archived-code-general

[rigid island]

oh you mean create the actual ScriptableObject by code?

confused what you meant exactly lol

[scarlet kindle]

yeah i need to create them, then add to the Deck's List<Card> which will actually be a Stack, gotta change that

so i think this shouldu work

so would it be like Card.CreateInstance("Attack")

?

[leaden solstice]

Don’t use SO to represent mutable data

[scarlet kindle]

why

[rigid island]

I would store the actual card (the CardClass created with these stats)

[scarlet kindle]

yeah i thought about that, but if i'm not showing them in the game yet, why would i instantiate the GameObjects?

[rigid island]

typically thats why my Card is the Monobehvaior and CardSO is my scriptable object

[rigid island]

you need a class to read this data (SO)

[scarlet kindle]

Oh yes, I do! But I wasn't going to create the gameObjects until they are in the Hand, on the screen

[rigid island]

thats why makes SO great you can just make a slot for this Data and swap them out

[rigid island]

sure depends on you ig, I create the cards, keep them hidden inside the deck, then show it when player interacts with deck

[scarlet kindle]

I could see that use case you just explained, because if the cards have temporary in-game modifiers, or upgrades... things that would be pertinent to a player's custome xperience, then instantiating all the cards in a hidden way might be better

[rigid island]

if you need to apply more data like buffs and whatnot, the card copied the data from initial SO data then it can mutate its own data because its a card not cardSO

[scarlet kindle]

i was wondering if it might be more resource intensive to pre-instantiate all the cards though? purely from a resource standpoint I'd think that only creating GOs in-handmight be more efficient... BUT at the cost of not being able to do what you're mentioning above.

[spark stirrup]

How should I go about block face culling

[sage latch]

Why not have a CardInstance class that holds a reference to a data SO plus extra stuff for upgrades e.t.c

Or just call it Card

[rigid island]

thats what they have already iirc

[sage latch]

Ah

[rigid island]

they're just confusing which one to modify i think

[scarlet kindle]

yea that's the GO right?

or is that different than a GO

[sage latch]

Yeah can be

[rigid island]

you followed that video from brackys right ? I think

[leaden solstice]

Just POCO should be enough

[rigid island]

CardDisplay iirc is called on yours

[scarlet kindle]

yeah

[rigid island]

thats your actual Instance that holds the SO data / reads it

[leaden solstice]

It doesn’t have to be MB or SO

[rigid island]

yea its easier to work with MBs tho

[scarlet kindle]

what's MB?

[rigid island]

MonoBehaviour

[scarlet kindle]

ah gotcha

[rigid island]

it can sit on a gameobject when MB

[sage latch]

I think you ideally want 3 classes:

• A data ScriptableObject
• A normal class that holds a reference to data and extra modifiers
• A display MonoBehaviour that holds a reference to an object of the class and displays it

[spark stirrup]

bump

[scarlet kindle]

thanks so you're saying I don't need to instantiate the GOs in the deck at all, just use the normal class to do that! makes sense

is GO & MB synonymous in most contexts?

[sage latch]

Yeah, for example the player deck can now be a list of the normal class. Then when you draw a card, you can instantiate a display and initialize it with the card object from the top of the deck

[leaden solstice]

I’d generally call second one “Model” and third one “View”

[rigid island]

MB is needed for putting any script on a gameobject

[rigid island]

Unfortunate this is more difficult for me, I have a project where I work with multiple canvases and UI gameobjects.. need to store them as Card: MB to move them between decks (different canvases)

[scarlet kindle]

I may have to do that as well, I have multiple scenes for my project already

Is that the only way to save a deck between different scenes & canvases?

[sage latch]

Having the cards as normal classes is the best way

Then the display objects dont carry any data and can be destroyed/initiated however you want

[rigid island]

yes

but depends on your usecase

[sage latch]

You definitely want to implement object pooling though

[scarlet kindle]

i'll read up on it, thx

[rigid island]

yes exactly. my MB has a regular Serialzable class in it that holds that SO data

[sage latch]

When dealing with UI there is a special consideration to take as well

https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips#pool-ui-objects-smart-way

[jolly sorrel]

I'm switching to unity any tips to make a tower defense like a yt tut

[rigid island]

Ah UI is such a pain in the ass to make a game with

[rigid island]

youtube has a lot

also don't crosspost

[spark stirrup]

bump again

[rigid island]

doesn't change that probably no one knows what you mean..

been coding a while

never heard of this

[spark stirrup]

I'm making Minecraft-like terrain with blocks and I need to cull the blocks that aren't visible to the camera to save performance

[rigid island]

Ohh so you're making your own blocks? hmm thought you meant Backface culling lol

[spark stirrup]

Nope lol

I originally made up the blocks of 6 planes, which I disabled their renderers when they weren't needed, but now my blocks are one solid model

[leaden solstice]

That happens automatically already

[rigid island]

wouldn't be easier to cull separate planes then one whole giant block?

[spark stirrup]

Yes but its more resource intensive I was told

[spark stirrup]

Are you sure? My performance is awful

[rigid island]

yeah I havenn't dipped toes too much in generating meshes sorry this outta my knowledge 😅

maybe a shader could help culling certain areas?

idk if it would help perfm

[leaden solstice]

What makes you think culling is the problem, did you profile/frame debugged it

[spark stirrup]

Well if I only have one layer of blocks my performance is a lot better, so I just assumed

also where is the profiler? I haven't been able to find it

[sage latch]

Window > Analysis

[spark stirrup]

Thank you

[sage latch]

wait idk

[rigid island]

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

[sage latch]

its something like that

[spark stirrup]

Yes it is

you can also use ctrl+7

[sage latch]

They probably want the frame debugger instead

[rigid island]

yea good point

all the links are there tho

i aint google

lol

[spark stirrup]

Whats the difference? might be a dumb question lol

[sage latch]

frame debugger shows you each render batch

i think its called that at least

[mild karma]

By default blocks should be culled if they're obsucred by a gameobject marked as static i think. https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.3/Documentation/Manual/occlusion-culling-dynamic-gameobjects.html

[rigid island]

you can like step through how your scene is rendered

[rigid island]

yea thats a lot of dips

[spark stirrup]

Yep

[leaden solstice]

You have script/physics overhead as much as rendering

[rigid island]

Editor adds some overhead too iirc unless you do DeepProfile no? or standalone?

[spark stirrup]

None of my objects are falling or getting pushed around

besides the player

[sage latch]

it's categorized as "others"

[rigid island]

ah ok that make sense

[leaden solstice]

Doesn’t matter unless your blocks are static, still simulated

[spark stirrup]

They are

[cosmic vector]

Should look into combining all of the cubes into larger meshes.

[rigid island]

not like Kinematic static, like gameobject.isStatic i think

[cosmic vector]

Tons of individual objects is part of your problem.

[spark stirrup]

How would I do that?

[spark stirrup]

How can I set them to that?

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-isStatic.html

[spark stirrup]

Thanks I'll take a look

[rigid island]

I think thats static batching

[sage latch]

I shouldn't affect physics though

[leaden solstice]

No Rigidbody = static collider

[rigid island]

yeah why is there physics on static blocks?

lol

[cosmic vector]

Take vertices from all cubes and put them in one vertex array. Take all triangles and build a new triangle array. Combine the materials from all the cubes so everything is colored correctly. Turn off the mesh renderer on all of the cubes leaving only the collider and then just render the big mesh.

You mentioned minecraft. It isn’t rendering hundreds of individual blocks. It renders “regions” of 16x16x16 blocks. Where a single mesh represents the region.

[spark stirrup]

I'm using chunks, theyre rendering every block in the chunk though

Well i am currently

[sage latch]

When something changes in the chunk, you recompute its mesh

[spark stirrup]

Should I put all of the loaded chunks into one mesh, or just each chunk?

[leaden solstice]

Unity dynamic batching should handle it similarly if you set up your material properly

[cosmic vector]

Yep you’ll have to figure out how to combine those cubes into a single mesh in order to get decent performance.

[leaden solstice]

That’s why you look into frame debugger

[sage latch]

Each chunk should have its own mesh

so only have to rebuild one chunk's mesh when you change it (place, destroy etc)

[spark stirrup]

Got it, i'll work on it and let you guys now how it goes 👍🏻

Thanks for the help everyone

[scarlet kindle]

Hey @rigid island one more question sorry to rehash this but I wanted to load the SO asset template into my deck, right? I know you said I could make one more class but I wanted to try it this way to do a POC

So I was thinking of trying https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath.html
But! I read something in another article that said doing this is bad practice, is that true?

[leaden solstice]

This is editor script you cannot use in build

[scarlet kindle]

ok so how would I load the templated asset into the deck then?

without the UI of course

[rigid island]

you can make make a list of your SO

if you only want data

[leaden solstice]

If you need dynamic resource loading should look into Resources.Load

[rigid island]

make list of POCO if you want to store instances

[rigid island]

what kinda dynamic data do you want? you should only use this folder saving, or if you're reading a file, maybe like a json of cardData from external source

[scarlet kindle]

I think this is what I want. I want to be able to store the templates as assets and load them into the list of my SO

[rigid island]

wdym by templates exactly ?

[scarlet kindle]

like Attack is a templated asset of the SO

[rigid island]

Attack is just a created asset from SO

[scarlet kindle]

ok so should I use Resources.Load to put that into my SO list? Cuz I don't want to deal with assigning their attributes every time.

[rigid island]

Resources.Load would probably be handy just like not having to drag the SO manually into a list , I suppose you'd have to put them all in that folder and load them that way.

defeats the whole point tbh, you mind as well just toss all those into a list inside inspector

[scarlet kindle]

uhhh wait but the whole point is to be able to pop them off the deck into the hand right?

so i need script for that

or like if a user is adding cards to their deck in the game, or removing them etc

[rigid island]

Resources.Load is an editor only function it won't be used by user

your player can just deal with a list of your POCO that have the SO

keep those inside a List<Card> as your available cards

you can probably split that further into separate lists ig

public List<Card> AttackCards
public List<Card> DefenseCards etc..

[scarlet kindle]

ok

thanks a ton!

[rigid island]

np! hope it clears up a bit 😅

[scarlet kindle]

yes and I see what you're saying, I guess I just wanted to load them in with code so I don't have to deal with all the annoying UI stuff

but i get that is only for a setup step

prior to the player doing anything or deck management/etc

[rigid island]

yeah basically you would create all those SO and put them inside a special Resource folder in order to load them through script instead of using inspector

[scarlet kindle]

yea makes sense

[sage latch]

Resources is bundled with the build

You might be thinking of AssetDatabase which can in fact only be used in the editor

[rigid island]

Ohh I think I confused it with once your build with it you cannot change its contents or move stuff around but you can read from it just fine yes?

[sage latch]

I don't know about that

[rigid island]

Idk lol I never use it tbh never seen the needs for it.
If I need dynamic content I stick to the persistentDatapath , or like AssetBundle or addressables ? (forgot which one lol)

[scarlet kindle]

So I'm trying

public void addCard() { Card currentCard = deck.cardStack.Pop(); prefab.card = currentCard; GameObject cardGO = Instantiate(prefab); cardList.Add(cardGO); sortCards(); }

but issue is that the prefab's script contains the Card object, I don't know how to add the currentCard into it?

the 2nd line causes an error

[leaden ice]

what error

[scarlet kindle]

'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'card' and no accessible extension method 'card' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found

which totally makese sense, I need to add the card to the prefab's script, not the GO itself

[leaden ice]

right - also why are you doing it to the prefab

you generally should not modify prefabs

you should be setting the card on the newly instantiated card, right?

[robust dome]

prefab<GetComponent>().SomeScript.card = currentcard;

[leaden ice]

You should change:

public GameObject card;

tocs public CardHandler card; or whatever the Card prefab's script is called

that will make your life much easier

then you can do:

CardHandler newCard = Instantiate(prefab);
newCard.card = currentCard;```

[rigid island]

man you should really change that Card class to CardSo and make a POCO class for Card @scarlet kindle

[scarlet kindle]

yes I agree with you

@rigid island

it's really just a POC but maybe that's just shooting myself in foot

[rigid island]

huh whats POC

[scarlet kindle]

proof of concept

just to see if i can actually deal a card into the damn hand

lol

[rigid island]

yes but you have to deal with instances from SO never directly modify SO class

[scarlet kindle]

let me try that

[scarlet kindle]

yeah i know, but i'm not modifying the SO here. i agree with what you're saying

for the actual game will definitely need another class in between them

[scarlet kindle]

it's giving me conversion errors when I try to do that

I have

public GameObject prefab; public DeckScript deck; public List<GameObject> cardList;

and my code is

` prefab<GetComponent>().CardDisplay.card = currentCard;
CardDisplay cardPrefab = Instantiate(prefab);
cardPrefab.card = currentCard;

    cardList.Add(cardPrefab);`

and now complains on last line for type conversion from CardDisplay (script) to GameObject

[leaden ice]

you didn't follow what I said

[leaden ice]

^

oh sorry I made a typo I guess

public GameObject prefab; needs to be public CardDisplay prefab;

Also this line is incredibly confusing:
CardDisplay cardPrefab = Instantiate(prefab);
don't name this variable cardPrefab. It's not a prefab. A better name for this would be like cardInstance

[scarlet kindle]

the Resources.Load isn't working sadly. I added the Resources folder and follow the directions in the link, not sure

Card attackBasic = Resources.Load<Card>("Starting Deck/Attack");

could it be the space in the folder name?

[leaden ice]

What is Card?

[scarlet kindle]

The SO

[leaden ice]

That should work

Why do you say it's not working?

[scarlet kindle]

get an NPE when trying to reference the assigned object

Card attackBasic = Resources.Load<Card>("StartingDeck/Attack"); cardStack.Push(attackBasic);

[somber nacelle]

if that second line is throwing an NRE then it's actually cardStack that is null

[scarlet kindle]

omg

i feel so dumb

ty

maybe i need a little break... heh

[spark stirrup]

Does anyone know why my code is creating gaps inbetween the chunks?

private void UpdateChunks()
    {
        Vector2Int currentPlayerChunk = GetCurrentChunkPosition(player.position);

        foreach (var chunkPair in chunks)
        {
            Vector2Int chunkPosition = chunkPair.Key;
            if (Mathf.Abs(chunkPosition.x - currentPlayerChunk.x) > renderDistanceInChunks ||
                Mathf.Abs(chunkPosition.y - currentPlayerChunk.y) > renderDistanceInChunks)
            {
                chunkPair.Value.SetActive(false);
            }
            else
            {
                chunkPair.Value.SetActive(true);
            }
        }

        for (int x = currentPlayerChunk.x - renderDistanceInChunks; x <= currentPlayerChunk.x + renderDistanceInChunks; x++)
{
    for (int z = currentPlayerChunk.y - renderDistanceInChunks; z <= currentPlayerChunk.y + renderDistanceInChunks; z++)
    {
        Vector2Int chunkPosition = new Vector2Int(x,z);

        if (!chunks.ContainsKey(chunkPosition))
        {
            GenerateChunk(chunkPosition);
        }
    }
}


    }

[scarlet kindle]

well at least i have 10 cards in the deck now. i'll call that a win.

[jolly crag]

what is the relationship between scale and position when using the rect tool in unity?

[leaden solstice]

In UI?

[jolly crag]

Yeah in the editor

[leaden solstice]

I mean UI canvas

[jolly crag]

Yeah

[leaden solstice]

Don’t use scale for UI elements because anchoring does not account scale. Position you see is anchoredPosition relative to anchor

[elfin tree]

What happens if I Serialize, save to a file, then load a Serializable ScriptableObject that has all of it's fields private. Will it still work as a reference of the ScriptableObject within the project assets? Or since the fields are private, will it be incomplete?

[leaden ice]

I'm not sure I specifically understand this part:

Will it still work as a reference of the ScriptableObject within the project assets

[elfin tree]

There's an instance of it created in my project files

[leaden ice]

alright and what does that have to do with all the serialization stuff you mentioned

[elfin tree]

I wonder if it will properly load as that specific instance, from the file, or if it will be an incomplete version of it since it's fields are private (meaning not serialized afaik).

[leaden ice]

if it will properly load as that specific instance, from the file
it's definitely going to not be that specific instance. It's a copy.
or if it will be an incomplete version of it since it's fields are private (meaning not serialized afaik).
This depends highly on which serlaization mechanism you are using and whether there are any attributes on the field. For example Unity's serializer will serialize private fields if you have [SerializeField] on them

[elfin tree]

Oh okay, should be fine then, they all have [SerializeField]

[leaden ice]

hwo are you serializing?

With Unity's JsonUtility?

[elfin tree]

Yup!

[quasi python]

Hey, I'm trying to make a player movement script that reduces the amount of control a player has while in the air. Does anyone know how to do this?

[leaden ice]

if (grounded) {
  // control player a certain way
}
else {
  // control it differently
}```

[quasi python]

right, I have that, but what formula would I use?

[leaden ice]

entirely up to you?

[quasi python]

that's the problem, I can't figure it out

[leaden ice]

you haven't exactly provided any specifics about what differences you want

so it's just a game design problem at the moment

figure that out first

then think about the code

[lean sail]

I'd hardly even say u need a formula. Literally just multiply or divide by something

[elfin tree]

knowing if it's a rigidbody controller or not is a start

[quasi python]

The problem with that, if the player is going right, I want him to continue going right with the same velocity if the player continues holding right.

[lean sail]

So the control you want is to not allow the player to change direction?

[quasi python]

not quite. say the player is moving right at a velocity of 4, but the they jump. if the player continues holding right I want their velocity to stay the same, but, if they press left while in the air I want their velocity to gradually decrease.

[leaden ice]

Well we don't know how your movement works on the ground but that sounds just like normal adding of forces in the air

[quasi python]

how do I display code like that in the server?

[leaden ice]

!code

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[quasi python]

!code
float dirX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

    if (IsGrounded())
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(dirX * movementSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
    }
    else
    {
        //to be determined
    }

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[leaden ice]

you're supposed to read the thing

not type that

[quasi python]

        if (IsGrounded())
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(dirX * movementSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
        }
        else
        {
            //to be determined
        }```

[leaden ice]

void FixedUpdate() {
  float dirX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");

  if (IsGrounded())
  {
     rb.velocity = new Vector2(dirX * movementSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
  }
  else
  {
     Vector2 targetVelocity = new Vector2(dirX * movementSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
     rb.velocity = Vector2.MoveTowards(rb.velocity, targetVelocity, Time.deltaTime * 2);
  }
}``` something like this

[quasi python]

what does 'addforce' do?

[leaden ice]

nvm I changed it

forces will add a bunch of complication here if you want speed limits etc

[quasi python]

so with this script, can you change how much control you have while in the air?

[leaden ice]

yes

by changing the 2 here: Time.deltaTime * 2

[quasi python]

so do higher or lower numbers give you more control?

[leaden ice]

what do you think

[quasi python]

higher, I got it

[robust dome]

btw how does your isGrounded bool look like

you have to code that too right

[quasi python]

    {
        return Physics2D.BoxCast(coll.bounds.center, coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.down, 0.1f, jumpableGround);
    }```

[robust dome]

k

[quasi python]

thanks

[rigid island]

!code

[digital crater]

My player will not move left or right

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[rigid island]

Larrge Code 👆

[digital crater]

Yeah I figured it out

[rigid island]

ok for next time then

[digital crater]

Thanks

But yeah, my player will not move at all

And I can't figure out what's wrong with it

[rigid island]

you said you figured it out ?

[digital crater]

No, I figured out how to display the code like code

[rigid island]

no but Im telling you large code should go in a link not in a giant message code block

[digital crater]

Ohhhhhhhhhh

https://paste.myst.rs/lyax00yw

Here ya go

My player will not move at all. Any suggestions?

[rigid island]

do you have any errors in console ?

[digital crater]

No

[rigid island]

expand info in playmode

[digital crater]

I have colliders (the "Player" is an empty for 6 different parts of my player)

[rigid island]

do you see rb moving

[rigid island]

wait.. where is the collider

on player

[rigid island]

i think you need it on the main object no?

forgot how 2d rb works

[digital crater]

I'll give it a shot

Nothing

[rigid island]

did you check what the rigidbody values are while in playmode, expand Info on it

[digital crater]

The animations work perfectly though

[rigid island]

that says HorizontalInput is coming in

[digital crater]

Hold up

Now you say that.. lemme try something

[strong nimbus]

Hi. I am trying to hover an object. But when I start the game it jumps up a bit on the Y axis and THEN hovers perfectly. No matter what I have tried I can't make it not do the initial jump. Like, the original position is -100 on Y. It jumps to like -20 or something, then hovers between let's say -26 and -36 or whatever. What is making it jump up 70 ish units on the y axis?

public class UIHover : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float hoverHeight = 1.0f;       // Height of the hovering motion
    public float hoverSpeed = 1.0f;        // Speed of the hovering motion

    private Vector3 initialPosition;

    private void Start()
    {
        initialPosition = transform.position;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        Hover();
    }

    private void Hover()
    {
        float yOffset = Mathf.Sin(Time.time * hoverSpeed) * hoverHeight;
        Vector3 newPosition = initialPosition + new Vector3(0, yOffset, 0);
        transform.position = newPosition;
    }
}

[knotty sun]

this is a UI (Canvas) object?

[strong nimbus]

yeah

[knotty sun]

so it's initial position will be controlled by the RectTransform and the anchors used

[west pelican]

man i was doing so well

i had finally figured out how make my character face a direction without actually movign it unless the key was held for a certain amount of time

but now the animation is bugging

[strong nimbus]

oh lord, how on earth will I account for that

[west pelican]

!code

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[west pelican]

 private void Update()
 {
     move = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
     print(anim.GetBool("moving"));
 }

 private void FixedUpdate()
 {
     if (move == Vector2.left || move == Vector2.right || move ==  Vector2.up || move == Vector2.down) 
     {

         if (move.x > 0)
             anim.SetTrigger("facing right");
         else if (move.x < 0)
             anim.SetTrigger("facing left");
         if (move.y > 0)
             anim.SetTrigger("facing up");
         else if (move.y < 0)
             anim.SetTrigger("facing down");

         moveTimer += Time.deltaTime;

         if (moveTimer > moveBuffer)
         {
             rb.MovePosition(rb.position + move * speed * Time.deltaTime);
             anim.SetBool("moving", true);
         }
     }
     else if(move == Vector2.zero)
     {
         moveTimer = 0f;
         anim.SetBool("moving", false);  
     }
 }

this is my code for the movement

basically if you input a direction (left, right, up, down), the player will face the direction you pressed, and if you hold it down for a certain time (moveBuffer), it will start walking in that direction

my issue is that for some reason the animation keeps jumping back and forth between the idle and moving animation

each direction has an idle and walking animation

and the transition from idle to walking is if the boolean "moving" is true, and the transition from walking to idle is if "moving" is false

but for some reason the animation jumps back and for between moving and idle

can anyone help me?

[vagrant blade]

Just a quick look, not really looking too deeply but you're setting the facing direction even when the timer is greater than the move buffer. So it will set it back to idle before setting it to moving.

Add an additional check either around all four of your if statements for idle or inside each to make sure you only set it when moveTimer < moveBuffer

Though, generally speaking, this could be cleaned up a bit. But get it working first.

[west pelican]

yeah i know this probably isn't optimal lol. i'm just starting out. lemme do ur suggestions rq

what do you mean by that first poitn?

point*

i want the player to face the direction before they move

[vagrant blade]

Which happens while the timer is less than the buffer. The check you should be adding will only verify that and prevent it from being set once the buffer is reached.

[west pelican]

ohhh

like this

            if (moveTimer < moveBuffer)
            {
                if (move.x > 0)
                    anim.SetTrigger("facing right");
                else if (move.x < 0)
                    anim.SetTrigger("facing left");
                if (move.y > 0)
                    anim.SetTrigger("facing up");
                else if (move.y < 0)
                    anim.SetTrigger("facing down");
            }

ok so that parts good now

now there's a new issue 😭

ignore the music i forgot to pause it ☠️

basically now the player doesnt change direction until we stop moving

[vagrant blade]

Because you're not resetting the move time between directions (which you don't want or there will be a pause). But your animator has no way to transition to another move animation if it's already running a different move animation.

Quick hack would be to hook your move states to the any state as well. But you can see how you're getting into messy territory.

[west pelican]

yeah i feel like that could also start problems

so the only solution i see is making transitions between all of the moving animations

but that feels tedious

[vagrant blade]

Try the Any State option

[west pelican]

alright

and delete the transition from the idle to the walkign animations?

[vagrant blade]

Yep. Leaving it shouldn't be an issue, it's just redundant.

[wintry crescent]

why does something like this:

[HideInInspector]
[field: SerializeField]
public virtual bool ShowSingletonErrors { get; protected set; }

still show up in the inspector? I verified that there are no errors and the code compiled

it looks like [HideInInspector] is ignored for fields?

[wintry crescent]

I applied my two braincells. [field: HideInInspector] works

[west pelican]

oh jeez this did not work

[leaden solstice]

You are putting SerializeField attribute on field, so should HideInInspector apply to the field as well
But why do you even need this

[vagrant blade]

Lol. Did you correctly apply the parameters?

[leaden solstice]

Mecanim makes me sad

[west pelican]

yup. from Anystate to the walking animations if moving == true

[wintry crescent]

[field: HideInInspector] works, as I really should have guessed
I'm just making a generic singleton<T> class, and I wanted a way to choose, when writing the code of a deriving singleton class, if the errors like "singleton already exists" or "destroying an object with a singleton" should get displayed with Debug.LogError
now all someone needs to write is
public override bool ShowSingletonErrors { get { return false; } }
in their class when deriving from my singleton class, and the errors will be gone

[vagrant blade]

Well, you'll need to start debugging the states I suppose.

[wintry crescent]

and I thought that setting it in inspector is cluttering it up

[west pelican]

it faces the directions fine, but once i start moving it plays the walking_up animation over and over

[leaden solstice]

So why that needs a SerializeField in the first place

[west pelican]

maybe because it's the "last" transition, so since the walking animation can come from any state, the animation just transitions to walking_up

[wintry crescent]

because I wanted it to be possible to override it in the debug inspector
but that doesn't work anyway, since it's a field

[west pelican]

do transitions take priority?

[leaden solstice]

Disable transition to self

[vagrant blade]

You will need to set unique parameters for the moving direction, the same way you're doing for idle.

[west pelican]

oh

[vagrant blade]

Because if they're all sharing the same parameter, it won't know which you actually want.

[west pelican]

that's true

[leaden solstice]

Any state will keep evaluate to current state and start transition

[west pelican]

where is that option

is it "Can transition to"?

[leaden solstice]

Yes give your inspector some more space to show text

[west pelican]

oh

yeah

got it

its so confused 😭

[leaden solstice]

Well overridden value will not be settable from inspector

Because it'd be just method call

[west pelican]

it made up a whole new animation because it keeps switching from walking_up to walking_right

the frame rate is too fast for obs ☠️

[wintry crescent]

true, but what if it's not overriden? it'd be cool if it appeared in there, then, but it does not

[west pelican]

its in between up and right

[west pelican]

all that did was instead of it staying on walking_up, it started switching between walking_up and walking_right at superspeed

hmmm

transitions can take multiple conditions to trigger right?

[leaden solstice]

Yeah

[west pelican]

IVE GOT IT

well i have an idea

i will make the transitions from any state to idle have 2 conditions

its facing a direction and moving == false

and from any state to walking, it needs to face a direction and moving == true

then i will get rid of the if statement checking if the moveTimer < moveBuffer

because i need the direction to be able to update while moving

and the animation switching glitch shouldnt happen because idle will need moving to equal false

IT WORKED

MWAHAHAHA

IM A GENIUS

now. next step

make it so i can go diagonally

[west pelican]

right now what happens is if i press down 2 keys at once, the player stops and it plays the idle animation for one of the directions im holding down

[dark kindle]

if only we were able to set a scene of a game object as easy as go1.scene = go2.scene; or go1.SetScene(go2.scene);

my life would be easier

[leaden solstice]

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

[dark kindle]

thanks, i think this could work for my application

[stable osprey]

thinking back, there's no way I would approve the left version, but I'd approve the right with some additional comments 😅 I'm starting to get worried

[spark stirrup]

I'm lost on how to actually do this. The texturing stops working when I try this. I turned on GPU Instancing, and am down to like <100 draw calls but still 30 fps, so I don't think rendering is my issue

[cosmic rain]

If you're solving a performance issue, you should first use the profiler.

[cosmic rain]

I see that you don't know how to use the profiler. That screenshot provides 0 useful info.
Look up resources on how to use the profiler or read the manual.

[pure onyx]

Hello i wanna ask. I wanna snap gizmo in unity editor. I use Handles.FreeMoveHandle to snap the gizmo but i must press ctrl on keyboard. Can i snap gizmo without pressing ctrl on keyboard ?

[burnt temple]

uhhh i honestly don't know what you're saying srry

i'm just dumb

[cosmic vector]

You have too many game objects because you have every single cube being a game object.

That graph you posted looks like around 1/4 of the time per tick is spent on scripts. Presumably because you have a script on every block.

1/4 of the time is spent on rendering. Presumably because it is having to determine which blocks are visible.

1/4 of the time is spent on physics. Presumably because you have tons of colliders.

Merging them into a single mesh doesn't only solve rendering.

[muted schooner]

You can trigger transitions by code. It is going to be much much much more clearer than the basic animator based transition graphs.

Just a suggestion

[west pelican]

yeah i figured it out

basically i have a bool "moving" and 4 triggers, one for each direction

and if "moving" is true, the character will walk in whatever direction was triggered

and if it is false they will stand still facing whatever direction was triggered

[muted schooner]

You can do this by ;
On move, get current direction's animation hash, if current animation doesnt match the hash, play the animation with the hash

I somehow don't like the unity animator stuff, they are weird

[west pelican]

i would do that but i dont wanna fix what aint broke

[muted schooner]

Yeah you are right, just saying to let you consider in further projects

[west pelican]

my code is functional, even though it probably isn't optimal, its the best i can do at my level

yeah i'll try it out on my next thing

and the movement is surprisingly smooth so yay me

[gilded edge]

Whats the point of interfaces i dont need something telling me that i need this its either i have it or not

[broken light]

how do you enable unsafe in unity

trying to do some memory copying seems i need to enable it some where

[burnt temple]

easy

i forgot tho...

[broken light]

very helpful lol

[cosmic vector]

At the basic level for inheritance. If you have 1 class then yea it doesn't really make sense. But if you have 10 classes that all need to implement different versions of the same things then interfaces can become useful. Since anything references those 10 things don't have to know exactly which of the 10 it is, but just needs to know if it implements the interface or not.

[cosmic rain]

For abstraction of course.
It's the same reason why you'd use inheritance.

[broken light]

ah finally found it

[spring creek]

Using GetComponent<IMyInterface>() to get one of 10 different implementations is pretty handy

[supple hinge]

i was checking the answer of someone on stackoverflow and I found the variable Outline

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68274095/enable-disable-one-script-from-another-one-on-specific-game-object

[spring creek]

That's a Type which is USED for a variable. But Outline, itself, is not a variable

[supple hinge]

im getting confused rn

[spring creek]

Pretty sure it's this component, in case you wanted to look at the docs. Edit: ah, you found it yourself. Nm
https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/Manual/script-Outline.html

[supple hinge]

so it can store a data from my Physics.raycast and gives to my text some cool graphic components?

maybe im tired

thank you Aeth

gn

[cosmic rain]

It could be a custom class. There's no knowing that without seeing the author's project.

[brave musk]

Quick question - when you set the time in a timeline playable, does it traverse the tree and set the time for each of the playables in that timeline's subgraph?

[quartz folio]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-queries/incorrect-parameters-3d

[gilded edge]

Cant u just do this with inheritance

[gaunt iris]

This isn't really coding, but I don't see a more relevant channel:
How expensive are mesh colliders really? My scene is covered in them, and I don't really see an alternative to have traversal on and around these meshes feel good

Is there a way to use collision brushes etc to manually setup scene collision to optimise this? (Like in Source Engine)

[cosmic vector]

A single class can implement multiple interfaces. You can only inherit from one class. There are other nuances that are interface specific.

[gilded edge]

The only reason i can see myself ever using interfaces is grouping classes together inheritance abstraction and interface always confuse me

[cosmic rain]

Interfaces differ from to other in the sense that they separate API from the implementation.
Interface is a contract that tells you that the class implements a certain API, but it doesn't reveal anything about the implementation itself.

Base class promises that there is at least a basic implementation. Unless the method is abstract. In this case it is almost the same as an interface, except that you can only inherit from one base class, while implementing multiple interfaces is possible.

[gaunt iris]

Can interfaces contain any implementation in C#? I know with Java you can now do some stuff with default methods etc

[quartz folio]

That is a fairly new thing to C#, so it will exist depending on what Unity version you use.

[leaden solstice]

There is interface default implementation, mind that you'd need to cast to the interface (or generic constraint) to use

[wintry crescent]

if I have something like

newObj.transform.position = Vector3.zero```
will Awake functions on scripts in newObj be called before, or after setting the position to Vector3.zero?
Or to form my question differently, does Instantiate internally call Awake on all scripts attached to the spawned object? Or is it called during the main loop, on the next frame

[quartz folio]

Before

[wintry crescent]

thanks! How about OnEnable?

[quartz folio]

Same iirc

[wintry crescent]

ah
my goal is to have something that will be call after that, but before the Start() on other scripts on that object

[quartz folio]

Make a method of your own that you call, it's the most robust way of doing it

[leaden solstice]

Awake/OnEnabled will be called when Instantiate if your object is active

Start will be called on next frame

[tame iris]

How to open specific folder in default file manager app(android)?

'DCIM' folder

[leaden ice]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32854648

[celest iron]

What is the difference between CapsuleCast and CapsuleCastAll?

[tame iris]

that's for android studio? how do I open from my game(mobile)?

[quartz folio]

One only hits the first object, the other hits everything it passes through

[celest iron]

Thank you

[gaunt iris]

Is it okay to set Rigidbody velocity in Update() rather than FixedUpdate?

Moving objects around in VR is a jittery mess with fixedupdate

But I know physics is ran on fixedupdate

[leaden ice]

It's for Android. Look up how to run native android code from your Unity app

[celest iron]

This usually happens if you are trying to read input in the fixed update

Read the input in the update, then move in fixedupdate

[gaunt iris]

It's not my code

[leaden ice]

The motion will be exactly as jittery if you set the velocity in Update

[gaunt iris]

It's the XR toolkit

[celest iron]

Oh

Yeah, i don't know much about XR

[gaunt iris]

I figured it might be

[leaden ice]

You need to enable Rigidbody interpolation to make it not jittery

It has nothing to do with XR

[celest iron]

Btw, talking about physics, is it performance heavy to use CapsuleCastAll?

[gaunt iris]

From what I've read, this is too slow to feel good

[celest iron]

In the character, constantly looking for collisions

[gaunt iris]

As obviously before fixedupdate hits it has no info on current position

[leaden ice]

IDK what that means

[gaunt iris]

So it's always behind by an update cycle at worst

It basically lags, without stuttering

The fix I've seen online is parenting the object to the player hand object

And I don't quite understand how physics can still work correctly like that

[leaden ice]

It can't

[tame iris]

so, there is no way to do it with c#?

I have tried this and it does nothing.

AndroidJavaClass jc = new AndroidJavaClass("android.os.Environment");
string path = jc.CallStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("getExternalStoragePublicDirectory", jc.GetStatic<string>("DIRECTORY_DCIM")).Call<string>("getAbsolutePath");

    // Get the path of the folder you want to open
    string folderPath = Path.Combine(path, "Game Screenshots", "Map 1");

    // Create an intent to open the file manager
    AndroidJavaClass intentClass = new AndroidJavaClass("android.content.Intent");
    AndroidJavaObject intentObject = new AndroidJavaObject("android.content.Intent", intentClass.GetStatic<string>("ACTION_VIEW"));

    // Set the URI to the folder's path
    AndroidJavaObject uri = new AndroidJavaClass("android.net.Uri").CallStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("parse", "file://" + folderPath);
    intentObject.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("setDataAndType", uri, "resource/folder");

    // Get the current Unity activity and start the intent
    AndroidJavaClass unityPlayerClass = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer");
    AndroidJavaObject unityActivity = unityPlayerClass.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity");
    unityActivity.Call("startActivity", intentObject);

[leaden ice]

The typical approach is a proxy physics object that follows the XR moved object

[celest iron]

My guy use code blocks, poor praetor blue xD

[gaunt iris]

Hm, that seems like a neat solution

https://forum.unity.com/threads/xrgrabinteractable-velocitytracking-massive-lag-stutter-when-moving-player.993144/

This thread seems to suggest you can get away without it

Does physics still work properly if a parent of the object has its transform changed?

I'm assuming not

[celest iron]

@leaden ice is it bad to use CapsuleCastAll to check for collisions? I'm afraid it can get laggy

[leaden ice]

Don't ping people outside the conversation

[celest iron]

Oh ok

Sorry

Anyways, question still stands for other people I guess

Are constant cchecks with CapsuleCastAll bad?

[lean sail]

the answer is pretty much always: it depends. Do you need a cast in the shape of a capsule that goes in a direction and returns everything hit, and do you need it checked often?
if so then use it, it exists for a reason

[celest iron]

I do, yeah

[lean sail]

You should state what the actual problem is, so people can tell if theres a better way.

[celest iron]

So, I want to make a controller for my character, but he is kinematic. I want to check for collisions using CapsuleCastAll. The thing is, I've read somewhere that doing those casts are bad and I should find an alternative.

Tho I can't think of anything else to check for collisions

You know what? Nvm, I'll just deal with it later if any problems arise

If everything is bad to performance then there wouldn't be any games at all

[gaunt iris]

profiling is your friend

[celest iron]

True

[lyric moon]

how can i get the rotation speed of a transform?

i wanna know how fast a transform is rotating

[prime sinew]

why? and how is it rotating?

[cosmic rain]

Transform doesn't have a rotation speed.

[lyric moon]

rotating based on first-person mouse movement

[lyric moon]

well yeah but isnt there a way i can calc it

[cosmic rain]

Sure there is.
rotation speed = (rotationB - rotationA)/ time between B and A.

[lean sail]

for euler angles sure, if you're trying to do it based on quaternions itll be a bit more math

[mellow sigil]

You already have the rotation speed, it's the amount you're rotating it by (divided by deltaTime)

[slim vine]

heyo, so I'm trying to make a custom cursor for my top-down game, that is like an arrow that points away from the player character towards the mouse (so the cursor needs to rotate, basically).

I've created a UI element that follows the mouse via a script, but there's a frame delay between the actual cursor and the custom cursor.

Is there a way that I can script my "UI cursor" to update its position immediately with changes to the hardware cursor? I can't think of a way that'd be possible, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

I've also investigated using a virtual cursor to override the hardware mouse... but from my understanding, this means the actual game cursor would still have the frame delay. Is there a way around this delay? Is the frame delay noticable, in your experience?

The complication here is that I'm designing a sort of twitchy game and don't want to worsen the player experience...

[leaden ice]

There's no way around the delay. The only thing that's going to feel as nice and smooth as the hardware cursor is... the hardware cursor

Maybe make 8+ cursor textures for directions and swap them out?

[elfin quest]

that's a mad workaround fore the delay issue what a genius

If somthing does not work as intended, don't fix it, make it intended!

goosebumps

[slim vine]

Unfortunately I'm looking for 360 degrees of smooth rotation, (that's a lot of sprites!), I don't think I can tangibly do that... In theory I guess I could somehow procedurally generate them?

I think I'll just investigate implementing a virtual cursor and see how it feels

[tired elk]

You just want an arrow that orbits around your character ?

[slim vine]

But in principle I think the sprite sheet style approach would work

[slim vine]

Sort of, yeah

[leaden ice]

What style game is this?

[slim vine]

Top down melee slasher

Some experiment I'm working on

[tired elk]

Why don't you use a simple sprite with a pivot centered on your character instead of making it this complicated ?

Juste hide the cursor if you don't want the pointer to be visible

[slim vine]

Would that allow me to move the cursor closer or further away? I'm not familiar with that approach, still kind of a unity noob

[tired elk]

Well, if you code it, yes

[slim vine]

I don't want to hide the cursor because if the real cursor is still doing the clicking it will be weird when interacting with things

[slim vine]

i think i've already done what you're suggesting, btw

(i think)

[leaden ice]

IIRC diablo has used 8D sprite sheet cursors for years

[slim vine]

theres another design complication here

which is the little spike going down from the cursor

[leaden ice]

Maybe not since Diablo 2? I don't recall

[slim vine]

that indicates left/right side attack direction

(think like Mordhau)

so uhh... double... triple the sprite count for the spritesheet mouse 😄

[leaden ice]

Yeah that's not gonna be feasible with hardware cursor

[elfin quest]

But if you want the cursor to face the character you could go with camera.ScreenToWorld() look it up I don't recall exactly the usage, calculate the angle from that point to the player and use that angle to rotate your cursor no?

[slim vine]

you can rotate the hardware cursor sprite?

[leaden ice]

I would recommend Plane.Raycast for this POV

[slim vine]

will look into this, thank you

i've been doing the camera stuff

i think the most sensible approach might be to just use a virtual cursor to command the UI, and hide the actual cursor

(and have the frame delay)

also i guess thats necessary for controller support?

(OR just scrap this questionable design entirely and come up with a better way of indicating things)

regardless, thanks for the help, everyone 😄

[leaden ice]

Or rethink the design with hardware cursor+software aspects in mind

I'd look at Baldurs Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin 2 for inspiration

They have a hardware cursor and lots of corresponding software particles and indicators integrated nicely

[slim vine]

Oh! I actually haven't even considered thinking about how games deal with this. WELP now I can't play games without screwing around with the cursor to try and tell if it's hardware or not

Thanks for the inspiration, will definitely mess around with the bg3 cursor 😄

This design challenge seems to be quite valuable

[void remnant]

Hello, after I create a Scriptable Object with .CreateInstance(), do I need to make it a .asset file? (with asetDatabase.CreateAsset) I don't want it to see it in my asset files, but i'm scared it will get deleted

[crude haven]

I have a question relating map if anyone know how to solve it somehow, I have a map with edit function which you can add markers into it, and then u load it out (through location data), are there any way i can anchor the markers so it stay the same on different resolution? Cause atm when i load it out using theirs local position, the location will be wrong because map is resized on different resolution but markers aren't

[leaden ice]

If you want to save it as an asset, yes

[void remnant]

if I won't save it as an asset, will it get deleted?

[leaden ice]

It won't get deleted so much as it will never have been created in any persistent sense

[tired elk]

Well, do files get deleted if you don't save them ?

[void remnant]

hm

so if I have a list in an editor window somewhere with a scriptable object that's not saved as an asset, if I close and open the game, it will be deleted?

[tired elk]

You'll lose the SO with the data it contains, yes.

[void remnant]

ok

thanks

[swift falcon]

Something random when you are about to finish your project and upload your game are you guys using smthing for anti cheat?

[knotty sun]

it's a bit late in the day to think about anti-cheat when the project is finished. If you are serious about stopping cheating it needs to be built in from day 1

[vague tundra]

Hey guys.
I am trying to re-order children of a prefab. I am getting the following error:
"Children of a prefab instance cannot be deleted or moved, and components cannot be reordered"

I am trying to re-order children of the prefab itself - not an instance of a prefab.

Any thoughts?

[prime sinew]

show the window you're trying to do that?

if it's in your scene, it's an instance

you need to double click the prefab in your asset window to go into prefab mode and change it there

[vague tundra]

Like I said, I'm modifying the prefab itself, not the instance of it

Trying to move 'Blocker' above 'InteractionArea'

[prime sinew]

show your Door prefab

the non variant

[vague tundra]

Sorry I'm not following, what's the non-variant?

[prime sinew]

this is a variant

click on the > beside Door

[vague tundra]

Ooooh interesting

[prime sinew]

you cannot modify BasicInteractable's hierarchy which Door has inherited

so that's why

[vague tundra]

Awesome, tyvm!!

[prime sinew]

in the future ask in #💻┃unity-talk , this isn't a code issue

[tired elk]

You're working on a prefab variant, so it has to respect the base prefab hierarchy

(for some reason, my window didn't show more recents messages...)

[vague tundra]

Awesome, cheers:D

[knotty sun]

<@&502884371011731486> Offensive user name

[opal cargo]

Hi guys, is there a "best practice" in creating classes for a player controller?
I.e. my Character consists more or less of 3 scripts - a Cam-Manager that manages rotation, a Kinematic Character Controller that handles the movement input and rotates with the rotation of the cam and a weapon manager, that controles weapon selection, firing and the zoom.
So when I want to zoom, my WeaponMgr recognizes the button press and sends an event to the Cam Manager (over main player class) to start zoom with parameters given by the weapon object.
When my Character slides down a slope, the KCC sends a signal to Cam to restrict rotation angles, so my Character can only look down the the to a certain degree.
Is this "the right way" to handle communication between such entities, is there another State Machine in between that syncs and handles stuff more appropriate? Maybe I'm just stuck in a analysis paralysis but synchronizing all 3 becomes a bit hard to oversee...

[mellow hill]

This seems like a good approach to maintain SoC (Separation of Concerns), if you wanted to classes your have less of a direct dependency on the player class, you could utilise events (look into the Observer pattern) and that would be a good way for your scripts to communicate while being further decoupled (this makes it easier to change classes/requirements without needing to have hard dependencies between classes when communicating). There are multiple approaches/patterns that you could use for your use-case though

[rough sorrel]

Hi. One question, what is wrong with this code because it doesn't matter which button I press it always debugs the same value please:

 for (int i = 0; i < Tabs.Count; i++)
            {
                TabsButtons[i].onClick.AddListener(() => Debug.Log(i) );
                TabsButtons[i].onClick.AddListener(() => SelectTab(Tabs[i]));
            }

[prime sinew]

#archived-code-general message

[lean sail]

Look into "closures", that's just the issue here

[craggy veldt]

capture the i first

[sleek bough]

Use of swear words is not prohibited here, unless it's a slur or directed at someone or particularly gratuitous. It's more of their problem having an edgy name and pushing away people who might have helped otherwise.

[hollow dune]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[knotty sun]

fair. I'll just block him

[hollow dune]

Hello! I've got an issue with my character. I make him jump by increasing his velocity, and if the button is pressed long enough he will jump higher. However, if after dashing I'm still pressing the jump button, the character will conserve the momentum it got before dashing.
I'd be really glad if you knew how to help me with this! Thank you before hand
If you need me to show any code, feel free to ask :)

[prime sinew]

Reset the jump strength variable when dashing

Please just show the code before being asked. This is most likely a code issue

[hollow dune]

I'm going to post the code in a thread

I've fixed the issue with another method, thank anyways, as your advice was useful as well ^^

[prime sinew]

Is there still an issue? @hollow dune

[hollow dune]

Nope! What I did, was to change the variable that measured the timer for the press while jumping, to 0, when the dash started.

So, when the dash finished, that timer would be 0, so it wouldn´t go up anymore

[prime sinew]

okay

[opal cargo]

Oh yeah, the observer pattern, I remember it 🙂
I'm beginning to become a bit confused about all the possible combinations of Camera/Character States and what could trigger when.
Will have a look into it. Any other patterns I can check out?

Got another question btw, how do you guys handle animations in your code?
I have specific movements that solely rely on calculations rather than Input (i.e. climbing up a ledge, which calculates an end-position and moves the Character via an animation curve).
Do I just play a real animation while my player object is moving via an animation controller or how is stuff like this handled properly?

[mellow hill]

There is a book on game programming patterns which covers the some useful ones for game development such as command, observer and state pattern. It also wouldn't hurt to look into the SOLID priniples in my opinion. You don't have to follow them religiously but each principle builds on one another and can be a good way to think about code architecture. While they are a lot of good resources about SOLID, this is a good playlist for applying those concepts within Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyr7_l5NMds&list=PLB5_EOMkLx_WjcjrsGUXq9wpTib3NCuqg

[mild karma]

Has someone with riderflow also came accross this error: Assertion failed on expression: 'manager != NULL' when loading a scene in play mode? It doesn't affect the game itself, but it's weird that it keeps happening every time. Here's the full stack trace: https://hastebin.com/share/qituxezefa.xml

[opal cargo]

Already know his videos, Jason is pretty good for this stuff 😄
Just wonder if my approach is "the right one" or if there's an easier solution, so I don't have to re-invent the wheel.
Like how do I move a character along a given path with proper animation (like my climb example)? Wonder if I'm doing it "the right way" by lerping my character position and playing an animation in the meantime using my animation controller.

[wintry crescent]

there's no correct solution
but in my experience, splitting things across many scripts and using UnityEvents usually seems like a pretty good choice

[opal cargo]

UnityEvents are pretty slow compared to normal C# actions though, would recommend the latter one 🙂

Invoke 1000 UnityEvents and C# Events, compare the time needed, be surprised 😄

[dawn mauve]

...Depending on your use case. UnityEvents are great for offering a design time interface. Don't prematurely optimize -- check the performance via the profiler

[opal cargo]

Would go the ScriptableObject route instead if I have to use drag&drop

[dawn mauve]

SO approach is harder to justify IMO

[opal cargo]

Yeah but SO doesn't slow your calls down as much, at least in my tests UnityEvents were several factors slower

[dawn mauve]

Premature optimization is the bane of many code bases.

[steady moat]

In my opinion, you should limit interaction between the different component and instead relying on the player.

Camera does not talk to controller instead player listen to change in the controller then apply the appropriate modification on the camera. You want to reduce as much as possible interaction that might be unique to this situation.

[opal cargo]

My Player Class is kinda like the bridge between Unity and my other objects - it grabs all Input, pre-processes it for my other classes and keeps is synchronized with Update/FixedUpdate cycles.
Camera and PlayerController StateMachine only gets updated when Input occured anyway. So I guess I'm kinda there already?

[steady moat]

This is what you said:

When my Character slides down a slope, the KCC sends a signal to Cam to restrict rotation angles, so my Character can only look down the the to a certain degree.

[opal cargo]

Oh yeah, but that's necessary since the sliding state depends on this feature, since it's a gameplay decision that my player can't rotate freely on slopes

[steady moat]

You can do the same with:

Camera does not talk to controller instead player listen to change in the controller then apply the appropriate modification on the camera.

[opal cargo]

So Camera listens to the state and switches accordingly?

[steady moat]

No, the player listen then act on it.

[opal cargo]

Hmm, good point

[steady moat]

If you want to have a camera that has a close connection to the controller, I would make a specific Controller Camera.

Then, you could take the most of the logic out of the player and use this component instead.

Also, the Controller Camera would probably use a standard camera. The difference is that it would be able to listen on the change of the controller and change the behavior of the camera.

Note, that would be overengineering at this step. Having everything in player is better for the moment.

[opal cargo]

OK, so PlayerClass needs to observe the States of my CharacterController and change the camera accordingly?

[steady moat]

Exactly. I think this would be better than having the Camera listen on the change of the Controller.

[steady moat]

Also, do not name your class PlayerClass

[opal cargo]

Sure, those are not my exact class names, was just for the diagram 😉

[vocal kite]

Hey guys, how can I adjust the text transparency in unity?
Thanks

[prime sinew]

what text

[opal cargo]

Editor?

[prime sinew]

what component is this

[vocal kite]

I make a text using the textmeshpro for the UI

[prime sinew]

okay, have you taken a look at the component itself in the inspector

and do you mean you want to set the transparency through code?

[vocal kite]

yeah, or through the editor if we have a way to do that

[prime sinew]

ok so have you taken a look at the component itself

you see there's a color field?

[vocal kite]

yeah i can see that

[prime sinew]

yeah

click it

what do you see

@vocal kite

[vocal kite]

my project is still loading

[rain minnow]

#💻┃unity-talk

[prime sinew]

Already almost done with them

[prime sinew]

Next time you ask questions when you actually have the project open and can act on the help

You just wasted the time of others

[vocal kite]

i know
my project just crashed

sry

[prime sinew]

anyway the color field has an alpha value you can change

that's all

[vocal kite]

okay i'll try

thanks

[frail turtle]

hello,
i need a little insight help if possible:
i've coded my object to shoot a target, so at first i'm able to exactly shoot toward the target and it was working fine
but once i've modified the target to be able to move randomly, the bullets go toward old target position instead of new target position, is there someone who can explain/simplify how i should target a moving object or how my bullets reach its exact position ? thanks

[rigid island]

you're probably moving the wrong object or calcuating the target pos wrong

Gonna have to share the code

!code

[tawny elk]

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[frail turtle]

that's how my bullets are shot (this block is inside a bigger one in a coroutine):

 bullet.transform.LookAt(_selectedAlien.transform);
 Vector3 directionToAlien = (_selectedAlien.transform.position - bullet.transform.position).normalized;
 float bulletSpeed = 100f;

 Rigidbody bulletRigidbody = bulletProjectile.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
 bulletRigidbody.velocity = directionToAlien * bulletSpeed;

and as i said, the targetted object moves towards a random point at a constant speed

[rigid island]

how are you moving the target

can you show hierarchy as well for the target

[potent scarab]

how to solve white border

[frail turtle]

private void MoveToPosition()
  {
      if (_targetPosition != _transform.position)
      {
          Vector3 currentPosition = _transform.position;
          Vector3 moveDirection = (_targetPosition - currentPosition).normalized;
          Vector3 movementVector = moveDirection * (movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
          Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(moveDirection, Vector3.up);

      
          if (_rotationMode == RotationMode.Free)
          {
              _transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(_transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
          }
          _rigidbody.MovePosition(currentPosition + movementVector);

          CheckReachedDestination();
      }
  }

[frail turtle]

didn't undertand this

[rigid island]

the hirerchy , for this object. the one you're using this sccript

[frail turtle]

i truly don't understand exactly

the class or order of execution or what

[tired elk]

The object your script is attached to. Hierarchy = the object and its children in the hierarchy view in Unity

[frail turtle]

ah okay

i don't think it'll help but sure (i'm pretty sure the above codes are enough):
the bullets spawn outside of the object (so that they will be independent of it) and then go toward target, nothing more nothing less
i'm just asking for the logic that helps identifying the correct position of a moving target, but google is giving me complicated math formulas and youtube isn't helping as well

[rigid island]

cause you showed the wrong thing thats why

ofc it wont help.

I asked the hirerchy for the TARGET

you

How will it help? Since I don't have eyes in your screen, I could at least tell you're moving the target and not potentially a child object or something else you're not seeing.. Idk your setup so its only a minimum we should see the setup, scripts alone cant help without knowing the context they're in

[dark kindle]

how do i reference a script component with a public int? I tried go.GetComponent<Script>().num=1; where num is the public int value in the script of gameobject go.

[rigid island]

are you having error or something?

[leaden ice]

yes that works

assuming you use the real identifiers for things

Highly recommend saving the reference in a variable rather than calling GetComponent all the time though

[rigid island]

hopeully its inside a method too 😛

[dark kindle]

Really, it's supposed to work? Maybe I am doing something wrong. Also, it is inside a method

[dark kindle]

also appreciate the tip

[tired elk]

How does it not work ? Does it generate an error ?

[leaden ice]

Maybe if you explained what the nature of it "not working" is, we could help further

[frail turtle]

yeah i'm not dumb enough to move something else i'm not seeing sorry 😆 , there you go

[leaden ice]

Customer: "My car doesn't work, fix it"
Mechanic: "Ok what's wrong with it?"
Customer: "It doesn't work"
Mechanic: "???"
Customer: produces a horse

[rigid island]

lmao

[frail turtle]

it doesn't have any hierarchy, it's literraly spawned directly on the scene

[rigid island]

I gotchu. I'm not saying you're dumb lol just checking for common mistakes idk at what level you're at

[dark kindle]

    [ObserversRpc(RunLocally=false)]
    public void addBall4()
    {
        go=Instantiate(ball4);
        go.GetComponent<Script>().num=1;
        instance.scene = gameObject.scene;
        InstanceFinder.ServerManager.Spawn(go,null);
    }

[rigid island]

oh we're dealing RPC

[dark kindle]

says is unknown symbol

[leaden ice]

what is an unknown symbol?

"Script"?

[rigid island]

can you show the full error ?

[leaden ice]

Is your script actually called "Script"??

[dark kindle]

"Script"

[leaden ice]

Why would you write "Script" there

What is your script actually called

[dark kindle]

i thought it was reference what type of component but my script is called "Ball"

[leaden ice]

and if this is your level of C#/Unity knowledge you're making a mistake trying to make a networked game already.
You're trying to run an olympic marathon before you know how to crawl

[frail turtle]

yeah dw understandable, i'm usually precise when i ask questions so i found it a bit weird 😄

[leaden ice]

Then you write Ball

[rigid island]

Ball is the component

any Monobehavior can be a "Component"

[terse garnet]

guys, I'm trying to validate the touch block in the mobile touch UI so that it doesn't recognize a certain function if clicked on in the UI, I'm using this code snippet but it's not working, can you help me?

[dark kindle]

ok, thanks

[steady valve]

does anyone konw why this happen? it just says something went wrong

[rigid island]

hmm is possible you can make video of what its doing right now or where is it aiming at ? something doesn't match up somehow..

[leaden ice]

IsPointerOverGameObject doesn't take any parameters.
You need to configure your IDE so it shows errors

[rigid island]

do the package manager test

you might be net blocked or firewall

[dark kindle]

ok, thank you

[frail turtle]

if you look carefully, the lasers goes just toward the old position

here's a proper one

[rigid island]

I'm assuming your targetting system is Off in the first place

[frail turtle]

it's in a coroutine

[leaden ice]

Are you making the projectiles children of the ship?

[frail turtle]

nope

[frail turtle]

i remember the first time i did this i was like wtf is happening 😄

[rigid island]

the LookAt on the bullet itself is a little weird but prob non issue. How do you find/lock onto target, not sure you sent that

[frail turtle]

on mouse click

[rigid island]

_selectedAlien.transform

[frail turtle]

just add the ref to the object in a private member

so i'm supposed to have the object ref when it's selected, which it is, but the lasers get shot at instant t and then the object move to t+1

and because it takes "a while" for lasers to reach the object so they reach the old position

[rigid island]

often are you updating the _selectedAlien.transform ? maybe its shooting at their old pos when you clicked on them

you said a coroutine right

[frail turtle]

ah wait, i mean, i click only to select, but when i shoot i click on a keybutton

like to enable/disable shooting

[rigid island]

where is this happening #archived-code-general message

[frail turtle]

kinda messy but

[frail turtle]

here

[rigid island]

this one

 Vector3 directionToAlien = (_selectedAlien.transform.position - bullet.transform.position).normalized;

[frail turtle]

yes

[rigid island]

wait this is the bullet script?
not the enemy
#archived-code-general message

[frail turtle]

okay i've found the solution

i only needed to update the target position on the bullet prefab

and adjust velocity and direction

[frail turtle]

thanks for this

[frail turtle]

that was the enemy

[rigid island]

ayee! as long its fixed lol

[frail turtle]

i needed a trigger and that was it, so really thanks

[supple hinge]

what's the difference between doing this

and this

[tired elk]

== is comparison, = is assignation

[supple hinge]

oh

i forgot

[spring creek]

Also, the gameObject property is readonly pretty sure. Or a private setter public getter (the former makes more sense, but idk). You cannot assign to it

[tribal gust]

i am trying so that when the goes over a platform, there is a message in console saying "hit", but i just cant seem to get it right? can anyone help me?

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

public class DetectPP : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject pp;
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        Debug.Log("hti");
    }
}

the script is attached to the player and pp is the object i want it to hit

[lucid wigeon]

How do I debug XCode Simulator instance or app running in iPhone? I have a case where I click and do some raycast check. And this works for me in Unity, but not in XCode Simulator or iPhone. The XCode build is totally unreadable to me.

[leaden ice]

Show the inspectors of the two objects.
Alslo there's no reason to have a direct reference to pp if it's the object you are hitting

[digital crater]

@rigid island Continuing from the error yesterday - the velocity is being registered, but the player is not moving

[rigid island]

I can't even remember wat I did 2 hours ago, I'm gonna need the context from before lol

[digital crater]

#archived-code-general message

[rigid island]

hmm right, I never got an answer on this

[leaden ice]

looks fine to me. Are you sure the colliders are overlapping?

[tribal gust]

yea

[digital crater]

The velocity is working in the Rigidbody (X velocity is going to -1 and 1 (GetAxis("Horizontal")), but the position is not moving

[leaden ice]

do you have logs disabled in the consolle or something?

[digital crater]

as you can see....

[rigid island]

put a box collider on the rigidbody see if it moves it

[rigid island]

too me that tells me the rigidbody is indeed moving but isn't moving the transform of the object

or its moving something else

is Player child of anything ?

[digital crater]

So you want me to put a Box Collider 2D in the empty gameobject ("Player"), where the RigidBody2D is

[digital crater]

"Player" is the parent of 6 gameobjects (all the body parts). Why?

[rigid island]

I said child not parent

[digital crater]

Oh sorry. No, "Player" has no parent

[leaden ice]

You have an animator on the object - it's probably overriding the position

try disabling it for a minute

[digital crater]

Disable the animator?

[tribal gust]

oh it seems like it, i added a debuglog statement in start() and it didnt print as well, how can i rectify it?

[digital crater]

Ok

[leaden ice]

turn logs back on

[digital crater]

@leaden ice You are a genius

[digital crater]

That did the trick, but now opens another problem - what's wrong withg my Animator?

[leaden ice]

it's animating the position of the root object in the hierarchy

classic mistake

move the renderer that it's animating to a child object and animate that object instead

[digital crater]

What do you mean? Sorry, only a few weeks into Unity dev, but decent at C#

[leaden ice]

Your object has a renderer of some kind, yes? That's the thing the animator is animating, yes?

e.g. a SpriteRenderer that is being animated by changing its Sprite

[digital crater]

So, I apply the Animator to the children?

[rigid island]

ah it was animator all along..yeesh

i forget it can overtake transform without Root Motion 🫣

[leaden ice]

Open the dopesheet in your animation clips and retarget the keyframed properties to the child object

[digital crater]

Ah ok

I’ll do that a little later

Thanks @rigid island and @leaden ice for you help

[upper patrol]

Hallo everyone, does anyone know this error:
InvalidOperationException: Failed to load XRReferenceImageLibrary 'ReferenceImageLibrary': library does not contain any ARCore data.???

[modern creek]

a quick google suggests file paths with spaces in their names might be the issue

[modern creek]

@upper patrol

[digital crater]

That did it. Game is now functioning perfectly @rigid island @leaden ice

[tawny mountain]

Hello everyone.. I have a question real quick about nav mesh agents paths.. how does the nav mesh agent choose its path , is it always the shortest path? and if so how can I get the agent to select a diffrent path?

[remote trout]

Hey yo so I tried making a parallax scrolling effect in unity 2D for my game and there are two layers; Maze & Glitch_BG

I made a simple code for the Parallax Scrolling and it works, however there is these weird artifacts or something... I think it's easier to just show it [Check video]
In the sides, where like the empty/transparent part is, it for some reason just stays and is not working. It is meant to be working like in the transparent parts in the center-ish area.

Thanks :)

[leaden ice]

Do you have objects with sprite masks?

[remote trout]

No.. No I don't think so

[leaden ice]

well can you show the inspectors of the objects and how you are scrolling them?

[remote trout]

Well this is the code that makes it scroll.... and the inspector of the bg (i tilted them later on so it looks good)

(sorry if I sent way too many photos im still learning)

[steady valve]

why is this happening, i can download pacakge but i cant import

and seems network is ok

[olive mesa]

can you find a more detailed error message

[steady valve]

nope

[olive mesa]

check the console

[steady valve]

something went wrong is the only error i get

[somber nacelle]

also check the !logs

[tawny elk]

📝 Logs

Documentation
Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub
Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[olive mesa]

yup

[steady valve]

console is clean

[olive mesa]

try again mayhaps see if anything pops up

if you're getting an error in the package manager you should get one in console

[steady valve]

restarted editor

btw editor version is 22.3.7f1

so i noticed there are some package error related

[leaden ice]

why is the maze renderer rotated 60 degrees on the x axis?

[steady valve]

strange, created a fresh new project and same thing happened

log says there is a memory leak?

[olive mesa]

I have no idea how to decipher this 😭

[steady valve]

ik this is really confusing

editor doesnt give me a meaningful error

[olive mesa]

if it happens in a new project though, there's a good bit of confidence in assuming that it's nothing to do with your actual projects

[steady valve]

same thing in my actual project

and i even reinstalled everything

same error

[olive mesa]

I had an issue with the package manager myself but it was because I had a windows feature disabled and it broke it

[steady valve]

in my case, i can download package in package manager but i cant import it

[olive mesa]

odd

[steady valve]

sign let me try 2023 see if this still happen

[steady valve]

yup 2023 works fine

wth

[somber nacelle]

sounds like you should be submitting a bug report for the version that isn't working

[steady valve]

but what should i submit. as above shown, the only error is "something went wrong"

[somber nacelle]

!bug

[tawny elk]

Reporting bugs

🪲 To make bug reporting as quickly as possible, we made a bug reporting application for you. When running Unity choose Help->Report a Bug in the menu, or you can access it directly through the executable in the directory where Unity is installed. It will also launch automatically if you experience a crash.

📝 If your bug report is to do with Documentation, either an error, typo, or omission, you can report it by scrolling to the bottom of the page where you found the issue and click ‘Report a problem on this page’!

💡If your report is to do with a new feature idea, you can check the Unity Product Roadmaps page to see if your idea has already been planned.

For more complete instructions on how to report bugs, access: https://unity3d.com/unity/qa/bug-reporting

[olive mesa]

submit the logs basically

[steady valve]

got it

[olive mesa]

unity has a bug reporter built in you should be able to just use that

you should know about it if you've ever had the damn thing crash on you

[carmine prism]

Any idea how to stop player from getting launched whenever it walks over an object? Is something wrong with my script?
Script:

private void MovePlayer()
{
    moveValues = playerControls.Move.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    if (isGrounded && moveValues == Vector2.zero) { EnableFriction(); }
    else { DisableFriction(); }


    
    float calcedMovementSpeed = walkSpeed;
    if (isSprinting && moveValues.x == 0 && moveValues.y > 0) { calcedMovementSpeed = sprintSpeed; } // SPRINT IF GOING FORWARD AND NOT GOING SIDEWAYS
    if (isCrouching) { calcedMovementSpeed *= crouchSpeedModifier; }

    Vector3 movement = (transform.right * moveValues.x) + (transform.forward * moveValues.y);
    movement *= calcedMovementSpeed;

    movement.y = rigidbody.velocity.y;

    rigidbody.velocity = movement;

}

https://streamable.com/gyq1xx

[leaden ice]

kind of just a consequence of running up a ramp in a physics simulation

horizontal velocity becomes vertical velocity

[steady valve]

check your gravity setting

your player has an up velocity when player touch the sphere

[carmine prism]

i just use the gravity checkmark in rigidbody

[carmine prism]

seems like it, any solutions?

[steady valve]

i noticed you use rigidbody for player, it has simulated physics which may result into unwanted behaviour use Kinematics instead

[late lion]

Call it a feature and let speed runners use it to optimize their runs.

[leaden ice]

do you need to have a collider on that ball?

[carmine prism]

might look into that

[carmine prism]

i'm worried it'll be the same with any other terrain i make, so might as well fix it early

dont want my player to jump over rocks like that

ah, will probably do something that slows player down based on how much of a slope it's walking on

[sleek stream]

can anyone help me or give me a script for bounciness. like oncollisionenter add upward force?

cause physic material doesnt giuve enough bounce

[somber nacelle]

this isn't the place to get free code handouts. what specific part of that are you having trouble figuring out how to do?

[sleek stream]

i dont have a clue on code at all

[somber nacelle]

well if you don't know how to code, there are beginner c# courses pinned in #💻┃code-beginner to help you get started with learning

[sleek stream]

ok thanks

ok ive wrote the script below with help from a friend and it doesnt work. ive gave my player the script and a tag called OnTriggerEnter and my bouncy object a tag called BounceTrigger. when my player falls onto the bouncy object it does not bounce.https://hastebin.com/share/okitecebet.csharp

[knotty sun]

Do you know what Debug.Log is?

[sleek stream]

yes

ahould i debug?

[knotty sun]

So why does your code not contain any?

[knotty sun]

What do you think?
I wrote code
It does not do what I expect
I debug It

[sleek stream]

i dont think the collision is working. nothing appeared in the log

[knotty sun]

show latest code

screen shot is ok

[crisp bronze]

Has anyone here gotten VS Code's new Unity extension to work properly on Mac? I installed it and the required extensions along with the Unity package, and Intellisense is still failing to complete. I get this error:

[info] Project system initialization finished. 0 project(s) are loaded, and 37 failed to load.

[glossy ledge]

COULD USE SOME HELP!!!
When I use target API level 33, this doesn't generate a permission pop up... it does work on older API levels

[knotty sun]

not gonna get help unless you post screenshots rather than photos

and also !code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[glossy ledge]

This is the code that generates a permission pop up on Android:

void Awake()
{
instance = this;
DontDestroyOnLoad(instance);

    if (!RuntimeManager.IsInitialized()) { RuntimeManager.Init(); }

#if UNITY_ANDROID

    if (Permission.HasUserAuthorizedPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageRead))
    {
        Debug.Log("King of Crokinole has access to Gallery");
    }
    else
    {
        Permission.RequestUserPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageRead);

    }

    if (Permission.HasUserAuthorizedPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageWrite))
    {
        Debug.Log("King of Crokinole has access to Camera");
    }
    else
    {
        Permission.RequestUserPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageWrite);

    }   

#endif

}

---

And it worked like a cham on API level 30 ...but not on 33

[mild osprey]

I'm having an issue where unity just doesn't allow me to disable vsync, i've tried QualitySetting.vSyncCount = 0 and force disabling it through my GPU settings but literally no matter what it will not disable

[spring creek]

#archived-code-general message

[glossy ledge]

It's very simple guys;
This code:

```Permission.RequestUserPermission(Permission.ExternalStorageWrite);

Generates a pop up on Android devices asking their permission to access storage (Gallery/Camera) ...this works fine when I create a build older than API Level 33...if I create a build on API level 33...the pop up doesn't come up.

[robust dome]

#📱┃mobile

might be the right place

[glossy ledge]

Will repost there , thanks!

[wide dock]

Got a weird bug going on.
Whenever I enter and exit playtest mode my int field on my ScriptableObjects gets reset to 0.

[SerializeField] private int _ID;
public int ID => _ID;

public void SetID(int newID)
{
    Debug.Log("Setting new ID...");
    _ID = newID;
}

The only way to modify the ID is by the SetID method, it doesn't get called and yet the ID is being reset upon exiting playtest (the ID is not changed during it). Other fields stay as they were. Changing the name doesn't help.
And weirdly enough, if I click on my ScriptableObject file and keep it opened in the inspector, the ID doesn't get reset when exiting playmode.

Any idea what might be going on?

[somber nacelle]

do you perhaps have something calling SetID in OnDestroy?

[leaden ice]

Can you show some of the other code involved?

[wide dock]

Another thing to note: if this scriptable object is referenced anywhere else it also doesn't lose it's ID

[leaden ice]

Are any instances of this thing created at runtime? (e.g. through Instantiate or ScriptableObject.CreateInstance?

[lean sail]

is the SO being referenced in the scene? I feel like someone tested this before, and found something along the lines if its not referenced itll just reset back to its default values. similar to how it works when using it in a build and not saving across sessions

just one of the reasons to not use this for mutable data

[wide dock]

SetID is only called when changing something within the scriptable object files to refresh the ID's, nowhere else

[leaden ice]

show the code that does this? What triggers it?

[wide dock]

Within OnPostprocessAllAssets if there was any change in the path containing these files, there is a call to my library which then loads all the files via Resources.LoadAll<>() and resets all the ID's using a ID generator which takes the file name as input

[wide dock]

It's referenced in another scriptable object

Whenever I choose an enum, OnValidate() calls my library and caches the reference to that scriptable object

The only piece of code which set's the ID is this

missiles[i].SetID(UniqueIdGen.Generate(missileNames[i]));

missiles is the array created via the LoadAll call, missileNames is the array of the file names, so missile[i].name (with some changes along the way)

[wide dock]

Weirdly it worked all this entire time and broke just now, didn't even touch anything related to that. (unless updating the editor messed something up)
But just to check it out, I'll make a gameobject which will reference each of these scriptable objects to see if it helps in any way

[lean sail]

If it's something being changed in editor that's still a bit odd

[wide dock]

Yeah, I referenced all of them in the scene and now the ID doesn't reset, so I guess it's kinda a solution.
Still a bit weird

That's how it looks when it's not referenced anywhere

For now I'll just keep them referenced in the scene, I rarely add new ScriptableObjects like these ones (with an ID) so it won't bother me that much

[delicate zinc]

i've been having some inconsistent behaviour using Raycast, i have this node tool and i wrote a code to check if two nodes are in LOS, and if so, create a link between them

On video A, we see the correct behaviour, trying to put a node on the right side of the wall, the cylinder goes red and so does the ray to showcase that LOS is not possible.
https://i.gyazo.com/c39c488560bff80853fe230c0a85cba3.mp4

However, on video B, the LOS is somehow succeeding and not failing, despite the wall being between both nodes.
https://i.gyazo.com/8b229950f35b7690696b3eaa3624a78f.mp4

Does anyone have an idea on what could cause this weird collision behaviour? here's the raycast code i made
https://hastebin.com/share/jugodizexe.bash

[pastel musk]

{
    Vector4 result = default(Vector4);
    result.x = ((float)((int)instanceHolder % OBJECT_COLORMAP_WIDTH) + 0.5f) / (float)OBJECT_COLORMAP_WIDTH;
    result.y = ((float)((int)instanceHolder / OBJECT_COLORMAP_WIDTH) + 0.5f) / (float)OBJECT_COLORMAP_HEIGHT;
    result.z = 1f;
    result.w = 0f;
    return result;
}

what is the purpose of this function?

[cosmic rain]

Doing some math on an int and returning a vector4.🤷‍♂️

[hexed geode]

I'm trying to make a system that allows my players to select an image on their computer to use as a skin in my game. This is my first time working with anything like this and I'm not very sure what went wrong. Actually selecting the image on my pc made it so that the font I was using, along with, somehow, basically my entire UI, became the image I chose. What did I do wrong?

public void SelectCustomSkin()
    {
        string path = EditorUtility.OpenFilePanel("Select image", "", "png");
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
        {
            var fileContent = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
            Texture2D customSkinTexture = Texture2D.whiteTexture;
            ImageConversion.LoadImage(customSkinTexture, fileContent);
            if (customSkinTexture.width != customSkinTexture.height)
            {
                EditorUtility.DisplayDialog("Select image", "The image has to be perfectly square.", "Ok");
                return;
            }
            Rect rect = new Rect(0, 0, customSkinTexture.width, customSkinTexture.height);
            SkinInfoHolder.instance.customSkin = Sprite.Create(customSkinTexture, rect, Vector2.zero, customSkinTexture.width); ;
            customSkinImage.sprite = SkinInfoHolder.instance.customSkin;
        }
    }

    public void UseCustomSkin()
    {
        PlayerPrefs.SetInt("skin", -1);
    }

[cosmic rain]

What does customSkinImage reference?

[hexed geode]

pretty sure it's referencing this big image, to preview the skin the player uploaded

[cosmic rain]

Okay. Does that happen if you comment out the SkinInfoHolder.instance.customSkin part?

[hexed geode]

i commented this out and it still did the same

[cosmic rain]

Weird.
Can you take a screenshot of your text components that get changed to the skin texture?

[hexed geode]

alright

it's very annoying to test because i have to fully restart unity everytime it happens because it doesn't reset otherwise

[cosmic rain]

Does resetting the scene not work?

[hexed geode]

no, the UI elements of unity itself still have that image, and every font still does as well

[cosmic rain]

Ui elements of unity itself..? Wdym?

[hexed geode]

unity itself becomes this image

look at the unity ui

[cosmic rain]

I don't see any issue with the unity ui...🤔

Anyways, I see it's assigned as a vertex color. Does it even take a texture normal? That's weird.

[hexed geode]

this is how it normally looks

[cosmic rain]

I mean, I see it affecting your in-game ui, but not the editor ui.

[hexed geode]

this is my editor UI

it changes the image to what i picked which shouldn't happen

[red stratus]

I have a fsm with only 3 states: wandering, chasing, attacking. It currently works as I'm expecting it to but I was curious. What if a target was to spawn directly in the attacking range. In my testing, it follows the happy path of chase->wonder->attack within fractions of a second. Is there a functional or performance reason to have the fsm change the state from wandering to attacking directly instead of going through the current positive path of wondering->chasing->attacking?

[cosmic rain]

Oooh.
It's very dark so I didn't notice. That's super weird.

[cosmic rain]

Can you share the code where you call that method?

[hexed geode]

i managed to fix it, apparently setting this to Texture2D.whiteTexture breaks it. this makes it work

[cosmic rain]

Hmm

I see. That's still very weird, but good to know.

[shell scarab]

How do you access a 1D array as a 2D array again? I forgot the equation that's used.

is it i * width + j?

[cosmic rain]

You access 2d arrays with [I, j]. What you shared is accessing a 1d array as if it's a 2d array.

[shell scarab]

yea that's what I was asking sorry

[cosmic rain]

Then yes. Assuming i is rows and j is columns.

[cosmic rain]

It depends. There might be both functional and performance impact of doing that, although both might be negligible, depending on what code you have.

In most fsm setups you'd usually evaluate one state transition per frame, so performance shouldn't be a problem. But functionally, there might be some logic you don't want executing in this situation.

For example, if transitioning between each of these states would play a certain sound, you'd hear a cacophony of sounds mixed together due to several states changing within several frames.

[shell scarab]

@cosmic rain when placing something at the width would it be exclusive? so like should i be width or should i be 1 less than width

for example in a for loop would it be

for(int i = 0; i < width; i++)
```or
```cs
for(int i = 0; i <= width; i++)

[earnest gyro]

Bit field Enums and GameObject names

[cosmic rain]

It should be exclusive: < width.
Since width is the count of the elements in the row and arrays start from index 0.@shell scarab

[shell scarab]

👍 thanks

[red stratus]

I came to the same conclusion. If the player were to sneak up on the enemy, there would be no need for the chase state to execute

[shell scarab]

Also just gonna ask this here rq, does TimeoutException make sense right here to you guys?

int GetNormalRoom(bool biasDirection) // true bias direction is max value, false is 0
{
  const int triesUntilAbort = 1000000;
  int x, y, c = 0;
  do 
  {
    x = axisBias ? randomGenerators.level.NextInt(0, floorSize.x) : biasDirection ? floorSize.x - 1 : 0;
    y = axisBias ? (biasDirection ? floorSize.y - 1 : 0) : randomGenerators.level.NextInt(0, floorSize.y);
    if (++c == triesUntilAbort)
      throw new System.TimeoutException("Took too many tries to find a valid room position.");
    } while (roomArray2D[x * floorSize.x + y] != RoomType.Normal);

  return x * floorSize.x + y;
}

[somber nacelle]

you could always just create your own exception. like a TooManyTriesException if you feel that TimeoutException doesn't convey what is actually happening

[shell scarab]

true. I was taught to almost never make exceptions and ig it just stuck with me.

[west pelican]

for some reason my i-frames iEnumerator isn't working

    private IEnumerator Invincibility()
    {
        invincible = true;
        Physics2D.IgnoreLayerCollision(8,9, true);

        for (int i = 0; i < numFlashes; i++)
        {
            rend.color = new Color(1, 0,0,0.5f);
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(iFramesDuration/(numFlashes*2));
            rend.color = Color.white;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(iFramesDuration / (numFlashes * 2));
        }
        Physics2D.IgnoreLayerCollision(8, 9, false);
        invincible = false;

    }

i copied this code from my old project where i followed a tutorial
it worked perfectly there but doesnt work here

for some reason the renderer doesn't feel like working

i have the variable "rend" Serialized and i dragged in the Player's sprite renderer

[leaden ice]

Define "not working"?

[west pelican]

the sprite is supposed to flash between red and normal whenever the player gets hurt

but it doesnt do that

[leaden ice]

Is the code actually running?

Have you checked with logs?

[west pelican]

yes, because the i-frames themselves work

the actual invincibility works, but the visual doesn't