archived-code-general

[heady iris]

chatgpt is a spam generator

i would not advise using it to learn the technical details of unity

[ashen yoke]

there are ways to do it, but what is "better" is up to you

rimworld doesnt use gameobjects for pawns, for example

[vestal crest]

thats why i asked my question here first.

still didnt get an answer 😦

[quaint rock]

i think the issue is your are calling for a non addative scene load, that unloads the currerent scenes, then asking for addtive loads while there is not a active scene

[vestal crest]

even if i load main scene as additive it does not load at the same frame

thats the issue

[quaint rock]

also you need to make sure there is something still around to make sure the coroutine can tick along as well or it will get stuck on its first yield return null

this feels xy problem do you really care if its the same frame?

[vestal crest]

yes i need them at the same frame

[quaint rock]

like just have a loading screen or blocker to cover it up over the difference

[vestal crest]

i need reference an object from the other scene thats why it needs to be on the same frame

[quaint rock]

but it does not you just need to know when everything is loaded

then make your references then

[heady iris]

is the problem that you're getting these references in Awake / Start ?

[vestal crest]

in one scene there is singleton in other scene i use somethin.Instance in update

[quaint rock]

or make sure all depednent thigns are fully loaded before you continue with the next load

[vestal crest]

so thats the problem it returns null for like 3 frames for now

[quaint rock]

also docs

When allowSceneActivation is set to false, Unity stops progress at 0.9, and maintains.isDone at false

[ashen yoke]

its a hierarchy issue, you have to ensure the hierarchy is correctly initialized

even if they end on the same frame

there is no guarantee that the awake on systems will be called before awake on dependants

[vestal crest]

yes but it is for first asnyc op i guess because my additive scenes ops progress is always 0

[ashen yoke]

if you are loading a core system stack that has a clear dependency hierarchy you must ensure it is loaded and handled correctly

[vestal crest]

let me cleraly tell you whats happening my project right now. i have a loading scene and when i enter play mode it starts from loading scene so this scene basiclly loads scenes. i want to load main scene and additive scenes as UIScene. I want to load them at the same frame so I can reference a object in scenes. A gameobject in MainScene lets say Player. player reference Something.Instance but it returns null for 3 frames (for now later maybe it will be more).

[quaint rock]

it just feels like dependencies are backwards

like your are loading the thing first that depends on what comes next

[ashen yoke]

you realize that "at the same frame" doesnt mean at the same time?

one will still be loaded before the other

[quaint rock]

if the main scene is so reliant on the UI scene i would literally just prefab it or make UI load first

[rain minnow]

even if it's the same frame it won't be at the same time. you don't know which one is going to run first . . .

[vagrant blade]

Or load them all before doing reference logic?

[rain minnow]

and expecting the same frame seems unreasonable . . .

[quaint rock]

could also just use a event

[ashen yoke]

loading implies Awake calls, which means one scene will have its awake before the other

[quaint rock]

when all loading is done invoke a event that anything can listen to, run the init logic from that

[ashen yoke]

if order is important, you have to ensure the correct order for your game

[vestal crest]

this makes sense

instead of depend on awake or smth else i need to use an event

[ashen yoke]

you can bypass custom initialization event if you control objects activation manually

[quaint rock]

still feels like your are doing things a little backwards

[vestal crest]

but still in this case if i need refer i should just prefab in the main scene

[ashen yoke]

or if you activate scenes in correct order

[quaint rock]

but to hack it in, just have things disabled by default then can SetActive(True) from the event

[ashen yoke]

you seem to stumble into cyclical dependency which with this approach may get even worse

[quaint rock]

that will defer the awake, start and onenable calls

[ashen yoke]

you can disable objects before awake

automatically thats what most frameworks out there do

load the scene, hijack the first awake in the scene, grab all root go's, cache their state, do its own init, then restore their state

[vestal crest]

thank you all for helping me out and discussing

[cobalt elm]

im getting an argument out of range exception but I cant figure out why. Especially because its coming from the last line.

            foreach (Transform subject in input)
            {
                Vector3 origin = Vector3.zero;

                dynamicInput.Remove(subject.position);

                if (dynamicInput.Count > 1f) origin = CustomMath.AverageVector3(dynamicInput.ToArray());

                if (Vector3.Distance(origin, subject.position) <= exclusionDistance) dynamicInput.Add(subject.position); // Checks if it's too far away from the other points average.
            }

            return CustomMath.AverageVector3(dynamicInput.ToArray());

[quaint rock]

wold have to see how CustomMath.AverageVector3 is implemented if you say its the last line

[cobalt elm]

        public static Vector3 AverageVector3(Vector3[] positions)
        {
            if (positions.Length <= 1f) return Vector3.zero;
            
            Vector3 sum = Vector3.zero;

            foreach (Vector3 position in positions)
            {
                sum += position;
            }

            return sum / positions.Length; // This will give a NAN error if the positions or the sum is 0.
        }

@quaint rock

[quaint rock]

would debug log a few things and see what the values are

but what it could be is your if (positions.Length <= 1f)

Length is a int

[cobalt elm]

But if the problem was here wouldn't the error message come from a line in here?

[quaint rock]

you do it as well in the previous function as well comparing count with a float

though it should just implicitly cast

[cobalt elm]

this is old code and im kinda past that, but im not sure it makes a difference?

lemme check

[quaint rock]

otherwise figure out exactly what line is the error and log what goes into it

[lament raft]

it returns null

[balmy reef]

How can I disable this upload?

[bitter laurel]

Hello everyone, it's me again. Today I created a simple shader, that changes the color of a sprite over time.

When I add it to my game and play, in Scene view, it's worked:

But in Gameview, it stuck:

I checked the console log, and found this warning:

What's the problem here?

I'm using Create > Shader Graph > URP > Sprite Unlit Shader Graph

[hard viper]

I'm confused. I'm trying to figure out why myProfiler says grid's WorldToCell is slowing down my code so much, but when I look in assembly explorer, I get this:

which just leads me to this, which is an externally defined function. so how would I know exactly what is going on in this method?

[broken light]

does unity have an editor api for when saving an asset it lets you choose the directory

for the location to save it

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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

[spark stirrup]

Anyone know what's wrong with the dashing in my script? It's super inconsistent. Sometimes, it activates, sometimes it doesn't. Also, the dashTime variable seems to jump from 3 to 0 for some reason:

https://gdl.space/itagutewiv.cs

[quaint rock]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorUtility.html
this has multiple things you can use for this like SaveFilePanel

[cosmic rain]

First, you shouldn't be applying continuous forces in update.

Second, you shouldn't be querying input in fixed update

Aside from that the code is hardly readable and debuggable.

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a couple-dozen of other bugs hiding in it.

the dashing input is in fixed update. Which is why it probably doesn't work sometimes.

It kind of looks like they took code from some tutorial as a base and then added their own code in random places 😄

[rain minnow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.html
you can copy, create, delete, or move the asset at a given path, then call SaveAssets . . .

[red stratus]

I'm working on an inventory system and I'm currently at the very beginning. I have the following code

private ItemDataSO _itemData;

public ItemDataSO ItemData { get => _itemData; set => _itemData = value; }

private int _currentStackCount = 1;

public int CurrentStackCount
{
    get { return _currentStackCount; }
    set { _currentStackCount = value; }
}
private int _maxStackCount;

public int MaxStackCount
{
    get { return _maxStackCount; }
    set { _maxStackCount = value; }
}

public InventoryItem(ItemDataSO itemData)
{
    _itemData = itemData;
    _maxStackCount = itemData.MaxStackSize;
}

public void AddToStack()
{
    _currentStackCount++;
}

public void RemoveFromStack()
{
    _currentStackCount--;
}

There is a tutorial I was following that didnt explain why they have placed the current stack count here in this script instead of the scriptable object data container. The only reason I can think of is because the stack size changes value. Are scriptable objects only supposed to have fields that do not change values?

[broken light]

scriptable objects are not runtime things

they are more for storing data about objects but not anything that matters when the game runs like quantity in your inventory

[red stratus]

So fields that wont change after run time, such as a description, bool isStoryItem, or isStackable can be safely placed in the SO and other fields that potentially have changing values are better to be placed in a wrapping class?

[broken light]

yeah

and so changing values you would have to save as player data when the player saves to remember that sorta stuff

i think of SOs as blueprints but for data

[red stratus]

I would need to mark the class as [Serializable] when I need to save and load later down the road?

the wrapping class*

[broken light]

not for SOs you can't save back to them afterwards

[red stratus]

Since they will always have the same values for the fields, they should always remain the same. If my wrapping class is InventoryItem.cs, and this class contains all the values I need to save but at the same time, has a reference to the SO, how is that handled when saved?

Will that reference be broken on save or load?

[mighty hatch]

I'm wanting to roll dice but to guarantee a certain result.

I'm using Physics.Simulate to simulate a dice roll to find which side is facing up, and then rotating a child object's mesh (the actual die itself) so that the desired side is facing up. This works most of the time, but if I change the diceForce to be high I'm occasionally getting the wrong result. Most often when observing the dice roll it's when the die teeters on an edge before settling on a side (and the correct side is usually the other side it could've landed on).

The only conclusion I can think of is that Physics.Simulate is not entirely accurate but maybe others will see something I'm not. Code incoming:

    {
        Physics.simulationMode = SimulationMode.Script;
        Vector3 initialPosition = transform.position;
        Vector3 torque = new Vector3(Random.Range(-1, 1f) * diceForce, Random.Range(-1, 1f) * diceForce, Random.Range(-1, 1f) * diceForce);
        Quaternion intiialRotation = Quaternion.Euler(Random.Range(0, 360f), Random.Range(0, 360f), Random.Range(0, 360f)); ;

        diceRigidBody.rotation = intiialRotation;

        float safety = 60;
        diceRigidBody.AddTorque(torque, ForceMode.Impulse);
        while (!diceRigidBody.IsSleeping() && safety > 0)
        {
            Physics.Simulate(Time.fixedDeltaTime);

            safety -= Time.fixedDeltaTime;
            if(safety < 0)
            {
                Debug.Log("took too long");
            }
        }

        float mostUpDotProduct = float.MinValue;
        int upSideIndex = -1;
        for (int i = 0; i < sides.Length; i++)
        {
            Transform side = sides[i];
            float dotProduct = Vector3.Dot(side.up, Vector3.up);
            if (dotProduct > mostUpDotProduct)
            {
                upSideIndex = i;
                mostUpDotProduct = dotProduct;
            }
        }
        Debug.Log(upSideIndex);
        Physics.simulationMode = SimulationMode.FixedUpdate;
        transform.position = initialPosition;
        transform.rotation = intiialRotation;
        orientator.localRotation = sides[upSideIndex].localRotation;
        diceMesh.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(sideFacings[desiredRoll - 1]);
        diceRigidBody.AddTorque(torque, ForceMode.Impulse);

    }```

if it helps

[cosmic rain]

Yes. The reference to the SO would be broken if you serialize/deserialize a plain class. You should assign some kind of ID to your SO items and save that ID when serializing the item instance. Then reassign the reference based on the saved ID, when loading the item.

[gray mural]

public class ButtonHoverCursor : EventTrigger
{
    [SerializeField] private Texture2D cursor;

    public void Hover(bool value, bool canHover = true)
    {
        if (canHover)
            GameManager.instance.SetHoverCursor(value, cursor);
    }
}

Why I cannot see Hover method in ButtonHoverCursor script when I select gameObject as an event object

[lean sail]

I dont think unity events like multiple args, you probably have to put that in a struct

[gray mural]

a struct that consists of..?

[lean sail]

oh nvm u wouldnt even be able to do that either

[gray mural]

was it an insult ? 😐

[lean sail]

no, i meant cant use a struct like i thought

[lean sail]

well either way you cant assign multiple values in inspector for the parameters i believe, so you'll have to call it through code and do something like this
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36244660/simple-event-system-in-unity/36249404#36249404

[gray mural]

I see, I have copied everything from EventTrigger script and added my custom method, now I can all it

EventTrigger's custom inspector doesn't allow to have serialized variables or method

and thank you 😄

[warm stratus]

Hey, i did that to check if there just one persistent object

using UnityEngine;

public class PersistentObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void Awake()
    {
        //checks at the begin if there several persistent object, if yes, destroy the object
        if (FindObjectsOfType<PersistentObject>().Length > 1)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
            return;
        }
        
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }
}

but, when i do FindObjectOfType<PersistentObject>() at the start Method it returns the object that has got Destroyed, what is the problem?

[gray mural]

you mean Awake?

it could be destroyed before awake

[lean sail]

Just use a singleton, aka make a public static reference to the instance of PersistentObject

Seems like you want one here

I believe the issue is just because it's not destroyed instantly

[warm stratus]

Thanks it works i did that to fix the issue

using UnityEngine;

public class PersistentObject : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static PersistentObject persistentObject;

    private void Awake()
    {
        //checks at the begin if there several persistent object, if yes, destroy the object
        if (persistentObject != null)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
            return;
        }

        persistentObject = this;
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }
}

[celest iron]

Is a tile in a Tilemap considered a GameObject? Or is it only a GameObject if I override StartUp() and instruct it to do so?

I got a little confused, Unity documentation doesn't really explain

(please ping me if answering)

[gray mural]

it's probably not considered as a GameObject

it's TileBase -> ScriptableObject -> Object

public T GetTile<T>(Vector3Int position) where T : TileBase

so basially it's not a GameObject, as it's not inherited from it

it's an Object

[celest iron]

I'm trying to understand this tho, from the documentation

StartUp is called for each tile when the Tilemap updates for the first time. You can run any start up logic for Tiles on the Tilemap if necessary. The argument go is the instanced version of the object passed in as gameobject
when GetTileData was called. You may update go as necessary as well.

public bool StartUp(Vector3Int location, ITilemap tilemap, GameObject go)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-ScriptableTiles-Tile.html

As far as I can tell, if I want the tile to have some unique behaviour, I give it a GameObject?

With the behaviour that I want?

So the tile has a GameObject associated with it?

That gets called when StartUp runs?

[gray mural]

TileData has

public struct TileData

[gray mural]

well, why should you..

[celest iron]

Like, if player walks in a lava tile

It gets hurt

Ok, so apparently, reading more, the Tile itself isn't a game object, but whenever a tile is added to a tile map, it does instantiate a game object

If I want to

By overriding StartUp

I guess

[pearl violet]

Hi! I am trying to create a virtual mouse for brackeys gamejam but I am having a lot of issues when trying to performing pairing with the virtual mouse device. Help would be very much appreciated.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem.Users;

public class VirtualMouseManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private PlayerInput playerInput;
    [SerializeField] private float cursorSpeed = 1000f;
    RectTransform cursorTransform;
    Canvas canvas;
    RectTransform canvasTransform;
    Mouse virtualMouse;
    private static Vector2 MousePosition { get; set; }
    private static Vector2 GamepadDelta { get; set; }
    private static Vector2 Position { get; set; }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        cursorTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
        canvas = cursorTransform.GetComponent<Canvas>();
        canvasTransform = canvas.GetComponent<RectTransform>();


        if(virtualMouse == null ) 
        {
            virtualMouse = (Mouse)UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputSystem.AddDevice("VirtualMouse");
        }
        else if(!virtualMouse.added) 
        {
            UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputSystem.AddDevice(virtualMouse);
        }

        //All guides use playerInput.user, the definition for user does not exist.
        InputUser.PerformPairingWithDevice(virtualMouse, playerInput.user);
    }
}```

[swift falcon]

I love how every time I'm typing out my question here I end up answering my own question, it's crazy how powerful formulating ur thoughts is

[celest iron]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[vague sedge]

can someone help me figure out how to rotate a raycast around a local rotation but towards a global direction like this

[lean sail]

This just looks like you want it to use the transform.forward as the direction

[vague sedge]

not really what im going for but im struggling to word it better

[lucid wigeon]

Is this a valid piece of code to cache values of ScriptableObject like that? https://gdl.space/dijupepobi.cs I'm accessing those values thousands of times during generation so I prefer (unserializable)Dictionary instead of List. This works for me in the Editor but somehow the values are not found in runtime...

[warm aspen]

Get the world direction vector and project it on a plane that has the object's transform.up as its normal

[lucid wigeon]

Like this: ```
public List<BlockTilesConfig> blockTilesConfigs; // actual values
Dictionary<BlockType, BlockTilesConfig> blockConfigCache; // used for caching

[lean sail]

The only other thing I can think of based on your description would be take the original ray, and multiply it by the rotation (quaternion) you want

[warm aspen]

I answered it

[vague sedge]

yeah thankyou im just not the most educated with code and stuff so im trying to figure out how to do what you said haha

[warm aspen]

Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(...)

(is it 3D?)

[vague sedge]

yeah

[warm aspen]

If I remember correctly it's sonething like this

Check documentation if not

[lean sail]

Oh I see what your image is trying to describe now lol

[vague sedge]

in more detail im trying to move a player object based on the input relative to the camera angle i have the player moving transform.forward and just rotating the y on local rotation but when the player is upside down its flipped in a way that isnt what i want

im new to programming (more of an artist) so just what you said might be very clear instruction ill probably be trying to do it for a couple days lmao

[warm aspen]

Forget about code for a second. Do you understand the concept of projecting a vector onto a plane?

[vague sedge]

not really

[warm aspen]

Ok. It would be easier to explain with images but I'll try:
A vector is something that has a direction and magnitude ("length"), so something that can be represented as an arrow in 3D space. Imagine you have an arrow that is angled up in something like 45 degrees from the ground. And it's high noon so the sun is totally perpendicular

To the ground

[night harness]

Whats the general vibe for scriptableobjects that contain global settings? Should I be dragging and dropping or should I have some sort of god Settings : ScriptableObject that is singleton based

[warm aspen]

The shadow of the arrow is the arrow vector projected onto the plane of the floor

So on your case you want to get an "arrow" that points 'east' (or something) and project it on a plane that follows your character rotation

The normal of a plane is a vector perpendicular to the plane. So if you use you char's transform up as the normal for that plane, you'll get the resulting vector that you need for your raycast direction

[lean sail]

Not entirely sure if this is related because I'm still confused by the image, but I do something similar to what you describe. I just use the transform.forward and multiply that by a quaternion constructed by the cameras angle that I care about

I do not think you need project on plane here honestly

[warm aspen]

He needs the vector to stay always perpendicular to a character that can freely rotate

So the vector has to always point in a general world direction (let's say east) but stay perpendicular to the character

[vague sedge]

idk if this will help more but in this example the green arrow is the direction i want a raycast to point

in all of these scenarios i want to be holding down "A" and thats it

at the moment the character just moves forward on their local rotation so transform.forward which means when theyre at x = 180 and im holding "A" they would go right instead

but i want the charcater to always go in the direction of left relative to the camera

[vague sedge]

couldnt i use the cameras rotation then?

[warm aspen]

You can use camera.transform.right * -1 and project that onto a plane that has the character.transform.up as its normal

[vague sedge]

ill try do some research on what you talked about cause i can feel my brain turn to mush trying to figure this out, thankyou though

[vague sedge]

went back to my old approach, footage is old and im not using the built in character controller anymore but its the exact same problem visually so it still works for reference

https://gdl.space/otukigoyex.cs

i have no idea what im doing wrong for it to rotate fine if facing the z plane but dosent work if facing the x plane

[gray mural]

Why doesn't my vertical scrollbar work when I add this script on its handle?
Well, it conflits with Scrollbar that is also inherited from IBeginDragHandler and IDragHandler. How to I fix it?

public class Scrollbar : 
    Selectable, 
    IBeginDragHandler, 
    IDragHandler, 
    IInitializePotentialDragHandler, 
    ICanvasElement

[ExecuteAlways]
public class ButtonHoverCursor : 
    MonoBehaviour, 
    IPointerEnterHandler, 
    IPointerExitHandler, 
    IPointerDownHandler, 
    IPointerUpHandler,
    IBeginDragHandler,
    IEndDragHandler,
    IDragHandler

[reef garnet]

Hi I need help with Vector 3 calculations, I'm making a solar system simulation and need to calculate the perpendicular direction between an asteroid/planet and the star, the rotation is irrelevant for this so long as it isn't moving directly towards or away from the star, I'm working with vector3's and want to add an initial velocity to create a planetary orbit

gravity and such is already implemented and I can do it manually but I'd like the script to procedurally generate the direction

[red stratus]

That makes sense. Does using the guid of the created SO file make sense for this?

[cosmic rain]

Do you mean instance ID? If so, then no. They are random each new session.

[gray mural]

I have fixed it by adding the script directly on Scrollbar

[steady moat]

Pretty sure you cannot "substract" tilemap collider.

You will probably need to do a work around such as creating manually your collider.

One way could be to have an additionnal invisible tilemap that does the required operation base on the other tilemap.

Oh, I think I misunderstood. You should be able to adjust the collider in the tilemap rules.

I never done it myself, but a quick search land you on things such as: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/using-rule-tiles#

[wise quiver]

i have a question about structs and libraries in unity..
i have made a library (in rust) which i need in unity, i managed to import the function which works just fine but i have problems using structs..
my unity code:

namespace MyHandler
{
   <the imports>
    public class LibHandler
    {
        [DllImport("unity_lib1")]
        private static extern Position add(Position p);

        private struct Position
        {
            public int x;
            public int y;
        }

        public void TestCode()
        {
            Position p = new Position();
            p.x = 4;
            p.y = 7;
            Position l = add(p);
            Debug.Log(l.y);
            
        }
    }
}

(once i changed the input to a int a, int b and returning a int and it worked so the problem is with the struct)

if u need my rust code:

#[no_mangle]
pub extern "C" fn add(a: Position) -> Position {
    let x = a.x + a.y;
    Position { x: x, y: x }
}
// also tried with #[repr(C)]
pub struct Position {
    pub x: i32,
    pub y: i32,
}

and my result is smth like -107 (some more numbers)

[heady iris]

it seems unlikely that C# and rust would disagree on how to pack that struct

but it's the first thing that comes to mind

[heady iris]

You may need to manually control that on the C# side -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.runtime.interopservices.structlayoutattribute?view=net-7.0

[leaden ice]

what's the exact result?

[wise quiver]

ok i somehow "fixed" it by restarting unity..

[wise quiver]

-1007363836

[leaden ice]

seems like an integer overflow or something but - yeah idk how the restart would change anything

[wise quiver]

ok smth else really quick.. is there a way to reload unity?

i also get this when i try to replace the dll file by deleting old and adding the new one:

any idea?

[knotty sun]

Once an Assembly is loaded into an Application Domain it cannot be unloaded without unloading the complete domain
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domains/application-domains

[wise quiver]

mhh ok thank you

[knotty sun]

one thing you can try, not sure if it works in Unity but it does in std Windows programming.
Rename the original .dll
Then put the new one in with the original name
Next time you run it should replace old with new

[wise quiver]

yeah i tried that but it didnt work

[gray mural]

Why does it select text in TMP_InputField like that? The caret should be at the end.

levelNameInput.text = "My Level";
levelDiffDropdown.value = 0;

levelNameInput.Select();
levelNameInput.caretPosition = levelNameInput.text.Length;

[wise quiver]

ok i have a even bigger problem xD
when i try to get strings from my dll my unity crashes xD

[quasi python]

Hey, I'm trying to make a game where my player shoots a portal at wherever the mouse is located. However, I don't want the player to be able to shoot through the walls. The problem is that whenever the player gets close to a wall their gunpoint is then positioned inside of it. This means that the player can then simply shoot onto the opposite side of the wall. How can I make the raycast end at the beginning of the wall when I'm inside of it?

[dense vessel]

You could make the raycast start from inside the player (assuming the player itself can't go inside the wall) 🙂

[quasi python]

Oh, duh, that seems so obvious now that it's said.

[dapper flower]

I'm teleporting a falling cinemachine target. I'm using these settings

How should I resolve the issue with the camera smoothing features?

[dawn warren]

my gun instead of rotating to where the mobs are he goes around the whole map

[scarlet kindle]

Hello @rigid island we had been chatting the other day about the card game stats approach, i was wondering if you'd be open to accepting a friend request and chatting in DM some more about your approach?

It sounds like from what you're saying, make the SO, link the SO to the POCO, instantiate the POCO and link it to the GO.

The POCO can then be loaded/saved to JSON easily and then reconstructed when the game is closed/opened?

[grim copper]

I've got this gamebreaking bug that when the character shoots into the sky/at nothing or too far down it either goes backwards or the bullet just falls with no velocity. btw, those errors are not the problem.

[grim copper]

the red lines are the paths of the bullets

[grim copper]

i've been working for ages trying to fix this and cannot wrap my head around it

[heady iris]

well, we'll need to see some code.

[half cloak]

Hey guys, how can I implement this effect in unity? any idea help?

[grim copper]

oh, sorry 😅

[heady iris]

this is not very clear. is this a skybox where the ground haze moves as you move up and down?

[grim copper]

if this is a skybox, i think there is a slider on the skybox texture that does something like this.

[half cloak]

Sorry, This is the full effect

[heady iris]

!code

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[grim copper]

oh ok

[half cloak]

Yeah

[grim copper]

https://gdl.space/cucedoriqu.cs

[heady iris]

it will depend on your render pipeline, since they'll have different skybox shaders

[grim copper]

this isn't the entire shooting function, just the parts that are relevant

[heady iris]

your default choice of targetPoint is going to cause problems

if you don't hit anything, you wind up drawing a vector from attackPoint to... attackPoint

that's a zero-vector. normalizing this returns another zero-vector (since normalizing a zero-vector is ill-defined)

[half cloak]

Thanks, I think this is good for me. but I wonder this image move up and down.

[heady iris]

Since you scale the spread based on distance between attackPoint and targetPoint, you get no spread

So you wind up with a zero-vector for the bullet direection

[grim copper]

Yeah, I was pretty sure it was that

[heady iris]

Instead of defaulting targetPoint to equal attackPoint, just default to a point that's far away in the direction of the raycast

ray.GetPoint(50);

e.g.

[grim copper]

I was going to remove the spread completely as I've got a new recoil system now

[grim copper]

ok! thanks! 🙂

The issue that persists is the one where the bullet basically goes backwards when you shoot at the floor or too close to directly down

The other one is fixed tho thankfully

[grim copper]

the white cylinder has no collision, so the bullet literally just goes the reverse way its supposed to and doesn't collide with anything.

[heady iris]

the ray is firing from the camera, so it could hit any collider that's right in your face

does the gun have a collider?

[grim copper]

no

[heady iris]

log what you're colliding with, then

Debug.Log(hit.collider)

[grim copper]

the bullets die on collision

[heady iris]

i'm not talking about the bullets hitting anything

i'm talking about the raycast that determines which way the bullet goes

[grim copper]

oh okay

oh shit, it was colliding with the player collider

this wasn't an issue in earlier versions so i forgot abt that lol

thanks for the help

[heady iris]

that'll do it (:

[grim copper]

well, one last thing

[heady iris]

You can prevent this by pushing the raycast origin forward a bit

[grim copper]

oh ok

[heady iris]

make a new ray from the old one

[grim copper]

i was just gonna say that i can't really disable the collider but u right

[grim copper]

?

[heady iris]

new Ray(ray.GetPoint(1), ray.direction);

e.g.

this would walk it forwards by one meter

[grim copper]

ohh

okay thanks

[red stratus]

No there is a guid associated with each asset and unity uses this to keep track of references. I wasn't sure if this would be useful in unique identification

[heady iris]

This is exactly how I've done serialization before

using UnityEngine;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
#endif

public class Identifiable : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] Guid _guid;
    public Guid Guid => _guid;

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    void OnValidate()
    {
        var path = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(this);
        _guid = new Guid(AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID(path));
    }
#endif
}

[grim copper]

It all works, tysm for being so helpful (:

[heady iris]

note that Guid is a custom type, since System.Guid is not serializable

np!

[heady iris]

it's a bit of a nuisance to have every single asset fetching its guid on every validate call...

https://gdl.space/fajahabade.cs
https://gdl.space/ovoveduyav.cs
https://gdl.space/jilarekeza.cpp
https://gdl.space/suratemovi.cs

That shows roughly how things worked

the static IdentifiableReference class is used to fetch dictionaries of specific kinds of Identifiables

Progression is the save file format. "uplink" is a bonfire equivalent in my soulslike ripoff

i really should've done something smarter than "load all resources of type X and make a new dictionary" every single time I need to look up a GUID

ah well, first draft :p

[grim copper]

public Volume postProcessVolume;

apparently volume isn't a namespace?

i am on urp and i have the using UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal;

[heady iris]

It's just UnityEngine.Rendering, iirc.

the volume framework is used by both URP and HDRP

[grim copper]

oh okay

[heady iris]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.core@16.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Volume.html

[grim copper]

is there a place that says what all the effects are called

[heady iris]

the different volume components?

[grim copper]

Assets\Scripts\Health.cs(13,13): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Vignette' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

yeah

cuz i changed to urp and stuff broke like this

[heady iris]

that's in UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal. You might have old using directives in some files.

I don't see an obvious way to ask for all classes that derive from VolumeComponent (which is what you want here)

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@16.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.Vignette.html

But you can at least search the scripting API for what you're looking for

[grim copper]

okay

[heady iris]

e.g.

i think you have to hit ctrl-f/cmd-f to get that filter to show up sometimes

[grim copper]

i'm kind of confused

using rendering.universal

the only error i get is about the 'Volume'

but on rendering all my post fx are broken

[heady iris]

You need both namespaces.

[heady iris]

Volume comes from here.

It's not unique to the URP.

[heady iris]

All of the URP-specific volume components live in here.

[grim copper]

oh

i see

[heady iris]

I'm having trouble with state machines. Suppose entities have a GrabbedState for when they're being grappled. If the entity performs an attack, it makes sense to go into the AttackState -- but then they need to go **back to the GrabbedState **. But this is problematic; we'd have to remember which state we came from and go back to it (which you wouldn't always want to do; imagine going from the BlockState directly into the AttackState or something)

...but, it also seems wrong to leave the GrabbedState. You don't stop being grabbed; you're doing an attack while being grabbed.

Perhaps I need to split this into two state machines?

One would be for things the entity is doing and one would be for things the entity is experiencing

maybe?

Maybe I need to have a component that tells the entity which state it belongs in, given its current circumstances (idle, grabbed, dead) and return to that one, not just to the idle state...

...but, it also seems wrong to leave the GrabbedState. You don't stop being grabbed; you're doing an attack while being grabbed.

Actually, maybe I'm just thinking about this wrongly. GrabbedState should just mean you're being grabbed and not doing anything right now.

I already have a separate "Grabbable" component that makes the entity grabbable in the first place, and that is responsible for doing stuff like turning on the ragdoll system when grabbed.

That component is what determines if you're grabbed or not.

ok, yeah, I think I'm happy with that

🦆

[stark ore]

I have something I need help with; for some reason, when testing my game, my mouse button doesn't count as clicked (through using both Input.GetMouseButton(0) and Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) unless I first click out of the game window and then back in. I'm not sure if this is specifically an issue with using those within Update() or something else.

[humble kraken]

I am making my Spell System for Unity, and would like to get some feedback on the system design. I am still a beginner. The game is MOBA (like LoL, but for now I am making it without multiplayer). I have Ability SO, Active Ability SO and Passive Ability SO. These SOs have lists of IAbilityBehaviour (interfaces) inside them. IAbilityBehaviour have a function in it that requires AbilityContext, which is a constructor with data. The idea is that SO has different behaviours inside it (create a skill shot, wait, use mana and etc), and they are casted in a tree-like manner.

Here are my two questions:

1. Any feedback on this design?
2. How to better implement it? Is it fine to just call from another class and MB (the reasons I am asking it is because I saw a guy creating a normal class for each SO = Ability Class, Ability SO, but I didn't understand why he was doing it. He has a constructor inside it with AbilityDefinition and Ability Controller):
   foreach (IAbilityBehaviour abilityBehaviour in abilityDefinition.OnSpellCast)
   {
   abilityBehaviour.Execute(abilityContext);
   }

[scarlet viper]

Hey I have a silly question. I'm incrementing speed every frame but I want to add the less speed the more speed there already is. Anyone knows how to?

[buoyant bridge]

Anyone here know Multiplay and Matchmaker? having issues with getting chucked into different servers despite requesting the same "room" via ticket

[buoyant bridge]

just need to run the standard exponential plateau type formula: https://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/latest/curve-fitting/reg_exponential-plateau.htm

[gray mural]

How to I add a GameObject in Canvas as an UI Element?

[scarlet kindle]

I'm trying to set up a SO -> POCO -> GO flow, the point of this is to have inerited base stats from the SO that get loaded into the POCO if it is first getting created, but then I can also load from JSON into the POCO later from a save file. Is this the correct idea of flow?

[buoyant bridge]

you have to manually sync it. by default Transforms and RectTransforms don't know about each other nor do their respective components. So if you have a Horizontal Layout Group, for example, you will need to create your own mono script that will track the 2D parent object behaviour and manually sync it to your 3D object

[gray mural]

so basically an editor only script that controls every child added to gameObject and makes it a ui if it's a gameobject?

[buoyant bridge]

nope. gotta do it every frame

runtime

fun right?

[scarlet viper]

I dont have time variable

[gray mural]

why runtime?

better to do it editor only.

[scarlet viper]

Nvm i dont need time i think

[gray mural]

covert to ui without overriding an original prefab

[scarlet viper]

i think i got it to work uwu

[ocean river]

ay how do i disable an component when the object has two of the same type

from code

[heady iris]

you can use GetComponents to get every component of the relevant type from a GameObject.

[rigid island]

If you want we can create a thread here

[scarlet kindle]

sure, that would be great

[fluid lily]

Is UnityEvent performance still pretty bad? I saw a lot of articles about it, but they are all pretty old. I am considering using an interface with a C# Action instead, and just make a UnityEvent adapter component.

[somber nacelle]

what articles are you seeing that are saying that UnityEvent's performance is bad? i'm pretty sure actual benchmarks show that the performance is pretty similar to a regular c# event. the only major difference between the two is that a UnityEvent can be serialized and subscribed to in the inspector

[fluid lily]

https://www.jacksondunstan.com/articles/3335

[knotty sun]

January 25, 2016

[heady iris]

yeah

UnityEvent isn't fundamentally different

[grim copper]

https://gdl.space/rijufayoya.cpp

I had a procedural recoil animation script that was originally attached to the GunHolder, which is the parent of all the guns in the game. meaning, that every gun would have the same amount of recoil. I changed that and have been left with some weird results that idk how to fix

[heady iris]

that's another deal :p

[grim copper]

messing with the settings doesn't help

[fluid lily]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_AdcvF_TkQ

[grim copper]

the gun is supposed to go towards the camera and up a little bit, its not supposed to shoot up as it is, i have a video of the recoil working if needed

[fluid lily]

That vid is from 5 months ago

Makes a good point that in most games it won't effect performance, but if you are calling tons then it will

[somber nacelle]

well i guess this is a good time for me to create a project to do some actual benchmarking instead of just printing some numbers to the screen

it's gonna take a few to get a project setup with the performance testing package

[lean sail]

What's the performance testing package?

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.test-framework.performance@1.0/manual/index.html

[lean sail]

Oo ty

[marble ember]

Is there a way to take an image of biome "zones" and map it to a unity 2d tilemap? For context, I am trying to create a large open world 2d game by procedurally generating the map. Thing is, I don't want to randomely generate biomes, I am wanting to choose what areas are what biomes on the tilemap, and can have my tile generation algorithm choose the correct tileset to use depending on what biome that area should be. I figured the easiest way to do this was paint the biome zones in a png that is the size of my desired map (1 pixel on png equals 1 tile on tilemap, to get smooth biome blends) and somehow read the color data from the png to create invisible zones I can reference in my terrain generation code to decide which biome tileset to use. So for this example, the image attached is a 100x100 pixel png with some poorly drawn biomes. Is there a way to somehow map those to a 100x100 area on the tilemap in unity that i can reference in the generation algorithm, like checking if the tile location is inside forest zone, etc.

[leaden ice]

sure jsut read colors from the texture and use SetTile in the tilemap to match the read color

you'll make a mapping of color -> tile somewhere

[marble ember]

ok thats what I was considering, so if im understanding correctly, read the color data and create a layer of it on the tilemap?

[leaden ice]

not sure what you mean by layer

[marble ember]

then how would i be able to access what tile is where in code? So that way for the terrain generation i could do something like "if( (tile on biome layer) = snowBiome) have it use tiles from my snow tileset

[marble ember]

oh i was just figuring it would need to be its own layer on the tilemap no?

[broken light]

how do you get the unity default gui colours

i changed gui.color to red now i dont know how to turn back to the default theme

im sure it must be accessible some how

[marble ember]

oh actually i think i know what you mean, so i wouldnt be be having to make a tilemap out of the biome image, just maybe go pixel by pixel on the image and check the color, and have the different biome tilesets mapped to that color value to use

[somber nacelle]

so doing some testing using the performance tester, it does show similar results as those articles. of course the difference in timing is less than a microsecond for the same operations so realistically it does not matter which you use

here's the code: https://paste.myst.rs/tfhl76fo
and the attached file is my results

[scarlet kindle]

Hi general question about DontDestroyOnLoad!

If I have set up a GO to not destroy, i see it move over to the next scene! which is fantastic, but this makes it instantiate on runtime in the new scene, rather than pre-run in the editor... so i'm wondering how I would attach that GO into other things in the editor in this case?

for example, a GameDataManager

[somber nacelle]

this makes it instantiate on runtime in the new scene
what do you mean by this? because it's not being instantiated again to move to the new scene

[scarlet kindle]

ah right I worded that oddly. I mean, it doesn't show up in the editor of the other scene until I've hit the play button

[somber nacelle]

right because it isn't actually in that scene. it's in whatever scene you have it in initially and then when you pass it to DontDestroyOnLoad it gets put into a persistent scene so that it isn't destroyed when the scene changes. DontDestroyOnLoad doesn't make it magically appear in every single scene, all it does is prevent it from being destroyed when the scene is unloaded

[scarlet kindle]

yup correct, so i'm confused about how I would properly manage GameData between scenes

[somber nacelle]

you need to get a reference to the DDOL object at runtime. you cannot drag it into the inspector for other objects in other scenes because it isn't even guaranteed to be in that scene ever

https://unity.huh.how/programming/references/cross-scene-references

[scarlet kindle]

ah fun, so i'll need to abandon use of the inspector completely then and go all scripting sounds like

[scarlet kindle]

I just saw this on a thread from the forums, do you think this is accurate?

[whole mist]

after loading in the same scene on pressing the retry button i get a "Transform has been destroyed and you are trying to access it" error. the only Destroy() thats called in any of my code is when you kill an enemy. how do you fix this

the error is one the Raycast

with cam as the Transform

[somber nacelle]

let me guess, you are using a DontDestroyOnLoad object?

[whole mist]

wasnt but i added it

still didnt fix

[somber nacelle]

then you need to provide more context. and i never said to add DontDestroyOnLoad. that's typically what causes issues like this where you're referencing an object, reload the scene, and suddenly the referenced object is destroyed

use mp4 to embed videos in discord

[whole mist]

well the cam is referenced through a serializefield and its the red one, the script with the raycast is in the ones circled in blue

when you shoot it sends a raycast to an object at the center of the camera but when i load a new scene it sees the Transform cam as destroyed

[somber nacelle]

by "more context" i of course meant the rest of the relevant code

[whole mist]

ah

[somber nacelle]

!code

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[whole mist]

ic

https://gdl.space/xohujataye.cs

[swift ocean]

when i left mouse click to rotate around the player, the player can run away from the camera

[somber nacelle]

you're not unsubscribing from your events. so the old objects that have been destroyed are trying to react to the events too. it's typically recommended to subscribe to events in OnEnable and unsubscribe in OnDisable. or if you want to keep the subscription in Start then unsubscribe in OnDestroy

[whole mist]

so just -= the things in start?

[somber nacelle]

well don't do it in Start, but yeah

[whole mist]

got it

[somber nacelle]

you don't need to ping me for the question. but you also need to show code. most likely you're setting the camera's position preventing it from following the player

[whole mist]

worked ty

[barren stag]

Is there any way to make Rule Tiles connect to other tilemaps in other scenes?

apparently inheriting RuleTile and overriding RuleMatches could work, but not sure how it works

[swift ocean]

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform target;
public float smoothSpeed = 0.125f;
public float rotationSpeed = 100f; // Adjust as needed

private Vector3 offset;
private bool isDragging = false;
private Vector3 lastMousePos;

private void Start()
{
    offset = transform.position - target.position;
}

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) // Left mouse button down
    {
        isDragging = true;
        lastMousePos = Input.mousePosition;
    }

    if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0)) // Left mouse button up
    {
        isDragging = false;
    }

    if (isDragging)
    {
        Vector3 mouseDelta = Input.mousePosition - lastMousePos;
        lastMousePos = Input.mousePosition;

        float rotationX = -mouseDelta.y * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        float rotationY = mouseDelta.x * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

        // Apply rotation to camera and update offset
        transform.RotateAround(target.position, Vector3.up, rotationY);
        transform.RotateAround(target.position, transform.right, rotationX);
        offset = transform.position - target.position;
    }
}

private void LateUpdate()
{
    Vector3 desiredPosition = target.position + offset;
    Vector3 smoothedPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, desiredPosition, smoothSpeed);
    transform.position = smoothedPosition;
}

}

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[swift ocean]

oh the `` mark was for recording don't mind it

i edited it

where is the problem?

how?

public class MyClass { private int whatEver; }

alright

the code still have no colors

[leaden ice]

Make a Dictionary<Vector2Int, Biome> or something along those lines and populate it from the texture

[swift ocean]

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform target;

why does yours have colors tho?

[somber nacelle]

!cs

[tawny elk]

You can format your multiline code block with C# highlighting! Just add cs to the start of it. Highlighting example below!

class Fluffs : FluffyCat
{
    public void PetCat ()
    {
        Debug.Log ("Petting Cat.")
    }
}

[swift ocean]

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform target;```

cool

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform target;
    public float smoothSpeed = 0.125f;
    public float rotationSpeed = 100f; // Adjust as needed

    private Vector3 offset;
    private bool isDragging = false;
    private Vector3 lastMousePos;

    private void Start()
    {
        offset = transform.position - target.position;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) // Left mouse button down
        {
            isDragging = true;
            lastMousePos = Input.mousePosition;
        }

        if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0)) // Left mouse button up
        {
            isDragging = false;
        }

        if (isDragging)
        {
            Vector3 mouseDelta = Input.mousePosition - lastMousePos;
            lastMousePos = Input.mousePosition;

            float rotationX = -mouseDelta.y * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
            float rotationY = mouseDelta.x * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

            // Apply rotation to camera and update offset
            transform.RotateAround(target.position, Vector3.up, rotationY);
            transform.RotateAround(target.position, transform.right, rotationX);
            offset = transform.position - target.position;
        }
    }

    private void LateUpdate()
    {
        Vector3 desiredPosition = target.position + offset;
        Vector3 smoothedPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, desiredPosition, smoothSpeed);
        transform.position = smoothedPosition;
    }
}```

[soft glade]

is this place where I can get help?

o, ty

[somber nacelle]

why are you assigning offset in Update while dragging the mouse?

[soft glade]

public class SampleScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] LayerMask ignoreMask;
    LayerMask detectLayer;

    SphereCollider sphereCollider;
    Collider[] foundColliders;

    private void Start()
    {
        sphereCollider = GetComponent<SphereCollider>();

        detectLayer = ~ignoreMask.value;
        detectLayer <<= 1;
        string binary = System.Convert.ToString(detectLayer.value, 2);
        Debug.Log(binary);
        Debug.Log(LayerMask.LayerToName(detectLayer));
    }

    void Update()
    {
        foundColliders = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, sphereCollider.radius, detectLayer);

        if (foundColliders.Length > 0)
        {
            foreach (Collider collider in foundColliders)
            {
                Debug.Log("hit " + collider.name);
            }
        }
    }
}

I'm trying to write a script that makes overlapsphere ignore that layer by inputing ignoreLayer in Inspector

but somehow Overlapsphere still detect that layer I inputed in

[swift ocean]

Without offset, the camera won’t be able to follow my player

[somber nacelle]

but why are you changing the offset when you are dragging the mouse

that's literally the whole issue. you are changing the offset to the current distance between the player and the camera. so when you update the camera's position to the player's position plus offset, it doesn't move because you've changed the offset

[swift ocean]

What do you mean? I should remove offset?

[somber nacelle]

remove that line from Update as it is literally what is causing your issue

[swift ocean]

Let me see

By removing offest the camera sets inside the player giving me first person view

I want 3rd person view

[somber nacelle]

i didn't say remove the offset. i said remove the line where you change the offset inside of Update

[swift ocean]

That cause glitches, please define which line, copy and paste it here so i know

[somber nacelle]

the only place in Update where you change the offset

[swift ocean]

you mean offset = transform.position - target.position;

[somber nacelle]

because if you set the offset to the current distance from the player to the camera, then later that frame you set the camera's position to the player's position plus the offset, then the camera's position will not change because it's already at the offset position

[somber nacelle]

yes, the one in Update. not the one in Start, just the one in Update.

again, the one in Update.

[swift ocean]

Yes ik

[somber nacelle]

do you? because i've had to tell you several times now

[swift ocean]

Rotation is fine but it’s rotate on camera not the player, the camera rotate itself instead of rotating around the player

[somber nacelle]

honestly you should just use cinemachine though

[swift ocean]

Yeah it’s pretty complicated, i thought maybe if i made the camera look around another empty game object inside the player, but that didn’t work because camera has to ether be fixed in place or freely rotating

Can’t be both states at once

[somber nacelle]

if you want to keep using the code you have, then you'll need to get the offset in a different way. it should instead be the direction from the player to the camera multiplied by the distance you want. rather than the current direction and distance from the player to the camera

but cinemachine will be better. and you most likely won't have the same jittery camera you have now

[swift ocean]

Alright

[shell scarab]

How would I be able to remove Up/Down/Left/Right from 'All' through bitwise operators so that it equals some combination of the others? Or would I be better off making All 15 so I could do All & ~Up for example?

[System.Flags]
public enum RoomLayout
{
    Empty = 0,
    Up = 1,
    Down = 2,
    Left = 4,
    Right = 8,
    All = ~0
}

[severe sable]

heyo peeps

what is this new icon

[granite birch]

Game object

[severe sable]

its from 2022.3.7f1

the plus on it

I havent seen it before

[granite birch]

Add one idk

No use

Idea*

[severe sable]

it doesnt mean scriptable object or anything right

[dawn warren]

You can use bitwise operators to remove one or more flags from a flag enumeration. In your case, you can remove the Up flag from the All flag by using the bitwise AND operator (&) and the bitwise NOT operator (~) as follows:

C#
This code is AI-generated. Review and use carefully. Visit our FAQ for more information.

RoomLayout allWithoutUp = RoomLayout.All & ~RoomLayout.Up;
This will remove the Up flag from the All flag and store the result in allWithoutUp. You can use this same approach to remove any other flag(s) from the All flag.

Alternatively, you can set the value of All to 15 (which is equivalent to having all flags set) and then use the bitwise AND operator (&) and the bitwise NOT operator (~) to remove any flag(s) you want. For example, you can remove the Up flag from All as follows:

C#
This code is AI-generated. Review and use carefully. Visit our FAQ for more information.

RoomLayout all = (RoomLayout)15;
RoomLayout allWithoutUp = all & ~RoomLayout.Up;
This will also remove the Up flag from the All flag and store the result in allWithoutUp.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.

[somber nacelle]

that's not new, been around for a while.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PrefabInstanceOverrides.html

[shell scarab]

yes but currently All & ~Up will not leave me with Down, Left, Right, it leaves me with 11111111111111111111111111111110 (in binary). I gave this as an example....

[severe sable]

ah I was using a very old version of unity for my project, thank you for the help :D

[somber nacelle]

it is against server rules to answer questions using AI generated responses

[shell scarab]

on top of that its a bit annoying I'm just told something I used while asking the question.

[severe sable]

I'm having a tiny bit of issues trying to setup my prefabs, think you could help? I am not sure how I can best show without taking up most of the chat, would it be helpful for me to show a class diagram that I generated?

Main issue is my parent class inherits monobehavoir, and then the subclasses cannot be attached to any prefab as a component, which makes me unable to edfine them

[celest iron]

SO why is Unity giving me this error if on the documentation itself they do that in a Scriptable Object?

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    [MenuItem("Assets/Create/GrassTile")]
    public static void CreateGrassTile()
    {
        string path = EditorUtility.SaveFilePanelInProject("Save Grass Tile", "New Grass Tile", "Asset", "Save Grass Tile", "Assets");
        if (path == "")
            return;
        AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<GrassTile>(), path);
    }
#endif

It's a custom tile, inheriting from Tile class

[heady iris]

show the entire stack trace.

[heady iris]

well, what does your grass tile constructor look like?

you've defined one of your own, it looks like

line 11 of GrassTile.cs

it's unususal to define a ctor for a unity object

[celest iron]

I didn't tho

[heady iris]

well, it clearly says there's a constructor on line 11 of GrassTile.cs, so...

[celest iron]

https://pastebin.com/BLH7i1h8

[heady iris]

ok, yes, that's your problem

[celest iron]

There is literally no constructor

[heady iris]

it's happening during the constructor, at least

that's a field initializer.

the error says that you are forbidden to call Resources.Load in a field initializer

so, don't do that

[celest iron]

I see

How do I pass a sprite to the tile then?

[heady iris]

you could load it in the CreateGrassTile method and assign it to the GrassTile

the only constraint is that you can't do this in a field initializer or constructor

[rain minnow]

You have to call Load in a method . . .

[celest iron]

Aaah

I see

Thanks

I'll just drag and drop the sprite in the inspector

Easier anyways if I want more variations of grass

[rain minnow]

Just drag and reference it from the inspector . . .

[celest iron]

Yes, I just said that

Anyways, thank you guys for the help

[heady iris]

More generally, you'll often get errors if you try to use Unity methods in a constructor or in a field initializer

[spark stirrup]

My player walks really slowly on spheres, is there a fix for that?

[heady iris]

e.g. trying to use LayerMask.NameToLayer

[heady iris]

We can't tell you much of anything until you give us some more information...

[spark stirrup]

Ask what you need and I'll tell you lol

[heady iris]

how are you moving the player?

[heady iris]

also, consult #854851968446365696 ...

[spark stirrup]

It's a script on a rigidbody

[heady iris]

the relevant lines:

• Post a description of your problem with relevant context.
• Post relevant error messages with stack traces.
• Describe what troubleshooting steps you have taken.
• Use full paragraphs with the information ready.

[spark stirrup]

• No errors
• I have tried turning up the player's movement speed

[heady iris]

the script would be useful to see.

[spark stirrup]

https://gdl.space/xasawijawe.cs

[heady iris]

I would guess that the player is trying to move into the sphere, so most of the velocity is wasted

[spark stirrup]

Oh yeah i've also tried changing the max slope angle and it didn't really work. How would I fix the velocity?

[heady iris]

you could try rotating the forces so that they're perpendicular to the ground

i'd have to think about how to do that math for a minute

so, imagine that the down vector is always pointing straight into the ground at your feet

and then forward/backward/right/left are relative to that

[spark stirrup]

So

angle the down vector to match the angle of the slope when close to the sphere?

[heady iris]

yeah

so that the forward/right directions are tangent to the sphere

[spark stirrup]

How would I do that? I don't really know trig

[heady iris]

I think you'd need to do var rot = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, surfaceNormal)

then rot * transform.forward would be a corrected forward vector

FromToRotation goes from one direction to another

[spark stirrup]

I will try this thank you

[heady iris]

I'm not sure that'll rotate correctly, but see what that does

(and make sure to use Debug.DrawRay to visualize it)

[celest iron]

Or just project the vector

I guess

[spark stirrup]

what should surfaceNormal be defined as

[heady iris]

oh yeah, a projection would work

[heady iris]

the normal vector of the surface you're on. It looks like you already track that

[celest iron]

Btw this may be a good guide for ya https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/movement/custom-gravity/

[fair wadi]

How can I get more than one person to work on one project?

[leaden ice]

use version control such as Git or PlasticSCM

[patent cradle]

Is there a way to get a ID3D11ShaderResourceView* from an existing Texture? I'm trying to render some of the textures with Dear ImGui, which requires a ID3D11ShaderResourceView*, but Texture.GetNativeTexturePtr() returns a ID3D11Resource* which doesn't work. I have seen a lot of docs and questions about creating textures from a ID3D11ShaderResourceView*, but nothing about getting one from existing textures. I assume Unity would need to create a ID3D11ShaderResourceView in order to render the texture, so is there a way to get a pointer to it? Barring that, is they a way within Unity scripting to create one? Or do I have to manually create it from the ID3D11Resource*?

[heady iris]

I don't have an answer for you, but I am interested in using Dear IMGUI. how are you doing that?

[patent cradle]

There are a few different github repos/plugins for it, depeding on your needs. Since I'm modding I'm using a version that can inject into a running process, but if you are creating from scratch you can use the actual plugin versions. I believe this one is the one I see mentioned most often.

[heady iris]

neat, thanks!

i love Brigador's debug interface, so I've been interested in playing with it

[leaden solstice]

Unity GUI is Dear ImGui wrapper tho

[heady iris]

is it literally just a wrapper? I was under the impression it was a different system.

[misty temple]

hey all i'm doing a udemy course

and somehow my floor game objects are gone

i didn't hide them

i'm not sure what i clicked on to hide all the floor objects

[patent cradle]

It's a double wrapper, Dear Imgui is for C which gets wrapped by ImGuiNet for .Net, which is then wrapped by Dear ImGui Unity for Unity.

[heady iris]

I was referring to Unity’s own IMGUI

[heady iris]

Click the Layers drop-down in the top right

Make sure none have a crossed out eye

(also, not a code question)

[wind wren]

why does this keep appearing? im using vscode with unity

[heady iris]

Does it work fine otherwise?

If not, do you get any error popups?

[wind wren]

i guess it works fine? but the code completion doesnt work or anything at all

[patent cradle]

Oh, as far as I'm aware they are completely different. While they have a similar name and some similar basic elements, they are not the same. For example, just compare how windows are done.

[heady iris]

So it doesn’t work fine!

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[heady iris]

Make sure you’ve followed the directions for VSCode

(they changed recently)

[wind wren]

i did follow them

still doesnt seem to work

[leaden solstice]

Maybe I should said a port

[wind wren]

idk wahts wrong

[obtuse perch]

visual studio editor is not the same as visual studio code editor

vscode and vs are different

[quartz folio]

The Visual Studio Editor is the package that is now required for both VS and VS Code.

[obtuse perch]

oh

sorry

i didnt know that

[quartz folio]

1. Make sure the Visual Studio **Code **Editor extension is removed from Unity's Package Manager.
2. Update the C# and C# Dev Kit extensions in VS Code.

[wind wren]

doesnt let me remove it

[quartz folio]

Do 2 first and see if it fixes it, but if it doesn't then you can see this is installed as a part of something, afaik you can unpack the "feature" it's included with, or perhaps it has some updates

[wind wren]

did 2 as well still doesnt seem to work , and how can i unpack the feature?

[quartz folio]

Select the feature it mentions and see what the options are. I don't use features so I can't really be of help

Maybe you can't even unpack them and you just have to remove the whole thing... which would suck, because then all the packages would no longer be there, and you would have to add them manually before removing the feature.

[wind wren]

still seems to say the same thing

tried reinstalling c# and c# dev kit still the same

[quartz folio]

No idea then. I would recommend JetBrains Rider (free for students via the GitHub student program), or VS Community, which can be installed via the Unity Hub. Both of which have much easier configuration.

[heady iris]

One thing to try: the csproj files

Then regenerate external files

I had a problem where there were two copies of every assembly in the project

I had to completely delete the csproj files to fix that. Regenerating the files seemed to keep the extra copies

[broken light]

Any one know how to get the unity's mesh inspector for Mesh objects and have it display in a window ? something like this:

if (GUILayout.Button("Preview Mesh"))
{
    // open editor window showing the default mesh inspector for Mesh type
    EditorWindow.GetWindow<MeshEditorWindow>().SetMesh(_target.Mesh);
}

this is obviously not real syntax as MeshEditorWindow doesn't exist

[quartz folio]

By inspector do you mean importer?

Or do you mean this

[broken light]

this when you select a mesh object in assets folder

yeah that

i want it to show that info in a window when i press my button

[quartz folio]

I am unsure whether you can just create an InspectorElement from your mesh, and call FillDefaultInspector, I believe it won't use the Editor, and you can't do that. But it might be worth trying as it's a few lines of code

[broken light]

ah ive not used ui elements for editors yet

[quartz folio]

You should.

[broken light]

its a whole new thing i need to learn

[quartz folio]

Things like that API make stuff 100x easier

[broken light]

does it ?

hm maybe then

i find it hard to follow unity's examples 😄

[quartz folio]

it looks like it also may just work, based on what I'm looking at

You may have to pass it an initialised Editor for the mesh, I am unsure whether it will automatically detect that with the Object constructor

If so, it's UnityEditor.ModelInspector,UnityEditor

Which you can create through Editor.CreateEditor with that type

Note in future that this is an #↕️┃editor-extensions question

[broken light]

im going to have to read up on ui elements for all this stuff and really learn it properly

[misty temple]

turns out my camera rotated things so i didnt see the z axis

[quartz folio]

Only InspectorElement is the UITK part of all this

Which is practially UITK's "draw me an editor for this object"

[delicate zinc]

ok so i'm going absolutely insane

i'm trying to create a temporary characterController based entity that would ideally go from pointA to pointB and check if it was succesful on reaching the pointB's XZ coordinates (this is for later creating a node graph and then implement A* with it.)

The main issue that i'm having and i have absolutely no idea why it's happening, is that whenever i call CharacterController.Move(), no matter what vector3 value i give in, the Charactercontroller gets snapped into the coordinates (0, 1.08, 0)

from my understanding on how i could obtain the motion to reach pointB from pointA is by subtracting pointB's position by pointA, and using the resulting vector as the motion parameter for the Move() method

https://github.com/Nebby1999/ElementalWard/blob/d65a87e751e613f8a0faeb7b9936695a6b4b752e/ElementalWard/Packages/com.nebby1999.nebula/Runtime/Navigation/NodeBaker.cs
This is the class which's purpose is basically baking the nodes by creating links between each node's position. yet i have no idea what's causing the snapping to what's basically the scene's center

i think chances are its setting the position to 0,0,0 on the Move call for whatever reason, i mmade some crude testing by calling Move() with the vector 3, 10, 10. the result was the capsule on the right who's position is spot on 3, 10, 10. while the other capsule was moved by just adding 3, 10, 10 to it's position, which exhibited the expected change in position.

so... yeah i have no clue whats going on with this charactercontroller but i have not been able to see or figure out what's the reasoning behind it's extremely weird behaviour with calling Move()

ok

i figured it out, it seems to be a desync between the scene transformm and the physics transform?

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/charactercontroller-overrides-objects-position-when-teleporting-with-transform-dot-position

not exactly the same issue, but i figured might as well try to call Physics.SyncTransforms(), now the character controler moves as expected

[patent cradle]

Can you get a ID3D11ShaderResourceView* from an existing Texture

[buoyant zenith]

If I wanted this white paper (seperate sprite ofc) to smoothly move down the belt, how should I go about it? I understand I could do transform.position but are there any other options?

[pearl otter]

You could use rb.AddForce although I would think transform.position would be best

[buoyant zenith]

I figured. How should I find the values to move it in that direction?

It moves a little diagonal
rather than straight down ofc

[pearl otter]

You could use Vector2.MoveTowards().

transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, speed * Time.deltaTime);```

[buoyant zenith]

Ah this is what I was looking for. Thank you

[pearl otter]

You're welcome

[green radish]

why is this showing up in the inspector when the variable doesnt exist on this script?

it exists in a script inheriting from this one, but not in this one

[somber nacelle]

custom inspector? did you recently remove it from that class and forget to save? we can really only guess since you aren't really providing a lot of context

[green radish]

I made sure to save encase it was that, still there

and no custom inspector

[winged mortar]

Make sure that you always save scripts before questioning

Changes aren't applied untill you save

[green radish]

I did

thats why I'm confused

[winged mortar]

Provide full script

[somber nacelle]

so it was a part of this class before? in that case unity probably just needs to recompile

[winged mortar]

Bigger screenshot of insepctor

Or restart unity

[green radish]

for context about the inheriting thing

[tacit kestrel]

it's likely coming from your inherited script, if the property is also serializable in there (public property)

[winged mortar]

These screenshots are still too cropped man, next time just post full code

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
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// Your code here
```
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[winged mortar]

And a screenshot of your entire inspector pane

Instead of a single property

[green radish]

how would I allow the variable to be inherited without the inheritance also going backward?

[somber nacelle]

inheritance does not go backwards

[winged mortar]

Which script do you have attached to your gameobject

[somber nacelle]

the bit about inheritance is unnecessary and serving only to confuse you. if the component is not an Arcanium component then that class is irrelevant

[green radish]

https://hastebin.skyra.pw/apunetewug.csharp
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uxalixonaf.csharp

the relevance is that the variable exists in Arcanium but doesnt exist in the inheriting class, yet its showing up there

[somber nacelle]

you still have not confirmed whether that variable was part of the Sim_Entity class before

[green radish]

it was at one point

[somber nacelle]

then unity likely just needs to recompile. make another change, save, and swap to unity again and make sure it actually compiles

if you've done something silly like turn off the auto refresh for the assets or scripts or whatever then you need to trigger the compile manually or restart the editor

[green radish]

make a change to script and tab back into unity?

[somber nacelle]

and save, that part is important

[green radish]

that did it

never encountered that before

[somber nacelle]

and now we learn why you should answer questions that are asked #archived-code-general message

[green radish]

sorry

[green glacier]

I am using this to display groundLayerMask to my custom inspector and the set the value of what is ground to groundLayerMask

but for some reason groundLayerMask is changing its value to some random builtin layers

this problem is only happening with layerMasks every other thing is perfectly working

I have confirmed thereisn't any other code snippet that is trying to change ground layer

this is what it shows when I turn on debug inspector

[knotty sun]

I would guess that LayerField is expecting a Layer ID not a LayerMask which are 2 different things

[green glacier]

yeah I just found out that

lol

[green glacier]

thanks it worked

[chilly obsidian]

Hi I got a weird thing happening to me. I set interpolation on a rigid body to interpolate but in play mode it gets set to None. No code is altering interpolation. Any idea what could be happening ?

[gray mural]

Do I have to instantiate a prefab if I want to create a UI Object?

[swift falcon]

if the player is doing collision with the terrain more than 0.3sec, I want to do carry out code player gravityScale = gravityConst, how can i apply this timer thingy for OnCollisionEnter2D

[gray mural]

Coroutine

make IEnumerator OnCollisionEnter2D first

[leaden ice]

Start a timer and use OnCollisonExit to stop it

[swift falcon]

this seems to be better option and easier

wait nvm it doesnt work

[leaden ice]

It works

[swift falcon]

nvm yes it does

[leaden ice]

Why wouldn't it work

[swift falcon]

i mistook timer to another thing

[gray mural]

so you have implemented it already?

[swift falcon]

in my head

[swift falcon]

no in my head tryiing to figure how to do it

i just realized i dont know how to do timer

so ama go google

[gray mural]

a coroutine probably.

[swift falcon]

yeh but we cant exist coroutine tho

[gray mural]

of course you have

[swift falcon]

nvm wecan

i figured out how to do it

ez

[gray mural]

anyway, I think it's better to make OnCollisionEnter2D a void and to implement additional coroutine

[swift falcon]

alright

[clever trellis]

Hey i'm a newbie to unity, i want to make a scoreboard but can't drag drop text(under canvas) to the script attached to canvas
How to do it?

[fervent furnace]

i think the "text" in your script is TMP_text but the text object in canvas is TextMeshProUGUI
show your code

[frosty shuttle]

I am new to coding in csharp and got ChatGPT to generate me this code to activate and deactivate guis and the player controller upon doing things and it isnt working, UIGemLook isnt becoming visible when i look at "Stone_low_1". please tell me how to insert code as a discord message for someone to look through.

[clever trellis]

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

public class ScoreText : MonoBehaviour
{
public Text scoreText;
int score = 0;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    
}

}

[frosty shuttle]

ill try sending at just normal text

[frosty shuttle]

got it!

[fervent furnace]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[frosty shuttle]

The ray is long enough but the gui isnt appearing

[simple egret]

We do not help with code generated by an AI.
See the server rules at #📖┃code-of-conduct

[fervent furnace]

also show the inspector of the gameobject of text in canvas, i think the component should be TextMexhProUGUI

[clever trellis]

cant drag drop

[frosty shuttle]

why not? I can't writ it myself bc i barely know what anything code related is or does

[simple egret]

No shortcuts. Learn like everyone else. AIs spit out very questionable stuff with very high confidence, a beginner will think it's perfect when in reality it's far from it.
!learn

[tawny elk]

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

[fervent furnace]

TextMeshProUGUI is not Text

they are two different components

so you cannot drag then drop it to the field in your script, you have to change it to TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI (or using TMPro;)

[frosty shuttle]

i dont have the time to learn, constant studying for school

is there anywhere i can ask for someone to help with AI code?

not in this server

[clever trellis]

please check dm 🙏

[fervent furnace]

why not just talk in here....

[clever trellis]

only these options available

[clever trellis]

different messages come in between breaking the flow

[simple egret]

The issue is in the code

Your object setup is fine

You can't drag-drop because you used the wrong type in the code

[clever trellis]

i want to display score everytime i hit an object

[fervent furnace]

this component's class name is TextMeshProUGUI

[clever trellis]

i want to achieve this

[clever trellis]

what should i do now?

[simple egret]

We know what you want to do

You need to modify the type, in the code

[clever trellis]

public Text scoreText;
here?

[fervent furnace]

re-declare a variable with type or class name TextMeshProUGUI

then you can assign it

[frosty shuttle]

I would say that is a no

[simple egret]

Most servers will just redirect you back here, there's no escaping it

If you don't have time to learn then pause it, and return when you have more time

[frosty shuttle]

sooo i cant get help anywhere?

[simple egret]

Not until you invest time in the basics

[frosty shuttle]

that will be in 6 years (literally)

welp! Lets see if ChatGPT can fix it itself

[clever trellis]

like this?

[fervent furnace]

yes, but you have to using TMpro; since this class is under TMPro namespace

[simple egret]

They don't have an error so the using is up there cropped out

[clever trellis]

where?

[simple egret]

Nowhere

It's done already it seems

If it wasn't recognised, it would be underlined in red in the code

[fervent furnace]

no error then fine

[simple egret]

(In before their code editor wasn't configured and there is the error in Unity)

[replying to now deleted message]
Ask in #archived-networking

[simple egret]

Did you drag-drop the text? Did it work?

[clever trellis]

text dragged

successfully

[frosty shuttle]

do I have to pay people to write code for me or is there some place that will write it. I don't have the brain capacity to learn what every part means and i don't have the time either.

[clever trellis]

i have a script attached to a ball (for its movement), and now i have to show score so i searched on youtube and they made a canvas and text, now in which script should i add the score code: the ball one or the canvas one?

[fervent furnace]

canvas one, then ball's script calls its method

[simple egret]

The easiest way is in the same script that manages the score

[warm stratus]

Hey, i use this code to check if a file exists

public static class FileStorage
{
    public static string dataPath = Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "savedData");

    public static bool DoesFileExists(string _filePath)
    {
        bool fileExist = File.Exists(Path.Combine(
            dataPath, _filePath));
        Debug.Log(Path.Combine(
            dataPath, _filePath));
        return fileExist;
    }
}```
i call it with FileStorage.DoesFileExists(Path.Combine("levels", "createdLevels", "0")
but the Debug.Log shows "C:/Users/MYUSER/AppData/LocalLow/RH Dynamics/TapOrResign\savedData\levels\createdLevels\0" with / and \ so it says the file doesn't exists

[simple egret]

Show the file in your File Explorer

Post a screenshot of it

[celest iron]

Hey, I have a game object Grid with 3 Tilemaps as children. How do I get, in code, the Tilemap component of each child?

[warm stratus]

ok thks i got the issue

[fervent furnace]

GetComponent on each children

[celest iron]

Found it

[frosty shuttle]

how do I toggle fog by pressing e with a script?

[warm stratus]

i guess RenderSettings.fog = true;
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RenderSettings-fog.html

[wary pewter]

Is there a way to tweak a camera's rendering to change perspective?
I have a game where the character can turn into a mouse, and want the level to look gigantic without having to make two versions or scaling it up (as it prevent anything from being static).
Surely there must be some way to tell the projection matrix to multiply all distance by X or something?

[prime sinew]

Probably better to just declare SerializeField variables and drag them in

[celest iron]

True, true

[vague tundra]

Is there a consensus on whether, in the following situation, to use weapon or this.weaponSO to access values off of this object in the constructor?

public WeaponContract(WeaponSO weapon) {
    this.weaponSO = weapon;

    this.WeaponName = weapon.WeaponName;
    this.AttackCooldown = weapon.BaseAttackCooldown;
}

[green radish]

Not sure if I'm using InverseTransformPoint wrong but the line here I'm using it for is giving me the currect position relative to the object, however rotation is being done around point 0,0 instead of the object. Also the rotation is reversed(the V3ToV2 method used here does exactly what it sounds like, it converts a Vector3 to a Vector2)

[prime sinew]

Doesn't matter since you're only reading from the SO

[vague tundra]

Is one preffered for any reason over the other?

[prime sinew]

No? This really doesn't make any difference

[simple egret]

Not sure why you'd replicate the stuff in the SO in WeaponContract

You can use read-only properties for this

public string Name => weaponSO.name;

[clever trellis]

so for calling the method, i also have to attach ball's script to canvas?

[green radish]

I want to get a position relative to an object in the same way a child object would be relative to it, including being effected by the rotation of the targetted object, and I dont know if InversTransformPoint is the correct solution, and if it is, how its even meant to be used for something like this

[gray mural]

Is it possible to get a copy of the component (that is not null when original component is destroyed) ?

any easy method?

[prime sinew]

Why do you need a copy

[gray mural]

a SpriteRenderer

[prime sinew]

Not what

Why

[gray mural]

oh

SpriteRenderer renderer = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();

foreach (Component component in source.GetComponents<Component>())
    DestroyImmediate(component);

Image image = source.AddComponent<Image>();
image.sprite = renderer.sprite;
image.color = renderer.color;

well, I know that I can get a sprite and a color

[prime sinew]

Okay, so why don't you do that instead of destroying and adding

[gray mural]

sorry?

[prime sinew]

Why are you doing this?

[gray mural]

/// <summary>
/// Converts GameObject to UI GameObject
/// </summary>
private void Convert(GameObject source)

[prime sinew]

What?

[gray mural]

Anyway, I think I can do this instead

Image image = source.AddComponent<Image>();

SpriteRenderer renderer = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
image.sprite = renderer.sprite;
image.color = renderer.color;

foreach (Component component in source.GetComponents<Component>())
{
    if (!(component is Image))
        DestroyImmediate(component);
}

[prime sinew]

Yeah, sure. Create before you destroy

[gray mural]

thank you 😄

[green radish]

so I'm trying to use this line to get a position relative to an object, effected by rotation as well as if it were a child object(at least position wise), and while rotation works, for some reason the position it gets is the target objects position multiplied by 1.5, and I cant find a way to fix this so far
Vector3 pos = hitherOutputTestHost.transform.localToWorldMatrix.MultiplyPoint3x4(targetObject.transform.position);

[lean sail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformPoint.html
Cant you just use this?

[green radish]

I've tried, Unity's documentation about how its meant to be used is horribly unclear, I tried to follow it and the results were utter chaos

this line has given me the most consistent and direct results

[lean sail]

The docs are quite clear on how it's used, theres literally an example with comments and explanations on what it does. Although I barely understand what you're trying to do, if inverse transform point isnt what you need

[green radish]

I want a position that mimics what you get from having an object as a child of another gameObject, but I'm only trying to get a position, not actually have a child under the gameObject

[lean sail]

Then just using the function and plugging in the "child" objects position should get what you want

[green radish]

this line was my last attempt at using the method you suggested, from what I recall it gave me a weird inverted position and rotation around 0, 0 instead of anything close to what I was trying to do offsetStoreLocal = list[i].teather.transform.InverseTransformPoint(0, 0, 0);

this was me just trying to even get the objects position, not even adding an offset yet

[lean sail]

Is the child objects position at 0,0,0?

[green radish]

no

[lean sail]

Well then you arent using the objects position in that function, but you were inside the other attempt with matrix

[green radish]

to hopefully make things more clear encase the way I've described it up to now caused any confusion, I need a vector2 to be set to a position that mimics what you'd get from having a gameObject nested under another gameObject, but I'm not actually nesting a gameObject under it

just trying to replicate the positional effect

[lean sail]

Unless im misunderstanding, that is just a matter of converting world position to a local one. Which is what the function does

[swift falcon]

Does cullingGroup.Dispose(); frees memory of boundingsphere array? In the documentation, it does not touches the array of Bounding Spheres
It does not. BoundingSphere array still exists at memory - Memory Profiler

[green radish]

I get that thats the intended purpose, but I've been very lost as to it's actual usage in practice, part of what confused me is it being unclear what exactly the method does with the inputs you feed into it

so I had no idea what should go where for it to work correctly and was forced to guess

[lean sail]

I suggest just experimenting with it on basic shapes and a test script to see both if it's what you want and how to get the correct values from it. I must go now or I'd try to describe more

[warm stratus]

Hey, i am serializing a struct to a binary file, but i got the error; "used by another process..." or "Sharing violation on path..."

The code

//Save a class instance to a binary file
    public static void Save(object _objectToSave, string _filePath)
    {
        _filePath = Path.Combine(FileStorage.dataPath, _filePath);
        //create the directory if it doesn't exist
        string directoryPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(_filePath);
        //create directories needed
        if (!Directory.Exists(directoryPath)) {Directory.CreateDirectory(directoryPath);}
        //create an instance of BinaryFormatter to serialize a class
        BinaryFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        //delete the file if it exists
        if (File.Exists(_filePath))
        {
            File.Delete(_filePath);
        }
        //create FileStream to write the file
        FileStream saveFile = File.Create(_filePath);
        //turn the class into binary file
        binaryFormatter.Serialize(saveFile, _objectToSave);
        //close the FileStream
        saveFile.Close();
    }

[gray mural]

foreach (Component component in components)
{
    if (!(component is RectTransform) && !(component is Image))
    {
        try { DestroyImmediate(component); }
        catch { }
    }
}

Why does this code still throw an error?

Can't remove CanvasRenderer because Image (Script) depends on it

[knotty sun]

because you are trying to destroy the Renderer whilst leaving the Image component alive

[gray mural]

I know, but I have try catch

[knotty sun]

try catch catches Exceptions not Errors

[gray mural]

oh.

any ideas how I can avoid this?

without adding !(component is CanvasRenderer) condition

[knotty sun]

use enabled = false instead of Destroy or
https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/140797/check-if-a-game-objects-component-can-be-destroyed

[gray mural]

I sure can disable them, but destroying sounds better. The link you have sent was very helpful, I have fixed my issue by implementing the correct answer's solution. Thank you

[knotty sun]

enabled=false will be much more performant if performance is an issue

[gray mural]

I know, but the script is for Editor

[knotty sun]

ok, np

[jade kindle]

https://awesometuts.com/blog/optimize-unity-game/

I animate UI elements by tweening and rebuilding layouts manually. Is there a better approach?

[clever trellis]

Thank you all 😊🥹

@simple egret @fervent furnace 🙏

[wind wren]

why is the thing there and not under the turret? , im following breckeys tutorial and wanted to make my own turret in blender and im new to it so idk why its there

[clever trellis]

just cant understand one thing, that ball dosen't go down the plane but passes from below the plane why?

[wind wren]

can someone tell me why the pivot point of the turret is so far from the turret

[wind wren]

oh it was cause of the camera lmao

can someone help me with my turret cause it keeps starting with a camera and lights and it messes with my pivot point , idk how to fix it

okay i forgot to delete the camera and lights from in blender

[heady iris]

Common problem!

I was wondering why my game was running so slowly after adding just a few characters….

[rancid kindle]

is is my unity stuck on reloading domain??

[knotty sun]

not a code question, do not cross post

[rancid kindle]

mb

[river kelp]

I bought this coding book after a recommendation here and would like to warn anyone else from buying it. The audacity to write a book with coding skills at this level is pretty outrageous.
https://www.amazon.ca/Unity-Multiplayer-Intermediate-Coding-Networking-ebook/dp/B0C3W6JJTZ

Author does everything you're not supposed to. Searches through all objects by tag, component or name every time he wants to find an object. Checks if a player has won by looping over every building every frame to see if they all belong to the same player, etc. Just lots of bad coding overall, to say nothing of his networking implementation.

If you're looking for networking code advice, look somewhere else. I'm still looking for good suggestions, if anyone has any.

[fiery warren]

So I am trying to make item database currently and I'm having an issue where nothing appears in Inspector after creating the asset, how can I get the list to appear in inspector? cs [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "New Item Database", menuName = "New Database/Item Database")] public class ItemDatabase : ScriptableObject { public List<BaseItem> items = new List<BaseItem>(); }

[worn stirrup]

When you make changes to a ScriptableObject at runtime, the changes stay when you exit play mode, is this reflected in builds too? If I make "winning a level" add a bunch of values to a scriptableobject, will those stay across scenes as long as that build isn't closed? I figure I'll have to "save" this later, but I'll figure that out later

[elfin tree]

Hello, I added this code to my Currency class with IComparable<Currency>.

public int CompareTo(Currency otherCurrency) {
            // Implement your comparison logic here
            if (otherCurrency == null)
                return 1;
        
            // Compare the SomeValue property for the >= operator
            if (_amount >= otherCurrency.GetAmount())
                return 1;
            else
                return -1;
        }

And then tried to do this in the image below below but it does not work.
Is that not how you do that in C#?
.

Or is this just not a thing like in C++ and I'm just supposed to call .CompareTo?

[mellow sigil]

CompareTo is only used in sorting algorithms. You'll have to overload the >= operator.

[rigid island]

BaseItem need to have [Serializable] if its a regular C# class

[fiery warren]

Ty 🙏

[worn stirrup]

Okay so ScriptableObjects do save data between scenes in-game, but I'm guessing I'll still have to write that data into some sort of saver at some point for actual application use, saving's gonna be funnnn to learn lol

[rigid island]

thats what saving to files is for

SO is only good between scenes

[worn stirrup]

Yeah, I really like how easy that can still be though

Like just "add" arbitrary numbers to my main world SOs every time I complete a level or quest or what have you, then when I have to save I just save the current value of the main world SOs, sounds pretty easy

Just gotta make sure I have an SO for the levels completed and all that jazz

So I tried looking for something already and couldn't find any great details, does anybody have any ideas or tutorials in mind that I could look into to help me understand how to set up a good "enemy spawner" that supports 5 different types of enemies and, if any of them have hit their limits, would automatically go to spawn the next version without skipping its "spawn step"?

I'm just making lists of existing enemies, their limits, their amounts left, and I feel like 3 variables for each new enemy type means I'm doing this wrong

Then y'know, crawl into the code and add an entire new element to an enum and add it to the list of switches for the random spawning

[leaden ice]

wrap the enemy details up in a class called EnemyData or something

[worn stirrup]

So having a reference to all the ScriptableObjects that represent each enemy type, and looking into the object for that type when told to spawn it

That makes sense yeah

I think I knew 90% of that, and needed it spelled out like that, thank you!

[leaden ice]

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[molten venture]

Does Unity offer any built-in triangulation function? I want to be able to input the vertices of a polygon and get back the vertices I need to make a mesh out of.

[hexed coral]

What I do in my games is set up a database (via SO) that is accessible via a static reference.

Then I use keys to find the data I want (in your case, the key could be the enemy enum).

3 variables for each enemy type is not wrong, just make sure to store those in a dictionary(where the key is enemy enum), so that you don't have to add new fields everytime you add another enemy

[harsh bobcat]

how much memory does it take to store a reference to a gameobject?

[hexed coral]

Basically the same as other reference types, which is negligible, what takes meaningful memory is the gameobject itself

[thick terrace]

8 bytes

[harsh bobcat]

ah okay, thanks

[worn stirrup]

I'm starting to think that I should put all the object type prefab references in their Type SO, and just have a list of their types, then when it tries to spawn that type it already has all the information for that in play... is that sounding correct?

[hexed coral]

That does sound right

[worn stirrup]

Instead of doing resources.load I'll just do like SOType.enemyVariants() to get which version

cool

thanks

[hexed coral]

Are you making a big 3d game?

[harsh bobcat]

what part of the gameobject tends to take the most memory? with ~100k copies of the same prefab could I make it more efficient?

[worn stirrup]

Kind of working on teaching myself to do more than prototype game ideas, so I'm working on turning a prototyped 2D game into a buildable application that can be saved & closed, etc.

...while still prototyping the game along the way of course :P

I started hitting that hardcode block after a week of rapid prototyping wahere I needed to take a step back and go big-picture, and I'm trying to keep that perspective now

[hexed coral]

You should use the memory profiler to check that, each UnityEngine.Object allocates quite a bit of memory, so the GO itself and each component will add to the pile. Not sure I can help without seeing how the prefab is like

[thick socket]

I was following sebastions procedure generation for planets...I cant seem to figure out how to generate like plants or structures on the surface after that. Anyone know of a tutorial or anything that could help with that?

[hexed coral]

I see, I was going to suggest that if the size of your game is small then you shouldn't bother dealing with Resource Management, it takes quite a bit extra development time

[worn stirrup]

yeah I actually prefer extra development time so my tiny projects teach me the slow, hard process and I can do it quicker later

[hexed coral]

If you're planning on making big sized games (lots of textures, animations), then I recommend learning addressables instead, it's a nightmare but it's necessary for those kind of games

[hexed coral]

In your case addressables would replace UnityEngine.Resources

[harsh bobcat]

ah thats fair. I just thought id ask before coding a system to avoid rewrites later if possible.
Most of the prefabs that will be super common have a box collider, a simple mesh (<20 poly), and a monobehaviour whos current only non static field is a float for health. The objects will be on a grid. I'm debating storing a reference to each surrounding object in each one, since it would make life a lot easier. im anticipating having them in the 100k range so memory management.
I'm also storing the grid as a Dict<vec3int, GameObject> but I'm worried about performance late, and thinking about writing methods to interface with 8 arrays - one for each quadrant, or just having a 3d array that dynamically shifts each object when they would be added to a negative index

I suppose I can always code now optimize later but that seems like a worse approach

[worn stirrup]

I'm destroying my code while I fix this so may I verify this looks parsed correctly?

TrashObject SpawnTrashObject(TrashSO trashType)
        {
            //Pick a random version of this trash type's variants
            TrashObject objToSpawn = trashType.trashVariants[Random.Range(0, trashType.trashVariants.Count)];

            //Spawn new Trash object
            TrashObject trashObject = Instantiate(objToSpawn.gameObject).GetComponent<TrashObject>();```

[heady iris]

well, what does your IDE say?

it should highlight any syntax errors

[worn stirrup]

no u

that's fair

[swift falcon]

hey guys i know this is not a unity related question but is a coding general, i want to know a sudden spike in a value i keep monitoring of a certain threshold

im monitoring that value in real time and i want to know if there was a really big spike in the value ||(spike meaning a sudden increase)||

[heady iris]

compare two moving averages

one short-term, one long-term

if the short-term goes above a multiple of the long-term average, that's a spike

(there are much more elaborate ways to do this kind of anomaly detection)

[swift falcon]

the value is ranged from 0 to infinite

like the minimal value is 0

[swift falcon]

the value is fixed, its the memory usage. i want to detect a sudden spike in the user's memory

[worn stirrup]

What's the method for scene end, does that get called by gameobjects?

I'm hoping it'll be OnDisable 👀

nope it ain't

[heady iris]

OnDisable and OnDestroy will get invokved on everything in a scene that's being unloaded

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-sceneUnloaded.html

This event gets fired when a scene unloads

[hexed coral]

There's no parsing happening here

[heady iris]

I'm unsure of the order. The docs don't say.

[hexed coral]

Ondisable comes first

[worn stirrup]

I didn't use the right phrasing heh, it worked though

[hexed coral]

Awake=>OnEnable=>Start

OnDisable=>Ondestroy

[heady iris]

referring to the sceneUnloaded event here

[fervent furnace]

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

[heady iris]

I'm familiar with the other that the MonoBehaviour messages are invoked in

was unclear, sorry

[hexed coral]

Are you using Unity DOTS?

[harsh bobcat]

nope, though I planned to look into it for the job system

[hexed coral]

If you're thinking about 100k GOs spawned you should definitely look into it

[harsh bobcat]

yeah im reading up on it now and the ECS system is intriguing

thanks for the info

[hexed coral]

About the grid, why not int[,,] ? Definitely faster than a dictionary and more memory efficient

[harsh bobcat]

gameobjects at negative positions

if i did GameObject[,,] I would have to resize/reposition the array somewhat often

[hexed coral]

You don't know the grid size at initialization?

[harsh bobcat]

no, theres multiple grids that are dynamic and player made

[hexed coral]

As for negative positions, you can just offset them

[heady iris]

Arrays are also a poor choice for sparse datasets.

It'll depend on how dense these objects are.

[hexed coral]

I assumed every single position would be filled

[harsh bobcat]

the objects represented by the grid would very rarely be cube like so pretty sparse

[west matrix]

I want a material changer script that will be used in a few scatteered objects across the scene, but I think I'm overcomplicating it (the is using newmaterial code is basically doubled I know) I want to add the old and new material, the old one should be already there, I know I don't check if its there but works well enough, the material changing part doesn't work thought...

public class MaterialChanger : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Material newMaterial;
    public Material oldMaterial;

    private bool isUsingNewMaterial = false;
    private Material[] originalMaterials;

    private void Start()
    {
        originalMaterials = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().materials;
    }

    [ContextMenu("Cambiame")]
    public void CambiaMaterial()
    {
        Material[] currentMaterials = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().materials;

        for (int i = 0; i < currentMaterials.Length; i++)
        {
            if (!isUsingNewMaterial)
            {
                if (currentMaterials[i].name == oldMaterial.name)
                {
                    currentMaterials[i] = newMaterial;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (currentMaterials[i].name == newMaterial.name)
                {
                    currentMaterials[i] = oldMaterial;
                }
            }
        }

        //Updating copy of material list
        GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().materials = currentMaterials;

        isUsingNewMaterial = !isUsingNewMaterial;
    }
}```

[harsh bobcat]

this is a valid structure in my system, which is why my current approach is Dict<Vec3Int, GameObject

im not sure theres a better way to handle it

[fervent furnace]

is it a 3d game?......

[eager mango]

` using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
private Slider cameradistance;
public Transform target;

Quaternion toRotateBy = Quaternion.identity;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame

void LateUpdate()
{
    toRotateBy.eulerAngles = new Vector3(70, 0, 0);
    transform.position = toRotateBy * Vector3.forward * -cameradistance + target.position;
    transform.LookAt(target);
}

} `

help how do i turn the slider value into a float

[harsh bobcat]

yes those would be cubes (if that question was for me)

[buoyant zenith]

I've got this script:

public class ProductMoving : MonoBehaviour
{
    private float speed = 0.2f;
    private Vector2 target;
    public GameObject thisPaper;
    public TMP_Text score;
    private GameObject newPaper;
    private bool count = false;
    private int points = 0;

    void Start()
    {
        target = new Vector2(-0.542f, -0.33f);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        transform.position = Vector2.MoveTowards(transform.position, target, speed * Time.deltaTime);
        
        if (transform.position.Equals(target) && count.Equals(false))
        {
            count = true;
            points = points + 1;
            score.text = points.ToString();
            newPaper = Instantiate(thisPaper);
            newPaper.transform.position = new Vector2(0.007f, -0.042f);
        }

    }

}

I want to add one point every time the obj gets to the target. However right now, it just adds one and then doesnt do anything when the instantiated objs hit the target. am i missing anything? im tired so it is likely something dumb

[harsh bobcat]

mySlider.value

[eager mango]

myslider is the custom name of a slider?

[harsh bobcat]

yes

[eager mango]

i named my slider "ZoomSlider"

but its not showing as an option when i try to write it

[harsh bobcat]

transform position is a vector 3 which is floats. floats are almost never equal to eachother. try using > and < instead.

if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target.position) < 0.1f) 
{
 //do stuff
}

[eager mango]

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour { private ZoomSlider.value cameradistance; public Transform target;

[knotty sun]

what is the name of your slider in your code?

[buoyant zenith]

instead of that if statement in the Update()?

[harsh bobcat]

yeah

[eager mango]

` using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
private ZoomSlider.value cameradistance;
public Transform target;

Quaternion toRotateBy = Quaternion.identity;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame

void LateUpdate()
{
    toRotateBy.eulerAngles = new Vector3(70, 0, 0);
    transform.position = toRotateBy * Vector3.forward * -cameradistance + target.position;
    transform.LookAt(target);
}

}
`
this is the whole code

[heady iris]

i would also check that you don't have an Z-axis position

[harsh bobcat]

your variable has to be slider
public Slider zoomSlider
then later you can do stuff with
zoomSlider.value

[eager mango]

i see thanks

[heady iris]

oh wait, nvm -- Vector2.MoveTowards will get rid of that already

since the Vector3 position gets casted to a Vector2

[buoyant zenith]

i dont think i need to

ye

[buoyant zenith]

its a 2D game. Do i still need vector 3? It errors if i use vector 3

[harsh bobcat]

what errors

[viral igloo]

Is there anyway to get a .TTF loaded off the disk to also have a material created?

                Font fontData = new Font(@"E:\Downloads\Fonts\FREESCPT.TTF");
                font = TMP_FontAsset.CreateFontAsset(fontData);

Loading it from an asset bundle off the disk works, but not a file path.

[buoyant zenith]

plus the MoveTowards() should take care of it anyway, right?

[eager mango]

im sorry im still getting an error

[harsh bobcat]

isnt transform position is always a vector 3, even if you use movetowards

[eager mango]

`using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
public Slider zoomSlider;
private zoomSlider.value cameradistance;
public Transform target;

Quaternion toRotateBy = Quaternion.identity;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

// Update is called once per frame

void LateUpdate()
{
    toRotateBy.eulerAngles = new Vector3(70, 0, 0);
    transform.position = toRotateBy * Vector3.forward * -cameradistance + target.position;
    transform.LookAt(target);
}

}`

[harsh bobcat]

transform position always has a z. is your target variable a transform?

[harsh bobcat]

dont have private zoomSlider.value cameradistance; this isnt a thing you can do
zoomSlider.value isnt a type of variable you can make

this
transform.position = toRotateBy * Vector3.forward * -cameradistance + target.position;
should be
transform.position = toRotateBy * Vector3.forward * -zoomSlider.value + target.position;

[buoyant zenith]

target = new Vector2(-0.542f, -0.33f);

then i do the move to that pos

then i check if it hits that target, instantiate the obj (which works) ```

My only issue is the points not adding correctly

[harsh bobcat]

ah in that case

if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target) < 0.1f) 
{
 //do stuff
}

I thought target was a transform so thats why the .position was there. transform.position is a vec3, and target can be cast to a vec3 so this should function correctly, assuming your transform.position has 0 for z

[worn stirrup]

Is there some sort of OnCleanup or something that I can use that allows me to access scene data before everything goes away, when clicking out of play mode? (and in the future, clicking x)

[buoyant zenith]

that loops inf that didnt work

i feel my old if statement worked fine