archived-code-general

[night harness]

unless im being silly

you probably don't want spread to be in actual units ig but the point still applies

[latent latch]

I stink at this stuff unless I'm working on* it, but you have the direction from your camera, so you just need to multiply it by a rotation of the spreadvalue, right

[patent hound]

i just would like to make sure the ray comes out at the exact same angle as the bullets otherwise it will really frustrate the player

[cosmic rain]

Why not just use playerCamera.forward+ someDisplacementVector?

Actually nvm.

You should rotate the camera forward by some random rotation

[patent hound]

it... apears to be working

this statement, that is Vector3 direction = (Quaternion.Euler(playerCamera.eulerAngles + spreadValue) * Vector3.forward).normalized;

[cosmic rain]

It would work. It's just not as intuitive for me as what I suggested.

[patent hound]

i like it because it means if i decide to change the algorithm for the spawn rotation of the projectile objects i can change it in the same way on the raycast

[copper rose]

ok i got a nice dropdown working fine, but i have a question, if in unity I have a dropdown with 50 options, can I click on one, it detects the letters I type and go to the option that contains those letters using the play mode? like in the unity editor? because in play mode doing scroll in a really big list its hard >.<

[latent latch]

Anything is possible if you want to script it in

[fervent furnace]

two different programming languages

grammar

[latent latch]

They're both OOP languages, so there are a lot of similarities. But, other than syntax, you'll have a different range of methods provided by the languages.

[thick terrace]

they used to be more similar but developed in pretty different directions over the years, they each have some features the other doesn't

[night harness]

this is more or less what I want to be doing if I want a function with an optional out, right?

    public bool TryGetTile(PuzzleManager.Direction direction, int distance, out Tile returnTile, Vector3Int offset = default)
    {
        if (puzzleManager != null && puzzleManager.TryGetTile(tilePosition + offset, direction, distance, out Tile outTile) == true)
            returnTile = outTile;
        else
            returnTile = null;

        return (returnTile);
    }

    public bool TryGetTile(PuzzleManager.Direction direction, int distance, Vector3Int offset = default)
    {
        return (TryGetTile(direction, distance, out Tile _));
    }

or is it better practice to have a different specified function

[latent latch]

haha kinda looking like my voxel tool

[night harness]

😛 I'd imagine i'm walking on a very treaded on path. been fun so far

[cosmic rain]

A lot of things. They are similar sure, but it's like asking what's the difference between Spanish and Portuguese.

[fervent furnace]

i will just return the object since there is a unique value that indicates "failure"

the null

[latent latch]

Yeah, if you want to return a bool and a value, that's a good use of out instead of checking for nulls

[night harness]

bet. just wanted to vibe check it 👍

more or less same thing as trygetcomponent

[fervent furnace]

if((something=GetComponent<Something>())!=null){
  work.
}
```c-way

btw if there is no unique value indicates failure then i will use try pattern

eg a method that returns all possible int value

[thin aurora]

This hurts my soul

[west lotus]

I'm having a brain fart moment. So I'm making this Objective system. Each objective is comprised of a list of tasks that need to be completed in order. The tasks themselves dont have progress like kill 10 boars they are just player did action A for example. Both tasks and objectives are Scriptable objects. Now I have everything working with a event system. Meaning I can invoke a TaskCompletedEvent that holds a Task inside it and the Objective manager checks if that is the currently expected task to do and does its job. But how do I invoke the even based on user action in a nice way? For example I know that when he clicks on a specific object that would count task A as being completed. I dont want to reference the task SO's all over the place. Perhaps my design is bad.

[thin aurora]

Sounds like you should have a general Task manager. Perhaps each task should be bound under a specific key, such as "Task_Fetch_Bread" which can then be looked for in this manager?

Or an id, but then you would need to know the id so a static identification might be better

[west lotus]

ah yes I can have a Dict of all Tasks on a manager

[copper rose]

Is possible to check if user click on the drop-down and then pass to a method what drop-down is, in update method then check what keys are pressed and then search inside options of this drop-down if any option name starts with this sequence ?

[latent latch]

Sounds doable

You're not just limited to what's shown on the inspector. You can use the values such as the length of the scroll, and the current position through scripts to use.

[royal temple]

Sorry I failed to reply since I saw no notification.

I have items in an Overlay Inventory and want to be able to inspect them in 3D. I need some UI elements like background to display behind the 3D Objects that is being manipulated/rotated around.

Therefore, I need my UI to become Screen Space - Camera. Thing is, I'm now trying out simply having another Canvas for this specifically without changing the entire UI.

Do you have a recommendation for how you'd approach the issue? Thanks a lot!

[copper rose]

By passing the string the user type ? I don’t understand

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Dropdown.html
Take a look through all the methods

also the interfaces it implements:
https://i.imgur.com/bB0SRzX.png

Make a script and throw it on the same GO as the dropdown component

[patent hound]

so i'm seeing huge reliability issues now that i've switched my game to raycast detection instead of collision based detection, it seems like it randomly misses moving targets with more than a 50% rate, even when they're moving directly towards the player.

for reference the target that i see the failures on is a set of colliders and rigidbodies made with the ragdol creator controlled by a navmeshagent and animator

[scarlet viper]

is gameobject.getcomponent faster than transform.getcomponent ?

[copper rose]

thanks! i will check it

[cosmic rain]

None of the two. GetComponent() directly would be faster.

Though, the compiler would probably online it anyway.🤔

[fervent furnace]

i think the getcomponent finally calls go.getXXX?

[quartz folio]

The compiler can't inline access through a component or gameobject

Both Component and GameObject GetComponent<T> have their own "GetComponentFastPath"

so don't think about it

[night harness]

I've got this pretty basic charactercontroller based movement function but when it's actively being used and i rotate my planet my sheep get tossed around. online theres a lot of suggestions to deal with charactercontroller jitter and other related stuff but any suggestions on how to account for this missing movement?

[patent hound]

is the camera moving or is the entire world?

[night harness]

world

[jolly stratus]

Guys I broke my project using github, so I did what I was doing since the time I made this project to do version control using github desktop. And today after I pushed the commits, I got error in unity "merge marker conflict" and I tried to remove the markers from script but my whole scene is now gone and have the same error idk what to do, I tried pulling the stable version just before this but now my game have errors which weren't there before, everything got messed up please if anyone can help I would really appreciate

[royal temple]

I could, but we're gonna have to do this in private message because we might flood this chat

Send me a PM if you want my help

@jolly stratus Probably better if I tag you

[patent hound]

here is a great screengrab of the raycast failure, the debug rays are not drawn all the way out, the actual rays are 100 units long, but it goes straight through the colliders of the enemy into the ground 198/200 times during this test

[jolly stratus]

@royal temple alrighty

[patent hound]

i even changed the code for the raycast to execute at the next FixedUpdate instead of immediately to garauntee that the object locations are all accurate when the raycast happens, no dice, even with the enemy standing still doing idle animation it's incredibly inconsistent

[steep herald]

I have a SO. Each instance of the SO should hold a reference to a different class for runtime instantiation. E.g. SO is "WeaponInfo", the instance could be for a blaster, and should contain a reference, serializable in the editor, to the BlasterRuntime class.

Is there a better way than serializing a string and wrapping the cast to type?

[patent hound]

however the moment the navmeshcontroller and animator are disabled all the raycasts go from a 15-30% success rate to a 100% success rate, so it has to be something to do with the animator or the navmeshcontroller

[leaden ice]

Show code?
Also you can use Physics.SyncTransforms() rather than waiting for FixedUpdate

[patent hound]

I'm at the point of tinfoil hat wearing so i thought i might as well try fixedupdate, nothing seems to work and the debug.drawray are clearly going directly through the colliders. But when the enemy is "alive"(animator and scripts are enabled) it goes from a 100% success rate to 30% at best despite projecting the ray from a consistent location

[leaden ice]

Which collider (s) in particular are you expecting to hit?

[west lotus]

I think we had a similar problem and fixed it by changind the update mode on the animator to fixed

[patent hound]

the colliders shown in the photo is what i'm expecting to hit, capsule and box colliders that are attached to bones of the enemy with rigidbodies attached, the large capsule collider is layermasked out and is not causing the issue

[patent hound]

i don't know what you mean by update mode to fixed, but i found that the animator has a mode called "animate physics" and turning that on seems to have fixed the issue at least mostly

always something simple

[west lotus]

Its probably from the dif versions our proj is on 2023

[dim crypt]

Anyone know if there's an easy way to sign in through existing microsoft account details in unity?

In other words you just enter your email and password and it checks if the details match an account

[pale ore]

Do you guys know if monobehaviors are executed in parallel ? Like is it better to have a list of class instances where on every update you call the "update" method individually on every instance in the list, or is it better to instantiate objects with these classes and make them inherit from monobehavior so they can call it in their own update function?

[graceful latch]

if you dont use monobehaviour some things wont work

unless you have a reason not to, use the built in update

[pale ore]

but is it more ressource intensive to have update loops running on instantiated monobehaviors rather then just remotely calling an update function in a class?

i dont need to have the transforms and all i just need a function that gets updated every frame

[graceful latch]

the entire point of classes is they are self contained for the most part

use built in updates

[thick terrace]

if you have thousands of things to update and don't need them to be monobehaviours for any other reason,it can save memory/instantiation costs to make your own non-monobehavior class and update them manually (in theory this kind of problem is what ECS systems are for)

[graceful latch]

but that defeats the purpose of object oriented programming

for most cases you should just use Update()

[thick terrace]

well yeah, OOP isn't the only way to write code, ECS is data oriented

[graceful latch]

i know but if your gonna code a whole update system why not just use direct x and make your own engine?

[pale ore]

Ok so basically this is my structure, PlayerShooting can either instantiate a GameObject with a ShellHandler monobehavior on it, and each shell will then run their update loop while they are allive OR PlayerShooting can make a new instance of a class and add it to a list and then on update iterate over every "ShellHandler" and call ShellHandler.Update

[graceful latch]

just use monobehaviour for something liike that

but could you not just call on collision enter when it hits?

and fixed update to move the bullet

[thick terrace]

that's a pretty bizarre leap, unity themselves added an ECS system because monobehaviours are inefficient in a lot of cases

[graceful latch]

eitherway for his use case monobehaviour is fine is it not?

[pale ore]

No because a "Shell" in my game is made of "Projectiles" that need to be monobehaviors because they need those collision, and Transform components, but they are also made of Modfiers that don't need monobehaviors, they just have an effect on the instantiated projectiles while they are alive, meaning ShellHandler is only used to keep track of the projectiles and execute the instructions on every part of that shell in order

[graceful latch]

im confused what exactly does the shell handler do?

[pale ore]

For example "Part" can have an "Init" method that is called when a shot is fired, and for projectile.init it may be instantiating a bullet, but for modifier.init it might be applying a speed modifier to the projectile it is linked to, one shell handler has multiple projectiles and modifiers attached, and it needs to call the update function on the projectiles and Modifiers

every shot has a shell handler associated with it

[trim schooner]

This sounds like you should be using ScriptableObjects for the modifiers

[latent latch]

So basically like a coroutine manager for a single shot

[pale ore]

i'm already doing that

projectile and modifier are inheriting from part which is a scriptable object

only shell handler and player shooting are monobehaviors

[latent latch]

I have like a static update manager for projectiles like this because stuff like multiple projectiles need some extra logic to fan out, or to be dispersed through some time interval

[pale ore]

hmmmmm yeah kind of

is making coroutines for each shot expensive ,

?

[latent latch]

Eh, some overhead I would presume, though I don't see anything wrong if it's all contained in a single update loop if you can manage that.

[pale ore]

well it would just look like: for every ShellHandler in InstantiatedShells : ShellHandler.Update();

[latent latch]

even then, probably not that big of a problem for multiple different GOs to run the update

[copper rose]

Take care using this system

[hard viper]

what are the physics implications of making a class that derives from Collider2D?

[pale ore]

why are you saying that ?

[latent latch]

physics and colliders aren't inclusive to each other

[hard viper]

I want to make DuplexCollider2D : Collider2D. It takes in one Collider2D; makes a duplicate Collider2D on the same gameobject, and sets some settings to be different between them so they can be decoupled

but idk if having a DuplexCollider2D component would confuse the physics system into asking it for contacts etc

[latent latch]

Do you need to derive from it though

[hard viper]

I am not exactly sure

most of my code acts on collider2D, and takes collider2D to work on things.

It kind of functions as a composite collider, in a way

[latent latch]

Perhaps some script that just takes in all colliders from the GO and work with that

[hard viper]

GO?

[latent latch]

gameobject

[hard viper]

I’ll see if I can do something like that

another question on implementation

some of the colliders to duplicate are compositecollider2D, tied to a tilemapCollider2D, and I fear that shit will get expensive

a saving grace is that those specific tilemap colliders are completely connected. No little islands.

Do you think I could take in a compositecollider2D, and make a polygonCollider2D out of it?

one that matches it perfectly?

[latent latch]

Haven't looked into polygon colliders, but the issue of trying to bake these colliders into more performative types is something I'm actually researching right now

developing something similar to the tilemap and one thing I'm trying to tackle is removing the colliders per tile and instead baking it all together if possible

rather, the 2D tilemap is probably one large collider and uses world point relative to the map pivot to get the index, but dealing with 3D makes that a little more complicated

[hard viper]

CompositeCollider2D normally bakes a tilemap collider into a small set of polygons

[latent latch]

Ah, makes sense. I should probably play around with it to get an idea how unity optimizes it all out of the editor.

[lofty egret]

We've tried asking there, myst1ck is my friend...

Okay, so this editor script, called ModelGeneratorEditor, is supposed to control ModelGenerator component:
The functions that update the values of the ModelGenerator are in the OnInspectorGUI. This function as it suggests, is called when values are changed in the inspector....

public override void OnInspectorGUI()
    {
        serializedObject.Update();

        DrawDefaultInspector();

        ChangeGenerationWay();
        EditorGUILayout.LabelField("");
        CreateRoomSettings();
        CheckModel();

        if (GUI.changed)
        {
            EditorPrefs.SetInt("RoomTypeFlags", roomTypesFlags);
            EditorPrefs.SetInt("SquareRoomsFlags", squareRoomsFlags);
            EditorPrefs.SetInt("RandomRoomsFlags", randomRoomsFlags);
            EditorPrefs.SetInt("RotationWay", rotationWay);
        }

        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }

In CreateRoomSettings for example, I am updating properties of ModelGenerator.

I should obtain the ModelGenerator reference in OnEnable:

void OnEnable()
    private ModelGenerator modelGenerator;
    {
        ...
        modelGenerator = (ModelGenerator)target;
        ...
    }

but what im suspecting is that this "target" is not the same one in the editor, but rather the one that's loaded dynamically with the scene...

I've also tried calling OnInspectorGUI in OnEnabled.

But it seems that the Editor functions don't work, such as DrawDefaultInspector, since again the scene in which this editor script is "Enabled" (since it's target script is enabled), is loaded dynamically

[rigid island]

woudln't you Want OnValidate instead of OnInspectorGUI?

this just says

Implement this function to make a custom inspector.
Inside this function you can add your own custom IMGUI based GUI for the inspector of a specific object class.
Note: This function has to be overridden in order to work.

[little island]

I am stuck and I don't have my project saved...

Is there any way I can save my project before going to task manager to terminate unity?

I don't want to lose my progress

Or maybe cancel Reloading domain

[amber quest]

hello can anyone help me with unity iam trying to make multiplayer game using photon
and i have a problem in lobby part of the game, the rooms

[rigid island]

#archived-networking has pins to photon server

[rigid island]

you can turn off domain reloading but you can't cancel

and if its been long enough you probably are stuck

[little island]

Yeah I just terminated unity in task manager and did all the lost progress again

;.-

[amber quest]

okk le me see

[rigid island]

do you have an inifite loop in your code maybe? if it happened when you pressed play

[lean sail]

Your temp scene will exist if you ran it once. Dont reopen unity before looking for it in your folders

And your code is saved regardless so you dont lose everything for sure

[little island]

Nah it just happened when maybe alt tabbing quite fast two times between my IDEA and unity while changing a very small thing. At least I think I dont remember rn

[little island]

Oh that will save me so much time in the future 🙏 thx

[orchid bane]

do colliders check for scale changes every frame or are they listening to some kind of event?

[regal epoch]

I'm having trouble assigning a TMPro Text to a prefab. Is there something I'm missing? It's a very basic text I want to replace, but the script is on a prefab which get spawned in later

[rigid island]

you cant reference scene objects from prefab unless said prefab is placed in that scene already

[regal epoch]

So I'd have to use something like GetComponent<> to be able to reference it?

[hybrid turtle]

Hey does anyone know how ot slow an animation relative to another animation with playableDirector

I have an animation that spins an object and one that opens and closes it

I want to slow down the spin animation

[rigid island]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[safe dock]

im tryna make a player shop

[terse garnet]

Guys, I have a WEBGL application and my users are having trouble making a request in the game and are receiving this message "Unknown Error - COD 500" and this problem is only happening with some users, in all our mobile test devices we do not have this problem, can anyone help?

[hard viper]

GetComponent is wonderful, and you should use it a lot, primarily in setup (like Awake/Start/Enable/etc).

It isn’t quite as amazing if you try to spam it like in a collision callback, where you make thousands of calls per frame. But for setup, it’s really useful.

[knotty sun]

The first thing to do is check your server logs

[terse garnet]

it's not giving an error on the server :/

[knotty sun]

then you need to find out which URL is generating the error

[knotty sun]

you've given very little information

[terse garnet]

I know which url is the problem, when it is executed directly in the user's browser it works, but when it is called from within the unity it is giving this error

and it's not all handsets as we didn't have this problem with the test ones

[knotty sun]

if it is a HTTP 500 error, which I dont even know yet, there will be a log of it on your server if it was your URL that generated it

more likely to be browser specific rather than handset specific

[frank totem]

Has anyone here done OAuth 2.0 in Unity with Azure? I have a .NET Core backend. How do I retrieve the token from the redirect URI to microsoft?

[waxen burrow]

how would I go about checking if a animator has a specific blendtree with scripting?

[rigid island]

whats the usecase exactly ?

[waxen burrow]

I’m creating a blend tree from script to add weapon animations to my player that can be toggled from a randomized int… I can do all of that, but I need to check if the tree already exists to prevent it from making more than one.

This is for a weapon system where the animations are stored on the weapons themselfs to try and move away from having hundreds of animator transitions and allow for easy scaling with weapon additions. The idea is that each weapon can “instantiate” their own blend trees when equipped with their different anim sets which can be handled by methods within the weapon classes themselves

[rigid island]

ohh this is beyond my skillset, I don't know much about animator lol didn't even know you can make blend tree from script 😛

soz

[simple egret]

Animator overrides can do this

It's basically C# class inheritance, but for animators

Make one "base animator" with your blend tree, and many overrides where you change the animation clips

[waxen burrow]

Gotcha, would you be able to shoot me a link to the scripting api?

[simple egret]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimatorOverrideController.html
No scripting, all Inspector. The script is the usual one that tweaks the animator parameters

Well you can inject the animator override into the Animator Controller component to dynamically change the animations, even at runtime

[waxen burrow]

I’ll give it a look, thank you!

[teal silo]

What would be the best way to interact with a UI slider using a custom cursor? I have an implementation that accesses the OnDragBegin and OnDrag functions from the slider but it just sets the scrollbar to the maximum value and it cant be dragged back.

[hard viper]

Forgive me, for I have sinned:

[fervent topaz]

how to pass a refernece?

I'm programming and passing a material to the other gameObject and then deleting the original game object

but this is causing a crash because its trying to reference the original gameObject when setting the material

I'm trying to shoot something to make it a color then change it back after like 3 secons

[hard viper]

aren’t materials reference types already? you should be able to assign it just fine?

the default behaviour should be giving a reference to the same thing

[fervent topaz]

crashes

has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it.
Your script should either check if it is null or you should not destroy the object.

[hard viper]

did you instance your material during runtime?

[fervent topaz]

the material is just in a folder

[hard viper]

that is bizarre

[fervent topaz]

private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{

        if (oMat != mat)
        {
            oMat = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
            collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = mat;
            collision.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorChange>();
            collision.gameObject.GetComponent<ColorChange>().StartCoroutine(RemoveColor(oMat));
        }
}
IEnumerator RemoveColor(Material originalMat)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
   gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = originalMat;
}

}

[heady iris]

a crash?

you mean an exception?

[fervent topaz]

yeah

not sure what I'm doing wrong

Is there anything wrong with my code logic wise

[heady iris]

Give us the line the error is on.

I can't tell much from this.

[fervent topaz]

gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = originalMat;

thats where it crashes

[heady iris]

again, throws an exception. a crash would kill your entire game

[fervent topaz]

yeah

throws exception

[heady iris]

and what is the full exception?

screenshot the console

[fervent topaz]

it wants to access ColourChange

which is the script's name

[heady iris]

please screenshot the console.

[fervent topaz]

Nothing else besies that

[spring creek]

I find it interesting to see that the error references ColourChange, but your script tries to add ColorChange

[fervent topaz]

let me fix that

still giving the same error

okay weird

even when I change it to material = null it still throws an error

[spring creek]

Are you sure that is the line causing the error? It's talking about ColourChange, and that line doesn't have anything to do with ColourChange

[fervent topaz]

the console tells me its that line

the console could be wrong though

but it stops crashing when I remove the line

Debug.Log(GetComponent<Renderer>().material.name);

this crashes it too

it really doesn't want me to access the material at all.

[spring creek]

Not crashing, right? Just throwing an error? Or is the whole program closing down?

[fervent topaz]

yeah

just throws error

sorry for my wording

[spring creek]

You should share the whole script using a paste site
!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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

[fervent topaz]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class ColorChange: MonoBehaviour
{
    public Material mat;
    private Material oMat;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

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

    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
            if (oMat != mat)
            {
                oMat = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
                collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = mat;
                collision.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorChange>();
                collision.gameObject.GetComponent<ColorChange>().StartCoroutine(RemoveColor(oMat));
            }
    }
    IEnumerator RemoveColor(Material originalMat)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(3f);
         Debug.Log(GetComponent<Renderer>().material.name); 
    }
}```

It changes the color but if I do GetComponent<Renderer>().material it throws an error.

[leaden ice]

there's a difference between GetComponent<Renderer>() and collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>()

think about it

[fervent topaz]

but the removecolor is being run on the object with the color changed

[leaden ice]

you're getting the renderer for two different objects entirely

[fervent topaz]

isnt that good?

[leaden ice]

doesn't matter at all which object you call StartCoroutine from

you called RemoveColor here

RemoveColor can only do one thing

get your OWN renderer

and print its name

[fervent topaz]

how do I do it then?

make it a function

?

[leaden ice]

The cleanest fix would be put that coroutine on the ColorChange script

and do this

[fervent topaz]

it is on the colorchange script

[leaden ice]

public void RemoveColor() {
  StartCoroutine(DoRemoveColor());
}

private IEnumerator DoRemoveColor() {
  // the existing code
}

then from here you do :
collision.gameObject.GetComponent<ColorChange>().RemoveColor();

in fact...

                oMat = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
                collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = mat;
                collision.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorChange>();
                collision.gameObject.GetComponent<ColorChange>().StartCoroutine(RemoveColor(oMat));```

this whole damn process

should just live in a function on a script on the object you collided with

oh I see you're doing AddComponent?

You're doing a ton of useless/extraneous GetComponent calls here

                collision.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorChange>();
                collision.gameObject.GetComponent<ColorChange>().StartCoroutine(RemoveColor(oMat));```
Should be rewritten as:
```cs
 ColorChange cc = collision.gameObject.AddComponent<ColorChange>();
 cc.RemoveColor(oMat);```
(with these changes [#archived-code-general message](/guild/489222168727519232/channel/763495187787677697/))

so much simpler and more performant

[fervent topaz]

works, thank you

[patent hound]

so i've got an issue where my raycasts aren't working properly in build but are in the editor, has anyone encountered this?

[latent latch]

I may have ran into issues like that before. Have you managed to try debugging it during the build, with any method it may be?

[patent hound]

not yet, i just did a basic build after rebuilding my entire projectile system from the ground up to use raycasts because unity doesn't do proper collision checking for triggers at high speed to verify that nothing weird happened

and the raycasts seem to work maybe 5% or less of the time

[latent latch]

Can probably log it via json or something, otherwise if you want to write yourself a console ^^

but yeah you'll probably want to check if it's being blocked for some arbitrary reason I'd say

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

Ah, there's this too

Unfortunately issues like that are kinda hard to debug via logs

[hard viper]

how does friction work?

like, object1 has friction1, object2 has friction2. Is the friction between them the product of their frictions?

[patent hound]

just checked the debug.log in the log after rebuilding it as a development build and the raycasts are passing right through the target more than 80% of the time

only at build not in editor

[leaden ice]

There are different friction combine modes on the materials

[latent latch]

So my previous problem with rb/raycasting was using a webGL build, and in general there's a lot of stuff that likes to break between the dev and editor builds for that platform

[hard viper]

i got really excited, and then realized that is a 3D only feature T.T

[latent latch]

I'd suggest maybe trying to extend the ray a bit, and see if the problem is just the same regardless, otherwise could be some layering problems.

and maybe trying other methods than a raycast like a spherecast perhaps

[hard viper]

the keywords you gave me helped tho, praetor. It helped me find a thread. 2D friction is a geometric mean

[latent latch]

There is usually some optimization for physics on dev builds, so the precision being off still doesn't surprise me.

[patent hound]

the ray is 100 units long, it's called on fixedupdate to make sure physics objects are properly placed, but it's still working maybe 50% of the time in the best tests and less than 1% of the time in the worst

and i have the character positioned between 3 and 10 units from the target in the test to make sure it's not spread calculations

[latent latch]

Yeah, strange. Something to dig through the forums on. I'd try another casting method first off since probably more accuracy in those when you've larger colliders to check upon.

[patent hound]

what other casting method would be viable for projectile hit calculations other than a raycast?

[latent latch]

Can try an overlap sphere at the tip of it

and run that in update

not that exact performative method, but sometimes you have to give up that optimization for trickier things like percision

[patent hound]

well what's odd is i had a problem where almost the exact same issue with the same success rate happened when i first changed to raycast, but it was fixed by turning the "update mode" to "animate physics" in the enemy animators

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.CapsuleCast.html

got that one too

thicker raycast haha

[patent hound]

that doesn't really have the accuracy i need for a shooter game

[latent latch]

There's a few things you can kinda do too, like grab the contact point and do some distance calculations

[patent hound]

I just can't believe what an absolute headache raycasting in unity has been since i switched, you would think such a simple thing would be consistent but raycasting has been the most unreliable broken system i've worked with in a LONG time in anything

[heady iris]

what are you raycasting at?

static colliders? rigidbodies? colliders on things being moved by an Animator?

[latent latch]

Should give this a try. Toss as many extra calculations you need if you need that type of accuracy of a bullet.

just because you detect a collider, you can still continue to the next frame to decide when to discard the bullet.

[patent hound]

I am raycasting at capsule colliders and box colliders with rigidbodies attached to the bones of ane enemy that is animated by an animator using root motion and animate physics

However in the testing I mentioned above the enemy is set to completely still and has no animation playing

I created a test scene that places the raycaster and the recipient at specific distances and run 200 tests with 198 hits in the editor and results varying from 30 to 120 hits in the build version

Unity's raycasting system has been a collosal waste of time and has set back my project 2 full work days because it's so inconsistent :/

[solemn wren]

whats a way to get the prefab parent of a child or grandchild's scripts

[latent latch]

After you instantiate it, or as the asset instance?

[patent hound]

After you instantiate it you can recursively use transform.parent and work your way up the tree until you find the component you're looking for using GetComponent()

[spring creek]

What is the rigidbody sleep setting?

And wait, are the rigidbodies and colliders ONLY on the bones?

[heady iris]

I would compare the results to a non-animated target.

You want to narrow down what's causing the problem.

[cosmic rain]

How are you debugging? Make sure you visualize your rays too.

Some code and setup explanation(screenshots?) Would be helpful.

[cosmic rain]

Draw the rays, pause on when the ray "goes through the object" and investigate the scene. Does the ray have the trajectory that you imagined? Is the desired collider in the way? Does it have any weird settings or suspicious stats in the rb?
Literally all we've been seeing from you is half baked complaints and barely any useful info on the setup and debugging.

[heady iris]

yes.

yelling at the computer will not change its behavior.

[patent hound]

The problem is only in build now, it works against a static object with 100% accuracy so the ray is both projecting from the right location and at the right angle, the layer mask is set up to ignore the parent objects of the skeleton so the rigidbody of the controller object shouldn't matter, I wrote code to visualize start and endpoint of Ray with sphere objects at low opacity and the start and endpoints pass directly through the enemy's hit box a large percentage of the time

[main cedar]

Does anyone happen to know if you can upload partial updates to a Texture2DArray without sending the entire texture array back to GPU? E.g. updating and sending one slice only.

[patent hound]

Because of the publisher and company guidelines it would be a violation of NDA for me to share large portions of production code or to show images/video of anything that resembles a development build, so posting a lot of that information is treading on thin ice

I tried experimenting with a line renderer since it only happens in a build and not the editor. But the linerenderer can't use the actual Ray itself so it's returning expected results every time and isn't being particularly helpful its more just drawing a line where the ray SHOULD be, not garaunteeing that it's drawing where the ray IS

[onyx owl]

anyone got any clue why my mouse1 input isnt going through

[rocky basalt]

try capitalizing your 'update' method name to Update

[cosmic rain]

You can use DrawRay instead of line. That's the closest you can get to a raycast.

[cosmic rain]

The only thing that could change between a build and editor that is relevant to your issue is frame rate. Which might imply that something in the setup is dependent on it.

[patent hound]

Well since it only occurs at build now not in the editor that's not an option

[night harness]

first time making a new texture2d at runtime, any first guesses on why it's seemingly transparent? can confirm referenceColor is set correctly, wondering if i need to convert it or something rather

                Texture2D newTexture = new Texture2D(128, 128, TextureFormat.RGBA32, false);

                Color[] cols = newTexture.GetPixels(newTexture.mipmapCount - 1);
                for (int i = 0; i < cols.Length; ++i)
                    cols[i] = tile.materialPreset.referenceColor;

                newTexture.SetPixels(cols, newTexture.mipmapCount - 1);
                newTexture.Apply();
                tileTextureMatrix[tile.tilePosition.x, tile.tilePosition.z] = newTexture;

[heady iris]

does "set correctly" include a non-zero alpha?

[frozen oyster]

Hi!
I've ran into a problem with Plastic SCM. One of the scenes (.unity file) has incorrect encoding now.
Its been a couple of months since I last edited the file and back then when viewing diff in Plastic I could properly see the YAML. Since then there was 1 other check-in of this file in a separate branch, which was later merged into the dev branch.
Now when I make a change in the scene, save and look at the diff - I see a bunch of gibberish. I have seen bug reports for Plastic about the encoding getting messed up with automatic merge, but these are from 2015, so I am a bit lost here... Has anyone encountered this type of issue?

[cosmic rain]

Are you sure unity serializes the scene asset as text? Try opening the local file with a text editor.

[frozen oyster]

I am pretty sure it is... Here are my reasons:

1. In project settings under Editor -> Asset Serialization "Mode" is set to "Force Text"
2. If I open any other scene in a text editor - it opens without a problem and I can read the yaml
3. In Plastic if I right-click any scene file (both the one that I have a problem with and others that work fine) under "Change revision type" the "Text" option is inactive and the "Binary" option is active, meaning that right now the revision type is set to text.

[cosmic rain]

Okay.
If it's really an issue with the encoding, it's probably because someone committed it with the wrong encoding. I don't think plastic itself changes the encoding of the assets.🤔

[broken light]

if you use #if Unity_Editor

in a class thats not in editor assembly how can you access editor scripts in the editor assembly ?

i need to access some static functions in the editor assembly from a scriptable object's code thats in the unity editor region

[cosmic rain]

You can't. Editor assembly can't be referenced from the player assembly.

[broken light]

damn

[west lotus]

The #if has nothing to do with it

[broken light]

well now i dont know how to link the two together

[cosmic rain]

If the ScriptableObject is intended for editor only, then you could put it in the editor assembly.

[broken light]

nah its for game play but the data generated for it is editor only

mesh assets mostly

[cosmic rain]

You can reverse the dependency. Make your editor script do something to the play data, not the other way around.

[broken light]

yeh i was about to ask why can i reference things in unity engine from editor but not the other way around

is that unity's design choice

[cosmic rain]

Because there's no problem with including the play time code in the editor. In fact you need it to be able to test in the editor. However, in play mode you can't access any of the editor API. You'd need to include the whole editor binaries in every app.

[broken light]

ah i see - that makes sense

ill have to make a custom editor which calls the static functions then pass that to a public function in the target which is in a unity editor region i guess

seems custom editors will have to be acting as the middle man between the two

[hoary monolith]

Is it okay to use Scriptable Objects to store Player Data such as health and progression?

[somber nacelle]

sure, just note that changes to scriptable objects do not persist between game sessions except for in the editor

[hoary monolith]

So it just goes back to the first values after a session?

[somber nacelle]

yes. if you mean to save persistent data then you should serialize it and save it to a file in Application.persistentDataPath

[hoary monolith]

I do want to save persistent data but I plan to save it in Unity Cloud Save instead.

but i think using a regular class would be better instead of a Scriptable Object in this case

[night harness]

I have this pretty basic character controller function running in fixedupdate but when i move and/rotate the parent of this charactercontroller my code doesn't take into consideration the new change, any tips on what i would need to do?

    void Movement()
    {
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);

        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
            velocity.y = gravity;

        float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized;

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        characterController.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);

        if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
        {
            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

            characterController.Move(direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }

[cold parrot]

does gravity work?

[night harness]

it pushes me down but i don't think im ever grounded, would that be the problem?

[cold parrot]

are you sure direction and speed are ever != 0?

[night harness]

speed is always 6 right now

im not sure on direction tbh

[cold parrot]

also new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized should be Vector3.ClampMagnitude(new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical), 1f)

[night harness]

oo ty

im code savvy but when it comes to this kinda player movement math im completely in the dark tbh

[cold parrot]

that whole code is quite situational/hacky, i'll expect you plan to make that a bit more robust eventually

you should, for example, only call Move once with the final delta you want to apply, not incrementally, thats just confusing.

[night harness]

Somewhat, design wise the movement is pretty close to where i'd expect it by the end of the project

I just have this issue where i rotate the parent (of the level and the player) but the charactercontroller move isn't playing well with the change

[cold parrot]

you probably want to redefine how horizontal/vertical input translates to world-velocity based on camera-position relative to the level/character orientation

[night harness]

I see

I figured it would have just worked since it's getting that rotation change aswell as a child

[cold parrot]

what you'd typically do as a first step is to project input, character.z and camera.z into the ground plane and make it relative to either the camera- or character-forward

[night harness]

Why does the camera need to be involved?

[cold parrot]

that depends on your setup

it doesn't have to be

if its not the camera, then its some other source that defines what local forward is

movement is typically relative to the character.z or camera.z

at least thats what a player typically expects/understands

if you rotate the world instead of the camera, you still rotate the camera/character relationship in the perception of the player.

anyway, just saying, you want to make input local to whatever your character orientation is

[night harness]

rotation stuff like that i can live with. its the un-synced movement that is the big deal

[cold parrot]

well, you are smoothing the movement

[night harness]

I assumed that was only relevant to actively influenced movements?

right now i rotate the parent and the player slides abit rather than moving with it in sync like how you would expect parent child behaviour

[cold parrot]

and you are using world space axes during the rotation which dont align with your grid axes

you can make the character a child of the world-chunk its currently walking on

whatever you do, you have to somehow make the player move in the local space of the world-chunk, that doesn't have to happen via parenting, you can also manually apply the chunk's transform matrix to the character

[night harness]

that is already happening haha

that is why im confused

[cold parrot]

obviously it isn't doing it correctly

[night harness]

yes

the charactercontroller move code is ignoring it

[cold parrot]

in any case, it looks like smoothing is to blame

[night harness]

nah still happens with the smoothing disabled

[cold parrot]

does it end up in the right place?

[night harness]

no

[cold parrot]

then your math is wrong

[night harness]

i would not be suprised

additional context
yellow player, green level. im rotating the planet back and forth, not pressing any of the input keys

[cosmic rain]

Does the sheep have a dynamic rb?

Character controller?

[night harness]

Sorry for the late response, character controller yes

        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, groundDistance, groundMask);

        if (isGrounded && velocity.y < 0)
            velocity.y = gravity;


        float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 direction = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical), 1);

        velocity.y += gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        characterController.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);

        //if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump") && isGrounded)
            //velocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(jumpHeight * -2f * gravity);

        if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
        {
            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

            characterController.Move(direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }

[hoary monolith]

Is it possible to save a JSON file in unity cloud save without have to creating a file in the local system?

[somber nacelle]

i don't have experience with unity's cloud save, but presumably you can give it a string? so just skip the step where you are creating a file and just give the cloud save the json string

[hoary monolith]

alright thanks i'll try it out

[modest ledge]

Why does UIElements.Image exist when you can use UIElements.VisualElement? Is it just a wrapper? Also why not include it with the UIToolkit builder?

[earnest epoch]

IIRC, VisualElement is the equivalent to an empty object, even though it can be decorated. Image is the concrete image class.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UIElements.Image-image.html <= That is quite the disappointing documentation. @modest ledge I think you raise a good point.

[modest ledge]

Yeah I came across it earlier today and I was like, huh interesting. It doesn't exist in the builder but yet you can use it. So far I generally used a VisualElement with a background image to achieve the same result

[blazing tiger]

What's the best way to associate asset keyed pairs? I was going to make a footstep system that reads clips from Dictionary<PhysicsMaterial, AudioClip> but it seems that during runtime dictionary contains PhysicsMaterial_1 and colliders with this material set read as PhysicsMaterial_1 (instance) which aren't equal and thus dictionary can't be accessed with later

I could do .Keys.Any with ID, name or some other shared property but is it the only way or I'm missing something?

[earnest epoch]

You could maybe do Dictionary<int, AudioClip> and use the result of Object.GetInstanceID from the PhysicMaterial as the key.

[latent latch]

Yeah when you access it, you get a new material reference

[blazing tiger]

Yeah I'm doing it right now, just read it up on old forum post

InstanceID will be same across all runtime instances correct?

[earnest epoch]

I suspect your referencing an asset at runtime and thus getting a whole new UnityEngine.Object factoried when you do.

[blazing tiger]

Yeah, a little confused by the instances still

[latent latch]

There's sharedmaterial as well but I forget what ref is used for that.

[earnest epoch]

Ehhh... on second thought don't do that. It's guaranteed to be a unique number on instantiation.

Do you specifically want this to be a reference to an asset?

[blazing tiger]

Right

[blazing tiger]

It's for basic ux so I can drop asset and audio clip in editor, for serialization purposes it's a List<SurfaceFootstepPair> that gets converted to Dictionary<something, AudioClip> on begin play

Where "something" is some shared property that will alow me to compare against runtime instances of a physics material

A wild idea would be to use a name and chop of "instance" at the end 🤪

[earnest epoch]

AssetDatabase.AssetPathToGUID() might help in that case.

[blazing tiger]

Let me try

AssetDatabase is a UnityEditor class though?

I was under the impression it shouldn't be used in any things runtime

[earnest epoch]

Checks Yeah, it is.

Ugh, there's probably something similar in Resources then.

Hmm, maybe not.

How are you getting access to project assets during runtime exactly? Unity games are supposed to be agnostic to the project file structure outside of special directories like Editor, Resources, Plugins, etc.

[latent latch]

Cant you just dictionary a SO with material and sound clip

[blazing tiger]

Sincerely hope this isn't true in latest versions

[blazing tiger]

Yeah, but I'll still have to compare a physics material instance with physics material reference

Which to Unity are completelly different objects apparently

[latent latch]

Why the material specifically? Compare by other types

[blazing tiger]

It was the simplest design, I get benefit of physical properties and checking for footstep sounds at the same time 🤷‍♂️

I'm really just trying to port my Unreal system into unity right now

But if it's absolutely not possible I guess I could check against a tag or a layer or something

I would prefer to keep it physical material based tho

[earnest epoch]

ScriptableObjects really aren't a bad idea. You don't need to use the PhysicMaterial as a key and could always get references via Linq if necessary.

[tropic canyon]

Is there a way to convert game object to entity without subscenes

[blazing tiger]

You mean to make some sort of a container component on my surface gameobjects that will hold a SO or something?

Didn't really get that

[earnest epoch]

Depending on where exactly you are doing this, you can use GetEntity() which exists all over the API to take a GameObject reference and factory an Entity in the same way.

Entity entity = GetEntity(gameObject, TransformUsageFlags.Dynamic); should be the whole trick, I think.

[tropic canyon]

I wanted to do the baking process without subscenes

In older version there was a component called ConvertToEntity something like that

[earnest epoch]

Yeah, that whole pathway is gone (and good riddance, honestly).

[earnest epoch]

I think you'll need to use IBaker . I'm not an expert on this (yet), but I think the baker class is required, else there is no instruction as to how to assign component data from a gameobject and monobehaviours.

Maybe consider this? https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.1/api/Unity.Entities.IBaker.GetEntityWithoutDependency.html?q=getentity

[tropic canyon]

I have the baker class in place I waned to start the baking process in a Scene Rather that Sub Scenes

[earnest epoch]

Oh, so the entities live in the scene heirarchy?

[tropic canyon]

Nope

[earnest epoch]

Okay, that was a trick question lol.

I'm pretty sure that IBaker.GetEntity is public, so you don't need to using inside the baker class.

[tropic canyon]

It works fine in subscene but not in the normal scene

[blazing tiger]

Truly, I am a genius

[earnest epoch]

So, if you have your baker set up and exposed where you need it (so like not a private class inside an authoring monobehaviour), you should be able to call it anywhere, like MyPreparedBaker.GetEntity(gameObject). There's no easy way to attach a script and convert otherwise, but I think any baker class should build basic entity components for things like LocalTransform, etc. for you if you don't need any special authored data.

[earnest epoch]

I hate it.

[blazing tiger]

Works as intended 😉

[earnest epoch]

I hate it so bad.

I did something similar earlier today, actually...

[blazing tiger]

As long as it meets the requirements and not a lot of people will see it everything is fine

[earnest epoch]

See, I really wanted to pass around classes that extend MonoBehaviours, but with type arguments somewhere in their ancestry. To do this and be able to store references in places where generics can't follow, I just cast everything to tuples of type (UnityEngine.Object, enum) to store, then cast back to retrieve.

{
    public static bool IsNull(this (UnityEngine.Object, TouchControlGenericTypes) tuple)
    {
        if (tuple.Item1 == null || tuple.Item2 == TouchControlGenericTypes.Null)
            return true;

        return false;
    }
}``` 😄

[blazing tiger]

If it works it works

If you're on a deadline if it works it works great

[earnest epoch]

Actually, it felt like I cheated. 😄 It's not even reflection!

Blind casting in C# is pretty quick.

[blazing tiger]

Programming is like the opposite of chess

You're encouraged to cheat

[icy gate]

I have a situation right now where I destroy objects
how do you guys handle a situation where you destroy objects, OnDisable gets triggered to remove listeners from other components, but would throw a null reference because the publisher you're removing the listener to has already been destroyed

do I just check if the component is null or is there a better way to handle this?

[fervent furnace]

just check it, and review the design (publisher was destroyed before subscriblers.....)

[heady iris]

Does it make any sense to use assembly definitions for DLLs?

I have a few DLLs installed via the "NuGet for Unity" package. I noticed them while checking if any big chunks of third-party code were in the default assembly.

They aren't source files, so it's not like the compiler has to parse and compile a bunch of scripts.

e.g.

[knotty sun]

assem defs are for creating dll's so using them for existing dll's make no sense

[heady iris]

yeah, I'm actually not sure how Unity would even interpret that

I guess I'm conflating projects with the DLLs that eventually get emitted

it's just a coincidence that each assembly definition creates a .csproj

[static matrix]

my color assignment from script for a spriterenderer isn't actually causing the color to update

[thin aurora]

An assembly definition defines an assembly, and a dll is an assembly 😄

So no, but that was already answered

[heady iris]

makes sense

[static matrix]

it's odd, bcause when I click on the object, the spriterenderer color line is white, but when I click on the line, it says the color is there

but it isn't in render

[heady iris]

is it transparent?

doesn't seem like it; there's no black bar at the bottom of the color field

[static matrix]

yeah doesn't seem like it

also the object is there (it's that white square)

[heady iris]

The left of the two boxes in the top right of the color picker is the color it had when you opened the picker. Perhaps you have two scripts fighting over the color?

[static matrix]

hmmm maybe

would making a new spriterenderer do that?

I shouldn't be making a new one every frame but maybe I am

hold on it might want it from 0-1 range but I was passing it in as 0-255

yup, that was it

random.seed gives me a random string of numbers right (ik its depracated I just need a random string of numbers rq)

nvm I can just use application.identifier

[heady iris]

seed is used to seed the RNG

[static matrix]

I think

ah

so I will not use it for a random string of characters

[heady iris]

if you need a random string of digits, generate a random int

or repeatedly generate a single random number and append the result to a string

[static matrix]

yeah that'll do

I'll have the player input a name or have like
a unique sending code
later

[gaunt blade]

Guys I have a class and I want to store it in an array such that I can choose the extended class type in the editor in a drop down like this image (for different behaviours lets say). Is this possible or am I approaching it wrong?

[leaden ice]

you can do this only with:
[SerializeReference] and a custom editor script

[gaunt blade]

oh okay thanks. Is there a better way to approach this? All i want to do is be able to select different behaviours of each element in the array in the editor?

[leaden ice]

the low tech way is to just use an enum and a switch case in your code

[celest iron]

You can use an enum that will change the behaviour of the script

[leaden ice]

that's not a state machine

[celest iron]

No?

[leaden ice]

just a modal switch

[celest iron]

Huh, I thought it was

Anyways

[gaunt blade]

Okay thank you man 🙏

[celest iron]

I'm pretty sure it is a state machine

You have logic when changing states

Then it behaves differently between each states

How is this not a state machine

[cold parrot]

a state machine is a mathematical model that defines states and transitions between them, an enum is just an enum, you can use an enum as a key to select states though

most people confuse a enum-driven switch statement for a state machine

[celest iron]

Ah, yeah, I was thinking of enums as key to select states

[cold parrot]

without transitions you don't have a state machine

[celest iron]

I see, thanks for clarifying

[gaunt blade]

I'm concerned with writing clean code and the extendability of this system. If I envision it getting quite large I guess an enum implementation would create quite a large/messy script? If so would you guys suggest going the route of the [SerializeReference] method you mentioned? Just trying to find a good balance of time vs complexity i guess

[cold parrot]

this will not scale whatever you do

[latent latch]

https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/meta_attributes/show_hide_if.html

[gaunt blade]

hmm yes i thought so, just to be clear by 'this' you mean enum?

[latent latch]

Just use naughty's stuff

[cold parrot]

primarily because it exposes programming language features/details into UI and assumes your user is familiar with that inheritance structure and what it means, you should abstract the goal you want to achieve and make it independent of the implementation

[cold parrot]

no, your inspector design

[gaunt blade]

thanks

[latent latch]

Unity really needs to implement their own show/hide if alreayd

[gaunt blade]

ah i see good point

[latent latch]

even with a OOP design, it's hard to develop it perfectly

[cold parrot]

most of those niceties come with a performance overhead that is not nice to have in all cases

[terse garnet]

guys, how to resolve this errors?

[celest iron]

Unity should just buy Odin

[terse garnet]

I'm using external code

with [DllImport("__Internal")]

[latent latch]

I hear interfaces also create some overhead, but I don't understand how you'd avoid using them in c#

also better serializeinterface support when

[leaden ice]

Large ? yes
Messy? No unless you do something silly. Basically the switch can be very simple using delegates:

public delegate void AbilityFunction(SomeParam x, SomeOtherParam y);

AbilityFunction f;
switch (abiilityType) {
  case Fire:
    f = SomeOtherClassA.FireFunction;
  case Ice:
    f = SomeOtherClassB.IceFunction;
  ...
}```

[gaunt blade]

what I want is to have lets say an list of effects in the editor for an ability which I can add to/fine-tune, like lets say and explosion or a projectile, hence I want the UI to change based on what the effect is only exposing relevent fields for each effect. I think by doing it like this, the user doesnt need to have knowledge of what the effects do or how they work, they can just string them together. Like the particle system I suppose?

[gaunt blade]

thanks man

[latent latch]

All composition approach

which is why HideIf/ShowIf is more of a neccessity when assigning it via the editor

[gaunt blade]

is that what its called? is this like a standard design pattern?

[heady iris]

"composition" is a very broad concept

I wouldn't really call it a specific design pattern

[latent latch]

Take a look at the shuriken particle system and that'll give you an idea how this system you want is to be developed.

[gaunt blade]

thank you man will do

really appreciate you guys 🙏 so useful to be able to get quick answers from these channels

[formal wagon]

Hey all, do any of you guys know why Tasks might end up running faster than a bursted, parallel job?

I've set up an experiment where I increment a million integers every time Update() runs. I've got a version that uses a burst compiled job and another that uses concurrent C# Tasks. For some reason, the one using Tasks runs 2x faster than the job I've created?

What's more confusing is that this is all running in Mono, which I've heard brings down the performance of Tasks a ton. Can share code if it helps

[fervent furnace]

is the task just await async void (not multithread) or task.run(create new thread)?

ah..you cant await "async void"

[reef garnet]

I've just had this idea and wanted to ask here if it seems feasible or would lead to constant headaches before testing it, but could you use scriptable objects to assign input actions from the new input system? Say attach an input action from the action map in which you could then have a function to edit bindings, etc...,

What might the limitations of this be and would it just end up being more work than it's worth?

[somber tapir]

https://github.com/mackysoft/Unity-SerializeReferenceExtensions does what you are looking for

[cold parrot]

depends on the details of your test, its very unlikely that a basic threadpool task runs faster than jobs since that API is NOT made for doing "work" its purely for representing async behaviour

that said, you can set up your tasks manually and do clever things (remove the training wheels that the job system forces you to use) and a c# thread can yield considerably more performance than Jobs, but NOT out of the box

you can also use SIMD and all the other math niftyness without burst, you just have to do it manually

[formal wagon]

I have a whole bunch of tasks stored in an array that I initialise using Task.Run, which I then feed into Task.WaitAll

[latent latch]

I'm pretty much using all of macky's utility libraries and extensions. Good choice too beyond just hiding data. If we want complete optimization, I'd agree this would be the way, but when it comes to stuff you'd object pool, I wouldn't worry too much about caching some extra data.

At the end of the day, even if you make this really sweet system, you still have to fight with Unity's GUI to implement it all.

[formal wagon]

Ah, that’s really interesting - didn’t know that native C# threads could out-perform Jobs. Really unfortunate that this isn’t more widely known

[leaden ice]

It's possible your job is not configured properly to actually run in parallel

[fervent furnace]

i think if you didnt need lock then async can run faster, acquire lock is an expenive operation

but if you use all unsafe container then there should be no lock in job system?

[leaden ice]

it's also possible your benchmarking is not accurate

or you are doing some expensive copying operations to marshall data between managed/unmanaged

the details are important

[cold parrot]

at the end of the day whether the code that actually runs is originally written in C++ or C# does not matter, the same machine instructions get executed. you just get a lot more automatic extra stuff and protection when you use various frameworks. You can strip down C# so much these days it practically runs like C++. But that is not doable with safe C#. Jobs gives you usafe C# that is still safe to use if you use the Jobs framework. But you can remove that framework too and live fully unsafe, and this opens all doors to implementing clever algorithms and cache optimization you can't access with Jobs.

[coarse narwhal]

Hi Folks. I'm reading JSON in from a service that I don't control. Within the JSON structure are sub-objects which describe different items using different attributes. How do I bring a JSON payload like this into Unity and C# when I can't really define the class upfront? If I was working in Ruby (which I know a lot better than C#) I'd use a hash, or in Python, a dictonary. Is there anything similar in C#?

[rigid island]

why can't you make a DTO?

[coarse narwhal]

what is a DTO?

[rigid island]

Data Transfer Object

[coarse narwhal]

ok, cool, thats something to read up on.

[rigid island]

basically this.

when I can't really define the class upfront?

how come?

and yes c# does have dictionaries too ofc. but not sure what you would do it with instead

[coarse narwhal]

the JSON is a list a of games that have already been played (like in an arcade). there are some common attributes about each game, such as the name, platform and last time it was played. But there are also a bunch of attributes that are contextual to that game and don't appear in other games, such as one game has an attribute "max_level" while another racing game has a bunch of attributes for top_speed, best_lap_time etc. I can't build a class (or perhaps I don't know how to build a class) to store the total spectrum of attributes that could be used in the JSON.

[leaden ice]

Newtonsoft json.NET gives a pretty convenient JObject API for JSON without defining a DTO:

https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/QueryingLINQtoJSON.htm

[coarse narwhal]

now that looks interesting! thanks!

[rigid island]

json.NET is goated af

[heady iris]

it's pretty nifty

[uncut cape]

i have a scene that has a cube tagged mirror and that reflects the laserbeam
the laserbeam script defines what the laser beam is and it doesnt have a mono behaviour
the shootlaser script tells an object that your the laser pointer to shoot the laser here the code for the shootlaser one :

{
    public Material material;
    LaserBeam beam;
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Destroy(GameObject.Find("Laser Beam"));
        beam = new LaserBeam(gameObject.transform.position, gameObject.transform.right, material);
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
        {
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Flower"))
            {
                Debug.Log("Laser beam hit a flower!"); // Print debug message when laser hits a flower tagged object
            }
        }
    }
}```
as you see it uses raycasting and tags to find the collide of the beam with the flower
but when i play the game and collide the beam and flower , nothing shows up in the console.
any help on how to modify the code to work?

[rigid island]

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[tawny elk]

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[static matrix]

lateupdate calls after both update and fixedupdate right?

[heady iris]

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

I wouldn't really say it runs "after" FixedUpdate

FixedUpdate is running at a separate cadence

It's true that FixedUpdate will not run between Update and LateUpdate, though.

[uncut cape]

any one?

[rigid island]

give more detail on the setup , also start putting debug.logs to see whats happening instead

is this 2D or 3D, etc.

[uncut cape]

i did nothing happens

[uncut cape]

its 2d but the mirrors (cubes) are 3d so it reflects the laser better

[rigid island]

wdym its 2D but mirrors are 3D

you can't mix physics/colliders from 2D in 3D

[rigid island]

screenshot the scene or something

[uncut cape]

the grey one is the flower tagged obj

[rigid island]

whats the yellow line supposed to be

[uncut cape]

a laser beam

[rigid island]

if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
{
Debug.Log(hit.name)

[uncut cape]

i tried to detect the collision in another script but it just didnt work

[uncut cape]

i have that in my code

in the shootlaser script

[rigid island]

its not tho

youre only debugging if it hits flower

put it outside and debug what ur hitting

[uncut cape]

ohh ok

1sec

[uncut cape]

well it does that

i mean it writes in the console

[rigid island]

so what does it say

[uncut cape]

the raycasting works fine

but it doesnt detect the object

thats the problem

[rigid island]

so is it printing Debug.Log(hit.collider.name)

what is the result of log

[uncut cape]

no i didnt write that i wrote some random words

in quotation marks

[rigid island]

what good are random words?

[uncut cape]

Debug.Log("GRS");

[rigid island]

how about debug something useful like I've stated

[uncut cape]

alright alright

[uncut cape]

that works too

then why doesnt it detect the object??

[rigid island]

still waiting

[lime sonnet]

Tbh, half my debug statements are me slamming my keyboard.

[uncut cape]

Cube
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
ShootLaser:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/ShootLaser.cs:22)

it detects the first cube

[rigid island]

Goood! so your cube doesn't have the tag

[uncut cape]

it does

[rigid island]

by first cube you meant the origin from?

so its hitting itself ?

[uncut cape]

the white cube here

[rigid island]

right

so its hitting itself

you seee why we debug ?

[uncut cape]

yeah

so how to fix that

[rigid island]

1 solution : Move Ray origin outside of cube
2: solution : Use LayerMask and exclude white cube from Layers you look for

[uncut cape]

layers didnt work last time

i will try the first one

[rigid island]

I bet they would if you did it correct lol

you have to use LayerMask , you probably used ints

[uncut cape]

nah i used layer mask

[rigid island]

the first one works too you just need to make a new vector3 as Offset variable and do transform.position + offset

[uncut cape]

{
    Destroy(GameObject.Find("Laser Beam"));
    Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position + transform.right * offset; // Adjust the offset value as needed
    beam = new LaserBeam(rayOrigin, transform.right, material);

    RaycastHit hit;
    if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
    {
        Debug.Log(hit.collider.name);
        if (hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("Flower"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Laser beam hit a flower!");
            nextLevelButton.gameObject.SetActive(true);
        }
    }
}```

should i do it like this?

[uncut cape]

updated that and it still hits itself

Cube
UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
ShootLaser:Update () (at Assets/Scripts/ShootLaser.cs:24)

[rigid island]

then you didn't add enough offset

[uncut cape]

how much you think is enough

[rigid island]

aren't you adjusting it inside the inspector?

the offset variable

why not just use layermasks its dead simplelol..

  private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(rayOrigin, 0.24f);
    }```

use this if you need to debug origin

[uncut cape]

i will try that too

[rigid island]

as long as rayOrigin is not a local variable (put it outside a method)

debug it

[uncut cape]

alright

[rigid island]

alr if you have trouble, show me what you tried

[uncut cape]

thanks for the help

[rigid island]

the basic steps : Make new layer called "Player" or something
apply that layer to the main cube (important)
inside script add new
[SerializeField] private LayerMask mask;

Select in inspector only layers you want to hit in mask:
apply mask:
if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, mask))

[marsh mesa]

Anyone knows how to change a shadowcaster's shape via a script?

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@12.1/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.ShadowCaster2D.html

[marsh mesa]

Im guessing i need to change this, but like, its read only

i've even tried to use that in my script

[rigid island]

hmm cant you use Mesh as shape?

[uncut cape]

you said like this right ?

    {
        Destroy(GameObject.Find("Laser Beam"));
        beam = new LaserBeam(transform.position, transform.right, material);

        Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, flowerLayer))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.collider.name);
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.layer == flowerLayer)
            {
                Debug.Log("Laser beam hit a flower!");
                nextLevelButton.gameObject.SetActive(true);
            }
        }
    }```

now the beam goes through the tagged object

and doesnt detect it

[rigid island]

this wont work
hit.collider.gameObject.layer == flowerLayer

[marsh mesa]

Mmm, how exactly?

[uncut cape]

i have that dont i?

[rigid island]

also ify you're only looking for flowers then the layer check is useless

[uncut cape]

or you mean in another part of the code?

[heady iris]

That's the point.

That code does not do what you think it does.

flowerLayer is a LayerMask, yes?

[uncut cape]

no i want to add other layers to it later

[uncut cape]

yes

[heady iris]

a layer mask is a single integer

each layer is represented by a specific bit in that integer

so layers 0, 1, 2, and 3 are represented as 1, 2, 4, and 8

they're added together to produce the mask

[rigid island]

a mesh is a series of verts, so probably just create that and pass it to the shape

[heady iris]

the .layer property on a game object tells you the ID of its layer

0, 1, 2, 3, etc.

Even if it did give you a layer mask (1, 2, 4, 8, ...), that check would fail if your flowerLayer variable had more than one layer selected

if it had layers 2 and 3 selected, it'd have a value 12

4 + 8

To check if a layer is included in a layer mask, do this

bool matches = ((1 << layerNumber) & layerMask) != 0;

[heady iris]

<< shifts bits over by a certain number of positions. Using a layer ID will give you these values.

[rigid island]

Im thinking you can make a pologyon2D shape and then use that as your points for mesh ?

[heady iris]

If you want to learn more about what the operator is doing, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/bitwise-and-shift-operators

[marsh mesa]

Yeah, but even if i do have a mesh shape, can i really asign it to the shadow caster shape?

cuz its read only

or am i misunderstanding how it all works

[rigid island]

@uncut cape
also on that point from Fen
here a good graphic shows how it works in unity
https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[heady iris]

ah, perfect

I should've checked that site for an example.

An integer has 32 bits, so that's 32 "yes" or "no" values. That's why layer masks work like they do.

[rigid island]

yeah hold on, I'm getting mixed solutuons. I haven't done this myself because I dont really use 2D lighting.
hmm
let me check

[uncut cape]

well i added the things you said

but the beam still goes through the object

[heady iris]

Show me your code.

[uncut cape]

alr

    {
        Destroy(GameObject.Find("Laser Beam"));
        beam = new LaserBeam(transform.position, transform.right, material);

        Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.collider.name);
            bool matches = ((1 << hit.collider.gameObject.layer) & flowerLayer) != 0;
            if (matches)
        {
           Debug.Log("Laser beam hit a flower!");
         nextLevelButton.gameObject.SetActive(true);

      }
     }
    }```

[rigid island]

if its going thru it then ur other object doesnt have the layer ur looking for

omg

why

are u doing

this

bool matches = ((1 << hit.collider.gameObject.layer) & flowerLayer) != 0;

[heady iris]

Seems fine. I showed it as an example for how to test if a layer is included in a mask.

Or did I flub something?

[rigid island]

the physics raycast already have the layer variable they need though lol

[uncut cape]

this happends

[rigid island]

they specifically don't want to hit their own layer (white cube)
as long as gray cube is inside another layerMask

put that inside raycast and it will only hit gray cubes

if gray cube is in layermask Flower
and raycasst only checks for Flower layer , then additionall if checks aren't needed , its only ever hitting Flower colliders

[heady iris]

flowerLayer is a very bad name, btw

it should be flowerLayerMask if it's actually a layer mask

"layer" and "layer mask" are completely different ideas

[uncut cape]

so i should add a script for the gray cube so that if it collides with anything then do something?

[rigid island]

 if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, flowerLayerMask))
        {
            Debug.Log("Hit object with flower layer");

        {```

its this simple tbh

[heady iris]

i don't see how this has anything to do with your problem

[heady iris]

do this.

If you want to do specific things to specific things you hit, you should do that by checking for components on the object you hit

you don't want to make a layer for every single kind of thing you can shoot, after all..

[uncut cape]

well my problem is that the beam doesnt detect the flower

but what if the flower detect the beam?

[rigid island]

did you put flower in the flowerlayermask

[heady iris]

Fix your raycast. It will work perfectly well once you do it correctly.

Make sure that flowerLayerMask is a LayerMask that includes the layer the flower is on

[heady iris]

That is a list of layers in your project

[rigid island]

yes but did you apply it to the object

[heady iris]

That does not answer navarone's question.

[uncut cape]

yep

[heady iris]

Show us the inspector for the flower object.

Capture the entire thing.

[heady iris]

Okay, so the target is on the correct layer, and has a non-trigger box collider.

[rigid island]

ok so far looks ok, what about your current code

[uncut cape]

the shoot laser script?

[heady iris]

Now show us flowerLayer in the inspector.

[rigid island]

also this ^

[heady iris]

I want to see that it includes the Flower layer.

[uncut cape]

wdym

[uncut cape]

.

[heady iris]

I mean exactly what I wrote.

[rigid island]

screenshot the shooting ray script

on the object

[heady iris]

This is unrelated to my question. I asked you to show me where flowerLayer's value is set in the inspector

Or is that variable not set in the inspector?

This is why the name is bad. It sounds like I'm asking you about the flower layer

The name should be changed to flowerLayerMask -- or, even better, laserTargetMask

that's what the variable means

it's the things the laser can target

[marsh mesa]

The script in the inspector

[uncut cape]

i dont understand "in the inspector"

[rigid island]

do you know what the inspector is?

[rigid island]

aslo ur missing the layermask here

[marsh mesa]

Like this

[heady iris]

ShootLaser has a flowerLayer field on it.

I want to see that field in the inspector.

[uncut cape]

?

[heady iris]

Yes. Good.

[marsh mesa]

Yeah, thats it

[rigid island]

ok but you didnt apply it to your raycast

[uncut cape]

no i thought he means the code

[rigid island]

make sure u fix this

[marsh mesa]

U need to add the layermask here, as the last thingy

after math infinity

, LayerMask)

but with the name of ur layermask

[uncut cape]

whats problem with it

[rigid island]

your missing layer mask bruh

[uncut cape]

you mean i should add a layermask at the end?

yeah i did that

[marsh mesa]

this

[rigid island]

no u didnt

[marsh mesa]

And it still doesnt work?

[rigid island]

not in the screenshot u showed

[uncut cape]

not in there

any ways

it still

doesnt work

lol

[marsh mesa]

Can u screenshot ur script again

the code

[rigid island]

ok . did you save it after you changed

[uncut cape]

{
    public Material material;
    private LaserBeam beam;
    public Button nextLevelButton;
    public LayerMask flowerLayer;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Destroy(GameObject.Find("Laser Beam"));
        beam = new LaserBeam(transform.position, transform.right, material);

        Vector3 rayOrigin = transform.position;
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(rayOrigin, transform.right, out hit, Mathf.Infinity, flowerLayer))
        {
            Debug.Log("Hit object with flower layer");
        }
    }

    public void GoToNextScene()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene("NextScene");
    }
}```

[rigid island]

so its working

[uncut cape]

of course i did

[rigid island]

do you not get the debug.log in console?

screenshot console in playmode

[marsh mesa]

I shouldnt not work

[uncut cape]

sure

1sece

[rigid island]

show me how you draw the raycast

[uncut cape]

the beam script right?

[rigid island]

yes

[marsh mesa]

Also i still need help with this, maybe i should ask somewhere else too

😔

Cant find anything

maybe i havent been looking hard enough

[uncut cape]

where should i paste it

its pretty long so i cant paste it here

[rigid island]

paste ssite

!code

[tawny elk]

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[rigid island]

im getting mixed answers on google :\

[uncut cape]

https://hatebin.com/tgqrvvgrnd

[marsh mesa]

Did no one ever have to do that

i dont understnad lol

[rigid island]

everything i saw was "workarounds" so im guessing there is no nice way to do it

[marsh mesa]

[rigid island]

what is
dir set to

[uncut cape]

public LaserBeam(Vector2 pos, Vector2 dir, Material material)

[rigid island]

thats not a direction

where are u setting a direction at

[uncut cape]

its not set to anything really

its just there

[rigid island]

anyway the visuals rn is not related to your main laser script. but I'm guessing youre not looking at the right direction

[uncut cape]

so is there any other problem with the script?

[rigid island]

put this variables inside your class but outside the method
RaycastHit hit;

[uncut cape]

that affect the layers and all?

[uncut cape]

alr

[rigid island]

lets draw some gizmos

[rigid island]

  private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(hit.point, 0.23f);
        Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.right * Mathf.Infinity); ;
    }```

put this inside your class

screenshot the game in playmode after (make sure to enable gizmos in Game vIew)

[hard viper]

I have another plan for reference framing. Basically, I make a class to just log a given rigidbody’s local velocity (velocity it would have with no reference frame). Right before physics simulation, I convert all forces on an RB into velocity directly, using v += f m deltaT. Then I add/subtract reference frame velocity (and what ref frame velocity was after simulation) while keeping log of what the local velocity is supposed to be. Does this sound like a non-garbage idea?

[uncut cape]

my mind is probably not working but i get cs0103 for the transform and i have no idea how to fix that

[rigid island]

huh ? this alone should not give you any errors..

did you move this RaycastHit hit;

from outside the method?

[dusk apex]

Maybe post the actual error instead of an error code value

[uncut cape]

nope

[rigid island]

wait wtf

[leaden ice]

looks like this class is not a MonoBehaviour

[uncut cape]

ohhhhh

yeah thats the problem

i forgot that

[leaden ice]

in which case OnDrawGizmos won't work either anyway

[uncut cape]

he is right

[rigid island]

but I thought ShootLaser was

😵‍💫

[leaden ice]

this is the LaserBeam class probably?

[dusk apex]

Hit is unknown as well unless you've got some class instance variable..

[uncut cape]

no thats another code

[rigid island]

why tho

[uncut cape]

you said

give me the laserbeam script

[rigid island]

to see it , but were still fixing the shootlaser..

[leaden ice]

yeah the OnDrawGizmos will need to go in the ShootLaser script

[uncut cape]

but you said the problem is with the laserbeam script

anyways

i will try that in the shoot laser script

[rigid island]

no I said said the opposite

[uncut cape]

well i "thought" that way

sorry

[rigid island]

all good. just put ondrawgizmos in shootlaser script and lets see

[uncut cape]

btw what is it supposed to do

it doesnt do anything

lol

[rigid island]

make sure this is selected

[rigid island]

its supposed to show us where the ray is hitting and which direction

wouldn't hurt to put Debug.Log(hit.collider.name) in there too in the raycast

but visuals would help greatly

[uncut cape]

believe it or not

[marsh mesa]

Look in the editor view, not in the game view

[uncut cape]

cant find it

[rigid island]

double click your Game view tab

you will see it

its probably hidden

[uncut cape]

oh found it

[rigid island]

can you disable your other script

[uncut cape]

what script?

[rigid island]

LaserBeam

[uncut cape]

its not mono

so it cant be attached

[rigid island]

so? just dont create the object

put a return statement before you do it

[uncut cape]

you mean i should delete the laser beam script and do the laser another way or im just stupid

[rigid island]

right now the laser beam is conflicting showing the raycast debug..

i suppose to you can do Gizmos.color = Color.magenta; above the Gizmos

[uncut cape]

yeah ok

[rigid island]

lol how do you use a class and not know how to reverse it

[uncut cape]

its a timezone problem
my mind is not working rn

at all

[rigid island]

well its not hitting the cube thats for sure

the debug for hit is the middle of screen

which means its at 0,0,0

i can't see the ray line tho, put the color on both

ima guess its the white line?

this might just be a Z positio issue

are you sure both cubes are on the same Z position

[uncut cape]

yeah

checked that 100 times

[uncut cape]

no its not

[dusk apex]

Is the layer mask correct?

[uncut cape]

that the color of the beam
its white and yellow

[rigid island]

they seemed to be from screenshots

[uncut cape]

yeah
i think

[rigid island]

where do you. create lasorbeam visuals

[uncut cape]

you mean like the width , color , etc?

[rigid island]

no thats not creating it

[uncut cape]

you mean how it is created?

its in the shoot laser script

[rigid island]

exactly what i mean

where do you call CastRay

[rigid island]

Ok comment those two out

then show scene again in playmode

[uncut cape]

comment what out?

[dusk apex]

The two lines in the image

[uncut cape]

the colors?

oh alr

[rigid island]

anything that invovlves beam and laserbeam

[uncut cape]

well then nothing happens

[rigid island]

did u save? screenshot the scene

[dusk apex]

I'm assuming there's some misunderstanding occurring

[rigid island]

yup just realized..

white cube and laserpointer are two different objects

[uncut cape]

omg

[rigid island]

lasterpointer is all the way on the left of the screen

[uncut cape]

yeah i think i didnt told you that

but i said there is a laser pointer

any ways

[rigid island]

did you ? lol idk i think you got me lost somewhere

[uncut cape]

so now what

[rigid island]

i was wondering why transorm.right was hitting something...

you said it was graycube but it was hitting white one

[rigid island]

put the origin on the white cube?

[uncut cape]

but thats mirror

the mirror should reflect the beam

and the beam should reach the flower

[rigid island]

ok so you want Vector3.reflect

[uncut cape]

btw the mirror is the white cube

[rigid island]

yea now I got that

shits confusing af

ngl

[uncut cape]

3am stuff

so i should add vector 3's?

[rigid island]

ok so

you DO need to hit the white cube

the whole layer thing is a bust

[uncut cape]

well thats the whole point of the game

[rigid island]

i meant white cube

[uncut cape]

oh yeah that another point of the game

[rigid island]

anyway yea just get rid of the layermask in the raycast

[uncut cape]

to reach the beam to the flower with the white cube

or the mirrors

[rigid island]

got it

Ill make a thread h.o

[lyric atlas]

Is there a way to "append" stuff inside a method, similar to having an overridable function called inside but having multiple scripts be able to add stuff? I essentially want delegates which alter a value.

Sorry if this is a dumb question as passing a value by reference into each delegate would work if it's possible

[marsh mesa]

If anyone's curious, i found a solution

[dusk apex]

Maybe rephrase the question.

[marsh mesa]

that works in my specific case

[leaden ice]

It's a little unclear what you're asking for

[marsh mesa]

i just have an empty object parented to the umbrella, with the desired shadowcaster shape

[cold parrot]

and maybe tell us what you actually want to achieve in terms of gameplay or workflow

[marsh mesa]

and i disable/enable each one of them when needed

the wide & the thin shadowcasters

[rigid island]

sometimes its the simplest solutions needed 😅

just sucks to manually do them all

[marsh mesa]

it is, and i feel stupid that it took me so long to figure out!