archived-code-general

[rancid frost]

thats due to mesh.clear above

🙂

so the mesh is definietly, being modified

[swift falcon]

yeah, i was changing it in the code like a dumbass

[hybrid turtle]

hey does anyone know if you can buffer the drag speed of a slider?

I have a slider controlling an animation and need it so people can't blast through

has anyone also made like a slider to control the point in time an animation is at

Im not sure if it's as simple as this

{
    private PlayableDirector playableDirector; 
    [SerializeField] private Slider timeScrollerslider; // retrieve the slider component from the gameObject
    private float animationDuration; 
    void Start()
    {
        playableDirector = GetComponent<PlayableDirector>(); 
        animationDuration = (float) playableDirector.duration; 
    }

    void Update()
    {
        playableDirector.time = animationDuration * timeScrollerslider.value; // call in update every frame? 
    }```

[neon plank]

Is this how would you consume an IAsyncEnumerator in a coroutine?:

IAsyncEnumerator<DigimochiNFT> digimochisProducer = DigimochiNFT.GetAllDigimochis().GetAsyncEnumerator();

while (true)
{
    ValueTask<bool> task = digimochisProducer.MoveNextAsync();
    while (!task.IsCompleted)
        yield return null;

    ExceptionDispatchInfo exception = null;
    try
    {
        if (task.GetAwaiter().GetResult())
            digimochis.Add(digimochisProducer.Current);
        else
            break;
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        exception = ExceptionDispatchInfo.Capture(e);
    }

    if (exception is not null)
    {
        ValueTask disposeTask = digimochisProducer.DisposeAsync();
        while (!disposeTask.IsCompleted)
            yield return null;
        try
        {
            disposeTask.GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw new AggregateException(e, exception.SourceException);
        }
        exception.Throw();
    }
}

{
    ValueTask disposeTask = digimochisProducer.DisposeAsync();
    while (!disposeTask.IsCompleted)
        yield return null;
    disposeTask.GetAwaiter().GetResult();
}

[tender gull]

Hi.. I've got a little problem with Singletons between Scenes..
my setup is that each scene needs some managers that are singleton classes (like AudioManager, CameraManager etc.), some of those should live between scenes. Eg. I'm on some portion of map and ofter player reach some point I want to load new part of map and unload old ones. I add to them DontDestroyOnLoad so their work won't be interrupted (eg. global audio like music won't cut off).
The problem start if I'll try to keep those manage systems also on those other scenes (eg. for testing) - what's the best way to takle that problem?

I tried to create one super-manager that has other managers underneath (at least those that need to be kept between scenes) and if he sees other super-manager (from newly loaded scene) destroyes itselt, but it feels overcomplicated and doesn't solve anything (I don't know how, but those 'destroyed' managers still exists and try to receive inputs etc.)

[normal hedge]

I am having the following issue:
I have a Script attached to a object that holds a reference to its own Transfrom.
When I Instantiate that object, that reference moves with the new Instance.
(The new instance is now holding a refence to itself)
Is there a way to stop that behavior?
My goal is to keep the reference to the original while instantiating.

[somber nacelle]

have whatever instantiates the object pass the reference to the prefab back to the instantiated object. but why would it need that reference in the first place?

[normal hedge]

Ill take a look if I can do that (thinking about it, should be quite clear to implement (hopefully)).
The reason it has that reference is that this is a wave function collapse based Terrain gen, each tile holds its valid neighbours which in some cases includes themself.
However the way I collect and process these neighbours neccesitates the reference to the original

[heady iris]

use Mathf.MoveTowards to move the time towards the current slider value

playableDirector.time = Mathf.MoveTowards(playableDirector.time, timeScrollerslider.value, Time.deltaTime);

this would go from 0 to 1 in one second

[hybrid turtle]

ok ok ill give it a shot and see if it smoothes the transition

clamps it too much

what i was thinking

is make a float buffer

like 0.80 then multiply that into animationDuration * timeScroller.value * buffer

probably will have a more controllable effect

[hybrid turtle]

hey guys can you swap a texture in unity at runtime

?

I have four different textures and would like to swap them out at runtime

[dusky lake]

What is your texture on? On a material?

[hybrid turtle]

material

I want to access these materials from the MeshRender

and change the textures within them

is this possible?

[dusky lake]

You can either create 4 materials and swap those

[hybrid turtle]

yeah I dont mind doing that

[dusky lake]

or swap the keyword "_MainTex" on the material directly

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/XaPImahe67.png/raw

[hybrid turtle]

hmm

        meshRenderer.material.SetTexture("_BumpMap", NormalMapTexture);```

[dusky lake]

Yeah same for maintex

[hybrid turtle]

i saw this online you can get the component and call setTexture

but idk if it works for smth other than the normal

as shown here

[dusky lake]

but be advised, you are changing the material instance with it, it might affect other objects

[hybrid turtle]

so basically every object with that material assigned will have its texture changed?

[dusky lake]

i am not sure right now under which circumstances, but yes that can happen

your best bet would imo be to just swap between materials

instead of editing one material

[hybrid turtle]

the thing is i have scripts

that depend on the materials whose textures I am changing

and if i swap the materials there I'd need to swap them on all my acting scripts

which is why I wanted to try with textures first and brings me to a bit of a conundrum

[dusky lake]

The short answer: Then edit the materials
The long answer: Thats keeping state in the wrong place, create a state-holder script instead of reading from materials in other scripts

[hybrid turtle]

ok ok I'll do a refactor then

thank you

[rancid frost]

does anyone know why changing the vertices and triangles in a mesh doesnt show in the game?

I am trying to add vertices and triangles to a mesh, and even do the respective arrays have increased in size, the mesh remains thesame

[patent hound]

odd question, in unity you can't create a copy of a component like you can a gameobject can you?

[patent vector]

Hello. When running my game in the editor, FPS slowly drop over time, bottoming out around ~32. Then if I pause the editor and wait a few seconds, when I hit play it goes back up to ~72 fps. Slowly drops again, pause resets, forever

I've explored the Profiler but can't see any obvious culprits in there... any ideas?

[patent hound]

I have run into a very weird coding case where i need to essentially copy the box collider from a child object to a parent object

[rancid frost]

Yes, I believe you have copy the values individually

[rancid frost]

garbage collection?

[patent vector]

@rancid frost Seems like a likely culprit yeah, but it's almost more like garbage pileup? Cause of the gradual nature over time, until the pause.

[patent hound]

ram usage steady throughout that time? I have seem unity editor's ram usage creep up sometimes then drop

[patent vector]

Or maybe GC isn't running for some reason?

@patent hound You mean on my OS level, or w/i unity?

[patent hound]

like the ram usage of unity within your OS

[rancid frost]

your profiler should tell u where the spikes are, I recommend you start there.

[dusky lake]

Can you show your code snippet?

[patent vector]

@rancid frost I'm not seeing anything unsual in the profiler. Cause it's not really spikes

Not even seeing anything increase over time in there

[rancid frost]

begining disabling objects 1 by 1. you can pin down said problem

[patent vector]

@patent hound That's interesting. Looking now, nothing is increasing in RAM or CPU. But it does jump to using ~240% CPU while it runs... I wonder if my Mac is throttling it? Never had anything like that but could be

[rancid frost]

you are very much running something cpu intensive

its ur code

[dusky lake]

Try using SetVertices instead of the = variant

[patent hound]

i had a similar issue and it was because i was testing something and forgot to change back my virtual memory settings and unity would sometimes partially get pushed out to virtual memory on disk, figured i'd throw it out there as a possiblity. that's definitely odd

[dusky lake]

Oh nvm, meshFilter.mesh outputs a copy of the used mesh, reapply it to use the changes

[rancid frost]

doesnt work

strangely, the triangle count of the scene goes up accordingly....

but the vertices dont....

[rancid frost]

here is what I have now

[patent vector]

@patent hound What sort of virtual memory settings were you tweaking? It definitely seems to be some OS level issue, I'm running another very simple project now and seeing the same behavior

@rancid frost It's not the code, ^^

[patent hound]

I was trying to see how slow certain things would be on a system with less ram so i changed the virtual and physical memory settings in windows

[patent vector]

Don't love the implications of my machine just slowing down.. maight need some fan cleaning

[patent hound]

it was not a unity setting i tweaked

[rancid frost]

hmmm, did u disable all objects in scene 1 by 1?

[patent hound]

sanity check here, does this code snippet work as described

//now we need to make a new box collider that encapsulates this object and the weapon inside //create a new box collider and bounds BoxCollider newBoxCollider = this.gameObject.AddComponent<BoxCollider>(); Bounds bounds = new Bounds(Vector3.zero, Vector3.zero); //check if we have a renderer and encapsulate it to start with if (transform.GetComponent<Renderer>() != null) { Renderer thisRenderer = transform.GetComponent<Renderer>(); bounds.Encapsulate(thisRenderer.bounds); } newBoxCollider.center = bounds.center - transform.position; newBoxCollider.size = bounds.size; //iterate through the children of this object //the weapon and other object we need for our purposes will have renderers on layer 1 so we do not need to iterate through all of their children foreach (Transform childTransform in gameObject.GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>()) { Renderer childRenderer = childTransform.GetComponent<Renderer>(); //if that child has a renderer encapsulate it if(childRenderer != null) { bounds.Encapsulate(childRenderer.bounds); } newBoxCollider.center = bounds.center - transform.position; newBoxCollider.size = bounds.size; }

[patent vector]

@rancid frost Yes it's having the same behavior in a completely fresh/empty project

[rancid frost]

hmm

I dont know how to be of assistance

perhaps, u got some other program fucking with you?

check vsync maybe

that could be it

[rancid frost]

you are still adjusting colliders for components with no renderer, is that intended?

[patent hound]

I wanted to ensure that the center and size were never null so i left the first one out of the if statement

however they don't need to be reset in the for loop you are correct

[rancid frost]

newBoxCollider.center = bounds.center - transform.position;

if the collider is on the transform, why subtract transform position?

[rancid frost]

any ideas?

[dusky lake]

Have you tried all that in a sample manner? If the vertex count changes it sounds like the error might be somewhere else in the code

[patent hound]

Because that was supposed to be newBoxCollider.offset not newBoxCollider.center

good catch

[rancid frost]

vertex count changes in code, but the unity stats screen. It should vertex count NOT changing...triangle still changes tho

[dusky lake]

ill test some and then report back

[cosmic rain]

What if you just use "clear" without assigning new data? Does the mesh disappear from the scene view? Does the info in the stats update?

[rancid frost]

the first time I add a new set of vertices, it shows

after that nothing

[rancid frost]

only the tris count updates , vertex stays tehsame

[rancid frost]

ive tried using both clear and assigning new mesh...nothing

[cosmic rain]

This is creating a new mesh. Are you using this method to modify it as well?

[rancid frost]

no

[rancid frost]

i simply old an array with the nesssaccary info, and assign them to the new mesh

[cosmic rain]

For starters, I'd avoid relying on the statistics window. It's known to produce unreliable information for debugging.

You should step through your code, or inspect the relevant objects in the inspector. You can also see rendering info in the profiler.

[cosmic rain]

But if the info in the statistics is correct, then perhaps your triangles array just doesn't reference the new vertices. In this case only the triangle count would increase.

[rancid frost]

I have stepped through the code

[dusky lake]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/ROfIMACi02.mp4/raw

This works, but only if I copy the verts into a new array and then apply it, directly applying the modifications to the vertices[index] did not work

[cosmic rain]

Check the triangles array. Does it contain the new vertex indices?

[dusky lake]

using UnityEngine;

public class TestScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public MeshFilter Filter;

    public void Update()
    {
        if (!Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A)) return;

        var mesh = Filter.mesh;
        var vert = new Vector3[mesh.vertices.Length];
        for (var index = 0; index < mesh.vertices.Length; index++)
        {
            vert[index] = Quaternion.Euler(45f, 0, 0) * mesh.vertices[index];
        }

        mesh.vertices = vert;
        Filter.mesh = mesh;
    }
}

[rancid frost]

yes, numbers of triangles and vertex look good

[rancid frost]

will give this a shot

[rancid frost]

nothing happens

[cosmic rain]

Did you have a look at the mesh in the inspector?

[rancid frost]

uh

[rancid frost]

nothing much

[cosmic rain]

Not the frame debugger. Just double click the mesh in the mesh filter

[rancid frost]

nothing 😦

[cosmic rain]

Does it update?

[rancid frost]

wait I know why

the triangles

it must be relative

[cosmic rain]

relative to what?

[rancid frost]

mesh A was 3 vertex

triangles are 0 1 2

mesh B had 3 vertex

triangles are 0 1 2

if u merge them...

Mesh B triangles are not 3 4 5

[cosmic rain]

Merging meshes? I don't remember you mentioning that. But that might explain many things.

[cosmic rain]

And yes, I've been telling you to check the indices in the triangles array from the start.

[rancid frost]

i know

i was checking if they werent empty 😦

[dusky lake]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/KOTahEKA81.mp4/raw

Is there any way to loose that stutter when moving the camera with my demo player object? No stuttering happens when the camera stays still

Camera syncs to the position of the player with a lerp in LateUpdate

        private void LateUpdate()
        {
            if (!_changeDetected) return;
            if (!Follow) return;
            if (Vector3.Distance(_targetFollowPoint, _currentFollowPoint) < 0.1f)
            {
                _changeDetected = false;
                return;
            }

            var cameraTransform = transform;
            _currentFollowPoint = Vector3.Lerp(_currentFollowPoint, _targetFollowPoint, LerpAmount);
            var rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Angle);
            var offsetPosition = _currentFollowPoint + rotation * new Vector3(0, 0, -Distance);

            cameraTransform.position = offsetPosition;
            cameraTransform.rotation = rotation;
        }

[rancid frost]

are u using any other cin machine component?

[somber nacelle]

obligatory "use cinemachine"

[rancid frost]

he isnt using cinmacine

[rigid island]

probably not since this script is inLateUpdate

[rancid frost]

wtf

[dusky lake]

Not using cinemachine at all

[rancid frost]

shit, why not?

[somber nacelle]

right, which is why the advice i gave was to use it

[dusky lake]

Never touched it, guess i have some documentation to watch

[rigid island]

you should @dusky lake

[rancid frost]

yup, nice catch. I just auto assumed he was

[rancid frost]

tell him that lol

[rancid frost]

thanks the issue is resolved! 🙂

[rigid island]

idk why discord does that sometimes lol it replies to wrong person soz

[dusky lake]

I am stupid, made the recheck distance to big

Anyways, now that it runs smoothly, lets remove it all and implement cinemachine 😄

[rigid island]

its butter smoooth

don't even get me started on Impulse/noise

extra butter

[rancid frost]

I did something similar once you know, I didnt know what cinmachine was. spent days creating scripts to confine camera, move and all...damn I suffered

[dusky lake]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/PEFeSEzA92.mp4/raw better now

I guess i can make cinemachine follow a point instead of a gameobject?
Cause im calculating a center point of all active players for local multiplayer

Anyways, before asking questions, I should look at the feature to begin with 😄

[rigid island]

I think you can only assign a transform target and add offset

[dusky lake]

eh, then i might aswell have an empty transform target

[rigid island]

usually people do that , call it like "cinemachineTarget" or w/e

because some of the camera modes are affected by the target's rotation

[dusky lake]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/ZiyUtENe28.png/raw looks like i can save myself some calculations

and let cinemachine handle everything for me 😄

aight, you got me convinced, already in love with it 😄

[rigid island]

My favorite part is Auto Blending between cams and also when I make a game in old Resident Evil style it has a camera auto camera switching when you're in range of certain cams

[cosmic rain]

So what was the issue in the end?

[inner yarrow]

Does OnTriggerStay2D stop getting called if the object it's on isn't moving?

[spring creek]

Nope

[inner yarrow]

Hmm, I don't know what's wrong then, but I think I found a workaround so I should be fine.

[rancid frost]

when merging 2 meshes, the triangles of mesh B needed to be increased

[bronze hemlock]

anyone know how to stop a charactercontroller bouncing when going down a slope?

[oblique spoke]

You could snap it to ground below or move along the ground normal. I would use https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131 as a base.

[tired jay]

why is my code not changing color. it works but if i make a mistake in writing the code there are no red wiggly lines which makes it harder to write code if i make a small typo. is my visual studio missing something

[somber nacelle]

configure your !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.

[tired jay]

thanks

[patent hound]

i suck at quaternions, is there a good way to put an object 1 unit in front of the player but only factoring in the y rotation?

essentially i want to place the object 1 unit in front of the camera but not factor in the up/down rotation of the camera, only the left right rotation

[somber nacelle]

you don't need quaternions for that so i'm not sure why you prefaced your question with "i suck at quaternions"
you should be able to project the camera's transform.forward onto a plane with a normal of Vector3.up using the Vector3.ProjectOnPlane method

you may need to normalize the resulting Vector3 from that to get it exactly 1 unit away though

[patent hound]

i was not aware of the projectonplane method, i thought i was gonna have to do some quaternion math

[urban owl]

how to run video recorder on Built game?

[somber nacelle]

like the Unity Recorder from Window > General > Recorder? because that's editor only

also not a code question

[urban owl]

Window > General > Recorder? yes

[somber nacelle]

if that is the recorder you are referring to, then it does not work in a built game. it is editor only

[urban owl]

how to record video on game?

[somber nacelle]

like just record your game window? that's not a unity question. nor is it a code question. but you can use software like OBS to do so

[urban owl]

I want to make a video player, to play mp4 and mp3 voice

and record that video

[somber nacelle]

why are you using a game engine to do that

[urban owl]

I don't need this one, what else can I use

[somber nacelle]

why don't you do some research and find a tool that makes more sense to create a video player/recorder app in?

[urban owl]

because I can use AI in unity

[somber nacelle]

so your video player is also going to incorporate AI? or are you referring to using AI to help you make it because you don't actually know what you are doing?

[urban owl]

AIGC things

I can do it in editor now, but I want run it on website

[somber nacelle]

well the recorder i mentioned earlier would not be appropriate for what you are trying to do because it doesn't do that. nor would unity be a good choice for creating a video player app

[patent hound]

i have been struggling to understand the projectonplane function for like 2 hours lol, and after not getting it for around an hour i've started toying with it as a gizmo drawline and i'm now more confused

i'm using code similar to

cameraWorld = gameObject.GetComponent<Character>().GetCameraWorld(); Transform cTransform = cameraWorld.transform; Gizmos.DrawLine(transform.position, Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(cTransform.forward * 1, Vector3.up);

but i've tried switching the variables around, changing what i'm putting in the function and i am just not getting the results that are coming out

it's the fact that it isn't (vector, plane) that's confusing me, it's 2 vectors and my brain is just farting out getting what the second vector does

[somber nacelle]

if you read the docs, you'll see that the second parameter is the normal for the plane. you don't need to define a whole plane for it, it just needs the normal for the math it does. your parameters for the method are correct. although i don't see why you've multiplied the cTransform.forward by 1. you do know that multiplying anything by 1 is just going to return itself, right? so that's a pointless operation

[patent hound]

well it had a variable for distance there originally and i've just been changing small details one after another, simply did that instead of deleting it

[somber nacelle]

okay so what is it currently doing that you are not expecting?

[patent hound]

it's shooting a line off at a 45 degree angle that stays the same in world space regardless of what direction the camera is facing

you can see the gizmo line shooting off the player in the same direction even though i've rotated nearly 180 degrees

[somber nacelle]

remember that the second parameter for Gizmos.DrawLine is the end position. not the direction.

you're getting the camera's forward direction projected on the plane with the Vector3.up normal. if you use that as a position it's going to be within 1 unit of the scene origin

[patent hound]

well i had it as transform.position + the current projectonplane but that does other wild unpredictable things

[somber nacelle]

try it now

[patent hound]

you're right though that doesn't make sense the way i had it in that code snippet since it's not position,angle it draws the line between 2 positions

i got it figured out FINALLY it was because i wasn't spawning them far enough from the player object their rigidbodies were freakign out forcing them through the ground

making me think that the spawning was going the wrong direction and spawning them down

[idle flax]

How can I make this work? I want other scripts to be able to call this function, inputting another function of their choosing.

public void AddAction(Action action)
    {
        GameObject instantiatedAction = Instantiate(actionItem, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        instantiatedAction.transform.SetParent(contextMenu.transform);
        instantiatedAction.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>().SetText(action.ToString());
        instantiatedAction.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(?)
    }

[prime sinew]

You need UnityAction

That's the type that onClick takes

[idle flax]

Thanks

[summer estuary]

is it possible to run a unity api call as a coroutine? i need to recalculate the collider for a large tilemap, so i'm using a composite collider and calling GenerateGeometry(), but it hangs the frame for a moment. is there a way that i can make that function call run like a coroutine?

eg. StartCoroutine(collider.GenerateGeometry());

[mellow sigil]

That's not how coroutines work. If you call a method in a coroutine it'll hang just the same as when called anywhere else

To avoid that you'd need to run it in another thread

[summer estuary]

hmm that probably won't work since unity api calls have to be on the ui thread right?

maybe i should investigate more efficient collider options

[vivid remnant]

I created a procedural door mechanism that allows me to add/remove another door as a pair for the one that is already present inside the scene. When I add a door, everything works as expected but when I remove it, the mesh of the original door disappears and only reappears once I hit Ctrl+Z. The doors were created using Probuilder. Please watch the video in order to get a clearer picture of the problem.

Does anybody have any idea what could be the potential cause for this issue?

[worn wyvern]

Is there a way to make this method show up in the Unity UI? I guess it won't show because of the enum ScoreSource

public enum ScoreSource { None, Bumper, Rollover, Slingshot }

public void AddScoreWithSource(int amount, ScoreSource source)
{
  score += amount;
  Debug.Log($"Add {amount} to score from {source}, netting {score} total score");
}

[vivid remnant]

Here is the source code:
https://pastebin.com/4wvm3bRT - Mechanism
https://pastebin.com/NJ85VkuT - Editor Mechanism

[oblique spoke]

You can't pass in multiple parameters through the inspector UnityEvent. One workaround for constant parameters for a given instance is to have a serialized field and passing that in the method you invoke.

[worn wyvern]

Thanks for the heads up! I'm not sure I understand correctly how to apply the workaround in my case, I tried something like

[Serializable]
    public class Both
    {
        [SerializeField]
        public int score;
        [SerializeField]
        public ScoreSource source;
    }
    
    public void AddScoreWithSource(Both both)
    {
       
    }

But it may not be what you described, though I don't understand exactly what you mean

[oblique spoke]

Just a regular field on the monobehaviour that is then used in the method

[patent hound]

Is there a simple debugger I can do within unity to see what accesses the setActive function of a gameobject? Something is clearly interfering with my ability to set a gameobject to active properly and im trying to figure out what script is causing it

[worn wyvern]

Oh yeah right, though it would defeat what I'm trying to achieve here

I guess I could do it in two methods, SetSource and then AddScore

public void SetSource(ScoreSource source)
{
        
}

Damn this won't even show up in the event UI, guess enums are not handled

[vivid remnant]

Could this problem be Probuilder related?

[oblique spoke]

Yea that appears to be the case

[worn wyvern]

@oblique spoke I did understand what you meant... and it's alright!

Not as pretty as directly setting the arguments in the event UI directly, but that's alright!

Thanks 🙂

Is it required to mark public fields with [SerializeField] ? or is it the norm now?

[oblique spoke]

You don't need it for public fields

[upper ice]

Hi

What is the difference between Convert and Parse?

[quartz folio]

Provide some context. They are words

[true bramble]

public class Entity : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float speed = 3f;
    void Awake()
    {
        rb = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    public void Move(int amount)
    {
        rb.AddForceX(speed*amount);
    }
}```
Why does Awake from base class never get called if I am doing something like this
```cs
public class Player : Entity
{
    int input()
    {
        return Convert.ToInt32(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D)) - Convert.ToInt32(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A));
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        //Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)
        Move(input());
    }
}

[knotty sun]

Convert is used when the input and output is known to be compatible
Parse is used when the input and output may or may not be compatible

[rigid island]

why are you doing this lol

[heady iris]

i guess that gives you a value between -1 and 1

[true bramble]

I will have multiple enemys and a player that will all be able to move, its a way to not repeat code

[heady iris]

I see no reason for Awake to not run on instances of Player. Why do you think it is not running?

Are you getting an exception when you try to use rb?

[rigid island]

using a Vector would make more sense 🤷‍♂️

[true bramble]

I have a rigid body attached to my player and the inspector doesnt see the rigid body when I make it public in the base class

[heady iris]

I am not clear what this means.

"it doesn't see it"?

what are all of these "its"?

[quartz folio]

I'm sure there's a TryConvert method somewhere, and Parse vs TryParse is definitely a thing. Without knowing what they're comparing it's fairly arbitrary. I would say converting is generally a straightforward transformation and parsing requires some more logic to determine a relationship, but hey, no info

[heady iris]

Convert only contains a few Try* methods

[knotty sun]

I was not replying in a C# context just a grammatical one

[true bramble]

I edited my message

[heady iris]

if rb is a public field in the base class, then will appear on Player

if it doesn't, then you probably have a compile error that's preventing anything from updating in the first place

[true bramble]

when rb is public, it shows in the inspector but I don't think the awake method was ever called because the inspector cant see the rigid body im trying to get in the game object

[heady iris]

Did you mean that the rb field says "None (Rigidbody2D)"?

you can check if Awake is running by logging something in Awake

[true bramble]

yeah

[true bramble]

it does run

mb

[quartz folio]

If it says None then that gameObject didn't have a Rigidbody2D on it

[true bramble]

but it does

im attaching the Player class to the object though

[heady iris]

Show the inspector.

[true bramble]

hmm its working now

this is wack

[wary coyote]

Before I even try, how easy / hard / impossible would it be to make a component that runs on update that imitates the Symmetry behaviour pictured here? Context that is 3dsmax.

Is this something totally nontrivial and I shouldnt even attempt it? Or do you imagine its very do-able? Maybe a stock asset in some github exists with this done already?

[rigid island]

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

maybe UModeler X does it?

[wary coyote]

is that in reply to me or someone else? I know you can run scripts in editor but that doesn't answer if the above is even possible to write

[rigid island]

https://docs.umodeler.com/docs/modifier/

[wary coyote]

looking at it it doesn't feel impossible, the two things happening is its cloning the mesh along an axis, which feels simple, and unions them if they intersect on that axis, which feels way harder to do

Oh interesting, that does appear to be what I was looking for, Ill google what this UModeler X package is

[rigid island]

true. true. anything is possible with enough knowledge 😛

[wary coyote]

😐 sure that answer is technically correct but it doesnt answer the spirit or intent of my question. It kind of hurts to be given such a pedantic reply.
the real question that we both know I was asking is how difficult will this be, am I going to go into development hell and become immensely frustrated by repeated failures to achieve this effect because I don't realize how challenging its going to be

[rigid island]

Yeah I suppose so.
Thought you were looking for assets that does it similar thing instead of wanting to write the whole feature.
Sorry its all I got

[wary coyote]

I apologize as well I was not clear

If no stock asset exists I was going to try to write it myself

[knotty sun]

how can we possibly know what you will find difficult?

[wary coyote]

Why do you have to fight me instead of just answering the question? Sorry I even asked

I dont understand why developers find it so incredibly important to attack and challenge anyone who reaches out for help instead of fostering a welcoming and supportive environment

[rigid island]

maybe you're just taking things a little too personal or as implied criticism lol

I can't speak for others but I have really bad people skills, but I do wanna help

[heady iris]

I do not know how hard it would be. To me, it looks like the main challenge will be slicing the mesh along the plane of symmetry.

The rest is trivial.

(perhaps other than welding vertices together at the plane of symmetry, if you need that)

After you cut the mesh across the symmetry plane, you just need to reflect all of its vertices across the plane. That's basic math.

I suppose you'd also need to flip all of the normals, since the winding order would be backwards.

[heady iris]

This is the part I do not know much about.

[knotty sun]

To answer the question asked, yes it can be done, I would find it very trivial to do, how difficult it would be for you I cannot say

[heady iris]

it's easy to decide if each vertex should be kept, but producing new vertices to replace those that got chopped off sounds a little harder.

[latent latch]

Pretty cool stuff but why update specifically? I assume there's a lot of verts to get that neat bendy look.

[heady iris]

I would expect there to be at least one mesh manipulation package that can do this kind of thing.

There are quite a few for doing runtime object shattering, for example

[rigid island]

#archived-code-general message

[heady iris]

Cutting an object in half is the hard part of this problem

[rigid island]

Umodeler X does all this in editor

if only we can find the source code

[tawny yacht]

Idk what i imported but i got this Asset Unlock - 3D and now my game is broken. how do i go back?

[rigid island]

broken how?

[thick terrace]

can you just revert it in source control?

[rigid island]

u can just delete the Asset Unlock - 3D

[tawny yacht]

some of my layers got removed. and if i delete the folder the materials dont show and it turns pink

[tawny yacht]

i have some changes in the materials. wont that revert it too

[rigid island]

you probably imported the project settings too

[tawny yacht]

yeah

[rigid island]

which you should probably not have done

[tawny yacht]

this was a months work

is there a way to go back

[rigid island]

You don't have a commit?

[tawny yacht]

i do

[rigid island]

so revert

[tawny yacht]

but as i said the materials

will revert too no

[rigid island]

wasnt materials working when you made committ

[tawny yacht]

no only scripts

maybe i copy the textures and materials folder

[rigid island]

so you never made a proper commit ?

with materals and textures

[heady iris]

It looks like that asset collection is designd to be used with the universal render pipeline. Were you using the built-in render pipeline?

[tawny yacht]

no i was using URP

[rigid island]

or otherway around

[tawny yacht]

the project now looks at the new URP for some reason

[heady iris]

Select one of your materials that is broken and show me the inspector.

[tawny yacht]

i have been building logics and only worked on materials yesterday.

[rigid island]

you Imported Project Settings when youimported asset so it changed everything, double check what Graphics settings your project has

[heady iris]

yeah, let's see what the project settings look like

[tawny yacht]

hmmm

i put urp and now the materials show

but some of the layers are gone too

that was a big part in the scripts

[heady iris]

The layer numbers will not have changed

just the name of each layer

you can reassign them pretty easily

[tawny yacht]

yea thanks

i can figure out from here

[heady iris]

use proper version control to prevent this in the future

[tawny yacht]

on it

[acoustic sinew]

I decided to try and play with a new movement system today using the character controller. I'm trying to use the .isGrounded but for some reason it's not seeing that my player is grounded and my player is floating in the air by .02

Using Debug, when the player is standing still it shows controller.isGrounded to be false, however when I start moving the player is flips between true and false

I am using the network manager to spawn in the player

[acoustic sinew]

Well now it is showing true for isGrounded, but only when the player is moving

Shouldn't it still show "True" even when the player is sitting still?

[rigid island]

hold up, let me check my crystal ball

🔮

ball says : Depends

[leaden ice]

CharacterController.isGrounded only returns true when the last call to .Move involved pushing it into the ground

so it's generally annoying to use

and doesnt work in a lot of situations

most people implement their own grounded check

[acoustic sinew]

So even if the move command is used, but the player doesn't actually move, it doesn't matter. The player has to physically move for it to check

[rigid island]

isGrounded is limited af

use an overlaps or cast

[deft jungle]

I have List<Transform> TopPatrolPoints initialized in inspector. When I try to debug. log this.TopPatrolPoints[0].position.x (line 103) I get error: MissingReferenceException: The variable TopPatrolPoints of Bartek doesn't exist anymore.
You probably need to reassign the TopPatrolPoints variable of the 'Bartek' script in the inspector.

[swift falcon]

If anyone got a simple pistol script that shoots and stuff dm me it for Unity VR

[somber nacelle]

this isn't the place to get free handouts of completed code

[swift falcon]

chill it was a question

[somber nacelle]

chill it was an answer to your question

if you want to not be lazy and actually put in literally any amount of effort to make your game, then i suggest you watch some tutorials or something. there are plenty that go over how you can make a weapon

[swift falcon]

A no would work 💀

[craggy crest]

Quick question: I wanna freeze my Z position in 2D movement. I wanna do it by: The declaration is at the top of my class and the target transform in my update method

target.transform.position.z = 0.0f;```

It gives me an error and says: "The return value of Transform.position is not a variable and therefore cannot be changed"

Then I tried to store it in a Vector3 variable but it didn't do the job either

Like that: private void Start() { Vector3 lockedZpos = transform.position; lockedZpos.z = 0; target.transform.position = lockedZpos; }

And set the lockedZpos.z 0 in the Update method

[fervent furnace]

dont cross post, but you have already post the errors here
start only runs once, you should put it in update

[craggy crest]

Any ideas?

[rigid island]

if its a rigidbody just freeze constraints

[craggy crest]

I did now, but still doesn't do the job

[craggy crest]

it's not a rigidbody, it is only transform

[rigid island]

hmm show the current movement

[craggy crest]

Oh it's complex 😅

I am doing a game where you can switch between 3D and 2D

{

    [SerializeField] private Transform target;

    [SerializeField] private MouseSensitivity mouseSensitivity;

    private Vector2 _input;

    private float _distanceToPlayer;

    [SerializeField] private CameraAngle cameraAngle;
    private CameraRotation _cameraRotation;

    bool use2DPerspective = false;

    private void Awake() => _distanceToPlayer = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target.position);

    public void Look(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        _input = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        _cameraRotation.yaw += _input.x * mouseSensitivity.horizontal * Time.deltaTime;
        _cameraRotation.pitch += _input.y * mouseSensitivity.vertical * Time.deltaTime;
        _cameraRotation.pitch = Mathf.Clamp(_cameraRotation.pitch, cameraAngle.min, cameraAngle.max);

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C))
        {
            use2DPerspective = !use2DPerspective;
            Camera.main.orthographic = use2DPerspective;

            if (use2DPerspective)
            {
                Vector3 lockedZpos = transform.position;
                lockedZpos.z = 0;
                target.transform.position = lockedZpos;
                mouseSensitivity.horizontal = 0;
                mouseSensitivity.vertical = 0;
                Camera.main.transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(transform.rotation.x, transform.rotation.y, transform.rotation.z) * 0;
            }
            else
            {
                mouseSensitivity.horizontal = 20;
                mouseSensitivity.vertical = 20;
            }
        }
    }```

    {
        if (use2DPerspective == false)
        {
            transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(_cameraRotation.pitch, _cameraRotation.yaw, 0.0f);
        }

        transform.position = target.position - transform.forward * _distanceToPlayer;
    }
}

[Serializable]
public struct MouseSensitivity
{
    public float horizontal;
    public float vertical;
}

public struct CameraRotation
{
    public float pitch;
    public float yaw;
}

[Serializable]
public struct CameraAngle
{
    public float min;
    public float max;
}```

[rigid island]

so you were setting it on Update but moving in LateUpdate ? 🤨

[craggy crest]

yes

[rigid island]

hmm yeah thats gonna give you weird jitter iirc

also why not Cinemachine lol

2 cameras. . job done

[craggy crest]

I tried sooooo many variants and I only managed to do it like that

Movement which works in 2D and 3D

[rough tartan]

hello, so i'm currently working on a multiplayer system, so I made this code that work with my serveur with web socket. This code work fine but the problem is that I can't have more than 2 player connect at the same time because the code decript all the message he received and applied all of them to one player so if the data come from 2 different player the ennemie player in your game will applied to himself 2 différent location, So I wanted to know what will be the best way of making the multiplayer work with more than 2 people , how I can and what's the best for making an instance for each player based on their ID that the serveur give me and apply for each of them specific value like their coordinate or if they receid damage...?
(sorry for my bad english 😅 )

[waxen kayak]

Does anyone have any ideas on why there is never a tile found?

 if(gridManager)
            {
                Vector3Int pos = Vector3Int.FloorToInt(HitPosition.position);
                Debug.Log(pos);
                Vector3Int cellpos = gridManager.waterMap.WorldToCell(pos);
                Debug.Log(cellpos);
                Tile tile = gridManager.waterMap.GetTile<Tile>(cellpos);
                if(tile != null)
                {
                    Debug.Log(tile.name);
                }

There is a tile where the position is, there is a gridmanager, so I don't know

[craggy crest]

so any ideas? 😄

[waxen kayak]

position and cellpositions seems OK

[rigid island]

On what ?
havent done custom cams too much, i just use cinemachine

[waxen kayak]

Get sprite still works for some reason

[craggy crest]

freezing my z position in the 2d view 😄

[rigid island]

I just know cinemachine

and with that is very simple.

[leaden ice]

why are you doing FloorToInt on HitPosition.position?

You should do WorldToCell directly on HitPosition.position without any transformations

[waxen kayak]

Yeah that might have been the problem

but I don't see why that would be

[leaden ice]

Flooring the position moves it out of the cell probably

[heady iris]

maybe it put you under the floor

Flooring is always wrong here, because tiles aren't necessarily aligned to a 1x1 grid

[waxen kayak]

yeah but the water is a LOT of water, so even if it would get moved out it would still be in a water tile

[heady iris]

i'm thinking about the third dimension

[waxen kayak]

hmmm

[sharp lotus]

hey gang im having issues applying a knockback to rigidbodies where if i shoot a corner it gets knocked back and properly twists in a realistic way, as it stands it seems its applying the force to the center of the game object regardless of where i shoot

this is how im applying the force
hitRigidbody.AddForce(mainCamera.transform.forward * bulletKnockback, ForceMode.Impulse);

[waxen kayak]

AddForceAtPosition

with the direction being the same as you do now

the position the hit position

[sharp lotus]

testing

[waxen kayak]

literally just joined to ask a question

[heady iris]

If you want it to spin, you need to use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForceAtPosition.html

This will allow you to apply a force to an object somewhere other than its center of mass

[waxen kayak]

Inferior formal answer

[heady iris]

oh, I completely glossed over your answer lol

🧠 ⚡

zap

[sharp lotus]

oof this may be more complicated than expected. cause im saving all the hit objects into an array on shoot and processing them after the shooting/damage/bullet decals happens

[heady iris]

well, you just need to remember the hit point

[waxen kayak]

you can save a raycastHit[]

[sharp lotus]

ye, probably save it along with the object

[waxen kayak]

can't you?

[heady iris]

If you currently store a single Vector3 for the force or something, just replace it with a struct that holds all of the data you need

[heady iris]

I think that's safe?

[waxen kayak]

is that question?

[heady iris]

I know you can get punked if you try to re-use Collision objects, because that's a class, not a struct

unity will reuse the same object for every collision message

[waxen kayak]

well it's worth a try, @sharp lotus , do it for science

[rigid island]

rb.AddForceAtPosition(forcedir * amount, raycasthit.point et.c.

[sharp lotus]

[waxen kayak]

my god

[waxen kayak]

this is the third answer

[rigid island]

oh wops m bad I just saw it now

my internet delays sometimes

mcdonald quality wifi

[sharp lotus]

oh im dumb lmao.. im saving the list of hit objects like so
hitObjects.Add(hit.transform.gameObject);
only need to remove everything after "hit" LOL

[heady iris]

right, that would store the entire RaycastHit

[sharp lotus]

its still acting the same

should i mess with these

[waxen kayak]

show us the code

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[sharp lotus]

https://gdl.space/ucusunoteh.cs

[waxen kayak]

Did you reload the scripts?

oh

you doN't need to use hit.transform.position

[heady iris]

oh yeah

[waxen kayak]

I think that's the transform of the hit object

you need to use point

[heady iris]

that's probably center of mass

[sharp lotus]

oh true

[waxen kayak]

I mean hit.point

[heady iris]

indeed

(or, at least, something vaguely close to center of mass, and something that doesn't depend on the point you hit)

[sharp lotus]

lets goooooooo

thanks gang

[waxen kayak]

👍

[soft ruin]

hey so my the first line is correctly instantiating the game object but it is not setting the refrence

GameManager.Instance.activePlayer = Instantiate(playerPrefab, transform.position, playerPrefab.transform.rotation);
GameManager.GameEvents.onPlayerSpawned.Invoke(GameManager.Instance.activePlayer.transform);

the error is
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

anyone go any ideas why this is not working

[waxen kayak]

this is way too little context

[soft ruin]

how much more do you need

[waxen kayak]

For example: where is the error

which line

[soft ruin]

the error is caused on the first line

mb

[waxen kayak]

Then playerPrefab is missing, or gamemanager is

[soft ruin]

playerPrefab is not missing

let me check game manager

game manager was

[waxen kayak]

yeah

[soft ruin]

tyty

[heady iris]

which line is the error on?

oh, scrolled back

bah

[waxen kayak]

This is so funny

[heady iris]

discord scrollback gets me again

[deft jungle]

Any ideas?

[knotty sun]

Add a player ID to your WebSocket messages then only process the messages if the ID matches the current player

[deft jungle]

It's not multiplayer game

[fair bane]

Hi. I just started learning unity 1 week ago, and I wanted to make a flappy bird game. I already have the bird movement, but I just need to spawn the pipes and make them move. Can you help me do it pls?

[waxen kayak]

there are literaly hundreds of online resources on that

[somber nacelle]

there are plenty of tutorials for flappy bird games in unity, you should go check some out

[fair bane]

Can you recommend me one?

Because I didn't understand some of them

[somber nacelle]

then you should start by learning the basics. there are beginner c# courses pinned in #💻┃code-beginner and the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good place to start learning the engine

[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/

[waxen kayak]

https://youtu.be/hKGzSYXPQwY This seems quick and seems to do the job

[knotty sun]

Sorry read the wrong question. Can you post your code again but correctly this time
!code

[tawny elk]

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[fair bane]

Thanks 👍

[deft jungle]

Here it is

[knotty sun]

Man, do you not understand 'correctly'? Use a paste site

[deft jungle]

oh, sry

here is the link

https://paste.myst.rs/pg8dby0i

And here is the problem:

I have List<Transform> TopPatrolPoints initialized in inspector. When I try to debug. log this.TopPatrolPoints[0].position.x (line 103) I get error: MissingReferenceException: The variable TopPatrolPoints of Bartek doesn't exist anymore.
You probably need to reassign the TopPatrolPoints variable of the 'Bartek' script in the inspector.

[knotty sun]

OK, this is probably caused by your Coroutine running after you have done the Destroy(this).
you need to cache a reference to the Coroutine when you start it and then Stop the Coroutine using this reference before the Destroy

[deft jungle]

It's not this, I've commented the line and I still get the error

[knotty sun]

well, the error say it's something to do with the Coroutine running after the object is Destroyed. So maybe put a StopCoroutine in an OnDestroy method

@deft jungle Why did you do this?

try
{
      matrix.GetComponent<Enemy>().abc = this.TopPatrolPoints[0]; ;
} catch(System.Exception e) {
      Debug.LogWarning(e.Message);
}

note you have one ; too many

[deft jungle]

; was accident

probably after deleting code

[knotty sun]

this is code. accidents can be fatal

but I meant the try catch block

[wanton crest]

Hi
I'm the other guy working on that game, came in to see what can be done

[rigid island]

wut

[wanton crest]

The one Darthspartan is seeking help for

[knotty sun]

so explain the try catch

[wanton crest]

I'd personally pick a more specific one, though I haven't set this one up

[craggy crest]

well i gotta setup the project completely again right?

[wanton crest]

the way I left it the script all this runs in was used for an entirely different thing, hence the Destroy(this);

[rigid island]

not really you just need learn a few things cinemachine specific

locking z sometimes is just as simple as locking the target

[deft jungle]

abc is Transform ans I check whether I can set a Transform type variable from here, this works: Debug.Log(this.TopPatrolPoints.Count);

this doesn't:
Debug.Log(this.TopPatrolPoints[0].position.x);

[shell scarab]

is this something I need to fix from code when instantiating a prefab that has a camera with a stack?

what it looks like normally:

[craggy crest]

thought so too haha

whatever, i'll try

[rigid island]

are they in the same scene?

[shell scarab]

yes

[rigid island]

what does Fix do

[shell scarab]

im not sure. Fixes it.

but the top is during play mode

after instantiating the 2nd prefab

[knotty sun]

If that is true, and you have yet to prove it, that means that TopPatrolPoints[0] is null. Which the error message kinda hints at but does not say

[shell scarab]

i'm using it for a screen space UI for a split screen game

[rigid island]

wdym by 2 prefabs

[shell scarab]

so the prefab is the player. When there are 2 players, with the screen split, it breaks.

The UI is on the player prefab and is set to Screen Space - Camera. The camera in the stack is to render it over everything, i's an overlay camera.

[knotty sun]

@deft jungle What I dont understand is why you have a try catch block and even if it fails you carry on regardless

[rigid island]

are they both spawning their cameras

[shell scarab]

ye

it's like it's getting "confused" on which camera to render to or something maybe

but im not sure how to fix that or if thats even a coding problem.

[deft jungle]

TopPatrolPoints[0] is not null I did a null check

[knotty sun]

where?

[deft jungle]

I've just done it

[rigid island]

and each camera has their own stack camera?
maybe Camera priority thing, doubt it tho

[shell scarab]

ye

maybe?

I mean it's split screen so shouldn't be right

[deft jungle]

It's not in the uploaded code

[shell scarab]

maybe I'll just add it to the stack in awake and see if it fixes

does anyone know how to access those modules from c#?

that didn't work. I wonder what "output properties" it's talking about. Maybe if I could find out I could copy the values over to the overlay camera.

it must have something to do with it being split screen

[latent latch]

    public static void DrawLines(Vector3 position)
    {
        material.SetPass(0);

        // Set transformation matrix for drawing to
        // match our transform
        Matrix4x4 transformationMatrix = Matrix4x4.TRS(position, Quaternion.identity, new Vector3(1, 1, 1));

        GL.PushMatrix();
        GL.MultMatrix(transformationMatrix);

        GL.Begin(GL.LINES);
        GL.Color(UnityEngine.Color.white);

        foreach(GridLine line in lines)
        {
            GL.Vertex(line.PointA);
            GL.Vertex(line.PointB);
        }

        GL.PopMatrix();
        GL.End();
    }

Any idea why setting a 4x4 TRS matrix here and then drawing isn't being drawn in the right place? However, if I do a translation matrix and translate each point it works, but that's just a lot of extra work I don't think needs done.

[rigid island]

probably something to do with the settings on the UI camera you picked doesn't match what it expects or something

which modules are you talking about ?

[polar marten]

do you have a link or a screenshot to your game as is?

[muted root]

Hello i need a small suggestion, in my game i need some way to get the current Real Time (like DateTime.now) but the problem with that is cheating 😬 since someone can just change the date on his pc and fake the date.
i was thinking of using Cloud Code from UGS to take one time the realTime from a unity server, would that be fine? or is there another better way of doing it?🤔

[deft jungle]

Fun fact when abc is int there are no errors

[leaden ice]

Instead of:

        GL.PushMatrix();
        GL.MultMatrix(transformationMatrix);```
I think you want:
```cs
        GL.PushMatrix();
        GL.LoadIdentity();
        GL.MultMatrix(transformationMatrix);```

[latent latch]

I was thinking that I should translate the matrix after calling GL.Vertex

the position I set here doesn't change the position of where I make these vertices or at least I'm guessing

[rigid island]

yeah just use the time off a free API

no need to do cloud code and waste your free/paid tier w unity

eg: https://timeapi.io/
this one gives you 250 million request

[muted root]

ty!

[rigid island]

can depend on so many things..

size of assets being one

also not a code question

[lethal vigil]

whoops wrong place

[river copper]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[haughty harbor]

Is it normal to have so much shaderlab files when uploading onto github?

[leaden ice]

did you write a bunch of shaderlab?

If not then no

my guess is your .gitignore was not set up properly

and you probably uploaded your Library folder

[haughty harbor]

don't think so

[haughty harbor]

It was working before

[leaden ice]

seems it's not now

¯_(ツ)_/¯

just look at your repo

see what's in it

[haughty harbor]

After making a new scene :/

[haughty harbor]

where would I put the .gitignore file?

[leaden ice]

at the project root

but you need to do this first:

just look at your repo
see what's in it

[leaden ice]

looks like it's the TextMeshPro essentials?

if so then that's fine

[haughty harbor]

yeh

[haughty harbor]

oh ok, thanks

[dire marlin]

PlayerPrefs aren't loading in my Awake() function when i load a scene, how do i fix?

[leaden ice]

what do you mean by "aren't loading"?

[dire marlin]

i want the player to teleport to somewhere when the scenes loaded

i use a simple system to check what checkpoint player is to be teleported

[rigid island]

first did you check if you can teleport to a location without Loading, to narrow down that issue first

[dire marlin]

no

[leaden ice]

ok so what debugging steps have you taken and what did you learn from it?

[dire marlin]

i've tried using different functions like Start()

[rigid island]

forget the Playerprefs for a second, are you able to teleport to new location say.. in the Start method.
like
mything.transform.position = newposition

you want to make sure that works first, then move onto saving / loading

[dire marlin]

nvm i fixed issue

[rigid island]

ok what was it?

[unreal thorn]

Does anyone know why the code in the void Setup would not be working?

[rigid island]

its not obvious? 👀

working would be you actually calling the method

[unreal thorn]

So I would have to call the setup thing?

[heady iris]

methods don't call themselves

[unreal thorn]

but Update does?

[heady iris]

There is a very specific set of methods that will be executed by Unity in various situations

[night harness]

Technicially Editor related but wasn't sure if my question was generic enough to slide in here, VS is telling me my second return is unreachable code? I'm trying to make this editor related function safe to reference in non editor scripts

    public static IEnumerable<ValueDropdownItem> GetScriptableObjects(Type type)
    {
#if (UNITY_EDITOR)
        List<ValueDropdownItem> newScriptableObjects = new List<ValueDropdownItem>();
        IEnumerable<ValueDropdownItem> scriptableObjects;

        scriptableObjects = UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:ScriptableObject")
        .Select(x => UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(x))
        .Select(x => new ValueDropdownItem(x, UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<ScriptableObject>(x)));

        foreach (ValueDropdownItem item in scriptableObjects)
        {
            if (item.Value.GetType() == type)
                newScriptableObjects.Add(item);
            else if (item.Value.GetType().BaseType != null && item.Value.GetType().BaseType == type)
                newScriptableObjects.Add(item);
        }
        return (newScriptableObjects);
#endif
        return (null);
    }

[heady iris]

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

They are all listed here, in the "Messages" section

It sounds to me like you want to use Awake or Start.

[unreal thorn]

Okay, yeah. Idk why it works for her in the tutorial video 😭

[heady iris]

Perhaps something else calls the Setup method.

it would have to be something in the same class, since it's private

[night harness]

Not to hijack your help but this might also be a good resource, usually you want to find a relevant function that happens in this and run your custom functions from inside one of these
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[heady iris]

what tutorial is this?

[heady iris]

yeah, this covers the most interesting ones

[unreal thorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXr2zNKN-fk&list=PL4PNgDjMajPN51E5WzEi7cXzJ16BCHZXl&index=12

[heady iris]

(along with a bunch of very useful timing information)

[heady iris]

I'll need a timestamp.

[heady iris]

bingo

[night harness]

Randomly jumped to 7:59 and found your issue, Missed a line 😄

[unreal thorn]

Ohhh my gods thank you so much

[unreal thorn]

I had legit just assumed it was a function like start

[frigid bone]

Hello , does anyone know how to add a material onto a meshrenderer during runtime? (Add - not change)

[leaden ice]

set the material array via .materials = or .sharedMaterials =

naturally you'll need to make an array that is one larger than the existing array and add your new material as the last element

[frigid bone]

Something like:

        foreach(SkinnedMeshRenderer rend in Highlightmeshes)
        {
            Material mat = rend.material;
            rend.materials = new Material[2];
            rend.materials[0] = mat;
            rend.materials[1] = HighlightMaterial;
        }

?

[leaden ice]

the foreach loop seems irrelevant as that would be for multiple renderers

more like - get the existing array

make an array that is one larger

put your material at the end of the new array

write the new array back

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.array.resize?view=net-7.0 is helpful

[leaden ice]

btw no this syntax will definitely not work, and in fact will just create a bunch of wasted memory for no reason

[frigid bone]

The unit is modular , so theres 6 skinmeshrenders on one creature , thats why that is there.

And no this didnt work

[leaden ice]

I told you it wouldn't work

you didn't do it properly

you need something like this:

Material[] mats = rend.materials;
Array.Resize(ref mats, mats.Length + 1);
mats[^1] = HighlightMaterial;
rend.materials = mats;```

[frigid bone]

Alright so... Get - resize - set.

Gotcha , lets see this in action

Voila , worked wonders

Thank you very much

[leaden ice]

you specifically can't do rend.materials[0] = mat; because rend.materials returns a fresh copy of the array every time you call it

so not only is it very wasteful - it doesn't do anything

[frigid bone]

Ahh gotcha. So i wasnt doing much with my first attempt

Is that the case with all get/set?

For future cases

[heady iris]

Not generally. I guess most things aren't returning arrays, though.

[leaden ice]

In C#? No - C# properties can do whatever they want including creating new objects, returningexisting objects, etc

It's the case for MANY array properties in Unity though

because they often are copying data over from the C++ side

[heady iris]

yeah

they aren't giving you direct access to the memory used by the C++ side

[frigid bone]

Ohh so they are being cautious on this particular thing ?

[heady iris]

I mean, there's no way you could do that without using unsafe code

(like, literally using an unsafe block)

[leaden ice]

Check the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-materials.html

Note that like all arrays returned by Unity, this returns a copy of materials array. If you want to change some materials in it, get the value, change an entry and set materials back.

[heady iris]

Almost everything on a unity object that looks like a field is really a property

This comes up a lot more often with stuff like this

[unreal notch]

hey, sorry for the late reply, yea
https://orikalin.itch.io/project-kobolds-tale

[heady iris]

transform.position.y += 1;

This does not work because transform.position is a property that returns a vector3

so you'd be setting the y value of the returned struct, which is useless

[frigid bone]

Yeah it says it right there in the docs , i really should read those more when i get stuck

[heady iris]

It's not intuitive, but now you know :p

[frigid bone]

Well you learn something new everyday 😛 , Thank you both

[zinc parrot]

Is there an easy way to save the values in a component I modify during play back to editor?

[rain minnow]

copy the component from the inspector, then paste it after you exit the game . . .

[zinc parrot]

but I may modify like 30 different gameobjects

[rain minnow]

then that won't work. why do you need to keep the changes to 30 GameObjects during runtime?

[zinc parrot]

because im basically modifying a non-unity material
so I am in play to see how it looks(needed), but I want it saved after I exit

[rain minnow]

oh, well i don't know what non-unity material is or means. sounds tricky . . .

[zinc parrot]

basically just treat it as a script with a bunch of publc floats inside that I wanted saved

[polar marten]

this is pretty cool thanks

[west lotus]

Cinemachine have a completely generic SaveDuringPlay attribute implementation that I dont inow why isnt part of the core engine by now https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.cinemachine/blob/main/com.unity.cinemachine/Editor/SaveDuringPlay/SaveDuringPlay.cs

[zinc parrot]

OOO thank you so much!!!

[pure scarab]

How to layer noise caves on top of an already existing mesh?

[river copper]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[tranquil canopy]

Hey, how could i give unity location permissions?

just like in Android

is that possible?

[mellow sigil]

Does your computer have a GPS receiver?

[tranquil canopy]

hmm, not really know

[mellow sigil]

That was a rhetorical question

Phones know their own location because they have GPS. Computers do not.

There are online services that guess the location by IP address but that's not very accurate

[tranquil canopy]

oh

and another question, is there any way to see console logs once the game is builded on android?

[mellow sigil]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/android-debugging-on-an-android-device.html

[tranquil canopy]

does someone know why it show me this message when i try to see logs in my android game from computer?

[dense swan]

hello, when we move file in our project folder from directory to another or rename them, unity will move them and re link the assets and the items used on the scene and stuffs. Is there a way to do that operation using code? Is it safe to just copy them manually using operating system's file manager? (like windows explorer)

[fervent furnace]

i remember you can just install logcat in unity editor without using cmd

if you need terminal, then the logcat ui also provides a button to open terminal

[stiff saddle]

Is this the right channel to ask why my autocomplete stopped working for unity stuff?

[fervent furnace]

!ide probably your code editor is updated (or something else) so it stops working

[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.

[worn night]

What ide are you using?

[stiff saddle]

VsCode, sorry for not specifying

[worn night]

Sometimes you need to restart the code extensions within unity

Edit, preferences, external tools

Regenerate project files with the right external script editor

In your case VSCode

[stiff saddle]

Hmm it was already set to vscode and so the button didnt change anything

[vivid remnant]

Is there a way to create a method similar to OnControllerColliderHit() but that only gets called when the Character Controller enters a collision?

[stiff saddle]

I also tried installing like all the unity related extentions which didn't work lol

[worn night]

You don't see any apparent changes when clicking the button, internally it setups the files, maybe trying to close and open the editor again by clicking to a script?

[stiff saddle]

But I'll try clicking these fun links

[worn night]

Entering? You mean a trigger?

[stiff saddle]

No change, no

[worn night]

:( Then I don't know, I use rider for this stuff

Or visual studio

[vivid remnant]

I mean making a method that acts similarly to OnCollisionEnter() but for a Character Controller.

[worn night]

You can do something like

OnCollisionEnter(Collider other) {
if (other.TryGetComponent<CharacterController>(out var controller))
 // Do stuff with controller
}

[stiff saddle]

Alright thanks! I guess I'll switch to vs or try the fun links from the bot ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[worn night]

If I understand correctly what you are trying to do 🤔

[worn night]

I know that a friend of mine had to change from VSCode too because someday apparently the intellisense stopped working completely

So yeah 😔

[stiff saddle]

Alright, good to know!

I'll consider it :)

[worn night]

🙌

Good luck

[vivid remnant]

Makes sense but I was wondering if we can create methods that get called the same way. For example, Update() is called once every frame but we do not have to call it anywhere in a script. Can we create methods that get called in a similar fashion?

[worn night]

As far as I know the only way to do that is via C# events or Unity Events. You cannot modify or create new functions inside the Physics simulation environment tho :(

So you have to stick with the OnColliderEnter / Stay / Exit

[vivid remnant]

I see. Oh well, it would have been great thou. :)))

Thanks, @worn night!

[worn night]

Yeah... But oh well, good luck with the project you are doing ^^

And no worries!

[odd crypt]

Setting a MaterialPropertyBlock works in editor runtime, but not in build (Win10), what could it be?

Debug.Log("<color=blue>" + _rendererMapper.Renderers.Length + " renderers</color> on " + transform.name + ", queued " + _shaderPropertiesToApply.Count + " properties");
foreach (var renderer in _rendererMapper.Renderers)
{
    renderer.GetPropertyBlock(_propertyBlock);
    foreach (var propertyToApply in _shaderPropertiesToApply)
    {
        Debug.Log("<color=orange>SetFloat </color> " + propertyToApply.PropertyIdentifier.PropertyName + " " + propertyToApply.ParameterValue);
        _propertyBlock.SetFloat(propertyToApply.PropertyIdentifier.Hash, propertyToApply.ParameterValue);
    }
    Debug.Log("<color=magenta>Applied</color> MPB to " + renderer.name + ", isEmpty: " + _propertyBlock.isEmpty + ", materials: " + renderer.sharedMaterials.Length);
    renderer.SetPropertyBlock(_propertyBlock);
}

The debugs seem to indicate everything's in order, how to debug it further?
Also made sure the PropertyIdentifier.Hash is correct, as it should be or it wouldn't work in editor either

[stiff saddle]

@worn night Update: Apparently I had to update the Visual Studio package from the package manager

Seems illogical considering I wasn't using VS, but I'm not complaining because VS was so ugly I couldn't stand it anyways

[patent kiln]

where should i go for performance/profiler issue?

[sly crag]

Hey guys, what's the best way to store images locally in mobile, with or without a database

[rain minnow]

If it deals with code, any of these channels. If it deals with other categories then use their respective channel. General unity issues are #💻┃unity-talk

[glad briar]

Hi everyone, I need your help, I have a problem when I change the scene; I currently have 2 scenes named MainMenu and Game, when I launch the scene game I don't have problem but when I start MainMenu and switch to Game a light problem appear, some warning appear with shader problem with this text: The tree TFF_Birch_Tree_01A must use the Nature/Soft Occlusion shader. Otherwise billboarding/lighting will not work correctly. but this warning appear only when I switch scene, did someone know how to resolve this problem?

[odd crypt]

I figured this out for anyone interested, I was calculating the property hash in OnValidate, since it only run in editor the hash wasn't being recalculated when running the build
Each name of shader property (for example, _MainTex or _Color) is assigned an unique integer number in Unity, that stays the same for the whole game. The numbers will not be the same between different runs of the game

[dim hinge]

logic = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("Logic").GetComponent<LogicScript>();```
the ide give me an error with ".GetComponent<LogicScript>();", why?

[potent sleet]

Can we use from clause in Unity no problem?

[quartz folio]

Please provide the actual error in #💻┃code-beginner

[quartz folio]

Sure, and you'd see, yes.

[dim hinge]

i asked alredy a question in code beginner, i dont want to write over it, sorry for the error

[potent sleet]

wanted to make sure there wasn't any gotchas secretly like async lol
thanks!

[plucky fulcrum]

Anyone know why a json save file has it's data reset sometimes when restarting my computer

[hard viper]

How does it work to have kinematic rigidbodies that don’t just go through walls? I see a lot of people using kinematic rbs for characters, and just have to wonder: how do you make it actually “collide” with shit properly?

as in, not fall through floors, get pushed by walls etc

I see that I really need a big degree of control over my character, and I keep fighting the physics system with dynamic RBs. So I think I need to bite the bullet and go towards a kinematic RB

[potent sleet]

take a look at source code how they made KCC asset.
The short answer is physics casting and rays

[hard viper]

i see. that seems like doing the physics simulation myself, right? I’m wondering how it deals with constraints. Because if I have one block going into another block, if block1 casts to stop at block2, then block2 casts to stay put, that has a different result than the reverse order. Right?

but I guess everything finds a stable configuration in the end with no overlapping colliders?

actually, I wonder if I can replace moving transforms blindly with that cast? As in, instead of transform.Translate, I instead Cast, find distance, then move by that much.

[potent sleet]

I forget the details, its been a while..
They also have moving platforms
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

[hard viper]

Thanks. I saw that before, but I’m still thinking.

I can make one dynamic rb player ride a platform (with only a little jank).

The issue is I actually have multiple dynamic RB blocks, where blocks can ride blocks, can ride blocks, and be in each other’s reference frames, which is when it breaks. Because I’m moving transforms.

I’ll need to check KCC again. ty

Maybe one more thing that might help: Is there a way to do casts that only search for compatible force receive layers? I have overrides, and I could check manually, but there are some cases where my framerate would be crippled if I have a Cast that returns a bunch of colliders from which we don’t receive force

[hard viper]

anyway, ty for replying. I've been struggling to get any help on this problem for a while. Appreciate it.

[potent sleet]

No problem!
Goodluck with your project 🙂

[inner yarrow]

Ugh, I finally figured out why my guy would stop taking damage if he wasn't moving. His rigidbody kept sleeping on the job.

[heady iris]

The shader problem is unrelated. This is just a lighting issue.

When you launch a scene directly in the editor, it'll generate some stuff automatically

this won't happen when you load a scene

You need to bake lighting in the scene. See here #💻┃unity-talk message

[glad briar]

Ok i gonna check, thx for the reply

[vivid remnant]

How can I make a Kinematic Rigidbody "push" a Character Controller?

[spring creek]

By using spatial queries like raycasts, overlaps, or something and coding it yourself

[vivid remnant]

Oh, raycasts. Sounds performance heavy.

[leaden ice]

raycasts are not performance heavy.

But if you want that kind of behavior you're better off using a Rigidbody controller

otherwise you'll have to do all the physics yourself

[vivid remnant]

I did it up until now. My character scripts are almost complete.

[vivid remnant]

I only have a few thing left to deal with, amongst which there's this issue.

I have some interactive objects on the map(doors and elevators, mainly) and I want them to be able to move the character.

[glad briar]

it work perfectly, thx you ❤️

[hearty sphinx]

is this where i ask about testing?

i didn't find a specific channel for it

i'll ask anyway, is there a way to add the assemblycsharp dll to a test so i can reference it?

[hearty sphinx]

i've been looking around and it seems testing is hard ?

at least preparing and referencing them

if you have scripts in different folders, you have to reference everything separately

and you can't reference assembly csharp

even if you create an assembly definition in the asset folder, it doesn't reference the scripts in subfolders

even if you reference your local scripts, if those scripts reference something like textmeshpro or unity.localization, you'll get a lot of errors because they're not referenced for some reason

[thick terrace]

if you want the easy option you can just throw the tests in an Editor folder without an asmdef i think? you don't need to create a test assembly

then they'll be included in the Assembly-Csharp-Editor dll and you won't need to set up any references

[hearty sphinx]

how about play mode tests?

[thick terrace]

yeah you do need a test assembly for those

[hearty sphinx]

i can create a regular nunit project and reference the assembly csharp project normally

maybe play mode needs you to create an assembly for script in different folders? i don't get it

[thick terrace]

yes if you need to reference game code i think you'd have to make an assembly definition for that and reference it

[hearty sphinx]

oh well

who tests those anyway

[hard viper]

does Start() just wait for all pending Awake calls to be resolved?

[rigid island]

don't think start waits for anything related to other scripts

afaik they all run independently

eg, 2 scripts with Update never Update at same time

[hard viper]

but if I instantiate a prefab, all of its components call Awake, then OnEnable, then Start, right?

so one component's Start won't get called while we are waiting for all the other components to get their awake? I think?

[rigid island]

i think they only follow their execution order and don't care about other components

[hard viper]

I'm not sure that makes sense, because then Start can get run to reference something that isn't initialized yet, right?

[rigid island]

isnt that what happens though most of the time you put init code in Start?

thats why Awake is better cause it happens on all scripts before they run their own start

i think depending on also if object is active first or not

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

[dusky cloak]

Hey, so, I am making a game like "Scrap Mechanic", where you can connect objects and make "circuits", but, I don't really know how to make an "overlap" effect on the objects, like it happens on the game

(in the image, orange and green circles)

How can I make an approach to that effect?

[rigid island]

could be anything tbh.
sprites + line renderer
or drawn meshes ?
or graphics lib..

since they have 3D to them I'm gonna guess meshes

it can be replicated though fairly easy

[dusky cloak]

it don't really matter, but, I want to place the circle on the middle of the object and be able to see it from any angle (it will be inside)

it would be like a gizmo

[rigid island]

a circle or cylinder ?

the image you shown has disk shape / cylinders

[dusky cloak]

can be any of them

just for showing them it's enough

sorry for don't explaining much XD

[rigid island]

ideally you want to use a material you can see above any other objects

[dusky cloak]

yeah

[rigid island]

luckily you can easily do that with Render Features

an example
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/manual/renderer-features/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html

[dusky cloak]

yeah, it's exactly what i want

[rigid island]

all you need to do is spawn that object / disk shape to where your points are

[dusky cloak]

thank you :D

[eager steppe]

is using a foreach loop in a if statement that is checked every frame a bad idea for performance and shit?
The code:

if (MusicSpeaker.time >= (Notes[CurrentTimeStampIndex].SpawnTime - timeToReachTarget) + (NoteSpawnOffset / 1000))
                    {

                        //it only checks the first one instead of progressing
                        Debug.Log("[GAME DEBUG] Game should create a note, before this event, and remove it from the list");
                        foreach (Tracks track in TrackedTracks)
                        {
                            if (track.TrackID == Notes[CurrentTimeStampIndex].Track)
                            {
                                Tracks[Notes[CurrentTimeStampIndex].Track].SpawnBeat(Notes[CurrentTimeStampIndex]);
                            }
                        }

                        CurrentTimeStampIndex++;
                    }

[glad briar]

Start() wait all Awake() and OnEnable() but only for script activate, unity go like this Awake -> OnEnable() -> other Awake ..... but if you want you can change the script order in Script Execution Order in the Project Settings if you need one awake before another one

[hard viper]

that’s good to know. I was mostly wondering about instantiation. Like, if I do;
Instantiate(PrefabWithComponent1);
doSomething with Component1;

Like, in the same line. Would Component1.Start() be done by the time I hit that second line?

[stark sinew]

If you do something like

thing.DoSomething();```
It's possible that `Start` didn't get called in between (I don't know about `Awake` but I think that one should always run)

That's something I've encountered in my current project, but I solved it easily by calling my own Initialize method before DoStuff, I'm trying to avoid relying on Awake/Start/OnEnable etc as much as possible

[hard viper]

Awake and OnEnable definitely are done

wasn’t sure about start

OnEnable is weirdly fast as fuck

I also use an Initialize method sometimes, when I need the intermediate speed

[glass berry]

Using a wrapper class to run edge-playback using windows natural voices. Does microsoft have any libraries for tts that use the natural narrator? Else I'll need to use mpv with edge-playback through wrappers which is awful

[stark sinew]

What I'm doing is something like that

[SerializeField] private bool _AutoInitialize;

private void Start()
{
  if (!_AutoInitialize) return;
  Initialize();
}

public void Initialize()
{
  ...
}

That way, the stuff that gets spawned dynamically will have it's Initialize called by some other Script, but if I want to quickly test some functionality I can drag and drop a Prefab and tick AutoInit

[glass berry]

I know microsoft has speechSynthesis but that is the default narrator

I need to know if there's a win11 library for the natural narrator

[hard viper]

maybe I should use an IInitialize() interface. All my entities have a spawnedEntityHandler, which I could use to just GetComponents<IInitializable>(), then initialize them all. That might work for me.

[hard viper]

I don’t actually know about TTS, but bump so this doesn’t get burried by our convo.

[glass berry]

no problem

[stark sinew]

That would be a possibility, or you could put an Initialize method into the Entities base class to avoid having a GetComponent call

[pale ore]

If someone could please take a look at this i'm desperate : https://forum.unity.com/threads/generated-input-action-class-randomly-stopped-sending-callbacks.1506035/#post-9408860

[hollow sluice]

Is it possible to disable eventsystem to disable UI buttons and then enable eventsystem?

[soft shard]

Why not use the .interactable property of the button to disable it instead?

[hollow sluice]

Okay, to be honest, I'm modding the game and I have a problem: when the UI is turned on, my custom UI works, and when the game's UI is turned off, it doesn't work, do you know why?

its something with InputSystem/EventSystem

[leaden ice]

If you disabled the event system, UI isn't going to work

[heady iris]

Awake and OnEnable both instantly execute

assuming the game object you're instantiating is active, and that the component is active and enabled, respectively

[hollow sluice]

the problem is that the game somehow disabling the UI interaction when its not used

[hollow sluice]

and uh

that making a big problem

[heady iris]

Start will not run until the next frame.

[rigid island]

for (int i = 0; i < fishes.Length; i++)
        {
            var randTarget = positions[Random.Range(0, positions.Count)];
            var routine = StartCoroutine(MoveFish(fishes[i], randTarget));
            fishesInCoroutine.Add(fishes[i], routine); // dictionary <Fish, Coroutine>```

Is this the right way to do this with coroutines ?  It's not working for some reason not stopping

 public void StopMovingFish(Fish fish)
    {
        Debug.Log(fish.name);
        Debug.Log(fishesInCoroutine[fish]);
        StopCoroutine(fishesInCoroutine[fish]);
    }```

[heady iris]

what if you start moving twice?

[leaden ice]

yout StartCoroutine/StopCoroutine syntax is correct. But are you sure you're calling it on the right coroutine? Are you sure it's the right Fish?

[heady iris]

you'll get an exception on the second attempt to call Add in that case

[rigid island]

I'm not sure, how would I check ? 😭

[rigid island]

wdym ?

[leaden ice]

maybe print the instance ID?

[heady iris]

what if you run the code up top twice before you call StopMovingFish?

actually

[rigid island]

the code ontop is in Start currently

[heady iris]

your code would start throwing errors after one round of moving fish -> stop moving fish

ah, okay

you should make sure you're stopping different fish each time, then

[rigid island]

just tested..its not even stopping any other coroutine on any fish sadly, idk how to check if coroutine is the right ones :\
I normally just make all the fishes control their own movement but tried to make something else do it now all hell broke lose with managing coroutines lol

[heady iris]

I don't see any reason for it to fail when just looking at that code

so I'd need to see more context

[rigid island]

thats whats making me 😵‍💫

[rigid island]

anythihng lol

stoopid fishi dont stop

[heady iris]

the fish appear to be moving many times

not just once

so are you starting a new coroutine after reaching the target?

if so, your original coroutine is now irrelevant

[rigid island]

wait..

possible..

[leaden ice]

well what does MoveFish do

[heady iris]

hence why i wanted to see code

[rigid island]

Ahh shit I think its this
private void FishDestReached(Fish fish)
{
StartMovingFish(fish);
}

[leaden ice]

why not just put a loop inside the coroutine

[heady iris]

which is a separate mechanism entirely from how you do it in Start

[rigid island]

here is my whole func

IEnumerator MoveFish(Fish fish, Vector3 target)
    {
        while (Vector3.Distance(fish.transform.position, target) > 0.1f)
        {
            float T = 2 * Time.deltaTime;
            fish.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(fish.transform.position, target, T);

            var dir = (target - fish.transform.position).normalized;
            if (dir != Vector3.zero)
            {
                Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(dir);
                fish.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(fish.transform.rotation, targetRotation, 2 * Time.deltaTime);
            }

           
            yield return null;
        }
        FishDestReached(fish);
        yield return null;
    }```

dont mind the bad lerp plz

just testing

[leaden ice]

instead of restarting the coroutine at the end, put another loop in

so it continues forever

[heady iris]

yes

or, at least, make sure that FishDestReached updates the coroutine dictionary

I'd just make Start call StartMovingFish and then make StartMovingFish correctly track the coroutine

[rigid island]

oh so like 2 while loops?

[leaden ice]

while (true) {
  while (fish is not at its target) {
    MoveTowardsTarget();
  }

  PickANewTarget();
}

[rigid island]

ahh thats clean

[heady iris]

or if you want to be funny: yield return MoveFish(fish, PickTarget());

you can yield another IEnumerator

[rigid island]

this returns same one ?

[heady iris]

if you yield an IEnumerator, unity will call MoveNext on it every frame (or based on what you yield return from it) until it's exhausted, then resume calling MoveNext on you

I don't think it'd be very intuitive here, though.

It's a neat way to "compose" several iterators

[rigid island]

I think i accidentally done that pattern before in the past

[heady iris]

you can also yield return literally whatever you want and unity won't complain

yield return "hi"

[rigid island]

slowly got less afraid of while loops after doing console rpg :p

while loops everywhere

[heady iris]

I heavily used enumerators to create abilities in an RTS

I haven't nested them too much though

[rigid island]

I only used IEnumerator in unity 😭

just found out about IAsyncEnumerable a few days ago

[heady iris]

IEnumerator<T> is the generic flavor of that

so an ability might be a method returning IEnumerator<AbilityStatus>

it could indicate that it's busy or that it failed

[rigid island]

oh that actually makes lot of sense , should've picked them up earlier

[heady iris]

IEnumerator just yields object

[rigid island]

which part of it did unity change just the yeild types?

[heady iris]

well, you can yield anything you want from an IEnumerator

Unity uses non-generic enumerators in several places

I don't think you could even create a type that meaningfully covers all of the things you can yield for a coroutine

C# does not have union types (booooooooo)

[heady iris]

Transform produces an IEnumerator instead of an IEnumerator<Transform>, which is annoying.

[rigid island]

is that why you can do foreach on it ?

[hollow sluice]

I found out how to fix it, just use AssignDefaultActions and it works, probably the stupidest way but it works

[heady iris]

yeah -- you have to explicitly state the type you want, or else you just get object

foreach (var thing in transform)

thing will be object

[simple egret]

foreach just checks whether what you pass to it has a GetEnumerator() method

[heady iris]

yeah

I don't think it even cares about implementing the interface

It's just a little ✨ language magic ✨

[rigid island]

haha remember this mistake once

[somber nacelle]

i make that mistake like every single time i iterate over a transform lmao. every time i'm like "why isn't this working. . . oh right, i have to specify Transform"

[rigid island]

habit for me almost always writing var

[heady iris]

i usually just forget that i can do that and do a for loop

dodged!

then I write this and my game crashes

[rigid island]

lol

[heady iris]

while (transform.childCount > 0)
  Destroy(transform.GetChild(0));

boing

[inner yarrow]

Does anyone know what this error is referring to? It doesn't seem to be doing anything, but it just started showing up and I can't figure out what's causing it. It pops up now every time that I save a script.

[somber nacelle]

it's just an editor error likely due to something happening in a window that uses the graph editor like the shader graph or animator. you can ignore it as it won't affect the game

[heady iris]

I'd just give the editor a restart.

[inner yarrow]

ok sounds good

[dapper rose]

Hey has anyone found a good solution for intellisense of some kind for writing shaders in visual studio?

or is there a way to use both VScode and VS with unity? (so I can open shader files in VScode and cs files in VS)

[rigid island]

afaik there is no way to change default editor for shader files only , in unity.

I also open my shader code in VSCode, for some reason VS corrupts them for me

there might be an extension for some type of syntax helper

[dapper rose]

yeah i only found extensions for older VS versions

i like 2022

how do u open in VScode?

from editor or from explrer?

[rigid island]

i rightclick the shader and Show in explorer then open from there

the only workaround i know 😭

[dapper rose]

thank you lol. do u have any extensions to help with intellisense in VScode?

[rigid island]

I dont have specific ones, you can try looking here
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=HLSL&target=VSCode&category=Programming Languages&sortBy=Relevance

I dont write the code sorry lol that stuff I paste from the net

I usually have shadergraph for my own stuff

[dapper rose]

also does unity still recompile automatically on save If I edit in VScode?

[dapper rose]

okay thank you haha

[rigid island]

iirc it does

[latent latch]

honestly it doesnt help that much

a lot of hlsl stuff has a bunch of unity functions and macros

https://xibanya.github.io/URPShaderViewer/

[rigid island]

oh there ya go

thats why i use shadergraph xD