archived-code-general

[lean sail]

yea navmesh agent. I just want the agent for the path, and then im using the rb for movement. Everything was mostly fine until i noticed my AI's just werent moving

the only thing im using the agent for is literally just input for the AI, to know where its next position should be

[pastel patio]

Unfortunately the extra data that varies between objects of a SavedObject is represented in the form of a string[]

[knotty sun]

did you set updateRotation to false on the agent?

[pastel patio]

So uh... Y'know, it'd really suck to write data into a string[] half blindly, the only way to know which index holds what is to check the Save/Load function of the object

[latent latch]

Not too sure then if you're not using setDestination in conjunction, but in general I try not to really mix both of those things together as I always get funky results.

[lean sail]

yep, in the test code i set updatePosition and updateRotation to false. This time i also tried agent.isStopped = true; but it still has the bug. Even tried setting everything to 0 in the component

[lean sail]

well in this test code, im literally not doing anything to the agent besides whats shown. Its just a collider, rb, navmesh agent, my script above, and thats all

ill likely just report it as a bug and use the navmesh agent as a child object. Not a big deal

[latent latch]

Have you tried disabling the component as you try to use rb methods?

[knotty sun]

did you try using rb.MoveRotation instead of setting rotation directly?

[latent latch]

Usually if I want to do some rb/agent combo, I switch both on and off when needed

enemy ragdoll stuff, ect

[lean sail]

move rotation still causes it yea, but i just remembered transform.rotation works fine with it

[knotty sun]

odd transform.rotation should break rb.rotation

[lean sail]

i do use set destination in my actual AI logic, so right now disabling it would cause errors

it seems like disabling the component does work but then also cant really use the agent. Putting it on a child object is just easier for now instead of remaking this

[barren sigil]

Hello @latent latch, can we do IK with the circular mesh ?

[latent latch]

I don't see why not?

[lean sail]

this is reallllly vague even with the messages below. Using a string to save data doesnt really mean anything unless youre just doing a ton of reflection in this. You should show the code or more of the setup if you want a proper answer

[latent latch]

I've only done rigging in blender though, and unfortunately ik stuff gets filter out when porting to unity so you usually need to just do the animations fully there

[barren sigil]

Can you teach me how to ? Which package do i have to use...

[latent latch]

unity does have its own animation package but Ive not touched it

[lean sail]

the mesh has nothing to do with your IK. IK just uses the bones, and directly moves the transforms. Your mesh just so happens to move along at the same time

More of an #🏃┃animation question though

[barren sigil]

I dont think we cant do animation there are many shapes

[pastel patio]

This is a SavedObject

public struct SavedObject
{
        public int id;
        public int instanceId;
        public int instanceCode;

        public Vector3 position;
        public Quaternion rotation;
        public string[][] data;

        public SaveableObject loadedObject;
}

[latent latch]

Even though I know how to do the stuff, I'm not the best person to ask for the stuff as it's one of those things I do once in a blue moon.

[lean sail]

animation also includes animation rigging, which i assume is what you mean by IK. Otherwise im not sure what you're doing

[barren sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6hDpFaXEcY Im making this game clone, any suggestions ?

[lean sail]

honestly, you could just make animations for these

trying to make an all encomposing solution through animation rigging sounds like a pain in the ass either way. Like you have 3 bones for that triangle, then suddenly want to go to that straight line, you cant just delete a bone.

[latent latch]

Yeah, I suggested it too

just get to work and start cranking out animations

[pastel patio]

And this is a saveable object, stripped down to the very least I need to show

public class SaveableObject : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public int SaveID;
        public SaveableReference savedObject = new SaveableReference(null);
        public MonoBehaviour[] saveableBehaviours;

        public SavedObject Init()
        {
            SavedObject save = new SavedObject(SaveID, transform.position, transform.rotation, new string[saveableBehaviours.Length][]);
            for (int i = 0; i < saveableBehaviours.Length; i++)
            {
                save.data[i] = ((ISaveable)saveableBehaviours[i]).OnInit();
            }
            return save;
        }

        public SavedObject OnSave();

        public void OnLoad(string[][] save);
    }

You see what this does? If you spawn one you merely get an init state of the object

Which means that it doesn't change no matter how you call it

[barren sigil]

There're many shapes, how i can make animations work ? Make animation each shape right ? @lean sail @latent latch

[pastel patio]

Each prefab always gives the same save on init, that's the problem...

[latent latch]

Init should have some parameter of data you pass into it

Read the data from your list, if it's some sort of prefab you init that prefab and throw it into the scene at some position

[pastel patio]

Since the SaveableObject script isn't intended to be unique for each prefab existing in the game, it's not really reasonable to do so... '^^

[latent latch]

I like to make a table for prefabs such that an ID represents a prefab. So, if prefab is ID 4, when you save that prefab for next sessions you look up the prefab ID from the table and figure out from there what it should be.

[pastel patio]

The SaveableBehaviours might vary for each prefab

[pastel patio]

That's exactly what I do lol

Thing is that each ISaveable treats their data differently, and each prefab might have different ISaveables

[knotty sun]

How are you managing to cast from MonoBehaviour to ISaveable?

[pastel patio]

Just cast it, why?

[lean sail]

maybe, but games like these probably had a small team working on it to quickly pump it out asap. I dont see any solution which you'd like as an answer.
I think no matter what you're gonna be making some animations, but maybe you can use a line renderer to avoid parts of it. Like the larger triangle and smaller triangle can have the same logic as a line renderer, but would require different animations.

[latent latch]

I usually have a save/load method for each specific data type like Weapons, Entities, and GameStates

[pastel patio]

Wdym for each specific data type?

[knotty sun]

cannot MonoBehavbiour does not implement ISaveable

[pastel patio]

Nope, the thing is that it might

[lean sail]

the line is valid c#, its just not guaranteed to work if you plug in the wrong reference

[pastel patio]

Monobehaviour itself doesn't, but things that inherit it might

[pastel patio]

Yeah

[knotty sun]

cannot cast unless it is guaranteed. you can use as though and check for null

[latent latch]

I don't care about upgrade variables and item specific values if what I'm trying to save and load is an entity, so I try to group them somewhat up.

So I extend from my normal save class to compensate for the grouping.

[pastel patio]

So all your weapons have the save structure for a save file, all your entities too and so on?

[latent latch]

exactly

[pastel patio]

For me it's that each ISaveable treats it their way

[latent latch]

Probably more ways about it by just doing a single super class and comparisons, but I like the class constraints.

[pastel patio]

You can't unite the save of the attached Creature script, EffectManager, Inventory, Pickup, Destructable, Projectile, Constructs etc... That's the case in my game

Being the kinda sandbox game this is, I don't think that it's gonna go well categorising them into a limited few groups

Maybe I could make each ISaveable provide some sort of settings struct tho? A more user-friendly representation of the raw data array in the background

Just I'm not quite sure how to make an array in the inspector display multiple data types... And not quite sure whether I can make it save the settings properly either

It'd probably require some custom editor stuff

[latent latch]

https://github.com/mackysoft/Unity-SerializeReferenceExtensions

Can try that, otherwise yeah, probably working with custom editor stuff

Not sure why you need it displayed in the editor though

[pastel patio]

Good point

I could hard code it in the scripts

I just sort of prefer not hardcoding it in the scripts

[barren sigil]

Thanks, i will try line renenderer

[pastel patio]

Thanks tho, this might be really useful

[novel bough]

Hi, I am sending files to the server using WWWForm form = new WWWForm(), I send .png file like this form.AddBinaryData("design_img", imgbytes, filename, "image/png"); like this, I want to send a file specifically .fbx file using form how can I do this?

[knotty sun]

do the same. the mime type is application/octet-stream

[novel bough]

I have tried this form.AddBinaryData("fbx_file", fileBytes, "FBX", "application/octet-stream"); and I got the file but not the extension(.fbx), I am not sure if this is from the backend.

@knotty sun

[knotty sun]

that will be the backend

[magic harness]

Hey guys. Im working on an inventory system and im having trouble connecting with the UI.

I have two inventories atm, one created by the player, the other by my game manager(for now) .inventory is a normal C# object.

Then i have my UI in a different scene and it has an inventoryui script Which is a monobehaviour.
Im having trouble letting each inventoryUI know what inventory they belong to

[vagrant blade]

You can either hardcode it by creating separate monos for each that extend a base InventoryController class, and then just have them populate by passing some the inventory they want to a base Initialize function

[latent latch]

there's so many ways you can do it, but if you can I agree with Osteel and just hardcode it

[vagrant blade]

Or you can use a single inventory UI that is passed the items when opened, by whoever triggered jt

[latent latch]

in a perfect world your inventoryUI and inventory should be completely independent

[vagrant blade]

Or you can have a single inventory controller that is used for both (as you have it now) and have an enum field that lets you specify which inventory to sync up with ,and just use an if statement to grab what you want.

[magic harness]

The ui is listening to some event actions the inventory invokes whenever things happen(item added, item removed...

So, for me not to be destroying/instantiating, or dealing with object pool for my items i would really like to be able to let an InventoryUI monobehaviour know what Inventory(normal C# object) it is linked to

maybe i can emit a signal whenever i create an inventory and some other class can listen and set up the references?

[latent latch]

If I made it all independent, my InventoryUI would have an Assign(Inventory inventory) method which grabs the Inventory reference you want to bind to and then subscribe to Add/Remove events

[magic harness]

yeah i get that, but its complicated for my Player and GamManager to get a reference to an InventoryUI to call the function as they are all in different scenes

not impossible tho, just probably a bit spaghetti with my current system architecture

[latent latch]

Well, this is where the question of do you have multiple InventoryUIs per scene

if not, make InventoryUI a singleton

[magic harness]

i will yeah

at least 2, one for player Inventory another one for Stash

[latent latch]

In that case make some manager that holds a list of InventoryUIs such that you can Request() one

[magic harness]

that makes sense! Seems like a good solution!

Thanks!

[tidal shadow]

not sure my problem is relevant for this channel
but when i install mongodb drivers through visual studio, including the drivers work fine. but when i try to run the project in unity, the drivers can no longer be found

[knotty sun]

yes, you cannot install via VS as the .csproj files are maintained by Unity. You need to copy the relevant .ddl's into a Plugins folder in your project

[tidal shadow]

thank you
do you know which dll's i need to copy?
is it just all mongo db dll's?

[knotty sun]

presumably you are installing via nuget so any dll's downloaded by that

[tidal shadow]

dont know how to resolve these errors

is it something inside here?

[quartz folio]

What is this? If this is NuGet, Unity doesn't use it

You have to copy the DLLs into your Plugins folder manually

Or use the 3rd party NuGet for Unity package

[tidal shadow]

do you know where i can find the correct dlls?
also found that the official dlls arent signed which apparently they need to be?

[quartz folio]

I don't do this often, and I'm on my phone. I get them from wherever NuGet usually downloads them from

[chilly surge]

Go to the NuGet page and click the download button, the dlls are in the package file which you can extract with any archiving software.

You also need to do the same for the dependencies, and the dependencies of the dependencies, etc.

(As a side note, are you using MongoDB driver to connect to a remote database on your server, or just a local one?)

[tidal shadow]

yes im trying to get mongo db drivers to connect to mongo db database

[tidal shadow]

do i just copy the files as they are and put into plugins folder in my assets?

[chilly surge]

A remote database?

[tidal shadow]

yes

[chilly surge]

Just so you know, anyone can then look inside your game and grab your connection credentials, and then complete nuke your database, or modify their scores, whatever.

[tidal shadow]

well for this project its fine
its just a school project

[tidal shadow]

so this?

[chilly surge]

I don't think "it's a school project so going against the most basic security practices" is a good idea but eh, who am I to judge.

Yeah just find the dlls inside the package then drag them into Unity.

[tidal shadow]

well i only have a few weeks to finish it and everyone including my teacher is using it and its what my teacher is teaching us to use for now
so yes, its fine for this specific project

[tidal shadow]

well, when i copy-pasted the dlls into my plugins folder, i got loading errors

[chilly surge]

Ideally your server should expose just a few endpoints like "upload score" and whatever, then your Unity wouldn't even need this driver at all or all the code that's required to interact with the database, you just request the endpoint with UnityWebRequest and that's it.

[chilly surge]

Show the errors.

[tidal shadow]

UnityWebRequest should be fine for this?

[tidal shadow]

these errors

[chilly surge]

If your server exposes endpoints rather than like, literally the entire database, then yes you just need UWR to communicate and none of these stuffs.

[chilly surge]

Which dlls did you copy into Unity? I don't know which package you are trying to import but libraries support different runtimes (eg .NET Standard 2.0, .NET 8, etc), if you copy the ones that run on .NET 8 for example then they wouldn't run in Unity, because Unity isn't .NET 8.

[tidal shadow]

thinking about it, i think i do still need the dlls as i need access to the database

[chilly surge]

You do not if the server exposes endpoints, and the endpoints are the ones dealing with the database, so your Unity game is only talking to the endpoints.

[tidal shadow]

these are inside my plugins folder

[chilly surge]

Which folder is that coming from?

[tidal shadow]

i dont know enough about servers to be able to argue about what i need
i just need access to my database, thats as much as i know

[tidal shadow]

plugins folder in my assets

[chilly surge]

No, I mean which folder in the NuGet package.

[tidal shadow]

those are the ones i copy-pasted from what was downloaded from nuget
sorry for the bad answers

[chilly surge]

Yes, and once you extract the package it should support multiple runtimes, each with its own folder of dlls. Which one did you copy?

[tidal shadow]

i just copy-pasted all mongo dlls i could find from everything that was downloaded

[chilly surge]

Yeah that's not how it works, you can't mix all the dlls from different runtimes together.

I think it's better for you to just use NuGet for Unity instead of trying to do it manually.

[tidal shadow]

youre not talking about nuget manager inside visual studio right now, are you?

[chilly surge]

NuGet for Unity is a completely different thing.

[tidal shadow]

ok, ill look for it

[versed spade]

Couldn't get it working no. Which screen space should camera be? there is overlay, and a few others.

[tidal shadow]

so i got nuget for unity
do you know what version i need? im using unity 2022

[chilly surge]

I don't know, you have to figure it out yourself.

[muted crane]

Hi folks, I don't know if this might belong to #💻┃code-beginner or here, but I'm currently facing some transform issues that I still can't resolve after 14 Google searches.
I have the given GameObject "point" where the red and green line meet and would like to move it 90 degrees to the right. As of now, I have adjusted the rotation of the GameObject to face the white cube. Now if I add transform.right to it's position to move it, I expect the yellow dotted line, yet I receive the point given below that. Both Vector3.right and transform.right bear the same result, which irritates me. Is there any way I can move my object via transform to it's right (and left) side it is facing, considering the x- AND z-axis from any given point?

[heady iris]

sounds like the object is tilted over to the side

There are many rotations that face the white cube.

Quaternion.LookRotation takes a second argument that defines "up"; it's Vector3.up by default

oh, I see: it's moving in the +X direction, not -Y

i thought it was going down

that just means the object isn't rotated at all. Select the game object and look at the direction its handles point.

Make sure that you're in local, not global, mode here

[swift falcon]

I could use some help please.

While using a State Machine Pattern, my character keeps changing from the Jump State to Idle, and I'm not sure why.

[heady iris]

Perhaps the execution order is the problem here.

If you update isGrounded after checking for a state transition, you'll instantly snap back to idle

[swift falcon]

but if my character is up in the air without colliding with anything, does the execution matter?

hmm let me see if I can give more info, one sec

[heady iris]

Is your problem that you immediately go back to the idle state when you jump?

[swift falcon]

yea

well, no

it's more like as i'm falling

I'm gonna record, and share it

while recording, I watched the video back in slow mode, it's actually as you said, it is snapping back to idle immediately

I didn't realize it

Damn, ty @heady iris, oh my god I spent literally hours on this small error

[heady iris]

(:

you'll need to enforce an ordering here

one option is to adjust script execution order in the project settings

the other is to replace Update/FixedUpdate/etc. with explicit method calls

My game has Entities with Modules attached to them. Only Entity has Update/FixedUpdate/etc.

It calls methods on the modules in those methods

[wicked river]

Wondering if there is a great tutorial out there for multiple ammo type management. 5 weapons to start with different ammo types.
Pistol
SMG
Shotgun
AR
Grenades

[heady iris]

5 numbers

maybe a dictioanry of type -> number

[swift falcon]

@heady iris my fix

lol, idk if this was ideal, but it's what I could think of after torchering my brain for hours on this

I just didn't want to touch the script execution in project settings, and I'm not sure of what explicit method calls means xD

[knotty sun]

to start with NEVER check a float value for equality

[swift falcon]

how come

[knotty sun]

because of float inaccuracies

[swift falcon]

oh, even though I put the ">=" comparison?

[knotty sun]

I was looking at the == 0

[swift falcon]

oh, that's just checking if I'm standing still or moving

[knotty sun]

yes and it probably will never be EXACTLY zero, just the way float works

[swift falcon]

so I should always just have it change state to the walkState

I was just thinking if I was running into a wall, my velocity would be zero'd out

for X

[knotty sun]

no, you check check a range. instead of ==0 do >= -0.01 && <= 0.01. For example

or you can use Mathf.Approximately

[swift falcon]

something like this

[knotty sun]

yes

[swift falcon]

ty Steve and Fen

I appreciate you guys, my game feels so much smoother now

now I'm just gonna watch a handful of videos about coyote jumping

[muted crane]

That's the fun part, because I am sure I am rotating this GameObject enough.
This is a Coroutine I have written for the positioning:

    {
        Vector3 startPoint = positionObj.transform.position;
        int angle = 0;

        while (true)
        {
            // Rotate like crazy
            positionObj.transform.Rotate(Vector3.up, angle);
            positionObj.transform.Rotate(Vector3.right, angle);
            positionObj.transform.Rotate(Vector3.forward, angle);

            // Move object now with changed rotation
            positionObj.transform.position = startPoint + transform.right;

            yield return Timing.WaitForSeconds(2f);
            positionObj.transform.position = startPoint; // Return to start point, but keep rotation
            yield return Timing.WaitForSeconds(2f);

            angle += 30;
            if (angle > 360) angle = 0;
        }
    }```

The object gets rotated, I am using transform.right to move it and put it back in it's original place 2 seconds later. It always lands on the same point, no matter the rotation. Do you have a suggestion?

[heady iris]

oh, you're using transform.right, not positionObj.transform.rotation

[knotty sun]

what are you expecting it to do, you set the position, that is the position it goes to

[muted crane]

@knotty sun This is what I initially asked. I can't find a way to properly move something exactly left/right of something, regardless of direction towards x- and z-axis.

[knotty sun]

looking at your code, you want the object to step out and then step back continually in a circle, correct?

[muted crane]

Yup, this test code was supposed to do that. I tried with Vector3.right as well, with the same results. When I am transforming to the right, it should consider the direction it is facing every single time, and make a move to another spot.

[knotty sun]

indeed, the code as written should do that

let me just run a quick test, back in 5

what is your problem, be patient

[muted crane]

i think he was pretty chill, what do you need help with

[knotty sun]

you are the one being rude and acting entitled

[muted crane]

Ah chief I think I remember that problem, did you set up IntelliSense in VSCode?

lol wait check this out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihVAKiJdd40

This might be it

np

[chilly surge]

This one is way outdated.

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[chilly surge]

@swift falcon Follow the VS Code section here.

[vernal tinsel]

what's the difference between Raw Image and Image? I'm aware in general you only need Image, which uses a Sprite where Raw Image uses Texture. A package I'm using is using Raw image and trying to understand a bit better what the reasons are 🙂

[sleek bough]

!ban 1119185460930039848 Homophobia in pronouns.

[tawny elk]

ohmohctp was banned.

[knotty sun]

try this

public class TestCircle : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(AdjustRightTransform());
    }

    private IEnumerator AdjustRightTransform()
    {
        Vector3 startPoint = transform.position;
        float angle = 10f;

        while (true)
        {
            transform.Rotate(Vector3.up, angle);

            transform.position = startPoint + transform.right;

            yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(.5f);
            transform.position = startPoint; // Return to start point, but keep rotation
            yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(.5f);
        }
    }
}

[serene stag]

how many can make this.

[rigid island]

seven

[muted crane]

Interesting. I have created the class and in the other class where I initially generated the GameObject, I used AddComponent<TestCircle>(); and it seems to work!
But I don't really get the difference between the two versions, I am referencing the GameObject directly with positionObj and rotate/move it. With your script, it now directly accesses the transform and it works.

Thank you very much @knotty sun

[knotty sun]

the problem was twofold.
You extra rotations were screwing up the transform.right
Adding to angle every itteration was making it rotate too far every itteration (Rotate is cumulative)

[muted crane]

It was just for testing purposes, before that, I applied rotation only once, and it still remained the position. I was just getting desperate and tried to get that damn point to move somewhere else

[knotty sun]

well, you have your solution, good luck

[serene stag]

how come you sure about seven.

[rigid island]

I counted

[heady iris]

new studies suggest the number is actually 6.5

[knotty sun]

I honestly cannot see why anyone with any experience would consider that difficult and 2 days to make it?

[serene stag]

why dont you try it.

[rigid island]

it's really not that difficult

[knotty sun]

I have proc gen room solutions a damn sight more complicated than a simple resizable door

[serene stag]

its looks simple. try it. its simple.

[night storm]

yeah actually looks pretty difficult actually, idk how to do it

[serene stag]

do you have any video of it. let me try.

[knotty sun]

not a chance, that's business

[serene stag]

i am a hardcore programmer cmon let me see.

[swift falcon]

Ninja, congrats on your accomplishment, but don't go challenging everyone to do something just because you feel proud of yourself.

[rigid island]

the video is probably using an asset. Its not that diffcult anyway, there are tools that let you resize mesh without stretch

even probuilder lets you do runtime stuff like that with meshes

as long as all the parts are separate mesh/gameobjects too

[night storm]

wait those parts are separate meshes? that makes things much simpler

i thought it was like sprite 9 slicing but for a texture

[swift falcon]

That's one way to do it, then change the door knob position to 50% of the doors height, or however high you want it

[oblique spoke]

Don't promote your content outside of #1180170818983051344

[knotty sun]

you don't even need a mesh, there are so many ways of achieving that technique

[rigid island]

yeah many ways to accomplish the same thing

[serene stag]

why dont you all try whatever ways you know. i would love to see. but i did complete programming out there no assets.

[rigid island]

yeah but, for what reason should I take the time to do this ? I have no use for it

[serene stag]

probably learn.

[heady iris]

are you here for any reason other than to try to advertise the fact you can generate a door

[serene stag]

i want to see that programming where you never achieved it.

[rigid island]

ehh its a waste of time or me, I got a lot more complexities than a door going on. Dealing with Netcode

[heady iris]

i'm busy

[neon zinc]

I have some draggable objects that can be dragged with mouse or using keyboard (to allow accesibility).
This is the keyboard and mouse endDrag functions

public void EndKeyboardDrag()
    {
        itemBeingDragged = null;
        isDragging = false;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = true;  
        PointerEventData pointerEventData = new PointerEventData(EventSystem.current);
        ExecuteEvents.ExecuteHierarchy<IDropHandler>(gameObject, pointerEventData, ExecuteEvents.dropHandler);

        
        if (transform.parent == startParent)
        {
            transform.position = startPosition;
        }
    }
public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        itemBeingDragged = null;
        canvasGroup.blocksRaycasts = true;

        if (transform.parent == startParent)
        {
            transform.position = startPosition;
        }
    }

This draggable object have to go to a specific zone or object that has this component:

public class DropZone : MonoBehaviour, IDropHandler
{
    public TextMeshProUGUI phraseText;
    public string correctWord;

    private string initialText;

    private void Start()
    {
        initialText = phraseText.text;
    }

    public void OnDrop(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        if (Draggable.itemBeingDragged != null)
        {
            var draggedItem = Draggable.itemBeingDragged;
            var droppedWord = draggedItem.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshProUGUI>().text;

            if (droppedWord == correctWord)
            {
                phraseText.text = initialText.Replace("___", correctWord);
                Destroy(draggedItem);
            }
            else
            {
                Destroy(draggedItem);
            }
        }
    }
}

For mouse is working but not for keyboard (I supose I'm emulating wrong the drop action). This are the full classes if you need to check something else: https://hatebin.com/fhzgvbaceu

[sacred sinew]

so, I've recently started a project and I needed a procedural terrain generation, so I followed the tutorial of Brackeys on this subject but the terrain is not creating if the UpdateMesh() isn't called in a void update method, but it's taking a lot of resources for nothing. Do anyone know why it doesn't render the triangles ? here's the code : https://hatebin.com/umyfdqqmgt

[heady iris]

What if you assign the mesh after calling UpdateMesh?

I'd expect this to work fine

but maybe the mesh filter doesn't respond to the change happening right after the assignment?

[sacred sinew]

I tried moving it but no, it isn't rendering the triangles

[heady iris]

Are you changing Xsize and Ysize somewhere else, maybe?

[sacred sinew]

nope but I just got an error : IndexOutOfRangeExeption at line 54

it randomly worked without me doing anything, thanks.

[coral fox]

is possible to change hdrp settings at runtime? i like to give player option to use raytracing, dlss and etc

[full canopy]

hey yall, it's my first time making a custom inspector for a script and I think I made some sort of rookie mistake here.
While all fields drawn are editable, only the Y Rotation Limit fields and Y Position Limit fields retain their values. Everything else resets to 0 when clicking off or hitting enter after inputting some value. As far as I can tell, all 6 of these are identical so I don't know what's causing it. (Don't mind how X Rotation Limit has different display, i was fiddling with a better organized field)

[knotty sun]

#↕️┃editor-extensions and !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.

[livid loom]

I don't know why I am getting this error all of a sudden
There are 3 event systems in the scene. Please ensure there is always exactly one event system in the scene
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update () (at ./Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:543)
Solved really can't make a UI a prefab without this error?

[pliant field]

guys who can help me with pacman

[knotty sun]

this is a code channel

[pliant field]

yes and i'm developing pacman with unity

[somber nacelle]

then ask a question if you need help with something specific

[rigid island]

https://dontasktoask.com

[pliant field]

this is my enemyscript aka for the ghost. the enemy is getting stuck in the walls i dont know how to fix it. "using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Enemyscript : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform player;
public float speed = 5.0f;
public float detectionRange = 0.5f;

private Rigidbody2D rb;
private Vector2 currentDirection;
private Vector2 lastDirection;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    rb.freezeRotation = true;
    currentDirection = (player.position - transform.position).normalized;
    lastDirection = currentDirection;
}

void Update()
{
    FollowPlayer();
}

void FollowPlayer()
{
    Vector2 directionToPlayer = (player.position - transform.position).normalized;

    if (!WallInFront(directionToPlayer))
    {
        currentDirection = directionToPlayer;
    }
    else
    {
        AvoidObstacle();
    }

    Move(currentDirection);
}

void Move(Vector2 direction)
{
    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + direction * speed * Time.deltaTime);
}

bool WallInFront(Vector2 direction)
{
    RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, direction, detectionRange, LayerMask.GetMask("Wall"));
    return hit.collider != null;
}

void AvoidObstacle()
{
    Vector2[] directions = { Vector2.up, Vector2.down, Vector2.left, Vector2.right };

    foreach (Vector2 dir in directions)
    {
        if (dir != -lastDirection && !WallInFront(dir))
        {
            currentDirection = dir;
            lastDirection = currentDirection;
            break;
        }
    }
}

}
"

[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.

[pliant field]

my bad

[somber nacelle]

no

[pliant field]

https://hastebin.com/share/uyonequhil.csharp

can i send videos here?

[knotty sun]

you can do but before you do that your Move method should be called from FixedUpdate not Update

[pliant field]

What's a fixed update

sorry guys im a beginner

[livid loom]

It updates after Update that is when physics are calculated

[somber nacelle]

that is incorrect

FixedUpdate happens before Update on physics frames. and is called at a fixed rate, not every frame

[pliant field]

i can fix the speed but that's not really the problem, it just goes up and down

[somber nacelle]

i would recommend looking into a pathfinding algorithm like A* rather than what you are doing, your current method of pathing to the player is not going to be very accurate

[livid loom]

thanks why everyone explains it that way I don;t know then your explanationsmakes sense though

I still have that Multiple Event Systems problem not sure why though? Not like I have multiple Canvases just one not creating any events in code for any reason.

[somber nacelle]

having one canvas does not automatically mean you only have one EventSystem in the scene. if you have an EventSystem in your UI prefabs like you previously implied, or have them on DDOL objects, then you are likely accumulating multiple in your scene(s)

also the only time an event system is automatically added to a scene by unity is during edit time when you first create a UI object in your scene. if one exists in the scene already it will not create another. so whatever is causing the issue is something you have done incorrectly

[livid loom]

Well Unity seems to be just creating them out of nowhere now after trying to create UI prefab it's up to 5 now noting has changed every time I hit Play it's creating a new one.

It strted at 2 and keeps going up

[somber nacelle]

well you've not shown any of your code, or your setup or anything like that. so we can only assume you are doing something wrong

[livid loom]

Yeah I am just thinking about starting a new Project adn say screw it and like i said no code is creating it I would have to post 4000 line here

[pliant field]

So isn't there any other simpler way other than A* ?

[livid loom]

I don;t know why its happening all I did was try to create aprefab Canvas and it started doing it

[rigid island]

2d navmesh

but its just a* , anyway

[somber nacelle]

that's still a*

[pliant field]

bro im cooked

[rigid island]

yeah you just don't have to write nodes, or any of that

[pliant field]

appreciate the help guys

[rigid island]

imo still good to learn how a* works and write it yourself

[somber nacelle]

there are simpler ways to make an object move towards another object, however you want to move around obstacles and likely in a predictable way considering you are cloning a well known game so you should learn how to use proper pathfinding. you don't need to write all the pathfinding yourself, you can use NavMeshPlus which provides 2d support for unity's built in A* implementation (NavMesh). or there's aron granberg's A* pathfinding project on the asset store which has a free version. but the algorithm is actually fairly simple to learn and implement yourself

[rigid island]

navmesh might give you wonky behavior because of local RVO avoidance (agents avoiding eachother) you might not need it

such narrow halls agents might go strange

indeed the A* pathfinding project is pretty good too, and might give you more options for fixing avoidance issues

[high gorge]

my IDE keeps shooting this error to me. What caused this problem?

[cloud hedge]

Puzzle game level editor, prevent user from sharing level before they have solved it themselves

[knotty sun]

At a guess you are using Editor code in a non Editor project

[somber nacelle]

it doesn't even have RVO in the free version

[gray mural]

Have you received an answer already?
I'm sorry, I meant the space of the Canvas, not camera.

For instance, this code assigs the anchoredPosition to the localPoint correctly, which means placing the RectTransform myRect in the middle of the screen mouse position, assuming

• 1. The Canvas is in either Screen Space - Camera or World Space
• 2. The correct anchores and pivots are set for myRect

Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;

RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle(FindAnyObjectByType<Canvas>()
    .GetComponent<RectTransform>(), mousePos, Camera.main, out Vector2 localPoint);

myRect.anchoredPosition = localPoint;

Note that if, for some reason, you have an irresistible desire to use Screen Space - Overlay, assigning the anchoredPosition directly to the mouse position in screen space aligns the RectTransform correctly, assuming the anchores are at min (0, 0) and max (1, 1)

If there is any case of you not liking your current pivots and anchores, the new position based on RectTransform.pivot, RectTransform.anchorMax and RectTransform.anchorMin may be calculated

||Though it's so troublesome, that in this case I would rather use the world position||

[trim rivet]

Need some advice guys... this coroutine I have here, shouldn't it run perpetually until the end of eternity?
It seems like it at some point stops running though.

[rigid island]

unless you disable, destroy, object or mess with Time.timeScale

[rigid island]

is Yielders a custom class?

[dusk apex]

You'll need to determine when it stops running to attempt to figure out why.

[knotty sun]

Yielders looks very suspect there unless an Exception is being thrown

[dusk apex]

As is, I'm going to assume you know how to implement coroutines and that the issue lies elsewhere - disabled component, inactive object, destroyed object, manually stopped coroutine, an error etc

[rigid island]

I thought it was a const

[knotty sun]

never heard of it, I presume it is self implemented or smth

[full canopy]

any reason why calling functions in a serialized event doesn't allow floats or vectors? Looks like I can only call it with a bool, string, or no args.

[rigid island]

true , or I guess they could be doing
public static WaitForFixedUpdate WaitForFixedUpdate= new();

idk why you would tho

[knotty sun]

It makes sense if they have pre allocated, it saves on GC

[rigid island]

oh yeah true, I just usually put it outside the loop

makes sense for optimizing though

[somber nacelle]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-events/method-requirements

[full canopy]

oh dang so i have to do a setter for each float value

thanks

[somber nacelle]

or just read the workaround page linked at the bottom and in the sidebar

[heady iris]

there's one gotcha: WaitForSecondsRealtime looks like it gets modified by the engine (rather than just being used to tell native code what to do)

    public override bool keepWaiting
    {
        get
        {
            if (m_WaitUntilTime < 0f)
            {
                m_WaitUntilTime = Time.realtimeSinceStartup + waitTime;
            }

            bool flag = Time.realtimeSinceStartup < m_WaitUntilTime;
            if (!flag)
            {
                Reset();
            }

            return flag;
        }
    }

notably

It's a CustomYieldInstruction, not a YieldInstruction

[rigid island]

genuinely curious what OP is doing there then xD

[heady iris]

it does look like it's just a pre-allocated yield instruction

[quaint crypt]

i want to make the architecture of my sound manager in the following way: everything that can emmit a sound will raise an event (SO), and a SoundManager will basically subscribe to all sound emmitters. (a sound event will pass along the necessary info such as materials, etc).

to me this would be perfect because of its simplicity, but i am worried of having too many events.

is it an ok method, or can it be improved somehow?

[leaden ice]

SoundManager will basically subscribe to all sound emmitters.
Probably best to just have a single static event to avoid managing all of that.

What's the goal here though?

To reduce the number of AudioSources?

[flint tulip]

hi

[quaint crypt]

just to not even think too much about sound when doing gameplay logic. just fire an event and im done. afterwards i can just code the sound manager and subscribe to all necessary events. so i would say the purpose would be simplicity and decoupling.

edit: the events would actually be explicit sound events, but rather generic ones, like: inventory opened, bow fired, arrow hit, item drag started etc.
since not just the sound manager will be interested in them.
but at a later date, when wanting to do sound, I can just find the events that need to emmit it and it would be quite simple

[leaden ice]

You still need to decide which sound to play and where to play it, right?

[leaden ice]

Basically - what does your approach give you that you can't get just by using:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint.html

[quaint crypt]

yea thats a good point, i would probably have to send the worldspace coordinates for every single event, even if it doesnt really make sense in the context of the event

[quaint crypt]

i would be using that to play the sound clip, but having a single place that manages sounds for me seems a bit cleaner, idk

i guess im just a bit worried about having too many events

[leaden ice]

But if all it's doing is passing through to a call to PlayClipAtPoint, why not just cut out the middleman?

[quaint crypt]

but it wouldn't jsut be doing that, for example: let's say I fire an "OnInventoryOpened" event. besides the sound manager that would subscribe to it, maybe there's a screen space vfx that needs to be played, maybe the save system wants to subscribe to it to pause time etc etc

i would be killing two birds with one stone

[crystal herald]

How can I make object to be triggered by particle system

[leaden ice]

Would you though? Because now the sound manager needs to subscribe to an OnInventoryOpened event? That seems really weird for a SoundManager to know or care about

And now the SoundManager needs to know about every single event in the game pretty much

[quaint crypt]

correct, would that be a big performance hit?

[leaden ice]

it's not a performance problem it's a code architecture problem

Event subscriptions do create GC so, I mean, depending on the number of these things and how ephemeral they are, it could be a performance problem

[leaden ice]

One of these:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PartSysCollisionModule.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/PartSysTriggersModule.html

[quaint crypt]

you've given me a lot to think about. thanks a lot for your help and thoughtfull answers

[spark flower]

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision) {

        if (damageDone) { return; }
        damageDone = true;

        DamageAbsorber _da = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<DamageAbsorber>();
        if (_da != null) {
            print("damage absorber exists");
            if (_da.owner != attack.owner) {
                attack.Nullify();
                Kill(true);
                print("attack nullified");
                return;
            }
        }

        PlayCharacter _char = collision.gameObject.GetComponent<PlayCharacter>();
        if (_char != null) {
            if (_char == attack.owner) {
                Kill();
                return;
            }

            print("damage dealt");
            _char.Hurt(attack.owner, attack.power.stats.knockback);
            if (attack.hurtEffect != null) {
                Instantiate(attack.hurtEffect, _char.bodyCenter.position, Quaternion.identity).Setup(attack.owner);
            }
        }

        Kill();
    }```
guys, im trying to make an object to nullify its effect and damage if the object it collides with contains a DamageAbsorber but for some reason it doesnt work atall or aways

what culd the problem be?

dealing damage works fine, but it like skips the damage absorbing part

[leaden ice]

lots of things.

• The GameObject doesn't have a DamageAbsorber
• this isn't true:(_da.owner != attack.owner)

Debug.Log is your friend

[spark flower]

well the object does contain damageabsorber component

[leaden ice]

how do you know

[spark flower]

but damage absorber print doesnt print

[leaden ice]

Is print("damage absorber exists"); printing?

[leaden ice]

Then it doesn't

[spark flower]

no

[leaden ice]

This might help you:

Debug.Log($"The object we hit was {collision.gameObject.name}");```

[spark flower]

maybe it collides with character first, and then with the object that is supposed to nullify the damage

i see i will debug it now

[leaden ice]

Hence why we debug

[leaden ice]

are those separate objects?

[spark flower]

yes

[leaden ice]

What does Kill() do?

Destroy(gameObject) kind of thing?

[spark flower]

it just kills the damage object

[leaden ice]

Ok so

[spark flower]

its irrelavent

[leaden ice]

no it's very relevant

Here's the thing

OnTriggerEnter can happen with multiple objects in the same frame

if you enter both objects in the same frame

[spark flower]

i guess i have to get all the objects it collides with

yes it spawns directly over them

[leaden ice]

Yeah basically you could be hitting both at once, and then this code will run for both the player and the absorber

[spark flower]

yeah but it has to run first for the damage absorber and then for the player

so it can nullify the damage

which one is to get all the objects it collides with

[leaden ice]

There isn't a super clean way to do that with OnTriggerEnter

A better approach may be to remove the collider entirely and just do Physics.OverlapCapsule in FixedUpdate

or do a Physics.CapsuleCastAll or similar

[spark flower]

i need some controll over it

why wuld there not be a clean way

[leaden ice]

Because OnTriggerEnter gets called separately for each intersection

to do it in OnTriggerEnter you'd have to put them all in a list or something and then handle the rest in a coroutine in yield WaitForFixedUpdate

Because that runs after all the triggers according to https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[spark flower]

i see

does lateupdate run after collisions?

i guess ill run it there

[leaden ice]

Update itself does

but that's problematic

[spark flower]

oh cool

why

[leaden ice]

because it's possible for multiple physics iterations to run in a single frame

[spark flower]

so late update?

no there wont be multiple i need just a single frame run

[leaden ice]

LateUpdate vs Update makes no difference here

[leaden ice]

You can't control whether physics runs multiple times in a frame

that happens if and when the framerate gets low

[spark flower]

i see

so maybe in fixedupdate?

[leaden ice]

nope

because that happens before physics

though i mean I guess it could handle the ones from last physics update

it would just mean there's a potentially visible delay

[spark flower]

so what i will do is populate a list with the collisions and in fixed update if the list count is higher then 0 then go through it

[leaden ice]

Really I feel like CapsuleCastAll in FixedUpdate would be a better solution overall though - plus it would eliminate the risk of tunneling

[spark flower]

tunneling?

[leaden ice]

https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/192400/in-games-physics-engines-what-is-tunneling-also-known-as-the-bullet-through

[spark flower]

ok i guess that wuld be better

[chilly parcel]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but where are these Job System settings saved? everytime I restart the editor they're being reset

[onyx osprey]

Hey, I'm using cinemachine and in a 2D level when a player zooms in with the mouse the camera orthographic size changes and I also move the camera so that the mouse pos is the focus point (much like in google maps), but this causes it to jitter (https://gyazo.com/949970eaf700c1100b1c597bb568ce67). I update both the movement and zoom in the same fixed update and both are frame independent so I don't really know how to fix this.

Seperately they both look smooth but together it looks really bad and not sure how to handle that

[latent latch]

Should probably post your code

[onyx osprey]

So in the update the zoomvalue gets regularly updated together with the necessary movement that goes with the zoom (already updated the 'fixedDeltaTime' here to 'DeltaTime')

The override in there is just to keep track of the necesary movement of the camera that has to be done

Then in the fixed update the movement and zoom are actually being executed

updatecamerazoom is basically just applying the new orthographic size

and applytotransformation is basically just updating the pos

[latent latch]

So you're lerping the zoom in update, but moving the camera in fixedupdate? Probably some confliction there, but I could only guess. There's obviously some sort of desync between the two operations.

[onyx osprey]

yea, I tried moving it all in the fixedupdate first but then the inpout wasn't registered properly, but maybe I should just do the lerp in fixed, i'll give that a go

[latent latch]

Just something I'd probably play around with is just using Movetowards over lerp perhaps

Ah, but it seems like you want to zoom little by little so lerp may be the better option

[onyx osprey]

https://gyazo.com/fc90360c205e67ec32b39eb4e4975f2b made it feel a bit better but still bit off

[onyx osprey]

yeah we smoothen it out

I think the lerp might be causing the jumps though now that you mentioned it

[latent latch]

It's one of those situations where I just start swaping stuff around and see if that fixes it

ortho camera probably adds to the problem too

[onyx osprey]

Tried the MoveTowards like you suggested and it gave me some other problems but the jitter is gone so now I do know where the problem is so that helps a lot already

[marble ember]

I cant seem to find any working solutions, but im having an issue with touch input going through UI. I have tried various solutions from web searches and none I have come across have worked (most are years old so might not be relevant with recent unity versions). I have working mouse input blocked from going through UI, but cant seem to figure out how to do it with touch

[onyx osprey]

@latent latch I think the main issue with the lerp is that if I use my scrollwheel multiple times while its lerping, the speed just changes abruptely from slowed down to speedy again while the movement is just trying to catch up. I'll play around further with it, thanks for the insights!

[latent latch]

Probably want to clarify "going through UI" means

is it targeting something behind it but activating the element you clicked anyway

[split spruce]

how do i fix this, when ever i try to go back and fix something it just overwrites the thing im trying to fix

[marble ember]

I have some 3d objects behind a ui menu that pops up. When trying to click on ui elements in that menu, the touch inputs go through the ui and interact with the 3d objects

[latent latch]

Two different raycasts

Physics.Raycast targets the scene elements, Graphics.Raycast affects the UI

Physics raycast wont be blocked by the UI

assuming this UI is an overlay

[split spruce]

someone please help me with this

[marble ember]

the ui is an overlay but i am also working with physics.raycast. I allow the player to select a tile with the physics.raycast, then this menu allowing them to edit the tile comes up, but any tiles behind that menu get hit by the raycast. In the tile selection script i specify physics raycast, is there a way to make the ui block it then?

[latent latch]

Few ways, one being if you detect the mouse is over UI elements, don't cast the Physics raycast

[marble ember]

i think you hit your Ins key on your keyboard

[split spruce]

i got it fixed

[marble ember]

Well i have it working with mouse simply using IsOverGameObject(), its touch input thats the problem, mouse is fine. That method doesnt work with touch, and some other solutions ive found semi work, they mess with camera movement though causing other issues

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.IsPointerOverGameObject.html
This will detect if the UI raycast hits a UI element so
-> if hit UI element, don't physics raycast

Oh, huh wonder why it wouldnt work with touch

[marble ember]

its a common issue that it doesnt work with touch from what ive seen, people have had to do scripting workarounds. Currently im using the IPointerClickHandler interface which does block touch raycast from going through, but then on keyboard the zooming of my camera doesnt work with the mouse wheel now

although i wont need keyboard/mouse input as im publishing to mobile, but i swap between testing on keyboard/mouse and mobile, but i guess i can just only test on mobile past this point

[latent latch]

public class CanvasRaycaster : MonoBehaviour
{
  GraphicRaycaster m_Raycaster;
  PointerEventData m_PointerEventData;
  EventSystem m_EventSystem;

  void Start()
  {
      //Fetch the Raycaster from the GameObject (the Canvas)
      m_Raycaster = GetComponent<GraphicRaycaster>();
      //Fetch the Event System from the Scene
      m_EventSystem = GetComponent<EventSystem>();
  }

  public bool IsPointerOverCanvas()
  {
    //Set up the new Pointer Event
    m_PointerEventData = new PointerEventData(m_EventSystem);
    //Set the Pointer Event Position to that of the mouse position
    m_PointerEventData.position = Input.mousePosition;

    //Create a list of Raycast Results
    List<RaycastResult> results = new List<RaycastResult>();

    //Raycast using the Graphics Raycaster and mouse click position
    m_Raycaster.Raycast(m_PointerEventData, results);

    //For every result returned, output the name of the GameObject on the Canvas hit by the Ray
    if (results.Count > 0)
    {
        return true;
    }

    return false;
  }
}

This is something I've found from the forums before which is better for the new input module

But instead of mousePosition it would be current pointer input

[marble ember]

ill try this out, its similar to some things i saw but a bit different so might work

[latent latch]

Another way is is if you can get the vector2 screen coordinates and compare it to UI elements

but if IPointerHandler works then just go with that

[marble ember]

so i did try this out as a heads up, in my case it may not be viable as even inactive ui objects seem to be counted in the raycasts, which just seems odd to me, so to get this to work id have to calculate the position of the touch and know how many ui elements are there (active or inactive) and adjust the count off that.

[latent latch]

I'd just go with the IPointerHandler solution, because the next thing I'd suggest is using RectTransformUtility and checking each rect if point is located in it

Inactive stuff being counted in the raycast does sound like an error somewhere though

[marble ember]

i just read that if the raycast target box is checked on an element its counted even if inactive

[marble ember]

if anybody is interested i figured it out. So tons of "touches" can happen within a single update frame and for some reason it looks like one or two of them get registered as a Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) rather than a touch (didnt even have my hand on my mouse so unsure of why this happens) but this resulted in some of the "touches" branching to my mouse input code (which still has the !IsPointerOverGameObject(), but doesnt work for some reason when it works for actual mouse input). Solution was to only branch to my mouse input code when there are 0 touch counts. So IsPointerOverGameObject does work for touches, but just seems to have a flaw if a touch is registered as mouse input, idk its all odd to me

[simple void]

Hey guys I'm wondering if I encountered a bug...
I'm reading the value from Event.current.mousePosition, and the documentation claims it is in ScreenSpace, but that's not what I'm getting. The correct conversion I found is this.

Vector3 ScreenSpaceMP = new Vector3(Event.current.mousePosition.x, ccam.scaledPixelHeight/2 - Event.current.mousePosition.y, 0) * 2;

I'm on macOS unity ver 2022.09, is this a bug or inteded behavior?

[dusk apex]

How off are the values?

Does the top left yield a zero vector and bottom right yield your screen width/height in value?

The top-left of the window returns (0, 0). The bottom-right returns (Screen.width, Screen.height).

[sterile island]

Working on creating a loading scene. Have a scene that displays loading messages. Also have a Loader type class that is meant to initialize the next scene which is async loaded when the loading scene is started. This Loader instance is flagged as do not destroy. I need help figuring out how this Loader instance can create game objects in the newly loaded scene. The async operation is flagged allow scene activation false so I can wait for the game objects to be loaded. Insight would be appreciated!

[narrow summit]

When the async operations progress is >0.9f, set the allow scene activation flag to true yourself, and the scene will be loaded. You can subscribe to SceneManager.sceneLoaded, or, on your scene load async operations completed event to spawn objects. If you have multiple scenes, then you might have to set the active scene to the newly loaded scene so that the spawned gameobjects actually spawn in the new one using SceneManager.SetActiveScene

[sterile island]

ya that last part would defeat the loading screen purpose, I want to do something like a constantly updating text object that is telling the player what is loading, so naturally it made sense to me load the next scene and related game obejcts asyncly. however, I just don't really konw how to notify the load screen scene of what is being created on the new scene

[deep pendant]

okay guys can someone please help me (urgent) I'm doing a 2d platformer rn, and everything works fine, except that when I build the game the jumping and shooting doesn't work in 1 scene. the only difference in that scene is that the camera is different, and everything works fine in the editor, but in the build the jump doesn't work and my bullets go in a weird direction. does anyone know what might be up with it?

[vivid halo]

code or no dice

[deep pendant]

idk which script it would be though, cause like I said everything works well in every other scene and even the bad scene works perfect in the editor

I think the tags might not be loading properly in that scene, but idk how I would fix that

[knotty sun]

First things
Unity version?
Build Platform?
Development build?
Did you look at the player logs?

[vivid halo]

Error logs, something-not-assigned, unassigned tags, unassigned layers, misnamed game objects that mess up code when GameObject.Find(hardcoded_value) is used

Lots of possible wrenches thrown in

Perhaps you forgot to add a component

Try copying the element from one scene and pasting it into the other scene and see if it still breaks

[deep pendant]

2022.3.4f1
windows
no
yeah, still couldn't figure it out

it's just confusing cause it only happens with the 1 scene, and only in the build

[knotty sun]

that is why you make a development build and then look in the player logs for information

[deep pendant]

also sorry if I'm hard to work with rn, I've been on this project non-stop for the past 18 hours getting it ready for a showcase that I leave for in an hour

[deep pendant]

ah okay, I'll check that out

[knotty sun]

also, btw 2022.3.4 is not a good version to use. You may find upgrading to the latest 2022.3 LTS will solve the problem

[deep pendant]

alr thanks, I'll see if that helps

also yeah there's a bunch of errors in the dev build

[knotty sun]

ok, so now you know where to look

[deep pendant]

yeah, thanks

I'll try the new version of unity, cause rn the only error I'm getting is that it's not getting the movement script off the player, even though it works fine in-engine

[knotty sun]

that may be a code execution order problem, quite common in builds

[deep pendant]

any fix?

[knotty sun]

yes, check that you are using Awake and Start correctly. You can also hard code the execution order of scripts

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MonoManager.html

[deep pendant]

okay I got one of the two issues solved

I was finding an object using a tag, even though the object I was finding was it's parent, so I messed up there lol

[knotty sun]

somewhat odd then that it worked in the Editor

[deep pendant]

yeah idk, it worked fine in the editor, but not the build, but obviously using GetComponentInParent is better

and just as I thought the other issue was also easily solved by replacing the FindObjectWithTag to something better

thank you sm SteveSmith, you really saved me (this project is a final grade)

[knotty sun]

you're welcome. Best of luck

[nocturne sail]

Does anyone know how to get the equivalent of "GetKeyDown" with the newer input system?
I'm trying to detect when a key is pressed and then move the player to the opposing side of a door/airlock, however, if I just detect when the key is pressed it will move the player back between the two points until the key is released.
I've tried searching for a solution but can't seem to find one, and this little problem is causing way more grief than it should.

[somber nacelle]

show how you are currently checking for key presses

[nocturne sail]

public void OnPlayerInteract(InputValue value)
        {
            PlayerInteractInput(value.isPressed);
        }

public void PlayerInteractInput(bool newPlayerInteractState)
        {
            _playerInteract = newPlayerInteractState;
        }

Where _playerInteract is a boolean value.

[somber nacelle]

ah you're using the SendMessage option on the PlayerInput component. gimme a sec to see if there's any way to do what you are trying using that

[nocturne sail]

Thanks.

[somber nacelle]

you'll likely need to change the settings on your actual input action for this behavior

[knotty sun]

probably better to use isStarted rather than isPressed

[somber nacelle]

InputValue does not have an isStarted property

the best option would be to use a different behavior on the PlayerInput component

even if they use the Invoke Unity Events option they'd get the full callback context. with SendMessage they get this super barebones data

[knotty sun]

does it not, I thoght the process was Started -> { Pressed } -> Cancelled

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/api/UnityEngine.InputSystem.InputValue.html

[knotty sun]

this is why I implemented my own code to use the new input system

[main shuttle]

InputAction has what you say Steve:

[magic harness]

Hey, any idea why my scroll rect is not correctly masking its content?

[knotty sun]

which is what I use

[nocturne sail]

What behaviour would I need to use?

[somber nacelle]

use either Invoke C# Events or Invoke Unity Events for maximum customization (when using the PlayerInput component)

[nocturne sail]

Will I still be able to use isPressed for other inputs?

[somber nacelle]

you'll get the full InputValue.CallbackContext

[nocturne sail]

Cool. I'll see if it works.

[versed spade]

https://gdl.space/rehuzanaqo.cpp
Trying to get my laser bullets to fire in the direction they are facing along the Z. For some reason despite my code being right, no velocity is ever gained. I've tried velocity and adding forces but they are always static

[somber nacelle]

transform.forward points along the Z axis which is used for depth in 2d. you want either transform.right or transform.up depending on the direction the object points when not rotated

also Rigidbody2D's velocity is a Vector2 so there is no Z axis on it anyway

[nocturne sail]

Would you recommend Invoke Unity Events or C# Events?

[versed spade]

The Z is just the rotation my player is facing.

IT WORKS 🙏

[somber nacelle]

i personally don't even recommend using the PlayerInput component. I prefer to generate a c# class for my action map and instantiate that and subscribe to the regular c# events on that instance.
but it makes little difference what you actually choose between the two, the deciding factor would be whether you want to subscribe to the events in the inspector or not. if you do then you have to use the Unity Events option

[austere cape]

hello guys, I have a HDRP environment and when I add any object to it, the object become very shiny is there anything that I can do other than changing the object material to HDRP/unlit ?

[somber nacelle]

this is a code channel

[nocturne sail]

From my understanding, using the C# events method means you don't need the player inputs component on an object. Is this correct?

[somber nacelle]

that's only true if you generate the c# class and create an instance of that. if you are using the PlayerInput component with the Invoke C# Events behavior then you obviously still need to use the PlayerInput component

[nocturne sail]

Yes, that's what I was referring to. Thanks for confirming.
Also, will the generated C# class update whenever a new action is added to the inputaction asset?

[somber nacelle]

when you save the asset it will regenerate the class

[nocturne sail]

Perfect.
Thanks again, hopefully this fixes the problem!

[gusty aurora]

Has it been confirmed is setting enabled.false is faster than a guard clause in Update ?

ie. what is the overhead of Update vs the overhead of setting enabled

[somber nacelle]

disabling it does more than just prevent Update. i imagine there is very little, if any, actual difference in the performance

[latent latch]

I usually just poll a flag and return early if I don't have a render ;)

[native steeple]

yo! i got a tiny problem that's been holding me for quite a while... well, I need a formula that changes Orthographic size relative to resolution based on a default Orthographic size and lets assume that the Default Resolution is 1920x1080 and the default Orthographic size is 500, and the resolution was changed to 1366x768 in that case what would the orthographic size even become? how do I calculate it and does the same formula apply to 2560x1440 res?

[heady iris]

Orthographic size is half of the vertical size of the camera sensor in world units

(or was it just the vertical size? it's one of those two)

okay, yeah, it's half of the vertical size

so an ortho size of 10 means that the screen is 20 meters tall

[native steeple]

uhh soo 1366 / 2 * 500 / (some ratio?)

[latent latch]

ortho stuff confuses me but looks so nice

[native steeple]

man I suck at math

hellpppp

[chrome berry]

20 units, actually, since a unit isn't necessarily a meter

[chrome berry]

For orthographic size of 500, you'll have problems making that pixel perfect for any monitor resolution

Since no monitor resolution evenly divides by 500

[heady iris]

that's the default assumption (and it's what the physics system is using!)

[chrome berry]

Default for 3D, but in 2D it's a lot more variable 🙂

[heady iris]

gravity is still -9.81 by default

you can certainly violate the assumption, of course (:

[chrome berry]

Though if you're deadset on 500, grab the pixel perfect camera from the 2D Pixel Perfect package in package manager, as that can also set up the black borders to keep things pixel perfect no matter what resolution you go for

[heady iris]

use the pixel perfect camera if you're using pixel art that needs alignment, yeah

[chrome berry]

Ideally you pick a resolution that fits most of your target monitor resolutions.
Like Celeste is 320x180, because that easily divides into 720p and 1080p, and anythiing that is a multiple of 1080p

Anything where the vertical game resolution can cleanly divide 1080 is good for most

Mine is 384x216, as 5x 216 = 1080

So orthographic size for that is 216 / 2 / PixelsPerUnit

if someone plays my game on a 1440p monitor, it will end up using 1296px vertically, with 72px on top and bottom being a border

Unless they turn off pixel perfect, then it will stretch but no longer be pixel perfect

[native steeple]

hmm correct, but my Canvas is World Space, and Im not Exactly Deadset on 500, I could go for something else, as long as it works really...

[native steeple]

so I can Just Change the Default... though I'm not sure to what... or what formula to use with it

[chrome berry]

What game resolution do you want?

[native steeple]

well everything was set on 1920x1080 on default

[chrome berry]

Yeah, but are you making a 2D sprite game?

[native steeple]

I tried a few different formulas but some which worked on 1366x768 didnt work on 2560x1440 and vice versa

[native steeple]

well yea

[chrome berry]

You'll need to decide on a monitor resolution to support, like 1080, and find a game resolution that evenly divides into that, before we can find an ortho size for it

You won't find one that fits every monitor res

the ohters will just need to make due with black bordering

or stretching

[native steeple]

oh, yeah well since the Canvases are all world space, the Background (black) ends up being the border...

so aslong as the whole vertical side of the canvas is in screen it should basically work

[chrome berry]

@native steeple
Orthographic Size = Vertical Game Resolution / 2 / Pixels per Unit
That's the formula

My game is 384x216, and my PPU is 8 for all my assets, so my orthographic size is 216/2/8 = 13.5

This only works if all your 2D assets use the same PPU

Anything with a different PPU might appear stretched or scaled oddly

[native steeple]

well I have all my 2D assets at 100PPU... so this should work? I'll try it rq and give ya feadback of What happens

[chrome berry]

Basically the camera is figuring out how many units of stuff to draw from the center point to one of the vertical boundaries.
So if the orthographic size is 8, then it will draw 8 units of stuff from bottom border to center, then another 8 units of stuff from center to top border
If PPU is 100, then it draws 100 pixels per unit, so you end up with 1600px from top to bottom.

That's all the formula is doing

[native steeple]

hmmm nope no luck, infact I cant Even see the Canvas

[chrome berry]

can you screenshot your camera settings in the inspector?

[native steeple]

heres my code + the ss

[chrome berry]

What kind of canvsa are you using?

overlay?

[native steeple]

nope, its world space

[chrome berry]

Ahhh, those are tricky, since the camera might be too close to it or past it

If your game is entirely 2D you probably should use overlay, unless you have some special csae?

[native steeple]

well, the camera is static, it doesnt move, and neither does the canvas, and yes I Wanted to do that But I Need world space because I am Renderring 3D Objects, Which Have 2D Objects All around so it wouldnt work any other way

[chrome berry]

3d objects in the canvas? There's a workaround for that

What you can do is set up your 3D objects somewhere in the scene that the main camera cannot see them. Setup a new camera that is only looking at those 3D objects, and then renders to a render texture. Then in your canvas have a rawimage that references that render texture. Voila, 3D stuff in your canvas

[native steeple]

the problem isnt with the 3D Objects, Its with the 2D Objects That Have To warp around them... In this case its a ring, which should also be able to rotate, so I thought This is the Best Approach

[chrome berry]

ohhhh

Does this have to be in the canvas, or can it just be in the world scene itself?

[native steeple]

the player is already being renderred in a different camera

[native steeple]

nope, Unfortunately it has to be in the Canvas

[chrome berry]

Its part of the UI? like clickable?

[shell chasm]

can somebody help me achieve procedural walk animation like in unity example
-i just added a maximo model , and replicated this sample robot and here iam

[native steeple]

yup, and also the ring is UI + Face expressions and stuff

[chrome berry]

Might be able to mimic it being part of the UI through OnMouseEnter/Exit/etc. methods on the objects, and giving them collisions.
I've done that in the past and faked them being buttons

[native steeple]

oh... though I'm Kinda Over this as it would take forever to redo now... So I just Plan On seeing what I can Do with Orthographic size... in any case I do Think I have a solution, and its to shrink the canvas to the Screen size and it should Be as simple as

camHeight = _mainCamera.orthographicSize * 2;
float scale = (camHeight / Screen.width);
transform.localScale = new Vector3(scale, scale, scale);

It Should Theoretically work... though I Still Wanna Learn How to Deal With Orthographic size... Cuz whats better than learning something new! (sorry If I'm troubling you with my Dull Curiousity...)

[chrome berry]

No trouble. I think if the camera can't see the world space UI then it must be positioned oddly to the camera, or the scale is wrong somehow.
Scale might be it, as the camera might be looking at it but nothing is drawing because its focused and zoomed in on an empty patch of it

I remember scaling of world space UI to be a massive pain, as the math results in ugly numbers

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/HOWTO-UIWorldSpace.html#:~:text=Specify the size of the Canvas in the world&text=You can use the Scale,scale by using meter_size %2F canvas_width.

[native steeple]

hmm Yeah Thats Probably the Case, thus I'll Try to Roughly Round up some Decimals to ease it

oh well in that case I'll scrap the Ortho Idea huh

thank you tho, I learned a few stuff still :D.

[swift falcon]

hello

[simple void]

The top left is 0,0 and the bottom right is Screen.wh / 2, it's exactly half of what it should be...

[upper pilot]

        Game.Instance.partyManager.onCharacterAdded -= (character) => CreateCharacterCard(character);
        Game.Instance.partyManager.onCharacterAdded += (character) => CreateCharacterCard(character);

Is there a way to do it correctly? I think that above code doesn't unsubscribe properly for me.
I can't do RemoveAll as other scripts might be needing those

[cosmic vector]

You'd have to store the original lambda in a variable. Even though they are the same code there those are 2 completely different unrelated lambdas so the -= doesn't find a match.

[thick terrace]

this, or use a method instead of storing a reference to the lambda

[upper pilot]

How do I use a method in this case?

[thick terrace]

in fact, the signature of the event and the method you're calling in the lambda seem to match, so you could even do Game.Instance.partyManager.onCharacterAdded += CreateCharacterCard;

[upper pilot]

that works? 😮

[thick terrace]

yeah, references to methods can be assigned to delegates

[upper pilot]

Let me try, I thought that having an argument prevents it.

[thick terrace]

the delegate type and the signature of the method just have to match

[upper pilot]

Ah I see, so I might need to add argument to a function if its missing it(even if it doesnt need it)

I had another event which doesnt need character, so that is why I wrote it the way I did

[thick terrace]

yes, but usually it's nicer to declare a new event handler method that calls the method you want with the correct parameters, so you don't have to modify the real method

[upper pilot]

makes sense

[latent latch]

Just subscribe methods

Lambda be traps

[chrome berry]

I only use lambdas when the event signature doesn't match the method signature, and there's some extra information I know at runtime when subscribing to the event that is needed in the parameters for the method.
And then I'm careful to not ever need to unsub from it, or if I do then I have to create and store refs to the lambdas as I make them

Like if the event is just onClicked, but the method takes an integer index for which option was clicked, so I make a lambda that fills that in when iterating over all the buttons.
if I never need to unsub at runtime, great.
If I do, then I have to store those lambas in a list

[fleet tide]

Better and better for the prototype ^^

[split junco]

I have three Slider objects (S1, S2, S3) that contain SliderTicks script. At Start I am calling the getcomponent function (this.getComponent<Slider>();). Will compiler fetch the Slider component of their respective objects (e.g., S1 sliderTicks will fetch slider at S1) or is that random? As in, the getcomponent can fetch any of the slider component (S1, S2, S3)?

[gray mural]

Look, I would suggest you to have a look at the ScriptableObjects if you don't know what that is yet.

When doing this kind of behavior, I would always recommend having as many classes as needed inheriting each other.

• 1. Create a ScriptableObject A, which contains the whole information for all your items like weapons, spells and type of damage etc. For example, cost

public class ItemObject : ScriptableObject { }

• 2. Create the ScriptableObjects B, C, D etc. for every type of your item. They all should contain the information specifically for the item. E.g. damage for weapon, whatever for spell etc.

public class WeaponObject : ItemObject { }

public class SpellObject : ItemObject { }

public class DamageObject : ItemObject { }

This should make it easier for you to manage the different possible items for the game directly from the Inspector.

If you have any further questions, feel free to reply to this answer. I'll be able to answer when I have time.

Make sure you then create a list out of all those items and add them to your UI

items.ForEach(i => Instantiate(GetItem(i), itemHolder.transform));

[chrome berry]

The script will only grab the component on the object the script is attached to. So S1 object with SL1 slider will grab SL1 slider

[gray mural]

Well, GetComponent<T>() gets the component on the object

Also no this reference required

[chrome berry]

Now if you have multiple components on the same object, the order is unspecified, so use the plural GetComponents method instead

[gray mural]

Use this when dealing with the local variables with the same names as the global ones or constructors etc.

[fleet tide]

But, scriptableObject is usefull for my "stanza" (effect and cost compensation used for create a spell) ?
And if yes, i need to create a scriptableobjet for every "stanza" ?
And if yes again ahah, can i "merge" all scriptableObject for have my spell with all "stanza" ?

[gray mural]

• Yes, sure, you should specify the variables like float costCompensation in your ScriptableObject if it's not the same for all the items
• Depends on what you mean.
  • No, the ScriptableObject as a class should be created just for the item branches like weapon, spell etc.
  • Yes, the ScriptableObject should be created for every individual "stanza", which is not the same as the other one. E.g. has a difference name etc.
• What?

So nested lists with the numbers are not available with the Discord's md

[fleet tide]

For exemple :

Here i have 2 stanza, one for have fire damage and one for cost compensation

And in the futur, i want add "create spell" for create the spell with all stanza

Here, if i create this spell, i have a spell with fire damage and use my mana

So in this exemple, i can use scriptableObject for all stanza ?

[gray mural]

I mean. You surely can create the ScriptableObjects in the edit mode and on run time, if that's what you want. You just gotta make sure you know how to merge them

So as I have understood, you want to create a single spell from both e.g. "fire spell" and "water spell"

Honestly, just have a method, which casts a spell. In this case you simply call the method multiple times?

[fleet tide]

Ohh so i can use scriptableObject for every stanza and then, merge them in one scriptableObject "Spell"

[gray mural]

You can, but it doesn't make any sense

Give me the example of the stanzas available

And how they gotta be merged

[chrome berry]

A scriptableobject can have a list of other scriptableobjects, as if it were a container, so that's one way to do it

[fleet tide]

Okay wait ^^

[gray mural]

I don't think that's what they mean

Perhaps, it's like fire with earth and getting lava

[chrome berry]

The way I'm doing abilities (like spells) is with scriptableobjects per ability that use serialized classes for each feature or logic chunk they need, using this package
https://github.com/mackysoft/Unity-SerializeReferenceExtensions
Each serialized class holds the logic for doing something, or for checking a conditional, and the ability SO just has lists of them exposed in the inspector to tweak each one

So KAPHA is a spell, and you get KAPHA if the player combines Earth + Water (which are not spells on their own?)

[gray mural]

I got no idea what kapha means, but I feel like that's what they want?

Also earth and water should exist as the spells on their own

[chrome berry]

Well, you posted a picture with KAPHA in it, so I have no more idea what it means than you do 😄

[gray mural]

I know, I just got the first suitable picture from the web

So whatever kapha means, Steamox is surely gotta find it out!

[latent latch]

mmm pitta

[fleet tide]

So :

Offensive Stanza (Spell) :
Fire damage
Cold Damage
Electricity damage
...

Offensive Stanza (Melee) :
Damage
Bleeding
Accurate
...

Compensation Stanza :
Mana
Health
Speed
...

Offensive :
Used for the damage or increase the accurate or DOT

Compensation :
Used for choose what we want spend to have a balance action

Exemple :

Melee stanza :

Offensive
Damage (cost : 5)
Bleeding (cost : 10)
Accurate (cost : 15)

(Total cost : 30)

Compensation
Mana 10 (cost : -15)
Health 10 (cost : -15)

(Total cost : 0) (Balanced)

Here , if i create this action, when i hit a enemy , i will hit with more damage, with bleeding and more accurate but i wil spend 10 health and 10 mana for each hit

[latent latch]

longgg

There's a game pattern for this called meta magic. Basically just composition

Weapon contains a spell, that spell contains behaviour and source effect component

[fleet tide]

Yeah but i want allow to player to create his own action in game

[latent latch]

new weapon(new component #1, new component #2)

all composition, and if you have multiple behaviours, you just do comparisons

[tulip frigate]

(3D) Im trying to apply basic movement for character with rigidbody, on the one hand changing rb.velocity directly cancels the gravity, on the other hand using AddForce has accelration effect of a car and i dont want it, what is my alternatives?

[gray mural]

So simply have a ScriptableObject for every stanza and add a new struct / class to the List of the merged stanzas. The mergedStanzas in your case are Offensive n Compensation, I suppose?

stanzas.Add(new(mergedStanzas));

||Also "example"||

[rigid island]

rb.velocity = new Vector2(movementHorizontal * speed, rb.velocity.y)

[knotty sun]

you do know there are multiple ways to AddForce

[fleet tide]

So i pick up every stanza (that i created before in scriptableobject) in my window "spell creator", and add a button with "stanzas.Add(new(mergedStanzas));" ?

[fleet tide]

Yeah, need to merge offensive and compensation

[tulip frigate]

ForceMode? i didn't find anything helpfull

[knotty sun]

not even VelocityChange ?

[tulip frigate]

its still accelerating

[knotty sun]

no it is not, it a change of velocity from one speed to another

[gray mural]

It's like you can make the player select the stanzas they see, and merge them using the Merge button

Also handle whatever behavior you need, when the particular stanzas cannot be merged or too many stanzas are selected etc.

[fleet tide]

Yeah that exactly what i want ^^

[fleet tide]

So the best thing to do in my case is to use ScriptableObject ?

[gray mural]

Well, I haven't said anything about changing my opinion about using it, so yes.

[fleet tide]

Okay great thanks you so much for your help !

[fleet tide]

So use it for action for allow to player to use it (Like an attack) , i need to modify something or i can use the ScriptableObject like this ?

[gray mural]

What does it mean?

Okay, I get it now. Yes, you'll have to manage the behavior the player has inside of the other scripts according to the selected ScriptableObject's variables

[fleet tide]

Yeah okay perfect thanks !

[jovial fable]

namespace Phone
{
    using Player;
    using UnityEngine;

    public class PhoneAnimation : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Transform phone;
        public Transform camera;
        public float rotationSpeed = 5.0f;

        private Quaternion originalRotation;
        private Quaternion targetRotation;
        private bool isRotatingToPhone = false;
        private bool isRotatingBack = false;
        private float transitionProgress = 0.0f;
        private bool toggled = false;

        void Start()
        {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(phone.position - transform.position);
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q) && !isRotatingToPhone && !isRotatingBack)
            {
                toggle();
            }

            if (isRotatingToPhone)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    isRotatingToPhone = false;
                }
            }

            if (isRotatingBack)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, originalRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, originalRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    isRotatingBack = false;
                    phone.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                }
            }
        }

        void toggle()
        {
            if (toggled)
            {
                PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                isRotatingBack = true;
                toggled = false;
            } else {
                PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                phone.gameObject.SetActive(true);
                originalRotation = camera.rotation;
                isRotatingToPhone = true;
                toggled = true;
            }
        }
    }

}```
 Does anyone know why whenever i press Q it just locks forward and doesnt let me unforward

[copper gate]

anyone that could help me quick?

[latent latch]

debug your flags

or better yet use visual studios debugging tool, also dont cross post

[tulip frigate]

i see what u mean, how would u write then the movement script? i cant get it right

[soft shard]

Donno about "quick", and that depends greatly on what it is you need help with, its usually better to just ask your question with relevant scripts, visuals and details, if someone happens to know about your issue maybe they can help, that could be in several mins or a bit later

[jovial fable]

flags?

[copper gate]

yeasorry i asked in the beginner chat, thx for the quick respons anyways!

[latent latch]

bools
you toggle but cant untoggle

something isn't unsetting, go debug the logic with statements or learn about connecting the debugger to unity and go through it step by step

[jovial fable]

thats not really the issue though, it just snaps straight in front of you, but the phone its suppost to rotate toward is above the player

[split junco]

Thank you!

[latent latch]

I dont think I see anything wrong with the lookRotation or the RotateTowards

unless rotationspeed is being modified further, or something else is acting on the transform

LookRotation: PhoneAnimation to phone direction
rotateTowards: interpolates from the PhoneAnimation object towards the LookRotation at 5 angular units a second

[leaden solstice]

Is this part

camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, ...

Shouldn't be like this?

camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(camera.rotation, ...

[high condor]

does anyone know how to set the resolution of a game

[leaden solstice]

In build or in editor?

[latent latch]

Setting in build is funky for some OS so you would change it via code

WebGL build should be fine, but I know windows will default it to another res

[high condor]

both would be nice to know

for now just need to know for editor

im trying to make my game 4:3 but thats not an option

[latent latch]

Editor is top of scene window with ratios

Or game window

One of em

[soft shard]

I thought it was Game window

[high condor]

ye but for me it dont show 4:3

is that just not an option

[latent latch]

Isnt there like a add more option tgere

Could be some extra options elsewhere but I remember having a bunch of specifics for each type of phone

[jovial fable]

I fixed that and now it works properly in that sense

namespace Phone
{
    using Player;
    using UnityEngine;

    public class PhoneAnimation : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public Transform phone;
        public Transform camera;
        public float rotationSpeed = 65.0f;

        private Quaternion originalRotation;
        private Quaternion targetRotation;
        private bool isRotatingToPhone = false;
        private bool isRotatingBack = false;
        private float transitionProgress = 0.0f;
        private bool toggled = false;

        void Start()
        {
            
        }

        void Update()
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Q) && !isRotatingToPhone && !isRotatingBack)
            {
                targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(phone.position, camera.position);
                toggle();
            }

            if (isRotatingToPhone)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(camera.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(camera.rotation, targetRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    print("Test");
                    isRotatingToPhone = false;
                }
            }

            if (isRotatingBack)
            {
                camera.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(camera.rotation, originalRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);

                if (Quaternion.Angle(camera.rotation, originalRotation) < 0.1f)
                {
                    print("Test");
                    isRotatingBack = false;
                    phone.gameObject.SetActive(false);
                    PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                }
            }
        }

        void toggle()
        {
            if (toggled)
            {
                isRotatingBack = true;
                toggled = false;
            } else {
                PlayerController.instance.toggleMovement();
                phone.gameObject.SetActive(true);
                originalRotation = camera.rotation;
                isRotatingToPhone = true;
                toggled = true;
            }
        }
    }

}```
 but it still wont rotate toward the phone, only in a seemingly random direction

[high condor]

if someone could pls tell me how to set the game to 4:3 in the editor that would b appreciated 🙏

[chrome berry]

And then add a new option in that dropdown, using aspect ratio

[high condor]

i knew that but i just realized im so blind

i didnt realize under that tab that at the very bottom, you can do custom ones

mb

[rigid island]

right click ?

[surreal swan]

Hey guys, I am working on an existing project and I have a button that I can press. But how do I log the script from which that key press was called from? Also how could I see in which script Cursor.visible is set?

[woeful leaf]

Depends what you need it for

[knotty sun]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.diagnostics.stacktrace?view=net-8.0

[woeful leaf]

I've this code snippet:

private void ExitTour(SelectEnterEventArgs _)
    {
        DelegatePortalCollision.OnPortalEntered -= ContinueTour;

        foreach (GameObject tour in tourParents)
            tour.SetActive(false);

        playerTransform.position = resetPosition;

        museumParent.SetActive(true);

        currentTour = default;

        DelegatePortalCollision.OnPortalEntered += StartTour;
    }

And it triggers the collider that gets enabled in museumParent.SetActive(true);, even though before that collider gets enabled, the player position moves out of that collider playerTransform.position = resetPosition;. My leading theory is that it's due to the execution order, so it still receives the physics OnTriggerEnter even though I teleport it before - because in the order of operations in the backend it still actually teleports it after the physics check. Is this assumption correct?

[cosmic rain]

The one you circled bellow is only relevant if you're using IK.

[cosmic rain]

Assuming I understand the issue correctly, one possibility is that changing transform.position doesn't actually move the physical representation of the object untill the next fixed update. That being said, I'm not sure if collision events should be invoked if the objects already intersect when before being activated.

1. You should not use transform.position with physical objects. Use rb.MovePositon or something similar instead.

[leaden ice]

Whee does this code run

And what components are on the player

[woeful leaf]

Yeah I thought it might not be quite accurate, but it was my best guess

[woeful leaf]

It runs on an empty gameobject

The setting is VR

So this'd be the player

[cosmic rain]

!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.

[woeful leaf]

I thought it was alright to post it as the file since that gives syntax highlighting as well but sure ill throw it in a paste site rq

Here

[cosmic rain]

Here's how it looks on mobile

[woeful leaf]

ah right

Didn't think of that, my bad

By the way, this is my current fix for it, which works with limited success

[cosmic rain]

Is that the player object? Is it moved via rb or character controller? Are you mixing the 2? Where is the rb and collider?

[woeful leaf]

A couroutine that waits for the next fixedupdate, turning off the collisions and then turning it on again after

[woeful leaf]

It's the complete default way Unity gives it

[cosmic rain]

Well, you'll need to figure out how it's being moved. As well as what exactly is colliding with your trigger.

[woeful leaf]

Well it moves itself by means of charactercontroller

As well as what exactly is colliding with your trigger.
The player?

[cosmic rain]

How do you know that?

[woeful leaf]

Lemme make some scene screenshots rq to ppaint a picture

[woeful leaf]

testing

[cosmic rain]

What testing? Did you actually debug anything?

[leaden ice]

I don't see what calls ExitTour

oh wait nvm

ok IDK how the SRInteractable callbacks work

I.E. not sure where in the game loop that happens

[woeful leaf]

Okay hang on I need to yeet some screenshots from le scene

exit gets called when you push that button at the right of the skeleton

It subscribes to that listener

[cosmic rain]

I think you should start with debug logging things. It feels like there's a lot of assumptions you've built there without actually confirming any.

[woeful leaf]

That grey cube, is to show the inactive collider

[leaden ice]

lol sorry, this game looks wild

[woeful leaf]

It's for school, we're developing a project for a secondary school about biology

half a year project essentially

[woeful leaf]

Eh fair, though I don't see how it could enact different behaviour than what I'm thinking of, but I should make sure

[woeful leaf]

Esentially the problem is that if the player is standing where that grey cube is and then pushes the button, it'll instantly call the ontriggerenter in an exact order of execution that breaks it

(you can push buttons from a range)

By the by, this is the whole class that does the collision

using System;
using Tags;
using UnityEngine;

public class DelegatePortalCollision : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static event Action OnPortalEntered;
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (!other.CompareTag(Tag.Player)) return;

        OnPortalEntered();
    }
}

It delegates it, that's all it does ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And checks for tag

[cosmic rain]

Debug the colliding object in on trigger enter.

[woeful leaf]

will do

[woeful leaf]

yeah it's exactly what i expect

note it's after the if that that print is called

[cosmic rain]

Okay, so the object does have a collider?

[woeful leaf]

where that grey cube is, there's the collider

[woeful leaf]

here it's inactive

[woeful leaf]

here it's active

[cosmic rain]

The player I mean

[woeful leaf]

no the player has a charactercontroller

which has a collider build in

Hence I can
voidInteraction[0] = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag(Tag.Player).GetComponent<CharacterController>();
and then
private void ToggleMuseumPortalCollision(bool toggle) => Physics.IgnoreCollision(voidInteraction[0], voidInteraction[1], toggle);

You pass the CharacterController as the Collider

[woeful leaf]

Note: the grey cube is purely a visual indicator for debugging*

It's so I can align myself to make the bug happen

[cosmic rain]

Hmmm... I had the impression that character controller doesn't interact with triggers correctly.

[woeful leaf]

Idunno, but it sure does here

[cosmic rain]

So, if you really don't have an rb, you should be moving the object via the CC, not the transform.

[woeful leaf]

Why? I purely just want to teleport the player outside of the collider range

Or should I do it through CC because that might potentially run before the collision check

therefore solving the problem

[woeful leaf]

Into a default position in the main room*

Which right now is just a very fancy vector 1, 0, 1 so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cosmic rain]

Physics and transform have both independent representation of their position in the world. When you move it via the transform, the actual physical position is only synced in the next fixed update. And we don't know how CC handles trigger/collider collisions, so it's hard to say what happens when you move it with transform.

You could try calling Physics.SyncTransforms after setting the transforms, but I'm not sure that would help

[woeful leaf]

Lemme check

Nope

That approach does not work

Lets try moving the CC (through CC funcs)

[woeful leaf]

I think I 'fixed' it

As far as I'm aware there's no like teleport function of the CC, and I can't really use force because that'd be inconsistent, and would still make it so that it'd start in the collider

player.enabled = false;
 playerTransform.position = resetPosition;
 player.enabled = true;

I just disable it, set transform, re-enable

player is the charactercontroller btw

also yes there's redundancy rn, I know, I need to clean it

[somber nacelle]

yeah that's how you're supposed to teleport a CC
https://unity.huh.how/character-controller/teleportation

[woeful leaf]

ah

I tend to like never work with CC's, since this is like the first time I use VR

And I like using RB's for my normal games

[cosmic rain]

Yeah, to be honest, CC is junky af.

[woeful leaf]

^

[somber nacelle]

KinematicCharacterController >>>

[woeful leaf]

I'm not going to touch the template controller that unity gives me for vr more than I have to

Thanks for the help btw @cosmic rain !

[rigid island]

cc can be good but takes too much customizing for that

[arctic sparrow]

Can someone help me with something localization related?

  public static List<string> getTextBank (string key, string box) {

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    AssetTableCollection collection = LocalizationEditorSettings.GetAssetTableCollection("Text_Languages");  //This detects the table entries
 
    var table = collection.GetTable("en") as UnityEngine.Localization.Tables.AssetTable;
    
    int foundEntries = 0;

    foreach(var v in table)
    {
      foundEntries++;
    }

    Debug.LogError($"We found {foundEntries}");

  #endif

    TextAsset localizedTextAsset = LocalizationSettings.AssetDatabase.GetLocalizedAsset<TextAsset>("Text_Languages", key);  //The keys to the table entry

    if(localizedTextAsset == null) Debug.LogError($"Oh no, we can't find {key}");

No matter what I do, trying to get the correct key text to a localized asset table entry just keeps returning null.

[onyx saddle]

Does anyone know how I would go about making a Planar graph for use as a dungeon-esque thing like this?

[ionic adder]

Do you need a planar graph? Can it be an undirected graph?

[onyx saddle]

I am fine with it being undirected

I just want it to look similar to the image above

[ionic adder]

Cool. What’s the workflow here? Are you trying to procedurally generate something like the above image based on a given graph of nodes? Like what is your source data and what are you trying to do with it. I feel like your problem is a bit vague still so it may be hard to get help here without more specifics.

[onyx saddle]

I’m trying to completely randomly generate the nodes. The problem is I don’t know how to go about making it.

[swift falcon]

Guys i am having trouble with classes

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 1f;
    public float smoothTime = 0.1f;
    private Vector3 velocity = Vector3.zero;


    public float PlayerX;
    public float PlayerY;
    public float PlayerZ;


    void Update()
    {
        // Get input from the player
        float moveHorizontal = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float moveVertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        // Create a movement vector based on input
        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(moveHorizontal, 0.0f, moveVertical);

        // Apply smooth movement
        Vector3 targetPosition = transform.position + movement * speed * Time.deltaTime;
        transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(transform.position, targetPosition, ref velocity, smoothTime);
    
    
        position();
    
    }


    void position()
    {

        Vector3 position = transform.position;


        PlayerX = position.x;
        PlayerY = position.y;
        PlayerZ = position.z;


    }



}

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour


PlayerMovement Player = new PlayerMovement();


{

        Vector3 CameraPosition = transform.position;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

        
        

        
    }

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

        CameraPosition.x = PlayerX-0.111f;
        CameraPosition.y = PlayerY+4.5f;
        CameraPosition.z = PlayerZ-3f;


        
    }
}

[spring creek]

Don't new() a MonoBehaviour

[swift falcon]

Then how do i access the classes and variables in other Class

I dont get it!

[spring creek]

https://unity.huh.how/references

Just get a reference

[swift falcon]

oh

[spring creek]

Either drag and drop (serialized reference), getcomponent, or use a singleton or something to return the instance returned from instantiate

In that order of preference

[swift falcon]

How

to use singletones

[lean sail]

the code you posted is also not valid c#, full of syntax errors

[swift falcon]

singleotne

[swift falcon]

its because

my IDE

doesnt identify errors

[spring creek]

The link I sent shows you how. But also, note that I said that is the least preferable

[swift falcon]

It just acts like an editing and writing tool

[lean sail]

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[swift falcon]

basicly notepad with collers

[spring creek]

Please finish a thought before hitting enter. And follow the instructions that bawsi linked

[swift falcon]

░ * please * 💀 lmao

[spring creek]

Yes...

[swift falcon]

@spring creek

HOw do i use singletons

[spring creek]

#archived-code-general message

[swift falcon]

please just dont slam docs in my face if possible and try to explain quiky through chat

ahh ok

thanks

wauit

buh

u just linked it to the docs

._.

[spring creek]

I did not. That is not the docs

[swift falcon]

ok fine i guess

[sleek bough]

!warn 798096065949728808 Don't spam on the server read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[tawny elk]

mlssp166 has been warned.

[swift falcon]

if it is least preferable

then what should i use instead

[spring creek]

I already told you
#archived-code-general message

[swift falcon]

GetComponent

Is it possible, u just give an example or QUICKLY explain through chat

[spring creek]

That is the second one.

[swift falcon]

I mean its ok, its not ur job anyways

[spring creek]

Just "drag and drop" it

Literally that is it

That is the whole explanation

Make a field, drag the component into that field in the inspector

[swift falcon]

What is a field

@spring creek

sorry if im dumb

[spring creek]

A variable

The box that shows in the inspector when you make a variable that is public or has the attribute [SerializeField]

And I don't think you are dumb. Everyone starts somewhere

[swift falcon]

what is attribute and inspector

._.

[spring creek]

You should follow the pathways in !learn.

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[sleek bough]

@swift falcon Don't spam single word messages. There are tutorials and courses on Unity Learn explaining basics

[spring creek]

The inspector is the window that says "inspector" at the top

[swift falcon]

What is window 😭

[spring creek]

Panel, window, not sure the right word.

[swift falcon]

I dont see no inspectors

[spring creek]

It is usually on the right

[spring creek]

No. Not that at all

[swift falcon]

Dis?

[spring creek]

Yes

It will show stuff when you actually select an object

[swift falcon]

tryna make this camera follow the ball

[spring creek]

At this point though, definitely stop and do the learn site I linked above

[swift falcon]

No no no

[sleek bough]

@swift falcon Create a thread if you want to continue asking questions covered by basic tutorials

[dusk apex]

I recommend going through !learn to first understand the basics

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[swift falcon]

I know enough, its just that i am shifiting from another Game engine

[spring creek]

I mean, it would be waaaaay faster than this

[swift falcon]

I have made lots of complex games before and this is ez

[dusk apex]

It's the stuff needed to be known from shifting from other languages/engines/frameworks.

[swift falcon]

I just dont know how to navigate my way through

[spring creek]

You don't know the basics. The essentials pathway will get you familiar with the engine very quickly

Essentials is all about just how to navigate unity

[swift falcon]

I dont hjave time to wathc 750 hours of videos

[dusk apex]

Fast forward through what you're already aware of but I'm certain if you're asking questions about attributes and the Editor windows, going through the learning process would help significantly.

[spring creek]

That is for ALL the material. Essentials can be done in a day

[dusk apex]

You aren't expected to watch all 750 hours...

[swift falcon]

Oh ok ok i can do this

i thought id become old wathcing these tuts

._. bro

[dusk apex]

Looks fine to me.

[sleek bough]

Working here as well. And the button was fixed too.

[swift falcon]

🙃

[rigid island]

vpn might have something to do with it

[swift falcon]

It wokre

it wokerd

@dusk apex@dusk apex@dusk apex@dusk apex@dusk apex

bro can you tell me where i should start, all the first videos seem tooo basic

[sleek bough]

@swift falcon Go through tutorial, stop spamming the channel.

[fleet tide]

Hey, idk why but i can't link my button with a function :
(I have a gameobject with the script and its in "OnClick()") ^^

[dusk apex]

If you're just wanting to get straight to the hands on stuff, probably the "Essentials of real-time 3D"

[swift falcon]

also

[rigid island]

because of List parameter

[dusk apex]

Where the first step would be working with game objects and scene ect

[swift falcon]

how many monitors

do i need

tysm, but gtg now

[rigid island]

at least 1

[fleet tide]

Ohh okay thanks !

[swift falcon]

Guys can someone quickly just give me an example or video or explain how to access and modify variables and classes from other Classes

[sleek bough]

@swift falcon You were already provided with the information. #archived-code-general message

[fleet tide]

Its really weird, i cant click on my button , why ? (when i run ofc)
I did nothing about it

[sleek bough]

Either you have panel on top of it or event system is not present or active

UI is sorted by order in hierarchy

[fleet tide]

I dont have panel and i never used event system and it worked

[sleek bough]

You are missing the EventSystem...

[fleet tide]

I'd never needed it before, but I'm sure I'm wrong. Don't worry, I'll fix it. ^^ Thanks !

[swift falcon]

bro 😭

[spring creek]

The ui events won't work without an event system.
It is usually created automatically, so when it worked before, it was likely there and you just didn't see it

Sometimes people accidentally delete it

[fleet tide]

Yeah you right ahah i'm beginner so sometimes in forgot some thing ^^

[spring creek]

It's super common. I have even STILL make that mistake after almost a decade of using unity

It just, for some reason, is not always my first thought when having ui issues

[quick delta]

Hello,
When using Jobs, is there a way to chain multiple scheduling when they read/write to the same things?
I thought using the "depends on = JobHandle" parameter was made for this and indicate to wait for the previous Job to be finished, but apparently not since it's throwing errors.
Do I really have to call Complete() between each Jobs or there is a way to do it somehow?

[spring creek]

May want to ask in #1062393052863414313
I am not sure though, sorry
Been a while since I used jobs

[quick delta]

Will check there then, thanks.

[sand oasis]

Hello, my unity project is HDRP, i added a gradient sky and i guess the ground terrian has too much reflection, it is way too bright. Do you guys know how to solve this?

[copper rose]

good morning, i dont know if this is the best place to ask this, but really is needed to add in the update this? Steamworks.SteamClient.RunCallbacks();, i only will use for some random achievements, but in documentation told us to add this in every frame?

[sand oasis]

someone helped me! thank you all

[swift falcon]

I am trying to access varibables of another class and change and edit them Live without creating a duplicate or new Instance Of it in my currect class

how did i mess it up

[lean sail]

this should be highlighting errors. your ide likely still isnt configured

[swift falcon]

meh

the error is here

[lean sail]

#archived-code-general message

[swift falcon]

[lean sail]

you really should also step away from unity and just do basic c#. There are many resources out there where you can learn properly

but also getting your ide configured is required for help here

[swift falcon]

I am cracked at java

so i decided not to learn C#

after all, they are almost the EXACT same thing, plus im doing good so far, i am just having trouble in 1 our of every 300 lines of code i write

Come on man plz help me

[fervent furnace]

c# is java++, so you should learn it
just like you cant say you know c so you know c++