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latent latch
chrome trail
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I saw this before, but wasn't entirely certain how I was supposed to use it

latent latch
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"Note that IgnoreCollision is not persitent. This means ignore collision state will not be stored in the editor when saving a scene."

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Serialize the colliders to the root script and run that method in start it seems

latent linden
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Hello, how can i prevent microphone streamed audioclip to capture ingame sounds?

harsh lotus
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I have the problem that my platforms disappear behind the background and I haven't been able to get it fixed for 2 hours. Does anyone have any further ideas?

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cosmic rain
harsh lotus
cosmic rain
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Then you'll need to share more info

harsh lotus
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What information do you need?

cosmic rain
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What does it look like? What is it obstructed by. What components and setup does that obstructing object have.

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Also, I didn't realize it, but this is a coding channel and your issue doesn't sound related to coding

harsh lotus
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ah yes sorry which channel can I use?

slow spruce
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guys i am working on a capibara runner game, where obstacles (different prefabs i made with specific heights from the floor). There are no syntax errors in my code, and everything should be alright in the inspector. The obstacles DO spawn randomly (succesfully), HOWEVER, 5 of the 6 are invisible? Honestly no clue why, pls helppUnityChanHelp

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asked chatgpt it just told me to reimport the png assets and recreate the prefabs (doubt this will do anything)

proud juniper
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Is there a way to set up a UI Toolkit Button's clicked value in the UXML editor? or only programmatically?

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querying in code with selectors to set callbacks feels like jquery 🙂

slow spruce
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is that a question addressed to my enquiry? or just your own haha

leaden ice
slow spruce
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All of the prefabs are spawned from the same spawner, they are all in frame 100% as the basket obstacle is clearly visible when spawned, and others although arent visible, still stop the game if hit

leaden ice
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And just look where they are

proud juniper
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I'm trying to implement drag and drop with UI Toolkit and it is proving... difficult

slow spruce
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the prefabs are actually there! but they are behind the background image for some reason. Changing their z axis coords in the inspector doesnt do anything. Do you think i should bring the background way back then?

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also my bad i just needed to update my visual studio editor within Unity for my IDE to be fully configured again

rigid island
proud juniper
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Can't find where I can listen to drag events, for one. all I can find is button.clickable.clicked

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Ah, registercallback maybe

slow spruce
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all good now guys, thanks for help UnityChanThumbsUp UnityChanThumbsUp blushie

rigid island
proud juniper
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Thanks yeah, I was completely overlooking what I needed. Thanks

flat abyss
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Alright. Anybody still up? For renderTexture raycast issues, is this the correct place or do I have to go "UI-UX"?

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I'm trying to raycast a crosshair over an image to the world, without inputs. I have the position of the crosshair on top of the RenderTexture and I want it to raycast straight forward.

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However this is the best I could figure, it's going down and only works when the crosshair is at dead center

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proud juniper
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Can you show the math you're doing to calculate the ray/line?

flat abyss
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Can I link you to the Forum post? I have a lot more info there. Is it OK if I link it here?

ashen jasper
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does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to make a idle animation loop on between each other bit my counter is counting to fast or at least perframe. Does anyone know how to fix this

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    {
        string[] idleAnimations = { "idle", "idleStart" };
        AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo = animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0);

        if (stateInfo.IsName(idleAnimations[0]))
        {
            if (stateInfo.normalizedTime >= 1f)
            {
                loopCount++;

                if (loopCount >= maxLoopCount)
                {
                    animator.Play(idleAnimations[1]);
                    loopCount = 0;
                }
            }

            print(loopCount);
        }
    }
}```
leaden ice
simple ridge
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Hi everyone, I was wondering if someone could give me some ideas with why Unity would stop logging any logs on entering play mode. The TL;DR is that I have been given a project to look into and to get it to work I was going to log some of the values for a curtain script. These didn't seem to show up so I thought it wasn't calling it, anyway double checked with breakpoints and all seems well but that left the logging issue. Next I tried creating a empty monobehaviour with a custom editor and button which would just output "Test" on being clicked. This works fine when not playing, but the second I go into play mode no logs appear in the console. All selections (for logs, warnings and errors) are active. So this is 100% a play mode issue. I've never experienced anything like this and searching online or reading through the project settings doesn't come up with much.

This is a VR project so potentially that may have something to do with it? Maybe its forcing all logs to go to a headset that doesn't exist in this context. Or maybe there is something called through script that disables the console. Honeslty I'm completely lost so any help with getting this working again in play mode would be appreciated!

west lotus
simple ridge
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Ah brilliant I will have a look!

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That was exactly it! Thank you so much xD

finite hollow
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Hey guys! I've been pouring over the documentation to see if there's a simple way to reference a specific track or track group from a timeline asset. But rn it looks like if I wanna access a specific track/track group I need to know what index or uhh "place" it's at in an IEnumerable. And I guess I could always put the specific track I want to work with at the top but I want to be sure I don't accidentally reference a different track. So are there any recommendations on how I go about referencing a specific track?

thin kernel
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Hello. I'm building two android apps from one project, I do change their package name, but I can't install them both on my phone, I'm getting an error: "android app not installed as package conflicts with an existing package".

Command "aapt dump badging "D:\path\to\project.apk" | findstr -i "package: name"" on apk files shows that package names are different, what else am I missing?

thin kernel
ashen jasper
strange pine
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i wanna save the players inventory asynchronously, is it better as a Task or Coroutine?
iirc Coroutines still sort run synchronously in a way right?

soft shard
strange pine
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looks like saving to playerprefs likes to only be done on the main thread, so going of what you said, coroutines look like the way to do it

thick terrace
tropic kiln
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Heya all, having a bit of difficulty with async here. Can someone explain why unity waits for run_async to complete all in one frame even tho its async? Thanks very much!

    public Chunk(Vector3 offset, int lod, WorldRenderer renderer) {
        data = new ChunkData(offset, lod);

        run_async();
    }

    public async void run_async() {
        Task vertex_task = calculateVertices();
        Task triangle_task = calculateTriangles();

        await vertex_task;
        Task uv_task = calculateUv();   // Requires vertices

        await triangle_task;
        Task normals_task = calculateNormals(); // Requires vertices, triangles

        await normals_task;
        Task texture_task = calculateTextureV3(); // Requires vertices, triangles, normals, biomes

        await uv_task;
        await texture_task;

        applyMesh();
        loadStructureNoise();
        loadStructures();
        calculateGrassChunks();
    }
ruby elk
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anyone ever had issues with listview pushing other stuff in a container even when it's set to shrink 1 and the other stuff to 0?

frosty snow
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basically this

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this is equivilant to

void drawFrame(Canvas canvas) {
  canvas.clear(CanvasKit.WHITE);
  // code to update and draw the frame goes here

  // make sure we run again
  // so we keep animating
  tr.RunOnMain(drawFrame);
}
tr.RunOnMain(drawFrame);
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in which we must ensure a task queueing itself such as above will not end up running endlessly

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eg the task gets dequeued and runs

sometime layer it finishes and queues itself again

at this point we may still be executing queued tasks, in which we will now see the thread that had requeued itself

this will result in executing it again in the same frame

in which case since we are running on the UI we will block until the task finishes at which point it is queued again thus we see it again, and again, and again, endlessly blocking to execute the same task

this is exactly what we MUST avoid doing

ruby elk
thick terrace
tropic kiln
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so you reckon just await them all

ruby elk
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ended up making a selector for tab view header container to set shrink to 0. not entirely sure why anyone would want tab buttons to be able to shrink by default

thick terrace
# tropic kiln so you reckon just await them all

well just making something async/return Task doesn't do much on its own, if you await an already completed task it just continues in the same frame, so it's up to you to break up the work across multiple frames

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you can use await Task.Yield() which on the main thread is roughly equivalent to yield return null in a coroutine, or if you have stuff that's safe to run off the main thread, you can do that with await Task.Run(() => { ... })

hard viper
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you would probably need to multithread for that to have a boost tbh

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the main point of async is to do things off the normal chain of events in the main thread

thick terrace
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depends if your goal is speeding it up or just to keep the ui responsive during a long task! even if you're stuck on the main thread it can be worth splitting an expensive cpu task up

hard viper
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async makes it easier to break up a task across multiple frames, when there is a lot of work to be done, and you don’t need to do it all in one frame

thick terrace
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exactly, using multithreading is just a bonus sometimes

hard viper
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i would not use async to multithread, these are like two different things

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anything you do async should be thread-safe by default, tho

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but not done with the intention of spliting threads

tropic kiln
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im simply trying to execute the chunk's loading calculations over a number of frames so that the entire thing doesn't freeze for the player. unfortunately i need to access some of unity's methods so not all of it can be async so scheduling it all appropriately isnt easy

hard viper
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then async is the right tool

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the contents of the async can be multithreaded btw

thick terrace
tropic kiln
hard viper
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you should have a failsafe for if the player reaches a chunk not fully loaded yet, where you do pause the game until async loading is done

tropic kiln
hard viper
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people will always find a way, be it BLJ or bullet time boost, to go fast as fuck into unloaded areas

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for now, just start by loading your chunk asynchronously

thick terrace
tropic kiln
thick terrace
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where's this code being called from? eg what's in the stack trace from the error you get

tropic kiln
# thick terrace where's this code being called from? eg what's in the stack trace from the error... 
UnityException: Internal_CreateGameObject can only be called from the main thread.
Constructors and field initializers will be executed from the loading thread when loading a scene.
Don't use this function in the constructor or field initializers, instead move initialization code to the Awake or Start function.
UnityEngine.GameObject..ctor (System.String name, System.Type[] components) (at <3b24cc7fa9794ed8ab04312c53e6dedd>:0)
Chunk.applyMesh () (at Assets/Scripts/World/Chunk.cs:375)
Chunk.<run_async>b__12_0 () (at Assets/Scripts/World/Chunk.cs:66)
System.Threading.Tasks.Task.InnerInvoke () (at <787acc3c9a4c471ba7d971300105af24>:0)
System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute () (at <787acc3c9a4c471ba7d971300105af24>:0)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
Chunk.run_async () (at Assets/Scripts/World/Chunk.cs:66)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <787acc3c9a4c471ba7d971300105af24>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <3b24cc7fa9794ed8ab04312c53e6dedd>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <3b24cc7fa9794ed8ab04312c53e6dedd>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <3b24cc7fa9794ed8ab04312c53e6dedd>:0)
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so idk how im not on the main thread

thick terrace
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are you calling the constructor of Chunk from the constructor of an asset or script?

opaque fox
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Hello so i am having some trouble with an enemy i am programming for an vr game. When the enemy collides with anything it will attempt to walk into it and then start walking upwards. https://hatebin.com/mcrbekvvtm

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tropic kiln
thick terrace
tropic kiln
wicked zealot
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Hi all, has anyone had issues with reloading the current scene a player is in?

I have a scene that instantiates a lot of procedurally generated content and deletes some other content. When I use SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync I'm expecting the scene to revert to it's original state, but the content I generated or deleted previously does not reset.

thick terrace
tropic kiln
tropic kiln
# thick terrace it depends, you can use `Awake` on ScriptableObjects iirc, it's called the first...

yo there is some weird shit going on here, ive switched it but it still says its not on the main thread and i cannot think why other than the async function which i call on initialisation:

    public async void run_async() {

        await calculateVertices();
        await calculateTriangles();
        await calculateUv();
        await calculateNormals();
        await calculateTextureV3();
        await Task.Run(() => applyMesh());     // Within this function
        /*
        
        loadStructureNoise();
        loadStructures();
        calculateGrassChunks();
        */
    }```
`UnityException: get_mesh can only be called from the main thread.`
thick terrace
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Task.Run is one of the ways to explicitly leave the main thread 😄

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that runs the given delegate on a background worker

tropic kiln
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yup i just realised that ahaha

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its good its (mostly) working now tyvm

opaque fox
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Actually I dont think i explained it properly because it is no longer walking towards the player when it is collided. this is when it starts to punch and it slowly starts rotating upwards

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hollow fjord
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I'm working on AI that manages a base and I'd like to make the AI replicate a human player in ability. For example, moving to locations, placing expansion and production buildings, etc.

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This is sort of like an RTS game AI, and I've been practicing on how to achieve this using some of Unity's build in systems

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I was experimenting with ScriptableObjects for predefined builds, but I'm not sure they're the best approach

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Anyone have experience with this? I was thinking a predefined Queue Manager that accepts Actions, but can have overrides for dynamic events in the game that aren't scripted

heady iris
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ScriptableObjects are good for storing blobs of data that can be referenced from multiple places

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I was working on an RTS a while ago. I didn't have any pre-defined builds; I just had rules that searched for the best place to build something when a criteria was met

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(the search is gradient-ascent based)

jade latch
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im working on a board game and i was wondering if anyone has any tips on how i can do movement on pieces between tiles

rigid island
jade latch
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move the white square from its current position to the middle of any of the surrounding tiles

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rigid island
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maybe you can use some a* as well

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for walkable and unwalkable paths

jade latch
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no its different game objects since each of the colored tiles will have different stats attached to them

rigid island
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ScriptableTiles would've been the answer to that

jade latch
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and its different for every time i load it

rigid island
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they can contain data / custom functions

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Like I said you might want to look into A* for pathing

unique delta
rigid island
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why is this even in update lol

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itemName is an int

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not a string

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    public class Inventory{
        public int itemId;
        public int itemName;
    }```
unique delta
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i know, but then why is this problem?

jade latch
rigid island
spring creek
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You're saying = "skill1" to an int

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That makes no sense

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Make it a string

unique delta
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i m sorry

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i didn t saw that i was pretty sure was a string

rigid island
unique delta
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no

rigid island
unique delta
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no

rigid island
tawny elkBOT
rigid island
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make sure you configure your code editor

fluid lily
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For the new Logging package. Is there a way to attach a gameObject to the message like in the Debug.log so when you click on the message it selects the object in scene?

steep stirrup
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Does anyone know if there is a C# script for a 2d game, basically I want to create a mechanic, that after the knife cuts the bread (goes through all the bread collision) changes the sprite

dusk apex
steep stirrup
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script

dusk apex
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You'd have to code whatever feature you're wanting.

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I'm assuming the breakdown of the mechanic you're wanting is...

  • Knife started cutting the bread: knife has entered the bread.
  • Knife finish cutting the bread: knife has exited the bread.
  • Consider evaluating if cut was valid
  • Change some sprite(?)
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You'd could use the rigid body callback functions for enter and exit.

ionic stone
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How can i limit the shooting angle like in the picture, if your mouse is within the red zone, it would teleport to the closest possible allowed zone. This is the code so far for rotating the gun

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leaden ice
ionic stone
leaden ice
ionic stone
fluid lily
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So I am assuming you want the gun to only shoot towards the closest point to the mouse *in the green zone*. I would probably get the angle of the center of the car to the mouse, and have logic based on that angle

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aka
if mouse is in XGreenZone angles track XGun
else if mouse is in XRedZone angles and closest to XGreenZone Set XGun angle

ionic stone
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okay, i have an idea of how to implement it now, cheers:D

leaden ice
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You'll want to do all the math in local space of the car though

fluid lily
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Yeah good point, will be easier

leaden ice
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e.g. once you get a world direction vector, use car.transform.InverseTransformDirection(worldDirection) and do your math with that vector

cobalt kernel
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Yo guys I want to ask for something. I am new at Unity and I was watching a basic game tutorial. But when the guy opens a new script it opens Visual Studio but for me it opens Visual Studio Code. Why does it do that because I think my code does not work properly in vscode

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I want it to open Visual Code

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But dont know how to do that

leaden ice
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!ide

tawny elkBOT
cobalt kernel
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What do I do

leaden ice
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pick the IDE you want

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follow the instructions

cobalt kernel
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it didnt fix anything I have a script called birdscript and it automatically sends me to vscode and I dont want that I want it to send me to visual studio but cant find how

rigid island
cobalt kernel
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I did

spring creek
rigid island
spring creek
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Inb4 "what's external tools?"

Edit: called it

cobalt kernel
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ok but how to go to the external tools menu (sorry i dont know anything abt unity)

rigid island
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so you lied

spring creek
rigid island
cobalt kernel
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yea I clicked that but I didnt understand what you meant

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w8

rigid island
cobalt kernel
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do you want to see the pack manager?

spring creek
spring creek
rigid island
cobalt kernel
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ohhh bruh

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I did the wrong one sorry guys

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I did this

meager pendant
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im a bit new to C#, are there any types i can use to do this more efficiently than a dictionary?

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cobalt kernel
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accidantally

spring creek
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You have to do EVERY step on that page

rigid island
spring creek
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Not just part

rigid island
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you skipped the whole beginning

cobalt kernel
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ye im doing it now 1 m

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I already googled this too but I couldnt find where "preferences" button was after clicking on "edit"

spring creek
cobalt kernel
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ye

spring creek
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Screenshot your edit tab

cobalt kernel
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you mean the top left edit button right?

spring creek
rigid island
meager pendant
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which of these two screenshots is more readable

rigid island
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Are you on a mac ? @cobalt kernel

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if so its under Unity

spring creek
rigid island
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your naming convention sucks though

meager pendant
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wdym

rigid island
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why are you using lowercase/camel for classes and methods?

meager pendant
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i think it looks better

deft timber
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it's against C# standard naming conventions

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and it doesnt look better in any way

meager pendant
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well i started C# 3 days ago

deft timber
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then you should start with C# basics

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and learn that

meager pendant
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i come from the land of lua

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where there are no naming conventions

rigid island
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keep that uglyness to JS

meager pendant
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ive never used js in my life

deft timber
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do you write lowercase class names in lua?

meager pendant
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never will either

meager pendant
cobalt kernel
meager pendant
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LOL

deft timber
meager pendant
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i just think it looks better

deft timber
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in which way

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for sure it's not better if you want to share it to public discord

rigid island
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no point of arguing over code style

deft timber
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sure, preference but still

meager pendant
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i suppose i should learn conventions if i want a job

deft timber
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ofc

rigid island
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if you want to work with others yes you need to use common style

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its piined in this channel

tawdry jasper
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Is anything magic happening to AudioSources when they're played? I have an audiosource pool that reuses them. The pooled objects are created and DontDestroyOnLoad is called on them.
Now sometimes I get an error from my pooling code that I'm trying to access an AudioSource that was destroyed.
There's one instance where I parent the audiosource to play on a moving object. But I tried unparenting at the and of the clip playing, I also tried listing the AudioSources found in children in OnDestroy of the object I'm parenting at and looks like the audio source is already unparented when it's destroyed.
(it also looks like the unparented source comes back to the dontdestroyonload scene in the hierarhy after setting parent=null)

cobalt kernel
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cant see a preferences button

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rigid island
cobalt kernel
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@rigid island

rigid island
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should be literally under Project Settings..

tawdry jasper
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I just put ondestroy for debugging to test a theory that maybe the audio source was still parented when that object got destroyed

rigid island
cobalt kernel
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bro I didnt know you could click on that arrow (skull)

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ok i clicked that now

deft timber
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you either use pooling, or instnatiate/destory

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dont mix it

rigid island
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yeah sounds like ur mixing stuff up

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DDOL should not be used if you are pooling them

tawdry jasper
deft timber
rigid island
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we need to see context / script

cobalt kernel
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Ok so, I have found the issue finally thank yall. It says visual studio code [1.86.1] for me (now) but I can change it to Visual Studio community 2022 [17.8.6] but in the site it says visual studio enterprise

rigid island
cobalt kernel
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oh ok so the community one I must select right?

rigid island
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if thats the one you have yes

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community just means free

tawdry jasper
rigid island
rigid island
cobalt kernel
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so its done now?

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im gonna test it if so

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navarone?

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okish

tawdry jasper
spark mural
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when i try to make 2 scripts with ontriggerenter it gives error and i have no idea how to make it work with 1 script, am i understanding this wrong?

rigid island
spark mural
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oh right mb:

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quartz folio
meager pendant
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oh my god

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ive spent the last 30 minutes redoing all my code so it fits naming conventions

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i was already 3,000 lines deep when i learned there were naming conventions for c#

rigid island
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3,000 lines thats it?

meager pendant
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i started c# and unity 3 days ago

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and most of the time in that 3 days was practicing pixel art

unique delta
cobalt kernel
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Finally my bird is floating 🙏

spark mural
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so im trying to make it so when u touch a object at scene 1 it sends you to scene 2 and at scene 4 when you touch a object it will send you to scene 1 and because i cant make 2 scripts of OnTriggerEnter i have no idea what to do.Is there a way to fix it?

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rigid island
tawny elkBOT
spark mural
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i am using visual studio

round violet
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is there any reasons why a static class holding data could be ignored in a build ?

tawdry jasper
# rigid island we need to see the exact error + show the stack trace

Yeah I have to let it go, I thought I maybe fixed it randomly but reverted all my changes I was hoping would fix it and I still can't reproduce it. I'll screenshot it when it comes back, but it was just an error from the pooling code that the audiosource referenced by the list is was missing 🤷

rigid island
astral nexus
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I know it's not very unity specific question, but I just want to make a sanity check for myself:
if I store some reference to a reference type object in a struct when passing this struct to a method - this struct will be stored and boxed automatically in a heap and not in a stack just because it contains reference type and will cause garbage collection after I'm done using it in a method, right? so I can never use struct with reference type value in it without garbage generation?

round violet
astral nexus
round violet
astral nexus
junior kraken
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Hi all. I need to load multiple scenes at once, instantiate objects in one scene, and use occlusion culling in another. I don't want to instantiate objects in the same scene that I'm using occlusion culling, but occlusion culling only works in the active scene. I don't want to have to remember to add a 'move to scene' script to every object I instantiate. Is there some way I can override the active occlusion culling asset?

rigid island
junior kraken
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I need to load multiple scenes at once, instantiate objects in one scene, and use occlusion culling in another.
This is my actual problem. I'm familiar with this page and linking to it isn't helpful

rigid island
junior kraken
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  • need to choose an 'environment scene' and use occlusion culling in it because the user can choose an environment
  • need to instantiate dozens or hundreds of objects in another scene without them disappearing between environment changes because we don't want that to happen
  • don't want to manually mark each object I instantiate with DontDestroyOnLoad because it is a hassle
steep herald
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I've been looking at a few verlet rope implementations and there's this recurring thing when adding gravity
someGravity * Time.deltaTime * Time.deltaTime
Why twice?

dusk apex
steep herald
dusk apex
steep herald
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I guess what I can't wrap my head around is if we multiply the vector by the delta, we're already relative to the frame. Multiplying it further seems to complicate things needlessly. Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely sure I am missing the point.

rigid island
dusk apex
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Character controller would be a good example of using acceleration rather than some fixed value.

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Wherecs playerVelocity.y += gravityValue * Time.deltaTime; controller.Move(playerVelocity * Time.deltaTime);They'd acquire the player velocity of gravity by first taking the speed and multiplying it by time then once again to get the acceration for that frame.

steep herald
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@dusk apex
Ahhhhhh....

So say we have 1D with a scalar for velocity, a scalar for the gravity.

v += g * deltaTime for the force applied to the velocity for the ongoing frame
position += v * deltaTime again for the step

#

and since verlet does not maintain the velocities, then it makes sense to multiply it twice

#

this makes absolute sense, thank you so much @dusk apex

junior kraken
rigid island
#

what does this have to do with loading multiple scenes

junior kraken
#

Occlusion culling is only active in the active scene when multiple scenes are loaded

rigid island
#

so switch the active scene when you need to ?

junior kraken
#

Then objects instantiate in that scene instead of the scene I want them to spawn in

rigid island
junior kraken
rigid island
#

although the usecase still isnt clear why you're doing this

junior kraken
rigid island
#

then two scenes makes no sense to me

junior kraken
#

I need to spawn objects and keep them as the environment changes

#

And I need to use occlusion culling in the environment

rigid island
#

many ways you can do this, triggers, raycasts..

rigid island
junior kraken
#

like I said, that is a hassle to have to do for every single object that I could spawn

#

if there is no way to do what I want and the answer is 'no' then that is fine. I simply wanted to know if there was a better way

rigid island
#

make a common gameObject / holder

#

use DDOL on that

junior kraken
#

I unfortunately need to keep objects at the scene root due to a networking library

rigid island
#

idk then I would just put them inside a List of object that are set on DDOL

#

no clue how to help with your issue sorry

willow minnow
#

more of a general question, is there a advanced colider script for like buildings with holes (doors) and L shaped buildings? The box colider just boxes everything up, and the mesh colider dosent work with doors.

mystic rock
#

Hello, someone can help me?
I'm getting this error, but I don't know how to solve
I tried google, but don't works

FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.

That's my code
int inGameItemID = int.Parse(EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>().text);

I tried to show in a Debug.Log, and the result is always a number
I don't know where is the error :/
But the error are returning this line that I showed

rigid island
#

holy mother of long ass function is going on here

rigid island
mystic rock
rigid island
mystic rock
#

I'll get again
A moment

spring creek
#

Is it not Int32.Parse() ?

rigid island
#

btw you should use TryParse

#

Im thinking it failing because its null

mystic rock
#

Isn't null :/

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rigid island
somber nacelle
mystic rock
rigid island
#

your error from before showed the lines to be in the 135ish

#

this one printed from 235

mystic rock
#

You are confusing me @.@

#

Wait

rigid island
#

are the not printing in the same function you attempt to Parse?

#

pretty sure EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.transform.GetChild(0)
is not grabbing what you think its grabbing

mystic rock
#

Is grabbing the same that Debug.Log
I set the debug.log right above now
Look

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rigid island
# mystic rock

hmm i see. Maybe try storing it inside a variable and try that with print

mystic rock
#

I'm trying to store in a variable already

rigid island
#

string text = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>().text
//Debug.log(text)
//parse text

mystic rock
#

I'll try

#

Same error

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rigid island
mystic rock
#

Same that every images that I've posted here :/

image.png
#

Show a number

rigid island
#

I remember this problem

#

this is caused by Text component adding some weird ass character to string

#

dont use that trash component Text its legacy anyway, simple fix

#

use TMP_Text with TextMeshPro - UI

weak venture
#

I have code that triggers an (dash) impulse on a key press. It disables the primary moving scheme and I've confirmed none of that code is running while the dash is happening. But if I start the dash while moving, I go a lesser distance than if I start the dash from standstill. I've confirmed the impulse force should be the same in both cases.
Does anyone have an idea why this might be the case? Is there some relevant physics property or Rigidbody2d quirk I might be missing?

mystic rock
rigid island
rigid island
tawny elkBOT
mystic rock
#

I'm getting another error now
In the same line

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weak venture
#

Its spread across too many scripts to share easily. I tried to isolate it down to that particular Rigidbody2D.AddForce call that seems to be producing different results based on starting conditions.

mystic rock
#

But isn't null the value

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rigid island
#

of that line

#

you probably didnt change the type

rigid island
mystic rock
rigid island
# mystic rock

hmm are you sure the child of currentSelectedObject has that component on the gameobject

mystic rock
#

Child 0

image.png
#

ID

rigid island
#

you should really store these in variables

mystic rock
rigid island
#

var eventObject = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject
var firstChildofSelected = eventObject.transform.GetChild(0)
var textObj = firstChildofSelected.GetComponent<TMP_Text>()

rigid island
#

that long thing is hard to debug individually for a null ref debug

mystic rock
#

Which the difference? @.@
Will result the same error, will not? :/

fervent furnace
#

print the string char by char with the int value (cast it to int)

rigid island
#

if you dont learn how to debug you wont get far in code

mystic rock
#

Hm... Okay, I'll try

#

I'm trying, keep calm

#

Why are getting a null error?????????????
Isn't null
There are a value!!!

WHY ARE RETURNING NULL!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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somber nacelle
#

what is line 140

mystic rock
#

I want to die ;-;

somber nacelle
#

hint: it isn't the string that is null

mystic rock
somber nacelle
#

you have screenshot a Text component, this does not inherit from TMP_Text so that GetComponent<TMP_Text> returns null

mystic rock
#

I'll change
A moment

rigid island
#

you were supposed to change to textmeshpro

somber nacelle
#

also note that it is possible that GetChild is returning null. you aren't doing any null checks on any of these objects and just expecting them to work

rigid island
#

Indeed , having a script on ShopItem with those fields assigned would be smarter / robust

mystic rock
#

Oh god, here we go again the same error ;-;

image.png image.png
#

I want to cry ;-;

rigid island
#

Text component adds weird char to String

#

use textMeshpro

#

you tried to fix it by making it worse

mystic rock
#

I changed to TextMesh, but resulting the same error

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rigid island
#

var textObj = firstChildofSelected.GetComponent<TMP_Text>() did this before

#

you can Debug.Log all three

#

and see which one it is culprit

#

chances are you did not Put the textmeshpro component on that child

#

and its still Text

mystic rock
#

Is text mesh

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rigid island
#

i need to see the whole context

#

Where is this, which one are you trying to grab

#

etc

mystic rock
#

What I need to do, then?
Record my entire screen by 14 hours?
I'm trying to solve it since 10am yesterday, now is 00:20am here

rigid island
#

have you tried screenshotting the whole object and the hirerchy clearly visible ? and point which object is calling this function?

#

would that be too much to ask?

#

or do you want me to guess

#

Also is doing this that complex to help debug ?

 var eventObject = EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject;
 if(eventObject)
 {
     var firstChildofSelected = eventObject.transform.GetChild(0);
     Debug.Log($"firstChild {firstChildofSelected}");
     if (firstChildofSelected) 
     {
        var textObj = firstChildofSelected.GetComponent<TMP_Text>();
         Debug.Log($"text obj {textObj} ");
     }
 }```
edit: fixed NRE for Debugs
somber nacelle
#

note that if any of those lines NRE then the log won't print

rigid island
#

yeah this whole thing is flimsy and I would opt for a script that has those assigned and only do a TryGetComp

rigid island
frosty sequoia
#

Heya, I'm trying to have a line renderer bounce off the wall and it works except under certain conditions. When I point the line renderer in the right direction the next point in the linerenderer is set on (0,0) instead of bouncing normally and i have no idea why. Can anyone help me? Here's the code that does the line:

` private void OnTriggerStay2D(Collider2D other)
{

    if(other.tag == "Projectile" && playerMovement.isSlowmo)
    {
        //start position
        Vector2 startPosition = other.transform.position;
        lr.SetPosition(0, other.transform.position);

        //start 1straycast
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(startPosition, direction, 100, layerDedection);
        lr.SetPosition(1, hit.point); 

        Vector2 bounceDirection = direction;
        
        for(int i = 1; i < playerManager.amountOfLasers; i++) //playerManager.amountOfLasers
        {
            startPosition = hit.point;
            bounceDirection = Vector2.Reflect(bounceDirection, hit.normal);

            hit = Physics2D.Raycast(startPosition, bounceDirection, 100, layerDedection);
            Debug.Log("startPosition: " + startPosition);
            Debug.Log("bounceDirection: " + bounceDirection);
            Debug.Log("hit.point: " + hit.point);
            lr.SetPosition(i + 1, hit.point);

            lr.positionCount = playerManager.amountOfLasers + 1;
           
        }
    }`
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rigid island
tawny elkBOT
frosty sequoia
#

does that work?

rigid island
frosty sequoia
rigid island
#

the original ray already looks off

frosty sequoia
#

why's that

rigid island
#

idk shouldn't this be passing here

image.png
#

where is direction coming from

frosty sequoia
#

oh yea true, nah that work is intended. the main character faces your cursor perfectly, but since the line is coming from the projectile they don't have to go over the cursor if the projectile is a little to the side

#

if that makes sense lol

rigid island
#

I think the issue might be the ray in the loop

frosty sequoia
#

yea i know it's the ray in the loop, that part of the code does the second laser

#

omg, i increased the length and it works now. i feel stupid, i didnt know length worked like that lmfao. thanks for the help

rigid island
#

awesome! glad you got it working

mild coyote
#

How can I compare a mesh inside an asset vs a mesh inside a (loaded) scene?

//this prints Cube (UnityEngine.Mesh) : Cube Instance (UnityEngine.Mesh)
Debug.Log($"{assetMeshFilters[i].sharedMesh} : {sceneMeshFilters[c].sharedMesh}"); 
if(sceneMeshFilters[c].sharedMesh == assetMeshFilters[i].sharedMesh)
    Debug.Log(assetMeshFilters[i].name);```
seems like the mesh inside scene is an instanced mesh (as expected), so the comparison always returns false
left gale
#

Man.. I wish git had an easy way to "amend unpushed but not last commit".

#

hmm. actually... git commit --fixup $SHA maybe? edit: yep indeed, if followed by a rebase .. squash it becomes a single commit

dense estuary
#

My script was looking messy, so I wanted to see how good a job CGPT could do, this is before: https://hastebin.com/share/yexuqahiqe.csharp. And this is after: https://hastebin.com/share/asapahobun.csharp. Somehow the after functions the exact same as the before, but its "cleaner."

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quartz folio
#

It put some things into functions, added a load of redundant comments, and reduced some extremely basic logic

dense estuary
ornate harness
#

Hello, everyone. How can I lock the cursor so that it can only move arround one half of my screen??

#

There is a way to do that or is it impossible?

fervent furnace
#

restrict the image of cursor / system call

ornate harness
#

Thank you, how can I do that?

fervent furnace
#

by checking if the cursor position out of bound?

ornate harness
#

Ok 🙂

dense knoll
#

why intellisense not working visual studio code i updated VS in the package manager and VScode it selected in external tools

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twilit scaffold
tawny elkBOT
dense knoll
twilit scaffold
#

i don't have any suggestions beyond what is there

shell jacinth
#

i didnt know these had names

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quartz folio
rancid frost
shell scarab
#

is HideFlags.HideInHierarchy suppose to hide it in the scene view as well?

quartz folio
#

No

round violet
#

I got list of structs
if i do myList[someIndex].someVar = someValue will this update correctly ? Or do I have to save the value, change what i want, the reassign to the list index ?

rancid frost
#

yea

rancid frost
shell scarab
rancid frost
#

you can try passing the struct using the ref keyword

quartz folio
shell scarab
#

sad

round violet
#

okay ty

rancid frost
stone rock
# 
    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Vector2 up = transform.up;

        hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, -up, suspensionDistance + radius, collisionLayers);
        isGrounded = hit.collider != null;

        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, -transform.up * (hit.distance), Color.green, 0.0f, false);
    }

Hello, i am trying physics2D out for some vehicle physics that only need to move forwards and backwards in a straight line
But the raycast doesn't seem to work, it doesn't draw the green line, i tested it with the maximum distance before and it does draw a line then but the raycast doesn't seem to hit the floor

#

do i need to change a setting on the collider maybe?

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leaden ice
#

Also your inspector is in debug mode

#

You also set the duration of the draw line to 0 seconds?

stone rock
#

yeah 0 seconds means 1 frame

leaden ice
#

FixedUpdate doesn't run every frame

stone rock
#

i tested it with a different ray before it works

#

just not sure why it doesn't give me the distance

leaden ice
#

Back to my first point

leaden ice
#

Add an actual check and logs

stone rock
#

i should be, because i should be casting downwards and there is a collider there

leaden ice
# 
if (hit) {

}
else {

}```
leaden ice
stone rock
leaden ice
#

Actually test it

leaden ice
stone rock
#

i am testing with the ray drawing

leaden ice
#

Test it with real code instead

#

Your ray isn't drawing. That strongly implies the Raycast isn't hitting anything. Add logs as suggested

stone rock
# 
        Vector2 up = transform.up;

        hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, -up, suspensionDistance + radius, collisionLayers);
        isGrounded = hit.collider != null;

        if (hit)
        {
            Debug.Log("hit");
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("False");
        }

        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, -transform.up * (hit.distance), Color.green, 0.0f, false);

Did it like you showed and i don't think you can use If (hit)

#

because it says i hit somethng

#

the Raycasthit2D is never null

leaden ice
#

Now print what you're hitting

leaden ice
#

The DrawRay needs to be inside the if statement as well

stone rock
#

it's hitting itself, so in 2D physics raycasts can hit their own colliders?

#

like if it starts inside the collider

#

is there a setting to allow raycasts to start inside a collider without hitting it?

#

or do i need to make it a layer the collider does not hit

#

i found a setting: ```csharp
Physics2D.queriesStartInColliders = false;

#

now i can use it

leaden ice
stone rock
leaden ice
#

There's no way for it to know

rough sorrel
#

Hi. Does anyone know why do I keep getting the error "Action map must be contained in state" after I try to change something in the action map after loading the action map JSON please?

spark mural
#

when i build the game and open it it shows a black screen is there a way to fix it?

soft shard
spark mural
unkempt zenith
# 
_beeStock.ForEach(action);

Why is this guaranteed to run at least once, even though _beeStock.Count is 0?

#

private readonly List<Bee> _beeStock = new();

mellow sigil
#

Is it?

unkempt zenith
# 
        public void ForEach(Action<Bee> action)
        {
            _beeStock.ForEach(action);
        }

        public void Render(Apiary apiary)
        {
            if (!CanBeRendered)
            {
                Debug.LogError("Is already active");
                return;
            }

            _container.SetActive(true);
            _amountText.text = apiary.Size + " / " + apiary.Capacity + " Bees";
            apiary.ForEach(Instantiate(_beePanelPrefab, _scrollViewContent).Render);
        }

This is how I use it anyway

heady iris
#

ForEach will run the method zero times on an empty list

soft shard
heady iris
#

however, I don't think your code does what you think it does

#

Instantiate(_beePanelPrefab, _scrollViewContent).Render

#

This instantiates the prefab and then grabs its Render method

#

So your method would run the new bee's Render method once for each item in the list

#

You always instantiate exactly one bee.

unkempt zenith
#

Oh so the lamda is incorrect

spark mural
unkempt zenith
#

Yes
apiary.ForEach(bee => Instantiate(_beePanelPrefab, _scrollViewContent).Render(bee)); fixed it, thank you!

heady iris
#

oh right, the new bee panel, not the new bee

#

that makes a lot more sense now

#

i was wondering why the bee had a Render method that accepted a bee

soft shard
spark mural
soft shard
# spark mural i did that and its a blue screen now

A blue screen is usually the default camera settings, so it sounds like in that scene your camera is working, you may have a setting on your camera in the conflicting scene thats not rendering, maybe a layer your camera is ignoring?

limber wharf
#

!code

tawny elkBOT
limber wharf
heady iris
#

how do you know that points is actually equal to zero?

limber wharf
#

because I have a TMP_Text in-game and when the player starts, it's at 0

heady iris
#

also, what are you expecting to be printed?

limber wharf
#

like, when the difficulty was advanced but the CurrentDifficultyList does not contain advanced, because it now currently only needs to generate Basic levels

heady iris
#

print("*Rerolling* Got " + MiniLevels[RandomInt].Difficulty);, I'm guessing?

opaque fox
limber wharf
#

I am doing an Endless gamemode, which generates random mini levels, that has difficulties attached to them in inspector, and the stages are seperated into 3 categories, each point means one mini level done, the further the player gets, it should logically get harder, so more difficulties of levels are added into CurrentDifficultyList

quaint reef
limber wharf
heady iris
#

I'd suggest logging the current Points value and the contents of the current difficulty list in NewLevel.

#

That will reveal exactly when NewLevel is running

limber wharf
#

oh f

#

I know where's the problem,

#

You see, in the (IsStarting) condition, I forgot to implement the same logic, because when it generates the first level, there is no check for other difficulty

opaque fox
quaint reef
opaque fox
#

k ill try that

swift falcon
#

could i get some assistances if anyone is available?

quaint reef
sacred frost
#

but sure

quaint reef
swift falcon
#

Okay so essentially ive been tasked with recreating the "Simon" game and i have 4 functional buttons that play sounds based on input and whatnot but im trying to make it to where when i press the button it appends it's ID to a list so that i can check the list with the "supposed to be list"

#

but for some reason its not letting me reference another script's list to append the ID to

quaint reef
opaque fox
#

tysm that worked @quaint reef

quaint reef
sacred frost
hasty canopy
amber linden
sacred frost
#

sounds like the easiest way

hasty canopy
swift falcon
amber linden
#

Tell us what the error says

deft timber
swift falcon
#

yeah it is

swift falcon
hasty canopy
amber linden
#

It sounds like you're just trying to reference a private variable or something simple

swift falcon
#

well initially i was trying to inherit the other scripts into a single script which i understand why it didnt work

amber linden
#

Regardless, the button solution is simple and would work fine.
Also you don't really need to save a list of all the inputs most likely. In Simon, you typically lose as soon as you press a wrong button, so you can just have something (a gamecontroller script or similar) check each input against the list of correct inputs. Each time there's a new input, you move to the next index in the list

hasty canopy
#

Are we casually gonna ignore the fact you have created a script called "Monobehaviour"?

heady iris
#

Ah, that would do it.

#

good catch

#

You've created your own MonoBehaviour class and it's completely blowing up everything else

hasty canopy
#

Use different namespace for that

#

Atleast for scripts that already exists

opaque fox
#

How do i make it so the game ends in unity in my scripts

hasty canopy
opaque fox
#

yea but that wont actually end the game

hasty canopy
opaque fox
#

wdym and how

heady iris
opaque fox
#

actually nvm

heady iris
#

if you just want to quit the game completely, that's what Application.Quit is for

opaque fox
#

i dont need help with that

hasty canopy
#

Look up tutorials on YouTube for what you actually want to achieve

heady iris
#

otherwise, ending the game just means...not running the game

#

maybe you go back to the title screen

unique delta
hasty canopy
#

I don't see a function that does +=4 coins

unique delta
#

thanks

hasty canopy
#

Welcome??

unique delta
unkempt zenith
#

I'm too dumb to figure out the logic for this one:

 _visualsSpriteRenderer.flipX = targetX < position.x;

Why is this wrong :(

heady iris
#

i dunno, what's the problem?

unkempt zenith
#

In context:

var position = transform.position;
            var targetX = Mathf.Clamp(
                position.x + Random.Range(-3f, 3f),
                CameraMovement.MAX_TOP_LEFT.x,
                CameraMovement.MIN_BOTTOM_RIGHT.x
            );
            var targetY = Mathf.Clamp(
                position.y + Random.Range(-3f, 3f),
                CameraMovement.MIN_BOTTOM_RIGHT.y,
                CameraMovement.MAX_TOP_LEFT.y
            );

            _visualsSpriteRenderer.flipX = targetX < position.x;
somber nacelle
#

be more specific. because you haven't explained what you are expecting to happen compared to what is actually happening so we can really only make assumptions

unkempt zenith
#

It should flip the sprite if it moves left and not if it moves right

#

To sell the top down effect

hasty canopy
#

What is the issue though? What is happening in the game that you do not want to happen?

unkempt zenith
#

Ah I think I got it

#

Sorry

bitter tusk
#

Hi Guys, Is there anyone who is good with ML-Agent? I'm having some problems and I could use some help

somber nacelle
hasty canopy
#

Very much so, I don't know why you would use the same name if you were going to derive from unityengine's Monobehaviour anyway

#

You can either A) change name of your class, or B) use UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour for inheritance

#

I would recommend A

hard viper
#

naming a class MonoBehaviour is extremely foolish when using Unity

hasty canopy
#

Also i see your script being named "MonoBehaviourScript" in folder but "MonoBehaviour" in class wassup with that atwhatcost

#

Keep the name same in both places or you'll run into more errors

hard viper
#

the name of the class should describe what it does

#

like PlayerMovement, or CameraController, or ImpactHandler

hasty canopy
#

If I was making a custom extension to Monobehaviour, I would generally name it something like "CustomMonoBehaviour" or something, not like this
And inherit this wherever I want

#

Namespace is totally different thing

hard viper
#

namespace is a part of the true class name

#

MonoBehaviour is a class in the namespace UnityEngine. the true name for this class is UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour

hasty canopy
#

It's like a classroom and students

Where classroom is namespace and students are class
2 students from different classrooms can have same name and still be recognisable but not in the same classroom

hard viper
#

If you define a namespace called MyGame.EnemyScripts, and put a class in it called EnemyMovement, then the true name is MyGame.EnemyScripts.EnemyMovement

native folio
#

how do i make it so the material of a new obj is the exact same as the old one? rn, the material texture gets transfeered but the color doesn't. the og obj is a probuilder obj if that makes a difference, and it has the default skin with a color applied.

            go.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = otherObj.GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
            go.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.SetColor("_Color", otherObj.GetComponent<Renderer>().material.color);```
leaden ice
wide mural
#

any clue why my paint details is not painting anything?
Painting trees work tho.
i tried to just paint cubes but does nothing either

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dull barn
#

im making a main menu for my game and when i press a button to activate the other part of the UI my music starts playing twice... anyone know why?

leaden ice
wide mural
leaden ice
dull barn
#

theres no code, just deactivating and activating through the button

rigid island
dull barn
#

is there a UI channel?

rigid island
dull barn
#

oh thanks

rigid island
#

also clearly show the inspector for each event

loud shard
#

like idk if it is that i cant start both audioRecordingSource and audioListeningSource at the same time, but dont know how to go about solving it

heady iris
spring creek
#

I also asked you to show your code in the other server and you deleted your comment

#

What is going on here?

gloomy rover
spring creek
dense estuary
#

I have now encountered a problem. I added the ability to move down slopes by checking the difference in normals between the player and the ground. But I am experiencing an issue where, as I go up the stairs, I collide with the corners of each step and the game thinks I am on a ramp, causing me to fall back down to the last step (this could be caused by an issue with how I apply gravity on slopes but I;m not sure). Here is my script: https://hastebin.com/share/ewikekisay.csharp. Here is a video of the problem: https://streamable.com/5oo1wg

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tardy crypt
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Man… adding stuff a game you last worked on 2 years ago is like…. Hunting for the right place to add one line of code and when you get there, wondering why you did all the stupid things…

hasty canopy
fleet vortex
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Hi! I am new to Unity, and I have a problem that I want to put a plugin to be able to put gifs and the problem is that I don't know how to put the plugin

rigid island
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yeah thats descriptive

fleet vortex
proud trail
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i need help fixing a small bug otherwise ill just add it as a feature can anyone help?

dusk apex
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You should probably ask your question.

proud trail
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so yes got it

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my 2d character sticks to walls

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every

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single

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wall

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floors and cielings too

dusk apex
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Likely it's not a coding question and this is the coding channel.
The common solution for a Rigid body system is to add a material with zero friction else modify linear drag etc. Try asking in #💻┃unity-talk next time.

rigid island
proud trail
fleet vortex
rigid island
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I don't know how to put the plugin
wdym

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also is this even compatible with unity above 5+ ?

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This is made with Unity 5.4.0f3 (Mac, Win, Android, iOS).

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last update was 6 years ago

fleet vortex
rigid island
rigid island
fleet vortex
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I think it doesn't work

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rigid island
fleet vortex
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but I will try

rigid island
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and it should still work. Thats only a warning not error

fleet vortex
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I am using that plugin because I want to animate the buttons on my menu, but the problem is that when I import the gifs the animation is not shown

rigid island
rigid island
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why not just export them as different frames and use unity Animator

fleet vortex
rigid island
fleet vortex
left gale
#

So as someone with 15 yrs experience doing programming for games, in a wide range of different peoples custom engines (and monogame), but only recently with unity, I have an observation that strikes me as really, really bad about unity and likely the underlying cause of peoples general perception of "unity games have performance issues, lag spikes/hangs in particular".

Which is: Any work the game ever does on gameobject(s) (enabling them at least, but likely material stuff, transforms, etc too), can only be done by the main thread, and not even in parallel.

So, if you want 60 fps, you have 16 ms of work done by a SINGLE core as the absolute maximum that will ever be possible to do in a single frame, even while your cpu usage is like <15% and other cores are idle.

spring creek
left gale
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In my case the game has around 5ms of work to do just pulling unity objects out of pools, putting them back in, and updating things that must happen every frame like transforms and materials -- which despite already laboriously being separated from all the rest of the game code since it has to be done in the main thread and unparalleled, it alone is also too much time for a single frame and has to then be time sliced ... and despite this effort spent, the outcome at best, is that some objects end up simply not updated every frame in ways visible to the player!

rigid island
spring creek
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Jobs too

rigid island
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yeah the whole DOTS

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V Rising for example ye

left gale
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Well, do those really let you have 4 tasks running in parallell, launched by the main thread (and blocked for completion at the end of the main thread update), which are enabling/disabling/updating transforms of a quarter each of your game's unity gameobject's?

spring creek
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And jobs would be best inplemented as work that isn't directly affecting gameobjects (or with ecs), and then handle gameobject stuff on the main thread. So calculations that you can do, then bring it back.

rigid island
spring creek
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But yeah, jobs can be threaded easily

left gale
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See i don't understand how that would help the situation at all. I already know how to parallelize work and don't need unity's help for it. And do to necessity have already (annoyingly) entirely separated gameobject work from everything else. The problem is that ultimately its still blocking the main thread while idle cores cannot help.

spring creek
earnest gazelle
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What is the correct way to bind a child class, its parent and all implemented interfaces using zenject?

 Container.BindInterfacesAndSelfTo<Child>().FromComponentsInHierarchy().AsSingle();
 Container.Bind<Base>().To<Child>().FromResolve();

Is it OK?

left gale
spring creek
left gale
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Oh, i haven't groked the difference between those two yet.

rigid island
# left gale Does that vid go into an alternative that doesn't involve gameobjects? I guess I...

https://youtu.be/Bz24Jp30nkM?t=304 this should help

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# left gale Oh, i haven't groked the difference between those two yet.

I was gonna explain my understanding, but I think asking in #1062393052863414313 might be better. Someone like Tertle or Issue knows way more about the underlying architecture.
Basically entities are just indexes to a chunk of memory though, and the component structs are grouped in that chunk of memeory. Systems iterate chunks containing archetypes of entities (an archetype being the same components).
That's an extremely basic rundown of course

The things that need to be on the main thread are things like structural changes (adding removing components), but most of the rest can be implicitly threaded

weak venture
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Is there a good way to grow/show a spriteshape over time? It seems like it might be expensive to constantly grow the actual spline, I basically want to set the equivalent of a normal filled sprite's fillAmount property

left gale
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Ah ok, im familiar with that design paradigm. But, its main benefit to performance isn't that it makes threading easier, it actually makes it much more rigid and ends up with quite odd public apis unless its only used internally. The purpose of this design is to improve performance not necessarily via threading, but via contiguous memory access -> better memory cache performance.

spring creek
left gale
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If this were someones own game engine, id think the very first thing one would do upon hitting this issue, is to find the calls in question they need to do in parallel, and simply make them threadsafe. Some internal Dictionary or List that needs to become a ConcurrentDictionary, some property setter than needs to use interlock-exchange, and then it would be fixed. Not only would that be less work than all the work-arounds ive seen, it would be less work for unity than inventing 2x new systems that aren't compatible.

lean sail
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There really is no proven solution. People arent using unity (gameobjects) when they want insane performance

left gale
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Well, can you still use entities with transform components and meshrender components with materials?

spring creek
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I mean, I've never had issues with it in the decade I've used unity. You just.. get used to it haha. As long as you're conscious of the issue, you can do it all in the main thread no problem
I like Bevy for performance more honestly

left gale
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Because i dont actually care much about the "GameObject" type in particular, but all of the above are fairly convenient.

west lotus
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You can bake gameObjects into entities and entities all have their equivalent components be it transform or rendering

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If you are asking if you can use the regular gameObject.transform in ECS then no

left gale
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Are these prebaked entities with x components then able to be enabled and disabled (added/removed from the scene) in parallel from arbitrary worker threads?

lean sail
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Anyways I also havent had any issues with performance. You really can run a lot. Once you start looking into big multiplayer games or massive amounts of objects (factorio like) then you need something else for sure.

left gale
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Thanks for all the responses in any case! Yea at a certain scale, you have to decide "what is an entity" and what needs to be a system for handling 500x live bullets/shots that are not entities.

weak venture
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If anyone wants something similar, I was able to roughly get the filled sprite shape behavior I was asking for by just animating a mask over it

lean sail
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Everything else would likely be negligible

left gale
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Actually im a modder and contributer to AIW2 (ai war 2) which is a space rts. It can have upwards of 1k 'ships' on a single planet (which is the unity scene) and equal numbers of live 'shots' in motion. But both of those end up being stacked or compressed into for example "10x Foo" as one object as numbers increase. But the visuals for that stack of 10x is actually a little heirarchy of entities anyway, from a prefab.

nova shale
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Hey all. I have a Brain class with a static variable here

public class Brain : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static UnityEvent BrainDiedEvent;
}

Inside my GameManager script i have this

    void Start()
    {
      Brain.BrainDiedEvent.AddListener(OnBrainDied);
    }

I'm getting a null reference exception which doesn't make much sense because the variable is static. I'm able to access other static variable from this class but not this one for some reason.

left gale
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I don't know what UnityEvent is, but unless its a struct, you are not actually allocating it.

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Even if it is a struct, doesn't unity do something odd with static initialization?

quartz folio
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UnityEvents are for displaying events in the inspector, if it's static it's not serialized, so it probably shouldn't be a UnityEvent

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and should just be a normal event like an Action

nova shale
quartz folio
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It's not only meant

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that can be saved with the Scene
That's its main purpose

nova shale
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But it should still work as an Event right? Should still be statically accessible?

left gale
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I mean its simply null is the issue right?

nova shale
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Yeah

quartz folio
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If it's static, it's not being saved, it's not being configured in the inspector, and you're just incurring a worse API that requires you to initialize the event or else get an NRE

left gale
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its a class according to the docs, you need = new UnityEvent

quartz folio
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If you used a normal C# event like an Action you wouldn't have this problem at all

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Because they initialize themselves when you += subscribe to them

nova shale
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a UnityAction or an Action?

left gale
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well, i dont think you can += an Action as thats not a multicast delegate is it? hmmm

quartz folio
rigid island
left gale
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huh

lean sail
left gale
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i have an old misconception (though likely a common one) that for the += operator to be used, it has to be something defined as an "event"

quartz folio
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event just means that the delegate can't be reassigned externally

left gale
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it would certaintly be a lot less... unexpected, if Action.Invoke() was calling a single method, and Event.Invoke() was more than one potential method. /sigh oh wells

lean sail
left gale
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Yep. I just re-forgot that, over the last 3 years since i was in that deep ;D

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(goes to refactor List<Action> _callbacks i wrote yesterday)

worthy willow
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Hey, I want to activate every gameobject in a given array, but this script only does it to the first gameobject in the array.
Is there a better way to write this?

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mental rover
rigid island
worthy willow
heady iris
worthy willow
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But i only want it in start

heady iris
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i'm surprised that isn't a compile error

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i guess it's a new local variable

ruby nacelle
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Hey, I'm just looking for some general advice if anyone has input. I'm hoping to develop a system where when a player kills a boss they'll unlock two new abilities that can be interchanged with three possible slots. This would obviously require some form of persistent memory but would a scriptable object be a better way of approaching this or an interface?

rigid island
worthy willow
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i tried pressing play again and it worked now?

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super weird what

mental rover
# worthy willow it works when i put it in the update function

to be blunt, you're doing something silly, somewhere - it could be any number of things since you're accessing global static properties, I could guess 5 different things that would break this, but you'll probably learn more if you study everything you're doing from start to finish and find the problem yourself

dusk apex
rigid island
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godda be that

lean sail
worthy willow
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nope it works now

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maybe I didnt save the script before

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thanks for the advice i guess

ruby nacelle
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I appreciate the input, not super new to coding but still new to unity and C#

lean sail
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You might use a SO or interface while loading this data, but the data will ultimately live in a file

heady iris
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If you don't fully understand what you're doing, don't modify the data in scriptable objects that come from assets.

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you'll just cram your data into a plain old C# object (one that doesn't derive from any Unity classes) and then serialize and deserialize that

ruby nacelle
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Okay, other than handling how the data saves, the ability system itself and be an SO no? My team wants it to be modular so we can expand and remove on the fly.

ruby nacelle
heady iris
ruby nacelle
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I'll try to putter around with it for the time being and get back to you guys when I actually have a prototype to show off

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Thank you for the input @heady iris @lean sail

crisp bronze
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Hi, I have this code that's meant to move a UI element to the screen position of another object. It works when playing in a certain aspect ratio, but when playing Maximized, the UI element is way off. How do I fix this?

swordIndicatorUI.rectTransform.position = mainCam.WorldToScreenPoint(thrownSwordPrefab.transform.position);
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The difference

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The Canvas is set to scale with screen size

willow minnow
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im not entirely sure if this is a advanced question or not, but im trying to fix my ai. Right now i have the ai so where it will just run around, stop periodically, then keep going. And it does that for the most part. but sometimes it will get stuck and it will just spin and never stop unless i reset the play mode

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!code

tawny elkBOT
willow minnow
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i dont know if this is a navmesh thing, or a script thing, or what

clever bridge
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Hi everyone, I have code that controls how slow time runs in my game, I control Time.timeScale with a variable called realTime, I have an upgrade called timeSlowSpeedLevel, and my code says realTime = 1 - (timeSlowSpeedLevel * 0.1f)

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when the speed level is 1 (making time slow to 0.9) it works fine. When speed level is 2 (time SHOULD slow to 0.8) it flickers between 0.8 and 0.7

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I have no idea why

warm aspen
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Or rather between 2 and 3

clever bridge
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no it also happens level 5, it flickers between 0.5 and 0.4

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but when time is 0.9, and 0.7 and 0.6 it works as intended, staying at those values

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nothing changes the upgrade level other that pressing the upgrade button in a different scene

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it may be the actuall time slow transition method, getting it now

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I don't see an issue with this code

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can i use round to lock in into the nearest tenth?

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nevermind, I resolved it, thanks!

languid osprey
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I’m declaring a public gameobject within the class but now whenever I reference it it always gives me an the error “the name ‘myGameObject’ does not exist in the current context”. I don’t understand why

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I’ve tried referencing it everywhere and nowhere works

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I’ve even tried referencing it on the next line so I don’t think it’s a scope issue

lean sail
languid osprey
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I did make it public

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I’ve saved the script

spring creek
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Show the !code
Hard to say without it

tawny elkBOT
languid osprey
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I don’t really know what to send for my code I’m literally just declaring a public GameObject

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But I can’t use it anywhere

spring creek
languid osprey
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public GameObject myObj;
Vector2 point = myObj.transform.position;
spring creek
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Is the myObj line a class member?

languid osprey
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Yeah they’re right next to each other

spring creek
lean sail
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Then of course that wont work, you cannot define the value outside of a function like that

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myObj wont be assigned by that point

languid osprey
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Why

lean sail
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Do some c# basics before unity. you'll greatly benefit it

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I told you why in the message above

languid osprey
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I know c# before I downloaded unity

left hill
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Is there a way to check if a point is in a 3d collider? I can use Physics.OverlapSphere with a radius of zero, but I am only comparing against one singular collider which makes this terribly inefficient.

I am trying to make a basic rope using Verlet integration, and this is how I was going to handle collisions: https://pastebin.com/eBb3ENEA

spring creek
lean sail
languid osprey
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You can definitely assign values outside of methods in c#

left hill
lean sail
languid osprey
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Wouldn’t it assign it on that line?

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On the line where I assign it?

left hill
spring creek
lean sail
languid osprey
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Idk I put the vector2 everywhere

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I tried all over

spring creek
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MyObj is the issue

lean sail
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Again, you'll greatly benefit by doing more basic c#. You cannot just randomly guess where to put it

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And we've written already that the assignment you're doing cannot exist outside a function

heady iris
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Field initializers cannot refer to instance members.

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The compiler explicitly tells you this in the error message.

lean sail
heady iris
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If you want to write the object's position into a vector, then do it in Awake.

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you can't just randomly move stuff around until your code happens to work

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this produces junk, not code

left hill
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Actually, nevermind.

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It does matter.

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I confused myself.

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Uh... maybe for now I will just treat them as points.

cobalt gyro
# 
//Toy is the alias of the sprite renderer sprite
 public void SwapTexture(byte[] texture)
 {
     toy = Sprite.Create(new Texture2D(64, 64), new Rect(0, 0, 64, 64), Vector2.zero);
     toy.texture.LoadImage(texture);
     toy.texture.Apply();
 }```
Am i loading in this texture wrong because the texture isnt showing whenever i put it into play mode
dense estuary
nova shale
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It's hard to look this up without getting answers about how to implement persistence. In my case things are persisting between scenes that I don't want to. I'm not exactly sure how, as I havent set up any persistance.

When all the waves of the game are finished or when the player dies a button appears to restart and when you click it i simply call

// GameManager.cs
    public static void Restart() {
      SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex);
    }

And then state starts breaking with my spawner and UI and i get some null reference errors that i dont get when starting the scene the first time.

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14981579/unity-missingreferenceexception-when-loading-same-scene-for-second-time

I believe I'm running into this issue. Hm, so if you need something to be static and also need it to reset beween scenes is there a good pattern besides manually writing reset code?

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I'm trying to create Arkanoid 3d game using Unity with C#. I've created simple Menu (Scene 0), where I can start my game, my main scene where actual game takes place(Scene 1) and Scoreboard (Scene ...

tender arch
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private void Run()
{
float runSpeed = speed *= 2;
if (!isRunning && Input.GetButton("Run"))
{
speed = runSpeed;
}
else
{
speed = speed;
}
}

how do i make the else not so, bad

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please

spring creek
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Gotta have an original speed though, because you are setting speed, so setting it back won't change it

tender arch
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the original speed is 5

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as set in the editor

spring creek
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When the if is true, you change it to 10

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So when you do the else, it is still 10

tender arch
# 
    private void Run()
    {
        float runSpeed = speed *= 2;
        float originalSpeed = speed;
        speed = (!isRunning && Input.GetButton("Run")) ? runSpeed : originalSpeed;
    }```
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like this?

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@spring creek

spring creek
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Well actually

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You are setting orignalSpeed after setting speed to * 2

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*= is an assignment

#

So you are setting speed AND runspeed on that first line

tender arch
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so =*??

spring creek
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runspeed = speed * 2

tender arch
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JESUS i need to adjust that number, i accellerated like a maniac

leaden ice
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Are you doing this every frame? Isn't it going to double the speed every frame?

tender arch
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no it isnt doubling every frame

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but my speed doesnt go back to normal

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i set it to 1.5 it was good

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but when i let go

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it kept that speed, and when i keep pressing shift i speed up again and again

spring creek
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Just for cleanup, consider this

public class Whatever : MonoBehaviour {
    [SerializeField] float currentSpeed;
    [SerializeField] float runMultiplier
    [SerializeField] float normalSpeed;
    private void Run()
    {
        currentSpeed = (!isRunning && Input.GetButton("Run")) ? normalSpeed : normalSpeed * runMultiplier;
    }
}
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or even a hard set runspeed, but whatever

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That way you get rid of the magic number though, which was the big part imo

tender arch
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ohhhh shit i know the problem

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i forgot to set isrunning to true

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and vice versa

soft shard
# nova shale https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14981579/unity-missingreferenceexception-whe...

Im not sure about a specific pattern for that, though you could make a "scene loader" and fire an event when the scene finishes loading, then your spawner, UI, etc can reset itself when that event is called - or if those classes are meant to be DDOL/monos you can put them in a scene script that recreates them when the scene loads (similar to dependency injecting, having a list of "dependency" prefabs to ensure are in the scene) - generally, if something is static its going to persist unless you decide to clean it up yourself or tie it to another system that manages it

soft shard
# dense estuary Could I please get some help with this, I'm still stuck.

Im not quite sure what could be causing your issue, though a few things you can do to help yourself debug is make your slope values public or log them every frame along with your hit normal so you can see what condition might be causing your code to trigger, its possible because the surface of your steps are probably 90* the math is coming out as 0 or something - you can also try a git package called "Verxyz Debugging", it visualizes all Physics and Physics2D casts, shapes and their collisions so you can see exactly whats going on

elder flax
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Hey I'm getting confused by local and world vector3 stuff, so what I want to do is get a point that I use as a pivot for an object, Like if i shoot a ray and it hits near the top of an objects collider, thats the point I need. But, if that object is moving and rotating, I want that point to remain in that position relative to the object.

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Does it happen to have anything to do with Transform.InverseTransformPoint? (I don't entirely know what transform.inversetransformpoint does either, to be honest)

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If it matters, this is for a half-life style pickup system, cuz if I say wanted to open a door, I need the force to be applied from the point where I aimed at so I can open and close it easily

cosmic rain
# elder flax Hey I'm getting confused by local and world vector3 stuff, so what I want to do ...

You'd need to store the the point relative to the object position/rotation,which is also referred to as local space. You can achieve that by using inverse transform at the moment you want to cache the point, as it transforms it from world to local space. Then if you need to get the that point in world space later on, you can use transform point, to transform it back from local space to world space. You can also do this manually with some math.

elder flax
#

OH wait I get it now, thanks 👍

tawdry jasper
#

Is it common knowledge that there's something wrong with the cloth compontent in unity? I tried to add it to a prop but it kept crashing unity, painted the weights and saw it running ONCE, and then tried defining a force to see some movement, and now even though I reset the movement back to 0,0,0 it's still crashing.

cosmic rain
vital oracle
#

I'm using a scriptable object based inventory system. I also use the same system for chests and store inventories.

Everything works fine for static items, health pack, keys, weapons, etc. But I also want to have a few items that have randomized data. For instance a gold item in a chest that can have a randomly set value range. The inventory slot holds the item data scriptable object and all of the methods involved with the inventory system reference the base item data scriptable object.

spring flame
#

is there any editor utility for editor camera? like show the position, rotation and possibly edit it? Or do I have to write my own script?

sage latch
arctic plume
#

Could anyone help me using the Resources.Load function in Unity?
I'm getting an error saying the asset can't be found but I don't see what I'm doing wrong:

        AudioClip dialogue = Resources.Load<AudioClip>(dialogueAudio);
        if (dialogue != null)
        {
            Debug.Log("Successfully found the audio clip.");
        }
        else Debug.Log("No audio clip found.");
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No audio gets played (I try and play it further down in the code) and the second Debug Log prints out

mellow sigil
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You'll have to show what dialogueAudio contains, preferably by debug.logging it

arctic plume
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It seems to be the right path as far as I'm aware

image.png
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unless I'm misunderstanding something about it which is very possible haha

mellow sigil
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Read the docs again

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Note that the path is case insensitive and must not contain a file extension.

arctic plume
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Ohh I see, my bad

#

Thank you very much

leaden yew
#

Hi! I'm trying to access a leaderboard on buckets from unity cloud clode js, but it gives me an error " "detail": "Score submission required to view the scores of this leaderboard"," Can someone help me?

#

const getScoresResult = await leaderboardsApi.getLeaderboardScores(projectId, "LdbId");

hard viper
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SOs should not get instanced at runtime

#

it is against the whole point of SOs

#

and since SOs are not made for this, they have interactions with loading, scenes, and GC (or lack thereof) to keep them persistent in ways that are normally wrong for things instanced at runtime

#

the whole point of an SO is to create instances that exist as files. They exist outside of any scene, they exist before the game even starts up, and their information persists even when things get nuked

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If you need to actually save persistent data, you need to save to an actual file (not an SO).

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because SOs get reset whenever you open the application

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@dull temple

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Also, it will cease to be “less effort” once you need to put in effort to fix all the bugs and unintended behaviours to address the aforementioned issues

round violet
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hello, i got an issue in my build that i dont have in my editor

i got a script, that is attached to one GO.
it holds data that i want to keep between scene loads, so its static :

public class CrossSceneDataHolder : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static bool InstantStart = false;
    public static bool StartInTuto = false;
}

i use it in one script before & after loading

// elsewhere
public void Restart()
{
    CrossSceneDataHolder.InstantStart = true;
    CrossSceneDataHolder.StartInTuto = _playerC.InTutoLevel;
    SceneManager.LoadScene("Game");
    Time.timeScale = 1;
}

// elsewhere 3
if (CrossSceneDataHolder.InstantStart)
{
    CrossSceneDataHolder.InstantStart = false;
    if (CrossSceneDataHolder.StartInTuto)
    {
        CrossSceneDataHolder.StartInTuto = false;
        StartTutorial();
    }
    else
    {
        StartClick();
    }
}```


in the build, well, `elsewhere 3` doesnt work, so my guess it that the static fields are reset
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any ideas why this occurs in build ?

primal wind
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Is there any way to make the Value property visible in editor?

public class Setting<T> : SettingBase 
{
    public Setting(string name, T value) : base(name)
    {
        BaseValue = value;
    }
    
    public T Value 
    {
        get => (T)BaseValue;
        set
        {
            if(value is not null && value.Equals(BaseValue)) return;
            else if(value is null && BaseValue is null) return;
            BaseValue = value;
            OnValueChanged?.Invoke(value);
        }
    }

    public delegate void ValueChangedEventHandler(T value);
    public event ValueChangedEventHandler OnValueChanged;
}
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[field: SerializeField] apparently only works on auto properties

spark vigil
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Unity's serialization only works on fields, that's why you can do it for auto properties, because they have an associated field

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Regular properties are just special functions, the serializer knows nothing about them

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You'd need to write your own editor for the component, or mess around with the com.unity.properties package which has some kind of support for properties afaik

hard viper
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designers do not create SOs during runtime.

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SOs can only premanently be modified in editor play mode or in inspector

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anything that modifies an SO during build will not work, because SOs revert to initial state whenever the built app is relaunched

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if you made an ingame editor that could only be used in unity editor by designers, that would technically work

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reread which part

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designers instantiate SOs primarily within unity’s editor, using the right click create asset menu. then modify via inspector.
We were originally discussing making SOs via Instantiate during runtim (ie not in unity editor), which is totally different.

primal wind
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Tho it means i can't do SettingCollection["setting"].BaseValue as Type and need to do SettingCollection.GetSetting<Type>("setting").Value instead

spark vigil
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It won't be as efficient as directly accessing the field, but you can have a protected abstract property in SettingBase that you override in Setting<T> that gives access to the field

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Or actually, is BaseValue a property too?

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In that case you can keep it on SettingBase and put this in Setting<T>:

[YourAttribute]
public new Type BaseValue => base.BaseValue as Type;
round violet
spark vigil
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I don't think there is enough information to answer it, because from that sample code, it should function as expected (though I'm not sure why it's a MonoBehaviour if you're not using any features of MonoBehaviour)

round violet
spark vigil
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Have you checked the log file from the build? Are there any exceptions happening prior to that code?

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You can run the game with -logFile path/to/file.txt if you don't know where to find the log (it's usually somewhere in appdata)

round violet
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!logs

tawny elkBOT
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📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

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

Unity Hub

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

spark vigil
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%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\ and not %AppData%\? Weirdly verbose lol

round violet
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found it

image.png
spark vigil
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Is CrossSceneDataHolder in a .cs file that doesn't match its name?

round violet
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it just did a test by removing monobehviour after what you said, going to test again with

spark vigil
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Oh

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You'll get that error because you still had the component on a game object

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You need to remove it from the game object before removing the inheritance

round violet
spark vigil
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Nah, it'll be kept around

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IL2CPP builds will remove unused code, but since you have code that actually uses the class, it'll still stay

round violet
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does a class has to be from MonoBehaviopur or scriptable object ?

spark vigil
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No, it only needs to derive from MonoBehaviour if you want to attach it to a GameObject

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And it only needs to derive from ScriptableObject if you want to store it as an asset

heady iris
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Right.

spark vigil
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In this case, you basically have a singleton that doesn't use any Unity callbacks, it's just a data container. So it can be a plain class

heady iris
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Now, if you want to create a Unity object, you need to have UnityEngine.Object as a parent.

ScriptableObject is there to let you do that with non-MonoBehaviour classes, pretty much

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A Unity object is something you can drag around in the inspector

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materials, mono behaviours, game objects, textures, audio clips, text assets...

spark vigil
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In other words:
ScriptableObject = custom asset
MonoBehaviour = custom component

round violet
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so for my CrossScene... class, i should make it derived from ScriptableObject ?

spark vigil
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You don't need to, no