archived-code-general

[knotty sun]

2. Seralized classes should have a parameterless constructor

[swift falcon]

How do I check if smaller rectangles fit in a rectangle-sized area? Calculating areas doesn't work because the rectangles have different scales, and their rotation must remain the same. I also want these rectangles to be instantiated inside the area.

[fervent furnace]

are the rects AABB?
you said the rotation is the same (though you can still rotate them to be two AABBs then check otherwise you need SAT)

[glacial island]

Does anyone have experience with connecting bluetooth devices with Unity and getting data from the connected devices? I need some help with connecting a Sensor with the quest3

[quartz folio]

Don't cross-post. Choose one channel

[swift falcon]

sorry I dont know what AABB or SAT is. I said the rotation part because I dont want the objects to be rotated on instantiation

[glacial island]

Sorry!
(Was not sure where to post..😅)
I'll stick to one channel from now,

[swift falcon]

but the rectangles sides are always parallel

Is everything I just said nonsense?

[fervent furnace]

always parallel doesnt mean they are axis aligned (the width and height is aligned to x and y axis)

[swift falcon]

they are aligned on x and y axis

[fervent furnace]

then easy, you have two rects and you only need to check if A.min>=B.min&&B.max<=A.max (min is bottomleft and max is topright) and you need to check then reversely after that since A may stay inside B
you can also change >= to >

[swift falcon]

okay. How do I get positions for the rectangles

[fervent furnace]

the min of smaller rect will fall in special range in order not to go outside the big rect area
from big.min to big.max-small.size (calculated from max-min)

or restrict the max, the idea is same

[swift falcon]

I am not sure if I understood everything. Could someone provide example code?

i am not sure how to do it with multiple rectangles

[fervent furnace]

Can they overlap?

[swift falcon]

no

that was the point of my orginal question sorry for not being clear

[fervent furnace]

i remember a long time ago we have a discussion on how to allocate (and deallocate) AABB space "efficiently"
but i doubt you cant understand it......(my idea is based on k-d tree and free list but i forgot how issue implemented it at the end)
another much simpler approach is to check if the new spawned rect overlaps with other old spawned rects

[swift falcon]

I was thinking if there is a asset for doing it

but this is not really that important for my project, I can easily change my level design

[coral yew]

Does anyone know if an XML-Serialization based Save System works on Mobile (Android / IOS)

[knotty sun]

why would it not? XML is a string based format just like Json

[coral yew]

I saw a post on a forum about it not working, thanks for the clarification

[knotty sun]

Do you know that C# .Net has a XML library build in?

[coral yew]

Yea i normally use System.xml for handling saving in my projects. I was just wondering if there is anything that needs to be taken into account when it comes to mobile development

[knotty sun]

Nope, just make sure you save/load to Application.persistentDataPath

[coral yew]

Okay perfect, thank you

[cosmic geode]

hello!
is there any way to detect collision on spawn? i have a gameobject with a trigger collider that is instantiated and another object that detects the trigger and does some actions. the problem is that the gameobject that detects the trigger can sometimes be in a point where the trigger can be instantiated and there is no way to avid this. is there a way to check if it is colliding in the start function or some other trick to ignore collision with objects that are already colliding when created?

[cold parrot]

Have a look at the Physics.Overlap (for axis aligned primitives) and Physics.CalculatePenetration (for transformed colliders) API. You can’t use trigger callbacks if you want to check before instantiating.

[neon plank]

Question:
The other day I opened a Unity project that wasn't mine, and in order to open it Unity told me that automatic recompilation of code was going to get disabled...
But now, when I open my project, code do not recompile if I modify it. How can I re-enable that?

[neon plank]

I googled it, but in Preferences I did not find "Auto Refresh".

[vagrant blade]

Probably moved then, look it up for your specific Unity version

[neon plank]

Just found it's under Asset Pipeline in newer versions

[craggy totem]

Hello devs, i have question - is it possible to somehow use Vector2.dot instead Vector3.dot To reduce calculations ,bcs i have to much of them.
Calculation in X and Z axis is enough for me. no need of Y axis

                    Vector3 DirToTarget = Vector3.Normalize(transform.position - MainCar.position);  
                    DotProduct= Vector3.Dot(transform.forward, DirToTarget);

what can replace Vector3.Normalize to pass it to Vector2.Dot?
thank you in advance

[fervent furnace]

no, casting vec3 to vec2 discard the z

[prime ice]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class jumpanim : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update

    public Animation jumpanimation;
    public AnimationClip jump1;
    public AnimationClip jump2;
    public float timer;
    public float animno;
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) { jumpanimation.Play(); }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && jumpanimation.isPlaying)
        {
            jumpanimation.Stop();

            {
                if (timer < animno)
                { timer = timer + Time.deltaTime; }

                else
                {
                    jumpanimation.clip = jump1;
                    jumpanimation.Play();
                    jumpanimation.clip = jump2;
                }

                  
            }
    
        }

        if (jumpanimation.clip == jump1) { Debug.Log("anim2 playing"); }
    }
}```

SOMEONE HELP why no anim playing but still no error
im rly rly new to coding
someone can fix it for me

[somber tapir]

you also dont need Vector3.Normalize(). You can just write it like so:
myVector.normalized;

[somber tapir]

You can use Debug.Log("Some Text"); to figure out what is being called and what isn't. Looking at it, you are probably playing the animation but stop it immediately afterwards. You might need an else if () for your second statement. I also recommend not writing your if statements in 1 line like that, makes it hard to read and miss these errors.

[prime ice]

no animation is playing

it was working perfectly until i added this line

if (timer < animno)
{ timer = timer + Time.deltaTime; }

[fervent furnace]

so after you increment the timer, where you decrease it?

[somber tapir]

As I said. Use Debug.Log() to figure out which if statements are being called.

[prime ice]

wdymmm

i dont understand

please im insanely new to coding

i just watched a flappy bird tutorial and now im trying to add animations myself cuz the tutorial didnt have

[fervent furnace]

your code:

if(t<T){
  t+=dt;
}else{
  nothing related to t here
}

[knotty sun]

more to the point, how often do you expect if (timer < animno) to be executed?

[prime ice]

oh yeah

i thin k i understand

there is a problem that

the timer is going up

rly slow

how to fix it

its like 0.00001 and next frame 0.000002

i need it to go 1 per second

[somber tapir]

In Update() you check if the player presses Space and if he does you Play() the animation. But in the very next line you check again for Space and also if the jumpanimation.isPlaying is true. I assume jumpanimation.Play() would set jumpanimation.isPlaying to true, so when the player presses Space you Play() the animation but instantly call jumpanimation.Stop() as well.

But I don't know if this is the case or not. That's why you should use Debug.Log("Second If Statement") or something to figure out if my theory is correct.

[somber tapir]

you only increase the timer when the player presses space bar, so you would need to increase it outside the if statement

[prime ice]

oh

ok

but i want the timer to start after the person presses space

thats my point

[somber tapir]

toggle a bool in the if statement, only increase timer if bool is true

[prime ice]

like if its been 2 sec after pressing space play anim 2 and if its not then play anim 1

thats my goal

[knotty sun]

So,
if space -> Play anim 1 -> start timer
if timer > 2 -> Play anim 2
no nesting required

[craggy totem]

@fervent furnace will it work if i pass like this

                    DotProduct= Vector2.Dot(
                    new Vector2(transform.position.X, transform.position.Z).normalized, 
                    new Vector2(DirToTarget.position.X, DirToTarget.position.Z).normalized);

@somber tapir like this?

                    DotProduct= Vector2.Dot(transform.forward.normalized, DirToTarget.normalized);

@somber tapir pardon for interruption

[fervent furnace]

i doubt that copying the value is slower or the compiler can optimize it, though vec2.normalize should be faster than vec3 a lot.....

[knotty sun]

that wont even compile

[prime ice]

how do i start timer and not just +1

if its in if state

[rigid island]

c# is case sensitive

[knotty sun]

like you are already doing, add deltatime to timer

[prime ice]

but it only goes up when i press space and stops, i need it to keep going after i press space and reset after i press space again

[somber tapir]

Well, looks fine (the second part), transform.forward is already normalized so you wouldn't need .normalized there.

[knotty sun]

so add to it outside of the if

[prime ice]

but then it keeps going even if i dont press space

oh wait im dum

i understand

but wait

for the first space

like the first space hit the player does

i want it to

start the timer after that

[knotty sun]

timer = 0;
...
if (space) timer+= deltaTime;
else
if (timer > 0) timer += deltatime;
...
if (timer > 2) // Do stuff; timer =0;

[prime ice]

or is that too advanced for me

[rigid island]

you're in the wrong channel then

#💻┃code-beginner

[prime ice]

hmmm ok

huh

i thought this was for any level

general

sorry

[rigid island]

nah this expects you to already know these basic concepts

[prime ice]

o sorry

[rigid island]

all gud 🙂

[prime ice]

this i think is what im already doing and this only adds value to timer after i hit space

like its at 0 and after each time i hit space it goes up by 0.01

[knotty sun]

note I have an else in there

[prime ice]

not like count by itself

what does the else do

sorry if im being dum again

[knotty sun]

it increments the time if no space has been hit but the timer has been started

[prime ice]

because it is timer+=deltatime in both case

hm let me try

[craggy totem]

@fervent furnace @knotty sun @rigid island what about this ? is there something that can be used instead transform.forward. maybe that all stupid but want to try

[rigid island]

idk what ur doing lol I just saw this

it will compile if thats what ur asking

looks fine

those variable names suck tho

[craggy totem]

do you know if it possible to use Vector2 instead of Vector3 to increase performance. but need use Only X and Z

[knotty sun]

you are using a normalized direction as the second argument, that does not make sense for a .Dot calculation

[rigid island]

i think unity just uses v2 as v3 with 0 out Z

since the engine is 3d

the perfomance is probably negligible

whats an extra 4 bytes..

[rigid island]

yea, it will still work ok tho

[craggy totem]

i use too much of it in Update method, so tried to reduce calculations and get rid of Y axis in calculations .bcs game allmost top down space

[rigid island]

there are probably other things I would worry about optimizing instead of simple structs

thats like saying i use too many floats

rendering and other stuff like that is more performance heavy

[prime ice]

@knotty sun i think i did what u showed me and same issue is happening

[knotty sun]

show code

[prime ice]

only 1 animation plays everytime

        timer = 0;


        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {  jumpanimation.Stop();
            jumpanimation.Play();
            timer= 0;

            timer += Time.deltaTime;

        }

        else
        { timer += Time.deltaTime; }

        if (timer > animno) { jumpanimation.clip = jump1;}
        else if (timer < animno) { jumpanimation.clip = jump2;}
        ```

[knotty sun]

ok, the timer=0 needs to be outside the method

[rigid island]

whats the purpose of this timer again?

[prime ice]

huh what do u mean

[prime ice]

well can i screenshare to show u

[craggy totem]

ok i see , if it occurs to much in profiling ,I'll back to this matter. thank you

[prime ice]

or send clip

[rigid island]

just give me a quick TLDR

[prime ice]

wait let me send clip but it might look stupid im really new

[prime ice]

whats that

[rigid island]

cause seems you can use some sort of animation events

[rigid island]

like in a few words just explain what ur doing

jump animation or something?

[prime ice]

i want anim1 to play inside of 2 sec of pressing spacebar and anim2 to play if its been more than 2 seconds

in between the spaces

[knotty sun]

look it simple

float timer = 0;
void Update () { // Do the Rest }

[prime ice]

ohhh

ok

[rigid island]

you mean holding spacebar ?

[prime ice]

errors are showing

[prime ice]

no

[rigid island]

are you doing a combo system

[prime ice]

if player press space once and then presses space again in under 2 sec then play anim 1

and if player press space once and the next time after 2 sec thenplay other anim

@rigid island nah i just watched a tutorial to make flappy bird

it didnt have animations

i made my own

1 animation worked but it looks weird

if we press space fast

thats why i need 2]

ik it sound stupid

lemme try send clip

[knotty sun]

you really need to start thinking about your code

[prime ice]

steve there is error

showing

[rigid island]

doesn't sound stupid just sounds like XY sorta problem

[prime ice]

if i place outside void update

[rigid island]

what is the error? that has no errors

[prime ice]

oh wait nvm its cuz i already had public float timer; written

im super dum

[knotty sun]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {  jumpanimation.clip = jump1;
            jumpanimation.Play();
            timer = Time.deltaTime;

        }

        else if (timer > 0)
        { timer += Time.deltaTime; }

        if (timer > animno) {
         jumpanimation.clip = jump2;
           jumpanimation.Play();
          timer=0;
}

[prime ice]

still doesnt work though :((

hmm lemme try that

OKAY I THINK U SOLVED THE PROB

but like now

if i press jump before 2 sec it shows no animation basically delay of 2 sec before the anim shows

wait i think i can fix that tho

i think it might be cuz there is no animation stop

dam nvm still doesnt work

[knotty sun]

then add a if isPlaying -> Stop

[prime ice]

yeah i did

but still doesnt work

[knotty sun]

where

[prime ice]

i mean its the same problem as before

only 1 anim plays everytime

the timer only goes up when i press space

[knotty sun]

show your code

[prime ice]

WAIT NVM TIMER IS GOING UP

but the anim still not playing

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{ jumpanimation.clip = jump1;
jumpanimation.Play();
timer += Time.deltaTime;

    }

    else if (timer > 0)
    { timer += Time.deltaTime; }

    if (timer > animno) {
     jumpanimation.clip = jump2;
       jumpanimation.Play();
      timer=0;

}

wait no thats not it

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
{
jumpanimation.Stop();
jumpanimation.clip = jump2;
jumpanimation.Play();
timer += Time.deltaTime;

    }

    else if (timer > 0)
    { timer += Time.deltaTime; }

    if (timer > animno)
    {
        jumpanimation.clip = jump1;
        jumpanimation.Play();
        timer = 0;
    }

here

it plays jump2 everytime i hit space

but timer works perfectly

it resets if space after 2

[knotty sun]

so what is the value of animno in the inspector?

[prime ice]

two

[knotty sun]

show me

you have the clips round the wrong way

[prime ice]

no no

u had wrong

i did right

i just wrote 1 and 2 wrong

in the like

names

[knotty sun]

no, jump1 first then jump2

[prime ice]

it doesnt matter tho its playing the same animation

also

huuuuuh what

it plays the jump1 automatically after timer hits 2

even if i dont press jump

[knotty sun]

then animno is not 2

[prime ice]

it is 2

[knotty sun]

show me

[prime ice]

wait lemme send clip of what happening

[knotty sun]

no, that is pointless

[prime ice]

it loading

oh ok

then lemme just send ss

here u go

i know there prob a way easier way to do all this by directly doing rotations but i dont know how

[rigid island]

oh god why are you using animation component

is deprecated

[knotty sun]

right so the code says
start the timer if space is pressed
if the timer has started increment it
if the timer has reached 2 play the second anim

[prime ice]

IDK IM NEW

[rigid island]

stick to animator then

[prime ice]

yes its doing that

i want to do it

[knotty sun]

so what's the problem?

[prime ice]

if the timer has reached 2 AND spacebar is pressed

play 2nd anim

its doing it automatically

when timer hits 2

[knotty sun]

ah, so add another space check to the timer> anino if

[crimson trellis]

Is there a way to see a class in the inspector without it being based from monobehavior?

[knotty sun]

yes, reference it in a Monobehaviour or use a ScriptableObject

[prime ice]

o ok

i think i fixed it

LES GO

IT WORKS

THANKS

[rigid island]

yes use [System.Serializable] above the class declaration

[crimson trellis]

I'm just kinda annoyed I have to type using static .... Every time I create a new class :/

[rigid island]

why would you always need static ?

[fervent furnace]

global variables lover

[crimson trellis]

I have a script like this public abstract class something<T>: monobehavior if I create a nested class in it,it 'll get really hard to manage

[rigid island]

XY problem

[crimson trellis]

So I decided to the create class somewhere else

[eager steppe]

Hello y'all. In my game I have a level decoration editor that I'm trying to get up and running. Is it better to create a thread so I don't "clutter" this channel?

[crimson trellis]

So I just use a using static classname to access to it

But every time I create a new class I have to type that it's get annoying

[knotty sun]

then make your own class template

[crimson trellis]

It's not visible in the inspector

[eager steppe]

I assume they're talking about creating a class template inside Visual Studio

or whatever IDE you're using

static classes will never be visible in the inspector (?)

[knotty sun]

tbh if typing 1 line of code is 'annoying' then programming is probably not for you

[eager steppe]

its either that or you're doing that specific thing wrong (maybe using static stuff too much?)

[prime ice]

steve there is new problem

[eager steppe]

I'm not Steve but drop the issue

[prime ice]

it still plays animation on its on

own

[rigid island]

you just said its static?

[prime ice]

wait let me try to fix

[knotty sun]

when you ask a question you need to show the relevant code

[eager steppe]

is this in Update()?

[crimson trellis]

No I'm just using namespace

[prime ice]

yes

[eager steppe]

Alright, don't use Animation, right off the bat

[rigid island]

then if you add the attribute I said, you can show regular POCO inside inspector

they can't be directly attached to gameobjects though

[eager steppe]

in the Animation window in Unity, just drag the animation clip "Bird" in there, and make a note of it's name

and just do jumpanimation.Play("Bird", -1, 0f); inside your script
This is much much less of a headache to work with

[rigid island]

#archived-code-general message 😏

[eager steppe]

This is why I prefer using threads in this server. It's like a seperate lane on the highway from all this 🥲

i'll be so real I don't even know what qualifys as "beginner", "general" or "advanced" concepts

[rigid island]

general IMO you are expected to know all this basic jargon

[eager steppe]

aight bet

[rigid island]

i think 70% of threads here belong in #💻┃code-beginner

I think this would be good for like Procedual mesh generation and stuff like that

[eager steppe]

i hate 3D procedural generation. that involves so much math

Mimicing Unity's Transformation System at Runtime

[knotty sun]

I would say
Beginner - Doesn't know how to read or google
General - Knows how to read and google but can't be arsed to
Advanced - Knows how to read and google but still doesn't understand stuff

[rigid island]

google becoming a lost art 😦

[eager steppe]

I agree, but Idk man. Google hates me today

apparently nobody on Unity Forums has attempted what I'm trying to attempt

[knotty sun]

indeed, if it aint a crappy YT tut it doesn't exist

[eager steppe]

but also using Unity Forums requires me to log into Unity ID. and I can't be asked to do that for the 13th time today

[rigid island]

ever heard of cookies?

[eager steppe]

love cookies. Unity appears to not though.

[crimson trellis]

Hey can you store a Touch as a object?

[eager steppe]

a GameObject...?

what exactly are you trying to do

[rigid island]

touch iirc is a struct

so it kinda is already

[crimson trellis]

Not a game object

Just object

[cold parrot]

why cant you use whatever it is?

[knotty sun]

Touch is already an object

[rigid island]

btw only saw ur thread for a second but axis == Axis.X) I would not use == for floats

[eager steppe]

its a enum :c

[rigid island]

axis.x is enum?

[cold parrot]

that makes no sense

[crimson trellis]

I'm trying to store different things as object and later convert it back,

[eager steppe]

hear me out

[crimson trellis]

I don't know why I have a bug that I cannot set it

[cold parrot]

maybe put more information in your posts then

feels like there is some sort of misunderstanding going on

[knotty sun]

some code might help

[cold parrot]

you can store anything as an Object type and convert it back to whatever it was before you stored it

but thats circumventing they c# type system which is usually a code smell, but sometimes OK (or even neccessary)

[eager steppe]

Okay, so essentially I use an enum to differentiate the different arrow GameObjects and be able to know what axis they are controlling. Not sure why I didn't just use a string tbf but yes

I use that in order to know what property to just change

[rigid island]

which part isn't working ?

[crimson trellis]

Line 37 have a null reference problem

[rigid island]

where do you assign baseTUI

[eager steppe]

its not that its not working, its more like I'm unsure how to go about getting, and handling some of this input

[leaden ice]

as object is never required btw.

Everything is always object

[last raven]

is there any problem with having globals for WaitForFixedUpdate/WaitForEndOfFrame? I know potential issues with WaitForSecondsRealtime (it has the time counter inside so yielding from different coroutines will wait until the same time even if started at different moments - I can't say if WaitForSeconds works the same because unlike realtime version its code is native so I can't easily decompile it) but what about fixedupdate/endofframe?

[leaden ice]

Nothing wrong with that no

However make sure you are using EndOfFrame properly

[last raven]

so why does unity provide them as classes instead of just global yieldinstruction references?

[leaden ice]

Many people use it thinking it means "wait one frame" and it doesn't

[last raven]

I understand what it means

[leaden ice]

Poor design decision from 10+ years ago?

[last raven]

I have my own coroutine library that completely implements coroutines in editor

so everything that works in player works in editor as well

so I don't have to rewrite a ton of code that relies on coroutines to work in editor

• wrapper for unity coroutines that implements a ton of extra stuff

I was just curious about these 2 objects since I can't easily decompile unity coroutine code and I was wondering why they aren't just globals

if they are safe to yield from multiple coroutines

[heady iris]

because other things you can yield from a coroutine include data

like WaitForSeconds

it makes more sense to just be consistent

if you want to make your own static fields to hold instances of the non-configured coroutine objects, then that's fine

[last raven]

the thing with it - waitforendofframe doesn't need to be class since it can be just global reference

if they don't really hold any data

[heady iris]

Yes, it doesn't need to be

[last raven]

and safe to return

[heady iris]

it's just consistenet this way

[last raven]

then it's a complete waste to have them as classes

and tbh I disagree with design decision with waitforsecondsrealtime, i.e. not being able to cache it

but w/e

[heady iris]

i'm pretty sure you can reuse it

[last raven]

you can reuse but not while it's in use

I decompiled its code and it least in unity 2019 it will not work

[heady iris]

ah, yes, it is mutable

[last raven]

because it stores time when it should stop waiting when you yield it first time and until it reaches that time it will not set new time

[heady iris]

good to know that

[last raven]

not sure about waitforseconds, since it's native code but it's probably same

so basically you can reuse it in the same coroutine but it's not safe to reuse in multiple coroutines

[heady iris]

oh that is curious

That's probably what I was remembering.

[last raven]

I was surprised one is native code and one is not

[eager steppe]

hey y'all
Honestly I'm just shit at math, but I'm trying to rotate my gameObject using a Z axis sprite that i'm dragging with my mosue.

This is the code for it:

void EditRotation(Ray camRay, float planeDist)
{
    // Calculate the change in mouse position
    Vector3 currentMousePosition = camRay.GetPoint(planeDist);

    // Calculate the angle of rotation based on the mouse movement
    float angle = Mathf.Atan2(currentMousePosition.y - initial.y, currentMousePosition.x - initial.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

    // Apply the rotation based on the axis
    if (axis == Axis.Z)
    {
        Vector3 rotation = Thing.transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
        rotation.z += angle;
        Thing.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotation);
    }

    // Update the initial position for the next frame
    initial = currentMousePosition;
}```

But this is the result I get:

[heady iris]

your code is computing the angle between your old mouse position and your new mouse position

then adding that angle to your current Z Euler rotation

that's wrong; that's like doing transform.position += desiredPosition; instead of transform.position = desiredPosition;

Instead, you should compute two angles

• The angle from the center of the object to the old mouse position
• The angle from the center of the object to the new mouse position

The difference between those two will be how much to rotate the object by

[eager steppe]

alright, thank you :)

[heady iris]

You could get rid of the trig by doing this instead

Vector3 oldDelta = initial - transform.position;
Vector3 newDelta = currentMousePosition - transform.position;

float delta = Vector3.SignedAngle(oldDelta, newDelta, Vector3.forward);

SignedAngle gives you the angle between two vectors, relative to an axis

this might be backwards; in that case, negate the result or use Vector3.back

I almost never use trig nowadays :p

[eager steppe]

trigonometry my beloved

[heady iris]

the Vector and Quaternion methods usually make it easier to see what the actual intent is

[eager steppe]

i was just going to go ahead and just use Mathf.Abs for no reason, but maybe this would be beter than my math :p

[heady iris]

so the next line would be transform.rotation *= Quaternion.AngleAxis(delta, Vector3.forward);

euler angles can surprise you

although, in this case, it should be fine

you can have problems if you try to clamp them to a range

you might have seen all three euler angles change when rotating around an axis before, for example

[eager steppe]

i'm unsure whether to clamp the other axis honestly. I'm not sure if I should take such a decision. I'll test it with players later and see how "limiting" it could possibly be.

[hard viper]

is there a way to force something that implements IMyInterface1 to also implement IMyInterface2?

like an extra constraint

[rigid island]

nvm lol

[somber nacelle]

you can't constrain to two types like that

[rigid island]

actually prb not

yeah myb

[somber nacelle]

interfaces can inherit from one another though, so if you have an interface that should also always implement another interface for example IUsableItem should also be an IItem then IUsableItem can inherit IItem

[hexed wagon]

hi do you guys know the shortcut to reformat code spaces in visual studio

[rigid island]

forgot shortcut key but its the sweeper icon at the bottom

cntrl K +ctrl E

[hexed wagon]

thx

[hard viper]

if interface1 implements interface2, then does that force interface1 to make a concrete implementation for methods in interface2?

or does that pass it down to whatever class actually implements interface1

[somber nacelle]

the responsibility is on the implementing type

[hard viper]

ok, and if I have multiple interfaces, does that work out? like IA : IB, IC : IB, and class : IA, IC

[rigid gull]

I'm struggeling with a save system / main menu, anyone here have a minute to spare?

[hard viper]

yeah

[rigid gull]

I have the data serializing/de-serializing

i have profile id's working

i'm stumped on the slave slot menu

trying to make the tutorial i am watching work with my main menu which is a little diferent.

and it's all so overwealming at this point i feel im in over my head

[hard viper]

break this down a bit to a more specific problem

[somber nacelle]

i'm honestly not 100% sure about this one, seems like it should work though

[rigid gull]

ok. well that's part of my issue is i'm so many steps in I'm no longer sure what step one of the problem is.

hold on let me think

[hard viper]

you could make a single save slot a single serializable class, suppose it has an int for how far you are, and an int for save slot ID

[rigid gull]

using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;

public class SaveSlot : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Serialized field to assign a unique identifier for each save slot
    [Header("Profile")]
    [SerializeField] private string profileId = "";
    // Reference to the GameObject that is shown when there is no data for this slot
    [Header("Content")]
    [SerializeField] private GameObject noDataContent;
    // Reference to the GameObject that is shown when this slot has data
    [SerializeField] private GameObject hasDataContent;
    // Text component for displaying the character's name associated with this slot
    [SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI characterName;

    // Method to update the slot's display based on the given CharacterData
    public void SetData(CharacterData characterData)
    {
        // If there is no character data (null), show 'no data' content and hide 'has data' content
        if (characterData == null)
        {
            noDataContent.SetActive(true);
            hasDataContent.SetActive(false);
        }
        else
        {
            // If there is character data, show 'has data' content and hide 'no data' content
            noDataContent.SetActive(false);
            hasDataContent.SetActive(true);

            // Update the text to show the character's name
            characterName.text = characterData.Name;
        }
    }

    // Method called when this save slot is clicked
    public void OnClickSaveSlot()
    {
        // Notify the MainMenu to update the selected profile ID with this slot's profile ID
        MainMenu.Instance.SetSelectedProfileId(this.profileId);
    }

    // Getter method to access the private profileId field
    public string GetProfileId()
    {
        return this.profileId;
    }

    public void SetProfileId(string id)
    {
        profileId = id;
    }

}

[hard viper]

you can look through a file directory to find all the files of that type, and now you have several instances of files corresponding to save files

[rigid gull]

it is serializing the data correctly i can see it make save files in my dir

[hard viper]

ok, but you need to populate a menu with save slots, and then go find it

[rigid gull]

I'm at the part where i want the save slot menu to activate when i start the game, and check if ther are save's or not.

[hard viper]

like, a menu with buttons for slots 1,2,3. And if I click slot 2, you need to know to go get file2

you can make one file that stores information of which file goes to which slot, and open/edit it.
OR you can open all the files and store a bit of metadata in each

[rigid gull]

not quite, I want it to generate an empty save slot each time you go into the select character menu, but also generate any previously made profiles

[hard viper]

like saveSlots.JSON, which could be like a list of (string filename, int slotID)

[hard viper]

that detail isn't that important imo. What you need to do is effectively make a list of tuples of (string filename, int slotID)

once you make that list, then you can hand that off to the UI script, and do whatever the hell you want

but making that list of tuples is the first order of business

you could even parse that, with (myClass parsedClass, int slotID)

[rigid gull]

public class SaveSlotsMenu : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private GameObject saveSlotPrefab; // Assign in Unity Editor
    [SerializeField] private Transform saveSlotContainer; // Assign in Unity Editor
    private SaveSlot[] saveSlots;

    private void Awake()
    {
        saveSlots = this.GetComponentsInChildren<SaveSlot>();
    }

    private void Start()
    {
        // Get all save profiles from SaveManager
        Dictionary<string, CharacterData> saveProfiles = SaveManager.Instance.GetAllProfileGameData();

        // Create a save slot for each save profile
        // Create a save slot for each save profile
    foreach (KeyValuePair<string, CharacterData> profile in saveProfiles)
        {
            CreateSaveSlot(profile.Key);
        }

        ActivateMenu();
    }

    // Activates and populates the menu with data for each save slot,
    // updating each slot with corresponding character data if available
    public void ActivateMenu()
    {
        // Retrieve a dictionary of all profiles and their corresponding character data from SaveManager
        Dictionary<string, CharacterData> profilesCharacterData = SaveManager.Instance.GetAllProfileGameData();

        // Iterate over each save slot present in the menu
        foreach (SaveSlot saveSlot in saveSlots)
        {
            // Initialize a variable to hold the character data for the current save slot
            CharacterData profileData = null;

            // Try to get the character data associated with the current save slot's profile ID.
            // If successful, profileData is set; if not, profileData remains null
            profilesCharacterData.TryGetValue(saveSlot.GetProfileId(), out profileData);

[hard viper]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 Inline Code

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

[rigid gull]

            // Update the current save slot with the retrieved or default character data
            saveSlot.SetData(profileData);
        }
    }
    public void CreateSaveSlot(string profileId)
    {
        // Instantiate a new save slot from the prefab
        GameObject newSlot = Instantiate(saveSlotPrefab, saveSlotContainer);
        // Assign a unique profile ID to the new save slot
        SaveSlot saveSlotScript = newSlot.GetComponent<SaveSlot>();
        saveSlotScript.SetProfileId(profileId); // Assign the profile ID
        saveSlots = this.GetComponentsInChildren<SaveSlot>(); // Update the saveSlots array
    }
}```

hmm hmm. I need to walk through this from step one

including my main menu script

[hard viper]

you should have a few classes

[rigid gull]

and find out what is happening. cus at this point ive just been following a tutorial and now im really confused lol

[hard viper]

one class is the simple serialized save data. One class should be in charge of managing different save slot files (Writing to, openning them, reading them, organizing them...). One class connects that information to UI, and puts requests to the save manager to query contents or change save data

a single save slot class should NOT be a monobehaviour

[rigid gull]

@hard viper want to hop in a voice channel?

[hard viper]

nty

I'm just pointing out that I think you need to break this up a bit, and that is why you are confused.

[rigid gull]

well, i have a save slot, a save slot menu, a data serializer, a character data, a save manager, and a main menu.

all different classes

[hard viper]

well, what is the issue you are having?

[rigid gull]

i just need to walk through my scripts again and find the problem as it occurs. Sorry. Right now I can barely identify what the issue is. I dont understand how to get the save slot menu to work, that's generaly my problem. like i said data serialization is working, my save manager saves and loads data correctly. the problem is finding out how to get my main menu script, and my save slot menu script to play nicley togeather.

are save systems some of the most complex parts of game systems?

this is definatly the most coplex thing ive done. but this is my first game lol.

[leaden ice]

not really - They're quite simple. The harder part is making sure your data is organized sensibly in a way that is conducive to serialization and deserialization

and lining up your order of initialization of the game world when loading a save

[rigid gull]

https://gdl.space/repegapelu.cpp

[rigid island]

Anyone happen to know what this person is talking about in this thread?
https://forum.unity.com/threads/cursor-cant-click-in-locked-mouse-state.1171457/#post-8355120

I got my button working with FPS cursor locked but now the cursor is showing and flickering.
😿

Don't you hate when in unity you have to fight against the engine for such basic stuff 😦

[heady iris]

are you saying you don't know how to decide if a save exists in a certain save slot?

or that you don't know how to write data to a specific save slot?

[rigid island]

as you see the cursor is locked and worked on UI but custom Input module is making cursor visible/flicker

hmm maybe this is #archived-code-advanced problem..

Only way I was able to fix it is to copy-paste the underlying code of GetMousePointerEventData, ProcessMove, and ProcessDrag into that custom FirstPersonInputModule (instead of just calling the base methods), then removing the code that disables functionality when Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked.

No idea

[eager steppe]

are you using the FirstPersonInputModule?

[rigid island]

I copied it yeah its custom

no idea why now my cursor is visible and flickers (im guessing its fighting visible = false)

[eager steppe]

is the script the same script linked in the forum? guess i could take a look through that i guess

[rigid island]

they said Only way I was able to fix it is to copy-paste the underlying code of GetMousePointerEventData, ProcessMove, and ProcessDrag into that custom FirstPersonInputModule
but this is what exactly says in script

[rigid island]

the script is exactly the one from thread yes

just tryina get my windows XP working ingame 😦

[eager steppe]

maybe this could be a layer issue..? If you're using SpriteRenderers or, UI, Canvas, something maybe force the OrderOfLayer up?

[rigid island]

idk how would layers fix it .. I think its something to do with overring the cursor lockstate somehow.. not sure why

[eager steppe]

I'm not quite sure. Unless you're setting the activity of your cursor with the cursor lockstate, maybe it could help..?

[eager steppe]

basically sometimes Unity just acts weird if stuff is on the same layer sometimes. I don't know I've always just had to seperate a bunch of my objects in layers otherwise issues just happen

[rigid island]

my canvas is in WorldSpace which is why i had to get a custom FPS input module because it doesn't like events for UI when cursor is locked

[heady iris]

upgrades it to windows 11

[rigid island]

that would be a "downgrade" 🤣

who knew OS would eventually be spyware and bloatware

[eager steppe]

why does Windows 11 constantly catch strays, this is crazy 💀

after initial bloatware uninstall its fine :c

i hate this engine

[heady iris]

i'm a certified microsoft defender

kind of

but this is irrelevant lol

[rigid island]

macos > linux > windows

but seriously its so frustrating having to fight the engine's poor design for this stuff ..

[knotty sun]

you missed cpm > macos

[eager steppe]

Does anyone know why using Scale is just... being weird?

Basically, I use two arrows to change the scale OR position of a target. It depends on what mode I'm currently in. The axis I use are X and Y.
I also use 1 ring on the Z axis to change the rotation of the target.
This is the scale function, which works correctly if I haven't changed the rotation of the target:

void EditScale(Ray camRay, float planeDist)
{
    // Calculate the change in mouse position
    Vector3 currentMousePosition = camRay.GetPoint(planeDist);
    float delta = currentMousePosition.y - initial.y; // Use the y component for vertical movement

    // Calculate the scale factor based on the mouse movement
    float scaleFactor = 1f + delta * ScaleMultiplier; // You can adjust the multiplier based on your preference

    // Apply the scale based on the axis
    if (axis == Axis.X)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(initial.x * scaleFactor, Thing.transform.localScale.y, Thing.transform.localScale.z);
    else if (axis == Axis.Y)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(Thing.transform.localScale.x, initial.y * scaleFactor, Thing.transform.localScale.z);
    else if (axis == Axis.Z)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(Thing.transform.localScale.x, Thing.transform.localScale.y, initial.z * scaleFactor);

    // Update the initial position for the next frame
    initial = currentMousePosition;
}```

[rigid island]

a relic!

[eager steppe]

However, if i rotate it, using this function:

void EditRotation(Ray camRay, float planeDist)
{
    // Calculate the change in mouse position
    Vector3 currentMousePosition = camRay.GetPoint(planeDist);

    // Calculate the rotation angle based on the change in mouse position
    Vector3 oldDelta = initial - Thing.transform.position;
    Vector3 newDelta = currentMousePosition - Thing.transform.position;
    float delta = Vector3.SignedAngle(oldDelta, newDelta, Vector3.forward);

    // Apply the rotation based on the axis
    if (axis == Axis.Z)
    {
        Thing.transform.Rotate(Vector3.forward, delta);
    }

    // Update the initial position for the next frame
    initial = currentMousePosition;
}```

Then, it just stops working. After rotating, if i try to drag an arrow, it just goes to the opposite side of the object. Here's the visualized issue:

[eager steppe]

tf is CPM, clicks per minute OS?

[rigid island]

its like a 70s OS

[knotty sun]

children

[eager steppe]

im fifteen leave it be 💀

[knotty sun]

small child

[eager steppe]

it isnt even my fault. i like old things

like uh

ok no its not old but its annoying because its old

assembly

6502 assembly specifically

[rigid island]

< big child at 30 🥲

[eager steppe]

i cannot imagine being thirty years old. it just sounds like something that just happens

[rigid island]

its all downhill from there xD

[knotty sun]

nah

[rigid island]

we get wiser but our body hates us

[spring creek]

Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputer

[eager steppe]

CPM is just task manager?

[knotty sun]

CPM is what drives your windows computer if you did but know it

[eager steppe]

vroom vroom?

is tht not TPM? or am i thinking of the other thing that my computer just randomly has for no reason at all

[spring creek]

No, it is not TPM

[rigid island]

Having to lock a player just to control UI in FPS will be so ugly... why can't unity just allow this to work..

[winter gale]

https://youtu.be/qQDM8AX8mOY?si=pTV4qSjosPmtMG5H how do i make something like this? the exact same thing. no modifying stuff nothing. just the exact same. im planning on making the entire rhythm heaven (i mean does anyone even know that game..?) saga in unity.

[rigid island]

hopefully better music..

[winter gale]

yeah there is better music

quality

https://youtu.be/GKXnLggZ6g4?si=h-DKNXLwy_J8URMR

and also better sprites

[rigid island]

same shitty song but remastered

lol

[winter gale]

yea

this game is on all versions on rhythm heaven

lemme show you the best one

[rigid island]

find a way to match the BPM

[eager steppe]

Rhythm Heaven is complex, but its indeed doable. And in a less annoying fashion than Nintendo's shitty engine

[winter gale]

https://youtu.be/JErtGVTioPc?si=KPkjSozF2lQyOl5O

[rigid island]

or use an audio analyzer and get the frequencies to determine where you want the hits (usually peaks like Kicks or Snares)

dynamic games do similar when you have custom tracks (ie AudioSurf, BeatHazard)

[eager steppe]

create an animation that throws objects out

spawn the objects on 60/(bpm) (and if you want, multiply that value by 1, 2, 3 or 4 to wait a certain amount of beats per throw)

but this is super important, minus the time it'll take to get to the player too, so that it'll get to the player on TIME

[winter gale]

im not like an expert or anything im sorta a beginner

so i dont understand stuff

just send a tutorial

[rigid island]

#💻┃code-beginner

[winter gale]

yeah ik

i thought this was for any type of unity gamemakers sorry

anyways lets move there

[rigid island]

I guess would it be better just raycasting onto a collider on screen to determine if you're on UI interaction and only then enable the FirstPersonInputModule ?
Seems like ugly workaround , if anyone knows a better way I'd love to hear it

[neon plank]

In Unity 2022, how can I get the current NavMeshLink that an NavMeshAgent is traversing?
The NavMeshAgent.currentOffMeshLinkData.owner is only available in >= 2023. In 2022 there is NavMeshAgent.currentOffMeshLinkData.offMeshLink but that is for OffMeshLink, bot NavMeshLink. ¿How do I get the second one?

[carmine gust]

why am I just now getting this, and how can i remove collab?

fixed

[somber nacelle]

not a code issue, but the answer is to stop using collab and switch to plasticSCM instead (or some other version control)

[carmine gust]

yes i knew that

i just forgot how to get to collab settings to remove it

[somber nacelle]

was your google not working?

[carmine gust]

couldnt find a solution

found it on my own

none of these helped

[somber nacelle]

next time don't skip the first result that tells you how to turn it off form the Services window

but this is still not code related

[carmine gust]

mb

[calm talon]

how would you instantiate a gameobject at the point of a particle colliding with a gameobject in the scene?

[rigid island]

OnParticleCollision

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

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

[calm talon]

I've tried something like this:

    private void OnParticleCollision(GameObject other)
    {
        List<ParticleCollisionEvent> pColls = new(); 
        system.GetCollisionEvents(other, pColls);
        for (int i = 0; i < pColls.Count; i++)
        {
            GameObject acid = Instantiate(acidPool, pColls[i].intersection, Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward, pColls[i].normal));
            acid.transform.parent = gameObject.transform;
            acidPools.Add(acid); 
        }
    }

however the code ends up killing performance

[rigid island]

well

you're creating a new list every particle collision

thats already huge garbage

and also how many particles do hit ?

[calm talon]

I've got it set to 30 total

[rigid island]

btw see how unity caches the list

[calm talon]

can't you just do

public List<ParticleCollisionEvent> collisionEvents = new();

[rigid island]

yes

try cache first then keep iterating and profiling

also check how many are hitting

one time I had a blood splat that would draw decals on each splat, I ended up making thousands for some reason because forgot to delete once it hit

[lean sail]

if this alone is killing performance, then you probably have more than 30 particles or 30 things being spawned

[rigid island]

and also pool your acidPool (funny sounding)

dont use Instantiate

if you want perfomance

[calm talon]

pool?

[rigid island]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-object-pooling

[last raven]

is it possible to make custom audio effects that I can add to mixer groups?

I know I can add effect to source with OnAudioFilterRead but is it possible to do with mixer group like built-in effects

if I want to apply effect to all sources in a mixer group

[cosmic rain]

Perhaps. But it might require writing it in C++

https://forum.unity.com/threads/does-unity5-support-to-build-my-own-audio-effect-plugin.276841/

There's another result that seems promising if you Google custom dsp effects for unity.

[last raven]

seems like another thing that unity promised and never delivered because I can't find anything other than onaudiofilterread

unity native api doesn't seem to have anything other than some really basic stuff

[solemn bridge]

Hey guys. I am trying to position a line renderer the same origin and direction as my raycast. When the child object of the VR rig is at 0/0/0 it lines up correctly as you can see in the image (the blue line inside the green line is the ray being logged). However, when the object moves up and down the the line stays the same but the ray moves up. Does anyone know why this is happening? Here is my code.

[tough gulch]

i need help with an error, heres the error I need help with

[spring creek]

Ok, is it from an asset (i assume this is the case)? Did you make the class?

[tough gulch]

no

its not from an asset, its just one script by its own

[spring creek]

One script by its own can be an asset, but ok. I assume you mean you created the script.
Open the script, do you see a namespace?

[tough gulch]

yeah

[spring creek]

You're really making it hard to help lol.
Yeah what? There is a namespace?

Can you show the script maybe?
Show where the error is coming from? Do you have errors in the compiler?

[tough gulch]

no there is no errors in the compiler

and yes there is a namespace

[spring creek]

"Can you show the script maybe?"
Screenshot the ide, don't crop it at all

[tough gulch]

ok

[spring creek]

Do you have FaskIKFabric anywhere in your own scripts?
If you do, do you have using FastIKFabric; at the top?

[tough gulch]

no

[spring creek]

Well, without getting complete information, all I can say is that either there are compiler errors, or you are trying to use FastIKFabric without using the namespace.
The file name and class name seem to match, and that is all I was able to confirm

[leaden ice]

the line renderer needs positions.
You're giving it a position and a direction

an appropriate position here would be like:
returnPosition.position + returnPosition.forward * 5

[solemn bridge]

I figured it out and that is exactly what i did tahnks 😄

[quartz folio]

this isnt unity
Then it shouldn't be in this Discord

[ionic ruin]

just figured this was extremely general code and game-dev code specific. if you feel like it somehow is not productive, feel free to remove it i guess.

internet mods are wild in their reasoning skills

[quartz folio]

yeah it's wild that the Unity discord only takes Unity questions

[rigid island]

Anyone know why my texture comes out black?
:\

    if (newTex == null)
        newTex = new Texture2D(renderTexture.width, renderTexture.height, TextureFormat.RGBAFloat, 8, false);
    Graphics.CopyTexture(renderTexture, newTex);
    met.mainTexture = newTex;```

I was reading here its the better way to grab texture from Rendertexture since it lives on GPU
https://forum.unity.com/threads/rendertexture-readpixels-getpixel-shortcut.1103338/#post-7101430

[quartz folio]

Is the RenderTexture marked as isReadable?

[rigid island]

Random Write?

[hexed pecan]

enableRandomWrite = true; when you create it

[hexed pecan]

Yeah that

Random Write in the inspector

[rigid island]

I tried it, still doesn't put RT on texture :\

[craggy veldt]

happens on android only ? try change the depth stencil format to D16-something(forgot which one)

[rigid island]

no I'm not on mobile

didn't do much though

[craggy veldt]

yeah, thought it was android, had similar issue awhile back and that fixed it

[rigid island]

not sure what I could be doing wrong :\

[hexed pecan]

Try with 0 (or -1) mipmaps just to see if that affects anything

And some other texture formats like RGBA32

Though it looks like it should work

[rigid island]

tried both, same result

i read 3 threads and all said the same, I just copied

yeah basically If i change color formate I get this

then i have to go on this thread I found that tells me each format group 😆

https://forum.unity.com/threads/run-into-error-graphics-copytexture-d3d11-base-formats-src-9-dst-27.1169033/

[hexed pecan]

I have used this, try itcs public static Texture2D RenderTextureToTexture2D(RenderTexture renderTexture) { RenderTexture activeOriginal = RenderTexture.active; int w = renderTexture.width, h = renderTexture.height; Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(w, h, renderTexture.graphicsFormat, 0); // I had 'Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(w, h);' but you probably need the format here RenderTexture.active = renderTexture; tex.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, w, h), 0, 0); tex.Apply(); RenderTexture.active = activeOriginal; return tex; }

[rigid island]

I will try it. I was just wary because of that thread said ReadPixels is expensive since it has to put data from gpu back to cpu

[hexed pecan]

Yeah it's probably not very fast, I used it to save a rendertexture to a texture2d as a sub asset

So it needs to be on CPU

[rigid island]

I was going to use it almost every second or less continiously :\

[hexed pecan]

Try it just to test, maybe it will give some clues on what's wrong

[rigid island]

will do!

[rigid island]

would this be it ?

   private Texture2D RenderTextureToTexture2D(RenderTexture renderTexture)
   {
       RenderTexture activeOriginal = RenderTexture.active;
       int w = renderTexture.width, h = renderTexture.height;
       Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(w, h, renderTexture.graphicsFormat, 0); // I had 'Texture2D tex = new Texture2D(w, h);' but you probably need the format here
       RenderTexture.active = renderTexture;
       tex.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, w, h), 0, 0);
       tex.Apply();
       RenderTexture.active = activeOriginal;
       return tex;
   }
   private void Start()
   {
       newTex = RenderTextureToTexture2D(renderTexture);

       yield break;
   }```

[ionic ruin]

the code is nearly identical to what it would be in a unity script, and the problem it solves is very common for beginners to face in unity. it harms no one and is relevant enough that it can only be helpful. a reasonable person would go "yeah that's not exactly unity, but anyone doing unity game dev could benefit from looking at it or give a solution that could help unity users reading it.". It is weird for you to be so fussy about this

there are not many game dev servers

thats why i went here for help

[hexed pecan]

Something like that, see my comment tho, not sure if that line is right, I just edited it blindly

Or replace the format with whatever you want

But try that first and see if its still black

[rigid island]

still black

[ionic ruin]

stanford prison experiment

[rigid island]

it worked for you with render texture?

[hexed pecan]

Yes but I create my rendertextures from script

[rigid island]

Ahhh..

the Start method

it don't likie

put it in Update and it works

so maybe the other thing works too..

wow..cannot believe it was this simple..

2 hours gone

ty @quartz folio @craggy veldt @hexed pecan
apparently It needed to be in at least Update and not Start..

[hexed pecan]

Makes sense, Start runs before Update so your RTex hasn't rendered yet

[rigid island]

yeah still getting familiar how the gpu renders 😅

[hexed pecan]

You could probably just WaitForEndOfFrame from Start and then do the texture copy

So that it renders first

[rigid island]

crazy cause it was a Coroutine start and that woul've been perf

[quartz folio]

To be clear, you can make Start a coroutine

[rigid island]

Oh yeah I had it like that but changed to void after thought coroutine was messing with it

[quartz folio]

Oh, sorry, misread

[rigid island]

all good !

really intellisense..??

you couldn't tell me this 2 hours ago

wtf happening

[storm thorn]

Hello! just asking if I save via player prefs, do I need to save it on firebase too? or other database

[rigid island]

if you want like cloud save or something?

[leaden ice]

what are you trying to accomplish

[storm thorn]

yes, we have login and registration via firebase but have used player prefs for coins and shops, will it be saved for specific user who have logged in?

[storm thorn]

or should I connect the player prefs saves on the authentication?

[leaden ice]

playerprefs is saved locally on the device

[rigid island]

you should keep that stuff in server if you don't want it messed with (coins and shops )

[leaden ice]

if you want it somewhere else, it needs to go somewhere else

An online game with currency definitely needs to save currency in the cloud somewhere

[storm thorn]

What if we don't have an online purchase? but just simple shop where the user can change their characters if they buy

[leaden ice]

it's entirely up to you

if you care about cheating etc

it's your game

[storm thorn]

Their bought characters when they log out, will it still be there when they logged back in? or the number of coins they have

[leaden ice]

That's entirely up to you and your code

and where you store the data

[storm thorn]

We only store it via playerprefs

[leaden ice]

then it will persist as much as playerprefs does

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

[storm thorn]

okay! Thank you so much! 😊

[crimson trellis]

Anyone knows how to fix? It only print ok good 1 and line 41 have a null reference

T is Touch

Does that mean Touch cannot be stored as object?

[fervent furnace]

i tried to cast list<int> to list<object> in online compiler and it gives error directly, i dk why in your case your code still run....

[leaden ice]

The as operator returns null when the cast is not valid

Whatever that thing is it's not a baseTUI<object>

[fervent furnace]

it even give out an error, and i have no idea why his code doesnt result on any exception

[glass fossil]

This looks like a console app mixed with unity.

[quartz folio]

Where's the Unity part...

[dense swan]

Hello, I'm trying to make Steam Achievement. but it said Steamworks is not Initialized.

The error is inside function TestIfAvailableClient()

InvalidOperationException: Steamworks is not initialized.
Steamworks.InteropHelp.TestIfAvailableClient () (at Assets/com.rlabrecque.steamworks.net/Runtime/InteropHelp.cs:34)
Steamworks.SteamUserStats.GetAchievement (System.String pchName, System.Boolean& pbAchieved) (at Assets/com.rlabrecque.steamworks.net/Runtime/autogen/isteamuserstats.cs:72)
AchievementManager.Start () (at Assets/__Source/Scripts/AchievementManager.cs:76)

I already have steam running, logged in with account that has the game, edit steam_appid.txt

what else do I miss?

[rigid island]

more info is needed.. like did you wait for it to be initialized before doing something

[dense swan]

ehh no. It was on Start() and it was the first scene. I'm trying to get achievement with Steamworks.SteamUserStats.GetAchievement(genericNames[id], out bool local_AchievedStatus);
how do I wait? are there callback from steam that will tell me if it's ready?

[rigid island]

show how you Init

[dense swan]

I think i didn't... initialize anything.. (?)
This is the only script that ever touches Steamworks related thing in the entire project.

[rigid island]

hmmm well I'm not sure why are you attempting to use Steamworks.SteamUserStats.GetAchievement without initializing the client

[dense swan]

hmm.... looks like it's because I'm a lazy idiot. I was following this tutorial but missed the part that said attach the SteamManager script to a GameObject in your starting scene.

[rigid island]

you got it working ? 😛

i just usually look at the documentation

[dense swan]

I'm not sure if it's working yet, but it doesn't throw error anymore.

I usually also look at documentation but for some reason I didn't do that this time. Probably because I got intimidated by this, and then proceed to find tutorial to hold my hand.

I'll read this for now. Thank you for the reminder. Now I'm gonna go hit myself with a broom.

[peak raptor]

Hello, I have a code block as follows.
Everything is working correctly but "ConnectionApprovalCallback" is never called, what could be the reason?

NetworkManager.OnClientConnectedCallback += OnClientConnectedCallback;
NetworkManager.OnClientDisconnectCallback += OnClientDisconnectCallback;
NetworkManager.OnServerStarted += OnServerStarted;
NetworkManager.ConnectionApprovalCallback += ApprovalCheck;
NetworkManager.OnTransportFailure += OnTransportFailure;
NetworkManager.OnServerStopped += OnServerStopped;

[knotty sun]

A) Don't Cross Post
B) How on earth do you expect a sensible answer based only on that information?
C) #archived-networking

[peak raptor]

A) Okey

Also, my question is very logical. Each delegate works, one does not work, these delegates are related to each other.

[lean sail]

https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/connection-approval/
you are supposed to assign it, not add to the delegate

[primal wind]

Is there a way to load an AudioClip without a coroutine? I need to load a .ogg on disk and i want to do that through a function to make it easier to use, doesn't matter if the game freezes for a bit

[maiden junco]

you could use tasks instead of coroutines

async void Start()
{
    // build your absolute path
    var path = Path.Combine(Application.dataPath, "Audio", "sounds", "myAudioClip.wav");
    
    // wait for the load and set your property
    CurrentClip = await LoadClip(path);

    //... do something with it
}

async Task<AudioClip> LoadClip(string path)
{
    AudioClip clip = null;
    using (UnityWebRequest uwr = UnityWebRequestMultimedia.GetAudioClip(path, AudioType.WAV))
    {
        uwr.SendWebRequest();

        // wrap tasks in try/catch, otherwise it'll fail silently
        try
        {
            while (!uwr.isDone) await Task.Delay(5);

            if (uwr.isNetworkError || uwr.isHttpError) Debug.Log($"{uwr.error}");
            else
            {
                clip = DownloadHandlerAudioClip.GetContent(uwr);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception err)
        {
            Debug.Log($"{err.Message}, {err.StackTrace}");
        }
    }

    return clip;
}

[primal wind]

That could work, thanks

[ocean river]

where can i find good c++ plugins? i want to try to avoid using unity's physics

[solid chasm]

@ocean river

[ocean river]

ah

i was actually advertising my own question

[solid chasm]

lol

[solid chasm]

you know what happens anyway?

[ocean river]

lemme read the code then

[solid chasm]

ok

[ocean river]

so is this script activated when you want to change skin or something

cause that script will only execute once if it starts

[solid chasm]

yes it activated when change skin

when i click here

[ocean river]

oh ok
im not too intermediate myself just saying

[solid chasm]

I'm new on code

[ocean river]

maybe try doing Debug.Log() and see if it even reaches that code

[solid chasm]

okay let me see

[solid chasm]

ye it logs

[ocean river]

damn

so its the code in start not working or that function

[solid chasm]

debug its here

idk if good here

[ocean river]

sorry cant help you with 2d or playerprefs

[solid chasm]

Okay

[ocean river]

but that means enableselectcharacter is disabled

[solid chasm]

isnt activated?

[ocean river]

yeah idk try changing it i guess

[cold egret]

• I'd like to get the logarithmic rolloff curve from audio source without having an instance of audio source. I.e. some way to make one on the fly, through a constructor or a static method. Anything on this?

[ocean river]

bezier curve? no idea

[eager steppe]

Hey y'all, I have an issue where, after rotating the object with the circle, trying to scale it up with the arrows gives a weird 'flipped' result.

I don't know if it is because my calculations are weird, but this is what I'm experiencing:

This is the function to scale up, and this is put on a script that is on each arrow:

void EditScale(Ray camRay, float planeDist)
{
    // Calculate the change in mouse position
    Vector3 currentMousePosition = camRay.GetPoint(planeDist);
    float delta = currentMousePosition.y - initial.y; // Use the y component for vertical movement

    // Calculate the scale factor based on the mouse movement
    float scaleFactor = 1f + delta * ScaleMultiplier; // You can adjust the multiplier based on your preference

    // Apply the scale based on the axis
    if (axis == Axis.X)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(initial.x * scaleFactor, Thing.transform.localScale.y, Thing.transform.localScale.z);
    else if (axis == Axis.Y)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(Thing.transform.localScale.x, initial.y * scaleFactor, Thing.transform.localScale.z);
    else if (axis == Axis.Z)
        Thing.transform.localScale = new Vector3(Thing.transform.localScale.x, Thing.transform.localScale.y, initial.z * scaleFactor);

    // Update the initial position for the next frame
    initial = currentMousePosition;
}```

Let me know if you need more code, but I'm bad at math and honestly don't know why this is happening 🥲

[heady iris]

Don't you want to measure mouse movement along the direction the scale handle points in?

You're measuring vertically

also, you're using initial.x, initial.y and initial.z when calculating the scale

that doesn't make any sense

[ivory pasture]

how would i make a draggable object, collide with a rb2d, but not move the rb

[heady iris]

so you want the object to get stuck on objects, but not be able to actually push them

[ivory pasture]

yes

[heady iris]

I think 2D physics let you control whether rigidbodies apply force on a per-layer basis

I'm pretty sure I saw that before, at least..

[open charm]

Does Queue have a contain function?

[heady iris]

ah yes

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Collider2D.html

[open charm]

sceneQueue.Contains(selectedScene)

like does this work

[heady iris]

is there a reason you can't just try it? sounds like you already have a queue :p

[open charm]

Ye i am

But im trying to find the return value rn

And like how to make it work so I thought id find like those site that contain the functions parameters

But I cant find one for some reason

[heady iris]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.queue-1.contains?view=net-8.0

here's the documentation

For C# stuff that isn't Unity-specific, the Microsoft .NET documentation is what you want

One thing to watch out for is that some stuff only exists in newer versions of .NET

ones that Unity doesn't support yet

In this case, it's fine; this class has existed for ages

but I know that PriorityQueue isn't available to use in Unity, for example

(very different from a regular Queue)

[heady iris]

I think you should be recording the cursor position when you started scaling the object

and also record the original scale

then, every frame, compute the delta and use that to compute a scale factor

and then set the current local scale based on that delta and the original scale

[open charm]

public string SelectRandomScene()
{
    string selectedScene = null;

    while (selectedScene == null || sceneQueue.Contains(selectedScene))
    {
        selectedScene = PlayMaps[Random.Range(0, PlayMaps.Count)];
        print(selectedScene);
    }

    Enqueue(selectedScene);

    return selectedScene;
}

public void Enqueue(string value)
{
    if (sceneQueue.Count >= maxQueueLen)
    {
        sceneQueue.Dequeue();
    }
    sceneQueue.Enqueue(value);
}

Sorry Im having a bit of a fever rn and maybe my brain is not braining but is there smth in my code that might cause an infinite loop

sceneQueue always starts with one element inside and the maxQueueLen is vurrently at 2 so Enqueue shouldnt break anything

And rn there is no error

It just freezes the game

[fervent furnace]

always bound the loop if you are not sure

[open charm]

bound?

[fervent furnace]

int iteration=100;
while(true&&--iteration>0){
  work;
}

[open charm]

oh ok

[heady iris]

basically, give up if it's stuck

[open charm]

Ye let me try it

[heady iris]

I would suggest logging whatever is going on

[open charm]

Ok so i found out whats the issue

But im not sure why it is

For some reason sceneQueue.Contains always returns true even if the element I randomly selected is not in there

[pliant sapphire]

Hi guys, I have a dialogue system in my game for npcs and it works like when distance is 2.5m or less and I press E it should pop up dialogue according to NPC Im talking to but for some reason distance keeps being 0 and when I press E it doesnt do anything. Here is DialogueManager script: https://hastebin.com/share/izoziwepew.csharp and here is NPC script: https://hastebin.com/share/ulaxoyekak.csharp

[heady iris]

have you actually logged the contents of the queue?

[open charm]

Yes I found out why

another group member used the function elsewhere

So it caused an infinite loop since currently we have 2 maps only

And they both got loaded into queue

[heady iris]

Yeah, you should add a safeguard for that

If the number of available maps is less than or equal to the number you want to keep in the queue, throw an error

[swift falcon]

What's the most efficient logic for when a menu has for example 14 items but only 10 buttons, when you scroll above the max number of buttons all the buttons change the item they hold. Like an inventory

[maiden lodge]

Vivox is an offical unity package tough

[icy herald]

I'll need to add some force along the rigidbody x-axis to the player for wall jumping, but my code for acceleration and deceleration is interfering with this. Any ideas?

Full code. I'll trying to do this with AddForce function, but that shit doesn't want to work

[hexed pecan]

You can use a cooldown/timer that activates when you walljump. When that timer is active, don't override your velocity

If you still want some control while the walljump timer is active, you can use AddForce, or velocity with MoveTowards

[pliant sapphire]

does anyone know what is causing this when I try to move my player? I think its because of rigidbody but Im not sure...Here is FPS controller script and video so you guys can see better whats happening:https://hastebin.com/share/tupiyoyezu.csharp

[hexed pecan]

Send video in mp4 so we can view it in discord

[pliant sapphire]

problem is that this video screen recorder only lets me record in wmv

no option for mp4

[hexed pecan]

@icy herald It's not very complex, have you made a timer before?

[icy herald]

yep, but i think there is a much better solution for this

[hexed pecan]

What's that?

[spring creek]

There is not as far as I know. You can apply current velocity, but that has issues
You need to halt setting velocity in order for the addforce to work. A timer would do that. You could do a coroutine as the timer too.
If you have better solution, use that I guess

[pliant sapphire]

I can describe whats happening if u dont want to install video if u would like?

[hexed pecan]

Sure

You should describe it even if we see the video

[pliant sapphire]

okay sorry

[hexed pecan]

What issue do you see with this way of doing it?

[pliant sapphire]

so when I press any key to move(W,A,S,D) my character doesnt move he leans in that direction and he will then eventually fall...here is a pic when Im holding W:

[hexed pecan]

Rigidbody inspector -> Constraints -> Freeze rotation X+Z

[swift falcon]

• how to get ITilemap

Argument 2: cannot convert from 'UnityEngine.Tilemaps.Tilemap' to 'UnityEngine.Tilemaps.ITilemap'

[pliant sapphire]

thanks it works

[fading cobalt]

How do I deserialize json files with overlapping brackets?

[rocky helm]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.ITilemap-ctor.html

[hard viper]

is there a way to make a tile sprite by composition? Like a tile which is the sprite for two tiles overlaid on each other?

[spring creek]

Yeah, we gave that to them already. They are on 2021 which doesn't have that

[rocky helm]

Alright

[icy herald]

And I said I would find the best solution =D. I'll just use a variable to control "isWallJumping" and if it's equals true - just stop invoke movement method.
also i used another jump method for jump button holding, to use another x force and y force

[spring creek]

Lack of understanding on our part due to lack of clarity on yours.
Yours is an event based timer essentially. We didn't know the purpose of the addforce 🤷‍♂️

[icy herald]

yep, another time i would add more info for my requests

[round violet]

i got a question, but first : "does anyone knows php ?", if yes my question could be more easily understood

in php you can evaluate something and choose bewteen two "things" depending of the result

somevar ? takeThisIfTrue : takeThisIfFalse

is there something similar in c# ?

[knotty sun]

exactly the same

[round violet]

oh

great :D

ty

[fervent furnace]

ternary operator

[round violet]

yes it is, i didnt know it existed in c#

in some languages i had to make a function to imitate its behaviour

[dusk apex]

But it isn't as simple as a ? b : c

[hexed pecan]

Seems like the same thing that was suggested but you use a bool instead of a float timer.

[round violet]

tell me

[dusk apex]

You'd want an if statement over a ternary if that was your only goal. Ternary was meant to be used as var d = a ? b : cwhere there is a need for a return value

[round violet]

i would like to use it inside a new vector to avoid making many lines

[hexed pecan]

Yeah, you can use it in a vector constructor

[icy herald]

yep, and using bool instead of a float timer much times better =D

[round violet]

because depending of a enum im switiching what value to pick

[dusk apex]

Single line statements shouldn't be a goal but since you're using the return value, it'd be fine.

[hexed pecan]

When do you set the bool to false?

[round violet]

its also for my brain

but ty for the tip

[eager steppe]

Found my issues with the stupid scaling thingy just a second ago after actually reading my code :3

Okay, does anyone know how to calculate the mouse delta, relative to the current axis i'm moving, while also relative to the current rotation of the obejct?

For example, this is an object at 0 on the Z, and the blue arrow is facing the right way. I can calculate the delta correctly on the z using:

if(axis == Axis.X)
delta = currentMousePosition.x - initial.x;```
But as soon as i go 180 on the Z, the blue arrow faces the left way. The delta is still being calculated correctly, but I know that I need to invert the delta.

I don't want to hardcode this every 90 degrees, as this would just be inaccurate. So... how would I handle this?

[icy herald]

true then im jumping, and false in all other, like if grounded, if roof above him and if jump button released

[hexed pecan]

(The empty lines you edited in just made it harder to read IMO)

[eager steppe]

sorry i just don't like sending super huge chunks that are easy to get lost in 🥲

[round violet]

transform.position = new Vector3(
                                            (_movement == SpeedTextMovement.playerX ? _player.transform.position.x : transform.position.x),
                                            (_movement == SpeedTextMovement.playerY ? _player.transform.position.y : transform.position.y),
                                            transform.position.z
                                 );

this was the goal
(a lot of other things will be added in the futur so rn its quite simple

[dusk apex]

Should probably avoid comparing floating point values

[round violet]

?
its an enum

[dusk apex]

0.1f == 1f/10f can yield false

[round violet]

well SpeedTextMovement is an enum so i am not comparing floats ?

[eager steppe]

wait, Unity doesn't apply Mathf.Approximately to the comparison? weird

[dusk apex]

Unless playerX and playerY were assigned said values specifically and not calculated.

[dusk apex]

Pretty sure it's for vector comparison and not float

[hexed pecan]

It's an enum apparently

[eager steppe]

I see what you mean, I did the exact same thing and everyone was freaking out that I was comparing floats 🥲

[eager steppe]

i would never compare floats. I don't know in what situation I would ever need to do that anyway

[dusk apex]

Ah, the naming convention got me..

[round violet]

how do you guys name an enum ? just curious

or is it the "speed" that made you thought it was a float

[hexed pecan]

_movement really doesn't sound like an enum either

[dusk apex]

if (fish == Fish.Catfish)
    ...```

[knotty sun]

In this case Horizontal and Vertical

[round violet]

i give you that

[eager steppe]

I have one for determining what Axis a certain script moves

so using Axis.X, Axis.Y and Axis.Z makes everybody cry

[round violet]

i wanted to keep it short for know

[hexed pecan]

Could use a Dir/Direction suffix or something
Nvm that could be a float as well lol

[eager steppe]

when really, I just don't want to compare strings. I want to use fancy dropdowns in the editor.

[round violet]

well this script is for my eyes only so if i can understand it im fine ig

[heady iris]

Unity can't. float isn't a data type provided by Unity.

[dusk apex]

Every call to the position property of Transform will return a new Vector 3. An alternative to this is to cache and modify a single Vector 3 then reassign it back using the position property.cs var position = transform.position; if (_movement == SpeedTextMovement.playerX) position.x = ... if ... position.y = ... transform.position = position;

Could probably cache to bool results for x and y as well and avoid any of the operations above.

[rigid island]

Anyone know this, for some reason Reading Colors on my new texture made from RT is not working(only reads 1 color and its gray?)
Any ideas what could be the issue ?
The colors are properly read on my other color texture

https://hatebin.com/gwuoemeakc

[heady iris]

GetPixelData returns raw data

It's not decoded into a Color

[rigid island]

Sorry I don't understand, wdym

this one?

[heady iris]

I'm pretty sure you can use any type you want -- I see you picked Color32 there

It's possible that's the wrong type for your texture

[rigid island]

its a TextureFormat.RGBAFloat, is that different ?

[heady iris]

Definitely

Color32 is 8-bit RGBA

So you're trying to reinterpret 32-bit floats as bytes

It'll give you gibberish

Color might work

since that's RGBA 32-bit floats

[rigid island]

ah shoot

I see

[heady iris]

So it would work fine with RGB8 images

maybe

those aren't RGBA

[rigid island]

unfortunatly var pixelData = newTex.GetPixelData<Color>(0);
just give me black

same 1 element tho

[heady iris]

Color might not be a valid choice at all

[rigid island]

is there anyway to convert this texture to rgb8

[heady iris]

So which texture is being read from there?

The one on the left?

[rigid island]

sorry yes, the one on the left is the Texture I made from Render texture

   newTex = new Texture2D(
       renderTexture.width,
       renderTexture.height,
       TextureFormat.RGBAFloat,
       0, false);

   Graphics.CopyTexture(renderTexture, newTex);

[heady iris]

Try asking for floats and see if the values make any sense

[rigid island]

if I dont put RGBAFloat there CopyTexture gives mismatch error so thats not an option

[heady iris]

so this is not the render texture you're copying from

that's just a texture you had that works correctly

[rigid island]

I meant the one on the left

sorry

ahh wait..Maybe this ?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.ConvertTexture.html

[heady iris]

That would let you change the format, yeah

If you want to keep using Color32, that's your way

RGBA32 SFloat should be four 32-bit signed floats

(big!)

yeah, 128*128*16 is 262KB, and I guess mipmaps add some extra size

[rigid island]

so i would need to use sfloat ?

[heady iris]

If you want to use Color32, convert it to whatever has been working for you so far

[heady iris]

I'm a little unsure about interpreting RGB8 as Color32, though.

I suspect that's going to give you the next pixel's red channel in the alpha

[rigid island]

hopefylly nothing gets smashed xD

[heady iris]

then the next entry in the native array will be GBRG, then BRGB, then RGBR, ...

GetPixelData doesn't care what the actual encoding is, AFAIK

It just reinterpets the memory as whatever type you give it

That's why you got this funny color

[rigid island]

Ahh

[heady iris]

is this really correct either?

notice the random alpha values

the order also doesn't make sense to me

[rigid island]

yeah the alpha noticed were strange

but maybe cause im only using 1 of the pixel and prob grabing an edge where its like Filtered or some weird effect in unity

like Filtering

[heady iris]

If you just want color data, without worrying about the format, use GetPixels

[heady iris]

or you ran out of bounds

but that should throw an error

Actually, did you calculate an offset into that big 9-color image?

Oh yeah, that's exactly what happened

Notice how dark gray has a low alpha

Red has 100% alpha

Green has 0%

You interpreted RGB8 data (3 bytes per pixel) as Color32 (4 bytes per pixel)

there might have been enough extra space for that to work out mostly correctly

[rigid island]

did i have to ? all the code I did is in the link

[heady iris]

oh, right, you sent code

🫠

okay that makes sense

I was wondering how you didn't go out of bounds at the end

[heady iris]

So you grabbed RGB from one pixel and R from another pixel

and interpreted those four values as RGBA

[rigid island]

[heady iris]

Is there a reason you can't just use GetPixels?

It's slower, I guess

but that would get around this hackery

[rigid island]

is this wrong format?

     var newtex = new Texture2D(
         renderTexture.width,
         renderTexture.height,
         TextureFormat.ETC2_RGBA8,
         0, false);```

[heady iris]

I don't know a lot about texture formats tbh

TextureFormat.RGB24 sounds like it would match your existing data

[rigid island]

I think thats what I was reading, because i need to preform this action at least once a second or less

[heady iris]

but you're also interpreting the existing data wrongly

so it's a wash lol

you could make structs that store either bytes or floats in the correct order

you might need to add attributes to make the compiler respect the layout you specify

[rigid island]

I was gonna do the hacky way and just put all their alphas to 1 xD

[heady iris]

then you could ask for pixel data in the appropriate format

[heady iris]

Depending on the image size, this could cause a bunch of other garbage colors to appear

imagine you get to the border between two colors and you're not aligned correctly

public struct ColorRGB {
  public byte red;
  public byte green;
  public byte blue;
}

[rigid island]

I'm mainly trying to average these colors if thats makes sense

[heady iris]

I forget the attributes you need to force this to be laid out exactly as specified in memory

haven't done that before

of course, reinterpreting the colors yourself is probably just as expensive as letting Unity do it

although, I guess you can avoid allocating an array

[rigid island]

yeah these colors thing is confusing as hell

[heady iris]

well, you're trying to directly interpret texture data

and there are a lot of ways to store texture data

just remember that you will not get an error for using the wrong data type with GetPixelData

[rigid island]

because it takes nativearray?

[heady iris]

well, not strictly

but it is true that NativeArray is a way to directly expose native memory to your code

It only works with unmanaged types, because you don't have the C# runtime keeping track of references and stuff

It's like reinterpreting a char * as an int * in C

same memory, different view

[rigid island]

would be better if I just use ReadPixels?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TextureFormat.html
im trying to read through these but its just getting more and more confusing lol

[heady iris]

i'd just use GetPixels and profile it

interesting: you can't use GetPixels on a crunch-compressed texture

[rigid island]

will do that actually

[rigid island]

hmm any reason why I would get 90000

public static Color[] ReadPixelColors(this Texture2D texture)
{
    Color[] cs = texture.GetPixels();
    for (int i = 0; i < cs.Length; i++)
    {
        cs[i].r = cs[i].a;
        cs[i].g = cs[i].a;
        cs[i].b = cs[i].a;
        cs[i].a = 1.0f;
    }
    return cs;
}```

I can't even scroll it crashes the window editor xD

[twin sigil]

I have a problem with my AI movement system. I recently rewrote my movement system to physics based, because when I moved the characters with transform they bugged across obstacles. I solved this issue with physics but when I have a lot of characters instantiated the game instead of lagging, gives higher speed to all characters moving with physics. Does anyone knows how to fix this?

//Update
private void Update()
{
    //Get All Enemies
    List<GameObject> enemies = new List<GameObject>();
    enemies.Clear();
    Component[] humanoids = Humanoids.GetComponentsInChildren<Component>();

    foreach(Component hum in humanoids)
    {
        if (hum.gameObject.CompareTag("Enemy"))
        {
            enemies.Add(hum.gameObject);
        }
    }

    //Get The Closest Enemy
    if (enemies.Count != 0)
    {
        Target = enemies.OrderBy(enemy => Vector3.Distance(transform.position, enemy.transform.position)).FirstOrDefault();
        Vector3 TargetDirection = (Target.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;

        //NewPosition
        Vector3 newPosition = lastPosition;

        //Move Towards Target (Physics)
        newPosition = TargetDirection * Speed * Time.deltaTime * 100f;

        if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, Target.transform.position) > 1f && Vector3.Distance(transform.position, Target.transform.position) < 30f)
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector3(newPosition.x, rb.velocity.y, newPosition.z);
        }
        else if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, Target.transform.position) >= 30f)
        {   
            animator.SetBool("IsMoving", false);
            return;
        }

        //............

        //LastPosition
        lastPosition = newPosition;
    }
    else
    {   
        animator.SetBool("IsMoving", false);
    }
}

[hard viper]

my unity build caps frame rate to 60 FPS. is there a way for me to get some metric to see how much time is left between frames in dev build?

[solemn bridge]

Unity Profiler

[hard viper]

profiler works in build?

I thought it was unique to editor mode?

[solemn bridge]

Why does it need to be in build

the same delays will be in editor

[rigid island]

it does

[solemn bridge]

Do you want it capped at 60?