archived-code-general

[lean sail]

Repeated keys in a dictionary wouldnt make sense, because you wouldnt be able to differentiate between which are which. So you can just use a regular dictionary (the key is whatever you want) and the value is a list of the type you wanted to store. Instead of having a repeated key, you add to the array

Like dictionary<int, List<int>>

[soft ruin]

what my intended use case is an <int, string> list that stores the message and how fast its typed

[soft ruin]

wait

[soft ruin]

actually

nevermind

[lean sail]

This sounds backwards to begin with

[dusk apex]

Int to anything would always be preferred with list or arrays

[lean sail]

I would just store this in a class

[latent latch]

in a hashset too

[soft ruin]

is hashset 2d i forgot

[latent latch]

message as the ref with variables of how fast it's typed

[lean sail]

What's the game mechanic you are trying to make?

[soft ruin]

so i have a dialog system where as the text is typed out it can changed the speed its typed out at mid message

and so what i plan to do is split the sections out into its different typing speeds

but if i use something like a dictionary it risks the edge case of repeating messages or typing speeds not working (depending on how you setup the dictionary)

[lean sail]

Sorry something came up so I cant elaborate much more, but I'd use a class still given this description

[soft ruin]

tyty

[latent latch]

what's the use case of the dictionary anyway?

as such, how are you accessing the dictionary

[dusk apex]

I'm assuming it's to map the speed of typing to particular string responses.

[hard viper]

i would only use a dictionary for random access of whole cutscenes, maybe

a dictionary is a terrible data structure to hold dialogue

[latent latch]

im trying to understand though, is this dictionary being populated as the game goes on, or are they cacheing messages by a difficult of speed?

[hard viper]

i would make one class for a single textbox. and give an inner data structure to change text speed throghout

[latent latch]

easy -> dictionary 1
medium -> dictionary 2

[hard viper]

i would probably write dialogue as a string with special formatting characters. Then textbox class parses that string onto a couple of distinct parts

[latent latch]

oooh it's a dialogue system (I must have read over that)

im thinking it's some word game

[hard viper]

eg “I like to go <fast>really <slow> fast.”
Textbox clsss parses this into:
0) “I like to go “, speed = medium

1. “really”, speed = fast
2. “ fast”, speed = slow

using a struct to hold individual bits of dialogue.

you might look into some software called “yarn maker” or something, designed for making dialogue

[dusk apex]

I would assume

speed < 5 wpm: "hurry up!"
speed > 30 wpm: "you're doing great"
Which doesn't mean key to value but rather should be done with some logical operation and possibly store the responses in some array or list to grant exposure to the inspector.

[hard viper]

at no point should a dictionary be involved in this procedure

[latent latch]

Yeah, that's actually a little tricky. I think just fully customizing each message with a animation curve/routines is the idea

doing it per word for the whole game doesn't make too much sense

[hard viper]

you need a work flow where you can crank out text, tho.

the spec needs to be 1) write simplish text document, 2) program parses it to know how to display it

[latent latch]

Yeah, that itself would be some sort of system, and it would be unique to each message.

doesn't sound too hard

[hard viper]

this sounds like something you learn to do in an intro CS class

really basic shit

[latent latch]

you'd have a default speed, then interrupt it with different speed (maybe some wobbling text animation) depending on word (coroutine, yield, continue)

[hard viper]

yeah. there are addons for this, i bet

[robust mantle]

https://paste.myst.rs/chmpqw3j

hoya i've got this third person camera controller script but scrolling in does weird things and I'm not sure why

when I get too close to the minimum distance set it like almost rotates it up or something

https://gyazo.com/b65c578344917295804684c7b4f35435

basically the script is letting it rotate based on position of the mouse and if it gets too close I want to set it to the minimum distance from the player but when i try to do that it just does that

when i scroll in it just rotates upwards or something

this is how its set up and the cameraholder is the cameraholder in the script

and this is how it is physically

if the script is cancer sorry

[dusk apex]

Is the player position relative to it's head or some other bodily part?

[robust mantle]

just the head

when it rotates up it just does that

waiiit

maybe its supposed

hold on

for some reason when it gets too close it changes the camera's rotation but i dont change the rotation in the script

oh wait i do, when it looks at the cameraHolder.transform i guess

but anyways its moving the camera upwards which is messing everything up, that's the issue ig

the red line is the vector I want it to move, which is cameraHolder - cameraPosition

[dusk apex]

The only extra irregular offset is the cameraHolder position

Print that and ensure that it's on the same height level as the player else you'll be elevating up gradually

[robust mantle]

oh wait its not because the script allows you to move it according to the mouse y input

[dusk apex]

The one is obsolete here btw: a + 1 * (a - b)

[robust mantle]

oh ya ik

i was gonna replace it with magic numbers at some point

[dusk apex]

Other than that, this is likely the cause.

[robust mantle]

im still sorta confused though, if the cameraHolder's position - cameraPosition, shouldn't it be going on the red line backwards?

[dusk apex]

I'm assuming the camera holder position isn't what/where you think it is.

Try logging it.

[robust mantle]

i have a scene pulled up when im in game mode, it's always on the player's head

[dusk apex]

Log the position of the camera holder

[robust mantle]

okay wat now?

[dusk apex]

What did it print?

[robust mantle]

(0.00, 0.99, 0.00)

it stays constant pretty much the whole time

[dusk apex]

And what's the position of transform.position?

[robust mantle]

Vector3(-1.49011612e-07,1.53496134,-0.16560626)

[dusk apex]

So they aren't at the same height

[robust mantle]

ya the more you move your mouse vertically, the more the position of the camera's y value changes

[dusk apex]

(1.5 - 0.99) normalized is the offset you'll gradually get on the y axis

[robust mantle]

wait mb the camera's position is 0,0,0 until it gets to the minimum zone and starts glitching out

[dusk apex]

Meaning you'll eventually go above the target

[dusk apex]

Is that what it printed?

We only care about what was logged, not what you see in the inspector

[robust mantle]

oooh okay

I thought they were directly the same

im still having trouble understanding, by subtracting the cameraHolder's position from the camera's position, it makes an offset and that grows every time?

[dusk apex]

Their y-values need to be the same else you'll get gradual changes as it repeats.

Consider backing up the y value and restoring it after the change unless you're wanting to smooth step the x and z components separately.

[robust mantle]

I thiiink I understand now

[solemn wren]

Is there a way to check if a nav mesh agent is at the edge of a nav mesh surface?

[cosmic rain]

Not really. You could sample several points around the character and if some of them return a different position, you can guess that it's near an edge, but I'd double think before doing that.

[solemn wren]

@cosmic rain well then whats a good way to have a sort of timer for when the agent is at the edge of the surface, based on when it doesn't move, since it's target is outside of the surface it won't be moving

[robust mantle]

it took all my braincells but I understand the issue now

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by a timer? Can you explain a bit better what you're trying to achieve?

[solemn wren]

sort of like patience, like if the agent is trying to go to a target that's not on the surface, then it will forever try to get there, being stuck at the edge, unmoving, after said hypothetical timer is up, it will then recalculate a point to go to

[cosmic rain]

You can check the path status. It can tell you if the target destination is unreachable.

[solemn wren]

how do I do that, is that a built in function or will I have to make that myself?

[polar marten]

what are you trying to do? what is the issue you're observing?

[polar marten]

like if the agent is trying to go to a target that's not on the surface, then it will forever try to get there
what do you mean? if you try to navigate to a point that's not on the surface, it will go to the nearest point on the surface, and it will arrive in a technical sense

[cosmic rain]

It is part of the navmesh agent API. You'll need to look at the docs as I don't remember the exact name.

[polar marten]

it will then recalculate a point to go to
recalculate a point to go where exactly?

you can do a navmesh raycast hit to see if a point isn't on the surface. if it's not, don't set it as a destination.

navmesh agent will happily try to reach any destination

[tiny orbit]

I need a regular expression that will split a string at the first "space followed by a letter" but I cant for the life of me come up with one... can anyone help?

[solemn wren]

@polar marten When my navmesh agent tries to go to a point that's not on the surface, it will constantly try to go to it, staying unmoving on the edge, I want it to after a while of not moving, to recalculate to a random point to go to, based around the agents position, kinda like wondering around aimlessly,

[cosmic rain]

@solemn wren
You can still get that info from the path status. It should be "partial" if the path doesn't get to the destination:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-pathStatus.html

[polar marten]

https://chat.openai.com/share/5f381625-1a72-45d8-8f8b-352ac7dea7a1
you should try gpt4 in chatgpt

[tiny orbit]

ok

[polar marten]

https://dotnetfiddle.net/35UDkp
it's close enough for you. you can sort things out from here

[visual fjord]

Hi
How can I make a positioning system for a racing game with a pass on the number of laps each vehicle has completed in Unity?

[cosmic rain]

Have waypoints spread across the road and when cars pass by them add to a counter(passed/total). When they pass the starting point, add to the loops counter and reset the waypoints counter. Then just compare loops*total waypoints + waypoints of each car to find their position.

[visual fjord]

ok but how do I compare if a vehicle has more number of laps?

[spring creek]

Loop over the cars and compare the counters with > or <

[visual fjord]

You have an exaple script?

[fervent furnace]

do you know what are array and loop?

[visual fjord]

Yeah

Why?

[fervent furnace]

I should ask you if you want to make a scoreboard or rank list indeed, just find out the vehicles have maximum numbers of waypoints passed seems a bit weird

[cosmic rain]

You can have a list of cars and use the sorting function to sort it by their progress.

[visual fjord]

Ok but the script should to be in the game object for example "RacerManager"?

Because my cars track have the checkpoint and the cars have the variable the current lap and checkpoint number

[fervent furnace]

store the vehicles somewhere in the manager then after every one updates its position, sort it

[visual fjord]

How call the function sort?

[visual fjord]

Ok

[cosmic rain]

Lookup "C# list sort"

[indigo plume]

can someone help me for some reason i tried building my marble game on webgl and i got this error

[hasty wave]

uhm, what's the difference between VS and VSC as an Editor?

I kinda wanna switch to VSC for light-weight. but can't decide if I should

[grim acorn]

Hi everyone my name is Ghassan Im currently working in a game project with 3 people and were having a problem with make a checkpoint in which when the player hits it they respond from that point do you guys have a recommendation to how to approach that

[somber nacelle]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[lean sail]

i believe the visual studio code extension is not fully supported yet. Visual studio allows you to use the debugger.
Light-weight means nothing here, you simply need to open your IDE once per coding session.

[fervent furnace]

i use vsc since i need it to code c/cpp/java, not just c#.......

[hasty wave]

I see... interesting. Thanks :)

[lean sail]

thats a valid reason. but in terms of integration with unity only, VS is better. I remember i had like 4 IDE's installed during school which is very annoying

[dull glade]

I can't seen to get my UI elements to be draw on top of everything

[sour wasp]

iirc ui elements draw in the order they're placed in the hierarchy

first child object (from the top) is drawn first, second is next, etc

[lean sail]

not a code question, maybe you just want simple camera stacking with one focused primarily on UI if you are talking about world space UI and want it rendered on top of other objects.

[lyric moon]

does Directory.CreateDirectory make a folder on the pc

if so
where tf is it

oh. its a built game. of course i cant see Assets

[tired elk]

Hi ! Trying to instantiate a PopupField in VisualElement for dynamic type. Problem is, since I don't know the type in advance, I can't do PopupField<typeof(variable)>. What is a good workaround to that ?

[brittle sparrow]

i'm attempting to encrypt a string, throw it into a file, then read the file again and decrypt! Unfortunately, right when I decrypt, my code goes kaboom
After doing some testing, I found out that I know nothing about what format the byte[] of the encrypted string is. Like, you can turn a string into a byte[] through System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(yourstring), or you could also use UTF8 instead of ASCII, or even Unicode. At least, that's what I thought was at play here. I also printed out my whole encrypted byte[], and it turns out that it had values larger than 128. Yikes
I can throw in some source code on the encryption/decryption process, it's really just something i found from microsoft.net's aes encryption thing, but the main thing for me is to find out what format a certain byte[] may be, if that's what I'm supposed to be doing. I'll triple check my code again but please let me know if i'm screwing up something simple! Thank you very much for your help

[main shuttle]

Kaboom doesn't say much, do you have any actual error code? Also in paint you can add text so you don't have to draw it, that's way more readable then this.

[brittle sparrow]

looks lke this

oh

paint

im using gimp, but that also has text

but yeah..

[knotty sun]

why are you writing out a byte[] as an ascii string?

[brittle sparrow]

to save it into a file

not sure how else to save it

[knotty sun]

just use the WriteAllBytes and ReadAllBytes methods

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.writeallbytes?view=net-8.0#system-io-file-writeallbytes(system-string-system-byte())

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.readallbytes?view=net-8.0#system-io-file-readallbytes(system-string)

[brittle sparrow]

oh

oh god im saved

thank you

i havent tested it yet but it seems so promising

it has to work

[knotty sun]

next time try doing some research and read the damn docs

[brittle sparrow]

thank you very much!

[soft shard]

What is it that your trying to do? Why might you want to create directories at runtime to "Assets"?

[lyric moon]

theres another script that does it that i cannot change, but its saving .wav files there that i wanna load and play from an audiosource

[knotty sun]

that's not going to work at runtime only in the Editor.
If you want runtime save/load for PC use Application.persistentDataPath or Application.streamingAssetsPath

[elfin quest]

Hi everyone! I’d like to get some thougts about an issue I’m having. It’s an ai-navigation issue, but that channel is dead so I hope uou can forgive me for bumping it here, mods if u have to delete this messgage

!bump #🤖┃ai-navigation message

[visual fjord]

Don't working the system of positions of cars

How can I make a positioning system for a racing game with a pass on the number of laps each vehicle has completed in Unity?

[edgy sierra]

Whats the current best practices to handle web requests? UnityWebRequest forces you to use coroutines. UniRX allows you to bypass this because there is an AsObservable overload for UnityWebRequest. In addition, as far as I've understood HTTPS support is tricky. I've read that .NET's HttpClient has limitation that is solved by using a Factory wrapper but that is only available in .NET Core.

[cosmic rain]

How does UnityWebRequest force you to use coroutines and what do you want to use instead?

Also, it seems like unity web request doesn't have a problem with https. Although, you might need to implement a custom certificate handler.

[edgy sierra]

UnityWebRequest.Get/Post returns an async operation, the only way to handle this without creating overhead data is with a yield return which means you can't use return values

[visual fjord]

How can I make a positioning system for a racing game with a pass on the number of laps each vehicle has completed in Unity?

[edgy sierra]

UniRX offers an overload for that called AsObservable/AsAsyncOperationObservable which allows you to use it simliarly to how you would use it with await/async

[cosmic rain]

It just creates a wrapper for it. It does introduce an overhead. Besides, I don't think performance should be a concern in this context.

[edgy sierra]

overhead in the meaning that you don't have an on complete that has a reference to the result

or on fail for that matter

[knotty sun]

your sort is pointless, you cannot return a value from a void method also !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.

[cosmic rain]

Well, you can write your own wrapper to get a return value.🤷‍♂️

[edgy sierra]

of course i can I can also use the legacy WWW request handler, I'm asking what are the best practices for it

[cosmic rain]

A third party package introduces a lot of other clatter to your projects so I wouldn't use it just for one small feature like that.

[cosmic rain]

Whatever works for you

[edgy sierra]

not exactly an answer...

[cosmic rain]

There are no best practices when it comes to choosing implementation

[visual fjord]

Ok, how do I get the position of a car based on the number of laps traveled and the current checkpoint for a racing game?

[cosmic rain]

Didn't we go through it already?🤔

[visual fjord]

no not yet

[knotty sun]

see example code here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.linq.enumerable.orderby?view=net-8.0

[cosmic rain]

Sort a list of cars by the progress. The index of each car would be equal to its position.

[visual fjord]

Ok, to start, how can I calculate the distance that a car has with respect to the checkpoint number it is in? For example, if this is at checkpoint 8, calculate the distance of that checkpoint and if I passed it, I calculated the distance of checkpoint 9 and so on. .

[cosmic rain]

Why would you need to know the distance? Just compare how many checkpoints a car has passed.

You can even make it a percentage of the whole loop: current checkpoint index / total checkpoints.

[visual fjord]

because if several cars are at the same checkpoint number I need to compare the distance of each checkpoint each

[cosmic rain]

One thing you can do is place more checkpoints, so that there's very little chance that 2 cars are on the same one, and if they are, it shouldn't be too noticable.

Now, if you need it for the finishing line, you would use a different approach, where you'd just add cars to a list as they arrive.

[knotty sun]

just keep a running total of the total distance traveled per car

[cosmic rain]

That's another option👆

Though it might not work in cases where you compare a car that goes straight with one that goes in zigzag

[visual fjord]

I take the first option

[cosmic rain]

While calculating a distance between the checkpoints is an option, you should consider wether you need that much precision and wether the work put into the implementation is worth it.

[knotty sun]

no, because you would only take 1 vector into account

[cosmic rain]

Also performance cost(probably negligible but still)

[cosmic rain]

Hmm. That might work.

[visual fjord]

ok I'm going to see what I can do based on the orderby functions and I'll tell you anything about that

[urban lintel]

is there any considerations to be made when fetching references for a script? For example I currently have an hp bar i want to implement, and some ways to do it would be to pass in the player through the inspector or to do something like finding the player by tag in the constructor of the hp bar, but is there any considerable difference between the two approaches?

[knotty sun]

yes, having a reference already established is much more performant

[urban lintel]

and im assuming the best (only?) way to do that is through the inspector?

[somber nacelle]

assigning via the inspector is the fastest way because the object starts with the reference. finding via tag is slower (but far from the slowest option) since it doesn't just already have the reference

[hard viper]

GetComponent is pretty solid, because you only need to sift through one object’s components

and you avoid fuckups from forgetting to or assigning the wrong reference

Some people use GetComponent in OnValidate()

i might change to that in future tbh, especially if GetComponent becomes too expensive during initialization

[clear umbra]

Hey guys, old unity dev getting back into things. I'm creating an event system for my game and I have a few clarifying questions to ask:

1. Should I be using c# events or UnityEvents? Are there pros and cons to each one?
2. I'm currently thinking about having a EventManager.cs and having my events be static and to have triggers for the events also be static. Is this a good idea or are there downsides to this?

Something along the lines of:

//EventManager.cs
public class EventManager : MonoBehavior {
  public static event EventHandler OnHit;
  
  public static void TriggerHit() {
    OnHit(this, EventArgs.Empty);
  }
}

//Player.cs
public class Player: MonoBehavior {
  public void Start() {
    EventManager.OnHit += HandleHit;
  }

  public void HandleHit(object sender, EventArgs args) {
    //handle the hit somehow (just an example)
  }
}

//Thing.cs
public class Thing : MonoBehavior {
  public void FixedUpdate() {
    EventManager.TriggerHit()
  }
}

Thoughts?

[leaden ice]

Should I be using c# events or UnityEvents? Are there pros and cons to each one?
UnityEvents if you want to assign listeners in the inspector. Otherwise C#.
I'm currently thinking about having a EventManager.cs and having my events be static and to have triggers for the events also be static. Is this a good idea or are there downsides to this?
Static events are convenient but also somewhat risky. You are in full control of the lifecycle of static objects. They won't be cleaned up automatically between scenes etc. It's easy to end up with orphaned subscriptions etc.

[leaden ice]

Also in this case there's little benefit to the EventManager class. If you have a static event that has something to do with the player, why not just put the event on the Player class?

Player.OnHit is a lot more expressive than EventManager.OnHit.

[leaden ice]

Third piece of advice - don't use the EventHandler pattern in Unity. Create your own delegate types. EventHandler/EventArgs creates unnecessary garbage and the object and EventArgs classes are way too generic

[clear umbra]

my understanding is EventHandler/EventArgs is built on top of delegates?

would it be similar syntax / usage to do so?

[leaden ice]

yes, they are unecessary bloat on top of delegates

you can define your own simple delegate type without using EventArgs

public delegate void ExampleDelegateType(int param);``` for example this defines a delegate type that takes an int parameter with `void` return type

alternatively Action<int> is identical to this

[crude mortar]

explicitly defining delegates has the bonus that the parameters will be named, and you can look at their definition to know what each parameter represents.

[leaden ice]

the parameters are named and the delegate type itself is named!

This is super useful sometimes

public void AddDamageHandler(DamageHandler handler) { ... }```

this is very easy to understand!

you put a DamageHandler in here

[clear umbra]

Ok so if I'm understanding this correctly, the delegate would be equivelant to the TriggerHit function I described, and I would still use the event keyword to keep track of listeners?

[crude mortar]

Listeners can be added to delegates without the event keyword, the event keyword just means that only the class that the event is defined in can invoke it

[leaden ice]

To help you understand let's dissect this line:

public static event EventHandler OnHit;```
I'm sure you know `public` and `static`
`event` means "this delegate can only be invoked from inside the EventManager class".
`EventHandler` is the delegate type (you can use any delegate type here, including a custom type)
`OnHit` is the name of the delegate.
Overall this line is declaring a public static delegate called `OnHit` of type `EventHandler` that can only be invoked from inside the `EventManager` class

[clear umbra]

oh I think i get it now

[hard viper]

I usually have a few key singletons with super important public events, like OnLevelLoad, OnEnterPlay, OnRespawn…
Then different classes have their own actions if needed to subscribe

[clear umbra]

public class DelegateExample : MonoBehavior {
  public static event HitDelegate OnHit;

  public delegate void HitDelegate(GameObject player);
}

or alternatively:

public class DelegateExample : MonoBehavior {
  public static event Action<GameObject> OnHit;
}

[hard viper]

of all my delegates, 95% of them are Actions

[leaden ice]

Exactly!

[clear umbra]

alright, thanks for clearing this up for me!

[leaden ice]

Action vs custom delegate type is a matter of personal preference

[clear umbra]

makes a lot of sense now

[hard viper]

event is like an access modifier.

event exposes only += and -= externally, but fully exposes the delegate within the class that holds it

so the class that holds it can set delegate = null, to blank out everything

[latent latch]

https://www.jacksondunstan.com/articles/3335
Some interesting read for native events vs unity events

[clear umbra]

thanks, will take a look!

[quasi cobalt]

I have a class, and I want a table of stuff, is this okay enough?

FinishPosition[] fp = {
  new FinishPosition(1, 2),
  new FinishPosition(3, 4)
};

the [] thing, should I use something else, or is it a bad idea basically to store it like this

oh wait, this channel is for Unity related only questions?

so question like mine should rather go to beginner/advanced?

[south gorge]

I think this would be called a public class

i need it to look like this

after collision with an object

[somber tapir]

if (collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(out FlagVaribles redFlag))
{
    flagVar = redFlag;
}```

[somber tapir]

Why would it not be ok?

[quasi cobalt]

idk, there is no range given

[somber tapir]

the range is 2 because that is how many items you declare.

[quasi cobalt]

well, I'm asking because I'm a general developer

I know stuff about programming, but I'm doing this across different languages and I don't know how each language acts when doing something

while the output is the same, stuff may be different inside

[leaden ice]

This is called an array in C#. Not a table.

Tables are LUA things

[quasi cobalt]

yeah I know multiple languages but not theory specific stuff though

[leaden ice]

So when you say "I want a table" you need to be more specific because C# doesn't have anything called a table. It depends how you want to use this thing.

this isn't really "theory" stuff this is very concrete data type stuff.

[quasi cobalt]

yeah, it also acts different, thats why im asking

[leaden ice]

It depends how you want to use this thing

[quasi cobalt]

just wanna get random class out of it and access its data

[leaden ice]

You want to get a random item from it. This array holds multiple FinishPosition objects. You want a random FinishPosition

not a random class.

Classes are blueprints for objects.

there is only one class here called FinishPosition. You have multiple objects of that class.

To actually answer your original question:
If you want to just pick a random one, yes an array is a good choice.

[quasi cobalt]

oh yeah, I mean theory again

I mean theory as in "you know what I mean but theoretically this isn't right"

my bad

[south gorge]

i cant get it to work

im not sure why i can do this

but not put it in code

to change it to red flag

when it hits the flag

[heady iris]

I do not understand your problem.

Is TryGetComponent not working?

you should use some log statements to check

[leaden ice]

you have them backwards

flagvar = redFlag needs to go first

otherwise you are calling flagVar.flagPickedUp on null

hence your error

[south gorge]

omg

i think it worked

thank you

so much

[leaden ice]

does it make sense?

also calling it redFlag is a bit confusing and inaccurate. I don't think you can say that is the Red flag here. It's just some flag.

it's whatever flag you collided with

[south gorge]

I need to study this a bit

[leaden ice]

See how it works with the blue flag as well? You should just call it flag for example

[south gorge]

okay! Thank you so much I have been stuck on this for a while haha

okay i changed it

[somber tapir]

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[finite prawn]

I have 2 gameobjects moving at each other using the same base class and pretty much not changing anything and that base class tells them to stop when they detect each other, but only one of them stops and i can't figure out the difference between them.

base class:

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

public class Minion : MonoBehaviour
{
    protected Rigidbody2D rb;
    public float moveSpeed = 3f;
    public float range = 2f;
    public string enemyTag;

    protected virtual void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveSpeed, 0);
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        DetectEntety();
    }

    void DetectEntety()
    {
        Collider2D collider = Physics2D.OverlapCircle(transform.position, range);

        if (collider.CompareTag(enemyTag))
        {
            rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
        }
    }
}

i thought it might be that the tags dont match up bc I checked and the thing does detect collision but it doesnt stop obv but they should match

[vagrant blade]

Did you actually type a string value into enemyTag for both objects? One of them could be blank or mistyped.

[finite prawn]

i did and i removed the = "Enemy" after the issue first happened as an attempted fix

[vagrant blade]

Can you show that you've assigned values to enemyTag?

[finite prawn]

this is the class thats not stopping

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

public class MinionBasic : Minion
{
    protected override void Start()
    {
        enemyTag = "Enemy";

        base.Start();
    }
}

[vagrant blade]

And show the object's inspector that you're hitting?

[finite prawn]

hitting?

[vagrant blade]

The thing you want this Minion to stop when it hits

[vagrant blade]

You sure there's no trailing space in that tag?

[finite prawn]

how would i check that? i tried adding another tag where i was sure were no spaces and it didnt so that means the existing one is the same

[hard viper]

i usually use a plugin that autogenerates a static class so I can refer to Tags by a const variable

eg Tags.PLAYER. It blocks so much confusion from spelling errors

[finite prawn]

where would i get this plugin

or how would i do this

[vagrant blade]

Well, a plugin isn't going to solve the issue. No need to go chasing that down.

Are you sure there's a collision even happening? Can you debug.log your overlap?

[leaden ice]

Debug.Log is your friend. Print out what the tags are and whether they are equivalent

[vagrant blade]

Because you're also use OverlapCircle which checks if there's a collider in that area. But if there are multiple, you have no way of knowing if it's the one you want.

So you either need to include a layermask, or use the OverlapCircleAll alternative and iterate through the list of colliders you've found and check if any have the Enemy tag.

[finite prawn]

works! tysm

void DetectEntety()
    {
        Collider2D[] colliders = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(transform.position, range);

        foreach (Collider2D collider in colliders)
        {
            if (collider.CompareTag(enemyTag))
            {
                rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
            }
        }
    }

i added a foreach loop

[leaden ice]

But you still didn't add any Debug.Log

oh sorry, yeah i guess that was the issue

[finite prawn]

yes

[leaden ice]

but logging would help you find it in the future

[finite prawn]

ok ty

[heady iris]

you can also add breakpoints in a debugger

[leaden ice]

BTW if you're doing this - why not just use OnTriggerEnter2D for example?

[heady iris]

i've started doing that more often

[leaden ice]

this seems like a less efficient version of OnTriggerEnter2D

[heady iris]

it doesn't require a compile!

[finite prawn]

i wanted to but i didnt know how to use that with multiple colliders

and chatgpt said to use Physics.Overlap

[heady iris]

each collision will cause a separate message to be sent.

[hard viper]

https://openupm.com/packages/net.tnrd.layertagsgenerator/

This won’t necessarily fix your problem, but it is a useful tool to have.

[heady iris]

neat! thanks

huh, "TNRD" is a familiar name...

[hard viper]

ChatGPT doesn’t actually know anything.

[heady iris]

ah! same person that wrote SerializableInterface

that's why.

[finite prawn]

i just use it as a google alternative

[heady iris]

i just use a grenade as a toilet plunger alternative

💥

[finite prawn]

same

[hard viper]

i would avoid ChatGPT for anything coding related, unless you know what you are doing so well that you can immediately spot every mistake

[finite prawn]

why

[hard viper]

then you can be like that one guy who constantly raves about chatGPT while everyone else boos him

[heady iris]

because it will write code that looks plausible, but is wrong

it generates plausible text

it does not generate "correct" text

[finite prawn]

i just ask it googleable questions not write code

[hard viper]

chatGPT is not a knowledge engine. it doesn’t know things. it is based on a language model

it’s specialty is syntax. it produces things that have the right formatting to look like normal plausible syntax/language

if you ask it a question, it will give you a response that is not necessarily correct, but will have what it predicts to be the expected shape of it

[finite prawn]

ill consider that

[visual fjord]

Don't working

[knotty sun]

whats not working? You are doing nothing with the output of the OrderBy

[simple egret]

OrderBy does not order the list in-place, it gives you a new one to iterate on

[heady iris]

yes, it's a method from LINQ

[visual fjord]

My idea is to organize them from largest to smallest

[heady iris]

all of those methods produce a new sequence. they don't mutate the original.

[simple egret]

List<T>.Sort() sorts in-place

You'll still have to pass a lambda expression to specify what to sort by

[visual fjord]

How?

[simple egret]

Documentation tells you how

I'd make a custom comparer, that would be prettier. Change the code so the list is a List<CheckpointChecker> instead, then have CheckpointChecker implement the IComparable<CheckpointChecker> interface.
Then you'll be able to just do cars.Sort(); and it'll pick up that your class implements IComparable

[visual fjord]

See

[naive swallow]

I might be misunderstanding the numeric formatting, but I figured that ToString("G3") should limit something to three digits, and use scientific notation as necessary if it's more than that. Here's a few numbers all using that format, you can see it's properly scientific-ing the four-digit number, but the decimal numbers are still shown with full digits, even though they should be formatted, right? If this isn't what the general formatter does, does anyone know how I could get a format that'd auto-scientific-notation any number if it's got more than 3 digits in either direction?

[simple egret]

Okay yeah I definitely posted something too advanced lol

[heady iris]

This will never change the contents of cars

you need to read what we're writing.

[visual fjord]

wait

I think those functions of "Order" not working

[naive swallow]

You aren't storing the results anywhere

[visual fjord]

How

[simple egret]

The first one works, not the second

[heady iris]

yes, because, as we all wrote, OrderByDescending just produces a new sequence

it doesn't change cars

cars.Sort alone is enough.

[visual fjord]

see

[hard viper]

separately, that list should be public get private set.

eg public List<CheckpointChecker> positions {get; private set;}

[heady iris]

let's not throw more information in right now..

[hard viper]

sorry, i can’t help myself

[simple egret]

Yeah you can consider a Gx format string to format in scientific notation only if there's more than x zeroes to the left/right of the decimal point. It doesn't rely on the length in characters of the number.
For numbers between 0 and 1, that are not small enough to turn into scientific notation, it'll round them to x decimals after the last zero

[heady iris]

OrderByDescending returns an IEnumerable<CheckpointChecker>, not a List<CheckpointChecker>. You can use ToList to produce a list out of the sequence if you need to.

I don't see any reason to do that, since you've already sorted cars.

[hard viper]

is he using System.Linq? I think that method requires it.

[visual fjord]

How can see the array in the Inspector?

[hard viper]

do you have NaughtyAttributes?

[visual fjord]

I don't idea

[hard viper]

hold up, you can’t do that

[heady iris]

I suggested a way to get a list.

If you don't get a list, you can't see it in the inspector.

[hard viper]

positions should be a list

[heady iris]

cars.DoSomething().ToList();

this produces a List<CheckpointChecker>

also, if you don't want cars to get rearranged, don't do cars.Sort().

do you want cars to remain unchanged and for positions to change?

[hard viper]

is he still here?

i worry he’s just plugging things in and only coming back after it doesn’t work, without listenning

[heady iris]

yes

getting a strong "shotgun debugging" vibe here

[naive swallow]

So is there some way to conditionally apply scientific notation for numbers that have a lot of leading 0s?

[simple egret]

I don't think so, you might need to roll your own - but the E format specifier will do half of the job

[visual fjord]

thanks

[steel finch]

gridCells = new GridCell[10];
gridCells[0].x = 1;

This is returning a null reference exception and my brain is not braining any more

[simple egret]

gridCells[0] returned null, you cannot access .x on null!

That tells me GridCell is a class. This does not have a default value, so your array will be filled with nulls when you create it

[steel finch]

ic

[simple egret]

You need to do gridCells[0] = new GridCell() before trying to access anything on it

[steel finch]

the thing that confuses me is that this exact code was working completely fine

[simple egret]

I don't think so

[steel finch]

then I decided to take a break so I closed unity and when I went back it stopped working

[simple egret]

Either the code was not executing, or it was modified

[steel finch]

I'll look into it

[steel finch]

Adding that bit worked which is surprising cause I'm 100% sure I didn't fiddle with that bit , I won't say no tho thank you so much

[visual fjord]

How can i know the index the each car in the List Cars?

[simple egret]

Do you have a specific car variable, and need to find its index, or just get all indices of all cars?

[visual fjord]

Well

I need know index the cars the list

[rigid island]

makes no sense

[simple egret]

Yeah can you rephrase that? I didn't understand

[visual fjord]

This list

[rigid island]

yes but what do you want to do

forget the index part for sec

[simple egret]

Ah I think I see

[rigid island]

oh this is some sort of leaderboard?

[simple egret]

They want to use the list index to fill out the CheckpointChecker:Position variable

[rigid island]

or AI manager

[visual fjord]

yes

[simple egret]

Then use a for loop to go through the list

[visual fjord]

How?

[rigid island]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/loops-z2b?uv=2021.3#6356b1f5edbc2a0cdf1800a0

[leaden ice]

you don't need to do anythingwith multiple colliders - your code only cares about any collider having the tag. Just check the tag in OnTriggerEnter and do what you need to do (set the velocity to 0 it seems)

[hard viper]

don’t take this the wrong way, but I think you need to learn the basics before you start trying to make your own program in unity

[spring creek]

How to use a for loop?
for (int i = 0; i < someMaxValue; i++)

[hard viper]

if you are unfamiliar with for loops, you need to do some metaphorical pushups before tackling a game

[finite prawn]

but the gameobject that the script is on has multiple colliders i meant and also the gameobject that is being detected

one for detecting and one for being detected

[leaden ice]

Doesn't really make a difference

especially in this case

[hard viper]

OnTriggerEnter gives a specific collider. You can get all sorts of information from that collider, including the gameObject it is on

[finite prawn]

but then the detection area of the gameobject that is being detected will be detected

and also whcih collider would the function use

[hard viper]

OnTriggerEnter just detects any valid trigger entries

[finite prawn]

exactly

[hard viper]

which can be manipulated with things like layer

and layer overrides

[finite prawn]

yeah i didnt get the layer thing thats why i used the other way

[polar marten]

do you have a screenshot of your game?

[hard viper]

i just don’t understand the issue. If you have a reference to the collider that triggered, you can do everything

and if you can’t distinguish between two colliders on the same gameobject, then you have a different problem

[finite prawn]

i have the different problem

[hard viper]

one option is to make a second gameobject, make it a child of the first, and send one colllider to it

you can make the child gameobject have different tags/layer

[visual fjord]

Yes

[hard viper]

or separate scripts that only get triggered with that one collider

[visual fjord]

ok

[spring creek]

Well, I literally wrote it out. I guess replace "someMaxValue" with Cars.Count (it's a list right?)

[polar marten]

that looks pretty nice. i think you are in a good place

[finite prawn]

so complicated, guess ill ask chatgibidi to explain it

[visual fjord]

Thanks

[hard viper]

i’m sure ChatGPT will explain it perfectly

[polar marten]

the code that you've written is almost there. you should try using gpt4 for further programming questions, and definitely look at the source code of other unity games

[hard viper]

good luck with that

[visual fjord]

Well now i need know the position de each car the list de card

This list

[simple egret]

As mentioned already, use a for loop to go through your list. Since it's sorted, the car in the first position will be the first one in the list

[hard viper]

just don’t ask ChatGPT to make you a 60 card deck. You won’t end with 60, and some of the cards in the deck will be made up

[simple egret]

just don’t ask ChatGPT to make you a 60 card deck

[hard viper]

but i’m sure ChatGPT can handle simpler tasks like programming, just fine

[rigid island]

bad advice

[simple egret]

Awful advice lol
Asking a beginner to use gpt

[hard viper]

well what do you suggest? a magic 8 ball?

[rigid island]

you're better off

[visual fjord]

XD

[simple egret]

Actually learning the language is an option

[grizzled ferry]

ChatGPT is always a bad at programming, but it is good at writing clean code (:

[rigid island]

genuine troll

[simple egret]

These statements contradict themselves

[grizzled ferry]

So, in my opinion, you can use it only if you know what you're doing

[hard viper]

at which point you wouldn’t be using chatGPT

[rigid island]

but if you know what you're doing then you recognize is bad..defeats the whole point of using it in the first place

[simple egret]

And I'm not going to get into a gpt argument again
#📖┃code-of-conduct : Do not ask or answer questions with unverified AI-generated tools
Simple enough, if you want to suggest beginners to use gpt to make their code, you go elsewhere

Now back to code shall we

[grizzled ferry]

Im bad explaining myself. It's good at... Just writing code, at organising code, but not at making it. I don't know how to explain, but I use it to give me an initial idea of what I should code, because I recognize what it did well and bad

[rigid island]

it doesn't organize anything, it doesnt have critical thinking to do that..

[finite prawn]

chatGPT is really good at quick simple questions, just so you dont have to find a good link on google

[rigid island]

but yes lets move on from this topic

[finite prawn]

ok

[rigid island]

as long as we don't tell someone use GPT which is just reckless advice

[finite prawn]

they did say GPT 4 no ChatGPT 3.5

[simple egret]

lol

Shows the knowledge of the tool

[grizzled ferry]

Yeah, I mean... Like I use it to get an initial idea, being aware of how bad it is, but at least the code looks clean, not spaghetti code or complex code
Forget it, I know it's a really bad idea
Yeah, lets get back to programming :p

[latent latch]

gpt is fine when you know it's wrong but if you're not experienced enough then you're setting yourself up for failure

[rigid island]

if you think "its clean" you have a lot to still learn

[grizzled ferry]

I mean, I know its code is usually trash, but I use it if I need a simple character controller or something as simple as that.

Do you get what I'm trying to say?

[rigid island]

no because if you're aware its bad why say its clean, they contradict

[simple egret]

Your controller will probably multiply mouse input by deltaTime haha

[grizzled ferry]

always happens hahaha

[rigid island]

plus you know its bad why not just learn to do it properly and actually gain knowledge

[grizzled ferry]

I mean, I use it to make really repetitive tasks. When Im making a really short prototype and I need a simple first person character controller, for example

But if Im in a relatively serious project I never use ChatGPT

[rigid island]

ehh if you reuse code then you should learn how to make libraries / custom packages

so if you lose internet, you won't know how to do shit 😆

anyway lets move on from this as its not related to unity .
Lets leave it as "one person's trash is another person's treasure" 🤷‍♂️

[vestal surge]

Yes I did I can send you the script for both MediaPipe and implementing it for unity

[polar marten]

well... are you sure? lol

the sample is there

[vestal surge]

Just checked it and I created mine a completely different way

Do you want me to explain what the actual problem is?

Cause it's a little bit more than what I left off

[polar marten]

sure

[polar marten]

are you saying you are using the media pipe package i linked, or did you try to integrate mediapipe yourself?

[vestal surge]

I already have the hand tracking in MediaPipe using Python and OpenCV(Open ur webcam) and it's able to track both hands fine. I'm trying to transfer all of that into a Unity simulation. The first hand worked fine but adding both of them is causing some issues

[vestal surge]

And Yes I tried to intergrate it myself

Sorry if i'm causing confusion

[polar marten]

so... why not use the existing, high quality plugin that someone has authored?

it closely follows the javascript API, which is the authoritative one

[polar marten]

i have a feeling that with how much lift mediapipe does, the whole thing would be less than 200 lines of meaningful python code. so it's not really worth doing yourself

[vestal surge]

1. It's a project for school and I got a deadline(Nothing serious as long as put effort I'll pass )

2. you're so right lol

[polar marten]

lol i am sorry

[vestal surge]

I'll make a separate project with the plugin so I don't have to start from square one

[polar marten]

i think this will all work out

yeah

i mean you learned the important parts which is the mediapipe api and turning 2d anchors into approximated 3d

[vestal surge]

Yessir

I'm pretty sure having hand tracking in general is sure to get a solid A

[broken zodiac]

hi guys ive ran into an error that has messed up my game, i was wondering if anyone could help me?

[rigid island]

https://dontasktoask.com

[broken zodiac]

so as soon as i run the game it automatically pauses and shows this

[rigid island]

well you have Error Pause on

so as soon you get error it pause

double click it and see where it takes you

[broken zodiac]

it takes me here

this is the A* pathfinding project i imported

[broken zodiac]

how do u remove it?

[rigid island]

which file is this

[broken zodiac]

its this

[rigid island]

yeah but where did you install it from exactly?

asset store or

[rugged storm]

https://gdl.space/iderocileg.cs
I'm trying to make an index of various classes inheriting from Particle that i can call to retrieve a new instance of that class, how do i store a reference to the class? above was my shot at it which dosent work but should get across what i was trying to do

[broken zodiac]

apologies if i didnt understand your question (english aint my first language)

[broken zodiac]

asset store

[rigid island]

what version of unity are you using ?

[rigid island]

I wanted to see where the url is coming from , the query

if its a url might need to just update it from http ot https

[rigid island]

fix Url

or you can try this I suppose. Project Settings -> Player

[broken zodiac]

how do i do that?

[rigid island]

find the url that says http

and change it to https

[broken zodiac]

dude you genuinly a legend , thank you so much , omgggggg thank youuuuuuu

[broken zodiac]

can i why did the error randomly start popping up when it was working fine this whole time?

[rigid island]

depends what you mean by the "whole time" ? afaik unity changed this requirement a while ago

its the asset dev that hasn't kept up with those changes i suppose

[broken zodiac]

ah okay

[rigid island]

its a safety feature

[rugged storm]

https://gdl.space/tuxizihofu.cs i think i figured out my issue

[rigid island]

generally https are encrypted /secured connection
so doing anything over http(in this case asset tries to download update) can lead to compromises aka "insecure"

[broken zodiac]

ah okay thanks

takes me here

[rigid island]

seems like you try to use stuff on enemy collider while it got destroyed at some point

[simple egret]

Yep it's enemy

[broken zodiac]

idk if this makes a diference but ive put loot that spawns when the enenmy dies

[rigid island]

hmm what does TakeDamage method do inside

[simple egret]

Between the time you get it with the OverlapCircle, and the time you try to get its .transform.position, you yielded a few seconds, and in the meantime the object got destroyed

[simple egret]

You should check that it's not null before using it

[broken zodiac]

1 sec lemme try it

[simple egret]

The issue is not on TakeDamage, but one line above

The if statement with TryGetComponent will also throw the exception

yield return new ...;

if (enemy != null)
{
    // do stuff with 'enemy'
}

[broken zodiac]

should i add this word for word?

[simple egret]

I removed stuff that was too long to type, but the if statement is what's essential here

This ensures that the code inside of it only runs if the enemy isn't destroyed

[rigid island]

oh yeah good point

[broken zodiac]

i think im too slow cause nothing has changed

[simple egret]

Show your updated code

[broken zodiac]

yeah dodnt judje ive got no clue whats happening

i believe i was not supposed to copy it word for word

[rigid island]

no

ur if statement is empty rn doing nothing

[simple egret]

Well I told you not not copy-paste it blindly

// do stuff with 'enemy'
I mean, did you even read what you copied? Like this comment should be explicit enough on where to put the code that uses enemy

[hard viper]

we have a strict “we will help, but not do it for you” policy

[broken zodiac]

my bad i just dont really understand what he means

[rigid island]

also should prob go in #💻┃code-beginner at this point xD

[broken zodiac]

alright

[hard viper]

is there a way to use the event keyword for a public event Action, but also give derived classes full access to the variable?

[lean sail]

make a protected method that invokes the event, derived classes can call the method then and nothing else can

[hard viper]

you're smart, bawsi

this is an unnecessary complication with the event keyword, but smart workaround.

err, I have a followup issue that confuses me

mover.joint is of type MoverJoint.
MoverJoint has protected void ImportSubscriptionsFrom
This code is in JointApproach : MoverJoint. Why must my qualifier be of the type of my derrived class?

can a derrived class not call protected methods from a different instance of a less derrived type?

[simple egret]

Never seen that error before lol
CS1540

A derived class cannot access protected members of its base class through an instance of the base class.

[hard viper]

whyyyyy

that is so asenine

whatever, I resolved it by making it static. which is a really dumb workaround

ty guys

[split sparrow]

Hey guys! I'm currently making a custom editor for my game
In a Button I have I'm trying to instansiate a new prefab and then move it to a specific position that is defined. However.. It instansiates the prefabs fine, but newPoint is null, so I'm never able to access the newly created gameObject and therefore can't move it
Any pointers?

GameObject newPoint = PrefabUtility.InstantiatePrefab(serializedObject.targetObject.GetPrefabDefinition()) as GameObject;
if (newPoint == null)
{
    Debug.Log("well shit");
}

[hollow hound]

Is it possible to make Rigidbody2D.Cast() from custom position?
Without manually moving the object.

[vagrant blade]

Nope, read the implementation of the docs. There's no option to supply a position.

[fluid lily]

Hey all. I am trying to create a new project, but I am getting the fallowing error.

Assembly 'Library/ScriptAssemblies/Unity.Collections.CodeGen.dll' will not be loaded due to errors:
Unable to resolve reference 'Unity.Collections'. Is the assembly missing or incompatible with the current platform?
Reference validation can be disabled in the Plugin Inspector.

I have Collections installed. I am not sure what is causing this

Also not sure how to/where is Reference validation can be disabled in the Plugin Inspector.

Could it be like the order in which the packages are being loaded?

Maybe the missing Unity.properties is causing it?

[heady iris]

something sounds mega broken here

does this happen every time you create a project?

[fluid lily]

No just this time

it seems like a package confilict of some kind, but not sure where

Guess I am gonna make the project all over again -.-

Unistalled Netcode for GameO - Relay - Unity Transport... I forget why, there was a reason.. Oh yeah I was getting another error. It worked at any rate

[hard viper]

I realize that my weird code before was adding a function to my OnDestroy method, which was accidentally public. So I had OnDestroy += method;
Is there a way to use this to just add methods to a call of OnDestroy?

[limber halo]

hi guys, how can change the key of onmouse functions for instance onmouse functions using mouse0 but i wanna use the mouse1

[latent latch]

probably use a getter

oh, actually you can change it directly on the event system on the scene

https://i.imgur.com/XcKOpQA.png

[limber halo]

oh, okey

thank you but it won't crash will it? because I'm using an onmouse function and I know these are old system

[limber halo]

or Is this old, too?

I don't know much about the input system

[latent latch]

What OnMouse method are we talking about

[limber halo]

onMouseDrag, onMouseUp etc.

[latent latch]

Oh, hmm I'm actually not too sure of the input on those. Let me look at my built-in project

[limber halo]

yes, go on

[limber halo]

I just tried and this module working on just UI elements

[latent latch]

Yeah, you're trying to grab input from just monos in general using the mouse, and not implementing the IHandler interfaces

I think I remember using this to remap keys in built in:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/KeyCode.html

Mouse event stuff like drag I remember having trouble with too, but I think I was polled input and checked for different input

[limber halo]

okey, thank you for help I will try

[latent latch]

Yeah, it seems that OnMouse from mono isn't customizable or rebindable from what I'm seeing. Usually I'd just use the Input class and raycast to see selected mono instead.

[limber halo]

I like the way unity does the dragging so if I can get the right click that would be good but I also started thinking about raycast

[latent latch]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse2)) //I think Mouse2 is right click, or it's middle
{
  Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); //If we're using the mouse position too!
  if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out RaycastHit hit, Mathf.Infinity))
  {
      Debug.Log(hit.collider.name);
      return true;
  }
}```

something like that usually

[limber halo]

Yes, thank you for this instance

[rose willow]

im making a 2d topdown minecraft like and I need some help with shading, I want it to look like terraria's shading. I have no clue what to do pls help

[sly wave]

I drew this rectangular cuboid for my cursor with LineRenderer (for the simple reason that I need this to be dynamic in the future and have the lines stretch out). Those red-ish lines are lines which are drawn twice. Is there a way for the Line Renderer to "skip" these without having to create three additional line renderers which sole job it is to create the other three lines?

[lean sail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-LineRenderer.html

The line is always continuous; if you need to draw two or more completely separate lines, you should use multiple GameObjects, each with its own Line Renderer.

[sly wave]

can't I cheat this with manipulating the line size

[lean sail]

🤷‍♂️ havent tried it specifically, maybe you could. There could even be some shader way of doing it but realistically your best solution is have more line renderers. No point in really finding a workaround that might bug out

[sly wave]

man I didn't wanna refactor to have a dedicated LineRenderer script just to handle this stuff

I just threw it into my cursor script as a visual representation of the potential selection and was hoping for a dirty workaround

[lean sail]

Your alternative was going to require more code anyways, making more linerenders is easier. You already have all the points, now you just split them up between the line renderers

[sly wave]

what would create more stress on the CPU/GPU tho

considering that there are more objects 🤔

[lean sail]

pre-mature optimization, use the profiler if you really care to find out. you'll need a ton of objects to even notice this in the first place

[sly wave]

guess I'm using multiple LineRenderers then

Oh wait, it does have different colors

What if I use the alpha channel and set the color to full transparency when I'm drawing the affected lines?

that way they're still technically getting drawn, but they're transparent so they shouldn't show up

[latent latch]

why are you using line renders for shapes

[sly wave]

because it's a dynamic shape selector tool.

[lean sail]

where are you going to set the color of a subset of your linerenderer? the color is for the entire line renderer

[latent latch]

you can use unity's low level GL tools which is basically opengl immediate mode

[polar marten]

this looks nice. you are overthinking this. create additional line renderers

there is no optimization issue here

[sly wave]

Overthinking is my personal strong suit 💪

[sly wave]

never looked into those. Could I create flexible wireframe cuboid shapes that I can stretch using coordinates with these?

[polar marten]

listen to yourself

this is one cube, for one cursor effect in game

[sly wave]

(I've been using Unity for like a month, but I have been coding prior to that)

[latent latch]

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

[polar marten]

make multiple line renderers

you cannot use the GL commands for line drawing

[latent latch]

what

[polar marten]

trust me

[latent latch]

I make shapes and matrices out of it

grids specifically

[sly wave]

🤔 I still need to make a grid anyway, so it'd definitely be worth looking into that either way.

[polar marten]

no... GL is deprecated

you cannot use it at all

[polar marten]

you shouldn't touch this namespace

if you need a line grid in 3d, you know, say so. what is your goal?

what are you actually trying to do?

[sly wave]

basically a level editor.

For the sake of simplicity (as this is a prototype) I'm restricting myself to 90° angles for this

[latent latch]

I'm not seeing where it says it's deprecated beyond some extra settings you need to adjust for SRP

[sly wave]

The line grid is a different thing that I've yet to implement, the current thing I'm doing is supposed to be the drawing tool

and you can like manipulate its size and the "cursor" cuboid thing is gonna stretch in size according to your liking

[polar marten]

use this asset - https://doubtfulpixel.github.io/AssetStore/WirePrimitives/index.html

it's $10 - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/modeling/wire-primitives-76425#description

[latent latch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFtBsLCCHE

[sly wave]

that is lookin fancy

[latent latch]

This is my GL implementation via editor scripting

specifically just show the grids but I make large shapes as previews too since

[sly wave]

I guess simply due to me having implemented a bit of logic to what I already got, I'll just do some additional LineRenderers for the cursor

as much as that annoys me...

[polar marten]

you can use EventSystem on 3D objects. use input system. then you can customize as you need.

[polar marten]

https://chat.openai.com/share/8d4896c4-9d09-4f89-b8e1-130d08d7afd6

[night harness]

Why are you sharing a chatgpt link

[latent latch]

Honestly, if it works then go for it. I'd expect more drawcalls per shape than normal though, but it's probably not of an issue if your game is small enough.

[sly wave]

I guess we'll see later if that's gonna make a difference or not

[spring creek]

I get you really like gpt, but it is explicitly against the rules to use it for answers here. Please stop

[swift falcon]

Does anyone have any experience

Coding a wander AI?

Using A*?

Because I want to make my little butter creatures wander around the garden, however the online resources seem to not use A*, and ignore obstacles.

[cosmic rain]

Navmesh is the default implementation of pathfinding in unity.

[polar marten]

• Use unverified AI-generated responses in questions or answers.
i am verifying the answer is totally correct. it saves me the extremely tedious experience of writing step by step beginner content

[cosmic rain]

It should avoid obstacles if set up correctly.

[swift falcon]

However I have another issue

The traversing seems quite random, and seems to have no purpose

How do I create a priority to a specific location?

Or a specific thing?

[spring creek]

Just don't answer then
Save it for people who don't find helping people to be tedius

[swift falcon]

Like sometimes I would love the little things to walk to the player randomly

Would I just randomly add a waypoint?

[cosmic rain]

That's all up to your code logic.🤷‍♂️

[swift falcon]

So it doesn't have a specific function for setting priority?

I'd have to force it there?

[latent latch]

Look into creating a statemachine of logic for your AI

[swift falcon]

I shall

I've seen it coming up

[cosmic rain]

No, there's no such function. PathFinding would just find a shortest(mostly) path to the destination. Any other logic is unique to your game.

[swift falcon]

Thank you, I'll work around it then

I appreciate the help, I was struggling to find a proper starting point

I'll check out navmesh

[visual fjord]

How i can mouseover the list object at list of script in the inspector?

[sly wave]

decided on adjusting the material instead so it wouldn't shine through, now it looks pretty good!

[swift falcon]

@cosmic rain

Sorry I think I forgot to say that I was using 2D

That was why I was using A* not Navmesh

How would I let my little 2d butter guys

Walk around this map

Randomly

Not stepping on garden beds

The squares with the birch outline

I can use A star, but how do I make A star randomly move it

I can't find proper wander tutorials online for this

[upper wigeon]

hello, everyone. I recently got a new computer and cannot get the microsoft visual studio code that comes with unity to show me error squigglies or any errors at all. Looking for any help I can get :(

[rigid island]

thats not visual studio code

!vs

[tawny elk]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[mental rover]

One of the most surprisingly efficient ways is to just pick a random point and check whether or not it's valid, that gives you a target for A* - keep picking until you find one that is

an alternative would be to just iterate smaller steps - just pick a direction and move one tile in that direction if it's valid, then repeat

[swift falcon]

Hm, thank you, how would I figure out whether or not it is valid. And how do I set a position instead of object for target? Because I'm using a tilemap.

Do I just spawn an object in a random position?

And set that as the target?

[swift falcon]

Oh yeah

How do I check for a tilemap

[upper wigeon]

whoops you're right, mb. I had to completely reinstall the editor package through unity and it worked so 🤷‍♂️

Thank you!!

[grim acorn]

Does anyone understand how to fix rider unity problem

It says rider editor failed

[mental rover]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.GetTile.html is probably sufficient

[swift falcon]

Thanks man!

However

They're all seperate tilemaps

So do I just check if it's colliding with that?

The beds tilemap?

Would the be sufficient?

[grim acorn]

Excuse me Lashen and Deynai do you guys know what is unity rider failed

[swift falcon]

No, sorry man

[limber halo]

wow thank you, this thing can work on 2d object?

[dusk apex]

#854851968446365696

[swift falcon]

@mental rover

I was trying to employ the technique you described to me, however I have an issue, and it comes from the documentation for A*

They always use:
ai = GetComponent<IAstarAI>();>

However how would I set this up in my scene? I do not seem to be able to find a script called IAstarAI

When I try to add a component

I have attempted to do it this way

Ignoring the tile situation for now, I have used the same reference as they have in the docs, however how do I add that component into my object

[dusk apex]

If it's a component: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.AddComponent.html

[swift falcon]

No that's not the problem, in A* we have a pathfinding component and such, however the docs are asking for IAstarAI and they never say how they attach this component. I'm pretty sure a pathfinding component requires me to check a few boxes manually in the editor, so adding a component this way is not optimal.

[mental rover]

the name suggests it's an interface, I'd read the docs more carefully on how to use whatever plugin or repo you're looking at

[dusk apex]

I couldn't understand your original question

how do I add that component into my object

[swift falcon]

sorry, I meant through the editor

[swift falcon]

sure I will do that further, it's not apparent to me though.

thank you

[dusk apex]

Unless your class inherits monobehaviour it'll not be visible through the inspector without a custom editor.

[polar marten]

yes, physics raycaster 2d

then you don't need to use your own raycasts

it's like a lite version of web page event listening

[upper wigeon]

hey all. One more question, I'm dynamically updating a navMeshSurface, and my projectiles are now editing this surface to not be walkable. What's the best way to fix this? Obviously you can't use navigational static anymore

Managed to kind-of work around this by changing the navMeshSurface component to only check for the physics colliders, but it still seems to have changed the collisions for my enemies for some reason.

[cosmic rain]

Exclude the object from the considered objects to bake.🤔

I think it depends on the settings of the surface, but usually it would only consider stuff parented to it. If you put the projectiles outside it's children hierarchy, it shouldn't consider them during baking.

Oh, I guess it's defined by the Collect Objects setting.

Set it to Children to only consider it's child objects.

Could also use layers to exclude whole layers of objects.

[limber halo]

thank you so much

[cosmic rain]

Basically, read the manual:
https://docs.unity3d.com/2020.1/Documentation/Manual/class-NavMeshSurface.html

[upper wigeon]

yeah I got it to work by excluding a bullet layer. Thanks for helping me troubleshoot 😄

[native folio]

if im using a service like unity relay, will using authentication like this allow me to test with the host andclient on the same machine without any errors? imn trying to make sure that they don't have the same playerid

        InitializationOptions options = new InitializationOptions();
        options.SetProfile("Player" + UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, 1000));

        await UnityServices.InitializeAsync(options);
        await AuthenticationService.Instance.SignInAnonymouslyAsync();```

[untold siren]

Cinemachine 3.0 is murdering me but I've successfully managed to make a custom input controller where you can control the sensitivity :')

[rich leaf]

Anyone have a good strategy for how to handle satisfying souls-like dodge rolls?

I currently have a simple constant velocity transform.position style code, but obviously it seems not so satisfying and a bit janky. Anything in specific I should look into for this?

[random pelican]

can somebody help me with this movement that im trying to implement?

[vagrant blade]

Need to ask a question with some details before anyone can decide if they can.

[random pelican]

I have this script and i am using the unity input system and i know its getting input correctly but in my script its not assigning the vertical/horizontal input in my script

[vagrant blade]

Well, share you code as you were asked in #💻┃code-beginner and stay in one channel (there)

[random pelican]

sorry

[fickle lichen]

async Awaitable JumpCooldown()
{
    onJumpCooldown = true;
    await Awaitable.WaitForSecondsAsync(.9F, destroyCancellationToken);
    onJumpCooldown = false;
}
```Hey, is that really an error or just an information that async method has been cancelled? What should I do with it? ![aniblobsweat](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/586029851870363660.webp?size=128 "aniblobsweat")

[untold siren]

Just spent about 20 minutes trying to debug something but turned out to be due to the script execution order... sigh

[cosmic rain]

Be grateful that it wasn't 20 hours😛

[fickle lichen]

Yeah, at least you did find solution

[ocean hollow]

    {
        StartCoroutine(HealthRegenerationCoroutine());
    }

    private IEnumerator HealthRegenerationCoroutine()
    {
        while (true) // Infinite loop, you can add a condition to stop regeneration
        {
            if (playerHealth.currentHealth <= playerHealth.startingHealth)
            {
                playerHealth.currentHealth++; // Increase health by 0.5
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(1); // Wait for 1 second
            }
        }
    }```

i have these two funcs, and EnableHealthRegeneration() is called when i press a button, but my game completely freezes when this func is called and the only way for me to fix this is to close unity through the task manager bc i can't even see my cursor (alt+tab and pressing the x doesnt work either for whatever reason). Does anyone know why this code is so bad? (my cpu and memory usage are fine so i dont think thats an issue)

[fervent furnace]

how about when playerHealth.currentHealth > playerHealth.startingHealth

[ocean hollow]

that crashed unity even faster 😭

wtf is going on??

[fervent furnace]

what will heppen when playerHealth.currentHealth > playerHealth.startingHealth?

[lean sail]

they were asking you a question, not telling you to change your code

[ocean hollow]

oh

[ocean hollow]

nothing bc it can never be achieved

[fervent furnace]

i should rephrase my question, a bit weird....
so what will your code does

[ocean hollow]

i have no idea what you mean by that

[lean sail]

lets say your coroutine starts, the current health is 5 and starting health is 4 . What happens line by line in your code?

oops, fixed

[fervent furnace]

while(true){
  if(somebool){
    wait one second
  }
}
```what will happen when somebool is false

[ocean hollow]

ummm, i dont know?

[fervent furnace]

will it waits for one second?

[ocean hollow]

nothing would happen, i assume? bc the condition isnt met?

[ocean hollow]

no it would skip over bc the if statement isnt called

[lean sail]

ok and what does while do?

[ocean hollow]

makes it so that it checks the if statement

[fervent furnace]

so will your code stop executing if it doesnt wait for one second?

[untold siren]

it'll crash your unity because it would never exit out of the while(true) clause

[fervent furnace]

or spin endlessly

[untold siren]

you need an alternative method of implementation where there is no while loop that is inifnite

[ocean hollow]

so all im missing is "return;"?

[fervent furnace]

no

ah, maybe

[lean sail]

it is a loop. meaning that it will continue to check the "if statement" (its just checking true) over and over

[ocean hollow]

why is that an issue? what makes it so that the other code doesnt run?

[untold siren]

because its a while loop

[fervent furnace]

while(true){}
```your code becomes this

if the condition is false

[night harness]

If I told you to count to a billion, then go clean the kitchen. The kitchen is never gonna get cleaned

[ocean hollow]

ig i never knew how while loops worked, thanks for the analogy

[lean sail]

more like if you told him to count upwards towards infinity, starting at 0, and only stop when you reach -1

[ocean hollow]

so how do i fix this?

[fervent furnace]

i dont know if your regeneration buff is based on current health or time-out (minecraft potion), so "return" may or may not fix it, depends on your choices

[lean sail]

You dont want to just return, because you have to yield in a coroutine or you might freeze up your editor still. If the method starts and the current health is already above the starting health, itll freeze. I would just throw a yield break in that while true if its greater

to clarify also, it is not a crash. your editor is simply freezing

[untold siren]

you could alwyas implement it so:

bool canRegen;

void RegenHealth()
{
  if (!canRegen) return;
  currentHealth += [whatevervalueyouwant]
  StartCoroutine(regenCooldown);
}

IEnumerator RegenCooldown()
{
  camRegem = false;
  yield return new WaitForSeconds([value]);
  canRegen = true;
}

keep regen health inside of update or smth

[lean sail]

if you're using update already, no need to use a coroutine for that..

[untold siren]

FixedUpdate()
{
  if (currentHealth < maxHealth && canRegen)
    RegenHealth
}

[untold siren]

true

but its a faster implementation

[lean sail]

🤔 faster in what regard, we are talking about a difference of 2 lines of code. Starting a coroutine every 1 second is gonna be more costly than not doing it

[untold siren]

I mean faster to get implemented

not physically faster

I'm probably mistaken lmao

[lean sail]

idk what you mean by that. its the same lines of code pretty much

[untold siren]

ignore me dw

I'm being a tit

[ocean hollow]

why does it freeze EVERYTHING tho? wouldnt it just pause all game physics calcs and not everything that has to do with the unity editor?

[lean sail]

float timer = 0f;
float regenCooldown = 1f;
void Update()
{
  timer += Time.deltaTime;
  if(timer > regenCooldown)
  {
    timer -= regenCooldown;
    // Add healing logic
  }
}

as simple as that

[untold siren]

that's just how unity handles it

[lean sail]

You are telling your editor to count towards infinity before doing ANYTHING else.

[untold siren]

unity will be like "oh no infinite loop, that's not meant to happen, lets crash the editor so that its not having to be force shut via task manager or smth"

[lean sail]

it is not running everything async

[latent latch]

even though coroutines are single threaded, there is some performance gains for sleeping

[ocean hollow]

the entire editor tho? do programs not have logic split amongst cores so that you have multiple workers instead of one?

[latent latch]

over polling each frame (so it becomes a cache/GC to runtime performance problem)

[lean sail]

unity does its own async stuff for some things. Your code is all gonna be single threaded unless you do some async sheniangans yourself (you dont want to)

[untold siren]

yeah ^

[lean sail]

Still, it is an infinite loop. What should unity really do about it, they cant just assume your code is stuck and free you out. What if you were doing expensive terrain generation and it took 30 minutes? how would they know

[cosmic rain]

Most programs have a main thread loop and execute some other logic on background threads.

[ocean hollow]

alr thx for all of the help guys @lean sail @untold siren @fervent furnace

[untold siren]

unity has inifnite loops treated as a crash just incase the infinite loop is accidental (which is 99.9% of the time)

[latent latch]

there is multi thread support but you dont get to touch it

most of it is done under the hood

[cosmic rain]

You can't have the whole program spread between cores evenly. That's not gonna work.

[cosmic rain]

I'm not sure about that statement.🤔

You can't really detect an infinite loop from outside of it.

[untold siren]

if its something like a permantently while(true) with no valid exit clause though then wouldn't unity kinda be like "huh"

[lean sail]

what, no

[cosmic rain]

No. Not really.

[fervent furnace]

halting problem

[lean sail]

windows might give you the "your program isnt responding" thing after awhile, dont know but thats not a unity thing

beautifully said

[untold siren]

no cap this is what one of my lecturers told me 💀

[cosmic rain]

Some platforms would wait for an event from the app on regular basis and shut it down if it didn't respond for long enough. For example PS4/5, but I'm not sure there's a mechanism like that in windows.

[covert coral]

Hey, sorry but I am experiencing a strange issue unrelated to "coding" per-say but I do need assistance with this. I am running Unity in Linux and opening a file that was once running on a windows machine but now I am getting this error. Anybody have any idea how I can repair this?

Aborted (core dumped)

[untold siren]

what distro ?

[covert coral]

Linux Mint

22.03 Cinnamon

[fervent furnace]

watchdog timer, but i believe window os doesnt provide such functionality, it is mainly used in embedded system (you can just open task manager and close the freezed application)

[untold siren]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/workaround-for-libssl-issue-on-ubuntu-22-04.1271405/

[covert coral]

erm, 21.2

[untold siren]

that and sudo apt install libssl-dev

I remember having the same issue on my laptop a while back

[covert coral]

Yeah, I ran this command and it downloaded and all but didn't resolve the issue. I'll check out that link though, thank you for the help!

[untold siren]

yeah most the time its due to version mismatches

pain in the ass sometimes with linux lmao

[covert coral]

That's sort of what I figured

[covert coral]

It can be, but the pay off is worth it for me 🙂

[untold siren]

oh I completely agree :D I love linux don't get me wrong, part of the fun is fixing this type of stuff but sometimes its annoying when you just wanna work on something

[covert coral]

Haha, I totally agree homie

My man, you fixed it

Thanks a million, going to take note of this

[untold siren]

just you wait until you try to install smth like autodesk maya on a distro that isn't fedura or centos lmao

[covert coral]

Oh heck no 🤣

Blender for 3D, Aesprite for 2D, Unity ofc, the only "windows" program I actually run in Linux is Visual Studio but that's because it's so good

[untold siren]

I like blender but since I learnt maya first I have no idea where to start with blender Jetbrains is a nice ide to try btw

[covert coral]

Jetbrains, I'll have to check that out

[azure dome]

Can I save 2d array to json? I get right now

[somber nacelle]

yes but not using unity's jsonutility

[azure dome]

What do I use Instead?

[somber nacelle]

pretty sure newtonsoft can do it

[hasty silo]

Has anyone here played around with MLAgents?

[knotty sun]

Yep, they are pretty cool

[untold siren]

ok right:

so I have a state machine setup for my camera perspectives, each has its own individual state script alongside its own cinemachine camera

everytime I go to change camera perspective, I need to set the previous cams priority to 0 / something that isn't the highest priority in the scene

would the best way to store a reference to each cam belonging to a state be via a dictionary? or would there be a more efficient way of going about this

[knotty sun]

how many cameras in each state?

[untold siren]

each perspective will be its own state

like 1st person is its own state, 3rd is its own state etc

but there's a camera controller script basically

[knotty sun]

you're not answering my question

[untold siren]

one per state

sry

[knotty sun]

ok, how many states

[untold siren]

there should be four or five by the end of implementation

[knotty sun]

then a List which you loop over will be more efficient than a Dictionary

[untold siren]

so I could just do List<CinemachineCamera> stateCams and then each time I define a state I'd just do stateCams.Add( //state name cam )

(I'm uising CM 3.0 btw which is why its not CinemachineVirtualCamera)

[knotty sun]

no, I would have all the cams in one list, you dont want to have to move cams from one list or dictionary entry to another, very costly

[untold siren]

            FirstPersonState = new FirstPersonState("FirstPerson", _cameraStateMachine, this, firstPersonCam);
            cinemachineCameras.Add(firstPersonCam);
            ThirdPersonState = new ThirdPersonState("ThirdPerson", _cameraStateMachine, this, thirdPersonCam);
            cinemachineCameras.Add(thirdPersonCam);

so basically like this?

[knotty sun]

yep

[untold siren]

awesome, and then if I were to do the whole priority setting thing I check if List contains the certain camera I want, then exclude it from making sure that the priority is then set to 0

[knotty sun]

sounds about right

@untold siren btw why are you using strings rather than Enums?

[untold siren]

its the same way I've setup my player states too, it's not actively being checked or anything, its more just as a label

I can understand the reasons to use enums but I'm making no proper checks for them

[knotty sun]

Enums much more efficient than strings

[untold siren]

I'll shift it to that at some point, will add a // todo:

[latent latch]

who needs type safety

[untold siren]

            if (!_cameraController.cinemachineCameras.Contains(newCamera)) return;
            var camIndex = _cameraController.cinemachineCameras.IndexOf(newCamera);
            var activeCam = _cameraController.cinemachineCameras[camIndex];
            foreach (var cinemachineCamera in _cameraController.cinemachineCameras.Where(cinemachineCamera => cinemachineCamera != activeCam))
                cinemachineCamera.Priority.Value = 0;
            activeCam.Priority.Value = 10;

assuming this is a valid way of setting the priorities?

[knotty sun]

horrible but valid

[untold siren]

XD I would have assumed that, what's the better method of going about this?

[knotty sun]

just a straight for loop with an if check

[lean sail]

you could even just set the priority to 0 of the previous active cam, no need to go through every camera

[knotty sun]

indeed, cache activeCam

[untold siren]

true that works

[knotty sun]

or, better yet cache active cam index

[untold siren]

I'm learning lmao

need to move it off of one of my static classes to do so but this seems to be for the best

Yeah, just going to stick to caching the active cam instead of the index as this seems a bit :/

[knotty sun]

that's the old school in me, why use 64 bits when 32 will do the job

[untold siren]

if it was within the same script file etc then I'd have done it via the index reference, but also by doing it via variable reference it makes it a bit more readable for me :) thank you for the help though!

[urban lintel]

I've created an hp bar with hearts for my game, and the way I'm deciding how the hearts should render is I iterate through my max hp (think like 8 hearts), and if the (current iterator - hp) is more than 2 it's a full heart, between 0 and 2 it's a half heart, and if it's negative then the rest of the hearts are empty. I come from a web background so my perception of UI is a bit different, but is it fine for this loop to be run on pretty much every update? The players' hp is expected to change quite rarely, yet this loop (which only has like 10 iterations but still) would almost unnecessarily run every single frame. Is this a normal pattern for gamedev, or would it be better to memoize the hp and only recalculate if the player hp has changed? Or is the memoizing just gonna do more harm than good. I know this is probably a very tiny micro-optimization, but just slightly worried of dying from a thousand paper cuts later on because of doing things in an anti pattern way

(also I know I can remove the if conditional there if I just do 3 separate loops by precomputing the number of full and empty hearts)

[oblique spoke]

Unity also has to do the work to call that Update each frame, which is surprisingly non trivial. I would consider events as an alternative. Early outs to skip redundant work is common.
But yea, it's unlikely to matter here.

[urban lintel]

Yeah I was thinking if I had a similar case but for example with inventory, which I suppose would be bigger and could require some fancier computation. I'll look into events

Would this still be a monobehaviour with an update in it? It's what I've been gravitating to by default but not sure if I should be carelessly throwing it around

[oblique spoke]

Depends on whether you still have code that you want to run each frame. It's fine to throw around whenever you want to run code per frame.