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wicked scroll
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and the more you solve this by gamifying pieces of it, the less you are able to deliver on that strong fantasy

compact spire
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@cold parrot It does use a grid, sort of

wicked scroll
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nope I have no idea about any of the references you've mentioned so maybe I'm behind the times

compact spire
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FtD is rather old

cold parrot
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have you looked at besiege?

compact spire
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I have played besiege

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That's a bit more like FtD with a more complex physics system

wicked scroll
cold parrot
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also you could check out Hardspace: Shipbreaker, its not a combat or building game but the ships are composed of 1000s of small parts

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also made in Unity

compact spire
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@wicked scroll maybe for it's official release, but it's been a thing for 5+ years longer than that

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@cold parrot I have beaten it yes

wicked scroll
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oooh interesting

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I can't tell from this trailer what the actual gameplay is like or how long it takes to make one of these lego ships

compact spire
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@wicked scroll FtD I will tell you now, it takes goddamn forever

wicked scroll
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yeah that ain't gonna fly broadly

compact spire
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You want to build a ship with a laser on it or a cannon and you've never done it before? You are going to spend an inordinate amount of time looking up tutorials

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hell, even an engine takes forever to figure out how to make

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I spent days meticulously building boats

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and then I tested them in combat, and they sucked

wicked scroll
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that is definitely a market

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people build insane stuff in minecraft and they don't even get to use it to fight other stuff

compact spire
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Stormworks has a simlar problem, except Stormworks wasn't really designed around anything besides it's physics and the building, so the content to play isn't so great.

cold parrot
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some people also spend most of their 120h in starfield in the ship-builder

compact spire
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I loathe Starfields ship builder

cold parrot
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and that ship builder is rather basic

compact spire
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in fact, I loathe every building system Bethesda has ever made

cold parrot
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but its an extremely strong hook

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i think bethesda building systems teach you one very important lesson: no matter how shit the builder gameplay is, people will still use it more than any other system in the game

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you just gotta provide a great fantasy for it

compact spire
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I mean that's true

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But you either need mods, or glitches to get certain looks

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and some stuff simply won't snap to a grid because it's the wrong size

cold parrot
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nah, thats just the hardcore gamer speaking

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most people dont care about mods and stuff

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and its super weird how tolerant people are of bugs in builder-type games

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also people could not care less about having ultimate shape and placement freedom

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that stuff is only important for streamers

compact spire
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ehh, I think people want things to fit together within expectations

cold parrot
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people want to pick and place nice looking components, not design them

cold parrot
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and they can decorate and paint it

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put stickers on it

compact spire
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being unable to rotate a part that makes sense to be rotatable or picking a wall to fill in a spot with that is of a slightly different type and have it not fit are valid annoyances.

cold parrot
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make sure you playtest that, i've personally made a lot of wrong assumptions about what people actually want in builder games

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but, ofc, you need to build something you like, so ymmv

compact spire
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Right, at first my system was a bit too inflexible, so my results weren't what I wanted.

cold parrot
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i would expect that there will be a sweet-spot

compact spire
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yes

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It's a little less cohesive

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like I want to have a wing editor

cold parrot
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but its very easy to not find it when preoccupied with wishes and wants

compact spire
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But I took a break on the building prototype and that's why I want to test the mesh merging / physics / destruction

cold parrot
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next time i make one i would spend a lot of time on getting the snapping and control exactly right

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everything from then on will have to be subservant to that

compact spire
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Building system interactions.. there are a lot of examples

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I don't think refining that is.. important

cold parrot
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well, thats until your first public playtest

compact spire
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not if you are From the Depths, that building system is a nightmare

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It seems to be doing well lol

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Sure at public playtest I would have something refined

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But I feel that those systems are so well established that you have enough examples to not worry about it

cold parrot
compact spire
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Stormworks probably has the best building UI/UX

cold parrot
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all super successful building games have excellent UX

compact spire
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I think this will still end up being niche

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but that's ok

sacred sinew
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Sorry if it's a stupid question
But why use abstract classes over interfaces?

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Both will still require the class to write their own implementation

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But a class can only inherit from one base class at a time, compared to multiple interfaces

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So you would be more limited by using an abstract class over an interface

steady bobcat
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you may want some functions or have virtual ones too

hexed pecan
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I use abstract classes when I want some default implementation. Not sure how well the new-ish interface default implementations work

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Also, nothing stops you from using both abstract base class and interfaces

sacred sinew
sacred sinew
latent latch
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Abstract classes prevent actually creating an instance of it first and foremost

steady bobcat
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interfaces usually just define a "contract" that anything impements, where as abstract classes are some common base you can build apon (but are prevented using the base as its incomplete)

bitter jewel
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Hi everyone,
I need some help as i want to make a clicker game for mobile, kinda like the business empire richman game. How would i start off? Would it even be possible? Please if anyone has some tips, tutorial links or anything then please just tell me as im so exited to be able to start this project.
Thank you for reading and i hope you have a lovely rest of your day

latent latch
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dont think you can make virtual methods inside of interfaces can you?

plucky inlet
tawny elkBOT
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chilly surge
bitter jewel
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does anyone know whats the best language for my request

tawny elkBOT
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steady bobcat
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^ go learn the basics first!

compact spire
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If you want some context try and find a Unity tutorial on youtube for a clicker game.

sacred sinew
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I think my entire idea of the purpose of an abstract class was incorrect

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From what I'm gathering
More complex and re-usable systems should be made with a base class to inherit from

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While Interfaces are more of a "help" to add extra functionality

chilly surge
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Abstract class vs interface can be further boiled down to inheritance vs composition. Inheritance models "is" relationships (class Bird : Mammal), composition models "can" relationships (class Bird : ICanFly, ICanWalk). That's a very good rule of thumb way to think about it when you need to pick.

latent latch
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I usually use interfaces for identity or to help remove ambiguity if needed. Ashame still no interface serialization support

steady bobcat
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"I can fly!"

leaden solstice
sacred sinew
bitter jewel
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sorry i was just asking about what code language is the best for a 2D Clicker Game?

sacred sinew
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That was super helpful

steady bobcat
leaden solstice
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After compiling to IL, interfaces become abstract class

sacred sinew
bitter jewel
hexed pecan
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You should do some beginner courses first

bitter jewel
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yeah atm im stage 4 in the essentials pathway

latent latch
steady bobcat
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it surely cant be hard to make it work cus they can presume the interface is a Component at a min or something :/

chilly surge
# sacred sinew That was super helpful

Inheritance especially when the hierarchy gets deep can become a nightmare to maintain. "Is" relationships counter intuitively, can change and evolve over time, because when you first write the code class Battleship : Ship, anything that can move in water is a Ship and you shove all the water movement code in there, only for future requirements to change ("game designer says we need to add marine animals now"). This is how code bases end up getting stuck with class Shark : Ship. Some may brush that off as an issue of not enough foresight, but imo that's more or less unavoidable, you cannot predict what the future will bring.
Composition on the other hand, "can" relationships are for the most part rock solid and rarely ever change. It does lead to more initial boilerplate code, but it tends to be more flexible and adaptable to future changes.

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This is not to say you should never use inheritance though, they both have their places.

polar marten
exotic shard
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Can someone help me with my game

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am looking for a coder the knows how to code with C#

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can i get help

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from someone

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If anyone can?

twilit scaffold
tawny elkBOT
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void basalt
loud wharf
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I'm using TMP_InputField inside a layout. I'm trying to make the text field expand as I type so i just hooked up onValueChanged to LayoutRebuilder and mark it dirty.
But the problem is it doesn't seem to account for whitespace. The text gets pushed back without the transform expanding. And even if I add non whitespace text afterwards, it doesn't correct it until I hit backspace.

loud wharf
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Okay, found an old forum post about accomodating for white space.

azure frost
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Okay, as seen in #1329735696621240320 , I'm having swimming problems.

case CharacterState.Swimming:
    {
        _jumpRequested = inputs.JumpHeld;

        _moveInputVector = cameraPlanarRotation * moveInputVector;

        switch (OrientationMethod)
        {
            case OrientationMethod.TowardsCamera:
_lookInputVector = cameraPlanarDirection;
break;
           case OrientationMethod.TowardsMovement:
_lookInputVector = _moveInputVector.normalized;
break;
        }
        
        _shouldBeCrouching = false;
        _isCrouching = false;
        inputs.Crouch = false;
        break;
    }```
This might be the trouble-causer, but I'm not sure. How do I make the swimming controls more freeform?
azure frost
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Is anybody here?

compact spire
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sure

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Your question is a bit vague though

azure frost
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Well, I think a better way to say it is, "How do I make it so that "forward" is the exact direction the camera is pointing while underwater?"

compact spire
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Oh I see, that was in your link near the bottom, I didn't see it

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This isn't something I've ran into, but is the planar direction not the camera's actual direction?

azure frost
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🤷‍♂️

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I'll post the whole script in hastebin.

compact spire
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yeah I think when in water you might not want to use just the cameraPlanarDirection, you need your character to angle upwards a bit when swimming up and then down when swimming down right?

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Again, not sure on the fix, but that's where I would look, I haven't tried that kind of character movement before

azure frost
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Well, it's more like, tilting forward will move the character in the direction the camera is pointing. Not just laterally.

compact spire
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but the character doesn't rotate

azure frost
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The Kinematic Character Controller includes a walkthrough for water controls, whose script we took components from.

Hang on, let me bring up the original.

compact spire
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_lookInputVector = cameraPlanarDirection;

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Wouldn't that lock you to a specific plane

azure frost
compact spire
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Well, I'm sure someone smarter than me will chime in, I don't have any additional ideas without digging through this for quite a while. And I need to head to bed 😛

azure frost
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ok. goot night

compact spire
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Maybe log some of your different vectors to see if another might better match the characters expected underwater rotatioan.

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or I guess, not a vector, quaternion.

unkempt meadow
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!code

tawny elkBOT
unkempt meadow
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//  void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
           
            Vector3 mouseScreenPosition = Input.mousePosition;
            mouseScreenPosition.z = 0f; 
            Vector3 explosionPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mouseScreenPosition);

            
            Collider[] colliders = Physics.OverlapSphere(explosionPosition, 2);

            foreach (Collider hit in colliders)
            {
                Rigidbody rb = hit.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
                if (rb != null)
                {
                    rb.AddExplosionForce(explosionForce, explosionPosition, 2);
                }
            }
        }
    }¸
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why does this not work?

hexed pecan
unkempt meadow
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I didn't 😄

quartz folio
unkempt meadow
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I tried to serialize the Vector3s like an idiot

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should have debugged

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no force is being added visibly, no matter how much I change the force or radius

quartz folio
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You should draw rays/lines in the scene to ensure positions are where you think they are

unkempt meadow
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so the code itself should be correct? instead it seems like a mismatch with some poisitons or something?

quartz folio
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You will have to do some debugging to find out

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I've also linked a resource that's probably your issue

swift falcon
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hi

unkempt meadow
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ah I used debug log to see the mouse click position

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it's really wrong

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let me get on that

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I am confused. So I have a box that is 2m cubed. The difference in X mouse position between the left bound and right bound is like 150m

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how does that work?

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Also, the y position is wild. It's as if the ''collision'' of the mouse is set very far back

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ok I kinda fixed it

blazing basalt
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How can i create my prefabs by the right click menu in the inspector. Shall I use [MenuItem("GameObject/MyObj")]
And instantiate function to create it?

azure frost
rustic ember
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I have one Vector3 ("v1") and another Vector3 ("v2") on a Plane. v2 rotates around and I need to calculate the degrees between v1 and v2. I know I can use Vector3.SignedAngle, but I also need to know the degrees when the degrees exceed 360 when rotating multiple revolutions. How can I approach this?

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hexed pecan
rustic ember
hexed pecan
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If all you have is the vectors, there's no way to know if it rotated 1 degree or 361 degrees

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What are you trying to accomplish?

hexed pecan
rustic ember
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True, but the point changes every frame, and we can assume that it never changes more than 360 degrees

hexed pecan
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You still can't know if it rotated a positive or negative angle

rustic ember
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Really?

hexed pecan
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Well, both could be valid

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90 degrees rotation looks the same as -270 degrees, for example

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181 is the same as -179

rustic ember
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I see

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🤔

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Then I guess I don't need to know if it rotates multiple revolutions

hexed pecan
rustic ember
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Yes

hexed pecan
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Tell me what you are trying to actually do

rustic ember
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I am making a rotation tool similar to the unity editor. You can visually see when it rotates multiple revolutions

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hexed pecan
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Current approach won't work

hexed pecan
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So that's a parameter you are missing here

rustic ember
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I am doing it a bit differently. In the Unity Editor it measures the mouse movement (linearly) in relation to the tangent of the ppoint on the circle that is clicked. In my game you rotate the mouse around the circle

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So I have v1 from the center to the start click point, then I have v2 from the center to the mouses current point on the circle

hexed pecan
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So it happens over multiple frames

rustic ember
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Yes

hexed pecan
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You can just accumulate the angle difference each frame

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Add it together

rustic ember
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I guess. I wanted to avoid this because of floating point errors

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The effect might be minimal though

hexed pecan
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It's not going to be noticeable

rustic ember
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Alright. Thanks for your help

latent latch
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for horizontal input you need the cross product of forward with world up to be relative to it

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this is under the assumption you want controls lock relative to the camera cause I may be misunderstanding

azure frost
frozen holly
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hello can anyone recommend a tutorial on rendomly generating terrain?

azure frost
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So... I've been getting help from another discord. I've changed this section of code and... well...

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hexed pecan
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What's wrong with the first version? What is cameraPlanarRotation - is it just the Y rotation of the cam?

azure frost
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I'll bring the video up again.

azure frost
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My goal is to mimic the swimming system of Just Cause 2.

hexed pecan
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No idea how the change you showed would fix being able to swim in the air

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Doesn't look like the issue has anything to do with camera rotation

azure frost
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The character wasn't swimming in mid-air. That was another water volume.

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And yes, the camera functions just fine in the original video. It's not being able to aim where the player swims while underwater that's the problem.

soft shard
hexed bough
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What would be the best multiplayer solution which i can use for a turn based card game? Here i also want to handle the scenarios where a player might be in background but it shouldn’t affect the game for others.

heady iris
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I have a game that's a ripoff of Into the Breach

hexed bough
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I do have a tps game for which im using photon fusion shared mode
As its on web

heady iris
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Each move in the game is represented as an "action" object. I can serialize and deserialize the action objects.

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When the local player makes a move, they create an object and send it to a router. The router sends it right back, and the action is applied

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When the remote player makes a move, it goes over the network first

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but the outcome is the same: the action gets spit out by the router, and the game applies the action

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Multiplayer is hard when you have to deal with desync

hexed bough
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Previously i used a custom solution using sockets for my turn based game
But i had a lot of edge cases like last second move or player is in background

heady iris
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but turn-based games aviod pretty much everything that could cause desync, since only one player has authority to perform actions at a time

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I'm just using Unity Transport directly, yeah.

hexed bough
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Netcode?

heady iris
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Turn time limits do introduce a desync opportunity

heady iris
# hexed bough Netcode?

not Netcode for GameObjects, no. I'm just using Unity Transport directly to move data around

hexed bough
heady iris
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If you want to prevent cheating, in the form of:

  • Refusing to obey the time limit
  • Pretending the opponent's out of time already

then yes, you would need a server in the middle that you control

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You can detect that the games have gotten out of sync, which works if both players are honest

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But that won't help you against a dishonest player

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If you went with a dedicated server, you could either:

  • Simulate the game only on the server, and then display the resulting game-state to the players
  • Simulate the game everywhere, and use the server's state if a desync occurs
hexed bough
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Wouldnt that be more helpful in the case of rejoining players as well

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Or maybe syncing the current state easily?

heady iris
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Either way, you'd have the server as a single source of truth

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Simulating the game locally means that you don't have to wait for network latency to see your own actions happen

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It's also a bit difficult to completely separate the game simulation (i.e. all of the mechanics) from the game display (all of the visuals and sounds)

hexed bough
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Thats another part which is important

And if i go for a web game then having a server might be heavier

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How is photon quantum?

heady iris
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I've never used Photon

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(any of their systems)

hexed bough
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Ohh

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And netcode will be local as well? Correct?

heady iris
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i'm not sure what you mean by that

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are you asking if you'd still use the networking library when playing a single-player mode?

sick cove
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I am trying to instantiate a copy of a prefab, where i set one of the parameters of the script which is placed on it. in this case the color.

so when i spawn the prefab, the color get set according to the colour of object that spawns it
(to be more precise the colour of a decal)
How can i access the colour while instantiating?

this spawning part of the script

foreach (Vector3 direction in directions)
{
    RaycastHit hit;
    if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, direction, out hit, raycastDistance)) 
    {
        // Check if the hit object is static (we'll check if it has a Rigidbody and if it's set to static)
        Rigidbody hitRigidbody = hit.collider.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        if (hitRigidbody != null && !hitRigidbody.isKinematic)
            continue; // Skip dynamic objects with Rigidbody that are not kinematic

        Debug.Log("Painting the walls now" + direction);
        if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Wall")) 
        {
            Vector3 decalPosition = hit.point + hit.normal * decalOffset;
            GameObject decal = Instantiate(decalPrefab, decalPosition, Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal));

the setting the colour on the prefab

public Color Paint;

void Start()
{
    setColour();
}

public void setColour()
{
    DecalProjector decalProjector = GetComponent<DecalProjector>();
    decalProjector.material = new Material(decalProjector.material);

    decalProjector.material.SetColor("paintColour", Paint);
}
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the goal: when an enemy dies, leave behind a paint splatter of that colour.

heady iris
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nooo he exploded 😭

heady iris
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Instantiate will give you a reference to that component on the newly-created game object

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[SerializeField] Bullet prefab;

public void Shoot() {
  var shot = Instantiate(prefab);
  shot.damage = 123;
}
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e.g.

sick cove
sick cove
heady iris
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Also, if you only set the color in Start, then there will be one frame where you see the wrong color

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I'd suggest doing this:

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Splat instance = Instantiate(splatPrefab);
instance.SetColor(someColor);
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rather than just setting the "Paint" field and then using it in the Start method one frame later

sick cove
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it's been a while that i instantiated anything.
i just have the prefab written as ```public GameObject decalPrefab;````

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what is the 'bullet' referencing again?

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right, and the second script is on the just spawned item.

heady iris
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Switch the type from GameObject to whatever the type of that second script is

heady iris
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I edited the script to avoid using the "bullet" name twice.

sick cove
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right.

heady iris
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shot is a local variable that points to the newly-instantiated bullet

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and then damage is a field on the Bullet class that I'm modifying

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I almost never reference prefabs as a GameObject. I always want something more specific!

sick cove
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alright. i'll quickly test

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i don't know what i did, but it now takes a really long time to explode, and nothing get's created, here is the change i made

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RaycastHit hit;
if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, direction, out hit, raycastDistance)) 
{
    // Check if the hit object is static (we'll check if it has a Rigidbody and if it's set to static)
    Rigidbody hitRigidbody = hit.collider.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    if (hitRigidbody != null && !hitRigidbody.isKinematic)
        continue; // Skip dynamic objects with Rigidbody that are not kinematic

    Debug.Log("Painting the walls now" + direction);
    if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Wall")) 
    {
        Vector3 decalPosition = hit.point + hit.normal * decalOffset;
        //GameObject decal = Instantiate(decalPrefab, decalPosition, Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal));
        var setColour = Instantiate(decalColorSetter, decalPosition, Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal));
        setColour.Paint = decalColor;
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(i made a mistake in another piece of code i just see, 1 sec)

polar marten
sick cove
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no, that also didn't work. i had the wrong colour name set for the decalprojector. but that wasn't the only problem it seems

polar marten
sick cove
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i only raycast to 'wall'

polar marten
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the code is raycasting to everything

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so whatever is the first collider it runs into will cause the Physics.Raycast call to return with that collider

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you could say you aspire that the first collider on the ray is a wall 🙂

sick cove
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whoops

hexed bough
sick cove
# polar marten you could say you aspire that the first collider on the ray is a wall 🙂

i'll quickly send the original code in that case, before i edited it with the advice from here.

private void PaintTheWalls()
{
    Vector3[] directions =
    {
        Vector3.forward,
        Vector3.back,
        Vector3.left,
        Vector3.right,
        Vector3.up,
        Vector3.down
    };

    foreach (Vector3 direction in directions)
    {
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, direction, out hit, raycastDistance)) 
        {
            // Check if the hit object is static (we'll check if it has a Rigidbody and if it's set to static)
            Rigidbody hitRigidbody = hit.collider.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
            if (hitRigidbody != null && !hitRigidbody.isKinematic)
                continue; // Skip dynamic objects with Rigidbody that are not kinematic

            Debug.Log("Painting the walls now" + direction);
            if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Wall")) 
            {
                Vector3 decalPosition = hit.point + hit.normal * decalOffset;
                GameObject decal = Instantiate(decalPrefab, decalPosition, Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal));
                
                Renderer decalRenderer = decal.GetComponent<Renderer>();
                if (decalRenderer != null && decalRenderer.material.HasProperty("_PaintColour"))
                {
                    decalRenderer.material.color = decalColor; // Set the color dynamically
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
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brb, i'm gonna do more research on raycasts

polar marten
polar marten
hexed bough
polar marten
steady bobcat
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Otherwise you get GTA online

polar marten
hexed bough
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For myself

hexed bough
polar marten
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i mean i suppose you can give the opponents more time if a player plays a card right before his turn is up

hexed bough
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Yes i can but thing is how much? What if the player is in background

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That messes up everything else

steady bobcat
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What are you saying, that you want to account for someone submitting a move very close to the allotted time?

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You can add on some buffer time server side to say allow moves made up to 2 seconds late or something

polar marten
hexed bough
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I already did before where i used a websockets
Im planning to rewrite it with an existing solution available rather than web socket

hexed bough
steady bobcat
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What is "existing solution"

hexed bough
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I meant like maybe using photon or mirror

steady bobcat
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Regardless unless you design it correctly it will be easy to cheat

hexed bough
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Apart from cheating i need to ensure the game keeps running even if a player is in background or unresponsive such that the experience for others is not disrupted

leaden solstice
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What was the question

steady bobcat
plucky inlet
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you can test nakama for multiplayer stuff and broadcast messaging and all that fuzz to get a server going

sick cove
steady bobcat
#

I've heard good things about nakama

plucky inlet
#

yeh, I am using it on a non game approach and its doin a great job so far

steady bobcat
#

I may get to use it one day at my work but previous server games used a custom system in scala

leaden solstice
#

Your game should just be able to serialized to list of player actions

hexed bough
#

Got it
Then i can probably use photon fusion shared mode as well

Ill check out nakama as well

#

Thanks for the suggestions 🙂

latent latch
#

Probably can just use any tcp transport layer

#

I'd go with some websocketsss

inner mist
#

would a list or array be best for 10 bodyparts? using it for active ragdoll

latent latch
#

is your ragdoll ever growing an extra arm

inner mist
oak panther
#

so how would I check if player is on the ground, and then have them jump from the ground and only from the ground

rigid island
#

overlap works too

dawn mauve
#

Has anyone found good uses for ML agents? Thinking about training one but can't really figure out where I'd run it given they seem to cost a lot of resources to run. I'm building traditional game apps (aka not robotics).

Was thinking about creating exploratory test cases using ML agents, to test my levels in between play testing sessions during development. My thought is it might help catch bugs in levels, since an ML agent can hypothetically play through a level many different ways. Figured I'd ask in case others have found a use.

wheat spruce
#

I think its if you'd like some complicated behaviour that would be tough to program. Say you had a card game and you want the agent to have an idea of what the best card to play would be given their hand

#

or something like a football player where it know the best location it should move towards based on the rest of the players

hexed pecan
#

I don't think anyone knows what you are trying to ask

dawn mauve
steady bobcat
#

"MonoBehaviour Script" is the option

rigid island
#

under Scripting lmao

#

there got so many types too

candid tundra
#

check the scripting, should expand and have an empty script option too

still jungle
#

uh GUI files creation

heady iris
#

Some things were renamed in Unity 6.

#

What used to be "C# Script" is now "MonoBehaviour Script"

candid tundra
#

and your file name and class name matches each other?
like:
file name MyMonobehaviour.cs
class MyMonobehaviour: MonoBehaviour {}

rigid island
#

new unity versions that doesnt even matter anymore

steady bobcat
somber nacelle
#

2022.2

candid tundra
# steady bobcat since when??

to be fair, usually the component search wont yield a result for the non matching script, but you can drag the script file from the project window onto your object into the hierarchy view and that will add the script component

steady bobcat
somber nacelle
#

yeah, that's still not allowed if you're creating them in the editor

steady bobcat
#

they were actually created with editor code but stuff would be all funky untill i moved it to its own file

rigid island
#

You still cant have 2 MB or SOs in same file afaik

somber nacelle
steady bobcat
#

not so useful then :/

somber nacelle
#

i mean, ideally you wouldn't be cramming a bunch of different object definitions into the same file anyway. the reduction of the naming restrictions can be useful though if you have a UnityEngine.Object and a plain object in the same file (but again, ideally that wouldn't be the case) or you just rename a class without using the refactoring tools so the file name doesn't change

steady bobcat
#

I don't normally do it, I often create a new class in another and use VS to move it

late ocean
#

im a beginner and I made this script to make the player move left and right using a tutorial. But it doesn't seem to work, any solutions?

#

oops should have put this in code beginner

#

ill do that now ig

hidden flicker
#

high-velocity objects keep passing through colliders, or registering the collision point as occurring after the objects has passed through. i have interpolate and continuous on the rigidbody but it still does this

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

also, what does interpolation setting affect then?

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

ah, ok

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

doesn’t continuous dynamic just toggle between discrete and continuous based on the object’s velocity?

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

that… makes a lot of sense

#

goddamn

#

wait hang on

#

is this correct?

leaden solstice
#

Just continuous only enables for dynamic vs static collision

hidden flicker
#

but my issue is occurring with a dynamic-static collision

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

let me check

leaden solstice
#

If it fixes the issue then you might just thinking it's static when it is actually dynamic

hidden flicker
#

i’ll get back to you one sec

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
#

well

#

goddamn

hidden flicker
#

it fixed it though

#

wait nope

#

it didn’t

leaden solstice
hidden flicker
leaden solstice
simple void
somber nacelle
simple void
#

Oh it's overridden, tysm!

#

So they overide ? or ?= not != null

somber nacelle
#

they only override == and != because the null condition and other null operators cannot be overridden. and they did so because an object can be destroyed but not null because c# does not have the concept of "destroyed" and there is no way to automatically set a variable null when the object has been destroyed

#

so you have to use the overridden operators to do your null checks otherwise you potentially run into exceptions

simple void
#

That's what I'm getting

#

That makes sense thanks

somber nacelle
#

any object that inherits from UnityEngine.Object can be destroyed on the native side, but that does not actually do anything to any references to that object on the c# side. so those null checking operators will think the object is not null so when you try to access those properties on those objects that reach into that native code where the object is destroyed you'll get an exception

vagrant blade
#

We don't need the spam. If you don't have a question, don't post, thanks.

grand thicket
#

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

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somber nacelle
grand thicket
somber nacelle
#

that is not what that exception means

cosmic rain
viscid kite
#

question i want to bind an onclick event of a button in C# rather than through in-editor, how do I do that?

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somber nacelle
viscid kite
foggy pasture
mental wedge
#

Hey anyone having issues where you assign buttons or objects in inspector but it still shows errors that they are not assigned? Idk wtf is going on

brazen kestrel
#

would anyone know why my arms are animating but legs are not. they are two different objects using the same parameter and the legs move but arms do not. When I manually set the parameter (float) in the animator the legs animate but arms dont
EDIT: using same controller as well

somber nacelle
mental wedge
somber nacelle
#

nobody is going to commit to helping until they know what they are actually helping with

mental wedge
somber nacelle
#

alright, since you refuse to actually provide useful details you have guaranteed that I won't help. so good luck 👍

mental wedge
somber nacelle
ancient sable
#

oh whoops didnt see that channel.

modern atlas
mental wedge
# modern atlas Perhaps send your code

I didn't think that would be accepted well since some people would get mad at a random code being sent in the chat. I have no issue sending it DMs, but I don't need people coming at me with an attitude ya know.

the weird thing is that it works when I test, then I move through different scenes, and when I go back to the initial scene, the button all of a sudden is not assigned...but it was just working. So I have no idea what is going on

modern atlas
tawny elkBOT
somber nacelle
mental wedge
#

Aj!

modern atlas
#

It means dont destroy on load. Better yet, send the code so we can assess the problem

mental wedge
#

Dontdestroyonload

#

Let me try something real quick

#

Damn. Didn't work lol

#

This is a warning that appears when the boss enemy spawns. It works when I test the level. I go to the main menu, navigate back to that game mode, and click play, then the error appears that it's not assigned. But it was just working.
It's a 2D tower defense

📎 message.txt
somber nacelle
mental wedge
# 
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using TMPro;

public class BossWarning : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static BossWarning instance;
    public GameObject warningUI;
    public TextMeshProUGUI warningText;
    public float warningDuration = 2f;
    public Animator animator;

    void Awake()
    {
        
        Debug.Log("BossWarning Awake called");
        if (instance == null)
        {
            instance = this;
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
            Debug.Log("BossWarning instance set");
        }
        else if (instance != this)  // Only destroy if this isn't the instance
        {
            Debug.Log("Destroying duplicate BossWarning");
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        
    }

    public IEnumerator ShowBossWarning()
    {
        Debug.Log("ShowBossWarning called!");
        if (warningUI != null)
        {
            Debug.Log("Warning UI found, activating...");
            warningUI.SetActive(true);
            
            if (animator != null)
            {
                animator.SetTrigger("Show");
            }

            yield return new WaitForSeconds(warningDuration);
            Debug.Log("Warning duration finished");
            
            // Check if warningUI still exists
            if (warningUI != null)
            {
                if (animator != null)
                {
                    animator.SetTrigger("Hide");
                    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
                }

                warningUI.SetActive(false);
                Debug.Log("Warning UI deactivated");
            }
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Warning UI is not assigned!");
        }
    }
}```

Did I do it?
somber nacelle
#

DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
look at that, i was right. your DDOL object is not being destroyed when you switch scenes, but the objects it references are, then when you get back to the main menu or where ever this object originated, the DDOL object is still there without those old references because those objects were destroyed.
is there a reason this is DDOL?

mental wedge
somber nacelle
#

start by learning the basics, the junior programmer pathway on the unity !learn site will take you through the important concepts that you need to understand in a structured manner

tawny elkBOT
#

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mental wedge
#

Maybe I can just delete that part

mental wedge
#

Also thanks for helping. I don't understand a lot of this stuff. In my world, I know it all, but in the this world, I'm lost. I'm excited to learn and I am happy with what I've been able to build, but it's just so far outside of my expertise. It's like I'm a stupid kid all over again lol

grand thicket
# 
using System;
using System.Linq;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

public class Chunk : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int size;
    public int width;
    public int length;
    public int seed;
    public bool randomize;
    public int magnitude;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        if (randomize)
        {
            seed = UnityEngine.Random.Range(-10000, 10000);
        }
        Generate();
    }

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

    void Generate()
    {
        GameObject block = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<GameObject>("Assets/Blocks/Base.prefab");
        for (int i = 0; i < width; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < length; j++)
            {
                for (int k = 0; k < size; k++)
                {
                    for (int l = 0; l < size; l++)
                    {
                        float xCoord = (float)(i * size) / width;
                        float yCoord = (float)(j * size) / length;

                        float perlinx = (xCoord + k) * seed;
                        float perliny = (yCoord + l) * seed;
                        float perlin = Mathf.PerlinNoise(perlinx, perliny);
                        print((int)Math.Round(perlin * magnitude));
                        GameObject cloned = Instantiate(block);
                        cloned.transform.position = new Vector3((i * size) + k, (int)Math.Round(perlin * magnitude), (j * size) + l);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
#

the perlin noise keeps outputting the same value

mental wedge
#

Does anyone in here do audits? Lol I'll just pay you at this point

cosmic rain
cosmic rain
tawny elkBOT
#

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mental wedge
grand thicket
cosmic rain
#

Integers would return the same value all the time.

grand thicket
#

is there a solution for that?

cosmic rain
grand thicket
#

and how would i do that?

cosmic rain
#

wdym? Just make sure your values are more than 0 and less than 1

#

For example

for(int i = 0; i++; i < 10)
{
  float x = i / 10f;
  float y = i / 10f;
  float noiseValue = Mathf.perlinNoise(x,y);
}
leaden solstice
#

What happened to that for

cosmic rain
#

Let's pretend it was pseudocode.thinksmart

modern atlas
cosmic rain
#

Yeah, that's gonna be a compile error

fallen hatch
#

Can some coding guy help me

#

I'm having a problem with unity netcode

#

I have a leaderboard with 4 slots and every player can see his own name

image.png image.png
#

But I want them to see everyone's names

hexed pecan
#

I don't know about the network stuff, but you should learn arrays/lists

fallen hatch
#

as I have this by default (you can traduce it by player X (not connected)

image.png
fallen hatch
#

Here is an example with 1 player

image.png
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They can see their own name

#

But with 2 players, the names aren't referenced on the network so they only see their own name and as the other's connected player names are only locally referenced, when someone connect or is already connected, the default reference (player X not connected) disappears as it should be but is replaced by nothing.

image.png image.png
#

I've already tried network variables but as I'm not an expert, this only caused the entire script to do not work

#

So, may someone help me synchronizing the variables between clients?

steady bobcat
#

Its been a while since i used unity netcode but the name can be a networked var on the main player components

fallen hatch
#

Ok

#

Thx

#

Would the listed variables be synchronized?

steady bobcat
#

Yea network variables should be syncronised always: https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/networkvariable/
You will need to use a supported string type however and these have a fixed max length

NetworkVariables | Unity Multiplayer

NetworkVariables are a way of synchronizing properties between servers and clients in a persistent manner, unlike RPCs and custom messages, which are one-off, point-in-time communications that aren't shared with any clients not connected at the time of sending. NetworkVariables are session-mode agnostic and can be used with either a client-serve...

fallen hatch
#

ok thx a lot !

#

I'll try

azure frost
hexed pecan
azure frost
#

Okay, well, it's the swimming problem again.

Given that I'm not particularly skilled with code, and that there are multiple scripts involved in this, it is difficult for me to explain the nitty-gritty.

Should I just bring the images and video back to the front again?

hexed pecan
#

Sure. Were you using KCC? If yes, that's worth mentioning.

azure frost
#

Yes, actually.

#

Unfortunately, the swimming controls that the walkthrough had weren't entirely what I had in mind for my project.

#

Here's a bit of code that got changed.

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steady bobcat
#

Is the aim to make swimming "relative" to the current camera view?

azure frost
steady bobcat
#

how does the camera follow the player?

azure frost
#

Hang on, let me grab the camera script, and put it on hastebin.

#

(Gotta go for a bit.)

steady bobcat
azure frost
steady bobcat
azure frost
#

Here's what the character looks like.

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steady bobcat
north hatch
#

I made a first person movement but i got a problem i need help

vestal arch
#

!ask

tawny elkBOT
azure frost
# steady bobcat Perhaps you should not rotate the top level transform at all. Only rotate the mo...

Do you know about the Kinematic Character Controller?
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131?srsltid=AfmBOorU7YAaJKbU6u84SvZwfu2aGQ_a1cyhrhW2BQZCq13-Bsge2ZMf

Kinematic Character Controller | Physics | Unity Asset Store

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wraith spear
#

I'm getting a "Can't add script behaviour 'TestDialogueWriter' because it is an editor script. To attach a script it needs to be outside the 'Editor' folder." warning on a script not inside the Editor folder. Does someone know how to fix it?
I tried:

  • Googling (it says delete and create new script)
  • I deleted and created a new script
  • I deleted the meta files associated with the script
  • I restarted Unity & VS

The full path is [Project]/Assets/Tests/EditMode/Combat/Test.cs
Here's the troublesome code:

{
        [OneTimeSetUp]
        public void OneTimeSetUp()
        {
            Debug.Log("Create TestDialogueWriter");
            EditHelperMethods.SetupMarble();
            testWriter = EditHelperMethods.Instantiate_DialogueWriter();
        }

        [...]
}

public class EditHelperMethods
{
        public static TestDialogueWriter Instantiate_DialogueWriter()
        {
            return Instantiate_GameObject().AddComponent<TestDialogueWriter>();
        }

        public static GameObject Instantiate_GameObject()
        {
            return GameObject.Instantiate(new GameObject());
        }
}```
steady bobcat
#

You use the test runner to execute them

wraith spear
steady bobcat
wraith spear
steady bobcat
wraith spear
#

Ah, it works, thanks a lot for the help!
I'll see about moving it to PlayMode or other solutions to avoid having the class in my normal project files, just for the sake of organization.

azure frost
#

So, rob, should I post again the character controller scripts?

wraith spear
# azure frost So, rob, should I post again the character controller scripts?

Hi, I know I'm not Rob, but figured I'd reply anyway 🙂

I just looked at your earlier questions + video's + code, but to me it isn't really clear what you're trying to achieve in your game. In the second video, for example, the character swims out of the pool into the air, but you say this is intended behaviour as there is a second level of water. Without your comment, I would never have been able to guess that that's intentional.

I recommend you make a more bare-bones level, test it out again, and if it doesn't work please describe what you want to happen vs what happens in a single post (preferably with a video example & the code that is behaving unexpectedly instead of the whole file). It'll make it easier for people to help you.
If you've done so, I'll take a look at it! Just @ me.

azure frost
#

Since there are multiple scripts at play, I'm not entirely sure which one is responsible for my problems, or which one I'd have to modify to make it work how I want it to.

#

But yeah, maybe I should make the pool a bit deeper and more open to better explain what's gone wrong.

#

(But I really should sleep right now...)

wraith spear
azure frost
#

(And naturally, back on the joystick would be at the same angle in the opposite direction.)

#

But, the camera would remain vertical. (Except in cases where dynamic gravity is applied.)

#

I'll probably record a but of just cause 2 swimming and post it on my devlog for reference tomorrow.

#

(But for now, I gotta go. Goot night / morning.)

wraith spear
azure frost
blazing tiger
#

I'm facing a dilemma. I need to render a lot of walls in my scene that can be placed, removed or recolored (like The Sims, but on a much bigger scale). I'm almost certainly not gonna use gameobjects for this, as there might be thousands of wall segments. I've got my data structue and for the rendering I could combine them all into several meshes but now I'm kinda unsure how do I determine what wall segment the player is hovering over with their mouse

#

So on one hand, it makes sense to keep wall segments separate, cause it would be easy to highlight them and determine their index in the data structure, but on another combining them into a couple big meshes would be vastly better for performance and allow more walls to be placed

#

Never would think walls could be such a complicated topic

heady iris
blazing tiger
#

Anyone came up with a way to do this using physical hit tests yet?

#

Shouldn't be too hard to determine "yes, I'm hovering over a wall chunk mesh" but the harder part would be to figure out which segment exactly

heady iris
#

You could encode an ID into the vertex data of the walls

#

Unity allows for up to eight UV streams, each of which can contain four floats

#

If the wall segments are disconnected, then you can give every vertex the same ID value and very reliably recover it from a raycast hit

steady bobcat
heady iris
blazing tiger
heady iris
#

The mesh will need to be read/write enabled, but I'm guessing that's already the case if you're constructing it at runtime

#

You'll also want to avoid retrieving all of the vertex data every single time you do the test

#

Of course, it's always a bit spooky to use an IntPtr...

#

Oh, but that's not needed

#

If you encode this into UV1 (zero-indexing here, so this is the second UV map), you'll get it in RaycastHit

#

otherwise, you'd need to look up the triangle from the mesh and sample one of its indices

#

Note that this would conflict with lightmapping

#

Although you could probably just stuff the data into UV1.z if necessary

blazing tiger
#

I think it should be possible to have more specialized UV maps and not run into lighting issues but I'll need to look it up

heady iris
#

this only matters if you have lightmaps that care about UV1

blazing tiger
#

Anyway, putting this stuff directly into the UVs seems like a spot-on idea tbh

blazing tiger
heady iris
#

as for the IDs -- the easy way is to just use whole float numbers

#

but, you can actually just reinterpret an int as a float (getting some absurdly small or large float in the process) and write that

#

You'll want to do that if you think you'll need more than...a couple million IDs

#

that's the point where floats can no longer represent every integer

blazing tiger
#

I think worst possible case I'd need 65,536 IDs

#

Which I think is Ushort

#

Anyway, this sounds like a pretty good solution. Tnx tnx

polar marten
# blazing tiger Anyway, this sounds like a pretty good solution. Tnx tnx

if you have a robust data structure for the walls already, create the mesh however you need. author a shader with shader graph which takes the data structure as a graphics buffer. then, you can paint directly from the structure. it's like having a world space shader. i don't think you want to hack a bunch of stuff together. but it seems like a lot of work, to do parametric wall rendering

#

althoguht really

#

this is all overengineered

#

130k tris is nothing

blazing tiger
polar marten
#

yeah i think you just need to model it as simply as possible

blazing tiger
#

Yeah the issue isn't really rendering it

#

Rendering is dirt cheap for a mesh this simple

polar marten
#

i guess this is why you need game objects

blazing tiger
#

Issue is that 65,536 GOs will destroy my CPU

polar marten
#

it's a little early to have decided to not use them

#

how do you figure?

blazing tiger
#

Sounds like a lot of GOs

#

And they all carry useless data with them

#

Like scale, rotation, floating point precision position

#

For every single wall

polar marten
blazing tiger
#

Oh, ECS by the way

#

Would be perfect is they didn't cap a chunk at 128 entities or so

#

Starts to run like garbage when you try to spam tens of thousands of lightweight entities since it wastes most of the memory for nothing

polar marten
#

well what's your goal

worldly stirrup
#

So, I made a circle sprite (the circle in red) for a character controller with a box collider (black box). The sprite is a child of the collider. Because of this setup, when the player is on a slope, the sprite appears to float. I can't change the character controller, so instead I want to shift the sprites local position so it would like its on the slope. I already have the normal of the slope, but I need to find the perfect value so there wont be any gaps between the slope and the sprite. How do I find this value?

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vestal arch
#

by "character controller", do you mean the built-in CharacterController component, or your own monobehaviour to handle that?

worldly stirrup
#

my custom one

vestal arch
#

typically a capsule collider is used for characters for this reason

worldly stirrup
#

I first wanted to use a character that makes sense to be put in a square collider, but I realized a circle shaped character is more fitting for the gameplay, and I already spent to much time refining the controller

#

But still, that isn't the point right now

vestal arch
#

is the character a perfect circle or elongated (as in a capsule?)

worldly stirrup
#

perfect circle

vestal arch
#

i'd recommend using a circle collider then

#

in general a collider that matches the visuals would make more sense

#

for ground/terrain collision, for hit detection, etc

worldly stirrup
#

I plan on attaching a circle collider for hit detection, and the box one for level detection, but again, this isn't what I asked for

astral roost
#

Hi everyone!

vestal arch
worldly stirrup
vestal arch
#

how so?

#

make sure you've set appropriate friction and fixed the rotation

worldly stirrup
#

This happens when I use a circle collider, but not a box collider

vestal arch
#

oh you weren't using a rigidbody?

#

i assumed you were, mb

worldly stirrup
#

I also use a rigidbody, but just for setting the velocity

vestal arch
#

so it's kinematic?

worldly stirrup
#

dynamic, kinematic makes it fall through the level

vestal arch
#

that sounds... reversed
if it were dynamic it would be subject to gravity, if it were kinematic it wouldn't

worldly stirrup
#

the gravity is calculated by me

vestal arch
#

are there any special interactions with walls and ceilings?

worldly stirrup
#

on floors, velocity.y is set to zero, there are special walls and ceilings that the player can stick on and move on them when the raycasts detect them

#

strange, the raycasts still work, because i just tested it with a special wall, and the player phased through it, but it still detected it

vestal arch
#

brb

#

ok yeah that makes sense. i was starting to wonder why you didn't just use the rigidbody lol
are you in 2d or 3d?

clear basin
#

guys which method will be executed on scene start even if an object with the script is disabled?

worldly stirrup
#

I'm thinking currently testing out some mario sprites to see if it works well with a running character

#

And if it does look good, then I'll design a character with legs

vestal arch
polar marten
#

it's always a subjective choice

vestal arch
lost vale
#

Hi , where can i find a unity dev ?

rigid island
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lost vale
#

thanks a lot

rigid island
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np

deep bobcat
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Hey there, i am having a problem with my game where its having lag spikes. The fps stays at around 60-70 and then drops to 10-15 fps and jumps back to 60-70. I look at the profiler and i am not sure what im looking to be honest.

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if someone can help me out with i would highly appreicate it

late lion
deep bobcat
late lion
latent latch
#

I was actually told that shaders aren't compiled at the runtime and are compiled into the build, but at editor time it'll continue to recompile them. So I was kinda wondering what's the whole shader prewarm feature for then?

#

Even with that feature, Web exports will still spike when new shader instances are presented into the frustrum for the first time

late lion
deep bobcat
late lion
latent latch
#

since web exports are usually single-threaded it's probably just locking as it compiles it is my assumption

#

pre-warming feature doesnt seem to do squat about it

deep bobcat
late lion
# latent latch pre-warming feature doesnt seem to do squat about it

The trickiest part is collecting all the variants. If the collection doesn't contain all the variants that will appear in the game, you'll still have spikes.

Unity's recommended method is to use their tracking feature and then play through the entire game. But I think that only works in the editor, and there can be different variants in editor than in the build. What I've done in the past is programmatically generate the shader variant collection with all the variant combinations I know can appear in the game. This is only doable because I mostly use my own custom shaders and know what keyword combinations are present.

deep bobcat
#

Every time i bake for occlusion i am geting theses errors in console, but it still does occlusion

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unkempt zenith
#

Does anyone know why this works in the editor and on Windows builds, but not on WebGL?
It's not an issue as I can fix it by comparing the name, instead of the reference, but it would still interest me:

itemView.RenderedItem != _promptInput.Item

Where both objects are Item scriptable objectst

latent latch
#

I'd double check if anything is null

unkempt zenith
#

It's definitely not. On WebGL it seems the Addressable creates a different version of the ScriptableObject than the reference set, whereas it doesn't seem to do that in the editor

latent latch
#

can't say then. I've not had a problem with it all, but I keep all my SOs loaded in as I've not made anything too complex for web for me to manage them

unkempt zenith
#

Interesting

plucky inlet
#

Might also be a server config issue probably?

unkempt meadow
#

quick question. If I have a mesh that's the shape of a box and I use a mesh collider on it, does it performs worse than or same as a box collider?

plucky inlet
unkempt meadow
#

I just realized mesh collider doesn't work in 2d (first time making 2d game), so same question for polygon collider 2d vs box 2d

plucky inlet
unkempt meadow
#

well

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I'm just using the default 2d cubes

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they have 2 tris, right?

#

so I guess it would be the same, yes?

plucky inlet
#

not sure how they are made up technically. How the polygons on polygoncolliders distribute when adding points, but in your case, might be the same yes.

#

also not really a coding question tho 😄

steady moat
steady moat
unkempt meadow
#

it's a webgl build which is supposed to run on phone browsers as well so I wanna optimize in advance to save myself the hassle

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also, it's not my first game, I don't know why you would think so

steady moat
#

If it does not apply, ignore it.

unkempt meadow
#

Well, seems like others are not sure

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I?m going to use a box collider then

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reason was laziness. I will have my player click on position 1 and position 2 and then instantiate a square mesh such that its bounds are between the 2 positions

steady moat
#

Box Collider is better then non-convex mesh. That being said, convex mesh are pretty similar.

unkempt meadow
#

using a mesh collider was lazier, but it's not a problem to update the box collideer either

#

I'll use box then

steady moat
#

If it is axis-aligned, you can use the Bounds structure which contains all the math. In fact, you could probably use even if it is not as long as you inteprete the result in the appropriate transformation.

unkempt meadow
#

oh that's helpful

#

thanks

jaunty iris
#

Hey guys I have followed this code tutorial in YouTube for a inventory system:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clV9m9QG2ig&list=PLn1X2QyVjFVBM7Gr_-pMhVt3-7rlY5hkx&index=3 but for some reason the public List<SlotClass> items = new List<SlotClass>();
in the InvetoryManager dose not want to work can anyone help

image.png 📎 SlotClass.cs 📎 InventoryManager.cs 📎 ItemClass.cs
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fast dune
#

What happens to the script that calls SceneManager.LoadScene or LoadSceneAsync after the scene has been loaded? Does the rest of the method still get executed?

    IEnumerator LoadYourAsyncScene()
    {

        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("Scene2");

        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            yield return null;
        }

       // will this run?
       Debug.Log("Hello");
    }
rigid island
vestal arch
latent latch
#

also probably not an issue, but don't instantiate your serialized list as Unity will do that for you

jaunty iris
latent latch
# 
private int quantity;

Make that public and see if anything shows up

jaunty iris
#

Will try that

rigid island
#

thought it would only run if asyncLoad.allowSceneActivation = false otherwise it will switch scene before rest of Coroutine finishes no?

somber nacelle
#

tryitandsee
afaik it should still run that log because it will resume execution of the coroutine for that last frame before the old scene is unloaded

leaden solstice
#

If allow scene activation is false then it will never be done

somber nacelle
#

also yeah, allowSceneActivation being false prevents isDone from being set to true

leaden solstice
#

It stuck at 0.9f because someone thought that magic number is good idea

rigid island
#

I just tested it and it loads the Scene right away at least without touching allowSceneActivation

latent latch
#

your item SO is also abstract but havent looked if they extended it. You need to make a non-abstracted version to make instances of it to be able to serialize it

jaunty iris
leaden solstice
rigid island
#

ok that makes more sense then if its DDOL otherwise it gets destroyed

#

ya no log here

zzzz.gif
polar marten
#

whichever one starts the coroutine

covert talon
#

is it possible to get exiting sorting layers list using script in the inspector

latent latch
covert talon
somber nacelle
#

SortingLayer does not have any serialized fields so there's nothing to show in the inspector even if it were serialized

covert talon
#

Thank you

viscid plaza
#

Question. If I wanted to make a car mirror in Unity, I'd presumably add a render texture to a material, and have the render texture reference a camera attached to the mirror. Problem is, car mirrors are not perfect squares, so I'd need to scale it, messing up the render texture.

latent latch
#

stencils

rigid island
#

best you just fake it ala cubemap

#

having cam for each mirror is expensive you're rendering the world twice or threee times

steady bobcat
viscid plaza
#

I tried that, but it's not reflecting anything.

latent latch
#

that sounds like an idea or raytracing but that too pretty expensive

viscid plaza
#

I just applied it to the floor for testing.

#

Hmm. Works on a sphere.

#

So that's just an isolated issue, doesn't really matter.

#

Thx guys!

empty elm
#

Everything is in physics 2D;
I want player physics layer to collide with enemy physics layer so that the player cannot walk through enemies. But I don't want the player to be able to push enemies. Is there some attribute in rb or physics settings that allows this exact functionality? I'm aware I can increase the relative mass of enemies, but that causes some problems with the enemy movement even though I set the force proprtional to the mass

somber nacelle
#

ah wait, that asset might only work for 3d, but you can still check it out to see how it was accomplished

maiden marsh
#

Hello everyone. I was hoping to get help with the following problem:
I have set up a scriptable object to be sort of a gloabal settings. How can i have this global settings be accessable and always present without using a prefab or instanced gameobject?

leaden ice
#

For two you could put it in a Resources folder and use Resources.Load

heady iris
#

I've done both of those!

#

You can make a "singleton scriptable object" that pulls itself out of the Resources folder

maiden marsh
#

I was hoping to avoid the resource folder approach as well, as i heard that files inside of it are directly transfered to the build of the game.

leaden ice
#

Obviously the data will be included in the build in some form though, since it will exist in your game and you want it to exist.

waxen spruce
# 
{
    //make quad
    vertices[v + 0] = new Vector3(0, 0, 0) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 1] = new Vector3(cellSize, 0, 0) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 2] = new Vector3(0, 0, -cellSize) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 3] = new Vector3(cellSize, 0, -cellSize) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];

    uv[v + 0] = new Vector2(0, 0);
    uv[v + 1] = new Vector2(0, 1);
    uv[v + 2] = new Vector2(1, 1);
    uv[v + 3] = new Vector2(1, 0);

    triangles[t + 0] = v + 0;
    triangles[t + 1] = v + 1;
    triangles[t + 2] = v + 2;
    triangles[t + 3] = v + 2;
    triangles[t + 4] = v + 1;
    triangles[t + 5] = v + 3;

    v += 4;
    t += 6;
}``` This is the code I'm trying to use to make a uv for a procedural mesh, buts its not working. I'm not 100% sure why.
#

the look of the mesh when textured with a material

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the tile

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leaden ice
#

Your UVs don't match the vertex positions:

    vertices[v + 0] = new Vector3(0, 0, 0) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 1] = new Vector3(cellSize, 0, 0) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 2] = new Vector3(0, 0, -cellSize) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];
    vertices[v + 3] = new Vector3(cellSize, 0, -cellSize) + gridPositionsNorthFacing[i];

    uv[v + 0] = new Vector2(0, 0);
    uv[v + 1] = new Vector2(0, 1);
    uv[v + 2] = new Vector2(1, 1);
    uv[v + 3] = new Vector2(1, 0);```
#

basically you did V+1 as (1, 0) for the position but (0, 1) for the UV

waxen spruce
#

oh my god

leaden ice
#

just make those match up

lucid brook
#

I found this bit of code to make a head bob motion but would I still need to account for frame timing with Time.deltaTime or does the Time.time part already account for that?

private Vector3 FootStepMotion(float frequency, float amplitude)
{
    Vector3 pos = Vector3.zero;
    pos.y += Mathf.Sin(Time.time * frequency) * amplitude;
    pos.x += Mathf.Sin(Time.time * frequency / horizontalMultiplier) * amplitude * horizontalMultiplier;
    return pos;
}
leaden ice
lucid brook
#

thanks! Kawaii_Thumbs_Up

warm badger
#

well, i am using IPointerDownHandler. How do I know if the pointer id id the second touch on the screen? actually i want to detect a swipe gesture while another touch is holding a UI(on screen joystick). i found this compatible to use Pointer system for the joystick movement. Now what should i use for the gesture recognition? I want to avoid update(), so i moved away from enhanced touch...any approach?

plucky inlet
warm badger
#

i mean, well i'm maybe wrong...But i am doing that to avoid frame by frame system....i think it is bad for performance, i am trying to align everything that i can do with event based systems

warm badger
plucky inlet
#

So how do you think events are fired off? By guessing when the input happens on pointer down? Or maybe some frequent update already? Tbh in the end, you might end up recreating this behaviour while trying to avoid it

leaden ice
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It's by far the easiest

warm badger
#

i did it with that...but you know, that damn performance related OCD

plucky inlet
#

Just go for the normal approach tbh. You are cutting off on the wrong side to get a assumed performance gain, which you wont really have here but rather a bad user experience in the end, when extending your custom system

#

It is only one update to happen that can still fire off events depending on the state and give you feedback about swipes and touch numbers and current id easily

leaden ice
full mason
#

Hi, has anyone here worked with AssetBundle encryption (including Addressables) before? If so, would you be available for a chat? Preferably in German, as my English isn’t very good.

plucky inlet
full mason
warm badger
warm badger
plucky inlet
# warm badger i don't know, probably i am just making things based on my personal judgement......

Its not wrong to think twice about. But then you really gotta just do some profiling to see, if it really makes a difference. But that will consume some time as you would have to somehow prototype the same amount of inputs you wanna detect. For this case, I think its quite safe to say, the input system gets already as optimised as "possible" compared to a custom system. But nothing wrong coming up with your own system IF the other does not fit your needs.

fervent badger
# 
{
    animator.SetTrigger("Shoot");
    StartCoroutine(Cooldown());

    GameObject Bullet = Instantiate(Projectile, spawnpoint.position(), Quaternion.identity);
    Bullet.transform.up = Trajectory();
}

public Vector3 Trajectory()
{
    Ray ray = cam.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(.5f, .5f, 0));
    RaycastHit hit;

    bool GotHit = Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit);

    Vector3 Hitpoint;

    if (GotHit)
    {
        Hitpoint = hit.point;
    }
    else
    {
        Hitpoint = ray.GetPoint(100);
    }

    Vector3 Direction = Hitpoint - transform.position;

    return Direction.normalized;
}```

Does anyone here know what's going on with my code?
thin aurora
#

Glad I could help

fervent badger
thin aurora
fervent badger
thin aurora
#

That would definitely help the situation

fervent badger
kind willow
#

first you should not do cooldown as cooroutine

fervent badger
thin aurora
#

There's nothing wrong with using a coroutine for a cooldown

kind willow
#

something along the line of using a timer in the update loop

fervent badger
fervent badger
fervent badger
thin aurora
kind willow
fervent badger
thin aurora
kind willow
fervent badger
thin aurora
#

It seems like your raycast does not have the correct value with the initial shot

fervent badger
modern atlas
#

You can also use Invoke(nameof(methodName), delay) also one I like to use

thin aurora
#

Can you log what Bullet.transform.up returns each time?

kind willow
modern atlas
#

How is it more lame?

thin aurora
#

It would be nice if code style could be commented on after the issue is resolved.
There's nothing wrong with it.

fervent badger
thin aurora
#

I assume the first one is the only different one

fervent badger
thin aurora
#

Hmm, not what I expected

kind willow
fervent badger
#

Have you worked on a first-person shooter game featuring a projectile style like mine?

#

If so, how did you go about it?

#

@thin aurora

thin aurora
#

No, this is generally just the first thing I'd expect to be wrong

fervent badger
thin aurora
# fervent badger

The first value is from the bullet that is wrong, right? Or was it a valid case?

fervent badger
#

I'm thinking of watching more tutorials and developing a better grasp on raycasting.

fervent badger
kind willow
#

that's Raycast I did in my game for picking up stuff
Physics.Raycast(cam.position, cam.forward, out RaycastHit hit, usingDistance, usemask)

thin aurora
fervent badger
fervent badger
#

I'm going to find a new method, which I want to find out what

kind willow
#

cam.forward seems like the most simple and straightforward approach

fervent badger
#

I'll try out the cam.forward solution then

thin aurora
#

Though then it would take the position relative to the camera instead of shooting to the center

fervent badger
#

Thanks for helping out

thin aurora
#

I don't think this would work, but you can try

kind willow
#

you don't need ViewPointToRay to just shoot from the middle

kind willow
#

it's just a transform of a camera

thin aurora
#

Sorry, I'm not experienced with this, so I can't be of much help

fervent badger
kind willow
#

I just take the camera transform and trace a ray along it's foward axis

#

could not think of anything simpler

fervent badger
fervent badger
kind willow
#

yeah I had Transform cam

#

also here is the snippet of what I personally chose to make a random spread
``
Vector3 dispvec = UnityEngine.Random.insideUnitCircle * currentshootable.dispersion;
Quaternion rot = Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward + dispvec);
Vector3 forwardVector = fpsCam.transform.rotation * rot * Vector3.forward;

    int howmanyhits = Physics.RaycastNonAlloc(fpsCam.transform.position, forwardVector, cachedHits, Mathf.Infinity, layerMaskOfShooting);

``
...and then I cycle through all hits

kind willow
#

okay, how do I properly use ScreenToWorldPoint for a RectTransform?

#

seems like I am failing to setup a RectTransform properly or something

#

I am trying to do basic world-to-UI kind of thing

#

your regular coin soaking effect

#

public class MovingOnUI : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] float speed; [SerializeField] Camera cam; [SerializeField] RectTransform dest; void Update() { Vector3 pointTwo = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(dest.transform.position); transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, pointTwo, Time.deltaTime * speed); Debug.Log(transform.position + " " + pointTwo); } }
this blunt approach doesn't work

#

and even if I try cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(dest.anchoredPosition); too

hexed root
#

this is more a c# question that unity, but for some reason i cant access a class outiside a certain namespace in a namespace. the class im trying to access is in no specific namespace but the class in a namespace doesnt recognize the class...

kind willow
#

do you use assembly definitions?

#

just spitballing here

hexed root
#

what are those?

kind willow
#

if you are asking you are likely not using it

hexed root
#

xD yea

#

all i have is a singleton that is in no namspace and i class inside a namespace that doesnt recognize it

hexed pecan
#

Might need to restart your IDE and/or regenerate project files

hexed root
#

already restarted how do i regenerate?

thick terrace
#

does it have the same name as a member of the class by any chance? that can cause some ambiguity

hexed pecan
#

Edit > preferences > external tools

#

Yeah, make sure to share the exact error

kind willow
#

I just recall I had issues where I could not access namespaces inbetween assembly definitions
but to have this issue you need to create an assembly definition to begin with

hexed root
hexed root
hexed root
#

what might they look like?

hexed pecan
#

You can search for them with t:asmdef

hexed root
#

thank you

#

yields no results

kind willow
#

they look like this (on the left)

#

yeah probably not your case

hexed root
#

oh yea found one

#

do i need to add something to that file?

#

sorry for asking so much ive never used namespaces before

kind willow
#

maybe
I lack experience working on it
I fixed my issue by doing... something with it

thick terrace
kind willow
#

which I forgot what exactly, I have made a reference from one to another

hexed root
thick terrace
#

a script inside an asmdef can't reference one that's not inside an asmdef, you would need to make a second asmdef and add it as a reference to the first one

#

or move both outside asmdefs

kind willow
#

I recall I have download a package and could not use it

hexed root
#

okay i get it thank you

kind willow
#

and I had to add an assembly definition of this package to my own assembly definition at one of those menus

hexed root
#

so i just refernce the other asmdf in the one im trying to access?

hexed root
thick terrace
hexed root
#

how do i create a asmdf tho? do i need to do anything special?

thick terrace
#

not really, just give it a name and put it in a folder of its own

hexed root
#

okay

kind willow
# kind willow okay, how do I properly use ScreenToWorldPoint for a RectTransform?

public class MovingOnUI : MonoBehaviour { [SerializeField] float speed; [SerializeField] Camera cam; [SerializeField] RectTransform dest; [SerializeField] float startDist; void Start() { startDist = Vector3.Distance(transform.position, cam.transform.position); } void Update() { Vector3 pointTwo = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(dest.position.x, dest.position.y, startDist)); transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, pointTwo, Time.deltaTime * speed); } }
so this finally works
I have no idea how the code from the guide I posted above were achieving basically the same result

#

like how can you get a proper position just out of doing ScreenToWorldPoint to a transform

#

wait... I realized I accidently used dest.position instead of dest.anchoredPosition and it still works

#

it works but why does it works

hexed root
#

it worked, thank you sm

kind willow
#

great, I wonder how did you get your definitions in your project at the first place

hexed root
#

i used yarnspinner and they had asmbdf´s

#

but hey now i fixed the problem and learned about assembly definitions, 2 birds with one stone xD

thin aurora
#

They're great

#

Haven't read the convo but note that asmdefs also split compiling between them so it's a must have with bigger projects that compile a lot

kind willow
#

that was the only point I started to use them

#

I don't care about security much yet

#

or a well made structure of a project

hexed root
kind willow
#

m i n u t e s?

#

jeez

#

I guess it's expected for a fairly big complex game

#

is it, tho?

hexed root
#

my computer could just be ass ngl

hexed pecan
#

Minutes sounds wrong in any case

#

It could be other stuff than compilation happening though

#

Like some assets doing some funky stuff on domain reload

hexed root
#

yea maybe but this might fix it..? lets hope xD

lapis veldt
#

I am trying to dynamically spawn a bunch of buttons, and I am getting a very odd result that I was hoping someone might be able to explain. Sorry if this is the wrong spot for this

private void DisplayUnits(int count) {
    int i = 0;
    foreach (GameObject button in buttons)
    {
        UnityEngine.Object.Destroy(button);
    }
    while (i < count)
    {
        i++;
        GameObject newbutton = Instantiate(buttonPrefab, pannel.transform);
        newbutton.GetComponent<UnitButtonScript>().id = i;
        newbutton.GetComponent<UnitButtonScript>().text.text = "Unit " + i;
        newbutton.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => SelectLevel(i));
        buttons.Add(newbutton);
    }
    
}

private void SelectLevel(int level)
{
...

The button spawns with the correct name and will call the SelectLevel method like I want. However it always calls it with the value of count.
I have managed to work around it by passing a reference to this into the UnitButtonScript and having the button prefab on click event trigger a function in the UnitButtonScript that calls SelectLevel on this, but I am still curious as to why the previous solution does not work

cold parrot
lapis veldt
#

Ah, its a pass by reference not by value issue?

cold parrot
# lapis veldt Ah, its a pass by reference not by value issue?

its more complicated, this is called a "closure", in the () => {} you are creating a scope that captures any variables that are not declared inside it, in this case the i but you modify that variable outside the scope and this makes it get updated inside the scope as well, so the usages in all the closures will have the updated value, which is == count at the end of the loop. The closure is an object (that you can't see) and passed by reference.

lapis veldt
#

I see. Thank you for taking the time to explain that to me.

cold parrot
#

your IDE should have given you a warning about this btw.

lapis veldt
#

It did not

#

Vs 2022 is perfectly happy with the code, and nothing came up in the console

cold parrot
craggy veldt
lapis veldt
#

Well I got it working so that is all that matters. Again, thank you for making the effort to explain it.
Now I just have to figure out what project settings I need to change to host a webgl build on git.

vestal arch
#

otherwise you just get the same issue with index getting the last value of i

thin aurora
# lapis veldt I am trying to dynamically spawn a bunch of buttons, and I am getting a very odd... 
- newbutton.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => SelectLevel(i));
+ int capturedI = i;
+ newbutton.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => {
+  SelectLevel(capturedI);
+ });

Considering lambda's are invoked later, you have to store the variable's current state or it will resort to taking the value that it would be when invoked. In your case it would be the very last value.
Alternatively, get the id from UnitButtonScript somehow and use that. It seems to be the same.

The best solution here (with the given context) would be to store a reference directly about whatever SelectLevel is supposed to do. In your case you take an index of something and work from that, but rather than relying on the index you might just want to get a reference to whatever it ends up grabbing.

hexed pecan
thin aurora
#

That's the opposite

hexed pecan
thin aurora
#

I don't think it matters what you do here, both work

#

You just need to make sure you get an instance of i that is not mutated later

hexed pecan
#

If it was the same, this would output 0 0 1 1, but instead it outputs 0 2 1 2

#

Chris is correct

hexed pecan
thin aurora
#

Oh I just realized the mistake

#

Updated

unkempt citrus
#

anyone have any game programmed i wana play something and i can rate it

thin aurora
unkempt citrus
#

ah

#

sry

kind willow
#

Okay so Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint seems to work nicely in my case usually BUT

#

if I switch canvas to screen space camera it stops working

#

because of the position of UI elements are not valid anymore

#

I can use a crutch by making the same element at the same spot on my normal canvas but that's lame

#

what do I do

maiden fractal
kind willow
#

I want to drag a coiny laying in the world onto the position of coin counter on UI

#

and I have already achieved that for normal canvas

#

but my main canvas is a screen space camera one

#

for sake of putting 3D models there

maiden fractal
kind willow
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you mean for screen space camera case?

maiden fractal
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for any camera

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the position of the UI element... is the world position of the element

kind willow
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anyway, the camera my UI canvas attached to

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does not render anything but the canvas

kind willow
maiden fractal
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oh wait. Two things: are you using the good old UI system or the new UIToolkit? and are you rendering the coin using the UI camera or something else (during the transition from the world to the counter)?

kind willow
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old one

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coin is on scene, it's your normal object

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tho I switch it's layer so it renders on top of everything once it's picked

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I don't think I can' make Ui camera render it

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well, I probably can, but I don't know how to teleport it to the exact spot I want

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and also UI camera is orthographical while normal is not

maiden fractal
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alr. how are figuring out the screen position of the UI element used for Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint?

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makes sense

kind willow
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and it gives me a valid position in the world relative to the camera

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and then coins moves to it

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yeah, I don't really have a solid grasp on what I am doing there

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but it works like that

kind willow
maiden fractal
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UIelement.position is not really a screen position but a world position. In unity Screen Space - Overlay just happens to place the UI elements so that screen positions and world positions are equal, the other modes don't so it wouldn't work

kind willow
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is it different from UIelemetn.position?

maiden fractal
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no. RectTransform itself doesn't have .position property, it is inherited from regular Transform which RectTransform inherits from (Transform.position is a world space position)

kind willow
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so they both are world space positions?

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or it's 2 ways to access same thing

maiden fractal
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yes

kind willow
maiden fractal
# kind willow that makes sense, what should I do instead?

I'm trying to think of some easier way but I suppose you could do 3dCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(UICam.WorldToScreenPoint(ui.position)) (might want to specify the z distance to some constant though) to first transform the world coordinates to screen coordinates (based on the UI camera) and then back to world coordinates (based on the other camera). That might be doable also with some simple vector math alone but I couldn't figure it out yet

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I'm afraid this only works for UI modes other than Screen Space - Overlay though. I'm having hard time trying to figure out a reasonable way to do the transformation that works for any UI type other than doing separate logic for them in if (Screen Space - Camera and World Space should work similarly).

kind willow
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task of getting a pixel perfect position of an UI element sound very trivial, yet...

maiden fractal
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Dealing with different coordinate systems is not always trivial. To do the transformation in this case, the camera, the rectTransform (or it's position) and the canvas mode are all required. I would have thought unity had this method somewhere but I cannot find it

kind willow
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I am investigating on this topic and I see someone saying that by default unity canvas is a one HUUUGE rectangle in a scene because

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because each pixel on this canvas is... 1x1

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in unity units

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wack

maiden fractal
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that is true for Screen Space - Overlay canvas only. That's why screen space and world space positions are equal for that canvas mode

kind willow
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that's what I meant by "by default"

maiden fractal
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That indeed is bit odd design choice but that's how it has always been. Unity is moving towards the UIToolkit anyways so they are obviously not going to change it now

kind willow
# maiden fractal I'm trying to think of some easier way but I suppose you could do `3dCam.ScreenT...

yeah your code just works right away, using WorldToScreenPoint to UI feels so out of the box
I was starting to try to do some simple math (this below works if rect is a child of Canvas itself and all anchors are at the same point)
public static Vector2 RectToPosTest(RectTransform rect) { Vector2 realAncorPoints = new Vector2(rect.anchorMin.x * Screen.width, rect.anchorMin.y * Screen.height); return rect.anchoredPosition + realAncorPoints; }
but yeah what you described just seem to work every time, yay

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no way I could not google people talking trying to do the same task

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three steps out of trivial zone and googling yields little to nothing
tho I guess everyone here knows those feelings

thorny hinge
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Hey there everyone! im running into some issues with dotween tweening for some of my objects and i'm not sure where the problem lies!

basically i have a arrow pointer object which is a prefab i use as a child of certain GameObjects to show the player what to interact with, the pointer has a script to give it a lil bopping animation using Dotween.

my problem is that whenever i have some moments where the timescale is changed the tween is stopped for the pointer regardless of me adding SetUpdate(true) in the code! i can't seem to understand why the tween does this, does anyone have any pointers on what the problem is? no pun intended

Arrow_Pointer_stops_tween_animation_.gif script_for_the_arrow_Pointer.png
heady iris
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Are you sure that the tween isn't stopping entirely? It isn't resuming after you exit the menu

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(where the timescale is presumably non-zero)

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even if you didn't use SetUpdate to make the tween ignore the timescale, you'd still expect it to continue after unpausing

steady bobcat
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I was wondering if due to 0 time scale it somehow thinks its done and stops?

heady iris
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(or maybe something divides by zero)

steady bobcat
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oo could be but id expect this to be handled (i hope)

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the solution is to try to debug the animation and see what happens when timescale becomes 0

heady iris
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i'd also try setting the tween to run in FixedUpdate, for funsies

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not as a "fix", but to see if the behavior changes

thorny hinge
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i changed to using unity animator to be able to work on something else but i have not found where the problem lies :((

the way i handle timescale changes is through my game manager and all i do is set it to 0 and then back to 1 so i don't see why would the tween stop considering there are other objects that use tweening as well that work fine when adding the SetUpdate(True)

heady iris
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see if the issue still happens

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hollow ridge
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hey guys, im trying to debug an error but I can't get my code my breakpoint on error? normal breakpoints are working but not exceptions

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its an editor rendering error

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rigid island
hollow ridge
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its my own code

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an editor extension

rigid island
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oh