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fast oriole
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Hi, was just wondering if there is a way to force reload a shader/material? trying to set the bools manually in the first two screenshots but it just stays the same despite the bools being set, but if I just manually tick it in the inspector it works straight away

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pastel patio
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Well, yep, like I suspected, WebGL builds will automatically have ALL input devices, even if they aren't actually available

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I assume that there's no other solution than displaying two buttons so that the player can choose, right?

wary dock
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Heya, I made a nightvision using Post Processing in URP. How can I go about making the lights almost blinding when looking at them? I can go about changing the intensity of all lights to something high, but is there a better approach? There is also post exposure but that affects everything.

This is what it looks like right now:

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soft shard
# pastel patio I assume that there's no other solution than displaying two buttons so that the ...

A button sounds like a good option, you could probably also check if the device is enabled, or has active input, or check a "key" that would constantly change like delta position - if you know your specifically on a particular platform you might be able to check system info instead to detect if its mobile or PC and determine the input outside the input system that way, though probably just letting the player click a button would be a quicker/easier solution, otherwise you could maybe try #🖱️┃input-system for some more ideas

pastel patio
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Although it's probably really not cheap to go through your whole view to determine how bright your current view is

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I'd suggest as an alternative in that case to make volumes that affects the strength of screen post processor that darkens everything... Of which the effect occurs if you're looking at one such volume

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By volumes I mean colliders with isTrigger enabled, that's likely the most simple way to go about it

wary dock
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Thanks @pastel patio. Just to understand. I add a volume to my for example spotlight, add a collider and make the volume Local? Then I can add say Bloom effect to the light?

I am not sure I understand the isTrigger part, is this to prevent player from bumping into the light or should I use the isTrigger logic for something?

pastel patio
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Because without it, it won't check trigger colliders

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Why I suggest trigger colliders is because nothing will bump into it, but you can still raycast onto them

pastel patio
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Alternative

Ah, I have an idea for a slightly better design that wouldn't require you to line all bright surfaces with such colliders:

  1. Raycast to where you're looking at, you may perform this multiple times to potentially improve it, I suggest randomizing the cast direction a bit and make the darken factor only increase/decrease gradually
  2. Check if the hit location is within a light volume, I think that colliders at the very least allows to check if a point is within it
  3. The total brightness is Sum of the brightness of all ray's hit points / RayCount
  4. Adjust how strong the darkening effect is based on that
sterile reef
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whats the least impactful way of doing Aoe detection? a normal Aoe would be doing an OverlapCircle and iterating through hit targets and using trygetcomponent.
but.. is there a less impactful way of doing it?

pastel patio
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If you support it, actually looks like there's a built-in solution...

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xD

pastel patio
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You can also keep all enemies in a collection and iterate through those instead, but it might actually be worse to do this depending on your game's setup

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The above solution can then be optimized by assigning enemies to a grid to avoid looping through all of them

sterile reef
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so no grids involved

pastel patio
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I assume that Unity already has spacial partitioning to optimize collision, can anyone verify it?

wary dock
sterile reef
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and while i dont think the normal way of doing it is bad i would like to learn a more efficient way

pastel patio
sterile reef
pastel patio
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So that you may only check all enemies within the nearby 4 square meters or so

quartz folio
sterile reef
pastel patio
sterile reef
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my enemies move freely, aoe should be radial

pastel patio
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Basically all enemies with for example 0 <= x < 10 and 0 <= y < 10 as position can be obtained within a related grid in the map

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And no, I don't mean that the enemy's movements are fixed to a grid

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I mean that the enemies are put inside grid cells based on their position

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Then you can find the cells that the circle intersects with

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So that you only have to check the enemies inside the intersected cells

sterile reef
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🤔 im starting to understand but its vague

pastel patio
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They use a linked list to make adding & removing enemies from each cell cheaper

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There's quad tree in the article too but honestly, I doubt you'll need it

pastel patio
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Good luck xD

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It might be a lot to wrap your head around initially

sterile reef
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so youre projecting a local space on an entity that keeps track of all other entities within a range

pastel patio
sterile reef
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wait

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its not

pastel patio
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What I mean is that if... Hmmm... It's easier to explain in 1 dimension, so imagine a platformer
And you devide the world into a grid, each cell has a size of 5
In that case, if an entity's at position 4.3, they're actually in cells[0]
If their x position is 1.3, they're in cells[0] too
But if their position is 6.5, then they're in cells[1], cus 6.5/5 rounded down is 1

sterile reef
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actively scratching my head

sterile reef
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basically

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a fake grid

pastel patio
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And if you wanna get all entities with an x position of 0 ~ 5 (Actually 4.9 but okay)
You'll just have to check cells[0]

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Well, yeah, you can say so

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It's basically there to group things

sterile reef
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but can the range be variable?

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since i can have a 5 Aoe range or an 11.549678587 whatev

pastel patio
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Well, the cell an entity should be put into is Mathf.Floor(position/cellSize)

pastel patio
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You need to get all cells that are touching the AOE

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There're quite a few possible answers, so I would suggest you just research from here on

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I think that the thing you need is quite clear now, what's left is just implementation

sterile reef
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notlikethis i shouldnt have started this 30 minutes before going to a birthday

sterile reef
pastel patio
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xD I wish you a good day, you can check later

sterile reef
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or my player

pastel patio
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Just search Spacial grid partitioning when you have time

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I gotta go, sorry '^^

sterile reef
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thanks for the info!

pastel patio
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Please don't forget to unassign from previous cell too xD

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Or else it's gonna get bad

open plover
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I just made a new project with unity 6000.0.24f1

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It says “internal build system error. BuildProgram exited with code 123.”

simple egret
rocky jackal
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I have one plane object that has a rigidbody components, the colliders are childreen of it. How can i get which of the plane segments was part of the collision i tried checking for a collision using a script on the individual segments but that didn't work at all

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leaden ice
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What didn't work about it?

rocky jackal
leaden ice
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Is your Rigidbody dynamic?

rocky jackal
rocky jackal
leaden ice
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That should be fine

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That's the correct arrangement

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I think your console window might have warnings disabled?

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Yeah it does

rocky jackal
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Ill restart unity and see if that fixes it

leaden ice
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What are the errors

rocky jackal
# leaden ice You have errors

They have nothing to do with the collisions its cause some value somehow turns NaN in the beginning but i have a check in the code that resets the spring simulations to fix the NaN error so i always get these exact 11 errors

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Restarting unity didn't fix the collision detection

leaden ice
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I can't imagine it would have

dusk apex
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Do both objects have colliders? I see a box collider.

leaden ice
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It will only fire On collision enter on the object with the Rigidbody

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I was thinking of OnTriggerEnter which would work this way

rocky jackal
astral girder
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Aloha! I read that a new feature in in Unity 6 Web platform is the ability to copy and paste to and from the Unity player. This works with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V in input fields, and is great! But I am looking for a way to make a button, that when clicked, copys a lobby code to the user's clipboard. Is this possible? I've tried GUIUtility.systemCopyBuffer = roomCode; which works in the Unity engine but not on the Web platform. I've also tried googling for solutions but only found ones that enable copy and paste with Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V to input fields for older versions of Unity WebGL builds. Thanks for your time!

dusky lake
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If thats not natively possible you can write a JS plugin that does that task

astral girder
dusky lake
cursive granite
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I don't really know where to put it, so if this is wrong, please tell me.

I have trouble creating a seamless transition between 2 different scenes.

In Scene 1 I have a blue room with a door to an elevator, entering the elevator closes the door and loads Scene 2, a red room. Now I want to create the effect of traveling in an elevator, where you go in from S1 to S2 without noticing it. (Player still being able to move inside the elevator and not snap to a predifined position when loading S2)

leaden ice
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That way you can unload scene 1 while inside the elevator

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And load scene 2

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Basically:

Load scene 1.
Load elevator scene additively.
Player enters elevator
Start loading scene 2 additively and asynchronously
Start unloading scene 1 asynchronously
When scene 2 finishes loading you open the elevator doors

cursive granite
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That is actually a much more obvious and easy solution than what I thought.
Thanks a lot

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What about the player tho?

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How would I handle that?

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I presume just make him DDOL and not add him in scene2?

leaden ice
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The player would be DDOL yes

swift falcon
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is there a way to use jobs to generate the heights for terrain data?

normal sail
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I've made a dragging script and when you grab a object you can move it thru walls & other objects.How can I make the objects so they always collide with other objects?
Script:https://hatebin.com/umvcfuylaq

leaden ice
normal sail
teal shell
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Does anyone know why my RayPerceptionSensor3D is not working in play mode? Normally on Scene i can see gizmos (red lines when hiting a wall, white when there is no collision), but when i click play then all lines are white even when hitting a wall.

teal shell
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In PlayMode

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Not In Play Mode

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raven basalt
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When the player is stationary, max static friction is turned on so the player doesn’t slide off the slope, but it prevents something from being able to push the player back. I want certain things to be able to push the player back. If I use an extremely large push back force, it is able to get past the high static friction, and push the player back when it is stationary, but on the flip side, this pushback force is way too large for when the player is moving, which is when the max friction isn’t turned on.

lean sail
quartz jay
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who knows how github works

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cuz i cant find environment variables

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in settings

latent latch
merry stream
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how could I define a particle system within a scriptable object? it seems a lot of the properties of a particle system can't be changed within code

rigid island
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but some don't , its a strange setup

steady moat
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(Depends on what you try to do obviously)

merry stream
# steady moat (Depends on what you try to do obviously)

so my abilities are defined as scripable objects and I want to be able to define the particle system along with it so I can pass it into a particle system object pool to spawn a particle system and play at a certain location, etc

steady moat
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Just handle each effect as a different pool.

merry stream
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yeah I could but the idea is that the particle system pool would hold empty particle systems that would be defined when spawned

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though I think that's impossible no?

steady moat
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It is possible, but it is unecessary.

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Just pool them by type.

merry stream
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well then theres no point to pool really

steady moat
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That is false, if you play an ability multiple time you wont have to spawn it.

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The underlaying issue, is that you would have a bigger pool of object if you group them by type.

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However, each particle system does not hold that much data.

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Hence, in almost case, it is better doing it this way.

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Obviously, you gotta clear the pool at some point. But this is an other discussion.

merry stream
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hm, I wanted to have a general particle system pool similar to how I do my audio pool and vfx pool where it can be called to spawn at a certain position with certain params, etc

steady moat
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I would recommand that you do a ScriptableObject per effect you want to spawn. Something like ParticleEffectDefinition where it holds the prefab/addressables path/resources path. From this effect, you will be able to spawn and manage every particle linked to this.

steady moat
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However, if you still want to do it your way, there is nothing preventing you from doing it.

rigid island
merry stream
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the fact you can't just define one through code like you can just assign a clip to an audio source

steady moat
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You can though.

rigid island
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just recyle the prefab and have another script handle changing all the params

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main difference is you need to tap into the ParticleSystem.main for most attributes

merry stream
steady moat
rigid island
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thats because its properties of a struct

merry stream
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ah i see

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didnt realize

merry stream
steady moat
merry stream
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makes sense, thanks

rigid island
obtuse jay
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Hey there, Im trying to start making a minecraft like game based on Octopath Travelers graphics.
I had been using Gamemaker Studio 2 but gave up when I realized that I was stupid and would not be able to implement 3d stuff into the game... (wouldn't affect it too much, but would be a lot harder to make it look like the style of Octopath Traveller)...
Now Im working on it in unity and am stuck on the terrain generation part. I just dont know how to code the concept. My concept combines normal procedural generation with parts of how wave function collapse works.
This is my concept:
By generating perlin noise, then making blocks snap up and across (like minecraft), then dependent on the biome, height (how dense that coord is on the Perlin noise), and then where it is compared to other cells, or blocks (e.g: a corner piece).

PROBLEM: I have never touched Unity before, and there is not a specific tutorial that uses my concept (in the most part).

The picture Attached is kinda what I want to have as a result...

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mellow sigil
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You'll very rarely find tutorials that do exactly what you want. The point of tutorials is to use them to learn the subject and then use that knowledge to implement the thing yourself.

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If you're completely new to Unity then it's better to start with other parts of the game and come back to terrain generation when you have more experience

obtuse jay
obtuse jay
mellow sigil
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You can start with a more simple algorithm or a static terrain and switch it to the final algorithm later

obtuse jay
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Thanks :)

latent latch
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Usually when I hear wave function collapse, it's something being done with a set of tiles, so how does that apply to something completely procedural like terrain generation?

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unless you mean to chunk the terrain then add values to each of those chunks

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Ah, ok that sounds like what you're trying to do. Sebastian Lague has a lot of good tutorials on just general terrain generation, so it may be worth checking what they have to offer.

obtuse jay
fallow quartz
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I have a question. if for example im making a MOBA this is my vision. First I make the character class and add by composition an ability class. The problem is there will be abilities that have some types of attributes, other abilities that might have shared some of the attributes but others not, and even more abilities that might share the attributes from the 2nd abilities but not from the first
How can I do so I dont repeat code in it?
Cause I guess inheritance is not an option right here

leaden ice
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A list of attributes

latent latch
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I would definitely figure out what type of behaviours you want and try to build your abilities around a handful of them

marble dome
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How hard would it be to create friendly npcs? Well basically bots that'll follow you, and kill enemies, maybe even gather resources in some fashion. I understand it's a pretty vague question, but lets say it's just the most basic it can be.

leaden ice
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depends entirely on your skills

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and how complex you need them to be

marble dome
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Well i know c# to some extent so i am familiar with the syntax, but Unity itself i've got no experience at all. I'd just be looking to make them very basic and then i guess i'd improve them as i get better

leaden ice
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i know c# to some extent so i am familiar with the syntax, but Unity itself i've got no experience at al

It will be very hard for you

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for now your focus should really just be on improving your skills and learning the ropes of Unity

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don't worry terribly much about how hard or how long some specific game mechanic will be

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by all means work on making your NPCs

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but it will be a learning process

fallow quartz
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cause not all of them have the same

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some share attributes, others dont and so

leaden ice
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a list of attributes

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List<Attribute>

fallow quartz
fallow quartz
leaden ice
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they'd all be Attributes

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attribute would be something like (simplified example):

class Attribute {
  string name;
  float value;
}```
fallow quartz
leaden ice
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yes?

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that's what I wrote

normal niche
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Hello, i was wondering how capsule colliders affect the physics of the object. At the moment I'm running the below code pasted to hastebin to walk up steps, it works really well in both directions and with different sizes of steps. However when i change the capsule radius to make the collision size more accurate to different player models it stops working, any ideas why this is? https://hastebin.com/share/birolifoco.csharp

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leaden ice
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By the way Time.fixedDeltaTime multiplying this into your forces never makes sense

normal niche
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when should i use Time.fixedDeltaTime, that always confuses me

leaden ice
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Basically you have * fixedDeltaTime and ForceMode.VelocityChange. These are basically cancelling each other out.
You will get the same effect by removing the deltaTime and switching to ForceMode.Impulse

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you use fixedDeltaTime when you need the fixed timestep of the physics simulation in your calculation

normal niche
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that makes sense, I thought i could use it to get a acceleration over 1 second

leaden ice
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sorry actually

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not Impulse

normal niche
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maths is not my strong side lol

leaden ice
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I meant ForceMode.Acceleration

normal niche
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yup, I switched back to that now

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thats what i had previously, ill see if it acts the same

leaden ice
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oh you're also multiplying the mass in >_>

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also something you never need to do

normal niche
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but acceleration doesnt take mass into consideration right?

leaden ice
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Acceleration ignores mass

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acceleration is like

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if you did ForceMode.Force but you multiplied the mass in

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Impulse is like if you did ForceMode.Force and divided by Time.fixedDeltaTime

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VelocityChange is like doing both - multiplying the mass in, and dividing by fixedDeltaTime

normal niche
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then I should stick to acceleration i think

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how would i move x units per second then using force acceleration?

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I thought i did the math before but it just doesnt move at all, only with a radius of atleast 0.5 does it move

leaden ice
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it would depend on your starting velocity

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If you want to change velocity by x units per second per second, then it's AddForce(x * normalizedDirection, ForceMode.Acceleration)

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if you want to do that INSTANTLY

normal niche
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then impulse?

leaden ice
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then it's (x * normalizedDirection, ForceMode.VelocityChange)

normal niche
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okey

leaden ice
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Impulse wouldn't guarantee a specific acceleration rate because it will depend on the object's mass.

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If the object's mass is 1 then VelocityChange is equivalent to Impulse

normal niche
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ah yes, I thought the other way around with the mass

leaden ice
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I'm confused here though because

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what is the goal here?

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THis is for stepping up stairs?

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None of this makes sense for stairs

normal niche
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yes

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why not? I need force to move the character

leaden ice
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You seem to be confusing translation for acceleration

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basically sending a rigidbody up stairs is an extremely unnatural and aphysical interaction

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the idea of uses forces and acceleration for it at all are just, kind of nonsensical

normal niche
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then how can it be done if i want to move x units per second?

leaden ice
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the best option in 90% of games would be to get rid of any stairs and use ramps instead

normal niche
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I want to avoid that as i dont like IK and thats the second best option for making it look good imo

leaden ice
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If you want to send a rigidbody up stairs,. you're basically going to want to just teleport it

normal niche
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I dont see why it would be so hard tho, it should just be, add force upwards using the steps bounds size to calculate the amount of force needed to move up a step in x seconds

leaden ice
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I don't really get the resistance to IK though

leaden ice
normal niche
leaden ice
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velocity is permanent

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until some other force counteracts it

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so you would need some extremely rapid extremely intense forces

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to like

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pop you up and onto each step

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and then decelerate you immediately

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not to mention the horizontal motion

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normal niche
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that should technically be able to done with something similar to a collide and slide algorithm

leaden ice
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Honestly going with a ramp and IK seems like the significanlty simpler option here

normal niche
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but i also need results for the game

leaden ice
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this isn't even unity physics though this is just netwonian physics.

normal niche
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yeah, I dont like math so im trying to learn it more in depth, kinda the point

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because i need it with most stuff i work with

leaden ice
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the thing about physics is things don't happen instantaneously. You add a force. That imparts velocity. The velocity then affects your position over some subsequent period of time.

normal niche
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yeah thats true

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do you have some good resources on IK because i was really trying to stay away from it tbh

leaden ice
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so to go up stairs there's a whole complicated dance of "add a force up, wait till we clear this step, add a force down to stop the upwards motion. add a force forward, wait till we reach the next step, repeat"

normal niche
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yup, didnt think about the permament part of velocity but its so obvious when u think about it

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so thats complicated, maybe ill come back to it later

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ill do IK for now not that I think it will be any easier

leaden ice
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I'd focus on the movement first

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Animation later

normal niche
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movement works really well tbh

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its just the annoying stairs

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I use acceleration with a physics material and it runs smoothly

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Thanks for the help anyways, ill look into IK later, maybe its not that bad

fallow quartz
# leaden ice that's what I wrote

then Im not visualizing ur point. Lets say we have for example an ability with area effect time and another one that doesnt have it, how this approach could solve this problem?

leaden ice
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the other ability would not

fallow quartz
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so just a full class with all the attributes and then in the list i put in whatever i want

leaden ice
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I'm not sure I understand what "full class with all the attributes" means

fallow quartz
leaden ice
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Each of what variable?

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Here let me show an example:

Ability: {
  "name": "Fireball";

  Attributes: [
    { "name": "range", "value": 5 },
    { "name": "area of effect", "value": 10 },
    { "name": "damage", "value": 20 }
  ]
}```
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this would be the example json representation of a Fireball ability

fallow quartz
# leaden ice > which are required to have each of the variables on it What do you mean by tha...

If i understood correctly in ur approach you want me to create a class atribute with all the list of the variables a skill can have, even if i dont use all of them. Then in the ability class i create a list of attributes and i just put the ones i want (Imagine i dont want to add effect area time on this one but i do in another). But in here i cannot just put in the list individual variables, i can only put attributes, which require me to give values to each of the variables, meaning that the one i dont want it to exist in some cases (effect area time) is required to

leaden ice
fallow quartz
leaden ice
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See it has only two fields

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Not "all the variables any attribute can have"

fallow quartz
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so if i want to add in some abilites the effect area time i need to create another class

leaden ice
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No

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Why would you need another class

leaden ice
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You just add an attribute to the list

shrewd tendon
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does anyone know if there is a numpy like array in C# that you can use in unity?

fallow quartz
# leaden ice Look at this example

yeah i got that, but then how do i make for example class poisonArea get dmg, cd, area effect time and the class FireBall only cd and dmg?

burnt arrow
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is 150gb enough on my computer to start using unity or should i delete some games

rigid island
leaden ice
# fallow quartz yeah i got that, but then how do i make for example class poisonArea get dmg, cd...

Here's a more fleshed out example:

class Attribute {
  string name;
  float value;
}

class Ability {
    string name;
    List<Attribute> attributes;
}

void Example() {
    Ability fireball = new Ability {
      name: "Fireball",
      attributes: new() {
        new Attribute() { name: "damage", value: 10 },
        new Attribute() { name: "range", value: 50 },
        new Attribute() { name: "areaOfEffect", value: 15 },
      }
    }
}```
Does that make any better sense?
rigid island
leaden ice
shrewd tendon
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with python's numpy array I can remove about 90% of my loops

leaden ice
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    Ability poisonCloud = new Ability {
      name: "Poison Cloud",
      attributes: new() {
        new Attribute() { name: "range", value: 50 },
        new Attribute() { name: "areaOfEffect", value: 15 },
        new Attribute() { name: "poisonLevel", value: 2 },
      }
    }``` @fallow quartz
shrewd tendon
leaden ice
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See how you can have any attributes in the list you want, and they are all optional @fallow quartz ?

fallow quartz
shrewd tendon
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and how do advanced unity devs modularize game components?

leaden ice
fallow quartz
leaden ice
fallow quartz
leaden ice
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not really

shrewd tendon
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I've seen a number of strategies: Scriptable objects, templates that can be instantiated, and some tutorials that describe object orientation

fallow quartz
leaden ice
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but you can replicate most of those things with float

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e.g.

bool ValueAsBool => value == 1f;```
rigid island
shrewd tendon
leaden ice
fallow quartz
shrewd tendon
leaden ice
leaden ice
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but int would work fine

shrewd tendon
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python has other limitations, such as deployment on cell phones

leaden ice
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as long as the alues are within around 16 million or so from 0

leaden ice
shrewd tendon
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The more I learn about unity, the more I'm realizing it is a way better version of a browser ^^

leaden ice
rigid island
shrewd tendon
rigid island
# shrewd tendon What is your favorite youtube video on ScriptableObjects in unity

the infamous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raQ3iHhE_Kk&pp=ygUYc2NyaXB0YWJsZSBvYmplY3RzIHVuaXR5

YouTube
Unity
Unite Austin 2017 - Game Architecture with Scriptable Objects

Scriptable Objects are an immensely powerful yet often underutilized feature of Unity. Learn how to get the most out of this versatile data structure and build more extensible systems and data patterns. In this talk, Schell Games shares specific examples of how they have used the Scriptable Object for everything from a hierarchical state machine...

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shrewd tendon
# rigid island what?

It allows you to deploy user interfaces on basically any device you can dream of, except you can do decent hardware integration without fighting with browser people and you have easily accessible gpu acceleration

fallow quartz
leaden ice
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if it's a bool attribute you would never do that

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you would do

rigid island
leaden ice
# 
void SetValueAsBool(bool val) {
  this.value = val ? 1 : 0;
}``` @fallow quartz
shrewd tendon
leaden ice
#

no the system is not perfect and doesn't rpevent programmers from making mistakes, but that's not really a feature of any system. Mistakes can always be made

rigid island
tawny elkBOT
#

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

fallow quartz
leaden ice
#

Sure, have fun

#

this was just a general quick and dirty idea to get you started

fallow quartz
shrewd tendon
rigid island
#

and yes namespaces are used like any normal c# app to encapsulate.

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(in unity Folders are not automatically assigned a namespace like most .net apps creating new script in that folder)

leaden ice
# fallow quartz for the method thing wdym by "defining them in one place"? Cause most of the met... 
public static void ApplyDamage(Attribute damageAttribute, Unit target) {
  target.TakeDamage(damageAttribute.valueAsFloat);
}

public static void ExecuteFireball(Unit caster, Ability ability, Vector3 target) {
  if (Vector3.Distance(caster.position, target) > ability.GetAttribute("range").valueAsFloat)) throw new Exception ("out of range!");
  Attribute damageAttr = ability.GetAttribute("damage");
  Attribute areaOfEffectAttr = ability.GetAttribute("areaOfEffect");

  foreach (COllider c in Physics.OverlapSphereAll(target, areaOfEffectAttr.valueAsFloat, ...)) {
    ApplyDamage(damageAttribute, c.GetComponent<Unit>());
  }
}```
More examples^
In this case ApplyDamage can be reused
shrewd tendon
fallow quartz
leaden ice
#

no

rigid island
leaden ice
#

there's nothing wrong with static methods

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but again, this is a quick example

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I have stuff to do now, so hopefully this is enough to get you started

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you can build the rest 🙏

fallow quartz
late ivy
#

Yo, I'm wondering if it's more expensive to call a public field from another class everytime you need it rather than storing the value once in a field and using that one ?
In my case I'm only using an int field from another class to do some calculations, should I set it as a local field in the function ?

rigid island
#

look at methods like Debug.Log and Mathf. functions are all static methods

leaden ice
rigid island
fallow quartz
rigid island
shrewd tendon
#

Unity is no longer building anything, and I'm getting an error about adaptive performance

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but I cannot install any adaptive performance package

#

and I also get a bug about the Start function of a monobehavior that has empty Start and Update functions

rigid island
#

if you dont want adapted perfomance / don't need it , disable it in player settings

shrewd tendon
#

do people here use some form of pastebin?

rigid island
#

!code (read the bot msg don't spam the command)

tawny elkBOT
shrewd tendon
#

I get weird stack traces, also on a monobehavior

#

but deleting the object and the behavior and then recreating doesn't solve anything

rigid island
hard hull
#

Okay sorry

rigid island
#

which error is it?

shrewd tendon
#

hmmm... I think Debug.Log() automatically produces a stack trace...

rigid island
shrewd tendon
#

mismatch between scriptname and monobehavior ^^

rigid island
#

are you using old Unity?

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afaik newer unity versions don't care if filename doesn't match class name

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although imo is still good practice to do so.

dire crown
#

Hi!

#

I'm using TestPlanesAABB to check if an object is inside view distance, however i'm getting false positives as stated on the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GeometryUtility.TestPlanesAABB.html

The test is conservative and can give false positive results. A bounding box can intersect the planes outside of the frustum because the planes are infinite and extend beyond the frustum volume. A typical false positive result is produced by a big bounding box near the frustum edge or corner.

Is there any workaround I can apply to make those false positives disappera?

shrewd tendon
#

Can't add 'TextMeshPro' to Word because a 'Image' is already added to the game object!

#

what are constraints on ui components?

leaden ice
shrewd tendon
#

Are canvasses and images game objects?

rigid island
#

they are components that live on gameobjects

knotty sun
rigid island
#

gameObject is a container of components basically

shrewd tendon
#

How can I create a tree structure of ui components?

#

A canvas is the root of a ui overlay and then you can create a tree of panels, with images and textmeshpro leafs?

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Cause I think that is what I have…

rigid island
#

nest gameobjects

shrewd tendon
#

Maybe I messed something up?

rigid island
#

the order of the hierarchy for canvas determines the order of drawing

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bottom item = draws last = always ontop

shrewd tendon
#

And the tree is made from game objects

rigid island
#

yes the gameobjects in hierarchy are in a tree like structure

shrewd tendon
#

But, if you need a graphical object, it has to be the only one in the game object. However, that game object need not be the only child

shrewd tendon
rigid island
chilly sail
#

Hey, I don't know if I'm the right channel but I have some trouble with the new behavior graph. I can't seem to get through the wait event even when I'm sending the message to true If anyone has any idea, I would love some help

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dusk apex
chilly sail
#

Oh my bad thanks, I though it was only for visual scripting component

somber nacelle
pearl burrow
#

hi currently my items in game have multiple material (with a toon shader) to specify the different part of the item. For example the apple in the image has 3 material one for each color you see. Would this be heavy on performance? Its probably best to do a texture but im not really good with uv mapping and at creating textures so im using simple toon shader with colors

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dawn meteor
#

https://hatebin.com/zlgyqlwrny
Hi, im trying to make a grid based inventory system and im trying to place new objects on any available positions on the grid which are currently not occupied but when i run this it places the item at the end of the grid and also stacks the items

latent latch
#

Not really seeing anywhere that you're keeping track of these placed items, unless you're just comparing by all rect transforms which I probably wouldnt do

dawn meteor
#

I have a list which contains all the items i have

latent latch
#

Your PlaceItem method takes in a GameObject item, but all you do is change the rect transform position

dawn meteor
#

Is there a fault in doing so?

#

Should i do something else maybe?

latent latch
#

with that being said, your forloop here is confusing as it would be applying the same iteration logic for each item which is why your item visuals are stacking

grand brook
#

Hello! Im trying to activate this bool parameter for my animation when I click on the Play 3d model with OnMouseDown() function, is that possible?

image.png image.png
#

i tried

    {
        if (menuButtons[1])
        {
            Animator animator = menuButtons[1].GetComponentInParent<Animator>();
            if (animator)
            {
                animator.SetBool("PlayButtonPress", true);

            }

        }


    }```

without success
latent latch
#

You have three places there you can fit in some debug logging so figure out where it's not working

grand brook
#

so I was on the right track?

latent latch
#

assuming everything is connected in the hierarchy correctly, yes (and assuming menuButtons[1] evalutes to true)

grand brook
#

lets GOOOOOOOOOO :D

#

Thank you!

#

will check it :)

latent latch
#

oh, actually you compare against the indexing but you access it so I assume it's not a bool type, so you probably want to do
if(menuButtons[1] != null)

grand brook
#

alright!

cunning rose
#

Hey guys, I'm working on a 2D tile based point and click, and I was writing a simple script for my camera, to make it so that the camera pans to the next screen when the player comes in contact with a collider at the end of the screen, but for some reason, it isnt working, and i can not, for the life of me figure out why. Any help is greatly appreciated

https://pastecode.io/s/09zwxk0e

mellow sigil
#

What part of it is not working?

cunning rose
#

The collisions aren't detecting at all. My bad, shouldve mentioned that as well

rigid island
cunning rose
#

I couldn't figure it out, I am using A* for my movement, could that have anything to do with it?

rigid island
cunning rose
mellow sigil
#

Show the inspectors for the collider and the player

rigid island
#

moving the transforms is not a good way to get accurate physics collisions messages

#

and using a rigidbody for a camera pan is a bit strange, you only need the Clamp to limit the camera within a specific area

nova leaf
#

how do i get the path of a prefab in editor mode? no matter what kind of method i use it always returns and empty string

rigid island
nova leaf
rigid island
nova leaf
#

yes

rigid island
nova leaf
#

simple

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the script is on a prefab, in editor mode so not at runtime and is [ExecuteInEditMode] with #if UNITY_EDITOR

#

if that's important

#

debug

rigid island
#

instances are not stored in the asset database

nova leaf
#

what should i do then

rigid island
#

what are you trying to do here exactly

nova leaf
#

getting the path where its stored

rigid island
nova leaf
#

wdym

rigid island
nova leaf
#

yeah why

rigid island
#

your prefab was in the field you can get the path but frankly not sure what the end goal is here

#

You would need the asset not an instance of it

nova leaf
#

what

#

i want to get the path of the prefab

rigid island
#

if you dropped a prefab in here you will see the pathcs [SerializeField] private GameObject prefab; private void OnValidate() { if (prefab == null) return; Debug.Log(AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(prefab)); }

nova leaf
#

and how do i set the prefab field to anything

rigid island
#

[SerializeField] private Object prefab;

nova leaf
#

yeah ok but that's null always

rigid island
#

oh you drop in the field

nova leaf
#

the whole point is to make it automatically

rigid island
#

you still havent explained the usecase, how do you plan on telling which specific prefab you want to grab path of

nova leaf
#

the script is supposed to get the path of the object, and store a combined mesh as a new model there (in the same folder)

rigid island
#

which object though

nova leaf
#

the object the script is on

#

i didn't want to make an external editor script because this worked better with the other functions just using the local gameObject

rigid island
#

I still don't understand, this is a runtime object ? cause if its not an asset I dont see how you expect to get a path

nova leaf
#

wdym

#

it's stored in a folder in my project

#

a prefab

rigid island
#

ok so you have the path already?

nova leaf
#

you but why manually type it in

rigid island
#

anything in the hierarchy is just an instance of an object not an asset

nova leaf
rigid island
nova leaf
#

apparently not

rigid island
#

I mean you either know the path or directly link the object in the fields

nova leaf
#

🫠

rigid island
# nova leaf 🫠

maybe there is a better way to do what you want to do, but without details its hard to suggest much

nova leaf
rigid island
#

get the path of the object, and store a combined mesh as a new model there (in the same folder)
you mean this, is details?

nova leaf
#

yes, i want to generate a bunch of stuff for a prefab, and store it in the same folder it is in

rigid island
#

combined mesh from where? why cant the object be dragged in a field to do this operation?

#

plop the prefab in the field and run the rest from its path

nova leaf
nova leaf
#

i guess i have to create an external editor script

rigid island
#

you can even just make it so you dont have to have a field, it could just be based on your selection in Project window

nova leaf
#

yeah

rigid island
#

editor scripts are fun aren't they

x.gif
nova leaf
#

autoGenerateScript.prefabReference = Selection.activeGameObject;
works perfectly

rigid island
#

nice

storm wolf
#

Anyone have experience with pythonnet? I am trying to use openai whisper model for voice recognition. Everything works besides the transcribe method:

    public string GetMicrophoneTextFromWhisper()
    {
        if (!File.Exists(AudioPath))
        {
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError("Audio file not found: " + AudioPath);
            return "NOT REAL";
        }

        string transcription = string.Empty;
        InitializePython();
        dynamic whisper = Py.Import("whisper");
        dynamic model = whisper.load_model("turbo");
        try
        {
            dynamic transcriptionResult = model.transcribe(AudioPath); // ERROR HAPPENS ON THIS LINE EVERY TIME
            transcription = transcriptionResult["text"];
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError($"Error during transcription: {ex.Message}");
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError($"AudioPath: {AudioPath}");
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError($"Python DLL Path: {Runtime.PythonDLL}");
            return "ERROR HAPPENED.";
        }
        return transcription;
    }
    private void InitializePython()
    {
        try
        {
            UnityEngine.Debug.Log("Setting Python DLL path");
            Runtime.PythonDLL = "python312.dll";
            UnityEngine.Debug.Log("Initializing Python Engine");
            PythonEngine.Initialize();
            UnityEngine.Debug.Log("Python Engine Initialized");
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            UnityEngine.Debug.LogError($"Failed to initialize Python: {ex.Message}");
        }
    }

Heres the error: Error during transcription: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

from my research this error is happening allegedly because the file doesn't exist, is in the wrong format, etc.

#

I have confirmed that the path to the audio file is correct (and its in WAV format which is supported by Whisper). If i paste the path into my explorer and press enter it literally opens the file and plays it. But when I pass it to the transcribe function it can't find it. Help would be appreciated I am kind of lost. Also the initial check for the file at the start of the function never executes. So clearly the file exists.

heres the path:

public static string AudioPath => Application.persistentDataPath + "/Audio/audio_chunk.wav";
rigid island
storm wolf
rigid island
storm wolf
#

omg

#

it might be that

#

the spaces

rigid island
#

worth a shot to try

storm wolf
#

before I was starting a process so I just passed the path to the command arguments nested in a string

#

but the transcribe definitely doesn't do that on its own

rigid island
#

ahh ok

rigid island
storm wolf
#

not yet im trying to include the spaces so far same error tho i could be doing it wrong though

#

might just change directory name its probably easier

#

ok well I don't think that was the solution

#

I added the @ symbol and pasted it exactly and same error

string CORRECT_PATH = @"C:/Users/***/AppData/LocalLow/DefaultCompany/My House is Haunted/Audio";
dynamic transcriptionResult = model.transcribe(CORRECT_PATH);```
fallow quartz
#

Whenever I edit and save a script in Unity a load bar appears. When the game is not big it takes like 5-10 secs to load, but when it gets bigger it can get to 1-3 mins and is quite annoying. Is there any way to avoid the loading thing? I saw some videos where they dont get it

storm wolf
fallow quartz
storm wolf
fallow quartz
rigid island
#

if you have many scripts you can maybe separate them via assembly definitions, this can potentially shave off some time but might not be worth

fallow quartz
#

for example a web in vs code or whatever

#

that type of speed

rigid island
#

maybe refresh the library , sometimes it can start chugging heavy

#

also those videos might have the auto refresh assemblies on save turned off

storm wolf
#

and/or they edit their videos

fallow quartz
rigid island
#

it wont refresh each save so you can edit multiple scripts and save without unnecessary wait between each one

#

then you have to manually refresh for changes in unity editor with a shortcut press

#

but its 1 reload as oppose to many each save of a script

storm wolf
rigid island
#

do you know if that function runs the path relative or absolute

storm wolf
#

My research says absolute

#

I tried both anyways lmao but they both error out like that

rigid island
#

it could be trying to do
library.dll location / c:/etc/etc/

storm wolf
#

ah

#

Maybe

#

How do i even get around that though

rigid island
#

is there no .NET library for this lul

storm wolf
#

Bc its using the python312 dll in like env path

#

Dont think so

nova leaf
# rigid island nice

there actually is a function for that, i found it
UnityEditor.Experimental.SceneManagement.PrefabStageUtility.GetCurrentPrefabStage ()?.prefabAssetPath;

rigid island
#

that is quite the namespace..

nova leaf
#

xD it is

#

but it works

rigid island
#

nice UnityChanThumbsUp learned something new

nova leaf
#

the problem was the whole time that when you double click on a prefab, the prefab reference is not a prefab anymore, it works if you just click at the prefab in the folder, but once you double clicked it didn't work anymore lol

rigid island
#

you mean when you open it?

nova leaf
#

yes, and it's more complicated to track and save that in an editor script

#

anyway it works now

hybrid relic
#

People need to look for open source alternatives for stuff before clicking that big BUY button

eager yacht
#

FSR doesn't support generic methods, Mac Silicon, partial classes, and other stuff on their docs. HR also has its own limitations. Also FSR wasn't always free. I've also seen a lot more complaints of FSR being buggy, but I've never used it myself (I've only used HR).

fleet gorge
#

I see there's a 30 day trial on the website

hybrid relic
#

like (nearly) every other licenced asset

fleet gorge
#

Ooh

#

I haven't bought any licensed assets before 😴

#

I'm kinda tempted to get it

#

At the moment I need a tilemap system similar to growtopia where you can place and break blocks, I'm still thinking if I should use unity's tilemap system or make my own

rigid island
hybrid relic
#

Cuz you could also jus reload the entire game in 3-6 seconds and not use FSR or HR

#

ok on a bad pc maybe 15 seconds

eager yacht
#

Don't see how that makes HR useless. I use it in all of my projects 🤔 If you don't want to spend $70, then just use FSR and have its tradeoffs. Either way you get a similar result.

hybrid relic
#

Not what i was after, just that you can have a basicallly similar thing for free

latent latch
#

Unity can also just optimize it themselves ;)

eager yacht
latent latch
#

i wait

devout knoll
#

i have a class called SoundPlayer:

public class SoundPlayer : MonoBehaviour {
    public AudioSource collide;
    public AudioSource merge;

    public void collideSound() {
        collide.Play();
    }
    
    public void mergeSound() {
        merge.Play();
    }
}

and a script which relies on these functions:
SoundPlayer.mergeSound();
but it has the error:

Screenshot_2024-10-28_at_1.39.44_PM.png
#

making it static causes another error because i think those functions need to be non-static

cosmic rain
devout knoll
#

how do i access them as non-static?

cosmic rain
#

Access them via an instance of that class.

#

This is sort of C# basics.

devout knoll
#

well, i have tried
SoundPlayer.instance.mergeSound() but that doesn't work

#

normally it does

cosmic rain
cosmic rain
devout knoll
#

i think i've done that before, but i forgotten

cosmic rain
#

I suggest going back to learning the C# basics. Specifically, the difference between types and instances/objects.

devout knoll
#

ok

fleet gorge
#

It's like a sandbox game

rigid island
storm wolf
#

pythonnet + openai whisper with Python.Runtime

echo ferry
#

Hot Reload pays for itself in the first week of using it. Shaves at least 5-10 minutes a day off wait times.

storm wolf
#

You can yield return async Tasks in a coroutine?

#

is this like terrible practice

finite idol
#

Unity Assembly Definition Question

I want to use UniTask in various places and put UniTask in core asmdef and player asmdef puts the core in references, so I want to use UniTask, but I'm getting an error...

Is it normal not to do it?

So I just call them all separately, so there's no error.

#

Core.asmdef

name: Core
references: [UniTask]

Player asmdef

name: Player
references: [Core]
rigid island
storm wolf
quartz folio
rigid island
storm wolf
#

ooo that sounds fun ima look into that

finite idol
rigid island
storm wolf
#

Woahhhh

#

im using 6+ too

#

might have to convert this whole thing with Awaitable it looks more fun

rigid island
#

also controlling background thread and main thread

latent latch
#

awaitable doesnt have waituntil

#

dead feature

#

back to unitask

storm wolf
#

aw

#

can you just make your own?

#

is there CustomAwaitableInstruction

#

lol

rigid island
#

you can literally just await lol

storm wolf
#

oh 💀

rigid island
#

thats the joke

storm wolf
#

my dumbass

#

got it lol

latent latch
#

unless 6 added it in havent checked

storm wolf
#

doesn't look like it

latent latch
#

Unitask just does everything and includes stack trace of async operations

#

for when you screw up and mem leak onto the editor

sleek bough
#

@silver compass don't cross-post, please. Pick one channel.

silver compass
#

I'm just trying to get this working as soon as I can. I posted it in advanced, then saw general was a quicker response time, posted it there, then saw beginner was even quicker. My bad.

storm wolf
#

Can anyone help me with this? I am trying to optimize this but I have a feeling im not doing it right... I'm using coroutines and it still stalls for 2.5 seconds

I am basically using the whisper model from openai for voice recognition and that shows stalling on the function where the model is transcribing the audio... is there nothing I can do about this to make it faster? I am also using one of the faster models (base)

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cosmic rain
storm wolf
modest anchor
latent latch
#

And dampen there does not work?

#

Unless you mean to ignore a specific layer then you've those options there too

alpine current
modest anchor
latent latch
modest anchor
#

ok i will try this one out

long pebble
#

I need to somehow get a Twine game to run inside my Unity window (on a Windows build). Seamless enough so that I can switch between the unity game and twine games whenever I need. Is this something that is possible? I've been looking but I feel like I'm looking in all the wrong places. If anyone has any familiarity with this or knows a next-best option I would really really really apprieciate the help so much!!

lean sail
fringe bramble
#

this is a weird question, but i'm struggling to find an answer to what it'd be while searching online, probably because of how hard it is to describe...

is there a good way to go about having the screen read if something looks a certain way and making action based on that? for example, say the screen is completely red, it could detect that and then do something based on that.

#

i would normally have it detect based off other conditions but this is a really weird and complicated thing i'm trying to do where that'd make more sense

leaden ice
#

One option though, is to render your camera to a RenderTexture, and then analyze the texture in whatever way you're interested in.

fringe bramble
#

that would be a good approach, i can try doing that! and yeah... if i could have it directly go off of whatever makes the screen look like that i would but there's some Complications in doing that involving

#

i'll try to find an alternative solution but if nothing works i'll go with what you mentioned, it would only need to check maybe once every now and then. thank you for the suggestion!

lean sail
fringe bramble
#

it would be if it wasn't this specific quirky scenario

modest anchor
prime lintel
#

Hi, I have been getting an issue where my console is giving me a MissingReferenceException, I'm not sure where in my code I managed to delete a member of my class but apparently it happened?

MissingReferenceException: The variable m_nodes of PathfindingManager doesn't exist anymore.
You probably need to reassign the m_nodes variable of the 'PathfindingManager' script in the inspector.
UnityEngine.Object+MarshalledUnityObject.TryThrowEditorNullExceptionObject (UnityEngine.Object unityObj, System.String parameterName) (at <91ab5f1018a44edcbcbbe289ed4303bc>:0)
UnityEngine.Bindings.ThrowHelper.ThrowNullReferenceException (System.Object obj) (at <91ab5f1018a44edcbcbbe289ed4303bc>:0)
UnityEngine.GameObject.get_transform () (at <91ab5f1018a44edcbcbbe289ed4303bc>:0)
FW.PathfindingManager.RemoveCollidingNodes () (at Assets/Resources/Scripts/Managers/AStarPathFinding/PathfindingManager.cs:108)
FW.PathfindingManager.GenerateNodes () (at Assets/Resources/Scripts/Managers/AStarPathFinding/PathfindingManager.cs:48)
FW.PathfindingManagerEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/Resources/Scripts/Managers/AStarPathFinding/PathfindingManager.cs:137)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass79_0.<CreateInspectorElementUsingIMGUI>b__0 () (at <82d5427af9d84542ac1bab8e50c139c7>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)
📎 PathfindingManager.cs
latent latch
modest anchor
#

ok let me do that one

latent latch
#

I've done it this way before so I know it can work, but there could be more to it

tulip spruce
#

Is it difficult to make a vwave spawning system in unity

lean sail
latent latch
tulip spruce
lean sail
prime lintel
latent latch
leaden ice
latent latch
#

Oh this is on the editor

#

It's been a minute since I worked with editor scripts, but if you're not going to serialize it then it's not going to persist probably

#

there's a specific way to serialize editor script data anyway but that's not something I can easily recall

prime lintel
#

Sorry I misphrased it, what I meant was the issue persisting haha

#

I found that when I run the script without UpdateConnections() it would function (with errors)

latent latch
#

You can maybe cheat it by doing [HideInInspector][SerializeField] but that's probably not the ideal way

prime lintel
#

But I don't see the issue in UpdateConnections() since it does not delete or add any objects

modest anchor
latent latch
#

did you turn off the collision module. I think all you need is the trigger module for it to work

prime lintel
#

@latent latch Thanks for the help. I managed to solve it, I did not affirm that objects are not null before each operation.

latent latch
#

I honestly dislike the shuriken system for collisional stuff and prefer to make my own particle controller if it's something that requires more control

modest anchor
modest anchor
latent latch
#

Well, the collision module has a callback method on it, so can attempt grabbing that callback and disabling the collision completely. You just can't disable collision per particle which is problematic but maybe not in this case

modest anchor
#

if i do disable collision as soon as first person is hit other enemies in blast radius will be left out

prime lintel
#

Hi again everyone, may I ask if there is a way for me to automatically remove object references?

Given my current situation:

  • I create Node objects within a given area
  • I add connections to them, each connection is a reference to a Node that is surrounding it. (Take a 3x3 grid of Nodes, where the center one gains 8 connections to each one beside it.)
  • I then remove Nodes that are intersecting with a collidable object in the game

The problem is that I will now get a truckload of errors for objects that have been destroyed since the pre-existing connection is now refering to nothing.

How would I go about removing these connections elegantly? I hope to not nest too many for loops.

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latent latch
#

Ah, yeah so it's some type of ability. I'd say just make your own projectile class and tack on a particle system on top of it and control the projectile yourself

#

then you can make the particle system local to the projectile so it follows it

latent latch
prime lintel
#

Ah callbacks! That will work thank you!

latent latch
#

or bi-directional references the more messier way but it works.

hard estuary
# 
Debug.Log($"Initializing {name}, {this.patterns.Count}");
foreach (var pattern in this.patterns)
{
  Debug.Log($"Initializing {pattern.name}");

The first log returns 1 as count, which means the foreach loop should be iterated 1 time. However, the second log is never logged. Any ideas about what kind of magic is this? 🤔

hard estuary
stuck hatch
#

Does anyone know what Is going on with my Game Manager? I got two game manager for 2 game on a different scene.

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cosmic rain
#

!code

tawny elkBOT
stuck hatch
cosmic rain
stuck hatch
# cosmic rain Then gameManagerX is being null here.

yeah I tried to acces GameManager2 Script on a different script so that I can call the function from GameManager2, but when I'm calling it on different script (on start) like this
gameManagerX = GameObject.Find("Game Manager").GetComponent<GameManager>();

it gave me Null Reference Error

cosmic rain
stuck hatch
cosmic rain
stuck hatch
#

I have it

cosmic rain
# stuck hatch

You should be confirming at runtime, not outside of it.

#

Ideally when the error is thrown

#

Also, it doesn't have that component. I can see it even now.

stuck hatch
cosmic rain
#

Or you changed something

stuck hatch
#

yeah I change something

image.png
cosmic rain
#

Well, think yourself. What component are you trying to get?

stuck hatch
#

script

cosmic rain
#

No

#

What type

#

Class

stuck hatch
#

you mean like this?

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cosmic rain
#

Tell me what component are you trying to get?

#

What type is gameManagerX?

stuck hatch
#

GameManager

cosmic rain
#

Ok, and what are you trying to assign to it?

cosmic rain
#

Yes, that might fix the issue.

stuck hatch
#

but It gave me error like this
Assets\Script\IndomieCollision.cs(11,24): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'GameManager2' to 'GameManager'

cosmic rain
#

A compile error. You can't assign GameManager2 to GameManager as they are separate different types.

#

I suggest configuring the !ide as well, so that you can see compile errors in it.

tawny elkBOT
stuck hatch
cosmic rain
stuck hatch
fallow quartz
#

@storm wolf whats the issues with hotreload?

sterile reef
maiden fractal
#

If there's only one GameManager, using singleton pattern might be more appropriate

somber nacelle
#

that is not a code question

open plover
#

Would “async Task Start()” work

somber nacelle
#

Start must return void. but you can make that async if you really need to

queen ginkgo
#

Im making a ping pong game with an ai and I want to

  • Look at the current velocity of the ball
  • Look at the target (with a margin of error)
  • Rotate the paddle to bounce the ball in that direction
    Would anyone know a good place to start with this?
#

I looked around for a bit but its pretty niche so I couldn't turn up much without knowing what to look for

open plover
somber nacelle
#

and why does that mean you need to make Start asynchronous?

open plover
#

var player = await GKLocalPlayer.Authenticate();

somber nacelle
#

okay do you need to await this in Start?

open plover
#

Ideally yes, it would be automatically authenticated

somber nacelle
#

alright well i already told you that you can make Start async. though you've not actually provided a convincing argument as to why you actually need that since you aren't really providing much info as to why you actually need to await this in Start

open plover
#

When else would I? Are you talking about adding an extra button that would auth onclick?

somber nacelle
#

in some method called by start? not at all? i don't know because you aren't providing any actual info about what you are doing. you are just saying you need to await some method in Start

open plover
#

Ok the GKLocalPlayer is tied with apple’s game center service. I want the player to be authed to game center as soon as the game opens so that game center features could be used

somber nacelle
#

okay at this point i am just going to assume you have no idea how async works or the actual details of what you are doing and are just making assumptions because the method you are calling is async. so good luck

open plover
#

I really dont understand your point

somber nacelle
#

my point was i was trying to get actual details about what you are trying to do with this method. but you keep just saying that you want to authenticate the player when the game starts. but that's not actual details about what you are doing. is there an actual reason you need to await this in Start? are you actually using its return value are you actually doing anything in Start that requires this to be awaited here?

It is bad practice to use async void (which is your only option with Start) if there are other options available because it will eat your exceptions if you aren't handling them manually so if something goes wrong you're gonna have a hard time debugging it

#

also i stand corrected about async void being Start's only option. if you are on unity 6 you can make it return Awaitable

thick terrace
wheat elbow
#

Hi all,

Hope you are doing well!
I'm having some trouble here getting a virtual keyboard to pop up the moment the user taps on a TMP_InputField.

I am using a plugin called AdventureCreator in my game, and I asked the developer, but we are both stumped as to why the virtual keyboard is not working.

I modified the first script in the thread according to the latest Steamworks API just in case, as there were some errors in the template:

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
using Steamworks;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class SteamDeckVirtualKeyboard : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_InputField inputField;

    private void Start()
    {
        inputField.onSelect.AddListener(ShowVirtualKeyboard);
    }

    private void ShowVirtualKeyboard(string selected)
    {
        if (Gamepad.current != null)
        {
            if (SteamManager.Initialized && SteamUtils.IsSteamRunningOnSteamDeck())
            {
                SteamUtils.ShowFloatingGamepadTextInput(
                    EFloatingGamepadTextInputMode.k_EFloatingGamepadTextInputModeModeSingleLine,
                    0, 0, 300, 50
                );
                StartCoroutine(CheckForSteamInput());
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("No virtual keyboard in this platform.");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("No controller detected / keyboard input expected.");
        }
    }

    private System.Collections.IEnumerator CheckForSteamInput()
    {
        uint bufferSize = 1024;
        string userInput = "";

        while (SteamUtils.IsSteamRunningOnSteamDeck())
        {
            if (SteamUtils.GetEnteredGamepadTextInput(out userInput, bufferSize) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(userInput))
            {
                inputField.text = userInput;
            }
            yield return null;
        }
    }
}```

Is there anything that I should be doing / am missing? 

Any help is appreciated, thank you!
leaden ice
#

(you should probably add more too for other code paths)

wheat elbow
# leaden ice what is Debug.Log telling you?

It looks like it's entering into the right conditions when I'm on a PC -- "No controller detected / keyboard input expected."

Unfortunately I don't have a steamdeck, but one of my beta-testers did!

It looks like for them it also entered the correct condition as they had no logs from what I could see.

leaden ice
#

ShowVirtualKeyboard might not even have run.

wheat elbow
#

Ah that's fair --

yeah that's what I'm confused about.

If it helps, this is the code I had before:

# 
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
using Steamworks;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class UniversalControllerVirtualKeyboard : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_InputField inputField;

    private void Start()
    {
        inputField.onSelect.AddListener(ShowVirtualKeyboard);
    }

    private void ShowVirtualKeyboard(string selected)
    {
        if (Gamepad.current != null)
        {
            if (Application.isMobilePlatform)
            {
                TouchScreenKeyboard.Open("", TouchScreenKeyboardType.Default);
            }
            else if (SteamManager.Initialized && SteamUtils.IsSteamRunningOnSteamDeck())
            {
                SteamUtils.ShowFloatingGamepadTextInput(
                    EFloatingGamepadTextInputMode.k_EFloatingGamepadTextInputModeModeSingleLine,
                    0, 0, 300, 50
                );
                StartCoroutine(CheckForSteamInput());
            }
            else
            {
#if UNITY_PS4
                Sony.PS4.Input.PS4Input.OpenOnScreenKeyboard(0, Sony.PS4.Input.PS4Input.OnScreenKeyboardType.Default, "");
#elif UNITY_XBOXONE
                UnityEngine.XboxOne.XboxOneInput.OpenVirtualKeyboard("");
#else
                Debug.Log("No virtual keyboard in this platform.");
#endif
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("No controller detected / keyboard input expected.");
        }
    }

    private System.Collections.IEnumerator CheckForSteamInput()
    {
        uint bufferSize = 1024;
        string userInput = "";

        while (SteamUtils.IsSteamRunningOnSteamDeck())
        {
            if (SteamUtils.GetEnteredGamepadTextInput(out userInput, bufferSize) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(userInput))
            {
                inputField.text = userInput;
            }
            yield return null;
        }
    }
}```
leaden ice
# 
share it like this```
#

not with inline code

#

!code

tawny elkBOT
leaden ice
#

or use a paste site

wheat elbow
#

Ah ha thanks!
I was wondering why it looked odd -- went ahead and added the extra backticks! 🙂

#

added cs as well just now!

wanton cedar
#

okay, so i want to add a lot of things to make my world more atmospheric, like flickering lights in some of the streetlights, but is it considered "bad practice", to have a lot of independent scripts? or is it normal that a lot of things in my world have their own scripts, that make them do minor things like that?

rigid island
#

ofc it also depends what you do in each script too

#

every MB script has to tap into the C++ engine though

wanton cedar
#

and i have heard that searching for gameobjects can be heavy, if you do it alot

rigid island
#

you could search which is more expensive yes

#

Dependency injecting is always the best route

#

if possible inspector and then "trickle" down to whatever else

#

Singleton patterns also can help for specific things that only need 1 instance

steady moat
wanton cedar
rigid island
#

doesnt mean you also couldnt have a Script on the light hat maybe registers itself and so forth, I just wouldnt put Update in each light script.. The cost isn't worth

steady moat
#

To be honest, the cost of either updating through a script or using a single place would not really matter if we are talking about flickering light.

#

The light itself is considerably more heavy

rigid island
#

Update in each script most certainly matters

steady moat
#

Relatively speaking, in this case, it does not.

rigid island
#

thats why even leaving Empty update loops in script is considered bad practice cause it still has cost

#

imagine 200+ lights running update loop

steady moat
#

Imagine having 200+ lights.

#

Relatively Speaking

rigid island
#

yea not saying light component isnt costly(realtime)

#

but why add to it

sudden lantern
#

Hello, everyone. I have some player states, all of them are about character movement. Several states have +- similar logic of movement and additional force on calculations, etc. The problem is that I have to copy the code with minor changes. I'm thinking of creating an ActorKinematics class where I'll make public methods with basic physics, various other additional force implementations, and depending on the state, I'll make small changes. Is this a good solution?

steady moat
#

Because it does not matter and increase development time and make things harder to work with.

rigid island
#

when 1 script could easily randomize each light on its own and you're only running 1 script an update rather than 200+

rigid island
#

although frankly.. id worry about Meshes and complexity of geometry before scripts

steady moat
#

Obviously, there is a moment where it matters, but from I have seen it is far from being an issue in most situation. Instead, using appropriate culling system for object that are too far/not visible is what should be done. The amount of objects is usually small enough and the variety is too much to warrant the creating of centralise behaviour.

rigid island
steady moat
sudden lantern
rigid island
#

Sound like you want some type of abstract class?

#

not sure what you mean though by changing things slightly, are we talking methods and how they behave? the values of fields?

steady moat
#

Simply add parameter to those functions instead of relaying on copy paste and you are set.

sudden lantern
steady moat
rigid island
sudden lantern
# steady moat Show some code if you can. Pseudo code at least 
float rate = turnSpeed;
planarVel += inputDir;

Vector3 newVel = Rotate(planarVel, inputDir) * planarVel;
movementVector = Slerp(movementVector, newVel, rate * dt);

This is the ground physics
Then in the air physics first 2 lines are the same

movementVector = Slerp(planarVelocity, inputDir * planarVelocity.magnitude, rate * dt);

ofc there are a lot more lines and that's the problem, I need to copy paste to add a few lines. This is bad, because if I want to change something in the physics code, I have to change it in every state that use almost the "same" physics implementation

leaden ice
sudden lantern
leaden ice
#

If you want

sudden lantern
#

okay, thanks yall

rigid island
#

could probably even be static funcs

leaden ice
#

The lowest common denominator is just a bunch of static utility functions

steady moat
glacial mountain
#

Friends

# 
            float angle = Mathf.Atan2(_rb.velocity.y, _rb.velocity.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            VisionPivot.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);;
#

Shouldn't this be correct for facing a child object to same position as character is moving?

leaden ice
glacial mountain
#

yes

somber nacelle
#

fun fact, but you don't need to use Atan2 or assign rotation for that. just assign its transform.right or transform.up to the velocity (whichever direction points along its "forward" axis)

leaden ice
#

If so, yes it's correct, assuming the object's "right" direction is actually its forward

#

but yeah just VisionPivot.transform.right = _rb.velocity; is good enough

glacial mountain
#

top down rpg

leaden ice
#

you might want .up instead

#

What's going wrong?

glacial mountain
#

sec

#

i'll take quick snip

#

before I change it to what you just said

leaden ice
glacial mountain
#

Vision pivot is just used to have a 0,0 pivot for the Poly collider 2D

#

I'm explaining lol

#

So goal is for it to rotate on that pivot and have the flat side opposite of apex where the pivot is to face direction that movement is

leaden ice
#

Siwtch to the "move" tool and switch your tool handle rotation to "Local" instead of "Global", and your tool handle position to "Pivot" not "Center"

#

then we can see what's actually happening here

glacial mountain
#

sec

#

interesting

#

didn't know about that

#

so I have to rotate my triangle

#

to face along red axis

leaden ice
# glacial mountain

so this is showing us that your polygon/triangle is not aligned with either transform.up (green) or transform.right (red)

leaden ice
#

exactly

glacial mountain
#

well that is helpful

leaden ice
#

indeed

glacial mountain
#

I use unreal, not unity. lol Just decided to switch to unity for a class project and do 2D for fun since its out of my norm

leaden ice
#

Well the concepts of transforms and such are surely the same

glacial mountain
#

ye

#

I just dont do 2d

#

hm.. messed up a couple times

leaden ice
glacial mountain
#

woops had wrong object selected

#

let me switch to ```c#
VisionPivot.transform.right = _rb.velocity;

leaden ice
#

your problem now I believe is that you are setting the x scale of the parent object to -1

#

so when your guy "flips", suddenly your collider is now facing AWAY from the red arrow/x axis

#

instead of along it

#

one way to fix this is to move the sprite into a child object and only flip the scale of that child object when you turn

#

or use the SpriteRenderer Flip X property instead of negative scale.

glacial mountain
#

ah

#

that makes more sense

#

Yea that fixed it. Thanks Praetor.

bronze crystal
#

some can give advice on implementing drag and drop code like you see with scratch

rigid island
#

I would def use SOs I think though

#

but in terms of drag n drop just snap the male from one piece to female pos of another piece

bronze crystal
#

what is so

rigid island
#

scriptable objects

#

but thats logic wise, irrelevant to drag n drop

bronze crystal
#

i used ai to create some base code

#

idk it works though

rigid island
#

you can also use Colliders / physics queries instead of distance / positional check

#

but prob overkill with that but will make it easier in some instances

#

esp overlapping pieces, you can also use the Event System that has more interesting methods like OnDrop etc.

bronze crystal
#

i tried with the event system but it drags the original object

exec2.PNG
rigid island
bronze crystal
#

the original sorry

rigid island
#

I still dont know what "drags the original object" means lol what is the original object, this screenshot doesn't help much

#

how are you even snapping them

bronze crystal
#

one panel is for executable commands

exce.PNG
#

like move forward

#

and then when you click start yuo would execute in order

#

like scratch you know

#

maybe i shouldn't try make such system with limited code skill 😅

rigid island
#

look into ScriptableObjects, do the logic first, then figure out how to piece them together

#

this way you know you're not gonna be wasting time on UI for no reason, UI tends to waste a lot of time

shrewd bramble
#

Hii guys i get a problem here with my playermovement maybe, idk why when game started the player will be moved to under building object. did anyone know what happend with this?

spare dome
#

we would need to see some !code, and also a little more elaboration would help

tawny elkBOT
inner shuttle
#

hello, im having a problem incorporating root motion to work in conjunction with a nav mesh agent and ive got no clue what to do with this i know it probably has something to do with the nav mesh agent trying to move the model and the model trying to move itself or something but i really have no idea

https://pastebin.com/gY7HeMnV

Pastebin
private void Initialise() { currentState = agentState...

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

rocky basalt
#

What's the correct way to force a physics/collision-based object to only move on one local axis? I set the Constraints on the RB, but those only work in World Space.

I have rotatable objects that I only want to move along their positive x axis, not the world x axis...

#

I saw some solutions of people doing transforms every frame, but that seems a bit clunky performance-wise?

leaden ice
# rocky basalt What's the correct way to force a physics/collision-based object to only move on...

This (free) asset has a "speed limits" feature which has local axis limits https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/betterphysics-selective-kinematics-244370

BetterPhysics - Selective Kinematics | Physics | Unity Asset Store

Get the BetterPhysics - Selective Kinematics package from Sadness Monday Productions and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Physics options on the Unity Asset Store.

inner shuttle
#

Is this AI Navigation script generally messy / bad for maintenance? I've got a feeling there is some things i can do like condensing all the "reached point" enumerators into one stuff like that

cosmic rain
inner shuttle
#

thats what i meant to be honest navigation/ai controller, and yes it does work as i intended and no theres no issue i just want to have a clean script that i dont have to worry about maintaining being a bitch etc

#

how is handling the thinking process not great in there by the way?

cosmic rain
#

You're not ever gonna have a perfectly clean script. I recommend just leaving it like that for now, until there's an actual issue. Then it will be an opportunity to refactor it.

cosmic rain
# inner shuttle how is handling the thinking process not great in there by the way?

The issue is that it does several things. Ideally you want your scripts to do only one particular thing or handle one domain/function. If it's meant to handle navigation, it would only be responsible for calculating the path to a destination, possibly making some adjustments to it, and maybe moving along it. Now it also decides where to go(and whether to go at all), basically the state of the whole ai agent, which is outside of the task of just moving it to a point. This should be the responsibility of the decision making ai brain(or call it whatever you want).

inner shuttle
#

right okay, say i was to redo it from here then would it be in my best interests to just split that script up into smaller classes i can call in that case?

cosmic rain
#

Yes and no. Just splitting it is not gonna do. You have to move the decision making to an actual decision making script. Not have decision making for movement and separately decision making for attack or item use or whatever.

inner shuttle
#

alright thanks ill probably just end up redoing this in that case cheers mate

cosmic rain
inner shuttle
#

is that code architecture or whatever?

#

like namespaces and that

cosmic rain
cosmic rain
inner shuttle
#

alright ill take a look thanks again

storm wolf
#

Issue with running dynamic python code as async using pythonnet

prime lintel
#

Hi all, I am having an issue with retrieving an array of Nodes (my custom type) and I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.


Node[] nodes = FindObjectsByType<Node>(FindObjectsSortMode.None);
image.png
#

The type 'UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView.Node' cannot be used as type parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'Object.FindObjectsByType<T>(FindObjectsSortMode)'. There is no implicit reference conversion from 'UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView.Node' to 'UnityEngine.Object'.

cosmic rain
prime lintel
#

Got it, thank you

prime lintel
#

Will using UnityActions as a way to update a Dictionary of target positions on a 2D world be a laggy solution for mob pathfinding?

#

There will probably be less than 10 targets at a time, where their positions are updated with a raise event in fixed update

latent latch
#

Unless you're doing it every frame, doubtful

mellow sigil
#

and not even then

prime lintel
#

I see, so perhaps I can then put it in InvokeRepeating every half a second?

mellow sigil
#

Triggering an event by itself will have absolutely no visible effect on performance. What the event does is another matter.

#

Stop worrying about it beforehand. Do whatever the game needs and if it becomes too slow then start optimizing

round violet
#

is it possible to expose a script like a static asset (like DAs in UE) ?
my goal is to have static variables inside and access them anywhere in scripts and expose to the inspector when selected in the folder view

knotty sun
round violet
#

i just wonder if im forced to create a gameobject where the script will live

#

ideally the vars would be editable in the inspector when the script is selected

knotty sun
#

of course if you want to use the inspector

cosmic rain
#

I think they're looking for ScriptableObjects

knotty sun
#

ah, by folder do you mean Project or Hiearchy view?

round violet
knotty sun
#

In that case you do need ScriptableObjects

round violet
#

thanks that was it !

round violet
#

mh, for some reasons i cannot use a public type declared in a namespace even when including the namespace

# 
using UnityEngine;
using AYellowpaper.SerializedCollections;

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class EnemiesDataAsset : ScriptableObject
{
    public SerializedDictionary<int, string> Data; // <== The type or namespace name 'SerializedDictionary' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
}

// in some other file
namespace AYellowpaper.SerializedCollections
{
    [System.Serializable]
    public class SerializedDictionary<TKey, TValue> : Dictionary<TKey, TValue>

i didnt add any assembly setup so i should have it

knotty sun
cosmic rain
#

You mentioned unreal earlier, so I assume that you're used to C++, but C# has a lot of differences with C++. You should go over the language manual, before attempting to write any code.

knotty sun
cosmic rain
#

Hmm... Indeed. I should've read the comment in the code. I tend to skip those...

#

I made some assumptions based on what they said earlier with "static" access to variables in an asset or something like that.

round violet
cosmic rain
round violet
#

oops i forgot to check

cosmic rain
round violet
#

compiling fine, just a IDE issue

cosmic rain
#

Do you have your ide configured correctly?

round violet
#

didnt touch it since last year and it worked fine with same stuff

#

updated to 2024 versions

#

im on 2022 17.11

cosmic rain
#

Do you see the assembly displayed correctly for the opened file?

round violet
#

the solution explorer doesnt look right from my memories

grizzled venture
#

Hi there, how can I save a procedural mesh as an asset from an editor script?
I get the error Couldn't create asset file! with a unhelpful stacktrace that just points to the line where I call CreateAsset.

Mesh colliderMesh = new Mesh
{
  vertices = meshFilter.sharedMesh.vertices,
  triangles = meshFilter.sharedMesh.GetTriangles(k),
};
colliderMesh.RecalculateNormals();
colliderMesh.Optimize();

string path = Application.dataPath + "/" + obj.name.GetHashCode() + k + ".asset";
AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(colliderMesh, path); // Here I get the error
AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();```
#

Do I need a MeshFilter for each mesh perhaps? I really have no idea

quartz folio
#

just hard-code the root as Assets/, it'll handle it from there

#

dataPath starts at the drive root and the AssetDatabase doesn't care about any of that

round shale
#

Question for Unity experts:
I'm having a problem with blurry Text Mesh Pro text. This happens when I use an animation (DOTween) that appears the canvas and scales the canvas from 0.2->1.0 (input effect).

It looks as if the DOTween displays the text correctly when the Canvas appears (SetActive(true)) at a scale of 0.2, but once we scale to 1.0, it's as if that text doesn't refresh and is blurred/has artifacts. Changing anything on the UI causes it to refresh and it already displays the text correctly.

How to fix this correctly? Or how to force a refresh (TMP_Text.ForceMeshUpdate() on tween completion on every text component in the canvas seems a bit... complex)?

knotty sun
grizzled venture
grizzled venture
knotty sun
wanton cedar
#

can i make all gameobjects outside this big sphere be disabled, so only game objects that come in contact with the sphere are enabled?

image.png
#

or would that be too resource heavy, to constanly manage that much?

knotty sun
#

best bet would be to think the other way around. Disable all game objects by default and only enable those within/touching the sphere

wanton cedar
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or make some sort of render distance / LOD system??