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[polar marten]

there's no solution for this

i am sorry

simply do not align

[radiant marten]

but it's solved??

[polar marten]

then you will have no issues

[radiant marten]

everything is solved right there

[polar marten]

your character is very noticabley jumping and jittering up and down, and the screen is moving very unevenly

[radiant marten]

that's only because I'm very zoomed in and slowed the movement down

to show that pixels are properly aligned globally

[polar marten]

hmm, whereas in the earlier screenshot, where you did not align

i didn't really noticed the alignment zoomed out

[radiant marten]

unlike the example where the camera is rotated:

[polar marten]

everyone will notice the movement pacing issues

my subjective opinion, which is the right opinion, is that the movement pacing issue at normal speeds is going to be a lot worse than non-alignment at normal zooms

[radiant marten]

it's not though? I'm not sure why no one is listening to the fact that rotating the world solves all of my issues with pixel alignment

I don't need help with that

[polar marten]

i mean your background grid is anti aliased, and the pixels aren't square...

[radiant marten]

I need help finding a way to resolve workflow issues

[polar marten]

hmm. it solves your issues with pixel alignment, but in exchange, you now have really bad movement "jitter" and "pacing" issues

[radiant marten]

I'm not asking for help with that

[polar marten]

that are objectively a lot more noticeable

i can only help you with objectives that make sense. it doesn't make sense to gain pixel alignment in exchange for really bad movement

like i said, you cannot resolve both simultaneously with naturalistic physics

i feel like i am repeating myself. i have shipped a lot of pixel art games. i am trying to help you

including in dimetric views, using naturalistic physics

[radiant marten]

I'm sorry, but you're focusing on the wrong details that I'm asking for help with

[dull glade]

How do I make my ship take damage from bullets but not react to the physics

[polar marten]

well then it sounds like you've solved your problem, you have no alternative but to rotate your whole world

the shader will not help

[radiant marten]

I solved by problem, but have broken workflow

[polar marten]

the shader will not align one art against another

[radiant marten]

I don't need a shader to align art

[somber nacelle]

either make the ship not dynamic or make the bullets not solid

[radiant marten]

I'm asking for how to rotate the world in a way that does not effect game objects or scripts. Shaders can do that so that's my logical first idea but I'm not sure how to achieve that

[polar marten]

I'm asking for how to rotate the world in a way that does not effect game objects or scripts.
i am sorry, i don't mean to waste your time. i'm not sure how to do that in a general way, and i don't think anyone else does either
there are engines that might be better suited for what you want to do, like gb studio, game maker, etc..

gb studio went very viral

https://gbstudiocentral.com/news/mcdonalds-celebrates-grimaces-birthday-with-a-gb-studio-game/

[swift falcon]

wider collider around it that destroys the object and Instanciates particle on hit

[radiant marten]

there's a lot of things I can't share due to NDA, but there's a reason I have chosen the things I have done, and a lot of it involves integrating with a 3d world and 3d effects

[dull glade]

what does solid mean

[swift falcon]

trigger / none colliding

[somber nacelle]

either make it a trigger or use physics queries instead of a solid collider

[polar marten]

maybe you'd be interested in what this guy has been up to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjUIjWig0r5DIixQrt6A3A

@radiant marten he doesn't align

actualyl there's a different user who is authoring an SRP

but has no motion lol

for reasons that are clear to me

[hidden flicker]

How could I run a method continuously once called, then stop running once it's over? (Eg. ChangeFov() is called, it runs until the fov is at the desired value, then stops running)

[swift falcon]

invoke repeating then break on accept

[hidden flicker]

Not sure what that means

[swift falcon]

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

[hidden flicker]

Thank you, although it needs to run with parameters

[swift falcon]

or tbh you could just use the OnValueChanged on the fov slider if it has it

[leaden ice]

use a coroutine

For example:

IEnumerator SetFov(float target) {
  while (theCam.fov != target) {
    theCam.fov = Mathf.MoveTowards(theCam.fov, target, speed * Time.deltaTime);
    yield return null;
  }
}```

[swift falcon]

or do the professional approach and put everything in an if else statement in Update 😎

[leaden ice]

Or use DOTween / any other tween library

[vestal geode]

Application.targetFrameRate doesn't seem to carry over to a windows build, is it meant to?
I could also use vsync options but I'm not sure if that can be used to get a specific target framerate
I'm looking for just a hack to mitigate wild framerate dependencies before they can be fixed properly

[leaden ice]

Application.targetFrameRate works on Windows, but it's a max framerate, it doesn't set the framerate

it also gets overridden by vSync

[vestal geode]

That could be what's stopping it in this case

[hidden flicker]

perfect, thank you :)

[finite prawn]

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
EnemyMovement.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/EnemyMovement.cs:26)

I am getting this error and I think the Start() function in this subclass is causing which it, because if I remove it, it works fine, which I very much do not understand

`using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class LeapingEnemyMovement : EnemyMovement
{
public float leapForce = 20f;
public float startDelay = 1f;
public float repeatInterval = 1f;
private void Start()
{
// InvokeRepeating("Leap", startDelay, repeatInterval);
}

/*
private void Leap()
{
    GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(relativePlayerPosition.normalized * leapForce);
}
*/

}`

also how do i format code in discord

[leaden ice]

!code

[tawny elk]

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[leaden ice]

you will also need to tell us which line is 26

[knotty sun]

wrong method of wrong script
EnemyMovement.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/EnemyMovement.cs:26)

[finite prawn]

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

public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Transform playerTransform;
    protected Vector2 relativePlayerPosition;
    protected Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float moveSpeed = 20f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        // Get the transform component of the player
        playerTransform = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform;

        // Get the rigidbody2d component of this
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        // Calculate the relative position of the player
        relativePlayerPosition = playerTransform.position - transform.position;
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.AddForce(relativePlayerPosition.normalized * moveSpeed);
    }
}

the content of update is line 26

[leaden ice]

playerTransform is clearly null

it's becauxse you're doing playerTransform = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player").transform; in Start but when you add Start to the child class that means the parent Start won't run anymore

the way to fix this is to use proper C# method overriding

e.g. the parent class should do protected virtual void Start() and the child class should do cs protected override void Start() { base.Start(); // Call the base version of Start // the rest of the child class Start code }

[finite prawn]

i think he cant find the start method of the base class

[leaden ice]

because you skipped the first part of my recommendation

the parent class should do protected virtual void Start()

[finite prawn]

sorry didnt see that also what is virtual

[leaden ice]

virtual allows it to be overridden

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/virtual

[finite prawn]

tsym

[agile rock]

Hello, I have a question. Some players of our games reported a bug that after some time spending in our game the games stop working. We received a logs with that bug reports and we find this (screenshot). Can someone please tell me if this is memory leak or something bad?

This is in build (game is on steam). We have no clue what cause this problem ;/ any help will be very helpfull ❤️

[leaden ice]

What does "stop working" mean exactly?

[hard viper]

i would only even start worrying about memory leaking if your peak allocated memory is in the gigabyte range. you’re still at most around 270 MB

you’d need more info to diagnose

[swift falcon]

do you have a garbage collection system?

[woeful depot]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[hexed pecan]

What unity version?

[rigid island]

Anyone know , how can we write a start rotation into a Keyframe of an animation ?
can't find it on google somehow..

Im trying to get a better video.. but basically when My chicken is dropped on the floor or in KO, I want animating from current resting rotation as the starting Keyframe so it doesn't flip from a direction is not facing

[hidden flicker]

My fov doesn't change even when the method is called

[rigid island]

put Debug.Log inside while loop

[hidden flicker]

loop never runs

[rigid island]

ima take a wild guess at that sketchy != which is probably on a float

but should work ig, your condition doesn't seem it was true though

[hidden flicker]

weird

the IEnumerator doesn't even run, not just the while loop

[rigid island]

so much for

even when the method is called
lol

[rigid island]

Debugging is your best friend

how are you calling it anyway

[hidden flicker]

Alr

Here's the method that calls changefov though, everything else in it works fine

[simple egret]

Missing StartCoroutine to start a coroutine properly

[hidden flicker]

where/how would i add that

[simple egret]

StartCoroutine(camControlScript.ChangeFov(10, 1))

[rigid island]

You see the 3 DOTS

its tryina tell you

[simple egret]

Oh yep they're barely visible in light mode lol

[rigid island]

light mode 🤕

[hidden flicker]

Perfect, thanks

also i switched to dark mode thanks for the reminder lmao

last thing, how would I make it change to the desired fov over the given amount of time

i don't want to use lerp because it never fully gets to the actual value

[simple egret]

Look for these dots (they also appear as a white square in your vertical scroll bar on the right) often, they're analyzers that can simplify the code or fix bugs

[rigid island]

thats because the lerp is wrong

https://unity.huh.how/programming/specifics/lerp/coroutines

I would do this

just replace vector3.lerp to mathf.lerp

[hasty canopy]

If you're familiar with tweens you can use them too

In dotween you can use Dotween.To to interpolate between float values and use that value for whatever purpose over time

[rigid island]

Still trying to find a fix to rotation on Animation, if any lovely knows I'd appreciate it ❤️
I slowed it down frame by frame so you can see Yellow -> White
(Chicken landed on its head but when animation kicks in it flips on its belly first and finish animation after)

[hidden flicker]

not familiar with those

[rigid island]

GIYF

[rigid island]

no wonder I wasn't finding results, I guess it's called Baking rotation into clips..

[hexed pecan]

Me googling what this means is ironic

[hexed pecan]

Are you looking to add a keyframe from a script?

[rigid island]

yeah, basically if possible I want the start position of the animation to be the rotation of the "KO" pose / rotation

I was thinking of just animating it with code but had no idea how to make that flip look smooth so i just animated it

[hexed pecan]

Looks like you need to use AnimationUtility and stuff
https://forum.unity.com/threads/modifying-animation-clips-through-script.460544/

Ffs, nevermind, it's editor only

[rigid island]

dang.. I saw that one but yeah noticed editor only

idk if this helps this is my animation

so he always starts on his back belly up

which looks unnatural ofc if I drop the chicken and falls on its head for example

[hexed pecan]

You could start a coroutine that lerps to a given rotation with a t value that decreases over time

[thick socket]

public class EnemySpawner : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] List<GameObject> EnemiesToSpawn;
    [SerializeField] float spawnCooldown;
    TimeSpan spawnCooldownTimespan;
    [SerializeField] int numSpawns;
    int alreadySpawned;
    int spawnInt;
    void Start()
    {
        alreadySpawned = 0;
        spawnCooldownTimespan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(spawnCooldown);
        SpawnEnemy();
    }

    void SpawnEnemy()
    {
        if(spawnInt >= EnemiesToSpawn.Count)
        {
            spawnInt = 0;
        }
        Instantiate(EnemiesToSpawn[spawnInt], transform.position, transform.rotation);
        if(alreadySpawned < numSpawns)
        {
            WaitThenSpawn(spawnCooldownTimespan);
        }
        alreadySpawned++;
        spawnInt++;
    }
    public async void WaitThenSpawn(TimeSpan waitTime)
    {
        await UniTask.Delay(waitTime);
        SpawnEnemy();
    }
}

Should I be calling a wait to spawn more enemies like this? Or would you throw that into an Update loop?

[simple egret]

haha the last 20 frames

[rigid island]

he get chonky xD

[hexed pecan]

yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame(); // ?
chiken.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(chiken.rotation, theRotation, t);```

[rigid island]

i'm bad at animating anway I might just try to replicate it in code but I want that same weirdness if possible lol

[hasty canopy]

I'm not sure if this will work or not so do duplicate the animation first, and remove the first few frames from the animation, which you don't want to happen, then it will smoothly interpolate from your initial position to Nth frame

[rigid island]

somehow I thought this rotation was Cool 😂 ill prob just remake it..fkit

[hasty canopy]

Or you can shift the frames slightly to the right

[simple egret]

That poor animal, probably takes a good 15 G's with that rotation

[rigid island]

yeah good idea, Im gonna try it maybe use some Animation events

lmao and thats after he got smacked with a wooden staff

[hasty canopy]

Try this first tho

[rigid island]

will do! ty for suggestions

[hasty canopy]

Select all frames and shift to right by like 15-30 frames

[hexed pecan]

Might have to uncheck Write defaults on the anim state too 🤔

[rigid island]

basically I'm trying to mix Ape Escape with Chikens and farm lol

[rigid island]

it just starts mid-air now

I think when animator start , it overrides transform

[hasty canopy]

Maybe because of this?

[hasty canopy]

Can you show your animation frames?

[hasty canopy]

As long as there's nothing on early frames position and rotation shouldn't instantly snap

[rigid island]

yea

oh wait i think its starting from here not at frame 0

[hasty canopy]

Show the animation?

[rigid island]

poor fella

i try add empty animation event to it start at 0 but still same problem

[hasty canopy]

When you added the empty event, it did interpolate between initial position to 35th frame, but both positions happened to be exact same

Try to play animation again after changing its rotation to upright

[rigid island]

wdym by this

[hasty canopy]

Also poor duck training to be an astronaut with those g force levels

[hasty canopy]

Have your duck be standing normally during 0th frame, and have the animation be played "normally" from 0th frame

[rigid island]

haha yeah gets stuck midair with the animation event in the frame 0

[hasty canopy]

It should work, I don't know why your animation is starting from 35th frame tho

[hasty canopy]

Ahh, welp idk then, tried toggling write default on/off?

[rigid island]

let me try again maybe I unchecked the wrong one

[rigid island]

yeah even with it off still weird

gonna jus try to animate it with code later instead.. animator is a pain to deal with

[hasty canopy]

Ayee animation looks good ngl, except the initial fall

[rigid island]

the initial fall is rigidbody

so its dynamic

[hasty canopy]

Ahh

Good luck good luck

[rigid island]

ty! 🫡

[left wasp]

when i check the length by code it says 11

its 15 frames

[rigid island]

ah nvm its seconds

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationClip-length.html

[rigid island]

what Length is that

[left wasp]

clip length

[rigid island]

whats anim

[left wasp]

thats the name of the clip

[rigid island]

uhh this is why you show context of your code

thats 11 characters 😏

you should've specified its a string

was wondering why it was Length and not length

strings are just array, so .Length is how many items in array of char

[left wasp]

        void Swing( string anim){
        animator.Play(anim);
        float duration = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).length;
        Debug.Log(duration);

    }```
at first i did this and it didnt work so i changed the syntax i tottally forgot about it being a string
so this gives 1 which is the length of the idle clip if i call swing in a row it gives correct length

[rigid island]

ohhh, so its working now ?

[left wasp]

its not i just reverted it as i said it gives 1 which is the idle clip length

[rigid island]

so what is it supposed to be ?

[left wasp]

0.250

[left wasp]

it works when called more than 1 time

[rigid island]

are you sure it is in that state then when it prints 1?

[left wasp]

animator.play is called before debug i guess it should be

[rigid island]

do you have blend trees or any of that?

[left wasp]

just this no parameters no layers

[rigid island]

what are you trying to do anyway , using specific clip length iirc can vary also on fps

idk I never find using clip lengths very good

i just use Animation events

[rigid island]

holy hell no

[rigid island]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[left wasp]

im trying to make swing function last for animation length

[broken zodiac]

I sent the code

[rigid island]

read this
#archived-code-general message

[left wasp]

didnt even screenshotted it

[rigid island]

swing function last wdym ?

you want to run the function at end of animation ?

[lean sail]

#854851968446365696 as well, you havent actually asked a question either. I assume this is gonna be more for #💻┃code-beginner anyways

[left wasp]

so there is a swing animation when it ends it goes back to idle so i need the length of the animation to invoke the function that makes it go idle
i guess i can use events or just hardcode it

[spring creek]

Line 39 should be an error...
That startcoroutine isn't in a method

[rigid island]

perfect code, uses .tag instead of compare tag

[spring creek]

Also takedamage doesn't have an end brace

Ahhh that is why

[lean sail]

it technically is with that misplaced end brace

[rigid island]

just use animation events https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[broken zodiac]

💀 why aren't errors coming up

[spring creek]

Because technically the brace is misplaced, not missing

The end brace for take damage is after the whole die method

[broken zodiac]

💀 as If ik what this means

[spring creek]

}
This is a brace. It is the ending one

[broken zodiac]

Ah

So what should be changed?

My bad I'm Abit slow

[spring creek]

But seriously, send the code properly as said already
#archived-code-general message

There are quite a few issues with the code. It'd be nice to see all of it in a paste site

[broken zodiac]

do i just put the code in there?

[left wasp]

takes screenshot with a phone ,has andrew tate as pfp, uses skull emoji, doesnt know what a brace is

[broken zodiac]

yeah im young and the problem is?

[spring creek]

You literally have the onejoke in your pronouns but ok.

[left wasp]

discord guidelines

[left wasp]

thats not the only issue with my profile

[spring creek]

Yeah, you copy the code in, hit save, copy the url, paste it here

[broken zodiac]

https://paste.ofcode.org/hJNRQvTReQCnTksmYBJZNc

[naive swallow]

You got a function in your function

[broken zodiac]

someone who actually helps rather than making stupid unneeded comments, thank you

[naive swallow]

I can do both

[broken zodiac]

and the issue is?

[rigid island]

mate you need to learn basic c# (stop relying on gpt its only doing you harm)

[naive swallow]

Well, for one, why do you have a function in your function

That's not something you should be doing without a good reason

[broken zodiac]

ive got no clue mate , i just did whatever worked

[rigid island]

coding isn't a guessing game lol

[left wasp]

it didnt work i guess

[naive swallow]

Also, I don't even see a question, I just see someone windmill slamming phone pictures of code with no question

[broken zodiac]

alright gimmie a second lemme explain

[rigid island]

also you have this

hidden

[spring creek]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php
Do this

Then this
https://learn.unity.com/

[rigid island]

ohh probably coming from A*

[naive swallow]

Oh christ it's networked

[lean sail]

im surprised you're even using A* (and networking?) when you havent done even the basics of c#

is this your project

[rigid island]

might be the package failing to fetch updates?

[naive swallow]

Possible, maybe the package was added from a non-secure source?

If that's the case then it's probably not worth dealing with at the moment

[broken zodiac]

so since adding the A* pathfinding projectmy enemy has just started dying whenevr it collides with the player. Even though the player doesnt even have a weapon yet. The enemy is supposed to just keep trying to collide with the usersprite until the health of the user sprite is 0 or the user picks up a weapon and attacks the enemy sprite so its health reaches 0 and it destroys itself.

i hope this makes sense

[naive swallow]

So what calls TakeDamage

[thick socket]

    async void SpawnEnemy()
    {
        EffectType effect = EffectPooling.instance.effectPools[effectType].Get();
        effect.transform.position = transform.position;
        effect.ClearParticlesAftertime(particleLength);
        await UniTask.Delay(animationLengthTimespan);
        if (spawnInt >= EnemiesToSpawn.Count)
        {
            spawnInt = 0;
        }
        Instantiate(EnemiesToSpawn[spawnInt], transform.position, transform.rotation);
        if(alreadySpawned < numToSpawnEnemy)
        {
            WaitThenSpawn(spawnCooldownTimespan);
        }
        alreadySpawned++;
        spawnInt++;
    }
    public async void WaitThenSpawn(TimeSpan waitTime)
    {
        await UniTask.Delay(waitTime);
        SpawnEnemy();
    }

is there a way to interupt the "WaitThenSpawn" so if all enemies are dead)found with a isEnemies bool it stops the delay and immediately called SpawnEnemy

[rigid island]

cancellationtoken i think

[broken zodiac]

when the enemy sprite collides with the user sprite or the User sprites weapon makes contact with the enemy

[thick socket]

sweet thanks...chatgpt apparently know all about those

will see if its horrible wrong 😄

[rigid island]

😮

i would trust ms docs

[thick socket]

thats probably better 😄

[rigid island]

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

[thick socket]

wonder if I should just not use the UniTask

[naive swallow]

So, the TakeDamage function is the thing that kills the enemy.
TakeDamage is called when the enemy collides with the player.
Your enemy is dying when it collides with the player.
And this is apparently not expected behavior?

[thick socket]

and use a different way to do it so I dont need to do cancellation tokens

[rigid island]

I just never used UniTask so not sure if that affects it

Unity has their own version of it basically

[thick socket]

Im thinking maybe just an old timer that checks each time in update might be better

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Awaitable.html
ah yea this is only 2023 apparently..

[broken zodiac]

i think im just explaining it wrong, hold up

@naive swallow does this help?

https://paste.ofcode.org/UCCDLp4D9XEbbij9FaCmC

[naive swallow]

No? What does this have to do with the code you posted before?

[thick socket]

this is how I should just do a basic timer right?

float elapsedTime=0;
public void Update()
    {
        elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
        if(elapsedTime >=spawnCooldownSeconds || GameManager.instance.EnemyList.Count == 0)
        {
            SpawnEnemy();
            elapsedTime = 0;
        }
    }```

or should I be storing initial time, and current time and doing math based on spawnCooldownSeconds

[lean sail]

elapsedTime -= spawnCooldownSeconds; will be more consistent but yea thats fine. Some people like to use the current Time.time then check when the next spawn time should be, but its the same outcome

[broken zodiac]

TakeDamage is a function that basically takes away a certain amount of helath from the player or enemy

[thick socket]

I dont follow the "more consistent one"

[naive swallow]

Right, and where are you calling it

[thick socket]

how would that be more consistent?

isn't that just
elapsedTime = elapsedTime - spawnCoolDownSeconds which would be doing math each time it checked that?

[broken zodiac]

https://paste.ofcode.org/zqHLegGx8vuKwam2dZdtU

https://paste.ofcode.org/V6mB9Bx4AJyekjbLui5F8s

[lean sail]

sorry i meant instead of elapsedTime = 0;.
If elapsed time becomes 2.01 and spawnCooldownSeconds is 2, then you now "lose" out on 0.01 seconds of accuracy. A bigger example would be if your game froze for 4 seconds, elapsedTime is now 4 but is set to 0 instead of spawning 2 enemies back to back

[broken zodiac]

https://paste.ofcode.org/TwxQbhAwnCscfYamAyrERY

[broken zodiac]

these are all the places i call it

[thick socket]

oh awesome thanks 🙂

hadn't thought about that!

[broken zodiac]

thats for a weapon

[naive swallow]

Yes, which is destroying every enemy it touches immediately

[broken zodiac]

but at the start of the game the user doessnt pick up any weapons yet

[thick socket]

 void Start()
    {
        //disable the sprite
        SpriteRenderer spriteRenderer = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>();
        spriteRenderer.enabled = false;

        GameManager.instance.EnemySpawnerList.Add(this);
        alreadySpawned = 0;
        animationLengthTimespan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(animationLength);
        particleLength = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(animationLength + 0.5);
        first = false;
        spawning = false;
        elapsedTime = 0;
    }
    public void Update()
    {
        if(alreadySpawned>=numToSpawnEnemy) 
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        elapsedTime += Time.deltaTime;
        if(!spawning && (elapsedTime >= spawnCooldownSeconds || GameManager.instance.EnemyList.Count == 0))
        {
            SpawnEnemy();
            elapsedTime = 0;
        }
    }

    async void SpawnEnemy()
    {
        spawning = true;
        //do animation
        EffectType effect = EffectPooling.instance.effectPools[effectType].Get();
        effect.transform.position = transform.position;
        effect.ClearParticlesAftertime(particleLength);
        //spawn enemy after delay
        await UniTask.Delay(animationLengthTimespan);
        if (spawnInt >= EnemiesToSpawn.Count)
        {
            spawnInt = 0;
        }
        Instantiate(EnemiesToSpawn[spawnInt], transform.position, transform.rotation);
        alreadySpawned++;
        spawnInt++;
        spawning = false;
    }

When the first enemy is spawning

a second one immediately spawns after

and I can't figure out why that is

adding spawning bool which should prevent that?

[naive swallow]

Add this to the enemy script:

void OnDestroy(){
  Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} has been destroyed");
}

and then show the stack trace of this in the console

[rigid island]

is there a reason you're doing async instead of just using Coroutines ?

[thick socket]

just not a fan of how I have to call Coroutines so async just feels better 😄

I could see how that might break it though thanks

[broken zodiac]

alright

@naive swallow

[naive swallow]

Now show the stack trace

[hard viper]

does making a method virtual make it take longer to run in any way?

[latent latch]

probably slower on the compile but otherwise doubtful

[broken zodiac]

sorry but what does this mean?

[naive swallow]

The stack trace, when you click on a message in the console

that shows where it was called from

[hard viper]

do you know what a stack trace is?

[broken zodiac]

isnt it like a report?

[naive swallow]

It's the bottom half of the console window

when you click on any console message

[simple egret]

It's a bunch of lines that tell you where, and what exactly was executing at the time the exception/log was printed

Super useful stuff

[thick socket]

ex) click the error, CTRL+C and then it will print like this

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp () (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.DoWakeUpEdges (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] inEdges, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] ok, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] error, System.Boolean inEdgesUsedToBeValid) (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUpEdges (System.Boolean clearSlotEdges) (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp (System.Boolean force) (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp () (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.OnEnable () (at <f94752164e14499c83c250d9839d9e96>:0)

[naive swallow]

Okay, now show it for the log I said to use

[naive swallow]

Hm, so it's not saying what's calling the Destroy

[broken zodiac]

wish i could programme using pseudocode

[naive swallow]

Well, let's see if it's TakeDamage that's doing it. Add this line to the top of TakeDamage:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} is taking damage");

and see if it logs right before this destroyed line

[naive swallow]

This seems to be unrelated. If the log is inside TakeDamage, then that's not the thing that's destroying it

[broken zodiac]

[rigid island]

btw where did you get the A* from , did you get some outdated package or something lol

[naive swallow]

Now, put another log inside of MeleeAttack:

if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy")) {
    Debug.Log($"{collision.gameObject.name} is being destroyed");
    Destroy(collision.gameObject); // Destroy the enemy

Keep the other log there too

[broken zodiac]

@rigid island

[naive swallow]

Did you just paste my half-a-function into somewhere in the script? Only the log should be added

the rest of it is showing you where to add it

[broken zodiac]

lmao my bad

[wispy herald]

ive got a problem in my game, where im trying to use a box collider to start an animation on collision through script, but hes starting his animation as soon as i start running the game

[naive swallow]

There's no destroy log in this

Meaning the object is not destroyed

[wispy herald]

is it a problem with the code?

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

public class AnimTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] public GameObject player;
    [SerializeField] private Animator anim;

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col)
    {
        if (col.gameObject == player)
            anim.Play("LiamWalk");
    }
}```

[broken zodiac]

yeah none of the characters are moving now , idk y

[naive swallow]

Put a log in the function and see if it's called when the game starts

[wispy herald]

how

[naive swallow]

Debug Log should literally have been the first line of code you ever wrote

[wispy herald]

it was 3 years ago

i took a big hiatus

let me find how to write debug log1

[broken zodiac]

@naive swallow any clue why its doing this now?

[naive swallow]

did you actually start the game

[broken zodiac]

yep

[naive swallow]

Did you change anything other than putting in the log

and did you fix whatever you did that broke compilation the first time

[naive swallow]

You now have an index out of range error

[broken zodiac]

errors keep coming from random places

[naive swallow]

That tends to happen when ChatGPT code is slapped together with wanton disregard for code structure

[broken zodiac]

i only use chatgpt if there is a error i can figure out on my own

Got no other resources so chatgpt is my last and only place

[naive swallow]

Clear errors, run it again, see if it actually runs

[broken zodiac]

It's late now, I'll fix it at school tomorrow 👍🏾

Appreciate the help

[wispy herald]

bro i dont remember how to do this anymore

its been so long

[naive swallow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[wispy herald]

thank you

[naive swallow]

so you didn't even try to look it up

It's literally the first result for "debug log"

[wispy herald]

OH

i was looking up console

[naive swallow]

It's the first result for that too

[wispy herald]

i looked "how to write debug log in c#"

[naive swallow]

Second result

[wispy herald]

ok mb mb

it didnt get called

[naive swallow]

Then this code is not playing the animation

[wispy herald]

i removed the "animator" component (which was causing it to go immediatley), but now it just doesnt go when i trigger it

[hard viper]

You write:
Run() { MoveCharacter(); }
MoveCharacter() { rigidbody.MovePosition(nextPos); }

The way the program executes is: it tries to call Run(). In the middle of calling Run, it needs to call MoveCharacter(), so it freezes time right now, and opens a new level of the program. In this lower level of the program, it is going to go do whatever you do in MoveCharacter(). Then it reaches MovePosition, so it freezes everything in place again. Then we make ANOTHER level of the program, were we are doing MovePosition.
These are called stack frames.

Every "level" is a stack frame. A stack trace is printing everything we have on the stack right now.

If you are in the middle of executing MoveCharacter, the stack currently looks like
1 - MoveCharacter()
0 - Run()

If you are in the middle of executing MovePosition, the stack currently looks like
2 - MovePosition()
1 - MoveCharacter()
0 - Run()

Understand?

[broken zodiac]

Kinda

[hard viper]

go learn about the stack

it's core to how programs work

[broken zodiac]

Alright

[hard viper]

it's known as THE stack

A stack is a type of data structure. THE stack is A stack that is used for THE execution of the program.

[broken zodiac]

Also any advice on how to get really good at programming in a 6 month period (specifically Pseudocode and Python?)

[hard viper]

take a class

go to school

get an education

that's literally the reason schools exist

it's very easy to teach yourself to program like shit. Only a teacher can teach you how to program properly

[broken zodiac]

So basically I've got my exams in like 6 months and one of the papers requires a decent amount of coding, ik Abit of python and I've just recently started using unity with C# , Should I stick to Python or try convert to C#?

[broken zodiac]

😭 My teacher can barely code lol

[hard viper]

then why is your teacher asking you to code

the blind leading the blind

[broken zodiac]

I just recently started doing the 16hr free Harvard course on YouTube

[loud wharf]

If your teacher is only asking you to code.

[broken zodiac]

Cause I take computer science, idk why he can barely code doesn't make sense

[loud wharf]

I'd suggest making a discord bot on python.

Or something you can readily demonstrate.

[broken zodiac]

Surely you'd need a fair bit of experience for a project like that

[hard viper]

that is some bullshit. even my chemistry professors, when they asked for code, it was always something they and all the TAs could do with ease

[loud wharf]

You don't have to bend over to learn C#, if you already know python it should be able to get faster.

[broken zodiac]

Some kids in my class teach him😭

[loud wharf]

You'd need even more with C#.

Even more with Unity C# since they break some conventions.

[hard viper]

my man doesn't know about the stack. He needs more than a little bit of help.

[loud wharf]

Yeah that's why python is probably the easier way to go.

[hard viper]

that doesn't address the core issue

[broken zodiac]

We have to make a project, I chose a game, so it was either pycharm, unity or defold or unreal, and I chose unity

[hard viper]

if this is a programming class, then it is expected that your teacher is a master

[broken zodiac]

I thought u meant stack as in data structures 💀

[loud wharf]

For a college school, it's an embarrassment to have a teacher to not even know programming on a programming class.

[hard viper]

the stack is a stack, but not every stack is the stack

anyway, you need to strike at the core issue: complain, or swap classes. This sounds like a shit class

[broken zodiac]

😭 ig in the UK it's different, I'd say about like 2 guys in my class are far better than the teacher at programming

[broken zodiac]

No other class to swap to

[loud wharf]

My chem teacher is electrical, but even he knows chem.

[hard viper]

my physical chemistry professors all had coding projects, which they could do like the back of their hand

no excuse

[loud wharf]

@broken zodiac If your deadline is like a month, you don't really have a lot of time to make a sizable game.
I'd probably think of a dyno or flappy bird clone which is easy to do in a day.

[lean sail]

you chose something very hard (relatively) then since this clearly isnt a c# class. Is this a university class if you dont mind answering? You should really make something simply like even html and javascript. I doubt these guys are expecting work that requires a full game engine

[loud wharf]

And those games don't need unity at all.

[broken zodiac]

Nah I'm not at uni lol, highschool

[lean sail]

I figured as much based on what you were saying

[hard viper]

anyway, back to this channel's original purpose:

I have my own infinite stack trace problem:
Stack overflow: IP: 0x159c00edd, fault addr: 0x7ffee7629ff8
Stacktrace:
at <unknown> <0xffffffff>
at ForestGraph1<TStored_REF>.SortTree (System.Comparison1<TStored_REF>) [0x00000] in <...>

This happens when I call this public method:

    Comparison<TreeNode> nodeCompare = new Comparison<TreeNode>((TreeNode x, TreeNode y) => compare(x.self, y.self));
    SortTree(compare);
}
protected virtual void SortTree(Comparison<TreeNode> nodeCompare) {
    rootNodes.Sort(nodeCompare);
    foreach (TreeNode node in EnumerateBackwardsGraph())
        node.children.Sort(nodeCompare);
}```

Before I had:
```public void SortTree(Comparison<TStored> compare) {
    Comparison<TreeNode> nodeCompare = new Comparison<TreeNode>((TreeNode x, TreeNode y) => compare(x.self, y.self));
    rootNodes.Sort(nodeCompare);
    foreach (TreeNode node in EnumerateBackwardsGraph())
        node.children.Sort(nodeCompare);
}```
and the same exact call was working fine. Any idea why I'm currently getting a stack overflow?

[loud wharf]

Ok, high school is definitely a different standard.

[lean sail]

your teacher might've never learned to code in the first place, i wouldnt blame them. they're just filling the position but its a shitty situation. If you can, swap to something easier. If you do want to do unity game dev in the future, then consider continuing with this project but really make it simple. You're trying to learn c# and unity at the same time, its a lot harder than learning unity while already knowing c#

[broken zodiac]

So far I've created a top down game, which a
Has a character that can pick up different weapons and attack different enemies, also has a timer that stops when the users health reaches 0, I've also made a minimap at the top right of the game and added like pause/start /end screens

[hard viper]

high school is different. high school teachers are underpaid, and not like the top of their discipline. no offense to high school teachers

[broken zodiac]

He's a computer science teacher so idk why he can't code that well

[loud wharf]

He was probably put into that position.

[hard viper]

college professors literally do research. they have to be at the cutting edge just to do their base job properly. And then they teach as a side responsibility

sometimes you get instructors being brought in, but a real good school should have most of your professors being actually accomplished researchers.

[lean sail]

could that SortTree(compare); call be calling itself?

[loud wharf]

This sounds manageable, even in none unity.

If you don't use unity here, I'd suggest making collisions out of circles.
Which is only determined by distance of object a to object b.

[broken zodiac]

I think I already do that

[hard viper]

oh god you're right, lmao

[loud wharf]

Very simplified but suffice for a supposedly simple game.

[hard viper]

I thought I was calling the protected virtual method because type, but I wasn't

ty bawsi

[broken zodiac]

I'm just going to get good at Pseudocode and smash the CS exam in 6 months, then off to uni to study Finance and mathematics 😍

[loud wharf]

U have 6 months before deadline?

[broken zodiac]

Nah deadline for the project is in a month, but we have a coding paper in 6months

[loud wharf]

Ah.

[hard viper]

you don't get good at pseudocode lmao

you get good at regular coding, and then express yourself to real people using pseudocode

[broken zodiac]

If ur good at lua/ python you'll be good at Pseudocode

[hard viper]

sir, you are extremely confused

[broken zodiac]

I disagree

[hard viper]

pseudocode isn't like a real skill that you hone

pseudocode is just a way to talk about a program

which doesn't work if you don't know shit about programming

[broken zodiac]

It is very similar to lua and Python

[hard viper]

no.

pseudocode is not a programming language

[latent latch]

pseudocode is what math professors use when they are forced to teach a computer alg class

[hard viper]

pseudocode does not follow rules

because it isn't real code

[broken zodiac]

Well ig the whole UK education system is wrong cause it starts that in our syllabus

[hard viper]

you see a lot more pseudocode in theoretical computer science, where the program and machine are both theoretical

[loud wharf]

Anyways, here's a quick way to do this for the combat side of things.

• Bullets don't have collision.
• Characters get hit when a bullet is close enough to them. (Use a distance calculator)
• New bullets should add to a global list of bullets. (Which are then used by all characters to check if all bullets are close enough to them)
• Bullets that hit immediately get removed on the game. Don't add piercing mechanics, if you add piercing mechanics, it will just complicate it.

This should allow you to make that game even if it's not Unity under month.

[scarlet kindle]

Hey how can I stop the console editor from stacking same debug statements on top of each other?

[hard viper]

there is a collapse button

[broken zodiac]

I forgot to say I've already added a projectile launcher that destroys itself aswell as the enemy when contact is made

[scarlet kindle]

o ty hehe

[hard viper]

if this is for a class, you should focus on learning the fundamentals of programming

jumping straight into programming without knowing anything is just going to be a trainwreck

[loud wharf]

Bro code C# tutorial.

He didn't tackle polymorphism tho.

[hard viper]

especially if your teacher is incapable of teaching you proper style, proper documentation, self-documenting code, etc etc

these are important skills that you don't normally learn from a random youtube video. these are things you learn in school

[broken zodiac]

Just learnt what that was last week 😭

[broken zodiac]

I can't learn them at school so that's why I come on servers like these to ask you guys

In this Harvard course I trust

[hard viper]

just for reference

this is what garbage tier code looks like:

    var r = ((int)o << rb[(int)b])
        + ((int)o >> (4 - rb[(int)b]));

   r = r & 0b_1111;
    if (b >= 4) {
        r = (r & 0b_0101) + (r << 2 & 0b_1000) + (r >> 2 & 0b_0010);
    }
    return (Cardinal) r;
}```

same code but in proper style:

public static Cardinal RotateCardinal(Cardinal original, Rotation rotateBy) {
    Debug.Assert((int)original >= 0, "Tried to rotate a NEGATIVE cardinal value! Cardinals should be 0-15!");
    Debug.Assert((int)original < 16,"Tried to rotate a cardinal that was >15! 15 is the max for having the total # of directions!");

    // Bitshift to represent rotation. Moves all 4 cardinals into right spot in flags
    int rotated = ((int)original << rotationBit[(int)rotateBy])
        + ((int)original >> (4 - rotationBit[(int)rotateBy]));

    // Now the main 4 bits are right. Get rid of out-of-range bits.
    rotated = rotated & 0b_1111;
        
    // More bitmath. That operation above rotates by 2, so L/R are flipped. now isolate U/D and add back in
    if (rotateBy >= Rotation.sigma) { // Need to do a mirror plane
        rotated = (rotated & 0b_0101) + (rotated << 2 & 0b_1000) + (rotated >> 2 & 0b_0010);
    }

    return (Cardinal) rotated;
}```

this is the sort of thing you need to learn

style

[broken zodiac]

💀 I'm so thankful I chose not to do computer science at university it looks terrible

[hard viper]

good style allows you to actually know wtf it does

[broken zodiac]

I just fill my code with comments

[hard viper]

like how would you know wtf this does: if (b >= 4) { r = (r & 0b_0101) + (r << 2 & 0b_1000) + (r >> 2 & 0b_0010);}

comments are just one tool. a tool you need to use the right amount

[broken zodiac]

manipulate the variable 'r' based on the condition that 'b' is greater than or equal to 4. It uses bitwise operations to modify 'r' by shifting its bits and performing bitwise AND and additional operations with specific bitmasks.

[hard viper]

ok. what does it actually do

[broken zodiac]

Ah I see

[hard viper]

you told me what the math says it's going to do

but you did not explain what it is doing, and why it is there

if (rotateBy >= Rotation.sigma) { // Need to do a mirror plane
   rotated = (rotated & 0b_0101) + (rotated << 2 & 0b_1000) + (rotated >> 2 & 0b_0010);}```
Oh look, an actual explanation

[broken zodiac]

if (b >= 4) { r = (r & 0b_0101) + (r << 2 & 0b_1000) + (r >> 2 & 0b_0010);}

The purpose of this code could be to alter certain bit patterns within 'r' depending on the condition, possibly for specific bit-level operations or optimizations within the program.

[hard viper]

this whole function takes in cardinal input, which is a combination of bits in an integer corresponding to up-down-left-right.

the function tries to rotate this cardinal

that line checks if the rotation (an enum type) is set to flag for a mirror plane

then the actual bitmath applies a mirror plane to flip

[broken zodiac]

🥱 good night speak some more tomorrow

[hard viper]

point being, learn style. good night

[loud wharf]

Good and organised code with properly named methods, and variables > comments

[long scarab]

I'm having some issues with script inheritance.

    {
        GameObject projectileGO = Instantiate (projectilePrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation, gameObject.transform);
        TrackingBulletBehavior projectile = projectileGO.GetComponent<TrackingBulletBehavior>();

        if (projectile != null)
            projectile.Seek(target.transform);
    }

I'm using this function to fire a projectile from a tower, but I'm trying to generalize it so that the tower can instantiate any type of bullet and still get ahold of its script component.

my bullet scripts extend off each other like this

[rigid island]

is there a question there?

[long scarab]

But I'm trying to search for any "ProjectileBehavior" and just use the overwritten "Seek" function

yeah

its not inheriting

and im not sure why

[long scarab]

I changed it to ``` void Shoot()
{
GameObject projectileGO = Instantiate (projectilePrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation, gameObject.transform);
ProjectileBehavior projectile = projectileGO.GetComponent<ProjectileBehavior>();

    if (projectile != null)
        projectile.Seek(target.transform);
}```

and it doesn't compile

[rigid island]

cant you just spawn is as ProjectileBehavior

[spring creek]

show the whole script using a paste site:
!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.

[spring creek]

but I can see you are not using override, so that may be the issue? Can't tell without seeing more

[rigid island]

also what is the error

[spring creek]

Or just show the error

[long scarab]

https://hastebin.com/share/ayopopayal.csharp

[spring creek]

And what script contains Seek?

[rigid island]

btw OnDisable is not capitalized properly

[long scarab]

ah ty

[long scarab]

https://hastebin.com/share/ojorozodif.csharp

[spring creek]

That is a child

the parent won't have it

[long scarab]

correct

[spring creek]

So why do you think it would work? The parent won't know what the child has

If seek was in the PARENT of BulletBehaviour, it would work
Not the other way around

[long scarab]

I'm trying to search for any script in the game object that is of the type "ProjectileBehavior" and since all the other scritps inherit from it all the way at the top

[rigid island]

btw

public class something : MonoBehaviour
{
    A a;
    private void Start()
    {
        C instance = Instantiate(a) as C;
        instance.Cheese();
    }
}
public class A : MonoBehaviour { }

public class B : A { }

public class C : B { public void Cheese() { } }```

[spring creek]

Ok, that is fine. You just need to figure out what the child has and cast to that
You could, for example, have an enum in ProjectileBehaviour that is the type. Or you can use Reflection I guess

[long scarab]

reflection?

[long scarab]

huh?

[rigid island]

skip the get component, spawn it as whatev you want directly

[long scarab]

you lost me, why would I need to cast anything

[spring creek]

Because TowerBehaviour BulletBehaviour does not have Seek

[long scarab]

that's the issue. I'm trying to generalize it in the method that way it will work with any projectile prefab I drop into the tower

[rigid island]

did you see my example

thats casting

[spring creek]

Sorry, I mean BulletBehaviour
You need to cast it to TrackingBulletBehaviour, which DOES have Seek

[rigid island]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/types/casting-and-type-conversions

you can also just do C instanceC = Instantiate((C)a); ofc

[spring creek]

Seek is ONLY known by TrackingBulletBehaviour and any class that inherits FROM it. No parents know about it. So cast to TrackingBulletBehaviour or a child.

That is all

[long scarab]

just making sure I understand, my code currently is grabbing the TrackingBulletBehavior but it's treating it as just a ProjectileBehavior, right?

[spring creek]

Yes

[long scarab]

I understand the part you guys are explaining

[spring creek]

It is treating it as exactly what you call it

[long scarab]

gotcha

so it's got the right script, I just have to specify by casting so it knows to look for Seek()

[rigid island]

change ur prefab type first

[long scarab]

but then wouldn't I have to hardcode that in for any projectile that does or doesn't use that method?

[rigid island]

public GameObject projectilePrefab; should be ProjectileBehavior no?

[long scarab]

no

ProjectileBehavior is a script attached to the game object

[rigid island]

im aware

[spring creek]

I would say yes. You can always do .gameObject from the script reference. But you have to do GetComponent going the other way

[rigid island]

what is the point of this inheretence then ?

ProjectileBehavior would mean you can put any of the child classes you shown

[long scarab]

then how would the tower store a reference to the prefab that it instantiates?

[long scarab]

setting up skeleton for different projectile types/behaviors

but I plan to cut down on it because there is too many layers as is

[rigid island]

right so you want to just have them as ProjectileBehavior not GameObject

almost never a need for GameObject instead of the actual type you need

[long scarab]

then how would I pass the prefab into the tower?

[spring creek]

public ProjectileBehaviour prefab
ProjectileBehaviour newProjectile = Instantiate(prefab);

That will spawn the whole gameobject with all other components and values

You almost NEVER need a gameobject reference

[scarlet kindle]

If I Instantiate UI objects in a particular parent, is it's SiblingIndex able to be pre-determined? Should it always be the highest?

[spring creek]

I feel like it should always be the lowest
But I dunno. I would guess it'd either be lowest or random, but not highest. Just guessing though

[rigid island]

what do you need to do that you are messing with indexes?

[scarlet kindle]

got some bugs with me cards ordering, like when I draw a card, I instantiate it into my hand.

but it appears that the siblingIndex it's instantiated with is random ...

[spring creek]

make a field called newestDrawnCard or something and pass that?
Draw, store it, pass that

[long scarab]

ahh is it cuz prefabs are all inherently GameObjects?

[rigid island]

they turn into whatever you spawn them as

GameObject creates the instance of your scripts sitting on it

[long scarab]

huh

[rigid island]

its like a container ig

[rigid island]

all monobehaviours sit on a gameobject

[long scarab]

wdym by sit on

[rigid island]

idk like exist on?

[long scarab]

as in a component?

[rigid island]

sure all scripts on gameobjects are components

any monobehaviours can do .gameObject inside the script and its property in the monobehaviour class

of the object that contains that component

basically was saying just do ProjectileBehavior projectile = Instantiate (projectilePrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation, gameObject.transform);

but you have to change projectilePrefab from GameObject

[long scarab]

ohhhhhh

[rigid island]

since you're trying to spawn it as ProjectileBehavior

otherwise you get type mistmatch error

[long scarab]

so when I do instantiate like that, then is projectile a direct reference to the script?

[rigid island]

projectile will be the instance of that script

[long scarab]

yes sorry, I meant the script on that instance of the prefab

[rigid island]

the prefab will turn into that yes

[long scarab]

gotcha, thanks

[long scarab]

now it gets mad if I try to cast

[rigid island]

show current code

what type is projectilePrefab

[agile rock]

My bad. I forgot to desc this. The game loses whole input. I mean whatever player Press it does nothing. The game its not freeze (there are sounds, animations of Birds).
There is one moment in game where they are stuck in this but we tested it and everything is fine. Zero errors or nulls in logs. Its appear when they play for a couple of hours.

[long scarab]

    {
        ProjectileBehavior projectile = Instantiate (projectilePrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation, gameObject.transform) as ProjectileBehavior;

        if (projectile != null)
            projectile.Seek(target.transform);
    }```

[rigid island]

yeah projectilePrefab what type is it

[long scarab]

ah

[agile rock]

2022.3.10

[long scarab]

yeah, I forgot to change it up top

ty ty

[agile rock]

And we use hdrp

[rigid island]

might need to drag prefab back in after that

[agile rock]

Not sure. How I can check this?

[hexed pecan]

C# is garbage collected, so not sure what they mean with that

[latent latch]

we memory manage now

[long scarab]

yup, got it back

just gonna shift stuff around and fit it into the project

tysm

[latent latch]

if you're using unmanaged arrays and stuff like that if you don't dispose then you can leak

or w/e I've just been using them and blew up unity a few times

[vestal surge]

Does anyone have any experience with hand tracking with MediaPipe? I'm using it for a project and I'm having trouble implementing both hands.

[leaden ice]

sounds like a problem with input handling or UI event handling then, not a memory issue.

[polar marten]

did you configure it to track more than 1 hand

[polar marten]

https://github.com/homuler/MediaPipeUnityPlugin/blob/2d2863ea740a6a5ad01854ea88ab5f48be2a36b6/Assets/MediaPipeUnity/Samples/Scenes/Hand Tracking/HandTrackingSolution.cs#L26

[tender haven]

how can i change an int's value with a slider im trying to make a volume thing

[somber nacelle]

you can set your slider to whole numbers, but since slider really only deals with floats you'd have to get its value then cast or round it to an int.
however if this is for volume you'd be better off making your slider go from 0.0001 to 1 and just display it formatted as a percent. Then you can just use Mathf.Log10(sliderValue) * 20 to get the value in decibels for your audio mixer

[tender haven]

ok thanks

[cold egret]

• I'm doing a bottleneck optimization here. The game creates around 2-4k objects, each of which fetches components in their hierarchy and sorts them. This is the second most time consuming operation done by these objects. Hence, there are several questions of mine:

1. My tests seem to confirm that the order of the returned array is always identical. However i'm told not to rely on this. Is there any reason not to? I could cut the sorting time 10 times already if i cached the permutations after performing a sort on the prefabs.
2. Not really scripting, but if the 1st point is valid and i should not expect to get the same order in get components method result, how much of an impact will de/serializing references to the components be? Is it any faster than fetching components in children?
3. And lastly, if both previous point fails, is there any internal magic that enhances the execution time of the built-in method that i could not achieve while making my own version of it?

[fervent furnace]

yep, why dont just serialize the reference to prevent 2-4K calls to getcomponent after you spawn it, btw i have no idea what you means by "sorting the components"?
i remember the return order is based on the scene tree, if you dont modify the scene that you can rely on the order, but it is impossible for you not to modify the scene

[cold egret]

• Sorting is a game-specific thing. The bigger index is, the higher the object must be, hence the objects are sorted by their height. And yes, it happens in every f*cking single objects that gets spawned. Idk either what was the guy who made this thing high on

[somber nacelle]

https://dontasktoask.com

[cold egret]

• Also, re: scene tree. Does it include instantiating objects at runtime, or just moving things around in the editor?

[fervent furnace]

oh, sorting when a new object spawned?????
you just need a sorted set (red-black tree ) or skip-list to maintain a sorted order
insert and remove takes O(log n), pretty fast

i think you should talk it to your partners or whoever, to change the data structure

[cold egret]

• Well, it happens on every spawned object now, but i'd very much like to avoid this nonsense. All it does is repeats the same sorting task thousands of times. I seek to cache it, or at least rework it so doesn't have to happen to each object individually

[sullen fern]

I'm trying to pause my game with timescale but for some reason my event triggers im using for my UI arent working

[soft shard]

How are you using your event triggers? And how are you confirming they are "not working"?

[agile rock]

But only after 3-4 hours of playing?

[tribal glacier]

Im trying to use CreateAssetMenu and ScriptableObjects for a making cards for a card game. Is there any way with the asset menu to make something like "if the (damage card) boolean check box is clicked show the make a damage card menu" within the asset creation menu. (sry if this is explained poorly)

[cold egret]

• Conditional context menus are not a thing unless you find something related in the asset store. You're better off creating your own editor window at this point

[lapis nexus]

Heya - Working with Unity's ECS, and having some extremely weird problems with empty components.
When I apply a large number of empty components to entities all the other systems seem to act in a bizzare way as if there is a memory leak although there is no leak?

I'm declaring the component as follows. When using the component like this it's causing the above issue.

public struct CCompletedIntercept : IComponentData { }

When declaring the component with a dummy field the above issue is gone?

    public struct CCompletedIntercept : IComponentData
    {
        public bool dummy;
    }

[buoyant raven]

Hi, does anyone know how to replicate this type of thing in a custom script?

[lean sail]

Think this is more relevant for #1062393052863414313

[lean sail]

That is a unity event

[buoyant raven]

Ah, perfect! Thanks! Another quick question if you don't mind. While I was searching on how to replicate this I tried digging inside the Button.cs script but couldn't find the member variables such as the UnityEvent or any of the colors for button interactions, bools, etc... that we can see in the editor inside a button. Is there a way to find these by chance so that next time I can analyze how something is done without having to ask questions?

[storm thorn]

Hello! I want to implement this reward system on my app, but I'm using firebase authentication with login and registration, if I follow this, will this still be save on the user's account? or should I incorporate firebase to the reward system? I'm planning to just follow the tutorial 😅

https://youtu.be/ZoNDcgacF2M?si=cYUMuXaQ9asrkM6R

[lean sail]

Not on my pc so I cant really check what I'd see if I f12'd on Button. Maybe some of it is from the custom editor layout

[buoyant raven]

I see, would you perhaps know how to access/find a custom editor layout for specific unity components?

[lean sail]

🤷‍♂️ not really sure what you'd want to see from it, although maybe you can see whatever you're looking for online. Usually it should be enough to just go through the docs since itll describe what most fields are

[buoyant raven]

Alright, thanks for all the help! I really appreciate it!

[sullen fern]

when i pull up my pause menu i am setting timescale to 0 at the same time, but when i try to click on my UI or use a controller to navigate it nothing happens

[flint apex]

So this is not 100% related to coding but what I have is one main camera rendering everything except the hands and the gun and one camera that renders the hands and the gun (btw forgot to say I am making fps) so the problem is I am making a bullet line but it comes from the gun tip but the weapon camera fov is different and it is causing it to be shifted to the left .What should I do ?

[soft shard]

AFAIK, animations on the UI might depend on time scale being above 0 (if they are not set to "unscaled time" for their animator components), for interactions though, are you sure there is no other UI elements blocking your buttons? Do you have a event system in your scene that is enabled and setup for the input system you are using? Are you using a Canvas Group on any of your UI/canvas? Do you have "raycast target" turned OFF for those buttons? If so, you may want them ON, these things may typically prevent mouse events like clicking, if you havnt already checked all of them

[hexed pecan]

I don't really know if there's a great solution for that.
All I can think of is doing some math to offset the bullet (preferably its visuals only) so that it matches the FPS camera, then fade away the offset as the bullet flies away

Idk if this makes it any clearer, but here's a sketch.
It's top view. White lines are the camera direction/frustum, red is the gun, blue is the projectile
Yellow is just the center of the view

[sullen fern]

the menu worked fine before i changed the timescale so im assuming it just doesnt work well with timescale being 0

[soft shard]

Its possible, though that would seem odd to me that timescale would affect click events, since that doesnt really depend on "time"

[soft shard]

I just tested in a project that also uses Time.timescale for a pause menu, and doesnt seem to affect interacting with UI elements like buttons, you could try moving your UI to an isolated scene and have a script toggle timescale to test

[sullen fern]

I'll try that out

thanks!

[forest linden]

serialized unity array looks like this for some reason

the variable in code
[SerializeField] private int[] bonesToWalk;

[hexed pecan]

Type in 1

[forest linden]

nothing

just gives an error

[somber tapir]

Do you have a custom editor for that script?

[forest linden]

nope

[hexed pecan]

What error?

The code you posted is fine

[forest linden]

Assets\HumanAI2.cs(38,33): error CS0270: Array size cannot be specified in a variable declaration (try initializing with a 'new' expression)

there was an error after I typed in 1

[hexed pecan]

Oh I mean type 1 in the inspector, where it says 0

[forest linden]

thats an entirely different variable

[hexed pecan]

Ah damn, I thought that's the array size field

It should just show like this

Do you have compiler errors?

And what kind of object is this on? Maybe the share rest of the code

Because the line you shared is correct

Resetting the editor layout could help, if it's some GUI bug

[forest linden]

I've completely restarted the project, there are no compiler errors.

[hexed pecan]

That doesn't reset the layout. But other than that, no idea

[forest linden]

didn't fix it

[hexed pecan]

What if you initialize the array, does that change anything?
Next thing I would try is changing the array's name completely and see if it helps

[forest linden]

wierd thing is that there are other unity arrays in my scripts above this one that work but all the ones below dont

[forest linden]

nope

[hexed pecan]

Below what?

What else are you drawing in between? Like what fields

[forest linden]

that array in my variable declaration

wait, no, thats not it

WTF

every unity array I close turns into this

[hexed pecan]

🤔 What unity version?

[forest linden]

2021.3.5f1

this is no longer a code problem

[hexed pecan]

Yeah definitely a bug

[forest linden]

this is an entirely a new script

[hexed pecan]

You aren't using Odin or other custom inspector stuff, right?

[forest linden]

nope

happens on every custom script

[leaden ice]

Update Unity, that's an old version

[forest linden]

in progress

updated to 2022.1.16f, still broken

[leaden ice]

Is your inspector in debug mode?

[open wasp]

idk if im just being pepega, but for some reason, this code (which is in update) keeps randomly forcing the rotation of the camera to be forward center as long as the targetRotation is 0,0,0. And I mean instantly, hard setting it and cause the camera to stutter. i dont get why this happens. the vid i stole this from has only this code and it work perfectly and it does work perfectly as long as targetRotation > Vector3.zero.

[young bluff]

both of these should result in the same thing right as classes are copied by reference or i'm i worng

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/763495187787677697/1181589340149780630/image.png?ex=65819bd3&is=656f26d3&hm=ca709baf8ec1541cd06c428b4931084c5c8c7455501e0f3ff42d0a99e714cc58&

[hexed pecan]

Vector3.Lerp is not really meant for euler angles

Neither is Slerp

This would be more appropriate Quaternion.Slerp(Quaternion.Euler(someEuler), Quaternion.Euler(anotherEuler), speed)

Or Quaternion.identity instead of the Vector3.zero

Another option is to use Mathf.LerpAngle for x, y, and z

[open wasp]

that did not fix the issue

this still causes the stutters i mentioned. not sure if i did it wrong

[hexed pecan]

You are still using Vector3.Lerp for a rotation

I'm not even sure if I understand your problem fully - that's just what stuck out for me

[leaden ice]

Good god, I didn't even think is was legal to name your variable var. You really shouldn't

Anyway it's unclear what you're asking. Is NoiseSettings a class or a struct? Are the two noise settings variables the same?

[open wasp]

well the targetRotation is what the recoil amount gets plugged into. my issue is that if targetRotation is greater than 0, than it causes my camera to stutter and try to force itself to look center screen on only the x. i dont get what it's happening

[flint apex]

Thx for the answer I will try that I have another idea on my mind though just to move the weapon camera

[open wasp]

actually, i think i found the conflicting code and now i just go to figure out how to get them both to work.

[flint apex]

@hexed pecan yoo I got another idea just to render the line only using the weapon camera but won't this make it on top of everything

[hexed pecan]

Yeah, that's problematic

[flint apex]

Yea

Bro such a simple thing but of course it's going to be the hardest thing on earth

[hexed pecan]

You have a fixedDeltaTime here 🤔 Does this run in Update?

[hexed pecan]

Dual cameras are tricky. I gave up on them when I realized that objects from the main camera can't cast shadows on the gun/arms camera...

I chose to implement weapon collisions instead

I prefer that anyway

Bit less artistic freedom since you can't adjust FOV separately, but a lot of problems gone too

[rigid island]

yeah the no shadows on fps weapon is a real turn off from camera stack

[hexed pecan]

I think Tarkov managed to do it somehow

Like the weapon FOV doesn't change if you change your FOV

But their render pipeline is probably very customized

[flint apex]

I duplicated every object I want shadows and just made it only render shadows

[hexed pecan]

Oh yeah, that's the one solution to it. Just not very scalable at all, at least for my purposes

[flint apex]

Yea If I have 1000+ objects it's not very good

Ok then what should I use

For the hands and weapon

[hexed pecan]

As I said I personally chose to use a single camera. So I can't recommend anything else

And fixed weapon clipping to walls with a basic weapon collision system

[flint apex]

Can't I just use render texture and swap ui raw image on top

[hexed pecan]

To solve what exactly?

[flint apex]

I don't know anymore

These cameras are shit

For example how valorant did this

Or CSGO

[hexed pecan]

Maybe some shader magic. Different projection matrix for the gun/arms or something...

Not sure though

[shadow fern]

hello everyone, i developing a 2d game. I have TMP_InputField in my scene's middle. after that, i touched inputfield in mobile (iOS or android), the keyboard takes up almost half the screen. how can i solve this?

[open wasp]

it was, but ive moved it to lateupdate

[hexed pecan]

Ok, use deltaTime
fixedDeltaTime is for FixedUpdate

And again, Vector3.Lerp is not for eulers

[forest linden]

I can see the arrays if I open the script up as properties and enable debug mode in the property tab. It works but I hate it

[rigid island]

you can use [field: SerializeField]

[forest linden]

same

didn't fix it

[rigid island]

is array of custom class?

[forest linden]

?

[open wasp]

i figured out my issue and it isnt the vector3 vs lerp thing. the vector3 is using measurements i made for recoil so it has to stay as a vector3. my issue is i have 2 things setting localRotation at once and im not sure how to add them together

[forest linden]

its on every single script

[hexed pecan]

Okay, in that case Vector3.Lerp can work if you use your own values and it doesn't have to loop around 360

To answer the question: you can multiply to quaternions to "add" them together

The left-right order of the multiplication might matter, try both ways

[open wasp]

i see. my other code that is interfering is my mouse movement code which is on lateupdate while my recoil code is on update. how do you suggest i make the movement code check for current recoil?

[hexed pecan]

Try changing the = on that line to *=

[open wasp]

i did and it makes my screen go crazy when i move my mouse

[hexed pecan]

Ok sorry can't read all the code right now, a bit busy

[open wasp]

nah man. you're good

i'll wait however long i need to get help

it is the default unity starter assets code

[rigid island]

thought you said you array wasnt showing up inside inspector

i was asking if it was an array of a custom class

good ol GUID +Dictionary

forgot the full details i used for this but it was a pain but easy enough

[flint apex]

When I get home I will try moving the camera if the result is decent I will use it if not I will offset the bullet line

[thick socket]

is there a way to simplify this?

 if(target.transform.position.y > transform.position.y)
                {
                    if(target.transform.position.x > transform.position.x)
                    {
                        curveCounterClockwise = true;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        curveCounterClockwise = false;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    if (target.transform.position.x > transform.position.x)
                    {
                        curveCounterClockwise = false;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        curveCounterClockwise = true;
                    }
                }

[leaden ice]

This I think?

Vector2 myPos = transform.position;
Vector2 targetPos = target.transform.position;

bool above = targetPos.y > myPos.y;
bool right = targetPos.x > myPos.x;
return above == right;```

[open wasp]

i mega minded it and got it fixed. i just added an extra game object to my character and had recoil hit 1 game object and mvoement hit another and then get the camera to follow the higher one. thx for trying though. i appreciate it greatly

[thick socket]

y> and x> = true
y> and x< = false
y< and x> = false
y< and x< = true

yeah looks like that works thanks!

this feels wacky to do lol

curveCounterClockwise = (above == right);```

[hard viper]

usually you’d want to define these sorts of things based on angles, or implicitly with dot products.

this logic is simple, but it depends on the specific use case if it is good enough

[hexed oak]

If I wanted to put in some demo functionality that wouldn't normally run unless I'm in a debug type mode, but I wanted to consolidate the definitions of the demo mode functionality to an interface, how savage is it to put an #if TESTMODE interface like this?

public class BaseGame
#if TESTMODE
        : DemoTester
#endif
{

}```

[foggy sentinel]

Does someone know how I would implement a tilemap which the player can use to interact and build stuff.

[hidden flicker]

The fov never resets or even lowers, however it says that ResetFov runs, once, at the correct time.

[knotty sun]

cannot start a coroutine like that

[hidden flicker]

I am so stupid ty

Ok, well now it keeps increasing the fov

[knotty sun]

to start with, never check floats for equality

[jaunty sundial]

How would i go about making it so that my 3rd person player cant move outside the vision of my static camera so i.e moving my player left off screen will just mean my player doesnt move almost like a collider

[vagrant blade]

You can take the position the player will be moving to and convert it to viewport space
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToViewportPoint.html

From there, you can see if that position would be beyond the bounds of the view if either x or y are less than 0 or above 1.

[frosty surge]

When the player is hit by the bullet he get a knockback but only in y axis the x remain constant even though i didnt lock x in the rigidbody of the player

public class Player_Life : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float health = 10;
    [SerializeField] private float startLavaTimer = 0f;
    private float lavaTimer;
    private bool insideLava = false;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        lavaTimer = startLavaTimer;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        CheckIfInLava();
    }
    void CheckIfInLava()
    {
        Debug.Log(health);
        if (insideLava)
        {
            lavaTimer -= Time.deltaTime;
            if (lavaTimer <= 0)
            {
                health--;
                if (health <= 0)
                {
                    Destroy(gameObject);
                }
                lavaTimer = startLavaTimer;
            }
        }
    }
    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Lava"))
        {
            insideLava = true;
        }
        if(collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Bullet"))
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(5,2);
        }
    }
    private void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        insideLava = false;
    }

[rigid island]

are you overriding velocity somewhere else?

[frosty surge]

this is my player movement

public class Player_Movements : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float speed = 0f;
    private float horizontal;
    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    public Transform groundCheck;
    private bool isGrounded;
    [SerializeField] private float jumpForce;
    public LayerMask whatIsGrounded;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontal * speed, rb.velocity.y);

        isGrounded = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(groundCheck.position, 0.2f, whatIsGrounded);
        if(isGrounded)
        {
            if(Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
            {
                rb.velocity = Vector2.up * jumpForce;
            }
        }
    }
}

[rigid island]

well there you go

rb.velocity = new Vector2(horizontal * speed,

you'd have to put some sort of bool probably

I prefefer simple FSM

[frosty surge]

even when i am not moving the x does not change

[rigid island]

you're still overriding it

with 0

speed can be 1000

if horizontal is 0

it will be 0

you need to do rb.velocity.x in there when KNocked back

[scenic crown]

Hey I am trying to do a game project for school and I want to know if I can have a code editor within a game to allow people to code in the game.

And will I be able to do it and post it on webgl

[scarlet pawn]

Why my pause dont work? It worked 5 minutes ago

[leaden ice]

Yes it's possible but it's difficult to do safely especially if you're an amateur programmer.

You'd have to choose which scripting language you want the user to use and go from there, but typically it means running a scripting runtime within your game

[leaden ice]

You'd have to show how the movement code works

Presumably it's ignoring time scale

[scarlet pawn]

Everythibg worked perfectly fine 5 minutes ago, now i reopened the project and everything broke

[leaden ice]

Irrelevant

[leaden ice]

Need this to answer the question

[scarlet pawn]

This project is like 7mknths old and im trying to improve it

[scarlet pawn]

Ok

[scenic crown]

I mean I do have some experience but I've never done something like this before. And it being c++, would that make it hard. Its also a could have festure

[leaden ice]

You want the user to write C++?
Yes that would be very hard

And unsafe

[scenic crown]

How so?

[scarlet pawn]

Movement code

[leaden ice]

C++ is a language that allows the user to directly access and modify arbitrary memory locations.

Not even C# does that really

It's also a compiled language

It would be very complex and ill advised to use C++

Something like Lua or JavaScript would be more typical and easier to control

[flint apex]

@hexed pecan just did the offset thing and it works like a champ thx for the idea

[simple egret]

Try this!

Jokes aside, please post !code correctly

[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.

[scarlet pawn]

I cant post ss rn

[simple egret]

Then come back later, most of these are blurry or overexposed, too hard to read

[scarlet pawn]

I cant open discord on my pc

[scarlet pawn]

😭

No one wants to help me

[simple egret]

Once you will post code properly, this will change

[scenic crown]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Javascript might be a good sub

[scarlet pawn]

Im not on my pc rn so i cant open discord

[simple egret]

Then ask again when you'll be on your PC

[scarlet pawn]

I have 15 minutes to fix this problem

11 rn

[scenic crown]

Can you open discord in a private tab ?

[simple egret]

All I can say is, make sure the method that should run when you click the button is actually running

Place a Debug.Log() in it, write something meaningful and run the game, click the button, see if you get the message in the console

[scarlet pawn]

ok pls help now

@leaden ice

you wanted movement code

pause code

[quartz folio]

!code please post properly

[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.

[scarlet pawn]

Why this happens

[scarlet pawn]

I POSTED NORMALY NOW

[quartz folio]

No you didn't. You posted a large amount of plain text that I deleted, and above is also a large codeblock not posted as a link

[scarlet pawn]

THIS SERVER SUCKS, BUT ITS MY LAST CHANCE TO GET HELP

[quartz folio]

Just read the post from the bot and follow the instructions without getting worked up about it

[lean sail]

You arent even letting anyone help you because you havent posted it properly. I cannot even see your code on my phone, and not many people are gonna download files

[spring creek]

It's really easy.
Click a link here
#archived-code-general message

Paste your code in.
Click save
Copy the url
Paste the url here

Then everyone can help

[rigid island]

how do you blame the server for you not adhering to simple code sharing guidelines that make it easier for us to read the code to help ?

[scarlet pawn]

I DONT HAVE FREAKING TIME FOR THAT, AND THIS PROJECT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN KY LIFE, I DONT FREAKING KNOW WHY ITS STOPED WORKING, IT WORKED FINE BEFORE. AND NO ONE CAN HELP ME. IM DEAD

[simple egret]

lol

Going full circles

[rigid island]

you have more time combatting and being a child

yeah troll

[quartz folio]

!mute 709639836402974732 30m take a break, go outside, and when you return please just post links to large codeblocks like our read-me and bot post states.

[tawny elk]

neilas_z was muted.

[hidden flicker]

when i try to run BurstFov, the fov increase works seemingly fine, and then crashes upon running ResetFov. https://hastebin.com/share/ifafeleyol.csharp

[rigid island]

your missing yield return null inside whileloop @hidden flicker

[simple egret]

Precisely

In the block between lines 25-28

[quartz folio]

or yield for the coroutine if that's what you want to do instead

[simple egret]

If you need to start the coroutine (line 27), and wait until it's finished to continue through the if statement (after line 27), then yield return StartCoroutine(...)

[hidden flicker]

What does that mean? (Sorry, started actually learning coroutines literally yesterday)

[quartz folio]

SPR2 elaborated

[hidden flicker]

So I put that line "yield return StartCoroutine(...)" where?

[simple egret]

Line 27

Only if you want the code to wait there until ResetFov() has completed

[hidden flicker]

Kind of the opposite - I want to run ResetFov once the fov has been set to the desired value

[simple egret]

Can you post the code again? Website says the contents was not found or deleted
Could be just on my end though

[hidden flicker]

Yeah for sure, plus it'll be the current version after my modifications

[simple egret]

Oh it's fixed wtf, I refreshed the page

[hidden flicker]

Oh alr

Tysm for your time btw, really appreciate it

[simple egret]

Yeah so you can still yield return StartCoroutine() because what checks for the FOV reaching its target is the if statement on line 24 14

[hidden flicker]

here's the current version so we're working with the same context https://hastebin.com/share/hihalogidu.csharp

[simple egret]

Yielding the coroutine will just not allow the code to move past line 18, until the ResetFov() coroutine itself has completed. So when execution resumes say on line 19, the FOV will already be reset

[hidden flicker]

That's true, but that sounds like the intended effect... ResetFov should run once fieldOfView.Equals(baseFov + changeBy)).

[simple egret]

Yep that's what your code was doing even without the yield return on L18
Not sure why you added a "but" in the sentence there, the original condition is still in place, it's what happens after L18 that's delayed when you yield return it

[hidden flicker]

Nothing should be happening after line 18, right?

It should just loop until the conditional of the while loop isn't met

[simple egret]

It will loop again if the condition is met, correct

Without the yield return, it will loop immediately after line 18 was executed.
With the yield return, it will loop only after ResetFov() has finished running. If that takes 10 seconds to run, then the loop will start looping again after 10 seconds only

[hidden flicker]

I understand it a little better now... but I'm still not sure how to make it run properly

[simple egret]

What do you mean by "run properly" here?

[hidden flicker]

1. As long as the field of view is not equal to baseFov + changeBy:
2. Move the field of view towards baseFov + changeBy
3. If the field of view IS equal to baseFov + changeBy:
4. Log that it ran ResetFov
5. Run ResetFov
6. Stop running BurstFov

[swift falcon]

i dont know which channel i would put this in but i cant move this or anything

i can only move terain

[simple egret]

yield return null; to cover the case where the condition to run ResetFov() is not met (use else), and that's it. The code will do what you described here

To say it differently, the fact that you put yield return or not, acts on when step 6 will be "executed", right after the ResetFov() coroutine has started, or after it finished

[hidden flicker]

This is the current version of the code. I think it's what you described (tried my best to follow it) but the FOV is now rapidly pulsing. https://hastebin.com/share/behequsaju.csharp

Aaaaand it apparently never runs ResetFov.

[simple egret]

I'd say it's the way you compare the values in the while loop and if statement conditions. As these values are float it's very unlikely it will be exactly equal to what you're comparing it to

Instead of: if (a == b)
Prefer: if (Mathf.Abs(a - b) < some_small_value), or if (Mathf.Approximately(a, b))

[hidden flicker]

This code pulses

This code crashes

[leaden ice]

The second one is an infinite loop, since you're not yielding when starting the inner coroutine

[simple egret]

The crash indicates that the if statement passes

[hidden flicker]

Got it. Why does the first one pulse though?

[leaden ice]

presumably the coroutine that is running is causing it, or some interaction where it's running quiclly and restarting, etc.. You need to debug further to find out exactly what's up

[simple egret]

The loop never exits

[leaden ice]

check your logs, etc.

[hidden flicker]

Ok. I’ll add some debugs and get back with the logs

[daring crane]

using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using UnityEngine;

public class RandomTextureLoader : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        LoadRandomTexture();
    }

    void LoadRandomTexture()
    {
        string texturesPath = "Assets/Textures/Walls"; // Change this if your folder is located elsewhere
        string[] textureFiles = Directory.GetFiles(texturesPath, "*.png"); // Change the extension based on your texture types

        if (textureFiles.Length > 0)
        {
            string randomTexturePath = textureFiles[Random.Range(0, textureFiles.Length)];
            Texture2D texture = LoadTexture(randomTexturePath);

            if (texture != null)
            {
                ApplyTextureToMesh(texture);
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.LogError("Failed to load texture: " + randomTexturePath);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("No textures found in the specified folder: " + texturesPath);
        }
    }

    void ApplyTextureToMesh(Texture2D texture)
    {
        MeshRenderer meshRenderer = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();

        if (meshRenderer != null)
        {
            Material material = meshRenderer.material;
            material.mainTexture = texture;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("MeshRenderer component not found on the attached GameObject.");
        }
    }

    Texture2D LoadTexture(string path)
    {
        byte[] fileData = File.ReadAllBytes(path);
        Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(2, 2);
        texture.LoadImage(fileData); // Auto-resize the texture based on the image file data
        return texture;
    }
}

Why isn't this loading the texture? I have the pngs in the Assets/Textures/Walls directory

[leaden ice]

Add more logs and/or show what logs are printing now.

[winged tiger]

anyone know how to get list of folders inside Resources folder?

[leaden ice]

Which resources folder? The project can have any number of such folders.
The code directly above us is an example of getting all files inside a folder, and can be modified slightly to get all folders inside a folder.

At runtime though, no such folders will actually exist

[winged tiger]

at runtime you can load resources from assets

[leaden ice]

You can load resources from Resources

not from assets

[winged tiger]

wait what

ah yes

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html only works for things inside Resource folders

but also - the folder structure of your project will no longer exist in a build.

[winged tiger]

ohh

[leaden ice]

Only the paths for Resources assets will be saved in order to facilitate Resources.Load, but the folders themselves will not really exist

[winged tiger]

so there's no way to list the folders

[leaden ice]

No. Why are you trying to list the folders? What are you actually trying to accomplish?

[winged tiger]

Im trying to create a radio

and load at runtime the channels

every folder is a channel

[leaden ice]

Use ScriptableObjects imo. You can use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.LoadAll.html and put them all in one folder

[winged tiger]

you pasted the wrong link but I got it

yeah thats a good idea

[leaden ice]

no I posted the right one for my suggestion.

[winged tiger]

ohhh

i see

thanks

[pure garden]

    public WeaponSO weapon_id
    {
        get
        {
            return weapon;
        }
        set
        {
            weapon = value;
            UpdateWeaponType();
        }
    }```

any idea why that doesn't call the updateweapontype function?

[simple egret]

Make public WeaponSO weapon;, private instead. You'll see the errors right away, I think you may be not using the property at all here

[pure garden]

ok so, is there any way i can asign weapon_id in the editor or only by code?

[simple egret]

Only by code. Unfortunately Unity cannot serialize properties in the Inspector

[broken zodiac]

guess whos game still isnt working?

[soft shard]

I believe you can, if your property is just a get; set;, you can use [field:SerializeField] on it

[simple egret]

Yeah but that bypasses the getter/setter

It'll set the backing field directly

[soft shard]

Ah

[hollow hound]

Is there a way to get "continuous collision detection"-like for triggers?
I have fast bullets (that should be trigger colliders) and sometimes they are moving to fast to detect trigger event.
Both object has dynamic body type with continuous collision detection.

[simple egret]

You have to roll your own. A few lines of code that raycasts from the last bullet position (last frame) to the current bullet position can do. You won't even need the collider anymore, and you can extend it to a RaycastAll, if you need to compute penetration damage, what stops the bullet, etc.

[hollow hound]

I thought about it, but wanted to ask for the simpler built-in solution. But there is no such, right?

[broken zodiac]

can someone please help me cause everytime i right click on my mouse the game keeps pausing?

[hollow hound]

Maybe there is a way to use usual colliders (without isTrigger) but without physics?
I need rigidbody to move them, but I don't want them to "push" object they are interacting with.

[simple egret]

Oh, you can set their mass to a very small value

Input 0, and it'll set the value that's closest to zero that's not zero. A few micrograms or less

[hollow hound]

But if the projectile is big and small, and spawns inside of an enemy it still pushes them

Also I need actual mass because I'm using force movement for theme

[simple egret]

I remember seeing some property on the Collision object passed in OnCollisionEnter that's the force that was applied to the receiving object. You can apply an equal and opposite force to cancel it out

Collision:Impulse

[hidden flicker]

Alright I got some debug stuff in.

[fossil blaze]

Why might the trigger not work?

[simple egret]

I don't think OnControllerColliderHit detects trigger colliders

You might want to switch to the regular OnTriggerEnter for this

[fossil blaze]

OnTriggerEnter only works with rb, after all

but it didn't work with him either

[dusk apex]

Maybe this is relevant
https://forum.unity.com/threads/character-controller-collides-a-trigger.172373/

[fossil blaze]

I have a 3D game, objects in the form of a tilemap

the prefab of the road itself

[severe wedge]

Hi,
I have issues with order of executions between when I setup a singleton manager and when I subscribe to an event it exposes :

GameManager.cs

using System;
using UnityEngine;

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static GameManager Instance;

    public event Action OnPlayerDeath;

    private void Awake()
    {
        Debug.Log("Executed second");
        Instance = this;
    }

    public void GameOver()
    {
        if (OnPlayerDeath != null) OnPlayerDeath();
    }
}

ObstacleController.cs

using UnityEngine;

public class ObstacleController : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        Debug.Log("Executed first");
        GameManager.Instance.OnPlayerDeath += GameManager_OnPlayerDeath;
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        GameManager.Instance.OnPlayerDeath -= GameManager_OnPlayerDeath;
    }

    private void GameManager_OnPlayerDeath()
    {
        // do stuff
    }
}

Here, ObstacleController.OnEnable() is executed before GameManager.Awake() therefore, I get a null ref when trying to access the GameManager instance.
I do not want to fix this by messing around with the scripts execution order as I feel this is not a robust solution and I might break it with future changes/refactors.

When would you setup the GameManager singleton in order to ensure its exposed event is available for other scripts to subscribe to ?
Or would you move the subscription code in ObstacleController to another spot in its lifecycle ?

Looking for best practices here please 🙂
Thank you

[simple egret]

Awake: initialize yourself
Start: get references from others

OnEnable runs directly after Awake, it's not like Start which runs when all other script's Awake have finished running

[severe wedge]

so I should subscribe to events in Start() method ?

[simple egret]

Yes

[hollow hound]

Also, how to enable "Continuous Dynamic"? I don't have this option. Version 2021.3f

[simple egret]

2D doesn't have that, only 3D rigidbodies do

[severe wedge]

alright, thank you.
most of examples i've seen about events always managed subscriptions in OnEnable/OnDisable

would you still unsubscribe in OnDisable() ?

[simple egret]

Only if you need the event handlers to not run when the object is disabled. Else, you unsubscribe in OnDestroy() so everything is cleaned up when the object/script is destroyed

[severe wedge]

got it, ty

[dusk apex]

If these are to be pooled and reused at later times with subscription, you'll want to consider leaving the subscription service to the object pooler.

[soft ruin]

is there a list type like dictionaries but they can have repeating keys

[lean sail]

Just store a list as the value

[soft ruin]

can you elaborate

[latent latch]

What does repeating keys imply? Multiple keys to 1 value?