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round violet
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ty, ill test rn

fervent furnace
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btw do you know what is layoutkind.explicit? (if you know that then you will understand why i am using this)

knotty sun
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use string.SubString

round violet
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and the link with the second one

i still need OnDrawGizmos

leaden ice
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You can add them but the result is not string it's char

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Basically like adding their ASCII values

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Substring is what you want here for sure

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Or use a StringBuilder and Append them to it

fervent furnace
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you can have a queue of type IDraw, then when you dequeue in ondrawgizmos, the queue returns you and IDraw and you call IDraw in Ondrawgizmos

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just command pattern

round violet
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im a bit lost, i'll do some research around queuing and dequeuing

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ty for the htlp

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okay i understand

fervent furnace
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you can have a other data structure eg stack to do this, if you will process all the requirement at one ondrawgizmos call, you just need something to store all the commands before ondrawgizmos processes them, queue guarantees first in first out.

round violet
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i create a empty queue,
then when doing my usual code, i add what i need inside the queue

inside OnDrawGizmos i dequeue all elements and do what is needed

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ty for the help, i really appreciate it

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i just got one question, i cant find the proper sythax to init a queue, all i found is this line of code in a old post

private var textQueue = new Queue.<int>();
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but in VS i get a synthax error

fervent furnace
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the .

round violet
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weird, it was in the post,and it wasnt a mistakes

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well now all i good, ty

craggy veldt
# knotty sun use string.SubString

not quite sure if string.Concat(ReadOnlySpan<char>), available in NS 2.1, if it is available, use that instead of Substring and you'll get almost zero alloc

string test = "QWERTYUIWERTYU";
string fastString = string.Concat(test.AsSpan(10), "- DoDoDo -", test.AsSpan(0, 5));
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pretty neat

round violet
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how can i queue the method, and not the return value ?

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for know i got this


public interface IDrawCustom
{
    void DrawSphere(Vector3 position, Color color);
}


public class LevelGenerationManager : MonoBehaviour, IDrawCustom
{
    public void DrawSphere(Vector3 position, Color color)
    {
        Gizmos.color = color;
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(position, _sphereSize);
    }
    Queue<IDrawCustom> _drawingQueue = new Queue<IDrawCustom>();

    _drawingQueue.Enqueue(DrawSphere(_startPoint, Color.green)); // error because cant convert "void" to "IDrawCustom"
leaden ice
round violet
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what do you mean by this ?

leaden ice
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It's the object that implements the interface that you enqueue

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Not the method

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To enqueue a method you would need to have a queue of delegates

round violet
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i still cant make it work with delegate
i get some types conversion error

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how do you do a delegate with params ?

knotty sun
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public interface IDrawCustom
{
    Vector3 position { get; set; }
    Color color { get; set; }
    void DrawSphere();
}
...

Vector3 position {get; set; }
Color color { get; set; }

public class LevelGenerationManager : MonoBehaviour, IDrawCustom
{
    public void DrawSphere(Vector3 position, Color color)
    {
        Gizmos.color = color;
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(position, _sphereSize);
    }
    Queue<IDrawCustom> _drawingQueue = new Queue<IDrawCustom>();
    position = _startPoint;
    color = Color.green;
    _drawingQueue.Enqueue(this);
round violet
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okay so instead of having position and color as params you set them as properties of the interface (and so class)

rose coyote
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I'm using a ruleTile that has tiles set in a TileBase

code:

                    var t = oreTable.GetRandomItem();
                    if (t.id == 0)
                        groundTileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), groundTile);
                    else
                        groundTileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), t.tile);
                }

As you can see the auto tile rule doesn't understand there's a tile a single tile not part of its tilebase at a neighboring coordinate.

a) is there a way to have the ruleTile adjust if it finds any tile is found (aka not one part of the ruleTile rules?
b) is there a way to have some tiles in the ruleTile [let's say either in the TileBase or perhaps palette - these two terms might not be accurate] that aren't involved in the actual rule. e.g. i'm 99% sure that the following code wouldn't work but something like this:

groundTileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), groundTile TinOreTile);

Thanks!

image.png
knotty sun
round violet
# knotty sun exactly

how am i suppose to dequeue to execute drawsphere ?

doing _drawingQueue.Dequeue(); doesnt do anthing

leaden ice
round violet
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so i save it and exec ?

leaden ice
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Then you can call DrawSphere on it

knotty sun
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IDrawCustom custom = _drawingQueue.Dequeue();
custom.DrawSphere();
round violet
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okay ty

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but is saving each time a instance of LevelGenerationManager a good idea ?

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because this will runtime the entir game

knotty sun
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it's just a reference to it not the whole thing

round violet
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okay so it doesnt load all vars, etc ?

knotty sun
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no

round violet
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its not like casting in UE

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ok ty

knotty sun
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man you need to learn some basic C#

round violet
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there is always something to learn, i cant learn all then go write
i prefer taking a wall a few times and the rest of the time enjoy writing code

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but yes this looks pretty basic c#

fervent furnace
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cpp is much much harder than c#

knotty sun
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the correct sequence is Think->Google->Read->Code->Ask

round violet
knotty sun
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then I guess the 'Read' part could use some work

round violet
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but sometimes articles, docs or forums text and examples are not understandable for me, so i have to go test coding or ask here for different/detailed explaination

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i do my best, i try to not ask in here

knotty sun
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it's actually amazing how hard it is to get C# to really crap out

round violet
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is the draw of gizmo depending of the instance of a class ?

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the drawn spehere is cleared after half a sec

errant pollen
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Hi Pals,
I'm a beginner with some experience in coding. I would like to know what's the best way to create a simple 2D board game like Rummikub with draggin cards feature and having a board which allow to placement from the player hand board the cards?

hard viper
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there is a lot of steps to that tbh. i think that is way beyond the scope of a simple discord message

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you’d need to define the board, the hand, the pieces, and movement. For each, you need the representation of a data structure, logic to do what needs to be done, and the graphics.

dense swan
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hello, I wanted to create feature to type to cheat similar to how GTA san andreas done it. By pressing a sequence of letters.
What would be the best way to do it? The only thing I can come up with is by doing Input.GetKeyDown for every single buttons. But that doesn't sound very nice. What would be more sophisticated method?

knotty sun
dense swan
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I think I can do the sequence. What I'm not sure how to do is reading the input.

knotty sun
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same way you would get any input

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you could loop on an array of valid characters

late lion
dense swan
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hmm... very well then. I guess I have no other choice.
I did plan on doing that. But looping array every frame just for a cheating feature made me feel dirty.

Or do i not have to do that every frame?!

sleek wharf
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hi can someone help me with this script? in this script i basically have an input field which i can type phone numbers in it (and i can configure the numbers in the inspector) the problem is, no matter what number i type it gives me the invalid number audioclip. i also setted up a debug log to tell me which number i typed and it always appear to be blank. sorry for my bad english. can someone explain me this? thanks in advance

https://gdl.space/icojolugis.cs

fervent furnace
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i have no idea what the language is(i guess the meaning throughout the script)
are you serializing the argument in inspector and the value is ""?

sleek wharf
sleek wharf
fervent furnace
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public void AggiornaNumeroInComposizione(string nuovoNumero)
```are you setting this function to be listener of some event in inspector?
sleek wharf
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like this

image.png
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the Segreteria Audio means the invalid number audio

fervent furnace
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no, i am asking you is this function are some eventlistener eg onendedit,, sounds like you set some function with string parameter to be eventlistener and the parameter is serialized, then the inspector passes a empty string when the function is called

steep herald
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i have the multi-instanced class "foo" that registers/deregisters the given instance to a certain registry. This is done in OnEnable/OnDisable magic methods.
I have class "bar" that instantiates "foos", and then initializes the foos.

My goal is that "bar" can initialize data within each foos prior to the OnEnable call.

Right now, bar has the instantiation call followed by the initialization call. However, OnEnable in the foo class is called before the initialization. So it registers itself but it registers itself with the wrong data.

Can I somehow fix this whilst preserving registration in OnEnable?

late lion
late lion
steep herald
noble hedge
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Architecture question here - I'm using a species scriptable object to store data for each of the different species of creature in my game. Data range from things like which meshes and textures the creature uses, through to stats such as the character controller's maximum acceleration and speed. Some species are sexually monomorphic, whereas others are dimorphic. I'm currently using inheritance to solve this; a 'SpeciesType' scriptable object instance might hypothetically be something like a deer, a tortoise, a humming bird or a banana slug, and would contain nested classes like 'MeshData' and 'StatBlock', so I've made a 'DimorphicSpeciesType' that extends SpeciesType and overrides each accessor for constituent data with one that looks through two fields instead of one, and then returns the correct one based on the individual character's sex, which is provided using dependency injection. This works, but my problem is that there's a huge amount of waste here (mostly in terms of wasting my time), particularly with regards to setting up a new species. For example, suppose I create a new instance for a mallard duck, where sexes are visually distinct, behaviourally a little distinct, but in most statistics are functionally the same - putting two sets of data into the first two categories makes sense, but then is just doubling up on pointless data entry for the stats as I'd just end up writing the same number twice over and over again (increasing likelihood of making an error and making me very bored). I could obviously split each of the nested classes into scriptable objects themselves which use the same inheritance trick, but then I have a project full of a bazillion scriptable object instances. I could go further by using an extendable scriptable object for each individual datum, kinda like a static variable I can pass around, but having a project with literally tens of thousands of instances of those, sounds like the same nightmare but worse. Is there a better option?

rose coyote
heady iris
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Think of it more like a query filter.

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consider the duck case

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you'll have two sets of attributes for male ducks and female ducks

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Each should have a "filter" associated with it that determines if it's relevant

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You pass in a big blob of qualities your creature has

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and the filter returns true if every quality it cares about matches

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I can see one major problem here: it'd be possible to have a list of blocks that isn't complete

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e.g. if you only included the female duck attributes, then you'd have a problem if you plugged in a male duck

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none of the attribute sets would match

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You could try to prove that you cover all cases (this sounds hard), or you could just fall back to a default choice and log a warning.

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Once you have many attributes, you could also make things fuzzier than "it all matches" or "something didn't match"

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like picking the attribute set with the highest score, where you get a high score when your qualities are good matches with the filter

limpid siren
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Hey guys !

Im having troubles trying to do the first commit of a Unity project because it has large files, anyone able to do a quick voice chat for me to show the issue? i have tried to install the LFS as well 🫡

heady iris
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people aren't going to join a voice chat. but they will have the answer for you!

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You probably don't have a .gitignore in your project

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so Git is trying to commit everything in your project, including stuff like the Library folder

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which is stuffed to the gills with cached files

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uh oh, github threw a 500 at me

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there we go.

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You will want to have this in the root of your project. It'll make Git ignore everything that doesn't need to be tracked

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(rename it to .gitignore)

normal arch
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for some reason these scripts are causing a problem that should not be occurring and i don't know why

// in other script
public void CorrectColliders()
{
    foreach(Collider2D col in colliders)
    {
        HeightCollider colHeight = col.GetComponent<HeightCollider>();
        colHeight.dynamicColliderHeightLevel = colHeight.startingColliderHeightLevel + (int)entityHeight;
        if(colHeight.startingColliderHeightLevel + (int)entityHeight == 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("something went wrong");
        }
        colHeight.ChangeHeightLevel();
    }
}
// in HeightCollider script mentioned above
public void ChangeHeightLevel()
{
    HeightManager.heightManager.levels[currentColliderHeightLevel].Remove(col);
    HeightManager.heightManager.levels[dynamicColliderHeightLevel].Add(col);
    currentColliderHeightLevel = dynamicColliderHeightLevel;
}

The CorrectColliders() function is called in the update method, and as you can see in the if statement that has the debug, it's checking if some variables add up to 0. I'm debugging this because for some reason, the colliders are being added to list 0 when they shouldn't be, for seemingly no reason. I can get if this could be confusing; there is a lot of stuff going on here.

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need a bit of help

dense pond
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Hi everyone, i'm stucked by problem that i can't find exactly how to solve. Im using service locator pattern. And i need every service to be registered at OnEnable and unregistered at OnDisable. I don't want to write it everytime just the same code. My static ServiceLocator class uses generic T where T : IService and actualy it's our service object. Now here is the question, can i make an abstract class or another component which will be registering this services, and for which one i actually won't need to write code for specific service but just for any component that i inherrit from IService?

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Spescifing the question:
I see two ways to solve it, both with questions:

  1. Creating component that will register any kind of IService, the question here is how to make GetComponent<IService> returning class inherited from IService (as generic).
  2. Change IService to a class, where will be OnEnable and OnDisable methods and register them in that class, then inherrit any service from that class, th eproblem is how to get the type of the class there.
heady iris
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I wonder if you've put the same object into it multiple times

normal arch
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i don't think that's part of the problem though, it doesn't change what's in the levels

heady iris
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but you said things are being added to levels[0] even though dynamicColliderHeightLevel is non-zero, right?

normal arch
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yes

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important thing to note this only happens when i'm "jumping" and also on a platform at the same time

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you might need the code for that stuff too

heady iris
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is this for platforms you can jump through from below?

normal arch
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no

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i'm in a top down 2d game with an artifical height system

heady iris
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ah, I see

heady iris
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isn't it changing what's in the levels incorrectly?

heady iris
normal arch
normal arch
heady iris
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if(colHeight.startingColliderHeightLevel + (int)entityHeight == 0)

were you intending to log something different from

colHeight.dynamicColliderHeightLevel = colHeight.startingColliderHeightLevel + (int)entityHeight;

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oh wait, I misread

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it's a bit hard to parse :p

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Make sure you don't have "collapse" turned on in your console, by the way

lean sail
terse pier
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Hey Ho! I have 2 types of Projectiles, one that shoots at a direction and one that shoots towards a position and acts once it gets there, from there on out many more types come out (For example a sniper as normal projectile and a rocket as targeted projectile) I have thought about using abstract classes, but the only thing the projectiles have in common are that they come from an owner and do an action once interacted with. Maybe interfaces work better with this but I am just unsure, would appreciate it if any of you could help me on this!

heady iris
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that would make it seem like only one thing ever logs

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I see no reason for this to put objects in the wrong list

normal arch
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i've discovered that it only does this if i'm jumping as i said before

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and if the player's floor height, (basically where gravity stops) is above zero

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i can show you the code for that stuff if it might help

heady iris
normal arch
heady iris
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Your problem is that you're seeing things added to levels[0] when you think they shouldn't be added to levels[0]

dense pond
normal arch
heady iris
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Which is why you have that log statement -- to check if the value is actually 0

normal arch
heady iris
normal arch
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no

heady iris
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then something else is calling ChangeHeightLevel() or something else is manipulating the list

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I would suggest logging in ChangeHeightLevel instead of in the thing that calls it

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or attaching a debugger to find out exactly who is responsible

dense pond
lean sail
normal arch
knotty sun
# normal arch no

this is exactly the same code you posted yesterday, it would appear you have done nothing to debug the problem yourself

dense pond
lean sail
lean sail
tawny elkBOT
heady iris
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otherwise you're only proving that it holds in some circumstances

dense pond
normal arch
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public void ChangeHeightLevel()
    {
        HeightManager.heightManager.levels[currentColliderHeightLevel].Remove(col);
        if(dynamicColliderHeightLevel == 0)
        {
            Debug.Log("something went wrong");
            return;
        }
        HeightManager.heightManager.levels[dynamicColliderHeightLevel].Add(col);
        currentColliderHeightLevel = dynamicColliderHeightLevel;
    }
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it doesn't do this if it isn't there

heady iris
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on what line?

normal arch
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on the 3rd line

heady iris
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if(dynamicColliderHeightLevel == 0) ?

normal arch
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where it tries to remove the collider

heady iris
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ah

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i can't count

normal arch
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i'm going to remove the return because that shouldn't change anything from how it was before

heady iris
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Perhaps that's because it returns early and doesn't set currentColliderHeightLevel

normal arch
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and see what comes up

normal arch
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which is really confusing

heady iris
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Perhaps you were calling ChangeHeightLevel once before Start ran

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It's hard to say anything without understanding all of the moving parts here, and the order they run in

normal arch
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nvm

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that's weird

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it's not throwing the nre anymore

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well it still apparently is never 0

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i debugged the actual value of dynamicColliderHeightLevel and it was only ever equal to 0 when it was supposed to

lean sail
terse pier
dense pond
lean sail
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Otherwise theres no use of the abstract class

latent latch
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gotta be careful with a recursive design that you don't endless spawn them

dense pond
lean sail
latent latch
lean sail
dense pond
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for example i have
public class CrystalManager : MonoBehaviour, IService
{
public Action onAdd;

private int _crystalCount;
public int Crystals => _crystalCount;

#region IService
private void OnEnable()
{
    ServiceLocator.RegisterService(this);
}

private void OnDisable()
{
    ServiceLocator.UnregisterService<CrystalManager>();
}
#endregion

public void AddCrystals(int crystals)
{
    _crystalCount += crystals;
    onAdd?.Invoke();
}

}

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i want to remove IService region from here

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i want this region of code to be uniform for any kind of service

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not depending on is it CrystalManager or something else

latent latch
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the implementation seems fine to me honestly

lean sail
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I dont see what the issue is, you can just directly make an abstract class and this will work as expected

dense pond
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won't it register abstract type, just the exact CrystalManager or smth else?

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okay i'll try again, if i'll have issue i'll show it

west lotus
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Im confused on why you want a single IService interface the whole idea is to have a interface per service

latent latch
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man I suck at understanding what people try to do with generics since I question my own practices

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what I'm not getting is why you care about type if you're storing them as a single interface implementation

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you should just have method call implementations on the interface

dense pond
dense pond
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how can i get type of class that is inherrited from Service inside Service?

west lotus
dense pond
west lotus
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Then you dont have to register the concrete class

dense pond
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for example here I have the same code again
public class CardManager : MonoBehaviour, IService
{
public Transform cardRoot;
public GameObject player;
public Action onDeactivate;

private List<GameObject> _currentCards = new List<GameObject>();

#region IService
private void OnEnable()
{
    ServiceLocator.RegisterService(this);
}

private void OnDisable()
{
    ServiceLocator.UnregisterService<CardManager>();
    StopAllCoroutines();
}
#endregion
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i want to make registration uniformly not depending on service specification

scarlet viper
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Oh man i have no idea how a certain object is spawning

  • i failed to find its prefab
  • failed to find instantiation in code
    is there any way to check?
dense pond
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i wanna it to be just one time and it need to work for every Service that the idea

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and i can't find how to do that

latent latch
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oh let me think about that

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yeah may just need an abstract layer

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that's generic itself

dense pond
latent latch
latent latch
# dense pond do you have any ideas how to implement that? 
public class ServiceHandler<T> : where T : ServiceBase
{
    T Value { private set; get; }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        ServiceLocator.RegisterService(this);
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        ServiceLocator.UnregisterService<T>();
    }
}

public abstract class ServiceBase { }
public abstract class CrystalHandler : ServiceBase { }

public class Test
{
    ServiceHandler<CrystalHandler> crystalHandler = new();
}

This is my idea without interfaces and using an abstract base, but it requires everything to inherit from ServiceHandler. Still not sure why you register by instance but Unregister by type.

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Rather, you want to do one or the other, but I assume if it's a singleton you want to register and unregister by the instance

dense pond
dense pond
latent latch
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probably another way I can think of with interfaces but that's with covariance and honestly way overkill

dense pond
dense pond
dense pond
steady moat
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Could you have not have use

public abstract class Service<T> : MonoBehavior where T : Service<T> {}

...

public class MyService: Service<MyService> {}
dense pond
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thanks

lean sail
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Oh a lot has been said between when i last opened this, ignore me

lean sail
low fox
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hi. does anyone know how to check for collisions while inside an Ienumerator?

hard viper
abstract mesa
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You mean using Physics.Raycast() instead of something like OnCollisionEnter()?

low fox
abstract mesa
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There are also sphere,box, and capsule casts if you need a shape instead of a ray

upper pilot
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    private Vector3 RandomPositionInBounds(Bounds bounds)
    {
        return new Vector3(
            UnityEngine.Random.Range(bounds.min.x, bounds.max.x),
            UnityEngine.Random.Range(bounds.min.y, bounds.max.y),
            1
            );
    }

I am trying to figure out how to set this up.
Any ideas?
My bounds are -0.25 to 0.25 on X axis
Inspector:
https://i.gyazo.com/517de3d6d610992eb743671b0ca8859e.png

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I am trying to create an Enemy spawner that spawns them at a random position inside this box.

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Ignore me, the issue was that I was spawning from a wrong collider 😄

lean sail
lean sail
upper pilot
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I was worried that everything I do is broken lol, but luckily its always just my mistake ;]

hard viper
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unless you actually want a collider, you might want to just define the region, btw

upper pilot
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I removed scale and simply resized the collider

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I should try a region

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Whats a region tho?

hard viper
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use a gizmo to draw the box

upper pilot
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I dont understand

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You can draw using gizmo in editor?

hard viper
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like, you just have a bounds or something that defines the area in space. and then you have a gizmo to show it when you are in editor

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yes

upper pilot
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Can you link docs?

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I cant find it

hard viper
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rather, your code can display the contents of the fields of a monobehaviour as a gizmo

upper pilot
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That seems complicated

hard viper
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depends on how much you use it

upper pilot
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Is it better than just using a collider to get a box?

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I made collider to be "isTrigger", I can even make it ignore collision with a 2d matrix

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Tbh I cant find a good way of making a spawner like system, previously I used a camera bounds for it(I might do the same again)

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camera.x + camera.width + 1

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random(0, camera.height)

hard viper
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it’s lighter. a collider interacts with physics system. it has a whole lot of variables involved, and gets involved in physics queries until it gets filtered.
….or you just keep 2 vectors to represent a box. and display it in editor

undone prism
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does anyone have a clue why the raycast isnt shooting in the Jump function? i have no clue why but the input (so the "gets input" print) is triggering when it is supposed to but the raycast then doesnt always run for some reason.

📎 movement_question.txt
somber nacelle
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!code

tawny elkBOT
undone prism
lean sail
somber nacelle
undone prism
lean sail
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Did you read the bot message?

undone prism
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yea dont get what u need to do i guess thats my problem srry

lean sail
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Look at the large code section

somber nacelle
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i feel like they are only reading part of each message and ignoring the rest considering i even pointed out the "instead of uploading it as a text file" so they go and upload it as a text file again

lean sail
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I think discord auto makes it a txt file when the text is long enough, but im on mobile so cant really see if that's the case

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Doubt they were dragging it in as a file

somber nacelle
undone prism
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k so i hope i am doing it good this time around srry i have never used the discord like this. so the problem is at line 126 where it doesnt trigger for some reason https://gdl.space/ukabosobax.cs

somber nacelle
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it will only print the "Shoots raycast" log if the raycast actually hit anything. if it doesn't hit anything then only "gets input" would be printed. of course your logs are fairly useless since they are not printing any useful info that would tell you why your raycast isn't hitting anything

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you should also consider drawing the raycast with Debug.DrawRay so you can see where it actually is

undone prism
somber nacelle
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if it hit something then it would log "Shoots raycast" since it isn't logging that then it isn't hitting anything

hard viper
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Bounds2 is a 2D Bounds, and it has a method to draw a gizmo pertaining to the region

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to use it, in your Monobehaviour, you need to define a function called OnDrawGizmosSelected() and use it there.

unreal temple
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Hey Lloyd, just going back to this issue now. Excuse the delayed reply. Do you know how to disable signing from Unity, or remember how you've done it in the past?

heady iris
#

i've had code signing problems when trying to do an IL2CPP build on macOS, but I don't think I've seen that exact one

hoary mason
#

has anyone used DialogNodeBasedSystem

#

i don't know how to put text from a variable into the text here

#

it uses TMPro if that helps

lean sail
hoary mason
#

i'll probably check that yeah

lean sail
#

Assigning the text of a text mesh object is easy, but to assign a value to that node depends entirely on how the dev made it

hoary mason
#

though either way, in general is there a way to do that through TMPro? Like, something like "you have [Player.health] HP"

lean sail
#

You would assign it to the .text of your text mesh thing

hoary mason
lean sail
hoary mason
lean sail
hoary mason
#

i should check on that

lean sail
#

Any inspector versions though will suffer if you change the variable names, not really sure if theres a good workaround for that. I would say making a good system like this would require a decent amount of knowledge already

lean sail
hoary mason
#

issue is, the person who made the tool did basically no documentation

#

and by basically I mean literally just a 3 minute video

rigid sleet
#

it looks like xnode

#

its fairly simple to extend if its that

hoary mason
#

it's DialogNodeBasedSystem

rigid sleet
#

open source or not?

hoary mason
#

yeah it is

rigid sleet
#

yeah looks extremely straight forward

#

look at what SentenceNode is doing and extend it

#

This looks a tad barebones tho

#

There might be better options out there

hoary mason
#

yeah just grabbed a free one that had start/end of dialogue events

# 
        {
            base.Draw(nodeStyle, lableStyle);

            GUILayout.BeginArea(rect, nodeStyle);

            EditorGUILayout.LabelField("Sentence Node", lableStyle);

            EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            EditorGUILayout.LabelField($"Name ", GUILayout.Width(lableFieldSpace));
            sentence.characterName = EditorGUILayout.TextField(sentence.characterName, GUILayout.Width(textFieldWidth));
            EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            EditorGUILayout.LabelField($"Text ", GUILayout.Width(lableFieldSpace));
            sentence.text = EditorGUILayout.TextArea(sentence.text, GUILayout.Width(textFieldWidth), GUILayout.Height(textFieldHeight));
            EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            EditorGUILayout.BeginHorizontal();
            EditorGUILayout.LabelField($"Sprite ", GUILayout.Width(lableFieldSpace));
            sentence.characterSprite = (Sprite)EditorGUILayout.ObjectField(sentence.characterSprite,
                typeof(Sprite), false, GUILayout.Width(textFieldWidth));
            EditorGUILayout.EndHorizontal();

            GUILayout.EndArea();
        }```
#

here's the code for how it does the text

rigid sleet
#

no, this is the code that creates the node

#

I was checking the asset and I think this is quite literally meant for just dialogues with no variables

hoary mason
#

do you have recommendations for ones that can use variables?

steady pilot
#

Has anyone used the Fish-net asset before? If so, what was your experience like with it? I've watched a ton of videos on it and having no max for CCU seems really interesting for a smaller scaled 2-4 player project.

rigid sleet
hoary mason
#

thanks, may try that

hoary mason
rigid sleet
#

no releases usually mean that the repo itself is the package

#

just download the repo as a zip

hoary mason
#

aah

#

do i put it on packages or would it be anywhere

whole garden
#

is it better to use unity nodes or to code every lines ?

hard viper
cosmic rain
hard viper
#

oh you mean visual scripting? visual scripting is for peasants

#

for the unwashed masses, if you will

cosmic rain
#

*designers😬

hard viper
#

no sane human being would look at a mess of nodes and say “yeah. this is better than just writing a script”

#

and sail off into the sunset

rigid sleet
#

Visual scripting is really good for some things

#

you dont wanna handle your physics on there tho

cosmic rain
#

I don't mean to offend any designers. I mean that it was the purpose of visual scripting in the first place afaik.

hard viper
#

the closest thing is for shaders, where the programming language allowed for shaders is like a caveman language

cosmic rain
#

Wether it serves that purpose well, is a different question.

hard viper
#

“Ug no like if statements. loops confuse Ug.”

rigid sleet
#

Visual scripting is extremely good for some workflows yeah

#

We made an entire puzzle system based on nodes that to us was at least in the order or 100 to 200 times faster than making those same puzzles be entirely pure-code driven

hard viper
#

“Ug not have black black for variable. Ug wife connect Ug bone toys with glowy fire stick”

rigid sleet
#

its not even a designers thing, visual scripting is coding

hard viper
#

Graphics buffer make Ug coworker big mad

hoary mason
#

one question

#

is there any way I could make it to turn something like the value "Player.HP" into the code reading it as "Player.HP"

rigid sleet
#

that library has exposed parameters

#

you should be able to just plug that in with a scriopt

hoary mason
#

how can i use smartstrings btw

#

as in, is it a package or something like that

heady iris
rigid sleet
#

Counterpoint: No human wants to deal with a step based workflow that you gotta repeat 1000 times without some kind of visual workflow

#

I wasnt a fan of visual programming until we had to code 100 puzzles which extremely basic but yet well defined sequence of actions

#

a node approach made us able to attack each puzzle in less than a few minutes

heady iris
#

Oh yeah, it works fantastically for more specific problems

#

I think it just falls apart if you’re trying to do general purpose programming

#

It’s great for DSLs

#

I hadn’t thought of that specific application before!

rigid sleet
#

yeah it falls apart for a lot of things

#

it really shines for work based approaches

#

decision trees, sequences etc

#

for example, this is a basic puzzle in TS

image.png
hoary mason
#

ok so

hoary mason
#

unity didn't really recognize the packageg

#

so yeah kinda back to square one about finding a dialogue system that can read variables

rigid sleet
#

it is not a package

#

you put this in your assets

hoary mason
#

oh thought the com. meant it was a package

rigid sleet
#

thats just the namespace

hoary mason
#

and it even has a package.json

rigid sleet
#

let me open an empty project and see if I can get it to work

#

just put it in your assets

hoary mason
#

aaah never noticed the graph tab

#

hopefully this one can read variables

#

thanks

rigid sleet
#

it does and doesnt, you gotta do it yourself

#

but its fairly straightforward, the code is super clear

hoary mason
#

what do you mean by that?

#

by the does and doesn't part

hoary mason
#

idk if that's really what I'm looking for but I guess it can sorta work?

#

since I'd have to write extra code for every variable I'd want to input

#

also it doesn't have any way to go from one node to another without it being a choice, which is just weird

rigid sleet
#

if you are looking for a fully featured system that does all of this for you there are very good paid assets in the store

hoary mason
#

yeah i'd probably have to check there

#

tbh all I want is being able to use variables

rigid sleet
#

having a single script that handles exposed properties should be trivial to implement

hoary mason
#

I tried doing it like this in the first one I was using, but didn't really work

# 
            dialogNameText.text = name;
            dialogText.text = text;

            dialogText.text =$"{dialogText.text}";```
somber nacelle
#

dialogText.text =$"{dialogText.text}"; is basically the same as doing dialogText.text = dialogText.text;

rigid sleet
#

this also completely ignores the underlying problem

#

this system all it does is whenever it launches, it replaces every single variable in the blackboard by the value set in the blackboard

#

what you wanna do is, externally, replace the blackboard values with whatever variable value you wanna replace

#

you do that from the parser script

#

and need custom code to do it, its your job now to figure out how to exactly do that and to what extents

hoary mason
rigid sleet
#

the sane solution to this problem is to use an interface or base class with virtual methods, then use these to retrieve the data

# 

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Sirenix.OdinInspector;
using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using Subtegral.DialogueSystem.DataContainers;
using UnityEngine.Events;

namespace Subtegral.DialogueSystem.Runtime
{
    public class DialogueParser : MonoBehaviour
    {
        [SerializeField] private DialogueContainer dialogue;
        [SerializeField] private TextMeshProUGUI dialogueText;
        [SerializeField] private Button choicePrefab;
        [SerializeField] private Transform buttonContainer;

        public SerializableDictionary<string, MonoBehaviour> testEvent;
        
        private void Start()
        {
            var narrativeData = dialogue.NodeLinks.First(); //Entrypoint node
            ProceedToNarrative(narrativeData.TargetNodeGUID);
        }

        private void ProceedToNarrative(string narrativeDataGUID)
        {
            var text = dialogue.DialogueNodeData.Find(x => x.NodeGUID == narrativeDataGUID).DialogueText;
            var choices = dialogue.NodeLinks.Where(x => x.BaseNodeGUID == narrativeDataGUID);
            dialogueText.text = ProcessProperties(text);
            var buttons = buttonContainer.GetComponentsInChildren<Button>();
            for (int i = 0; i < buttons.Length; i++)
            {
                Destroy(buttons[i].gameObject);
            }

            foreach (var choice in choices)
            {
                var button = Instantiate(choicePrefab, buttonContainer);
                button.GetComponentInChildren<Text>().text = ProcessProperties(choice.PortName);
                button.onClick.AddListener(() => ProceedToNarrative(choice.TargetNodeGUID));
            }
        }

        private string ProcessProperties(string text)
        {
            foreach (var exposedProperty in dialogue.ExposedProperties)
            {
                //Get value from  dictionary instead
                var obj = testEvent[exposedProperty.PropertyName];
                var val = obj.GetType().GetField(exposedProperty.PropertyName).GetValue(obj).ToString();
                text = text.Replace($"[{exposedProperty.PropertyName}]", val);
            }
            return text;
        }

        
    }
}

just a quick proof of concept I used a dictionary of variable names and monobehaviors and retrieve the variable value with reflection, but as a I said dont do this its dirty af lol

sharp rose
#

Wont play any audio in game, its attached to an object with an audiosource and everything is dragged to where its supposed to be

Screenshot_2024-01-10_225644.png
#

and the function is also being called because the couroutine runs

shell scarab
#

is there a symbol that is defined only when the application is built? something like #if BUILD?

somber nacelle
shell scarab
somber nacelle
#

then use the UNITY_EDITOR one. you know you can invert them with !, right?

shell scarab
#

no I did not, I thought preprocessors aren't affected by operators

somber nacelle
hot quest
#

or is my AI giving me old outdated unity approaches

somber nacelle
#

it is against server rules to get help with AI generated code. and no, that is most certainly not anywhere near the best way to get input for movement

hot quest
somber nacelle
hot quest
#

OK. I will make sure not to mention the word AI next time.

somber nacelle
#

you should write a comment in your code to remind yourself not to

hot quest
#

if that one is outdated

somber nacelle
#

it's not outdated it's just bad

lean sail
somber nacelle
#

it does not normalize the input so moving diagonally is faster than moving on one axis. and it checks each key individually instead of using something like GetAxisRaw

hot quest
rigid sleet
#

best way to get input for movement highly depends on the type of game tbh

lean sail
#

yes

rigid sleet
#

if you are just doing a local 1p game just make a singleton manager and poll for inputs there

hot quest
#

I'm not asking about conceptual design, I just mean like what API is the recommended one

rigid sleet
#

new input system, bit of a PITA in the ass to set up but its pretty decent

#

old input if you want something more straightforward but less versatile

#

external solutions like Rewired if you want high OOB compatibility and no pain to set up

#

pretty much all work

somber nacelle
#

also keep in mind that the context of the question (which was now deleted) was about using Input.GetKey for each WASD

rigid sleet
#

to be completely honest I can see some situations where that might work, but yeah 99% of the time you set up those as axis'es instead

hot quest
#

yeah im just wanting to learn the recommend professional one

#

so ill watch a few videos on new input system

rigid sleet
#

yeah safe bet

cold egret
#
  • How can i check whether the static batch utility combine method has actually worked or not?
south violet
#

Is there a way to find a constant position and rotation offsets between gameobjets in hierarchy?
Each of gameobjects in hierarchy has different position and rotation.
Parent2, Parent1 and Child have their own constant localPosition and localRotation, so they wont be changed in time.
Whereas Parent3's rotation and position changes each frame.
I'd like to find constant offset in position and rotation between Child and Parent3
Hierarchy:

image.png
rigid sleet
#

That sounds like you don’t want hierarchy :p

south violet
#

They should be in hierarchy since its like hmm a drone lets say. He is the top parent where Camera is bottom child and its mounted with certain offset to drone center, but it wont move or rotate in its axises, but still should change its world position and rotation due to drone movement and rotation

rigid sleet
#

Is there any reason you need this constant offset ? The setup you are describing is not quite making sense to me, I would need to understand the use case

#

Said constant offset only exists if the movement and rotation are both constant

south violet
#

I just wanted to kinda reflect reality. With these offsets I would be able to "move and rotate" bottom child in its coordinate system to achieve top parent's position and rotation

stone ember
#

Hello! How can I have a 2D perlin noise that could 'transform' (I think it's called phasing) and loop around. I have this code now:

private void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.C) || updateEveryFrame)
    {
        UpdateColors();
    }

    if (selfAnimate) phase = Mathf.Repeat(Time.time, 1.0f);
}

void UpdateColors()
{
    foreach (SpriteRenderer leaf in leaves)
    {
        leaf.color = leafColors.Evaluate(
            noise.cnoise(new float3(leaf.transform.position.x, leaf.transform.position.y, phase))
        );
    }
}

But there's a noticeable snap when the phase value goes back to 0. I couldn't find anything online that would do this.

mild coyote
#

Why does this has OnAttackHit is null on WeaponHit but is not null on AttackEnd?
It's seem to be null when called from other class

    public void WeaponHit(AttackDirection attackDirection)
    {
        //this prints "Hit UP OnAttackHIt == null? true
        Debug.Log($"Hit {attackDirection} OnAttackHIt == null? {OnAttackHit == null}");
        OnAttackHit?.Invoke(attackDirection);
    }

    void AttackEnd()
    {
        //this prints "Hit UP OnAttackHIt == null? false
        Debug.Log($"Hit {direction} OnAttackHIt == null? {OnAttackHit == null}");
        if(!weaponHit)
            OnAttackMiss?.Invoke();
        else
            OnAttackHit?.Invoke(direction);
    }

Both are located on the same class

cosmic rain
mild coyote
#

they are on the same object, and onattackhit is assigned from start

#

🤔 maybe because the weaponHit function get called from another Invoke?

cosmic rain
#

How do you know they're on the same object? Can you print the object ID or something?

mild coyote
#

Wait, they are indeed different gameobject doh

image.png
#

Thanks for the insight @cosmic rain 👍

scarlet viper
#

Yoo hackers and developers... does findobjectoftype find only in active scene or in all loaded scenes ?

#

i want to search active scene only (or a certain/specific scene)

late lion
scarlet viper
latent latch
# 
 void FixedUpdate()
 {
     Vector3 angles = GetAnglesFromCurve();
     Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(angles.x, angles.y, angles.z);
     Quaternion lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(rotation * Vector3.forward, Vector3.up);
     transform.rotation = initialRotation * lookRotation;

     HomingAbility();
     
     Vector3 posChange = currentSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * transform.forward;
     transform.position += posChange;
}

void HomingAbility()
{
    //Find Target via casting
    Vector3 targetDirection = (newTarget.GameObject.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(
        transform.rotation,
        Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up),
        Time.fixedDeltaTime * currentState.MovementData.LinearData.HomingData.RotationSpeed);
}```
So I've been updating some of my projectile logic, I've been mostly just using directions without touching rotations as the visualization is handled elsewhere. But since I've added a bunch of extra controller logic, I've felt like I needed to work more with the rotation. In this case I'm applying angles to the projectile (handled by a curve over time) and these angles are relative to the initial rotation and not world, so I need to plug in LookRotation into the process. It works fine for the most part, but since I've added those changes my minor methods now require changes such as my HomingAbility() method.

This method previously changed directions gradually, but now that I've changed it over to rotations I've opt to use Quaternion.Slerp. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to meld well with how I'm doing the previous rotational logic. It seems abit snappy, and overall incorrect; I'm not entirely sure what values I should be feeding it for it to meld with the rest of the rotational changes.
#

The thing too is that both of these methods change the rotations, which is ideal if I want to keep a consistent rotating effect on the projectile, while also slowly changing its direction towards a target.

upper pilot
#

Is there a way to ensure that saving/loading SO "instanceID" is kept the same between builds?

swift falcon
#

Is there anyone who knows about Photon Engine?

upper pilot
#

Or do we need to save SO index or ID from internal database of sorts

latent latch
#

use assetID

#

or make your own GUID

upper pilot
#

So we are saving by JsonUtility which saves whole object.
It saves instanceID I believe.

We will go with GUID route then.

#

We just need a reference to the SO

latent latch
#

I dont think instance ID is consistent

upper pilot
#

Btw does the asset store SO serializer help with that?

upper pilot
#

Its just automatically saved by JsonUtillity

#

so it breaks when we make a new build(even with no changes)

#

Have you used it before? Would that make save/load easier?

#

Meaning it would save SO without having to keep track of GUID

latent latch
#

saving isn't hard. It's the systems you need to set up that makes it hard

upper pilot
#

Right

swift falcon
#

Is there anyone who knows about this error? I was trying to fix it but still I couldn't find any way to handle it

maiden ferry
#

You haven’t shared the code that the error originates from… but you’re trying to access an object that doesn’t exist *anymore

shell jacinth
#

i feel like i did a move that i would regret for the next month

upper pilot
#

It happens when you Destroy(gameobject) but still try to do something to it

#

Probably in Update

#

The object doesnt seem to be deleted instantly, so the next Update is called but the object is aready null.
At least from my experience

#

I am not sure why Destroy() causes this issue, but I had same problem :/

# 
if you want to get a control state that ensures that "destroyed = no longer used", then add s = null; right after the destroy line
#

I guess that means

Destroy(gameobject);
gameobject = null;
#

Never did that, I just check for if (gameobject == null) return;

# 
The object obj is destroyed immediately after the current Update loop

This means(based on execution order) that it will try to call 1 Update loop after we clicked a mouse, or Destroyed the object in an Update?

What if we do

void Update()
{
    if(heath <= 0)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
        return;
    }
}

Would that fix the issue of the object being null?

swift falcon
#

I have no idea how to do that to be honest, I don't think it can be null

#

It's about Photon Engine

#

It's really complicated, my brain is burning at this point now. I can create a lobby but when I try to connect two players, its not working

#

also my code is not in English so it will be hard for u to understand it

heady iris
leaden ice
upper pilot
#

It might have been an isssue related to having a reference to it in another script

heady iris
#

oh yeah, that's a common issue

#

I wish there were events you could subscribe to for things like destruction

upper pilot
#

Yeah, the way I solved it was to have a boolean "ToBeDestroyed" or something

#
  • a null check to be safe.
latent latch
#

the secret is to just not destroy anything

zenith kelp
#

Does anyone know how sea of stars does its tree animations? To me that doesn't look like a spritesheet animation. https://youtu.be/oS7l_cAFdNM?si=mK096Z9m_qvTPTOY&t=201

YouTube
Rubhen925
Sea of Stars - Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 (No Commentary)

Sea of Stars - Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 (No Commentary)

Checking the full game out. It seems like a classic rpg and has some good mechanics. Gameplay is from the PC version and recorded at 4K 60FPS. Would like to do a full series with all missions and side stuff. Hope you guys enjoy!

►NOTE - Thanks to Tinsley PR for providing me the review ...

▶ Play video
#

I linked the exact time there are trees

latent latch
zenith kelp
#

My bad on the place. For sure didn't think it was art tho lol

heady iris
#

to answer the now-deleted question, consider Plane.Raycast (:

hollow aurora
#

Hahaha yes thank you! I deleted it because I just learned about it and it seemed like a solution 🙂

undone mason
#

i have this error

image.png
#

but i have variable idk why its giving an error

image.png
fervent furnace
#

!ide

tawny elkBOT
rigid island
undone mason
#

29,29

rigid island
#

how about post the code properly !code

tawny elkBOT
undone mason
rigid island
#

this is not how you post code..

#

did you read the bot message

#

no line numbers . how useful are these do you think?

Screen_Shot_2024-01-11_at_12.32.29_PM.png
undone mason
#

its not working idk

rigid island
#

mate..read the bot message properly

#

"Large Code"

#

its not rocket science

undone mason
#

like have to put // in evey line?

rigid island
#

show me , ill give you 100$

undone mason
#

but i am sending in the same format

rigid island
#

man if you cant even follow instructions how to post code properly, how do you expect to code anything

#

like realistically

undone mason
#

so problem is in 29th line

rigid island
#

it learns!

undone mason
#

learns what

rigid island
#

nothing.

#

anyway
one of these is null

#

if(pathGrid.transformsInRange == playerScript.playerControler.hit.gameObject)

#

Debug.Log them or use breakpoints and find out which one

undone mason
#

both points are giving error as they cant get refrence

rigid island
#

Actually your error is not even NRE

#

pathgrid is missing transformsInRange

#

do you know what Local variables are ?

hollow aurora
#

How can I approach best tinting a whole 3D model with a specific color via script? The models I use have a variety of materials and I dont want to override their color or replace the materials

snow girder
#

hey guys, I'm trying to find the most optimal way to make my game multiplayer. According to what I've read so far, Netcode isn't efficient for competitive modes. Our game will have both PvE, and PvP. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

humble pumice
#

hey there.

{
    _target -= this.transform.position;
        
    float angle = -Vector2.SignedAngle(Vector2.right, _target);
    angle = Mathf.Clamp(angle, minRotationAngle, maxRotationAngle);

    this.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0, angle, 0);
}```

This code is on a turret. That is on a space ship. When the spaceship  rotates. The turret misaligns. I can't figure out why. Any help?
image.png image.png
simple egret
leaden ice
#

you'll need to convert the target position to local space before doing this, or just do everything in world space

#

e.g.

Vector3 worldDirection = target - transform.position;
transform.right = worldDirection;```
#

Or if you want to use local space and clamp the maximum angle as you are doing then...

# 
public void AimAtTarget(Vector3 _target)
{
    // get target's position in our _parent's_ local space, which is what localEulerAngles is expressed in
    Vector3 localTarget = transform.parent.InverseTransformPoint(_target);
        
    float angle = -Vector2.SignedAngle(Vector2.right, localTarget);
    angle = Mathf.Clamp(angle, minRotationAngle, maxRotationAngle);

    this.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(0, 0, angle);
}```
humble pumice
#

and it chould be new Vector3(0,angle,0) because thats the rotation axis or am I missing something?

leaden ice
#

why would the axis be the y axis?

#

isn't this a 2D game?

#

that doesn't make sense

humble pumice
leaden ice
#

unless you're doing something really weird

humble pumice
#

im doing something really weird

leaden ice
#

ok it's unclear what any of the orientations of your objects are then

#

makes it quite hard to write this code

#

what's the orientation of the main ship? And does the gameplay happen on the world X/Y axis or the X/Z axis or what?

humble pumice
#

Im not quite sure myself. Is it right oriented?

image.png
#

2d perspective

image.png
#

I think it's just the model having the turrets on thier y axis...

leaden ice
#

well your ship model is very weirdly oriented

#

It's +z axis seems to pointing.. "down"

#

from the 2d topdown perspective

#

down into the world

#

but... that's kind of ok

#

one problem is because of the ship's orientation that throws the turret all out of whack

humble pumice
#

Hm. I see. Ill try to untangle this. Maybe Ill figure something out then

leaden ice
#

I think you want something like this?

public void AimAtTarget(Vector3 _target)
{
    // get target's position in our _parent's_ local space, which is what localEulerAngles is expressed in
    Vector3 localTarget = transform.parent.InverseTransformPoint(_target);
        
    float angle = -Vector2.SignedAngle(Vector2.right, localTarget);
    angle = Mathf.Clamp(angle, minRotationAngle, maxRotationAngle);

    Vector3 finalDirection = transform.parent.TransformDirection(new (0, 0, angle));
    this.transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(finalDirection, -transform.parent.forward);
}```
humble pumice
#

Nah, sadly doesn't work. I was so fixated on the Math and all that. That I tried everything but looking at the model oriantation.

#

Ill do that first before making a script that just works on this one turret

humble pumice
heady iris
humble pumice
#

I made a new project... Z points... away from the screen. Am I missing something. I tend to miss the point quite often.

image.png image.png
rigid island
#

"into" the screen

leaden ice
#

so that's correct for a 2D game

#

It's just weird for a 3D model

#

If you're using 2D physics it's a good idea to have it how you have it

humble pumice
#

I found the orientation problem. The empty-obj "GunArray1" & "GunArray2" have been rotated by 90 degrees on the x-axis instead the gfx of the turret itself

sudden dove
#

I'm so... Sleeeppy.... Ehhwww

stark sinew
#

Hey.
I'd like to draw Lines/Curves inside my Project (Runtime, not Editor. 2D WorldSpace).
Those don't need any interactability.

Wondering what the best approach would be?
Using the GL class?

leaden ice
stark sinew
#

Thank you!
Not sure but i think LineRenderer may be too much for that usecase and i don't want to have every Line/Curve be related to a Component, but i'll try to do it with GL for now and take a look at the Assets you mentioned!
I have an Asset that would probably be able to do what i want, but i'd like to have a solution that is tinkered towards my single usecase only without any additional code/data that's not 100% needed. 🙂

heady iris
#

Shapes will make some really pretty...shapes (:

limpid siren
# heady iris (rename it to `.gitignore`)

Hey Fen thank you for answering me yesterday i didn't noticed it sorry :/

So i did already try a variety of gitignores and still got the same error, im doing the git commands using git bash and i even try using git desktop.

heady iris
#

you shouldn't need to try a "variety" of things

#

on the command line, do git reset to unstage all changes

#

make sure you've placed that specific .gitignore in the root of your project

#

run git add . to add all files

#

Now, it's possible that you have some gigantic assets in your project that are over the size limit, of course.

limpid siren
limpid siren
heady iris
#

There are several problems here.

#

"Bomberman" is the root of your project.

image.png
#

You should create the repository in that folder

#

You created the repository in a parent folder

#

so none of the .gitignore's paths are going to line up

#

It wants to ignore ./Library, for example, but you have ./Bomberman/Library

#

Delete the .git directory in your current folder. Enter the project root and create a repository in there.

limpid siren
#

I do have the same gitignore on both places

image.png image.png
#

that would not work?

heady iris
#

I believe the .gitignore should work if it's placed in the child directory like that

#

However, you've also already tracked those files

#

notice how these are changes not staged for commit

image.png
#

It doesn't matter that you now want to ignore those files

#

Once they're being tracked by Git, it doesn't matter if they're in the .gitignore

limpid siren
#

:x i see

#

how can i delete my 6 commits done?

heady iris
#

If you don't have any particularly important history in your repo, I'd just delete the .git folder and create a new repository in the correct folder.

limpid siren
#

they're not pushed yet

heady iris
#

Deleting .git will completely remove all of Git's data

limpid siren
#

ok ill do it

#

1 min

heady iris
#

You can also just ignore it for the time being, if you want to be really cautious

#

Git looks for the first .git directory it finds in or above your current directory

#

so once you create a repo in "Bomberman", it won't matter that you have a repo rooted in "BombermanAI"

#

Once you set up the new repo, you'll just need to add a remote -- the repository on GitHub, or wherever you're hosting this

#

here is an example using a Microsoft repository

#

git remote add origin https://github.com/microsoft/Guan.git

#

you'd replace that URL with the one for your repository

#

If you have code in the remote repository already, you'll need to force-push to overwrite it with the new commits

limpid siren
#

ok done

heady iris
#

Okay, that looks good

heady iris
limpid siren
#

i dont have anything on my git yet

#

No need

heady iris
#

You will still need to force-push

limpid siren
#

oh ok ill do it

heady iris
#

basically, you've created an entirely different history by creating a whole new repository

limpid siren
#

git push --set-upstream origin main --force

this one right?

heady iris
#

Right.

limpid siren
heady iris
#

oh, you need to make a commit first

#

i'm not sure what happens otherwise

limpid siren
#

Ok so

#

git add .
git commit -m "First Commit"
git push

#

is that fine?

heady iris
#

Also, if you want to use LFS, you need to set that up here.

#

before you commit these files

hard viper
#

is it easy to make/see a codemap in visual studio?

#

i’m kind of terrified to see my spaghetti of dependencies, but I think it will be good for me

heady iris
#

You definitely want to do that before you commit anything. Otherwise, you'll have the giant files in the repo anyway

neat forge
#

At least for Microsoft's solution.

hard viper
#

i see, and I have VS for Mac

heady iris
#

the visual studio we have at home

limpid siren
heady iris
#

did you set the upstream to origin/master instead of origin/main ?

limpid siren
#

yes haahah

heady iris
#

just set it again and push

limpid siren
#

so i should just do $ git push --set-upstream origin main

heady iris
#

If you want them to match:

git branch -m master main
git push --set-upstream origin main --force
#

this will rename your local branch, then set its upstream to origin/main

limpid siren
#

thanks bro everything up-to-date ! 😄

#

++ Rep @heady iris

heady iris
#

no prob :p

#

I forget how you'd clean up the unused remote branch

#

but that's less important

#

Also, if you are using LFS, make sure that's working on GitHub's side.

limpid siren
#

i work with git for 7 years counting as software engineer ahaha but i never tried to setup a git after doing that much xD i've done the whole game prototype and then i remember that i may do some sh17 xD and GIT would be nice

#

You also use the "main" branch to put the working code and the "master" branch to put the latest release version?

heady iris
#

No, they both mean the same thing.

#

main is just the default on a lot of clients now

limpid siren
#

damn right 😉

heady iris
#

I haven't actually done "git flow" in a while

fierce kettle
#

Simple can you check dm pls

limpid siren
#

Sure !

hard viper
#

If I make a delegate as:
myDelegate += MyStaticClass.MyFunction;
...
myDelegate -= MyStaticClass.MyFunction;
Will this work normally or not?

#

i have only ever tried subtracting methods of instances from delegates

heady iris
#

I would expect it to. MyFunction is a specific object.

#

Subtracting anonymous functions doesn't make sense because it has nothing to do with the one you subscribed

hard viper
#

thanks

merry minnow
#

Hello I need some help on an error. I have a file with the name HeightMapMeshgeneratorSolid.cs

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Rendering;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;
using UnityEditor;
using TMPro;
//using System.Diagnostics;
using Utils;
public struct MetaFileData
{
    public float scaleFactorM;
    public int maxElevM;
    public int minElevM;
    public int renderMultiplierM;
}
public class HeightMapMeshgeneratorSolid : MonoBehaviour{
    // code I won't show because it is too long and also not relevant
}```

Now for some reason I am getting an error (8 of them actually? as you can see in the scrnst) "'MetaFileData' is missing the class attribute 'ExtensionOfNativeClass'!". This doesn't even make sense because MetaFileData is a struct and not a class, and none of the forum posts I have seen about this error are about a struct having this error. I asked chatgpt and it thinks it is a bug...
Anyways thanks in advance if anyone is able to help me.
Screenshot_2024-01-11_224218.png
#

Also this warning on the component, which I have seen in forum posts talking about a CLASS having this error..

Screenshot_2024-01-11_224722.png
strange plinth
#

Im trying to set up animations but it always says the Parameters dont exist.

image.png
#

Can anyone help me to fix that?

simple egret
stark elk
#

i just installed unity 2019.4 and it is not opening on windows 7 What should i do?

somber nacelle
tawny elkBOT
#
📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

hard viper
#

I need a little help from an architecture perspective.

    List<Vector2Int> coordinatesToClear = MapSearch.GetAffectedRegion(map, (Vector2Int)target, objBase);

    // Log for Undo/Redo
    if (map != previewMap) {
        List<TilePlacementInstance> objToDelete = MapSearch.FindAllBuildObjInRegion(map, coordinatesToClear);
        foreach (TilePlacementInstance inst in objToDelete) {
            buildHistory.LogPriorTileToHistory(inst);
            OnTileInstanceRemoved?.Invoke(inst);
        }
    }

    foreach (Vector2Int pos in coordinatesToClear) {
        map.SetTile(new Vector3Int(pos.x, pos.y, target.z), null);
        tileDirectory.TrySetRotation(map, pos, Rotation.E);
    }

    if (map != previewMap) OnMapChange?.Invoke(coordinatesToClear);
}```
I have a few methods that I want to refactor.
#

What these methods do is:

  1. Figure out region in tilemap,
  2. conditionally log/report that region
  3. Do something on that region
  4. conditionally log/report after the change
#

I want to split these methods up in a refactor, and it makes sense to split into a method that logs, and one that does not, so I can decouple the reporting code from the "doing" code

#

that's all well and good, but then I want to avoid code repetition when some of these such methods call each other

#

I'm thinking about making overloads with out parameters, where the out param method actually does stuff to out the inner regions we find during calculation

#

but the issue is avoiding repetition

#

example:

Do something
EraseAndLog(out y);
Do Something that also makes x
out x
}
void DrawAndDontLog() {
Do something
EraseAndDontLog();
Do Something that also makes x
}```
#

any advice?

willow saddle
#

can some one tell my why this happens when the animation finishes

somber nacelle
willow saddle
#

i got it off of mixamo

cosmic rain
#

You probably transition to a state that has no motion(animation) assigned.

steel silo
#

Hello can somone help me with translate my app?
im trnaslate from this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvpPUTkQFM8
And static translate works perfect but problem is when i generete random monsters name... like on video
And i have no idea how tranlete words that were drawn using a script
Anyone can help me with that?

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indigo hound
#

Hey I just have a general question. Are raycasts performance heavy or not? I found muiltiple different answers on the internet so I'm not sure.

somber nacelle
#

no, not really. but if you are experiencing performance issues (or just worried about them) you should use the profiler to determine what is taking up the most resources

indigo hound
#

Alright thanks

crystal holly
#

Sorry if this is the wrong channel for it, but I'm having problems with VSCode completely ignoring my .editorconfig. I feel like I'm going round in circles trying to get it setup.

Any suggestions why it's being ignored?

I have the c#, c# dev kit, and unity plugins. I have used npm to install the editorconfig package. I have set [csharp]": { "editor.defaultFormatter": "ms-dotnettools.csharp"}

Sometimes it will work briefly, but then won't work for other files and I'm really not sure what the problem is :\ Any help much appreciated

white crater
#

Hey Guys 👋

#

im trying to make a pickup system but am having some difficulty

#

here is what i have so far

#

the current issue im having is i can pickup and drop items just fine

#

i just cant use them

#

basically i want to pick them up and for example for grapple assign a camera and player transform so that grapple can be used by the player who picked it up

#

and so that when they drop it, these got assigned to null so that when another player picks it up they can use it

#

much appreciated guys

knotty sun
tawny elkBOT
blazing tiger
#

I'm making a content loading system, but not sure how to properly organize it.
Imagine a generic item class, like "potion", or something and a class that takes care of loading JSON definition of individual potions.
JSON definition contains things like name, price, effects applied on use, gameobject prefab for visuals, etc.
The reason I'm going with JSONs and not SO or prefabs is because I want to be able to add content without relying on the editor.
Just wanted to clarify: My best course of action is to have all those defs loaded on start and cached (in a dictionary with an id key perhaps), then just construct a class on demand (since c# doesn't allow object deep-copying afaik)?

cosmic rain
blazing tiger
#

More like a rough idea, but I'm going to try it when I get to my home pc and see how it goes.
Also, any potential issues with using a static class to load and hold all of those defs?

cosmic rain
blazing tiger
#

Good call, tnx.

faint otter
#

Im using srp at the moment, how do i use the camera as an input texture and assign the output to a different texture?

leaden ice
#

SRP means URP/HDRP

faint otter
#

Old one

copper dock
#

Hello, does anyone know how i can load a scene in background like the async function but let be „loaded“ when i set a bool of it true

Like in the scene i want to load in the background i want to start a function and just when this is finish it should be set the Bool and then the async function should let it be loaded

faint otter
leaden ice
copper dock
#

But can i start a function in that like in the bsckground it is altesdy loaded and i start a function in there from the start function until its finished

While i am still in the scene from before?

knotty sun
#

unless you are loading additively

copper dock
#

Additively kinda matches but i would like to make it Not seen by the player while i do somethin in the new scene until i say it tho

knotty sun
#

'kinda' either you are loading scenes additively or you are not

cunning raptor
#

how can i change velocity of gravity without increasing gravity?

like i want to do low gravity then increase it overtime if im in air

knotty sun
arctic spindle
#

Is it possible to get some unity features to work at runtime? I kind of need an FBX exporter. Trying to use "using UnityEditor.Formats.Fbx.Exporter;"

#

Just plainly downloading it and putting it in the asset folder has too many conflicts, but that's bound to happen 😂

knotty sun
#

UnityEditor namespace will never work at runtime so if you need UnityEditor features you will need to write your own equivalents

copper dock
knotty sun
#

running code and not being seen means disabling any renderers

arctic spindle
west lotus
arctic spindle
west lotus
flint needle
#

Any idea why i get this error exclusively on build?
Kernel 'Main' not found

#

When trying to find this Main kernel

#

Is this call that throws the error:
m_InstantiatedComputeShader.FindKernel("Main");

heady iris
#

Sounds like the shader isn't making it into the build.

#

I know that regular shaders sometimes need to be forcibly included

#

I haven't used compute shaders before, though. I don't know if the same thing can be done with them.

flint needle
#

i have
#pragma kernel Main
on the compute shader

naive swallow
#

Unity doesn't include assets that aren't in use in some form or another in the project, but it can't know if you're loading something from code without ever attaching it to anything.

Either set this shader to be included in the Graphics settings (yes, even for compute shaders, they're still shader files and this only cares about the file type) or put it in a Resources folder that is always included in the build (and access it in code via Resources.Load)

late lion
#

I don't see anything that suggests they are looking for the shader at runtime. m_InstantiatedComputeShader is the ComputeShader instance, we don't see how they got it.

arctic spindle
#

Anyone who knows why this happens? Only when I reference glt, TMP gets errors

image.png image.png
heady iris
#

an Assembly Definition Reference asset is used to add a folder to an existing Assembly Definition

#

once you do that, scripts in that directory (or any subdirectories) can only see assemblies that are visible to the assembly definition (because they're part of that assembly now!)

#

Are you trying to make glTFast visible to an existing assembly definition? If so, you need to add it to the "Assembly Definition References" list on that assembly definition

#

(yes, the names collide, and it sucks)

arctic spindle
#

I have never done this, so I just figured it would be right click, create assembly definition reference in the asset folder

heady iris
#

If you aren't using an asmdef, you can ignore that

arctic spindle
#

🤔

heady iris
#

All assemblies are auto-referenced by the default "Assembly-CSharp.dll" assembly that all of your code is put into

arctic spindle
#

I can't reference it in script unless I do add it as a reference manually. Need to read up on this topic, bit vague

heady iris
#

Ah, perhaps they unticked "Auto Referenced" on their assembly definitions...?

#

let me look

heady iris
#

found it

arctic spindle
#

They do have an assembly reference in the package, but for some reason the scripts can't find it

heady iris
#

You may just be having an IDE problem.

arctic spindle
#

Weird 🤔

heady iris
#

Try closing your code editor, then regenerating project files

heady iris
# arctic spindle They do have an assembly reference in the package, but for some reason the scrip...

In short: an assembly is a collection of scripts that are compiled as a single unit. The default behavior of Unity is to shove everything into one enormous assembly.

Assembly Definitions let you create an assembly out of the scripts in a folder. This cuts down on compilation times, since you don't have to recompile an assembly if nothing has changed.

Assembly Definition References let you put several folders into one assembly. They are only used to extend an existing assembly's scope.

Assembly definitions must explicitly list the assemblies they depend on. However, by default, they're also automatically referenced by the default assemblies, like Assembly-CSharp.dll.

Note: The GLTFast.Export namespace can only be used if you reference both glTFast and glTFast.Export Assemblies in your Assembly Definition.

This is only relevant if you have created assembly definitions. It's just a heads-up that there are two assemblies you need.

arctic spindle
#

It must be some other issue, its a bit weird. Tried the regenerate project files

image.png
heady iris
#

Have you successfully compiled since you installed the package?

arctic spindle
#

Yeah

#

Might be a plugin which is messing things up

#

I'll try a restart/rebuild

heady iris
#

Did you get rid of the asmdef reference?

#

That must be removed.

arctic spindle
#

None I didn't put in myself. There are quite a lot of them in the project, but most are generated by unity

heady iris
knotty sun
weary swift
#

Yo! Is using "RequireComponent" a good practice? What I was doing until now is sending a LogError if my component was missing. But "RequireComponent" do the same thing with less work right?

heady iris
#

I find it mildly annoying when I'm trying to remove components from an object

#

since I have to do it in the correct order or I get blocked with a popup

weary swift
#

I should try it and see if I find it useful or not. But there isn't any downfall from using it?

arctic spindle
knotty sun
weary swift
#

👽 What is MVC patterns?

weary swift
arctic spindle
heady iris
#

model-view-controller

weary swift
#

Ok thanks, I will look at that

arctic spindle
#

Quite a lot of them

knotty sun
#

that is not your 'user code' though is it?

arctic spindle
#

True 🤔

heady iris
#

Where was that Assembly Definition Reference asset?

#

Did you create it?

heady iris
arctic spindle
heady iris
#

I'm talking about that specific asset you showed us earlier.

#

you said that, when you "referenced glt", you started getting errors

#

this implies you did something

arctic spindle
#

So I imported the package with the + icon in the package manager

#

Tried to use using GLTFast.Export; the same in the example script

#

Didn't work

#

Then I read I have to reference the assemblies, so I right click the assets folder, create NewAssemblyReference

#

Referenced GLTFast.Export and then TMP didn't work

heady iris
#

Delete that assembly definition reference asset. It is bogus.

arctic spindle
#

I deleted it, there is no other one

heady iris
#

Okay, good.

arctic spindle
#

But still I can't call the using GLTFast.Export;

heady iris
arctic spindle
#

Yeah, restarted my pc even

heady iris
#

It may not pick up on the new .csproj files until after it restarts.

#

Oh, one other thing

#

Make sure you've successfully compiled after removing the asmdef reference asset

#

Although I'd expect you to be having a ton of other problems if that was still lingering

arctic spindle
#

I can run the project and I can create builds

heady iris
#

Okay, so that's good.

#

One last thing to sanity-check -- if you add using GLTFast.Export;, do you get a compile error in Unity?

arctic spindle
#

Yeah, compile error if I add

round violet
#

from the menucontext, i am running a function that builds a dictionnary, how can I make this dictionnary save so it doesnt get destroyed at the next domain reload ?
ik its about serialization, but I cant find the correct attribute

heady iris
arctic spindle
#

In both I get the error

heady iris
#

Can you show me the inspector for one of your script assets?

#

Ideally that "GameObe" one that's cut off in the screenshot

#

this is the information I'm looking for

image.png
arctic spindle
#

That's the script where I'm tryign to use it

heady iris
#

okay, good, it's in the default Assembly-CSharp.dll assembly

#

If it wasn't, you would need to go and configure an asmdef somewhere

#

I haven't got any other great ideas right now -- I would delete the Library folder and let everything reimport

arctic spindle
#
  • it's time
heady iris
#

ol' reliable

#

Although I'd expect to see a ton of compile errors from the GLTFast package's scripts if there were something wrong

arctic spindle
#

the GLTF does seem to work

#

If I manually export

#

Everything seems to work besides exporting via script since I can't reference it

#

Thank you so much for the help @heady iris, I really appreciate it ❤️

heady iris
#

no prob! hope you get it fixed (:

arctic spindle
heady iris
#

dictionaries aren't serializable by unity

arctic spindle
#

Some workarounds though 🤔

heady iris
#

You could use ISerializationCallbackHandler to turn that into a list and store it in a serialized field on save

#

and then populate the dictionary on load

#

er

#

ISerializationCallbackReceiver

arctic spindle
#

Or basically create your own dictionary with serializefields

heady iris
#

in fact, that's the exact use case the doc page shows, haha

#

so, the moment that unity says it's going to serialize you, you stuff your dictionary keys and values into lists, which unity can understand

#

and then right after it deserializes you, you put them back in the dictionary

#

there's your killer Unity 6 feature: making Dictionary<K,V> serializable..

arctic spindle
#

I don't care about AI, but these type of things

#

I always recommend to have a camera holder/controller and the camera as a child within

#

Yeah a parent

#

Sometimes you get odd results when you change things in the camera transform

round violet
#

Ill do nested struct

arctic spindle
#

Apply it to the parent and add the collider

round violet
#

Was my idea before going for dicts

arctic spindle
#

Cameras don't often have a collider. Normally your character or something does

#

Where the camera is just positioned at a point

round violet
arctic spindle
#

The camera must not have it's own physics/gravity

round violet
#

But damn i got nested dictionaries

arctic spindle
#

Hmm not sure, if the floor has a collider its a bit odd

#

Does it start above the ground?

#

@heady iris Yeah I'm out of ideas as well, odd issue

#

Even a clean project with just texmeshpro and GLTFast won't run it

#

And when I manually add it in a clean project, same thing happens

#

It's an error in the glt package

heady iris
#

What editor version are you on? It worked fine for me in a 2022 LTS project

arctic spindle
#

2021.3.14 LTS

heady iris
#

wait, there it is!

#

i restarted the editor and now it's complaining that's a bogus namespace

#

VSCode is still happy

arctic spindle
#

I'm surprised that you can just call the using GLTFast.Export; without manually adding the packages

heady iris
#

oh, no, I installed that

arctic spindle
#

Can you use TMP after installing?

#

using TMPro;

heady iris
#

Yes, that's all fine. That was caused by your asmdef reference asset

arctic spindle
#

Pff so weird

#

How do you call the export without an asmdef reference?

heady iris
#

you wouldn't be adding your scripts to the GLTFast.Export assembly

#

that's what an asmdef reference does

#

It looks like Unity believes that GLTFast exists, but isn't aware of GLTFast.Export

arctic spindle
heady iris
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i'm going to install something to look at what assemblies are being compiled

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Okay, so this one is definitely not marked as auto-referenced now. I can't remember if I checked it last time.

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I was definitely able to compile with using GLTFast.Export; up top, though

arctic spindle
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Same for me, I also can't change this file

heady iris
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yeah, it's in a package

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I don't understand why it went from working to broken on my end. That's very funky.

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So here's what you can do to get around this:

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Copy the package from Library/PackageCache/ to Packages/. This embeds the package in your project

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so if it was Library/PackageCache/com.foo.bar@1.0/, you'd copy that to Packages/com.foo.bar@1.0/

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The package contents will still appear in Packages/, but will no longer be read-only

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Tick "Auto Referenced" on that assembly definition

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It will now be automatically visible to the default assemblies (into which all of your code is currently going)

heady iris
warm stratus
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Hey, how can i install Newtonsoft.Json? i installed it in a certain way and it doesn't compile when i try to use it what is the right way?

heady iris
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and what was this "certain way"?

warm stratus
heady iris
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that is not a git url. do you mean you added it by name?

warm stratus
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i tried both

heady iris
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okay, so you added the package by name

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and what is the problem?

warm stratus
heady iris
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close the code editor, regenerate project files from the External Tools window, and reopen the code editor

warm stratus
heady iris
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it's in the Preferences menu

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(not Project Settings.)

warm stratus
latent latch
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//Works fine
void SingleRotation()
{
   Vector3 angles = GetAnglesFromCurve();
   transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(angles.x, angles.y, angles.z) * initialRotation;
   transform.position += currentSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * transform.forward;
}```

```cs
//Doesn't work too well
void BlendedRotation()
{
   Vector3 angles = GetAnglesFromCurve();
   Quaternion curveRotation = Quaternion.Euler(angles.x, angles.y, angles.z) * initialRotation;
   Vector3 targetDirection = (target.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
   Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetDirection, Vector3.up);
   Quaternion extraRotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime); //been trying both Slerp and RotateTowards
  
   transform.rotation = curveRotation * extraRotation;
   transform.position += currentSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * transform.forward;
}```
So I'm having a problem with blending two rotations together for projectile movement. Basically I've a curve of angles that primarily drives the rotation of the projectiles, while my secondary rotation allows this projectile to home into a target that's nearby. Some examples would be a snaking projectile motion that slowly rotates towards its target, but stays consistent with its motion.

So, having these both independent work fine, it's just once I add them together does it start creating problems. I believe it may have to do with my initial rotation that I am using along with RotateTowards as I combine rotations.
copper dock
arctic spindle
weary swift
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Yo! Is it possible to show a variable in the inspector without the ability to modify it in the inspector. I know I can do that with Debug mode, but is it possible without it?

leaden ice
weary swift
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Thanks for the answer! I don't like the idea of using a package for this, so I'm just gonna use debug mode instead, but it's useful to know thanks!

twilit scaffold
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Where is this coming from? It is very helpful. brought up examples directly in VS. I do not have Copilot or Cody installed

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correction.. *Could be very helpful. so far the examples are, .. pretty useless

leaden ice
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remember Microsoft owns GitHub so they have all that data.

twilit scaffold
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indeed. Strange though, as that is the first time i am noticing that. But, i am notoriously myopic (amongst me, myself and I) when it comes to IDEs

radiant trout
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I want to keep expanding this to Day, Week, Month. In general I know how I want to handle each. But is there a better pattern for this beyond a bunch of nested IFs?

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leaden ice
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Is this the best pattern?

radiant trout
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The 'game time' and the rate it passes will be central to everything from the players hunger growing, to weighting NPC AI (just two examples, but again many systems will want to know what time it is, when time has passed, etc. but specifically the imaginary 'in game time' not real life time)

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So i thought events/actions was the way to go so basically the whole game had access to it

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I also wanted to be able to speed up, slow down, and stop game time independent of Unity's time scale

leaden ice
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individual minutes/seconds/hours generally wouldn't be that relevant

radiant trout
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I had book marked something about tick systems recently, I'll dive into that and see what I come up with.

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If I build a tick system, I would then be able to use it to advance any kind of in game time tracking I want right?

leaden ice
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yes

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I guess I'm curious though what would happen in the "OnHourChange" event, for example

radiant trout
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I was thinking about that too... I probably only really need OnMinuteChange and then whoever is listening can decide based on what time it is if they want to do their event.

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I was just sort of building everything + the kitchen sink for this prototype

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In this tick system, would it make sense to still use actions? For instance, have my ticker class shout it's 'onTick' event, and have my World Clock class listen for that and update the clock onTick?

leaden ice
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I think the world clock should be the thing responsible for the ticks

radiant trout
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I was wondering if you might say that, as I'm looking at some people's tick classes they look like they're doing very similar things

leaden ice
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something like:

public class WorldTimer : MonoBehaviour {
  public const float TickDuration = 1f / 50f; // how long is a tick in seconds?
  public long CurrentTicks { get; private set; }

  public delegate void TickHandler(long currentTicks);
  public event Tickhandler OnTick; 

  float _timer = 0;
  void Update() {
    _timer += Time.deltaTime;
    while (_timer >= TickDuration) {
      _timer -= TickDuration;
      CurrentTicks += 1;

      OnTick(CurrentTicks);
    }
  }
}```
This is how I've done stuff like this in the past
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also make it a singleton usually

vagrant blade
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This is exactly how I do it as well. Usually a singleton TimeManager too.

radiant trout
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Ah yeah, not entirely unlike where I was going. Can I ask, what's the design benefit of using a delegate for the TickHandler. What scenario might keeping the current ticks be useful?

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Would someone listening to it just keep the current tick when they check 1 time

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and then compare it next time they check?

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Until they meet the goal they're looking for?

leaden ice
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it's very convenient to have the ticks in the delegate for lots of cases

radiant trout
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Alright. This helps a lot. I know my homework now.

slim spruce
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hi! currently trying to debug an input related issue for our mobile game, that only appears in built versions of the game. attaching visual studio to an android device hooked up via USB leads to the game booting with a black screen. opening up the APK without a debugger attatched leads to the game booting like normal. Any ideas what could be causing this, or alternative ways to debug our issue?

the black screen occurs after the splash art logos have played, and we couldn't figure out anything using logcat.

leaden ice
slim spruce
# leaden ice is your debugger pausing the game when you get the black screen? You can also ma...

the output shows loading modules like expected, all the dll's.
once they finish loading nothing happens though. doesn't seem to be paused either.

again, never been an issue before with any builds attatched via Unity Remote or even just plain USB (no debugger), only when using visual studio as a debugger.
didn't end up finding anything online about this either, if you need any more info lemme know.

leaden ice
slim spruce
hard viper
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refactoring when you violated the single responsibility principle is suck

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i’m just going through my level editor code, which has 5 responsibilities. breaking it up is so painful

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i wish i could visualize my dependencies better to break everything up

indigo hound
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Seems tough, what kinda game are you making?

soft shard
# hard viper i wish i could visualize my dependencies better to break everything up

Maybe you could try a UML diagram, it may be a little bit of a bad habit but I find it helpful to split every part into a "state machine" to help see how the parts can be broken up, with a Init function and then whatever else that specific part needs, later on once you know how you want to split it up, you can probably merge some of the "states" into just functions or another form