archived-code-general

[swift falcon]

thank you :)

i'll tell you what the game is

it's like a game where you gather resources by clicking, similar to cookie clicker

but you can travel across a map, buy and trade stuff, and improve your garden

then you can fight bosses

the code i'm making is for the player fighting bosses in an arena

[hard viper]

then I would avoid wall jump mechanics

[swift falcon]

so i want it to be as fluid as possible to be a stark contrast from the boring clicker

[swift falcon]

no because the idea was

like in mario, you could wall jump onto their heads

which could damage them

[hard viper]

wall jumping is always on the higher end of skill of platforming. if your game isn’t primarily a platformer, you should avoid it like the plague

[swift falcon]

oh?

[hard viper]

i have lots of experience in mario maker. the first mandatory wall jump you add to a level immediately filters out all the very casual players

[swift falcon]

ohhhh

no that's the funny part

i'm trying to make my game thrive off of the idea

that you can either farm and get to the end

like stardew valley

or for people who enjoy mario like games

or advanced fighting

[hard viper]

that doesn’t sound like a very good idea

[swift falcon]

they can take that path

[swift falcon]

how come?

[hard viper]

that’s just two different games

stitched together

[swift falcon]

no but it all combines

like hypixel skyblock in minecraft

you can either farm shit

or you can go ahead and beat up things

that's why the community is so large

for instance my friend prefers to grow stuff

while i'd prefer to beat things

[vagrant blade]

#archived-game-design if you want to discuss your game ideas. This is a coding channel.

[hard viper]

whenever you blend genres, you need to know what you are doing. and from this discussion, I do not think you have the mastery to pull it off from a game design perspective

[swift falcon]

sorry

[swift falcon]

ah

[hard viper]

last thing I’ll say here is; It’s nothing personal. hybrid genre games can work. but you need to be a masterful level/game designer to pull it off. A high degree of experience is mandatory. Even if it doesn’t seem like it

[swift falcon]

thank you, I'll change my idea then.

[marble wasp]

idk if this is the right place to ask but i've had this issue on only my laptop for aaagges now

my desktop it doesn't happen and the other programmer on the project it doesn't happen to

but if it can happen on my pretty decent laptop i feel like it can happen on other devices that are similar

i can't narrow down any specific scripts that could cause it

apparently it can happen with coroutines but i don't have many of them and have tried turning off the more expensive ones with no dice

[cosmic rain]

Might need to share some more profiler info.

[marble wasp]

and none of them are running consistently enough for that to happen

it's fairly consistent 2-3 seconds

[cosmic rain]

You're talking about that spike, right?

[hexed pecan]

Consistently spaced spikes like that are often because of the garbage collector, which ticks around once per second or so

But you need to put your cursor on the spike and see what is happening in the hierarchy view of the profiler

[marble wasp]

looks like garbage collecter actually yeah

[cosmic rain]

This is not the spike frame though.

[marble wasp]

oh actually that's others not garbage collecter

[cosmic rain]

And we need to see the hierarchy mode.

[cosmic rain]

Expand the player loop

Expand to the last biggest thing that takes CPU time.

[marble wasp]

so it's the urp render stack but there are no different settings to my pc

the editor aswell but that could be cause i am fucking around with it

[cosmic rain]

That's not the same as the previous screenshot though. It had 83ms in the player loop.

[cosmic rain]

This looks like something with rendering..? I'm not sure why it allocates 200kb there.🤔

Maybe adding/enabling new cameras or something?🤔

[marble wasp]

there are 3 cameras but i didn't enable anything

[hexed pecan]

Are you manually creating textures/rendertextures or anything like that?

[marble wasp]

yes i've got one

although there are 4 that aren't being used with cameras that are disabled, could them being in the scene at all impact performance?

well i'll see

yeah no it's still there

[polar marten]

the render textures won't change this

[marble wasp]

also worth noting that it doesn't always happen but i'm not sure what changes for it to start happening

[polar marten]

are you getting the colors of a texture for a postprocessing effect

[marble wasp]

kinda, i'm analysing the pixels of the texture but it's not consistent with the hitch

[polar marten]

okay

[marble wasp]

and it happens even with the script disabled

[polar marten]

the hitch happens, or the allocations?

what is "it"?

what is your goal? you have long frames? or do you mean those spikes of long frame times?

first, test standalone. do you see any issues in standalone?

then, try deep profiling, and identify where you spend a large amount of time in your own code.

deep profiling is accurate in the sense of relative comparisons between fast and slow within your own program

you aren't showing enough in the urp render profiler entry. you have to show where the 203.4KB comes from. it is almost certainly where you get texture pixels

which also doesn't work the way you imagine it does

@marble wasp is this helpful?

it sounds like there's a lot going on in your scene.

[marble wasp]

the hitch yeah, i'll investigate further

and there is this is relatively late in development

and something that's been happening for a while but i've not really noticed/paid attention to since it only happens on my laptop which i only use at uni

i might try building it aswell since the editorloop seems to be a pretty big contributor

can you profile a build?

okay so it's because of my recent script but that 200kb is consistent despite the hitch

it's always there cause i'm not limiting how often it happens

[hexed pecan]

Yes, that's the most accurate way of profiling

[polar marten]

okay... so these are postprocessing effects that are using GetPixels?

i mean that generates a ton of garbage

it's pretty much exactly what i thought it was, regarding the allocations

that's separate from the frame times

[marble wasp]

yeah i've just done a script that changes the material per camera

which i've been trying to optimise, it is super unperformant

but i think it's unrelated to the spikes

[polar marten]

anyway dont' stress this is all tractable to fix

[marble wasp]

yeah something i'll deal with later

[polar marten]

can you profile the standalone build and find what is actually taking a lot of time in your own scripts?

[marble wasp]

yeah building now

[polar marten]

@marble wasp you should start by reading https://blog.unity.com/engine-platform/games-focus-profiling-and-performance-optimization and doing everything in it

it has a flow chart

[marble wasp]

man i wish they taught us this shit at uni lmao

[cosmic rain]

Most of developer's education is self learning.

[polar marten]

in a typical layperson unity scene, and eyeballing the tiny amount of profiler data you've shared, your scene probably has a large number of meshes and/or large numbers of transparent elements; and default shadow configuration. shadows are computed on the CPU.

in this situation, you waste a ton of CPU cycles on shadow mapping

[marble wasp]

could be my shader, although this has been happening since before i made my shader

[polar marten]

yeah

it's hard to make a shader that is broken enough to cause this issue, but not broken enough to completely halt your game

[marble wasp]

yeah i figured that out like a month into my course

now i am a month out of graduating, sunk cost fallacy hits hard

it's also been happening since before i switched to urp

which is weird

[polar marten]

all performance issues in all software are cause by code with time complexity

O(n^k) where k is between 1 and 2

because anything worse is unusable or never authored, and anything better doesn't cause issues. shadowmapping is O(n^k) 1<k<=2

[hard viper]

that’s a bit misleading. It makes it sound like the time complexity is the main cause of slowdown

a lot of the time, issues are caused by the leading constant

overhead is frequently a big deal

[marble wasp]

okay so

hitch is not happening in build

lol?

it's also running way smoother

this might just be an issue with my laptop i'm overthinking

[polar marten]

it's an editor issue

[hard viper]

yeah. i would also check if you are spamming Debug.Logs or something, because that requires to print a whole stack trace

if you do too many of those every frame, your game will lag in editor as well

[polar marten]

meaning you can't really say performance in the editor is representative of performance in game

you also never showed the whole profiler hierarchy

[marble wasp]

nah i've only got a few debug logs

and it also doesn't happen on my pc

like at all, not even a small hitch

so i guess i can say it's fine for now, i just can't do extensive testing on my laptop

[upper pilot]

If they object is destroyed/scene is changed does the UnnityEvent unsubscribe automatically?

[leaden ice]

which object?

If the publisher is destroyed, all the subscriptions go away
If the subscriber is destroyed, they do not go away

[upper pilot]

If my UI has:

Game.Instance.onGoldGain.AddEventListener(UpdateGoldUI)

will it RemoveEeventListener(UpdateGoldUI) when this UI element is deleted or scene changed?

[leaden ice]

what is "this UI element"?

[upper pilot]

so there will be an error if I try to Invoke the event and the subscriber doesnt exist anymore?

[leaden ice]

If Game.Instance is destroyed, all siubscriptions will also be destroyed

If whatever owns UpdateGoldUI is destroyed, the subscription will stay and you'll likely get an error when the event is invoked

[upper pilot]

That makes sense yes

Thanks, thats what I needed to know.

So I just need to unsubscribe from all events when I switch a scene for example if my Game.Instance is not deleted between scenes.

[leaden ice]

Best practice is that if you do AddListener on OnEnable, you do RemoveListener in OnDisable

[upper pilot]

I do that when I can, but some of my code makes it impossible since I need to wait for the class to be instantiated.
Unless a constructor has a priority, which it probably does.
I dont have code in front of me right now.

Can I instantiate a prefab with a constructor?

I do this:

//CharacterUIManager
private void AddCharacterCard(Character characterData)
{
  CharacterCardUI characterCardInstance = Instantiate(characterCardPrefab, characterList);
  characterCardInstance.Init(characterData);
}

// CharacterCardUI
private Character character;

public Init void(Character _character)
{
  character = _character;
}

private void OnEnable()
{
  character.onCharacterUpdate(UpdateCharacter);
}

This will throw an error as OnEnable cant access character yet.

[hexed pecan]

You shouldn't use constructors with MonoBehaviours. The way you are currently doing it is fine - the initialization I mean

private Init void 🤔 something's off here...

[upper pilot]

my bad, a habit of making everything private 😄

[cosmic rain]

You can move the subscription to the Init method, but you still need to unsubscribe in OnDisable.

[upper pilot]

Thats what I do currently, I tried to follow the best practices, but it wasnt possible.

[hexed pecan]

I mean it should be private void Init to be syntactically correct

Making everything private by default is good

[upper pilot]

ah yeah sorry thats a typo, but I cant access it if its private since I need to call that right?
I use internal sometimes, but it seems to be useful for specific cases which dont apply to me.

[cosmic rain]

Alternatively, use OnDestroy to unsubscribe as it's a closer counterpart to initialization

[upper pilot]

But it has a small issue, that is OnEnable might be useful too.
I might just do an if statement I guess?

Is there a way to check if current Character is already subscribed?

[hexed pecan]

Oh yes, in this case you want it to be public or internal

[cosmic rain]

Check if it's null maybe

[upper pilot]

There is AddListener or RemoveListener, is there something like HasListener?

I might be confusing it now

In this example there is only 1 listener per Event since its just to update UI, but in case I ever have more than 1, what can I do?

Not sure if null will work for this

[hexed pecan]

When using events, you can remove the subscription before subscribing, to make sure there's no duplicates: cs SomeEvent -= MyEventHandler; SomeEvent += MyEventHandler;
So maybe that will work with RemoveListener/AddListener too?

[upper pilot]

I guess that I can do this:

void OnEnable()
{
  if(character != null)
  {
     character.onCharacterUpdate.RemoveListener(UpdateCharacter);//removes listener if any
     character.onCharacterUpdate.AddListener(UpdateCharacter);//adds a new one
  }
}

This woud "refresh" listener

right you got it 😄

[hexed pecan]

Yeah, that's what I meant. Worth a try

[upper pilot]

Thanks, that should do the trick.

[vocal drift]

bro, can someone help me with detecting joystick through script

i'm trying this code, but controllers.Length value never changed, even if i plugged out any joystick, the value never changed

    
    IEnumerator CheckForControllers()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            string[] controllers = Input.GetJoystickNames();

            if (!connected && controllers.Length > 0)
            {
                connected = true;
                Debug.Log("Connected");

            }
            else if (connected && controllers.Length == 0)
            {
                connected = false;
                Debug.Log("Disconnected");
            }

            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        }
    }

    void Awake()
    {
        StartCoroutine(CheckForControllers());
    }

[soft shard]

From my experience with the Input class, setting up joystick input isnt always ideal, Unity does have a "new" Input System package that handles joysticks quite well, and can allow you to bind input such as a jump for example, to both a keyboard button and a joystick button - if your on a older version of Unity, you could look into something like Rewired

[leaden ice]

Input.GetJoystickNames().Length will always return the number of joystick axes you set up in the input manager, regardless of how many are actually plugged in

Yes definitely use the new input system for whatever this is

[vocal drift]

aight thanks

[valid nest]

Hey guys! I am pretty new here.

I am thinking to start with C# as my programming language, any suggestions on where I can start?

[latent latch]

Could ask over here;
https://discord.gg/csharp

[main shuttle]

If you want to learn C# in Unity, you can start by doing the pinned resources in the top right of #💻┃code-beginner.
If you just want to learn C#, I can't really give a suggestion.

[valid nest]

tysm!

[valid nest]

sounds good, ty

[zenith atlas]

Hello, I'm trying to download scene before loading it with addressables. But I got this error.
Scene 'Assets/_Project/Scene/Main2Scene.unity' couldn't be loaded because it has not been added to the build settings or the AssetBundle has not been loaded.

private IEnumerator DownloadAndLoad(AssetReference scene)
{
    AsyncOperationHandle downloadHandle = Addressables.DownloadDependenciesAsync(scene);
    _titleText.SetText("Downloading");
    while (downloadHandle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.None) {
        yield return null;
        string txt = $"download progress = {downloadHandle.GetDownloadStatus().Percent}";
        _percentText.text = txt;
        Debug.Log(txt);
    }
    if (downloadHandle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded) {
        AsyncOperationHandle<SceneInstance> handle = Addressables.LoadSceneAsync(scene);
        _titleText.text = "Loading";
        while (handle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.None) {
            yield return null;
            string txt = $"{handle.PercentComplete}";
            _percentText.text = txt;
            Debug.Log(txt);
            _progressImage.fillAmount = handle.PercentComplete;
        }
        if (handle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Failed) {
            ShowError(handle.OperationException.Message);
        }
    } else {
        ShowError(downloadHandle.OperationException.Message);
    }
}

I found solution https://forum.unity.com/threads/downloaddependencies-causing-loadsceneasync-to-fail.1495448/#post-9363890

[short osprey]

if i have a MonoBehaviour X, with a class Y which inherits from X; and X subscribes its virtual void HandleTransition() to a static event Action delegate in its Start(), will Y's override void HandleTransition() also subscribe to it? i would assume (hope) so but im double checking. i cant test it out at the moment..

[somber tapir]

Hard to tell by the way you wrote it. The override method will be subscribed to the event but not the base one.

[fleet furnace]

Yes it should

[onyx condor]

Hey there, does anyone know a good way I could have all my Skins for my game in one place. The skins are a png that I am making a sprite with. But the problem is I have 2 scenes and the information has to be accessable in both scripts. And I would want it to be easily done in the editor. I made a class like this ```cs
[Serializable]
public class Skin
{
public int skinId;
public Texture2D skinTexture;
}

and then I am making a List of that type Skin, which is public, so that I can drag the skin pngs in there.
```cs
public List<Skin> skinList;

I am just facing the problem that I have to create this list once in each scene, which is a really bad way of handling this. And I would like to have this information in one place where it is accessible from any script in any scene. Any suggestions on how this can be achieved? And is it possible to have the skinId increase by 1 by default?

[short osprey]

good. thx for ur answer

[somber tapir]

Make a scriptableObject with your Skin List, then you can drag that into each object that needs it while making sure you only need to create 1 list.

[onyx condor]

thank you 🙂

[latent salmon]

hello, I want to make unity application consisting of two scenes and each scene works on different monitor at the same time, does any one try this before ?

[hard viper]

i don’t think that makes sense

[somber tapir]

Sounds more like you want two cameras and not two scenes. Camera component has a field for target display.

[hard viper]

a scene is like a giant prefab that destroys everything you have loaded when you try to load it

[fervent furnace]

can application decide which physical monitor it shows on?
ask the OS to return a list of monitors attached to the computer and choose?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/monitor/getphysicalmonitors
looks like there are ways to do that

[languid hound]

Anyone know why instantiate isn't actually instantiating

AssetBundle is being loaded fine I know that much

The GameObject in question is 100% called TestLevel I've double checked so many times

[rigid island]

dont think this works in unity

seems win32 specific

[languid hound]

Wait to add onto this my variable isn't even being assigned (testLevel)

[mental rover]

sounds like you need to do some troubleshooting, either attach a debugger or include some debug print lines, and establish what code is actually executing & with what values

[languid hound]

Will do give me a mo

Only reached line 1. Its saying it failed to read the AssetBundle data

And unable to open archive file

Oh yeah wait its looking at the wrong folder

Let me re-run it at the right one (it still breaks at the right directory)

I see its reaching line 1 because I have test scripts applied to the AssetBundle that only exist in that project smh

Gonna have to do it in an editor script

Okay done a bit of fiddling and the AssetBundle no longer uses outside scripts. Cant believe I made that mistake

Let's see

Why is it still only reaching line 1...

Nevermind I got it. For some reason I had to change the variable type from GameObject to UnityEngine.Object and back

[untold siren]

anyone using the cinemachine 3.0 package, how would I successfully get cinemachine components now? with the older versions it was like this:

                _cinemachinePov = firstPersonCam.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachinePOV>();

but now with the 3.0 it returns an error

(even after changing the cinemachinepov component to its new equivalent)

[latent salmon]

the main purpose that I want to display this app in two monitors and each monitor with defferent scene

[latent salmon]

There is something called multi-screens and this is what I want help with, please if anyone tried it before, let me know

[rigid island]

how diffcult could it b right?
try it.
Dont have two monitors but I assume it can be as simple as assigning each scene a diff camera and each camera a diff monitor output then load scenes together? worth a shot

[crisp bison]

Hi everyone. I wanted to use the toast message in my app but I couldn't find anything. After a long time I was able to find it but this message will only be in one language.I wanted this message to be in the language of the phone, what should I do?

[next sparrow]

Hello, how can I switch between HorizontalLayoutGroup and VerticalLayoutGroup at runtime?
I get current error : Can't add 'HorizontalLayoutGroup' to Sub Categories because a 'GridLayoutGroup' is already added to the game object!
I'm destroying the previous layout and addcomponent the new layout but it refuses saying the previous one is still present.
I've tried to delay the addcomponent by 1 second with same error.
I've also try to rebuild canvas after destroying and addcomponent but still the same error.
How could I make it work?

[hard viper]

try a GridLayoutGroup

[latent latch]

Could just prefab them

and instantiate a whole new layout of em

[hard viper]

gridlayout has variables for rows and columns. You can just change rows=1 vs columns=1

[latent latch]

gridlayout pretty bad tho

[hard viper]

is it tho?

it works well for me

[next sparrow]

The problem was that gridlayout has fixed element size. I wanted one element to be longer

[latent latch]

it doesn't behave with content fitter and other ui components as you expect

[next sparrow]

But only in a special case.

[hard viper]

oooooh. yeah, that’s a problem

[next sparrow]

In the end, I changed my way of thinking and instead added an ignore layout on my different element

It's not optimal because it won't position itself automatically anymore but I'll live with it

[hard viper]

this is hackey, but could you enable/disable the horizontal layout group, then have 1 gameobject with a horizontal layout group, then a child with vertical layout group

i forget if they can be disabled

[next sparrow]

Wouldn't work since horizontal would apply to the vertical child, not the vertical child children?

[untold siren]

cinemachine 3.0 has the bottom values in the new InputAxisController which can be used to affect the sensitivity of the mouse - is there any way to modify these values by code? doesn't seem to be modifiable at all; hoping that I don't need to create a custom extension

[hard viper]

oh, i think that is right

then my next suggestion is to destroy the old layout group, add a new one, and populate settings via code

it shouldn’t be too expensive

it is very strange to want the exact same thing laid out with a vertical vs horizontal layout group with no modification tho

[next sparrow]

That's what I did but got the error

Can't add 'HorizontalLayoutGroup' to Sub Categories because a 'GridLayoutGroup' is already added to the game object!

And I missspoke, I wanted to change my grid to horizontal actually

[hard viper]

next suggestion: separate gameobject with the vertical layout group, then transfer all the children between the two objects

[next sparrow]

Because I wanted a longer width element, which I couldn't get in a grid

[next sparrow]

Yeah indeed, that would work too.

[hard viper]

that might be the cleanest and simplest way tbh

[next sparrow]

I think so

[hard viper]

idk if that transfer will fuck with rect transform tho

so you need to check

like how transforms try to keep their position when you set parent, right? just check that it works right

also, you probably get the error because you are calling Destroy on the component, which only queues up its destruction for later in frame

[crisp bison]

Hi everyone. I wanted to use the toast message in my app but I couldn't find anything. After a long time I was able to find it but this message will only be in one language.I wanted this message to be in the language of the phone, what should I do?

[rigid island]

which toast?

[delicate trail]

Context: Yo! I'm watching this tutorial and I noticed something I've never seen before regarding [SerializeField].
The YouTuber has a script where it says [SerializeField, Self] and [SerializeField, Anywhere].

Question: How do I accomplish the same?
Video with timestamp: https://youtu.be/h8ZAOWY_5LA?list=PLyX8wd-3zMu36iAbTbRZzw0WVIrbHmXpp&t=396

What I've done:
I've looked at the Scripting API but there is no mention of this kind of attribute (https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeField.html).
I've tried writing something similar in my own project:
"[SerializeField, Self] private Rigidbody _rigidbody;".
But my IDE (Rider, same as YT guy) gives me an error that says: "Cannot resolve symbol 'Self'".
I've also looked into the namespaces he uses but I can't find nothing of this type of things mentioned in the GitHub repo.
Here is the link to the namespaces:
KBCore.Refs: https://github.com/KyleBanks/scene-ref-attribute/tree/main
Utilities: https://github.com/adammyhre/Unity-Utils

I found the answer while writing this 🫠.

I just downloaded the source code he has linked in the description of his video. If you inspect the same script, the 'Self' and 'Everywhere' attributes does in-fact come from the KBCore.Refs namespace 😅.
Sorry for bothering!

[crisp bison]

Toast message on Android. Like the message that appears when you exit the application by pressing the back button,(tap again to exit)

[long ridge]

am I going insane? Why does the order of multiplication matter?

rigidbody.MovePosition(transform.position + movement * speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);

[leaden ice]

because Vector3 * float is 3 operations

and float * float is 1 operation

[somber tapir]

https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft.Unity.Analyzers/blob/main/doc/UNT0024.md

[long ridge]

thanks

[hard viper]

they should normally be pretty close to the same final result

but reducing total multiplications makes it faster

[long ridge]

Feels strange that it is like that but I also see why

[somber tapir]

it doesn't matter in almost any case

[hard viper]

vector3 * float * float costs 6 multiplications total.
float * float * Vector3 costs 4 multiplications.
The difference is like 8 ticks on a processor

[long ridge]

Isn't that something the compiler fixes?

[hard viper]

no

the order could matter

[long ridge]

In what way?

[hard viper]

compiler does not know that multiplication is commutative, because you could have defined the * operator however the hell you wanted

I could make: Vector3 * float means Vector3.x = float. Then define float * Vector3 makes vector3.y = float

because I could have defined it however I wanted, compiler can’t know it’s commutative

and order of operations COULD affect the final result, so it will not rearrange algebra for you

[knotty sun]

Also what you are saying here
transform.position + movement * speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime
is
((movement * speed) * Time.fixedDeltaTime) + transform.position

[hexed pecan]

Very easy optimization so might as well get used to doing it

[crisp bison]

Hi everyone. I wanted to use the toast message in my app but I couldn't find anything. After a long time I was able to find it but this message will only be in one language.I wanted this message to be in the language of the phone, what should I do?
Toast message on Android. Like the message that appears when you exit the application by pressing the back button,(tap again to exit)

[tiny orbit]

I want my game to be able to be toggled between fullscreen and a resizeable widow. Everything works as expected with this code
Screen.fullScreen = !Screen.fullScreen;
and the project settings shown below, except whenever I load Scene 0 (main menu), if the game is in fullscreen mode it will automatically be changed to windowed... Other scenes load just fine, the above code is never called, and Screen.fullscreen is not referenced anywhere else in the codebase. Can anyone explain this or help me fix it?

[carmine solstice]

https://docs.unity.com/ugs/manual/authentication/manual/unity-player-accounts

Looking for help with the code presented on this site. It simply does not work anymore (For example the awake function)

[pastel patio]

Hi guys, I'm having an issue with the CharacterController.Move() function, I'm using it to simulate physics on the player, code looks simple, simply like:
characterController.Move(velocity * Time.deltaTime);
But somehow it cancels out other transformations, in my case, the issue is with an enemy trying to pull me, it works just fine except for the player, who remains where it is the whole time...

[leaden ice]

What do you mean by "other transformations'?

[pastel patio]

I'm doing transform.position modifications.

[leaden ice]

If you're using CC.Move you would need to put all your movement into that call each frame. You certainly can't move via the transform when using a CC

[leaden ice]

Don't

[pastel patio]

So a character controller may only use CC.Move??

How is teleportation supposed to work in that case?

[carmine solstice]

You need to disable the code temporarly that makes the player move

You then teleport him and renable it after its done

its not that complicated

[fluid lily]

Does anyone have a favorite article/tutorial on character design around decorator pattern for runtime behavior changes(like adding armor with X stat increase, or adding Y ability)?

[carmine solstice]

Create a bool and use that as a condition to execute the CC.move code

And if you want to teleport the player simply set it to false

[pastel patio]

Is this restriction limited to that method not calling during the frame you applied transformations?

Or can you disable and enable it during the same frame just like that?

[rigid island]

https://unity.huh.how/character-controller/teleportation

[pastel patio]

Okay thanks

[rigid island]

it can be done within the same frame yes

[carmine solstice]

Yeah or just disable the whole CC that works too

[fluid lily]

Any news on C# .net6+ date? I am currently making systems that I wouldn't if I could just use microsoft.extensions

[late lion]

They haven't announced anything yet, but it's not soon. My guess is we'll see it in the second half of 2024.

[fluid lily]

And webgpu?

[tiny orbit]

Ive been able to find bug threads of people having issues with games launching with the wrong screen type but still nothing regarding changing window type on scene load... do i need to file a bug report?

[somber tapir]

how do you call the code above?

[tiny orbit]

There is a listener on a UI button toggle

[somber tapir]

If the code isn't getting called then maybe there is something wrong with the button?

[tiny orbit]

I mean the code gets called when i press the button... just not when the scene loads

but the game exits fullscreen when the scene loads

[somber tapir]

I never had a game change to windowed on it's own. Something most be triggering it in your project. Maybe start windowed and see if it automatically gets set to fullscreen.

[tiny orbit]

it doesn't... only fullscreen to windowed

This should display the issue pretty clearly

[spring creek]

Try an mp4 to be viewable on discord

mkv requires a download

[tiny orbit]

As you can see, the only thing causing the game to leave fullscreen is loading the menu scene... I really don't understand what is going on

[obsidian imp]

Does someone know how to fix prefab facing down but going towards right direction via script? I tried many methods but nothing works. This is how the code looks: var b = Instantiate(bullet, firepoint[i].position, firepoint[i].rotation) ; b.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = firepoint[i].forward * bulletSpeed;

[main shuttle]

Well if it's shooting the correct way with .forward, then your mesh isn't alligned with the rocket looking forward. So you need to either change the mesh, or add an empty gameobject as its parent, and rotate the rocket the correct way as a child.

[wraith vector]

Is this KiB per minute or second?

[simple egret]

Per "CCU" whatever that is

Hover the information icon on its right

[wraith vector]

ah, I guess the average consumption per second will need to be calculated manaully?

[simple egret]

Good question

Might want to ask that in the most relevant channel, see #🔎┃find-a-channel

[gray mural]

Hello, why isn't GameObject's position assigned instantly when I do it?

I cannot get the GameObject with Physics2D.GetRayIntersectionAll on its newly assigned position

Trying to get it just after assignment on the same frame

there should be a method for this to update it instantly, I suppose?

[somber nacelle]

SyncTransforms right before you use the physics query. the physics system has not updated between your position change and the query so of course it won't immediately find it because physics doesn't know it is supposed to be there yet

[gray mural]

I see, do you have a clue whether SyncTransforms method is bad for the performance?

[somber nacelle]

it's probably not great, but the alternative would be to wait until after the next physics update to perform the query

[hard viper]

I have learned to move rigidbody.position

Physics2D.SyncTransforms goes out and syncs transforms for ALL rigidbodies in your game at the time.

moving rigidbody.position automatically shifts the colliders it is tied to instantaneously.

i forget if you have to also move the transform as well, but that is something you should be aware of.

moving transform effectively moves everything EXCEPT rigidbody/colliders, instantly

if you move rigidbody.position, all your casts/overlap/distance/etc queries will reflect that new position, as soon as that line has been executed.

[gray mural]

I was using Physics.SyncTransforms() and wondering why it didn't work. I have a 2D project.
Now it works perfectly, thank you 😄

[gray mural]

well, maybe it's more efficient

[hard viper]

just make sure not to spam it. that is an expensive thing to call

SyncTransforms does work on EVERYTHING. Moving rigidbody.position moves just that one rigidbody

[gray mural]

anyway, my gameobjects don't have rigidbodies..

maybe I should add some

[hard viper]

so they aren’t moving then

[gray mural]

sure they aren't

I wonder if I can achieve the same behaviour with 2D Rigidbody as without it?

[hard viper]

rigidbody is just a component to interface with unity’s physics system

[gray mural]

yeah, but adding it may cause me some issues

[hard viper]

rigidbody allows the physics system to: 1) solve physics with velocity/forces/etc, 2) move/query colliders accurately with physics queries, 3) generate contacts and collision callbacks

[gray mural]

is there any way to sync a single transform ?

well, guess no

[hard viper]

you move the rigidbody

then the collider positions match the rigidbody position

if a gameobject has a collider but no RBs, it is assumed to have a static rb

rather it behaves similarly as far as physics system is concerned

you can just give it a kinematic rigidbody, and turn off physics simulation

but then you also won’t get collision/trigger callbacks

[gray mural]

I see, but can I add a 2D Rigidbody that doesn't change the item's behaviour at all, just makes me able to access its Rigidbody.position ?

[hard viper]

a kinematic rigidbody

[gray mural]

yes, but the colliders won't collide

[hard viper]

it would change behaviour in receiving callbacks, but you could use overrides to turn it all off

[hard viper]

that is not what you asked for

you asked for moving colliders without affecting behaviour at all.

a kinematic rigidbody will do that

[gray mural]

No, I asked how to add a Rigidbody2D without changing my GameObject's initial behaviou at all

that includes all colliders collisions

[hard viper]

and that’s how you do it

you said you aren’t using any rigidbodies

[gray mural]

yes, I'm not

[hard viper]

ok. adding a kinematic rb will do that then

[gray mural]

Ok, I'll try it out. Thank you 😄

[brisk shore]

where can i learn how to structure the scripts and the general structure of my game?

[gray mural]

Use Unity !learn for Unity basics. Otherwise, maybe just some practice?

[tawny elk]

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[severe spire]

Hello, Im trying to solve a problem with cursor... I need to move with Cursor using keyboard. Im using new unity input system and Mouse.current.WarpCursorPosition()... It gives me back vector2 in console so I know input system works when i push the buttons but cursor moves only Up and Left... Any tips?

[rigid island]

show current script

[severe spire]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class LeverCtrl : MonoBehaviour
{
private Vector2 currentInput;
public float value = 1;

public void OnMouseMove(InputValue movementInput)
{
    Debug.Log(movementInput.Get<Vector2>());
    currentInput = movementInput.Get<Vector2>();

}

private void Update()
{
    Mouse.current.WarpCursorPosition(currentInput * Time.deltaTime + Mouse.current.position.ReadValue());

}

}

[short osprey]

[RequireComponent(typeof(Collider2D))]
public class DrawCollider : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Collider2D colliderComponent;

    void Awake()
    {
        colliderComponent = GetComponent<Collider2D>();        
    }
    void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.red;
        if(colliderComponent is BoxCollider2D box)
        {
            Gizmos.DrawCube(transform.position, box.size);
        }
        else if(colliderComponent is CircleCollider2D circle)
        {
            Gizmos.DrawSphere(transform.position, circle.radius);
        }
    }
}

is there any reason this doesnt draw the gizmo? ( i have BoxCollider2D attached )

[rigid island]

is gizmos enabled in scene view ?

[short osprey]

yes

[rigid island]

are you getting console errors?

OnDrawGizmos runs in the scene too

you are probably spammed with Null ref

lol

[short osprey]

im not getting Nullrefs

[rigid island]

oh wait the ifstatement nvm

[simple egret]

The Obvious™️, but just in case, the script is attached to something right

[rigid island]

thought it was a loop for some reason xD

[short osprey]

yessir

[simple egret]

Then none of the if statements pass

Logging the collider type should tell you what it detected: Debug.Log(colliderComponent.GetType())

[short osprey]

but why? it is a box collider 2D? can it not see that?

sure lemme try

do i put that on the Start()?

[simple egret]

Yeah that's an option

[short osprey]

[simple egret]

Place logs in both if statements, as well as outside of them, make sure two of them are logged (the one outside and one in an if statement)

[short osprey]

it logs twice cuz its attached to 2 gameobjectss

oh

i misread ur sentence

hold on

[rigid island]

why the time.deltatime ?

and you sure this possible, never tried forcing a cursor pos before so I'm not 100

[simple egret]

I'd make this easier and store the position as a variable, and add the vector input to that each frame

[rigid island]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69189325/mouse-current-warpcursorposition-only-seems-to-be-working-correctly-if-moving-le hmm

is this same issue?

[simple egret]

Yeah, deltaTime is causing this

Dividing your numbers by a factor of 100

[severe spire]

its kinda different... actualy this is only one ive seen 😄

[severe spire]

its working for up and left

[simple egret]

But yeah a variable like private Vector2 mousePos; + mousePos += movementInput.ReadValue<Vector2>(); should work just fine. Then pass that vector alone to WarpCursorPosition()

No need to make it complicated and include the current mouse position (which will not be correct until the next frame as per the documentation) into the calculation

[short osprey]

@simple egret Sorry, i got interrupted. it never seems to call the function, even before the if-statement

[simple egret]

Hmm, docs say

This function does not get called if the component is collapsed in the Inspector.
Make sure the script is expanded in the Inspector

[short osprey]

its not collapsed

[severe spire]

It took me ages to understand it as Im not so good at coding but it finally works! Thanks so much! Cant believe it was so basic...

[visual fjord]

How can i do get value negative in the input with the new input system???

[tiny orbit]

still dont know what caused this... i had to go back to a previous commit and rebuild

[soft shard]

What do you mean? What value are you referring to?

[vernal wharf]

Hi, I'm building a wall placement and connecting system, but I'm having trouble placing a wall perpendicular. When I place the wall, the wall does connect perpendicular, but not always on the correct side of wall 2. For example, I might try to connect it with the bottom right side of wall 2 perpendicular, but it gets placed on the top left side of wall 2 perpendicular.

I can get a short video of what it looks like if it helps or I can share code

[rigid island]

share !code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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[vernal wharf]

https://gdl.space/asaroxukud.cpp

[rigid island]

ohh thought you were using rays

are the debugs correct ?

[vernal wharf]

What I did seemed easier

[vernal wharf]

The logs? They are printing. Sometimes one gets printer, sometimes the easier.

Would raycast be better?

Any solid examples anywhere I can copy?

[rigid island]

I wouldn't say better, there can be many approaches..its thats how I did it when I did something similar so just cheated by getting the face of the normal easily

I would also not write Debug.Log("cross product y less than 0");
and maybe Debug.log the actual angle , making sure the numbers are what you expect them to be

[vernal wharf]

Ah, very good point

Someone else recommended creating game object (snap points) from one of these:

I only created a snap point on the top of wall and bottom of the wall on the edge.

With these images, they even have more snap points than that

The top may have 3 snap points, or in the right image, 4 snap points

[rigid island]

its pretty good approach as well

[pine blade]

hi what would be the best way to reference a specific parent of a hit collider consistently. imagine i have an enemy gameobject with two children that have colliders (e.g. a headshot collider and a bodyshot collider). Up until now ive been using transform.root.gameobject to identify the highest parent when hitting one of the colliders, (e.g. the enemy and their script), but what if i want to put the enemy in a prefab for a level? That would become the highest parent and would ruin it entirely. I also can't just do the parent of the collider (or any measured number away from where the collider is) since some colliders are lower down in the hierarchy, attached to specific parts of the enemy's model. So whats the best way to make this work? Any help would be appreciated.

[unreal temple]

Add a rigidbody to the root (can be kinematic) and then use collider.rigidbody.GetComponent<Whatever>()

That's the easiest way using built-in stuff

If you have an RB just do that

[leaden ice]

GetComponentInParent with some component on the desired object

e.g. for an enemy

hitObject.GetComponentInParent<Enemy>()

which has the added bonus that you should realistically only interact with the Enemy script anyway

[unreal temple]

That's also an option that's fine, quick linear search up the tree. It's fine so long as you don't have a really deep hierarchy below objects that do not have that root Enemy component

[pine blade]

if my root is a prefab level for instance, how would it differentiate multiple enemies within it when i use getcomponent?

[unreal temple]

oh, I was imagining for hitting enemies too

I wouldn't put a rigidbody on a level lol

[leaden ice]

For both of our examples it will find the nearest such component in the tree.

[unreal temple]

So you want to find a level when hitting any collider? Just do GetComponentInParent

Beacuse that's static geometry

You can't be putting a rigidbody on it

[pine blade]

no that was just an example. my issue isn't with finding the component, its with consistently gettingcomponent at different positions in a tree i guess

[unreal temple]

Well then why don't you read the answers you've already been given?

lol

I don't understand what your'e asking for now

[pine blade]

sorry still googling how getcomponentinparent works. Wasn't meaning to sound rude just trying to clear things up, all help is appreciated

[leaden ice]

it finds the nearest such component in the tree, traversing upwards toward the root of the tree

it's almost definitely what you want

[pine blade]

oh so do a loop using that until it finds one? gotcha thanks a ton. is this bad practice though? I feel like it may be expensive?

[leaden ice]

you don't need to do any loops

it does the loop internally

[pine blade]

oh its part of the function

[leaden ice]

and it's not expensive unless your hierarchy is hundreds or thousands of elements deep

[pine blade]

oh ok thats easy then, thank you

[pine blade]

yea that shouldn't be an issue

[devout nimbus]

Object getting stuck on walls even tho its radius is large and the wall is obviously a collider. Never had this issue before.

[leaden ice]

how is said object moving?

[clever lagoon]

shot in the dark but perhaps ... [ExecuteAlways]

[devout nimbus]

Im using Granbergs asset. The object has a seeker component. Just setting the AIPath destination to that point

Never had an issue with this before but its been like a year outside of Unity

[leaden ice]

not familiar with it - but likely it's moving your object via the Transform directly or something of that nature

certainly sounds like a problem with the asset or how you have configured it.

[devout nimbus]

Yea messing with some things seems towork

[spring creek]

Are you using any path modifiers?

[spring creek]

It's the A* Pathfinding Project, in case that is more familiar
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/behavior-ai/a-pathfinding-project-pro-87744
(There is a free version too)

[upper pilot]

How can I achieve a text effect?
Is there a built in way to make the text larger/smaller(like its "breathing") + change its color?

Or perhaps something from asset store that can do that?

[rain minnow]

you can animate the text color(s) with text mesh pro and change the size using lerp and/or a coroutine, or with a tween engine. there is also the text animator asset . . .

[upper pilot]

Do you men this?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/gui/text-animator-for-unity-254677

I cant seem to find a way to animate color with TMPro

Ah

CrossFadeColor?

[rain minnow]

yes, this asset is awesome. checkout their videos . . .

[upper pilot]

Is there a way to tell the crossfade has finished?

Added it to my list, atm I just need a simple color fade

But I want it to change between 2 colors constantly.

[rain minnow]

don't think so. you can check the current text color to determine if it's finished . . .

[upper pilot]

Yep doing that now

Cant seem to figure out how to get current color

It seems like CrossFade does something else, it doesnt actually change the text color

I have to use CanvasRenderer:

GetComponent<CanvasRenderer>().GetColor()

[rigid island]

just use lerp or/and dotween

there is also this neat example in unity for a simple one
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Color.Lerp.html

[upper pilot]

oh wow

Didnt expect "Mathf.PingPong" lol

[rigid island]

Mathf.PingPong helps with going back n forth

[upper pilot]

But thats what I need, thanks xD

[novel bough]

hi friends, I want some help about image selection form local files on web platform, how can i select single image form local files and load into image

[tropic surge]

!ban @dull tulip bypass this ban

[tawny elk]

albiei was banned.

[tropic surge]

(note for future: sending CoD ban bypass exe virus)

[loud wharf]

Real.

[waxen burrow]

how would I go about extracting an animation clip from an fbx in script?

[limber onyx]

why you want to do it on script?

[waxen burrow]

My combat system uses scriptable objects that have override controllers with an animation for each attack in a combo. Since there are a ton of different attack animations I wanted to have most of the workload automated. At the moment I have a one click script that creates the SO, AOC and stores them in a folder. I was then trying to get it to duplicate the animation clip so I could go in and manually add animation events manually, but the source clip is an fbx and the animation will still be read only even if I duplicate it

TLDR I want to take a couple clicks out of my workload

[limber onyx]

you mean you get trouble with add event to anim clip readonly in fbx file?

[waxen burrow]

Yeah

[limber onyx]

just for sure, you want to auto add event by code?

[waxen burrow]

Not the events, just getting a clip that isn’t read only. Since each animation is different I’ll have to manually add events at specific poi’s

[limber onyx]

1, if you want to add animation to a anim clip readonly on fbx file, at tag Animation, roll down you will have this

[short osprey]

hey sorry i was asleep. i just tried it, it didnt work. Which is weird cuz the gizmos draww during play mode

[limber onyx]

2, if you want a editable anim clip, select the anim inside and click ctrl + D
you will have it duplicate editable

[clever lagoon]

hmm.. do debug logs show OnDrawGizmo() is even being called in not-play mode?

[waxen burrow]

I’ll see if 1 works for me, I know in the past unity has given me a hard time adding events that way but I’ll give it a go. #2 tho was what I was attempting to automate, but I’ll try 1 before I ask about that further

[swift falcon]

Hi all

I want to be able to make a 2D sword follow the player

But not always be stuck to his hand, like just float around him

How would I go about coding this mechanic in?

It's such a difficult topic

[thin aurora]

Determine the point on your hand where the sword should be, and then lerp the sword to that position using the same angle/pitch/roll as the point I guess

[swift falcon]

I don't understand

But I want it to wander around

And constantly revolve at random positions around the player

[thin aurora]

Around the player?

[swift falcon]

Yeah

Like a cool sword thingo

[thin aurora]

Then determine the player's position and determine random spots around the player to move towards, and do that

Maybe with an angle that constantly increments a random value on both axis

[swift falcon]

And just lerp?

[thin aurora]

And sine/cosine

[swift falcon]

Sure

I'll give it a go

Thank you

[thin aurora]

Combining those should give you a decent circle to work with

[swift falcon]

Yeah

Thanks man

Or girl

[thin aurora]

In all seriousness, you could even ask ChatGPT how it would do this, and it would probably also suggest sine

Just make the code yourself

[swift falcon]

Ik how to use sin

I was just using it

But the issue was making sure it didn't jerk around

I didn't know I could use lerp for that

[thin aurora]

Yeah then just lerp it

[swift falcon]

Thanks

[thin aurora]

Lerp will account for the remaining distance so it might speed up/slow down

[swift falcon]

Yeah

[iron sorrel]

I'm working on a procedural level generation with tilemaps. Everything is made programmatically. I'm having a lot of tile combinations I would like to "prefab" (items made with several tiles, ie doors, walls, etc.)

What is the best way to achieve it? Currently I'm making prefab of a tilemap for every tile combination I want. At runtime, I'm getting the right prefab, clone it, move it and add it to a Grid. At the end, I have an individual tilemap for each element.

[teal stirrup]

Hello guys I don't really know if I should be asking how to fix these two errors here or in some where else
I've done as much research as I can but Nothings really working
In fact spent over 12hrs in the last 2 days trying to fix it I went into the script and As far as I can see everything seems to be in place

[limber onyx]

go ahead

[fervent furnace]

what are the errors?

[teal stirrup]

these two errors Code is error CS1061:
It tells me this
'VRCAvatarParameterDriver' does not contain a definition for 'ApplySettings' and no accessible extension method 'ApplySettings' accepting a first argument of type 'VRCAvatarParameterDriver' could be found

[fervent furnace]

not your code?

[limber onyx]

can you take a screenshot?

[teal stirrup]

no Its a paid for model that has scripts in it I've tried to get in touch with them but no luck

[teal stirrup]

Do you need a photo of the script or error code?

[limber onyx]

the photo one

[fervent furnace]

i have googled the script looks like it is vr chat

[teal stirrup]

I am a little confused by what you mean?

[fervent furnace]

somethings related to vr chat but i am not sure
havent tried it before

[teal stirrup]

This is the start of the script I dont know much about scripts in general This was just suppose to be a premade model I could work on

[teal stirrup]

meant to reply to you sorry

[thick bough]

If you have commisioned a VRChat avatar then you should ask in the VRChat server about uploading it @teal stirrup

[teal stirrup]

not commissioned from vchat

[thick bough]

Then you don't need that script presumably? Can't you just delete it?

[limber onyx]

let me see

#🥽┃virtual-reality oh, there is it

[thick bough]

No, VR Chat have their own discord server. We can't answer about it here

[teal stirrup]

Wish I could and tried but the script is huge and makes it where I can use many parts of the model

[teal stirrup]

Buts its made from a unity Script?

[fervent furnace]

!vrchat

[tawny elk]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[teal stirrup]

I'll check it out ty for your time

[fervent furnace]

actually, if the scripts in asset are broken you should contact the asset's creator, dont try to fix it yourself unless you know what is going on, or you are the creator.....

[teal stirrup]

I've contact the creator many times but have gotten no response

[fervent furnace]

oh i see.... he may busy/miss your request/ irresponsible...

[teal stirrup]

Ive tried as well as my friends for almost 4 months now ;w;

we have tried to be patient but were starting to get upset since we've made over enough reports claiming the issue with no response as well as 2 others

[hard estuary]

I'm using LineRenderer to generate a connection between some source and target. Sadly it looks glitchy on some angles. Can you recommend an alternative solution?

[knotty sun]

is it a straight line?

[hard estuary]

It's a curved one. It resembles a trajectory of an object thrown in the air and being slowly pulled down with gravity.

[knotty sun]

then a Spline is probably your only other option

[hard estuary]

Thanks, I will check it out.

[mortal tusk]

I recently learned that Unity Web Requests aren't supported on Linux, I was using them to load local files on the users PC. Are there any alternative methods to do so that support both Windows & Linux?

[mellow sigil]

Why would you use web requests to load local files in the first place

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io?view=net-8.0

[mortal tusk]

It was the only way I could figure out how to load png files from a folder to then be displayed in Unity. If you know of another solution feel free to tell me

[mortal tusk]

Oh interesting, I don't really understand how to actually use this yet but hopefully a quick google search will tell me what I need to know

[mellow sigil]

Google for how to read files in C#. There's nothing special about it in Unity

unless they're files bundled with the game

[mortal tusk]

Well they're in the same folder as the rest of the game, but I manually add it after the build is finished

[mellow sigil]

why?

[mortal tusk]

Without getting into a lot of detail, basically I'm making a tool which takes a bunch of sprites & allows the user to combine them into one sprite and save it back as a png. I wanted the sprites to be editable by the user in case they wanted to change/add/remove any, which is why I made it a seperate folder that gets loaded at runtime

[mellow sigil]

Ok, that makes sense. That can be automated too fyi

[latent latch]

Isn't using unity webrequest pretty common for local files with android builds

Haven't touched android builds for a while but I remember scratching my head over it

[mortal tusk]

Idk about android builds specically but everything I see about accessing local files in Unity says to use web requests

[mortal tusk]

how so?

[mellow sigil]

Are you asking how to do it?

[mortal tusk]

Ya, how are you saying it can be automated?

[mellow sigil]

You can make a script that copies the files after the build. https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/BuildPlayerPipeline.html

[mortal tusk]

Oh you were talking about copying the folder into the build automatically, I was confused lol. That does seem useful tho. Thanks

[prisma birch]

What is the correct way to refactor a scriptable object without losing references? I want to change the name of a scriptable object type in my project but whenever I do my normal refactor in Visual Studio, all scriptables created from that script lose reference.

[leaden ice]

Change the name in Unity first

Then do the VS refactor

[heady iris]

All the matters is that Unity knows that the new script asset is the same thing as the old script asset

If you rename in Unity, it updates the corresponding .meta file

critically, the GUID in that file doesn't change

If you rename something outside of Unity and the .meta file isn't also renamed, it will think you deleted a script asset and then made a new script asset

the new .meta file will have a different GUID, and now all of your references are broken

[hard estuary]

The script name should be the same as the class name. Currently my Visual Studio automatically changes the filename when I change the class name, but this is a rather new feature. If your script name is the same as the class name, but you still have some issues with detecting the referred object, you can try recompiling code or reimporting asset. Keep in mind that all asset references are made with GUID which is stored in .meta file. Unity automatically changes the .meta file name accordingly whenever you change the asset name, but it doesn't work if you change names outside of Unity, e.g. via Windows Explorer.

[heady iris]

If the class name is wrong, it won't work correctly until you fix it -- but you won't lose the references

[prisma birch]

Ahhh this was the key. I'm used to being able to refactor Monobehaviours directly in VS and it changes file names automatically *and * maintains reference. Wonder why SO works different. Either way thank you!

@heady iris @hard estuary Yeah I had the class name and file name matching correctly but it seems like if you don't change the file name in Unity first it won't work with scriptables. Which is unintuitive because it does work with monos.

[leaden ice]

Unity needs to be involved so it knows to update the name of the meta file too, keeping the asset guid the same

Otherwise unity thinks the old script was simply deleted and a new one created, so you end up with a new meta file with a new GUID

[hard estuary]

For me it worked with ScriptableObjects too. Perhaps it's just my version of IDE and/or Unity.

[prisma birch]

Right, makes sense since there are additional files to maintain. Anyways thanks again you saved me from a huge headache.

[heady iris]

There is no difference.

SO assets and component instances both use the GUID of the script asset to identify it

[quasi adder]

Is it possible to override the normalizedValue property in Slider.cs?
I'm running into an issue where I'm creating a shop system, and am using a slider for the player to specify how many items they want to sell. Now it works fine if there are multiple items e.g. 2 or more.
When there is one singular item, I want to set the minvalue and maxvalue of the slider to 1 (as max value is based on how many items are available to sell etc.).

Unfortunately though in the Slider.cs they are doing a check to see if minValue and maxValue are approximately the same, and if so, return 0. Therefore when selling a singular item it's always returning 0.

Any suggestions would be helpful 🙂

[latent latch]

Couldn't you just unormalize it by multiplying it out again -> compute then return as the expect value

[leaden ice]

Add a special case in your code to check for 1 as well

[quasi adder]

Oh so you mean if it's going to be 1 then we just use the value 1 rather than the slider?

Jesus christ... I've spent like 3 hours trying to figure it out today and all it took was that... smh. I need sleep! Thank you!!

[fleet carbon]

Does anyone know any good articles or videos that show various good uses for arrays and the best ways to use them in your scripts instead of just showing how to set up an array.

[rigid island]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/branches-and-loops-local#use-loops-to-repeat-operations

[fleet carbon]

Ooo thanks I'll check that out after work!

[fervent furnace]

what is "good use" btw.....
it is nothing more than a contiguous memory block....

[fleet carbon]

Like practical ways you can use arrays along with loops in games, that are useful for certain mechanics of a game.

I'm not sure if I'm wording this right tbh 😂

[rigid island]

arrays go well with loops since thats one way you'd interact with all them at once

[fleet carbon]

Yeah

[rigid island]

nothing really concept heavy about how to use them. Pick the appropriate one for job.
Eg sometimes a while loop makes more sense than for

or maybe foreach over for. etc

just be careful with while loops as they're easy to fuck up and create endless loops 🫠

[fleet carbon]

Yeah that's true, that Microsoft page you sent is quite useful tbh thanks for that

[fleet carbon]

Lmao yeah that's fair

[rigid island]

yeah microsoft really stepped up their docs/learning. It used to be ehh not so friendly lol

[fervent furnace]

or recursive way to visit an array, though you wont see anyone do that in c#, just for fun

void dfs(int[] arr,int idx){
  if(idx>=arr.length)return;
  work here
  dfs(arr,idx+1);
  other works here
}

[fleet carbon]

I'm aware alot of programming is independent and personal research and that it works better if you spend time experimenting on your own haha. so I'll probably use those docs you sent and try out stuff see what works and what doesn't. I've definitely seen improvement in my programming the last few weeks when I decided to rely less on tutorials and just go on my own and experiment I've been able to figure out some more stuff independently and use documentation to help

[fleet carbon]

Oh damn that's cool haha

[rigid island]

awesome! what really helpedme drive some concepts home is also working doing small apps in Console

[fleet carbon]

Absolutely that's what I've found myself doing recently that has helped alot!

I'm going to definitely have a read through the Microsoft documents after work, they seem really useful

[scarlet viper]

are null exceptions slow?

or are they the same as if i simply returned from a method (performance wise)?

[fervent furnace]

throw any exception slowing down your program

[scarlet viper]

ok

[rigid island]

id be more worried that its breaking the code from executing properly than it being "slow"

u shouldn't ignore any NRE

[fervent furnace]

try pattern is quite good, do the checking and performing the action at once, though i wont suggest just simply returning a bool back, instead returns some status eg

struct SomeThing{
  const int Success=0,FailReason1=1,FailReason2=2....;
  readonly int errorCode;
  public static implicit operator bool(Something s){
    return s.errorCode==Success;
  }
}
```annoying, but more infos

[thin prism]

Hello, so I want to create code where I have a GameManager script, which checks between the collision of two seperate objects (preferably with tags). I have tried to use an if function to do it seperately, but it doesnt seem to work? What is the easiest way to do this? Do I create GameObject variables or?

Thank you!

Also it is the collision between the player, and an object from a list of three possible objects

[fervent furnace]

if two objects collide, their oncollisionXX will both being fired.

then they need to inform the GameManager (probably a singleton) they are colliding and tell the GameManager who they are.

[hard viper]

is there a simple place to get some basic icons to give monobehaviours to make them more distinctive? I just have a ton of monobehaviours that have the standard C# paper icon thing

I think I know how to assign icons, but not a good resource to just grab a bunch of basic ones, because I don't want to waste time drawing, or searching for icons individually to download

[rain minnow]

searching is your best bet (quickest route). it's not wasteful if you need it . . .

[knotty sun]

I use
https://thenounproject.com/

[rigid island]

I also have this one
https://www.svgrepo.com/

[knotty sun]

there is also
https://www.flaticon.com/

[hard viper]

ty guys

I found this site to also be good: https://icons8.com/icons

ty guys. This is much better now:

[wise escarp]

Hey guys, are there any good Built-In solutions for real-time decals? I can't seem to find any.
The closest example I found was this shader https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/054-unlit-dynamic-decals/
The only problem is, it's unlit only, and I can't seem to figure out how to exclude certain surfaces/models from being projected on.

[fringe ridge]

I have a serializable class that has player position/animation data, to send over to another player. One of the fields there is a Quaternion, it is serialized, sent over but the rotation doesnt seem to set correctly, it's just weird

[fresh acorn]

So I'm trying to randomize colors, how do I send the list values to the ballRenderer.color = someColor?

[leaden ice]

Why would you make a list of strings instead of Colors?

[fresh acorn]

Oh, let me fix that

[leaden ice]

Make a list of Color and just select one at random from the list

Assign it directly to the renderer

Done

[fresh acorn]

How do I make a list of colors?

[fervent furnace]

this is still list of string

[leaden ice]

Write List<Color> of course

[fervent furnace]

btw you know that goal is colliding with ball and why you want the goal finds another ball gameobject in your scene

[jade kindle]

Hey guys, I need a pathfinding algorithm for my Unity project. Normally navmesh finds the shortest path but I need a path with straight edges. It will only involve 90 degree rotation. Do you have any suggestions?

This is a valid path, for example:

[fringe ridge]

Just a suggestion, that i think you should know.
using GameObject.Find and getComponent is quite ineffective, especially if it is done very often, and it can cause some problems

use singletons. in you GameManager script, create something like this :
public static GameManager instance;

public void Awake(){
instance = this;
}

now instead of GameObject.Find("GameManager").GetComponent...
you can do GameManager.instance.Player1Scored().

singletons are used only for scripts that are created once and used all the time, so GameManager in your case works perfectly for this

[rigid island]

good advice ^

[fringe ridge]

i would suggest to write it yourself. A way to do it that pops in my mind is do some math 🙂 and find the interception point from start to end. Check if there are any objects in one of the straight lines, if so move it to the side so it goes around the object, and then connect the moved line to the start/end point. Repeat this a lot

this is just a rough idea of how i would do it, but i imagine it requires more work than this

[leaden ice]

This image wouldn't be the shortest path, as it backtracks. You'd just go between the obstacles. Are you sure you want shortest path?
Anyway standard Djikstra or A* algorithms will work fine, with a rectangular grid of coordinates and a neighbor function that only returns the 4 cardinal directions.

[jade kindle]

Actually I had a very similar idea that uses Linked Lists and recursively calculates the path 😄 I just wondered if there are some ready to use techniques

[fringe ridge]

in his case that would result in a zigzag path. if he needs the shortest distance, that is the best way to do it, but if he wants it clean with as few turns as possible, i doubt a* or djikstra would work

[jade kindle]

Yes, it is definitely not the shortest one. I just want a cool path that only involves 90 degrees of rotations.

[lean sail]

Recursively calculates the path is a big "draw the rest of the owl". There are graph algorithms you should look at, like the ones mentioned above.

[leaden ice]

Not true - there's nothing about either of those algorithms that requires a zigzag

especially considering one with many turns will be the same cost as one with only two turns

you can tweak the heuristics of either to minimize the number of turns

[fringe ridge]

Well you could add a huge cost to turns

[leaden ice]

if you don't want shortest path that's a whole separate world

[fringe ridge]

so it tries to avoid it as much as possible

[leaden ice]

or just a slightly higher cost, but yes

exactly

[jade kindle]

Then, I will try to implement on my own and I'll share the results. Thank you guys 😀

[fervent furnace]

extra cost of +1 in heuristic should be enough, force the min heap pop all Adjacency cells
T T

    C<--------go right < go up until                  C<--now go right >= go up

S S

[fresh acorn]

So how do I select a color at random?

private List<Color> colors = new List<Color>()
{ 
    Color.black, Color.blue, Color.green, Color.red, Color.white
};

            ballRenderer.color = colors.;

[hard estuary]

ballRenderer.color = colors [Random.Range (0, colors.Count)];

[fresh acorn]

Oh awesome thank you

Weird it randomizes to a clear color making it impossible to see on a black background

[fervent furnace]

the first choice is black

[fresh acorn]

Ohhhh lol

Thank you haha

Hmm the physics of my ball are off... after enough plays it will slow down. Any thoughts?

[languid hound]

Installed Netcode for GameObjects. This is less about networking more about why is it not showing up in VS? I tried regenerating csproj crap and it still doesn't work

There's no namespace no nothing in VS

Actually issue on my end for some reason VS wasn't suggesting Unity.NetCode as a namespace and would rather tell me to change it

[fresh acorn]

Gravity is set to 0, settings seem correct

If the ball hits the paddle at the right angle it will cause the ball to slow down... how do I prevent that?

Oh interesting according to this post
There is actually a precision issue where it's impossible for an object using built-in physics to never lose any velocity when bouncing off things (or gain velocity with high enough bounciness settings). You can get it fairly close, but eventually it will drift. So you can either do your own simple physics, or check the velocity's magnitude occasionally and adjust it as necessary.

[mental rover]

full Unity physics can be a can of worms when you just want some simple but crisp arcadey physics for sure

[dusk plume]

hi i have an issue with my character controller, it looks good like you see

but there is an issue

when i am moving my cam the gun is transforming weirdly

[rigid island]

weirdly?

[somber nacelle]

it's likely due to the positioning of the gun

[rigid island]

probably non uniform parent

[dusk plume]

like this

[rigid island]

whats gun parented to ?

[dusk plume]

the parent of the gun is the camera

The weirdest thing, is that I made a crouch system that make less heigh the character, but the issue is not here when I crouch.

[rigid island]

ohh maybe you scaled the player transform? idk its hard to tell from ss alone

[lean sail]

I would assume scaling, or the fov is changing. Not really much to say without seeing the setup or code

[dusk plume]

yea when the player transform is at 1 y there is no issue

[lean sail]

Non uniform scaling results in weird things

[rigid island]

yeah its probably rotation skewing due to nonuniform

[dusk plume]

how can i do?

to uniform it

without changing everything

[rigid island]

dont scale the main gameobject

just scale the collider

main parent should only be a container not an actual mesh

[dusk plume]

the main parent is an empty mesh with character controller

[rigid island]

alr well dont scale transforms lol

well you can but non uniform will cause issues in children/rotations

[dusk plume]

what is an uniform thing

[thick socket]

👀

[dusk plume]

if i set it to 2

[dusk plume]

it works?

[thick socket]

pretty sure I scale almost every transform highest parent lol

[rigid island]

all three numbers are the same

[thick socket]

although ig mijne are uniform

[rigid island]

yes

[thick socket]

do you not scale like that specifically because of meshes?

aka Im fine to keep doing whatever since Im 2d?

[rigid island]

some just use the scale tool and elongate player like that but then causes scale being off

its best to have meshes as children

unable to affect anything important

[thick socket]

how do you get the "titles" on here above the serializefields?

ex)SoundFx

(stolen img from @rigid island asset store page :D)

[dusk plume]

ty anyway

really helps me

[rigid island]

those are [Header]atribute

[dusk plume]

i wish a good day to everyone 🙂

[rigid island]

lmao I thought that looked familiar

[thick socket]

hmm something isn't working right

[nocturne pollen]

I need some advise on best practices to follow for readability and ease of use.

I have an Editor Script with some important functions and helper functions. I am planning to move the helper functions to another class and have the main class inherit the helper class.

But I also have to pass some arrays by reference to all the helper functions. So I am not sure what is the best way to implement this.

1. Pass all arrays by reference- I have to pass around 7 arrays and 4 variables to each function. (I don't want to do this)
2. I could pass the arrays by reference to a new function which assigns these to global variables in the parent so I have to initialize it once and then don't worry about it.
3. I could use partial class instead of inheritance and keep helper functions inside the partial class. (This looks simple to do but I am not sure whether this is the best option)

Or is there a better solution as this feels a bit weird to me.

[thick socket]

public class EnemyAttackSOBase : ScriptableObject
{
    [Header("General")]
    protected EnemyCharacter enemy;
    protected Transform transform;
    protected GameObject gameObject;
    protected WeaponAttack weaponAttack;
    [Header("Projectile")]
    [SerializeField] protected BulletTypes bulletType;
    [SerializeField] protected Rigidbody2D FireballPrefab;
    [SerializeField] protected float fireballSpeed = 10f;

    [SerializeField] protected EquipmentType equipmentType;
    [SerializeField] protected MyWeaponType weaponType;
    [SerializeField] protected AttackType attackType;
    [SerializeField] protected bool findPlayerThroughGround = false;

    [SerializeField] protected int numAttacks = 1;
    [SerializeField] protected int numBounces = 0;
    [SerializeField] protected float multishotCooldown = 0.35f;
    protected int shotsFired = 0;

    [SerializeField] protected float _timeBetweenShots = 2f;
    protected float _timeTillExit = 3f;
    protected float _exitTimer;
    [SerializeField] protected float _movementSpeed;
    protected bool pauseAttack;

[rigid island]

don't think protected fields would show

so you need it to be above something that is serialized

[thick socket]

ah ok gotcha

[nocturne pollen]

@rigid island can you advise me

[rigid island]

Idk depends on your project and specific use case. Sounds like I would just use static class

[thick socket]

not sure why it doesn't like the header here

[Header("Fighter Setup")]

    [field: SerializeField] public bool isFacingRight { get; protected set; } = true;
    public bool isCharacter = true;

[rigid island]

I'm gessing some shenanigans what that being a property

[thick socket]

very annoying

[somber nacelle]

much like the SerializeField attribute, you need to target the backing field for the Header attribute

[thick socket]

interesting...why do I need that here but not in other places like the above screenshot(a couple up)

[somber nacelle]

because it's an attribute that can be attached to a field. you're attempting to attach it to a property here. it works just like SerializeField, target the backing field or attach it to a field

[latent latch]

Even though do like serializing the backing field, there's just more clarity with spliting it up, and easier to rename the serialized variables if you need to later on.

[hard viper]

i use a lot of automatic properties with backing field. it’s just really convenient, and it is easy to add in later if needed

you just lose the currently serialized values when you migrate later

[vivid remnant]

Is there a transform.TransformDirection() equivalent for Vector3?

I have two vectors. I want to modify one vector according to another vector's direction. Any idea how can I achieve this?

Pwetty pwease :)))

[leaden ice]

Not totally sure I completely understand what you mean but perhaps:

Quaternion diff = Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.forward, anotherVector);
Vector3 result = diff * oneVector;```

[vivid remnant]

I am looking for a way to make sure that, as long as a character controlled by the player is moving while grounded, the direction in which it moves is always parralel to the surface it is walking on.
Artistic representation attached.

[somber nacelle]

use Vector3.ProjectOnPlane and project the player's velocity on a plane with the ground's normal

[vivid remnant]

My thought process:

1. I take the normal of the surface my character is standing on.
2. I calculate the Cross Vector between the normal and characterTransform.right and store it inside a Vector3 instance called "direction".
3. I calculate the Dot Product between the Cross Vector and characterTransform.forward to see if the two are oriented in the same general direction and in case they are not, I invert the Cross Vector(direction = -direction).

No the only problem is:
When I take input from the player, I store it inside a Vector3 called "move"(Vector3(InputX, 0, InputZ)) and I use move = characterTransform.TransformDirection(move) in order to allign the "move" Vector with the direction the character is facing.
In order to make sure the character's movement direction is always parallel to the surface it is moving on, I also need to modify the "move" vector according to the "direction" vector mentioned in the thought process. That's where I'm stuck.

[somber nacelle]

#archived-code-general message

[vivid remnant]

Thank you, @somber nacelle! I looked up the ProjectOnPlane() method only after I finished writing my previous comment and it's exactly what I need. Kudos, man!

[languid hound]

Anyone know why testCubeItem is null?

Or well

In Awake when doing all the stuff it isn't null

It finds TestCubeItem

But in Update its null (this is after switching scenes)

[vernal wharf]

@rigid island Do you think I should go with the first image or the second?

[rigid island]

maybe First should be enough points

[leaden ice]

well you're catching exceptions there. What is it logging?

[languid hound]

That was testing previously as I had the wrong assetbundle name by one letter lol

In awake there's no exceptions it assigns testCubeItem fine but in Update its null somehow

I'll try constantly logging to see when exactly it turns null

Excuse me what

Its never null

Why is it null when instantiating then

[leaden ice]

what makes you think it's null

[languid hound]

When I instantiate it gives a NullRef

[leaden ice]

what does

Maybe Camera.main is null

[languid hound]

I don't understand why it would be null though. I'll try spawning it at the player instead

[leaden ice]

Well do you have a camera in the scene with the MainCamera tag or not

[languid hound]

Ohh it has to have a MainCamera tag?

[leaden ice]

yes

[languid hound]

Okay fair enough I thought it was just the first active camera

That makes sense now

[heady iris]

I'm not sure what happens if you play an animator state you're already in

i'm pretty sure that's used for previewing animations

See Also: StartRecording, StopRecording, recorderStartTime, recorderStopTime, StartPlayback, , playbackTime.

Perhaps it will work if you specify the normalized time

see the example on https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.Play.html

                // play Bounce but start at a quarter of the way though
                anim.Play("Base Layer.Bounce", 0, 0.25f);

Perhaps the default behavior is to not try to change the time if you're already in that state

(you would use 0, not 0.25, since you want to play from the start)

Alternatively, you may just want to have all of your states transition back to the idle state

you wouldn't do any other logic in the animator controller

you could actually just use Any State to go back to idle

[sleek chasm]

hello can you help me fix this error Assets\codes\PlayerManager.cs(17,22): error CS1061: 'InputManager' does not contain a definition for 'HandleAllInputs' and no accessible extension method 'HandleAllInputs' accepting a first argument of type 'InputManager' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[hazy marten]

did you get this script from somewhere? Sounds like you need a HandleAllInputs function that takes a type of InputManager

[rigid island]

did you name a class InputManager

[summer oar]

Is it possible to make the GIU class draw to a rendertexture instead of the screen? That way I can use it to draw a texture onto another with proper filtering if I need to scale the texture I'm drawing

And if I can render the result to a render texture, then I can save that to disk

I'm asking because I don't think Texture2D.SetPixels() will do scaling if you pass a color array that doesn't have enough or has too many pixels to fill the rectangular region

[hazy marten]

I think you can do this if you set the active render texture to whatever render texture you want to use the GUI functions on. https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RenderTexture-active.html

that being said I think there's better ways to do what you're talking about. Why not blit the render texture with a shader if you just want to draw a texture to a render texture? Or am I missing something?

[sleek chasm]

yes

i did

[hazy marten]

what does Assets\codes\PlayerManager.cs(17,22) look like?

[rigid island]

You should not name Classes the same names as Unity Classes

[sleek chasm]

what do u mean

[rigid island]

I think unity already has a class named InputManager

its in a separate namespace so not sure its an issue in this case

anyway you're accessing something in input manager that doesn't match signature or doesn't exist

[sleek chasm]

thats the problem

cuz it exists

[rigid island]

!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.

[rigid island]

dont screenshot code

[sleek chasm]

okay

what should i do ?

[rigid island]

use the links

show full context of your code

[sleek chasm]

OKAY

https://gdl.space/isiqocinaj.cs

done

[sage oxide]

I'm currently making an AR app where user has the possibility to upload images. I would like to add a function to save the images, and I've got 2 possibilities:

1. Encoding the image to bytes and decoding it back to PNG/JPG when loaded.
2. Simply saving the file paths.

What would be the best approach?
Just saving the file paths is lightweight, but if the file paths change, the images get lost. The chances of this happening are low, but not zero. The user does not pick the images from the gallery, but rather from the literal file explorer, so there is a chance things may move.

Converting the image to bytes might be more reliable but takes up more space. But then, how much more space would this approach take? The maximum number of images will be around 20 to 30

[simple egret]

If the program requires the images to be updated as soon as they're modified externally (in Paint for example), then only store paths.
A bit like how Unity does it, when you focus it, it checks if changes were made in the Assets folder, and triggers a reimport

There's the FileSystemWatcher class available that can be used to monitor changes made to a specific directory. It'll raise events when files get created, moved, deleted

Passing the relevant paths as arguments of course

[rigid island]

is the error not underlined in code editor ?

and did you save/

[sleek chasm]

okay

this is acctualy funny

cuz i didnt

xD

its working

thank you so much bro

[rigid island]

btw you should configure your code editor

this way you know in realtime if the error is there or not (above many other good features like code suggestions)

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[rigid island]

@sleek chasm

[sleek chasm]

thank you so much !

m still new to game dev

[rigid island]

all good! this part is important

saves soo much time and headaches later. You only need it once

goodluck 🙂

[sleek chasm]

Thanks dude cya

[sage oxide]

Okay, I think I'll save the filepaths for now, that's way easier. I'll keep the other approach in mind, in case problems arise. The thing with the other approach is that when encoding the images, loading time might become an issue. Imagine decoding 20 images from bytes to png on a mobile device. Might take a 1-2 seconds.

[simple egret]

FileSystemWatcher may not work on mobile, you might have to track changes yourself if that's a requirement

[sage oxide]

okay, thanks for the info!

[summer oar]

I found a utility class that can do the annoying work for me

now I'm ust having trouble with this

private Texture2D GetTextureFromBitstream(byte[]? bitstream, UnityEngine.Color backgroundColorForInvalid, UnityEngine.Color key)
{
    if (bitstream == null || bitstream.Length == 0)
    {
        var solidTexture = new Texture2D(1, 1);
        solidTexture.SetPixelData(new[] { backgroundColorForInvalid }, 0, 0);
        return solidTexture;
    }

    var imageTexture = new Texture2D(1, 1);
    imageTexture.LoadImage(bitstream);

    NativeArray<UnityEngine.Color> colorData = imageTexture.GetPixelData<UnityEngine.Color>(0);
        
    for (var i = 0; i < colorData.Length; i++)
    {
        if (colorData[i] == key)
            colorData[i] = default;
    }
        
    imageTexture.SetPixelData(colorData, 0, 0);
    return imageTexture;
}

I have to do some processing on the image as I load it in, don't question the processing I need to do - I know it's cursed

The problem is when I use SetPixelData

despite me setting it on the same texture I got the pixel data from, uhhhh

it complains the texture is larger than what the source pixel data can supply

or, correction, other way 'round

ArgumentException: Texture2D.SetPixelData: size of data to be filled was larger than the size of data available in the source array. (Texture '')
UnityEngine.Texture2D.SetPixelData[T] (Unity.Collections.NativeArray`1[T] data, System.Int32 mipLevel, System.Int32 sourceDataStartIndex) (at <f712b1dc50b4468388b9c5f95d0d0eaf>:0)
UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer.GetTextureFromBitstream (System.Byte[] bitstream, UnityEngine.Color backgroundColorForInvalid, UnityEngine.Color key) (at Assets/Scripts/UI/Themes/Importers/IThemeImporter.cs:124)
UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer.CreateWindowTextureFromShiftOS (UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer+SkinData skinData) (at Assets/Scripts/UI/Themes/Importers/IThemeImporter.cs:83)
UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer.Import (UI.Theming.OperatingSystemTheme+ThemeEditor themeEditor) (at Assets/Scripts/UI/Themes/Importers/IThemeImporter.cs:63)

[hazy marten]

I was messing with this kind of stuff a while ago but my knowledge is a bit rusty. However, especially since this is just a one pixel texture, why use GetPixelData and SetPixelData? Why not just GetPixel and SetPixel? The data methods are more optimized but I can't imagine it matters that much for one pixel. Either way, the size of what you're getting for GetPixelData might not match the size of what you're setting, as weird as that sounds. I'd debug log the size of both to be sure.

[summer oar]

Because it's not a 1 pixel texture

Ignore that

[ember mirage]

anyone have an idea why prefab instances would persist after exiting playmode? re-entering playmode doesnt clear them either

[summer oar]

The texture gets created as a 1x1 texture because those params are required

LoadImage will immediately resize it though

I use it all the time

[hazy marten]

Oh, I see

When you make a NativeArray of colors, is that converting the data type? Your input image data stream might be in a different format?

[summer oar]

Input image data stream is just a byte[] representing...well....idk

could be a bitmap

a PNG

a jpeg

that's not for me to care about

[hazy marten]

yeah I think that's the problem. When you convert it to a nativearray of colors, you're turning it from a potentially compressed format to one that isn't, and the new uncompressed format is bigger than the compressed format

[summer oar]

Soooo what you're saying is it'll work better if I create two textures, and destroy the one I got the array from after I do the processing

[hard viper]

if a monobehaviour gets disabled in the middle of a fixedupdate loop, but it hasn't had its fixedupdate evaluated yet, does its fixedupdate get skipped when it comes up?

[hazy marten]

You might want to try that, although that could be unoptimal. Still, would probably be better to get something that works first then optimize it.

[hazy marten]

FixedUpdate will finish running even if it gets disabled mid fixed update, but shouldn't run the next fixed frame. You can just "return" if you want to cancel FixedUpdate early though.

[summer oar]

didn't work

[hazy marten]

How so? Same error?

[summer oar]

Yeah

[lean sail]

I would assume you are using async somehow to spawn objects or some weird editor code instead of instantiating normally. This shouldnt happen, unless prefab instance means something else

[summer oar]

Debugger just told me everything I needed to know

Basically

LoadImage is in fact resizing the texture

but for whatever reason

GetPixelData is returning me native array of length 1

so the array is smaller than the texture, I read the error wrong

bug with GetPixelData?

[hard viper]

I'm trying to figure out how to make my game more pause-proof, tbh

[summer oar]

solution: don't allow pausing /trolling

[hazy marten]

setting timescale to 0 lowkey works for most things

trying to investigate the GetPixelData thing because I ran into this problem before and its interesting

[soft shard]

What exactly do you mean by "pause proof"? What are you trying to prevent happen?

[heady iris]

as in, resilient to being paused and unpaused?

so that it doesn't behave differently than if you hadn't paused at all

[summer oar]

argh not this

Graphics.CopyTexture called with mismatching mip counts (src 1 dst 11)
UnityEngine.Graphics:CopyTexture (UnityEngine.Texture,UnityEngine.Texture)
UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer:CreateWindowTextureFromShiftOS (UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer/SkinData) (at Assets/Scripts/UI/Themes/Importers/IThemeImporter.cs:97)
UI.Themes.Importers.ShiftOS2017Importer/<Import>d__3:MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/UI/Themes/Importers/IThemeImporter.cs:63)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks ()

damn image processing is a pain in the arse in Unity sometimes D:

why does my temporary render texture have 11 mip levels

what if I only want one

what if it's a UI texture (it is) where mip maps are completely unnecessary

wait no the RT has one mip level but the destination Texture2D has 11

why

[hazy marten]

try setting the mip count on the constructor. I'm also not sure .LoadImage changes mip layout

I would debug log the mip count before and after to be sure.

[summer oar]

In that case LoadImage is irrelevant. This is way after that, I managed to get around the error by switching to GetPixels

this new error is after I've blitted the images I need into a single 9-scale texture

That's done on the GPU into a render texture that I then blit over to a regular Texture2D

[hazy marten]

Can I see the code?

[summer oar]

Nope :)

I just fixed it

eh I lied

// Step 2: Blit them
RenderTexture? rt = RenderTexture.GetTemporary(1024, 1024);
rt.BeginPixelRendering();

GL.Clear(true, true, default);
            
rt.DrawSprite(topBorderTexture, new Rect(skinData.LeftBorderWidth, rt.width - (skinData.LeftBorderWidth + skinData.RightBorderWidth), 0, skinData.TitlebarHeight));
            
rt.EndRendering();
            
Graphics.CopyTexture(rt, resultTexture);
            
RenderTexture.ReleaseTemporary(rt);
            
return resultTexture;

I did fix it but you can see it

this doesn't have the line where I create the dest texture

now it does

Texture2D windowBorderTexture = CreateWindowTextureFromShiftOS(skinData);

[hard viper]

I have a coroutine that moves a rigidbody after yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate();
Works great unless I spam pause. Because then I end in the wrong position

[heady iris]

How does pausing work in your game?

[ember mirage]

yes the function im spawning in is an async Task function. im awaiting some data then calling instantiate

[hard viper]

1. set Time.timescale to zero,
2. Disable all monobehaviours on pausable entities (eg enemies, blocks, player), except those with a type on a blacklist. Eg colliders, physics mover, pause-controller itself…

there’s a bit more to it, but that’s the core idea

[lean sail]

Then the issue isnt that objects are persisting, it is that you are spawning objects after play mode ends. Async has no care if you are in play mode

[ember mirage]

oh wow i get it. it indeed still instantiates after i enter playmode then quickly exit

[lean sail]

That is one main reason async is not preferable

And generally u dont need it

[hazy marten]

@hard viper can I ask what the WaitForFixedUpdate coroutine is for?

[obtuse cape]

My jump doesnt seem to work when pressing spacebar, but everything else in my code does seem to work. can anyone help me with this?
Here is the code:
https://paste.myst.rs/1gl822c7Everything

[ember mirage]

i dont think i really have another option with the cloud code sdk

[hazy marten]

Does it not work at all? Or only sometimes?

[obtuse cape]

The jumping doesnt work at all

[hard viper]

it’s job is to tell a rigidbody (equivalent sort of thing) to move a certain displacement each fixedupdate frame. Coroutine calculates how much to move, and tells rigidbody to move by that much

[obtuse cape]

Everything else works fine

[hard viper]

my other coroutines (which work fine) go to a specific target destination, but this one drives forward, and allows anything stopping it to reduce total movement

this is on purpose

[lean sail]

Im unsure what cloud code sdk, I assume you could use a coroutine still or just check if its play mode somehow

[hard viper]

but it’s like i miss a few frames

[somber nacelle]

then you need to use cancellation tokens to stop the async method when you exit play mode. if you are using unity 2022+ then you can just use the destroyCancellationToken built right into MonoBehaviour

[soft shard]

Maybe you could create a global "pause state" and check after the yield if that state is true, break out the coroutine, or continue to yield until the state is false

[hazy marten]

It's hard to tell exactly what's going wrong, but you'd get a lot more information by debug logging and seeing where exactly is doesn't trigger. I'd log your conditional bools and see if you ever get passed them. Something like:

`private void PlayerInput()
{
horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");//get keyboard inputs on horizontal axis
verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");//get keyboard inputs on vertical axis

Debug.Log($"Jump button = {Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space")} | Ready to jump = {readyToJump} | Grounded = {grounded});

//checking if player hits spacebar key, if they do player will jump
if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space)&& readyToJump && grounded)
{
    Debug.Log ("passed checks");
    readyToJump = false;//if player presses jump key, they are no longer ready to jump while in the air
    Jump();//call the jump function which applies the forces
    Invoke(nameof(ResetJump), jumpCooldown);//invoke the resetjump function and apply the jump cooldown, allows player to hold jump key
}

}`

[hazy marten]

Although, I have a feeling you might actually be jumping, but your grounding code just instantly snaps you back down to the ground. Either way, debugging like this will help you a lot to solve stuff like this.

[obtuse cape]

I think it may be that

It doesn't recognize me jumping

It doesn't take in the jump Input

[hazy marten]

Did you print the results? What did it say?

the Input.GetKey stuff didn't work?

[obtuse cape]

No it didn't work

I debug logged it

The inputs don't pass

[obtuse cape]

Do you see any syntax problmes

[hazy marten]

Input.GetKey should work, which is making me think it's a problem with how input is set up in your project. Unity has two input systems and it's pretty confusing to me actually, so I'm not an expert on the topic.

[obtuse cape]

No it's not anything to do with that

I'm following a tutorial

[hazy marten]

if you just log Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) it always returns false?

[obtuse cape]

I logged it like that

I also logged the grounded code and it doesn't seem to work

[hazy marten]

Oh, yeah, you should log all of the booleans going into your if statement to see why you're not getting there. So see which one out of those 3 (the Input.GetKey, the readyToJump and grounded) is false so you can't get to that jump function

[obtuse cape]

Yea the code doesn't recognised I'm grounded

Can u see any problems in thr grounded bits of thr code

That is thr ground properties

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