archived-code-general

[round violet]

ty

[leaden ice]

Or these events:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-sceneLoaded.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-activeSceneChanged.html

[hard viper]

i see now why my RuleTile calls are so damn expensive

my special ruletile method checks a few maps for the actual logic. which only adds a little work.

but what ruletile does, is it looks through:
foreach tiling rule
foreach transform allowed by the symmetry
foreach neighbor position defined
Do work

so if you put 16 really specific rules that totally cover the space, and half of them use the rotation symmetry to check, and naturally this means a typical rule has 5 neighbor relationships defined…
That’s like 200 calls per one tile refresh. Wtf man

this is probably fine if you use tilemaps prebuilt in a scene, but not if you edit the tilemap dynamically in any way

in theory, by storing the results into an array on the SO, this only needs 8 calls instead of 200

ty for coming to my ted talk

[dull quarry]

I installed Cinematic Studio Unity and I can't add a sequence to the project. It just isn't there

[rigid island]

CinematicStudio ? or you mean Cinemachine ?

[dull quarry]

this and this

[rigid island]

oh you're talking about this

[dull quarry]

yea

[rigid island]

then you should have these packages ye?

[dull quarry]

yes i have it

[rigid island]

so whats the problem then?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.timeline@1.2/manual/wf_instance.html

oh you said sequence

[dull quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngo9t4WBJeY

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.sequences@2.1/manual/work-with-sequences.html

[lusty sphinx]

not sure if im in the right spot here but I am having an issue with mirror, steamworks and unity. Can I ask questions about mirror, steam and unity here? or should I be posting elsewhere?

My specific issue is in utilizing the mirror 'Network Manager'. I am trying to have a menu where users can select to host online (thus using the default enabled fizzysteamworks transport on the network manager) or they can use LAN functionality via mirror (which swaps the transport on the network manager to a LAN transport).

I am able to do almost all of this correctly and thought I had it working previously, where the steam transport component gets disabled when going into LAN and the transport correctly gets set on the network manager, however I am running into an issue where the steam transport component is seemingly reenabling itself (or by something else I am unaware of) and the LAN now is appearing to be using the steam transport.

I know this is a long paragraph so let me know if I should be asking elsewhere. Thanks!

[dull quarry]

1:30

i dont have it

[rigid island]

they probably moved it, check under Window if sequencer has its own thing now

To create a Master Sequence, select the + (plus) button at the top left of the Sequences window, then select Create Master Sequence.

btw this question belongs in #💻┃unity-talk . this is a code channel

[dull quarry]

i dont have it

[heady iris]

do you have any compile errors right now

[rigid island]

Oh my...

[heady iris]

if so, they'll prevent any new packages from being imported

[rigid island]

I said Window

[lusty sphinx]

talkin about me?

[rigid island]

nah to @dull quarry

[lusty sphinx]

ok my issue might also end up needing to be there xD

[dull quarry]

yes but i gonna get it

now i have it

i need this time line

i`m so stupit in unity

[rigid island]

move this convo in a thread at #💻┃unity-talk

this isn't code related

[gentle bison]

I want to use a vector image (svg) as a button. I have already importet com.unity.vectorgraphics and now can put the image into the TextMeshPro button. The problem is it is transparant for some reason, does anyone know why?

[heady iris]

you mean you assigned the sprite into the Image component's "sprite" field?

[gentle bison]

yes

[heady iris]

this is not a code problem, so you should ask it in #📲┃ui-ux . One thing I remember from using that vectorgraphics package was that the default importer mode didn't work properly in UI. I switched it to "Textured Sprite"

Maybe try that first.

Otherwise, go check in that channel

[gentle bison]

ok I'll try

It is so dumb but I found the problem xD

[main coral]

Hello is it possible to add data on unity cloud.unity.com on "player details" ?

[rigid island]

why do you keep asking this every day when the asnwer doesn't change

[main coral]

Sorry I didnt read the answer ...

[rigid island]

@main coral

[main coral]

ok so i cant add something there ?

[rigid island]

no there is nothing that can be added there

https://forum.unity.com/threads/enhancement-in-player-management-dashboard-usernames-player-managerment.1521895/

[main coral]

Thanks a lot!

[rigid island]

I've made a thread for it

[main coral]

I hope this feature will be added .. because I have the same problem with searching for users ..

[rigid island]

yes exactly, its very limited for a faux Database

[main coral]

that was the reason for asking if I can add there data

[rigid island]

idk what the last reply to the thread means by this
Edit: sounds like this is already possible! Thank you Unity team!

[main coral]

Yesterday, maybe it is possible, but the question will be hopw

[rigid island]

the workaround to store "unique" info on each player would be using the Cloud Save

but you can't do anything search wise in the dashboard

[modern creek]

Little annoyance, but when I open visual studio from the solution file, it doesn't seem to load all the dependencies correctly. Reopening it from Unity (by double clicking a script) fixes it all. I can't seem to figure out how to get this to work properly (sometimes I like to work in VS without unity open)

(these are in other asmdefs)

[vivid wind]

Is there a way to load two scenes, have them occupy the same space, but not interact? Or is there only one scene loaded, and only can use additive scene loading, then place them out of view range of each other?

[heady iris]

huh, I'm not sure what I'd do about it missing some things

[heady iris]

Depending on your definition of "interact", you could create multiple physics scenes

A physics scene (not to be confused with a unity scene) is a "world" in which physics happen

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/multi-scene-physics talks about how to use them

I haven't really used 'em myself yet (but I might be doing that soon)

[leaden ice]

what kind of interaction are you trying to avoid

Yes:

• Physics scenes for physics interaction (or layer based collisions as a "lower tech" solution)
• Culling masks on cameras to only show one scene by layer

As for lighting, it's going to get sketchy

because environment lighting is based on which scene is "active"

[hard viper]

trying to have two separate scenes is going to be a big challenge tbh

[vivid wind]

The Physics scene could be an option. I want to create two worlds and connect them via a Stargate like gateway. Just concern about managing two worlds in an active scene.

[hard viper]

so many things would break

[heady iris]

only if you naïvely try to rip a scene in half, really

I've had a pretty reasonable time with multi-scene workflows

[leaden ice]

yes but what are you concerned about specifically?

when you go through the stargate can you not just load a new scene?

[hard viper]

all your singletons would have problems if any are in both scenes, or assume they control everything about their own little world

[heady iris]

perhaps they want to keep the other half running

[vivid wind]

Stargate was a bad example since it's one-directional. I mean more like a "Portal" portal or maybe a "Transitionless" portal would be a better term.

[heady iris]

in that case, it would be very annoying to keep both scenes' objects at the same place

you'd hear audio from World A in World B

now, that could be a really neat puzzle element...

[hard viper]

that’s what I thought he was talking about

[leaden ice]

put the scenes in different places for sure. Use well trod "portal" rendering techniques to render the other scene through the portal

[heady iris]

I'm going to be dealing with something similar soon, actually. If you've ever played Factorio's Factorissimo mod, I want to do that

[hard viper]

i would first think long and hard about how crucial this is vs a loading screen + strong separation

[heady iris]

buildings that contain their own spaces inside

that'll be fun

[hard viper]

also, portal will have a very different approach vs a hard stargate that actually loads a new zone

[vivid wind]

Hoping to do the transitionless because it's novel feature that isn't implemented allot, probably due to it's implementation overhead.

[hard viper]

i’m just saying, before you spend at least 6 months on just this one feature, it should be really worth it

[modern creek]

Found the problem. Pinned an old .sln file and at some point renamed the project without the space. 🤦‍♂️

[heady iris]

whoopsie

[hard viper]

and if your reason to implement it is that it is not normally implemented, then you are solely going to be wasting your time

like, your response tells me that you should absolutely not do this

[heady iris]

implement what your game needs to be fun

[hard viper]

(and don’t if it doesn’t)

i have a feeling he’s about to say something to the effect of “if I explain my specific scenario, you’ll understand”

[vivid wind]

Definitely all good advice. Working on a rough prototype using stuff from tutorials so far to try to gage if it would be any fun. Just trying to understand if i'm going down the right path for how I'd load world B into world A.

[hard viper]

use a loading screen

unless your whole game revolves around a portal mechanic

[heady iris]

I say this as I spend another day implementing weirdly flexible UI systems instead of making my game fun

🙉

look, my settings menu uses the same UI prefabs as my scenario setup screen!

[vivid wind]

This particular idea uses the portal mechanic, so I'll probably try implementing a prototype and go from there.

[heady iris]

Can you describe how you'll interact with these portals?

[vivid wind]

The basic way is you travel through from World A to World B. In World B you collect resources to bring back to World A. World A is the permanent world, World B is lost after the portal closes. Opening the portal again loads another procedurally generated world/place to collect more resources from.

[heady iris]

Okay, so these worlds are not equals.

That's an important thing to know.

[hard viper]

and that sounds like a use case for a loading screen

[heady iris]

It also means you're allowed to abuse the other worlds a fair bit

[hard viper]

you are not using the portal mechanic in the gameplay itself.

[heady iris]

You can put them in weird places (including on top of each other, since you're always just visiting a single other world)

You know, this reminds me of a game I made once for a jam

The theme was "Threshold". I made a game where you procedurally build a weapon by picking one upgrade per level

You kicked open a door and got flung into the new world

In that case, I just showed the new world's skybox on a material inside the doorframe

[vivid wind]

Post Prototype ideas include allowing NPC units to travel between world A and world B. Perhaps have a rail system that can go through the portal, or create other portals directly from a location in world B to a depot in world A.

[heady iris]

and hijacked your input for a few seconds as you flew into it and the new level appeared

This would be insufficient if you wanted to interact through the portal, but that might not be necessary.

[vivid wind]

Yeah I'm just wondering how to implement loading two worlds in what would be essentially a open-world. Having World A at 0,0 and then creating another world at 10k,0,0 seems straight forward enough. Can use game mechanics or hard boundaries to prevent player from wondering too far from the World A. Only concern with that route is around if there are any weirdness that comes with having high values in the coords of gameobject.

[wicked scroll]

You might start to see float weirdness at 10k so I wouldn't go that far away. Since your 'worlds' don't actually need to physically connect, you can have them pretty close to each other (level design permitting)i in the scene. I would think of it as one world with two 'realities' and keep them near the origin and just think of each as an isolated unit

if you really want them to be more their own 'world', you could have each be its own scene and load/unload them as needed, but if you want the player to be able to see through the portals you'll need both loaded at the same time anyway, so you may as well load it all

[vivid wind]

Thanks for the info, I'll avoid the ultra large offsets. I'll aim for something smaller but manageable.

[hard viper]

I think I just need to bite the bullet now, turns out RefreshTile already does a cacheing thing

for reference, setting the tiles is 1/15 the cost

[quartz folio]

...Should you be refreshing all the tiles 17 times?

Or are there that many tilemaps

[hard viper]

there are that many tilemaps

in this case, only 741 actual rule tiles getting refreshed

the vast majority of cost is on evaluating a given ruletile

For reference, the reason I have 17 tilemaps is because separate collider properties absolutely must be separated, which is a bummer

4 of those just have platform effectors in different directions.
3 solely exist to have a different collision layer

[pastel cipher]

Guys if I have a player Green and enemies Red; and an attack that shoots automatically at set intervals in an area Blue; how can detect where the Blue attack should aim for it to hit the most enemies (or at least a good chunk of them)? Should I have like several posible set positions where it can land and check all of them individually to get the one with the most enemies nearby or...?

Like I want it to automatically check for large groups of nearby enemies

[wicked scroll]

best way is probably influence maps of some kind?
http://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro2/GameAIPro2_Chapter30_Modular_Tactical_Influence_Maps.pdf

[sweet perch]

does anyone know how i can get world bounds of a ui element?

[heady iris]

If both the attack and the enemies are circles or spheres, then you can simplify this to covering as many points as possible.

This is a tough problem to solve exactly.

Just randomly trying points near a random enemy will work decently.

[wicked scroll]

yeah that's true

you also could maybe divide the world into cells of a size and keep track of which ones are densest?

that works best if the map is more constrained though i'd guess

[pastel cipher]

I have look it up a bit, and seems really interesting, but no idea of how to actually implement it

[modern creek]

Is the blue radius fixed? (I assume yes)

[wicked scroll]

yeah, as far as i know it's not really a problem with a trivial answer

[pastel cipher]

They are not neceserally circles, most of them are basic shapes and even though the game is 3D I am only moving in the Z and X axis

[wicked scroll]

if it's not important to solve it very well, just picking random enemies and seeing how many are around them until you find a decent one like Fen said is probably fine

[heady iris]

An exact solution is probably going to be be too expensive.

smells like a NP-hard problem to me

[modern creek]

i'd start by just calculating how many enemies would be hit if you shot directly at every enemy in range, then picking the best shot

[heady iris]

But approximating it in 2D will be easy enough.

[heady iris]

This is what I'd expect the attack to do, as a player

[wicked scroll]

that's why influence maps are a good approach imo, but yeah they not trivial to implement for everyone

[heady iris]

I wound up implementing this kind of thing for an RTS AI

[wicked scroll]

yeah, unless you have a ton of enemies i'd start there too

[wicked scroll]

right, for large numbers it feels worth it

[heady iris]

Each point of interest was converted into a gaussian function centered on the point

and then I did gradient ascent in some Bursted code to find a high point

[pastel cipher]

I got a somewhat approximate solution which is to have a bunch of "template colliders" moving around the scene and every frame send a back how many instances of enemies they are hitting and chose the one with the highest count as the optimal target

Seems kinda messy for a just a approximate solution though

But I see a precise one is even more complex

I could also have each enemy have a recount of nearby enemies, and chose the enemies which have the most enemies nearby and hope to hit them

Which of these approximations do you see more appropiate?

[wicked scroll]

neither, i would do this

your 'template colliders' are basically that, just it's smarter to use the enemies themselves as those 'templates' since you know each enemy contains at least themself in their radius

[pearl sigil]

https://i.imgur.com/5zIr8S1.mp4
Can someone help me figure out why this buoyancy code is making the rigidbody stop floating up before hitting the peak of the 'water' plane?

Buoyancy script: https://pastebin.com/uL9fSwxU
It's a raycast buoyancy system. It's shooting a ray up from the GameObject it's attached to.
Where the raycast hits the 'water' plane, a "cursor" (green sphere) is shown on the plane. That's supposed to be where the GameObject floats to.
Instead, the GameObject floats upward but never tries to reach the peak of the wave (see mp4 showing this in action) despite the "cursor" (green sphere) hitting that point. Any ideas what might be going wrong in the floating logic?

[leaden ice]

what debugging steps have you taken?

Have you tried adding logs to make sure the force is being added when you expect it to be?

Also why AddForceAtPosition instead of just regular AddForce?

[pearl sigil]

Yes!! Changing the point from which it floats from fixes it! thank you, that makes sense! as for why it is set up like AddForceAtPosition, honestly it's from a tutorial I found. I'll experiment with AddForce instead and see what works better. thanks!

[pearl sigil]

out of curiosity, when you say debugging steps, what approaches do you mean? I had changed the code around and added that cursor functionality to show where the ray was hitting. do you mean steps like that or something more specific?

[spring creek]

They mean adding Debug.Logs as well as using the Debugger and adding breakpoints

[pearl sigil]

All right, got it for future use then, thanks.

[spring creek]

The Debug class also has helpful methods like DrawRay so you can visually see where your raycasts are going btw.
Lots of tools available.

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

[frosty snow]

how can typeof(object).Assembly.Location and typeof(UnityEngine.Object).Assembly.Location produce incorrect assembly locations ?

[cosmic rain]

Wdym by incorrect?@frosty snow

[knotty sun]

because object and UnityEngine.Object are 2 very different things

[frosty snow]

ok

apparently i needed netstandard dll

[nimble cairn]

Hi guys, I'm noticing some weird behavior with transform.SetParent(x) when using high velocity rigidbodies.

Are there any red flags when setting the parent of a rigidbody GameObject?

[lean sail]

What weird behaviour? In general the idea of moving parent and rb child is not a good idea

[nimble cairn]

I spawn a high velocity projectile, and on impact I create a parent, then make the projectile part of the parent as it becomes new "terrain"

[dusk apex]

This isn't code related. The channel is a code channel, maybe try moving your message (delete/repost) to #💻┃unity-talk

[nimble cairn]

I've noticed this is triggered if rigidbody.useGravity = true is set

[lean sail]

This is too vague for me. You still havent said what the actual issue is.

[nimble cairn]

Don't worry about it -- I think this is just one of those things I need to RTFM or trial/error

[round violet]

while in editor mode, can I get a variable from an object in a scene that isnt loaded ?

[nimble cairn]

@round violet Nope, but you can load the object and set active to false!

[round violet]

i mean the scene isnt loaded

not the object

[nimble cairn]

Absolutely not

Save the variable in https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.html

[round violet]

its for editor purposes

saving time

I looked through the docs and it doesnt looks like i can get a Scene struct from a scene that isnt loaded

[knotty sun]

can you not do that using AssetDataBase ?

[thick terrace]

that gives you a SceneAsset instead right

[knotty sun]

there is this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager.OpenScene.html

[round violet]

i only looked in SceneManager, i didn't knew they was a editor version of it, ty

[round violet]

but regarding my original question, this isnt what i need.
This open a scene, my goal is to "fake open" a scene so i can get the root objects

or maybe i dont need to "open" at all, but i dont know how to get data from a scene that isnt loaded

[knotty sun]

Open->Get Objects->Unload

[round violet]

true

i'll test and see if its not laggy

[faint otter]

So i have many objects in my scene and i would like a GameManager listen to i guess an event coming from the objects in the scene, how do i do this?

[untold siren]

wjat's the easiest way to check which area my enemy navmesh is currently walking on?

would it be sample position or smth

[heady iris]

so you want to know which of these areas you're currently in?

[untold siren]

Yeah

[quaint rock]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.SamplePosition.html

[heady iris]

NavMeshHit includes a mask field

which tells you which area you hit

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshHit-mask.html

Slightly unclear on how you actually interpret that. I guess it's a bitmask like a LayerMask

[untold siren]

gotcha

I'll give it a go

thanks

[quaint rock]

pretty sure its a bitmask

so some bitwise math will do what you need with it

[untold siren]

can just use << right?

[quaint rock]

i would have to test myself to figure out if its just straigt up ints or bitmask, but to test if something is in a area would be something like
(value & area) != 0

value would come from the NavMeshHit area would be the one or multiple you want to test for, so this statement would be true if value contains any bits from area

[round violet]

when calling EditorApplication.EnterPlaymode(), the rest of my code wont be executed
how can I tell Unity to continue the execution flow after the EditorApplication.EnterPlaymode() ?

e.i:

EditorApplication.EnterPlaymode();

Debug.Log("Executed"); // this doesnt get called

EDIT :
Debug.Log("Executed"); will be executed, but when entering playmode some stuff seems "cleared", like coroutines

[untold siren]

something like this?

            if (!NavMesh.SamplePosition(transform.position, out _enemyNavHit, 1.0f, wallrunLayers)) return;
            if ((_enemyNavHit.mask & wallrunLayers) != 0)
            {
                Debug.Log("on wall");
            }

wait no I did it wrong

[quaint rock]

it might work, i was making some assumptions of what the mask actaully is, so i would first start off by logging what mask actually is, and see if it lines up with values from your layers

either directly or 1 << n versions

looks like navmesh has a few things on it like GetAreaFromName that will be helpful for getting the mask for a named area

[untold siren]

got it working

        private void CheckIfOnWalls()
        {
            if (!NavMesh.SamplePosition(transform.position, out _enemyNavHit, 1.0f, wallRunAreas)) return;
            if ((_enemyNavHit.mask == wallRunAreas))
            {
                Debug.Log("on wall");
            }
        }

[quaint rock]

wow hate the naming then, so they call it mask, but its not a bit mask

[heady iris]

That seems off. Even if it isn't a bitmask...

if ((_enemyNavHit.mask & wallrunLayers) != 0)

This would still succeed

[quaint rock]

yeah it would since bits would be 100% identical in that case

[heady iris]

also, NavMesh.AllAreas is -1

which sure looks like an all-one bitmask

[round violet]

are running coroutines started in editor cleared when entering playmode ?

[heady iris]

good question. i've never used editor coroutines before..

[quaint rock]

ah guess the GetAreaFromName just returns the index but not the value of the layer then

[round violet]

because when entering playmode then starting a coroutine it get "stoped" afterwards

[heady iris]

Yes, that's correct.

[quaint rock]

so would need to do 1 << navmesh.GetAreaFromName()

[heady iris]

also, terrifying. i hit F12 to look at the implementation

[quaint rock]

to get its value

[heady iris]

it uses a fixed block

[quaint rock]

ugh

[heady iris]

it's passing a Span into native code

[quaint rock]

what did you go to def on to see that

GetAreaFromName just goes to a static extern for me

[quaint rock]

if i had to guess entering playmode is causing a domain reload

[round violet]

prob this

but i am not reloading domain on enter play mode

i disabled it in editor settings

[heady iris]

I must have VSCode set up to try and decompile

[quaint rock]

could you fake it, and just have some initlizeOnLoad logic take over after after entering play mode

[round violet]

so i dont know why HandleBackgroundGeneration doesnt keep ecxecuting after starting play

    [Button("Start Background Generation")]
    private void StartBackgroundGeneration()
    {
        if (!EditorApplication.isPlaying)
        {
            EditorApplication.EnterPlaymode();
        }
        
        StartCoroutine(HandleBackgroundGeneration());
        
    }

[quaint rock]

hmm odd, could be version too i guess,

[round violet]

i could do this, but the point of my inital goal is to make it easier not adding to much code xD

[blazing cedar]

how do i make the npc make a new path that avoids all objects, currently it just keeps on the original path that hugs the object so the npc trying to get to the point but gets stuck on the objects https://gdl.space/nipezosuqo.cs

[rocky jackal]

what could cause thes hughe lag spikes from the editor loop ?

[hard viper]

it’s basically editor-specific code

I find several gameobjects I have lead to high editor usage when they are visible in inspector

so first thing to do is see if this only happens when a specific thing is visible in inspector

if so, then it is likely some editor script running on one of its components

[ruby elk]

hey, does unity have some functions to trace against an infinite plane on an axis? ie not actual gameobject with collisions, just an infinite plane, and return the position

[rocky jackal]

could any build in script cause this ? cause i never made a script that runs in the editor in this project

[hard viper]

what do you mean by “trace”

[ruby elk]

a raycast sorry

unreal brain

[hard viper]

raycast is a physics query against a collider

name the mathematical operation

[quaint rock]

it does has a class called plane you can raycast agaisnt

[quaint rock]

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

[ruby elk]

yeah but you get my point
I have a starting position and direction for a ray, a position and face direction for the plane, and I wanna know the point where the ray intersects with the plane

yeah that might do it, thanks

[hard viper]

oh cool, they already made a data structure for ot

[quaint rock]

@ruby elk look at what i linked its exactly that

[hard viper]

oh, yeah. then use Plane.Raycast

it’s in the link

[ruby elk]

thank you

[hard viper]

fyi in Unity, Raycast usually specifically means a query on the physics system

[quaint rock]

not always, cases like this where its for the one object that might only exist in code

also the collider types have similar methods on them if you want to cast only agaisnt them and not world objects

[hard viper]

idk. this looks like it might only happen on fixed frames

[quaint rock]

looks like garbage collection kicking in, does this happen only in editor or also in builds?

also are you instantiating lots of objects and destroying them

[rocky jackal]

it appeared out of nowhere and its only a problem in the editor so im gonna hope it dissapears just like it suddenly appeared

[hard viper]

i mean that Casting in unity usually has the connotation of specifically referring to the many physics queries, which produce RaycastHit

[rocky jackal]

yes, quite a lot actually

lemem test smth

[hard viper]

well shit

[quaint rock]

that is the cause then, good chance it can be mitigated quite a bit by using object pooling

[hard viper]

you can’t instance and destroy tons of objects every few frames, bro. That will bring your game to its knees

[quaint rock]

and reusing objects instead of fully destroying them to just make a instance again later

object pools are pretty simple to make, also unity 2022 has built in tools for it

[rocky jackal]

it worked 5 minuites ago

[hard viper]

in your case, you need to make a pool

[quaint rock]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1.html

[heady iris]

This could be because you've got the hierarchy or inspector open while playing.

Especially if the behavior just appeared out of nowhere

[hard viper]

yeah. You’re lucky the inspector is the only thing yelling at you right now

[heady iris]

I would also smack the editor with a restart and see if anything changes

[rocky jackal]

ill do that

[heady iris]

I'm pretty sure I've seen cases where EditorLoop wound up including my own code, though

maybe it was including the time taken to render the game view?

[main shuttle]

Make sure you actually profile a Development Build, so you don't have the editor lagging out your profile results.
imho editor profiles are nearly useless

[hard viper]

i do mostly full instance and destruction because my game does it all at once, and then in small bits at a time. Which is fine.
I will later upgrade to a pool system.

[heady iris]

you're creating 11KB of garbage per frame, which could definitely be making the garbage collector run at regular intervals

that ~might~ show up in EditorLoop

[rocky jackal]

the builds should work fine tho, the thing that takes up the most is the editor loop. that doesnt run in builds am i right ?

[heady iris]

in this case, the built game would also run poorly

[rocky jackal]

ill check that

[main shuttle]

Yeah, that's my whole point

[hard viper]

it will affect your game’s performance

especially as you continue to build

[rocky jackal]

the problem is i cant work with 15fps in the editor and i cant make a build everytime i want to try smth

[hard viper]

in my case, all my scripts have very limitted use of Destroy, and all reference one specific monobehaviour (spawned entity handler) to ask it for “destruction.” This way, I can later refactor by having that one behaviour instead ask to go to a pool.

[heady iris]

have you restarted the editor yet

[rocky jackal]

its starting

[cinder juniper]

Hello, I am new to untiy and I want to learn first person movement, is using character controller better or a rigidbody? also can u suggest a good tutorial to start? I also want animations as I have a model ready in blender. Can someone pls help??

[rocky jackal]

if i hide the garbage collector it still shows the lag spikes

[heady iris]

you can switch the profiler to target the editor, not the player

that may reveal something

untoggle the Record button to make the graph stop, btw

[rocky jackal]

it starts spiking when i spawn my bullet impact effects but it doesnt stop even if all of the particle systems have been destroyed

[heady iris]

pausing the game won't stop the editor, so it'll keep flying past

Sounds like you have something getting stuck.

maybe you're continuing to spawn objects

[rocky jackal]

no, i would see that

just checked and it doesnt keep spawning anything

[keen vale]

not sure where to ask this but

is there any difference between the update order in a game’s build vs running it in the editor?

specifically in regards to drawing

[quaint rock]

its best not to rely on the update ordering

there are ways to define it, but getting into that will make life pretty complicated

this is why we have both Awake and Start and Update and LateUpdate

[heady iris]

Can you be more specific here?

Are you asking about script update order or something with rendering?

[keen vale]

script update order

im trying to update a shader param before something draws and it works in the editor player but not when i build

[quaint rock]

should be fine, Update is long before any rendering

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html
this graph in here shows the order all the unity messages get invoked in

[ruby elk]

is there a writeup somewhere on the internal logic of the functions in HandleUtility? especially this one https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/HandleUtility.CalcLineTranslation.html
I'm trying to recreate the transform gizmo for runtime usage

[latent latch]

I think that's specific for the editor. Could consider looking into this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GL.html

[ruby elk]

it being editor only is why I'm trying to recreate them, sorry if I wasn't clear

[latent latch]

regardless, GL works at editor too

[ruby elk]

I don't need the rendering stuff, rather the "mapping a screen relative movement to a world space movement constrained to an axis" stuff

[heady iris]

Sounds like an application for Vector3.Project

Given the handle's world-space direction, convert that to screenspace and throw out the Z component

Project the mouse position onto this vector.

..actually, maybe don't throw out the Z component, since you'll need to convert the projected mouse position back into world-space afterwards

I haven't implemented this exact thing before, so I'm a little fuzzy!

[spice aspen]

https://gdl.space/xojepigiwe.cs can anyone tell me why my rotation feels buggy and freeze? in void LookRot()

[knotty sun]

you are mixing transform and rigidbody, dont do that. iirc you've already been told this

[lethal ibex]

Hi, i'm making an online game using relay and netcode. I need the player to send their username to the server when they join, to do this i have a function subscribed to the OnClientConnectedCallback action. This function should send a ClientRPC to the client that just joined, and that will trigger sending the username back to the server, but i cannot get it to work where it only sends to one client. The code works when i do not include clientRPCParams, but obviously sends to every client not just the client that joined. The error message says that the RPC is called on a network object that is not in the spawned objects list

[rancid jolt]

Is there seems to be any problem with this script? It is printing not grounded constantly although the character is grounded

[spice aspen]

How can I rotate the body without using transform then?

[knotty sun]

RTFM https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-rotation.html

[spice aspen]

OOO tysm

[lunar python]

Anyone has any improvement/optimization recommendation for this StateMachine and State code?
https://paste.ofcode.org/cWEZtzi6cpg6BfcdQfTHpf
https://paste.ofcode.org/EgtfQxwGZ5XgsKPyicntpA

[lean sail]

Theres a lot heres thats pretty unusual, if it fits your needs though then theres no need to really change it. I'll point out some things that arent a good sign but "improving" it would pretty much be an entire rewrite.
In your design, the states need to know about the state machine. This seems to just be for the purpose of GetComponent. This is giving your states too much information.
Doesnt make a lot of sense to me why the statemachine is a mono and why the states arent.
Add a Exit for your states so they can clean up stuff if needed.
The handle, fixedhandle, and late handle smells like overengineering if you arent actually using all of them. I'm unsure of what you would ever need all 3 for.

[heady iris]

I have several "tick" methods on my state machine's states

[lean sail]

What would you even use them for? I cant imagine a scenario really where an object can exist in a state where it needs to update in update, fixedupdate, or lateupdate

[heady iris]

Although, I'm lying a bit -- these are on my "modules", which are basically just components that I manually call methods on, rather than letting Unity do it

Tick runs in Update, duh.
FixedTick runs in FixedUpdate and is used for systems that need to affect physics
IKTick runs after all of my IK systems are finished solving, and is used for things like positioning the camera correctly

I have LateTick on here, but it's used by nothing

I'm using FinalIK, which updates deep into LateUpdate.

[lunar python]

Thanks. I think I am removing StateMachine from State and remove unnecessary public function calls from StateMachine, but I have lots of things to do with Update(), FixedUpdate() and LateUpdate()

[strange scarab]

How come you cant manipulate dictionarys while iterating over them but you can in other languages

[quaint rock]

you can it just depends on how you do it

[heady iris]

Newer versions of .NET allow you to set values while iterating over a dictionary, actually.

https://makolyte.com/csharp-change-a-dictionarys-values-in-a-foreach-loop/

alas, not for us!

[swift falcon]

Hello! I want to find to position of the top part of an object. What im trying to do is that I have two quiz files since im making a quiz player and I want to start looping the items from the top. Heres a screenshot of what it is currently doing: (i just set it to the position of the object i want to find the top part, which results in just looping from the half 😢 )

forgot the screenshot, sorry

[heady iris]

I don't understand what you're actually trying to accomplish

[swift falcon]

first sentence

[heady iris]

transform.position

But I don't think that's what you actually want.

[swift falcon]

that gives the center

[heady iris]

Ah, I see.

[swift falcon]

i want the top

[fervent furnace]

this is gui so probably as rect transform?

[swift falcon]

how?

[heady iris]

(transform as RectTransform) will cast your Transform to a RectTransform

[swift falcon]

i have that object as a recttransform variable already

[heady iris]

It looks like you want to use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransform-rect.html

[swift falcon]

as I said I already have it

[heady iris]

The rect is in local space, so you'd need to transform it to world space to get the correct size

[swift falcon]

alright

[heady iris]

hmm, I'm not sure exactly how to do this, though

You know, an easy option would be to parent an empty object to your button

and just get its position

[swift falcon]

recttransform.rect is the world space position?

[swift falcon]

wait

i could just set position of an invisible object at the top of the list

and i dont need to do casts and all that stuff

alright works!

[queen relic]

Hi I can't turn horizontally does anyone know what the problem could be?

[rigid island]

how we supposed to know anything without seeing the script/setup ?

🔮

[queen relic]

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

[RequireComponent(typeof(CharacterController))]
public class FPSController : MonoBehaviour
{
public Camera playerCamera;
public float walkSpeed = 6f;
public float runSpeed = 12f;
public float jumpPower = 7f;
public float gravity = 10f;

public float lookSpeed = 2f;
public float lookXLimit = 45f;


Vector3 moveDirection = Vector3.zero;
float rotationX = 0;

public bool canMove = true;


CharacterController characterController;
void Start()
{
    characterController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    Cursor.visible = false;
}

void Update()
{

    #region Handles Movment
    Vector3 forward = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward);
    Vector3 right = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.right);

    // Press Left Shift to run
    bool isRunning = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift);
    float curSpeedX = canMove ? (isRunning ? runSpeed : walkSpeed) * Input.GetAxis("Vertical") : 0;
    float curSpeedY = canMove ? (isRunning ? runSpeed : walkSpeed) * Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") : 0;
    float movementDirectionY = moveDirection.y;
    moveDirection = (forward * curSpeedX) + (right * curSpeedY);

    #endregion

  

    #region Handles Rotation
    characterController.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);

    if (canMove)
    {
        rotationX += -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * lookSpeed;
        rotationX = Mathf.Clamp(rotationX, -lookXLimit, lookXLimit);
        playerCamera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotationX, 0, 0);
        transform.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * lookSpeed, 0);
    }

    #endregion
}

}`

[dusk apex]

Don't recall if CC prohibits Transform operations with rotation

[rigid island]

rotations should fine iirc

[latent latch]

start debugging

[dusk apex]

There are two rotations being applied. One to camera and the other to this object. I'm assuming the camera has got the unwanted behavior (mouse y)

[meager swallow]

guys i need help setting a 2d outline for a sprite,when i drag the material onto the GameObject it just disappears because of "Material does not have a _MainTex texture property" even tho in the shader graph i set the reference to "_MainTex"

[dusk apex]

Maybe canMove is false?

[latent latch]

welcome to URP hates sprite shaders

Well, SRP in general

[queen relic]

No, cause movement and jumping works

[dusk apex]

Which object isn't rotating correctly?

The camera or the character body?

[queen relic]

the camera

[dusk apex]

Well, the camera is only assigning changes to the x-axiscs playerCamera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotationX, 0, 0);

[rigid island]

and is camera child of player?

[queen relic]

yes

[dusk apex]

I can't turn horizontally
The camera only rotates on the x-axis

[latent latch]

Check out #archived-shaders, but if you're using the shader graph usually that's more friendly. Make sure you're using 2D texture node as well

[queen relic]

nvm got it

thx tho

[rigid island]

(assuming) if child of character , its pretty normal to rotate player body to get camera to rotate on Y as well

[meager swallow]

i'll check out the shader channel

[rigid island]

what was it

[latent latch]

I've seen sprite stuff done in shader graph so I'd expect it to be possible, but HLSL is a nightmare for sprite stuff

[queen relic]

linked the script to camera instead of the player object

[rigid island]

Oof

yup that will do it

[ruby elk]

how do you convert a direction to screen space? just camera.worldtoscreenpoint then normalize it?

also I could keep the Z component but it'd become invalidated by the project

[quaint rock]

who would you normalize it

also WorldToScreenPoint will not convert a direction just a point

[ruby elk]

vector3.project takes a normalized direction iirc

[dreamy narwhal]

How do i add a AssestPostProcessor to a obejct i imported so i can add a script into that prefab?

[quaint rock]

the asset post process runs everytime things of certain types are imported

what kinda asset is it?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetPostprocessor.OnPostprocessModel.html
for example here is one that acts on model import

[glossy mortar]

!cs

[tawny elk]

Join the C# Discord server, a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. https://discord.com/invite/csharp

[terse quarry]

can you interact with button elements when the displaystyle is .none ?

[cold onyx]

Hey gang, I'm using a UI image (SelectionRect in the code) to accomplish RTS style box selection (drag mouse over multiple Units to select all at once):

    private void CalculateDragBoxCollisions() {
        Vector3[] positions = new Vector3[4];
        Vector3[] corners = new Vector3[4];

        // Use the UI rect to get the world corners
        SelectionRect.GetWorldCorners(corners);

        // Raycast at each corner and get position
        for (int i = 0; i < corners.Length; i++) {
            Ray = Player.Cam.ScreenPointToRay(corners[i]);

            if (Physics.Raycast(Ray, out Hit, raycastMaxDistance, Player.GroundLayer)) {
                positions[i] = Hit.point;
            }
        }

        // Find the minimum and maximum extents
        Vector3 min = positions[0];
        Vector3 max = positions[0];

        for (int i = 1; i < positions.Length; i++) {
            min = Vector3.Min(min, positions[i]);
            max = Vector3.Max(max, positions[i]);
        }

        // Calculate the center and half extents for the overlap box
        Vector3 center = (min + max) / 2f;
        Vector3 halfExtents = (max - min) / 2f;

        // Query overlapping colliders
        Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapBox(center, halfExtents, Quaternion.identity, Player.SelectableLayer);

        // Do stuff with colliders
}

This code works great until the Units I'm mousing over are near the edges of the screen. The closer they are to the center of my camera the more accurate the collisions will be. The further from the center the more likely the collision will occur. I found this has to do with the fact that my Camera (Player.Cam) has an X rotation of 55. If I set this value to 90, so the Camera is looking straight down towards the world (3d world, cam is perspective), then everything works as intended. My question: How can I adjust this code to simulate this 90 degree rotation? I was hoping to avoid using another Camera. Thanks!

[haughty sonnet]

I've been trying to make a modular pie chart / roulette wheel generator. I have made multiple iterations and none of them have worked, im ashamed to even show em - they dont work at all. The idea I had is that I have a number "spaceLeft", I instantiate a set amount of slices and assign them a portion of the space left. They are then rotated so that the start of the slicing starts where the previous slice ended, and the fill amount is set to the assigned space, and then the next slice is instantiated and rotated accordingly. So far the slices overlap and never reach 100% (sometimes seemingly more, sometimes less), anyone know a simple way I could do it?

[latent latch]

So is it your logic that's having a problem or is it the component you're using that you're not understanding? Either way, post code.

[haughty sonnet]

well the current version looks like this and is awful in every way

    {
        for(int i = 0; i < numberOfTiles; i++)
        {
            CreateNewSlice(i);
        }
    }


void CreateNewSlice(int index)
{
    GameObject temp = Instantiate(wheelSlice, wheelOriginPosition.position, Quaternion.identity);
    int sliceSize = 0;

    if (index < numberOfTiles - 1) 
        sliceSize = Random.Range(Mathf.RoundToInt(360f / (numberOfTiles * 3)), spaceLeft);
    else 
        sliceSize = spaceLeft;

    tileList.Add(temp);
    temp.GetComponent<Image>().color = Random.ColorHSV(0f, 1f, 1f, 1f, 0.5f, 1f);
    temp.GetComponent<Image>().fillAmount = 1 - (float)sliceSize / 360f;
    temp.transform.rotation = new Quaternion(0, 0, spaceLeft, 0); 

    tileList.Add(temp);
        temp.transform.SetParent(wheelObject.transform, true);
    spaceLeft -= sliceSize;
}

[latent latch]

Is this on the UI? You've got tools like Radial fill if you want to use that

or is that what you're using here. I think there's specific sprite masks for it too but I can't recall them

[haughty sonnet]

yeee it's on the ui and im trying to set its fill amount to correspond to its size

so i can use radial fill instead of fillamount?

i mean that would make it more compatible with the rotation aspect at least

[latent latch]

as for layering problems, what is rendered on top is dependent where it is on the hierarchy

[haughty sonnet]

i googled and maybe range start / range end sprite masks?

[haughty sonnet]

well i dont want them to be on top of each other in the first place, that's why the idea is that they are rotated to the start is where the previous one ended 🤔

[twilit scaffold]

does anyone remember what this type of notation/formatting is called? I want to set VS to format this way, or at least stop 'correcting' me

    void Update() {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) {
            playerRb.AddForce(Vector3.up * 500); } }

[haughty sonnet]

and then the fill amount corresponds to how big it should be

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Image.FillMethod.html

[latent latch]

Ah, yeah that's probably doable then. Just continue where the last fill left off.

[rigid island]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[haughty sonnet]

exactly, but it just doesnt seem to work out for me hmmm, but maybe it would work better if i swtich over to radial fill like you said, ill try that

tyty

[simple egret]

Never seen that before. It's not pretty and not the standard C# formatting conventions.
But you can edit the formatting settings in Visual Studio options, under the "C#" item.

[rigid island]

yeah not a big fan of k&r

[twilit scaffold]

It is funny that they are using it as standard in the beginner course

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/lesson-3-1-jump-force?uv=2022.3&pathwayId=5f7e17e1edbc2a5ec21a20af&missionId=5f7648a4edbc2a5578eb67df&projectId=5cf9639bedbc2a2b1fe1e848#658f43baedbc2a23f7214433

[rigid island]

lots of java and c++ coders do it

[simple egret]

It's not even K&R is it? The closing braces are on their own line no?

[rigid island]

and js

[rigid island]

oh yeah the end one is so weird thing

thought they meant the opening

[simple egret]

But know that Unity isn't the reference for code style

[twilit scaffold]

I am not a fan of the closing bracket there. i prefer it on the next line

[latent latch]

Not my preference, especially on something like Update

[rigid island]

m_ 😔

[simple egret]

Properties in camelCase, and the Geneva-convention-breaking stuff in Unity.Mathematics am I right

[rigid island]

crazyy

.mathematics xD

quaternion

[simple egret]

I love their excuse on the home page "in C# int and float are built-in types, so we made our own" - no, they're aliases of built-in types

Keywords

[vivid wind]

I haven't done a deep dive yet, but off the top of anyone's head is there a way to quickly derive an efficient cluster formation for a number of spheres? Like rather than just glueing to each other on contact, I'd like them to do their best to keep a spherical shape when they are connected.

[latent latch]

sounds like something from one of those neat algorithm web pages but unfortunately I don't bookmark them

[vivid wind]

Yeah I'll have to do some digging around.

[hard viper]

I optimized the algorithm for ruletiles

it now saves a lookup table

It dramatically improved performance

right now, my smallish map was spending like 300-500 ms to refresh all tiles. it's now 100ms

only important because I expect the scale to increase dramatically

and spending 3 seconds refreshing tiles is dogshit

[fluid lily]

Hey all. I am having troubles with too many AssemblyDefinitions. main issue is I am having to reference different assemblies over and over(like Unity.Logging/Unity.Burst/Unity.Collections).

If I put an assembly in a sub folder of another assembly do I get all it's references, or if I reference another assembly will I get all it's references?

Or is there a way to add references by default for all assemblies?

[rigid island]

why are you using asmdef in the first place

[fluid lily]

Like are you asking me what are the advantages of them? Inwhich case I would say google it

Or like in my case why, inwhich case I would say google the reasons why to use them

[rigid island]

no i mean why are you using thm in the first place

[fluid lily]

Google the reasons why to use them

[rigid island]

i know what they are and what they're for..

[fluid lily]

Okay, now back to my question then?

I tried "Auto Reference" but my other assemblies I still have to assign the reference. Not sure what the docs mean by "Predefined Assemblies" will renference them

And at that I can't Auto Reference stuff like Unity.Logging

[indigo saffron]

my UI slider wants me to pass predetermined value instead of passing its value on change, how can I make it pass its value? it worked in past so idk what's happening.

[rigid island]

Predefined are the ones from unity

[rigid island]

you need to select the Dynamic function

[indigo saffron]

thx

but it doesnt show me that option here idk

[rigid island]

more likely the signature doesn't match

try float

yup its a float

[placid crypt]

Do OnMouseDown and similar methods affect only the first collider it touches?

[latent latch]

Looks like it

Might as well just raycast

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerClickHandler.html
This can be an alternative to MouseDown (for UI specifically but I believe it can still work on gameobjects otherwise if they have colliders*)

[placid crypt]

My real question is, what is the most versatile and effective way to detect mouse clicks/hovers and touch inputs

2D Raycasts?

[latent latch]

raycasting

easy to ignore layers without having any specific implementations

[placid crypt]

Okay any good resources or tutorials youd recommend

Thanks for the help

[latent latch]

Lot of the unity tutorials are mostly 3D raycasting but they are similar

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/onmousedown

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.Raycast.html

Gotta use the Physics2D type

may need to read up on layer masks and how you resolve the layers you want since that's a concept of its own

[placid crypt]

Great. Appreciate the info

[merry harness]

what is good practice for organizing class data in unity?

if i were to make something like a dungeon crawler with variable enemies?

[latent latch]

Stick to composition approach and don't derive classes too deep

[lean sail]

what class data, like the different stats an enemy can have?

[merry harness]

something like that

[lean sail]

i usually use SO to plug in the data, and then at least it lives somewhere visible instead of hidden away in some file. And better than relying on the data being saved on prefabs

[latent latch]

SO good for pumping out asset datas quickly

scriptable objects*

[merry harness]

aren't all objects scriptable?

[latent latch]

it's the alternative to populating data with JSON

for data defaults and it has editor support

[latent latch]

it's the name of the utility class

[lean sail]

we're referring to the specific unity Scriptable Objects, where you can create an instance of something that'll happily live inside your assets folder

[terse quarry]

is there a way to make a UI Document invisible by default instead of making it invisible in a script

If i set it to displaystyle none for each individual component i cant set it back to normal in a script as a whole

So Currently i just leave it as visible then set displaystyle to none in awake

[merry harness]

ive been thinking about it but i have only made few actual games so i think ill simplify things to help learn unity

and then revisit this when i have more experience

[lean sail]

scriptable objects are very easy, nothing to learn even. After using them you may think "is that all this is for?" because theres really not much to it

[merry harness]

if you say so ill do some research

[latent latch]

more than mandatory if you're doing something like a dungeon crawler

otherwise you can do it the old fashion way and use JSON / plain text and type out the addresses for all your reusable assets (rather, you'd assign by ID this way and have a asset database lookup)

[spring creek]

You could use csv! 😸 (and even convert that to SOs dynamically if you want)

[merry harness]

ive seen what they could do; is it possible to make constructions in scriptable objects?

what about making inheritances?

[latent latch]

You usually couple them with your prefabs such that if you had an Enemy Gameobject with an EnemyStats script, your scriptableobject will define what sprite you'd use and health totals of this creature.

Meaning you can use a single prefab to define what an Enemy is for all your scriptable objects

Which goes back to my previous message about sticking to a composition approach where you're less likely to run into type issues from inheritance

[latent latch]

public class Entity : Monobehaviour
{
    private float health;
    private float mana;
}

public class Enemy : Entity
{
    public enum EnemyType
    {
        Melee,
        Archer,
        Magic,
        Assasin,
        Hunter,
        Rogue,
        Priest,
        //ect
    }
    
    private EnemySO enemySO;
    private Dictionary<EnemyType, EnemyBehaviour> behaviourType;
    
    //Enemy AI movement and actions
    private EnemyBehaviour behaviour;
    
    public void Assign(EnemySO enemySO)
    {
        this.enemySO = enemySO;
        behaviour = behaviorType[enemySO.enemyType];
        health = enemySO.health;
    }

    public void Attack();
    public void TakeDamage();
    public void Path();
}

public class EntitySO : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] float health;
    public float Health => health;
}

public class EnemySO : EntitySO
{
    [SerializeField] EnemyType enemyType;
    public EnemyType EnemyType => enemyType;
}

some ideas

and some bad ideas:

public class Entity : Monobehaviour { }
public class Enemy : Entity { }
public class MeleeEnemy : Enemy { }
public class ArcherEnemy : Enemy { }
public class HunterEnemy : Enemy { }
public class MagicEnemy : Enemy { }
public class MeleeHunterEnemy : Enemy { }
public class MagicArcherEnemy : Enemy { }```

It's not so much bad, but less expendable when later on you're like, maybe you want some AI to be both an Melee and an Archer, well in the top implementation you'd allow for multiple assignment and blend your logic together.

Yet by doing inheritance this way you've kind of bound their behavior by these derived classes making it quite difficult to improve or mix it up later on.

[merry harness]

this is a little overwhelming 😅

i think i can follow

[latent latch]

Well, beyond the implementation, that's the idea of scriptable objects

for general usage

pair it up with a prefab
many scriptable objects to 1 prefab

[merry harness]

@latent latch im starting with something much simpler

how is this?

[latent latch]

oh yeah totally

treat it as the blue prints for which each enemy should at least have

[merry harness]

i would add an attack value but im not sure how well that would work if i were to make special enemies with specific attacks/ patterns

like how a damage over time poison effect would work

[latent latch]

Starting out though you'd want to try to keep your ScriptableObjects immutable, so keep your fields private and slap on SerializeField so you can still edit them in the editor

but allow for public getters just to read the data without allowing them to be edited

[latent latch]

you can consider this as other components you can slap on the EnemySO much like the EnemyBehaviour class declared on mine there. (well, only declared a field, but it's delcared on EnemySO as if it were a component)

Like an Effects class and each EnemySO can take a list of Effects they can apply

[merry harness]

what is scriptable object inheritance need for exactly?

[latent latch]

keep it structured much like the business logic (prefab) side

EntitySO -> EnemySO
Entity -> Enemy

Every entity has health, every entity has a movement speed

so our derived enemy too will have to include those variables

Now, Entity -> Player would be similar such that you as the player has health and a speed

You may or may not have multiple SOs for the Player, but if you were to allow different starting classes and such then you would

The overall idea of setting it up this way allows you to pump out different profiles of enemies/items/classes, ect pretty quickly on the editor

BatEnemy => 30 health, Melee Enemy, BatSprite
OrcEnemy => 60 health, Hunter + Melee Enemy, OrcSprite

[merry harness]

I've been setting up inheritance chains

[latent latch]

that's the idea. Enums you can eventually just throw in namespaces

also, Unity Editor doesn't like multiple non-nested classes that derive from monobehaviour or scriptable object on the same script

it's ambiguous to the editor when you drag script assets around on it

(are you trying to drag Enemy on this field or Player?)

[merry harness]

elaborate? my lingo is not there yet

i was planning on making separate gameobjects that inherit form this script

or something like that

[latent latch]

you want to keep your classes in separate scripts because when you bind references on the editor it won't know what object it is to create

sometimes it may seem obvious what the editor should do, but it's dumb and won't figure it out without you clarifying it by keeping it separate

[merry harness]

even if i specify a class separate from the others?

[cosmic rain]

Yes. Unity expects one class inheriting a unity Object in one file. Putting more in the same file risks problems.

[merry harness]

so i should only include a entity class?

[latent latch]

I forget the full details but you'll encounter weirdness from the editor if you do. Maybe it just yells at you, I forget.

1 class per script, even if it's smallll

nested classes are fine though

[merry harness]

apparently it would be a good idea to use [CreateAssetMenu]

[latent latch]

Youll need those for your ScriptableObjects

[merry harness]

trying to make it so that these private values can be changed, however it dosen't seem to be working

[cosmic rain]

You'd access them via these properties. Funny though you got the naming convention upside down.

Underscores are usually used for private fields, while properties use Pascal case.

[shy citrus]

anyone know how to fix the issue where Unity automatically turn on "Collaboration"?

it causes the "[Collab] Collab service is deprecated and has been replaced with PlasticSCM" issue, I have tried turning it off in the ProjectSetting.asset, however whenever I open the Unity, it turns it on again after compiling.

[cosmic rain]

Maybe get/update the version control package and try again

[shy citrus]

when I open the project, it loads this message, then it turn the collaboration on again.

[cosmic rain]

Did you update the package?

[shy citrus]

yes.

[cosmic rain]

Take a screenshot of project settings - services

[shy citrus]

not sure what do you meant for "project settings - services", like this?

[merry harness]

@latent latch if your still on could you help me get some very broken code working

[cosmic rain]

There should be "services" category in your project settings window.

[pastel halo]

How would you handle interaction in two instances: A wooden chest/fire pit (foot height) and door/floating object (chest height).
Would you have two raycasts? Boxcast? Angled raycast from highest point to floor? I'm trying to figure out the most performant. It seems running two raycasts (chest and foot) may be the best option?

[cosmic rain]

Ah, I see. You're using 2019.

[cosmic rain]

2019 is long unsupported. I recommend updating your editor.

[spring creek]

I usually do some area check, like a trigger collider or overlapsphere, along with a shape cast like spherecast.
Since i do it using where the player is looking, where the object doesn't matter too much. They look down to target the chest or firepit, or they look up to target the floating object. Just one cast

Raycasts are almost free though. So super cheap. Play around and do the two cast method if you want

[hasty haven]

Speaking of raycasts,
I want to send a raycast through a circle that's displaced to the side in a 3rd person game
Would I want to use Camera.WorldToScreenPoint then ScreenPointToRay to get the direction?

[faint otter]

Well, iirc, world to screen point gets a scene coordinate, and does maths and converts it to a vector2. Screenpoint to ray gets that vector2 and draws a ray on the cameras forward direction

[hasty haven]

Its not the same as forward direction on perspective camera

[faint otter]

Are you talking about a gun or something?

[hasty haven]

unless its centered

Using the two methods ended up working

[faint otter]

Ah very nice

[hasty haven]

Its for aiming spells in my game,
while button is held it makes some floaty shapes that you aim through

They arent centered on the screen though, its branching off of player and moves around a bit, still a billboard though

[faint otter]

I see

[dense swan]

excuse me, is it possible to grab every PlayableBehavior from PlayableAsset/PlayableDirector?
I can't found any way to do that.

[distant meadow]

MainCamera is not moving smoothly even when MoveTowards, why?

https://pastebin.com/arWvh4rP

[slender urchin]

Hi everyone.
this is my sample code.
https://gdl.space/guzoviwaqe.cs
how do i get the highest Time?
i know Mathf.Max but how do i use in this case?

[dense swan]

in the last argument of MoveToward. if you multiply your cameraSpeed with deltaTime cameraSpeed*Time.deltaTime and reduce the speed. will it go smoother? It should move linearly.

[somber nacelle]

obligatory: use cinemachine
but you also want to update your camera in LateUpdate rather than Update because you want it to update after the player updates

[distant meadow]

No, it will not go smoother and cameraSpeed is 0.1f right now

Maybe if I use cinemachine it may work, thank you guys! I will try that

[quartz folio]

You're not really using MoveTowards correctly

[jagged snow]

Is this possible? I'm trying to assign a function inside that uses the value returned from the event.

                {
                    if(variable == value){

                    }
                    else{

                    }
                }```

_resourceHandler.OnHealthChangeSet += () => _ui.ModifyHealth(_resourceHandler.CurrentHealth, _resourceHandler.MaxHealth, HealthModifyType.None);
_resourceHandler.OnHealthChangeHurt += () => _ui.ModifyHealth(_resourceHandler.CurrentHealth, _resourceHandler.MaxHealth, HealthModifyType.Hurt);
_resourceHandler.OnHealthChangeHeal += () => _ui.ModifyHealth(_resourceHandler.CurrentHealth, _resourceHandler.MaxHealth, HealthModifyType.Heal);
 }```
To clarify, im basically trying to make this without having these additional events. I could make a function inside the class assigning this but im trying to avoid it.

[lean sail]

you need to accept the parameters in the (), but realistically you wanna just make a method for this like

void MethodName(type variableName)
{
}

then subscribe it _resourceHandler.OnHealthChange += MethodName

[jagged snow]

ahhh great im triyng it out now

thanks

[jagged snow]

works like a charm thanks!

[fallen lotus]

Is there anyway to load into another scene while simultaneously clearing all "dontdestroyonload"ed objects? bassically transitioning into a scene as if you are booting up the game for the first time?

[somber nacelle]

use an event that your DDOL objects subscribe to. or don't make them DDOL

[round violet]

what are some cases where delegates are handy.
When I look up the docs, I can't imagine cases where its useful (i know they are, i just dont find some cases).

also, there is this example in the dotnet doc:

public delegate void Callback(string message);

// Create a method for a delegate.
public static void DelegateMethod(string message)
{
    Console.WriteLine(message);
}
// Instantiate the delegate.
Callback handler = DelegateMethod;

// Call the delegate.
handler("Hello World"); // <= what happens here ? does it call "DelegateMethod", or does it "save" its call

[somber nacelle]

I don't know what you mean by "save its call" but invoking the handler variable invokes any delegates assigned to it. In this example that is just DelegateMethod so this would result in printing Hello World to the (non-unity) console because the DelegateMethod accepts the string parameter and just passes that to the Console.WriteLine call

[round violet]

so this almost act like a any method, the difference is you dont need a instance of any class to use it (except the instance handler)

[fallen lotus]

yeah i guess i can do something like this. i thought there would be a simplier way

[somber nacelle]

delegates are basically ways you can pass methods around as variables. this does include instance methods

[fallen lotus]

im currently working on a system that takes users to a ban screen if banned and if they are unbanned while sitting on the screen i want to transition them back to the main menu fresh as if they are just loading in for the first time

[swift falcon]

Hi! Im trying to get the height of a 2d object so that I can loop through a list. The code in the screenshot if the code I used, but height remains the same even though I have a bigger screen. The consequences? Well, when I am in the unity editor with the game window small, it looks good, but when I zomm in on the game, it messes up. Any fixes?

[round violet]

ah okay i forgot that, thats great

what would be the synthax to add as a method arg a delegate/another method so you can call it inside the method ?

[somber nacelle]

you've got your game view set to free aspect so when you "zoom" it's just changing the resolution/aspect ratio of the view

[swift falcon]

I used currentItemOffset -= prefabInfo.rect.height; when I loop through the list to instantiate it downwards

[somber nacelle]

it's not any different than any other type as a method parameter

[round violet]

and whats the synthax for that ?

[swift falcon]

yea, but how can I get the heigh of pixels?

[somber nacelle]

why don't you first learn how to properly anchor and scale your #📲┃ui-ux so that it doesn't change to random sizes

[somber nacelle]

have you never written a method with parameters?

[round violet]

this is the idea

void DoSomething(? somemethod){
   // stuff
   somemethod();
}

can you pass values in this method ?

[somber nacelle]

you put the type of the delegate you want to use as the type for the parameter

[round violet]

okay

[swift falcon]

thats an help channel, am I supposed to ask this there?

[somber nacelle]

well you can start by reading the documentation pinned in that channel to learn about how to set up your UI correctly

you can also look into things like Vertical Layout Groups instead of manually finding the height and assigning the position

this is a code channel

[fiery path]

Hey guys, tryna reference my interface to execute a function in a scenemanager script but keep finding an error
Here is the trigger function with the definition that is erroring:

private void Start()
{
    sceneManager = FindObjectOfType(typeof(IScreenManager)) as IScreenManager;
    if(sceneManager == null)
    {
        Debug.Log("No Scene Manager for Level Trigger");
    }```
Here is the interface alongside the scene manager (which is in the scene):
```public interface IScreenManager
{
    void FadeOut();
}```
```public class SceneOneManager : MonoBehaviour, IScreenManager
{
    public static SceneOneManager instance;
    //etc```
I keep finding this error upon play however:

[dusk apex]

Fix the errors from top to bottom.

The first error states that you can only use find with objects that derive from unity object.

[prisma zephyr]

hello I need help please I made a script in python to develop a 2d game I made the script to make a character move up down right left but when I want to try on unity it doesn't work can't anyone tell me how to do it

[somber nacelle]

unity uses c# not python

[prisma zephyr]

Oups sorry i would to say c#

Not python

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

public class player : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    { public float moveSpeed;
   
    private bool isMoving;

    private Vector2 input;

    private void Uptade().
    {
        if (!isMoving)
        {
            input.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
            input.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("vertical");

            if (input != Vector2.zero)
            {
                var targetPos = transform.positition;
                targetPos.x += input.x;
                targetPos.y += input.y;

                StartCoroutine(Move(targetPos));
            }

        }
    }
}

    IEnumerator Move(Vector3 targetPos)
    {
        isMoving = true;

        while (targetPos - transform.position).sqrMagnitude > Mathf.Epsilon)
            {
                transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, targetPos, moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
                yield return null;
            }
        transform.position = targetPos;

        IsMoving = false;
    }
                

[dusk apex]

Your coroutine isn't inside your player class.

[somber nacelle]

you need to start by getting your !IDE configured

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[fiery path]

yeah no stupid rushing and not reading errors once again, was trying to speed run modularity without an extra script in between

ty for the point out

[prisma zephyr]

I'm a beginner and I don't really know what should I change?

[fiery path]

they are saying that your coroutine is actually outside of your entire public class player
move it into the class by shifting it up past the bottom }

[hexed pecan]

You also have public variables inside a method which is not correct and you misspelled Update

Seems like a mess, start with configuring your code editor, see the bot message

[dusk apex]

I didn't even notice that they were all inside the Start method.

It should have been caught by your configured IDE #archived-code-general message

[fervent furnace]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-can-i-find-all-objects-that-have-a-script-that-implements-a-certain-interface/126233/5

is there someone delete his question or i am lag

[prisma zephyr]

I did what you told me and it doesn't change anything I'm sorry I'm having a hard time

[prisma zephyr]

What exactly should I do with it?

[fervent furnace]

follow the guide

[round violet]

hello

i tried adding a delegate in my code, but i am running into an issue.
Here is the code:

    private delegate IEnumerator UnloadAsyncEndedDelegate(string sceneToLoadAfterwards);

StartCoroutine(UnloadAsyncScene(0, new UnloadAsyncEndedDelegate(LoadAsyncScene(choosenScene))));

    private IEnumerator UnloadAsyncScene(int sceneIndex, UnloadAsyncEndedDelegate endCallback)
    {
        // some code
        endCallback(); // how do i get the string argument ? 
    }

private IEnumerator LoadAsyncScene(string choosenScene) { }

for now the two issues are :

• how do i pass the string into the callback when calling it ?
• in the StartCoroutine line i got a "need a mthode name" error

okay i found the issues, i was totally not using it in the correct way :)

[wind kestrel]

Is this the place for help with code, or is there a designated area?

[wind kestrel]

thanks, i appreciate it

[warped tinsel]

hello guys I desperately need some help with unity, I've been cracking my head about this the whole morning. If anyone with some expereince would like to take a look at my reddit post that would be great

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity2D/comments/19efyjo/game_object_not_set_to_an_instance_of_an_object/

I don't think it is that hard to fix, maybe I'm just overlooking the soluti9on

[thick terrace]

do you have a second instance of the script on some other object in your scene by mistake?

[warped tinsel]

I will have a look, thanks

[warped tinsel]

that was it! holy shit I'm so stupid. Can't thank you enough man

[thick terrace]

we've all been there at one time or another 😄

[dusky lake]

One trick for that, if a script on a gameobject throws an error, single click the error in console and the gameobject will be highlighted

you can also make your Debug.Log do that by doing Debug.Log("text", gameObject)

[warped tinsel]

good to know, thanks!

[round violet]

        Scene scene = SceneManager.GetSceneByName(choosenScene);
        GameObject[] sceneGameObjects = scene.GetRootGameObjects();
        sceneGameObjects[0].SetActive(false);
        
        Bounds bounds = _bigBackgroundScenes[sceneName];
        Vector3 offset = new Vector3(
            (_loadedBigBackgroundScenes_Names.Count < 1 ? _player.transform.position.x : _loadedBigBackgroundScenes_Bounds[^1].center.x + _loadedBigBackgroundScenes_Bounds[^1].extents.x),
            0,
            0);
        sceneGameObjects[1].transform.position = offset;
        bounds.center = offset;
    
        Debug.Log("position of " + sceneGameObjects[1].name + " in scene " + choosenScene + " set to " + offset.ToString());

here i am loading a scene, getting the root gameobject (sceneGameObjects[1]), and setting its posittion.

when I read the outputed debug logs, all the positions are correct. But when i go check in the transform component, sometimes the position isnt correct

why is this happening ?

[dusky lake]

#1 dont load objects by iteration id, either give them a singleton script or tag them and find them by tag, what you are doing can break at any given time

are you executing your stuff right after loading? are they on a totally different position than they should be or a bit off, maybe 0,0,0? did you log the position they should be on and is that different to their actual position?

[round violet]

there is no iteration ?

[dusky lake]

sceneGameObjects[0]

[round violet]

well its getting the first item in an array, i dont see the problem

[dusky lake]

move any object, have any plugins auto create an object and it breaks

just tag the object you want to deactivate with something and look for the tag instead

[round violet]

yes i know, but this is how I structured my scne template so i wont have any issues with that

i cant work with tags because multiple will exists eventually at the same time

[mellow sigil]

GetRootGameObjects isn't guaranteed to always return the objects in the same order

[round violet]

that might be the issue then

let me check

[dusky lake]

just make a manager script or whatever, have a list on there and drag all scene objects into it, list is always ordered and you dont have to deal with hierarchy ordering differently

[round violet]

well neither of the 2 root GO have the position changed to the correct one

they just have there default position

[dusky lake]

are you executing right after scene loading?

might be a race condition in that case

[round violet]

i'll just remove the other root, so there is only one

[round violet]

there are 3 scene loading in async in additive

[dusky lake]

are you waiting for the async load to finish before you change the positions?

[round violet]

2 of the transform are at 0,0,0
one of them should be at 210

[round violet]

well I cant get the root objects without the scene finished loading

but yes i am

[dusky lake]

ok, when do you execute the position changes?

[round violet]

this code is just above the snippet i posted above

[dusk apex]

when i go check in the transform component, sometimes the position isnt correct
Are you referring to checking via inspector?

[round violet]

yes

see above screens

[round violet]

here

[dusky lake]

have you debug.logged the position that your script is calculating for the objects?

[dusk apex]

Inspector would show the local values

[round violet]

well its offset, i am using it in the debug log

[dusk apex]

You'd want to log the local values to print the same value as what's in the inspector

Or set the localPosition to have the inspector show your expected value

[round violet]

ran other test, sometimes they are all at 0 0 0

local or world, why is it working/not working "randomly" ?

if this was the issue, i think it would always fail or work

[dusk apex]

What failed to work?

I'm still catching up with chat

Don't see anything about failing to work.. just comments about not all objects being available yet or position being incorrect etc

[round violet]

the transforms arent to what i set them to

[dusk apex]

The inspector values are the local values

[round violet]

well, why does these values are correct ? and sometimes not ?

[dusk apex]

log the local values and see if they match what's in the inspector

Debug.Log("position of " + sceneGameObjects[1].name + " in scene " + choosenScene + " set to " + offset.ToString() + " and should have a local position of: " + sceneGameObjects[1].transform.localPosition);```

[round violet]

the local values are the exact same

the part that make me wonder whats the issue is that the bug doesnt happen all the time

[hard viper]

Is there a way to make OnValidate not trigger for all of my scripts the moment I enter play mode?

[latent latch]

maybe add a static bool

for debug purposes

[jolly plank]

I'm having an issue calling a serverRPC when running as 'host' i think it might be a timing issue, not sure?

[hard viper]

For background, i have a method on a base class derived from rule tile. RuleTile’s custom editor is wacky af. I want to call this method when I’m done editting my ruletile. I cannot use [ContextMenu()] or [NaughtyAttributes.Button(…)] to call this method. I think that has to do with it being in a base class

[jolly plank]

'RegisterPlayerServerrpc only has a debug.log line

[latent latch]

Check out the ISerialization interfaces instead of using OnValidate

[jolly plank]

works when i run as server, and connect a client OK, but when running as host can't run the RPC

[latent latch]

so it'll only update when you serialize values

[hard viper]

Oh shit. that is smart

i did not know I can do that. good call

[latent latch]

I'm just guessing here but try it

[hard viper]

what does Deserializing mean?

[latent latch]

Loading editor and stuff probably

that actually may be called before playmode

[hard viper]

like a serialized field in the thing that is now being removed? or removing a whole object? or loading it from the asset? maybe kdk

[latent latch]

not too sure, but I know that it does randomly get called

when it feels like it

[hard viper]

anyway, I think OnBeforeSerialize is probably really useful for me. Ty

I will probably replace all of my OnValidate with it, because that is what I really wanted

[latent latch]

I use it for nested classes a lot because it's a pain to use OnValidate otherwise

[hard viper]

Separate question: Let’s say I want to set up like a server, where game just sends files to and from server. Server has validation logic to make sure it isn’t sent invalid files/queries, can query its database, and send them out.
Is this easy to do in unity?

The idea is basically user-made levels

I don’t need full details on how to do it. Just asking if it is easy to do with unity.

[jolly plank]

With here, I can't call the RPC because it is despawned, where can I put the call to the RPC?

[rigid island]

#archived-networking

[jolly plank]

easy enough, you could setup a database with your own custom file format / upload format and use a C# package for downloading files from the server, if there is not an official way

[hard viper]

I would not do this by find gameobject by tag

I would use a singleton

[hard viper]

ty

I’m not sure what an RPC is tho

[rigid island]

Remote Procedure Call

[round violet]

Could someone please try to help me with this issue, still haven't found a fix

[round violet]

Those screens illustrate well the problem

[hard viper]

does it have a rigidbody?

[rigid island]

#archived-networking

[hard viper]

also, I would debug.Log the transform.position as well.
You want to separate improperly assigned from changed later

[round violet]

Nope

Empty empty

[round violet]

I tried, offset and transform.position are always equal

Idk if the position is "changed" afterwards, but nothing else touches transforms except this code

And the werider part is that this issue is random

[dusk apex]

Place a debug break after the lines of code

and verify in the inspector that it hasn't changed

[round violet]

Im dumb

I found the issue

I am loading scenes, but the same scene can be loaded multiple times

So the get scene sometimes doesnt get the "correct" one

Because same name

Is there a unique identifier i can save to get a specific scene ?

From memory there is only getScene using path and using name

And build index

But those will all have an issue when having multiple identical scene loaded ?

[hard viper]

I made a public static class with public const int with indices for specific build indices for each scene

SceneBuildIndices

this is super easy; and way faster than any “smart” solution tbh. At least in my case, where I have 4 scenes in the whole project

[round violet]

i dont understand how this would work with loading scene and knowing "this new one is <this scene>"

ig SceneManager.GetSceneAt it the solution for me

[hard viper]

you can load scenes by build index

[round violet]

its retreiving the scene the problem

[hard viper]

why is that the problem

[round violet]

because i load multiple time the same scene

[hard viper]

and?

[round violet]

its like having a dict wit hsame keys, how does unity know which one to get ?

[hard viper]

scenes aren’t instances, you know

scenes are like prefabs

mega-prefabs

[round violet]

loaded scene:

• scene1
• scene1
• scene2

GetSceneByName("scene1") > random or first item

[hard viper]

get by build index

having two scenes in one scene doesn’t make sense

[round violet]

its additive

[hard viper]

that isn’t two scenes. that is two whole sets of objects

[round violet]

well its shown like multiple scenes loaded

[hard viper]

what are you doing to do this

or why

[round violet]

i have good reasons

[hard viper]

Why is it a scene and not a prefab

[round violet]

but i found the solution sor there is no problem now

[round violet]

thats a good point

[hard viper]

that’s why this doesn’t make sense

[round violet]

i wonder why i didnt do prefabs

[hard viper]

just fix it now

[round violet]

probably because it was going to get filled withy tons of objects far away

[hard viper]

then just break or disable the prefab

[round violet]

well, you cant load with async a prefab ?

if i remeber i think thats why i used scene

[hard viper]

can’t you just instantiate it with an async method?

the point of a scene is to destroy everything, and bring in everything from a new scene

having multiple scenes at once doesn’t make sense to me

[round violet]

idk if there is one for instantiate

[hard viper]

actually gameobjects cannot be instantiated async

idk, but the way you are doing this is strange, my man

[round violet]

ig im strange then :)

ty for trying to help out

[kindred otter]

How to deal with logging errors from scriptable objects OnEnable() when running automated tests?

[fiery path]

is this a programming issue?

[dawn nebula]

So I currently have a split screen with two cameras, and am trying to have one screen "swipe away" the other one, so it now takes over the whole screen.

[heady iris]

click on the error to view the rest of the message

if it's UnityEditor stuff, it's probably not your fault; an editor restart usually clears that up

[fiery path]

it did o>

[dawn nebula]

I'm using DoTween, so I have things like this

        DOTween.To(() => brainCam.rect, (x) => { brainCam.rect = x; }, new Rect(0, 0, 0.5f, 1), transitionSpeed);
        DOTween.To(() => diagramCam.rect, (x) => { diagramCam.rect = x;}, new Rect(0.5f, 0, 0.5f, 1), transitionSpeed);
///Other code
        DOTween.To(() => brainCam.rect, (x) => { brainCam.rect = x;}, new Rect(-0.5f, 0, 0.5f, 1), transitionSpeed);
        DOTween.To(() => diagramCam.rect, (x) => { diagramCam.rect = x; }, new Rect(0, 0, 1, 1), transitionSpeed);

brainCam/diagramCam are Cameras, and I'm manipulating their rects to create this swipe effect

the problem is that when one camera no longer takes up any part of the screen, I get an error and a strange flicker

sometimes...

RenderTexture.Create failed: width & height must be larger than 0

Any idea why I'm getting this?

Neither camera height/width ever hit 0.

Though I guess the size of their contribution to the screen does hit 0?

[rose fulcrum]

public void OnInteract(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    if (context.performed)
    {
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(new Vector3(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2));
        RaycastHit hit;
        IInteractable interactableObject;
        Debug.Log("Interaction Action Performed");
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 20))
        {
            Debug.Log($"Raycast cast and hit {hit.collider.name } ");
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.TryGetComponent<IInteractable>(out interactableObject))
            {
                Debug.Log($"Object is interactable.");
            } 
            else 
            { 
                Debug.Log("Nice try loser, it isn't working.");
            }
        }
    }
}

My script keeps calling me a loser and I have been looking at code for so long I am sure I am making a really simple mistake. Anyone see my mistake?

this is the code for the object that I am hitting

super simple. Not sure where I've gone wrong.

[knotty sun]

That is not the code being hit, that is an abstract class

[hexed pecan]

You are getting the component from the collider, maybe it is in its parent?

[leaden ice]

What object does the log say you're hitting?
What components are on that object?

[fiery path]

Hey guys! got a camera clamping issue
if the player rotates the camera any direction it works completely fine
as soon as it rotates up or 'x' too much, it teleports and jitters back
every other direction is fine
am i missing something obvious?

    {
        rotationInput = Mouse.current.delta.ReadValue() * sensitivity;

        float targetRotationX = Mathf.Clamp(transform.localEulerAngles.x - rotationInput.y, initialRotation.x - maxRotation, initialRotation.x + maxRotation);
        float targetRotationY = Mathf.Clamp(transform.localEulerAngles.y + rotationInput.x, initialRotation.y - maxRotation, initialRotation.y + maxRotation);

        float smoothedRotationX = Mathf.LerpAngle(transform.localEulerAngles.x, targetRotationX, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
        float smoothedRotationY = Mathf.LerpAngle(transform.localEulerAngles.y, targetRotationY, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);

        transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(smoothedRotationX, smoothedRotationY, 0f);
    }```

[heady iris]

Do not read back the eulerAngles from a transform.

it's generally much more stable to just keep track of the angles you want and set them

rather than reading euler angles, modifying them, and putting them back

Euler angles can wind up suddenly changing (e.g. from 270 to -90)

This will cause your view to jump when you clamp this new value.

[latent latch]

How about some quaternions instead

[zinc parrot]

How can I make a deferred camera as CHEAP as possible if I only want motion vectors and depth(as I am overwriting the actual image)

[latent latch]

sounds like some researching, but at most cull the layers you don't care to render as you do

there's more you can probably disable via rendering asset so create a profile specifically for it

beyond what's on the camera component

[winged tiger]

hey anyone knows why this line of code:

cam.fieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(cam.fieldOfView,fov,Time.deltaTime*10);

works normally but produces this error:
Assertion failed on expression: 'SUCCEEDED(hr)'

[heady iris]

Is there a stack trace?

[winged tiger]

no

[heady iris]

I'm guessing you're trying to lerp the FOV to 0 or a negative value at some point

Alternatively, it has nothing to do with this code at all

[winged tiger]

im afriad so

[heady iris]

SUCCEEDED sounds like it came out of unity's native code side to me

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winerror/nf-winerror-succeeded

[winged tiger]

so it's just hresult

should I like try to do something or what

it works fine xd

[heady iris]

i would verify that the code you shared has anything to do with this

remove it and test how the game behaves. replace it with something that just assigns fov to cam.fieldOfView, too

also log the resulting value before assigning it into cam.fieldOfView

see if you're producing a weird result, like 0 or a negative value

don't just log cam.fieldOfView afterwards, since it's probably a property, not just a field

meaning that assigning to it actually calls a method

[winged tiger]

i did that

the error doesnt appear

there arent any zero or negative values

[neon plank]

When NavMeshAgent.Warp fails it logs and error... how can I avoid that? My workmates don't stop complaining about them haha. The method already returns a boolean to determine if it was success or not, so the log is quite redundant.

[knotty sun]

SamplePosition before warping

[neon plank]

Which maxDistance parameter uses Warp inside?

[knotty sun]

what?

[neon plank]

NavMesh.SamplePosition accepts a float maxDistance, which I guess it's the error margin allowed for sampling. Which values does Warp uses under the hood?

[knotty sun]

none

just the Vector3 you supply

[neon plank]

So I guess maxDistance = 0

Thanks

[knotty sun]

yes

2 totally different concepts, move to or can I move to?

[neon plank]

I don't understand your question

But my problem was already solved, thanks

[knotty sun]

Warp does not have the concept of maxDistance, it is your responsibility to ensure that the agent ends up on the NavMesh

[calm talon]

            light.falloffIntensity = rootLight.falloffIntensity;
            light.shapeLightFalloffSize = rootLight.shapeLightFalloffSize;
            light.lightType = rootLight.lightType;
            light.shadowsEnabled = rootLight.shadowsEnabled;
            light.color = rootLight.color;

is there any quick way to copy all fields of one Light2D to another?

[latent latch]

structs usually

[dusk apex]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@7.0/api/UnityEngine.Experimental.Rendering.Universal.Light2D.html

[latent latch]

ideally just serialize values onto some data asset

and pass that around

[calm talon]

lights are classes though

[strange yacht]

I'm not familiar with Light2D but if you want to copy the this component from a GameObject to another, can't you copy component -> paste component values ? Or maybe that's not what you're trying to do

[latent latch]

if all the fields are exposed you can just prefab them probably, otherwise you probably want a script that access those values

so a prefab for each component setup, or a single prefab with different data assets

[upper wigeon]

anyone have any tips for hooking a particle system renderer up to a UI slider? this is the code I have for it cunrrently, and it gets the references but doesn't actually change anything in the material.

[dusk apex]

To be precise, lights2d inherit mono behaviour which makes it a components

[calm talon]

I'm doing it in script

for context, I'm generating 2d freeform lights for a tilemap

I have a 2dLight on the tilemap itself that I'm using as a reference for the values

[gaunt bobcat]

Hello. I'm on 2019.4.40f1. Our project has issues with instantiated prefabs returning null for GetComponent after Instantiate, but only after the game has been running for a long time. The prefab comes from asset bundles. Something like

if(BundleManager.TryGetInsance("MyPrefab", out GameObject instance))
{
  var component = instance.GetComponent<MyComponent>();
  if(component == null) Debug.LogError("Null component");
}

The message starts triggering 100% of the time after long gameplay sessions. The original prefab template is not known to be modified otherwise.
I'm wondering if it's some sort of asset garbage collection issue, or a known engine bug when it comes to prefab instance components

I can provide more context if needed, it's an open source project

[dusk apex]

pSR.material.SetFloat...

[dusk apex]

What's the exact error?

What's shown in the console window?

[gaunt bobcat]

The error log from the snippet, which comes from GetComponent returning null

[dusk apex]

I'm assuming instance was null rather than the component missing

[dusk apex]

instance was null

[strange yacht]

You can try making an extension which deepcopies your class instance, and set the new instance directly instead of the new fields

[gaunt bobcat]

How so? I would have a null reference error calling GetComponent, no?

[dusk apex]

Show us the error log from the console

[upper wigeon]

this was a good idea, but still did not change the value for me. This would work during runtime correct?

[gaunt bobcat]

Here's the real code and my logs

[dusk apex]

tornado mat would only be a clone and not the actual material

[gaunt bobcat]

Note the line numbers. This only occurs after 30k lines of logs, and then it occurs all the time

[dusk apex]

So it wasn't an NRE.
The component was removed from the object.

[upper wigeon]

this is what I changed it to, wouldn't this get the material?

[gaunt bobcat]

Yes I've mentioned it was not a null reference exception, it's the component that's null and we check for that

I don't think any code could possibly remove it from the prefab, but worth considering I suppose

Thinking about it, isn't if(component) special in Unity where it does extra checks in addition to checking for null? I can't remember if that's MonoBehaviour or GameObject

[dusk apex]

You'd only get null if the component was removed or if the component type you're searching for doesn't exist on the object.
I'm assuming your component isn't called MyComponent

[gaunt bobcat]

It works multiple times before starting to fail all the time, so I'm confident I have the right one. There's no code in the repo that access the prefab other than to Instantiate it, hence my conviction that the prefab is not modified

[dusk apex]

The error occurred, meaning the above is likely the case

[jaunty sundial]

when i have a list of a list like List<List<int>> roomMatrix = new List<List<int>> { new List<int> {0, 0, 0}, new List<int> {0, 0, 0}, new List<int> {0, 0, 0} };
and you refrence it like myListOfList[][], is the first square brackets horizontal or vertical

[knotty sun]

the first is vertical, the second is horizontal, based on your code

[jaunty sundial]

cheers

[upper wigeon]

anyone able to follow up on this? I still cannot get the values to sync

[strange yacht]

@upper wigeon are you sure that Dissolve is the actual name of the field ?

Sometimes when using for instance shader graphs you need to use the reference name, not the name itself

[upper wigeon]

THANK YOU SIMON

youre a hero

that was the issue, works great now 😎

[strange yacht]

haha no prob bro

[terse quarry]

will the line after the destroy() even run?

[leaden ice]

of course, why not?

Destroy is not a magic function. All it does is put the object in a list to be destroyed at the end of the frame.

And to "destroy" an object simply means that the C++ half of the engine discards and cleans up the memory associated with the C++ half of the object

it doesn't affect the C# half of the object at all really, other than the scene throwing away its reference to it.