archived-code-general

[somber nacelle]

that was in response to Fen, not you. but you're also way out of date for a 2022 release

[thick socket]

I can reference it in scripts and have no issues

[heady iris]

I'm on 2022.3.10f1 at the moment and the checkbox won't appear with no methods defined.

It also won't appear with just Awake defined.

[thick socket]

kinda annoying having to do massive downloads to update the editor 😄

[somber nacelle]

might be a 2023 thing then. i remember seeing it in the patch notes for some version

[heady iris]

I'll have to look when I go back onto 2023.x

(i'm using an LTS release for once in my life)

[thick socket]

I threw in an update function

still can't enable/disable it

removing and adding the script again doesn't fix either

[heady iris]

Double click the "Script" field on that component. See what file opens.

[thick socket]

of course the asset author has 2 scrips here with the same name

why not 😄

[heady iris]

That'll do it.

[thick socket]

adding update to that one lets you enable/disable it

[heady iris]

Pick the right one from the list when adding a component.

[gleaming vessel]

Can you give me an example of how I could contact a current script and function on the website?

[heady iris]

(or just rename their asset)

I suppose you'd also need to rename their class afterwards.

but if both classes are in the global namespace, then one class must have a name other than Monster already

[somber nacelle]

confirmed it was added in 2023

[heady iris]

Pretty sure this is 2023-exclusive?

[thick socket]

different namespaces

[heady iris]

ah, okay

then you'll just have to watch out for that

[thick socket]

works now thanks 😄

weird thing is

I used the correct namespace when importing once

and I still couldn't drag it in

[knotty sun]

you literally just call it as if it were part of the same js script

[thick socket]

How much worse performance is using a polygon collider with like 40 points over a box collider (2d)

If Im making a small mobile game Im guessing it doesn't really make much difference

[somber nacelle]

most performance related questions can be answered with a simple "It Depends™️"
use the profiler to diagnose and check for performance issues

[gleaming vessel]

My friend has a project on React and he says that because of this I can't just call any script and function and get data because all the data is on React, and where he can write such a script he doesn't have access to React.

[thick socket]

fair point...unless Im doing something wrong it appears I just can't do it anyway 😄

[knotty sun]

here is a function I use to put messages from Unity into the browser log

    S4U_log : function(msg, override) {
        if (override == undefined) { override = false; }
        if (S4U_data.trace || override) {
            console.log(msg);
        }
    }

[thick socket]

putting a polygon collider on "EnemyGrimReaper" doesn't actually "fit the shape"

any idea why that doesn't work

[somber nacelle]

you didn't customize its physics shape in the sprite editor

[thick socket]

I get that the renderers are children but that should'nt matter?

[somber nacelle]

actually i'm not even sure if a polygon collider will automatically work with a setup like this. i don't typically use bones to animate my sprites, i use good old fashioned sprite sheets so 🤷‍♂️

either way not a code question

[thick socket]

fair point...however its also not bones

just a lot of children with sprites on it

where should I go for this kinda Q tho

[gleaming vessel]

but I need to get info from BackEnd from server where is info about a player name, id ...

[somber nacelle]

#🖼️┃2d-tools

also #🔎┃find-a-channel exists so you can find channels yourself

[knotty sun]

so you need to send messages to Unity?

[gleaming vessel]

yep

[knotty sun]

My code

    // Send a Message to a Unity GameObject/Method
    S4U_sendmessage : function(method, str) {
        //_S4U_log('sendmessage to '+S4U_data.go+'.'+method+' '+str);
        if (S4U_data.go != null && method != null) {
            if (str == undefined) {
                SendMessage(S4U_data.go, method);
            }
            else {
                SendMessage(S4U_data.go, method, str);
            }
        }
    },

this can be called from javascript, needs a gameobject name and a method for it it work

[gleaming vessel]

is it the same code?

[gleaming vessel]

I tried to do it but I didn't have anything in unity but there was an Object "WebManager" a function "SetInitialData"

[knotty sun]

tells me nothing

[gleaming vessel]

when I start the game on website, website catches an event from unity but when he use SendMessage("WebManager", "SetInitialData", JSON.stringify(unityData), nothing is called in Unity

[gleaming vessel]

Everything is correct, but nothing is being called, so I'm stuck at this point.

[knotty sun]

is there anything in the browser developer console?

[gleaming vessel]

@knotty sun There you can see "123" logs that means the event "getIntialData" came from unity and when my friend use SendMessage nothing come in unity and I don't know how to check where is an error from my side or from his side

[knotty sun]

post your jslib to a paste site

[simple spire]

just for information, Unity don't have an option for really avoid agents bumping into each others

[thick socket]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Fighter.SetStates (UnityEngine.Vector3 _currentVelocity) (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/Fighter.cs:108)
EnemyMonster.SetStates (UnityEngine.Vector3 _currentVelocity) (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/EnemyMonster.cs:36)
Fighter.JumpsandChecks (UnityEngine.Vector3 movement, System.Boolean jump, System.Boolean down, UnityEngine.Transform target) (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/Fighter.cs:92)
EnemyCharacter.MoveEnemy (UnityEngine.Vector3 velocity, System.Boolean jump, System.Boolean down) (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/EnemyCharacter.cs:82)
EnemyIdleStandStill.DoFrameUpdateLogic () (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Behavior Logic/Idle/EnemyIdleStandStill.cs:31)
EnemyIdleState.FrameUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/State Machine/ConcreteStates/EnemyIdleState.cs:32)
EnemyCharacter.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/EnemyCharacter.cs:63)

any idea which line is actually the issue?

I've tried debugging like 10 variables and having none be null so far

[knotty sun]

Fighter.SetStates (UnityEngine.Vector3 _currentVelocity) (at Assets/Scripts/Enemy/Base/Fighter.cs:108)

[thick socket]

thanks

tried to override that function but still called the base on accident 🤦‍♂️

[thick socket]

any idea why doubleclicking the error took me to a different location and not there?

[knotty sun]

nope

[thick socket]

weird

[knotty sun]

Unity

[heady iris]

I've had problems with that. It takes you one frame back in the callstack

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[spring creek]

Rather than calling the bot again, you could have just looked at the one you called in the other channel. Just fyi

[turbid salmon]

please don't report mods

[knotty sun]

Stop spamming and I might not

[turbid salmon]

ok

[rigid island]

is there a question to this code or...

[knotty sun]

The code, like all GPT code is crap

[rigid island]

was about to say same..

those comments usually a dead giveaway lol

[turbid salmon]

yes i said to chatgpt to fix my script ok

[knotty sun]

worse thing is, the one who posted it has no idea

[knotty sun]

no, not ok, do not post untested gpt code on this server #📖┃code-of-conduct

[turbid salmon]

forgive me

[knotty sun]

no

you have been told multiple times before

[thick socket]

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        var tag = collision.transform.tag;
        if (tag == "Player")
        {
            collidingObjects.Add(collision);
        }
    }
    private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        collidingObjects.Remove(collision);
    }

void DealDamageToColliding()
    {
        foreach (var collision in collidingObjects)
        {
            // Check if the object is still in the list (it might have been removed in OnTriggerExit)
            if (collidingObjects.Contains(collision))
            {
                Fighter colFighter = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Fighter>();
                if(colFighter != null)
                {
                    colFighter.Damage(Mathf.FloorToInt(stats.attackDmg * 0.75f));
                    Debug.Log("damaging: " + collision.gameObject.tag);
                }
                else
                {
                    Debug.Log("Couldn't find fighter, tag = " + collision.gameObject.tag);
                }
            }
        }
    }

Couldn't find fighter, tag = Wall

It shouldn't be adding any collisions to my list unless tag = player......

so how is it debugging tag=wall

[heady iris]

I'm pretty sure the Collision2D you're passed in OnCollisionEnter2D gets reused

[leaden ice]

I would just use a collection of Collider or GameObject, not of Collision2D

[heady iris]

it's a class, not a struct

[leaden ice]

I do think it's a struct though 🤔

oh it's a class

look at that

[upper ice]

Hello

[heady iris]

This claims the default is "on", but it defaults to "off"

so, go figure..

[leaden ice]

yeah not wise to hang onto it

[heady iris]

anyway, yeah, just store Colliders or GameObjects or something else

[thick socket]

👍

my character can no longer "ride" the dog lol

works great 😄

wasn't taking damage prevously lol

[upper ice]

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{

public float rotateSpeed = 10.0f, speed = 10.0f, zoomSpeed = 10.0f;

    private float _mult = 1f;

private void Update()
{


    float hor = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
    float ver = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
    float rotate = 0f;

    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Q))

        rotate = -1f;
   else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E))

        rotate = 1f;
    _mult = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) ? 2f : 1f;

    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime * rotate * _mult, Space.World );
    transform.Translate(new Vector3(hor, 0, ver) * Time.deltaTime * _mult * speed, Space.Self);
    transform.position += transform.up * zoomSpeed * Time.deltaTime * Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel");
    transform.position = new Vector3(
        transform.position.x);
    Mathf.Clamp(transform.position.y, -20f, 30f);
    transform.position.z;
}

}
Please help me, what is wrong here?

[prime sinew]

You're supposed to tell us what's wrong

And format your code please

!code

[tawny elk]

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[heady iris]

this is not a useful question. plesae read through#854851968446365696 and ask again

[warped mortar]

This code is supposed to find a random point on the navmesh within a set radius, and make sure it isnt too close to the boss and make sure its a valid point not inside of an object

it worked fine before adding the Vector3.Distance if statement but now it just goes into an infinite loop and crashes my editor

the idea behind that if statement is to make sure the point isnt too close to the boss and to generate a new point if it is

[heady iris]

where is this code? is it in a component on the boss?

i'm wondering whose transform that is

[naive swallow]

Well, consider what happens if that condition is true. It skips the break condition and checks again, but neither hit or transform have moved, so the condition is going to be true again

Meaning it's going to skip the break again

[heady iris]

oh, duh

[warped mortar]

the boss position

[heady iris]

you need to re-randomize the point

[warped mortar]

how could I go about doing that, cause i was wondering if continue would would make it regenerate a new hit position

[heady iris]

it would sample the mesh again, sure

[naive swallow]

continue just means "Skip to the next iteration of this for loop"

[heady iris]

but that's not going to give you a new random spawnPoint...

[warped mortar]

because you're right I just need a new hit position

[naive swallow]

Nothing inside the for loop changes the spawn point

[heady iris]

not a new hit position. you need a new spawnPoint

recomputing the hit position over and over would only matter if SamplePosition behaved randomly

[warped mortar]

oh my god im so dumb 💀

thank you I understand what you're saying

[heady iris]

I was thinking you were comparing the distance to the wrong object

[warped mortar]

so just move that in there correct?

[heady iris]

sure

i would also suggest adding a "bail out" condition

if you try 100 times, just give up and fail

[naive swallow]

Sure, but you should probably add an escape clause

Yea what they said ^

[heady iris]

so the game won't explode if the boss falls out of the map

[naive swallow]

add in a maximum tries count

[heady iris]

you can also relax your standards first

so, if you tried 10 times, relax the min spawn radius, and if you tried 100 times, fail

[warped mortar]

alright thats a good idea

cause the issue is that when the enemy spawns too close to the boss it causes the boss to start moving which is unintended

cause of colliders

[rocky helm]

Not quite sure how to google this so, if I do Coroutine someCoroutine = StartCoroutine(randomCoroutine()) then what happens to someCoroutine once the coroutine reached the end, is it set to null?

[heady iris]

Objects can't really "get set to null"

that's just a clever trick unity pulls on you

a destroyed game object, for example, will equal null

it's still a non-null reference

I'm not sure if Coroutine starts equalling null after the coroutine ends

[heady iris]

(note that this doesn't even apply to Coroutine -- only objects derived from UnityEngine.Object do that)

[dusky glen]

Can anyone recommend the most popular / widely used testing options for Unity? My team lead has asked me to do some research into our options for implementing testing.

[heady iris]

yeah, went and checked

nothing special happens when the coroutine is over

[rigid island]

this?
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/testing-editortestsrunner.html

[delicate zinc]

i'd like some help trying to figure out this issue i'm having.

Working on a dungeong eneration algorithm, i have this setup where i'mm connecting two separate rooms, there's a sphere in the center of the two intersecting doors to represent the pivot point.

Is there a way i could calculate the required angle of rotation given any setup (first three images) so i can rotate the room so it connects correctly? (fourth image)

[hard viper]

1. Debug.Log( (Good for very quick spot testing)
2. Unity Profiler (for optimization)
3. Debug mode where visual studio connects to Unity (good to check the state of everything to see what variables are)
4. Gizmos (good to visualize some things that you want to readily see)
5. Debug.Assert (Anyone who doesn’t use these liberally is a novice)

[dusky glen]

Thank you, I do use most of these although I'm looking more for like a test framework that supports automated unit testing. We were implementing the Unity Test Framework and after a couple days of things not working and there being very little support for it my team lead wants me to do some research into alternatives to that.

[hard viper]

idk about automated unit testing tbh. Most of the time, you have specific failure modes in mind to test

unless your idea is to simulate the player putting in all manner of random inputs

idk if there is a tool for that, nor do I know if that is what you have in mind

[turbid salmon]

nice map !

[heady iris]

i was watching some videos about Punch-Out!! on the Wii

it has a "soak test" mode that just plays the entire game automatically

having something like that seems like a great idea (even if you have to turn on some cheats to make it happen)

[hard viper]

there might be tools to help simulate thrashing about randomly with a controller

ie random control stick inputs and random button inputs, and setting the relative frequency etc.

you’d probably be able to catch glitches where the player inputs buttons one frame apart which are otherwise very hard to see. Something the pokemon diamond remake definitely didn’t do lol

[crimson ice]

does anyone have an idea how to make a hollow gameobject?

like a empty 2d box

[heady iris]

that too -- fuzz testing your game

I used fuzz testing to find a bunch of weird blender bugs

[leaden ice]

Use an EdgeCollider2D

[heady iris]

my script would pick a random action and perform it until something exploded

[leaden ice]

or a polygonCollider2D in the shape of just the "hull" bit

[scarlet viper]

In games cars speed up as they drive forward on max speed, and they will drive faster/speedup as long as theyre driving fast at the moment
And I coded something similar but it doesnt take few cases into account. collisions etc.
Collisions make the car slow down/stop, but the variable responsible for tracking and storing speed growth doesnt reset on collision.

And while I could try resetting acceleration on collision I think it would be better if i based the acceleration on rigidbody's velocity in the first place but i dont have any ideas.
Anyone had similar issues?

[thick socket]

private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        var tag = collision.gameObject.tag;
        if (tag == "Platform")
        {
            LeavePlatform();
        }
    }

is there a way to make this virtual so another class can override and add to it?

private void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        collidingObjects.Remove(collision.collider);
    }```

[leaden ice]

yep, just mark it as virtual

protected virtual void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision)```

and change to protected of course so child classes can access it

[thick socket]

thanks, messed it up last time so it wasn't showing "Unity Message" and thought maybe I couldn't for some weird reason

[leaden ice]

on the child class:

protected override void OnCollisionExit2D(Collision2D collision) {
  base.OnCollisionExit2D(collision); // call the parent version

  // do more stuff
}```

[hard viper]

composite colliders2D also have 2 geometry modes: outline and polygon. Outline mode gives collision only on edge. Polygon mode makes the whole thing solid.

[coarse narwhal]

I've no idea where the best place is to ask this, but can someone give me a heads up on the best way to test my game on my steam deck? Do I build a Linux version or Windows? How is it best to get it onto the deck? Do I need to push it to steam first or can it be side loaded? Can the steam deck be defined as a build target?

[heady iris]

I think you can push builds to the Steam Deck directly from a Windows machine.

I use a MacBook. I used to push builds to Itch, then go to desktop mode on my Deck to update

Now I have that game on Steam (not released), and I simply push to steam + update on the deck when needed

You should make a Linux build.

The Deck can run Windows builds through Proton, but Linux should be more performant.

The Deck isn't a specific kind of platform. It's just regular Linux.

[heady iris]

This would be more convenient, especially if you don't have the game on Steam yet, but I haven't looked into it.

I use SuperUnityBuild to automate the build process. Pushing to Itch with it is easy. Pushing to Steam was...more annoying

had to do some Shell Script Hijinks

[coarse narwhal]

Interesting, thank you. I'll build for Linux, that's easy, but not too sure what you mean by "push" directly from windows to the deck. Does the build process load it onto the deck via USB, or are we talking about a more manual process of getting the Linux build and loading it onto the decks FS via some mechanism (like windows file manager) outside of the unity build process?

[heady iris]

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/loadgames

This would be outside of Unity

[coarse narwhal]

Brilliant, thank you, that's exactly the info I was looking for!

[wary mortar]

Can somebody please help me? I'm trying to aim at a target wigh a gun, but I'm aiming with the torso. I dont know the math required to make the player aim with its gun

[rigid island]

show vid + script

[wary mortar]

This is the current code, it works like a charm to aim at the target with the torso (this is Photon Quantum btw)

[wary mortar]

1 sec, I'll show the video

He is aiming with his torso, I need to make the some math equations to aim with the gun

I don't know how

[rigid island]

hmm looks like some custom system

[wary mortar]

Yes, the rigging asset wasn't an option

[simple egret]

Inverse kinematics for the arms will yield the best result, orient the gun (vertically) and the arms will follow automatically

[wary mortar]

I need to do it with math, currently

change the torso's rotation to fit the gun in the aim Target

Isn't there some way to apply an offset?

[golden garnet]

Hey! I'm looking to make a simple top-down 2D bullet that ricochets off of a collider when they touch. The bullet should use the object's rotation to decide a random direction to bounce to. It would only bounce off in a cone of about negative 60degrees to positive 60degrees. The issue I am having is that when the bullet collides with the other collider, it ricochets in a random direction from -60 to 60, but it doesn't take into account the rotation of the collider-- meaning it only travels upwards in a random direction from -60 to 60. Here is the function I am using. Where am I going wrong?

    {
        Debug.Log("Bullet Ricocheted!");
        float randomFloat = Random.Range(-60f, 60f);
        Debug.Log(randomFloat);
        Vector3 ricochetDir = new(umbrella.gameObject.transform.rotation.x, umbrella.gameObject.transform.rotation.y, umbrella.gameObject.transform.rotation.z + randomFloat);
        gameObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(ricochetDir);
        rb2d.velocity = shootSpeed * transform.up;
    }```

The random float is the random modifier for the bullet's z direction. See how the vector3 gets the z rotation added to the randomFloat? Right now, it's almost as if it doesn't take in the current rotation of the other collider, or "umbrella", at all

[leaden ice]

umbrella.gameObject.transform.rotation.x
umbrella.gameObject.transform.rotation.z
🔥 🚒 🧯

oh no

you've made a terrible mistake here

transform.rotation is a Quaternion. It is not a set of euler angles

[golden garnet]

uh oh

[leaden ice]

you cannot read .x and .z and .y from it and expect those to be the rotations around those axes

that's not how quaternions work

[golden garnet]

ah okay

shoot lol

[leaden ice]

Quaternion umbrellaRot = umbrella.transform.rotation;
Quaternion randomChange = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, randomFloat);
transform.rotation = umbrellaRot * randomChange;

Try this @golden garnet

[golden garnet]

Okay, gimme a sec

[leaden ice]

* is used to basically "add" quaternions

so we're just making a random z rotation quaternion and adding it to the umbrella's rotation

[golden garnet]

Wow, you're a life saver for real

Thanks, I really appreciate it. I'll have to look into Quaternions more i guess 🫠

[leaden ice]

They're actually incredibly simple to work with. Don't make the mistake that most people make of trying to understand the math behind them. Just think of them as variables that represent a rotation. From there you just need to understand the APIs which let you create them from various parameters, and that you can combine them with * (a * b applies a first, then b), and you'll be wielding them like a master in no time.

[golden garnet]

👍 👍 👍

[modern creek]

I am doing some level design on my grid and it's difficult to see where I am on the grid. Is there an .. object or something I can drop in my scene that has no effect in game? Like a .. manual gizmo?

[severe gale]

is there voice channels on this discord ? if so where?

[spring creek]

Nope
Here is the directory
https://discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/531961806646935564

[severe gale]

dang

see ya then

[unique thunder]

Hey guys, I’m making a csr2 style game with a career mode. My current plan is have a tournamentCompleted and tournamentRacesDone variable saved to the json. Each tournament has 5 races so once tournamentRaces hits 5 I’ll have it set to 0 and tournamentCompleted++. Is this the best way of setting something like this up?

[leaden ice]

[Serializable]
public class CareerData {
  public List<Tournament> tournaments;
}

[Serializable]
public class Tournament {
  public string name;
  public int racesDone;
  public bool completed;
}```
Something like this

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[sullen fern]

im making a 3d action game and im thinking of making the enemies circle around the player before attacking but im not sure wha the best way to do it is

its gonna be a humanoid enemy so i cant really use rotate it around the player cause itd look unnatural

is there some way i might be able to use navmesh?

[unique thunder]

More something like:

[Serializable]
public class GameSave{
  public int numTournamentsCompleted
  public int tournamentRacesDone
}```

Then once a race is completed and the user wins increment tournamentRacesDone++ and check whether it is equal to 5. Then if 5 set to 0 and increment numTournamentsCompleted++

[cosmic rain]

Sure. Just rotate it's destination around the player and feed it to the navmesh agent.

Or create a path manually.

[sullen fern]

like rotate the destination vector around the player?

[leaden ice]

Ok so what's the issue then?

[unique thunder]

Just wondering if an implementation like that would work. I have a coding background but have never used it for something such as a career mode. Just making sure before so I don’t waste time with it

[sullen fern]

ill try that thanks

[leaden ice]

There's not much here to work or not work. It's quite simple

What wouldn't work about it

[unique thunder]

Just making sure there's not any additional aspects that might prevent it from working. Or if it will cause additional unaccounted for issues vs. another method of implementation

[leaden ice]

This isn't an implementation so far it's more like just a data structure

[heady iris]

Is there something you are worried about in particular?

like, say

player save files being messed up after you update the game?

[unique thunder]

Yea, I wanna have my code set up in the best way possible for things such as scalability. There’s not a ton of resources I’ve found on how to manage the save during a single player career mode. So I’m just shooting in the dark with that style and wanna make sure it’ll work out fine

[heady verge]

hey there, thank you for awnser (was not at home anymore at this time) i dont understand what to do with this "Physics.queriesHItTriggers"

Documentation just say: "Static bool"
How to use this ?

[cosmic rain]

You don't do anything with it. It just tells you have it enabled or not.

[heady verge]

dont understand.
Static = not to see in inspector.
and if i enable, should this enable the Function on every singel collider, because it s a static.

Documentation is so fantastic much useless.
surly: 1 singel code example, they will die...

[cosmic rain]

Static means that it's a static field.
If you enable, it would make your physics queries hit triggers by default.

[cosmic rain]

It's not very detailed, because there's no reason for you to mess with it.

[heady verge]

what i do not understand:
my onMouseEnter()
working nerly perfect in 2019.

Why not in 2022 anymore ?
This are exactly this things, hold me back to change to any update

• not compatible Assets
• lost coding
• not to understand documentations
• and things like new inputs, or such things like this

[cosmic rain]

I don't think there were any relevant changes between these 2 versions.🤔

[frigid glen]

How do you inline a variable into an if statement?
So from this:

float distance = math.distance(enemyTransform[enemyIndex].Position, towers[towerIndex].Location);
if (distance < towers[towerIndex].Range)
{
    //Whatever
}   

to something like this?

if (ref math.distance(enemyTransform[enemyIndex].Position, towers[towerIndex].Location) < towers[towerIndex].Range)
{
    //Whatever
}   

[cosmic rain]

On mouse enter relies on the events system and an appropriate raycaster. Perhaps when you upgrade the version, one of these breaks in your project.🤷‍♂️

And no clue what you mean by lost coding.😅

[cosmic rain]

You don't. And shouldn't have any reason to.

[heady verge]

Event in UI is onpointerenter this works and good ( if not, my inventory was broken, in this case i can delete the project ).

but:
this on this event ( so for 1 trigger collider ) i am lost.
There is also a solution doing this by events, but this need my biggest enemy: a void Update.

this maybe 40 Void Updates at the end no

[cosmic rain]

If you want, you can inline the math.distance expression.

[frigid glen]

theres no point if u cant inline the entire thing

[heady verge]

for Update ? in this case you want an update, waht is chacking inside the update, if your distance is close enugh ?

So replace 1 Update Function
with 2 ? 😮
... Nooooo 😄

[cosmic rain]

I really don't understand what you're saying...

[heady verge]

inline ?

[cosmic rain]

Then don't do it. There's no reason to.

[frigid glen]

declare the variable inside of the conditional

[heady verge]

if you have the secont choice with an Update, it works.
but it s a void Update.

See: i do not like void Updates, they called every frame, understand ?

[heady verge]

me is german. and it s sometimes not easy to understand all.

Do you have a small coding example for your idea ? Can be very helpful.

[cosmic rain]

No, sorry. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
But, there's no reason to be afraid of update. Games need logic executed every frame, so it's totally fine to use update.

[frigid glen]

if (float E = math.distance(X, Y) < Value)
{
    transform.UniformScale = E;
}   

[cosmic rain]

Here's a tip: if it's difficult to express your thoughts in English, use translation tools, like google translate.

[heady verge]

just: Some things are not simple, in this case ido.
Most i understand.

[heady verge]

yes, but this will not solve the "Click" Problem / Enter problem. Just a distance

[frigid glen]

eh forget it, Ill just make a variable and use it twice

[cosmic rain]

You could probably do it like that, but I wouldn't recommend that:

float a = 0;
if( (a = Function()) < b)
{}

[cosmic rain]

The thing is that I don't understand you. Which makes it more difficult to help you.

[heady verge]

yes, maybe.
But hm.
It will not to be good to activate a + collition to everything.

i need an other solution.

[cosmic rain]

What? That was in reply to Gradient's question. Not yours.

[heady verge]

ah , but my awnser was to "The Things that i ..."
Sorry for this missunderstanding.
No problem i wil look around

[cosmic rain]

Wrong message referenced then. It's okay. Anyways, if you need proper help, you've got to make sure that the "helpers" can understand you.

[pure portal]

hello i want to ask on how to utilize await function best
so i have an async method that return a value
this method will be called in another method
but because it's an async method it will infect the other method that use it
is there anyway to work this better?

[cosmic rain]

"infect"?😅

[pure portal]

haha if i call an await method in a normal method there will be an error of
"the 'await' operator can only be used within an async method"
so it will 'infect' the normal method to also become async method

[cosmic rain]

Why would you use await in a normal method?

[pure portal]

it's a work around of a small project test
the actual script none use await function because all data is from resource
but now i am trying to change on how they access the data to entirely online in which why i need to use await function in several method
so i try to not change the main script as much as possible

the main script only need to get a list of string which called from a return method
now i try to get this list of string online which need an await function

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by "online"? And why does that require await?

Do you mean like awaiting a web request?

[pure portal]

yup

[cosmic rain]

Well, you don't need to use await. In fact, you can't as the error suggests.

If you want to block the main thread until the async method is complete, you can access the task's Result.

[pure portal]

how to do this?
do i use the unitask waituntil's function and wait for the result not null?

[cosmic rain]

I'm not sure about unitask. I was assuming you're using regular tasks.

Might want to read their docs.

[pure portal]

hmm ok thanks
will try

[cosmic rain]

Seems like they have a GetAwaiter. Could get the awaiter and call GetResults on it.

Though it seems like they warn about not using it for some reason.🤔

[pure portal]

haha i tried several things with the await function and sometimes my editor is not responding when played

[thin aurora]

That's not possible, and even if it was it would hurt the readability of your code whilst giving nothing of benefit in return

If Unity supports it, you can fake it with pattern matching

if ("This is a string" is string myString && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(myString)) {}
But I am pretty sure that the pattern matching does not allow assignment in Unity (yet).
Other than that, this is not a question fit for this channel and you should have just Googled it.

[cosmic rain]

Obviously, if you wait for the async method, it's gonna freeze the main thread until it's complete.

[tacit vine]

So i have a interface with the following code

because the GenerateGUID is always the same

but this does work in the same C# version as unity but it doesn't work here?

i mean i cant call the function like this

or this

[flint kettle]

I am making a character controller, and I have a question.
What's different between transform.Translate and transform.position in moving character?

[split condor]

Hello i have the following code to teleport one object to another while selected but sometimes it's just stop working, when the object teleport to a location after some time no matter how much i click on it the system doesn't see me clicking the object anymore, i tried everything, change layer, colliders, etc... but still the same issue, does someone know an alternative to this please?

[somber nacelle]

here's the solution. hope this helps!

[heady iris]

sorry I need a lotus-o-deltoid dingle-arm, not a prefamulated amulite casing. please revise your answer. thanks!

[heady iris]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[heady iris]

also, just a sanity check for preventing memory leaks

if I have an object with an event on it that has subscribers, it can still get GC'd, right?

as long as nobody can reference it

[leaden ice]

Yes - but not the other way around

the subscribers cannot be GCed

[heady iris]

right

I have an object that represents a quicktime event. When it starts, it subscribes to events on the brains of the entities that are involved

wait, I had this backwards in my head

i was thinking the brains were subscribing to the QTE's event for some reason

ok this obviously won't clean up by itself

I'll just have the QTE object unsubscribe itself when it terminates.

i need

[gilded kelp]

Hi guys,

I'm having problem using new Unity input system.

1. i have pan toool which is using left mouse button
2. rotate tool which is using alt+left mouse button.

So when i do alt+leftMouseButton then it also triggers pan tool which should not happen.

[heady iris]

there's an option for this

"Enable Input Consumption"

project settings -> input system package

it causes more specific bindings to "consume" the input, completely skipping less specific bindings

[static matrix]

whats a good way to get an item to work similar to a spear in rain world (in 3d), where upon hitting an object it sticks to it?

[heady iris]

on collision, make your rigidbody kinematic and parent yourself to the thing you hit

[static matrix]

good idea

[heady iris]

or just turn the rigidbody off entirely, possibly

er

you can't turn off a rigidbody, right

I'm thinking about potential problems when sticking to another moving object

[static matrix]

you could always remove the component ig

[heady iris]

an enemy might start banging into the spear

disabling your colliders would do the trick

[static matrix]

fun

[gilded kelp]

@heady iris Thanks i just enable the input consuption. now again it triggers pan tool when i release the left mouse button.
Following questions.

1. I'm using InputActionReference so it doesn't continously print's out the debug of action performed. to achieve this do i have to use update and use boolean like when mouse pressed boolean becomes true and on cancelled boolean becomes false and underlying code perform?

[heady iris]

you can call actionRef.action.IsPressed()

[thick socket]

if my enemy.target stores the transform of say player.center

then in another code I do
Transform target = enemy.target

and then change say
target = chest.center

is the enemy.target now equal to chest.center?

95% sure it wouldn't change the enemy.target but figure I doublecheck 😄

[rocky helm]

No, that wouldn't work

[thick socket]

https://pastebin.com/zrAWjrFT

I dont understand why its always shooting the farthest target and then also never switching

Its supposed to shoot closest target that it has Line of sight to

if no LOS then closest target

jumping around or moving throughout scene doesn't change that it always shoots the initial target

no where else in code does it change target

Debug.Log shows that the enemylist is indeed 2 so it also has both enemies to start

The platforms shouldn't be hit with the raycast

I've tried jumping near and above them to switch target to no success either

[south violet]

Hey, I try to write a test that checks whether an exception is thrown by Awake() method, but for some reason Assert does not catch any exception and test fails and anyways I get an error that exception was thrown. How can I do that properly?

On the screen there 2 Asserts I tried with

[hoary mason]

Btw one question

How do you do grid movement that can respond to collisions?

[static matrix]

you would have to self-build cols id think
like whenever something tries to move it first checks if an object with a collider is in the tile

[leaden ice]

what error are you getting? Show the full error message

[leaden ice]

depends on what kind of "response" you're looking for

[thick socket]

Hurray Praetor is here!

[thick socket]

Just didnt see anyone super smart thats also helpful online and I couldnt figure out my issue myself 😦

Guessing I made some smol dumb mistake that I cant see

[hoary mason]

As in, noy being able to go through colliders

[jaunty needle]

Hey guys, how does the unity Ray struct work?

[hoary mason]

Like say with pokemon

[jaunty needle]

Like what is it made of

[leaden ice]

then yeah just check if the square is occupied before moving into it

As for navigation - use standard graph navigation algorithms like Djisktra's and A*

[deft timber]

documentation?

[jaunty needle]

no no

[deft timber]

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

[jaunty needle]

hmm

[hoary mason]

Aaah

I see

[jaunty needle]

no source code ig

[late lion]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Geometry/Ray.cs

[jaunty needle]

sick, thanks a lot

my god until now I didn't realize you could put methods in structs

[torpid hawk]

I have a quiz app in unity I make the code but when I clicked any answer its always wrong can you help me

[deft timber]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[rigid island]

send code

!code

[tawny elk]

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[south violet]

@leaden ice So yeah, Im expecting to catch NullReferenceException, but in the end its not being caught and its thrown anyway xD

[leaden ice]

it's cut off - which line is this happening on in the test class?

[gleaming imp]

have this error:

error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'Image' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

thought this was the solution

You need to add the namespace UnityEngine.UI to the top of the of your script, this is the namespace that the type Image exists in.

but the namespace is added and error continues. any ideas?

[rigid island]

what other namespaces are there?

you could try regen project files

[heady iris]

show what you wrote

[rain minnow]

honestly, that should do it . . .

[gleaming imp]

how do you regen

[rain minnow]

did you lose configuration (connection) with unity and your IDE?

[rigid island]

show us script first
and its in Preferences -> External Tools

[gleaming imp]

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

[rigid island]

alr

[heady iris]

okay, that's fine.

i'd just close and reopen my code editor first

occasionally VSCode's language server falls over and dies

[rich lily]

is there like docs or forums where a beginner can learn about C# in unity?
a lot of the time I find myself looking at youtube tutorials
but idk if that's the best way
with c++ it certainly wasn't

[heady iris]

well, !learn will teach you some basic concepts

[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/

[rain minnow]

also, checkout the pins from #💻┃code-beginner to get started . . .

[rigid island]

crosspost

ah

[heady iris]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/ also contains lots of information.

[gleaming imp]

where

[rigid island]

ohh your ide aint even properly setup

[heady iris]

ah, yes, this is mangled

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it:

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[gleaming imp]

huh

[rigid island]

follow the bot msg

[gleaming imp]

i need a plugin for jetbrains

to work with vs code?

[rigid island]

no

which one you have VScode or Rider?

just get the Unity extension in VScode

[gleaming imp]

i have vs code

[rigid island]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity#_install

[rain minnow]

then click and follow that link from the bot message . . .

[dense vessel]

Hello!
I'm trying to use streams from different threads but I can't find a way to make it safe.
Basically, one thread can write to the stream using a StreamWriter and the main thread must Debug.Log() what's added to the stream by the thread.

Initially, I was using this to read the new data (where consoleStream is the Stream and consoleReader a StreamReader associated with it) :

if (consoleStream.Length != oldLength){
  consoleStream.Seek(oldLength, SeekOrigin.Begin);
  oldLength = consoleStream.Length;
  Debug.Log(consoleReader.ReadToEnd());
}

But then I figured it probably isn't thread safe if the other thread tries to write to the stream at the same time 🤔 Am I right about this? And if so, how could I make it thread safe without modifying the code to write to the stream (I don't control that code)?

To give more context, I'm executing runtime compiled C# code in a thread and I'm trying to retrieve the output (so for example if the code uses Console.WriteLine, I want to Debug.Log what was printed). For this I use Console.SetOut(), which makes Console methods write to a stream instead of a console.

[leaden ice]

If you want a thread safe stream you can use https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.stream.synchronized?view=net-7.0#system-io-stream-synchronized(system-io-stream) to get a thread safe wrapper around your stream and use that

However according to the docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.console?view=net-7.0

I/O operations that use these streams are synchronized, which means that multiple threads can read from, or write to, the streams.

so it might already be threadsafe

[dense vessel]

Thank you, I'll look at this !

[fervent furnace]

dont know about much on c# stream, assume you havent synchronized your stream, this is not thread safe and one thread write, one thread read
if stream length increase after oldlength=stream.length, you will still enter the if statement next round but seek start from oldlength, and debug.log some words that are already printed

i think you should use concurrency queue, but you cant change your code.....

[gleaming imp]

ok so... i followed the instructions, but error persists. vscode was already opening my files before.

i did the config, regen, nothing changed

[dense vessel]

Yes that's the kind of things I was worried about 😦

[gleaming imp]

I´ve had this error hapen before with old assets using outdated API and I had to change some variables or add namespace

but now I can´t figure out what´s wrong

[mighty ivy]

Hi! I'm trying to merge two lists of NavMeshBuildSource: one is a list and another is a list derived from a dictionary (so a list of KeyCollection of which the keys are NavMeshBuildSources). I initialize the list from the list of pair collections with this line of code: List<NavMeshBuildSource> mergedSourcesList = new List<NavMeshBuildSource>(obj.source2); where obj.source2 is a list of type public Dictionary<NavMeshBuildSource, GameObject>.KeyCollection source2;. This works perfectly well, until the list is too big and it crashes with this exception: System.ArgumentException: Destination array is not long enough to copy all the items in the collection. Check array index and length.
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2+KeyCollection[TKey,TValue].CopyTo (TKey[] array, System.Int32 index) [0x0002a] in <787acc3c9a4c471ba7d971300105af24>:0 at System.Collections.Generic.List1[T]..ctor (System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable`1[T] collection) [0x0003b] in <787acc3c9a4c471ba7d971300105af24>:0
at NavMeshCarver.MergeSourcesThread () [0x0002f] in D:[...][the place where the list is initialized as shown above.]
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object)

What can I do to avid this exception? It seems like the keyCollection is being initialized in a list that is too small to contain all of the keys. I've never encountered such error

[static matrix]

when a navmeshsurface bakes does it bake everything in the scene or just the things that it parents

(you may recall my pathfinding issues from earlier)

[leaden ice]

It's kinda weird storing this KeyCollection on a long lived basis

hoiw about just:

mergedSourcesList = whateverDictionary.Keys.ToList();```

[static matrix]

basically, can I have one navmeshsurface in the scene and just ocassinally rebake it
and that'll do pathing

[mighty ivy]

Can't do it - it's being done inside a thread and the dictionary is constantly being modified by the main thread (and sometimes by other threads, in a safe way). What the main thread do to avoid causing problem is creating a copy of the keys and simply pushing it in a ConcurrentQueue list, taking a "screenshot" of the dictionary's keys the moment the build nav mesh method gets called

[leaden ice]

the KeyCollection is NOT a copy

which is probably the root of your problem

[mighty ivy]

Wait

so when I do this

[leaden ice]

you should copy the keys to a collection (as per my example) in the other thread, then pass the copy over to the other thread

[mighty ivy]

and use it there

it's not creating a copy? it's a reference?

[leaden ice]

you need to step back further than this

[mighty ivy]

that's called in the main thread

[leaden ice]

yeah

[mighty ivy]

oh darn

[leaden ice]

yes objectSources.Keys is a reference

and the KeyCollection is like a view into the actual dictionary

you should just make it take a list

[mighty ivy]

oh.. uhm, well is there a way to create a list with it? Without running through all the dictionary

[leaden ice]

and pass in objectSources.Keys.ToList()

[mighty ivy]

because creating the list takes a lot of time

[leaden ice]

no

[mighty ivy]

argh

[leaden ice]

isn't it fine if it takes time, since this is in the other thread?

[mighty ivy]

no, no it's not

[leaden ice]

it's not fine or it's not in the other thread

what are you trying to do exactly?

[mighty ivy]

So, I have two lists, one has all the objects of the game and the other has another good half of the obejcts (that contain chunks and thousands of other obstacles in the procedural world). The first list is a dictionary of GameObject and NavMeshBuildSource pair. Really easy to handle because you can add and remove objects from the dictionary with their reference. The other one is a list that gets created every time a build is requested. Populating it doesn't take much time. Everything works well in a thread, and I build the navmesh manually with the async method. The problem is when the dictionary has 1) to be converted in a list and 2) merged with the other list (I'm using AddRange). I moved all the code from the main thread to another thread, that "listens" to a concurrentQueue that holds a pair of KeyCollection list and the other NavMeshSourceList to be merged with. This works well until I get that exception above, and I guess it's because the keyCollection is modified while the detatched thread was still reading the queue.

if you prefer I can use pastebin to paste the whole class, but it's a bit messy, I'm still trying to optimize and tidy things 😅

[leaden ice]

Why does the dictionary have to be converted in a list / merged with another list exactly?

[mighty ivy]

Because you need a single list of sources to build

[leaden ice]

and yes siunds like a threading issue - aka modifying the dict while it's being read in the other thread

[mighty ivy]

The sources list is merged from the two above in the detatched thread and used again in the main thread when it's ready

[mighty ivy]

That was what I was trying to avoid, but I didn't know that the list of KeyCollection is a reference...

[jaunty sundial]

Hey so i have a game object i want to rotate so that its orientation is always parallel to how the camera is looking at it so if the camera is looking at it down wards the object will tilt downwards etc. how would i go about doing this

[mighty ivy]

And manually creating the list in the main thread simply nullifies the effort to move the code that lags in the other thread

[fervent furnace]

set its transform.forward=cam.tf.foward

[jaunty sundial]

Cool thanks ill give that a go

[swift falcon]

I have a slight issue that MeshColliders contactOffset doesn't seem to take affect during runtime if I change it?

MeshCollider meshCol = target.GetComponent<MeshCollider>();
meshCol.convex = true;
meshCol.isTrigger = true;
meshCol.contactOffset = 0.2f;```But the trigger distance doesn't change at all? Is there a function or anything I can call to set this?

[naive swallow]

Currently, I have a zooming function with an orthographic camera, where scrolling the mousewheel changes the camera's orthographic size. If I wanted to zoom in on the mouse, I'm not sure how I'd go about having it zoom on that specific point. I'm guessing there's some sort of math I can do to move the camera as I change the ortho size so that the mouse'd position remains stationary, but I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about determining that math.

[jaunty sundial]

Will that still work if my cinemachine is controlling my main camera

[fervent furnace]

idk but if your camera will rotate and you can get its tf it should work

[heady iris]

Yes. Cinemachine moves the main camera.

You could also use a Copy Rotation constraint.

[orchid bane]

All our game objects are in UI. The canvas' render mode is Screen Space - Camera. Is there any way to give "depth" to the objects? So that when the character is behind an objects it's rendered behind it. I am considering giving each object a separate canvas with another Plane Distance value but perhaps there is a better way? Changing Z position in world space coordinates sounds like a bad idea. If it's unclear, the game is 2.5D

[plush hedge]

The order in the hierarchy. Towards the bottom is "front", towards the top is the "back".

[orchid bane]

You suggest moving the character in hierarchy according to where it is?

[naive swallow]

All our game objects are in UI
😬

That's kind of the source of your troubles

Probably shouldn't do that

[plush hedge]

Yeah, using some combination of transform.SetSiblingIndex and transform.SetAsLastSibling (to bring to front) or transform.SetAsFirstSibling (bring to back).
If not, I think you can do it with layer order too.
It depends on context and how you want to change the depth of things.

Ideally, you should be using SpriteRenderer and Z position for 2D with depth.

UI is really for UI... Like menus, inventory, etc.

[fervent furnace]

given a max size and min orthogonal size (max size: camera dont move, min size: the point at the center of screen), so you can have a equation: camera position= t* camera original position+(1-t)***point ** where t is (current size-min size)/(max size-min size)<- this is constant
point is ofc screen to world point (input.mouse position)

this is just a linear equation, if you want fancy movement, please modify it...

[naive swallow]

When you say "this is constant" you mean just the denominator, right? Because the numerator of that should be changing as the zooming happens, right?

[fervent furnace]

yes

[naive swallow]

Okay, I'm giving it a shot

[gleaming imp]

The namespace '<global namespace>' already contains a definition for 'Timer'

[naive swallow]

Duplicate script

[static matrix]

can I have one navmeshsurface that encompanies multiple objects (not one object with children))

[gleaming imp]

called global namespace?

[naive swallow]

No, Timer

global namespace is where scripts that don't specifically have a namespace defined go

[woeful dagger]

hello everybody i have a probleme with websocket how can help me?
There is already one outstanding 'SendAsync' call for this WebSocket instance. ReceiveAsync and SendAsync can be called simultaneously, but at most one outstanding operation for each of them is allowed at the same time
i want to click button and a want sendmessage (active tracking)
and in updatefixe => sendmessage (my postion)
when i put a button to active (tracking camera) => i have got this message (how i can do?)

[static matrix]

BuildNavMesh is the same as baking it correct?

[rigid island]

should be

[gleaming imp]

how would you troubleshoot this

[rigid island]

double check UI is installed as a package

[static matrix]

you probably set something up wrong

is it possible to add new objects to a navmesh?

[plush hedge]

Branching dialogue system in Unity?

[gleaming imp]

it is not

[static matrix]

issue found, great job, heres a raise 💸

[rigid island]

wdym new objects

you have to rebake

[static matrix]

yes

like if I instatiate a new object while running can I bake it into the navmesh

[rigid island]

ye yu can bake at runtime , use navmesh surface

[static matrix]

ok ill keep trying

[gleaming imp]

yeah this isn´t a amissing namespace problem, it´s something else

some kind of bug

[rigid island]

did you install the package

[gleaming imp]

UI package?

[rigid island]

yea

[gleaming imp]

hm

nope

[rigid island]

then how is it a bug lol

[gleaming imp]

i thought it´s built in

[rigid island]

it usually is there by default

but its a package

if you remove it, bye bye scripts

[static matrix]

ioleksdfjiewlkfj I feel like i'm on the cusp of solving this issue i've had for half a year

the CUSP

[naive swallow]

So it is a missing namespace problem

[static matrix]

calling an issue like this a unity bug feels like calling something witchcraft

[leaden ice]

you're right - it's a missing package / assembly problem

[gleaming imp]

DX checks out

[thick socket]

        if (SystemInfo.deviceType == DeviceType.Handheld)

this doesn't return mobile when using Unity's built in Simulator?

[leaden ice]

simulators are not emulators

[thick socket]

darn

thanks 🙂

[gleaming imp]

@static matrixit does feel like witch hunt tbh

[static matrix]

Bugs with your code vs bugs with your setup

[gleaming imp]

Assembly 'Assets/PlayServicesResolver/Editor/Google.JarResolver_v1.2.59.0.dll' will not be loaded due to errors:
Assembly name 'Google.JarResolver' does not match file name 'Google.JarResolver_v1.2.59.0'

this looks like... deprecated API or something?

I can find the .dlls in the project but not the Assembly name 'Google.JarResolver' so I could rename it

[simple egret]

The assembly name is contained in the DLL, as bytes, it's the library name

[gleaming imp]

so then I should rename the file instead to match the assembly name

[fervent vapor]

Hey, I was following a tutorial and I am curious why there is an if state about the velocity vector which is Vector3D and it's magnitude square should be greater than 0, before we fix the smoothing of the rotation.
if (velocity.sqrMagnitude > 0) { character.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(character.transform.rotation, Quaternion.LookRotation(velocity), character.rotationDampTime); }

[naive swallow]

So, I implemented this, and it's definitely moving, but once I scroll it centers the camera on where the mouse was, meaning if you continue to scroll without moving the mouse, you're not going to end up zooming closer to the thing you were hovering over. I'm hoping to essentially increase orthographic size and keep the point under the mouse stationary as the camera zooms

[leaden ice]

if velocity is zero you'll get an invalid rotation from Quaternion.LookRotation(velocity)

it has no way of knowing which way to look when it's not moving, so it's best to just leave the previous rotation alone

[fervent vapor]

Oh I get it now, velocity magnitude is the square root of the sum of the square of x,y and z and squaring it again confirms that the sum is not zero

am I right?

[leaden ice]

sqrMagnitude is simply being used because it's slightly faster to calculate than magnitude

they both will be 0 when the velocity is 0

essentially we're just checking for the velocity being 0

[fervent vapor]

I see, so in either case Magnitude or sqrMagnitude we can check weather velocity is zero or not

[naive swallow]

How would I get the world position a screen point would be at if the camera were at a different orthographic size? Just changing the ortho size and doing ScreenToWorldPoint didn't do it, the two values were the same so I guess it doesn't actually move the camera until the end of the frame

[static matrix]

hmmm for some reason it isn't re-baking

idk why

like it bakes once on startup but then it doesn't bake again when I call it again

[naive swallow]

Ah, I think I see the problem, I'm changing the Cinemachine ortho size, but I have to use the camera to get the screen to world point. If I just manually set the camera's ortho size to match instead of waiting for cinemachine to do its thing, it works

[static matrix]

ends up doing this

any reason why it isn't baking in the new stuff?

I should probably show code lol

  void GenerateFromCenter()
    {
        
        for (int x = -2; x < 3; x++)
        {
            for (int z = -2; z < 3; z++)
            {
                bool Occupied = false;
                foreach (Chunk c in Chunks)
                {
                    if(c.coords.X == x+Center.X && c.coords.Z == z + Center.Z)
                    {
                        Occupied = true;
                    }
                }
                if (!Occupied)
                {
                    GenerateChunk(new Coords(x + Center.X, 0, z + Center.Z));
                }
               


            }
        }
        BuildMesh();
        //Surface.transform.position = PlayerIn.transform.position;
        


    }
    public async Task BuildMesh()
    {
        await Task.Run(Surface.BuildNavMesh);
        Surface.UpdateNavMesh(Surface.navMeshData);
    }

GenerateFromCenter is called every 1 second with invokerepeating

[kindred hearth]

this causes an infinite loop sometimes

why

[leaden ice]

Isn't Task.Run going to just not work here since it makes a new thread?

[static matrix]

ahaaaaa

what should I do instead
I thought task.run would work as it has worked before

[leaden ice]

i can't imagine this ever NOT being an infinite loop except when the length is 0

[static matrix]

yeah while is very goofy

[leaden ice]

Shouldn't this just be if, not while?

while is not goofy

while works exactly as advertised

[kindred hearth]

well if just checks once, what if it tps to another wall

[static matrix]

it can be goofy
its a shotgun of a loop
don't miss with it

[static matrix]

if its in update it should check every frame

[leaden ice]

Won't this code just run again later?

if will suffice

[kindred hearth]

its at the start

should I put it at

[static matrix]

why is it at the start????

put it in update or fixedUpdate

[kindred hearth]

bc it is a collider checker

[leaden ice]

if you really need to check something every frame, it needs to go in Update

or in a coroutine

[static matrix]

what should I use instead of task.run then?

[kindred hearth]

I just need to check if its not going to spawn an enemy in a wall

[leaden ice]

while does not wait for your game to continue and frames to pass

[static matrix]

so make it an if

[leaden ice]

there is no reason you need while, just change to if

[kindred hearth]

ok ty

[mellow sigil]

I think they're just trying to find a suitable starting location for the object

[static matrix]

public void Generate()
    {
        Rand = Random.Range(30, 31);
        WallRand = 20;

        LastChunk = ChunkForLevel[Random.Range(0, ChunkForLevel.Count)];
        Center = new Coords(0, 0, 0);
        for (int x = -2; x < 3; x++)
        {
            for (int z = -2; z < 3; z++)
            {

                GenerateChunk(new Coords(x, 0, z), true);


            }
        }
        Playerstats = GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<PlayerStats>();
        Playerstats.LevelStats = this;

        HasGeneratedMap = true;
        Task.Run(Surface.BuildNavMesh);
        Surface.UpdateNavMesh(Surface.navMeshData);
        InvokeRepeating("CheckDespawn", 1, 1);
        InvokeRepeating(nameof(GenerateFromCenter), 1.1f, 1.1f);
    }

this does build it correctly

[mellow sigil]

so they're right in that if you only check once you might pick another bad spot

[kindred hearth]

yes

[static matrix]

I do need the rebake to be asynchronoius bcause its expensive and I cant exactly have a freeze every second

[leaden ice]

are you trying to say "pick another spot until it's free?"

because this is wrong code for that

[kindred hearth]

but I was also only checking for colliders once

[leaden ice]

notice you are never picking another spot again

[kindred hearth]

ya

yup

I saw that

[kindred hearth]

I see that there is a problem

[static matrix]

I can't just append "async" to a function and magically have it run on the not main thread correct?

[kindred hearth]

this is an array

[leaden ice]

no you don't want update here then, you do want a loop, you just need to write the code properly

[kindred hearth]

arent they unmutable?

[kindred hearth]

okay what should I do then

[leaden ice]

it doesn't matter, `OverlapCircleAll creates a brand new array every time

[kindred hearth]

ah okay

this at start?

[static matrix]

should I set up a coroutine?

[wraith vector]

On "Runtime Network Stats" what is "RTT To Server"?
Whether I send player position as float or short it shows 1.5kB/s

[heady iris]

pretty sure "RTT" means "Round Trip Time"

not sure why it'd be showing an amount of traffic..

can you show the entire window?

[wraith vector]

I am confused too.
Should not traffic get halved when using short too?

[heady iris]

oh, that's two different things

RTT To Server is up top

0.00 seconds

(i presume you're running the server on the same machine)

The lower graph is plotting bandwidth usage

[static matrix]

its wierd, I had gotten it to work async before

but now it isnt

[lean sail]

there is more than just the player position being sent

[wraith vector]

ahh

[heady iris]

not if it touches any of unity's stuff

[wraith vector]

ty for the info

[mellow sigil]

The first two lines are the wrong way around. And you have to put in a safety valve so that it won't get stuck if there is no available free spot

[wraith vector]

I was getting so confused lol

[heady iris]

you could absolutely do a bunch of work on another thread as long as none of it touches unity

At that point I'd consider using the Jobs system

[kindred hearth]

how

I think there will always be available space

[static matrix]

ill try looking at jobs

[heady iris]

Jobs provides a nice system for punting work to background threads

[mellow sigil]

That's what they always say

[heady iris]

It offers some safety guarantees

and combined with Burst, you can get native code performance

[static matrix]

is it relatively simple?

[kindred hearth]

ok but how can I do it

[mellow sigil]

make it a for loop for 1000 loops for example and break when it finds a spot

[heady iris]

There is some boilerplate to learn, but I think it's reasonably simple to to get started

[lean sail]

also if your player wasnt moving, it wasnt sending the position at all. By default it only sends when changes happen

[heady iris]

Here, let me show you some (old-ish) code of mine

[static matrix]

ok

[kindred hearth]

dayum

alr

[static matrix]

thank you

[wraith vector]

ty for the info

[kindred hearth]

@mellow sigil this?

[wraith vector]

I am assuming those 1.5kB are necesary to be sent?

[mellow sigil]

Now you're breaking when it doesn't find a spot

[kindred hearth]

oh yah

the else

my bad

[lean sail]

i dont really know whats in those 1.5kB so 🤷‍♂️ maybe. You wont see it at 0 unless no one is connected

[wraith vector]

I only see them when player is moving then it goes back to 0

this is all I am sending:

_x.Value = (short)(transform.position.x * 10);
_z.Value = (short)(transform.position.z * 10);
_yRot.Value = (short)(rotation);```

[heady iris]

well, consider the naive way to move a player

send the transform

matrix4x4 is 16 floats, so that's 64 bytes

[lean sail]

there is a network transform class which will help you avoid doing this but yea if you wanna know more id ask the NGO discord

[heady iris]

64 * 30 would be around 1,800

[wraith vector]

I am confused with what you mean

[lean sail]

i dont think they send it like that at all, and itd just be 10 floats if they did for position/rotation/scale

[bold pawn]

1920 😉

[heady iris]

right, just ballparking

but I just realized Verve is manually sending this anyway

[heady iris]

full HD!

[wraith vector]

no, only sending those 3 values

since player move in a 2d plane I do not need X and Z rotation and Y position, nor the scale

[bold pawn]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/components/networktransform/

[wraith vector]

but, i was moving my character without adding a NetworkTransform added to my player object since I do not need the accuracy of it

[heady iris]

There is probably some overhead from using multiple network variables.

[wind orchid]

Hi

I have A, B, C, E, and F Vector3 positions (ABFE is a rectangle)

How can I calculate the position of the D

[thick socket]

If I have a scene with a lot of enemies that all have their own AI...how can I speed up performance?

[dusk apex]

Async/await and/or Unity Jobs

[fervent topaz]

how can I get a script in library to recognise a script in assets folder?

[thick socket]

how would Async or await be used to improve performance?

(I guess I should look into what Jobs are lol)

[fervent topaz]

the script just gives an error because it cant read from assets

[jaunty sundial]

hey so i have my player riding a gameobject that moves and changes rotation respective of the mouse movement however when my player gets on the whole thing breaks down and spins all over the place anyone got any ideas

[knotty sun]

you cannot because that would create a circular dependency

[fervent topaz]

then what do I do?

I need the script in library to read the script I have in assets

[steady moat]

Project the vector AC on the vector AB. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Project.html

[knotty sun]

do you not understand the word 'cannot'?

[fervent topaz]

then whats my alternative?

[knotty sun]

put the script into the library and read that in Assembly-CSharp

[heady iris]

what are you trying to accomplish here?

specifically.

[dusk apex]

Depending on the necessary calculations, a batch of asynchronous operations can reduce path finding costs - depending on your implementation of the AI. Consider asking in #🤖┃ai-navigation btw

[fervent topaz]

I have a script in library that creates objects and I want those objects created to have a script from assets attached to them

[wind orchid]

I will take a look, thanks

[thick socket]

gotcha, my ai is super simple...like "walk this way" or "walk towards player" 😄

[steady moat]

Did you profile ?

[heady iris]

Pass a Type to the library code and use the non-generic AddComponent to attach it.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.AddComponent.html

[fervent topaz]

tpyeof?

[thick socket]

no, I tried to use that once but I couldn't figure out how to make it not useless 😄

[heady iris]

typeof(SomeType) produces a Type from a type name, yes

[steady moat]

Then you want to understand how it works because otherwise you are going to optimize the wrong things.

[heady iris]

then figure that out.

you're asking how to dig up a treasure chest when you have no idea where it is

[fervent topaz]

typeof(ScriptName)?

[heady iris]

you could dig thousands of holes, or you could get a metal detector

[heady iris]

I would not say "script name". typeof(TheTypeYouWant).

But yes, that's the idea.

[thick socket]

idk, trying to use the profiler seems like trying to use a faded ripped up map

[fervent topaz]

is a script name a type?

[heady iris]

public class FooComponent : MonoBehaviour {

}

[fervent topaz]

if I had a script named AppleScript it would be typeof(AppleScript)?

[heady iris]

this declares a type named FooComponent

It's not the name of the script asset. It's the name of the actual class.

(very recent versions of unity allow the names to differ)

[steady moat]

That is because you do not understand it. https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/profiling-in-unity-2021-lts-what-when-and-how

[thick socket]

more like this is all I can find and it doesn't help me at all 😄

[fervent topaz]

FooComponent fc= gameObject.AddComponent(typeof(FooComponent )) as FooComponent ;

?

[heady iris]

this is telling you that physics is taking up 7ms of your 9ms frame

[steady moat]

It does, it means the physics is your bottleneck

[heady iris]

Sure, but note that the library code will not know what a FooComponent is

[fervent topaz]

then what do I do?

[steady moat]

You can start by reducing collider and rigidbody that arent usefully

[fervent topaz]

how do I get library to know foocomponent?

[heady iris]

pass it a Type. The library will not be able to do anything specific with your component.

because, again, circular dependency

[fervent topaz]

gameObject.AddComponent(typeof(FooComponent ))?

[heady iris]

unless the library and the rest of your code are in the same assembly

[thick socket]

I mean, I've got like 1 rb on each enemy and like 3 colliders

[heady iris]

I should stop you here and ask what you mean by "library"

[thick socket]

not much I can get rid of there

(would jobs be something that could help here?)

[fervent topaz]

its a package script

[steady moat]

Do they push each other ?

[steady moat]

No.

[jaunty sundial]

hey so i have my player riding a gameobject that moves and changes rotation respective of the mouse movement however when my player gets on the whole thing breaks down and spins all over the place anyone got any ideas

[heady iris]

don't crosspost; you just asked in #💻┃code-beginner

[fervent topaz]

I want to edit the package script to add an asset script to the gameobject it creates

[heady iris]

its a package script

[thick socket]

they run through each other...however it doesn't appear they push each other at all

they all look like this

I mostly just use the rb for moving, checking speed and falling

maybe I should just figure out how to write my own gravity class and get rid of rb?

[steady moat]

If they do not need to touch each other then you disable the layer in the physics

[steady moat]

Usually you use Kinematic Rigidbody

At least, that it is what I do most of the time.

Also, if you are able to use Cercle instead of Box it should be better

[eternal wagon]

I am trying to setup Unity levelplay for ads.. do I need ironsource? how to just use Unity Ads?

[steady moat]

#archived-unity-gaming-services

[thick socket]

looks to me like if I use Kinematic I dont get gravity anymore

[steady moat]

Obviously. You need to apply the force yourself

[thick socket]

why use rb at all at that point

[steady moat]

Because of collision

Also, you would most likely use the velocity property of the RB for your movement/gravity

[thick socket]

colliders work without rb?

[steady moat]

No.

[heady iris]

they work, but you won't get collision events if neither side has a rigidbody.

you may also miss collisions if you're just moving colliders around without a rigidbody

Switching off continuous collision detection may improve performance

although

"SolveContinuous" is already at 0.00ms in there

[steady moat]

Anyway, you see how profiling is actually important. Because your issue is not your managed code and you arent losing anytime with that for no reason.

[heady iris]

indeed

[thick socket]

so I have enemies hitting each other disabled

would disabling everything that "can't" collide help also?

[steady moat]

Usually try to keep the minimum. However it wont make a difference if there is nothing that was actually colliding between the layer.

Also, do you have polygone collider ?

[thick socket]

only on weapons, might need to remove a few points

had square for everything mostly

or 2 circles for AI detection

[steady moat]

Replace the polygone collider with other shape

[thick socket]

how would a collider for something like this normally be

just like a 4pt square around the blade instead of 8pt polygon?

or a really big square

[steady moat]

What it is used for ?

[thick socket]

detecting when he hits the player with the weapon

[steady moat]

Do you need that much precision for a collision hit ?

[thick socket]

not sure if a small box collider > larger circle collider

probably not

[steady moat]

You could probably use a box

Or a capsule

[primal wind]

How can i listen to the Debug/Log output of Unity? I had a in-game console working but lost the project and forgot how i did it

[thick socket]

thanks, for some reason I didn't remember that was a thing for 2d

[heady iris]

Primitive colliders are much faster than polygon/mesh colliders

It's a lot easier to decide if two rectangles overlap than two arbitrarily complex (and concave!) polygons

[primal wind]

Okay nevermind i found it

[thick socket]

you can't have 2 of a collider on the object tho?

[wicked river]

Hey can someone please help me. I upgraded to the latest version of Unity and I was met with this wall of errors. I have tried installing tmpro

[heady iris]

collisions general happen between two objects with two colliders

[steady moat]

You sure can.

[heady iris]

and yes, you can also have several colliders

[steady moat]

It is called compound collider https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.physics@1.0/manual/concepts-compounds.html

[thick socket]

ah, meant on one object 😄

[steady moat]

You still can

However, that would be bad practice in my opinion

[thick socket]

swapping all the box colliders to capsule and collision Detection from continous to Discrete and now I went from like 40fps->100fps thanks 😄

was definately not expecting such a massive difference

[jaunty sundial]

hey so i have my player riding a gameobject that moves and changes rotation respective of the mouse movement however when my player gets on the whole thing breaks down and spins all over the place anyone got any ideas

[leaden ice]

From this vague description? No, no ideas.

maybe some kind of physics interaction is happening? It's hard to say without details

[jaunty sundial]

do you know the game grow up im tryna make the mechanic where u ride the growing plant

[leaden ice]

I don't know that game, no

nor would knowing that game really help me in diagnosing your game's issue

[little stratus]

So I have quite an ironic problem lmao, basically a NullReferenceException in an if statement that checks for null.
The exception is thrown on the if statement's line. I know for certain that both "block" and "block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>()" aren't null thanks to Debug.Logging them. I know that the null thing is the "surroundings[whatIsDown]", but I'm quite baffled as to why it would throw a NullReferenceException just for accessing a null value in an array and checking if it is, indeed, null. The array is also initialized and usable so that's not it either. Any help?

private void CheckDown()
{
    foreach (Transform block in transform)
    {
        if (block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>().surroundings[whatIsDown] == null)
        {
            //do stuff
        }
    }
}

[leaden ice]

surroundings itself could be null

[little stratus]

I tried debug logging it too just before the if statement and it's never null

[leaden ice]

one of block, block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>() or block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>().surroundings is null

that much is a fact

use Debug.Log and find out which

(assuming you're correct about which line the error is on)

[little stratus]

the line is indeed the one with the if

[leaden ice]

block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>().surroundings[whatIsDown] being null would not cause any error here

[little stratus]

ok so

[little stratus]

I'll try debug logging all of them just before the if

[leaden ice]

good plan

[little stratus]

ok so apparently

private void CheckDown()
{
    Debug.Log("DOWN");
    foreach (Transform block in transform)
    {
        Debug.Log("1: " + block);
        Debug.Log("2: " + block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>());
        Debug.Log("3: " + block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>().surroundings);
        if (block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>().surroundings[whatIsDown] == null)
        {
            //do stuff
        }
    }
}

the 2: is printing some empty stuff

so apparently the block handler is the problem, however here I'm iterating through all the children in this object and all of them indeed have a block handler component attached

[leaden ice]

Do this:

if (block.GetComponent<BlockHandler>() == null) {
  Debug.Log($"There was no block handler on {block.name}", block);
}```

it will tell you which object it is, and also you will be able to click on the debug log line in the console and it will highlight it for you

[little stratus]

this put right before the problematic if?

[leaden ice]

yes

[little stratus]

OH

yeah I got it thanks

for some reason in the //do stuff section I was instantiating another object and it put it as a child of this one so it bugged

still kinda weird but at least I know what's happening

[leaden ice]

that'll do it

also kind of a side effect of how weird the Transform enumerator is

[somber nacelle]

this is a code channel. but likely the templates just have not been updated for it yet

[thick socket]

Anyone good with math 😄

[loud stratus]

Me

[thick socket]

I want to pick a random direction and go that way (like a circle)

iirc it has something to do with trig 😄

easiest way to do it is pick a direction

[somber nacelle]

Random.insideUnitCircle

[loud stratus]

It does not have to do with maths btw with vectors more specifically

With methods basically

[somber nacelle]

or if you want 3 dimensional direction you can use Random.onUnitSphere

[thick socket]

not exactly what I was wanting

[somber nacelle]

why not? it gets a random direction

[leaden ice]

just normalize the result

otherwise you can do:

Vector3 direction = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, Random.Range(0f, 360f)) * Vector3.right;```

but it's basically the same thing

[thick socket]

if I normalize wouldn't that set both the X and Y to 1 and just go at 45 degree angle?

[leaden ice]

no

it definitely will NOT do that

normalization sets the magnitude of the vector to 1

not the individual components

[thick socket]

oh cool thanks

wasn't aware of that

[copper star]

    private Vector3 CalcluateForce(Vector3 target)
    {
        float distance = Vector3.Distance(new Vector3(this.transform.position.x, handPos.position.y, this.transform.position.z), target);
        float deltaVx = distance / travelTime;
        Vector3 velocityX = deltaVx * pm.orientation.forward;

        Vector3 velocityY = Mathf.Abs(Physics.gravity.y) * (travelTime / 2) * Vector3.up;

        return velocityX + velocityY;
    }

For a simple projectile simulation where I calculate the initial required velocity for an object to reach a target in designated time travelTime using projectile motion, I use this method to get the velocity, but the issue I'm having is that the object always seems to fall short? Does anyone have any suggestions as to why?

[somber nacelle]

do you have drag on the projectile?

[leaden ice]

new Vector3(this.transform.position.x, handPos.position.y, this.transform.position.z) does this position actually correspond to the starting position of the thing?

[copper star]

yes it does I just needed to make sure that the starting height was from where it launched

[leaden ice]

Why isn't it just Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target)

if it was launched at a specific height, wouldn't it be at that height?

[copper star]

also I have angular drag of .05 but wasn't sure why that would matter without air resistance...?

[leaden ice]

Also I don't think Vector3 velocityY = Mathf.Abs(Physics.gravity.y) * (travelTime / 2) * Vector3.up; is going to be accurate

that's only going to work in real life

[copper star]

Oh

[leaden ice]

Unity uses a discrete timestep physics simulation

it's not exactly the same

[copper star]

hmm yeah that could be the case

I verified the output magnitudes with an online projectile motion calculator and they seemed fine

would there be anything in terms of force mode that could affect it ?

[leaden ice]

you probably want to think more along the lines of "how many fixed timesteps is it going to take to get there horizontally"? And then calculate the speed it needs to go to spend that many fixed timesteps in the air

[leaden ice]

i mean definitely - you want to be setting the velocity directly rather than adding a force

or using ForceMode.VelocityChange and ensuring it starts at 0 velocity

[copper star]

Currently I use AddForce(CalculateForce(target), Forcemode.Impulse);

[leaden ice]

yeah that's only going to work if it starts at 0 and the mass is exactly 1

[copper star]

I'll change it to VelocityChange and see if it has any effect

[leaden ice]

why not just rb.velocity = CalculateForce(target);

and rename CalculateForce to CalculateVelocity because that's what it's really doing

[copper star]

Alright I'm going to try it, thanks

[atomic sinew]

Hey party people. In my tileset-based pixel art game the character sometimes gets stuck on tiles. I guess this is because of rounding errors. This is usually easily fixable by using composite colliders, but I do have destructible tiles. Any idea how I can ignore small differences in colliders? I would prefer something like this to say using a circle collider for the characters legs (because it then awkwardly slides down edges which doesn't fit the boxy artstyle yada yada yada). Thanks!

[leaden ice]

also note I believe this will additionally only work if the height you're launching from is the same as the height of the target object

[copper star]

Yeah something about the AddForce was messing it up - changing rb.velocity directly seems to do the trick. Thanks for solving my incompetency!

[somber nacelle]

known issue with tilemap colliders due to the box2D physics engine. use a round bottom collider for your player and continuous collision detection on the rigidbody if you don't want to use a composite collider for the tilemap

[heady iris]

You could prevent sliding off ledges separately

maybe by using high friction

[atomic sinew]

thanks! youre right i could also change the colliders on runtime since I detect edges with raycasts anyway 🙂

[pliant sun]

How would I get the local bounds in 2020.3, Renderer doesn't provide a localBounds property in that version and I'm not sure how to calculate it

[heady iris]

I'm not sure if there's a prettier way to do it

[leaden ice]

you can use myRenderer.transform.InverseTransformPoint on whatever points/positions you need in local space from the bounds to get the local equivalent

[heady iris]

but you'd just need to -- yeah, that

You could iterate over the corners and build a new Bounds out of them

[leaden ice]

note that "local bounds" isn't really a thing

because once you're rotated off the world axes, they no longer really make sense

[pliant sun]

Well yeah, I just mean more bounds without rotation, without the bounds expanding based on the objects rotation

[leaden ice]

since Bounds is intended to be axis-aligned

[pliant sun]

Unless i'm asking the wrong question?

[leaden ice]

Maybe? What are you trying to do?

[pliant sun]

The bounds expands if an object is rotated, I just want the bounds without it expanding

[heady iris]

hmm, just converting the world bounds wouldn't give you that, then

a rotated object would give you a larger bounding box than expected, since you'd be converting those inflated bound corners into local space

[leaden ice]

for what purpose?

What are you trying to accomplish with this

[heady iris]

but yes, what is the goal here

not "to get the bounds before rotation"

that's the Y in the XY Problem

[pliant sun]

yeah im trying to word it in a way that helps, give me a moment lol

[heady iris]

don't try to word it

just tell us what you are doing, straight up

it's fine if this is a vague and ill-defined goal

[pliant sun]

wire frame around an object, following its rotation. I don't want the bounds to expand, i want the bounds to rotate with it

[heady iris]

ah, so maybe like a "selection box"

[pliant sun]

yeah actually suppose thats the best thing to call it

[heady iris]

Is this a mesh renderer, or is it skinned?

[pliant sun]

mesh renderer

[heady iris]

I'm thinking you could just record the bounds once

ultra goofy strategy: in Awake, briefly zero out the transform and record the bounds

[pliant sun]

script to capture the bounds on creation then draw the stored one

[heady iris]

You could even generate a mesh based off of those bounds and then attach it

[leaden ice]

You could maybe do something cute like:

Vector3 localMax;
Vector3 localMin;

void Awake() {
  Quaternion originalRot = transform.rotation;
  transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;

  localMax = transform.InverseTransformPoint(renderer.bounds.max);
  localMin = transform.InverseTransformPoint(renderer.bounds.min);

  transform.rotation = originalRot;
}```

then use localMin and localMax to draw the thing later as needed

(or store all 8 points if you want, which can be derived from the max and min)

[pliant sun]

was gonna say why are you doing it 8 times

[leaden ice]

yeah sorry that was from an earlier idea lol

[quick elbow]

Anyone know why I'm getting this warning constantly?

Saving has no effect. Your class 'UnityEditor.XR.Simulation.XREnvironmentViewManager' is missing the FilePathAttribute. Use this attribute to specify where to save your ScriptableSingleton.
Only call Save() and use this attribute if you want your state to survive between sessions of Unity.
UnityEditor.XR.Simulation.XREnvironmentViewManager:OnDisable () (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.xr.arfoundation@5.0.7/Editor/Simulation/XREnvironmentViewManager.cs:169)

[leaden ice]

Try updating unity and all of your packages

[heady iris]

it's an error in the package

[leaden ice]

if that doesn't help might just be a bug in XR

[heady iris]

they forgor

😦

[quick elbow]

Yeah... I tried updating everything and no dice 😦

[heady iris]

ScriptableSingleton lets you store and load data for editor utilities

the FilePathAttribute is optional and lets that data persist from run to run of the editor

so it's not really harmful, but it's a nuisance

[quick elbow]

Yeah, I realized that. It's just a really annoying warning to see lol

[somber nacelle]

this is a code channel

[rocky hazel]

Is it in graphic right or where?

[quick elbow]

Also anyone have any thoughts on general stability of Unity 2021 vs Unity 2022?

[leaden ice]

Maybe just #💻┃unity-talk

[rocky hazel]

Okay thx

[heady iris]

well, I haven't had a crash yet in the 2022 LTS

I usually use 2023, which was blowing up in my face semi-regularly

actually, on second thought, I did have one crash (that wasn't my fault)

[heady iris]

(this is also a #💻┃unity-talk question)

[quick elbow]

That's good to know, thanks! And yeah, I just posted over there. My b

[pliant sun]

Almost got storing the bounds to work just the rotation stuff is wonky now. Need to go look up Matrix stuff properly..

thanks

ok nvm, ruined if objects are spawned with rotation

[heady iris]

I am having a ~weird~ problem with UnityEngine.Random. If I rapidly exit and enter play mode, I get the same RNG every time. This is in 2022.3.10f1 on macOS.

I peeked at Random.state (using reflection) and, after the first play session, the value is the same every time.

I have Domain Reload and Scene Reload disabled, so it's possible for static state to be leaking from play session to play session.

The s0 field always contains 2077314801 after the first play session. The first session's value is random, as expected.

If I wait for a few seconds before playing again, the state is randomized properly.

Searching for Random.state, Random.InitState, or Random.seed gives no results.

after interacting with the editor for a moment and hitting play again, I get a different, but still unchanging, random state

actually, yeah, the state I get after waiting for a few seconds also isn't actually random

it's just another set of values

...is it seeding with the number of seconds since exiting play mode?

nah, that isn't it

[somber nacelle]

it shouldn't be, it's only supposed to be seeded once and that seed should survive domain reloads. at least according to the docs

[heady iris]

The number I'm getting is consistent after an editor reload

Oh get outta here

Splines package.

It calls Random.InitState with the InstanceID of an object.

[steady moat]

lol