archived-code-general

[leaden ice]

playerrstats should probably have a way of keeping track of what is currently equipped

or perhaps you need a ShipStats script

A ScriptableObject is probably a good way to design ship stats in the editor too

[fading hull]

Hello!, with unity input system when i press "Z" in my dialogue action map, i have it configured so that it advances dialogue 1 time, evetually it finishes, and when it finishes, it opens the interaction again to the npc im talking to, so pressing Z end dialogue and inmediatly opens it up again, since opening the interaction is on the Z key too. How can i make it so that 1 key press equals 1 action? right now its triggering the action from 2 different action maps since calling it from the dialogue action map calls an event to change the action map to my walking action map (Sorry if its not explained very good, i will clarify if needed)

i have tried a lot of things but nothing seem to work

[leaden ice]

one solution is wait a frame before enabling the new action map

Another thing I never tried is perhaps unchecking the "initial state check" on the action in the menu

[fading hull]

i tried that but the problem is that if i keep the key pressed, it still reopens it, and i hate it

[leaden ice]

that shouldn't happen unless your code is not handling the action phases properly

[fading hull]

mmmm ok i will take a look at it, but no clue where the problem might be in

[leaden ice]

start with the input handling code for that stuff, as mentioned

[fading hull]

never mind adding a 0.1 sec delay worked perfectly, dunno why before didnt, maybe i had something added inside the inputactions when i was testing

thanks for the help!

[leaden ice]

one frame should work too, but either way yeh

[fading hull]

oh yea thats better i will change it, thanks 🙂

[grand fractal]

Anyone know why i cant create a keystore or load one? When i click add it says make sure you put in the right password even tho i have the correct one. And when i load it just dosent do anything.

[exotic aspen]

Howdy folks. I've settled on a lookup table of shaders to encompass low end mobile, high end mobile and desktop platforms. Individually they all work well, but now I need to dynamically adjust their application across the entire game from the settings window. In the simplest case, if the user clicks "Lighting Off" I want to swap out the Sprite-Default-Lit shader for Sprite-Unlit. How should I approach this? I'd need to update all the prefabs and active objects and their materials. It is possible, just complex trying to find everything in the scene to update. I thought perhaps I'm missing some obviously easier way to accomplish this.

[leaden ice]

If you're using URP you can override materials across the board with the Render Objects feature: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal%4013.1/manual/renderer-features/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html

the example in that doc is much more complex than what you need

[exotic aspen]

Does that any overhead to the rendering?

[leaden ice]

no idea

[rigid island]

keystore ?

[grand fractal]

An Android keystore lets you store cryptographic key entries for security. Android Keystore can be used to sign your apk, sign data, store certificates, and a variety of other needs. To release your app to a marketplace, you will need to setup the keystore.

[deep path]

sorry to mention but do you got your API key ?

[rigid island]

oh not sure then..Maybe try #📱┃mobile

[grand fractal]

Its a vr game :/

[rigid island]

You said android

[grand fractal]

oh yeah lol, My bad

[latent latch]

you could just instantiate both types at once and just flip the renderers on and off

[exotic aspen]

You mean have two gameobjects for each object?

[latent latch]

yeah and keep the other inactive

[exotic aspen]

Well, I'd still need to loop through all of them and do the same thing. The difference is someObject.visible = false vs someObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = newMaterial

Keeping track of all the stuff in the scene is just my concern.

Having a single Lit material destroys Android performance so I'm trying to be thorough and careful.

[latent latch]

" The difference is someObject.visible = false vs someObject.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = newMaterial"
Quite a difference between caching and instantiating though

[exotic aspen]

I would think the performance hit of having all those extra game objects would be much worse than a one time pause while the setting takes effect.

Its a thought. Just need to think on it a bit.

[latent latch]

if they arent active then all you give up is some objects loaded into mem

[exotic aspen]

Well we are talking up to 1000 of them. So its a bit...

[trail wraith]

    public void SetButtons(int buttonCount, string[] labels, UnityEvent[] methods)
    {
        for (int i=0; i<4; i++)
        {
            buttons[i].onClick.RemoveAllListeners();

            if (i < buttonCount)
            {
                buttons[i].GetComponentInChildren<Text>().text = labels[i];

                buttons[i].onClick.AddListener(methods[i]);

                buttons[i].gameObject.SetActive(true);
            }
            else
            {
                buttons[i].gameObject.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
        buttonContainer.gameObject.SetActive(true);
    }```
can i somehow pass a UnityEvent into AddListener()?
i'm getting the error "'UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent' to 'UnityEngine.Events.UnityAction'"

[latent latch]

which is the reason why game dev use object pools over cleaning up objects

[leaden ice]

buttons[i].onClick.AddListener(() => methods[i].Invoke());```

however

[trail wraith]

oh awesome, thanks!

[leaden ice]

you'll need this though @trail wraith

int copy = i;
buttons[i].onClick.AddListener(() => methods[copy].Invoke());```

[exotic aspen]

I don't think I understand? For example if I have 1000 NPCs in the scene. I wouldn't want or need to pool them. If I had projectiles and things then yeah sure?

[leaden ice]

Otherwise you're going to run into the variable capture issue

[trail wraith]

i'll make sure to add it then

[latent latch]

It's a balance, but I'd strive for stuff loaded into the scene than instantiating dynamically if possible.

[exotic aspen]

Yeah I agree, if the instantiated stuff has a chance to be destroyed. Generally speaking these NPCs would persist until level unload/reload so I hadn't considered apply pooling to them.

[latent latch]

pooling in this case would be reusing the npcs when you zone too far away, and apply them to others in your areas

[exotic aspen]

:nod: My game has no concept of zones or anything like that, but sure. I can see that being something to consider for other game architectures.

[latent latch]

im just poking at your comment of instantiating materials and cleaning them up every time you flip a switch

and it's not so much just instantiating them, it's the gc being a pain in the butt

[exotic aspen]

Oh, well I'm not instantiating new materials. Sorry if that was confusing. I basically have a List of 1000 things, and can certainly loop through and update the material of each. But there's probably a couple lists like that. And then I'll want anything new added to the scene (singletons really, nothing pooling would help with) to also have the new material applied.

I can handle the new added stuff in their spawn scripts easily enough. Its just a lot of code in a lot of places for something I was thinking might have a centralized "replace material" call.

The shader materials are all loaded at runtime anyways. So I doubt there's any performance loss from GC taking place.

[latent latch]

ah, ok I misunderstood then. Looping through them all and changing materials/shared materials probably fine then

[exotic aspen]

I actually kind of expected there to be a utility. Swapping materials for different targets seems like a no-brainer with Unity multiplatform deployment.

:nod:

[latent latch]

shared material updates probably as best as you'd get, but otherwise I'd just replace them all

[leaden ice]

yeah technically you can change the shader of the material on the fly

so if they're all using the same shared material, you can do that

(you'd also have to change all the variables of course)

Or jsut use this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.CopyPropertiesFromMaterial.html

to copy everything from a reference material

[exotic aspen]

Ahh interesting.

[leaden ice]

though it does say "Material's shader is not changed."

[exotic aspen]

I appreciate the ideas.

[leaden ice]

so you might have to change the shader first

then call CopyProperties

[exotic aspen]

Ok I'll do some testing with it.

I guess next on the list is how to optimize this weird MouseEvents calls I'm seeing. Its taking up 2ms of frame time as profiled on device. Deep Profiling is certainly making it a bit worse than it would normally be.... but I'm surprised to see so many raycasts off the main camera when its sitting there doing nothing.

PreUpdate.SendMouseEvents is the lead call. There was a lot of complaining about it back in 2011. And folks saying adding a GUILayer to the camera fixed it. Then that became deprecated and nobody really knew what to do. Not sure if this is actually needed or not.

[leaden ice]

do you have any scripts using OnMouse Enter/Down/Over?

[exotic aspen]

I make use of the Unity GUI which would need those events for buttons, right?

[leaden ice]

no

this is a separate system

[exotic aspen]

Oh. Hmm.

[leaden ice]

this is Monobehaviour.OnMouseDown etc

[leaden ice]

UGUI (not to be confused with IMGUI aka OnGUI) uses the EventSystem for its raycasts

a totally separate thing

[exotic aspen]

Ok thats good to know. I couldn't think of a good reason why the UI would be doing raycasts every frame for its handling.

A grep of my code for OnMouse returns nothing.

[leaden ice]

if you expand this and go all the way down what is under there?

Although it seems to be ScreenPointToRay itself

which is crazy

that shouldn't be that expensive

[exotic aspen]

Little more detail there.

Seems like it varies and goes up and down at times.

Like pausing/unpausing the game makes it switch between modes. Certainly nothing I'm doing intentionally.

So that's a long one.

[leaden ice]

do you have a complex physics scene?

[arctic jackal]

Can someone help me privately? Because something is not working for me

[exotic aspen]

So see it went from having 0.23ms of mouse events to 3ms

The orange band being the mouse stuff.

[heady iris]

don't crosspost in every single code channel

[arctic jackal]

ok

[exotic aspen]

So this is a top-down 2D game. A tilemap with 4 units on it in this scene. They are just idling about. Nothing related to MouseEvents though.

Tapping in an unused spot on the screen can toggle it between 0.23ms mouseevents and 2-3ms mouseevent call durations. And it persists forever. Really kind of feels like a bug or something odd.

GameTime is 0 so no physics or AI or anything should be processing.

This appears to have been the same issue in 2011: https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-turn-off-sendmouseevents.160372/

But the thread just kind of fizzled out. I couldn't make sense of the PlayerLoop approach to disabling unused functions they described.

[unique delta]

I don t know why but my slider value is different in build than in the editor.

[rigid island]

wdym by "different" because they're two different instances

[marsh abyss]

So i have made grabbing script, works well but im trying to add more features rn but im trying to make it detach when at a distance, to stop some bugs but there is an issue. It detaches as soon as starts. This is what im doing

checking
if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, NearbyGrabbableObjects[0].transform.position) > UnstickRange)
{
IsStuck = true;
}

to check if you can climb or not
h > 0) && !IsStuck)

detaching
Climbing = false;
IsStuck = false;

I dont know why this is happening, it looks correct to me

[leaden ice]

Looks like your code is saying "If the distance is GREATER than the unstick range, we are stuck"

which seems backwards?

anyway these tiny little code snippets are difficult to grok without context

[marsh abyss]

Sorry, ill get more in a second

[leaden ice]

!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.

[leaden ice]

Share the code more nicely^

[marsh abyss]

Ah ok sorry

[unique delta]

so I don t know why but I figured that it happening when I change scenes . I have a cooldown that uses a slider and when I play the scene 1 the bar goes right, but when I go from Scene 2 to 1 the bar moves slower.

[hexed pecan]

How is this bar changed/moved? Could be caused by framerate dependency

[rigid island]

Are you using code to move the slider?

[unique delta]

yes

[hexed pecan]

Show the code

[unique delta]

https://pastebin.com/FZHrD7HK

[rigid island]

share whole script

also don't use that site it sucks

!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.

[hexed pecan]

Yeah show the rest of the code, especially where time comes from is important

[unique delta]

is pretty big

[naive swallow]

Yes that's why you should click on one of the links for "Large Code Blocks"

[unique delta]

the time is at line 83

https://gdl.space/buronaxewu.cs

[hexed pecan]

So you are incrementing time only once, in Start 🤔

And using that frame's deltatime as the MoveTowards speed in Update

It's very wonky

[rigid island]

should be in update

[unique delta]

ok

[unique delta]

so what can i do about that

[hexed pecan]

I think you can get rid of time and just increment it in update like thiscs slider.value = Mathf.MoveTowards(startdash, targetdash, Time.deltaTime * lerpSpeed);

What you currently do doesn't make much s ense

[unique delta]

i can

thanks

[opaque forge]

good evening, how can I create something like this dialog box where the user selects parameters?

(inside unity)

[vivid wind]

I am looking to produce a cut-away effect for walls in a 2d top-down game that would obscure the view. I'd like to create a 2d maze game. If the player walks behind a wall/piller. I'd like to hide the upper portion of the wall/pillar down to near the floor so the player can see what is there. I'm finding lots of tutorials on how to do the sorting layers, but not one on how to produce that cutaway effect I see in other games that have that type of top down oblique perspective. Any suggestions on where to get started would be greatly appreciated.

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@11.0/manual/renderer-features/how-to-custom-effect-render-objects.html
Ya got these

https://glowfishinteractive.com/dissolving-the-world-part-1/
And some general info on dissolve shaders

[vivid wind]

That pretty much covers the problem, but I'm wondering if there are any ideas on applying it to a 2d tilemap. I suppose I'll just have to create test scenario and start tooling around.

[latent latch]

Ah, well if you don't really compare zdepth then you need to compare it to something like the character itself

[vivid wind]

probably need to do some sort of filter by sorting layer and tag, and apply some sort of method of changing the tilemap to another tile or something maybe?

[latent latch]

you can probably compare by the y sorting value too probably

but like you probably want some smooth transitioning with the dissolve, so I'd just do dynamic comparison between characters and location probably since its 2D

unless you want something like the silhouette up there

like two ideas is like xcom where you enter a building -> remove the roof and walls completely. Or, if you just want to dissolve partial for where your character is, then that would be more rendering tricks (both render objects and the shader would work, but if you have layers to spare then I'd go with the render object approach since you don't have to apply it to every shader)

this is where you should start using Visual Studio's debugger tool and run through the code step by step to make sure the logic is being executed correctly

[keen hollow]

Is there anyone who codes windows forms with C# language?

[naive swallow]

Is this a Unity question

[keen hollow]

no visual studio c# windows form

[naive swallow]

This is a Unity discord. !cdisc

Oh, it's !csharp now

[tawny elk]

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

[keen hollow]

thx

[buoyant scroll]

How do Unity coding projects work?

[naive swallow]

Code goes in, game comes out

[buoyant scroll]

Well duh, I'm talking about the C#

[rigid island]

there is an API

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

[buoyant scroll]

I'm talking about the errors where it says UnityEngine.UI doesn't exist even when the package and everything is installed

[rigid island]

then why not ask that instead

[naive swallow]

Are you using Assembly Definitions? You might need to include the UI namespace in it

[buoyant scroll]

What's that?

[naive swallow]

Do you have any files of type .asmdef in your project

[rigid island]

special file that encapsulates scripts together
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ScriptCompilationAssemblyDefinitionFiles.html

[buoyant scroll]

Oh, one second, I'll brb

Okay, I will try that and then come back to see if it worked

[rigid island]

what? the question is , if you have those files in the project

search the Project folder

[spring creek]

Somehow that makes it even more vague

[spring creek]

Try what? They are not suggesting doing anything

[lean sail]

Always funny when someones says "ill try it" after being asked a question about what they're doing

[buoyant scroll]

Sorry for ruining the laugh, but the reason why it's funny is because I'm an idiot and I'm horrible at Unity stuff

now

how do i do this stuff

Okay look here's my "basic" problem.

[rigid island]

are you getting the error in Unity only or Unity and IDE

[buoyant scroll]

Unity only

always unity only

i think

[rigid island]

do you have the UI package inside package manager?

[lean sail]

Take a minute to actually describe the problem in 1 message, look at the #854851968446365696 if you're unsure what to say

[buoyant scroll]

i gotchu fam

one moment please

nvm wait hold up

I have DLLs like Assembly-CSharp, Rewired, all that stuff, maybe that could help reimport and fix and redefine UnityEngine.UI?

[shell scarab]

Hey guys I'm having an issue where my script is loosing a reference to an object when the scene is loaded with the scene manager, but when hitting play on that scene the reference is kept. What could be causing this?

[rigid island]

are you just gonna keep guessing around or provide what was asked?

[naive swallow]

Is this script on a DontDestroyOnLoad object, and is it referencing something that isn't?

[buoyant scroll]

i'm sorry i'll do what was asked sir

the problem is that the namespace does not exist. CS0234.

[shell scarab]

The object it is referencing is a script on a prefab in the scene, the script that is referencing that object is a scene object. It has two references both to the same prefab, one is kept and one is lost. The one that is kept is a GameObject reference, the one that is lost is a script reference. Both are private fields tagged with [SerializeField], and neither are set in their own script, so nothing else can be setting it.

[buoyant scroll]

yes

[rigid island]

is this a new project? ok do the search for asemdef file just incase

[naive swallow]

Prefabs cannot reference scene objects at all, so I'm not sure how one of them is working. Maybe you should show the object and the hierarchy to provide more context so we don't need to say "the object" and "the other object"

[buoyant scroll]

i don't think there is one of the asmdef files

lemme check

[quartz folio]

People really like to describe references in the most confusing way possible

[shell scarab]

sorry they're both in the scene. I'm just saying that the scene object is referencing part of a prefab that is dragged into the scene

Also I just discovered that it keeps its reference when it references the game object, but it loses the reference when it references the script. Could it be an execution order thing? Even though the one losing the reference does not have awake or start methods...

[naive swallow]

Context would help. Using actual names for things for one

[buoyant scroll]

has no asmdef file

[naive swallow]

Send a screenshot of this object selected with the hierarch and inspector visible

[lean sail]

Are you modding a game or something? I find it odd how you describe things. Seems like you have code but didnt make the code

[buoyant scroll]

i moved pcs

here lemme explain

[rigid island]

can you clear the console, if it appears screenshot the error

[buoyant scroll]

i have a game that i literally made,

hairdos exams

(search on itch io)

[lean sail]

You've said that already (referring to "lemme explain") now can you do as asked and provide a proper question as per the #854851968446365696

No one wants to read 20 3 word messages

[buoyant scroll]

okay gee
i did not have time to buy a usb drive to back up my unity project data, hence why i had to download a compiled version and decompile it

[naive swallow]

Oh, it's a decompilation problem

Yeah I'm not touching that with a 10-foot pole

[buoyant scroll]

it is my game on my account

im logged in onto the account

[lean sail]

This still all sounds like bullshit to me, but you should use version control. That's the answer there you go

[rigid island]

this sounds like "my dog ate my homework"

[buoyant scroll]

okay then, in that case i'll convert what i'll say

[shell scarab]

public class ClickableUnit : MonoBehaviour, IClickable
    {
        [SerializeField] private UnitSelectMenu _unitMenuUI;
        [SerializeField] private GameObject _turnMenuUI;
        private bool _isOpen = false;
        public void OnClick()
        {
            if (_unitMenuUI == null || _turnMenuUI == null)
                return;

            if (_unitMenuUI.UnitMenu.activeSelf)
            {
                CloseMenu();
            }
            else
            {
                OpenMenu();
            }
        }
        public void OpenMenu()
        {
            _unitMenuUI.UnitMenu.SetActive(true);
            _turnMenuUI.SetActive(false);
            _isOpen = true;
        }

        public void CloseMenu()
        {
            _unitMenuUI.UnitMenu.SetActive(false);
            _turnMenuUI.SetActive(true);
            _isOpen = false;
        }
    }
```This is the one losing the reference. `_unitMenuUI` loses the reference while `_turnMenuUI` keeps it. Here are the screenshots:

[buoyant scroll]

my conversion is "see: shows footage"

[shell scarab]

however when that _unitMenuUI is a GameObject field, it does not lose the reference

[naive swallow]

Looks like TurnMenuUI is a reference to a prefab object, while unitMenuUI is a reference to a thing in the scene. Which things are dragged in to these boxes?

[shell scarab]

TurnMenuUI is referencing the prefab that is dragged into the scene.

when clicked:

[naive swallow]

And did you drag in the prefab file or the object from the hierarchy into that slot?

[shell scarab]

the object from the hierarchy. As you can see it is a child object of the prefab so i wouldn't be able to get a reference from the prefab file.

[naive swallow]

Okay, so the script is on the root of the prefab, and it's referencing an object on that prefab? Like, PF_BattleMenuCanvas references the pictured TurnMenu, and a different prefab would reference a different TurnMenu object?

[shell scarab]

the script is not on the root of the object, see this highlight:

the battle menu canvas does not reference turn menu

the script in the inspector is the "clickable unit" script which is on the selected objects in the inspector

like the first picture

[naive swallow]

And the ClickableUnit script references a UnitMenuUI and a TurnMenuUI object. Are both of those on the same prefab as ClickableUnit

[shell scarab]

correct

so if I just hit "Play" it keeps its reference, but if I use SceneManager.LoadScene(1) it loses the reference. This scene is the second scene in the build index, i only have 3 scenes.

[quartz folio]

I don't really understand why the original screenshot had a solid-blue prefab icon for TurnMenu, when surely it should be the same as what's in the scene view

[shell scarab]

im not sure, it must be a unity thing. It's just a gameobject, so gameobjects that are part of prefabs appear as a solid blue object all the time in the object reference field.

[naive swallow]

Or how selecting multiple prefab instances would show an object reference instead of a --- if they're each referencing their own TurnMenu object

[shell scarab]

they all reference the same object, the reference is applied in the scene

[quartz folio]

I just tested it and it does seem like it does this, so I retract that

[naive swallow]

So, is the script referencing a TurnMenu on itself or are they all referencing the same one? These are contradictory statements

[naive swallow]

That's a strange UI choice

[quartz folio]

The only reason you'd lose a reference is:

1. You are setting it to null
2. The instance has been destroyed (often because the scene it was in has been unloaded)

I would not make assumptions about bugs and would triple check both your code, for assignments, and the scene's references

[shell scarab]

why does it not lose reference if I change it to a GameObject instead of the script?

[shell scarab]

all that changes in the code right here is that instead of _unitMenuUI.UnitMenu.SetActive() it's _unitMenuUI.SetActive()

i mean that's what I'm doing, changing it to a GameObject, but... i feel like that should not be what fixes it.

[quartz folio]

We can't really help any further, the issue seems specific to the details of your setup, or is a weird bug that nobody has seen before

If you record a video of the whole thing, including the references, how they relate to each other, the scenes they're in, and what changes when you reload the scene, then maybe there'd be something we spot

[shell scarab]

hmm ok

[naive swallow]

My guess is that since you have to re-assign it in the inspector after changing the type, you're probably properly referencing the one inside of this prefab (which will not be lost) instead of a specific one in the scene (which is)

[foggy pasture]

heya, I'm pretty rusty on my trig (ignore the ugliness, I've been prototyping this pretty hard for a bit)
I know enough to realize this can be turned into a usage of sin + cos or atan, but I don't know enough to know how

would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction

[buoyant scroll]

{
    "name": "FigurativelyGames.Main",
    "references": [
        "FigurativelyGames.Main.Tools",
        "FigurativelyGames.Main.Planes",
        "Unity.RenderPipelines.HighDefinition.Runtime"
    ],
    "includePlatforms": [],
    "excludePlatforms": [],
    "allowUnsafeCode": true,
    "overrideReferences": false,
    "precompiledReferences": [],
    "autoReferenced": true,
    "defineConstraints": [],
    "versionDefines": [
        {
            "name": "com.unity.render-pipelines.high-definition",
            "expression": "7.1.0",
            "define": "HDRP_7_1_0_OR_NEWER"
        },
        {
            "name": "com.unity.modules.particlesystem",
            "expression": "1.0.0",
            "define": "USING_PARTICLE_SYSTEM"
        }
    ],
    "noEngineReferences": false
}

will someone tell me where to put my packages? i have some packages i need to put in here

[cosmic rain]

What exactly are you trying to do? What are all these vector params?

[foggy pasture]

I'm attempting to find the correct rotation for this edge sprite that you see clipped all over the place

the arguments I have available are the vertices of the triangle on top and the vertices of the triangle of the wall below it

        Vector3 shared1 = Vector3.zero;
        Vector3 shared2 = Vector3.zero;

        if (parent1 == target1 || parent1 == target2 || parent1 == target3) shared1 = parent1;
        else if (parent2 == target1 || parent2 == target2 || parent2 == target3) shared1 = parent2;
        else if (parent3 == target1 || parent3 == target2 || parent3 == target3) shared1 = parent3;

        if (parent1 != shared1 && (parent1 == target1 || parent1 == target2 || parent1 == target3)) shared2 = parent1;
        else if (parent2 != shared1 && (parent2 == target1 || parent2 == target2 || parent2 == target3)) shared2 = parent2;
        else if (parent3 != shared1 && (parent3 == target1 || parent3 == target2 || parent3 == target3)) shared2 = parent3;

        return Mathf.Atan2(shared2.z - shared1.z, shared2.x - shared1.x);

this is it taking the two shared vectors (the edge) between the two faces and getting the angle of that edge, which I thought might work but clearly hasn't

it works exclusively along the bottom there where the angle is 0

[cosmic rain]

Can you visualize what these points are on the screenshot? And rotation(?) of what you're trying to find? Because it's not really clear from the explanation.

[foggy pasture]

sure

shared 1 is the red dot here, shared 2 is the blue dot

the returned rotation is the angle of the edge highlighted in green, which is used to rotate this south-facing sprite

the ugly comparators are just a sloppy way I'm using to find the shared vertices atm

[cosmic rain]

So you just need a rotation orthogonal to the edge?

Perpendicular

[foggy pasture]

i believe so yeah

[cosmic rain]

Does it need to be an angle? How are you using it after that?

[foggy pasture]

like so

it's just rotating worldspace uvs in a shadergraph

[cosmic rain]

Ok, so it's uvs for each tile..?

[foggy pasture]

oh my god

[cosmic rain]

I think there're more problems than that...

[foggy pasture]

that's it right

it's rotating worldspace uvs

so obviously it's going to be way off

god damn it

my entire problem with this so far has been trying to texture a procedurally generated marching cubes mesh

which exclusively uses worldspace uvs

[cosmic rain]

You could use a cross product of the edge to get a perpendicular vector, then get it's angle.

[foggy pasture]

that sounds correct, I'll try that out

do you know how to rotate a texture using worldspace UVs also by chance

[cosmic rain]

All the nodes are doing are rotating the uvs, not the texture. The texture is then sampled according to the uvs.

I don't know enough about your shader to say any more than that.

Maybe ask share more details in #archived-shaders

[hard viper]

is there any way to make an inheritted static function?

[foggy pasture]

found it, a bgolus hit as per usual haha

led me to here: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/ldqwve/how_to_rotate_each_uv_tile_individualy_in/ which had the answer

[latent latch]

praise be bgolus

[lean sail]

what are u trying to do? you can just redeclare the function in the child class and itll work. like
public new static ...

[hard viper]

base class has a static method, which calls on some of the abstract functions in the abstract base class

and I want each base class to just have their own version of the static method that operates on their overrides.

[lean sail]

do you have any actual errors with implementing this? to my knowledge this shouldnt be a problem at all. you just write the method

[hard viper]

wait you're right. I can just do that lol

ty

nvm, I can't

because my static method depends on an abstract method, which is itself not static

so if I could make that static, I would be set.

[lean sail]

if that method isnt associated with any instance, then just make it static and remove the abstract

[hard viper]

it's associated with the derived class

anyway, in this case, I just bit the bullet, and made a nonsensical instance, which won't cost me anything. it's just dumb.

[lean sail]

https://dotnetfiddle.net/TDERI5 is this not what you want? im confused on what the actual issue is

[hard viper]

public class NonFungibleTileDataCollection : ObjSaveDataCollection<INonFungibleTileHandler> {
    protected override IEnumerable<INonFungibleTileHandler> EnumerateDataSavers() {
        NonFungibleTileManager customDrawManager = NonFungibleTileManager.GetInstance();
        foreach (INonFungibleTileHandler logic in customDrawManager.NonFungibleTileHandlers) {
            yield return logic;
        }
    }
}
public abstract class ObjSaveDataCollection<TDataSaver> where TDataSaver : IDataSaver {
    /// <summary>Enumerate out all the IDataSavers that this data type is connected to.</summary>
    protected abstract IEnumerable<TDataSaver> EnumerateDataSavers();
    /// <summary>Load all as default</summary>
    public void LoadAllAsDefault() {
        foreach (TDataSaver saver in EnumerateDataSavers()) {
            saver.LoadDefault();
        }
    }

let me reduce the total info

ok, better. the members I have there for the ObjSaveDataCollection should both be static, in the sense that they are not really associated with an instance

but EnumerateDataSavers can't be both abstract and static, for LoadAllAsDefault (depends on it) can't be static either

[lean sail]

why cant both be static?

you dont use the abstract keyword when its static, but i dont really see what you mean with LoadAllAsDefault cant be static

[hard viper]

because Enumerate… can’t be both static and abstract

that method must be filled out by the derived class

making it not abstract is not an option

[lean sail]

realistically i would be questioning why u want it static in the first place, but what i was saying was you could just make them all static (without the abstract keyword). The one in the base class could just yield return null or whatever dummy data. I guess the issue with static is you might have to redeclare LoadAllAsDefault in each child class

i was interpreting what you were saying as it isnt possible, which it is. Its just not ideal here

[merry stream]

could someone explain to me the differencce between defaultcapacity and maxsize in an object pool?

[lean sail]

Its explained on the docs for the constructor (ctor)
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.2/Documentation/ScriptReference/Pool.ObjectPool_1-ctor.html

[merry stream]

how high should maxSize be generally? for something like a damage number system

[latent latch]

I use the vfx graph for numbers but usually like 30k

[merry stream]

what about the default capacity? like 1000?

[latent latch]

but that's usually harder to extend, but unity pool is a queue right? so probably fine to extend

i dont know too much about the unity pooling, but ideally you make a smart pool that extends gradually when it hits break points you set

at 70% extend another 100 over time

[lean sail]

That's just something you'll have to experiment with and find out. You'll likely not have that many on screen at once, and if these are game objects then you'll not get as many as possible with vfx graph

[tender finch]

Is the Unity website down?

[merry stream]

so vfx graph is more performant?

[dusky lake]

defaultcapacity is loading right when the pool is created, if you set it to 1000, the pool starts with 1000 available entries, maxsize is how many it can contain total

so it differs from use-case to use-case, there is no "best" values

[latent latch]

gpu instancing is usually good for stuff like text or minor renders to be batch in single calls. (srp does provide easy access to gpu instancing which you can just flip on in the material, so something to profile. VFX graph isn't required, but it's great at set and forget stuff)

[hard viper]

because I do not need an instance for it, or access to any instance variables, and I need to invoke when there is no instance

if enumerate is not abstract, then how will the static LoadAllAsDefault call the right function for the derived class

[tender finch]

I am trying to publish a game for a class and for some reason, unity is being weird with me when I try to edit/publish it. It would not fully load

[dusky lake]

press ctrl + shift + r, clears caches and does a fresh reload

if that doesnt help you would need to look into the console

oh and also disable ad blockers 😄

[hard viper]

i fixed it by just making a nonsensical instance this time, but it is annoying that I can’t make abstract static methods

[lean sail]

That's what I was talking about in the final part of the message, you may need to declare that method in all child classes. Theres likely a cleaner workaround

[tender finch]

Thank you

[dusky lake]

worked?

[tender finch]

It worked : )

[hasty haven]

Is there a better way to grab a reference to the current gameObject's PhysicsScene when it moves between subscenes?
Preferably outside of Update()

private string lastScene;
private PhysicsScene physicsScene;

void Update() {
    if(gameObject.scene.name != lastScene) {
        lastScene = gameObject.scene.name;
        physicsScene = gameObject.scene.GetPhysicsScene();
    }
}

[heady iris]

You mean to a different scene? "Subscenes" are an ECS thing.

I don't think there's a message sent when an object moves between scenes, unfortunately

[hasty haven]

Yeah i didnt see anything at the object level, just when the main scene changes on scenemanager

[rocky osprey]

If I'm understanding correctly, something like this (https://stackoverflow.com/a/66927384/882973) might help if you use it with your NonFungibleTileManager to get the instance. You would need to pass in an additional type parameter to EnumerateDataSavers to reference the tile manager type. This would make the entire EnumerateDataSavers function general purpose and thus could be static without needing to be abstract.

[hasty haven]

This seems to do its job, its not hurting performance and works fine

[vale bridge]

I'm trying to implement gadgets that damage/heal players on interact and was wondering if the best way to do it was to inherit from an interactables class I wrote and overriding the behaviors in functions? Does this seem like a scalable approach

[latent latch]

sure, but you're not stuck strictly to a single interface. Could consider dividing it down into behaviours like Use(EntityTarget)

but otherwise, yeah you can do a lot with one of these behavioral classes/interfaces if you embrace those polymorphic method calls

[vale bridge]

what's an EntityTarget?

By dividing down do you mean creating more template interfaces?

for example all objects dealing damage inherit from x and such

[latent latch]

Yeah, I primarily use interact for interacting in the environment if I use it, but for stuff like items I have Use(), Equip(), Trigger(), Throw()

[vale bridge]

Thanks!

[latent latch]

Usually with a parameter specifically for targeting

[vale bridge]

What would an example of this be? I'm not sure what exactly you mean by parameter and targeting

[latent latch]

Well, if you make it parameterless then you could assume the object that has the behaviour will use it for themself, but if you supply a specific targeting parameter you can specify how and where to use it, like say you have an effect class that adds poison to the target, so you'd have something like Apply(), but you don't want to apply it to yourself so you'd add something like Apply(target)... but you can also still apply it to yourself if you decide to target yourself ;)

[vale bridge]

Gotcha

[latent latch]

the target itself could be an interface too like say an IEntity which contains an implementation of Stats class where you can deduct health from

or an abstract class. Either or honestly

[normal niche]

Somebody mind helping me out with a collider issue i am having a hard time on how to fix?

I get stuck like this when i jump between objects, I move my character with force (guessing that is why it happens as it has a physics material with no friction)

[craggy veldt]

what you want to pool?
Some object pooling will pre-allocate, there will still be default allocation during initialization for the array.

[modest kayak]

This imported asset has a copy of every mesh and material for each animation

is this normal, and will it affect build times / run time / storage??

[latent latch]

where the coding question at

[modest kayak]

... that is a good question oops

i thought this was for general questions

[thin aurora]

This does not make logical sense anyway because abstract is supposed to be implemented by an instance. Static does not depend on an instance and neither does it support inheritance, so there would be no way to implement it.

It sounds like overcomplication if you want to do this. For what it's worth, newer C# versions support static interface methods which do something that's close to what you want, but instead in a more logical way

[crisp flower]

Hey I added this script to my project: https://diegogiacomelli.com.br/unitytips-scene-selection-toolbar/

To add a scene select menu to my editor. However I can't see where it saves the data is uses, and I want to push it into git. It uses setpref, I assume this thing: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.html

How can I share this over git and will it update when we change build numbers etc?

[knotty sun]

look deeper

EditorPrefs.SetString

[lean sail]

If you want it on git, replace the editor prefs stuff with a file that gets saved in project. Prefs dont get saved to places that are pushed to repos

[crisp flower]

Ok thanks, I was looking in playerprefs not editorprefs, I don't see any pref beginning: "SceneSelectionToolbar.Scenes" tho

edit to above, yeah I figure, I wouldn't be super opposed to sharing a .reg that trusting people can add on the side

[knotty sun]

you won't, look at how the key is made

$"{Application.productName}_{name}"

[lean sail]

That's not what I was suggesting, I meant replace the code that uses editor prefs with your own saving code which saves to a file.

[knotty sun]

so sharing wont work if the project name is not exactly the same

[crisp flower]

yeah and we increment build numbers a lot as well which would break this, first I'll try changing that to a static hardcoded string (you can prob tell I'm less a dev, more a tech artist)

[knotty sun]

yeah, do what @lean sail said, save to a json file and share that via git

[jagged snow]

Very strange bug I'm experiencing at the moment that I've never ran into before.
Each frame I check for inputs from a static class and it works fine until I reload the scene.

{
    public static PlayerInputs GetInputs()
    {
        var inputs = new PlayerInputs();
        inputs.MoveInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));
        Debug.Log(new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxis("Vertical")));```
The debug log is being called however, after reloading the scene it's no longer registering the input axis and alwasy returning 0,0

The reloading scene coroutine:
```    private IEnumerator HandleReset(float duration)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(duration);
        string currentSceneName = SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name;
        Debug.Log("RELOAD");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(currentSceneName);

    }```

[cosmic rain]

Does the debug log print after the scene reload?

[jagged snow]

yep another clue I found, the inputs are not registering for GetAxis. Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) is working

[cosmic rain]

Does GetAxisRaw work?

[jagged snow]

yep

[knotty sun]

can you share the code for PlayerInputs

[cosmic rain]

Are you setting time scale to 0 perhaps?

[jagged snow]

thats exactly it thank you, so basically before the reload I have a code that sets the time scale to 0. I had no idea its permanent

[jagged snow]

    {
        var inputs = new PlayerInputs();
        inputs.MoveInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
        Debug.Log(new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")));
       // Debug.Log(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space));
        inputs.LookInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y"));
        inputs.PrimaryDown = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Mouse0);
        inputs.SecondaryDown = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Mouse1);
        inputs.InteractDown = Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F);
        inputs.ReloadDown = Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.R);
        inputs.AbilityDown1 = Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Q);
        inputs.AbilityDown2 = Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.E);
        inputs.MeleeDown = Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.LeftShift);
        inputs.ScrollInput = Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") < 0f || Input.GetAxis("Mouse ScrollWheel") > 0f ? 1 : 0;
        inputs.JumpDown = Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space);
        return inputs;
    }```

[cosmic rain]

It is. Had no idea it affects get axis though

[jagged snow]

    {
        if (state == GameState.Default)
        {
            Time.timeScale = 1;
            _gameState = GameState.Default;
            _playerMaster.SetState(PlayerMaster.State.Default);
        }
        else
        {
            Time.timeScale = 0;
            _gameState = GameState.Default;
            _playerMaster.SetState(PlayerMaster.State.Disabled);
        }

    }```

[knotty sun]

I meant the class

[jagged snow]

{
    public Vector2 MoveInput;
    public Vector2 LookInput;
    public Quaternion CameraRot;
    public bool PrimaryDown;
    public bool SecondaryDown;
    public bool ReloadDown;
    public bool MeleeDown;
    public bool AbilityDown1;
    public bool AbilityDown2;
    public bool InteractDown;
    public int ScrollInput;
    public bool JumpDown;
}```

Ok so I found the culprit here. I'm currently in a different scene and entergamestate default isnt being called which is why the time scale isn't being set back to 1 thank you

[knotty sun]

that is very odd. That timeScale would affect GetAxis but not GetAxisRaw. I would definitely report that as a bug

[jagged snow]

what is it supposed to do?

[cosmic rain]

Get axis interpolates to get axis raw value, so it would make sense.

[knotty sun]

timeScale should not affect either, mouse movement should be independant of timeScale

[cosmic rain]

This is not mouse movement. I wonder if it affects the axis set up as mouse though.

[jagged snow]

ok I reported the bug

[knotty sun]

I see what you mean, it's deltaTime dependant, so yes, that makes sense

[cosmic rain]

Probably not a bug. Just undocumented behavior

[knotty sun]

iffy, is it a bug or is it a feature?

definitely an edge case

@jagged snow Well spotted. If I was you I would flag a change to the GetAxis doc page and ask them to add this information

[jagged snow]

alright

[crisp flower]

on the above conversion to assets folder json from editorprefs you'll be pleased to know chatgpt did it for me

thanks for pointing me in the right direction

[knotty sun]

actually, far from pleased. Please do NOT rely on AI to produce good working code

[crisp flower]

that ws tongue in cheek. I'm sure we are all displeased with "AI" for many reasons, however you gave me enough to leverage it to solve my issue, so thanks 🙏

[knotty sun]

what most people fail to realise is that GPT does not write code, it produces text that looks like code. There is a huge difference

[crisp flower]

I guess I'm not many people, however knowing that and knowing how to specify code and debug it and see where it's falling down it's been a hugely helpful tool for me and my team, anyway getting out of scope of my "thank you"

[knotty sun]

np, glad you fixed it

[fresh ingot]

why is my navmesh agent so clumsy lmfao

[nocturne wyvern]

How to fix this rectangle? I think that unity cannot convert m_text: "\u2615\uFE0F \U0001F375" to right emoji

[fresh ingot]

hes like walking into walls and unable to enter doors sometimes LOL

[thin aurora]

Is this a coding question? If so please share actual code because your question is not going to get an answer in its current format

If this is an issue with navmesh, you might be better off asking in #🤖┃ai-navigation or something

[fresh ingot]

oh i see ty

[rustic arch]

Hi everyone! I'm experiencing some issues with the optimization of my game. I went into settings and set the LOD Bias to 0.1 and saw that even without almost anything on my screen I have 3.0M tris. Is this how it should be or something that I'm not aware of is happening?

[thick terrace]

how many triangles are you expecting to see from the assets you're showing in the viewport there?

[rustic arch]

with the LOD bias set to 2 i have 3.7M

i want to lower it down but idk where to start from

[thick terrace]

i mean like, we don't know your assets and the scene is super dark, give us an idea of what's on screen there

we don't know that tree in the background isn't 1 million tris haha

[rustic arch]

this is from the scene view

[thick terrace]

ok, but how many triangles are in those meshes?

[rustic arch]

how can i check this?

[thick terrace]

click on the mesh asset and look at the inspector

it's in the preview pane

[rustic arch]

oh dayum

a lot

50k each

even one box, why does one box have 50k

[thick terrace]

time to delete some verts 😄

[rustic arch]

is it possible to do this from unity?

or do i need other program

[thick terrace]

i think there's some third party tools to auto generate lower detail LODs in unity, otherwise you can make them in blender or something

[rustic arch]

Alright, I'll look it up, thank you!

[fading hull]

i have my inventory system with inventory items as scriptable objects, should i change them to be classes with [System.Serializable] for a easy way to save/load them or its fine to have them as scriptable objects? will saving/loading be way more complicated with scriptable objects or its no big deal?

just thinking long term for a project with a lot of different type of items

[heady iris]

Use scriptable objects to store item definitions

Use plain-old classes to store item instances (or your entire inventory)

so you'll have a scriptable object that defines what iron ore is

you will use this to store its name, its icon, its 3D model, etc.

then you'll have an inventory object that tells you how many of each kind of item you have

If items need additional data (maybe you can upgrade your sword into a +3 flaming sword), you should store that in a normal class as well

public class WeaponItem {
  public WeaponDefinition definition;
  public List<Enchantment> enchantments;
}

[fading hull]

ok so this WeaponItem would have [System.Serializable] and my inventory will consist of a list of items that have [System.Serializable] right? instead of having a list of scriptableobjects in my inventory directly, instead i have a class that is serializable and inside i have the scriptable object

no?

so in your case WeaponDefinition is a scriptable object and WeaponItem is a class with [System.Serializable]

[rustic arch]

so I found something. I think I've done something wrong when I was creating the house. One box has 30 tris and one 50k. I clicked the one with 50k and it has a combined mesh and after clicking the combined mesh it looks like this

I've seen this is on plenty of my items

I surely did something wrong when I was creating the map

Have you seen anything like this before?

[thick terrace]

i think that's just static batching doing its job

[rustic arch]

Nvm this is static batching inside player options

Yeah.. It's no problem

[heady iris]

Right.

The only catch here is that you need a way to actually serialize that weapon definition.

You aren't going to serialize the contents of the definition. You'll need to save an identifier you can use to look the definition back up later.

I've done this copying the GUID of each asset into a field on itself. So, the item definition looks a bit like this

public class ItemDefinition : ScriptableObject {
  public Guid guid;
  public string label;
  public float cost;
  public int florps;
}

I use Json.NET. I wrote a custom converter so that, when I try to serialize an ItemDefinition, it just writes the guid.

[heady iris]

note that since System.Guid isn't serializable by Unity (which is necessary to store the guid in the asset), this is a custom Guid type

https://bronsonzgeb.com/index.php/2021/09/11/the-scriptable-object-asset-registry-pattern/

I used this to figure everything out.

[heady iris]

When I deserialize an ItemDefinition, it looks up the guid in a dictionary

[buoyant scroll]

Would anyone mind?

[heady iris]

This way, I can remember which ItemDefinition asset my item used, and then recall it later when I deserialize.

[buoyant scroll]

It's not clearing.

[heady iris]

Every instance of that item in an inventory shares the same ItemDefinition.

[heady iris]

Look at the bottom half of the console. There is probably more text.

e.g.

[fading hull]

i see, so somewhat similar to sprites since u cant serialize them directly but use references

but in your custom way to save guids

[heady iris]

You can also use any other unique identifier

The name of the item might work, but I avoided that because I might want to rename my items

I use this pattern for my settings system. So my saved settings look like this:

{
    "choiceSettingValues": [
        {
            "setting": "828733BD80E3745DCBA6E5F4E67AD4CE",
            "value": "F1D8CC763672F48839D944402699EE23"
        },
        {
            "setting": "F1E50A54133E14D3C85226948900A3AF",
            "value": "D6FB5C2D145C1457F8F1CBB1D9F0791A"
        },
...

choice settings are for things like picking an anti-aliasing mode

both the setting itself and each choice are assets

[fading hull]

no yea i have a similar case where i store 2 guids for my items, 1 for the itembase, for things like recipes where i dont mind the item being modified, and other for the unique item to identify from the rest of the same type. So i need something similar

[heady iris]

from an older game where I initially figured out saving and loading an inventory:

{
    "lastUplink": "32E2281B4657447BCB710B50D6470FB9",
    "uplinks": [
        "32E2281B4657447BCB710B50D6470FB9"
    ],
    "items": [
        {
            "$type": "InventoryRangedWeapon, Assembly-CSharp",
            "spec": "20AFB2D518C6B4CB0A26D744C1EEF498"
        },
        {
            "$type": "InventoryMeleeWeapon, Assembly-CSharp",
            "spec": "BAAE6BDFA0F554EDB8BD467BAFF0A73C"
        }
    ],
    "wallet": {
        "currencies": [
            {
                "currency": "8582C22BF7E3E4299948738362554384",
                "amount": 100
            }
        ]
    },
    "playerProgression": {
        "levelUps": []
    }
}

[fading hull]

well thanks a lot i will take a look at all of this and change my system

[buoyant scroll]

there's not

[heady iris]

"uplinks" are save points

[heady iris]

try scrolling down in the lower area

[buoyant scroll]

wdym

here

OH COME ON

[fading hull]

thanks a lot!

[heady iris]

note that discussion of reverse-engineering isn't permitted in this server, which it looks like you're trying to do here

[heady iris]

Using GUIDs means that you can rename and modify your assets without breaking existing save data. Just don't delete and recreate them 😉

[buoyant scroll]

i'll slide my way out of here

[heady iris]

You'll just need to make a list of all of your items, or put them in a Resources folder and use Resources.LoadAll

I do a little bit of both

for settings, I need a hierarchy anyway to organize them in the settings menu

so I have a hierarchy of SettingCategory assets that reference all of the individual settings

[fading hull]

ok i will try to change my entire system with all this, i was directly having a list scriptable objects in my inventorymanager, which i imagine this would be really bad for saving/loading compared to having a list of serializable items. Never gone too deep into complex system of saving/loading

with a list of scriptable object i imagine the script for saving would be very complex

[heady iris]

This is fine if you don't need to store any other data for each item

i.e. you don't have "stacks" of items

You still have to figure out how to save and load which items you have either way

[heady iris]

Having a class like this just lets you tack on extra data

[fading hull]

ok i see, thanks a lot ❤️

[glad plinth]

Hey,
I have a JS App that has data I require in the game
How would be the best way to transfer that data to the game ?

[fervent furnace]

http post i guess

[heady iris]

UnityWebRequest can be used to make HTTP requests.

[fervent furnace]

i think they want to receive the data in game
it requires a server listen to some port running on other thread

making a post request from browser and send that to your game

[knotty sun]

what? That makes no sense

[fervent furnace]

i have no idea why there is a js front end (probably) and unity running at same time

[knotty sun]

no such thing as a JS backend, I'm guessing it's Node.js and a UnityWebRequest GET should do the job

[past barn]

👀

[south hawk]

Not sure where to ask this but I have a problem:
I have a Player Prefab containing a few different things:

1. a Character from Mixamo
2. a Player POV Gameobject containing an AudioListener and a Camera
3. a GroundCheck object.

my current problem is the mouse look script that is attached to the Prefab itself, doesn't move the actual head / arms of the player like it should.
the camera itself moves but once I look down my hands are still looking forward

[leaden ice]

make the arms a child of the camera?

[glad plinth]

Thanks 🙂
Done it in 5minutes using HttpListener.Start 🙂

Thank you Fen too

[leaden ice]

just make sure you're not listening on the main thread, and that you handle transferring data between threads properly.

[south hawk]

how would I do that efficiently? I don't want to rip apart the rig and put the arms somewhere else

[glad plinth]

i think im doing both correctlyu

[leaden ice]

wdym by efficiently?

[south hawk]

This is the whole rig

[south hawk]

I mean how do I do it?

[leaden ice]

This is part of a skinned mesh? I guess you'd use IK then

animation layers etc.

#🏃┃animation

[south hawk]

so I have to put my question there? isn't it just a code problem of telling the head to rotate?

[leaden ice]

No because you're dealing with an animator and a skinned mesh

and trying to override part of the animation

that's aim constraints and inverse kinematics

[south hawk]

Ah okay so I will ask my question there, hopefully someone can help me

[gilded vapor]

i think need fix problem script

[leaden ice]

Pretty straightforward error. You're using something on line 26 called slb, but slb doesn't exist.

without seeing the code, that's all we can say

[buoyant scroll]

if (Vector3.Magnitude(GetVector33(i)) <= collider.radius)
            {
                Vector3 vector33 = GetVector33(i);

                Vector3 vector32 = entities[i].transform.position - transform.position;
                (int, int, int) p = (0, 0, 0);
                Vector3 vector31 = Quaternion.Euler(spin)
                    * p;
                Vector3 vector2 = vector31;
                (int, int, int) p1 = (0, 0, 0);
                modifiers[i].movementAddend = (vector2 - p1 / Time.deltaTime);
            }
            else
            {
                modifiers[i].movementAddend = Vector3.zero;
            }

I'm trying to figure out how to multiply Vector3s by p and divide by p.
How can I do this?

[leaden ice]

Why are you using an int int int tuple

what is the goal of this code?

[gilded vapor]

I just try to fix slb but doesn't work so how? About Juice bottles

[leaden ice]

Again without seeing you code I can't help further. This comment doesn't clarify anything

Juice bottles? What?

[gilded vapor]

this Juice bottles

[leaden ice]

Ok what relevance does that have to your compile error?

You can only use variables that exist in C#

You can't use things that don't exist.

You don't have a variable named slb, so you can't use it.

[buoyant scroll]

just used ctrl + .

[spring creek]

without seeing the code, that's all we can say

Again without seeing you code I can't help further. This comment doesn't clarify anything

[gilded vapor]

variables is so work?

[spring creek]

What?

[buoyant scroll]

i can't really explain without giving a good answer, because i have no good english

[leaden ice]

I have no idea what that means or why you're using (int, int, int).

[leaden ice]

if you can't explain your problem in a way that I can understand, unfortunately I won't be able to help

[leaden ice]

Likewise for you, I cannot understand your question

[gilded vapor]

ah okay

[buoyant scroll]

i can try to explain in my best manners but it may be hard to do so

[glad plinth]

Hey, Really stupid person question but

            string receivedData = "";
            using (System.IO.Stream body = context.Request.InputStream) // auto-disposes
            {
                using (System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(body, context.Request.ContentEncoding))
                {
                    receivedData = reader.ReadToEnd();
                }
            }

            Debug.Log("Received POST data: " + receivedData);

            responseContent = !string.IsNullOrEmpty(receivedData) ? receivedData : "No data received";
            PastData = responseContent;```

How can i make "PastData" a actual Json / JObject so i can traverse it properly 🙂 

Sorry

[buoyant scroll]

i'm using int int int because ctrl+ . is my only choice out to do so

[leaden ice]

parse it with a json parser

[leaden ice]

What is "ctrl + ." and why does it matter?

You should not limit your code to whatever this "ctrl + ." does

[fervent furnace]

quick fix in vscode, and they should learn to use vec3

[buoyant scroll]

go inside visual studio

[heady iris]

I'm guessing you used the "Introduce Local" quick action.

This fixed the compile error by creating a variable that's compatible with (0, 0, 0), but this is..not correct

[leaden ice]

If you want to multiply a vector by a number you can just do it. There's no need for (int, int int).
For example:

Vector3 test = new Vector3(1, 1, 1);
Vector3 result = test * 3;
print(result); // prints (3, 3, 3)```

[heady iris]

You asked the compiler to do something to make your code compile. That something is wrong.

(1, 2, 3) is a tuple of three integers

It has nothing do whatsoever with a Vector3

[glad plinth]

i meant more like how?
Like newtonsoft? or is there a better one as i kind of hate the PastData[Match][Example]

its just awkward compard to PastData.Match.Example

[leaden ice]

Newtonsoft offers several parsing APIs

[buoyant scroll]

Thank you so much.. kudos to you for that

[leaden ice]

JsonConvert can convert it to a regular C# class with the appropriate structure

there's also the JObject API which you specifically asked about

[buoyant scroll]

I have another problem though.

[leaden ice]

There's also JsonUtility from Unity @glad plinth

[glad plinth]

ohh i never knew that
i thought Newton soft = JObject way

[thin aurora]

Newtonsoft is generally the best and easiest way. There's also System.Text.Json which is even better but this requires work to set up due to lack of support. Lastly there is JSONUtility which is very basic and barely works due to backwards compatibility, so I advice against this

[buoyant scroll]

It says something about a call being ambegious or how do you spell this

[leaden ice]

No it also has a dynamic approach and JsonConvert

[buoyant scroll]

private Vector3 GetVector33(int i) => entities[i].transform.position.ZeroOutY();

[leaden ice]

if you have an error please provide the full error message and the full code

[thin aurora]

So what does it reference in the error? Would this be Vector3?
If so, remove the using System.Numerics; from the top of your file

[glad plinth]

Dynamics definetly sound best as then it is still using . to change levels unsure if the others do

[buoyant scroll]

Sorry. Will do.

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error CS0121 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'Vector3Extensions.ZeroOutY(UnityEngine.Vector3)' and 'Vector3Extensions.ZeroOutY(UnityEngine.Vector3)'

[leaden ice]

you duplicated your function

delete one of the copies

You might have duplicated the whole class

[buoyant scroll]

Now it says it doesn't exist.

[thin aurora]

If you don't know where you did it might be worth checking for stray files in the explorer

Perhaps there is a duplicate file with the same code, causing this.

[spring creek]

This is why you don't use quick fix (ctrl + .) Without knowing EXACTLY what it is suggesting. It likely had you add System.Numerics

Edit: ah, lag, different issue it looks like
What I said first is still important though
Don't use quick fix without knowing exactly what it is doing

[rustic arch]

anyone knows what could cause this WaitOnSwapChain? I also have it even with Vsync enable or disabled

[buoyant scroll]

Could someone help? Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error CS0121 The call is ambiguous between the following methods or properties: 'Vector3Extensions.ZeroOutY(UnityEngine.Vector3)' and 'Vector3Extensions.ZeroOutY(UnityEngine.Vector3)'

[cosmic rain]

Proooobably, waiting for the GPU to finish work.

[cosmic rain]

Sounds like duplicate extension methods..?

[buoyant scroll]

I'm lookin' for a way to fix.

I tried cleaning the binaries.

About to try cleaning the solution.

[cosmic rain]

Find all the places that implement that extension method and delete some of them.

I don't think cleaning stuff is gonna help. The issue is with your code.

[thick terrace]

this looks like it's from VS, do you get a compile error in unity? it might just be your project/solution needs regenerating

[buoyant scroll]

I'll find out

[buoyant scroll]

I regenerated my whole solution and my whole Unity project just collapsed.

[thick terrace]

given that the unity project doesn't really use those solution files at all, i have no idea how you managed that 😅

[cosmic rain]

What do you mean by "collapsed" anyway?

[buoyant scroll]

I just got a bunch more errors.

[cosmic rain]

In the unity console?

[buoyant scroll]

VS IDE

[spring creek]

That is expected....

That is not collapsing, that is working

[cosmic rain]

Are there any errors in unity?

[buoyant scroll]

Yup

[cosmic rain]

Start from fixing the errors that appear in unity console.

[buoyant scroll]

2 syntax errors

[buoyant scroll]

can't do that

Those errors are not related to the errors I need to mainly fix

[cosmic rain]

..?

You would need to fix syntax errors anyways, if you want your project to run.

[spring creek]

Fix the errors anyway

[buoyant scroll]

I'll fix them after.

[spring creek]

Bad plan

[buoyant scroll]

Here are the errors though if you want to see them:

[buoyant scroll]

fine, I'll fix them.

{
                if (text.ToLower().StartsWith("file://") || text.ToLower().StartsWith("http://") || text.ToLower().StartsWith("https://"))
                {
                    MidiSynth[] synths = UnityEngine.Object.FindObjectsOfType<MidiSynth>();
                    Routine.RunCoroutine(ImSoundFont.LoadLiveSF(text, ImSoundFont.GetDicAudioClip(),DicAudioWave dicAudioWave,
             DicAudioClip dicAudioClip, defaultBank, drumBank, synths, restartPlayer), Segment.RealtimeUpdate);
                    return true;
                }
                UnityEngine.Debug.LogWarning("MPTK_LoadLiveSF: path to SoundFont must start with file:// or http:// or https:// - found: '" + text + "'");
            }

[cosmic rain]

These are not errors...

[buoyant scroll]

Well in general Idk how to fix them.

[cosmic rain]

I only see a code snippet

[spring creek]

Fix what?

[buoyant scroll]

In the snippet, are the errors

[spring creek]

Without seeing the errors we can not help of course

[buoyant scroll]

Oh, right

sorry about that

[cosmic rain]

This is not the unity console

[cosmic rain]

Now share the line that throws the error.

[buoyant scroll]

Routine.RunCoroutine(ImSoundFont.LoadLiveSF(text, ImSoundFont.GetDicAudioClip(),DicAudioWave dicAudioWave,```

[cosmic rain]

You'll need to start sharing code properly...
!code

[tawny elk]

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[buoyant scroll]

DicAudioClip dicAudioClip, defaultBank, drumBank, synths, restartPlayer), Segment.RealtimeUpdate);```

[cosmic rain]

Just share the whole script...

[spring creek]

You included a type

[cosmic rain]

But I guess the issue is DicAudioClip dicAudioClip

[buoyant scroll]

Can you send me the code with it fixed?

[spring creek]

No

[cosmic rain]

What exactly are you trying to do there?

[buoyant scroll]

aw

[cosmic rain]

Whatever you're trying to do, I suggest you stop right there, and go learn the C# basics.
!learn

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[buoyant scroll]

I do know the C# basics, it's just different from Unity's C#

[cosmic rain]

Wdym?

[buoyant scroll]

WPF

[cosmic rain]

It's totally the same C#.

[spring creek]

False

Unity is just an API you use with c#

[cosmic rain]

The C# is the same. Syntax errors like the one you get would be fixed exactly the same way in WPF.

[buoyant scroll]

Now I'm stuck with the syntax errors

What do I do there?

[cosmic rain]

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

[spring creek]

Remove the type from your method call
This is a basic c# thing

[buoyant scroll]

nevermind

[cosmic rain]

You can't have a declaration right in the method params like that.

[buoyant scroll]

Thanks for your guys' help

You helped a lot, and I'll definetly check out the Unity Learn thing! 😄

[cosmic rain]

Might want to go through the C# manual too, since the issue is less related to unity.

[rustic arch]

can i somehow make this smaller or make it dissapear? I'm getting frequent frame drops

[cosmic rain]

Optimize your shaders I guess. This issue requires a lot more diagnostics. Can't really help you without more details on it.

[rustic arch]

Alright. Thank you for the tip!

[cosmic rain]

Does it happen every frame or is it spikes? Does it happen at some specific timing? Check the GPU module of the profiler. What GPU time does it show? What takes most of the time?

[rustic arch]

Spikes, not specific timing

I'm just moving around

[cosmic rain]

What does your scene look like? Are you using GPU heavy stuff like a lot of post processing effects? What's your screen resolution? Are you using compute shaders? Are you using custom shaders other than that? Is your gou doing any other work than rendering the game?

[rustic arch]

Game looks like this. around 3.5M tris

pp only bloom vignette and chromatic aberration

1080p screen res

[cosmic rain]

Check the GPU profiler to make sure these spike coincide with high GPU time.

[nocturne wyvern]

Hi. How to check internet connection correctly?

[cosmic rain]

If you can send messages on discord, you probably have an internet connection.

[rustic arch]

what's strange is if I'm in unity editor I'm not getting them anymore

I've been running around for the past couple of minutes and no freezes anymore

I also have a script that does this: QualitySettings.maxQueuedFrames = 2 as I've read in a unity forum it helps

but as far as I know this is also the default option?

[nocturne wyvern]

 protected override async UniTask AsyncRunInternal(CancellationToken token)
        {
            while (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
            {
                IsConnected = Application.internetReachability != NetworkReachability.NotReachable;
                
                if (!IsConnected)
                {
                    IsConnected = false;
                    _provider.Popup.Show();
                    await _provider.Popup.TryAgainBtn.AsyncWaitForClick(CancellationToken);
                    _provider.Popup.Hide();
                }

                await UniTask.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.2f), cancellationToken: token);
            }
        }

I check this way, but as I understand it, this is an unreliable method. As the Unity writes "Note: Do not use this property to determine the actual connectivity. For example, the device can be connected to a hot spot, but not have the actual route to the network."

[delicate flax]

send a ping to google

[heady iris]

Yeah, this method is for testing what kind of connection you appear to have

The only real way to decide if you're online is to check if you can reach the service you need.

[heady iris]

You'd use this to avoid downloading 500 megabytes of stuff over a cellular connection

[nocturne wyvern]

which services are best to check in order to cover most countries of the world? Maybe someone has a small example on this topic? Thank you

[heady iris]

Why do you need internet access?

[nocturne wyvern]

my application works with server

[heady iris]

Try to talk to your server, then!

note that Application.internetReachability can reliably tell you that you don't have internet access. So you can check that first before trying anything else

[delicate flax]

as I said, google is probably the most reliable place to ping. but since you need internet in the first place... why not just use the game server?

[heady iris]

It just can't reliably tell you that you can actually talk to your server

[hard viper]

!code

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[hard viper]

@latent latch https://github.com/LoupAndSnoop/UnityRepositories/blob/main/physicsBenchmarkTest

[nocturne wyvern]

private async UniTask<bool> CheckInternetConnection()
    {
        try
        {
            Ping ping = new Ping("google.com");
            PingReply reply = await UniTask.Run(() => ping.Send());

            return reply.Status == IPStatus.Success;
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

Is it good variant?

[rustic arch]

i got another one in the editor called Semaphore.WaitForSignal and it does not correspond with the cpu usage, is this a new one or the same as before?

[heady iris]

Try to talk to your own server.

That will be more useful (and make slightly less spam aimed at Google)

[nocturne wyvern]

ok, is everything correct in the rest of the code?

[hard viper]

there is a lot of code. what you need to do is:

1. Add these methods to a class, and call PhysicsMethodBenchmarking(); in Awake
2. A lot of the stuff in the actual physics benchmark method is custom. Edit as needed. The main methods you need to run MeasureBenchmark( on are: 1) TestMovement, because this is time cost that is not associated with benchmark that you should ignore. 2) TestColDist(, which tests Distance, and 3) TestOverlapBasic(, because that tests OverlapCollider

[heady iris]

I don't know how Ping works and I'm unfamiliar with UniTask, so I can't say much

[hard viper]

@latent latch

you do not need all the other methods. and you should be able to infer more or less what you need, for all of the classes unique to my code

[latent latch]

stopwatch pretty accurate?

[hard viper]

yeah. it goes off system time

also, MeasureBenchmark on TestMovement gives you a baseline

I added in comments the result of the test

but that is for like, all of my stuff

it should give you an idea of what it should look like

[latent latch]

aight, probably worth making a test script for this stuff as it's gotten to that point now

tyty

[hard viper]

glhf

[delicate flax]

unrelated, but UniTask is a allocation free implementation of Task. I highly recommend it, it's a fantastic little package

[hard viper]

my style here is kind of messy (hence the 200 LoC function), since it is like a one-off experiment

so sorry about that lol

[willow hollow]

Hi

having some issues in Python. Can anyone assist?

trying to get screenheight & width to be 4/2

not sure where I am going wrong in my code.

[somber nacelle]

try asking in a python discord. this is a unity server with no off topic allowed

[crisp bronze]

Hi, I'm trying to create a level generator script that will generate prefabs based on their given entry points and to try and prevent overlapping. Here are the two scripts so far:
https://paste.myst.rs/oyfceedq

However, I'm running into an issue with freezing during my while loop and can't figure out why

[willow hollow]

ahh I saw code-general, my bad

[thick terrace]

you should probably check that there are any valid segments in the list first, presumably none of them are valid so it loops forever in here:

            while(!s.IsValid(spawnPoint, entryDirection, currentPositions))
            {
                s = levelSegments[Random.Range(0, levelSegments.Length)];
            }

also, you're picking random segments until you find one which is valid, which i guess could take a long time if you have lots of segments and only a few of them are valid... why not make a list of valid ones first and then pick one of those at random?

[swift falcon]

In unity I am trying to make ice, the friction thing works but the object on it stops pretty quickly, I want it to slowly keep sliding a bit (even at low speeds). How do I have control over that?

[heady iris]

yeah, that'll turn into the coupon-collecting problem

it gets increasingly unlikely that you'll hit a valid space as time goes on

[somber nacelle]

how are you moving the object

[swift falcon]

rigid.AddForce

[somber nacelle]

and does the rigidbody have linear drag applied to it?

[swift falcon]

Not sure, do you mind me sending you the current movement script?

[somber nacelle]

share it here !code
and also show your rigidbody's inspector

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[swift falcon]

    private void Update()
    {
        // Movement
        float xDirection = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float zDirection = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Vector3 moveDirection = transform.forward * zDirection * speed;
        rigid.AddForce(moveDirection);

        // Rotation
        float rotationInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float rotationAmount = rotationInput * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.Rotate(0f, rotationAmount, 0f);
    }

[swift falcon]

Yes, one moment

[somber nacelle]

don't add force in Update. you should be doing that in FixedUpdate. also why are you getting the horizontal axis twice instead of using the value you got the first time that you didn't even bother doing anything with?

[swift falcon]

I wasn't yet working on the rotation part, I'll try to add it in fixedupdate, maybe that works.

[dusk apex]

Unless it's impulse but yeah.

[swift falcon]

It doesnt really move with fixed update:

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        // Movement
        float xDirection = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float zDirection = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
        Vector3 moveDirection = transform.forward * zDirection * speed;
        rigid.AddForce(moveDirection);

        // Rotation
        float rotationAmount = xDirection * rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.Rotate(0f, rotationAmount, 0f);
    }

[somber nacelle]

in what way does it not work

[swift falcon]

It still rotates but it doesn't go forward

[leaden ice]

well how much force are you applying? What is speed?

[spring creek]

FixedUpdate generally happens less often, so it is being called less

[somber nacelle]

what is the value of speed and you still haven't bothered showing the rigidbody's inspector like i'd asked

[swift falcon]

the speed is 5

[leaden ice]

5 newtons isn't much force

that's about 1 pound of force

[leaden ice]

1 lb of force is really not going to move a 1kg object much when you consider friction is a factor too

[swift falcon]

I increased it, is there a variable I can change to make the object stop at lower speeds sliding?

Now it can move again by the way

[somber nacelle]

you increase drag and/or friction to allow the object to come to a stop

[leaden ice]

Or use a material with more friction

or apply a braking force yourself

[swift falcon]

The friction is already at 0

Even with 0 drag and 0 friction it still stops

[somber nacelle]

then your object will continue sliding forever until it hits something

unless you are doing something elsewhere that stops it

[leaden ice]

how did you set friction to 0?

[leaden ice]

the average of 0 and non zero is non zero

this material would need to be on both objects

[swift falcon]

oh, I'll try it like that thanks

Perfect, now it doesn't stop which is what I wanted! Thank you both

I'll add drag to make it stop

[worldly ruin]

Hi i get an error when i try to compile my game in Unity, and idk what could be wrong because i never changed the date on my pc

Product: ARM Compiler 5.04 for Nintendo
Component: ARM Compiler 5.04 update 5 Extended Maintenance (build 231)
Tool: armcc [4ce830]armcc : error C9555:  License checkout for feature bsp_compiler5 with version 5.0201509 has been denied by Flex back-end. Error code: -88
System clock has been set back.
Feature:       bsp_compiler5
License path:  C:\Program Files (x86)\ARMCC_Nintendo_5\sw\info\nintendo-anyhost.lic;c:\program files\arm\licenses\license.dat;
FlexNet Licensing error:-88,309.  System Error: 2 ""
For further information, refer to the FlexNet Licensing documentation,
available at "www.flexerasoftware.com".```

[rigid island]

if you are using nintendo sdk we cannot help

[somber nacelle]

that looks like something you should be asking about in the nintendo developer forums

[worldly ruin]

:( sad

[worldly ruin]

don't think they support the 3DS SDK anymore lol

that's why i'm asking here but if you can't help i understand

[rigid island]

shit outta luck

[somber nacelle]

they sure don't. but if you don't even have access to those forums then you shouldn't be using that sdk in the first place because that's piracy

[gloomy crag]

Hey everyone. Dealing with a lots of world space canvases and i needed to disable backface culling.
Found a shader in the forums to do that.
It works great, but those elements can only be seen on the left eye in VR.

I'm a complete beginner when it comes to shaders though.
Could someone help me adjust this code so it works in VR on both eyes? I dont want to change Stereo Rendering Mode for Oculus since it works with default UI shaders too.

If possible (but not as urgent), i'd also like to be able to Mask the Ui Images that use Material of this shader.

I appreciate any help.

The code for the shader i used is too long to post here: https://pastebin.com/YLiAieh8
Source: https://forum.unity.com/threads/worldspace-canvas-backface-culling.310857/

[worldly ruin]

sadly i don't think they're even letting you get the SDK nowadays so that's pretty much the only way i found
but i understand i shouldn't talk about this here, so this conversation can end, thanks anyway ^^

[glad plinth]

Hey,
cant tell if this is "code" i mean it IS but still

How could i make this UI using HTML instead?

[somber nacelle]

#archived-shaders

[rigid island]

wdym HTML,
You can use RichText at most

if you want html-like you need new UIToolkit

[golden vessel]

Anyone can help me out with my problem please? I'm adding a value to an object in a canvas to set its height but it doesn't work at a different resolution.

[glad plinth]

is that paid? or in the package manager

[rigid island]

UIToolkit is the new Unity system for UI , its free

[somber nacelle]

check the docs pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how to properly anchor and scale your UI

[glad plinth]

Thanks 🙂
ill look now

[rigid island]

is probably more work to learn new ui thann it might be worth. Coud you explain what are you trying to do and why do you want html ?

[somber nacelle]

i don't think uitk supports world space UI out of the box yet btw

[rigid island]

ahh thats fkt

[glad plinth]

Well the Watch will display some player data like shows currently
(there will be more)

and HTML/CSS can create really nice UIs and animation so i was seeing if it was possible to use a UI System i already know rather than learning Unitys which seams more effort than itll produce

[somber nacelle]

if you are really deadset on html/css you can probably find a webview asset

[rigid island]

^this . Or also learn Unity UI which is not horrible to get some decent results

[glad plinth]

im not deadset no
i was just wondering as that ofc would have been the go too

[glad plinth]

damn so its old UI forced for me then?

[chilly surge]

For anything that is not extremely complex, UGUI is still a good enough solution.

[rigid island]

yeah agreed

9-slice sprites will be your best friend

holy shit... big bucks in unity web browser huh..

[chilly surge]

If Android and iOS are what you care about, there is https://github.com/gree/unity-webview

[glad plinth]

ahhhh yea just a chill 360$

😭

[chilly surge]

Free and IIRC actively maintained.

[sage latch]

honestly just use uGUI

[chilly surge]

But honestly just use UGUI.

[sage latch]

lol

[rigid island]

NOTE: This plugin overlays native WebView/WKWebView views over unity's rendering view and doesn't support those views in 3D.

So i guess no worldspace ?

[glad plinth]

yea im going to 😭

[glad plinth]

360$ for no world view is crazy

[rigid island]

nah thats the one from the github

[glad plinth]

ahhh

[rigid island]

I wouldnt be surpised if it used UGUI internally lol

[sage latch]

The main issues with uGUI (at least for me) is the layout system and global styling

and performance ig

[rigid island]

takes a decent amount of patience to get decent results yea

[chilly surge]

The GitHub one? That uses native OS WebView, definitely not UGUI.

[rigid island]

oh meant the assetstore one

[chilly surge]

I've briefly looked into lots of UI solutions because the project in working on is very UI heavy (it's practically an app more than a game) and there's really not anything that's remotely close to modern frontend. WebView + web tech for frontend was one option but performance really tanks on mobile. I ended up building my own frontend framework on top of UGUI.

[prime cosmos]

Hey has anyone run into this problem before? I am making an isometric tilemap with these blocks and as soon as i start using a new block it starts overlapping instead of falling in line like the grass blocks did. Any ideas why, i feel like im missing something obvious

[ashen yoke]

make sure they are sorted by pivot point and pivot is correctly placed

those are sprites right?

[prime cosmos]

yes

[simple egret]

Looks like the stone "block" is up in the air compared to the others, the top-right edge does not align with the grass "blocks" ones

[prime cosmos]

Ok i figured something out

this is my tile pallette

Everything to the left of the grass block goes above it but everything to the right goes below it

Im new to tilemapping so im not entirely sure how i would fix that

[simple egret]

(Zoomed in view) Notice how the topmost corner doesn't align with the others

[rigid island]

I would check the pivot sorting

[simple egret]

But I would move that question to #🖼️┃2d-tools since it's off-topic for this channel

[prime cosmos]

👍 thanks for the help

[tired prairie]

hey, what did we use for sending big codes in here ?

[somber nacelle]

!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.

[tired prairie]

thanks

https://gdl.space/zegidedoje.cs
hey i have this code for saving player data locally, it works normally on both android and the normal windows builds. but it doesnt work in the universal windows platform build that i made and published on microsoft store.
neither the load or the save functions work. does anyone know why ?

[ashen yoke]

any errors?

[simple egret]

If I remember correctly, UWP apps do not use the stuff in System.IO to access the file system, they have their own methods.
Also BinaryFormatter is unsafe and should not be used.

[ashen yoke]

i would imagine UWP would not allow binaryformatter to work

[tired prairie]

do you know what they use ? if they have any other way to save locally

or do i have to just stick to only saving on my server ?

[simple egret]

Regular apps not made with Unity use stuff like StorageFile, FileIO but this is only available in the Windows.Storage namespace, which Unity probably doesn't have by default

Each app has its own isolated storage space

[swift falcon]

hi

my unity inspector window doesnt have instance ids

i want to die please help

[rigid island]

you put debug mode on?

[somber nacelle]

this is a code channel. but you need to put the inspector into debug mode to view those

[swift falcon]

i wanst sure where to ask about this sorry

how to put inspector to debug mode?

[somber nacelle]

expand the 3 dot menu in the upper right of the inspector window

[swift falcon]

i got it

thanks for super qik response

[somber nacelle]

is there a particular reason you need the instance id though? 🤔

[swift falcon]

my scripts dont work

my button doesnt work

[somber nacelle]

that shouldn't be related to the instance id unless you are doing some weird stuff

[swift falcon]

level manager persist script

[somber nacelle]

huh?

you should take a look at #854851968446365696 for what you should include when asking for help
but again, instance ids should be entirely irrelevant

[mellow root]

Hi, I have a question about transform.LookAt. When I apply it to a plane it rotates it weirdly.
The first picture is how it should be (it is rotated like that in the editor), the second is how it is in play mode (it rotates it to the 0).
I'm trying to achieve the rotating sprites, think the original Doom objects

[merry stream]

anyone know why my events aren't working with enemies spawned by an object pool? it seems like the enemy subscribes but does not call the function properly

where as my character who derives from the same class which setups up the event does work properly

[somber nacelle]

the LookAt method makes the Z axis of an object point towards the other object. if that is a plane, then its Z axis will be along the plane not perpendicular to it

[somber nacelle]

see #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help because without seeing relevant code we can only guess

[leaden ice]

Use Quad not Plane

[mellow root]

Aaaa thank you, is there a way to force y axis rotation?

[leaden ice]

Quad is set up for this, Plane is not

[merry stream]

i know man lol, im just asking if there are known issues with that regarding object pools. My code works fine

[somber nacelle]

no, your code is the issue

[sharp marsh]

Hello, for a university workshop I need to solve the following problem: Given a PLY file, using Matlab, obtain its vertices and faces in separate text files. Then, create a script in Unity that reads these text files and creates a mesh. I am aware that there are applications like Blender that can take a PLY file and convert it into an OBJ file which Unity can read. However, my professor wants the process as I mentioned. I have already written the script, but I do not know what the error is that prevents the mesh from being displayed correctly. The PLY file is a dental model. I am attaching a photo of the file, as well as the script code and what it looks like in Unity. I appreciate any help in advance.

https://paste.ofcode.org/NrBe5E7BkYtKfWZZfGs4Vs

[leaden ice]

transform.up = playerPos - myPos;

[mellow root]

Thank you so much

[merry stream]

i guess you could say that, but i think its rather im missing something when it comes to object pools

[leaden ice]

but really

use quad instead

[merry stream]

since my code does infact work with the player

ill post it one sec

[somber nacelle]

object pools don't do anything at all except pool objects. they have literally nothing to do with events or unity messages. your code is the issue.

[merry stream]

how does it work in one case and not the other?

[mellow root]

one problem with it, it's reversed, it's pointing the transparent side

[somber nacelle]

#archived-code-general message

[merry stream]

https://gdl.space/nudatavula.cs https://gdl.space/uvamogusiw.cs

enemy is not calling the StatChange function correctly

[leaden ice]

lookat the opposite direction

[merry stream]

i sent the wrong second link, fixed it

[leaden ice]

are the triangle indices in the file 1-indexed?

[sharp marsh]

Yes, and in the code I already minus 1

[leaden ice]

I see

[somber nacelle]

you create a new instance of the Stats object in SetEnemyDifficulty which will, of course, create a new instance of your event delegate so no methods are subscribed

[mossy snow]

mesh needs a 32 bit index buffer, you've apparently got 163k verts. There may be other problems but start with that one

[merry stream]

strange cause I do the same thing for the player

[somber nacelle]

i doubt that. unless you are subscribing to the event after the new instance is created on the player

[merry stream]

https://gdl.space/awefipucam.cs

heres the player

[somber nacelle]

it seems like you are just manually calling the StatChange method on the player

[sharp marsh]

Okay okay, thank you <3

[merry stream]

it is still reacting to the events

I just tested it

[somber nacelle]

after you have called ResetToBase it cannot react to the events unless you are still referencing the old instance of the Stats object somewhere

the new one does not have anything subscribed to it

[merry stream]

ah i see

wait nope, still works for the player

[somber nacelle]

prove it

[merry stream]

reacting to health going down

[somber nacelle]

is this after ResetToBase has been called during this play session?

[merry stream]

yes

it is called immediately

[somber nacelle]

and what exactly am i seeing in that screenshot? because that doesn't show where any of this is happening in code

[sharp marsh]

IT WORKS!!!!

[somber nacelle]

this still does not show that it is reacting to the change after ResetToBase has been called

[merry stream]

resest to base is called when the player is spawned

[somber nacelle]

do you mean in Awake? because Awake is before OnEnable

I am referring to the event being cleared after OnEnable has been called. because that is what is happening with your enemy

[merry stream]

look at time

[somber nacelle]

do you just not read anything being said to you?

[merry stream]

i was responding to your first comment but okay

[somber nacelle]

and this whole fucking time i've been talking about what happens when you create a new Stats object after you had already subscribed to the event. not before. that was the entire god damn point\

[merry stream]

dont lose your temper man

[somber nacelle]

then learn to read

[glad plinth]

Operator icon not found for: JACKAL at path: Assets/Siege/Operators/Icons/JACKAL
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object)
Watch:LoadOperatorIcon (string) (at Assets/Watch.cs:219)
Watch:AssignOperatorImages () (at Assets/Watch.cs:189)
Watch:Update () (at Assets/Watch.cs:93)

private Sprite LoadOperatorIcon(string operatorName)
{
    string path = $"Assets/Siege/Operators/Icons/{operatorName}";
    Sprite opIcon = Resources.Load<Sprite>(path);
    if (opIcon == null)
    {
        Debug.LogWarning($"Operator icon not found for: {operatorName} at path: {path}");
    }
    return opIcon;
}

How can i load Images from that path as the Icon Exists there

[somber nacelle]

you aren't using Resources.Load correctly https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

[glad plinth]

OHHH

its resources folder

That makes senes

sense

[latent latch]

Anyone some good ideas for implementing "furthest along the track" logic in a tower defense game? Since units can be displaced via knockback and slowing effects, I can't simply order them as the units are spawned onto the track. At the moment I'm just grabbing targets via overlap sphere which are in the tower radius and choosing the closest/furthest to the tower, so having more options would be nice.

I mean, I do have an idea what I need and it's taking the path they walk on and expanding it out into a linear distance and im not sure what tools I would go about that with

Ah, maybe sampling the navmesh a bit more

Yeah, I don't know. That seems quite expensive...

[somber nacelle]

could you just check the navmeshagent's remainingDistance?

[latent latch]

oh, huh that's distance of the path and not the point?

"NavMeshAgent.GetPathRemainingDistance(). Be aware though this can be performance expensive depending the situation, so have that in mind when using it."

I assume it does the same corner/face calculations

[somber nacelle]

where did that info come from? because as far as i can see there is no GetPathRemainingDistance method

[latent latch]

Reading some stackoverflow post, but it's a little outdated

oh, it's their own custom method, ok yeah they do similar to another post

Let me try it out though and see how it goes, otherwise maybe I can segment the levels out instead and compare by that.

it's more that I have like 100+ enemies bunched up at times with quite a few towers pelting them

[lean sail]

Maybe you can find info on how btd6 does it, not sure if that info is out there. It is made using unity, and there is a decent modding community.

[latent latch]

pretty sure even the earlier versions had it. Freaking flash games mastered it

probably not expensive as I'm probably thinking, but I do also spawn like 500 projectiles everywhere too

and I know btd6 does frame drop like crazy eventually

[lean sail]

Yea it is, but btd6 also let's you get way further than previous games like btd5

Super late game isnt playable, to the point where people remove towers that shoot a lot just to play faster. It lags so badly that the extra dps makes it play slower

[latent latch]

haha, gotta keep that original experience as if you were playing in flash

webgl pretty impressive though and that's kinda what I'm trying to get working

[calm echo]

Some quick thoughts of different approaches
Create a path that they follow and track percentage complete.. This might be handy for picking the best in a group. But dont loop through every balloon

split the tracks into pieces and order the pieces in distance along the track, grab the one that is occupied and farthest. Then you can determine actuall target from all balloons inside that section. Basically Spatial Partitioning

[latent latch]

Yeah, the percentage idea is what I'm thinking here and trying to figure out if I can just grab that info directly from the navmesh. But, I don't think I can go about not recalculating a new path every time a unit gets displaced, so comparing back the waypoints generated probably isn't possible. Sooo, I need to kinda make my own fixed waypoints that each unit needs to compare to.

[calm echo]

If it’s like bloons you don’t need a navmesh, they are all just following a line

[latent latch]

Right, mines a bit more 3D-ish instead of the typical on-rails

[latent latch]

Yeah, I think that's the idea, segment the track into way points and calculate the distance from the unit to the waypoint and compare against that.

[hard viper]

you do that benchmarking, mao?

mostly want to know if I can just take down that file yet, to keep my repo tidy

[latent latch]

yeah kinda, need to chop a lot more physic calls down and merge them into distance calls

[hard viper]

Separate note: I made a small class to house localized string objects.
https://github.com/LoupAndSnoop/UnityRepositories/blob/main/LocalizedString.cs

any feedback?

[latent latch]

Pretty neat, throw it into #1179447338188673034 or dev logs.

Why'd take the repos down? I cram as much as possible in mine just so it looks like I've some interesting stuff going on lmao

[hard viper]

it's not even functional code by itself lmao

I just threw up some functions from a gigantic, dirty class that won't be useful to anyone in a public repo

depends on a ton of crap not in the repo

[twilit scaffold]

Anyone know of any videos about the actual function of "Unity Code Assist Lite" Extension for VS?

[twilit scaffold]

? are you trolling? what is going on here

[hard viper]

mao is talking about other code I put up in the middle of the day

the repo I just linked is fully functional

it has a dependency, btw. so go here #1219781801900249148 message

[tranquil patio]

hello, does anyone know if we can use photon engine with unity visual scripting or it's only in c# ?

[twilit scaffold]

Ah. thanks for the clarification

[twilit scaffold]

2 second search

https://forum.photonengine.com/discussion/20627/how-can-i-use-photon-with-visual-scripting-tool-bolt

So, since Visual Scripting is what used to be called Bolt, it should work, right?

[tranquil patio]

ty i'm stupide i was chearching in frensh ty :D