archived-code-general

[lean sail]

You can raycast, either from the camera or player depending on the type of game it is. Putting an interact script on the vehicle is kinda vague. Yea the vehicle is gonna need some script so you can actually move it but the vehicle itself doesnt need a script where it checks if the user is trying to get in

[plucky dagger]

Okay. Got right now I just have an empty holding my vehicle interact handler. The interact handler is what controls camera positions exit position and enabling and disabling certain scripts to make the transition from moving the player to moving the vehicle

Also is there any way to separate parts of vehicle out inside of unity. The prefab model that I have has one part of the vehicle that I would like to animate but it's not separated out like the rest of the intended movable parts are

[twilit scaffold]

Turning off "Show new snippet experience" solved this issue, so far.

[swift falcon]

hey there, I'm trying to use the unity nav mesh for my 2d game. Is there any good resource how to use it in a 2d environment? I know there is a NavMeshPlus for 2D but is there any other way to use the official pack for 2d?

[vagrant blade]

Nope, navmesh plus is it really

[versed spade]

    private void Update()
    {
        
        Vector2 thrustInput = playerControls.Player.ThrustControl.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        float yAxis = thrustInput.y;
        float xAxis = thrustInput.x;
        //float SpaceBreakValue = playerControls.Player.SpaceBreak.ReadValue<float>();
        //rb.velocity *= (1f - SpaceBreakValue);

        ThrustForward(yAxis);
        Rotate(transform, xAxis * -rotationSpeed);

        //Store ship data for UI
        currentVelocity = rb.velocity.magnitude;
        currentHeading = -rb.rotation < 0 ? 360 + -rb.rotation : -rb.rotation;
         
    }

I needed some advice on this. Normally when you'd use Input System, people would make a separate function that would run when the button is pressed. All though press events. However in my code currently, the Thrust control of the spaceship is based on a value outputted instead of a button. Is this fine to have? And should I do the same for the space break when added? I want to have clean code.

[tardy crypt]

what do you mean "a value outputted instead of a button?" what is the "value outputted"?

do you mean in the inputsystem, when you press a keyboard key (or some other input button pressed such as mouse or joystick), you call a function, but in your case, that function is called through a different mecahnism you call "the value outputted?"

[gusty aurora]

I just came across a weird interaction, if I write Object.Instantiate(prefab, position, rotation), and my prefab has an Awake method, then the position and rotation will not yet be set during its Awake ?! It sounds super counter-intuitive, is that intentional ?

[versed spade]

Value outputted means this. Basically a Vector 2 value for button presses instead of it just being a button action.

[pliant sapphire]

Hey guys, I written here before about my Saving system in game and now I finally did all changes some of you said but it doesnt work, I dont get any error but when I click save my data and in my main menu click load game button it should load game with all data saved but it doesnt. Here is SaveServiceScript that is responsible for saving and loading my data: https://hastebin.com/share/uwizavokit.csharp here is GameState script where I save all of those variables: https://hastebin.com/share/agomeyoqab.csharp and here is my menu manager script that has function that when I click on Load Game button it should load scene 1 with all data saved: https://hastebin.com/share/sapiyeduga.csharp

[hard viper]

You need to use Debug logs to find out where the specific issue is, then

like how far does the code get

does the method get invoked

[delicate flax]

you don't do anything with the gamestate after you load it

[hard viper]

does it actually write a file

[hard viper]

that’ll do it lol

[pliant sapphire]

wait

how

[delicate flax]

like I don't know what other classes you have, but you need something like:

public void LoadFromJson()
    {
        string json = File.ReadAllText(Application.dataPath + "/GameDataFile.json");
        GameState data = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameState>(json);
        GameManager.instance.state = data;  // <---- use the thing you just loaded    
    }

[pliant sapphire]

how to fix that then, I had saving system working before but I had to reference gameobjects inside saving script which I was told isnt good way and I couldnt make Load Game button work in my main menu with that script so now i rewrote it that inside player/cam script they reference saving script to load it

[pliant sapphire]

i dont have gameManager and it doesnt have state in it im confused

[brisk plaza]

On unity ads, if a user doesn't click the cross (X) at the top of the screen to close the rewarded ad, although they wont receive the reward, BUT will I still receive the money for that ad being watched?

[thin aurora]

Not a coding question #🔎┃find-a-channel

[delicate flax]

well looking at the save function, you need to do the reverse in load:

public void LoadFromJson()
    {
        string json = File.ReadAllText(Application.dataPath + "/GameDataFile.json");
        GameState data = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameState>(json);
        
        //use the thing you just loaded    
        FindAnyObjectByType<PlayerController>().deathCount = data.deathAmount;
        FindAnyObjectByType<PlayerController>().PlayerCamera.transform.position = data.camPos;
        FindAnyObjectByType<PlayerController>().player.transform.position = data.playerPos;
        FindAnyObjectByType<CamController>().maxPos = data.camMaxPos;
        FindAnyObjectByType<CamController>().minPos = data.camMinPos;    
}

[pliant sapphire]

Okay I will do that thanks

[weary swift]

Yo! Do you guys have tips on how to implement animations in my project ? I started working with animations using the animator with the graphs and it rapidly became a total mess. I'd like to know how what you do in your own projects please.

[tardy crypt]

I think your way of doing things is fine if you truly need the input value every frame. Button -> function is for event based input, where checking if the button is down every frame or something is considered wasteful.

[versed spade]

So things like movement such as Spacebreak and thrust control should be values. And something like firing a projectile is a button?

[tardy crypt]

Sounds reasonable.

[versed spade]

gotcha

idk if I am doing something stupid or unity has brain damage. Every few minutes, despite my rotation value staying the same, it will go from a slow rotation to a fidget spinner out of nowhere.

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

public class AdvancedPlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{

    private Rigidbody2D rb;

    public float maxVelocity = 3;
    public float rotationSpeed = 2f;
    public float brakeDeceleration = 0.1f;


    #region Monobehaviour API

    private void Start()
    { ... }

    private void Update()
    {
        
        Vector2 thrustInput = playerControls.Player.ThrustControl.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        float SpaceBreakValue = playerControls.Player.SpaceBreak.ReadValue<float>();
        float yAxis = thrustInput.y;
        float xAxis = thrustInput.x;

        ThrustForward(yAxis);
        Rotate(transform, xAxis * -rotationSpeed);

        if (SpaceBreakValue == 1) {
            SpaceBreak();
        }

        ClampVelocity();
    }

    #endregion

    #region Maneuvering API

    private void ClampVelocity() 
    {
        Vector2 x = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rb.velocity, maxVelocity);

        rb.velocity = x;
    }

    private void ThrustForward(float amount)
    {
        Vector2 force = transform.up * amount;

        rb.AddForce(force);
    }

    private void Rotate(Transform t, float amount)
    {
        t.Rotate(0, 0, amount);
    }
    private void SpaceBreak() {...}

    #endregion
}

Last night it was set to 0.5 which would spin at like 1rev per second, then this morning it was EXTREMELY slow, going like 1rev every 4 seconds. So I changed it to 3 and it was 2revs per second, and then this last time I ran it it was a good 100 per second.

[leaden ice]

You're doing exactly what you're not supposed to do, which is physics in Update.

Physics code belongs in FixedUpdate

[versed spade]

oh, should I move everything in update to FixedUpdate?

[leaden ice]

Also with your rotation code you're not adjusting it for the framerate

You're also mixing Rigidbody motion with Transform rotation

All of these things need to be addressed

[versed spade]

I am honestly not sure how to adjust for framerate? I remember Time.deltaTime methods being used in the past but I don't fully understand how to do that

[leaden ice]

Time.deltaTime is used yes

It's not a method

Just a number you multiply into your "per frame" quantities to turn them into "per second" quantities

But that would only be for when you are manually doing things in Update

If you're doing physics in FixedUpdate you don't need it

[versed spade]

So aslong as the rotation and other items are in fixed Update its good to go?

[versed spade]

Just for reference I followed this guide to help me with my zero G movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXfgdEE4S20
I belive hje used the transform rotation so exzerted forces are always where you face

[leaden ice]

Rather than trying to find rules of thumb, you should try to think about what your code is actually doing exactly and what it means when things go in different places. Putting your rotation in FixedUpdate will make it consistent but also it will look jittery because Transform.Rotate isn't going to be interpolated

The Rigidbody interpolation, which you should be using, only applies to motion from the Rigidbody

[versed spade]

Would the ridgebody method for that be SetRotation?

[leaden ice]

You'd apply an angular velocity, use AddTorque, or MoveRotation

Check the docs for Rigidbody

[versed spade]

gotcha

[pliant sapphire]

hey, I added this and first time I tried to save and then leave and load game it worked and I was spawned there with my camera pos and player pos same as it was after I saved but then I tried to go to different room and save and load game and it spawned me back where I was at the first save with same data. So it worked first time but every other time it just spawned me where I was firstly saved

I added this to code as u said btw

[delicate flax]

if you open GameDataFile.json you might be able to sus out what's happened. I can't tell you off the top of my head why it won't overwrite your old save, and I'm about to head out rn. if not hopefully someone else here has time to look in to it. gl

[pliant sapphire]

ahh okay ty

this was that save

[tough obsidian]

hi actually i am getting null reference error but can't understand why it is happening

[rain minnow]

check the script of the error line posted in the error. we can't tell anything without the code in question . . .

[heady iris]

you have cropped out all of the line numbers

[rain minnow]

did you check if gameUI is null?

that's the only variable on the error line . . .

[tough obsidian]

ahhhhh it worked earlier i created a variable for script gameui but that was null now i used singleton and it worked

[pliant sapphire]

Hi guys, I have a problem with my Saving system in Unity. When I click on Save button it should make .json file with all game data saved and when I load the game from main menu it should just load me that data but for some reason it doesnt. Here is saving script: https://hastebin.com/share/efobihiduv.csharp and here is GameState script where I save all variables: https://hastebin.com/share/riniyipemi.csharp . Also in Saving script my Debug that says "save" doesnt appear but it worked before and I havent changed anything...Im very confused because my saving script worked 5min ago and I saved my game, then I loaded game from main menu and worked perfect, I tried again with different values(different player and cam pos and death count) I saved and loaded and then it loaded save values that I saved before. It didnt overwrite .json file and I dont know why. Then I deleted that .json file and now it wont even save nor load data...

[leaden ice]

What debugging steps have you taken?

[heady iris]

don't crosspost; you just asked about this in #💻┃code-beginner a few minutes ago

[pliant sapphire]

it was 20min ago and this is fuller desc

[pliant sapphire]

I only put debug after save and load func was called, I tried saving multiple times after I deleted .json file but it didnt work, it wont make another .json file with saved variables

[swift falcon]

Yo, I need help, I want the main camera to rotate relative to the mouse at x and z coordinates around some object when I move the mouse. But my code I wrote looks terrible, and I don't know how to implement it.

[leaden ice]

Well is it printing?

[pliant sapphire]

save debug doesnt show and load wont show because of this error

which occured after I deleted my .json file

[leaden ice]

Seems like REALLY important infomration you should have provided lol

click on it, read the full error message
Find the filename and line number where it's happening

[opaque fox]

I am trying to figure out how i reference the object my script is attached to in a public variable ?

[pliant sapphire]

ah sorry

goes here

[leaden ice]

the object your script is attached to is always .gameObject, you don't need a separate variable for it

[leaden ice]

ok well that's your problem

you'

re trying to read a file that doesnt exist

so it's throwing an exception

[pliant sapphire]

yes but cause I deleted it

but it should make new one everytime I save

[leaden ice]

Well your code expects it to bne there

[pliant sapphire]

and then rewrite it after I save again

[leaden ice]

so you need to make your code able to handle the possibility of the file not being there

[opaque fox]

trust me I do, it is kinda difficult to explain the scenario but i do need it

[leaden ice]

you don't

I guarantee it

explain the scenario.

[pliant sapphire]

what should I do then

[leaden ice]

#archived-code-general message

i.e. check if the file exists before you try to read it

[opaque fox]

I am making an enemy spawner and because i made the object a prefab i cannot refer to one of the objects in the script becuase it is not in the assets folder, it is in the hierarchy so I am going into a script connected to the object that i need to refer to, and I am making a global variable so i can access it in the other file

[vivid heart]

I have a question related to Zenject. I have a MonoBehaviour script and a service. Where should I implement the movement logic, and what should I do with the basic components (e.g., Rigidbody2D, etc.)? I'm not quite sure how to properly design this. Can you help me, please?

[opaque fox]

it is a weird work around i know

[pliant sapphire]

okay but when I save it should make one, this lines of code

[leaden ice]

The correct way to do this is keep all your references that are internal to the prefab on a script at the root of the prefab. Other wcripts outside the prefab should not generally "reach inside" the prefab, as a best practice

[leaden ice]

that's not relevant to the other problem though

[pliant sapphire]

Debug.Log("saved"); doesnt show up when i click save button

[leaden ice]

you're trying to read it before you write

[pliant sapphire]

no, after

[leaden ice]

then that has nothing to do with this code that means this code isn't even running

[opaque fox]

then how am i supposed to refer to the object i need to refer to

[pliant sapphire]

I first save and then I click load

[leaden ice]

you messed something up and you're not even calling this now

[leaden ice]

As I said, from a script on the root of the prefab

which can refer to objects inside the prefab no problem

[pliant sapphire]

oh you are right

my save button had save service attached to it but it doesnt now cause I made it ddol and it doesnt exist in scene

[leaden ice]

it might help if you share some code then I can explain better.

[pliant sapphire]

how can i make my button find reference to SaveJson func

[opaque fox]

i think you misunderstand, I need to refer to an object out side of a prefab but in a hierarchy

[leaden ice]

in the button inspector

[leaden ice]

you need to drag the object that has the script into that slot, then assign the function

[leaden ice]

Show screenshots and code

I will help you with the best way

[opaque fox]

of what

[leaden ice]

of the object you want to refer to, and the object that you want to refer to it

and the spawner thing

like - explain your situation better.

[opaque fox]

k 1 sec

[pliant sapphire]

yes I know that but that gameobject with SaveServiceSystem script is DDOL and I cannot drag and drop it cause it exist only in main menu before I load game

you get what im saying?

[leaden ice]

Isn't it a singleton?

Attach a different script to the button with this code:

public void Save() {
  SaveServiceSystem.instance.Save();
}```

and assign that in the button inspector

[sick silo]

hey guys, I've just downloaded the Starter Asset-FirstPerson. When playing the game in the Editor and trying to look around with the mouse, I cannot look around as much as I want. The view is locked to mouse cursor position on the screen. So when the cursor hits the edge of my desktop screen, looking in-game stops. Is it possible to make it that I can infinitely scroll and look around, please?

[pliant sapphire]

oh yea that will work, thank you so much!

[opaque fox]

The first 2 images are of the object that needs referring to and the 3rd image is the script which refers to the object that needs referring to (lookObject = the object i need to refer to in the first 2 images) and the code is the inspector for the object referring to the object that needs referring to. https://hastebin.com/share/efenupobay.csharp

[sick silo]

For example, I cannot look to the right, if my mouse cursor is already to the far right of the screen:

[cosmic rain]

I don't know much about the starter assets, but usually you'd lock the cursor in code. Maybe for some reason that doesn't run/work in the asset. Should look through it's code and debug.

[sick silo]

thanks. the same thing happens even when cursor is locked/invisible. it's as if when the cursor hits the edge of the screen, it's then that it prevents me looking in that direction

hm, I just built the game and executed the exe, and even in full screen it behaves the same. It might be because I'm developing on a virtual machine. When I copied the binaries locally, the exe works as expected

[tawny elm]

i have a Vector 3 array
Vector3[] vertices = new [] {};
and i want to add to that
vertices.Add(new Vector3(1, 2, 3));
but that doesnt work
what do i do instead?

[delicate flax]

make it a list instead I guess

List<Vector3> vertices = new ();

[hard viper]

i made a generic class that requires the ability to check if instances of the generic argument are null or equal to each other. I currently have T : class. Is there a way to expand this sort of thing to have an enum type in the argument?

maybe with like a MyEnum? ?

[tawny elm]

doesnt work because MeshFilter.mesh isnt a list

instead its an array

cuz im doing this
MeshFilter.vertices = vertices

[delicate flax]

then run, vertices.ToArray(); when you assign it.

[tawny elm]

mk

[void basin]

i am planning to learn C# but i want to only learn the essentials. does anybody know a simple and short tutorial

[rigid island]

check pins in #💻┃code-beginner

[tawny elm]

mk that seems to work fine

[leaden ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/collections/yz26f8y64n7k07

go as far as you['d like

[delicate flax]

there is about a million 'how to c#' tutorials online, written and video. I've heard good things about the brackeys series, if you prefer video and 'interactive' learning.
but I have no personal experience with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N775KsWQVkw&list=PLPV2KyIb3jR4CtEelGPsmPzlvP7ISPYzR

[void basin]

from what i understand these tutorials assume youre a beginner so it explains many things, but i already have some programming experience. is there a quick tutorial that explains the C# syntax and maybe some intermediate topics?

i dont necessarily need one that goes into many details, but gives broad context

[hard viper]

maybe C# discord knows more

[knotty sun]

I can give you the essentials of c# in 4 words
types
methods
keywords
scope
do with them what you may

[hard viper]

that isn’t really helpful

[knotty sun]

wasn't meant to be, the question itself was nonsensical

[hard viper]

it isn’t nonsensical

he needs an intro to C#, focusing on syntax, given he already understands basic programming

[knotty sun]

really? C# without .Net is virtually worthless, there is no 'essential' .Net
And syntax is exactly covered by the 4 words I used

[rigid island]

the manual is your best bet

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/

[swift falcon]

Is there a way to get AssemblyDefinitionAsset's root namespace in C#? It seems they integrated the **AssemblyDefinitionAsset **class as a **TextAsset **which has no variables in it.

[swift falcon]

Maybe i could convert to Json object and try to get it from there? Or even more creating a static class for it would be helpful

[reef garnet]

how can I multiply a colour to the base colour of a shader graph material

similar to how you would blend 2 colours in multiply mode in photoshop

[leaden ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@6.9/manual/Blend-Node.html
But honestly just the multiply node would work too

[reef garnet]

Thank you, I did just find a solotion with the SetColor method

[tawny elm]

i cant tell why but when i have the Random.Range(0, 1), this whole thing just renders no voxels

        List<int> chunk = new List<int>();

        // place random voxels within chunk
        for (int i = 0; i < chunkSize*chunkSize*chunkSize; i++)
        {chunk.Add( Random.Range(0, 1) );}```

[fervent furnace]

this always returns 0

[tawny elm]

how so

[fervent furnace]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[red mango]

is there anyone thats really good at creating 2d platformers or games here if so could u dm me

[tawny elm]

im looking at that and its confuzzling me

i dont know why Random.Range(0, 1) only returns zero

[heady iris]

because you gave it integers

[mellow sigil]

maxExclusive is exclusive, so for example Random.Range(0, 10) will return a value between 0 and 9

what part of that is unclear or confusing

[heady iris]

they expected the behavior it has with float arguments

[tawny elm]

rite

[heady iris]

there are several overloads for the Random.Range method

one takes floats and returns something from the inclusive range (so, Random.Range(0f, 1f) could theoretically return 1)

the other takes integers and returns something from [minValue, maxValue)

excluding maxValue

[tawny elm]

so its just returning 0.48549 or something instead of just 0s and 1s

[mellow sigil]

no, it's returning exactly 0

[tawny elm]

because it rounds it down?

[mellow sigil]

no

because Random.Range(x, y) returns a value between x and y - 1

[heady iris]

they're asking how it behaves with floats

as compared to how it behaves with ints

[mellow sigil]

are they?

[heady iris]

so, yes, Random.Range(0f, 1f) produces floats between (and including) 0 and 1

[tawny elm]

i thought maybe its because its doing a range between floats instead of between ints like i want it to

[heady iris]

now I can't tell 😛

Your code is calling Random.Range with integral arguments.

This means that it produces numbers in the range [0, 1)

the only number in this range is 0

This has nothing to do with floats being rounded.

If you want to get floats in the range [0, 1], then you need to call Random.Range with floats, not integers

[fervent furnace]

the chunk is list<int> so changing it to float overload doesnt help

[tawny elm]

so would Random.Range(0, 2) return 0s and 1s?

[heady iris]

If you want to get integers in the range [0, 1], then do Random.Range(0, 2)

Correct.

[heady iris]

I missed that! That makes more sense now (:

[tawny elm]

i feel like you couldve explained that way easier

[heady iris]

I thought you were looking for floats, so this confused me

now that makes sense

And, indeed, if you did do this:

chunk.Add(Random.Range(0f, 1f));

You'd get almost exclusively zeroes, since converting from float to int truncates the number.

(unless you got the extremely rare outcome of it returning 1.0f)

[tawny elm]

0, 2 is still giving me no voxels

either that or exactly 3 of them

its prolly something stupid with the rest of my code but its strange nonetheless

[heady iris]

check the numbers you're getting!

[tawny elm]

its given me 4 this time actually

yeah its giving me 0s and 1s but still doing nothing

if i replace the Random.Range with just a 1 then it renders every voxel

[heady iris]

show your new code

[tawny elm]

  {chunk.Add( Random.Range(0, 2) ); Debug.Log(chunk[i]);}```

[heady iris]

Maybe your code is stopping early when it hits a zero?

[tawny elm]

good idea

yep that adds up

i had it like this

{
  do stuff;
  vx++;
}```
but since vx++ was inside that loop it never went onto the next voxel

yep its a randomised chunk now

and yeah i havent bothered drawing the whole voxel yet, just one triangle

havent gotten round to it

[weary swift]

Yo ! I really need some advices on how to implement animations, when I try to setup my animations it become really messy really fast please.

[rigid island]

where is the code question ?

[weary swift]

I know that it is possible to implement animations in code. What should I use, code based or graph based ?

[rigid island]

thats up to you?

[weary swift]

For a not so tiny project is it possible to do everything in graph ? Or does it takes way to much time compared to code ?

[gusty aurora]

That's pretty awful, if you want randoms 0s and 1s, I'd recommand Random.value > .5f ? 0f : 1f

Added bonus of controlling how many you get of each

[fervent furnace]

i prefer range(0,2)

keep in mind the range is [a,b)

[knotty sun]

@tawny elm Random.Range(0, 2) will return exactly 0 or 1
Random.Range(0f, 1f) will return a float value between 0 and 1

[tawny elm]

i already fixed it

the problem was over like 10 minutes ago

[rigid island]

if by graph you mean Animator, yes its pretty fast to do and has many benefits like Blend Trees

[weary swift]

Yes I mean animator. I'm currently using these, but do you have tips & tricks or maybe just a guide on how to properly use it ? Because it gets really messy really fast, many things are linked together and I feel like i'm not doing the right thing

[rigid island]

I dont have a specific tutorial , they have too many already. Generally you just link states with the transitions and you're done. Kinda hard to fuck it up tbh its easy as shite

just make sure to use https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationParameters.html

[weary swift]

lmaoo

I'm not talking about not being able to do it, i'm talking about being able to do it properly so that it is readable and can be expanded rapidly

[weary swift]

Yes I already use that but thanks 👍

[icy depot]

public abstract class Something
{
    public Something() {/*do stuff*/}
}

public class Foo : Something
{
    public Foo() {/*do other stuff*/}
}

Foo foo = new Foo();

Will the abstract class's constructor run alongside Foo's constructor?

[rigid island]

na

you should need base
public Foo() : base()

[weary swift]

For example my movement animations look like this, but if I have to add something I will need to add links everywhere and it gets messy

[rigid island]

welcome to Animator hell

also most of those can be a simple blend tree

Idle,walk,running,Spriting

[weary swift]

Not in this case because of how the movements works, but I know about blend tree 👍

[weary swift]

bruh... I will look at code based then lmao

[rigid island]

wdym "because of how the movements works"

[weary swift]

I just thought about it, I guess you can use a blend tree for this

I'm gonna do it

[icy depot]

oh! that's kinda cool...

[vivid heart]

I have a question related to Zenject. I have a MonoBehaviour script and a service. Where should I implement the movement logic, and what should I do with the basic components (e.g., Rigidbody2D, etc.)? I'm not quite sure how to properly design this. Can you help me, please?

[rigid island]

#1062393052863414313

[rigid island]

do you know why you are using Zenject in the first place ?

[heady iris]

i don't think anyone knows why they're using Zenject, to be fair

I tried to read the readme and woke up 74 hours later in a field

[rigid island]

I'm too used the asp.net DI system, I'm frightened to try anything else lol

[gray mural]

Hello, is the 1st assignment of the position nullified if set before the 2nd in Update?

private void Update()
{
    transform.position = newPos; // 1st
    transform.position = newNewPos; // 2nd
}

So is it exactly the same as just setting the 2nd position without the 1st one?

[leaden ice]

Nullified? No. Overwritten? Yes

This is indeed pointless

[vivid heart]

Actually, I know why I use it, and I feel much more comfortable when using a composition root

[gray mural]

Got it, I've expressed myself wrong

So no visible changes are noticeable for the player, right?

[leaden ice]

No

[gray mural]

No, not noticeable?

[leaden ice]

The game isn't rendered until the end of the frame

How would they notice anything

[gray mural]

Got it, thank you

just wanted to make sure

[heady iris]

well, then identify places where you need to supply one of many possible concrete implementations, and use Zenject to provide those concrete implementations

[placid obsidian]

I currently have an Minimum Spanning Tree, does anyone know of any algs that are used to find the max weight/length with only the coords/weight? ie. get from a to b, but i don't know a or b to begin with

Otherwise will just have to throw iterations at it

[leaden ice]

That doesn't look like a spanning tree since there are untouched rooms unless I'm misunderstanding something

[heady iris]

yeah, that's not a spanning tree at all

[placid obsidian]

I'm sampling the rooms rather than doing every single one

[heady iris]

if you just want the longest path, you'll need to compute all-pairs distances

[leaden ice]

Also I'm unclear what you're asking. Are you trying to get a path from a to b?

[heady iris]

if you want a maximum spanning tree, that's pretty trivial https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MaximumSpanningTree.html

[grand hare]

how do i edit stuff that is greyed out like that?

[heady iris]

you don't. these assets are from packages, or are a sub-asset of another asset.

[leaden ice]

Make a new material and edit the new one

[heady iris]

create a new material and use that.

this is also not a code question

[grand hare]

oh shit i fixed it way easier mb

i jst dragged on my new matterial

[leaden ice]

Yes that's called using a different material as suggested

[placid obsidian]

yeah, except i wouldn't know where a or b is to begin with

[leaden ice]

I don't really understand the question then. You want the longest path in your set of edges?

Like ticket to ride longest train?

[placid obsidian]

yeah

[leaden ice]

Or Catan longest road

[placid obsidian]

ticket to ride longest train sounds about right

[leaden ice]

Iterate through each node in your tree and do a DFS from each. Pick the one that reached the greatest depth

[wooden trail]

Hi everyone, I'm here to find some help because I'm a new user to Unity so I would like to know how to change the texture in the Mac version?

[placid obsidian]

it did sound like dfs was what i'd be after! good to know i was on the right track somewhat, thanks

[leaden ice]

Unity works the same way on all platforms

"change the texture" is vague and doesn't sound like a code question unless you mean changing the texture of something in code

[wooden trail]

I went to the wrong salon where can I ask for help using unity?

[placid obsidian]

You can change materials through either the editor or through code

[leaden ice]

#💻┃unity-talk

[wooden trail]

thx

[grizzled ferry]

Hi, I'm having an issue with an error which appears on the console everytime I open the editor. Says the next message:

  at UnityEditor.WindowLayout.LoadWindowLayout (System.String path, System.Boolean newProjectLayoutWasCreated, System.Boolean setLastLoadedLayoutName, System.Boolean keepMainWindow) [0x00109] in <2e279d988b9d4542841de511fbfdf8c2>:0 
UnityEditor.WindowLayout:LoadDefaultWindowPreferences ()```
After a lot of debugging, the only thing I could make sure of is that it only happens when I use the ``Templates`` property of [this script](https://paste.ofcode.org/8PAN83AUykqFGP8vGWuLbN).

And yes, ``JsonTemplateData`` is serializable. This is the whole class:
```cs
[System.Serializable]
internal class JsonTemplateData
{
     public string TemplateName;
     public bool MultipleInstances;
}```
Does anyone know what could be happening?

[heady iris]

i'm guessing that just happened to trigger the error

Are you on the latest patch version of the editor?

(so, the latest LTS version, if you're using the 2022 LTS)

[grizzled ferry]

I'm on 2022.3.9f1, so yeah

[knotty sun]

that is quite old

[grizzled ferry]

I'll try using a newer version

[knotty sun]

the latest is 2022.3.21f1

[grizzled ferry]

Thank you, I'll try installing it

[grizzled ferry]

Just tried it, stills gives the error

[eager steppe]

I Broke Hold Notes. Again.

[hard viper]

can you serialize a MyEnum? as a nullable type?

[clever lagoon]

Total shot in the dark, but have you tried deleting, and letting it rebuild the Library folder?

[eager steppe]

You can serialize things as a nullable type?

[hard viper]

i am asking

[clever lagoon]

As nullable no- an enum is effectively and int, behind the scenes.

[rigid island]

nullable enum ?

why

[eager steppe]

i mean i guess Nullable<Enum> could work? Haven't tried it but i think it just allows to do that in code rather than in inspector

[hard viper]

i am making a hierarchy of enums, and need a way to indicate “this thing has no parent”

[clever lagoon]

you'll need to make that one of the enums

[rigid island]

why not just a value of NULL for enum itelf

anyway you can do it iirc anyway

since they are value types

[hard viper]

how do you set a null value for a value type tho

[rigid island]

public MyEnum? Enum;

Enum = null

[leaden ice]

Make a None value in your enum

[rigid island]

yup x2 on that

[leaden ice]

Nullable type is of course an option too, it's equivalent to using a separate bool variable

[clever lagoon]

it's a value type, like an int.https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0037?f1url=%3FappId%3Droslyn%26k%3Dk(CS0037)

[hard viper]

damn. I did a big dumb when I defined this thing a long time ago LOL

[rigid island]

yes I know that, thats why it can be nullable

any value type can be made nullable with ?

[clever lagoon]

ya, that works- dammit nav, now I need to learn how those guys get serialized!

[rigid island]

spoiler alert : in unity they dont

[clever lagoon]

what about stuff like BinarySerializer?

[rigid island]

probably , havent tried

I know it works for Json, i dont see why it wouldnt

[tawny elm]

for some reason the UVs dont work on the top and bottom of the cubes im procedurally generating here?

uv.Add(new Vector2(0.0f, 0.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(0.0f, 1.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(1.0f, 0.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(1.0f, 1.0f));

uv.Add(new Vector2(1.0f, 0.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(1.0f, 1.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(0.0f, 0.0f));
uv.Add(new Vector2(0.0f, 1.0f));

[leaden ice]

This code snippet doesn't have enough information to know what's wrong.

[tawny elm]

                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i  , j  , k  )); // 0
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i  , j+1, k  )); // 1
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i+1, j  , k  )); // 2
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i+1, j+1, k  )); // 3

                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i  , j  , k+1)); // 4
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i  , j+1, k+1)); // 5
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i+1, j  , k+1)); // 6
                        vertices.Add(new Vector3(i+1, j+1, k+1)); // 7

                        // triangles
                        // front
                        triangles.Add(vt+0); triangles.Add(vt+1); triangles.Add(vt+2);
                        triangles.Add(vt+2); triangles.Add(vt+1); triangles.Add(vt+3);
                        // left
                        triangles.Add(vt+4); triangles.Add(vt+5); triangles.Add(vt+0);
                        triangles.Add(vt+0); triangles.Add(vt+5); triangles.Add(vt+1);
                        // right
                        triangles.Add(vt+2); triangles.Add(vt+3); triangles.Add(vt+6);
                        triangles.Add(vt+6); triangles.Add(vt+3); triangles.Add(vt+7);
                        // back
                        triangles.Add(vt+6); triangles.Add(vt+7); triangles.Add(vt+4);
                        triangles.Add(vt+4); triangles.Add(vt+7); triangles.Add(vt+5);
                        // top
                        triangles.Add(vt+5); triangles.Add(vt+7); triangles.Add(vt+1);
                        triangles.Add(vt+1); triangles.Add(vt+7); triangles.Add(vt+3);
                        // bottom
                        triangles.Add(vt+4); triangles.Add(vt+0); triangles.Add(vt+6);
                        triangles.Add(vt+6); triangles.Add(vt+0); triangles.Add(vt+2);```

[leaden ice]

UVs correspond to vertices, so you'd have to show how the vertex indices correspond to the UV indices

[tawny elm]

rite there

[leaden ice]

I'm on my phone so I'm not really going to be able to analyze this properly

[tawny elm]

rite

[heady iris]

you will need to share the entire script so that we can see how you actually use uv

[tawny elm]

bloody hell

take the whole thing man

o it actually embeds that handy that

[spring creek]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

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

[spring creek]

Use a paste site for those of us on mobile

[clever lagoon]

just to confirm.. the UV stuff is called 6 times, once for each face?

[tawny elm]

vertex

im pretty sure

[tawny elm]

im aware

im doing it

https://hastebin.com/share/dimasipipi.java

[clever lagoon]

perhaps you need more verts then? consider.. What if one corner is upper right on one face, and lower right on another...

[tawny elm]

guh?

[clever lagoon]

it is not uncomming to have more than one vert at the same location, esp if you want them to have say.. different normals

[tawny elm]

their normals are appearing fine

[ashen yoke]

how many verts in that cube?

there has to be equal amount of uvs

[tawny elm]

8 verts

[heady iris]

they match!

[ashen yoke]

you think?

looks to me that the cube is hard edged

meaning 4 per side

[clever lagoon]

let me try to put it this way... front face.. top left corner has UV 0,0 right face, top left corner has uv 0,0 so, if you use the same UV's for the top face the bottom two corners with both have uv 0,0!

[heady iris]

i was wondering about that

I'd expect something more malformed like this

[ashen yoke]

the only way for the cube not to look like that ^ is to either have a normal map that adjusts normals

or that the cube is broken into separate submesh polys

which means 4 verts per side

[tawny elm]

is that anything to do with the UVs tho

the noramls look fine in engine

[heady iris]

ah, all of their normals are -Vector3.forward

[tawny elm]

yeah i put that and it just worked out fine so idk

[ashen yoke]

uv is an array of v2s that has to map 1 to 1 to the array of verts

[tawny elm]

ok

[clever lagoon]

so, if two faces that "share" a vert need to hve different UV's ... you'll need to create TWO of thos verts.

[tawny elm]

that sounds cringe and silly

how does the other sides work out fine then

[clever lagoon]

it is indeed waste of memory, BUT it makes processing much faster

[ashen yoke]

in order to have a hard edge where normals are not aligned there has to be 2 verts at the same point with different normals

thats just how graphics work

blender and other 3d software insulates you from that

[heady iris]

probably because it's easy to unwrap a cube with the top and bottom removed

[ashen yoke]

they manage it under the hood so you dont have to think or know about how gpu graphics actually work

[tawny elm]

that might explain why the sides are flipped actually

[heady iris]

the way you did this just happened to work for the sides

[clever lagoon]

try it with a UV map texture, and it should be illuminated. lemme find one for ya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UV_mapping#/media/File:UV_checker_Map_byValle.jpg

[tawny elm]

funky stuff

[clever lagoon]

heh, cool!

notice the different orientations

[tawny elm]

yeah

[grizzled ferry]

Doesn't work... Thanks for your help anyways, didn't try it

[tawny elm]

so this would up me from 8 verts to 24 unfortunately

[ashen yoke]

it already is 24

[clever lagoon]

yep- since each of the 8 corners touches 3 faces.

[tawny elm]

no its 8 because i did it wrong

[ashen yoke]

that should have visible impact on the shading of the geometry

similar to the cube Fen posted

[tawny elm]

i dunno man

theres definitely 8 vertices

[ashen yoke]

i checked the code so i blame the visual being somewhat flat on broken/incorrect normals then

you still have to make it 24 if you want to unwrap it, because shared verts wont allow you to unwrap each face over 0-1 without distortion

[tawny elm]

im aware

thats what i am doing

as we have discussed

[latent latch]

https://hatebin.com/gbsonrkjqn
That's my cube in opengl

I think indices are triangles. Been a while.

[heady iris]

By assigning normals that point out from the center of the cube, I get the expected weird smooth cube

When they all point in the -Z direction, it kind of looks right from one side

But it's nonsense from the other, since the normals are all pointing the wrong way

[ashen yoke]

guess RecomputeNormals would produce same as above

[heady iris]

the sun is pointing at the cube, but it's not lit

it's just catching environment lighting

so, yeah, you'll want to use 24 vertices -- 4 per side -- and make their normals all point in the same direction as the face's apparent normal

[latent latch]

oh yeah I remember running into that problem

[heady iris]

otherwise, you'll have the Weird Cube

[heady iris]

or the Cube That Only Works From One Side

(this side has the normals pointing outwards)

also notice that half of your UV charts are mirrored horizontally

you probably don't want that

[tawny elm]

got it all working but the backs arent being rendered

not super sure why

[ashen yoke]

winding order

most likely

[tawny elm]

yeah

[heady iris]

i forget which one unity expects

[tawny elm]

clockwise

i did the same order as every other face but i guess i did the back backwards somewhere

so now i gotta do it backwards on the tris too

or actually nah i get it

hold on

dear god what have i done

well im nearly there boys

oh no

[hard viper]

i have an infinite loop problem. where do you find the console log on windows?

i can’t find the right webpage to guide

[tawny elm]

fuck i keep breaking it

[tawny elm]

ok im back to here now

[lean sail]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html
All the log locations are shown here

[hard viper]

ty

[ashen yoke]

AppData\Local\Unity\Editor

[hard viper]

i kept looking up console, because that is what it is called in mac, and it kept sending me to the wrong page

and if I want to write to the console log, I use Console.WriteLine( ?

[ashen yoke]

Console is a layer between os terminal and application

basically just streams in out of term

just part of the .net api

[hard viper]

if I have an infinite loop problem, can I use Console to actually log things to that file so I can see where my infinite loop is?

[ashen yoke]

there is a simpler way tbh

you can put a breakpoint into each recent for and while

enable debugger and run until you find where its stuck

[tawny elm]

oh my god im stupid i was changing the top face for no reason

[hard viper]

that is smart

[ashen yoke]

you can actually run debugger while it is stuck in a loop, it should connect and hit it, i think

[tawny elm]

we are all wound up now boys

[hard viper]

oh god i see now the problem

ty cache.

[rustic copper]

what does this mean?

[ashen yoke]

means your code is broken and compiler cant compile it into a working executable

[latent latch]

all compiler errors have to be fixed before you can enter playmode

[rustic copper]

but i havent made any code

i only downloaded unity like 30 minutes ago

[rigid island]

check the console window to the offeding script

[hard viper]

ok I have been using Debug.Assert to show errors. But i need to throw an actual exception

[ashen yoke]

the code in your project, doesnt matter where it came from, if its broken it wont compile

[ashen yoke]

that doesnt seem like compiler error

press Clear in console

[rigid island]

something got busted for you in the install process then

[ashen yoke]

it should only leave compiler errors after clear

[rigid island]

if this is brand new and that appears

[rustic copper]

where is that?

[ashen yoke]

console window, button with text Clear

[rustic copper]

here?

[ashen yoke]

where did you take the last screenshot?

with red text

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Console.html

[rustic copper]

bottom of the screen

[ashen yoke]

click on it

should open console panel

[hard viper]

would anyone know what is the right syntax to make a C# assertion that actually throws an exception? There seems to be several different Assert methods in different classes

[rustic copper]

this one stays?

after i click clear

[ashen yoke]

yeah

so this is the error that comes from the package com.unity.burst

[rigid island]

try remove the burst package

[ashen yoke]

if you read carefully the text you will figure out most errors and where they come from yourself

what you can do is open Package Manager in unity and either update this package, or remove it

first try updating

keep the console open at all times

[rustic copper]

where is package manager

sorry im new to this

[ashen yoke]

same menu Window

[rigid island]

gotta learn to lookup the manual

[rustic copper]

just checking

i would put it under

unityeditor.android yeah?

[knotty sun]

wtf are you doing to need all of those using statements in one script?

[rustic copper]

i have no cle

clue

its telling me this

[knotty sun]

I'm guessing you are just letting your ide add using statements without you paying any attention. So I would recommend you remove most of them and then look at the docs to see which ones you should actually be including

[rustic copper]

i didnt add any of them

[ashen yoke]

did you update the package?

through package manager?

[rustic copper]

yeah i updated everything

[knotty sun]

read what I wrote, again

[ashen yoke]

click on Burst

check if there are other versions available

switch versions until it works

or, look if there are any missing dependencies

[rustic copper]

where are you seeing burst?

[ashen yoke]

in the list of packages

[quartz folio]

You shouldn't be pushing the library folder. This would indicate you don't have a correct git ignore

[rustic copper]

only showing one availabe versionm

[quartz folio]

!vc

[tawny elk]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[ashen yoke]

@rustic copper did you create project from android template or mobile?

[rustic copper]

2d core

[ashen yoke]

copy the error starting from The type or namespace.. into google

my guess is that there is a dependency missing

this should be common enough issue to find a solution, which most likely will involve getting yet another package

like AndroidToolsSomething

alternative is to remove Burst

but this will lead to a bunch of other package removals that depend on it

if you want to go through that process, removing packages until it works, try it

[rustic copper]

it is telling me to right click on my project

[swift falcon]

I got a question.

How do I share my project?

[rigid island]

build the project, send zip

[tawny elm]

this line keeps getting me the error "index out of range" and not drawing my mesh
if (chunk[vx] != 0 && chunk[vx-1] == 0)

im trying to check if the voxel next to the current face is solid

[swift falcon]

Can I share it from cloud?

[tawny elm]

all voxels are stored in a list

[swift falcon]

Does that work too?

[rigid island]

you can host it wherever you want

itch is typically the best option

[swift falcon]

Never heard of it...

I'll see.

[rigid island]

just to be clear.
you are talking about sending the EXE not the Project Folder / Unity project yes

[swift falcon]

I meant the whole project.

To work together.

[rigid island]

then you need version control

#archived-code-general message

got a quick setup vid if you need too

[swift falcon]

I need it.

Very appreciated.

[rigid island]

https://youtu.be/5IxUElilf2M

[swift falcon]

👍

Thanks man.

[rigid island]

no prob! lmk if you have any q

[rustic copper]

hi sorry back again

if i wanted this block to get destroyed after going past

-6y how would i program that

i did that but it did not work

[wide dock]

Did you actually attach this code to the block?

[rigid island]

this should work

[rustic copper]

yes

[wide dock]

Then debug it

[rigid island]

also are you sure -6 is what you want?

try not to use magic numbers

[rustic copper]

idk i thought it might be a bit low but it is out of pov

[rustic copper]

how do i debug it?

[wide dock]

void Update()
{
  Debug.Log($"Block is currently at: {transform.position}");
  if (transform.position.y < -6f)
  {
    Destroy(gameObject);
  }
}```

[rigid island]

cant you just look at the inspector?

lol

[wide dock]

Or that

[rustic copper]

should i just put that under

[rustic copper]

whats that😭

oh wati

ik what inpector is

[rigid island]

the thing that shows the components

including Transform which holds position

[rustic copper]

where should i look in it

[rigid island]

see what ur y position is?

during play

[rustic copper]

0.89

[rigid island]

ok but during playmode does it reach -6 ?

it wont magically know its out of the screen unless it reaches there

[rustic copper]

yeah it falls. im trying to make a game where you dodge falling obsitcals

[rigid island]

I get it that it falls, but does it keep faling past -6

[rustic copper]

yeah

i wanted them to get deleted to stop lag

[rigid island]

you would pool them instead for lag

[unique delta]

i used a unity animation event and the animation is blocking mid way

[rustic copper]

ah is that easier?

[rigid island]

instantiating and destroying is expensive

[rustic copper]

how do i do that?

[rigid island]

it basically just disables it, resets it then enables it again

I would get ur script working first then worry about pooling

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

[rustic copper]

yeah ill probably try other parts of the script first

then come back to it

[unique delta]

dose somone know?

[rigid island]

make sure 100% the script is running by checking those logs

[rustic copper]

im giving up for the night im hard stuck

thanks for your help though

[rigid island]

no you should probably explain what "blocking mid way means"

or show vid

[unique delta]

is not from aniomation event

[unique delta]

the animation just frezes at the third frame

and it stays there permanently

[rigid island]

then you should be inspecting the Animator selected during playmode and see where its at exactly

[faint hornet]

How can i get this to work?

I basically want a class to appear in the inspector when i select a specific enum from the drop down. this is a scriptable object and it's used for level design.

WHY DO I WANT TO DO THIS? becasue if i include all feilds in every scriptable object it makes my work flow confusing to look at and it seems less organized.
WHAT IS MY SOLUTION? i want to start with one enum, make a selection, then have new enums appear below ( in inspector) relative to the previously selected enum.

This is a scriptable object but onEnable and OnDisable wont work in this case.
I need an alternate solution to do the same thing. (which essentially is just an inspector update when selecting specific enums)

public class Point
{
  public Vector2Int position;
  public PointState pointState;
  public PointType pointType;
  public D typedata = new();

  public event Action<PointType> Change;

  private void OnEnable()
  {
    Change += ChangeTypeData;
  }


  private void OnDisable()
  {
    Change -= ChangeTypeData;
  }

  private void ChangeTypeData(PointType pt)
  {
    switch (true)
    {
      case var x when x = pt == PointType.Shape:
        typedata.data = new TypeData.ShapeType();
        break;
      case var x when x = pt == PointType.Dot:
        typedata.data = new TypeData.DotType();
        break;
      default:
        typedata.data = null;
        break;
    }

  }```

[latent latch]

https://dbrizov.github.io/na-docs/attributes/meta_attributes/show_hide_if.html

this or gotta make a custom inspector script

[wind needle]

Hi! I have a Unity project that runs very slow, and I've pinpointed this to be because the textures are huge and fill up all available VRAM. I've seen this in the memory profiler and verified that reducing the textures will solve my problem by setting the quality setting "quality mipmap limit" to very small (1/8).

I can't have a global, low quality setting though, as some of the textures need to be high res. Luckily, textures can have a max size in Unity, so I don't seem to need to adjust all assets by hand.

However, and here's my problem: the assets (which come from my client in big quantities) are glTFs, imported with glTFast. The textures are embedded and the option to set a max size are not available in Unity Editor.

Is there any way around this?

[cold parrot]

Use a gltf import asset or make your own. You can find free ones on GitHub.

[wind needle]

You mean like an AssetPostprocessor, and reimport all glTF's? I guess that could work...

[indigo verge]

I need help. I'm currently trying to load all Scriptable Objects from a specific folder in my project, and put them all in a list, but I can't find a single good way to do it. I've heard you're never supposed to use Resources.Load, but I can't find anywhere on the internet how to do what I'm wanting to do.

https://pastebin.com/vpcu9FbB

Here's a copy of my code, and the issue is in "ResetDebugItems", on line 69

I have no clue what's going wrong, but the folder path is indeed being obtained, and it does indeed contain Scriptable Objects, as seen here:

Does anyone know where I've gone wrong?

I want to use it for an Editor Script, where I click a button on the Debug Inventory to set all items in it to having 99 of every item in "ItemScriptables"

[quartz folio]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/resources/resources-folder

[indigo verge]

Is there a way to access folders that aren't in a "Resources" folder?

Should I put all of my game's assets in a resources folder, in that case? Is there any issues that would emerge from that?

I've heard common practice is to never use the "Resources" stuff, is there an alternative, if all I want to do is access things in folders for editor scripts?

[quartz folio]

Is there a way to access folders that aren't in a "Resources" folder?
No.
Should I put all of my game's assets in a resources folder, in that case? Is there any issues that would emerge from that?
100% no. Issues include: having no control over what is built into your game. Having difficulty unloading content from memory. Large build sizes with often with content duplicated and built twice.
I've heard common practice is to never use the "Resources" stuff, is there an alternative, if all I want to do is access things in folders for editor scripts?
Addressables

Or, direct references into a scene, but note there's limited control over memory with that option

[mossy snow]

Since it's editor only, AssetDatabase is an option. FindAssets + GUIDToAssetPath + LoadAssetAtPath
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.FindAssets.html
Make sure you guard with #if UNITY_EDITOR btw, your current script won't compile due to a using and AssetDatabase calls will need the same

[indigo verge]

Thank you very much, I'll try that!

[quartz folio]

Ah, Editor scripting, missed that part. Yeah AssetDatabase is the way

Next time post in #↕️┃editor-extensions so it's clear

[indigo verge]

Sorry, I wasn't aware there was a specific channel for it. Thank you.

[quartz folio]

Presumably you are not referencing their namespace (or assembly if you're using asmdefs)

[modern creek]

I have an admin tool (unity project) that I generate as a windows exe, zip, and send to my designer. Recently their machine (windows virus protection) started flagging it as containing a virus.. Any ideas what might be the problem? the app itself is pretty simple - it just reads/writes json files and exports a binary file to the game directory (which is specified in player prefs) - maybe that's the problem?

[lean sail]

theres likely not much you can do about it, the file operations could most definitely be a cause. easiest thing is just to tell them to run it anyways. Otherwise you're gonna have to try uploading it via some other method, maybe as a web app if possible?

[modern creek]

nah, web app won't work here since the admin tool has a feature to export the addressable (ie, the content "save file") directly to the unity assets/addressables directory.. I'm seeing if I can go through this microsoft malware false-positive portal thing but it's a pretty invasive process (ie, asking for the build definition, the detection name, versions of windows and windows defender - all of which is kind of a pain because it's not flagging on my machine, so I have to ask the user to get me all this stuff)

[static matrix]

what does the library folder contain?

[modern creek]

I imagine the windows defender process is identifying it as a virus since it's doing things outside of it's own directory sandbox

[lean sail]

Maybe just tell them to add the build to some excluded folder, and only download these builds to that specific folder

every other solution would be a pain, not sure how much you're trying to go through to fix a 30 second issue on other peoples pc

[modern creek]

yeah.. well, I was just hoping it was something trivial like .. including symbols or using a development build

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission?persona=SoftwareDeveloper

this page is the best I could find but I can't really imagine MS/windows is going to literally review an app that changes as often as my admin tool does (like every day!) and/or .. add some whitelist checksum? to windows defender or whatever for it without honestly knowing what the app is doing

[lean sail]

maybe someone else has a magic workaround that i am unaware of 😄. i imagine any real workarounds would be easily abusable by malware though

[mossy snow]

Hate to state the obvious, but are you sure it's a false positive? Upload it to one of those multiple av scan sites and scan your system. Some types of virus infect executables and DLLs on your system indiscriminately

[modern creek]

... i wrote the code, so.. yes? 😛

[mossy snow]

that's meaningless if you are the one infected

[lean sail]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security-811816c0-4dfd-af4a-47e4-c301afe13b26
this would definitely be a lot easier and shouldnt be hard for anyone to setup, assuming this isnt some large scale tool that a ton of people are using. an excluded folder will not check anything inside
what xEvilReeperx is saying is also valid, maybe some external malware found its way in

[modern creek]

Yeah - I think the exclusion is appropriate although I'm not sure if the exclusion is going to "stick" because I'm doing new builds quite often (and I imagine that the checksum or however it identifies a given process would change from day to day).

It's pretty unlikely that my system is infected and causing a downstream identification of a virus in the software.. like, if my system were infected, the "transmission vector" would be completely different than me writing software, compiling it into a windows build, and sending that to a coworker. I understand the idea that my machine could be infected, but that transmission chain is unlikely

[lean sail]

it says it applies to subfolders, so people can download the build into that 1 excluded folder

it definitely isnt a large scale solution

[modern creek]

Ah, that's cool.. I didn't see that bit, I assumed you had to add an exclusion for a specific exe

[lean sail]

havent used it personally in this case so I hope it works like it says 😅

[faint hornet]

have you ever used this before?

[mossy snow]

if you're having an issue post code + ask. I've used it extensively and it works fine

[latent latch]

It's pretty standard around here

[dark kindle]

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TextAsset ta;
    
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        ta = new TextAsset();
        Debug.Log(ta.text);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
}

So I have this code that I dragged a text file to but it does not show "hello" or "hello world" (text also has the word, not just file name). what am I missing?

here is panel:

output:

[rigid island]

hmm can you show contents of helloWorld?

you are doing new()

don't do that.
you're telling it " I want a new object instead" hence why its blank

[indigo verge]

I'm not sure how to fix this problem. I can't seem to clear the dictionary without first creating it, but I want to clear it if the function gets run again

[dark kindle]

thank!

[rigid island]

declare the new() dictionary at the class level this way you dont create a new one each time

[indigo verge]

Like this?

[rigid island]

yes, the null check is prob not needed. You probably want to replace it with itemDicionary.Count > 0
clear

[dense estuary]

How could I figure out which ones are under it? This is what I tried doing but it doesnt work: https://hastebin.com/share/sojohekima.csharp

[quaint rock]

once you capture all of them in the radius, from the overlapsphere you just loop over everything found and do something like
Vector3.Angle((objPos - center).normalized, Vector3.up)

to get what angle each object is at

[dense estuary]

Thank you, how can I check if the two angles are similar rather than equal?

[rain minnow]

what do you mean by similar? that sounds like the same thing . . .

within a range of each other?

[quaint rock]

you would choose how close is close enough

[dense estuary]

because currently I am using if (angle1 == angle2) {do stuff} but I want to do something like if (angle1 ≈≈ angle2) {do stuff}

[quaint rock]

you have to decide how close is close enough

[dense estuary]

Within a range of a few degrees I guess.

Since they are almost never going to be the exact same.

[quaint rock]

if ts just about highlighting things as line goes by, think i might just InverseLerp it, that way i get a nice fade in then fade out

[rigid island]

whats that ≈

[dense estuary]

almost the same

approximately

[rigid island]

can you just use mathf.approx ?

[dense estuary]

I didnt know that existed

[quaint rock]

can also just do multiple comparisons

greater then angle - 3 and less than angle + 3 for example

or even better Mathf.Abs

Mathf.Abs(angle1 - angle2) <= 3f for example

subtracting one from the other tells you how different the numbers are, Abs removes the sign from that so you can do a simple comparison and tell it how close is close enough for your purposes

[chilly surge]

Keep in mind you might need to deal with angles wrapping.

[quaint rock]

iirc for this use case should be pretty contrained in the 360

[dense estuary]

Oh, also, I have discovered a problem where the rotation of the object position angle is always positive, but the rotation of the line on the radar is either positive or negative.

[rain minnow]

Just subtract the angles and check if that value is less than a tolerance . . .

Get the absolute value of the result to compare against a positive value . . .

[quaint rock]

#archived-code-general message

[rain minnow]

Oh shit, exactly!

I use an extension method for that . . .

[quaint rock]

i generally just write it out, less for co workers to have to go to def and look at

[dense estuary]

I am having a problem where for some reason even when the angles are obviously within 3 degrees of each other, it still wont return true.

[rain minnow]

Who doesn't love a mystery? 😄

[dense estuary]

I debugged to check if it returned true and it never does

[quaint rock]

i would look at that rotation values in the log

one might be reporting the equivalent negative angle

[dense estuary]

Oh wait, I might know why, one sec.

for some reason ray.transform.rotation.y is returning a value between 1 and -1.

rather than a degree

[quaint rock]

yeah you want the euler angles for the rotation

transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y

rotation is a Quaternion, so the x, y, z, and w components do not do what you think they do

[latent latch]

question on some method structuring. Let's say I have this class for the UI which is handled via dependency injection, so technically I shouldn't be using an instance that's flagged unassigned and to prevent that I am constantly adding some sort of check every time you call these methods. I was just wondering if there's a way in c# that I can create a requirement to call a check comparison by tagging methods with an attribute or such.

It's not so much a problem of checking this assignment in each method, it's that I am sometimes calling this method multiple times because some of these methods are used by each other.

private bool IsSlotTypeCompatable(EquippableItem equippable, int slotIndex)
{
        if (!IsAssigned) return false;
        if (IsSlotEmpty(slotIndex)) return false;
}

public override bool IsSlotEmpty(int index)
{
    if (!IsAssigned) return false;
}```
Like here as an example I check the assignment twice.

[quaint rock]

the check is just checking a boolean

i feel anything you are asking about to skip it would be more complicated

like you mentioned attributes well the only way to access attributes is via reflection

[latent latch]

yeah I guess it's not that big of a problem as for performance, but it feels kinda messy

having some attribute to say hey method, check if the assignment is flagged and only once

[chilly surge]

Is the question about performance or about code duplication?

[quaint rock]

if this was a other language i would prolly use decorators

[latent latch]

mostly code duplication

[chilly surge]

Because yeah, performance of checking a boolean is pretty irrelevant.

[quaint rock]

really its easy enough to read

[rain minnow]

Do you need to check the assignment if you are calling IsSlotEmpty?

[quaint rock]

does not hit perf

clearly shows the function will bail early in these cases

seems fine

[chilly surge]

A few things to think about:

• Is it caller's responsibility to check IsAssigned, or is it the method's responsibility?
• Is it possible for IsAssigned to change depending on when the method is called?

[quaint rock]

some code duplication is fine, if it avoids further complexity

[latent latch]

in that case probably not, but this was just an example. The idea is I shouldn't be calling any of these methods if they were unassigned, and furthermore this falls into another problem I have and that's figuring out where and how much I should be null checking, haha

[quaint rock]

would not add complexity in service of making it dry

[chilly surge]

The easiest way is to just make the methods not callable unless it's already assigned.

[quaint rock]

the guard statements are already a huge upgrade from how most new people with do it with nested ifs

[rain minnow]

True, I wouldn't call the method if it was null . . .

[latent latch]

it's some UI stuff that im trying to decouple but stick to a DI approach for reusability

but yeah, ideally I shouldn't be calling these methods if they aren't assigned in the first place

[vagrant blade]

!ban 596888328050180106 bot

[tawny elk]

minesniffer was banned.

[tall salmon]

does somebody know what the problem is? im trying to make that whenever you hold r you restart the scene while it gets darker and darker with a gameobject that just gets more opaque with time

[vagrant blade]

@swift falcon Please don't crosspost. Stay in one channel #💻┃code-beginner

[chilly surge]

Yeah those methods obviously sit in a class, so make that class has to be constructed with things already assigned, and methods wouldn't need to do all these checks.

[rain minnow]

Start with posting the error message. That's kind of a big deal . . .

[chilly surge]

That way you essentially moved the checks to compiler: the mere fact that you have access to an instance of that class means it's already assigned and no check needed.

[tall salmon]

its in spanish

here is the full version tho

[rain minnow]

Try and use Google and post the translation . . .

[tall salmon]

it says something by the lines of: you cant modify the given value of " spriterenderer.color" because its not a variable

[rain minnow]

Kinda hard without knowing what the error is saying . . .

[rain minnow]

Now that makes more sense . . .

[dense estuary]

whoops

sorry

message wasnt ready yet

[dense estuary]

(sorry for the ghost pings) That's fixed now, but I have discovered a new issue. The script is oddly creating the instances when the line is not at the same spot, it also is creating around 15 instances every time. Here is my script. Here is a video

[rain minnow]

You cannot assign the alpha of a Color because it is a struct. You need to copy the SpriteRenderer Color to a local variable, update the alpha value, then assign the local variable back to the SpriteRenderer color . . .

[tall salmon]

lemme procces it kewk

[quartz folio]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

[tall salmon]

the local variable can be a float right?

oh

i think i got it

[rain minnow]

Vertx has a page just for this . . .

Ahh, there it is!

[tall salmon]

got it i think

ill update if it worked!

i have the same issue

i created a float that is "blackscreening", made it equeal to "blackScreenSpriteRend" and then modified "blackScreening" and then made it equal again (after modifying it) to "blackScreenSpriteRend.color.a"

maybe im just not looking at it from the right perspective

[dense estuary]

I believe the cause of the problem is that the eulerangles of the radar line is always a value between 0 and 360, but the Vector3.Angle can only return a value between 0 and 180, so when it reaches 180 and you keep going, it just flips the direction of change.

I think this is causing the values to be both flipped and mirrored.

is there a version of Vector3.Angle that returns a value between 0 and 360 instead?

[tall salmon]

yeah its that error

[rigid island]

yes

[tall salmon]

but idk how to change it

[rigid island]

did you see example on the link ?

[tall salmon]

i think i did it good ( which i obviously didnt)

yep

i went with this example

[rigid island]

Color color = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;
color.a = somevalue;
blackScreenSpriteRend.color = color;```

[tall salmon]

part 1

[rigid island]

wrong

you have to copy the whole struct

[tall salmon]

and here is the other thing

[tall salmon]

the whole struct?

[rigid island]

color is a struct

[tall salmon]

and what is a struct?

[rigid island]

its a value type object

[tall salmon]

and what do you mean with copy the whole struct?

[spring creek]

Irrelevant at this point. But it is like a class, but instead of a reference type, it is a value type (as nav said)
Which means you deal with COPIES of them, instead of actually modifying the actual object itself

[rigid island]

did you see the example i sent also?

[spring creek]

Remove the .a at the end here
#archived-code-general message

[tall salmon]

yes but i didnt understand it

[rigid island]

which part confuses you

[tall salmon]

lemme see again

that you dont write .color.a but then under it you make color.a = somevalue

and later on dont use it again

[rigid island]

i make a copy of color, change the alpha value and put the copy back

[tall salmon]

so by removing the .a which is the opaque level you select rgba?

[spring creek]

No

Color CONTAINS alpha

Alpha is what you called "opaque level" btw

[tall salmon]

thats what i mean
the whole struct is Red Green Blue Alpha

thats what i meant with rgba

[spring creek]

It includes those, yes

[rigid island]

ys but alpha is a read only property you cannot directly assign it

[spring creek]

Selecting rgba doesn't really make sense

You just copy the WHOLE thing

[tall salmon]

but i only want to mess with the Alpha because i want to keep it an exact color

doesnt that mess with the RGB?

[spring creek]

No, not at all

[rigid island]

uhh no because you're copying the same values

[tall salmon]

(just asking for reasoning behind it, not questioning your knowledge)

[rigid island]

you're only changing .a

[spring creek]

Because you are copying the WHOLE state. Changing ONLY alpha, then putting it back

[tall salmon]

what is var color?

[spring creek]

Since only a is touched, only a is changed

[tall salmon]

just a random name right ?

[spring creek]

Same as Color color

[rigid island]

yes its just a name that made sense

[tall salmon]

okey

[rigid island]

you can use whatever u want

[tall salmon]

lemme procces

so in my code it would be something like
public color BlackScreenSpriteRend.color

[rigid island]

not at all no

[tall salmon]

dayum

[spring creek]

That is simply not how a variable is created

[rigid island]

this is meant to be a local variable

so its disposed once you did what you needed (assign it to color)

[spring creek]

[Accessor] [Type] [Name you make up]

[tall salmon]

oh true

YEYE

[tall salmon]

i saw it

hmmm lemme think rq

[rigid island]

there is no need to store it

its just a temporary thing to make modifications

[tall salmon]

so i can just make/write/create it inside the function?

[rigid island]

yes

[tall salmon]

okay

so color is

color color

[rigid island]

no, hover over the color it tells you the type

[tall salmon]

and then you set color to blackScreenRend.color

no?

[rigid island]

as I did you can use var when you don't know the type

color is not a valid type

[tall salmon]

why not?

[rigid island]

because it doesn't exist?

[tall salmon]

wait im messing things up in my head

lemme go back to basics

[spring creek]

Color color

That is it. Or var color

[spring creek]

No references in a variable declaration (there is qualification, but I don't want to confuse things here)

[tall salmon]

okay

the type of what?

variable?

[rigid island]

yes

the object you wish to copy/ modify

[spring creek]

Type has a specific meaning. A class name is a type. A struct name is a type. Enum names are types

[rigid island]

and they're all objects, hence OOP

[tall salmon]

what is oop?

[rigid island]

Object Oriented Programming

[spring creek]

Object Oriented Programming

[tall salmon]

damn

imma think how i should do it with all this

[rigid island]

you kinda need to learn these things to code in c#

[tall salmon]

with this as a base

[tall salmon]

yeah im learning unity/c# at the same time

[rigid island]

there isn't much to think about

[tall salmon]

but mainly focusing in c#

[rigid island]

its literally the same thing I've sent, only mine had var out of habit but you can replace it with color. Ill do that now

[tall salmon]

so i could have writed color color

and set that color to blackScreenRend.color?

and then somehow modify color.a

[rigid island]

mate, c# is case sensitive

color color isn't valid

Color color would work

[tall salmon]

color screen could also work?

[rigid island]

Color pepperoni

you can name it whatever

[tall salmon]

epic

Color color = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;
color.a = somevalue;
blackScreenSpriteRend.color = color;

im just reposting so i dont have to scroll

[rigid island]

yes but obv replace somevalue with whatever you need to put there

[tall salmon]

Color Screen = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;

[rigid island]

sure

[tall salmon]

but if i write color.a how does it know to change the color.a of a specific gameobject?

thats what i was missing

[rigid island]

it changes the color of blackScreenSpriteRend

thats your reference

[tall salmon]

how to tell the exact game object that i want to change color.a

[rigid island]

you cannot use color outside the method if its a local variable

just make a copy each time you want to change it

[tall salmon]

is it better to create it as a local variable or as one outside?

[tall salmon]

a copy?

[rigid island]

.color

you need to copy to modify any of its properties rgba

then put it back

[tall salmon]

so it takes color.a as the color.a of "blackScreenSpriteRend.color because its the only one available inside that function?

or why

srry if im getting on your nerves im kinda slow

[rigid island]

nah no worries

[tall salmon]

and i also need to traduce everything in my head to a different language

so its set up to confusion

[rigid island]

because its a struct you only deal with copies, and alpha is a property of that struct that is read only

[tall salmon]

im thinking

what does "read only " mean

[rigid island]

it cannot be changed from outside

it can only be read?

[tall salmon]

i understand ( i think) that color is a struct and it has property´s inside as Alpha

ohhh

[rigid island]

yes

[tall salmon]

so how can i change it if i cant

wow that was a strange question to make

XD

[rigid island]

well color property is actualy set and get props

you'd have to learn properties, but in a nutshell they are special keywords for a variable to run a method when the value is read/set

[tall salmon]

for a variable to run a method?

i dont know if im dealing with some strange thing that is outside of my actual capacities or i just aimed how to answer my problem in a very weird way

[rigid island]

you're just overthinking it and missing a couple of basics c#

[tall salmon]

prolly

i try to understand why and how it works but im unable

kewk

Color color = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;
color.a = somevalue;
blackScreenSpriteRend.color = color;

Color color

Color is a type of variable and color is the name

i set that color is equal to "the color of "blackScreenSpriteRend.color""

[rigid island]

so where is the confusion

[tall salmon]

im trying to procces it

wait

im explaining my thought procces so maybe it can help you help me

[rigid island]

"this temporary variable called color of type Color will be copy of the current blackScreenSprite color"

[tall salmon]

color.a = whatever i need the opaque level to be

OHH

I GOT IT

I GOT IT

since color was the name of the Color you say color.a for reffering to the color

not to a color

to THE color

i was reading it like this

Color otherWordThatIsntColor = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;
color.a = somevalue;
blackScreenSpriteRend.color = color;

so in case that i read that like that the only thing i had to change is this

[rigid island]

oh, that would give you an error as it wouldn't know what color is

[tall salmon]

Color otherWordThatIsntColor = blackScreenSpriteRend.color;
otherWordThatIsntColor.a = somevalue;
blackScreenSpriteRend.color = color;

[tall salmon]

thats the error that my mind was having

kewk

omg it was so simple

[rigid island]

yes lol

[tall salmon]

im to happy to understand it

im just dumb

i forgot that by saying otherWordThatIsntColor.a is the same as saying color.a for that variable

so i was trying to understand how to add that strange and weird separated and isolated "color.a" to the otherWordThatIsntColor

idk if you understand it

just wanted to point out how dumb i am

kewk

[rigid island]

yes just remember this is making a copy , hence why it needs to be assigned back to the color

if you modified it and not assigned it back it would just be modifying a copy

[tall salmon]

yes

its something like this

the vector is just a copy

and you modify the vector

and then make the vector equal to the transform

[rigid island]

yes p is just a copy, you modify it then put it into it as new value

[tall salmon]

im so happy

ty my man

[rigid island]

np 🙂

[tall salmon]

i remember you also helped me yesterday

kewk

[rigid island]

sweet!

[tall salmon]

or the day before yesterday

idk

one of em

[rigid island]

haha true I'm around when I can

i forget many things tho 😛

[tall salmon]

do you remember something about particles and dont knowing how to call them?

that was me in case you remember

[rigid island]

oh I think I suggested Emit(). ?

[tall salmon]

yes

i then got another problem wich i already anticipated

[rigid island]

did emit work though i never seen the follow up

[tall salmon]

because right after emit(). there was a destroy(GameObject);

[tall salmon]

yep

[rigid island]

oh haha yea thats never good

[tall salmon]

so it emited but it instantly destroyed the game object