archived-code-general

[leaden ice]

Debug statements are stripped I believe

[hard viper]

he’s seeing problems in build vs development build, so that was my first thought

[leaden ice]

Actually surprised it's not a compile error in the release version

although maybe it gets done at the bytecode level

[hard viper]

i forget what the issue was tbh

[leaden ice]

so those are techincally separate "lines"

[simple egret]

The out variable gets initialized before the line at compiler level

[hard viper]

point being, you do not want to actually modify/initialize variables within any Debug. calls

[wheat cargo]

Are only Debug.Assert lines stripped? Do Debug.Logs get stripped as well?

[hard viper]

in my case, i think my variable was declared before. and I got a NRE because the Assert was assigning it

[hard viper]

Debug. everything

this should make your code run a lot better in final built. because you SHOULD be spamming Debug.Assert

[wheat cargo]

Wait I'm confused now, how is anything logged to the Player.log in release build then?

[hard viper]

I probably average 0.5 Debug.Assert per method I write

for that you need to write to Console

[heady iris]

I actually wasn't sure if it completely stripped everything inside the method call

[hard viper]

it does

[heady iris]

or just skipped calling the method

I guess it's the former!

good to know

[hard viper]

it’s like the line is deleted

compiler doesn’t want to think about it too hard

[simple egret]

You'll get something along the lines of

Collider2D col;

if (col.forceSendLayers == 0) {

[hard viper]

I have an idea to make a polygon Composite collider2D with radius. I think I might be able to make a class that derives from CustomCollider2D, and add the shapes of a Polygon mode Composite collider, swap to outline mode. Generate, and then add the shape.

[simple egret]

After compilation, which is why it throws, that variable is not initialized

[heady iris]

oh, that's interesting -- i hadn't considered how getting rid of the part that declares the variable would work out

[hard viper]

either way, it’s bad

don’t declare/modify/initialize in debug calls

[simple egret]

The inline out declaration is syntax sugar and compiles to a declaration before the call
Hence why you're able to do something like this

if (!thing.TryGetComponent(out T val))
  return;
// can still use 'val' here

[heady iris]

ah, makes sense

i figured it was something like that

(this is very nice pattern for early-exiting)

[wheat cargo]

Debug.Log and Debug.LogError is definitely logging to the Player.log in a release build. I just tested it.

[heady iris]

you could just log a stack trace manually

oh, huh, I missed https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environment.stacktrace?view=net-7.0

that's convenient

I've used the StackTrace class in the past

[wheat cargo]

Thanks may have to try that

Yeah so Debug.Assert gets stripped but not Debug.Log and Debug.LogError, so it isn't the entirety of Debug. that gets stripped.

[simple egret]

Yep your logs will still get written to some file at runtime. This can be a slow operation (I/O is always slow compared to pure code executing on the CPU), so it's better to strip them out before building a release

[heady iris]

your users will also get mad if you write 23 GB of logs

[simple egret]

Opens logs:
"here 1"
"here 42069"
"fuck me why this won't work"
"this should be unreachable"

Almost forgot the usual "aaaaaa" and "fgfgfdfdfsrg"

[heady iris]

"hi"

other classics include "WHAT" and "WHY"

[simple egret]

I'm going to start putting jokes in these log files

Initializing dependency injection engine, registered 3 containers
Just kidding we have a tightly coupled code base here

[heady iris]

just kidding, we actually shipped a game

[waxen kayak]

Hello guys, I'm having the following problem: I am trying to add a class to a 2d array, I think the adding void is fine, it's just that the class is always null for some reason

    [System.Serializable]
    public class gridObj : NetworkBehaviour
    {
        //To change material

        public FishNet.Object.NetworkObject soldierMeshRenderer;
        //To move the soldier

        public Transform soldierTrans;
        //The speed the soldier is walking with
  
        //Has to do with the grid, so we can avoid storing all soldiers in an array
        //Instead we are going to use a linked list where all soldiers in the cell 
        //Are linked to each other
        public gridObj previousSoldier;
        public gridObj nextSoldier;

        //The enemy doesnt need any outside information
        public virtual void Move()
        { }

        //The friendly has to move which soldier is the closest
        public virtual void Move(gridObj stuff,Vector3 oldpos, Vector3 newpos)
        { }
    }
    public override void OnStartNetwork()
    {
        if (NetworkManager.transform.GetChild(1).TryGetComponent(out GridPartitioning component))
        {
            gridObj self = new gridObj();// { soldierTrans = transform, soldierMeshRenderer = NetworkObject };
            self.soldierTrans = transform;
            self.soldierMeshRenderer = NetworkObject;
            oject = self;
            if(self == null)
            {
                Debug.Log("self is null");

            }
            component.grid.Add(self);

        }
        base.OnStartNetwork();
    }

It is done in a multiplayer game, but Idon't think that has any relevancey, sincein the OnStartNetwork is says that it's null
any ideas?

[simple egret]

Probably can't use new on a NetworkBehaviour, like you can't do it on a MonoBehaviour

You may need to instantiate an object and add the GridObj component to it

[waxen kayak]

ah, that might be it

I'll check that quickly

[leaden ice]

definitely can't use new on NetworkBehaviour

it derives from MonoBehaviour

[waxen kayak]

yeah

[simple egret]

Also names of types (classes, structs, enums, etc.) start with an uppercase letter: GridObj, please follow the naming conventions

[waxen kayak]

does that really matter?

[simple egret]

For anyone that will read your code, yes

[leaden ice]

It makes it much harder to read when you don't follow the conventions

It also just looks very amateurish

[simple egret]

The naming convention is well made, enough for someone to see what kind an identifier is without looking at its declaration

[heady iris]

"Anyone" includes yourself, by the way

you'll be spending a lot of time reading your own code

[hard viper]

I'm trying to figure out the best way to make a Collider2D that is a CustomCollider2D, based on a CompositeCollider2D. The idea is CompositeCollider2D is set to Polygon mode => put shapes into customcollider => set to Outline mode => generate => put shapes into customcollider.

The issue is that CustomCollider2D is a sealed class, and none of the Cast etc methods of Collider2D are virtual

[rigid island]

this is not how you share code here

[clever trellis]

how to share?

[rigid island]

!code

[simple egret]

There is also no question here

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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[clever trellis]

just writing

[simple egret]

Try doing it all in one message, you can hit Shift+Enter to add a new line without sending the message

[clever trellis]

https://paste.ofcode.org/5W5tQW73vJeFhcBuZ5nE4R

i'm using googlecardboardVR tools and I want to make player move voluntarily. For that I tagged 2 objects with walk and sprint resp. I want that when i point the rectile towards them , i move otherwise don't. In this script, its casting a ray in the game environment, if it colides with the tagged objects, it moves.
As there are no triggers in cardboard vr, so i thought this would work. but not working!

anyone knows?

[crude creek]

Hi! I want to make so when this is called, the array called cars have all gameobjects with those tags, any suggestions? Thanks!

I know the + doesn't work for the arrays, I just didn't know how to do it

[rigid island]

first you might wanna configure your IDE doesn't look configured

[crude creek]

my what?

[rigid island]

integrated development environment (IDE)

[crude creek]

the IEnumerator?

oh

I understand now

I have it configured, I just took the screenshot before it started properly

[rigid island]

gotcha

[rigid island]

put them in an array

loop thru the array

foreach (car in cars){
if(car.CompareTag("One") ){
}

not sure why multiple tags are needed here

[crude creek]

I have different gameobject that spawn when I hit play, and I want to access them through an array, I just didn't know how to do it I did it this way

[simple egret]

Is that.. trying to add arrays togehger with +? That's a first

In the new C# version (out a few days ago) you would be able to do that with a spread operator, but this is Unity

[rigid island]

one object can't have multiple tags

what you should do is ditch tags and use types

so one object can have multiple attributes in form of Interface

[crude creek]

I want different objects with different tags eachother

[clever trellis]

kindly help 🛐

[rigid island]

huh?

you want to put multiple objects with diff tags in a list or

[crude creek]

In another codes, I spawn various gameobjects in the scene, some have the tag Damagable, some have the tag cars, and others have the tag Ground. I want every gameobject in scene with some of this tags in the array

[crude creek]

yes

[rigid island]

if the do a common thing why not have a common component

[crude creek]

they do very different things

[simple egret]

Doesn't mean you can't put a script on it that's only for searching objects

This is composition

[crude creek]

Those are gameobjects that if they are too far away from the player, despawn them for game optimizing

[crude creek]

thats true

ohhh Iunderstand

I liked that code you made

[simple egret]

Okay, you're basically just redoing LOD right here

That already exists

Or, just decreasing the camera's far plane

[crude creek]

I just didn't know what was it and how to make it, so I just made it myself

[crude creek]

What would that do?

[simple egret]

Limit how far the camera can render

[rigid island]

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

[crude creek]

yeah, but instead of decreasing the detail, I want the gameobjects to deactivate

[crude creek]

I just tested that, but it doesn't improve the optimization

It still runs at low fps

[latent latch]

have you profiled it

[simple egret]

Is the object amount really the cause of bad performance, have you profiled it?

[rigid island]

you might need to also do occlusion culling

[crude creek]

yes it is

[rigid island]

if you want real fps boost

bake your occlusion

[crude creek]

I dont know whats that

[rigid island]

use this as well
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/OcclusionCulling.html
this only renders what your camera fov can see

[crude creek]

I think that's what I'm trying to do, just not sure abt the name

[latent latch]

if you look away (have no camera rendering the objects) is the fps still low

[simple egret]

If that second message was for me, then your two statements conflict

[crude creek]

oh yes, sorry

[crude creek]

yes

[crude creek]

then what?

[crude creek]

ill check that

[simple egret]

You cannot know whether X is the cause of performance drops without running the profiler basically

"It's the cause of low fps" - "source?" - "trust me bro"

[latent latch]

id double check the profile and make sure you've not doing something like raycasting 1k times an update ;)

[crude creek]

I tried deactivating myself the gameobjects, and when I do that, the fps go normal

[rigid island]

it could be scripts too tho

[simple egret]

They might have scripts on them that impact performance

[rigid island]

thats why you profile

[simple egret]

Like, doing FindGameObjectsWithTag() 60 times a second is very much not recommended

[rigid island]

fr

[simple egret]

Now imagine that on 500 objects lol

[crude creek]

How do I do that

[rigid island]

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

lookup a few vids on it

[crude creek]

the script I showed you only called once, when the game started, and only in one object

[rigid island]

its very easy and poweerful tool

[rigid island]

so your game never spawns new objects?

[crude creek]

only at the start of the game, then it stops spawning the ones I'm trying to deactivate

[late wigeon]

Does anybody know how to make a ball movement system for VR so whenever you kick it it actually acts like a ball?

[crude creek]

Ask in #🥽┃virtual-reality

[late wigeon]

thx

[crude creek]

np

[crude creek]

I'll try profiling in a few minutes, Unity is rendering the occlusion culling that you showed me

[rigid island]

this one time saved me from 5000 batches to meerly 200

also keeping things that dont move checked with static on gameobject improves how meshes get rendered

[crude creek]

It just adds a little fps buff, but it's still almost unplayable

I don't understand this, what is causing low fps?

[rigid island]

looks like your physics is high, also you need to put in hirerchy mode to understand it better

rendering is also pretty high

you should def go through a basic video how to read Profiler accurately

[hard viper]

is there a way to get around CustomCollider2D being a sealed class?

[crude creek]

yeah I agree

[rigid island]

https://youtu.be/epTPFamqkZo

[crude creek]

thx!

[hard viper]

my idea is to make a “Collider2D” class with its own shape and its own methods to modify the shapes, then use the shapes in a CustomCollider2D to make it work with physics

[crude creek]

I'll update you later

[hard viper]

would it be possible to just copy all the source code from CustomCollider2D into an identical wrapper class that isn’t sealed?

idk how injected code works in that regard

uhh... UnityEngine.Bindings.NativeHeader is inaccessible due to protection level.

[polar marten]

your mind is in the right place for sure, with snippets like these. don't be discouraged!

[hard viper]

is there any way to get access to UnityEngine.Bindings? It seems to be necessary to bind methods to the proprietary C++ code

this is all because I'm trying to unseal the CustomCollider2D class

[crude creek]

Thanks!

@rigid island How bad is this?

[rigid island]

pretty rough lol

you're dipping below 15fps

you have tons of batches goin on

[simple egret]

There's also two large allocation spikes

[crude creek]

Physics is the thing it's consuming the most

[simple egret]

Switch to hierachy mode instead of Timeline to get a list of what uses the most resources

[hard viper]

would anyone know how to get around a sealed modifier in a built-in class?

[crude creek]

I think thats a lot of trigger stays

[simple egret]

Seems like you have some stuff that monitor trigger stays yes

[crude creek]

I think I know whats making that

[simple egret]

Do you have a lot of script instances with OnTriggerStay() implemented?

[crude creek]

Is there a way to see where are the triggerstays that are consuming the most?

[crude creek]

I have some

[simple egret]

You'll have to enable Deep Profiling (button at the top of the profiler window) to see where in the code the issue is

[crude creek]

I enabled it

what now?

[crude creek]

thanks again for the attention

[simple egret]

Profile again, and you'll be able to open the profiler's hierarchy items deeper this time

[rigid island]

holy shit 0.6MB of GC

what could you be doing OnTriggerStay

[crude creek]

I don't see any changes

[crude creek]

a lot of things

[rigid island]

if its enabled keep expanding arrows it should be able to narrow a specific method

[crude creek]

it don't

[wicked berry]

so hi could someone help me out i tried to putting gliding into my game by making my velocity change my gravity but now i cant even get off the ground by jumping

https://hatebin.com/yjhactjlmj

[simple egret]

You need to run a new profiling session, ie. you need to play the game again

[crude creek]

still ends on those two lines

[simple egret]

Well no

These are your scripts

[crude creek]

ohhh

thats it

that really fits on what I thought

the problem is that I call those methods, or that I do a lot of thingds in those?

[simple egret]

Allocations (CG Alloc) are separated in the Hierarchy, but they are coming from the scripts at the same level

[crude creek]

ohhhhh

I know understand whats making it really go down

[crude creek]

its not those two methods, its the one under them

the props.Ontriggerstay

Its what its the most consuming I think

correct me if I'm wrong

[simple egret]

You create a lot of stuff, which means the GC (Garbage Collector) has to work harder in finding and reserving RAM to store the things you create, as well as disposing of objects you don't use anymore to clear up RAM

You'll have to post the code, so we can see what's the source of all these allocations

[crude creek]

I found the problem

I'm using ontriggerstay when I could easily use ontriggerenter

[neon plank]

How can I know if an object is inside this infinitely wide (but not infinitely long) plane?
I would like to know the point in the plane where a vertical line fall thought it

[simple egret]

Post the code anyway, I want to see where the performance bottleneck is

[crude creek]

I gotta go real quick

I'll be back rn

[lean sail]

What do you mean by that last sentence? What vertical line are you hoping to achieve and what is this for in terms of your game?

[rigid island]

ahh thats almost like doing GetComponent in FixedUpdate

expensive

[simple egret]

And the Instantiate

[rigid island]

yeah constantly Destroying too

[simple egret]

And a small bit for the lack of CompareTag

[rigid island]

someone needs to learn pooling 😏

yeah this whole method screams optimizations needed

no wonder profiler is crying

[simple egret]

Yeah especially if this is on a lot of objects. The text objects can indeed be pooled yup

[hard viper]

pooling is an optimization you plan for early, but you do later.

it makes sense that now is the time to upgrade

[simple egret]

Putting that in OnTriggerEnter should shave off a great part of the slowdowns

[wicked berry]

if i put my jump in fixed update it doesnt jump immediatly

but if i put in update it does but people said its bad for optimizing

[hard viper]

because you check for button presses in update, not fixedupdate. So by the time FixedUpdate comes along, several Update frames already passed

the optimal way to do it is to use InputSystem to call methods specifically when the jump button is pressed

[neon plank]

I have a rectangle of infinite width (ignore the vertical yellow lines) and finite length which is defined by two points plus a normal.
If have a green point above the rectangle, I want to get its corresponding (purple) point in the rectangle.
And if the green point doesn't have a corresponding rectangle point, I don't want anything (this is not an infinite plane, but an infinite rectangle).

[rigid island]

inputs go in Update
moving rigidbody shouldin FixedUpdate (.velocity / AddForce when accelerate mode)

if you are using Impulse force, Update is acceptable for a frame pressed

[hard viper]

if you use Input, that has to go into Update

InputSystem doesn't need to go into update nor fixedupdate

but in no case can you be putting it in fixedUpdate

[wicked berry]

oh lmao xd

thanks

[simple egret]

Plane.Raycast to the rescue! This can roughly do what you want, except the plane extends infinitely in both directions. You'll have to check whether the point you hit on the plane is deemed as "in bounds"
This is a full code solution which does not require the creation of objects in the scene

[wicked berry]

i though anything physics related had to go into fixed update

[neon plank]

Ok

[crude creek]

I'm back

I read all your comments, and I'm gonna apply them. Thanks a lot!

[lean sail]

What is this for in terms of your game? This seems like a very niche problem that doesnt need to exist in the first place. If you cant define a max size and use a collider to solve some of the work, you'll need to keep track of every object that can potentially be above this. Then im pretty sure it should be as simple as checking if the current position lines up with the rectangles normal + some offset. That offset is just the finite dimensions of the rectangle

[neon plank]

I have a flying object which is moving thought a custom nav mesh link I made and I must handle its height during the movement of the link

[hard viper]

Ok, I think I'm narrowing down on my options, and I need a bit of help: I want to make a wrapper class for CustomCollider2D, but idk how to do this since it is sealed. Most of my code uses Collider2D to call Cast, Distance, logic in dictionaries etc. And idk how to add this while keeping compatibility. The class I want to make should be identical to a CustomCollider2D, but it has some extra methods/fields. Any ideas?

[midnight sun]

Does any1 know what could be causing a consistent an immediate crash when generating lightmaps? This randomly started happening today, many different versions and newly created projects are affected.

[lean sail]

Actually I forgot about plane.raycast, as spr2 suggested. thatll be more helpful if you're able to use it

[hard viper]

I'm thinking about making a Class containing a CustomCollider2D, make a static dictionary to connect class to customcollider2D, and whenever I want to call on anything with a Customcollider2D, I need to go check this dictionary. Sound like a plan?

[rigid island]

you mean runtime or code?

[midnight sun]

In the editor

Like everything else works fine but I just cannot bake anymore

[rigid island]

id try asking #archived-lighting
this is a code channel

[midnight sun]

Omg

Lmao

I just saw general and was like this is the one

[hard viper]

is there a way to get a message when an object is destroyed? or when a destructor is called?

[umbral temple]

I'm pretty sure it is just:
void OnDestroy() { }

[hard viper]

it's a built-in component

I want to subscribe a method to its destruction

[rigid island]

just invoke an event inside OnDestroy ?

[hard viper]

let's say my target is a Collider2D

I want to know if/when this collider2D is destroyed

and I want to call Foo() when it destroyed. How do I do that

[rigid island]

might be easier to look in editor scripts, if you need it runtime maybe there is a better way and might be XY problem

[hard viper]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[hard viper]

https://hatebin.com/mnojjsskyz

This should give an idea of what I'm trying to do

I am trying to make a generic wrapper class to deal with Unity's fetish for sealed classes

The way it works is: The wrapper can tell you the thing it wraps. When you initialize the wrapper, it needs to basically add itself to the static wrapper dictionary that ties the wrapper class to the type of component it wraps.

Then the wrapper class can hold whatever things you need

And if you have an object of the wrapped type, this dictionary lets you access the extra information

The problem is: in order to make a static dictionary, I need to know when the component is destroyed to remove it from the dictionary

any idea on how to do this lightly? I don't want to make something that just checks the dictionary for destroyed entries every frame, just to block memory leaks

it would also work if I could subscribe a method to an object being disabled

[mossy snow]

what's the purpose of this wrapper? Your design seems to be screaming that whatever it's supposed to do, it would best be done as a component as well that's adjacent to this wrapped thing on a GO, not an association in a static dictionary

[hard viper]

I can't modify Unity's built-in components outside of extension methods

extension fields aren't a thing

I would love to derrive from CustomCollider2D, making a class that just matches the outside behaviour (so you can call Cast, Overlap, Distance....)

to make a CustomCollider shape that is more specific, and thus has certain parameters/fields for that shape

and this is a general issue: I wish I could just... add fields to built-in components. But I can't

I wish I could inherit from built-in components, but I can't

I wish I could copy the code and make a new class from scratch, but because of how Unity injects C++ code, I can't

I wish I could just change the source code. Change one or two words. but I can't

[mossy snow]

well you're working against the system here. Make a CustomCollider2D class with a serialized field to a target Collider2D and implement all the same methods. I don't see how your wrapper is going to be a better solution over that, especially since it really doesn't have any functionality

[hard viper]

CustomCollider2D is sealed

[mossy snow]

MyCustomCollider2D that accepts a target CustomCollider2D then

[hard viper]

and most methods are injected, with attributes with a protection level that blocks you from copying them

ok, Cast/Distance/Overlapping etc isn't virtual

if 99% of my methods solely depend on a Collider2D, I can't just .Cast it

[mossy snow]

your wrapper has the same limitation, while also being more complicated and confusing to use though

[hard viper]

what is your suggestion

MyCustomCollider2D can't inherit from CustomCollider2D, and inheritting from Collider2D just gives the wrong behaviour.

and I can't give Collider2D an interface

[mossy snow]

I just described it. I still don't know what your ultimate objective is though. Maybe your specialized Cast/Overlay behaviour should be in a static class instead and you avoid wrapping anything

[hard viper]

I don't have specialized Cast/Overlap/Distance behaviour

[hard viper]

is this your suggestion?

what does MyCustomCollider2D inherit from, if anything

[mossy snow]

it beats the stuffing out of a static dictionary, so yeah. But what do you want to do with CustomCollider2D? This looks super generic already

MonoBehaviour

[hard viper]

This would basically give me the ability to know when the object is destroyed.

[mossy snow]

yes

[hard viper]

how is this different from the wrapper method?

my whole game depends on Collider2D, and Collider2D methods

[mossy snow]

did you find a way to solve the object destruction problem? Because the next point on that train is "well I'll add a component to the wrapped component's GO..." and then all your previous code might as well deleted, and you'll end up at my suggestion

[hard viper]

I think I will give my wrapper an initialize method that takes in an Action, that gets triggered on destruction

and a different monobehaviour that it lives on can tie it

the wrapper would make it so I only need to call the wrapper for a couple of methods that need really specific behaviour

https://hatebin.com/qfuryluurq

I think this is what we're going with

Generic class. If you inherit from this, then you can maintain it automatically

the idea is to compose this wrapper into another monobehaviour

or just... let it be in the ether, not composed into anything

[hard viper]

Finally got it. success

janky success

[broken light]

is there a built in function to query if Bounds is visible for a specific camera

since they do those checks with meshes

wondered if they exposed the function for us to query freely

i really would like to avoid doing the math myself given they have the function already there some where for their OnBecomeVisible etc

[lean sail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GeometryUtility.TestPlanesAABB.html
is this what u want?

[broken light]

it looks like it might just be

thank you @lean sail

shame they didnt just have a helper function on the camera itself

like _camera.IsVisible(myBounds)

[elder chasm]

https://hatebin.com/mtuqmpkhld
im having trouble trying to get my player to reset horizontal momentum when running into the side of a platform

[hasty wave]

how can I prevent the "bed" from detecting the mouse over once there's a UI above it?

[broken light]

ui has an option to block raycasts

some where in their inspector

[broken light]

i think you need to set the body's forces on x to 0 aswell

[hasty wave]

the thing is, I'm not using raycast to hover on an object. I use "OnMouseOver"

[broken light]

yeh i know OnMouseOver is doing a ray check on your behalf

if you block the rays it shouldn't trigger

on your canvas gameobject add canvas group component

and tick block raycasts

[elder chasm]

sorry if im being dum but how do i set the force

[broken light]

oh you might have to do body.AddForce() and give it equal and opposite force on x axis

to cancel it out

body.totalForce = new(0,body.totalForce.y);

might also work

[hasty wave]

did it and it still detects the mouse

[broken light]

well you should really use IPointerClickHandler interface rather than OnMouseOver

i believe that will respect the ui

[hasty wave]

I see.. alright thanks :D

[elder chasm]

im getting an error saying TotalForce isnt defined

i might just be being dumb

[broken light]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-totalForce.html

its lowercase t not T

the doc has example code at the bottom

[elder chasm]

oh my bad

doesnt appear to be working

sorry my internet did a funny there

honestly i dont have any clue why its not working

all i know is that if i put a Debug.Log before the set velocity it runs the log script

[spring creek]

If normal.x != 0, you set velocity.x to 0

[elder chasm]

!= mean is not right

[spring creek]

Not equal, yes

[elder chasm]

ye what i mean lol

[spring creek]

So, the side of the platform for example

Assuming a platform is tagged Ground?

[elder chasm]

yes

[spring creek]

Ok, well that is why the x velocity is reset when you hit the side of a platform. You do it explicitly.

[elder chasm]

i want it to be where when you stop touching the side you dont keep your velocity

from before you hit it

like in mario how if you run into a block and in the same jump you stop touching the block from gaining height you dont keep momentum @spring creek

[spring creek]

Well you set x velocity every frame in update (that should be in FixedUpdate, but that is not the issue). You should make a "canMove" bool or something and check that before moving. If you hit a wall then make it so you can't move until you hit the ground (if I understand what you want)

[elder chasm]

no thats not what im asking

you know how in mario you need to build momentum to go fast

but if you run into a block or something you lose all your momentum

thats what im goin for

[spring creek]

You don't have anything to do with momentum in code. You set fulls speed or set 0 speed.

And no, I don't know anything about how it is in mario, sorry

[hasty wave]

how do I make it so that any interaction like dragging with the mouse, scrolling to zoom and interacting in the background is disabled when a UI appears?

[spring creek]

Which input system are you using?

[hasty wave]

wdym by that?..

[spring creek]

There is the new input system and the older input manager.
Are you writing things like Input.GetAxis, or using callbacks?
If you aren't sure, you are 99% using the old input

[hasty wave]

I do use the Input.GetAxis for my zoom

[elder chasm]

this sounds like a really dumb question, but how do i add non-ui text

[spring creek]

Ok, well you'll want to just have some condition wrapping the input. Like when menuOpen is false read that input, when it is open, you don't

You could also have it in a script that you enable or disable (disabling a script only disables unity methods like update btw)

[hasty wave]

wait, how do you disable a script?

[spring creek]

this.enabled = false; or

scriptReference.enabled = false;

[hasty wave]

I kinda wanted it to act like a pause(?). Here when the question appears, any interaction outside of the UI will be disabled. I want it to have that interaction...

[hasty wave]

I see.. alright I'll try that

[spring creek]

Combine what I said with Time.timeScale = 0, which will catch most things. But might not do it all
It's up to how your game works

[soft shard]

Do you mean 3D text in your game environment? If so, under the "GameObject" tab, there is "3D" along with your common ones like cube, sphere etc, there is also "3D Text" - Unity has a legacy one, and there is also TextMeshPro, which is the recommended

[elder chasm]

no im making a 2d game

[spring creek]

You can use that in 2d

[elder chasm]

oh

[spring creek]

2d in Unity is still 3d

[elder chasm]

ye i forgor that

oh wow its that easy

[spring creek]

TMP is cool haha. Worldspace text is great.

[elder chasm]

hello me again

[hasty wave]

the cameraDrag and cameraZoom did stopped working when disabled. but the bedFunction still does the "OnMouseOver" dispite it's script is already disabled. why is it like that?

[elder chasm]

how would i make a loop that moves something up and then moves it down and then repeats

[spring creek]

Yeaaahh, that wouldn't get disabled. Only Update (and Fixed/LateUpdate, and I think OnTrigger/OnCollision do).
Could the menu simply BLOCK everything? Not sure if that would work.

Otherwise gotta make a bool.

[hasty wave]

I'm trying to do that but couldn't find a way. I'm now trying if I could disable the collider instead to prevent it with any interactions

[hasty wave]

this worked XD lmaooo

@spring creek sorry for the ping but thank you so much for introducing me this .enabled really helped a lot!

[soft shard]

Sounds like you might be looking for a PingPong: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.PingPong.html
Since this return a float you can manipulate one axis at a time with it, heres an example that seems similar to what you want to achieve, searching "unity c# mathf.pingpong vector": https://forum.unity.com/threads/ping-pong-gameobject-up-and-down-from-current-postion.226442/#post-1509140

[elder chasm]

can someone break this down im a bit confused

shouldnt it need a min y

[mossy snow]

why wouldn't you just read the documentation that you were linked?

[elder chasm]

i got confused

i was lookin at this page too https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61306895/what-does-unitys-mathf-pingpong-actually-do

[mossy snow]

PingPong returns a value that will increment and decrement between the value 0 and length. confused you?

[elder chasm]

i know what it does

im trying to apply it

to move something

im a bit slow

i just want to move something up and then down and then repeat and im tryin to figure it out rn

i think im gettin it now though

[wispy wolf]

@elder chasm You want to do this without physics? Just forcibly set the location every FixedUpdate()?

[elder chasm]

yeah i think ive got it almost figured out gimme 1 sec

[wispy wolf]

Rather than reinventing the wheel, use a tween library like this https://dotween.demigiant.com/

Think of it as a library to blend between two values over time, but incredibly flexible and customizable

[elder chasm]

oh thanks

[wispy wolf]

It can feel a bit overwhelming bc it can do a lot, but its good to have a basic understanding of it. dm me if you ever need help with it

[spare island]

            DOTween.To(() => _canvasGroup.alpha, x => _canvasGroup.alpha = 1f, 0f, UIFadeInOnActiveGlobalConfiguration.Duration);

i may be stupid but what am I doing wrong here to make this canvasGroup's alpha go from 1 to 0?

dont mind the incredibly long name for that class

[spare island]

speak of the devil

[mossy snow]

think about what your setter is supposed to be doing, and what it's actually doing

[spare island]

I'm not sure I really understand the syntax of this command 😕

            DOTween.To(() => _canvasGroup.alpha, x => _canvasGroup.alpha = x, 1f,
            UIFadeInOnActiveGlobalConfiguration.Duration);
``` im trying to figure out why this works and the other thing doesnt (i tried with "x, 0f" too)

[mossy snow]

that has a correct setter

[spare island]

            DOTween.To(getter: () => _canvasGroup.alpha, setter: x => _canvasGroup.alpha = x, endValue: 0f, duration: UIFadeInOnActiveGlobalConfiguration.Duration);

with labels

[mossy snow]

that one is now correct

[spare island]

what

[mossy snow]

your first snippet ignores the value of x and sets alpha to 1 every time

[polar marten]

DOTween has builtins for fading, i think it's _canvasGroup.DOFade(...)

[polar marten]

you meant to do _canvasGroup.alpha = x

i see you figured this out

[spare island]

ah well its still not working with this but im going to try DOFade

[polar marten]

that code is correct. your canvas group (your hierarchy) is probably not set up correctly

or, rarely, you may have configured dotween to not autoplay

[mossy snow]

or you set timeScale to 0, that surprises people every now and then too

[spare island]

no whats weird is that it sets the alpha of the canvasgroup to 0 immediately

[polar marten]

well

then the duration is zero. or, you are setting it to zero immediately elsewhere

[spare island]

oops

well at least i wasnt wrong about being stupid

[polar marten]

it's okay

[spare island]

at least i can swap that DOTween.To() to DoFade

that will look much cleaner

[finite swift]

Having a issue when the player is wall jumping it will sometimes go down rather than up, really confusing because all the values are positive, I can't figure it out for the life of me.
https://paste.ofcode.org/9ZgxhPnDCMsFZU5SYBGy52

[hexed pecan]

What kinda collider(s) does your player have?

[finite swift]

Just an empty object placed on the edge of the player

[hexed pecan]

Asking about the collider, not the wall check object

Anyway you could start by visualizing the forces, collisions etc. with Debug.DrawLine and such

[gray mural]

Hello, why isn't value assigned to the StartCoroutine(coroutine)?
It also throws the IDE0059 on the value =

/// <summary>
/// Stops the value coroutine if it isn't null and assigns it to the newly started one
/// </summary>
public void AssignCoroutine(IEnumerator coroutine, Coroutine value)
{
    TryStopCoroutine(value);
    value = StartCoroutine(coroutine);
}

the Coroutine is the class and it should save the reference, shouldn't it?

do I just make value a ref ?

oh, just remember you cannot assign a class to the smth, you can just change its fields

that's a stupid mistake 🙄

[hexed pecan]

You can just make your method return a Coroutine

Or ref

[gray mural]

yes, got it now, thanks 😁

[finite swift]

Ah sorry for my misunderstanding, im using a box collider

[hexed pecan]

I would use a bool instead of relying on float comparison and transform.localScale.x

Or at least check the sign of it instead of exact value

Not sure how to fix your walljump issue though

[fiery path]

Am i correct in saying having a public bool method will be originally assumed as false?

EG:

    {
        return (Time.time - lastEnteredTime) >= CooldownTime;
    }

[simple egret]

No

It'll evaluate what's after the return and return that value

Methods do not have default values, you'll only know the value when you call (execute) it

[fiery path]

I see
So in this case it will check if the elapsed time is greater than or equal to the cooldown time and then the method would return true

So am I understanding that boolean methods technically dont have a base true or false state
They just turn true once a returned condition is met?

[simple egret]

No method has a "base state", only variables do

[fiery path]

Got it, thanks

[fervent furnace]

it just returns the result of expression

[fiery path]

Yeah nevermind, I was completely overthinking 💀

i fully understand

[dapper palm]

I followed this video https://youtu.be/eL_zHQEju8s?si=uLLHWhr-6kZgfZaV on water physics and at the end of the video he says how to add movement but doesn't show it can someone help me do that.

public class Floater : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Rigidbody rigidBody;
    public float depthBeforeSubmerged = 1f;
    public float displacementAmount = 3f;
    public int floaterCount = 1;
    public float waterDrag = 0.99f;
    public float waterAngularDrag = 0.5f;

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rigidBody.AddForceAtPosition(Physics.gravity/ floaterCount, transform.position, ForceMode.Acceleration);
        float waveHeight = WaveManager.instance.GetWaveHeight(transform.position.x);
        if(transform.position.y < waveHeight)
        {
            float displacementMultiplier = Mathf.Clamp01((waveHeight - transform.position.y) / depthBeforeSubmerged)* displacementAmount;
            rigidBody.AddForceAtPosition(new Vector3(0f,Mathf.Abs(Physics.gravity.y)* displacementMultiplier, 0f),transform.position, ForceMode.Acceleration);
            rigidBody.AddForce(displacementMultiplier * -rigidBody.velocity * waterDrag * Time.fixedDeltaTime, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
            rigidBody.AddTorque(displacementMultiplier * -rigidBody.angularVelocity * waterAngularDrag * Time.fixedDeltaTime, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W))
        {
            
        }


    }
}```

[prime sinew]

it says just apply force in forward direction. you should learn how to do that

so just look into AddForce and AddTorque for rotation?

[gray mural]

Hello, what's the best way to set the mouse position in Unity?

I've found some stuff that uses System.Windows.Forms, but it's not the best thing to use in Unity, or am I misunderstanding something?

[dusk apex]

Maybe consider making a game mouse cursor and hiding the OS cursor.

[fervent furnace]

mouse position is controlled by OS (and read from the hardware)
there should be some system calls to change the mouse position in the OS, maybe google it by yourself

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62135109/move-the-mouse-pointer-in-a-specific-direction-with-unity

[gray mural]

Yes, I do have this logic already. I'm drawing the GUI cursor. But I am talking about the real OS cursor's position.
I cannot change OS cursor's position by just changing the GUI

[dusk apex]

You'll need to make OS specific calls to manipulate the OS cursor.

Which would differ per platform etc

[ashen yoke]

you dont need GUI for it, its part of the Cursor api

[dusk apex]

Else consider manipulating the non OS mouse and acquiring deltas from the OS mouse instead.

[gray mural]

I know it. You cannot change the Texture's size with the built-in Cursor

[ashen yoke]

you can i think with CursorMode.ForceSoftware

[gray mural]

so I had to implement my custom logic

[gray mural]

but I draw custom custors that're scriptable objects that have their fields like width, height, rot angle etc.

I surely cannot achieve this stuff using the built-in cursor

[ashen yoke]

no you can only set image, you are correct

but you can set larger image than 32 which hw cursor allows with software mode

which ui is drawing the cursor?

uGui?

[gray mural]

that's great, 'cause I don't want to rewrite my whole custom cursor logic I've been implementing...

[gray mural]

OnGUI()

[ashen yoke]

i strongly advise you not to use GUI calls anywhere in build

they are fine in debug build/editor

[gray mural]

Build? It isn't Play / Game mode, right?

[ashen yoke]

reason is simple a single call anywhere in the project will spin up the GUI system in build which with zero load will still consume about 2ms per frame

no, build is build

the .exe

[gray mural]

I see, build is editor mode

[ashen yoke]

while in editor you can use GUI if you #if UNITY_EDITOR #endif

[dusk apex]

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

[gray mural]

I don't use it in editor though, so no troubles 🙄

[ashen yoke]

yes you are planning to use it for the game itself, so it will go into the build

and your performance will suffer

[gray mural]

oh, so the Build Mode is when the game is played outside of the Unity?

[ashen yoke]

build is the process of creating the final executable, asset bundles so that the game is playable outside the editor, yes

term build refers to the .exe and all the files of the published game

[rich widget]

Hello. Running into a weird issue/bug(?) when manually playing animations onto a standard Animator component.

The thing I am trying to do is

• create an object
• specify the animation to play on it by name

The behavior I am seeing is that for 1 frame after creation, the object is drawn with a sprite from the default (from entry) animation state instead.

Relevant code snippet, I removed some irrelevant lines and simplified the code. I think it's more likely to be me misunderstanding some nuance of the unity animation system than an actual programming error;

var new_obj = GameObject.Instantiatekind, position, rotation);
var animation_comp = new_obj.GetComponent<Animator>();
animation_comp.Play(animation_name);

I feel like this didn't used to happen, but I cannot say that for sure.

[ashen yoke]

seems the transition between states takes time

[rich widget]

How would I specify this, though? I suspected that was it but the states do not have an actual transition within the animator

*animation controller

[gray mural]

Drawing a custom cursor in OnGUI method

[ashen yoke]

first look through the api and try finding some way to force transition instantly https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Play.html

it seems the normalized time has potential to fix your issue if you provide 1

[rich widget]

that seems strange. Reading it it seems that normalizedTime would be used to pick the starting point in an animation consisting of blend+target animation. I'll try it but my guess would've been I'd jump to the end of my animation. Happy to be wrong though

hah. the behavior I am getting is;

• Still 1 frame of default state
• Rest of animation skipped

[ashen yoke]

does it have "play on awake" ?

[rich widget]

sorry, I am not familiar with that setting. where would that be located? is it in the animation controller, the animation, or the renderer?

[ashen yoke]

the animator component

frame delay may be the animator no in isInitialized state yet

so your Play command is buffered

[rich widget]

the actual animator, at least from inspector, does not expose such a variable. but it has a 'normal' update mode and a 'always animate' culling mode

[rich widget]

Interesting, I suppose it's possible for the object to be drawn 1 frame before it's updates methods are called? It seems like a weird thing for unity to do though

[gray mural]

Thank you, I'll have a look on that! 😄

[rich widget]

I'll try to force the initialization with rebind

[ashen yoke]

youre right, try - switch inspector to debug mode, tick Keep animator state on disable

im shooting blindly i dont remember if i had this issue or not and if i did anything to remedy it

so im scratching off the bottom of the memory barell for potential fixes

[rich widget]

this wasnt good enough

yeah it is understandable. I sure sometimes wish I could sidestep the animator system entirely 😬 sadly not an option I think

[ashen yoke]

it is with Animancer

[rich widget]

👀 I'll have a google later

[rich widget]

alright I managed to follow this. But I still dont know where the 'play on awake' would be found

[ashen yoke]

i probably mixed it up with something else

lots of unity component have setting like that

[rich widget]

no worries

[ashen yoke]

that Keep animator state fixes nasty issue when disable/enable of the animator would break its internal state

it has potential to fix your issue, but its low, but still worth a shot

[rich widget]

I think it might've if I wasn't creating a new object every time?
There are actually a lot of fun interactions I am noticing now that I am truly stepping through this unity step-by-step

[ashen yoke]

if it fails, my last suggestion is to manually go through transitions in the state machine itself and disable "has exit time" on them

another thing you can try doing

is when you spawn the object, disable/enable it

[rich widget]

feels a little silly that that'd be the thing, considering I am not actually using any of the regular transitions

disable it for 1 update frame would certainly work around this

[ashen yoke]

no i mean just disable/enable

synchronously

[rich widget]

huh

sadly, nope

[ashen yoke]

if something pops in mind ill share, atm nothing

[rich widget]

I am noticing another problem semi-related to this now, too;
The physics outline consistently lags behind the animation by 1 frame (first frame has some sort of prefab default prism structure)

[wise arch]

I cannot seem to copy InputAction.CallbackContext and it's making my input based replay system fck up when it tries to read a vector2 from the context.

How can I copy it anyway and fully?

[rich widget]

To illustrate;
frame 1. Gray is the visible effect, Red is the hitbox object drawn. Green is the physics outline of the hitbox.
frame 2. The hitbox object now has the right sprite, but the physics outline is following the incorrect sprite from 1 frame prior
frame 3. Behavior is as expected

[ashen yoke]

is it moving in FixedUpdate?

in any case, that is normal, physics dont step in sync with Update

are you calling Play in fixed update?

[rich widget]

I dont think so but let me double check

[rich widget]

ah, so because the sprite render physicsoutline is handled by some fixedupdate thing, it might be out of sync with displayed graphics?

[ashen yoke]

all colliders live in a separate physics world which is synchronized with unity scene

the physics world is updated at fixed rate, Update is not

[rich widget]

Ok no almost by definition I cannot be. Call stack starts at an event fired by an animation

[ashen yoke]

try calling https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Update.html after Play

[rich widget]

YEP that handles it

(with 0 as argument)

many many thanks

[ashen yoke]

great!

[hard viper]

I'm confused as to why the commented line gives an ArgumentOutOfRange exception

Debug.Log shows that shapes.GetShapeVertices breaks when i=1, and shapeCount = 2

[ashen yoke]

can it be that shape 2 has 0 verts?

[hard viper]

when I look in debug mode, that seems to not be the case

PhysicsShapeGroup2D is kind of weird. I think it stores all the vertices in one big list

then each shape corresponds to a range of indices

[ashen yoke]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/724ff727438a68d1bc05b342c693c1d481063fd3/Modules/Physics2D/ScriptBindings/Physics2D.bindings.cs#L2448

[hard viper]

ah ha. I can use the assembly browser, but I couldn't see the line numbers

[ashen yoke]

post the stacktrace

[hard viper]

ok this doesn't make sense. Stacktrace says to look at line 2654, which is a different method

[ashen yoke]

versions differ

[hard viper]

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
System.Collections.Generic.List1[T].get_Item (System.Int32 index) (at <130809ae6f984869a6663c878f16e3f3>:0) UnityEngine.PhysicsShapeGroup2D.GetShapeVertices (System.Int32 shapeIndex, System.Collections.Generic.List1[T] vertices) (at /Users/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Modules/Physics2D/ScriptBindings/Physics2D.bindings.cs:2654)
LoupExtensionMethods.LoupPhysicsExtensions.ToStringVertices (UnityEngine.PhysicsShapeGroup2D shapes) (at Assets/Scripts/GenericPhysics/BasicKinematicMovement.cs:452)
CompositeColliderRound2D.MakeRoundedCompositeWithoutWrapper (UnityEngine.CustomCollider2D custCollider, UnityEngine.CompositeCollider2D compCol, UnityEngine.PhysicsShapeGroup2D& shapes) (at Assets/Scripts/GenericPhysics/CompositeColliderRound2D.cs:99)

I had to cut off the stack trace because it is too long

[ashen yoke]

shapeVertices[shapeVertexIndex++] the only indexer in that method

[hard viper]

uh... that is different from where the assembly browser brings me

but it looks the same

[ashen yoke]

can you use the debugger and check if groupVertices matches amount of verts in both shapes

[hard viper]

anyway, I don't understand why I would get an argument index out of range exception

[ashen yoke]

because of a bug, most likely

[hard viper]

can I put a breakpoint in the assembly browser?

[ashen yoke]

no just in your IDE

[hard viper]

anyway, the point of all this is to debug more easily, because I see when I add 2 physicsshape groups, the result is different

my shapes has 2 shapes, one with 4 and 5 vertices. Groupvertices is 9 long. which is right

[ashen yoke]

which unity version?

[hard viper]

2022.3.2f1

I suspect the issue is in GetShape

[ashen yoke]

check each shape vertexStartIndex

[merry sierra]

do any one know how to get desktop's audio

[hard viper]

OH shit I found it

[hexed pecan]

Desktop's audio?

[hard viper]

my second shape has vertexStartIndex = 5. First shape is 4 vertices long. So the start index should be 4

[merry sierra]

lets say i am playing some music on spotify so it should detect the music so that i can get the spectrum values and stuff

[hard viper]

ty cache. I'll report the bug

[cloud marsh]

does anyone have an idea on how to recreate tf2's movement?

[hard viper]

ty .cache. I love fixing bugs in unity /s

wtf. was this class tested?

[ashen yoke]

probably fails under specific conditions

[hard viper]

i don't think so

[ashen yoke]

when shape is inserted it may report incorrect vert count

or something like that for some specific shape

[hard viper]

    int num = physicsShapeGroup.vertexCount;
    groupShapes.AddRange (physicsShapeGroup.groupShapes);
    groupVertices.AddRange (physicsShapeGroup.groupVertices);
    if (count > 0) {
        for (int i = count; i < m_GroupState.m_Shapes.Count; i++) {
            PhysicsShape2D value = m_GroupState.m_Shapes [i];
            value.vertexStartIndex += num;
            m_GroupState.m_Shapes [i] = value;
        }
    }```
This function doesn't make sense. This is .Add

groupVertices uses .AddRange to add the new shape to the end of the vertex list

and then it goes through all the old shapes, and shifts their start forward

that's not correct

that's flipped

it's so wrong, that this function was probably not tested

[hard viper]

I fixed it by not using.Add

[hard viper]

bro. this component was not tested. wtf unity

[young bluff]

This part of the code takes about 712ms to excute. chunkList is a arraylist of chunkinfo. Any idea how to make it performe better

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1124784946641375293/1175469975889248317/image.png?ex=656b58b9&is=6558e3b9&hm=b1b8b826a18e11324e1f0b0bf37c86f1fcc068053a1ae8db8e2ed3d3b33d54e5&

[hard viper]

I've had something like that before

do you have ruletiles?

and how many tiles are you setting at once?

what is var.Positions.Length ?

also, don't use Time. that's wrong

you want to use stopwatch

DoWhatever();
stopwatch.Stop(); Debug.Log("Time it took to load level (in ticks): " + stopwatch.Elapsed.Ticks);```

stopwatch is designed to actually properly measure this stuff

[hard viper]

does that help?

[fervent furnace]

ArrayList?

it should be List i see, ArrayList and List is completely different

[lyric atlas]

This might be a rather dumb question but is it worth having a helper method to narrow certain calls which use GetComponent?

say:

if (target.GetComponent<Health>())
  target.GetComponent<Health>().Damage(data);

and using a static helper to implement this so I can just call something like

HelperClass.DoDamage(target, data);

as if this may be called lots, condensing it like this is nicer and any class can access it. I'd like it to condense my code but wasn't sure if there was a better way than this. I'm presuming I could also use GameObject.SendMessage as an event-ish route but I'm not sure on its performance
I can think of a few ways to do it fine, i'd just like to know which ways would be better practice and why, ta!

[fervent furnace]

what is the type of target

[lyric atlas]

GameObject

[fervent furnace]

if the objects is nondeterministic, eg argument in OnTrigger/Collision callback then i prefer tryGetComponent (it is just two lines of code) otherwise just reference to the script

[ionic isle]

thats cool but can you invert a binary tree?

[fervent furnace]

what?

[ionic isle]

invert the tree

[lyric atlas]

so:

if (target.TryGetComponent<Health>(out Health health))
  health.Damage(data);

or something like this inside a helper method? meaning it does something if it exists and does nothing if the target has no health

[fervent furnace]

look likes spam

[lyric atlas]

lmao

[lyric atlas]

just curious but what would the rough performance difference be between something like this and GameObject.SendMessage(...) ?

[fervent furnace]

i would do this if you prefer to use helper method

public static bool Method(){
  return true if component (ie the script) exists
}
``` then call it as
```cs
if(Helper.Method()){do works}
else other works

since you may have further logic to be performed depends on whether there is the component

[lyric atlas]

ah fair point, I'll probably make it a bool and return true if the default path is used and false if not, this is gonna be very general and used by a lotta stuff as a baseline so it doesn't need to handle special behaviour cases in the helper

[fervent furnace]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/is-sendmessage-really-that-bad.38094/
some old posts

[lyric atlas]

ta

[latent latch]

I question some of these methods. Why would you ever use this instead of just grabbing the references?

[dapper palm]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[young bluff]

Talking to me or?

[dapper palm]

https://gdl.space/udumumawuz.cpp I trying to make boat movement but im having trouble with the turning.

[hard viper]

bro, that whole block of text was for you

[young bluff]

That was delay I sent that message over a hour ago

sorry was out of internet for a bit let me see what i can implement

[clever trellis]

this is not working!
i want to move the object in the direction camera is looking when i click the screen
i'm calling this onpointclick from another script (attached to some other object)

[stark plaza]

What's the best way to make a Narrator System? I was thinking about a SO with audioclip and some other info that you can attach to a Game object script that handles based on different implementations (collisions, interaction, player stuff) etcs handles the events raising to the main Narrator System

[rigid island]

you've been here around to know
!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[clever trellis]

i thought its a small code snippet 😅

[rigid island]

no, regardless they should at very least go in codeblocks

screenshots are the worse for code

also not accessibility/screen reader friendly

[clever trellis]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Bknseq9ypEUNTGjbvXFcHn

this is not working!
i want to move the object in the direction camera is looking when i click the screen
i'm calling this onpointclick from another script (attached to some other object)

[rigid island]

what is supposed to be calling OnPointerClick()

[clever trellis]

i show u, just a sec

[hard viper]

I'm trying to figure out the smartest way to handle depenetration. Some options:

1. One pass through all moving objects, iteratively trying to depenetrate one at a time.
2. Many passes through all moving objects, with a single depenetration attempt
3. Other?
   Any suggestions?

[clever trellis]

https://gdl.space/adawemocen.cs

this

line 176

[rigid island]

should test
Google.XR.Cardboard.Api.IsTriggerPressed

if its a one frame event the translate won't do anything

Debug.Log inside the if statement should tell you how many times its being called

[clever trellis]

this player has the movement script which includes onpointer click
and the CardboardReticlePointer has the rectile script which calls the player one

[rigid island]

I understand

[clever trellis]

but its void update 🤔

[rigid island]

yes but if pressed , assuming is similiar to GetKeyDown or new input's Pressed, only happens it one frame that won't be enough to keep moving
you would need a bool.

[stark plaza]

Opinion?

[rigid island]

https://developers.google.com/cardboard/reference/unity/class/Google/XR/Cardboard/Api

Gets a value indicating whether the Cardboard trigger button is pressed this frame.

its one frame

[clever trellis]

what to do now

[rigid island]

put a isMoving bool in Update and activate on taps, or use the TriggerHeld function to hold button down ?

[clever trellis]

let me try

[rigid island]

if you wanted to only move on each tap then the code is fine but the moveSpeed is too low

like way low esp with Time.deltaTime

[clever trellis]

no i wanted to move while its presed

[rigid island]

@clever trellis you did Vector3 movement = 10f * Time.deltaTime * Camera.main.transform.forward; (0, 0, 1)
say Time.deltaTime was 0.0063257 that frame you would only moved about (0.00, 0.00, 0.06) in a frame

[clever trellis]

if a put the code directly inside is triggered func, it functions fine ie. moves the object the script is attached to (the rectile dot)

but i want to make the whole player move

[rigid island]

yes because trigger is being called every frame

so make a reference to the player

[clever trellis]

ig OnPointClick is not being called

[rigid island]

wdym its not being called? what is your current code

[clever trellis]

i mean i think the rectile script is not able to access the parent player

[rigid island]

why would it?

children transforms do not move parents

[clever trellis]

did already

[rigid island]

transform.Translate(movement);

[clever trellis]

ohhhhhh

[rigid island]

transform property is the object script is on

[clever trellis]

😭

[rigid island]

just put Movement on the main Player object

[clever trellis]

its on main player only

[clever trellis]

ig its the issue

[rigid island]

uhhh you have some compile error I think

your script is named different than your class

[clever trellis]

should they be same?

[rigid island]

yes

[winter jungle]

Can anyone help with this problem... recently i made my game multidevice so it can be played from pc mobile and ps. However to do this i had to switch to the new input system while all my scripts were coded woth the old one. I found on unity how the controler is but does anyone know how is this line translated: Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); or at least how to make smooth movement using it?

[wicked berry]

why is my triangle not detecting collisions with my players

https://hatebin.com/oqioqqqccg

[clever trellis]

<i>AndroidPlayer "samsung_SM-M515F"</i> OPENGL NATIVE PLUG-IN ERROR: GL_INVALID_VALUE: Numeric argument out of range

[rigid island]

how do you know that from this code alone ?

Player if statement has nothing in it

[oblique spoke]

It depends on what you want out of the new input system, but this goes over the basics to get going https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/manual/HowDoI.html

[civic igloo]

Getting a missing reference exception for a destroyed delegate even though i am removing the listener on destruction?

[oblique spoke]

Is this happening on scene unload?

[civic igloo]

no, on player death, i have an event for whenever the player dies, it's supposed to disable all ai in the scene

wait could the fact that it's inheriting from a base class mean something?

[oblique spoke]

I imagine it could, but it shouldn't inherently change how this works

Logging subs, unsubs and whenever that method is called could provide some hints

[civic igloo]

sorry how do i do that?

[latent latch]

Connect the debugger and throw down a breakpoint and usually you can get a stacktrace of subscribers

[oblique spoke]

Using the debugger might help, but knowing when you are subbing and unsubbing from events as the game goes might be more helpful. You can log with Debug.Log

[heady iris]

^ if this was the case, objects get destroyed immediately, rather than waiting for the end of the frame (because there is no end of the frame, I guess)

I had trouble with this

[civic igloo]

but doesnt ondestroy still get called?

[heady iris]

Yeah. My problem was that I used a unity property in the process of trying to unsubscribe

and so it threw an error

[alpine turret]

looks good bro

[clever trellis]

but doesn't work

[alpine turret]

take a compliment...

@spring creek 🤡

[static matrix]

is it possible to convert points in worldspace to points on a texture?

like if I get a clicked point can I get where that would be on a texture
or vice-versa

[waxen kayak]

Good day to everyone, I have a giant memory leak
I'm now trying to check if an object has moved to another grid, so I can update it, here is the code:

Vector3 oldPosition;
     Vector3 lastPosition;
    public void refresh()
    {
        oldPosition = lastPosition;
           lastPosition = transform.position;
        addtoPart.move(oldPosition, lastPosition);
    }
    public void Awake()
    {
        waterManager = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("WaterManager").GetComponent<GridManager>();
        addtoPart = GetComponent<AddToPartitioning>();
        InvokeRepeating("refresh", 1,1);
        lastPosition = transform.position;
        oldPosition = transform.position;
    }

this is on the class my object is inheriting from
public void move(Vector3 oldpos, Vector3 newpos)

  {
       gridObj[] list;
       Vector2 pos = partitioning.grid.gridIndexAtPosition(transform.position);
       partitioning.grid.returnObjectInCell(new Vector2Int((int)pos.x,(int)pos.y), out list);
       
       foreach (var item in list)
       {
           if(item.soldierTrans = transform)
           {
               partitioning.grid.Move(item, oldpos, newpos);
               break;
           }
       }
       
   }

actual function it calls
I do not think that any of these functions would have anything to do with it, since I'm using them elsewhere too, problem free
What happens is that I start the server, loads up and I gain like 2 gb of memory in less than a second and Unity crashes.
Weird thing is that the profiler shows as if everything was fine

that is normal profiler activity, but I couldn't get more data because it crashes

[alpine turret]

if and break

[static matrix]

if its crashing, it definitely isn't normal

[waxen kayak]

profiler says I'm using less than 2gb memory, while it's using up to 5 while crashing itself

censorship in effect or what

anyway I removed the move function from the foreach and now it doesn't

[soft shard]

Does this happen if you disable those scripts? Just to be certain something in those scripts are producing gigs of memory usage somehow?

[waxen kayak]

so I guess I gotta look at that

[soft shard]

Oh, disregard my last comment then lol, maybe you have multiple instances of that script with large lists on each to loop through, gigs sounds concerning if that's the case though

[alpine turret]

@spring creek I literally complimented the dudes work, you people are something else

dont ever dm me again

[waxen kayak]

list aren't big and only 1 is running

weird because i'm not seeing any loops in it or anything that would cause memory leak

I'm not getting errors so I really have no clue

[static matrix]

ig I can use a rendertexture

[spring creek]

I have never dm'd you? Stop being rude to people
You complimented them, yes.
Then got upset they responded by saying it didn't work...

[soft shard]

A render texture could work, I believe there is a mathematical way to convert coordinates from one system to another, though I don't remember the formula, maybe you could look into "coordinates conversion"

[waxen kayak]

okay I have reduced the problem to the ADD function

         public void Add(gridObj soldier)
        {
            if (!init)
            {
                return;
            }
            if (soldier == null)
            {
                Debug.Log("tryingto add null");
            }
            //Determine which grid cell the soldier is in
            Vector2 cellPos = gridIndexAtPosition(soldier.soldierTrans.position);
            int cellX = (int)cellPos.x;
            int cellZ = (int)cellPos.y;

            //Add the soldier to the front of the list for the cell it's in
            if(cellX > size || cellZ > size)
            {
                Debug.LogWarning("Object is out of the bounds of the grid partioning system, at position (" + soldier.soldierTrans.position.x + ", " + soldier.soldierTrans.position.y + ")", soldier.soldierTrans);
                return;
            }
            soldier.previousSoldier = null;
         
            gridObj gridj = cells[cellX, cellZ];
            //soldier.nextSoldier = ;
             
            //Associate this cell with this soldier
            
            cells[cellX, cellZ] = soldier;
            //Debug.Log("Added to " + cellX + ", " + cellZ);
            if (gridj != null)
            {
                soldier.nextSoldier = gridj;

                //Set this soldier to be the previous soldier of the next soldier of this soldier (linked lists ftw)
                soldier.nextSoldier.previousSoldier = soldier;
            }else
            {
            }
        }
```this is it

the only Void that this is calling now is gridIndexAtPostion

but that is literally just math```cs
public Vector2 gridIndexAtPosition(Vector3 position)
{

        int cellX = (int)(position.x / cellSize);
        int cellY = (int)(position.y / cellSize);
        if (cellX < 0)
        {
            cellX = size/2 + (-cellX);
        }
        if (cellY < 0)
        {
            cellY = size/2 + (-cellY);
        }
       // Debug.Log(position + " is at the pos, cellpos x = " + cellX + ", y = " + cellY);
        return new Vector2(cellX, cellY);
    }

[static matrix]

why does 2022 LTS editor cap my framerate? can I make it not do that

[main shuttle]

Perhaps you have VSync on in game view?

[static matrix]

is there a reason the camera is not seeing the world-space canvas? this is not the main camera, dont know if that matters

[static matrix]

nope

oh wait now it isnt capping?

odd

ok but second issue is more important

idk why it cant see it

[main shuttle]

You sure your camera is not behind the canvas?

[static matrix]

yeah in either case it doesnt show

[main shuttle]

Culling mask on everything?

[static matrix]

yup

maybe its a priority thing?

oh I dont even have that setting lol because built in rp

[main shuttle]

Oh, then I don't know, I know nothing on the build in RP

[hard viper]

I have a method called in Start(). How do yield return to try to execute later within the same frame?

[vagrant blade]

You can turn the Start method into a coroutine or call another coroutine from it. However, if you're delaying a single frame, you likely have a bad order of executing your code/references.

You shouldn't need to delay a frame in order to solve something like an NRE

[wicked river]

So I need to create a minimap and I have the full minimap working however I need to manually place 2D cube sprites on the boarders of ALL my walls, doors and objects I want to show up on the minimap.. Is there a better way to have the minimap camera just look at all edges of a wall with X tag and render that with a color of my choice ?

[tawny elm]

for some reason this getkeydown only fires once and never again. i tried using just getkey, but then after pressing the key once, it acts like the key is still down forever. cant find out why.

[soft shard]

Where is that code being called?

[tawny elm]

Update()

i have a similar thing for a different key thats also in Update() and this one works perfectly fine

[polar marten]

these are very different

the inputs are working

the thing you are instantiating is interacting with the raycast in a surprising way

[tawny elm]

rite its just i thought the whole function would only be running at all if the GetKeyDown is appearing true, so if the key wasnt sticking down then it wouldnt do anything

[polar marten]

i'm not sure why you are multiplying transformdirection by 10

[soft shard]

GetKeyDown will only fire for the frame that the key was detected as being "down", and not continue, GetKey will fire for every frame the key is detected "down" and remains held "down", so if you have a high framerate, GetKey could be called multiple times within the time it takes you to lift your finger off the key, unless you are really fast, you can test this by just logging something like if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space)) {Debug.Log("space hit");}

[polar marten]

it means you're not sure what's giong on

[polar marten]

there's nothing wrong with your input code

[tawny elm]

i know

[polar marten]

if you write debug.log inside the input.getkeydown rightshift version - notwithstanding an extremely unlikely configuration in your OS - you will see it correctly occur; if you try to replace rightshift with something else, you will still see your bug

focus on the raycast and the fact that you are instantiating something, which itself has a collider

and that you are using a very short distance

[tawny elm]

yeah i know man i get it but then whats wrong with the raycast

[polar marten]

for some reason

it's very blub. there's nothing wrong with the raycast per se, it's the object you are instantiating is messed up somehow

[tawny elm]

its just a cube with no scripts

[polar marten]

what is going on gameplay wise?

why are you choosing a distance of 10f?

[tawny elm]

i dont know why im chosing that distance man it just works fine normally

im making a really bad minecraft clone

heres how the placing goes weird when its GetKeyDown. it only places one and then never does it ever again

[polar marten]

can you looka t your console instead

are there errors?

[tawny elm]

and here's how it goes with GetKey. spawns them forever after pressing the key despite it not being down

[tawny elm]

nothing

[polar marten]

what did you put as the prefab slot that youare instantiating?

[tawny elm]

its just a cube with no script

[polar marten]

okay, but is it from your assets directory, or something in the scene?

[tawny elm]

lil man down there

[polar marten]

also, there must be more going on

because it's being instantiating at a raycast hit

[tawny elm]

i was honestly confused on why it was spawning on a grid tbh

i didnt make it do that but it did it anyway

[polar marten]

i see that you are using the hit.transform

that makes more sense to me

[tawny elm]

oh right yeah that does make sense

just didnt question it myself

[polar marten]

i don't have enough context to help i'm sorry.

there are a lot of things that could be wrong

it takes only one checkbox

or one error somewhere you haven't shown us

[tawny elm]

idk theres no errors coming up at all

the entire update function

apart from the object refs above it this is all the code in the project

[fiery path]

What is the easiest way to check how long is remaining in a Coroutine?

[tawny elm]

@polar marten yeah no its DEFINITELY the Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.RightShift()) because using the E key works perfectly fine

[soft shard]

Coroutines dont track time, they can just yield functionality, whats the context of what your trying to do?

[hard viper]

            => string.Join(", ", list.Select(x => x.ToString()).ToArray());

public static string ToStringUseful<T>(this List<T> list, Func<T, string> entryToString)
            => string.Join(", ", list.Select(x => entryToString(x)).ToArray());```
Is there a way to set a default value for a Func?

[fiery path]

Simply I have three seperate booleans that need to be flipped to true at seperate times and I need to display this countdown as a text UI element
So if I use bool1 for example, when it becomes false, I wanted to run a Coroutine for float X seconds
Then during this I wanted to display the countdown
Should I just do a time - time.deltatime

[hard viper]

this would be a lot simpler if I could just set a default value for that Func

[soft shard]

You could either start a new coroutine for each bool, passing the time that should be waited, or what I often do is use Time.time instead of deltaTime, and check for (or in this case, yield) the difference, for example:

float timePassed;

void SomeFunc()
{
someBool = false;
StartCoroutine(SomeCo(ref someBool));
}

IEnumerator SomeCo(ref bool condition, float wait = 3f)
{
timePassed = Time.time + wait;
yield return new WaitUntil(() => Time.Time > timePassed);
condition = true;
}

There are many ways you could do more-or-less the same idea, that may be one that could let you reuse "SomeCo" for all 3 bools, unless specific logic differentiates them where you may need slightly different logic

[warm kraken]

hi guys. i have a button system where i use time.deltatime to scale buttons depending on wether or not mouse collides with them. when i pause the game using Time.deltatime = 0 command, my button code becomes useless (doesn't scale the buttons at all). short question would be: when i set time.deltatime to 0 to pause the game, what alternative system can i use to replicate multiplying by time.deltatime?

[somber nacelle]

Time.unscaledDeltaTime

[warm kraken]

this is the best discord server ever. second time in a row a random guy just solves my problem with one simple sentence. thanks

[bleak tree]

Hello, I'm developing a zombie survival game in the style of Call of Duty zombies with my classmates and there is something I'm curious about
In my gun script I'm using 2 variables for certain values, such as damage, headshot multipliers or different ammo values (current ammo, max ammo etc) since I want to be able to change these values on the fly for various different reasons, is there a way to handle this more efficiently or is this good? I can show code if needed

[hard viper]

is there a simple way to truncate a float?

i worry that the last digits will lead to imprecision in physics system, so my idea is to truncate position components to like 10^-6 every frame

[bleak tree]

Mathf.FloorToInt?

[simple egret]

Okay that's not truncating then

Truncating is getting rid of the decimal part

[bleak tree]

oh thats rounding

i see

[hard viper]

i currently have Mathf.RoundToInt(num * 10^6) * 10^-6

[simple egret]

Yeah, I assume that's the simplest way of doing it

[hard viper]

but i worry idk if this will really work properly on values on the order of 100 vs 10^-6

floats get 23 significant bits, which is worth 10^6.9 in the significand

[simple egret]

Imprecisions are everywhere anyway
10e-6 is small enough to not be noticeable

It's built-in, due to how floats are represented

[hard viper]

i just want to make sure I don’t actually fuck with my number outside of truncation by doing this, if my number is too big

[simple egret]

And the best way of doing it, is to not do it at all

10e-6 meters is one micrometer, pretty much invisible

[hard viper]

man, I took a class on this, and i don’t remember the fine details. I thought I would get 10^-16 difference in machine epsilon

but floats aren’t spaced like that 🤷‍♂️

[lean sail]

Youd need to show code if theres some performance issue, which I doubt there is. The profiler will tell you if so. All it sounds like is that you've stored variables in a class, so im kinda confused what the question is really about tbh

[hard viper]

i’m not worried about the difference being significant, but that the code for truncation doesn’t actually truncate due to side effects

[bleak tree]

No there is no performance issues I just wanted to know if it's good practice or not

[lean sail]

As long as it fits your need and doesnt cause massive headaches, it's as good practice as you'll need

[hard viper]

I would keep some immutable values to work with, and calculate based on thos

[bleak tree]

    public bool isReloading, headShot, powerUp;
    public float rateOfFire, damage = 25f, rof, fireDelay, headshotMultiplier, range;
    private float internalDamage, internalHeadshotMultiplier;
    public ParticleSystem muzzleFX;```
This is what I have

[hard viper]

like totalDmg = fixedGunDmg * multipliers;

[bleak tree]

I'm using the "internal" private floats to do the calculations of damage and such

[lean sail]

It is common to use scriptable object to store some initial value, then load the data from the SO. But this still means you store the same things on the gun

[bleak tree]

The public ones I use to set the value in the editor and to have a value stored to go back to after a powerup ends

[hard viper]

try not to mutate values that you plug in during inspector

[hard viper]

like this

[simple egret]

It'll definitely mess with big numbers. Multiplying something by 1 million is going to decrease the precision significantly. At some point, stuff like 1_000_000_000 + 1 == 1_000_000_000, and it gets worse as you go bigger

[bleak tree]

hah i ended up having to use this to access the hp value of the enemy to create an instakill effect

There's an empty gameObject in the scene that just has the script of the enemy hp

[lean sail]

That sounds more like something that's bad practice instead of anything with this gun script

[bleak tree]

how else am I supossed to get the hp value from the enemy at any time

It's not a fixed amount

[hard viper]

the enemy gameobject should have a monobehaviour with its current status

[lean sail]

The enemy should have some method somewhere, where it takes damage. Inside that, it should have access to the health

[bleak tree]

I already tried accesing directly the hp in the enemy but that has it's issues

For once if there are no enemies in the scene the script for the instakill powerup just doesn't work

[lean sail]

You shouldnt be accessing the enemy hp as a bullet (using bullet as example). You should just be calling some method saying "I wanna deal this much damage" and then the enemy processes that

[bleak tree]

Ah, wait actually
I think I could just have the hp value be in the GameManager

[hard viper]

this boy is going to need more help, bawsi

[lean sail]

Unfortunately I must go soon but I suggest trying to get away from any solution where your objects that deal damage, know how much hp the enemy has. Unless this is like a mechanic of your game where X targets the healthiest Y

A bullet would do something like
If I collide with something that can take damage
GiveDamage(x)

That something that receives damage, processes it and can adjust their own health float. This now helps centralize armor calculations or block chance for example

[bleak tree]

That is what the enemy script is doing atm

[lean sail]

If that's what it's doing then nothing should need to know the enemy hp. You can make another method to deal % health damage and then just send in 100% as a value

Or just an instakill method if 100% is the only percent used

[hard viper]

so, you have a relationship between one instance of A and one instance of B, right? Like player-enemy or bullet-enemy.

Both A and B need to know about themselves. This would normally be a reference to an immutable scriptable object that has specific values that apply to any of that type (eg bullet is tied to a M16 gun asset, or Rifle gun asset, all of type Gun : ScriptableObject)

Both A and B ALSO need knowledge of their current state in a separate script (probably in a monobehaviour). This is something like currentHP (in monobehaviour) vs maxHP (in scriptableObject. monobehaviour reads maxHP in scriptableObject to initialize…)

follow so far?

Now A and B need a way to interact with each other. Which would be like a method in B that can read info in A and in B, and can then change B’s state based on it.

eg B has a script with DoDamage which takes in info from both A and B. Like
DoDamage(Gun myGun) {
currentHP -= myGun.baseDamage;
}

understand?

gtg now or my wife will kill me

[bleak tree]

I am not using Scriptable Objects and I am calling the function to reduce the enemyHP directly on the function that handles firing (Using raycasts)

[sonic holly]

fellas, quick question. is it possible to have an animation in a 9 tile sprite? so having the edges be as normal and have the middle tile be animated?

[bleak tree]

Alright so I just changed it to call the death function if instakill is enabled

[hard viper]

the easy way would be to draw the 9 tiled sprite inside the whole thing for each frame. then 9 slice each one, and assign each like a normal animation

[sonic holly]

what i want to do is a conveyor belt with an animation. i want to be able to stretch it to any length but still keep the middle part animated and looking normal

there might be a better way to do that but im too dumb to think of one atm

[latent latch]

if you wanna do a shader you can just scroll the uvs

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Tiling-And-Offset-Node.html

[hard viper]

you could make 2 gameobjects. one with a 9sliced static background, and one on top with an animated normal sprite

[sonic holly]

thats what i did

[sonic holly]

figured out like 15 minutes after looking at this

but thanks anyway!

[grave arch]

Got a question about jobs, is it okay to access structs outside of a job or should you place them inside of the job itself?

[fervent furnace]

Don’t understand, can you give an example

[elder chasm]

I just started working on a 2d top down shooter and ive given my player a rigidbody2d (on kinematic) and a box collider, and the walls have a box collider, but i can still move through them, here is my code in case its needed

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class PlayerMove : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    private Rigidbody2D body;

    private void Awake()
    {
        body = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        body.velocity = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * speed, Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * speed);
    }
}```

[prime sinew]

Are they all using 2d colliders

And are any of the colliders marked as trigger?

[elder chasm]

no

[elder chasm]

ye 2d box collider

[prime sinew]

If not, I believe it's because kinematic

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Rigidbody2D-Kinematic.html#:~:text=A Kinematic Rigidbody 2D can,collide with Dynamic Rigidbody 2Ds.

[elder chasm]

so i need to make the wall rigidbody2d on dynamic?

[prime sinew]

Are both the walls and player kinematic?

[elder chasm]

the walls only have box collider

[prime sinew]

I think it's your player that needs to be dynamic

[elder chasm]

yeah but i dont want it to fall

[prime sinew]

Then set the constraints in the rigidbody

Should be one for rotation

[elder chasm]

my player just falls slowly like that

my player is a circle if that matters at all

oh putting gravity scale on 0 seems to make it work

thank you

i do have another question though

how would i make an object rotate around the player by aiming at the mouse?

[sly drum]

Any expert on ML Agents?

[spring creek]

#archived-machine-learning
And best just ask the question instead of asking if anyone's an expert.
Good luck!

[sly drum]

Thanks!!

[latent latch]

What's a good way to store a bunch of interfaces that are implemented on a bunch of different classes throughout different namespaces. An example is my EntityRoutine class that accepts objects that implement the IEntityRoutine interface. This interfaces is used a bunch through different namespaces such as EntityAbility, EntityEffect, EntityConditions, ect, so it's quite popular. I've a bunch hanging out in global space I want to clean up is why I ask.

[steady moat]

Make a "Core" namespace or place it in the namespace that it has the most cohesion.

[latent latch]

Ah, yeah maybe something like just a general Entity namespace

then have these sub-namespaces inside of it

Would ask something similar to some enums but I think that applies to it as well

[steady moat]

Also, a suggestion would be to get rid of the Entity name

I'm not expecting to see other type of ability

[weak venture]

Are children guaranteed to be alive during awake or can I not count on that?

[west lotus]

Alive?

[weak venture]

like created. I get that if I'm referencing a different object during awake it might not exist yet. But does that also apply to children? Can a script in a parent assume its children will already be created when parent awake is called?

[west lotus]

Do they exist in the scene or are you instantiating them ?

[weak venture]

they exist in the scene

or if instantiated, they would be a part of the prefab and implicitly instantiated from the parent being instantiated

[unreal temple]

Might want to ask yourself why you have more than one namespace.

You control your namespace so you can always resolve collision through renaming, which is going to be a lot clearer than allowing the same name to exist in two namespaces in the same project.

[sonic trench]

hey! I'm making a game with input fields, I'm a starter so I don't really know much, so like I have it if its a string that it needs to be then it shows the gameobject, I aalready have everything but the script isn't really working, the text is equal as the string but it still somehow sees it like not equal (its a string "number")

Here is the script:

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

public class Test : MonoBehaviour
{
public InputField inputField;
public string desiredString = "1";
public GameObject correctObject;
public GameObject incorrectObject;

private void Start()
{
    if (correctObject != null)
    {
        correctObject.SetActive(false);
    }

    if (incorrectObject != null)
    {
        incorrectObject.SetActive(false);
    }
}

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Return) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.KeypadEnter))
    {
        CheckAndShowObjects();
    }
}

void CheckAndShowObjects()
{
    if (inputField != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(inputField.text))
    {
        if (inputField.text.Equals(desiredString))
        {
            StartCoroutine(ActivateAndDeactivateWithDelay(correctObject));
            Debug.Log("Correct!");
        }
        else if (!inputField.text.Equals(desiredString))
        {
            StartCoroutine(ActivateAndDeactivateWithDelay(incorrectObject));
            Debug.Log("Incorrect!");
        }

    }
}

IEnumerator ActivateAndDeactivateWithDelay(GameObject targetObject)
{
    if (targetObject != null)
    {
        targetObject.SetActive(true);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.5f);
        targetObject.SetActive(false);
    }
}

}

please help me with this asap, I tried so many things!

[fervent furnace]

dont cross post

[sonic trench]

bro like I'm trying to make a game and i'm a beginner, so like yea... i'm trying to get help asap

[fervent furnace]

try log the string in inputfield first

[sonic trench]

uhhh.. how to do that :/

and like how do you mean that i don't really understand

I'm new

[fervent furnace]

Log($"entered: {inputFielt.text}")

[sonic trench]

where do i put that

[fervent furnace]

before comparsion

[sonic trench]

in the "check and show object()"?

[fervent furnace]

yes

[sonic trench]

so like before the "if"?

[fervent furnace]

yes

[sonic trench]

alr thanks

it still doesn't work, like it says its like correct and incorrect

[fervent furnace]

log is just showing you what is the text doesnt affect any logic after it

[sonic trench]

and it prints the right number that I entered

[sonic trench]

ik

[fervent furnace]

i doubts that maybe some hidden chars eg zero-width space, in this case i will loop the string

i just realize that it is not TMP inputField

[sonic trench]

yea its a legacy

do i need to put it as tmp?

[fervent furnace]

just keep this one should be fine...havent used this before

[sonic trench]

alr

[fervent furnace]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/text-or-textmeshpro-and-others.1255338/

[sonic trench]

so, what should I do?

[fervent furnace]

based on the posts i suggest you use textmeshpro inputfield first

[sonic trench]

yea i tried rn

but it doesn't let me put the tmp input fields in the script

like if you know what i mean

in the inspector tab

do i need to change something in the script, so then I could?

[fervent furnace]

yes you need to change it to TMPro.TMP_InputField

or using TMPro; then get rid of the "TMPro."

[sonic trench]

so i need to change that here?

public InputField inputField;

[fervent furnace]

yes