archived-code-general

[leaden ice]

There's a checkbox in the inspector

For the animation state

Or actually the Animator, isn't it?

[wispy raptor]

is unchecked

[hexed pecan]

I mean the inspector of the animation state after you select it in the animator window

[wispy raptor]

aaaa let me check

thanks!!

that works

[iron bobcat]

can I get help with these errors

[rigid island]

your agent isnt on a navmesh, pretty clear error

[hexed pecan]

Have you baked a navmesh and is your agent on it?

[pine marsh]

||sorry for cutting||
Hello, is it possible to save bools, ints and more variables in the game when changing scenes without playerprefs?
Like a "Globals" thing
Like I can defeat someone and it leaves a bool true when I change scenes

I always do it like playerprefs but it's kinda messy for me

[rigid island]

just use a DDOL w singleton

[pine marsh]

What is that, may I ask?

[rigid island]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.DontDestroyOnLoad.html

keeps your object alive through diff scene changes

Singleton would let you easily reference it from any script/scene
https://unity.huh.how/references/singletons

[pine marsh]

thank you so much ! ❤️ I'll try it out...

[iron bobcat]

how do I check if my agent is on my navmesh?

[rigid island]

did you bake one?

[iron bobcat]

yes

[rigid island]

so is agent close enough ?

to the blue

[hexed pecan]

Window > AI > Navigation
Or just select a navmeshsurface object

Tick "Show NavMesh" if its not visible in the scene view

Could be different in the newer packages though 🤔

[unreal lodge]

you gotta make sure its enabled as well

enabled = true

its similar to this

if (navMeshAgent.isOnNavMesh)
{
// Safe to calculate path or set path
}
else
{
Debug.LogError("Agent is not on the NavMesh!");
}

[rigid island]

the best way to know if it even is on the navmesh, observe the navmesh agent with it selected in scene mode, press play. If it snaps onto the navmesh then its working

[iron bobcat]

so I check if this navmesh agent snaps onto the navmesh?

[rigid island]

yes you can screenshot it

lets see where it is compared to blue mesh

[unreal lodge]

Hello team, I require some assistance towards my 2d project, so when i walk near to the slimes, i don't know why it knockback against the slimes, however, when i have attacked once, everything works

the slimes won't get knockback automaticlly when i walk near them

after i have attacked

[rigid island]

Without code we dont knnow whats doing what

[unreal lodge]

its prob the weapon collider right?

[winged tiger]

hey guys

I'm making a system to change menus quickly, it looks like that

    public void ChangeMenu(string nm) 
    {
        if(nm == null)
        { Debug.LogError("[MenuManager] ChangeMenu argument can't be null"); return; }
        Debug.Log($"Changing menu to {nm}");
        MenuPage pg = GetPage(nm);

        if (pg != null)
        {
            if (pg.type != MenuBlockType.FullScreen)
            {
                Debug.LogError("[MenuMamanger] Use ShowPopup to show popups and not ChangeMenu.");
                return;
            }

            Debug.Log("1");
            Debug.Log(pg.gameObject.name);
            Debug.Log("2");

            pg.Show();
            pg.ClearInputs();
            currentPage = pg;
        }
        else
            Debug.LogError($"[MenuManager] Page {nm} not found in scene");

        
    }

GetPage() is just allPages.FirstOrDefault(x => x.menu_name == nm);

and a page is just a script with a string variable and function to show and hide the children

and for some reason the funcion works the first time correctly, and for the second time the code stops executing when referencing the object in any way? ("1" prints but "2" does not)

sorry for the wall of text

[unreal lodge]

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

public class EnemyHealth : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private int startingHealth = 3;

private int currentHealth;
private Knockback knockback;

private void Awake() {
    knockback = GetComponent<Knockback>();
}

private void Start() {
    currentHealth = startingHealth;
}

public void TakeDamage(int damage) {
    currentHealth -= damage;
    knockback.GetKnockedBack(PlayerController.Instance.transform, 15f);
    DetectDeath();
}

private void DetectDeath() {
    if (currentHealth <= 0) {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
}

}

[unreal lodge]

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

public class DamageSource : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private int damageAmount = 1;

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
    EnemyHealth enemyHealth = other.gameObject.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>();
    if (enemyHealth != null) {
        enemyHealth.TakeDamage(damageAmount);
    }
}

}

[somber nacelle]

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[rigid island]

where is the navmesh

[unreal lodge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/39tciqUxwiNEcvSUABLDnwD

[unreal lodge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/4ZF2FwVjZbKXvRPwRXp8yn

[rigid island]

this doesnt help.

at all

[unreal lodge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/mEj2X2aEsZBA5H6YLhwSyH

[unreal lodge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/Yn6QJNNPahGUPB69ppjkE

[rigid island]

so the knocback doesnt work? where is the movement for enemy then

[unreal lodge]

hi, the knockback works

but when i walk near them

[rigid island]

also please paste scripts with some type of labeling

[unreal lodge]

they arent supposed to get knockbcked

[simple void]

Please don't repeat post the same thing

yeah

[unreal lodge]

okay

[rigid island]

so if you collide into them it knocks back? or im a bit confused

[unreal lodge]

yeah

thats basically like that

[iron bobcat]

does this help?

[unreal lodge]

but if i press attack for once

everything works perfectly

its kinda weird ngl

[rigid island]

wdym if you press attack once

[rigid island]

show it in the scene view and show where the agent is

[rigid island]

is pg or its object being disabled / destroyed ?

[unreal lodge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/353AcVfZFmECdY6gAWDjqQS

[rigid island]

what am i looking at here

[unreal lodge]

its for my combat system within the game

[rigid island]

tbh I still have no clue what is happening vs whats supposed to happen

[iron bobcat]

what do you mean by this?

[winged tiger]

Nope

[rigid island]

showing just the component doesnt help me see what it looks like in the scene

[rigid island]

start debugging, commenting objects and double check nothing was broken/or references disconnected.

[winged tiger]

I tried debugging, switching the names of the pages, making an empty game objects with just the Page script on it.

It always breaks the second time the function gets called.

[rigid island]

oh so your rigidbody is pushing enemy rigidbodies

[unreal lodge]

yeah but after i have attacked

everything worked fine

[rigid island]

probably because your setting the rigidbody position again? reseeting it

[unreal lodge]

thank you

[rigid island]

huh ?

[river shale]

Whats the easiest way to save data locally? I was using playerprefs, but i need to handle 2d arrays and getting the serialization to compress it into a form that json can handle has been going poorly.

[cosmic rain]

Writing to a file.

[earnest epoch]

Hello! Does anybody know how to set up Unity to reimport scripts that change? I installed FastReload (https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/fast-script-reload-239351) at one point and later removed it. Now, I have to use Ctrl+R in order to detect code changes in my project and am unsure how to re-enable automatic imports again.

[cold parrot]

Edit > Preferences > General > Auto Refresh

[earnest epoch]

Thanks! I'm still not sure what I might need to change here.

[cold parrot]

i would set it to "off" or "recompile when finished playing"

[earnest epoch]

I actually made that change just now after having read it, but what I was hoping to achieve is to get the editor to recompile scripts when they change when out of play mode entirely.

[cold parrot]

yes

compiling while playing is tricky to make useful. typically some state gets reset and you'll have errors.

[earnest epoch]

I really don't care about compiling during runtime, which is why I removed the FastReload asset as I did. What I'm really trying to do is return the editor's behaviour back to factory behaviour, where scripts are reloaded when they change regardless of whether the editor is in play mode or not.

It is tedious to have to reload scripts manually after making changes in VS.

[open bluff]

Hello, if I check with moveInput.x when walk left and right, I get 1 and -1 values. How can I get 2 and -2 values instead of 1 and -1 when running?

[cold parrot]

multiply by 2 when the "run" key is pressed

[rose willow]

does anyone know how to replicate these shadows in unity?

[cosmic rain]

Looks like flat shading. A flat shading(toon?) shader should work

[sterile mural]

I'd like to really learn and make a character controller from scratch without using unity's character controller, does someone have good resources ?

[cosmic rain]

Plenty on YouTube. I'm sure there's something on unity !learn too.

[tawny elk]

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[cosmic rain]

There's also an rb character controller provided by unity recently(in the last few years) I think you can get it on asset store. And it's open source, so you can learn how it works.

I think it's in the latest starter assets or something

[sterile mural]

yeah thats good, I remember taking a good inside and basing a 3rd person controller off of it, I heard it's possible to do it without a rigibody aswell using Physics cast and thats more what I'm looking

[cosmic rain]

I don't see why you'd want to do that. You're gonna be relying on unity physics anyway.

[sterile mural]

What i found is limited so i'd appreciate more resources

I want to understand how it works

[cosmic rain]

How what works?

[sterile mural]

everything in a character controller

[cosmic rain]

Well, how does the rb prevent you from doing that?

[open basalt]

are you asking about using raycast with character control?

[open basalt]

technically you can code every physic interaction "without using a rigidbody"

[sterile mural]

my bad, I didnt mean not use a rigid body

[open basalt]

might not be the response you're looking for, but try chat gpt? Ask all the questions you want to know about, once you have a direction then you can start looking at documentations etc. That's how I would approach this broad of a topic

[sterile mural]

I mean a kinematic controller

from scratch

just looking for pointers

[open basalt]

following a tutorial would be your best bet I'd say

[cosmic rain]

I'd also like to say that this is a very broad topic depending on what exactly your project needs. It can be as simple as several lines of code and as complicated as tens or hundreds of scripts.

[cosmic rain]

I think there are plenty of kinematic rb controllers tutorials out there.

[sterile mural]

general use first person controller

[open basalt]

some tutorial goes from making the simple: walk around and look around. Then once you have that concept in mind, you can start looking at climbing, rotating platforms etc

[sterile mural]

the ones I have found dont go very in depth

[cosmic rain]

Well then pick the first YouTube tutorial you find and that should work.

[cosmic rain]

How deep do you need to go?

[sterile mural]

this is the best I have found so far
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6Q7dUz2uk

[open basalt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdp-O6z8x28&list=PLD_vBJjpCwJsqpD8QRPNPMfVUpPFLVGg4

[sterile mural]

but its not a direct tutorial

[cosmic rain]

If you need to go deeper, you'll need to read the code.

[open basalt]

This playlist goes into climbing, stairs, dodging

and once you have that, try to look at what exact feature you want to implement into the controller, and go from there?

[vital atlas]

hi! im making a simple character movement script, using a rigidbody2D. i have it so the character has is affected by gravity, but can move along walls and cielings, and any angle of surface, but it has trouble with convex upside down surfaces like a semicircle on the cieling. it's because the character moves to where it is no longer 'colliding' with the ceiling and then falls.

i've tried adding a force that goes into the surface (opposite of the normal), but that makes the other movement inconsistent, moving slower and faster.

any suggestions to help "stick" to convex surfaces while moving along them?

[cosmic rain]

Do a raycast instead of relying on collision.

It's also partially a design question. Like, how do you detect the correct surface in the first place.

[vital atlas]

i want to make it work in any direction, wouldnt that require raycasts in every direction?

[cosmic rain]

That's the design question I'm talking about.

[sterile mural]

not quite the video Im looking for, if you look at what I sent he goes deeper into things like skin width, thats more of waht im looking

I know how to make a simple character controller, I just want more understanding

[cosmic rain]

Presumably, it should only be enough to cast in the character downwards direction, but I'm not entirely sure what you want to achieve, so that's just an assumption.

[vital atlas]

well, my current method is to rely on the rigidbody's collision, which is convienient because it also provides me the normal of the collision point, which is useful for the sideways movement

[vital atlas]

i want it to be generalized rather than having a specific "down"

[cosmic rain]

So the character can walk on the ground upside down..?🤔

[open basalt]

honestly then I would just dive into the code and try to understand what each line means. again, chatgpt would be a good resource in helping you understand specific lines

[sterile mural]

thanks nathan

[civic scroll]

I've never fully built or finished a game before, and I'm trying to make my current game vertical. I've tried a few different methods, like adjusting the default screen width and height, but none of them have worked so far. does anyone know what to do?

[vital atlas]

yes, theoretically. at the moment though i'm keeping the character always upright, but yes when they collide with the cieling, the local "up" direction is towards the contact surface, as if swinging from monkey bars

[cosmic rain]

The screen aspect ratio would depend on the platform screen that you're playing on. You can simulate that by selecting a desired resolution in the game tab.

[open basalt]

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

I followed this myself to set my game size to 1080x1080, I'd say same applies to the screen you want

[civic scroll]

yea but when building the game it always goes back to the old resolution

[civic scroll]

thank you ill watch this

[open basalt]

yea the video will help you(it helped me too haha I was so confused before), maybe there's a smarter way of doing it but it works

[cosmic rain]

Well, at that point, you'll run a surface contact logic that should turn your character upside down. Or do you actually intend it to move visually upside down towards the surface?

[cosmic rain]

Yes, that's what I said in the first part.

[civic scroll]

i see, but is there a way to always change it to be vertical on pc once it is built?

[vital atlas]

well, i was thinking that as a GameObject, the character wouldn't ever rotate, but eventually I will add animations that make it look as if the character is rotated. i just figure it makes it easier this way, because otherwise i'll have to deal with a bunch of math to invert the control direction and walk direction when upside down so left movement is always towards the left of the screen, and deal with edge cases like when the character is just switching between upside down and right side up.

[open basalt]

just a thought, wouldn't rotating/changing the direction of gravity make more sense?

i.e. direction of gravity points to the nearest point of contact with a collider

[vital atlas]

oh huh, i wasn't aware that you could change the gravity direction with a rigidbody, but that does make sense. in a prototype, i had it flip by making the gravityscale negative, but this might be pretty helpful, if i like put it on a short timer or something

[open basalt]

you can not-use the gravity built with rigidbody, but apply a constant force towards a direction acting as gravity

[vital atlas]

i tried adding a constant force, but for some reason it made other movements unreliable, which was odd

like when sliding along a surface, it would move slower or faster randomly

i'll try it with gravity for now, thanks!

[open basalt]

oh, change the material 2d then

[vital atlas]

oh wait, i think i read that wrong, so it seems you can't change gravity direction

[cosmic rain]

Well, what you're trying to do usually is implemented with changing the character orientation.

[open basalt]

1. set rigidbody2d gravityscale to 0
2. set rigidbody2d's 2d material to a 0 friction one
3. with code, apply a constant force towards a certain direction (be it downwards, upwards pointing at the ceiling

is how I would approach this

to give a bit more percision then you can calculate the amount of friction artificially since now it's very slippery

[vital atlas]

oh i see, i currently have the "None (Physics Material 2D)" material, i wasn't aware it had friction heh

[cosmic rain]

Well, you can't change the resolution, unless you make it windowed and make the window of your desired aspect ratio.
What games usually do is add black bars on the sides and make sure the gameview is laid out correctly in the visible area.

[civic scroll]

yea i did do that and it kinda works, but its still not vertical its more like a box now but it also still doesnt fit all the ui in it

now it streches everything

[open basalt]

^I'd highly suggest following that tutorial and understanding what it's doing, it scales your game into your desired aspect ratios

if your ui are set up properly they will sit in the screen as well

[civic scroll]

yea but he talks abt the screen changing in game

[civic scroll]

its not just ui everything gets streched

[open basalt]

I followed the tutorial and it fit the game screen within a 1:1 aspect ratio with grey bars around it, I assume it would be similar for yours if done properly

[civic scroll]

im a little confused on the video ngl lmao

[void basalt]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.ComputePenetration.html

do not use raycasting for character collision behavior.

[ebon cloud]

hey, I had some trouble with a code I had. So, I wanted to create a script that if u destroy special asteroids, a text will appear saying how much asteroids you have destroyed, and if u destroy 5, the exit trigger will appear. I tried it this way, but rn it's giving me the error "Cannot implicitly convert type void to bool"

Idk what other logic I could use for it to detect that the asteroid was destroyed

[somber nacelle]

Destroy does not check if an object is destroyed, it destroys the object.
also get your !IDE configured 👇

[tawny elk]

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[ebon cloud]

So what can I use to make it check if the object is destroyed?

Thx abt the IDE thing btw

[somber nacelle]

having a configured IDE is required to get help with your code here. configure that first

[ebon cloud]

Ahhh, alr alr

Alr, I configured it

[somber nacelle]

cool, now to check if an object has been destroyed (provided you have a reference to that object), just see if it is equal to null using the == operator. unity has overridden that operator for UnityEngine.Object to check if an object has been destroyed (since C# does not really have the concept of destroyed)

[ebon cloud]

Ahhh, that worked, thx

Btw, I had another issue. I'm using an asteroid spawner, so I made this special asteroid as a prefab. So I added the script for the special asteroids to the prefab. But, when I try to add the GameObjects I want to use to the script in the prefab, it says "Type mismatch"

Like this

[somber nacelle]

prefabs cannot reference in-scene objects
https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[ebon cloud]

Ahhh, so is there a way I can make them reference the objects once they spawn?

[somber nacelle]

yes, pass the reference when you spawn them like the link shows

[ebon cloud]

Ok ok, let me try and I'll let u know

[dusk apex]

Examplecs var instance = Instantiate(prefab); instance.name = "Changed";

[valid trench]

currently making a simple barebones inverse kinematics system for a leg with 3dof, pretty much a basic robot arm i guess
ive made a working version where the two arms are the same length, but im having a pretty hard time getting it to work for varying legnths
the working version is based on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-UeYEpwXXU
the change i made for it to work with different lengths is a bit more complicated than it has to be (i just learned i couldve just done law of cosine)
what i did was getting the area of the entire triangle and then the height, so that i could use that to find the angle theta using arcsin

heres whatever i just said above in code:

        float l = Mathf.Sqrt(pos.x * pos.x + (pos.z * pos.z));
        float h = Mathf.Sqrt(l * l + pos.y * pos.y);
        if(h>legLength1+legLength2)return;

        float phi = Mathf.Atan(pos.y/l) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

        float s = (legLength1 + legLength2 + h)/2; // relevant part starts here
        float area = Mathf.Sqrt(s*(s-legLength1)*(s-legLength2)*(s-h));
        float m = (area * 2)/h;
        float theta = Mathf.Asin(Mathf.Clamp(m/legLength1, -1, 1))*Mathf.Rad2Deg;
     // float theta = Mathf.Acos(h / 2 / legLength1) * Mathf.Rad2Deg; // if leg lengths are equal (previous version based on the video)

the annoying thing is that this math does in fact work, ive written it out in paper multiple times and checked it, it does work
the other annoying thing is that this works in the simulation only if legLength1==legLength2, otherwise it just starts being weird
as seen in the attached video, it works pretty well for equal leg lengths (i tried with 3,3 and 4,4 as well, it did work), but doesnt at all if theyre not equal

[tame smelt]

I am using firebase sdk for windows desktop, firebase does not give an option to modify its authentication persistence on Unity sdk. Is there a way to prevent persistence of firebase sdk from Unity's perspective since the sdk does not support on that?

[karmic mulch]

guys i came here after watching this how can i approach making the mechanics similar to this game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZdeKsRgGsY

[lean sail]

is there anything more you can narrow down other than just wanting to copy a game? highly doubt anyones gonna watch a 7 min video in hopes of helping you

[karmic mulch]

aah sorry i meant only a shadow mechanic that the player has

like they switch to another player that is a shadow which can pass from gate and stuff that the main player cant

so its like i thought maybe with a state machine but

state machine can only morph a character right not become a whole other character

maybe it is a second character that by clicking a button activates

but how do i implement it that it activates and the current player deactivates

with the same controls and such

[valid trench]

based on whart youre describing, it just sounds like you have a player character, who when in "shadow mode", can pass through walls that the player normally wouldnt have been able to

[lean sail]

a state machine can do anything you want it to. "morph a character" means whatever you want it to mean.

[valid trench]

if ive gotten it right then this is just a matter of having a boolean in the player script which when true means you are in shadow mode, and when false means you are normal
to make it pass through walls, you can make use of the collision matrix by simply just changing the layer of the player when it toggles the shadow mode on or off, and making it so that the "shadow mode" layer doesnt collide with a specific kind of wall, while the normal player does

[karmic mulch]

i mean when i click a button a shadow character imerges from the main character and have the same controls as the player its not a shadow mode

[valid trench]

give me 5 minutes, im watching the video because it looks fun

[karmic mulch]

aah yea its a good idea

[valid trench]

ok so

this should be pretty simple

think of it as two modes

one where youre controlling the normal player

and one where youre controlling the shadow

when youre in the normal mode, you are actually moving both the characters

the two characters being the normal player and the shadow

BUT while in the normal mode, the shadow doesnt have any quirky collision layers that make it pass through walls

that change only happens when you toggle the button

when you are in shadow mode

the normal player stops moving, while the shadow player keeps moving

and you also change the collision layer of the shadow character such that it can pass through layers that it wasnt able to

so in summary
you have the two characters who are both moving at once
when you press whatever button, the normal player stops moving, while the shadow player keeps moving
the shadow player character's collision layer is also switched to another one where it can pass through walls, and this is something you can easily configure using unity's collision matrix

[gray mural]

Make both shadow and player have a PlayerController script, and disable the previous mode using a Singleton

[karmic mulch]

thats a lot of usefull insight their man

hope i can make even a small prototype of the game

[karmic mulch]

can do that

[gray mural]

Make sure you disable and enable the script, not the object

[real sandal]

hi so i made an object that moves like this:

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.RightArrow))
{
    Vector3 Move = new Vector3(3, 0, 0);
    Move = Move.normalized * Time.deltaTime * Speed;
    rb.MovePosition(Move + Transform.position);
}
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A) || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
{
    Vector3 Move = new Vector3(-3, 0, 0);
    Move = Move.normalized * Time.deltaTime * Speed;
    rb.MovePosition(Move + Transform.position);
}```
and when it moves through another object, it just kinda jumps away? ill attach a video to show it

how do i stop it from happening

[leaden ice]

MovePosition doesn't respect collisions

Use velocity instead

It also should never be used in Update, only FixedUpdate

[real sandal]

alright thank you very much

[real sandal]

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A))
{
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(-Speed, rb.velocity.y, 0.0f);
}
else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D))
{
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(Speed, rb.velocity.y, 0.0f);
}
else if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.A) || Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.D))
{
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(0.0f, rb.velocity.y, 0.0f);
}

This code in both Update and FixedUpdate is working only every few clicks

[cosmic rain]

You should use GetKey to set the velocity instead. And it should be in update.

Even better use input axes

[real sandal]

but i want it to move like 3 things to the left only when i press one time, not while i hold

and to keep respect the coliders

wait now it works

[real sandal]

but if it is in update it would behave diffrent on diffrent machines

and sorry for the pings

[cosmic rain]

Are you a actually moving it in update?

[real sandal]

yes

[cosmic rain]

Share the updated code

[real sandal]

in fixedupdate it glitches

i didnt change anythnng

[cosmic rain]

You're not moving it in update

You're just setting the velocity.

The movement happens during physics update(around the time of fixed update)

[real sandal]

oh so its okay?

[cosmic rain]

Yes

[real sandal]

alright thank you

[stable osprey]

It's great how you structured the code (Update only containing named function calls), it's a nice practice.
I recommend you alter the velocity-setting part a little to unify: instead of setting the velocity conditionally 3 times, only set it once.

• Store the velocity in a field variable, and only set it at the end of Movement()

imo should try to make practice of this for any public properties/fields -- methods too.

reason is when you ctrl+shift+f12 to find all references (which is a very common need in VS), you probably don't want to see the conditional calls, but the users of the variable/method.

[knotty sun]

better yet, make a local speed float variable as that is the only difference

[vagrant hollow]

Can't remove Rigidbody because CharacterJoint depends on it
How to fix this ^

[simple egret]

Remove Character Joint first, then the Rigidbody

The CJ requires the RB to be present, so you cannot remove the RB.

[vagrant hollow]

but i need them for ragdoll?

[simple egret]

Then you cannot remove either of them

You're in a "keep all or none at all" situation

[knotty sun]

the question is, if you need CJ and RB for Ragdoll, why do you want to remove the RB?

[simple egret]

It would make sense to require a RB, since ragdoll is principally physics-based

[knotty sun]

Delete your post and !code

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[paper pine]

okay sorry hold up...

[knotty sun]

also 'explain your problem, 'doesn't work' tells us nothing

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Mandatory !ask command!

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[paper pine]

https://paste.ofcode.org/RXMANgu4sRsryjEGxuQDiy
as soon as i try to interact with an npc it downst seem to work. the npc doesnt respond at all it seems like the interact function isnt being triggered even though the abstract interactable class is being inherited by multiple other things such as items pickups and on there it works

[cosmic rain]

Debug🤷‍♂️

[simple egret]

Put a Debug.Log() inside that overriden method to ensure it's being executed at all

[paper pine]

okay...

it isnt being executed.

[cosmic rain]

Then you're not calling it

[paper pine]

the ineractSystem uses raycasts to find a hit to interact with

[cosmic rain]

Debug where you supposedly call it.

[paper pine]

yep it seemslike the interact sys cant fins the npc

ah i have no collider attached to the npc

thats the problem

[cosmic rain]

Debug why there's no collider

[paper pine]

no need to debug that i just havent attached one i attached it now and it works

thank you guys so much have a great day 😄

[cosmic rain]

Debug why you forgot to attach the collider

[vagrant hollow]

did i do something wrong why is the ragdoll not working?

[spare dome]

We have zero idea why your ragdoll isn't working, please give us code and more information

[dire crown]

Is there any way to get these values from the terrain settings as an set of possible values to use somewhere else?

[vagrant hollow]

here

[spare dome]

Did you debug to see if enable ragdoll is actually working?

[vagrant hollow]

yea

[spare dome]

In what way

[vagrant hollow]

i mean it saays enabling collider and rigidbody but ragdoll dosent work

[placid siren]

ive never messed with ragdolls so i could be off base here, but is it possible your animations are overriding the ragdoll?

[vagrant hollow]

but i made it so animator disables when ragdoll enables

[placid siren]

do you disable the animatior and then enable the ragdoll

or enable the ragdoll first?

[vagrant hollow]

does it matter?

[placid siren]

it might yes

idk tho

its definitely worth checking id say

[vagrant hollow]

ahhh i cant im canceling ragdoll mechanics

[opaque vortex]

I am working on a script that takes 3d models with their colliders, mesh, material, and uploads it into bytes, does anyone know where I can study this topic better?

[knotty sun]

what do you mean with ' uploads it into bytes'

[maiden fractal]

Could you give more context as to what you are actually doing and why?

[gray vessel]

guys why is this compiling

this shouldn't work

there should be errors

what's going on??

[eager yacht]

It's a default implementation in an interface

[gray vessel]

what do you mean?

oh shit

you're right

[eager yacht]

Crafter crafter;
((iTest)crafter).Why(); // no error
crafter.Why(); // error

[gray vessel]

damn I'm stupid

I was wondering why it wasn't requiring me to implement the interface

but that's because I gave it a body

thank you so much

[eager yacht]

Yeah

[gray vessel]

this shouldn't have been so big an issue lmao

I had a small melt down over it

[eager yacht]

(You can also still override those in the inheritor btw) I think it's:

void iTest.Why() { }

[gray vessel]

that makes sense

thanks

[rigid island]

even with delays, what would cause this code to not be as reliable each time ?
very rare I can get all 3 but sometimes it does. Any suggestions on what might be the problem? I'm guessing some desync between UI updating TMP and camera.Render
https://gdl.space/awipofukoc.cpp

[eager yacht]

You don't seem to be .Create()ing the RenderTexture after you make it, maybe that's the problem. I think if you use RenderTexture.GetTemporary it will automatically do that for you (you also seem to be wanting temp RTs anyhow).

[rigid island]

Ohh thanks had no Idea I need that, let me try that out. I will look up RenderTexture.GetTemporary method, I never used it before lol

[hexed pecan]

Not sure if you need Create
From docs:

by default the texture is created the first time it is set active.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RenderTexture.Create.html

As long as you do RenderTexture.active = ... it should create it

[eager yacht]

Oh weird didn't realize setting that just "does" that

[hexed pecan]

🤷‍♂️

[eager yacht]

and this is why I hate properties that do extra stuff :(

[rigid island]

yeah don't think it worked 😅

still got some blanks appearing

[hexed pecan]

So the f irst element is null or what?

Or just an empty texture?

[eager yacht]

oh wait

[rigid island]

basically I'm trying to screenshot 3 generated numbers and get a texture from it

[eager yacht]

The first time you render, you set active after the render, so empty texture?

[hexed pecan]

I also noticed that you are setting the texture active after it was rendered so maybe it wasn't yet created

Yep that^

[late lion]

The camera render is not rendering to RenderTexture.active. That's only being set for the texture.ReadPixels.

[rigid island]

I think it broke

renderCamera.Render();
yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
RenderTexture.active = rt;```
went from this 
to this 

```cs
 RenderTexture.active = rt;
 renderCamera.Render();```

[hexed pecan]

Go back to the first one but call rt.Create right after constructing it, or did you try that already?

[rigid island]

yes I did so cs textDisplay.SetText($"{numbers[i]:00}"); yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);// trying to delay - same result RenderTexture rt = new (256, 256, 24); rt.Create(); renderCamera.targetTexture = rt; Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(rt.width, rt.height, TextureFormat.ARGB32, false); renderCamera.Render(); yield return new WaitForSeconds(1); RenderTexture.active = rt;

[eager yacht]

This is what my game does, and it works on my end. Line 80, although I think I just use an asset render texture lol https://nombin.dev/gbdhsxtmi9y99v1b6uzx5c2j

[rigid island]

I tried with a RT already in the camera but it wasnt changing for some reason but I think I did it wrong?

[rigid island]

how many do you capture in sequence? I'm also trying to use it ingame without making it an asset, I wonder if thats part of issue. I'm thinking something to also do with how TMP renders the mesh ?

[late lion]

Do you need the texture data on the CPU? Like to save it to a file or something? Because this:

texture.ReadPixels(new Rect(0, 0, rt.width, rt.height), 0, 0);
texture.Apply();

Is basically:

1. Copy rt texture data from GPU to CPU memory.
2. Copy texture data from CPU to GPU memory.

You'll end up with the texture data in both CPU and GPU memory, with only the latter needed to render it on screen, but the former needed if you want to read the data in script or save to a file.

You can use Graphics.CopyTexture to copy data within the GPU, which is much faster and doesn't require messing with RenderTexture.active.

[eager yacht]

100

[rigid island]

I tried CopyTexture but I think i had same error, I'll try again.
I don't need it as an asset, I just need those generated numbers to be as textures for a quad

[hexed pecan]

Could try also WaitForEndOfFrame before rendering (after the first WaitForSeconds())
In case TMP only works at the end of the frame or something

[late lion]

You also don't have to use a whole Camera to capture a single renderer. You can use a CommandBuffer and CommandBuffer.DrawRenderer to draw a specific renderer directly into a texture without a camera. Probably won't work with UI Canvas text, though.

[rigid island]

Will try that but I think i tried it b4

[rigid island]

interesting, btw its a Textmesh TextMeshPro idk if it helps

i much rather do that directly if i can skip this screenshot capturing business..

here this what happens visually btw

there is a weird hiccup if you notice

[late lion]

Then it sounds like the rendering method is the problem, not the texture copying.

[rigid island]

Yeah I'm thinking so too, maybe its TextMeshPro updating text is wonky

hmm seems DrawRenderer outputs to a material directly.. I need it to be Texture to place in array

[late lion]

No, it just asks for a material to render with, in case you want to use a different one than is on the renderer. You can just pass the material that is on the renderer.

The renderer will be drawn on whatever texture is currently set at that moment, either with RenderTexture.active or CommandBuffer.SetRenderTarget.

[rigid island]

oh okay i'll check it out, its all new to me sorry 😛

[late lion]

You also need to set the view projection matrices, which represents where the virtual camera is, i.e. from what angle to draw it from. Since you already have a Camera placed where you want it to be, it's convenient to access its matrices to match it, but you can also create the matrices from scratch using something like Matrix4x4.Ortho.

commandBuffer.SetRenderTarget(rt);
commandBuffer.SetViewProjectionMatrices(renderCamera.worldToCameraMatrix, camera.projectionMatrix);

[rigid island]

let me try that out 🤞
Hopefully its not just Textmeshpro and maybe dealing with canvas / dirty layout issues

[rigid island]

so would it be something like this

RenderTexture rt = new(256, 256, 24);
textDisplay.SetText($"{numbers[i]:00}");
yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
    CommandBuffer commandBuffer = new();
    commandBuffer.SetRenderTarget(rt);
commandBuffer.SetViewProjectionMatrices(renderCamera.worldToCameraMatrix, renderCamera.projectionMatrix);
commandBuffer.DrawRenderer(textDisplay.GetComponent<Renderer>(), textDisplay.GetComponent<Renderer>().material);```

[late lion]

And execute the buffer with Graphics.ExecuteCommandBuffer after adding the commands to it. And better to reuse the same buffer and Clear it between loops.

You can of course then just keep the RenderTextures if you don't have to have it as a Texture2D. Both types inherit Texture and can be used interchangeably in many cases, but not all.

[rigid island]

oh okay. Will do that.
Still confused on how to port this into a texture2d, do I need Graphics.Copy?

[late lion]

So you have to have it in Texture2D? Because wherever it needs to go will only accept Texture2D?

[rigid island]

its a special material shader so its new to me . I can show you

[late lion]

Shaders/materials don't care about the difference between Texture2D and RenderTexture. It accepts Texture, which both types inherit.

[rigid island]

its part of it

[opaque vortex]

Turns custum Ugc conten into byte data by using binary writer to byte method, transfering the byte data to a seperate script that manages it

[rigid island]

the thing is, the way I setup my system is basically using a List of <Texture> can I just place RT inside it to use on each material?

[late lion]

Yes.

[opaque vortex]

I am using a binarywriter to byte method it is very straight forward what do you mean? Look this is example code for reading vertices of a UGC object. public void ""cs code here SerializeMeshAndMaterial(Mesh mesh, Material material, BinaryWriter writer)
{
Debug.Log($"Serializing mesh with {mesh.vertices.Length} vertices");
WriteArray(writer, mesh.vertices, WriteVector3);

how do I make code look correct in discord I forgot

[late lion]

```cs
code here
```

[rigid island]

I think its textmeshpro tbh.. Let me double check the code with you if you dont mind though. Its still doing it.

[knotty sun]

so what does WriteArray do?

[rigid island]

https://gdl.space/vecekuduja.cpp

[late lion]

Are you using the UGUI version of TMP, which is in a Canvas, or the 3D version?

[rigid island]

same problem where they show up blank sometimes

[maiden fractal]

Is there some specific part that you are unsure how to do? Meshes are just lists of numbers so it shouldn't be too difficult to put them in a binary file

[rigid island]

its supposed to be the mesh version yes

[late lion]

That's a RectTransform, which means it's in a Canvas.

[opaque vortex]

WriteArray is a function that turns the given value into byte data to transfer it, I don't understand the question really

[rigid island]

I did 3D -> Add Text

doesnt say UGUI

[late lion]

So it's the right component, but you have it in a Canvas for some reason.

[opaque vortex]

My issue is that I want some easier way to do this, instead of this massive script that has to do it

[rigid island]

I think unity did that

[opaque vortex]

I know I am doing something wrong because my script is massive for no reason really

[rigid island]

there is no canvas, its just on a rect transform

[late lion]

Oh, huh, so it is. I didn't know RectTransforms could exist outside of Canvases.

[rigid island]

yeah its weird

I think its wats causing the issues :\

since the method you suggested works, but the results are similar.
who knew it was this difficult to get some text onto a texture at runtime 😭

[opaque vortex]

Basically I want to figure out how to best refactor my code, by learning from someone smarter in handling breaking down a given 3d object into byte data

[knotty sun]

is this some kind of library you are using?

[maiden fractal]

sounds likely. dealing with files may require lengthy codes but the idea should be relatively simple. the material part may be difficult though if you need it to work for arbitrary materials

[late lion]

Maybe try forcing TMP to refresh somehow after changing the text. There's a Rebuild method that updates rendering stuff if you pass in CanvasUpdate.PreRender.

[opaque vortex]

No I wrote the script throughtrial and error, sending it to an AI system to ask it sometimes questions on what I need to add. The ai advice was bad, and I needed to figure out most of it leading to massive script lengths

Back to the real question, is there somewhere I can learn from a person that has done this. I just want to know why, or when my script went wrong so badly. It works, but the length is stupid

[maiden fractal]

Could we see the code you have so far? Since it's long, some paste site is prefered

[rigid island]

textDisplay.SetText($"{numbers[i]:00}");
textDisplay.Rebuild(CanvasUpdate.PreRender);```
Tried this sadly, same results :\ its weird because it isn't only the first element , sometimes its the second one or none at all..

[opaque vortex]

Yes, where would I best do that?

[knotty sun]

just to give you an idea of the can of worms you are trying to open, my base binary serializer is 30 pretty complicated scripts and the specific part which deals with materials and meshes is another 8 scripts
And on top of that is a file format structure which is another 5 scripts

[opaque vortex]

It is need for my dream game plan, of users uploading custum avatars. So I have no choice but to create something that can read custom uploaded meshes, materials, and everything related to a peronal avatar in 3d space

[rigid island]

Wait..I think adding it in multiple spots might have worked..or its just luck that the last 3 runs it generated Ok

Nope. It was "luck" now still not generating random ones

[knotty sun]

point is you cannot just serialize data into binary and call it a day, you need to be able to deserialize and for that you need a file structure, do you have one?

[knotty sun]

how long is this script?

[swift falcon]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class Buttons : MonoBehaviour,Clickable
{

    public static event Action<Clickable.Materials> OnClickButton;

    [SerializeField] private GameObject ButtonSelf;
    [SerializeField] private Clickable.Materials ButtonMaterial;

    private int counter;

    public void Click()
    {
        Debug.Log("Clicked");
        StartCoroutine(ChangeButtonPosition());
        counter++;
        if (counter == 10)
        {
            OnClickButton?.Invoke(ButtonMaterial);
            Debug.Log("Event Shooted");
            counter = 0;
        }
           
      


    }
    
    IEnumerator ChangeButtonPosition()
    {
        ButtonSelf.SetActive(false);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
        ButtonSelf.SetActive(true);

    }

 

    Clickable.Materials Clickable.Material()
    {
        return ButtonMaterial;
    }
}

and

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class MaterialManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static MaterialManager instance;


    private void Awake()
    {
        instance = this;
    }
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        Buttons.OnClickButton += Instanita;
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        Buttons.OnClickButton -= Instanita;
    }

    public void Instanita(Clickable.Materials Material)
    {
        Debug.Log("Instantiate: " + Material);

    }


}

I have no idea why my MaterialManager cannot subscribe to event that i have in Buttons Class. I managed to shoot the event succesfully but my MaterialManager classes do not read it. Why? I didn't figure out somehow

[hexed pecan]

So you are getting "Event Shooted" to print?

[swift falcon]

@hexed pecan yes

[maiden fractal]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[rigid island]

okay added huge delays to double check and it seems that TMP randomly decided not to render text.. So it doesnt seem to be a copy issue but TMP not rendering in some iterations..strange..

[opaque vortex]

This is my code, feel free to give me tips on what I am doing wrong or should change https://paste.ofcode.org/z7Fkk8zfeCq5N6QfYJvP5R

[rigid island]

Yes its confirmed that issue is with TextMeshPro.. Even the mesh version being wonky..
I tried using the Legacy TextMesh component and it nails them every time , no issues whatsoever.
Any ideas why it would cause TextMeshPro to randomly not update the text? I also tried textDisplay.ForceMeshUpdate(true);
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.1/api/TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI.html#TMPro_TextMeshProUGUI_ForceMeshUpdate_System_Boolean_
no success..
I would use TextMesh but the text ofc comes out looking like shit practically unreadable.

[glad dew]

If you just need to render numbers to a texture, you could create a texture atlas that contains all the number glyphs and generate a mesh uvd to it and render it into a texture.

I guess if you don't want that tmpro text rendering directly onto the screen, you want to render the text into some non fullscreen sized texture?

[rigid island]

yes I just need my generated numbers to be in a texture

[glad dew]

And that texture will be projected onto some 3d model?

[rigid island]

its for a special material that is on a quad

just need a texture plugged into it

I would ideally want to work the same as TextMesh is working, just not blurry lol

[little meadow]

I'm sure Bea can help much more than me... but still, what's the objective? I'm curious 🙂

[rigid island]

Just need my randomly generated numbers to be used as textures for my quad

player will need to unlock them to view them

[little meadow]

and you have something with TMPro, but it's misbehaving?

[rigid island]

Yes TextMeshPro the 3D version randomly not displaying 1 iteration

its random, and sometimes it works

basically the text wont update

[little meadow]

can you show the code?

[rigid island]

whole convo is up here
#archived-code-general message

[little meadow]

also, is there a problem with just pre-rendering the numbers and then assigning UVs like Bea suggested?

[rigid island]

I would rather have dynamic as is this way I can change font/text sizes without worrying about making a new atlas each time

seems to be a bug/quirk of TMP

TextMesh works perfect each time.. i guess its acting as a true mesh. Its just the font being grabage blury for large text

TMP randomly decides not to update the mesh

[daring cove]

Hey, how to project a 3D point on to a 2D plane in Unity?

I'm trying to project an impact point for a shell on to an aircraft HUD which is the 2D plane being projected to.
I'm looking for something similar to Camera.WorldToScreenPoint

I was writing a custom projection function for it following Javidx9 3D Graphics Engine series, but I feel like I'm overcomplicating this most universal problem in 3D graphics. There must be a set of tools in Unity to do this already.

[little meadow]

@rigid island if you can give me a repro project or all the necessary code and stuff to set it up myself, I'll tell you what the issue is 😛

[spare dome]

not sure he would do that.

[rigid island]

there is not really any thing special , its just that script , text and a Camera

use a coroutine, plug in that code for a TextMeshPro 3D text and see

[little meadow]

what render pipeline is it?

[rigid island]

Built-In

[pliant ridge]

this is a vs question not a unity one though there might be a unity question wrapped up in it
how do you act on a warning like this in visual studio and what does it mean anyway

also yes it would probably be better to just rename the child but I'm too lazy for that

(I have two childs of two separate parents with the name "Males")

[lean sail]

Google what obsolete means, or infer from the context. And then do exactly what its telling u, use the other method instead

Although I wouldnt use those methods at all

[pliant ridge]

I'm not too sure what it wants me to do in the first place

Find([mscorlib])?

[lean sail]

Reread the warning. Slowly

[spare dome]

instead of Findchild use Find

[pliant ridge]

is this what it wants?

[spare dome]

it also says Findchild is deprecated

[lean sail]

Also dear lord just make a field and drag in the reference. Or at the bare minimum just cache the reference to that object so you arent doing 2 finds 100 times

[spring creek]

Ooof

[pliant ridge]

ok ok fair

I can create all the gameobjects at the start anyway I guess

[spare dome]

oo 😬

[pliant ridge]

is that bad?

[spare dome]

i wasnt responding to that

[spring creek]

Find is bad for sure.

[rigid island]

slow, error prone etc

[spring creek]

transform.find is a liiittle better. At least you aren't searching every object in the scene, but you are still relying on gameobject names for logic, which is never good. Plus what nav said

[lean sail]

This is one of those codes "I didnt change anything! what is a null error?"

[simple egret]

For completeness, mscorlib designates the base C# stuff. MicroSoft CORe LIBrary
So [mscorlib] System.String is just string. Yeah the message could use some more simplicity, I've seen clearer than this

[pliant ridge]

lmao yeah I actually tried typing that into the code lmfao

[elfin tree]

How do you guys go about debugging something that freezes the editor (no logs), I've tried to run in debug but I get the same behavior

[rigid island]

step through code

most likely infinite loop

[elfin tree]

maybe my breakpoint placement was off then

i'll try some more

[simple egret]

Without breakpoints you can click the Pause button at any time to break the execution where it is right now
It will usually land in the offending code right away

[glad dew]

I usually add a debug counter to suspicious loops that throws an exception if the counter is over some max count constant.

[elfin tree]

Yeah I wish, unable to pause from the IDE after it freezes in that case though

[simple egret]

It always worked for me

[elfin tree]

you using Rider or Visual Studio?

[lean sail]

As long as its attached to unity already should be fine

[elfin tree]

maybe it's a rider thing idk

[simple egret]

Visual Studio 2022 for me

[somber nacelle]

break all definitely works in visual studio

[spring creek]

It should absolutely work in Rider

[elfin tree]

ohh uhh idk about break all i'll check

[somber nacelle]

that's the pause button . . .

[elfin tree]

ah kk

sec

[daring cove]

Hey guys, update on my question if you saw it. I Found
Matrix4x4.Perspective for creating a OpenGL perspective matrix and Matrix4x4.MultiplyPoint to multiply the world space coordinate to local screen space.

Only issue is now that I don't know what parameters to give.
What would the field of view be for the local projection matrix?
What do I do about near and far planes?

[elfin tree]

ah yeah i was doing stop, true that break all just works

thanks all

[little meadow]

so, uhm... works fine for me 🤷‍♂️

[rigid island]

how did you set it up ?

[little meadow]

exactly like you said 😄

[rigid island]

it what way does it work though and how many tries in a row

[rigid island]

yeah but sometimes it worked for me too. How many times in a row does it do all 3 ?

try 20 tries. stop / play simulation

[little meadow]

tried just 3-4 times...

can I run 100 in a second? would that count?

[rigid island]

idk I need it to work every time a new game is started lol which was a hit or miss for me for some reason

did it also add a RectTransform for TextMeshPro for you?

[little meadow]

no

I'd say just delete it, although it shouldn't matter

(I just did 2x100 and it was fine)

oi...

[little meadow]

my bad, it did add a RectTransform

[rigid island]

oh ok

mine is child of an object, though it should not matter..

[little meadow]

yours doesn't render at all times

I say something else is interfering

[rigid island]

ill try in a blank scene but doubt getting my hopes up

[little meadow]

in some gif I saw, the numbers weren't showing the whole time and blabla

[rigid island]

yes some times TMP would not update it would "skip it"

[little meadow]

that's not realistic

that's something else overriding the text after you do it or something

[rigid island]

like what? nothing else is touching it and i just put these yesterday trying

[little meadow]

like, text sometimes not updating is something a text component can't really have and be used 😄

you might be on some weird buggy version of TMP, I don't know

but still, that seems like quite a severe bug

[rigid island]

tell me about it

shits annoying af cause it works perfectly as it should on the legacy TextMesh component

im on 2022.3.16f1

[little meadow]

well, that's why I wanted a repro project, to see what's causing it to misbehave... as for me it just works 🤷‍♂️ (so hey, your code was good 👍 )

I'm on 2022.2.21

[rigid island]

lets see what happens

[rigid island]

that gives me idea, I will just try the same code on a fresh project..

this way I know for sure if its that specific proj

will try new scene too

[little meadow]

good luck! 🤞

[rigid island]

🙏

[rigid island]

btw I wonder if the camera settings might affect it.
I have set to Orhographic with Depth only mode clear flags

[little meadow]

ortho won't, depth only kinda sorta might, buuut doesn't for me...

like, the thing on screen has all the numbers on top of each other, but the textures are okay

[rigid island]

in new scene its working..

if thats the case..I could probably offset this operation in a separate scene

no idea why its borked in my gameplay scene :\ maybe PP who knows..

[gray mural]

Any ideas on making this clearer without changing the logic, because I don't feel like I can think properly now?
The code runs inside of the struct

if (max.NotSameAs(_maxLimit))
{
    _minLimit = min;
    SetMaxLimit(max);
}
else if (min.NotSameAs(_minLimit))
{
    _maxLimit = max;
    SetMinLimit(min);
}
else if (forceSet)
{
    _minLimit = min;
    SetMaxLimit(max);
}

[gray mural]

My best is

if (max.NotSameAs(_maxLimit)) { }

else if (min.NotSameAs(_minLimit))
{
    _maxLimit = max;
    SetMinLimit(min);
    return;
}
else if (!forceSet)
    return;

_minLimit = min;
SetMaxLimit(max);

[lean sail]

the first and last block do the same logic. Typing on mobile

If (min.NotSameAs...)
{
  max=...
...
}
Else if(max.... || forceSet)
{
min=....
...
}

Try to fill in the blanks that was a pain to type lol

Oh actually the logic is slightly different I guess. But this does seem odd, do you want that 2nd block to happen specifically only if the first is false?

Either way you can get rid of 1 if statement using or ||

[dense rock]

Is there some best practice for moving the player between scenes?
I heard someone talk about making a starting scene with only player and then loading the other scenes ontop of it. Does that work well and if so, how?

[spring creek]

Yes, it can work well. it doesn't necessarily have to be first either, just separate

Otherwise having just the DATA in DDOL or an additive scene and updating the player on new scenes can work

[latent latch]

ye just make the player and player class a singleton

[dense rock]

can you tell me what to look into? LoadSceneAditive?

[dense rock]

are you sure? that sounds very daring to me

[latent latch]

You can always just wrap the player into some singleton manager

[dense rock]

i have never heard of someone do that

[spring creek]

Yeah, or ddol.

[latent latch]

but for simpler projects -> use singletons all you want ;)

[dense rock]

i see

[spring creek]

It's pretty common in sp

[dense rock]

any advice on whats better to do? or any downsides to each?

[spring creek]

It's always a tradeoff for anything. I hesitate to use the word better except for a few things (like anything is better than Find())

Player as a singleton is gonna be easier for sure

Additive scene loading takes a bit more consideration

[dense rock]

i just wanna learn some best practices for coding my games, even if it takes more effort

[glad dew]

You don't have to make the player a singleton. You can make a player system a singleton though. And that system could take care of spawning the player at the beginning of the application lifecycle and moving that prefab instance between scenes during the game(and move the player prefab instance to the loading scene during loading screens).

[dense rock]

what do you mean by moving the instance between scenes?

not just spawning a new instance and setting it up, right?

[little meadow]

I just wanna say that moving objects between scenes is... extremely rarely a good idea, I feel

[dense rock]

thats good to know ^^

[glad dew]

Just a SceneManager.MoveGameObjectToScene() call.

[dense rock]

okay, never seen that before

[spring creek]

You mean best to just have it in its own scene? I agree in that case

[dense rock]

the player?

[spring creek]

Talking in general, not necessarily the player specifically

[dense rock]

side question, can objects on additively loaded scenes interact with each other?

[little meadow]

Do you really need to move it? I'd say store data in some non-Unity singleton/manager kind of class, and init the instance in the beginning of the scene

[spring creek]

Yes. Being in different scenes is completely irrelevant to referencing (using any runtime method)

[dense rock]

each scene thats loaded?

[dense rock]

i guess you mean more like managers and systems? to then spawn the player in each scene?

[little meadow]

I don't know what your scene structure is or what you want / need from it, so can't quite say... but you'll have one player at any time, for sure (well, for a single player game)

[spring creek]

No, was just talking about this

I just wanna say that moving objects between scenes is... extremely rarely a good idea, I feel

Literally nothing to do with the player or your issue except tangentially

[dense rock]

yeah im thinking of a sp rpg

sorry for all the confusion going on on my side :)

[little meadow]

if you wanna do additive loading scenes... unload one, load the other, then I think putting the player (and probably some other stuff) in their own is probably best 🤔 but not something I've actually done myself

[dense rock]

alright thanks ^^

I'll do some more research on how to accomplish that

on a similar note, would it be good practice to have one 'ManagerManager' thats just a singleton holding public references to all managers and the player in this seperate scene, so the active scenes can access them easily? or would that be bad practice for having that global dependency there?

[latent latch]

I've done a GameManager as my only singleton

and just included non-singleton AudioManager, ect

[dense rock]

for what kind of game would that be?

[latent latch]

Anything if you dislike the idea of static/global classes. Ideally you do want to have that GameManager for the service locator

[dense rock]

and other classes would then trigger the AudioManger through the GameManager?

[latent latch]

Makes the calls a little verbose, but yeah that's the idea

[dense rock]

thanks ^^

but doesn't that make like everything depend on the GameManager? Or is that not actually that bad?

[latent latch]

I wouldn't say there's any dependency beyond a place to store the references

[daring cove]

Hey,

How can I transform a world space coordinate to a coordinate on a viewport?
This is what I have written thus far.

Vector3 point; // (931.24, 314.45, 1200.50)

Vector2 viewportSize = new Vector2(0.25f, 0.16f);
float projectionFov = 90f;
float nearPlane = 0.1f;
float farPlane = 6500f;

// width divided by height
float aspectRatio = viewportSize.x / viewportSize.y;

// Creation of a projection matrix
localProjectionMatrix = Matrix4x4.Perspective(projectionFov, aspectRatio, nearPlane, farPlane);
localProjectionMatrix.SetTRS(transform.position, transform.rotation, Vector3.one);

Vector2 screenSpace = localProjectionMatrix.MultiplyPoint3x4(point);

screenSpace // is now (1205.57, 637.08)
            // expected numbers between -1 and 1 if thats correct.

[little meadow]

isn't there a camera.worldtoview kind of method?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToViewportPoint.html

[daring cove]

Im looking to translate the result to show on a simulated screen in the game.
So if the result is between -1 and 1 (not sure if that is the correct range) it can be translated to coordinates

So showing the player where a gun is aiming

With a point on a HUD

[pliant spade]

Hi, anyone has this error? Invalid configuration request for gameId

Is there a problem with unity servers, I don't see anything on the status page.
Ads don't work anymore.

[modern atlas]

Anyone know how a child of my player object doesn’t rotate with the player? I want a strict constraint on it’s Z rotation but whenever the player rotates, it also rotates

[latent latch]

Undo the rotation in code, use the AnimationConstraint class, or just make them siblings

[modern atlas]

ight thanks

[elfin tree]

I get a crazy 10-20sec lag spike in my game, yet i'm unable to catch it with deep profiling since it goes too fast and the exact moment is always lost, any idea how to go about this?

[lean sail]

if u know what general code is causing it, should be able to use Debug.Break to pause the game

[cosmic rain]

You can change how many frames the profiler keeps. I think you can set up to several hundreds of frames, which should be enough.

[elfin tree]

don't really, it's some code made by unity a long time ago

[elfin tree]

will try to play around with that

[lean sail]

i vaguely remember doing the same changing the amount of frames the profiler keeps. It was too fast before for me too

especially if you're trying to test input stuff

[cosmic rain]

Or just prepare to press the pause button right after the spike.

[rain minnow]

10-20 secs is a long time for the profiler to miss . . .

[stable osprey]

are there actual math/physics for this kind of thing?

like it'd normally reflect 15° leftwards but because the surface is 60° it reflects 75°

or if the reflect force was smaller than a threshold it wouldn't reflect but move along the surface's normal

[ebon viper]

is there any way to check what these GUI commands got changed to ?

[stable osprey]

I don't see how that answers my question

[ebon viper]

my fault OG

[stable osprey]

they're part of the UnityEngine.IMGUIModule, but they didn't get changed into anything.

[knotty sun]

that looks like your !ide is not configured correctly, it should tell you the missing using statement

[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
• :question: Other/None

[stable osprey]

as in, if you don't have the IMGUI package in your project, they won't be compiled

[lean sail]

Not sure exactly what you want but maybe Vector3.Reflect along the surface normal

[gray mural]

Yes, if max differs, SetMaxLimit, if min differs, SetMinLimit. Otherwise, SetMaxLimit only if forceSet

[stable osprey]

that's actually exactly what I want -- but curious about the actual math behind it -- also where the thresholds I mentioned come from

[swift falcon]

Not sure the exact question but to reflect a vector u across v, you'd just rotate v using the transformation of u rotated to v. In geometric algebra, this is just their geometric product, but there are other ways of getting that u -> v rotation transformation.

[lean sail]

Then yea just take the last code you had and combine the first 2 if statements, checking the reverse for the max.

[swift falcon]

This is why the reflection formula in geometric algebra is vuv or -vuv:
v * uv (uv being the u -> v rotation)

[gray mural]

Not sure what you mean by combining the first 2 statements

[lean sail]

I have no clue what you were writing about for the thresholds part honestly.
And if you look at the docs the formula is right there
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Reflect.html

[stable osprey]

was just righting something like: Quaternion.LookRotation(surfaceNormal, Vector3.forward) * (- 2 * Vector3.Dot(dir, surfaceNormal) * dir)

was close enough lol

thanks @lean sail @swift falcon. What's that about the u -> v transformation though? can I just deal with on a matrix level?

[stable osprey]

@lean sail regarding this, it's like, when you let a marble fall on a sloped surface, based on the height and angle it might begin rolling instead of bounce

[swift falcon]

would actually be easier to do with quaternions since you're using them. the geometric product of two vectors in quaternion form would be:
real part: u dot v,
vector part: u cross v

so then use that quaternion to transform v

well technically it'd be its square root iirc bc double cover

[stable osprey]

that makes sense coz of real life observation lol, but otherwise not much

I guess physics math are based on real life observation though :/

[swift falcon]

also assuming u and v are unit length

[lean sail]

I meant changing this to the code below. But honestly the first way you wrote it is the most clear. this is kinda confusing to read. even im trying to go through the logic to see if its the exact same

bool isMaxSame = !max.NotSameAs(_maxLimit);
if (isMaxSame && min.NotSameAs(_minLimit))
{
    _maxLimit = max;
    SetMinLimit(min);
    return;
}
else if (!forceSet)
    return;

_minLimit = min;
SetMaxLimit(max);

[swift falcon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI

[stable osprey]

well neither dot nor cross mind unit length -- why would I be tied in unit length here?

Dot(new(0, 1f, 0), new(250f, 250f, 0)) would return 500 * Dot(new(0, 1f, 0), new(0.5f, 0.5f, 0))

I studied physics so I'm aware of the fundamental math parts

[stable osprey]

this is the super confusing part rn, and the origin of the reflect maths

[lean sail]

kinda just woke up but id try comparing 2 vectors using Vector3.Angle. 1 is this result from Vector3.Reflect to see where it would bounce. The other being the movement if you project inDirection along the surface normal.

so im not fully sure if thats what you need

[stable osprey]

after finishing my coffee I get friction is involved though xD (& torque when it comes to marbles)

[lean sail]

just saying you rarely need to do complicated vector math yourself here. (ik its not actually complicated) but everything is pretty much built in

[stable osprey]

no, I'm looking to do the complicated vector math right now 😛 without any torque though

[swift falcon]

i mean u dot v != u.normalized dot v.normalized, idk what u mean

[lean sail]

still if the goal is to just move the marble along the surface, when the bounce is very close to where the marble would be moving anyways then all the needed functions are already built in

so i might be misunderstanding what you actually want. i dont really see what the problem is

[swift falcon]

if u and v aren't normalized then their geometric product will not return a unit rotor, and rotors are supposed to be normalized

[stable osprey]

well in my case the marbles would be enemies/projectiles, etc. I'm using kinematic RBs/CCs so would have to recreate bunch of the original dynamic physics (e.g.: bounce + slide along surface)

[lean sail]

a bounce being Vector3.Reflect, and sliding just being projecting on the surface normal. which is still built in

you also mentioned height would be taken into account, which is simply checking the magnitude of the vector before it hits the surface

[stable osprey]

I'm also on half-awake mode but this convo has been very productive since I realized bunch of things:

1. Torque is involved bunch of times in real-life -- but it probably isn't applicable in my game
2. Friction needs to play a part in Reflection/Bounce
   3a) Sliding along should be part of the Motor and Friction should be the only external anti-force to stop the slide
   3b) ..and the Reflection/Bounce part should be a result of anti-force after applying the Friction

I should probably just code them as separate Physics Effects (Components) and call it a day.. it's not really accurate physics I'm after, after all.. but a convincing and fun game environment

[glad dew]

Dot product of 2 vectors is equal to length(a) * length(b) * cos(angle between a and b). So if you don't normalize your vectors, you will get the cosine multiplied by the vector lengths.

[stable osprey]

I'd get the velocity instead of just the dir if I don't normalize them (since length(someVel) would be not normalized [?])

[lean sail]

id heavily consider how much of this you actually need in your game. like friction and torque i wouldnt even really think of implementing myself.

[little meadow]

Exactly! Accurate physics in games are overrated 😋

[stable osprey]

@little meadow !! 😄

[little meadow]

Hallo! 😊

[stable osprey]

no longer just trolling ;P too I see 😆

[glad dew]

No. Velocity is a vector, speed is a scalar.

[stable osprey]

I'm basing my game's combat on environmental effects, so friction might be interesting.. torque I think I'll just make individual animations per effect (IF ever NEEDED)

[pliant spade]

Hi, anyone has this error? Invalid configuration request for gameId

Is there a problem with unity servers, I don't see anything on the status page.
Ads don't work anymore.

[lean sail]

yea animation or just rotate the object depending on its last bounce compared to where it was actually going and its speed.

[little meadow]

and you can't just use the standard Unity physics with their friction and stuff? 🤔

[stable osprey]

this was my first thought, but people don't seem to think it's viable either: #archived-code-advanced message

I definitely want custom physics in, so might be a pain to implement them with dynamic RBs

[lean sail]

its definitely possible but making your own velocity then just implementing what you want is a lot easier.

[stable osprey]

and more importantly, it's probably more fun too, lol

like I'm sure I'll end up with Bounciness/Friction variables down this road (or re-use PhysicsMaterial, even)

[little meadow]

All fair points... I'd probably go with simplest approach first, see how far it gets me and whether it allows me to test the gameplay, even if not optimal or whatever... buuut I can see how making custom physics can be fun! 👍 😄

[swift falcon]

the math skill checks in doing anything custom physics is a pain in the ass

i feel like i need a masters every time i try to touch physics lol

[stable osprey]

@little meadow you were using Kinematic RB + custom physics for your 3D Character Controller, right?

[lean sail]

it really is not complicated. as i was saying before, pretty much everything is already built in

[little meadow]

yes, but it didn't need to be physically correct in a lot of aspects... it doesn't bounce, has torque or anything like that

I do highly recommend this for CCs, but for something that needs more proper physics.. who knows 🤷‍♂️ And as you may remember, I did try to use a dynamic RB first for a CC, and that did not go well 😂 😅 good thing someone was there to save me 😛

[lean sail]

i just use a non kinematic rigidbody and set the velocity to be exactly what i want. In which case it doesnt bounce, use friction, or torque. and it fits the design of my game because the only "downside" aka movement that i didnt code in will be depenetration

there is also the KCC on the asset store which you might as well learn if you wanna go that route

[swift falcon]

true unity does all the heavy lifting. I just like to learn by implementing stuff myself tho

[lean sail]

you should just ask your questions here instead of dming me. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[stable osprey]

@swift falcon you can download the free top-tier asset KCC and check it's code: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

it's not really as easy as bawsy made it sound, lol, but it's certainly doable!

[upper pilot]

How can I skip coroutine yield return by time passed OR key press?

IEnumerator Test()
{
  DoSomethingBefore();
  yield return (new WaitForSeconds(1f) || IsButtonPressed());
  DoSomethingAfter();
}

There is WaitUntil, is it possible to combine with a timer?

Found this:

float timeout = 5f;
yield return new WaitUntil(()=>condition || (timeout -=Time.deltaTime) <= 0);

Going to test ;]

[stable osprey]

I go the standard way of:

float t = 5;
do { yield return null; } while ((t -= Time.deltaTime) < 0 && !IsButtonPressed());

[upper pilot]

Why is there a need to do do { yield return null; }?

[stable osprey]

yield return null; makes the coroutine wait a frame

[upper pilot]

but it's only called once right?

[stable osprey]

if you just open a while loop, the execution will continue instantly because t -= Time.deltaTime; will be called 1000 times in the same frame

no, do { } while (); is essentially a while loop -- its content gets executed repeatedly until the condition isn't true anymore

[upper pilot]

I don't understand how does that work, but I never used do
From what I remember do runs 1st and only 1 time, then you execute next part(in this case a while loop)

[stable osprey]

it's not do, it's do while https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_while_loop.php

[upper pilot]

The Do/While Loop

The do/while loop is a variant of the while loop. This loop will execute the code block once, before checking if the condition is true, then it will repeat the loop as long as the condition is true.

yeah

"then it will repeat the loop as long as the condition is true"

doesn't that mean it will repeat while 1000 times per second

or is it meant to do that

[stable osprey]

look

wait

xD

[upper pilot]

Yes, but do only executes 1 time right?

so it only waits 1 frame once

[stable osprey]

no

the syntax is do { content } while (condition);

content is being executed until condition is not true anymore

[upper pilot]

oh so its different from what I expected

is it same for all do/for loops too?

or is do/while special

[stable osprey]

there are no do/for loops xD

[upper pilot]

huh

[stable osprey]

the loop types are: for, foreach, while, do/while

[upper pilot]

Its been a long time since I did JS so maybe I forgot 😄

ok nvm, I still thought that do executes only 1 time, but since I never used it I didn't know it actually executes multiple times 😮

[simple egret]

The main difference between a while and a do ... while loop is that, for do ... while, the contents of the loop will be executed at least once. The condition gets evaluated after the block { } has executed

[lean sail]

theres no need for the do while here, a simple while loop is sufficient here.

[upper pilot]

Ah thats the part I remember "execute only once", I guess when I started programming years ago I never understood this part and I never had a reason to use it.

I always thought its do executes 1 time 😄

[stable osprey]

yup! and in this case the timer is correctly substracted only after the frame is over

[upper pilot]

You can click on the UI during while loop?

[simple egret]

Not sure it compiles with the while loop, if the only yield return is inside the loop. It might ensure at least one yield is always reachable

[stable osprey]

you need to work on your programmer's mindset xD how could you possibly not have made your app stuck in a while loop yet? 🤣

[upper pilot]

Maybe because I never understood do/while that I never had a reason to use it since it didn't make sense at that time.
Why would I use do to call something once, then do a loop 😄

[lean sail]

well this is in a coroutine

[upper pilot]

But I need some sort of yield return

to wait for a condition

you can do yield return while?

or do you mean WaitUntil

[stable osprey]

imo go trial and error a lot more. You should have made your app crash and find out while loop freezes your app within the first week lol

[upper pilot]

WaitUntill is probably cleaner way and it should act the same as the above?
From what I read it's what it does behind the scenes anyway

[simple egret]

It compiles, so a regular while loop is sufficient here.

[upper pilot]

It happened last week I think, thats why I asked how can a while loop work on its own.

[stable osprey]

regular while loop makes it 1 frame quicker, so it's not ideal

[lean sail]

id hope so, or like 30 of my scripts would be screaming with errors. Theres no specific check that a yield is reached in every condition

[simple egret]

Not in any condition, but at least once in the method

[stable osprey]

yeah 1 missed frame doesn't really make a noticeable difference, but it's still an error of some sort 😛

[lean sail]

the while loop doesnt force anything like this. that is up to the implementation

[simple egret]

I thought something like that might have angered the compiler, but no

IEnumerator Sample()
{
  while (false)
    yield return null;
}

[stable osprey]

wdym?

[lean sail]

the yield is never reached, meaning this might freeze your unity nvm

was that not the issue with coroutines, where if a yield isnt reached it would freeze the editor?

[stable osprey]

IEnumerator can yield a count of 0 no problem

no, it's stuck inside a while loop that causes the freeze

[lean sail]

maybe im misremembering, i dont write code like that in the first place

[lean sail]

and yes im aware how loops work. I vaguely remember some issue with coroutines when it never yields

[simple egret]

Yeah in that case the method executes fully at the first internal MoveNext() call, and that's pretty much it!

[lean sail]

hm not sure where i read that then. i always thought it had to reach a yield

[simple egret]

Compiler enforces that there must be at least one in the method, but no further checks yep

If it's unreachable, it doesn't care lol

[stable osprey]

IEnumerable is pretty much a list whose content is created/populated dynamically, so you can have something like this:

public IEnumerable GetImportantObjects() {
    yield return FindObjectOfType<Player>();
    yield return FindObjectOfType<Boss>();
    yield return FindObjectOfType<Checkpoint>();
}
```and `IEnumerator` is just the mechanism that does the walking through the `IEnumerable`.

Imagine that to walk through a list with `foreach`, the compiler does: `var en = myList.GetEnumerator(); while (en.MoveNext()) { yield return en.Current; }`

[lean sail]

i know how it works, i just thought something different if it never hit a yield.

not sure if there was some confusion but i wasnt asking any questions on it. it was someone elses question

[stable osprey]

nah just felt like enriching my procrastination a bit and potentially clear that out just in case lol

sorry

[ebon linden]

i used advertisement legacy to add rewarded ad
when i install and add this thing, build can't happen and android resolver gets stuck at 0%
when i remove it, everything is fine

i'm aware that unity recommends mediation
but i've my client's ad ids for legacy i think

\Temp\PlayServicesResolverGradle\gradlew.bat --no-daemon -b "\Temp\PlayServicesResolverGradle\PlayServicesResolver.scripts.download_artifacts.gradle" "-PANDROID_HOME=C:/Program Files/Unity/Hub/Editor/2022.3.35f1/Editor/Data/PlaybackEngines/AndroidPlayer\SDK" "-PTARGET_DIR=\Assets\Plugins\Android" "-PMAVEN_REPOS=https://maven.google.com/" "-PPACKAGES_TO_COPY=com.unity3d.ads:unity-ads:[4.12.0,4.13[" "-PUSE_JETIFIER=1" "-PDATA_BINDING_VERSION=7.1.2"

can anyone help?
there is playfab tmp in the project as well
nothing else

[silver crown]

Hello, question to anyone who can help.

I have a base class Interactive that GroundItem and Door derive from. There is a raycast on my CameraController that detects GOs with the Interactive component.

Question: When a Interactive is found with the raycast, will invoking the base method of the component invoke the respective override method instead?

[lean sail]

If you override the method in the derived class, that functionality will be used.

So yes

[leaden ice]

Better to use composition instead of inheritance for this stuff.

[silver crown]

So

if (Physics.Raycast(Blah, Blah)){  //Target is GroundItem : Interactive
  Interactive i = hit.collider.go.GetComponent<Interactive>();
  i.Interact();
}

If I understand correctly this will invoke the GroundItem.Interact over the base function?

[leaden ice]

But yes the override will be used that's the point of an override

You could also use an interface here, which would be much more flexible than a base class

[silver crown]

Ok I'll more into using interfaces, thank you for your time folks @lean sail

[warm kite]

If I use Unity's Awaitable API, what happens to the running asynchronous methods? Will Unity wait for them to execute before quitting?

[leaden ice]

No. It works just like a coroutine afaik

[warm kite]

So does the asynchronous method just terminate even if it's not done yet?

[leaden ice]

Sure. Or rather, it just never resumes from whatever await line it's waiting at

[tame smelt]

anyone can help me with this?

[mellow rivet]

Why when I put the knot it goes soooo much to the right (The cubes is where it should be)

    private void IsPlacing(InputAction.CallbackContext obj)
    {
                
       
        var layerDefault0 = 1 << 0; 
        var layerTrigger6 = 1 << 6;
        var finalmask = layerDefault0 | layerTrigger6;
        

        RaycastHit hit;
        Ray ray = playerCamera.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(.5f, .5f, 0));
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 15, finalmask))
        {
            
            Vector3 hitPosition = hit.point;
            hitPosition.y = _firstKnot.Position.y;
            
            
            _splineToAddKnots.Add(hitPosition);
            
            if (hit.collider.gameObject.layer == 6)
            {
                StopAndSendSpline();
            }
        }
    }

[ebon viper]

I’m adding a gamemode to this game and when i launch the game some dependencies like unlink and whatnot how do i fix this

[earnest epoch]

I'm sorry - what? Did you have a conversation going with someone earlier in this channel?

[spring creek]

What do you mean dependencies (do you mean references, or packages, or something else)? And unlink? And when you say launch, is this a build or just hitting play?

[earnest epoch]

Hey - I might have a design question here. This uses the new Input System, but I don't think it's an Input System specific question.

I am building an RTS game with an input map for every unit ability. This code enables or disables inputActions according to the player's current unit selection and passes all input actions through the method "OnAbilityButtonPressed".

Consider the following methods:

{
    if (unitAbility != null)
    {
        unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.Enable();
        unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.started += OnAbilityButtonPressed;
        Debug.Log($"Enabled {unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.bindings[0].ToDisplayString()}!");
    }
}

public void DisableInputAction()
{
    if (unitAbility != null)
    {
        unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.Disable();
        Debug.Log($"Disabled {unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.bindings[0].ToDisplayString()}!");
        unitAbility.inputActionReference.action.started -= OnAbilityButtonPressed;
    }
}

private void OnAbilityButtonPressed(InputAction.CallbackContext inputActionContext) => InputUtilities.PressReleaseAction(inputActionContext, () =>
{
    // Do something here
});```

InputUtilities:
```public static void PressReleaseAction(InputAction.CallbackContext context, Action onPressCallback = null, Action onReleaseCallback = null)
{
    switch (context.phase)
    {
        case InputActionPhase.Started: onPressCallback?.Invoke(); break;
        case InputActionPhase.Canceled: onReleaseCallback?.Invoke(); break;
    }
}```

In "EnableInputAction", I'm trying to figure out an elegant way to pass "unitAbility" as a parameter to OnAbilityButtonPressed, or at least emulate some way of making that object available to the method. Basically, when the input action pressed method is called, I would like to be able to reference the ability that called it, but there doesn't seem to be a way to attach "extra" data to an input event. Any ideas?

I understand that there isn't a magic way to attach an object to an event with a defined signature, but I'm trying to brainstorm how to really cement this.

I also just realized that my helper method is redundant...

[gleaming quiver]

I've been working on improving the efficiency of my game, I've noticed I use a lot of MaterialPropertyBlocks to change the color on renderers.
Does using a different MaterialPropertyBlock per renderer cause inherit performance issues, even if some of them have the same underlying properties. Or does the engine know theres to MaterialPropertyBlocks that have the same color and optimizes accordingly.

public class Wall{
    public Color WallColor = Color.Green;

    void Start(){
        var mpb = new MaterialPropertyBlock();
        mpb.SetColor("_BaseColor", property.color);
        GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().SetPropertyBlock(mpb);
    }
}

[earnest epoch]

I doubt the graphics renderer will optimize that as it's relatively cheap to spawn new materials per Renderer component. A material is really just a "property block" that points to a program, so it isn't much heavier than it's properties and so is easy to instantiate.

I'm pretty sure by the line ,SetPropertyBlock(mpb) you have instantiated a new Material that differs from renderer.sharedMaterial, so at that point, renderer.material will be unique.

Sorry for the edit - I'm just being dumb.

[gleaming quiver]

I didn't think MaterialPropertyBlocks changed the underlying material, and instead acted as per-instance shader overrides

[earnest epoch]

In your last message, are you referring to the Material asset in your project as the "underlying material"?

[gleaming quiver]

Yes

[earnest epoch]

Okay, so your renderer will generate a totally new Material in memory when it's properties change.

[gleaming quiver]

From what I've tried just now, in a large scene with lots of MaterialPropertyBlock, sharing MaterialPropertyBlock that share the same attributes does have a performance increase over using a new MaterialPropertyBlock per object

[earnest epoch]

Out of curiosity, have you considered sharing the material as a reference?

[gleaming quiver]

Nope, just because some of the Walls have different textures, so different materials. But sharing MaterialPropertyBlocks between multiple renderers seems to do what I need

[earnest epoch]

So as soon as you do so much as offset a texture in a material, you are changing the initial conditions of a shader. A "material" might be best thought of as a set of conditions given before a shader runs.

Unity spawns materials behind the scenes whenever a renderer has the properties of its' shaders changed. This is okay, because shaders really are just a summary of conditions which get passed into the same shader program that all these materials reference.

I'm wondering if you're forcing instantiation of shaders this way.

[gleaming quiver]

The main thing I'm not understanding is in a scene that has many MaterialPropertyBlocks with the same data, on the same sharedMaterials.

    public Color WallColor = Color.Green;

    void Start(){
        var mpb = new MaterialPropertyBlock();
        mpb.SetColor("_BaseColor", property.color);
        GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().SetPropertyBlock(mpb);
    }
}```
has an inherently worse runtime performance than

public class Wall{
public Color WallColor = Color.Green;
public static MaterialPropertyBlock mpb;

void Start(){
    if(Wall.mpb == null){
        Wall.mpb = new MaterialPropertyBlock();
        Wall.mpb.SetColor("_BaseColor", WallColor);
    }
    GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().SetPropertyBlock(Wall.mpb);
}

}

Just sharing a reference to the same `MaterialPropertyBlock` for common objects, in this case all Green walls using the same `MaterialPropertyBlock`, instead of generating a new one for each object improves performance in my scene.

[earnest epoch]

I'm spitballing here, but in the first (slow) version, you're instantiating a unique MaterialPropertyBlock and using it right away in the GetComponent() method call. In the second case, you're checking if a reference isn't null, setting a colour in the same control flow and then calling a function that references the potentially null value. In the first case, the instantiation and involvement of the MaterialPropertyBlock is guaranteed, whereby I think some C# null allocation wizardry might be bypassing a lot of work for you.

Null checks are dirt cheap in C#.

[gleaming quiver]

That would account for the intialization, but moving around the scene, I'm seeing a performance increase doing it the 2nd way

[earnest epoch]

Have you been able to pinpoint when work happens with the Unity built-in profiler?

[gleaming quiver]

ScriptableRenderer.Execute

[slim trail]

hi

i have problem with collision between my two enemies

they have box collider and rigidbody

[gray mural]

It's fine with me if you write it in a single message

[slim trail]

but when they are moved by code they don,t collide

and they start to overlap

[gray mural]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78253906/collision-with-boxcolliders-without-rigidbodies/78254566#78254566

[spring creek]

The colliders are not triggers, right?
Your code actually moves via the rigidbodies right? (As opposed to transform.translate or transform.position)

[slim trail]

not triger

no

just move towards player

.MoveTowards()

[spring creek]

That is not a movement method despite the name. What do you USE that with?

Also, as Sashok said, please finish a message before hitting enter
Vertical message spam is against the policy here

[earnest epoch]

@slim trailThis is a common concern. Generally speaking, Unity physics don't work very well when you move objects around outside of Fixeed Update.

[slim trail]

just changing transform.position = vector2.movetowards...

[spring creek]

Ok, so transform movement exactly as I said above and you said no to

[earnest epoch]

Also, the reason why @spring creek asks about triggers is for this reason - rigidbodies don't magically find themselves within other hulls on system updates - rather collisions need to happen on physics ticks.

[spring creek]

If you have a rigidbody, then use the rigidbody.
rb.velocity, rb.AddForce, rb.MovePosition

[slim trail]

how

[spring creek]

MoveTowards is just a math function.
You are using it to teleport the player (directly setting the transform.position)

[slim trail]

then they will be going to one direction

[spring creek]

What? Why would that be?

[slim trail]

.addForce

[rigid island]

you can technically still do
rb.position = vector2.movetowards

[spring creek]

AddForce takes a vector and can move in any direction or combination of directions

[slim trail]

can i add updatable force direction?

[spring creek]

Of course.......
That is indeed the entire point of any of these

[slim trail]

how/

[earnest epoch]

@spring creek Not a direct answer to your question, but the meat of the issue (if you want to do further reading) is described here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html. Thankfully, you're in good company.

[spring creek]

What?
I did not ask any question. And that is not relevant to anything I said
I know all about the execution order and the difference in cadences between update and fixedupdate

[earnest epoch]

Oops, I mean to target that to LordSword. 😦

[spring creek]

Ahhhh, gotcha. Was very confused

[zealous bridge]

Is there a way in unity to make ScriptableObjects revert to their original values after editor runtime (like Resources from Godot)? As I haven't found a way to implement such a behaviour, I always use: [field: SerializeField] public int ReadonlyProperty { get; private set; } where it is readonly from outside of Scriptable Object and notice the [field: SerializeField] attribute which is necessary to tell unity to serialize auto implemented property in inspector (because properties aren't serialized by default). Reason behind doing this constant property thing is avoiding accidental change of ScriptableObject's data because I want my EVERY editor runtime to be consistent - begin with some carefully choosen values. I really want this feature of reverting Scriptable Objects to original:

Solution from chatGPT was:

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class Resource<T> : ScriptableObject where T : struct
{
public T value;

private T originalValue;

void OnEnable()
{
    // Store the original value when the ScriptableObject is first loaded
    originalValue = value; // Deep copy for structs
}

public void ResetToOriginal()
{
    // Reset the value to the original stored value
    value = originalValue; // Deep copy for structs
}

}

This is not fully correct cause OnEnable isn't called right before runtime. I also now that FlaxEngine (powerful young 3D engine similar to unity) has Assets as way of doing permanent data like SO and it also doesn't revert to original after runtime. Am I wrong with my desire and way of doing this? Am I fighting with some logical engine concept? What do you think?

[earnest epoch]

Reading comprehension is hard. I don't know what else to say.

[spring creek]

We are not allowed to help fix gpt code here
#📖┃code-of-conduct
#854851968446365696

Share what YOU made

[earnest epoch]

ChatGPT is an expert system designed to present you with a solution that you'll believe. That isn't enough to show us that you've thought about the problem critically.

[zealous bridge]

Ok but what do you think: should those scriptable objects be always constant for the sake of having consistent runtime beginning? Do you also make field: SerializeField for such a reason?

[rigid island]

what is even the intent behind using SO for this ? They do reset to their original value in the runtime but not in editor

[latent latch]

just make SOs immutable

[earnest epoch]

I'm shooting in the dark slightly for your use case, but ChatGPT missed the mark if OnEnable() should mean "is first loaded". If you want this action triggered when the object is born in the game world, use Awake(). If it needs to run before the first frame of the scene is run, use Start().

[zealous bridge]

https://youtu.be/raQ3iHhE_Kk?si=TsN-iDrrWmeAr9nu&t=1446

[earnest epoch]

GameObjects can be enabled and disabled... when enabled, methods such as "Update", "LateUpdate", some physics stuff, etc. are polled regularly and the object is given an opportunity to run some code. The most common example is "Update", which runs every rendered frame where graphics are displayed. OnEnable() is run every time the object is set to "be enabled", which isn't exactly synonymous with constructor-like behaviour.

So if you're relying on ChatGPT electing that method, I think it missed the mark.

[zealous bridge]

That timestamp is talking about player having reference to some data and systems having reference to same scriptable object. This way, systems get notified whenever player health (or other plaayer data) changes and the idea here is that scriptable object - player data IS DESIGNED to change during runtime. My confusion is following: if I do so with lets say, health, mana, score or whatever, systems having the reference to same scriptable object would be notified but it won't revert to original values as soon as editor runtime ends. This way, I have system notification but next runtime will not be consistent for me. However, if I make use of [field: SerializeField] to make scriptable object immutable, than I lose the ability of changing that player data. Am I using scriptable object in wrong usecase? If so, what is that guy in video time stamp (Ryan Hipple) trying to teach?

[latent latch]

SOs should be for default health of the player if that's your usecase

players should have thier own current health property that takes in a SO with those default values and appends it onto that specific player instance along with anything else that's part of the health equation.

[oblique spoke]

You would have to come up with some sort of resetting mechanism. I'm personally not super sold on using SOs to this extent.

[earnest epoch]

@zealous bridge Okay, I think I'm starting to get where you're coming from. Have you used ScriptableObjects much before this?

[oblique spoke]

OnEnable/Disable might work for this

[zealous bridge]

I used them for constant immutable things mostly, I didn't know that inconsitency of SO not reverting their values aftoer editor runtime but they revert their values after exported runtime (exported game doesn't have the means of having that asset so it cannot remember values after last exported runtime but it is very inconsistent IMHO)

[earnest epoch]

So the main purpose of a ScriptableObject is to created an instanced set of data from a template, much like a Prefab, and store it on disk on your project.

[latent latch]

oh, are you editing the SOs in an editor build?

you mean want to create instance if you're doing that instead

[earnest epoch]

Here are some of mine, in an RTS game.

[latent latch]

if I recall, editing a SO during editor builds creates another instance to prevent you from actually modifying the actual instance, but it won't reset back to the original copy until you restart the editor

[earnest epoch]

It might help to consider that ScriptableObjects inherit from UnityEngine.Object, as do GameObjects. They are an offshoot from the base object class that don't necessarily live within a scene, but share a lot of fundamental members with GameObjects.

[earnest epoch]

If you modify an SO in memory, you are creating an instance, similar to how Materials work. The base asset doesn't get changed as it is a template.

[latent latch]

Yeah, and the problem here is it's still using that instance when exiting the editor runtime build, right? I think I remember looking up a solution for that and it's to just create a new SO instance at editor-build runtime instead of modifying that exact copy.

[zealous bridge]

I have never tried to change value in SO (I didn't use [field: SerializeField]). I remember watching this video
https://youtu.be/5a-ztc5gcFw?si=qs8pwbiL8XL5-p4r&t=139 for the first time and from that point, I started thinking about should I use SO in immutable way always? Then I found out that Godot's Resource is much better that SO IMHO. Unity engine programmers would typicallly say: "It's not a bug, it's a feature", but I realized that without that 'feature', I would be able to let myself freely change SO's values and have more dynamic gameplay.

[rapid glen]

I am working on a small racing game, and am trying to calculate lap completion so that I can decide what position players are in during the race. I've created a spline that goes around the track and have a reference to it as a SplineContainer called _trackSplineContainer, with the length of the track being a float called _trackSplineLength, and also the Vector3 position pos of the car I am trying to calculate progress for.

Ideally if the player is 1/3 around the track, the calculation should find the closest point to the car on the spline and return it as .33 or so.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to interact with the spline group and hoping someone may assist ❤️

[latent latch]

Even in Godot, I don't modify resources ;p

[earnest epoch]

I got weeks into a project thinking that I could use ScriptableObjects as a kind of database to learn the hard truth later, that they're just an on-disk flat-file storage system that uses a C# class to define it's form. Toally useful, but perhaps easily misunderstood.

[latent latch]

I usually prefer a dependency injection workflow when considering these data types

[earnest epoch]

SO are fine; they aren't repositories - just cookie-cutter data.

As soon as you need a to grab data from a repository, SO aren't going to help you. You need a model object and some appropriate way to fetch data instead.

[mossy snow]

no, you are editing the asset. Materials work the same way, there are just ways that Unity automatically creates instances for you (ex: .material vs .sharedMaterial)

[earnest epoch]

Sorry, that is correct. I was implying that many people working in C# aren't aware that they are creating instances in common use. I'm tired. :/

[zealous bridge]

By saying dependency injection, do you mean passing necessary data (health, mana, difficulty level, whatever ....) to constructor of all classes which need that and they also pass necessary data to other objects which needs that?

[latent latch]

class_name AbilityData
extends Resource

enum CastPoint {
    Forward,
    Self,
}

@export_group("Variables")
@export var _hit_layers: Array[LayerUtility.Layer]
@export var _cast_point: CastPoint = CastPoint.Forward
@export var _mana_cost: int = 1
@export var _damage: int = 1
@export var _mana_drain: int = 1
@export var effect_type_set: EffectUtility.EffectType
@export var effect_type_unset: EffectUtility.EffectType

@export_group("Particles")
@export var _primary_particles: PackedScene
@export var _trail_particles: PackedScene
@export var _hit_particles: PackedScene```

Similar to SOs, this is what I do for Godot for my projectiles (for object pooling). This allows me to use a single prefab (scene) and reuse it by injecting these datas onto it when I want to reuse them.

the other workflow is to have multiple different scenes/prefabs with unique data for each... which is fine but when you're making hundreds of abilities or wanting to pool them it becomes problematic

Scene/Prefab inheritence vs single prefab + plain data

[earnest epoch]

@latent latch @zealous bridge Okay, I'll bite. I don't think that this is dependency injection.

[latent latch]

I'd argue anything really done with unity game objects could be considered DI since you do not have a constructer ;p

[earnest epoch]

Dependency in .NET really requires that lifetimes be transient, scoped or singular. Outside of that, I'm not sure we can really use the term. Are you perhaps refering to a collection of singletons or static objects?

[latent latch]

There's nothing static here. It's loose data that can change the behaviour of an object

[earnest epoch]

Can you provide a code example outside of GDScript?

[latent latch]

For example, and on the topic of projectiles. Say, the default behavior you'd expect from one is a velocity, but let's assume you want to give the projectile the ability to ricochet or pierce using that same object. This behavior isn't the result of what parameters were set through the constructor, but a result of data that's passed in to define that behavior. What this allows you to do is reuse these objects without having to destroy/reconstruct with a new set of parameters.

[earnest epoch]

Dependency injection is a systems issue that doesn't apply well to objects in a simulation. I think you need to brush up on the meaning in a generic sense. With respect to C#, it would guide you to look at the transient, scoped and singleton implementations of DI as they are well-supported. What you are describing has nothing to do with DI, even artistically.

It's a well-defined pattern designed to skirt issues that are not present in object-wise simulations, but rather service-based ones.

[latent latch]

I guess the example is the greatest, but the behavior itself doesn't necessarily needs to be hard coded on that object. It can be passed code to execute that also defines that behaviour

This is coming from c++ perspective, so I'm not sure if .net has its own definition for this stuff

[earnest epoch]

DI is about running some code within a context where some global resource is overloaded.

[latent latch]

Usually composition and DI go hand in hand

[earnest epoch]

Okay yeah, I'm drawing on the C# method here. I don't use DI in C++ personally.

[cold parrot]

i think one of you is talking about Inverson of Control and the other about Dependency Injecton Containers

[earnest epoch]

DI in C# is pretty railroaded, but also solves some specific problems.

I'll elect myself as talking about containers lol.

[cold parrot]

"DI" is a useless shorthand that gets misunderstood constantly

[latent latch]

I think I've had this discussion many times before lmao

[earnest epoch]

Inversion of control was not on my radar - maybe I'm biased.

[cold parrot]

most of these discussions have people talking about different things with each other

most of the time, all parties agree actually

[earnest epoch]

C# certainly revolves around DI being containerized as part of the .NET offering.

[cold parrot]

c# revolves around nothing related to DI, .NET has a framework for how you're supposed to configure and init applications however, and that one has a dependency injecton container

but you are by no means forced to use that or even encouraged to from a purely C# perspective

[earnest epoch]

Right. Sorry - it's a named feature, is what I meant.

[cold parrot]

this .NET DI container is useless for game projects as it cannot deal with dynamic scopes

[earnest epoch]

I can understand how inversion of control can thematically sit in for dependency injection, but I can't say I've ever seen the two terms used interchangeably.

More specifically, in wizard language (like C/C++), I don't think I've ever heard of code being so heavily dependent on reading from a parameter being labeld as "dependency injected". I think the custom might have thrown me for a loop.

[flint plume]

is there embed or file permissions here

https://medal.tv/games/requested/clips/ixyztcGMREZ0v5w3W/d1337msYev9q?invite=cr-MSxCc2wsMTgzNjY1MDAxLA

how do i fix this

idk why its stretching like that

it hasnt done that on my other project

[earnest epoch]

@flint plume Like when you move your view vertically?

[flint plume]

yeah

https://medal.tv/games/requested/clips/iwBcS0BQWrWj0Tmnf/d13372F6eqkf?invite=cr-MSxrNk0sMTgzNjY1MDAxLA

this is another thing i did

the gun doesnt do that

[rigid island]

non uniform scale

[flint plume]

english?

ive been doing this for 5 days im still learning

[rigid island]

meaning one of the parents has scaled non-uniform
(the numbers aren't the same) eg 3,3,2

[earnest epoch]

Honestly, that looks like the default sort of reaction that I would expect. In the second video that you posted, the gun is parented to the camera, or at least moves proprotionally to it.

[flint plume]

didnt know that would break it ty

[earnest epoch]

Can you post a screenshot of your object hierarchy?

[flint plume]

that should fix it

i had the overall parent of the player as the 3d object instead of a holder

[earnest epoch]

I think that UGUI has this, but for the editor side - sorry, I can't remember.

[rigid island]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[gray mural]

Thanks, I will post it here

[flint plume]

just realised shadows dont move

is this a thing with the directional light or do i need to use a different type

if so which

im trying a point light but everything looks a little weird

[simple egret]

Ask in #archived-lighting

[flint plume]

alr mb

[compact bramble]

Why isn't my player showing up?

[somber nacelle]

not a code question. but is it perhaps on a sorting layer that is rendering behind whatever layer that background is on?

[compact bramble]

no idea

which channel can I ask questions about this?

[somber nacelle]

#🔎┃find-a-channel

[compact bramble]

thx

[queen saffron]

Hello yall
I've been trying to implement subdivision of a mesh that contain set of vertices and faces. This is my code and i would like some assistance https://paste.ofcode.org/suAQF4SwvSAmEHZS9kH23J

appreciate any offer of assistance

[mighty void]

anyone know if exists a way to draw gismos in exported game?

i want to draw gismos in specific moments of the game

[latent latch]

usually I just create a primitive mesh at the location

can probably do some wireframe shader

[hoary mason]

Unity gets stuck entering playmode

I get this on editor.log

the GUIStateObj is deleted, but is accessed

[stable osprey]

did u fix?

[hoary mason]

not really

do you have any ideas?

[stable osprey]

@mighty void yeah you'd need a custom solution for runtime gizmos. You can find some libs in the asset store that do it, or code your own for your specific needs.

[stable osprey]

closing all Editor Windows and restarting Unity 😛

(Editor Windows aka Animator, Animation, windows for Tools, etc)

[hoary mason]

tried lke 5 times!

[stable osprey]

if that doesn't work, consider closing Unity Editor then deleting the Library folder and letting it re-import after you open it

[stable osprey]

you surely closed all editor windows? can you post a screenshot of your screen when u have Unity Editor open?

[stable osprey]

I see 2 extra editor window tabs right there

and another 2 there

aka you didn't close a single editor window before trying lol

make sure you read full responses from real people before responding to them -- people use up their time to type them specifically for you, so at least read them

(not really mad or anything, just saying)

[hoary mason]

no I meant that I reopened unity

I closed the whole program before

since once it gets stuck loading everything freezes

[stable osprey]

right click on Timeline, Animation, Animator, Asset Store, and close them