archived-code-general

[lilac frigate]

this is so weird

So i added debug logs for main menu scene loading

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)
ClientNetworkManager:LoadMainMenu () (at Assets/Scripts/Client/ClientNetworkManager.cs:281)
ClientNetworkManager/<Start>d__7:MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/Client/ClientNetworkManager.cs:42)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder:SetResult ()
ClientNetworkManager/<ProcessSteamPlayerInfo>d__15:MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/Client/ClientNetworkManager.cs:261)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncTaskMethodBuilder`1<Game.Model.Player>:SetResult (Game.Model.Player)
GameServices.PlayerService/<GetPlayer>d__1:MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/Shared/GameServices/PlayerService.cs:39)
UnityEngine.Awaitable:RunContinuation ()```

but then i get this null error


```NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
ClientNetworkManager.LoadMainMenu () (at Assets/Scripts/Client/ClientNetworkManager.cs:283)
ClientNetworkManager.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Client/ClientNetworkManager.cs:42)
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncMethodBuilderCore+<>c.<ThrowAsync>b__7_0 (System.Object state) (at <314938d17f3848e8ac683e11b27f62ee>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext+WorkRequest.Invoke () (at <844019a3a067481c8d9cb70c7a2ba447>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.Exec () (at <844019a3a067481c8d9cb70c7a2ba447>:0)
UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext.ExecuteTasks () (at <844019a3a067481c8d9cb70c7a2ba447>:0)```

and in my build i have specified MainMenu

[dense pasture]

Are there any issues with xNode in a long term project? I’m loving the simplicity and it does what I need to get my cinematics system into a node graph format. Curious if anyone has any comments to add about the library

[sweet raft]

I normally don't dabble in first-person stuff, but I have to for a small project I'm working on. I'm just having trouble separating my characters Y axis rotation from the camera's X axis rotation. I put them in separate scripts, and the character's rotation is just how I want it (following the mouse's X), but the camera is jittery. The camera is a child of the player (so that it moves with the player as they walk), and it's set up to follow the mouse's Y, only rotating on its X (looking up and down), but whenever the player moves/rotates, at the same time as the camera, it's not smooth. (This is for a very early prototype so it doesn't need any high level code [i.e. modifying positions and rotations directly is perfectly okay], so I don't want to download any elaborate assets or bother with something like Cinemachine. In fact the jittering isn't even a worry for the demonstration, but it's just getting on my nerves.) Any insight?

[steady moat]

You should pretty much never parent your camera to your player. I would start trying to separate both and see if it helps.

[sweet raft]

Even not parenting it, I still get jittering.

[steady moat]

Is your game view in free aspect ?

What method you use to move the camera/player ?

Do you modify the position of the camera after the player has moved ?

Do you appropriately use delta time for both the player and the camera movement ?

[stone kraken]

Cinemachine is extremely easy to setup

Then you literally just drag your player to the follow target and basically done

(sorry I know you said you didnt want to bother with it already)

[simple ridge]

Hi everyone, I'm working on a procedural generation game and am wanting to add in grass on specific cells, to do this I was going to look into particle systems.

I know you can apply meshes to have particles spawn on them using the ParticleSystem component, but is their a way of directly giving the particle system coordinates to use instead of a mesh. Or separately how would I render particles with manually setting graphics buffers and having this work with the Particle System component or not using it at all?

[latent latch]

VFX graph and graphic buffers I've seen done for grass before, otherwise just instantiating them with instancing upon the coordinates is an idea.

Biggest problem is culling which I'm not entirely sure how'd you tackle with large amount, so you'd probably have to make sectors of where this grass would render. Easy enough with VFX graph but I'm not entirely sure how it's handled with general instancing by the pipeline settings as that seems to be handled for you.

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Graphics.DrawMeshInstanced.html
That would also remove the gameobject overhead

Unity culls and sorts instanced Meshes as a group. It creates an axis-aligned bounding box that contains all the Meshes, calculates the center point, then uses this information to cull and sort the Mesh instances. Note that after culling and sorting the combined instances, Unity does not further cull individual instances by the view frustum or baked occluders. It also does not sort individual instances for transparency or depth efficiency.

[grand aurora]

Hi, guys. What am i doing wrong?

[cosmic rain]

What does the error say?

[elfin quest]

Hello!
I'm trying to have a custom workspace set up for unity with VSCode. Now I have 2 options:

• Set my external tools editor to VSCode -> I can check generate .csproj files. (Creating/Deleting scripts updates the csproj) I have to manually open the workspace each coding session and whenever I click on a console log (Opening the relevant file) It again opens the root directory instead of my workspace.

• Set my external tools editor to my custom workspace directly -> I can't check generate .csproj files. (Creating/Deleting scripts DOES NOT update the csproj, and scripts don't have access to the project). The workspace opens automatically from start and from console logs.

What I'd like:
A way to have the same functionality as seting my workspace as the external tools editor (Everyhhing is instantly opened in the wokrspace). But that it's also "watching" for file changes and updates the local csproj file so that I can actrually create files.

Any ideas?

[grand aurora]

The type 'type1' cannot be used as type parameter 'T' in the generic type or method '<name>'. There is no implicit reference conversion from 'type1' to 'type2'.

[steady bobcat]

thats your answer, the type is not compatible with the generic function arg

[grand aurora]

i saw this example in some tutorials and it seems to work there. I just dont undesrtand what is wrong here..

i just need to change LensDistortion value

[steady bobcat]

perhaps lens distortion is from something else and not post processing

(the type you are using i mean)
is this URP/HDRP or built in old post processing?

[grand aurora]

URP

[steady bobcat]

Huh well LensDistorsion is a VolumeComponent so i can only guess you have something else that has a type with this name

@grand aurora hover over the type in VS and make sure its this: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@14.0/api/UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal.LensDistortion.html

[grand aurora]

yes, that was a problem, it used UnityEngine.Rendering instead UnityEngine.Rendering.Universal, thanks!

[steady bobcat]

great. now you know what to check in future too 👍

[simple ridge]

Thank you, I might try this approach instead of the particle systems, I already have code setup for rendering cells in the same way, I figured grass would be to performance demanding to do so, but definatly worth me trying that way first.

[round violet]

idk why but when I instantiate a prefab at 0, 0, with a parent, its local positon is the parents position

so if the parent transform is 10, 10, intead of spawn at 10, 10 + 0,0 the child is spawning at 10,10 + 10,10

[latent latch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Graphics.RenderMeshIndirect.html
Linked the wrong method but if you do want fully GPU instancing you want indirect (Actually Graphics has a new updated indirect method using command buffers, making the others obsolete)

[cosmic rain]

Inspector shows local position(relative to the parent), so your child object is at the same position as the parent.

[round violet]

the local position (if we keep my example) are the same as the parent (10, 10)

[cosmic rain]

Then there's something wrong in your code.

Share the code.

[round violet]

indeed, but nothing wrong with at first glance

GameObject lDebug = Instantiate(DEBUG_TO_INSTANTIATE, new Vector2(0, 0), Quaternion.identity, gameObject.transform);

parent (gameObject.transform)
and child

[cosmic rain]

Log the new object position after instantiating it.

[round violet]

Debug.Log("pos: " + lDebug.transform.position); its indeed correct

something is moving the object im spawing i guess

[cosmic rain]

Yep. Check any other code that might be referencing the object. Or scripts directly on the object

[round violet]

I did and nothing is touching it

im not keeping a ref of it, its a debug spawn

[cosmic rain]

You don't have to. Something could be finding it and moving.

[round violet]

well afaik its not moving it

[cosmic rain]

Does the object have any scripts?

[round violet]

nope, plain cube

[cosmic rain]

Then try debug break after instantiate line and see if it's moved by then

Also share the script where you instantiate it.

[round violet]

spawning the prefab by doing parent pos + relative pos with no parent
then using SetParent(parent, true) works

so this is a workaround but idk why its needed

[cosmic rain]

It's not needed. Normally.

[round violet]

yeah i know, i might later on find why this happens

[steady bobcat]

you can just set world pos after instantiating something...

[round violet]

when i edit the transform.position of my child, is it the world or local pos ?

[steady bobcat]

.position is world position always

regardless of what the transform hierachy above is it will do the same thing.
localPosition will be its local position to its direct parent always (if no parent, is world)

[obtuse canyon]

is there a way to change a scene camera refresh rate or more preferably do it manualy, basicaly like a photo

[latent latch]

what's the use case

[obtuse canyon]

Radar screen, i want to make the terrain refresh by scrolling like a crt

[latent latch]

not sure if there's like a capture once method for the camera, but you can just render a single frame onto a render texture then disable the camera, repeat

[obtuse canyon]

I want to do it by having two textures that scroll onto each other and they snap a picture once the other one finnished

[obtuse canyon]

Yeah prolly the best way

[latent latch]

or use command buffer blit method to render once to texture

[obtuse canyon]

Absolutely no clue what that is, im gonna look into it

[latent latch]

Basically just pastes the renderer onto at texture inside of the shader

[steady bobcat]

a shader can easily be made to let you reveal one texture over another so then up to you to decide how to capture things to show on it

[fiery steeple]

@steady bobcat there's no sceneDirtied member, so I guess it's called sceneDirtiedCallback because that's what my IDE suggest me ? 🤔

[steady bobcat]

I sent its doc page for this event (it exists) and it has existed since 2019.3

Are you on some ancient version?

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager-sceneDirtied.html

[fiery steeple]

I'm on Unity 6 (6000.27.f1)

[steady bobcat]

ignore your ide and copy paste what i sent as it should exist. The suggestion is for the delegate type that this event uses.

[vestal arch]

what's being suggested there is a type. are you perhaps in class context instead of method context?
if you aren't sure, show more context

[fiery steeple]

yes I'm in a class context

[vestal arch]

yeah you can't use statements in a class context

[kind river]

I have a script that populate an UI when Domain Reload :

        
        [InitializeOnLoadMethod]
        private static void OnDomainReload()
        {
            var mainHUDMonitor = FindFirstObjectByType<MainHUDMonitor>();
            if (mainHUDMonitor != null)
            {
                mainHUDMonitor.Save();
            }
        }

The issue I have, is that my UIDocument doesn't have rootVisualElement at that time. It work correctly once in game or in editor after the whole domain reload. I thought I could fix this by subscribing to the UIDocument, some kind of "OnRootVisualElement" method. But I'm not sure which one to use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/UIElements.UIDocument.html
I guess the OnEnable, but I wanted to know beforehand if someone know a better/proper solution

[fiery steeple]

yeah it's shows up when I do it in a method

[steady bobcat]

mb for not catching that. you can subscribe to the event in Awake() for example

you however need to add [ExecuteAlways] to this class to make this work in edit mode

[fiery steeple]

I tried this but I have an error

[vestal arch]

well that's not how lambdas work

[fiery steeple]

tell me more please

[fiery steeple]

what does "scene" stand for ? I guess I have to pass a scene, that's why I'm passing the current active scene but it doesn't work 🤔

[vestal arch]

a lambda is a shortcut/anonymous method
the parts before the => are the method's parameters
the part after is the method's body (or an immediate return value)

[vestal arch]

it stands for the scene you receive from the event

[fiery steeple]

oh that's what I didn't understanad 🤣 I thought it was the argument that it was expecting

So now what should I put in that lambda ? 🤔

[steady bobcat]

You can also do:

EditorSceneManager.sceneDirtied += MyFunction;

void MyFunction(Scene scene){}

anyway try to use the event to refresh the list of colliders

[fiery steeple]

Like this ?

[steady bobcat]

Yes. hopefully this will be called on each scene change but something makes me think it may be only the first dirty 🤔
I remember fiddling with it in the past but i forget

[fiery steeple]

yup when I duplicated my Cell object, it works like a charm, however when adding a new cube to the scene that has a box collider, once I deselect it it's collider isn't visible anymore (and also it doesn't have the same color as my Cell collider

[steady bobcat]

Eyy this may be better! https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-hierarchyChanged.html

cannot find an event that covers all changes in a scene

[fiery steeple]

it complains 😕

fixed but now it creates an error in the console

setting line 12 to static created that issue

like so ?

[steady bobcat]

nvm im dumb you never set it to a value

why did you make it static?

[fiery steeple]

because it complained

let me remove it to show what was the complain

[steady bobcat]

no its because you made the method you subscribed to the event static so it can not access instance fields...

[steady bobcat]

^ read above

[fiery steeple]

because it complained when that method isn't static

nevermind it doesn't complain anymore 🤔

so I remove the if statement now or do I leave it there ?

[steady bobcat]

yea i think you did something else wrong and confused yourself

[fiery steeple]

yeah 😄

[naive swallow]

Remove all the statics. Create an empty list in your field initializer

[steady bobcat]

Btw you need to un sub from this event in OnDestroy() to avoid errors in future @fiery steeple
do the same as a sub but instead do -=

[naive swallow]

An empty list and a list that doesn't exist are not the same thing

One of them is a shoebox with nothing in it. One of them is a sudden and suspicious lack of shoebox

[fiery steeple]

like so ? Also with this current code, I can't see the gizmos of the collision box anymore when I don't select them 😬

[steady bobcat]

You may need to call the refresh func on awake too so on load it also refreshes this list

and remember this event isnt called for all changes (annoyingly)

[naive swallow]

You still need to create an empty list in the field initializer

[fiery steeple]

what do you mean by "field initializer" ?

[steady bobcat]

i looked but was the best i could find.
No its serialized so they dont as its used after Awake

[fiery steeple]

refresh func ? You mean OnHierarchyChanged() ?

[steady bobcat]

yes

[steady bobcat]

hopefully this is making enough sense to you so you can figure it out going foward 🙏

[fiery steeple]

nope 🥲

[steady bobcat]

er yea i have no idea what thats on about or why

[flint anchor]

I've been having issues with Camera.Render on Ipad ever since Unity 6, i'm rendering to a render texture and putting it in the UI and it totally works in editor but on device it does not work. Are there any known changes that affect this? Or something in the engine that I have to tick?

[naive swallow]

Where you declare the variable. Set it to an empty list on that line

[fiery steeple]

like this ?

[naive swallow]

yes

[fiery steeple]

No more errors, but my Gizmos still don't work anymore 🤔

[steady bobcat]

Does the list have any colliders in it? probably no

[fiery steeple]

by default no

[steady bobcat]

did you add to update that list on Awake too? can only presume its not and nothing changed to make it happen yet

[fiery steeple]

#if UNITY_EDITOR
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

[ExecuteAlways]
public class DrawBoxCollider : MonoBehaviour {

    public List<BoxCollider> boxColliders = new();
    public bool scanForColliders;

    private void Awake()
    {
        EditorApplication.hierarchyChanged += OnHierarchyChanged;
        OnHierarchyChanged();
    }

    private void OnDestroy()
    {
        EditorApplication.hierarchyChanged -= OnHierarchyChanged;
    }

    void OnHierarchyChanged()
    {
        boxColliders.Clear();
        boxColliders.AddRange(FindObjectsByType<BoxCollider>(FindObjectsInactive.Exclude, FindObjectsSortMode.None));
    }

    /*void OnValidate() {
        if (scanForColliders) {
            boxColliders.Clear();
            boxColliders.AddRange(FindObjectsByType<BoxCollider>(FindObjectsInactive.Exclude, FindObjectsSortMode.None));
            scanForColliders = false;
        }
        
    }*/

    private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        if (boxColliders == null) return;
        foreach(BoxCollider boxCollider in boxColliders) { 
            Gizmos.color = Color.green;
            Gizmos.DrawWireCube(boxCollider.center + boxCollider.transform.position, boxCollider.size);
        }
    }
}
#endif

[primal oar]

code works when executed in frames but not at normal speed

[clear basin]

guys why can simple 2d scene not load with LoadScene() in the build of my game (in editor it loads)?

[leaden ice]

did you add it to the scene list in your build profile?

[clear basin]

yes

[leaden ice]

so what happens when you try to load it

[clear basin]

nothing, game stays at the same scene

[leaden ice]

Have you looked at the player logs?

[clear basin]

no, let me check (i forgot about it)

[clear basin]

@leaden ice i just added some log messages so it would be easy for me to find messages after running LoadScene() but i didn't find anything that would make sence for me

this is everything it wrote after my debug message about loading that scene

[naive swallow]

Is Async/Await significantly more efficient than coroutines? I have a bunch of coroutines to load data from disk without blocking the main thread, and I'm spending roughly 85% of my frame on GC.Collect from them. Could I cut this significantly if I reworked my coroutines into async/awaits?

[stable osprey]

No, not significantly, especially if you use MEC (More Effective Coroutines)

Although 320ms for coroutines GC doesn’t sound like a coroutine issue

[naive swallow]

I can't drill down any further than that in the profiler, so I don't know what else it could be

[thick terrace]

in theory you can save a few allocations by using async with one of the low-allocation options like Awaitables or UniTask, but i've never a workload where that was the actual bottleneck

coroutines only shift work around on the main thread though, if it's disk IO maybe you can run it on a background thread using async?

[latent latch]

Can also just reuse the coroutines

[thick terrace]

yeah, if you're starting enough coroutines that the GC from coroutines alone is a problem, starting less coroutines is probably where to look first 😄

[leaden ice]

Where are the log messages you added?

Are you sure you're looking at the player logs and not the editor logs?

[clear basin]

nevermind, i fixed the problem, still thank you

and i actually don't understand how did i fix it

[eager tundra]

is this not the actual loading of the files? why not do it in another thread entirely?

[naive swallow]

The actual Disk I/O is done on another thread, through a plugin called TriLib. I'm not entirely sure how it handles those, to be honest. The coroutines I'm starting are just so I can space out the mesh loads, so I can sequence them one after another, and pop them in as they load. The coroutines themselves are mostly just "loop over a bunch of things with a yield return null in there so it does one iteration per frame".

All told, there's only two coroutines actually being started, but those are some hefty coroutines, and each one spins up a few threaded processes through the plugin. There's still a lot I can do to try to optimize these, I just wanted to know if simply switching to async/await would be a huge difference, or if I need to drill down deeper. Seems like it's the latter.

[steady bobcat]

Sounds like its the work and not the way its made "async" so probably wont matter
Though if the lib has async functions its probably better to await those vs looping and checking each update in a coroutine

And to remind you, File has async functions too and libs like UniTask and Awaitable make it easy to go back to the main thread (if something awaited completed on another)

[naive swallow]

Okay, I think I've found where the problem is, and I don't know how I can make it any more concurrent - the problem seems to be where it sets up all the objects it loads by adding several components to them and setting their properties. Since it involves AddComponents, I can't offload it to another thread, and there's literally thousands of them so it's just gonna be slow

[fossil obsidian]

Hi guys. I want to do a puzzle in my game where you have to clean your computer because you've dropped coffee on it, so you have to take a cloth and rub it without accidentally turning it off or tearing off the wire. So I want the player to hold the mouse click and rub it around the pc and gradually clean it, similar to a task from among us. But idk how I'd make the code recognize the mouse position and compare it with where it needs to be to clean it

[naive swallow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/Manual/CameraRays.html

[fossil obsidian]

ty

[livid shard]

Wanted to share this here ... a file from my machine learning pipeline that implements the OpenAI API schema for C# and C# (CSX) scripting. I implemented this long before there was an official NuGet package, but it's still useful in this format for Unity, notebooks, dev-ops, scripts, etc.

https://gist.github.com/atcarter714/7de44cd439ab7deddf7cd25fb8de4e57

[astral sky]

is it normal for Audio to take like all processing of a frame?
In other words, have anybody seen this before

btw i have no audio or audio clips or etc. whatsoever

can this be a driver issue? I just updated my system

[cosmic rain]

I think that's normal. It doesn't mean that it's "using all the processing power". It could be idling, but it needs to run constantly to avoid audio desync.

[astral sky]

well it absolutely wasn't like that before and now i have 10fps

updated drivers award

[cosmic rain]

Fps is mainly dictated by the main thread. Not audio thread.

[astral sky]

the audio thread is taking 99.9% of total

everything else is just idle waiting for the audio to finish

I'll just have to debug this, maybe the update messed with the clock speeds of the audio driver, not something Unity is at fault I guess

[cosmic rain]

This is because you're profiling the audio thread

Obviously, on the audio thread it would take 100% of time

[cosmic rain]

Select the main thread in the drop-down

[astral sky]

Editor loop: 97% of total

96ms

[cosmic rain]

So it's mainly the editor.

You can switch to editor mode if you want to investigate it.

[astral sky]

Okay I see, I haven't actually used the profiler that much other than to see "line stay low"

[cosmic rain]

Yeah. You need to learn how to use it properly. Check the documentation

[astral sky]

...It's just the editor setting itself to idle?

Okay, window manager issue, Unity thinks its being run in the background or is tabbed out when it actually isn't

Just changed my window display mode and its gone, very bizarre but I guess I learned how to use the profiler better

[steady bobcat]

i get this too, ui refreshing will be throttled when i focus a floating window but when i click the main window again it fixes it

[cosmic rain]

Another advice is prefer profiling the game build over the editor.

[astral sky]

I'm not as far as being able to build but I'll keep it in mind!

[cosmic rain]

You can build any time though. It doesn't require much effort. And it could be useful beyond profiling to detect any build issues you might have.

You can even build an empty scene.

[lament dragon]

I want to make an array of scripts, like how you can use float[] or GameObject[], and then be able to iterate through that array and do something like GameObject.AddComponent(ScriptArray[index]). Is this possible, and if so, how could I do it?

[night harness]

It is possible but it's not really ideal and smells like you might be going about something the wrong way

[lament dragon]

Hmmm, any suggestion on how better to do it?
I have a bunch of creatures, and want to use a script for every one of them. I want to do a thing where each day, a gameobject that handles all those scripts is made, and then the scripts with the same IDs as the active creatures are placed on that.

[night harness]

Just asking to adjust how I respond, are you new to c# and/or Unity?

[lament dragon]

Never taken classes on it, all my knowledge is self-taught, but I have been working in C# for 5 years and in unity for 3

I'd rate my knowledge as somewhat base level but I know what I'm doing

[night harness]

Ez, just asking because a lot of people with more non-unity c# experience tend to go about doing stuff that way in my experience

Ideally you would be spawning prefabs here that have the associated creature script/s on it. This would be done either be directly referencing the prefabs and/or maybe in the future using a paired scriptableobject that has the prefab

[lament dragon]

Hmmm, I could do that...
Though they need to be easy to reference. Because of how the game works, all creatures need to be referenced from one of a few scripts since most of what they do is responding to stimuli from those scripts. I've thought about using prefabs but I don't know how I'd reference them without making a bunch of variables for each instance.

[night harness]

Could you give an example or two of the variables per instance your worried about making/

[lament dragon]

Basically what I'm saying is there are methods run in one main script. Those methods will affect the creatures. I don't know how I'd do that cleanly if I used prefabs for the creatures
Because if I used scripts for each active creature all on one the same object, I could just do if(object.HasComponent(script)) { Method(); }

The "creatures" don't actually have an appearance or anything, they're more like conditions or events that happen in a day

I'll just call them what they are: anomalies. I want to make it as easy as I can to expand the list of anomalies and make more in the future.

[warm badger]

maybe this is not purely code related question but more of a game architectural issue. whatever i am leaving this here to find some good advice. Suppose you have your character equipped with multiple mechanics. Your player can move, ride a bike, swim, fly a glider etc. How do manage all these? like in case of riding, you have one set of bike camera, bike manager and bike movement scripts. again for the glider you have almost same set with completely different code base ( because the glider runs on different logics, different movement code etc ). and also for swimming you have somewhat a bit different logics. now in this case how you manage all these whole lot of scripts for each type of mechanism? How would you enable and manage set of script for each mechanism? I hope I have explained it properly.

[cosmic rain]

Pretty much different scripts for different objects.
When a player enters a car, change it's controller state to driving or something, disabling movement handling, physics and such, and enable the car controller.

[warm badger]

i should set a centralized manager, right?

[cosmic rain]

If you need. I don't see how this is related to a manager though.

Or what other options you are considering.

[cedar terrace]

does anyone know why my movement's wrong?
I wrote a script for walking & switching the animations between walking and idle,
and the states should be fine,

but when I walk (like in the video) it only works with left & right;
then it freaks out whenever I walk down.

[muted maple]

Is your animator set up correctly? I faced plenty of animation problems, and usually it’s a simple mistake and me being an idiot.

[sudden ruin]

hey not a unity question but can every single class in the project followed by some design pattern? Should i force myself make them all follow a design pattern ?

[lean sail]

I'm not sure what design patterns you intend to use for every class but if you're somewhat following SOLID then that's good enough. You might often have classes that just contain a few set of fields and nothing else. There isn't really a pattern you can associate with that, nor would it mean anything.

[vestal arch]

design patterns are meant to solve specific problems, and they also aren't always class-scoped
you can't really make everything use the same design pattern; that's just not what a design pattern is

you could consistently use a given pattern in your project, but that doesn't mean "make every class follow it"

[sudden ruin]

I meant every class follow somes sort of pattern not all follows one single pattern

[vestal arch]

again, not really, design patterns aren't class-scoped

they're more like feature-scoped

[sudden ruin]

Every class coded for a feature right ?

[vestal arch]

you don't have to stuff a design pattern into every class. not every class needs one.

put design patterns where they're needed. more design patterns doesn't mean better code

[vestal arch]

sometimes multiple classes handle a feature. sometimes a class handles several, very closely related features

i think you're seeing design patterns as more than they are. they're a tool in your arsenal to solve problems, they aren't meant to be used everywhere

[sudden ruin]

Maybe i should just think can this feature used with any pattern then code it

[vestal arch]

yeah, not every feature needs a pattern

design patterns aren't your goal
your goal is a game, and design patterns are just a tool to help in that goal
sometimes they're useful, sometimes they aren't

[lean sail]

if you had a class that only contained 2 numbers, and didn't need any functions, what pattern would you associate with it? Nothing

public class TwoNumbers
{
  public int a;
  public int b;
}

[vestal arch]

i mean, you would probably make that a struct

[lean sail]

just an example. I couldve made it 20 numbers and suddenly a struct is bad

[vestal arch]

and you wouldve used an array instead and it could still be a struct

ah, wait. thinking in c structs. that doesn't work the same way, nvm

[lean sail]

this is really needlessly pedantic lol. what does it being a struct change for this example? there is still not a pattern to associate

the point is, a class doesn't mean you're making a whole feature

A pattern is a guide on how you could implement a common problem. you dont have to use any patterns at all!

[vestal arch]

my point is, this is data without behaviour, so i don't think a class makes sense here; it's a bad example

but well, im not coming up with anything better, and the point has been made, so

[sudden ruin]

Sorry i learned english with skibidi videos, might be confusing
Yea this class alone isnt anything thats true.
But this is a small part of a whole, like some function need add 2 together
What i meant is this when this belongs to a complete feature, which every class will (i think), then it will be in some sort of pattern

[lean sail]

🤷‍♂️ imagine I wrote struct then and my example still stands. I write the first simple example that comes to mind

[vestal arch]

imo a better example would be a class that actually has behavior, but without needing a design pattern

[vestal arch]

maybe you'll need a pattern, maybe you won't. don't focus on patterns
use them as a tool where applicable

[vestal arch]

@lean sail i don't think we need to continue this further
i don't think it's a good example, but it gets the point we've been discussing across

[lean sail]

When you say pattern, usually people think of stuff like observer or singleton. It's just a guide on how to do something. You can take a whole system you've made, give it a name, and call it a pattern but it doesn't really do anything.
It's not like a pattern is a physical object that makes your game better. it is an idea

[sudden ruin]

Ok so i do this then, so ill need to familiar myself with lots of pattern first

[lean sail]

IMO there aren't a ton of patterns you should really need. Lots of them are overcomplicated especially for unity. c# events is basically already the observer pattern. A singleton is just a static field telling you what the instance is.

I've seen people use builder or factory but it's always just looked overcomplicated for the use case.

If you go more into web dev, that's when people really start to go heavy on patterns I think.

[noble marsh]

Ugh racking my brain on a weird issue. I'm relatively new to Unity. I'm generating a mesh at run-time in an ECS System. When I capture a frame in NSight and look at the vertex buffer, the coordinates don't make sense to me. It's almost as if the vertex buffer is being transformed such that positive x goes to the left.

[north cypress]

hey guys.

On my game launch on the mainMenu when the player presses start it loads up another scene. This secondary scene is intended to play my GameStudio Video for 3 seconds, before a c# script boots up the main game. The button works and it boots up the gamestudio scene, but the video does not play and instead we are greeted with the void, for 3 seconds until the c# script boots up the main game. If i disable my c# script, the button boots up the correct scene and plays the video, but does not go to the maingame after 3 seconds. I'll attach a screenshot of my c# code and 2 example videos of what occurs when I enable and disable my c#

Any Help Would Be HUGELY Apreciated. Thanks.

[vestal arch]

Start is called on the first frame the object is loaded, and it runs to completion before the frame is "done"

[north cypress]

@vestal arch , I attempted to use update() but it threw some error at me

[vestal arch]

you need to split that across multiple frames, so the logic should be in Update without the while, or use a coroutine where you can just specify WaitForSeconds(3)

[vestal arch]

what was the error?

[north cypress]

I'll show you one sec 🙂

It's not doing the error now XD

But it still won't work

[vestal arch]

what's your current code?

[north cypress]

wrong video oops

[vestal arch]

see !code

[tawny elk]

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[vestal arch]

don't need a video right now, need your code

[north cypress]

using UnityEngine;
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Threading;
using Unity.FPS.UI;

public class PlayGame: MonoBehaviour
{
float delay = 3;

public void Update()
{
    while (delay > 0)
    {
        delay -= Time.deltaTime;
        if (delay <= 0)
            SceneManager.LoadScene("MainScene");

    }
}

}

[vestal arch]

please format it appropriately
don't use screenshots for text

[north cypress]

https://paste.mod.gg/mwewrgsdxkxk/0

my appolgies

[vestal arch]

Update is already a loop, you don't need the while

[north cypress]

bruh that was it

LIFE SAVER

Thanks man i rlly appreciate it

( im also aware i look rlly stupid cuase that was so simple lol )

thanks bro

[vestal arch]

nah, you just don't have much experience yet
you'll get better with time and practice

[north cypress]

thanks

I have this error now though

anything to worry about or ignore it?

[vestal arch]

also, footnote:
without the while, technically, once the timer reaches 0, it'll do the loadscene every frame. since it's synchronous in this case, it'll load in the following frame (making the object unload and not loop), but that's kinda specific to this function
if you use this pattern for anything else, or if you change it to load async, you'll have to make sure it's only called once. you could have the while as an if instead, or you could use a coroutine

[vestal arch]

this is related to your video asset. i'm not quite sure if it's an issue, try #🔀┃art-asset-workflow or #💻┃unity-talk

[north cypress]

Thanks for the advice

[loud oasis]

k guys i need some help, i've been working on this for like an entire week an i can't figure out how to make it work. So basically i'm trying to make it so that if the player does something like move left it adds a number like "1" in a list for every frame he's moving left, then the other game object (echo) will check the list if it's 1 then it will move left, if its 2 then it will move right, but for some reason it just spawns and does nothing

[vestal arch]

ok first off, !code

[tawny elk]

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[vestal arch]

and show more context there, like what's agenda? etc
this is an incomplete picture

secondly, if you do this based on frames, it'll end up inconsistent if framerate fluctuates

[loud oasis]

so how should i do it

[vestal arch]

hold on what are you trying to do exactly?

like what's the end goal

[loud oasis]

Ok so let's say the player moved left for 3 seconds then the player moves right for 2 seconds and jumps, then after the player presses a specific key it's going to spawn another game object which will do the exact same thing the player did

[vestal arch]

later, correct?

i'd guess doing it based on time or distance would be better

[wintry crescent]

Is there any difference at all between UNITY_ANDROID and PLATFORM_ANDROID?

[leaden ice]

I believe the former will compile in the unity editor when the target platform is set to Android (as well as in Android builds), and the latter will only compile when making an android build (not in the editor)

[somber tapir]

Probably because you are using Update() instead of FixedUpdate().
Update() gets called like 10 times as often as FixedUpdate(). That means if the player makes in input -> set the velocity of the echo to the same value and clear the input list-> Next frame, set the velocity back to 0 before a physics update has happened.

if you are not planning on having a delay between the player and echo why not simply copy the rigidbodies' values?

[last quarry]

By default it’s like 20% more

[thorny rock]

Safe to ignore 😄 (As long as it works 😛 )

[dense coral]

Hi! I have a class constructor like this

public InventoryItem(InventoryItemSO itemTemplate, int amount)
    {
        this.itemTemplate = itemTemplate;
        this.amount = amount;
    }

Problem:
I pass itemTemplate reference from a gameobject that i destroy right afterwards and my InventoryItem's instance field itemTemplate becomes null. (InventoryItemSO is a ScriptableObject class)

1. Why does this happen? I guess, it's a class and hence a reference type. But shouldn't my field reference the same memory(file)? Why deleting one of the references has an effect on others?
2. In concept i have an expectation: ScriptableObjects are supposed to help with saving memory as multiple gameobjects can reference one ScriptableObject file. How do i achieve that? There is some CreateInstance and Instantiate that can be used to (from what i understand) copy scriptable objects. But it seems to me that it would defeat the purpose.

Please point out any misconceptions that might be present in the question

[night storm]

if you use createinstance or instantiate it creates a copy of it. use the original one instead

[lean sail]

can you show how you use the InventoryItem ctor? Like what code calls this constructor and passes the value. If itemTemplate is a scriptable object, it won't go null because of a game object being destroyed.
My first thought would be maybe you're just passing in null and didn't realize, or are setting it to null at some point. 2nd thought could be, are you possibly destroying the SO which should be possible if it was an instance made using Instantiate or CreateInstance.
As for your 2nd question, you dont need to use either function, you mostly should be creating scriptable objects as assets. It will be an actual file under your assets folder. It's the same way multiple game object can reference one prefab.

[lean sail]

I dont think of it as saving memory truthfully, that could be a possibility but in most cases we'd be talking in terms of bytes saved, an insignificant amount. If you wanted to modify the data, you have to copy it from the SO, meaning your class would be storing all the same fields. (otherwise you'd be changing the data which everything else is referencing). In this case I don't see how any memory is saved.
The best use really is that it stops you from having to define a set of values in code or on game objects (prefab or in scene). Also compare the git changes of modifying a scriptable object and modifying object in scene. One is much more clear

[viscid plaza]

Yo. Excuse the trashy hacky code, but I am trying to create an object that can "flatten" terrain under it. Problem is, this only works for objects I place in the editor before hitting play. Anything instantiated during runtime or dragged in during play mode just ignores the terrain flattening.
https://paste.mod.gg/vavsywdukhkv/0

Edit: I was using GameObject.Find instead of transform.Find. Code became 10000 times more performant too.

[worldly stirrup]

    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = castRayLevel(rb.position, -checkPos.transform.up, currentSlopeCheckDown, Color.red);
        Vector2 offset = Vector2.zero;
        bool isMiddle=hit;
        if (!isMiddle)
        {
            var rays = fireOtherRays((Vector2)transform.right, -checkPos.transform.up, currentSlopeCheckDown, Color.red);
            hit = rays.Item1;
            offset = rays.Item2;
        }
        grounded = hit && !isJumping; 
        if (grounded) getGroundValues(hit);
        else resetGround();
        sloped = Mathf.Abs(slopeDownAngle) != 0f;
        rotatePlayer(slopeDownAngle, rotationGround, offset);
    }```

I made the player too good at sticking to walls because the player can stick to a wall thats under a slope like this. How can I make him fall regularly while keeping his velocity from the slope?

[latent latch]

When in doubt, use more raycasts

[worldly stirrup]

I fixed the issue by not making the player "grounded" when on such a wall, but it caused another issue

        Vector2 offset = Vector2.zero;
        bool isMiddle=hit;
        if (!isMiddle)
        {
            var rays = fireOtherRays((Vector2)transform.right, -checkPos.transform.up, currentSlopeCheckDown, Color.red);
            hit = rays.Item1;
            offset = rays.Item2;
        }
        grounded = hit && !isJumping; 
        if (grounded && funcs.getAngle(hit.normal,Vector2.up)!=90) getGroundValues(hit);
        else resetGround();
        sloped = Mathf.Abs(slopeDownAngle) != 0f;
        rotatePlayer(slopeDownAngle, rotationGround, offset);```

[rigid island]

are you overriding the velocity ?

[worldly stirrup]

The velocity is calculated with my own functions, but checkGround doesnt touch it

This video shows that my solution works, but when I jump back on this slope, this happens

[rigid island]

yeah so basically need to only do it if you're on a downslope vel

[worldly stirrup]

So, only check for a 90 degree wall when going down?

[rigid island]

I suppose you'd only apply that fix when its velocity / angle is on a downslope

everything else I don't know much about your original sticking walls thing

[vestal arch]

if you can eliminate Find entirely that'd probably make it better

[viscid plaza]

Probably, it was just the easiest way to do it. The thing was, I was finding the same plane in the scene each time, instead of finding it in its children.

[wanton acorn]

I'm trying to generate random NPCs like if it was Papers Please, so like their sprite, if they are allowed or not, and other characteristics, but I don't know where to start. Any suggestions?

[naive swallow]

Define each value that can be randomly rolled.
Put each value into a list.
When it comes time to generate, roll a random number between 0 and the length of the list and pick that value

[wanton acorn]

But for example, if a character was assigned the fox race, they will have a higher probability of being evil. How can I do that?

[vestal arch]

give your random rolls weights

there's a lot of ways to achieve that

try googling to start

[wanton acorn]

My problem is assigning different random roll weights to different races, and I couldn't find that on google

[vestal arch]

• roll race
• choose weights based on race
• roll <value> using weights

could be a map of races to weights, or could be a massive switch..case

[spark yarrow]

Hey, im currently working on a game concept heavily inspired by celestes movement system, and im having trouble implementing the actual carrying of momentum after dashes. I have omnidirectional dash down, but im struggling to figure out how I can carry it or amplify it correctly. Can anyone help me out?

[wicked mountain]

My first thought is to save velocity when you press the dash button, then apply your dash, then, reapply the saved velocity on exit

[spark yarrow]

maybe

Ill give it another look later and see what I can do. Last time I tried to do something similar to that it screwed itself up royally (i have no idea how to code)

[rigid island]

this is like the 4th question I've seen about Celeste lol

[spark yarrow]

its a kickass game with amazing movement what can I say

[rigid island]

there is a pretty good vid on YT that explains some of it

https://youtu.be/rJECT58CQHs

[spark yarrow]

yeah I saw that one

its good but i dont think it covers wavedashing

which is what im looking for really

[rigid island]

maybe post what you tried, surely someone can figure something out

[spark yarrow]

Ill do that when I get home, im currently in class lol

[echo haven]

anyone have an issue where you can't destroy a script because the script relies on itself??

Can't remove BuildingPlacementVisualizer (Script) because BuildingPlacementVisualizer (Script) depends on it

[steady bobcat]

did you put a silly RequiresComponent ?

[echo haven]

i have requires component but it doesnt require itself

and the scripts it requires does not require it

  [RequireComponent(typeof(Building))]
    [RequireComponent(typeof(BoxCollider))]
    public class BuildingPlacementVisualizer : Equippable

    public abstract class Building : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable, IHoverable

ok i fixed it

[echo haven]

i did indeed have a silly requires component lmfao

[rigid island]

requiring an abstract class as component ?

[echo haven]

I had a requires component of a type I was inheriting from

forgot to take it out lmao

[steady bobcat]

eyy easy fix 👍

[echo haven]

lfg

[digital crater]

idk how people are with Playmaker in this server, but would anyone know why my enemy would be running away from the player? The states transition fine, just the enemy seems to want to run away

[somber nacelle]

pretty sure playmaker has its own community you can get support in for it

otherwise there's the #763499475641172029 server, but that's likely limited to just unity's visual scripting

[dense pasture]

form question: do i need yield return on the top one or just return works for coroutine chains?

[vestal arch]

pretty sure both work, just in different ways

[dense pasture]

i guess my question is, is it waiting for the next frame to drill down with yield?

just been curious about it for a bit

[vestal arch]

if it's just a return, then it's just... giving the IEnumerator object directly from the other function
if it's yield return, then it's delegating control to the other enumerator

[vestal arch]

yield doesn't actually do any waiting

unity receives what you yielded and processes the result accordingly

[dense pasture]

i was under the understanding it tells the coroutine to resume on the next frame

[vestal arch]

that's what happens when you yield null
unity does that

[dense pasture]

ah k

that clears it up thanks

[digital crater]

thanks. joined the playmaker server, hopefully will be able to gimme a hand cause its making me rip my hair out 😂

[thick terrace]

if you yield return an IEnumerator, afaict Unity will always continue at the earliest one frame later, even if the coroutine never ends up yielding, so if that's significant you might want to do it the slightly longer way like var x = DoSomething(); while (x.MoveNext()) yield return x.Current;

[dense pasture]

I remember something I did with my old system wouldn’t work unless I yield returned it, even though the method had its own loop with yields in it

[vestal arch]

wait i mightve used an incorrect assumption one sec

[dense pasture]

Like it just pretended the routine ended. I don’t remember the details now tho

[vestal arch]

ok yeah the latter statement here is incorrect; i made a false assumption based on other languages

c# doesn't do delegation, you end up yielding the entire enumerator

[thick terrace]

yeah, it's Unity that handles it "magically" so it works not quite the same as doing it the manual way 😔

[thick terrace]

it'll work as expect in a coroutine but maybe this was using IEnumerator in another context? in which case it would break mysteriously without aforementioned unity magic

[dense pasture]

Eh maybe. In this case waiting a frame won’t even really matter if it does

[spark yarrow]

Heres what I have for my dash currently. The full code is kind of long so Ill post bits of it but I dont want to flood the channel with the whole thing

The momentum weirdly enough carries correctly in the upwards direction but not horizontal, even for diagonal dashes.

[hollow swan]

Okay small question. i've been looking for a while pretty much nothing really show how to place tree on terrain and how to remove it with script. without just using gameObject cause i wish for my computer and the one of other to stay alive.

[rigid island]

not enough context

you want to remove a tree from the terrain during runtime with a script ?

the tree from terrain component ?, arent those just prefabs of gameobjects ?

[hollow swan]

the only way i can access them is through the the TreeInstance component from what i red

it not really a game object from what i've seen

[wicked scroll]

yeah, you probably have to modify https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainData-treeInstances.html

[hollow swan]

which is why i can't use script on them directly and i must pass through "TreeInstance" or just "Terrain" in general

And could you give me an exemple of script i could use to go through the whole array of tree to remove a specific one?

[rigid island]

huh dont they have collider like any other gameobject and you can access components through physics queries

[wicked scroll]

no, but I bet you could find one if you google 'unity remove terrain trees'

basically I think you'd take the world position of the tree, convert that to the normalized terrain position, and then remove the tree at that position?

[wicked scroll]

nope

I think maybe they can, if your tree prefab does? but then it's still not rendered like a normal GO

[hollow swan]

Yeah but like i don't know how to remove the tree itself i don't find anything inside TreeInstances

[rigid island]

last time I used terrain was 3 years ago so I'm fuzzy on this one

[wicked scroll]

you probably have to make a new array with the element you don't want removed, and then set that as the tree instnaces array

[rigid island]

yeah thats what i mean

[wicked scroll]

it might be very heavy to do that though

[wicked scroll]

I think you'd get events from it but then if you wanted to reference it to delete, it might not work? but I could be wrong

[hollow swan]

and also i've looked at tutorial but either one say do something without explaining anything or saying what to actualy do, or they do a tutorial on gameObjects

[wicked scroll]

I have a vague recollection that it doesn't work though, like the collider in the tree instance is just ignored (but I'm not 100% on that)

[wicked scroll]

honestly I would just use gameobjects

[rigid island]

the only quirk I remember is the Collider needs to be 100% a Capsule

[hollow swan]

Same but it just piss me off

[wicked scroll]

unity's terrain system is so bad that it's not worth doing anything with imo

[hollow swan]

Why can't they just make some function to you know place or remove one simply

[rigid island]

im 70% sure you can

will test it now

[hollow swan]

i mean i know it's not as simple as that of course but just can't they make a system that make sense when they are such a big company

[wicked scroll]

yes, it would be nice if unity had a good terrain system

there are good ones on the asset store that people use instead, so maybe it's not a high priority for them

[wicked scroll]

being a big company makes it harder to do simple things, not easier

[chrome pawn]

I want to transition from an isometric perspective, into a third person perspective while the right mouse button is being held. When transitioning to third person from isometric, I must make sure that the player aims at the direction that their mouse is when they were in isometric. The third person camera will have an offset, which means that I must account for this when trying to aim the third person camera to the right direction. The picture shows my thinking in solving the problem. The yellow dot is the horizontal camera offset from the player's character before being offset again backwards to reach the final green point. Then I would make the camera face the red point to get the right aim direction. I however wonder if there is a way to get the same result without knowing the mouse position but knowing the direction towards the mouse from the player's character. I don't believe it is possible but maybe I am just uninformed. Or is there a simpler way?

Sorry if its too long jaja

[leaden ice]

I want to transition from an isometric perspective, into a third person perspective
These two things aren't mutually exclusive 🤔.

isometric is an orthographic projection with a specific camera angle.

Third person jsut means your camera can see your player.

So it's not clear to me what you're actually trying to do.

[hollow swan]

true but they have multiple pole right? one of them must be for those kind of system.

[patent perch]

Hi
I'm making a bullet hell/ space shooter and idk where I should put my logic on when I hit something, I should call TakeDamage (on healthManager or from bullet script?)
For now, I just have 1 bullet script and several healthmanager (inherit) but I have an interface to TakeDamage
What should I do? Because I think i will have more than one bullet script (like a beam with raycast?)

[leaden ice]

generally the bullet script would call a function on a script on the object it hits

[chrome pawn]

https://x.com/MirariRelics/status/1891317986243260720

This is a reference I have of my intention

Relic Hunter (@MirariRelics) on X

pixelart without АI

X · Feb 17, 2025, 2:45 AM

[wicked scroll]

I mean it looks like they just cut to a different camera? it doesn't even transition smoothly 😄

[leaden ice]

well in this video the aim direction of the player actually changes when they transition too

in the topdown mode it's aiming at the blue objects and when it transitions it's aiming at the orangish white things

[wicked scroll]

the answer is probably 'let cinemachine do it'

set up each of your cameras and transition them and cinemachine will do a blend for you, and you can tweak that to your heart's content

[chrome pawn]

I get that, I don't need a smooth transition, I want the third person camera to initially point to where the mouse was while in isometric

[wicked scroll]

oh, well have a second camera that's always doing that and cut to it like they do in the video

[chrome pawn]

But the second camera still needs to know of this previous mouse position anyways to make a proper transition

What I am asking is if there might be better method of which I am not aware of? Not necessarily two cameras, as the second would have to be updated like I showed anyway

[wicked scroll]

because unlike in the video, you want the crosshair to be pointing at the same in-world spot after the zoom?

[chrome pawn]

Yes

[wicked scroll]

I can't think of anything simpler than 2 cameras

[chrome pawn]

I am lacking in the math skills for this, so I wonder if its even possible to do it with knowing the mouse position, but just the mouse direction

[wicked scroll]

I think that they are doing exactly what I suggested: you can see that when they transition to the second camera, it's pointing to exactly where they were pointing before the transition

then it zooms in and is pointing at the wrong place

you can do the same thing, except pull the camera back so that it's zooming into that location instead of...through it?

maybe you're right though and you'd need to do some fancier framing? I'm not sure

[chrome pawn]

I get your 2 cameras idea because it makes sense, it seems easier, but the second camera would still need to go through the calculation of the transition so that, when it switches, it aims at the right direction

[wicked scroll]

it would be pretty easy to determine the world position and use that

yeah, if you want to have the camera do a zoom and end up somewhere, you need to be able to position it there, but I'm still not seeing the problem with that

if the camera zooms into a particular offset from the character, you already know where it needs to end up

so you can point it from there to wherever it was aiming, and then pull it back (and then zoom it in after transitioning)

[chrome pawn]

I am not copying the zoom from the video, just the change in perspectives

[wicked scroll]

then I guess I really don't understand

[chrome pawn]

Well, you see the mouse position when it is in isometric? When they transition to over the shoulder, they aim where the mouse was while in isometric

[wicked scroll]

You have 2 cameras. One is positioned back, aiming at where the cursor is pointing. The other is positioned over the player's shoulder, aiming at that same position. You can swap between them whenever you want and they'll both be correct.

[chrome pawn]

Yeah, I know, but my problem is not determining if I need two cameras, my problem is with the math to determine the direction to face the second camera

[wicked scroll]

shoot a ray at the world and look at the point it hit

[hollow swan]

mate is it bad if it's been 2 day i didn't sleep trying to fix the problem or it just average?

[chrome pawn]

Not in the isometric perspective, in the over the shoulder perspective

[wicked scroll]

nothing is good or bad

[chrome pawn]

I can't just shoot a ray because the camera is not facing the right direction in the first place before transitioning

[leaden ice]

The direction in world space is the same (although like I said earlier, they aren't preserving that in the video you shared)

[wicked scroll]

in both cases, shoot the ray from the first camera

[hollow swan]

k thanks

[wicked scroll]

camera 2 can look at the position the ray from camera 1 is hitting

[livid inlet]

do u guys know why when i run my webgl build not in dev mode but in the normal mode it shows this

[leaden ice]

You should open your browser's development javascript console

and see what's going on

[livid inlet]

It runs fine when I run in dev mode

[leaden ice]

You already said that

[livid inlet]

Ffs 😭

[chrome pawn]

Right, but the camera must be positioned properly as well, to account for the offset. Thats why in the drawings I provided, I use two right triangles

I wonder if anyone knows if its possible to account for this offset without knowing the mouse position, but just the mouse direction relative to the player's character. Because if the player where to change perspectives while their mouse is closer to their character than the horizontal offset of the over the shoulder camera, it would be impossible for me to figure out where to aim

[noble marsh]

Turns out Unity defaults to 16 bit index buffers

[slim pelican]

Does anyone know of any particular techniques for getting perfect collision detection at high velocities for 2D kinematic rigidbodies? Names of said techniques are fine as long as they are researchable

[wicked scroll]

you can turn on continuous collision detection for that entity in rigidbody settings, or it's also common to shoot out some rays in front and double-check to prevent tunnelling

[slim pelican]

does continuous work for kinematic rigidbodies?

[wicked scroll]

I tend to link people this post if they are getting started on a character controller. It's for 3d, but most of the learnings apply:
https://etodd.io/2015/04/03/poor-mans-character-controller/

[wicked scroll]

I don't see why it wouldn't but I haven't used unity physics much

[slim pelican]

seemingly made it worse somehow

[wicked scroll]

can you just...move more slowly?

increase the scale of everything

this talk is very good if you want to understand unity physics and how to get it to do what you want:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwPIoVW65pE

oh also definitely increase your physics timestep from the default if you haven't

[slim pelican]

not an option in this project im afraid. The movement being fluid is crucial but I'm also needing the collisions to be on par

It's all kinematic

[leaden ice]

Kinematic bodies aren't affected by collisions

You would be using boxcasting or capsulecasting

But if the things you might collide with are moving too, those are working on outdated information

[slim pelican]

I know thats what I'm doing, I was just wondering if there were any common techniques for getting nigh perfect collision interactions

[leaden ice]

Using the casts is perfect

[slim pelican]

It's just the ground atm, not anything else moving

[leaden ice]

If the obstacles don't move

If you're having issues it's probably a problem with your code

[slim pelican]

yeah I have no doubt, thats why I'm asking for any techniques that I can study to improve it

[wicked scroll]

if you don't have a problem then there's nothing to improve!

[slim pelican]

? No I do have problems with it. Like this

The way I've been tackling collisions is definitely wrong

[wicked scroll]

hang on, what's the point of them vs a trigger then? it's been ages since I fiddled with any of that

[wicked scroll]

well if you want to show some code, folks can help you improve it

[somber nacelle]

other objects can be affected by a kinematic body, but a kinematic body cannot be affected by any forces (including collisions)

[slim pelican]

I think I might have a solution for now, but if I fail (likely will), I'll do just this. ty

[somber nacelle]

this is a code channel. also you didn't even ask a question, is your question how to get PP on UI? if so you probably want to ask in #💥┃post-processing
if it is "how do i make my UI not look dull" then it probably belongs in #archived-game-design or #📲┃ui-ux

[lost knoll]

Moved this 🙂

[somber nacelle]

for future reference, use #🔎┃find-a-channel / id:browse to find the most relevant channel to ask for help in. and make sure you actually ask a question

[lost knoll]

Its been corrected thank you.

[jolly mortar]

Hey all. I have a bit of a coding best practices question. My game is getting somewhat complex and I ended up breaking a seemingly small part of the script and broke multiple other scripts as a result.
I guess I want to know what are the best practices when separating your scripts.

Currently I have these scripts:
-Player movement, which checks inputs and moves the character accordingly.
-Camera, checks for inputs and moves the camera and also switches to different angles when certain buttons are pressed. Also rotates the player so their rotation is relative to the camera.
-Health script, which keeps track of player health. I want to use this for multiple enemies too.
-Respawn script, sets player health to 0 if they fall out of bounds, activates the game over screen when health is 0.
-Game controller (bad name I know), keeps track of how many coins and collectibles the player has and displays it on a UI element.
-Coins and bullets also each have a script on them that updates the game controller when u get a coin and bullets update the health script when u get hit by a bullet.

Looking for recommendations on if this organization is any good or if I should combine any of these scripts or separate their functionality into different scripts.

[compact spire]

@jolly mortar To me it seems like they are broken down appropriately.

[jolly mortar]

Thanks

[leaden ice]

Showing us your code and explaining what's going wrong with it would be a good start

[slim pelican]

all is fine now (i think), I've made a good system

[mossy flare]

    public void VisionCheck() {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        DebugInfo i = new DebugInfo();
#endif
        foreach (Collider col in Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, sightRange)) {
            if (col.TryGetComponent(out Player player)) {
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                i.detectedPlayer = player;
#endif
                Vector3 start = head.position, end = player.rig.head.position;
                if (Physics.Linecast(start, end, out RaycastHit hit) && hit.transform.root == player.transform) {
                    float dot = Vector3.Dot((aimTarget.position - transform.position).normalized, (end - start).normalized);
                    float angleChance = spotChanceCurve.Evaluate(Mathf.Clamp01((dot - maxAngleCos) / (1 - maxAngleCos)));
                    float distanceChance = Mathf.Clamp01(Mathf.Max(Vector3.Distance(start, end), minDistance * 0.1f));
                    float chance = angleChance * distanceChance;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
                    i.totalChance = chance;
                    i.angleChance = angleChance;
                    i.distanceChance = distanceChance;
                    i.hasLoS = true;
                    i.movementChance = 0;
                    i.spotTime = 1 / chance * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
                    i.dot = dot;
#endif
                }
            }
        }
#if UNITY_EDITOR
        info = i;
#endif
    }```

Can I make this less fucking ugly?

How in the world are you supposed to use compiler conditionals if they mess up your code like this?

[rigid island]

probably split them from Runtime and Editor only components

[mossy flare]

But then I'd have to change the vision check code by giving it a bunch of (when built) useless out parameters or something

[rigid island]

wdym out params? just move the editor code to an editor script that works strictly with this component. Then put it in the Editor folder it gets automatically discarded

[mossy flare]

Could you show me? I don't understand.

[rigid island]

using an editor only script just to take care of the debug / gizmos stuff https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExtendingTheEditor.html

you dont need to do all the custom inspector stuff, just make it reference that other script so it OnGui draws gizmos or whatevr

[mossy flare]

Reference to what? The variables are all inside of the VisionCheck method, this is why I said I would have to make a load of out params.

[rigid island]

all ur doing is connecting DebugInfo

[mossy flare]

How would my editor script know about this, this, this, this, this, and this

DebugInfo is a private struct (also conditionally compiled) made to store all of these variables specifically

[rigid island]

was under the impression can split those into their own struct for other events or functions

[mossy flare]

those what?

#if UNITY_EDITOR
    public struct DebugInfo {
        public Player detectedPlayer;
        public float angleChance, distanceChance, movementChance, totalChance, spotTime, dot;
        public bool hasLoS;
    }
    public DebugInfo info;
#endif

[rigid island]

are these not meant to also be stats like in UI ,just debugs ?

[mossy flare]

Just debugs

[rigid island]

that data wont get saved at all?

[mossy flare]

That's why I don't compile it without Unity Editor

[rigid island]

hmm then I suppose just put them into another method then wrap that in the #IF

[mossy flare]

Them what?

[rigid island]

just the big block

I don't see how else you can change the others without using 2 scripts

[mossy flare]

The others what?

The problem is that there's like 5 super ugly IF blocks

[rigid island]

all the places you have #IF

[mossy flare]

yeah well that's the issue

I guess I'll just get rid of them inside the method and remove any reference to the class when building

I was hoping there was a way to do that automatically, like making a class who's references don't exist under compiler conditionals, but oh well

[sturdy hatch]

Will post this here as well, since I don't know if it's the code 100% sure or if it could just be UI hierarchy.

[dense coral]

Thanks for the answer. I figured it out, in fact, it worked as expected, i just was looking at the wrong script that was leftover from before the refactor

[chilly surge]

I'm running into some issues with changing URP settings dynamically at runtime, my current code looks like:

UniversalRenderPipeline.asset.msaaSampleCount = ...;

And it seems to have issues on certain Android devices. Just a sanity check, is it the right way to do it or am I looking at the wrong place?

[mossy flare]

I have a problem. So I run AI vision checks in FixedUpdate for consistency, but I've noticed that it is often missing the player entirely because he has already moved away since the last fixedupdate

I thought this didn't affect colliders (fixedupdate physics?), but it does. How do I get around this?

[cosmic rain]

How are you moving the player?

And how are your raycasting? Share some code.

[placid edge]

is there a way i can make some sort of one way tag/layer collision between two separate tags/layer where only one can interact with the other?

[leaden ice]

This free asset does that
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/betterphysics-selective-kinematics-244370?srsltid=AfmBOor65fiixcD-idd5I7II4S8mu-5W1E-43Jxbra5nJQiLBvqYg48m

[placid edge]

ty

[chilly surge]

I have a set up that camera is created programmatically at game start, and it seems like the true culprit is if I modify renderPostProcessing of UniversalAdditionalCameraData right after camera's creation, some weird things happen (in my case the symptom is that a custom UI shader doesn't work anymore on some Android devices). I tried delaying modifying that property by 1 frame but didn't seem to make a difference, however delaying by 1 second seems to fix the issue.
This bandaid fix feels incredibly hacky though and I still have no understanding of what the issue is, so I would appreciate it if anyone has some insight.

[steady bobcat]

I wonder if an event in RenderPipelineManager would be better vs a frame wait?

some things that work for birp to wait for after the current frame being done dont work the same in render pipelines

[chilly surge]

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if it takes some time to set up the camera or something and only after that it is safe to set the property, but at the same time it also wouldn't make sense because that would suggest a camera that isn't programmatically created would suffer the same issue (because the UniversalAdditionalCameraData should be created at the same time as the camera just like the programmatic creation setup I had)

And I have no idea how to debug this issue either, I was only able to find it by bisecting commits then trial and error.

[boreal ether]

I have created my own movement system in another project have now set everything up in a new project for quick reuse. I haven't changed anything about my values. Why is the player suddenly falling so slowly and is no longer grounded

In my other project where I develop my game, the problem does not exist

[latent latch]

Well, beyond just telling you to check your gravity velocity, I'd go fool around with the character controller component as you're building off of that which itself may have properties that are modifying the behaviour of what you built.

[boreal ether]

That my Methodes so idk in my other projekt it works fine

private void HandleJumpLogic()
{
    if (isJumping && jumpRequested)
    {
        float timeSinceJumpStart = Time.time - jumpStartTime;
        if (timeSinceJumpStart >= settings.jumpApplyDelay)
        {
            verticalVelocity.y = Mathf.Sqrt(settings.jumpForce * 2.0f * settings.gravity);
            isGrounded = false;
            jumpRequested = false;
        }
    }
}

private void CheckGrounded()
{
    bool sphereCheck = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheck.position, settings.groundCheckDistance, settings.groundMask);
    isGrounded = sphereCheck;

    if (isGrounded && !wasGrounded && !isFirstGroundedCheck)
    {
        jumpRequested = false;
        isJumping = false;
        OnMovementEvent?.Invoke(MovementEventType.Land);
    }

    if (isFirstGroundedCheck)
    {
        isFirstGroundedCheck = false;
    }

    wasGrounded = isGrounded;
}

private void ApplyGravity()
{
    if (isGrounded && verticalVelocity.y < 0)
    {
        verticalVelocity.y = -0.5f;
    }
    else
    {
        verticalVelocity.y -= settings.gravity * Time.deltaTime;

        if (verticalVelocity.y < 0)
        {
            verticalVelocity.y -= settings.gravity * Time.deltaTime * (settings.fallMultiplier - 1);
        }
        else if (verticalVelocity.y > 0 && !jumpRequested)
        {
            verticalVelocity.y -= settings.gravity * Time.deltaTime * (settings.lowJumpMultiplier - 1);
        }
    }

    if (verticalVelocity.y < -20f)
    {
        verticalVelocity.y = -20f;
    }

    characterController.Move(verticalVelocity * Time.deltaTime);
}

gravity setting is 20

[latent latch]

Are you debugging the velocity right before it is set?

[boreal ether]

mb i forgot to set the layer

[ivory swan]

I want to add more features to my fps controller but I'd rather make separate scripts for them. How do I make my fps controller script accessible?

[leaden ice]

make it accessible to who or what?

[ivory swan]

from another script.

[leaden ice]

Make public methods and properties for the other script to access.

[raven perch]

Pls, someone save me.
I use Visual Studio Code not (VISUAL STUDIO)
and I install Unity extension and then enable Refresh on Save
**BUT **Unity doesn't refresh it in background, **ONLY **if I tab back to Unity itself.
I'm using Unity 6refresh

[steady bobcat]

do you have vs code open from unity and is vs code set as the editor in unity? (check that the vs package is updated, its shared now for vs + vs code)

[raven perch]

Assets > Open C# Projects
VSCode is set as the editor in unity. Still doesn't

[steady bobcat]

no idea then. vs just works better so id use that if this is possible for you

[night harness]

if this is the same thing you need to stop asking about it

we can't help you if the project is not yours

[dense coral]

Hi! I have a bug that drives me insane.
In my code i have

slots[i].item?.itemTemplate.id (I should always have an object at slots[i], there should be either an item=null or an item with all the fields)

declaration of the class is (notice its not a Monobehaviour)

[Serializable]
public class InventorySlot
{
    public InventoryItem item;
}

Problem is that when i have a gameobject with the script (that holds slots) selected in inspector, it seems like it populates item field for each array element with a new empty instance(like wtf). And it leads to errors. If i dont have the object selected, everything works as expected.
How can i avoid it? How do i have inspector not create instances when it's not supposed to?
I want to see and monitor slots in my inspector

[leaden ice]

Unity's serializer doesn't tolerate nulls

it will create a default object for each

[night harness]

not with serializereference right?

i thought in that case it just doesnt try to render it but i could be wrong

[leaden ice]

This isn't using SerializeReference

[night harness]

is that maybe a solution to their question?

[leaden ice]

That depends - with SerializeReference AFAIK they wouldn't be able to edit things in the inspector if they needed to, unless they write a custom editor

[raven perch]

I'm just going to use HotReload then.
The Refresh On Save never works for me, and people on the internet keep telling me it's working.
Nope VS suck

[leaden ice]

One option here is to use a custom inspector and to not actually serialize this array.

[thick terrace]

a simple way to do this would be to put an "active" flag in your slot class instead, and check that instead of checking for null

it'd be false for the default empty instances of course

[night harness]

(or if you dont need to edit it and just wanna view it using the serializereference attribute as mentioned above)

[steady bobcat]

visual studio is the superior product

and hot reload wont solve this issue unless they also make a vs code extension

[raven perch]

nah, I can't customize the ide either. It look so static to me.

[steady bobcat]

vs does have themes (less i admit) but functionality wise vs is just better

so up to you what you wanna do but hopefully something solves it

[raven perch]

It's already solved with HotReload. Because I can just save the code and it automatically reloads

[raven perch]

good for now. I think. Hope they just fix it instead

[steady bobcat]

Ha i just tried this option in vs and it doesnt work either 😐

[dense coral]

I don't need to edit anything through inspector so I'll look into serializereference. Thanks!

[steady bobcat]

ohhhh (visual studio)

[chilly surge]

This is the first time I learn of it, is it supposed to recompile your code on save without waiting for you to tab back into editor?

[raven perch]

yeh

only work for Visual Stuido lmao

[chilly surge]

Ah you probably also need to do this then.

Since VS Code uses the same Unity package nowadays as VS.

[dense coral]

Thanks for the info

[raven perch]

huh

[raven perch]

U talking about enable this setting from Visual Studio to a VSCode dude?

[chilly surge]

I'm talking about the "this requires the Unity Editor to be set to run in background" part.

VS Code uses the same Unity package as VS, so if that's a requirement for VS's refresh to work, then likely you need to do the same for VS Code's refresh to work too.

[raven perch]

By what?

[chilly surge]

What?

[raven perch]

I mean what required u talking about?

[chilly surge]

^ This image.

[raven perch]

Like in the Unity Edior or VSCode?

[chilly surge]

Oops sorry for the ping rob.

[raven perch]

that's already enabled in VSCode

[steady bobcat]

who summoned me

[steady bobcat]

tis all good

[chilly surge]

this requires the Unity Editor to be set to run in background

[steady bobcat]

I cannot find this setting in unity to "run in the background" myself so I have no idea

I hope its not the same one in the player settings...

[raven perch]

I can't even find it in Unity Setting

[raven perch]

tried and no hope

[chilly surge]

Yeah idk either, but maybe VS people know.

I wouldn't use it anyways, sounds terrible if your compile time is long and you do multiple edits.

[steady bobcat]

I work on decently size projects and i have a 5-15 s compile time but I have a decent cpu

i make good use of asm defs too

[chilly surge]

Do you have domain reload turned off?

[steady bobcat]

I dont that shit never works with how I set up things

[chilly surge]

I've found domain reload to be the the far bigger problem than compile time, and it's not always possible to turn it off depending on if you have code (your own or third party assets) that don't support it.

[steady bobcat]

my domain reload isn't too bad but sometimes takes longer for no reason.
Recently solved a bug where trying to unsub from a firebase event in a destructor caused infinite domain reloading 😐

[chilly surge]

Yeah I feel like domain reload easily takes 4x as long as the compile time that it stops mattering how much I optimize compile time.

Hot reload is nice for code changes that are supported.

[steady bobcat]

I shoud look at using it or having a paid one purchased if needed

[spiral ibex]

Hey, I'm trying to create a sprite asset during runtime from dynamically gathered textures that will be used in a TMP, does anyone happen to know some examples I can look into? I am getting lost in the glyph/character etc structure

[steady bobcat]

The main glyph table is manly the sprite name + its rect in the texture. Not sure about the other settings though.

[long phoenix]

idk why it doesnt work, its ```c#
public class CarController : MonoBehaviour

in the script, and same name in the directory

[rigid island]

did you check for compile errors as it says?

[long phoenix]

i only found these in the unity console:

[rigid island]

then that would be a compiler error

[long phoenix]

but i used this script daily, didnt change anything, but know it doesnt work, so how should i know whats wrong? .-.

[rigid island]

well something clearly was changed, have you tried just restarting Unity? or pc

[long phoenix]

no, pc is on (like only pressing the button) for 19 days, taskmanager says

and imma restart unity rn

[rigid island]

its not good for apps to keep pc on for so long

weird things happen

cache goes terribly wrong etc.

[long phoenix]

but i have chrome tabs that when i close them, i cant open them again, but with my method, there would be a button that says "reopen all tabs"

[long phoenix]

oh

[rigid island]

just like bookmark them ?

[long phoenix]

i already have to many, and dont want to do that

[rigid island]

ok so let tabs endessly eat your RAM ig 🤷‍♂️

[long phoenix]

this is poping up for 3 days, but i always clicked ignore, is that abd too?

[long phoenix]

.-.

[rigid island]

that literally means you been had compile errors and you're just ignoring them. Yes its bad..

You shouldn't ignore compile errors..

[long phoenix]

i ignored them, bc i focused on modeling, and testing them in unity

[rigid island]

ok well now shown by the fact you got this error, now you know the main reasons not to do that#archived-code-general message

[long phoenix]

alr, thx :D

[rigid island]

also you wouldnt even be able to Build anyway so yes you need those fixed..
There might be a possibility to refresh Library , after you try restart

[long phoenix]

fixed it, only deleted one script, network manager, to connect servers, but doing that later

so thx again

[rigid island]

well whatever CustomNetworkManager script that was it was clearly broken but sometimes its good to verify its not the assemblies bugging out

according to microsoft

// CS0115.cs
namespace MyNamespace
{
    abstract public class MyClass1
    {
        public abstract int f();
    }

    abstract public class MyClass2
    {
        public override int f()   // CS0115
        {
            return 0;
        }

        public static void Main()
        {
        }
    }
}```

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/compiler-messages/cs0115

[long phoenix]

im new to multiplayer scripts and server stuff, so i asked chatgpt, thats maybe why

[cosmic mica]

transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0f);

how can I make it so it only changes the rotation of the character?

[rigid island]

most likely. And "multiplayer" script doesnt change anything, you lack C# basics you probably should not be working on a multiplayer and complicate the code by 10

[rigid island]

character ? what character ?

there is context missing here

we're not mind reader, we don't know the setup.

[cosmic mica]

mb

mb

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

public class PlayerLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float mouseSensivity = 100f;

    float xRotation = 0f;
    float yRotation = 0f;

    public float topClamp =-90f;
public float bottomClamp = 90f;


    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensivity * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensivity * Time.deltaTime;

        xRotation -= mouseY;

        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, topClamp, bottomClamp);
        yRotation += mouseX;

        Transform cameraTransform = Camera.main.transform;

        
        cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0f);

    }
}

I think i fixed it

nope

[rigid island]

well first things * Time.deltaTime; on mouse Input is wrong
(Mouse input is already returned the moved amount between frames so its already framerate-independent)

also when the camera is parented as child there is no need to spin on the Y

just spin the Parent object on the Y

[cosmic mica]

I understood this

[cosmic mica]

but not this

[rigid island]

cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0f);

[delicate granite]

rotate on the y axis i believe

sorry my input was not needed

[rigid island]

eg
cameraTransform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0, 0f);
playerBody.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0f);

[cosmic mica]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;
    public Transform playerCamera;  // drag your Camera here in the Inspector

    float xRotation = 0f;

    public float topClamp = -90f;
    public float bottomClamp = 90f;

    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        // Rotate camera up/down
        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, topClamp, bottomClamp);
        playerCamera.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);

        // Rotate player left/right
        transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
    }
}
```?

this maybe

OH MY

THE CODE

WORKED

[rigid island]

* Time.deltaTime; is still wrong tho

[cosmic mica]

YIPPE

[cosmic mica]

aw

[rigid island]

notice how the sensitivity is cranked to 100.. thats high because its trying to compensate for wrong calculation

[cosmic mica]

Once a coder said "If it works don't touch it."

[rigid island]

it doesn't work properly though, you just arent noticing at this framrate but others will

[mossy flare]

Not in FixedUpdate. In that example I moved it with the gizmos.

[rigid island]

probably a moron

[cosmic mica]

so thats why the best setting is 500

ohh

how do i fix it

[mossy flare]

In FixedUpdate
edit: someone else helped me, thanks

[compact spire]

So, currently I'm importing the stateless plugin to handle all of my state machines in my projects. Is this going to bite me eventually? Are there some other efficient methods of setting up state machines that I don't have to build from scratch?

[rigid island]

You get rid of it

#archived-code-general message

[cosmic mica]

just del?

[rigid island]

yes

the sensitivity needs to be changed back to a reasonable number

[cosmic mica]

I DID IT

[cosmic mica]

I added animations now yas

[still sparrow]

Could anyone help with a script error question? Im using Unity 6000.0.39f1 and Im using Gaia Pro VS and I added Crest 4 (the latest update) and Its putting out a script error.

Assets\Crest\Crest\Scripts\Integrations\Gaia\GRC_Crest.cs(16,27): error CS0117: 'Object' does not contain a definition for 'FindObjectByType'

[naive swallow]

There isn't a function by that name in Unity 6, there's FindFirstObjectByType and FindAnyObjectByType
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.html

Chances are this asset was not designed for Unity 6. You'll need to update the script to use one of those methods instead

[somber nacelle]

the error is pretty self explanatory, there is no method called FindObjectByType on the UnityEngine.Object class, there is an old deprecated FindObjectOfType method, but it has been replaced by FindFirstObjectByType and FindAnyObjectByType. there is a method called FindObjectsByType but that finds multiple objects, not just one

also with that being an error in an asset you should report it to the asset developers so they can fix it

[still sparrow]

That makes sense if its already been deprecated. I'll try and replace the older with the newer method and see if it fixes the problem. Thank you for the quick replies!

[somber nacelle]

it's not that it was deprecated, if it were deprecated it would tell you and give you the alternative. the method name that is currently in that code simply does not exist

seems like the asset author probably read about the old FindObjectOfType being deprecated and just changed the name to FindObjectByType without actually making sure that compiled

[dim umbra]

What's the most commonly used approach to have dialogue show the correct button glyph for whatever controller the player happens to be using? I couldn't find any tutorials for this specific thing

[fleet gorge]

what are you using to store the keybinds?

[rigid island]

https://github.com/UnityTechnologies/InputSystem_Warriors
I think has examples of how to detect input type maybe from there you can use some sort of SO to get icons per inputs?

[fleet gorge]

you can use a dictionary<keycode, sprite>

[dim umbra]

that's kinda what I was asking about

[fleet gorge]

oh so you're not storing the keybinds rn

[dim umbra]

was just wondering if there was some common thing on the asset store everyone used

[fleet gorge]

that's what the new Input System is supposed to help with

[cosmic mica]

Yo guys I couldn't sleep because of this one thing

[dim umbra]

yeah, I'm using this

[cosmic mica]

How can I overwrite the animation to ik

[dim umbra]

does it have this built in?

[fleet gorge]

for me I use old input manager and made my own input system, from there I can access the keycode of the action I want

My system came with its own saving of keybinds

[cosmic mica]

Whenever the anim starts playing the ik stops functioning

[dense rock]

Hey there, can somebody give me some advice on how bootstrapper scenes are usually handled in unity? Idk how to do it and can't really trust ChatGPT. Do I just put some important objects/singletons there and make them Don'tDestroyOnLoad, or do I load all other scenes Additively? I tried it like in the screenshot, but that seems weird because multiple EventSystems and also the UI in the DDOL Scene doesn't display at all.

[lean sail]

you dont need to load scenes additively for this. this would usually be for your objects that are singletons and yea in DontDestroyOnLoad. the multiple event systems would imply you have event systems in many scenes which would be your problem. The UI not displaying sounds like a separate problem

[dense rock]

when I dragged the UI into the active scene, it did display. I didn't find a way to change it to display infront of the rest. So I assume I should remove all EventSystems and just have one in ddol? And you don't know a solution to the display order of UI in different scenes?

[stable osprey]

Might wanna use prefabs instead of scenes (?) nest as needed

[ocean hollow]

what in the world is going on here. i have my using tags and i dont have a custom CharacterController class.

[dense rock]

well the UIManager spawns the Popup as prefab. I wanted to work around pasting it in every scene and having to update it everywhere if needed

[oblique spoke]

What does the CharacterController type show when you hover over it or go to definition?

[ocean hollow]

oh whoops, i do have a custom character controller class after all 😅

[stable osprey]

Whatever’s simpler, go with it imo

In this case, simplest is a script that spawns the UI manager once and adds it to DontDestroyOnLoad scene

Try

[RuntimeInitializeOnLoad]
static void Init() {
    var prefab = Resources.Load<UIManager>(“UI Manager”);
    // instantiate
    // DontDestroyOnLoad it
}

[dense rock]

ah interesting, I'll look into it

thanks ^^

[lone turret]

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I'm attempting to create a copy of a read-only atlas-texture-region onto another texture. I've tried Blit-ing it, copying it, loading the bytes, but I can't get it to work. I feel like it should be just this easy

but that ends up with a weird squished result of horizontal lines rather than the sprite I want

[dense rock]

good idea to avoid the bootstrapper scene, I think I'll use it. Do you have any idea why UI objects from ddol dont show infront of the UI of the active scene?

okay sorry for the ping, I finally found that the sort order is on the canvas and not another component

[stable osprey]

Yeah you can set depth on UI canvases to decide their order. On non-URP projects at least

[zinc tartan]

im trying to move an object relative to another as if it were parented to the other object because in my case i just cannot parent it, how would i go about this?

[stable osprey]

also np for the ping I just have my phone on silent mode and check whenever I’m free 😄

[night harness]

The easiest way is to use a parent constraint component

[zinc tartan]

is there some way to allow the object with the parent constraint to move independently of the other while still being "parented" per se or would i have to look for some other solution

[night harness]

yeah that's what it does afaik

[zinc tartan]

it freezes the position of the object and if you unfreeze the position the object wont move with the source

[rigid island]

that defeats the point of "parenting"

[latent latch]

kinda. Sometimes I do want to inherit position but not the rotation

just give me a damn bool unity

[night harness]

position constraint go brrr

[kind cobalt]

hey fellers anyone know how i can change the color of an emission by pressing a key? kinda new to scripting and im trying to have a light effect for this hover car whenever it moves

i heard color lerp is good but not too sure how to apply that

[cosmic rain]

Material is what's deciding the properties of the object related to rendering.

So you'd set the material emission color to change it.

[kind cobalt]

would that be material.setcolor?

[cosmic rain]

Yep. You just need to know the correct property name.
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Material.SetColor.html

[atomic whale]

what would be the performance difference between Graphics.RenderMeshInstanced and creating the whole thing as one mesh at runtime?

[cosmic rain]

That's impossible to answer. You'll need to test and see for yourself.

[atomic whale]

so its "needs to be tested" and not "will most definitely be worse" thats all I need :)

[kind cobalt]

hey so im still figuring this stuff out but im trying to gradually change an emission color by pressing a key and then having it gradually return to the original color when releasing the key, is this looking correct or am i just completly off?

[cosmic rain]

It depends. It could be worse. This kind of stuff is very context dependent.

[cosmic rain]

current needs to change from 0 to 1 or vice versa. If that's what's happening, then it's fine.

[mellow sigil]

Well it's "fine" for a first draft at least. It still needs quite a lot of work in addition to that

[kind cobalt]

does this code allow the color to revert when releasing the key?, im pretty stuck on when and how to use this stuff

[cosmic rain]

No. Didn't you write the code?

[kind cobalt]

yeah

just wanted to make sure it wasnt just me

[cosmic rain]

Then you should know what and when it changes

[kind cobalt]

anyway i can make it revert? would i just use else then just reverse it? im guessing theres a better way to do that

[cosmic rain]

Check the methods available in the Input class. There are methods for when the key is started being pressed and stopped being pressed.

[kind cobalt]

would that be getkeydown?

[cosmic rain]

Yes. Read the docs.

[kind cobalt]

yeah ive been reading them just a bit weird learning how to piece it all together

[mellow sigil]

The logic should be that if a key is being pressed, current moves towards the max value. Else it moves towards the min value. At the end set the emission to the current value.

Getkeydown is not the right one if you want to check a key being held

[pastel patio]

Hi guys, how would you handle having a bunch of different things to initialize in your game?
There is the AssetManager, the Dimension preset, the Generators, the different parts of the gameloop and so on...

The best I can think of would be using either execution order or making 1 script call the initialization for all the other scripts, though I'd like to know if there're any other solutions/tips on this matter?

[night harness]

One script to handle the initial order is totally valid but also from what ive seen its generally pretty fine to explicitly define order of execution for your manager esque classes

[pastel patio]

I also have another idea that all major scripts will upon initialization, try initialize its dependencies if they haven't already been initialized, does that sound like a good idea?
The reason is that I'm concerned about how non-linear this stuff is, the CreatureManager require the SaveableManager being loaded, which depends on the AssetsManager and Terrain...

Of course, to block the possibility of "Looped initialization", each will also have an in-between state of "Initializing" that would throw an error if initialization is attempted while it's busy initializing.

[kind cobalt]

hey so messed around and made this, the problem is instead of the color changing gradually its instant any idea why or am i just dumb and missing something important?

[mellow sigil]

#archived-code-general message

[young yacht]

Lerp time

you have newColor and oldColor

try using one variable instead

never used Color.Lerp() before so not sure

[kind cobalt]

after like 4 hours of working on it i finally got it

[young yacht]

what was the solution?

[kind cobalt]

I HAVE NO IDEA BUT ILL TAKE IT

for some reason it would only get darker but not brighter

and i dont even know what i did to fix it

but its fixed

ill take it

ah

so it turns out unity discards the emission color if it starts out as black

so yeah

awesome

[elfin quest]

Hi everyone

If I have a scene that is UI only (with UI Toolkit) I don't want any cameras since it's rendered in sceen overlay. Can I disable the Display X no cameras rendering? Is the solution really to add a camera even if I'm not using it?

[latent latch]

It's not needed, but it does get annoying on the editor. Could be a way to disable that warning

Generally I would anyway and instantiate the cameras background black just in case some pixels don't get initialized by having some UI space not rendered

[elfin quest]

Alr thanks, it's anoying, but I guess I'll add the camera

[woeful hamlet]

How do I use a method (with no parameters and no return value) as a variable?
I wanna have a character with a different special action (or no action at all) depending on the level, and instead of checking the level whenever I hit the button, I figured that just setting a variable for the action once at the start of the level was simpler, but I can't get the syntax right.

 private specialAction special = () => { Debug.Log("test"); };

...

void Start()
{
    ...
    if (LevelManager.instance.GetLevel() == 2)
    {
        special = Sonar();
    }
}```

The part with the lambda expression works, but the last line gives me an error.
"Type 'void' can't implicitly be converted into 'PlayerControls.specialAction'"

[lean sail]

you just dont invoke the method,
special = Sonar;

also you dont need to specify private delegate void specialAction();
Action already is this
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.action?view=net-9.0

[wintry crescent]

        private List<(int, TutorialHandPlacement)> hintOrder =
        [
            (2, TutorialHandPlacement.PixelatedView1),
            (4, TutorialHandPlacement.PixelatedView2)
        ];

I'm trying to declare a list of tuples, but this isn't "avaliable in c# 9.0"
how can I achieve what I'm trying to do? Do I have to create it during runtime?

[woeful hamlet]

private Action specialAction = () => { Debug.Log("test"); }; and specialAction = Sonar;
Like this?

[vestal arch]

..you're trying to initialize a list with square brackets?

[wintry crescent]

I might be screwing up my syntax lmao, how do I do it properly?

[lean sail]

I think if you start off by doing it by declaring the list then manually adding elements, your ide might give you how to do what you're trying in 1 line. I forgot if that applies here or for other cases

[vestal arch]

you gotta go through the constructor, this isn't python lol

private List<(int, TutorialHandPlacement)> hintOrder = new() {
  (2, TutorialHandPlacement.PixelatedView1),
  (4, TutorialHandPlacement.PixelatedView2)
};

[lean sail]

that should compile yes

[wintry crescent]

ah, right XD

thanks!

[vestal arch]

adding the elements afterward wouldn't work here; this is a type member

[vestal arch]

@wintry crescent (make sure to style it to match with the rest of your code; i styled it in a non-c# way just because im used to it lol)

[woeful hamlet]

It does, and it seems to work like I want it too. Thanks^^

[low rapids]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlVAeTmXJy4

How does one properly solve this?

i tried parenting the object on impact but it glitched out and made my other movement code messed up

[thorny rock]

Add the same force of the platform to the ball so it sticks to it.

[low rapids]

does this work with Animations?

[thorny rock]

I wouldn't use animations for this.

You can make a "platform movement script" with a movement speed and movement direction. Then if the ball hits that, get the component and then you know which direction to move and by how many units.

Good luck! Pretty cool stuff if you can make that work 🙂

[lean sail]

https://dotnetfiddle.net/GnGRFa
dont really know what you mean, but you can most definitely add elements after. though I was probably remembering wrong about the ide suggestion to make it 1 line after. Forgot where that really happens

[vestal arch]

you're correct about that behavior; the issue is that this is a class member, so you literally can't put the Add statements there.

[lean sail]

Ah I see what you mean.

[chilly surge]

FYI you can do it without new().

[heady wolf]

Hi, I have a created static class with all the events in my game. As now, I add listeners in Start and remove listeners in OnDestroy, but I noticed unity sometimes runs out of memory, so I think I could have caused a leak. It would be a better solution to add listeners in OnEnable and remove in OnDisable? Thank you in advance, have a nice day 😉

[lean sail]

use the profiler/memory profiler and itll give you more clues as to what specifically the issue is. Start is only called once so I doubt it's subscribing many times purely from what you've described

using enable or disable would only matter if you were actually disabling these objects and didnt want to subscribe while they were disabled

[vestal arch]

ah cool

[vestal arch]

cc @wintry crescent

[thick terrace]

not to be pedantic but that very much is valid in C#12 lol, we'll get there one day in Unity

[heady wolf]

Thank you

[vestal arch]

cool, thx

[thin aurora]

That's not true

Unless Unity doesn't use the c# language that supports it

Bracket initialization is valid syntax, you don't even need to call the constructor in that case.

https://dontasktoask.com/

Please post the thing you need help with

[sleek bough]

!softban 1329015184273965096 spam

[tawny elk]

butskyi was softbanned.

[zinc flax]

My unity pause when my player is drilling down and I don't see any log about it. I don't know what's happening. Any idea how to solve a problem like this?

I haven't touched my drilling script, this problem happen since I modified my terrain generation script. I looked it up and found a potential issue, I fixed it but the problem still occur.

[somber nacelle]

make sure you haven't hidden errors in your console

[zinc flax]

oh I had error pause active

[somber nacelle]

yes, and ideally you would leave that on and fix your errors instead of ignoring them

[brave warren]

Hey! Could someone tell me if my post in #💻┃code-beginner is in the right channel? I'm trying to get some help implementing a feature

[soft shard]

Seems fine to me, im sure you would be redirected to a different channel if your post was not on topic for that channel

[brave warren]

Thanks, it's always a bit confusing when there's not a big red "unity-help" text

[north cypress]

I need a way that when the charecter takes damage it plays a random voice line -

Idk the best way to ask for this except ask really nicely of anyone can call and go through it with me, and I'll show u what I got and what I wanna try and do.

I'd rlly appreciate some help and idk if this is more of #🔊┃audio thing.

Please let me know

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/AudioSource.PlayOneShot.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[leaden ice]

Pretty simple, something like:

// Assign these in the inspector
public AudioClip[] clips;
public AudioSource source;

void PlayRandomSound() {
  AudioClip randomClip = clips[Random.Range(0, clips.Length)];
  source.PlayOneShot(randomClip);
}```

[north cypress]

So I'd have a game object as a audio manager, or place the random audio in where my hp is being managed?

[leaden ice]

Whatever is most convenient for you

the point is you run that function when you want to play one of the sounds

[north cypress]

Legend

I js add like 15 audio sources to the audio clips then?

[leaden ice]

however many you want

it will work with any number as long as there's at least one

[north cypress]

Yk I've been pulling my hair out at this lmao

Thanks u legend

[stable osprey]

sorry but I gotta ask.. what exactly have you been pulling your hair about? Like, what did you try and didn't work?

[north cypress]

Oh for sure, I'm not that great at audio lmao, I tried w a game object and then a script generating a random number and then ghat number corresponding to the number of the audio clip tryns play, clearly nkt the right way to go as WELL RIP 55 mins down the drain

[stable osprey]

I see.. yeah it's not an optimal way

try to go approach everything with an "AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE" mindset next time

for example, your data is a bunch of audio clips, so you make an audio clip array

then you need some way to pick ONE RANDOM, so you code that method

then you need to play it, so you code that method too

[north cypress]

Oh yeah for sure

I'm still learning haha 😛

[stable osprey]

I know it just sounded suspicious u shared a problem without any code here.. made me think you just wanted a ready solution lol

[north cypress]

That makes sense, I can try find my old code if u want a gander

[stable osprey]

but the reason I asked is because... ChatGPT would be able to provide this solution, so I got genuinely curious about what your previous approaches were 😄

[north cypress]

I didn't even think of using AI lmao, I didn't want it anywhere near my game haha

[stable osprey]

no it's fine, thanks, I got your approach. But yeah good call to ask for help instead of making that a practice lol

AI isn't half bad for education.. before it was as developed as it was now, we used google to get answers for each of our problems (basically learn for it)

[north cypress]

Yeah

[stable osprey]

the "trap" with AI is that one can just keep ASKING for READY CODE instead of learning from it.

but as long as it's used as EDUCATIONAL TOOL instead of CODING TOOL it's pretty nice imo

[north cypress]

Yeahahaha

True

I js wanted humans not AI lmao

[stable osprey]

fair, fair 😄

[zinc tartan]

the problem is that with the parent constraint it locks the position of the object and doesnt let it move in its own local space, not sure if im missing something or just doing something wrong

[rigid island]

haven't used that constraint much, what are you trying to achieve exactly?
You inherit the parent, at very least its position, otherwise why even parent it.. in code you could do follow.position + someOffset without direct parenting if you want to follow but with its own movement free

[zinc tartan]

i need it to move relative to how another object moves while also being able to move itself, i just cant wrap my head around how to find the offset for the position

[north cypress]

I'm losing the plot

How the hell do I call another scripts function in a different script

I might be burnt out bro

Cause none of these online forums are working

[leaden ice]

Get a reference to an instance of it, and call the function on the reference

[north cypress]

That's what am tryna do

[leaden ice]

I'm sure all the things you are looking up work fine.
Show what you are trying and what's going wrong

[north cypress]

Sure sure

Are you able to call real quick

[leaden ice]

no

[north cypress]

So I can screen share ?

Okay no worries

[leaden ice]

share screenshots and code here

make a thread if you need to. This is an extremely basic part of Unity that beginners always struggle with but I've helped people with hundreds of times.

[north cypress]

So discord on my PC is freaking out lmao

[vestal arch]

bypass the home page, go directly to https://discord.com/app

[north cypress]

that worked ty

then i also tried eceyrhting on this thread

https://discussions.unity.com/t/calling-function-from-other-scripts-c/420300/24

[leaden ice]

this looks nothing like any code example I've ever seen

it would be like

// You need to assign this variable in the inspector
public DeathAudioPlayer audioPlayer;

void SomeFunction() {
  audioPlayer.PlayRandomSound();
}```

your code doesn't look like any of the examples

Capital P on Public? bad.
No name for your variable? bad.
Trying to call functions outside of a function? bad.

[north cypress]

its tryna send a vid

but my disc slow as hell today sr

[wheat spade]

I've got an assembly in the Assets folder, but it isn't automatically referencing assemblies in Packages. According to the documentation (https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/Manual/assembly-definitions-referencing.html), shouldn't assemblies auto reference plugins?

[leaden ice]

uhhh.

Custom assemblies you create with an Assembly Definition asset automatically reference all precompiled assemblies (3):
This sentence wseems false

not ever in my experience has it been this way

You have to add dependencies your asmdef manually

[somber nacelle]

most packages aren't actually precompiled assemblies

precompiled implies dll which packages typically aren't

[leaden ice]

Example from my project

[north cypress]

bruh it will not send this vid

[wheat spade]

Ah. They should specify dll in the docs.

[leaden ice]

I guess maybe it's the word "precompiled" that is the problem here

[north cypress]

can i use my phone camera?

[leaden ice]

Just explain what's going wrong

why do we need a video

show code and screenshots

[north cypress]

js tryna show u code is all

[somber nacelle]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://paste.mod.gg/, https://hastebin.skyra.pw/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://scriptbin.xyz/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[leaden ice]

Video is the worst format to show code

[north cypress]

i cant rlly use that as imma tryna reference another script tho

it wont even send ss what is my life bro

[vestal arch]

you can really use that, we don't need the entire project's code

[vestal arch]

maybe just stick to text then

if your computer has a poor connection

[vestal arch]

code is best shared through text (via one of the 2 above methods)

[vestal arch]

!screenshots

[tawny elk]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[vestal arch]

what namespace is DeathAudioPlayer in?

[north cypress]

im tryna sue pastebin i thinkmy pc crashikng tf out lmao, lemme check chris rq

[somber nacelle]

prefer one of the sites that the bot linked, pastebin sucks

[vestal arch]

im pretty sure your pc just has a bad internet connection

[leaden ice]

Ok so is your class actually called DeathAudioPlayer?

show the top of that script

[north cypress]

Unity

[leaden ice]

this is also kinda sus

[leaden ice]

you didn't savve your code

[north cypress]

i used the tutorial hense that name

[vestal arch]

ok so that's unsaved

Health.cs was also not saved

[north cypress]

sorry guys im teerricly new to this teehee

[leaden ice]

this is actually the main problem

[vestal arch]

if you're not too familiar with c# yet, maybe don't use namespaces/assemblies. it's a layer of extra complexity

[leaden ice]

one of your scripts is in this fps.Game assembly

the other script is in Assembly-CSharp

basically you've stepped on a landmine because you're trying to modify/add extra stuff to a sample game project that is using Assembly Definitions which is a concept that is way over your head right now.

[north cypress]

how fo

how do i change it's assembly

[leaden ice]

Basically if you move your script into the same folder as that fps.Game stuff it will work

[north cypress]

ahhhhhh i see

[leaden ice]

it's basied on being in a folder with the .asmdef file

[north cypress]

so an assembly is one of the folders inside the main section

[leaden ice]

Like here all my scripts are in the GameAssembly assembly

so things in there won't be able to reference things outside of it.

In your case the Health script is in the fps.Game assembly so it can't see your DeathAudioPlayer script which is outside

[north cypress]

Legit can't send shi on my pc

No clue why

[leaden ice]

you need to mark the function as public

[north cypress]

My PC got full WiFi and I can use Google

[steady bobcat]

MY EYES

[north cypress]

Bro I should be paying u atp

[leaden ice]

you have void PlayRandomSound() it needs to be public void PlayRandomSound()

[north cypress]

That worked

[leaden ice]

by default, all members on a class are private

[north cypress]

U my friend have saved my life today

[leaden ice]

if you put nothing, private is what you get.

[north cypress]

I appreciate it

Genuinely man is there anything I can do to repay u lmao, you've spent a lot of time on me today haha:P

[vestal arch]

well since praetor isn't taking it, i'll request you stop using photos of screens period, and stop using screenshots for code please

[zinc parrot]

Hey so if a mesh is not readwriteable
And you make a build with it
Is there ANY way to get the triangle data of that mesh on the cpu in the build?
Since index buffers don’t seem to exist in builds(meaning I can’t do fancy gpu->cpu read back things to transfer the mesh data to the cpu) is there ANY other way?(I cannot gaurentee/force the mesh to be readwrite in the editor or save the mesh seperately in the editor, basically gotta be treated as a mesh that gets “imported” after build that’s not readwrite able)

[leaden ice]

You should still be able to use https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mesh.GetVertexBuffer.html if I understand correctly.

There's also https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Mesh.GetIndexBuffer.html

Which I think has the triangle data

[zinc parrot]

I already use this, but I run into cases where the buffer returned by this doesn’t exist in builds iirc