white thing or just the name and logo ?

its possible

I mean I never did it

but this may help you to get a idea

hope fully I find the video I watched randomly xD

[spring sand]

The full white thing lol

[craggy veldt]

you can use the native api in user32.dll. You can use dllimport for this. Assuming what you want is windows only

here, a cut-down version of mine

    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern System.IntPtr GetWindow();

    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern System.IntPtr GetWindowStyle(
        System.IntPtr hnd,
        int idx
    );
 
    System.IntPtr hnd;
    const int _STYLE = -8;

    //get the default style
    int style = GetWindowStyle(hnd, _STYLE).ToInt32();

    //do whatever value to the style after
    //e.g Set(hnd, _STYLE, (uint)(style | someFlagsHere));

a bit messy, but oh well

[tidal rapids]

Hey guys I've got a weird issue for you all.

So basically I am working on an editor window that can upload some files to a backend when I click a button.

This all works fine but when I press the button the script runs and then gets stuck. It will only continue when I minimize Unity and reopen it, or click off of unity and back into it.

So if I click my upload button and then spam minimize and reopen Unity everything happens as it should, but when I click the button and just leave it the code will not run.

Any idea on what in the world might be happening?

[ashen yoke]

post code

[somber nacelle]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[tidal rapids]

public void CreateLevel()
    {
        
        LootLockerSDKManager.StartGuestSession((response1) =>
        {
            if (response1.success)
            {
               

                LootLockerSDKManager.CreatingAnAssetCandidate(levelName, (response2) =>
                {
                    if (response2.success)
                    {
                        
                        UploadLevel(response2.asset_candidate_id);
                        
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Error asset candidate");
                    }
                }, null, null, null, id);
                Debug.Log("Successful");
                
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Not Successful");
            }
        });
        
    }

public void UploadLevel(int levelID)
    {
        string screenshotPath = "Assets/Screenshots/Level-Screenshot.png";
        LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose screenshotType = LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose.primary_thumbnail;
        

        LootLockerSDKManager.AddingFilesToAssetCandidates(levelID, screenshotPath, "Level-Screenshot.png", screenshotType, (screenshotResponse) =>
        {
            if (screenshotResponse.success)
            {
                

                string textPath = "Assets/Screenshots/Level-Data.txt";
                LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose textType = LootLocker.LootLockerEnums.FilePurpose.file;

                //AssetDatabase.Refresh();

                LootLockerSDKManager.AddingFilesToAssetCandidates(levelID, textPath, "Level-Data.txt", textType, (textResponse) =>
                {
                    if (textResponse.success)
                    {
                        LootLockerSDKManager.UpdatingAnAssetCandidate(levelID, true, (updatedResponse) => { }, null, null, null, null, id);
                        Debug.Log("Level Data Uploaded!");
                        //AssetDatabase.Refresh();
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Error Uploading Asset Candidate");
                    }
                });
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Error Uploading Asset Candidate");
            }
        });
    }

This all works it just requires me to unfocus and refocus back into unity

[ashen yoke]

try move it all into UnityEditor.EditorApplication.delayCall

[tidal rapids]

I move it into this?

or call this

[ashen yoke]

if(GUI.Button())
  EditorApplication.delayCall += CreateLevel(); // or whatever starts the whole call chain

[tidal rapids]

Thank you let me try this

[tidal rapids]

Why is += used here?

it doesnt seem to like that

[ashen yoke]

sorry, remove the ()

+= means add this method to the delegate invocation list

[tidal rapids]

gotcha

It doesnt seem to have worked

[ashen yoke]

show the button code

where you handle press

[tidal rapids]

    private void OnCustomButtonClick2()
    {


        EditorApplication.delayCall +=  CreateLevel;
       
    }

[ashen yoke]

uitk

no clue then

[tidal rapids]

Well thank you for trying to help I appreciate it

Anyone else have any idea?

[timber cloak]

Currently I try to generate a map but when i place it out i get this result, but when i in the code switches the places on the x and z cordinates and rotate each plane 180 degress the correct result is show, why and how do i fix it

[brittle sparrow]

I'm stumped.. I raycast with two vectors on the same x-axis, but they somehow end up contacting a certain boxcollider on a different x-axis point. This "boxcollider" is actually a tilemap that adopts a collider of a perfect box shape, and the raycast is a fairly small one; it occurs every frame. The raycast checks between two points, the position of the player in the previous frame, and the position of the player in the current frame. This position isn't the center of the player however, it's offset to the player's feet. And the weirdest part is that this bug never occurs when the raycast is done on a certain "platform" tile.

Here are some logs of the player's raycast failing, where the first and second vectors are the raycast points, the third vector is the player's actual position (not much purpose to it), and the fourth vector is the point at which the raycast hit (and it should've been the same as the two points being raycasted, but it somehow isn't..)

this might serve as a nice diagram showing the raycast

for exposition, the raycast is always small changes as the player is falling

[orchid bane]

Can word back-end be applied to the insides of a game or only to a web site?

[gloomy stirrup]

https://paste.myst.rs/hflqgjsc ... this code has no errors on compilation but when I hit the button which has OnFIre()... then it shows this :-

WHY ?

[ashen yoke]

to anything that has logical front and back

ie with unity the front end would be your game code and backend would be the native engine code

but its arguable, and subjective

depends on the domain

[inner slate]

Hello, does anyone know the function in order to perform a cooldown before being able to perform an action again?

[brittle sparrow]

It depends on the framework you made for your game, if your question is on coroutines then i have no idea

i use cooldowns that update per-frame instead of threading/coroutines not sure what their difference is

[inner slate]

Okayy thx

[gloomy stirrup]

anyone ??

[brittle sparrow]

To add on to this quandary, I notice two abnormalities. When raycasting on the platforms, the y-axis is always different. When raycasting on the dirt blocks, the x-axis always shifts by a random amount.. here are their respective render and collider shapes

[hidden parrot]

Something's null.

Line 25

[gloomy stirrup]

the target\

but I am defining it with target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player");

then also its a problem

[hidden parrot]

Then it's not finding an object with that tag

Are you sure the object you want is tagged and that its exactly "Player"

[gloomy stirrup]

yes

what to do ?

[hidden parrot]

You're sure target is null?

And it's not rb?

[gloomy stirrup]

yes

[hidden parrot]

Howd you check it, debug?

[gloomy stirrup]

well I didnt added rigid body to projectileprefabs... but after adding it it shows the same error

[gloomy stirrup]

I cant.. when i write if(target = GameObject.FindWithTag("Player")

it hsows error

jand ik thats has to shwo error

but idk how to do it corrcetly

[hidden parrot]

Put a DebugLog the line after you set target and see if the debug log returns null or not

[gloomy stirrup]

like ?

[hidden parrot]

Debug.Log(target);

[gloomy stirrup]

ok

Vortex (UnityEngine.GameObject)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
commonpower:OnFire () (at Assets/Main Assets/Scripts/PlayerScripts/Commonpower.cs:20)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update () (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:530)

[hidden parrot]

Okay, target isnt null.

[trim schooner]

1- It should be Start() not start() so this method won't get called
2- The rb that you get in Start() isn't the rb that is in the scene when you Instantiate the prefab in OnFire() on line 19

[gloomy stirrup]

ahem

[hidden parrot]

oh im sleepy as hell thats obvious yeah

[gloomy stirrup]

such a silly mistake

wow not it has no errors but not going towards objects tagged as player

[trim schooner]

public Rigidbody projectilePrefab;

rb = Instantiate(projectilePrefab, transform.position, transform.rotation);

[gloomy stirrup]

which line

you saying to update the start or onfire ?

[trim schooner]

have a think about it, logically

[gloomy stirrup]

ok

it just lauches it in random direction when i click button and then after fisrt time whenever I click it shows rigidbody is destoryed but you are still trying to acces it

is there anything specific that contains all the major funtions and feature of C# ?

and unity as well

I litraly spend whole day on a single script ;-;

instead I should stop making games and learn all that first

is there any source ?

[mellow sigil]

Going through individual features is probably not the most efficient way of learning. Take a course like the ones in !learn 👇 and make sure you understand each lesson before continuing to the next one

[tawny elk]

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

[gloomy stirrup]

ok thanks

[gloomy stirrup]

what you did to learn it ?

[brittle sparrow]

After gathering some more data, I decided to describe the issue above anew. The diagrams will do most of the explaining, but basically, I'm performing a raycast which is supposed to be a straight line, but it ends up hitting a point that's outside of the actual raycast line. The diagram with the banana cat shows the red line segment as the raycast (which goes in the up direction), the yellow dot which is supposed to be the ideal hit point, and the blue dots which are the approximate positions i actually end up getting rather than the ideal yellow position. I can prepare the code too if needed

The logs above show the respective vector2s: the top point of the red segment, the bottom point of the red segment, the blue point it ends up becoming, and the length of the red segment.

The logs show that, when the blue point ends up on the same y point as the desired yellow point, so y=-2.5, the x point ends up shifting. The opposite holds true, when the x point is as desired, the y point ends up shifting as well

[steady moat]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[mellow sigil]

I already knew programming beforehand so it's not really applicable to you. A combination of Unity Learn courses, more advanced tutorials and reading the documentation

[gloomy stirrup]

oh ok

[brittle sparrow]

i was thinking it could be some collider issue, but yeah i'll show some code too

thank you for helping

[hard viper]

did you change your rigidbody to continuous mode?

[brittle sparrow]

The second definition of Raycast in the second image is used, the first definition of Distance is used, according to the logs the vectors used in the Raycast function match the described issue

[hard viper]

raycasts stop when they hit a target, so if it is inside a collider, then that is just where it started

[gray mural]

@brittle sparrow

[brittle sparrow]

oh, so if i call from inside a collider and go outside of it

[hard viper]

yeah that shit won’t work

[brittle sparrow]

then it breaks?

[gray mural]

it will be called if you call it inside the collider

[brittle sparrow]

i probably won't need to raycast from inside if i fix it to be so, but what if I had to call from inside?

[gray mural]

what

[gray mural]

oh, it won't be detect

I forgot

it won't detect collider if it starts inside it

[brittle sparrow]

fingers crossed, hope this works

[gray mural]

it's 2d

oh

we are talking about 2D 💀

[brittle sparrow]

no good.. i started raycasting from outside the collider, but it still produces the same results; it either shifts from the desired x position or it shifts from the desired y position

it's always inside the collider too, never shifts the y going up

[steady moat]

Can you use Debug.DrawRay ?

[brittle sparrow]

oh, what that sounds amazing

good job unity

strangely enough, drawline doesn't work..

Debug.DrawLine(Vector3.zero, new Vector3(0f, 5f, 0f), Color.red, 60f);

even using this as an example

maybe it's behind everything esle?

else**

[steady moat]

It will not be.

Do you have gizmos enabled ?

[swift falcon]

Hello. I got this issue with angles - while trying to obtain them for vector (origin in center) placed on 3d - I got position and length of vector3. But when try to calculate angles from heres formula it just keep changing vertical angle when moving in horizontal motion... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinate_system#Cartesian_coordinates

[brittle sparrow]

oh

i feel

[steady moat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-eulerAngles.html

[brittle sparrow]

the drawline is only called when the ground is detected, I held space, these are the results

the y fluctuation isn't noteworthy, but the x shifts

[steady moat]

Then, your ray is wrong.

That means the entry data is just not correct

[brittle sparrow]

I logged it, i might have some logs

[steady moat]

Also, you might want to start your ray cast higher

[brittle sparrow]

start it higher?

maybe

[steady moat]

There is no way I take the time to analyze positions.

Yes, otherwise it start almost on the ground

[brittle sparrow]

praying this works

[steady moat]

And, you might want to use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.CircleCast.html

[brittle sparrow]

is 0.1 position a good starter? the cat is 1.5 units tall

or should I do 0.3

i'll just try one or the other

oh, circlecast?

Alright, i found some very vital information

I did a raycast on vectors (0, -2.4) and (0, -2.6) and hitting the collider from outside, and it properly went to (0, -2.5)
Then, I did a raycast on vectors (0, -2.475) and (0, -2.523), pretty random y values. Still went to its proper (0, -2.5)
And then when I did raycast on vectors (2.354, -2.475) and (2.354, -2.523), the x position finally broke. This has to do with how precise Unity can be, and maybe this can't be avoided. I'm hoping I can still ground my character somehow without the unrelated x value changing unnecessarily

or, if it's not Unity's raycast method that's not being precise, I should look back at some functions of mine

I doubt they break anything though

yeah, my raycast function just passes the vectors as I call them

[steady moat]

I really doubt that Unity would not give you a point on the line you casted.

Really, really doubt it.

[steady moat]

And also, do you use ray.point ?

[brittle sparrow]

yeah, is that where I went wrong?

yikes

[steady moat]

No, you need to use it.

[brittle sparrow]

oh

[steady moat]

But because you just are giving some fragment of code

We cannot see it.

[brittle sparrow]

i could send the whole related code, but it's sort of long

[steady moat]

You should just isolate everything.

[brittle sparrow]

lots of unrelated code in the files too

[leaden ice]

use a paste site

[brittle sparrow]

is github also okay?

[swift falcon]

How to use quaternions to calculate angles in spherical cooridante system ?

[leaden ice]

yes

[brittle sparrow]

actually too lazy to set it up

[steady moat]

Not exactly sure. I though you wanted a euler angle from a vector.

[swift falcon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinate_system#Coordinate_system_conversions those i need

in need to find those two angles by knowing position and radius from center

[steady moat]

THen you have the forumla

There is nothing in Unity that will do that.

[swift falcon]

yeah but I writed it and it is not working

[steady moat]

Because you made a mistake or did not respect the assumption obvously

[swift falcon]

        {
            Vector2 anglesXY = Vector3.zero;
            Vector3 toSword = (_thisTransform.position - _rotateAroundPoint.position).normalized;
            float angleX = 0.0f, angleY = 0.0f;
            angleX = Mathf.Atan(Mathf.Sqrt((toSword.x * toSword.x) + (toSword.y * toSword.y)) / toSword.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            if (toSword.z < 0.0f)
            {
                angleX = angleX * Mathf.Deg2Rad + Mathf.PI;
            }
            anglesXY = new Vector2(angleX, angleY);

            return anglesXY;
        }```

for horizontal

[brittle sparrow]

https://paste.myst.rs/njkd51fl

alright should be good

hope this code is enough, there are a bunch of dependencies and weird looking functions but just assume they work

[steady moat]

I'm not seeing any delta nor phi.

[brittle sparrow]

Obj().xypos() is the Vector2 of the player

[swift falcon]

angleX is delta angleY is phi

[steady moat]

You might want to use Atan2

[swift falcon]

oh really

[steady moat]

Yeah

[swift falcon]

how do that ?

I mean , what is the second argument?

[steady moat]

This is the division

You have the upper as the first, and the lower at the second

Tht would be Mathf.Sqrt((toSword.x * toSword.x) + (toSword.y * toSword.y)) and toSword.z

[swift falcon]

and the lower one ?

[steady moat]

toSword.z

[swift falcon]

angleX = Mathf.Atan2(Mathf.Sqrt((toSword.x * toSword.x) + (toSword.y * toSword.y)) / toSword.z, toSword.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;b like that ?

[steady moat]

No

Read documentation, if you cant figure it out, you have little hope to figure the rest.

[swift falcon]

thx

[brittle sparrow]

it might be a long read, but it should contain everything

[steady moat]

Replicate your issue in 1 function.

3-5 lines maybe

[brittle sparrow]

i'll make a function that depicts the raycast breaking, without using any weird non-unity functions

that'll work right

The code is called every frame, and produces the above results

so yeah, seems like Unity's raycast somehow breaks

[steady moat]

Remove all collider of your scene except one

[heavy wren]

@quartz folio That worked and it makes so much sense because it looked like the mesh was reusing indexes and I didn't know this property existed. Thank you!

[brittle sparrow]

Even the colliders that aren't of layer "Physical"?

those shouldn't get contacted in the first place

[steady moat]

In fact, you should do an empty project

And reproduce the issue

[brittle sparrow]

as proof, when i removed the Ground collider, the raycast stopped detecting

so only the Ground is being detected

It's a tilemap collider if that helps

[steady moat]

Also, why are you using a negative distance ?

[brittle sparrow]

oh right

i fixed that when i got the logs

just pretend it's positive

renewal

[steady moat]

And, why are you setting the direction as 2.354f, -2.523f

And plz !code

[tawny elk]

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[brittle sparrow]

ohh, so the unity function breaks because the direction function is supposed to be simplified as much as possible?

[steady moat]

It should be Vector2.down

[brittle sparrow]

direction variable**

thing is, my raycast is supposed to check between the position of the player in the previous frame, and the position in the current frame. If the player were to be moving, the down raycast wouldn't really work in this scenario

[steady moat]

This is your ray at the moment

So, it is normal that you have a shift in x

That is why you should use Debug.DrawRay

[brittle sparrow]

actually, it's something like this

oops ended up being small

[steady moat]

It is not

[brittle sparrow]

there

[steady moat]

Impossible to be that

And this is not Debug.DrawRay

[brittle sparrow]

i could show it on debug.drawray

[steady moat]

Yes, do it

With the simple function you have

[brittle sparrow]

okay, i'm going to go through the whole process but i'm having this feeling you may be right

my genius was using Debug.DrawLine

[steady moat]

It was not reading the function signature you were using*

[brittle sparrow]

okay, I screwed up, I'm making a solution, praying this works, sorry about this

basically I assumed "dir" was just a second position i could put and the raycast function would figure out the direction it'll take

it was the other way around

[heady iris]

raycast has a lot of arguments in surprising positions

some of which are type-compatible with other arguments

see: putting a layer mask into the range parameters by accident

[brittle sparrow]

oh god it's solved

my understanding of "dir" was warped

thank you simferoce, and sorry for wasting your time

never doubting unity's accuracy capabilities again

[lament river]

Does anyone have any ideas what may cause a build to get stuck in the unity splash screen (Unity 2021.3.20f1)? And soon after it stops responding. If I build it as a 'development build' it runs perfectly fine. But non-development builds gets stuck. Editor doesn't give any errors. Sometimes, randomly, I manage to run a non-development build just fine for one time. But if I try to relaunch (without building) it gets stuck every time.

[jade phoenix]

whats the least painful way of storing hardcoded rhythm game levels

[primal wind]

There's no universal way, especially considering how diverse the gameplay of rythm games is

[buoyant mural]

bro it's been too many days i've been tryna get the sun to work fine I asked chatgpt everything and everything i tried nothing fixes the sun snapping between local rotation the readable inspector one idk what's the cause, currently my lines are like this I tried every rotation method

        float targetRotation = ((currentHour - 6) * 15) + (currentMinute * 0.25f) + timeLeftForNextMinuteNormalized;
        sun.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(targetRotation, sun.transform.localEulerAngles.y, sun.transform.localEulerAngles.z);```

For Testing i made value above 90 and it glitches

[jade phoenix]

i think it's been universally agreed upon that chatgpt isnt reliable for any kind of API library

[buoyant mural]

well

[brittle sparrow]

by hardcoded, you mean you contain the rhythm game levels inside your code?

[jade phoenix]

no

hardcoded as in we're manually entering when every note/beat spawns in and i want to find the least painful system to store that information for some other people in the project to use when level designing

was thinking of using a json file but even that is pretty tedious work

[brittle sparrow]

oh, like in a text file?

yeah, just use text files

just copy what osu does

osu does it pretty well

the json system might take a tiny bit of work but it's all worth it in the end

but since osu uses milliseconds instead of music sheet BPM position sort of stuff, might be better to switch it up just a little bit

[ashen yoke]

tedious how?

[brittle sparrow]

an example of an osu map file

[buoyant mural]

when I made it forced as 91 it goes 89 a frame and 91 another frame

[brittle sparrow]

you could still use the millisecond system if you have some nice little bpm calculator next to your workspace

[ashen yoke]

you think anyone edits that by hand?

[brittle sparrow]

oh, then idk make an editor like osu has

you could make a whole new project to make it simpler

[ashen yoke]

yes ofc

start with the tool

timeline, events, etc

you can make it as web in js

[brittle sparrow]

yeah that works right

[buoyant mural]

Tried using Transform.rotate but fixed nothin

[jade phoenix]

this was my idea

so ig

poor teammates what an L

[brittle sparrow]

json files are pretty easy when you get used to how they work

string splitting, temporary string variables

[ashen yoke]

you should not have to ever look at it

only when fixing some bugs with your serialization

[jade phoenix]

would it be easier to use ints or to use "1,0" and split it at load?

[ashen yoke]

you are starting it backwards and as a result with end up in some strange place, code and design wise

[jade phoenix]

wdym by starting it backwards?

[ashen yoke]

you should not care about json or any serialization format until you make the tool that produces those levels in memory first

[surreal valve]

How would I teleport the Player to another GameObject?

[ashen yoke]

then all you have to do is serializer.ToJson(level) and not care how it looks in text

[jade phoenix]

get a reference to that game object and set it's transform.position to the reference's

[surreal valve]

sorry, I'm a beginner, would you mind typing the code out?

[jade phoenix]

lmao all i have is class Class { List<List<List<int>>> levelData; }

[ashen yoke]

start with the tool

[jade phoenix]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/676533595648688149/974930007958892555/spoonfeeding.gif

[ashen yoke]

similar to unity animator, or any timeline based ui

make it work from memory first

[jade phoenix]

the "timeline" should just be 1 list per bpm of the song, all songs at 100bpm

[ashen yoke]

or at least as some scriptable

[ashen yoke]

i dont know what that means, but you already thinking through the design it seems, which is what you should be doing

[static matrix]

 start:
        List<Tile> AdjTiles = TileOn.GetAdjacentTiles();
        Tile TryTargTile = AdjTiles[Random.Range(0, AdjTiles.Count)];
        if (TryTargTile)
        {
            if (TryTargTile.IsWater)
            {
                goto start;
            }
            else
            {
                return TryTargTile;
            }
        }
        return TileOn;

is there a reason why this code always favors tiles to the right and up??? Its not that the creatures only move in those directions its that over time they all migrate to the right of the map

[ashen yoke]

design it, plan it, make it, game will run levels from scriptables, then you can serialize them as any format

[brittle sparrow]

unrelated but 120bpm is a much more general bpm, many songs use it

[buoyant mural]

[SerializeField] private Transform teleportLocation;

public void Teleport()
{
    transform.position = teleportLocation;
}

This will set your position to the teleport position

set the teleportLocation var in the unity editor

[surreal valve]

thank you

[jade phoenix]

ig i could also make a way for each level to have its own bpm

[static matrix]

maybe I should forgo random movement and switch to targeted movement

[brittle sparrow]

oh, but that's a must!

[static matrix]

is it a psudorandomness issue?? or is it something else

[lusty zephyr]

That's a smarter way of doing it. I typed it out like this. I thought the script wasn't on the player. Stupid from me.

public Vector3 positionYouWantToGo = new Vector3 (1, 1, 1) //Change the 1s to the x, y and z position you want.

void Update()
{
  if (kills >= targetKills)
  {
    player.position = positionYouWantToGo;
    kills = 0;
  }
}```

[buoyant mural]

ye

what's with the kills tho

I thought he jus asked how to teleport lol

[lusty zephyr]

idk, it might be a sort of room where all players go when they reach a certain kill score

[buoyant mural]

oh

I mean setting a vector in the inspector is harder than jus a gameobject 💀

[lusty zephyr]

then you don't need to forget to reset the kills or disable the function @surreal valve.
If you don't, then the player will keep on teleporting to the position each frame per second.

[surreal valve]

Good catch

thanks man

[buoyant mural]

I didnt even read this 💀

[surreal valve]

Thanks regardless 👍

[buoyant mural]

also why do you have [SerializeField] and the variable is public?

[lusty zephyr]

hm yeah. Would be handy to create a sort of spawnpoint-like-object. like a spawnpad on fortnite. Use the position of it + your players height in y axis.

[surreal valve]

rookie mistake I guess

[buoyant mural]

you could add an offset too

or make the player spawn +2 above the object's Y axis

[lusty zephyr]

ye. An offset of 500 to let the players fall from the sky

[lusty zephyr]

np. You will bump into those things if you forget it. Might have saved a 10 minute research of why the player isn't moving anymore after teleporting.

[buoyant mural]

Since you cant set a local rotation above 90 I tried:

        sun.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, sun.transform.localEulerAngles.y, sun.transform.localEulerAngles.z);
        sun.transform.Rotate(targetRotation, 0f, 0f);``` tho for some reason it's rotating around the Y axis instead

But setting to 0 then rotating will prolly mess up the code

so idk what to do at this point

[orchid bane]

When I create a class by serializing it in editor its constructor isn't called, how to bystep it?

[steady moat]

My eyes... For sanity reason, do not use goto but appropriate control structure.

[static matrix]

I know i know

I feel evil every time I use goto

[steady moat]

Tile TryTargTile = null;
do {
    List<Tile> AdjTiles = TileOn.GetAdjacentTiles();
    Tile TryTargTile = AdjTiles[Random.Range(0, AdjTiles.Count)];
} while(TryTargTile != null && TryTargTile.IsWater)

return TryTargTile != null ? TryTargTile: TileOn;

[static matrix]

what does the ? do? ive seen it a few times but never used it myself

[steady moat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/conditional-operator

[nova moon]

Constructors use is somewhat limited because of Unity's structure and serialization. You can get around it by using the Awake function and creating settings the fields on initialization, but it can get a little more tricky depending on what you're trying to set.

[nova moon]

it's basically a simplified way of doing an if/else.

[lusty zephyr]

it's a shortcut if/else

[static matrix]

cool

[jade phoenix]

so i'm guessing that when i build my rhythm game, i'll want to have all the maps saved in a folder in Application.dataPath, but how can I access that to throw manual data in there?

or do i just keep a folder in the Assets directory of my json files?

[leaden ice]

If you want to access json files at runtime:

• reference them directly as TextAssets https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextAsset.html
• put them in Resources as TextAssets and load with Resources.Load https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html
• Leave as raw JSON files in StreamingAssets https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/StreamingAssets.html

I don't see Application.dataPath as being useful here

[ashen yoke]

its the planning mods without a game case

[jade phoenix]

where is the Resources folder in the editor?

or do i just create one and assume it gets correctly transferred over to the assigned path on build

[leaden ice]

read the docs for REsources/Resources.Load

[copper blaze]

i know how to do that, but if you're suggesting to remove all the tiles manually there's a chance you might miss some

[copper blaze]

yea i was hoping it wouldn't come to do that since i have scripts and colliders and rendering settings i want to save

[leaden ice]

resetting the tilemap wouldn't affect those things, no?

Anyway if you want you can just make a quick editor script to call the function in the editor

[copper blaze]

oh nvm yes you're right

i misread your answer

[vague token]

can someone help me with this code the gravity isnt working I keep Floating https://hatebin.com/oamoicfabf

[copper blaze]

where is your Jump function being called?

[leaden ice]

you're never calling ProcesMove or Jump

[vague token]

in the script below the InputManager the PlayerMotor script

[leaden ice]

ok so that makes little sense

[copper blaze]

also unity already has RigidBody component with gravity if you want to use that

[leaden ice]

you want gravity to happen all the time right?

You should be running that stuff in Update

[vague token]

I will try it

[jade phoenix]

whats the difference of the Resources folder and the StreamingAssets folder?

[leaden ice]

read the docs for each of them. They will explain

[jade phoenix]

I have.

[leaden ice]

then what part are you confused about

[jade phoenix]

seems to me like both contents within Resources and StreamingAssets get copied to a reserve folder on the designated OS instead of getting turned to a binary file, allowing it to be accessed by a path

[leaden ice]

StreamingAssets files are copied verbatim over to the Application.streamingAssetsPath folder as regular files
Resources are packed into the game build as assets but are accessible via Resources.Load as assets

[leaden ice]

no, Resources doesn't work that way

[jade phoenix]

so which one is preferred for holding json files

[leaden ice]

that's up to you

depends on your needs and what you're trying to do and how you want to access these files

[jade phoenix]

well which one is better for which scenario?

im guessing there's an added layer of security with Resources.Load

but I'm not all that worried about people messing with files

[static matrix]

I dont know what I did but I tweaked the code to try and make it so animals will only stay on their preferred tiles and somehow made it so it pathfound perfectly to the bottom of the screen
wait
im an idiot
maybe

I AMMM an idiot
i never set the tiles actual types

but still wierd that it pathfound normally
it went around some water at one point

[surreal valve]

"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" Line 20. I have the player in the scene with KillTracker attached. What do?

[brittle sparrow]

I tried searching this up, but nothing came up, not sure if this channel is suitable for this question, but I wanted to use the same Physics Shape that a sprite uses, but for many sprites. I'm thinking of some sort of copy and paste method, but I'm unable to copy or paste any data from one Sprite Editor to another unfortunately. Any ideas? Thank you very much for your time.

this sort of stuff

[static matrix]

they are migrating southeast

[tribal ginkgo]

Its bad to find by string name of the object. You should do tag instead

[static matrix]

this is wierd

[tribal ginkgo]

Or something else but people here tell me its bad to search by string name

[static matrix]

true, although sometimes it is required,
besides, they are probably just starting out, so lets answer their question and then help them improve their code

[static matrix]

why are your variables all class names???? dont do that

unless you setup your vars to be green

i see
huh
they always migrate in the direction first in the getAdjacency script

[jade phoenix]

JsonUtility only accepts a string path to load from a file. how do i do this with something i grabbed from Resources.Load(), which provides a TextAsset ?

[vague token]

why does my cube look so 2d

right screen

[rigid island]

you're in isometric view (no depth)

[vague token]

oh I see

thx alot

[jade phoenix]

i love orthographic camera

its addicting

[rigid island]

what is the point of even using Resources.Load at the point ?

[jade phoenix]

im not sure.

[jade phoenix]

i asked up here, but didnt get an answer

does StreamingAssets actually give me a path?

[rigid island]

TLDR what exactly you need the paths for ? can't you just put the files inside the Local folder (Application.persitentDataPath) or whatever the custom folder you want to load them from ?

[static matrix]

this is exceptionally odd

[jade phoenix]

i just want an easy way of loading json files into a class like how JSONUtility can

the files are extremely small

[rigid island]

okay so put your json files inside a set folder in Application.persitentDataPath (check docs where it is specific)
then do a simple System.IO lookup inside that folder and find your files that way

anything you put in there could be potentially loaded in

[leaden ice]

Are you talking about loading them in at editor time, or after the game is built?

[jade phoenix]

both

[leaden ice]

Use StreamingAssets for your edit time stuff and then just designate a folder somewhere for the runtime stuff

[jade phoenix]

and when i build to mobile, that folder will transfer over correctly and still be accessible the same way?

[rigid island]

Application.persitentDataPath should be able to be cross platform

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html

[jade phoenix]

i'd just need to change this when i build it yeh?

[rigid island]

dataPath is not what you need iirc it should be persitentDataPath

[jade phoenix]

oh that's whats mentioned in the StreamingAssets docs

actually wait no im reading this wrong\

Application.streamingAssetsPath is what i need

[rigid island]

oh for streaming assets , tbh i've not used them too much

[static matrix]

oh thats why I removed the randomness which removed the randomness from direction too

[jade phoenix]

do i need to specify a file extension in the path

the docs dont say

[static matrix]

my computer does not like what I am doing to it

[hasty haven]

tfw you refactor a method to be faster but its not

[leaden ice]

for streaming assets? It's a verbatim file

if you want to use File.ReadAllText for example, that needs the full filename, yes

[elfin tree]

I'm drawing a ray that's supposed to aim at the big white cube thing. For some reason, it seems to point at a weird random location behind it, I also tried using .position instead of localPosition, what am I missing?

[leaden ice]

you have constructed your ray with two positions

rays expect a position and a direction

[elfin tree]

ahhh..

[leaden ice]

if you want the direction from A to B you can get that with (B - A).normalized

e.g.

Vector3 directionToBuilding = (buildingPosition - currentPlayerPosition).normalized;```

[heady iris]

(or drop the normalization to get a vector that takes you from A to B)

[leaden ice]

yepo

[heady iris]

is there a better name for that

[leaden ice]

I would call that offsetToBuilding

[heady iris]

other than just "a vector"

maybe an offset, or a delta

[leaden ice]

yeah, offset, diff, delta

something like that

[heady iris]

i do usually call that kind of thing a "delta"

florpDelta

[elfin tree]

Not sure I get the last thing, but something like that seems good enough?

[heady iris]

what is the "last thing"?

normalizing it?

[elfin tree]

this

[heady iris]

B - A, added to A, takes you to B

B - A + A = B

[leaden ice]

It's kinda unclear why you are making a Ray here

since you're not using it

[heady iris]

yes, DrawRay doesn't actually take a Ray

[elfin tree]

true true, it's to calculate the distance

[heady iris]

the Ray type is a position and a direction

[elfin tree]

between player and building

[leaden ice]

but in your example:

Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction, Color.blue);```

[heady iris]

notably, a Ray doesn't have a length

[heady iris]

it is merely these two things

DrawRay takes a position and a delta and draws a line starting at the position

the line's direction and length are based on that delta

Debug.DrawRay(Vector3.zero, Vector3.right * 10) would draw a line from [0,0,0] to [10,0,0]

mildly annoying conflict between those two senses of "ray"

[jade phoenix]

    public SerializableLevel GetLevel(string levelName)
    {
        return JsonUtility.FromJson<SerializableLevel>(Application.streamingAssetsPath + "Levels/" + levelName);
    }```

[leaden ice]

looks like your json is not valid

well

actually

[elfin tree]

yeah.. weird you cant just Debug.DrawRay a Ray

[leaden ice]

you just passed the file path into FromJson

which is not right lol

you need to read the file

string json = FIle.ReadAllText(Application.streamingAssetsPath + "Levels/" + levelName);```

[jade phoenix]

oh when it says string json does that mean path or file s a text

[leaden ice]

literally a string

json string

[jade phoenix]

ah ok

[heady iris]

it would explicitly tell you if it took a file path

[heady iris]

you can do something similar, though

Debug.DrawLine(ray.origin, ray.GetPoint(length));

e.g.

[jade phoenix]

does File depend on something

[leaden ice]

your IDE should tell you

but yes

btw recommend building your filepath like

string filePath = Path.Combine(Application.streamingAssetsPath, "Levels", levelName);```

[heady iris]

Ray ray = new Ray(Vector3.zero, Vector3.right);
Vector3 start = ray.origin;
Vector3 end = Debug.ray.GetPoint(10);
Debug.DrawLine(start, end);

[jade phoenix]

all it says is it doesn't exist

[heady iris]

is this VSCode

[leaden ice]

is your IDE configured?

It should have auto suggestions

[heady iris]

i know it wouldn't import stuff for me, annoyingly

ah, no, there it is

It doesn't autocomplete the name if it isn't already available, so it tries to autocorrect it to some random nonsense

there might be a toggle for that somewhere, but I do prefer not getting 3,000 random things thrown at me, too :p

[elfin tree]

cool

[heady iris]

That's pretty roundabout, of course

[elfin tree]

tyvm

[static matrix]

what the friiiiick
whyyyyyy

[heady iris]

you have shown us one line of code

i have zero idea what you're doing

[jade phoenix]

using VS with syntax highlighting support so it should

[static matrix]

im more complaining on the fact it called "Hey this thing is null" on the check for if it is null

ill just do if(target)

[heady iris]

Those are two completely different things, yes

[leaden ice]

Target itself is null

[heady iris]

Target is null. You get an error.

[static matrix]

ah
because im asking if the child of the parent object that doesnt exist exists

[heady iris]

you're trying to ring the doorbell when the entire house is missing

there is no "child" here

[static matrix]

thats what I meant yes

sorry wasnt sure how to phrase it

[heady iris]

Target is some unity object (presumably a MonoBehaviour). It has a property called gameObject

[hexed pecan]

A monobehaviour's gameObject is never null anyway (assuming that target is MB)

[heady iris]

gameObject will never be null on a valid MonoBehaviour

(maybe after it gets destroyed?)

[static matrix]

hold me im scared
hopefully this is just me being stupid and not a fundamental design flaw

[heady iris]

you will get lots of spiking in the editor

probably some mixture of garbage collection and expesnive UI updates

[static matrix]

i dont have any UI

[heady iris]

not your UI

the editor UI

[static matrix]

oh

I also didnt set my profiler background to blue

[heady iris]

you mean the tint when you're in play mode?

[static matrix]

no
the blue in the profiler is my script lag

[heady iris]

ah

well, then start analyzing it

[static matrix]

apparently its all coming from the linecasts for checking adjacent tiles for animals

which is bad
because rewriting that to not use linecasts is would be a hassle

[heady iris]

if you're just checking adjacent tiles, this sounds like a simple dictionary lookup

assuming this is a tile-based game where animals are always on a single tile

[simple ridge]

Hi everyone, I was wondering if there was a way to generate a direction vector using randomisation.

I have read that you can do Random.withinUnitSphere, however I want my new unit vector to be only a curtain specified angle off from a base direction. Think of it like you fire a gun in a direction and there is a chance for inaccuracy added to the ray cast of say 10 degrees from the true shot.

I know I can do this pretty easily by randomising some angle between 0 - 360 and then using that create a vector using some second randomisation for the angle of inaccuracy. But the problem is that the distribution of the points doing this will very heavily favour the center. So ideally I'm looking for a way of doing it with as equal distribution of points as possible.

[heady iris]

I'm not sure about getting a specific angle

but a very simple technique is to add a small random vector to a direction vector

then normalize

Ah, you know what: you could compute a Quaternion from random values, then apply it to the direction vector

[static matrix]

the issue is its procedural
hexbased

[heady iris]

I have no idea what that distribuiton would look like, thought.

[heady iris]

so what?

[static matrix]

yeah
ig I could just run it once, get all of them in a collection for each tile, and then not run it again

[heady iris]

Vector2 rand = Random.insideUnitCircle;
Quaternion.Euler(rand,x, rand.y, 0);

i'd have to actually test that to see what it winds up doing

oh that first line is very wrong lol

[simple ridge]

I feel that would also give a distribution heavily focused around the center, i did consider that though chose against it as I wouldn't have the same or close distribution to doing it using angles

[heady iris]

that's better

[heady iris]

that would be reasonable for random spread, really

[hexed pecan]

So are these vectors just directions or do they need differing lengths too?

[heady iris]

some kind of gaussian

[heady iris]

annoyingly, there's no onUnitCircle, but I guess you can just normalize

...how did I never realize you can just normalize that to get something on the circle

[static matrix]

you could always do onUnitSphere and then set the y?
although ig that could land inside the circle too

[heady iris]

(but is that gonna be uniform? if the original insideUnitCircle is uniform, then it should be fine)

[simple ridge]

The use case isn't actually for random spread, its just a bit harder to explain. Its for trajectory calculation where I will leave something running to calculate something but I need to test as many cases within a randomised set as possible, however if most of the directions are centered around the middle then I'll be repeating alot of trajectories (btw this isn't for runtime, I know this is a bad way of doing anything trajectory related in a game)

[heady iris]

if it's hard to explain then you need to think about it more

that still sounds like random spread to me :p

you're randomly adjusting a direction vector

[simple ridge]

Yes but its for calculating over 10,000 different vectors, if I'm looking for values on the outer rim its unlikely to find them if the distribution favours curtain directions

[heady iris]

well, two things

1. you don't know what that distribution looks like yet

2. you could always just make it non-random

note that doing that naively will give you a very strong bias towards the center

e.g. imagine picking points on a circle by choosing a radius and an angle

if you do r=0, 1, 2, 3, ..., 9, 10 and theta = 0, 15, 30, 45, ..., 330, 345, 360, you'll get more points close to the center

Randon.insideUnitCircle correctly gives you a uniformly random point inside a unit circle

a visualization of such a problem

[pearl snow]

Hi hi, I need quick help, I am trying to change a Polygon Collider "size" after launching a "growing" projectile
I used .points[i] += new Vector2(x,y) but it doesn't seem to work, I think I am missing something after the .points[i] ? but I am not sure

[leaden ice]

Every time you call points you are allocating and creating a brand new copy of the array from the component

and that array is not tied to the collider

[heady iris]

easy mistake to make

[leaden ice]

you should:

• copy the array into a local variable, one time
• modify your array
• copy your array back into the component

[pearl snow]

Okay hold up wait

[leaden ice]

Vector2[] points = collider.points;
for (blah blah blah) {
  blah blah
}

collider.points = points;```

[heady iris]

This is similar to a case that actually gives you an error

e.g.

[pearl snow]

okay I get it thank you I'll try

[heady iris]

transform.position.y += 3;

the compiler can catch that one

the problem is that the points array isn't a value type. It's ~possible~ that someone else has a reference to the array

[heady iris]

So it's not necessarily wrong to set one of its elements like that

[simple ridge]

I agree, this is what I am trying to do however I also need the angle too. I may just try to calculate the radius instead using this way but in respect to the angle. So hopefully that should work

[heady iris]

Mathf.Atan2 to the rescue

although

i see

[pearl snow]

So what was doing my code before ?

[heady iris]

you want the angle between the original vector and the new vector

Vector3.Angle will do the trick.

[simple ridge]

Danke

[heady iris]

This would tell you the angle to the point you generated. It would be unrelated to how much you rotate the trajectory vector.

So, wrong one.

[heady iris]

use this to figure out how much you rotated the vector

You could probably figure it out from the Quaternion, but I'm not sure how off the top of my head.

Vector3.Angle(Vector3.right, Vector3.forward) ought to be 90

[pearl snow]

So basically I have 4 elements under the array, after making the copy of it, I can change the 3rd element by using points[2] for example ?

[heady iris]

accessing points was creating a new copy of the array

you were modifying one element of that array

which did nothing to do the collider

[pearl snow]

Oh so basically by accessing the points on the collider I was making a copy ?

[heady iris]

store the array locally, modify it, and assign it to the collider's points property

[pearl snow]

Okay GG thanks it worked

Well new lesson learnt !

[heady iris]

unity objects use a lot of properties

a property calls a method when you access it, even though it looks and feels like a field

the docs don't really make it clear, do they https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PolygonCollider2D-points.html

[surreal valve]

Why won't the NavMesh bake?

correction; it bakes but never creates an object

[heady iris]

there is no object

[surreal valve]

I see

[pearl snow]

Well well I get the idea, even tho I don't really know much in terminologies :3

[heady iris]

perhaps you're thinking of the new component-based system?

where you add a NavMeshSurface to an object

[surreal valve]

yes

thank you

[heady iris]

the old system just stores it somewhere in the scene

very fuzzy

you'll need to install the "AI Navigation" package to use the new stuff

[surreal valve]

like this?

[heady iris]

i don't know what you've screenshotted here

this tab?

this is still part of the old system

afaik

[surreal valve]

the navmesh doesn't generate?

(I searched for navmesh in the scene)

[surreal valve]

What do I do with this? It takes me to a github page containing a project

[steady moat]

Read the page

Also, it shows you that you are using a older version

[heady iris]

ah, it still points you to github, eh?

what version of unity is this?

[pearl snow]

I imagine if I wanna modify the offset of a Circle collider 2D I need to proceed the same as previously ?

[swift falcon]

What's the object for mesh subtraction? E.g. I subtract a circle of radius 5 from a circle of radius 6 and get a ring of radius 5 with length 1?

[steady moat]

Perfect tutorial for what you are trying to do with tool you are trying to use: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/navigation-mesh-introduction?uv=2021.3&projectId=5e0b794cedbc2a14eb8c900a#

[swift falcon]

I remember this in Godot, dunno about Unity

[surreal valve]

Thank you

[pearl snow]

@heady iris when you got time :3

[heady iris]

pretty sure the offset is just a Vector3

[steel finch]

terraria reference?

[heady iris]

but yes, you'll do something similar

although

collider.offset += Vector3.right;

[surreal valve]

No

[pearl snow]

alright so no need to create a "copy" ?

[heady iris]

that works

if you want to play with the individual values, you'll need to create a copy.

var copy = collider.offset;
copy.y = 12345;
collider.offset = copy;

[pearl snow]

welp yeah I need to change it precisely

[heady iris]

Exact same reason. The compiler yells at you this time, though.

[pearl snow]

xD

[heady iris]

since it knows there's no way collider.offset.y = 0; makes any sense

[pearl snow]

good thing I haven't tried before asking

[heady iris]

collider.offset returns a value type, so nobody else could be referencing it (by definition)