archived-code-general

[wintry crescent]

even on plain scriptableObject classes, any list of types deriving from IdentifiableScriptableObject results in the bug

can someone test if it's just me, or if the bug appears for other people too?

[somber nacelle]

you should test in an empty project and submit a bug report if you can reproduce it there

[silent bolt]

Hey i'm trying to use the new Input System for the first Time (i'm a full beginner). I followed a tutorial. But the Input System doesnt seem to recognize the Keys.

What i've done:
Add Player Controller Script to the Player.
Add Player Input to the Player.
Add ActionMap & set Default Map.

The PlayerController Script has:
float value for speed
Vector3 value for moveDirection
and takes a InputActionReference (which i put to Player/Move)

I set thte moveDirection value to public so i can see the values change. .but theres nothing happening.. did i do it completely wrong ?

[leaden ice]

you're using PlayerInput and trying to mix that with InputActionReference

these two approaches are completely unrelated

with InputActionReference you will need to Enable() the InputAction before it can be used

i.e. cs void Start() { move.action.Enable(); }

And it remains that your PlayerInput component here is useless and extraneous

you should either remove the PlayerInput component, or rewrite the code to use it instead of the InputActionReference

[silent bolt]

Oh okay.. thank you! I've followed this tutorial :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONlMEZs9Rgw&ab_channel=BiteMeGames

He's using both & it worked for his 2D controller.

I'll try to change the things you mentioned. Ty!

[leaden ice]

this tutorial is leading you astray

there is no reason to have the PlayerInput component with this approach

[silent bolt]

Yeah i'm currently followin the Unity Courses.. but Unity automaticly sets the Input System to the new One.. so i tought it would be great to learn the new input system to create the Prototype projects with the new system. As they show it with the old one

[leaden ice]

there might also be some weirdness with whatever version of the Input System he is using where the PlayerInput is serving one important function - which is enabling the inpuit asset.

[naive swallow]

The biggest problem with the Input System is that there's like twenty different ways to actually use the input map and no one seems to agree on the correct way

A lot of youtube tutorials are basically just repackages of other people's tutorials without actually taking the time to understand what they actually mean and you get mixed signals like this one

[silent bolt]

yeah i watched around 5 videos .. and everyone shows a different way

better way would be reading the unity docs.. probably.. right ?

[rigid island]

its just Polling, Events and Broadcast Messages

[naive swallow]

Relevant XKCD

xkcd: Standards

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we've all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.

[naive swallow]

The docs also list all of the ways to do it

[rigid island]

awesome site lol the first API I learned to use in c#

[silent bolt]

Okay 😄 damn .. i just need an easy way for the start xD i don't want to learn it with the old input system the Course show..

put ty anyways! I'll try other ways to get to the goal.

[mossy shard]

Does anyone have a good force calculation for a throwable object in a 2d space?
I have tried some Impulses and setting the force with AddForce but it is a little odd..

[leaden ice]

a force calculation for what

what's the goal

the force calculation is as always: f = ma

[silent bolt]

Got it Working an easy way 👍

[mossy shard]

yes, i said i used AddForce but it is odd

[leaden ice]

what's odd about it?

[rigid island]

just fyi Translate ignores walls and such so idk if you're trying to do character being stopped by obstacles

[mossy shard]

It looks glitchy at times and if i set the throw force at let's say 3 it goes into another universe (it means it goes too fast)

[leaden ice]

If you are adding the force every frame, then yes it's going to start going very fast.

especially with Impulse

[rigid island]

you might be using it incorrectly , show code

[vestal arch]

did you set mass really low?

[mossy shard]

On

[leaden ice]

and you'll have to explain what "looks glitchy" means exactly if you want help with that part.

[mossy shard]

ONE

[silent bolt]

im just following the Unity Course and they do it with Translate in the video ^^ just followin it
just wanted to do it directly with the new input system

[mossy shard]

rn

[vestal arch]

!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]

Ultimately - explain what you're actually trying to accomplish here, and show your code if you want better help

[rigid island]

ahh you're talking about the runner demo ? yeah that always struck me odd...
but that one ig doesnt matter because hitting an obstacle does trigger game over and not meant to stop / slide player along walls

[mossy shard]

something that looks good

[leaden ice]

that's super vague

show code. Explain what you want in more detail

[silent bolt]

the junior pathway prototype 2 where they shoot pizza at mooses 😄

[rigid island]

oh cool never seen that one, sounds like they added some new stuff

[silent bolt]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/basic-gameplay/tutorial/lesson-2-1-player-positioning?version=6

[silent bolt]

but it didnt feel right to learn it with Input.GetAxis ^^

[rigid island]

Oh cool. Yeah never seen this one before 👍

[mossy shard]

 ///shoot(..) is being called ONLY once i press the ,,shootingKey"
    private void shoot(float straightness)
    {
        ///Direction of the mouse in corespondence to the world.
           Vector2 dir = directionToMouse();

            Vector3 position = new Vector3(playerObject.position.x, playerObject.position.y, 0);

            GameObject projectile = Instantiate(throwableObject, position, playerObject.rotation);

           Rigidbody2D rb = projectile.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

         
          ///straightness is a value between 0 and 1 and it evals how fast does it go
           rb.linearVelocity = dir * getThrowForce(throwForce , rb) * straightness;
        
    }

not so long

getThrowForce returns throwForce

[rigid island]

IMO its always good to learn the old input system too, just because older tutorials use it, and you might know exactly how to convert after

[leaden ice]

show the full code. Literally anything could be inside getThrowForce.
And none of this is using AddForce like you said

[mossy shard]

changed it

still same problem

[silent bolt]

i used the old one in Mission One (Or two?) (The Car & the plane project) ^^

[leaden ice]

well, settle on a single bit of code and what's going wrong with that single bit of code before asking us questions

And show the full script

there's too many variables here for us to know what's wrong

you have directionToMouse();, throwForce , getThrowForce(throwForce , rb) and straightness which are all influencing this thing

and we can't see any of them

[mossy shard]

only the last calculation is odd, the rest are tested and work fine, 😭

And i don't think you would like me to send you 3 classes just to look for 2 variables, 😭

[naive swallow]

And what were the methodologies for testing them that resulted in "working fine"?

[leaden ice]

what is "the last calculation"?

And as far as I can tell from this code, there is only one class involved

I would absolutely like you to send all the code

[naive swallow]

And what is the actual problem anyway? Did we ever get more detail than "is odd"

[leaden ice]

nope

[mossy shard]

better if i send my whole project? 😭

[rigid island]

a video would also be nice..

[leaden ice]

"odd" is completely not actionable

[leaden ice]

no it's better if you just explain to us what the hell is wrong

and show the code that was asked for

[naive swallow]

You need to explain what is currently happening, and what you expect to be happening

[silent bolt]

i guess his projectile is too fast .. as much i understood ?!

[mossy shard]

see? he gets it

[leaden ice]

no

that doesn't make sense

[rigid island]

"is odd" doesn't explain that

[leaden ice]

if it's too fast, reduce the speed

too fast is not "odd"

[naive swallow]

Okay, so, make the speed less

Whatever magic sauce the getThrowForce function has should be less so

[leaden ice]

there could be magic sauce inside of getThrowForce or directionToMouse()

as well as the calculation of whatever throwForce is and straightness

[silent bolt]

try to divide you straightness by 10 if it defines the speed (as the comment shows)

[compact pier]

Guys I'm new heare where and what sld i start with ?

[silent bolt]

maybe send the values here of
dir
getThrowForce
straightness

[rigid island]

!learn 👇

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[compact pier]

750!!!?? Daymmm

[rigid island]

750+ hours yes, All Free.. obv you don't have to do them all..

[compact pier]

Will i learn everything? In that 750 hours?

[leaden ice]

no

of course not

[rigid island]

lol

[leaden ice]

I've been using Unity for 12+ years and I'm still learning.

[rigid island]

they put it there "for fun"

[compact pier]

Huh 750 ain't enough? Like

[naive swallow]

Yeah, it's a bit short, but it's meant to be just a brief getting started content, a jumping off point. You can find the rest later

[compact pier]

Oh

[vestal arch]

learning everything is impossible

[leaden ice]

there's always more to learn

[rigid island]

start with the pathways then go from there

[vestal arch]

even if you learn everything that exists now, there will be new stuff coming out faster than you can learn it

[silent bolt]

you'll learn the basics.. started 2 Days ago

[compact pier]

Okay like what do you reccomend like im a begginer sld i jus start with unreal engine or sld i do unity instead?

[rigid island]

dev is a never ending process of learning

[compact pier]

Ouhhhhhhh ok ok

[compact pier]

I see

But like it's soo complex

Sld i start from 2d or 3d!

[silent bolt]

Unreal Engine is harder to learn imo

[rigid island]

anything in the beginning is complex..

[naive swallow]

Doesn't really matter

[compact pier]

Fr fr

[vestal arch]

you can never know everything
what you can do, is learn the fundamentals, then basic tasks, then get the skills to get more information/knowledge as you need it. you'll never know everything, but with the right skills and mindset, you'll be able to know everything you need

[vestal arch]

whichever one you want to make

[rigid island]

once you learnt the basics it doesn't look as "Scary" or complicated

[compact pier]

Hmm I'll start with 3d

[vestal arch]

neither is harder than the other, they're just a different set of skills

[compact pier]

3d I'll start

[compact pier]

Yepoo understood

[rigid island]

3D imo is easier but its just personal opinion

[compact pier]

So like in that 750 hours I'll learn the basics?

[compact pier]

Sld i learn blender too?

[rigid island]

you are also meant to learn c# outside of the Unity learn site..

[naive swallow]

Learning isn't, like a binary switch. You don't go from "not learned" to "learned" in a discrete time span

[rigid island]

it has good stuff for c# relating to Unity but you still need to learn traditional c#

[vestal arch]

no, that 750 covers a lot of topics
2d and 3d, but also vr, ar, simulations, etc, stuff you might not (probably don't) need for every project

[compact pier]

Can't i choose my own programming lang?

[rigid island]

no

[compact pier]

Can you like tell what i sld learn? In that

[naive swallow]

You can, as long as you choose C#

[vestal arch]

the ones you want to make or use

[vestal arch]

ah, the ford choice

[silent bolt]

it's divided in Missions.. start from Mission 1

[compact pier]

So i sld only use c# but idk nothing in c# i only know c and c++

[naive swallow]

Best get learning

[rigid island]

if you know C++ then c# should be a cakewalk..

[vestal arch]

that's already a big step
programming knowledge is quite transferrable between languages

[compact pier]

Oh oh ok ok

[compact pier]

Aytt then imma start from tomorrow

[rigid island]

C# is very similiar to c++... duh.. you should be ok

[silent bolt]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/unity-essentials

Heres the Essentials Path

[compact pier]

Ouhhhhhhh ayttt

!learn

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[compact pier]

Yea this one

[rigid island]

yes start with the pathway as was suggested above

[vestal arch]

@compact pier #💻┃unity-talk message

the logic aspect is transferrable to any similar-level language (which c++ and c# are pretty close)
the language aspect is mostly transferrable between languages of the same family, which c++ and c# are

[compact pier]

Ok ok ok

[rigid island]

do Essentials -> Junior Programming, and then go from there

[compact pier]

Uhuhhh interstingggg

[compact pier]

Okokkk

Daym y'all are so helpful

Thnx y'all

[vestal arch]

that's our job description 🙂

[rigid island]

welcome to Unity 😛

[compact pier]

YESSIRRR

And one more thing

Do I have to learn blender?

[vestal arch]

if you want to use blender, yes

[compact pier]

For like making 3d models and shi?

[rigid island]

you can use premade assets that are free

[compact pier]

But that feels like stealing

[silent bolt]

if you want to create your own models .. i mean .. there are more 3D software out there.. but blender is free.. and nice ..

[rigid island]

but if you want to learn 3d modeling thats up to you

[leaden ice]

If you want to color stuff with crayola crayons, you have to learn to use crayola crayons

[vestal arch]

if you want to make 3d models, you have to learn how to make 3d models
but blender isn't the only tool for that, it's just the most popular one

[compact pier]

Yea yea i did make the doughnut once it came out well

[vestal arch]

if someone publishes their own assets for free use, that's for the community to use
you're part of the community, you're allowed to use them

[rigid island]

its generally a good idea to use placeholders as well, so you can focus 100% on learning coding and all that, learning too much at once can be overwhelming

[compact pier]

Yeaaaaaa wise man Once said

[silent bolt]

I'm personally using Blender for the 3D model + Substance Painter for the Textures

[compact pier]

Yea yea

[compact pier]

Hmm hmm hmm is there any good place to find assets?

Like 3d models

[somber nacelle]

the asset store

[compact pier]

Got ittt

[silent bolt]

https://assetstore.unity.com/3d

[compact pier]

THE NAME ITSELF IS ASSET STORE?????

LMFAOO

Daymmm never knew that

Y'all so smart af

[vestal arch]

i mean... the app store is called the app store

[compact pier]

Daym its paid?

[vestal arch]

some of them are

[compact pier]

50 DOLLARS?

[vestal arch]

the author sets the price

some of them are free

[compact pier]

Ngl they look good

[rigid island]

you can filter the price to free..

[compact pier]

Yea yea

[vestal arch]

that's why they're expensive

[rigid island]

also there are more free ones on Sketchfab.com but are not necessarily Unity/Game ready and do require some work in blender sometimes

but again you should worry about assets last..esp while learning..

use primitves and learn

[vestal arch]

(unless your focus is about making assets, that's fine too, but focus on one thing at a time)

[silent bolt]

Also theres the new one .. fab.com

https://www.fab.com/channels/unity

[rigid island]

Epic trying to cash in on them unity assets

[compact pier]

Ouhhhhhhh

There's so much

Freeee

[silent bolt]

as we know epic .. lol

[compact pier]

Why

Well well well epic

They always

[rigid island]

Unreal store was a flop lets admit it..

[silent bolt]

as if they wouldn't make enought money by dropping a new fortnite skin a day haha

[lucid brook]

Hey, so I am having some trouble with my movement direction when wall running.
I am making a VR game and have an empty gameObject that I set the rotation on the Y axis to that of the player's head so that I can use that as the forwards for moving my player. lookIndex.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, head.eulerAngles.y, 0f);
But whenever the player is on a wall, I need to copy the head's rotation but only along the wall's normal.
The problem is that I am terrible with rotations, so I don't even know where to start.

[rigid island]

I'm pretty bad at rotations myself lol but one thing you can start with is having the normal of the wall you're on via raycasts to get it. have you tried starting with that ?

I'm sure there is also some secret sauce function you can use also in the Vector3. struct for doing additional heavy lifting

iirc Project or Project on plane? something like that

[lucid brook]

yes, I have the normal of the wall already. (needed it for some other shits too)

[undone root]

umm is it normal that i have to close vs code for my code to compile?

[lucid brook]

no

[rigid island]

no its not normal

[somber nacelle]

by "close vs code" do you actually mean just tab back into unity? because that is normal

[undone root]

does anyone here know how to fix that it's driving me insane 😭

[undone root]

no i literally have to close vs code

like my changes show up in the editor but they won't actually compile until i close vs code

[rigid island]

wdym changes show up in editor ?

[undone root]

the inspector in the unity editor

[lucid brook]

is your game running while this is happening?

[undone root]

no

[steady bobcat]

Tbh i dont fully understand what you are doing but you can produce a rotation from a directional vector if you are able to project the move dir along the wall.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html

you should try to use quaternions more vs euler angles (they are easy to construct from eulers anyway). Quaternions can be "combined" too via *

[undone root]

im on linux if that matters

[undone root]

so my changes show up here as im editing in vs code but won't compile until i close vs code

[steady bobcat]

Do you save your changes then to go back to unity?

Or is it literally only when vs code is closed it will allow recompiling?

[undone root]

i have autosave enabled

[steady bobcat]

perhaps its not actually working then?

In unity you can re import any script to make it recompile, if the file changes still dont show then its clearly not working.

[undone root]

i've tried turning it off and manually saving as well

[undone root]

the file changes show up in the inspector though which is what confuses me

[steady bobcat]

Then i bet its some linux bullshit

[undone root]

yeah i thought so too

ive tried looking it up but i don't think anyone else has this problem 💀

[cold parrot]

did you disable asset database refresh?

[cold parrot]

and you haven't ever called this API right? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.DisallowAutoRefresh.html

[undone root]

no

wait hol up ill send a video

WTF WHY IS IT WORKING NOW

OHHHHHH I KNOW THE CAUSE

[undone root]

ok so what caused it is me using the workspace view to change tabs instead of the normal alt tab

[steady bobcat]

Wow thats kinda dumb but perhaps the editor isnt notified correctly of it regaining focus so it never recompiles?

[undone root]

i was legit stuck on this for an embarrasingly long time

[steady bobcat]

open a bug report so it can get fixed

[silent bolt]

it's sad that unity's learning platform has a lot tutorials where the videos are broken.. makes it all harder

[rigid island]

like which ones?

[silent bolt]

uhm okay.. kinda strange.. not a single video is working anymore.. lol maybe it my browsers problem ..

For example i'm here now .. ^^
https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer/unit/basic-gameplay/tutorial/67559e90edbc2a0eaf59bd44?version=6

Did the last 5 Lessons without videos because of that error

[somber nacelle]

i can confirm that same issue is happening in both firefox and chrome, likely an issue on unity's end

[silent bolt]

it was really relaxing to watch how the stuff is done 😄 hm.. maybe it'll work tomorrow.. i should take a break

[silent bolt]

maybe .. yes

[somber nacelle]

yeah, the issue is likely temporary. but i'd recommend submitting a bug report or support ticket or whatever

[silent bolt]

🫡 good idea. but good to know the problem's not my pc's fault

[arctic rune]

I have no idea which channel this would be for but I'm currently trying to edit a weapon in the fps microgame template. Specifically the shotgun's projectile. I want to make the distance it can travel very short however I cannot figure out how to change this in the inspector. I've tried to find something that documents what everything in the project does but I haven't found anything.

[leaden ice]

preumably the max lifetime of the projectile would do it?

if not, it's not necessarily true they've exposed something in the inspector for it

Could be a good project for you to add it as a learning experience.

[arctic rune]

ok that seems to have done it

tho its really picky what number I choose

going off by 0.01 seems to make it go from traveling the same long distance to not traveling even an inch

I'll have to treak it a lot but I think that'll work, thanks!

[night harness]

Just playing with ideas not looking for an alt. solution for singletons but learning up abit on interfaces more and just curious, logically this "should" work right? But it's not because I guess it's almost a weird order of execution thing with definitions since in theory any monobehaviour implementing ISingleton<M> would in itself be implementing ISingleton which fufills the generic restriction

public interface ISingleton { }

public interface ISingleton<M> where M : MonoBehaviour, ISingleton
{

}

This does not work

public class ContentManager : MonoBehaviour, ISingleton<ContentManager>
{

}

This does

public class ContentManager : MonoBehaviour, ISingleton, ISingleton<ContentManager>
{

}

oh i did not know you could generic restrict to itself that is cursed

public interface ISingleton<M> where M : MonoBehaviour, ISingleton<M>
{

}

i also just realised I wasn't even inherting from ISingleton what am I doing this morning 😭

[leaden ice]

What's the goal here? This interface has no defined members so it doesn't do much other than act as a marker.

[night harness]

Removed some of the stuff in them since I was just specifically curious about the interface part of the problem for learning but c# 11 has static abstract in interfaces support and i was just curious what usage of that for singletons would look like when we can eventually use it

Though even with just the marking it's helpful for a little helper class to avoid re-implementing singleton pattern logic every time where the marker is just used to explicitly say I expect this to act as a singleton

public static class Singleton<B> where B : MonoBehaviour, ISingleton<B>
{
    private static B _instance { get; set; }

    public static B Get()
    {
        if (_instance == null)
        {
            Debug.Log("Finding Singleton...");
            _instance = Object.FindFirstObjectByType<B>();
        }
        return (_instance);
    }
}

[leaden ice]

Solutions like this already exist just using a regular base class though

[night harness]

Forsure but as mentioned previously this is mostly for learning than solving a specific problem I have rn. But the benefit here would be that this could be implemented in a helper/toolkit package that wouldn't require you to use a specific base class to build off of

[craggy pivot]

Does DontDestroyOnLoad affect the parent-child relationship of objects?
I made my GUI mark itself as DontDestroyOnLoad, and it's keeping itself and it's children around when the scene changes, but I'm getting an error saying that a child I'm clearly seeing in the Hierarchy isn't there.

print(cardContainer); // Abilities panel
print(index); // 0 in the screenshot
print(cardContainer.GetChild(index)); // error

[leaden ice]

Does DontDestroyOnLoad affect the parent-child relationship of objects?
No

might be a good idea to log more things

like cardContainer.childCount

[craggy pivot]

Sure, one sec

[leaden ice]

it may be that you are referencing the wrong object here. Maybe there's another object in the game world called AbilitiesPanel at the moment.

[craggy pivot]

Maybe... the child count says 0

I'll look again.

[leaden ice]

yeah I imagine it's a different object

either that or this code is running at a different time than you expect

you can also add the object as the second parameter to Debug.Log

that will let you click the log and be taken to the object in question

[craggy pivot]

Good to know

It was another object

There was a duplicate of the gui

Thank you for helping me find that

[dawn nebula]

I want to get dictionary-like behaviour in a scriptable object, but unity obviously cant serialize an actual dictionary. Any tips?

[vestal arch]

you could use a list of structs (each representing a dict entry), or use the serializeddictionary plugin

you could also do 2 separate lists for keys and values, but that's not very good dx

[dawn nebula]

[Serializable]
public struct KeyedAsset<TKey, TValue>
{
    public TKey Key;
    public TValue Asset;
}

public abstract class AssetMap<TKey, TValue> : ScriptableObject
{
    [SerializeField] KeyedAsset<TKey, TValue>[] elements
    private Dictionary<TKey, TValue> cache;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        cache = elements.ToDictionary(e => e.Key, e => e.Asset);
    }

    public bool TryGetAsset(TKey key, out TValue asset)
    {
        return _cache.TryGetValue(key, out asset);
    }
}```

Got something like this.

[vestal arch]

so basically that first option there yeah

[dawn nebula]

problem is that I actually work with Domain Reload off typically, and OnEnable doesn't get called on Play Mode for scriptableobjects without it.

[vestal arch]

not familiar with SOs, so can't help with that, sorry

could try the 2nd option i listed, i suppose

[dawn nebula]

Maybe I just also set the cache in OnValidate?

[cosmic rain]

You could init it lazyliy, or just not do it in the SO. Let it keep only the serialized list/array and keep the dictionary in some kind of manager.

You could also maybe use initialize on load attribute

Ah, that's only available in the editor.

[night harness]

iirc using both onenable and onvalidate ends up doing all the right times?

oh wait for this is ISerializationCallbacks not the move?

[cosmic rain]

OnEnable should work as well I guess at least in the build.

On validate if you want it to regenerate on changes to the SO in the inspector.

[night harness]

from memory both onenable and onvalidate miss one usecase but using them both covers their own bases. but for this serializationcallback should run correctly unless im tripping

[cosmic rain]

Not sure what you mean by a serialization callback.

[night harness]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ISerializationCallbackReceiver.html

the example is a dict 😄

[cosmic rain]

This only implements on before and after serialize. If you want to use these callbacks, then yes,you need to implement the interface. But on enable and on validate don't require it.

[night harness]

yeah im suggesting to use this instead

[cosmic rain]

Aah. You can do that, yes.

[pastel patio]

Hey guys, I made an async function to transition to and run a state until end, though what I'm not sure about rn is what cancelling this function should mean?

[steady bobcat]

To cancel an async function is to stop it early. This is usually done via cancellation tokens

[pastel patio]

Uh... Thanks, but I mean what makes sense for its cancellation behavior

You can't just cancel a transition in Unity... I think, even if it does, would that mean that it falls back to the state before transition?

[steady bobcat]

Well its up to you but it can either revert back or jump to the end?

Its your transition logic after all

[cosmic rain]

Might want to explain what you mean by a "transition"

[pastel patio]

Well... The function I made does "Play till finish"

[cosmic rain]

Is it an animator state transition? A scene transition? Something else?

[pastel patio]

That's an overloaded function that allows you to crossfade and then play till finish

[cosmic rain]

Are you referring to a specific unity API?

Crossfade what? Are we talking about animations?

[pastel patio]

I'm making an abstraction over Animator

[cosmic rain]

Okay. Then it's up to you to decide what your methods do on cancelation.

[steady bobcat]

For animators a transition can be cancelled only by another wanting to begin so it will be in a valid state still

If it was able to be cancelled and stay mid transition that feels un desirable

So if you always intend to perform a new transition then the old cancelled one just stopping without any more changes may be the way to go

[cosmic rain]

An animator transition actually means that the next state is already playing.

The previous state weight fades out during the transition

[pastel patio]

I think that I'll add two parts to it...

1. The abstracted animator will cancel by itself whenever another Play function has been called, this is not externally accessible.

• This is to address the fact that Play() does, in fact, affect certain fields after the first await.

2. Externally, if you want to skip waiting for the animation to finish playing, simply use AttachExternalCancellationToken, the current state being played simply cannot be cancelled from the outside without playing another state.

• AttachExternalCancellationToken is a feature from UniTask, and simply neglects the outcome and moves on

Does this seem sane? xD

[steady bobcat]

Usually you provide a cancellation token argument to use in the function which is checked and used to "cancel" the operation

I think this unitask extension makes a new task that will compleate early if the token is cancelled BUT the other task ofc is un affected as its not magic

@pastel patio I recommend you add a CancellationToken token arg and use this to correctly cancel things

[pastel patio]

Externally providing a CancellationToken doesn't seem to make much sense here since in general the only sensical use case I can think of using CancellationTokens for externally is to skip waiting for the animation to end (For example when the player got staggered) without intercepting the animation itself

Which means that the abstracted Animator might better run separately from other code, rather than reset/skip till end when the current state is cancelled, while the Play function is merely a mean to wait till the AnimatorState finished playing

[stable owl]

Hello, I am currently using the Unity-chan Toon Shader 2.9 and am trying to add displacement/height map function to the shader. It already utilizes the DX11 Tessellation features, but for some reason the height map function wasn't included and I want to add it, but I am having trouble navigating the cginc files to add it.

[steady bobcat]

Try to migrate to the newer toon shading package: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.toonshader@0.11/manual/index.html

[stable owl]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.toonshader@0.11/manual/TessellationLegacy.html
for compatibility reasons I am sticking to UCTS 2.9 for now, but even UTS 3/0 doesnt seem to have height built in.

[steady bobcat]

hdpr seems to have more settings 🤔
I wonder if this new package has any shader graph support (which would make what you want easy to add)

dont expect great things for built in rendering anymore btw

[stable owl]

Height map support is a pretty basic thing, and the dx11 shader already has it, I'm just confused on how to add it to UTS. I've seen someone add it to UTS 2.7 and tried decompiling it (and contacting them) but I can make no sense of the code and how they did it.

[distant oak]

Is there anyone who can help me in unity's playerinput actually I don't understand what the problem is so if you are an experienced person can you help me?

[vestal arch]

input system questions go in #🖱️┃input-system
and don't ask to ask, explain what your question/issue is there, along with any errors or warnings or logs you have

[halcyon steppe]

At what interval does while get executed? Same as update?

[somber nacelle]

while loops are not special in any way, they run until completion just like any other loop. they do not get executed at intervals

[halcyon steppe]

would this even work then?

[somber nacelle]

that entire loop executes within a single frame

[halcyon steppe]

ahhhh well thats my problem then

[somber nacelle]

if that is in Update are you sure you don't want it to just be an if statement?

[halcyon steppe]

this is an individual class i created for a list, it doesn't inherit from monoBehaviour, else i would just use update

How do I realize a timer then without an update function? is this even possible?

[somber nacelle]

your options are to use Update, a coroutine, or async method. and unless your async method returns Awaitable it won't be part of the typical Update loop so it won't necessarily have the timing you want

[halcyon steppe]

Ohhh i forgot about coroutines, thank you very much!

[last quarry]

There's also C#'s timer class

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timers.timer?view=net-9.0

[halcyon steppe]

Oh interesting, i will have a look

thank you too!

[somber nacelle]

do note that the Elapsed event is typically not invoked on the Main thread so if you do stuff that touches unity objects then you're going to have behavior issues when the exceptions for touching unity stuff off the main thread is completely suppressed by the event

[halcyon steppe]

Mate, some day I wanna know as much as you do about unity code.... thanks again!

[naive swallow]

You could just make an update method, and have your MonoBehaviour call these objects update methods within its own to basically "pass through" the update timer to them

[halcyon steppe]

I am not quite sure what you mean, in what class do you suggest I create this update method? The class I want to create the timer in cannot inherit from MonoBehaviour and the class creating a list out of cant update multiple timers at once.

[somber nacelle]

and the class creating a list out of cant update multiple timers at once
why not?

couldn't whatever monobehaviour you have simply loop through the list and call Update on each one?

[halcyon steppe]

I got a warning, Give me a sec, I need to reproduce it

[halcyon steppe]

I want to only have a select few the timers run at any given moment

[somber nacelle]

so whatever is being newed on line 189 inherits from MonoBehaviour so you cannot new it

[halcyon steppe]

how else would i do this then?

[somber nacelle]

also is this not what the startTimer bool is for? your while loop gets turned into an if statement and that method is invoked from a MonoBehaviour's Update method and bam it's working as expected

[last quarry]

Why does Note inherit MonoBehaviour?

[halcyon steppe]

If I don't inherit MB I can not get the Update function in the Note class, but I am struggling to create a timer inside the Note class without it.

[halcyon steppe]

ohhh that might be a way, I will try this

[somber nacelle]

that's what digi was suggesting

[halcyon steppe]

Okay I am just stupid then, i'm sorry

[somber nacelle]

you cannot new a MonoBehaviour, best you could do is either create an instance of a GameObject with new then AddComponent<Note> or just use Object.Instantiate to instantiate a prefab that contains that Note component

[last quarry]

You can just not inherit MonoBehaviour, and have the parent class call the Update method on each

Or turn them into structs and have the parent class execute the logic directly

[halcyon steppe]

this is what I will try

With my limited knowledge I can at least write this one lol

Thank both of you so much, if you weren't strangers on the internet I would buy both of you a beer

[last island]

For some reason this line stationTrackerRenderers[i].materials[0] = trackerMaterials[i]; doesn't actually change the material I have on my MeshRenderer. The renderer's material stays unchanged. And yes, I have checked that the material in the trackerMaterial array is correct.

[somber nacelle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Renderer-materials.html

[dusk apex]

The usual pattern would be: cs var materials = stationTrackerRenderers[i].materials; materials[0] = trackerMaterials[i]; stationTrackerRenderers[i].materials = materials;where you'd only get a copy of the materials collection

[last island]

Ah so you have to change the whole array

Gotcha

[somber nacelle]

this is why it helps to read documentation.

Note that like all arrays returned by Unity, this returns a copy of materials array. If you want to change some materials in it, get the value, change an entry and set materials back.

[last island]

I missed that part about replacing the whole array really.

That's fine. Thanks for the help.

[steady bobcat]

I think its because the property goes to native code for get and set (so requires a write back to do anything)

[last island]

Yeah that's fair.

private void UpdateMaterial(int materialIndex, MeshRenderer renderer, Material newMaterial)
{
    Material[] materialsCopy = renderer.materials;
    materialsCopy[materialIndex] = newMaterial;
    renderer.materials = materialsCopy;
}

Should do the trick

[dusk apex]

There is a cost so consider batching as much assignments as possible before reassigning back to the renderer materials collection

[last island]

I only have to change 1 material on the renderer but I have 7 renderers to change in my for loop

So not sure if I can optimize that somehow

[steady bobcat]

You can use this variant that lets you re use 1 list for many: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer.GetMaterials.html

So if given a smart size to begin it should be better alloc wise

[last island]

So if I did this perhaps, and then passed the list to the method to call GetMaterials on?

List<Material> materials = new List<Material>(2);
for (int i = 0; i < stationTrackerRenderers.Length; i++)
{
    UpdateMaterial(0, stationTrackerRenderers[i], trackerMaterials[i]);
}

[vital granite]

Need help understanding the best way to implement a thing
Currently for a script I have it reads info from a text file from the resources folder and stores the information in a class
What I want to try and do is add the ability to write back any updated information from the class back into the text file
I understand that text files stored in the resources folder are only read only and you can't write info to them, though abit confuse on which thing to use that would write back that information into the text file and keep that info between runs of the game

[last island]

So it would then be

private void UpdateMaterial(int materialIndex, List<Material> allocList, MeshRenderer renderer, Material newMaterial)
{
    renderer.GetMaterials(allocList);
    allocList[materialIndex] = newMaterial;
    renderer.materials = allocList.ToArray();
}

[steady bobcat]

Remember to clear it before each new use and use SetMaterials to avoid wasting the whole point of this 😆

[last island]

Oh right I can use SetMaterials

brainfart

[somber nacelle]

there's StreamingAssets which I believe can be written to on most platforms, otherwise I would recommend writing the data to persistentDataPath and just load the data from resources if it doesn't already exist at persistentDataPath

[last island]

for (int i = 0; i < stationTrackerRenderers.Length; i++)
{
    UpdateMaterial(0, materials, stationTrackerRenderers[i], trackerMaterials[i]);
    materials.Clear();
}

That should do it then, I think

[naive swallow]

Also don't crosspost

[silk horizon]

In Unity Localization, how do you add a

[silent bolt]

is this normal to take this long just for a cube that rotates and changes his scale & position?

[somber nacelle]

not a code question. but building can take time, especially for things like webgl, and depending on your build settings

hardware speeds also play a role, especially cpu and disk read/write speed

[silent bolt]

oops sry.. okay 😅 took me 14 minutes for that build.. won't imagine how much time it takes for a bigger project

[random oak]

So I have an event coming in another thread from Invoke in a library I'm using, I need to use the main thread in Unity for UI.
How can I bring it back to main thread ?

[steady bobcat]

You can use Awaitable or UniTask to do this quite easily

[somber nacelle]

using Awaitable won't require another package so would be the easiest (assuming you are on unity 6 or higher)

[random oak]

I See. So I make the receiving method Awaitable then switch the thread there ?

[steady bobcat]

Yes. Check the example here on how to use an async method correctly with this: https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Awaitable.MainThreadAsync.html

UniTask has a similar function to await and go to the main thread if you prefer it or are on 2022 and earlier.

[random oak]

yeah this looks promising, thanks!

[steady bobcat]

Np. I use the UniTask variant with ad watch callbacks as they are often all over the place thread wise

[random oak]

quick question about Awaitable. How do you handle the fact that my function wants an Action delegate ?

[somber nacelle]

invoke the Awaitable method from the method that the event invokes

[random oak]

Ohh that makes sense , thanks!

[wide totem]

Generally, for powder/sand games, would each pixel be a (static) game object in unity, or would you write them manually?

When i say game object, i just mean for sprite purposes, not a rigid body with unity physics. Would be simulating sand physics and updating their position ‘manually’. Just wondering if game objects would take up a considerable amount of memory inherently, and if it would be better to just write the pixels to the screen

[random oak]

@somber nacelle & @steady bobcat worked great! thanks again

[wheat shoal]

Hey for some reason the trigger boxes are not working.

 {
     inFront = true;
 }

 void OnTriggerExit2D(Collider2D collision)
 {
     inFront = false;
 }```
Its just giving me false even when the player is in the collider boxes.

[somber nacelle]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[wide totem]

You may need a rigid body

[wheat shoal]

they both have a rigid body

[somber nacelle]

have you gone through the steps in the link i sent yet?

[wheat shoal]

yes and all it leads to is the unity docs page of OnTriggerEnter2D

oh wait i see more

[somber nacelle]

i mean sure, that's where it leads if you intentionally click the link to the docs, there's more troubleshooting steps after the very first step though

[lucid brook]

Hey, so I got a wall running thing going, but I have no clue how to get my movement directions to align with the wall you are running on.
When I am on the ground, I just take the Y rotation of the head and apply that to an empty gameObject to use as a movement direction index. But I have not been able to do a similar thing for the wall run.
https://gyazo.com/b98027c03bc0053e6c0847e9597d278a

[wheat shoal]

Huh just discovered that Rigid bodies have diffrent body types

well at least my player dosent slide no more

Fixed my issue btw it was these things set to everything and not nothing

[steady bobcat]

If its just to do the head bob properly you can rotate the rotation by the wall normal "look rotation"
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html
Im not 100% but I think you can use this and give the wall normal as up and then rotate your bob by this:
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 15f, 0f) * Quaternion.LookRotation(transform.forward, surfaceNormal);

The point I hope to convey is rotating the bob using the wall normal so its relative to that

[lucid brook]

what head bob??

[steady bobcat]

Hmm i miss understood, you mentioned head rotation

Then try making Plane with the surface normal to restrict your movement to be on that plane: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.ClosestPointOnPlane.html @lucid brook

there is also a function to raycast and get the hit dist which can be used to get the hit point on the plane.

[lucid brook]

I, don't think I understand what that means....

[steady bobcat]

Do you know what a surface normal is?

[lucid brook]

yes, I already use the normal of the wall for some other stuff

[steady bobcat]

Cool. We can use the Plane object to produce an imaginary flat surface with the same normal and we can then raycast or get the closest point on this plane.
E.g. you do Vector3 newPos = transform.position + (transform.forward * 2f); then ClosestPointOnPlane() to get the move pos but on the plane instead (so its then on the wall instead of in the air)
When constructing Plane you need to give the normal and the dist from world origin which would be the face center pos magnitude.

I use Plane myself to let an object be draggable by the mouse/touch but i use Raycast() to keep the movement on a 2d plane I desire.

Plane dragPlane = new(transform.up, 0f);

//In OnDrag...
var dragPosRay = eventData.pressEventCamera.ScreenPointToRay(eventData.position);
if (dragPlane.Raycast(dragPosRay, out float hitDistance))
{
    dragPos = dragPosRay.origin + (dragPosRay.direction * hitDistance);
}

[brave geyser]

I don't have a solid direction to send you in without knowing what exactly your design is, but I can confidently tell you that using a GameObject for each pixel of sand is going to kill you on a ton of different metrics.

If you mean a game like Noita, you could do some digging and see how those games implemented those sorts of systems. They aren't going to be Unity games necessarily, but will give you some concepts and approaches to look into with Unity.

[lucid brook]

I still don't think I fully understand it but from what I do understand I don't think it is what I need. I could have probably done a better job explaining my problem.

[steady bobcat]

If you had a gameobject per sand piece your performace would be UTTER SHIT.

[steady bobcat]

How you describe your movement already sounds strange tbh. Can you share some code? Using y euler rot sounds bizzare

[lucid brook]

my code might be very bizarre, lol. but yeah let me spend a bit of time typing up a better message

[wide totem]

Thats what id imagine for the gameobjects (to what both of you said), im thinking that unity just might not be the right type of engine for this project? I’ve heard it has problems with dealing with writing individual pixels on a screen becayse it is a 3d engine

[steady bobcat]

You can easily use a compute shader to update some texture you show on the whole screen.

And for other situations where you may have many thousands of objects to simulate you can use Entities https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.entities@1.4/manual/index.html

[wide totem]

Thank you, will look into this

[steady bobcat]

Though i see no good reason to have an entity per sand particle as that seems needless

[wide totem]

Im not sure how else you would simulate specific motions for each particle without them being entities of some kind.

The way i imagine it is a 2d array (screen size) of structs for each pixel position, with the struct representing the information stored, such as density, liquidity, movement direction, etc. looping through the array bottom right to top left each frame, mapping the array as pixels to the screen. I could definitely be wrong about that though

[steady bobcat]

yea i would probably go this route too. Entities and ECS could potentially be a good fit still as its optimised for such workflows

[lucid brook]

Alright lets try to explain my weird code, my game is a VR one so I can't rotate the player object around when you look left or right (at least not without unparenting the controllers). So instead of doing that I have an empty gameObject that I rotate only on the heads Y axis to use as the movement direction.

directionIndex.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, head.eulerAngles.y, 0f);

Vector3 targetVelocity = new Vector3(moveInputValue.x, 0, moveInputValue.y) * (moveSpeed * moveSpeedMultiplier);
targetVelocity = directionIndex.TransformDirection(targetVelocity);

So whenever I start a wallrun I would ideally need to rotate the directionIndex object along the wall's normal relative to the heads rotation. If that makes sense... and I hope it's not too weird...

[steady bobcat]

So you use another Transform that is rotated to match the camera world Y rot to then get a "forward" direction?

[lucid brook]

yes

[steady bobcat]

you can still use this "forward" but project on a plane for the wall to keep the movement affixed on the wall

[lucid brook]

yes, but then looking to the left would make the player go down the wall and looking right would make them go up it. instead of that being done with looking up and down.

[steady bobcat]

why would that be? have you tried it?

the point is to move them on the wall plane instead of world XZ

[lucid brook]

I've tried something similar I think. But the only rotation I am giving the directionIndex object is the heads Y rotation. So the only 'input' I give it is looking left and right, up and down isn't even accounted for.

[steady bobcat]

if its world y rot cant they still walk off the wall?

[lucid brook]

How do you mean? Like the wall being to your left and you walk to the right?

[tough carbon]

I would like to make floating text above the character (2D). But it rotates with character, so I were told to make independent object with text and make it follow character. How could I create prefab with it? I don't want bind text any time I create object

[vestal arch]

you could have it be a child but counterrotate to stay in the same orientation

[tough carbon]

Isn't it workaround? Editor rotates, then I rotate e.t.c. Why isn't there way to make rotation independent...

[vestal arch]

because that's what parenting an object does, it inherits the parent's transform

you could have the script unparent the canvas and then copy the player's movement, i guess?

that'd be the other option

[tough carbon]

I see, thank you

[steady bobcat]

There are components provided by unity to do stuff like this: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-ParentConstraint.html

[dawn nebula]

I have a class here whose properties are meant to be set in the inspector, and I don't want them to ever be changed.

[System.Serializable]
public class CardTypeData
{
    [field: SerializeField] public Sprite TypeIcon { get; private set; }
    [field: SerializeField] public PlateData PlateData { get; private set; }
}

The issue is that if I ever wanted to make an instance of this class in code, I would never be able to set these values. I know Unity does not play well with constructors and serialization. Any tips?

[rigid island]

why not the class is a POCO you're fine with a constructor

[dawn nebula]

It's fine to have a constructor, even if it'll be serialized by Unity and usually populated in the inspector?

[rigid island]

isn't constructor what unity runs anyway when poco instance is created in the inspector ?

you can probably have another constructor with params if you want to create it with specific values? or make an Init method?

[torpid osprey]

Is there a difference when calling isGrounded after or before moving the character controller in the update method?

[tough carbon]

Thank you for it. But I don't get what is wrong with me. I have tried enable and disable "freeze rotation axes", but it has no effect. Text follows and rotates with entity

[steady bobcat]

there are position only and rotation only components too, the doc page shows the others on the left side

I would have expected locking rotation to stop that rotating though 🤔

[steady bobcat]

its still a child of the object 😐

You need a script to keep setting its world rotation to Quaternion.Identity each frame

[tough carbon]

I am sorry, I am being stupid

[steady bobcat]

Yea those constraint components can be used when its NOT a child so it can copy position and/or rotation

otherwise transform children will work as normal

[tough carbon]

Okey, I made it just with script. Thanks anyway

[shell scarab]

why does this if statement not fail?

private void EditorSceneManagerOnSceneClosing(Scene scene, bool removingScene)
{
  Debug.LogError("1");

  if (GameObject.GetScene(GetInstanceID()) != scene) return;

  Debug.LogError("2");
}

I only have a single scene open, and this script is on a game object in that scene. So shouldn't this reach the Debug.LogError("2") line?

relevant documentation:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.GetScene.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/Object.GetInstanceID.html

[somber tapir]

use Debug.Log() to log both values

[shell scarab]

oh, GameObject.GetScene is returning null an invalid scene :( Why?

OnSceneClosing is called before the scene closes:
https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.0/Documentation/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.EditorSceneManager-sceneClosing.html

[somber tapir]

probably GetInstanceID isn't the value you expect it to be

[shell scarab]

you think that Object.GetInstanceId doesn't return the instance ID that GameObject.GetScene needs?

Debug.Log(EditorUtility.InstanceIDToObject(gameObject.GetInstanceID()));/Debug.Log(EditorUtility.InstanceIDToObject(GetInstanceID())); works fine.

[brave geyser]

I've never used that event before. I'm not sure when GameObjects start getting destroyed in that process, but that could be in work before this event fires and is caught. Can you get the instance ID before this line, like in a separate Debug.Log call?

[leaden ice]

Aren't you getting the instance ID of the component here instead of the GameObject?

Also couldn't you just do gameObject.scene?

[shell scarab]

Yes, the problem was I was getting it of the component. I feel like it’s a bit misleading to say the component doesn’t belong to the scene.

I didn’t use that because I was trying to get the scene of the component.

[leaden ice]

The API you were using specifically checks for the scene of a GameObject.

Getting the scene of the component, how would that be different from the GameObject it's attached to?

[shell scarab]

Oops.

Also im not sure, could it be different?? If not whats the get instance id for?

[weak thicket]

im attempting to sample an audio source with a small script, but it isnt.. working.. I think I messed up significantly in the script somewhere.
But, it is attatched to the audiosource gameobject, and the audiosource is audible.

public class OVC_AudioSampler : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float currentAmplitude = 0f;
    public float updateRate = 0.5f;
    private float currentTime = 0.0f;
    public int channels = 1;

    void Start()
    {

    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (currentTime >= updateRate)
        {
            GetAmplitude();
            Debug.Log("ASUpdated!");
            currentTime = 0.0f;
        }
        else
        {
            currentTime += Time.deltaTime;
        }
    }

    void OnAudioFilterRead(float[] data,int channels)
    {

        for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i += channels)
        {
            float sample = data[i];
        }

        Debug.Log("Datapoint 0 " + data[0].ToString("F10") + " Sampled");
    }
    public float GetAmplitude()
    {
        return currentAmplitude;

    }
}

The second debug log that outputs the data[0] goes off, but that data stays at 0 even when audiosource is playing

its meant to analyze live audio

[leaden ice]

Components are attached to GameObjects. They cannot magically live in a different scene than the GameObject they are attached to.

As for instance IDs every UnityEngine.Object has an instance id.

That's what links it to the native instance
@shell scarab

[weak thicket]

the script is attatched to the gameobject as a component

[leaden ice]

Make sure you don't ignore the channels parameter. Have you read this? https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnAudioFilterRead.html

[leaden ice]

Sorry that message was replied to the wrong person

[hybrid thistle]

Hi. I've been debugging and researching for a few days now and I can't figure out why one of my GameObject's transform is showing a child count of 0 when I debug (Rider), but simultaneously shows having a child object in the scene and hierarchy.

Any help would be appreciated. I will try and provide as much context as possible:

-The parent object ("contentsContainer") is a part of the scene, but not a prefab
-The child object becomes a child via "transform.SetParent(parentObject.transform)" during runtime.
-> At any given time after this, the user may click on an object (called "Inspectable") with a script containing "IPointerClickHandler"
this object has a reference to the parent object (assigned via the Inspector before running)

I have debugged and confirmed the following:
-The Instance ID of the parent object referenced is the same as the object I am viewing the in hierarchy
-The parent object has a test script attached to it that debugs using the update function confirming it has the child object and a child count of 1
-The function that is called within OnPointerClick() shows the refrenced parent object having a child count of 0 while the scene shows otherwise.
-The inspector confirms the correct object is referenced from the "Inspectable" script.

[wicked scroll]

Does GameObject have children? I bet what you want is on the Transform

[hybrid thistle]

The transform also shows a child count of 0:

[wicked scroll]

you have the wrong one

[hybrid thistle]

this one?

[wicked scroll]

the inspector is for the one in Player, the debugger is the one in Opponent

#archived-shaders

[hybrid thistle]

thanks a ton. I'll double check

[hybrid thistle]

Thank you so much for pointing that out!! The feeling of being able to move forward again is very liberating.

[weak thicket]

I have read it, but im still not fully certain on how to setup for my purposes, i will try again tomorrow

[vivid heart]

Find in start 😅, add null check

[novel bough]

I can not change name "con" evenif there are no same name in folder

[steady bobcat]

CON is not a valid file name in windows (there are some reserved names that cannot be used)

CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, COM¹, COM², COM³, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, LPT¹, LPT², and LPT³
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file

[novel bough]

I use mac

[steady bobcat]

then may be unity enforcing this for compatibility on win too

just do _con or something similar

[wintry crescent]

on an interface, I have
public string ID {get;}
and
public virtual string OrderKey => ID;
Then in a class implementing this interface, I cannot override the OrderKey, why is that?

[unkempt meadow]

Why is this happening to the hand if the IK target (left hand) is parented to the flashlight? Shouldn't it never move its position relative to the flashlight?

I can only see the instance where it goes out of the reach of the IK chain but I don't think that's happening here

[steady bobcat]

did you write it incorrectly? public override string OrderKey => "foobar";

is OrderKey in the interface? me confuse

[night harness]

i believe so ye

[steady bobcat]

then doesnt need to override to implement the interface

[wintry crescent]

yes, it's in the interface. Turns out that since it's virtual I had to provide the implementation both in the interface, AND in the deriving class for it to work, so that then I can override it in the class that is further down the chain

[steady bobcat]

interfaces technically cannot do this, what you did was give a "default implementation": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-8.0/default-interface-methods

use an abstract class instead

[wintry crescent]

I already use an abstract class down the line, but I needed it to be in the interface. It works now so it's fine

[steady bobcat]

should be a combination of both then

[dark salmon]

Is there anything wrong with shoving your entire save data into one single json instead of breaking down per category?
Like, let's say you are running a simulation that can have upwards of hundreds of characters. Instead of having individual jsons for each character in your persistent data path can you just have 1 savedata json with a List<Character>?

[chilly surge]

The two approaches have some tradeoffs:

• Reading/writing one big file is generally faster than the equivalent of many small files.
• If you only need to read/write one small portion of the data (eg only one character in your case) and it's isolated to one file, then you wouldn't need to pay the price of the other data.

It will probably come down to how often you update all characters vs how often you update just some characters.

[steady bobcat]

JSON isn't fast at a large scale so many files may be better when things are large

[cold parrot]

at the point where you need multiple files, you will likely be at a point where using a proper database makes sense (differential updates, read/write performance, integrity)

[steady bobcat]

Sqlite is a good choice but I don't know if there are wrappers in c# and ofc you will need binaries for other platforms

[cold parrot]

there is a general problem that embedded databases are not something thats needed much outside gamedev (most would at that point want to use remote or separate-process DB), so beyond sqlLite there hasn't been much development

also SQLite is pretty good. But its still a RDBMS so you will need to do some ORM, which is annoying

there is stuff like Realm, which inherently avoids that step https://www.mongodb.com/docs/realm-sdks/dotnet/latest/ (unfortunately it was bought my Mongo and later abandoned)

[primal wind]

There are so many it's not even funny

EFCore's SQLite adapter works fine but i never checked if it support netstandard and anything other than desktop platforms

Uh. Someone made a package https://github.com/IvanMurzak/Unity-EFCore-SQLite

Tho it seems to be limited

[cold parrot]

EFCore removes the ‘light’ from SQLite 🥸

[naive swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6tngl0PTI

(Unity probably enforces this even on other platforms for compatibility)

[karmic stone]

Quick question about copying collider components at runtime. Is using reflection the best possible way to do this, or is there a better way for specifically collider objects? Im making a system that involves using different type of colliders based on the object thats attached, and i need to make a copy of the obj colliders when the object is placed.

[vestal arch]

sounds like prefabs could simplify that workflow

[karmic stone]

its a system of growing crops, and i use the collider of the grown crop for its ability to be placed. once its placed, it turns into a seedling version, but i still need the collider from the last grown crop to prevent other crops being placed on it

[iron phoenix]

Previously I could use this code in a project to show only sprites in a specific folder, but I just can't make dir work whatsoever in this project.
Any ideas? Unity 6000.0.45f1

 
int controlID = EditorGUIUtility.GetControlID(FocusType.Passive);
EditorGUIUtility.ShowObjectPicker<Sprite>(ItemIcon, false, "t:sprite dir=\"Items\"", controlID);

[karmic stone]

do you have a dir titled "Items" in the root directory and not the asset folder that you place sprites in

[iron phoenix]

I tried full path with both \ and /, didn't work sadly (Assets\Art\UI\Icons\Items)
I also tried with : instead of = t:sprite dir:"Assets\Art\UI\Icons\Items"
Also with/without " "

[brave geyser]

You should output the directory name to see what the compiler thinks you're telling it when you're in this situation.

Looks like you need to use \ for each , though. First slash tells compiler the next character is a special character and not text. So right now it's trying to interpret A, U, I, and I as something special.

[iron phoenix]

but I test it in the selector manually as well, and it doesn't work there?

[brave geyser]

Your original code was reading "Items" as the search term, I see now. I guess I'm not certain how that interface would work, but I assume in code .ShowObjectPicker is wanting a string, and so the string escape characters are expected.

"t:sprite dir=\"Assets\\Art\\UI\\Icons\\Items\""

Edited above to add quotes around whole search term.

[iron phoenix]

didn't work sadly, thanks tho 🙂 I get your point and I have tested it earlier :\

[vestal arch]

do you perhaps also need to escape the path separators?

if so that'd be 4 \ per path separator

[iron phoenix]

I tried to put a sprite directly in the Assets folder as well, and I can't even make that one show up with dir: / dir=
4x \ didn't seem to do it sadly

auuuu, I just remembered there was a "advanced" option for the search engine.. now it works 🥲
EditorGUIUtility.ShowObjectPicker<Sprite>(ItemIcon, false, "t:sprite dir:Items", controlID);
Thanks btw 🙂

[leaden ice]

Instantiate copies the whole object

[karmic stone]

I dont really need to Instantiate a full obj, just a single collider component. i want to connect it to an already existing gameobj, as both the gameobj i want it on, and the one im copying from are already instantiated

[leaden ice]

an easy way would be to put the collider on a child of the object and instantiate it as a child of the second object

there's no easy way to instantiate a single component

[karmic stone]

i was asking if reflection was the best way to instantiate a single component, copying fields /properties. but otherwise, i could just switch the transform.parent of the collider obj, if that would be better then a full instantiation copy.

[leaden ice]

Reflection is not a good way, no.

[karmic stone]

is there a better way to do the instantiating single components, or is it not worth it in any way.

[leaden ice]

there is not a better way

Unity could provide one by giving us more granular access to their serializer, but they haven't.

[steady bobcat]

There are many things unity could give us like some kind of runtime scene saving but they never have

Logic is there to parse this stuff after all 🤔

[karmic stone]

if i could extend colliders, then i could also do it that way.

[weak thicket]

Hm... I cant seem to figure it out even after reading it. The channel parameter is given when the OnAudioFilterRead triggers?
Then I need to scan the 2048 long array of data of each channel to get an outputs?

[leaden ice]

the array has all the data in it for all channels

it's interleaved like it says

if there are 2 channels, then it just alternates between them

element 0 of the array is the first element for channel 0.
element 1 is the first element for channel 1
element 2 is the second element for channel 0
element 3 is the second element for channel 1
and so on

[weak thicket]

i see... and since there are 1024 elements, and 2 channels in my case, there are 2048 elements in the array...
therefore, if I try to sample position 500, I would get the 250th element of channel 2?

[leaden ice]

i think position 500 would be the 251st element for channel 0

there would be no channel 2

just 0 and 1

[weak thicket]

ah,
the channels variable is how many channels there are? Since mine outputs 2 for this variable, there are 2 channels; 0 and 1?

I do have it running on the audiosource, but its not getting anything, all of the data elements I checked are at 0, even with audible audio playing

[leaden ice]

you checked all the samples?

[weak thicket]

I did check a few, not all of them though...

[leaden ice]

just check them all in a loop

bool allZero = true;
foreach (var sample in data) {
  if (sample != 0.0f) {
    allZero = false;
    break;
  }
}

Debug.Log($"All samples are zero? {allZero}");```

[weak thicket]

ok used that, and yea its all zero

[leaden ice]

THat's odd...

[weak thicket]

huh...

[weak thicket]

I am coding this to function with Udon, which did allow "OnAudioFilterRead(float[] data,int channels)" to run...
Though I just learned that this functionality was disabled at some point, so I need to use a different method

[steep herald]

sanity check please,

someMeshRenderer.bounds.size returns (2.83, 2.83, irrelevant)

local bounds however are (2, 2, irrelevant)

• actual mesh size is 2 units wide/tall.
• Every single transform in the hierarchy has a scale of 1.
• iterating through verts of the shared mesh confirms 1 being the extents, so 2 being the size.

Why the hell does the world bounds of the meshrenderer even suggest 2.83?

[cosmic rain]

Hard to say without more context. Is it a skinned mesh renderer perhaps?

[steep herald]

@cosmic rain no, simple mesh renderer. Just now noticed that setting rotation to identity seems to return proper world bounds, but I am confused. The mesh is basically a ring, even if rotated how could it make the AABB larger?

[cosmic rain]

Aabb are world aligned, so if your mesh is rotated, they might need to grow for it to fit.

[steep herald]

Yeah but I can't figure out how a ring/sphere could stretch the bounds

[cosmic rain]

It's a box. Not a ring or a sphere

[steep herald]

Yeah, but the box is made to contain a sphere, so it should always be the same size

[cosmic rain]

Perhaps it's not just a sphere then. Maybe there's a rogue vertex somewhere making it not symmetrical

[steep herald]

I assumed that as well, but I iterated through verts and really seems like 1 is the max value

[cosmic rain]

Then I'm not sure.

[steep herald]

Thanks anyway

[cosmic rain]

Btw, a ring shape is not symmetrical on all axis, so it's bounding box might be changing while it's rotating. But regarding a sphere I'm not sure. Could be a bug.

[steep herald]

You're absolutely right for the ring. Maybe the bug is there and I'm just having issues visualizing it. Just iterated through all the verts checking their magnitude and the biggest value is 1. I think that means that it couldn't possibly stretch an AABB to 2.83 no matter the rotation

value coincides with sqrt(2^2 + 2^2), doubt that's an accident

ok so I think it computes the local AABB/OBB and then transforms that

[cosmic rain]

What value are we talking about?

[steep herald]

so thats why its projected like a cube

[cosmic rain]

Is it the magnitude of the box size?

[steep herald]

Yeah, 2.83 would be the size of the AABB of a cube* of an actual size of 2 if it had been rotated by 45 degrees

so likely tied to what's happening. My guess is it computes the bounds in local space and then applies a transformation to that, so it ends up applying a transformation to a cube

instead of my ring/sphere, and the bounds end up being larger than what is immediately needed to contain the sphere

[cosmic rain]

Perhaps. Maybe look at the meshrenderer.bounds docs page. It has an example of how to visualize them.

[steep herald]

Aye. I'm going to go with the theory that this is what's happening. It'd make sense, it'd allow them to precompute the bounds during the mesh import process and then just apply transformations instead of recomputing entirely

thanks for the interest/help!

[quartz sun]

Hi I'm working on a 2D platformer project for my portfolio. I started learning about the Spline Component from some tutorials and the basics online. But I'm a little stumped at a problem with my new mechanic. Whenever I make contact with the rail I can only start at the beginning or the end of the rail?

[leaden ice]

Share the full script

!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.

[quartz sun]

public class PlayerRailGrind : MonoBehaviour
{
    private PlayerMovement playerMovement;
    public SplineContainer RailPath;
    public float speed;

    public float RaildistancePercent = 0;
    private float railLength;
    private bool IsOnRail;
    private bool IsRailGrinding;

    public float linedistance;
    public LayerMask RailLayer;
    public Transform FeetToRail;
    public float Offset;
    void Start()
    {
        playerMovement = this.gameObject.GetComponent<PlayerMovement>();
        railLength = RailPath.CalculateLength();
    }

    public bool OnRail()
    {
        IsOnRail = Physics2D.Raycast(new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, transform.position.z), Vector2.down, linedistance, RailLayer);

        if (IsOnRail)
        {
            RaycastHit hit;

        
        }

        return IsOnRail;
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        OnRail();
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && OnRail())
        {
            playerMovement.physics.AddForce(Vector2.up * playerMovement.JumpSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        }
        if ((playerMovement.Direction().x > 0 && OnRail()) || (playerMovement.Direction().x < 0 && OnRail()))
        {
            speed = 5.75f;
        }
        if ((playerMovement.Direction().x == 0 && OnRail()))
        {
            speed = 5;
        }
    }
    public Vector2 direction;
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {

        // Cast a ray in the direction specified in the inspector.
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, direction);

        // If something was hit, draw a line from the start position to the point we intersected.
        if (hit)
            Debug.DrawLine(transform.position, hit.point, Color.yellow);
        Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, Vector2.down * linedistance, Color.red);

        //If is falling and contacts rail
        if ( playerMovement.physics.linearVelocityY < 0.01f && IsOnRail)
        {

            Vector3 currentPosition = RailPath.EvaluatePosition(RaildistancePercent);
            FeetToRail.position = currentPosition;

            playerMovement.physics.gravityScale = 0;

            if(this.transform.localScale.x == 1)
            RaildistancePercent += speed * Time.deltaTime / railLength;

            if (this.transform.localScale.x == -1)
                RaildistancePercent -= speed * Time.deltaTime / railLength;

            Vector3 newPosition = new Vector3(FeetToRail.position.x, FeetToRail.position.y + Offset, FeetToRail.position.z);
            this.transform.position = newPosition;
           


            if (RaildistancePercent > 1f) { playerMovement.physics.AddForce((Vector2.right + Vector2.up) * playerMovement.JumpSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse); RaildistancePercent = 1f; }
            if (RaildistancePercent < 0f) { playerMovement.physics.AddForce((Vector2.left + Vector2.up) * playerMovement.JumpSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse); RaildistancePercent = 0f; }
        }
        else
        {
            playerMovement.physics.gravityScale = 1;
            FeetToRail.position = new Vector3(0f, -0.888999999f, 0f);
        }
    }
}

I'm currently trying to see how I can use Raycast hit to maybe help calculate the RaildistancePercent

[dawn nebula]

If I wanted my text to glow (like through Bloom) what do I need to do?

Text colors for TextMeshPro do not seem to be HDR

[leaden ice]

Bloom just operates on the relative brightness of your objects

[cosmic rain]

The issue is probably that the UI is rendered after post processing(bloom)

If you make it render before it, it might work.

[dawn nebula]

That's fair, though there are TextMeshPro 3D objects.

[cosmic rain]

Yeah,I'm not sure where in the frame these are rendered.

You can check with the frame debugger

[dawn nebula]

they seem to be rendered like any old transparent mesh

[cosmic rain]

Okay. And they are not affected by bloom in your case?

[dawn nebula]

they are, it's just there isn't an HDR color control availabe for TextMeshPro anymore.

so I can't control the amount other than with the global intensity value

[cosmic rain]

Ah, I see. I guess you'll need to modify the shader to be able to expose and HDR color.

[dawn nebula]

Sadge, but oh well.

[dawn nebula]

HDR was avialable until Unity 6 it seems. Likely because text was usually in the UI, and HDR color wouldn't match what was seen in it's typical case.

[cosmic rain]

Interesting. Are you sure it was unity version and not the active render pipeline or something?

[wicked scroll]

there's an attribute to tell it to use HDR color I think?

[dawn nebula]

Well I've got a version of Unity 2023.1 open, and a version of Unity 6 open, aaaaaand... ya.

Color in the material is no longer HDR.

[dawn nebula]

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/non-hdr-color-picker-opens-when-selecting-material-color-with-hdr-enabled

[vestal arch]

@steep herald i see you've already gotten a conclusion, but perhaps try Gizmo.DrawWireCube to visualize the bounds if you'd like to strengthen that conclusion?

[young yacht]

IEnumerator WaitForCardsShow()
    {
        // if (enemiesSpawnedList.Count != 0)
        // {
        //     foreach (var enemy in enemiesSpawnedList)
        //     {
        //         Destroy(enemy);
        //     }
        // }

        yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(0.5f);

        playerController.DisablePlayerMovement();
        playerController.playerInput.Player.EscMenu.Disable();
        playerController.playerInput.Player.Aiming.Disable();

        if (waveIndex % 5 != 0)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < itemCardsButton.Count; i++)
            {
                int index = i; // capture i in a local variable
                itemCardsButton[i].onClick.RemoveAllListeners();
                itemCardsButton[i].onClick.AddListener(() => ClickItemCard(index));
            }

            Time.timeScale = 0f;
            ShowCards();
        } else 
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < itemCardsButton.Count; i++)
            {
                int index = i;
                itemCardsButton[i].onClick.RemoveAllListeners();
                itemCardsButton[i].onClick.AddListener(() => ClickSpecialItemCard(index));
            }
            
            Time.timeScale = 0f;
            ShowSpecialCards();
        }
    }

does anyone know why Time.timeScale isnt working?

[night harness]

whats not working

[young yacht]

i want to stop the game when the cards show on the screen

this is my switch case where i start the coroutine:

void Update()
    {
        switch (waveState)
        {
            case waveStates.StartWave:
                SpawnEnemies();
                break;
            case waveStates.Cards:
                if (!isShowingItemCards)
                {
                    StopAllCoroutines();
                    StartCoroutine(WaitForCardsShow());
                    isShowingItemCards = true;
                }
                break;
            case waveStates.Countdown:
                Countdown();
                break;
            case waveStates.Break:
                Break();
                break;
            case waveStates.NextWave:
                NextWave();
                break;
            case waveStates.Miniboss:
                WarnMiniBossSpawn();
                break;
        }
    }

the game doesnt seem to be stopping

[night harness]

what is not stopping

[young yacht]

the game my dude

its working when i open my esc menu

but not with this different script

[night harness]

what is not stopping

[young yacht]

time

[night harness]

What do you consider to be time

[hexed pecan]

Yeah what exactly is happening in the game?

Because it might or might not be tied to time scale

[young yacht]

the process of change

[young yacht]

i want to stop animations, character movement and enemy movement

just how you see in vampire survivors when the level up UI shows up

[night harness]

animations is a correct response

what is character and enemy movement

[young yacht]

why are you all phylosophical

[night harness]

Because "stopping time" is a conceptual expectation of a logical piece of software

setting Time.timeScale specifically affects certain things

to figure out why its not working you need to figure out if it should be working

[young yacht]

my point is its doing exactly what i expect when i Time.timeScale = 0 with my menu, but not with my waveManager

which is "stopping" the game

[night harness]

Ok but I am not you and I need to be aware of those expectations, hence the questions

[hexed pecan]

Have you first checked that the timescale actually stays at 0 during the period

[young yacht]

oh havent tried

lemme check

[young yacht]

debugged timeScale and yea it does say 0

[hexed pecan]

Where did you debug it?

You can also open the Time settings in unity, altho it might not repaint the window unless you hover it

[night harness]

(and also still worth specifying what character and enemy movement mean)

[young yacht]

first inside the function but then decided in the Update() for more accurate info

its only going to 0 for a frame apparently

then goes back to 1

[night harness]

then its probably your switch statement

what is meant to set it to 1f

[young yacht]

yup

is it okay to time.Timescale = 0f in the update function?

going every frame

[night harness]

i mean its fine but it doesn't do anything

[young yacht]

the game resumes, enemies start shooting again and chasing you

[night harness]

you misread that

[hexed pecan]

Thats a bandaid, better to just not change it to 1 when you dont want to

[young yacht]

ill make a PauseManager for this

so i only change the timeScale in one place

[robust berry]

In the editor it says
"String based property lookup is inefficient"

animator.SetFloat("Speed", moveDir.x);

is there a better way?

[somber nacelle]

cache the result of Animator.StringToHash and use that in place of using the string

and note that you should only be calling StringToHash once per string, not every time you go to call that SetFloat method otherwise it's exactly as inefficient

[dense crow]

how can i make my enum expandable while keeping it optimized ? like loading the enum from a text file, my only idea is to use int as id instead but it is hard to debug

{
    Calm, Stubborn, Annoying, Diligent, 
}```

[night harness]

define optimized

I personally use ScriptableObjects in place of a lot of enums

[dense crow]

i use struct and job because i have a lot of Humans so ScriptableObject is expensive

[night harness]

I mean in that case the int could be an index pointing to various things

[vagrant blade]

What's wrong with adding more to your enum?

[dense crow]

my enums have effect value , like apply diligient on a man change his iq 2, etc.. so if i use enum, when i modify the enum script i also have to modify the dictionary effect script, i also have other properties like this. It is so easy to make mistake

[cosmic rain]

Well, how is making it expandable gonna help with that?

Wouldn't it be the same as adding new values manually?

[dense crow]

i am looking to make the property easier to work with, like using int as id from struct array instead of enum, or write a editor tool to make sure the enum and the dictionary match

[cosmic rain]

Well, then do that. An editor tools sounds like a good start.

[signal herald]

I think I would just write a for loop to iterate through the dictionary to check if all items match the length of the Enum. Then output an error if false.

[mint mural]

how do I accomplish something similar to the SpriteRenderer component which uses one material for multiple textures?

I want to do something similar for one material and multiple values for a single variable

I read about MaterialPropertyBlock but the doc states that it costs performance in URP

and creating multiple material instances doesn't seem much better

[cosmic rain]

SpriteRenderer is often used with sprite atlasses, textures that contain several sprites. If it uses a different texture, I'm pretty sure that would be 2 separate materials( or at least draw calls).

[mint mural]

I found an option called 'hybrid per instance' in the 'scope' property for the variable that I want to accomplish this for

but it doesn't seem to work

(this is in the shader graph)

oh wait a sec I think it works only for scripts I'll try that out first

[dense crow]

it work if u enable instancing for the shader and also get the 'material name(instance)' in the material component at runtime

the MaterialProperyBlock also work fine

[steady bobcat]

Sprite renderer produces a mesh with uvs to show only the sprite on the texture. Its easy to do the same on your own meshes by making the UVS with a shared texture.

It also uses vertex colours for the tint

[wraith spear]

Hi all, I'm having some problem with the Pixel Perfect Camera in my scene. As you can see in the video below, UI elements "jitter" during movement (overview of Scene hierarchy incoming)

[steady bobcat]

ui document or canvas (screen space overlay?)?

[wraith spear]

Nvm, while making an example I discovered the issue. Wow, I've struggled with this the whole day before deciding to ask around 😅

[vestal arch]

rubber duck moment

[wraith spear]

I have a bootstrap scene with the main camera and a standard canvas. That UI is Screen Space Camera with an assigned Camera. In each scene I use a separate canvas for scene-specific things, als Screen Space Camera. Here the Camera is never assigned, however, and those UI elements don't experience the jitter.
By setting the bootstrapper canvas to Screen Space Camera without a camera assigned, it fixed the issue. Going to look into why it fixed the issue & whether I have the correct set up now. If anyone has suggestions, they're more than welcome!

[steady bobcat]

not sure myself but any reason for it not to be screen space overlay?

[wraith spear]

Not sure, I set this up months ago and only recently noticed the jitter. Testing it now to see how it looks

Yeah Overlay works as well, I'll be using that. Wasn't using the Normal and Tangent Shader Channels anyway

[weak thicket]

now that I have an output with the audiosource in a 1024 array with the spectrum moving 0-24,000Hz.
How should I split it into four bins?

[olive ridge]

            {
                dot.transform.Translate(0.1f, 0, 0, Space.Self);

                distance1 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city1.position);
                distance2 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city2.position);
                distance3 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city3.position);
            }

does this make the while loop infinite, cause it caused the playmode to not load

[dusk apex]

If any of those are true, you'll never escape the while loop - infinite loop

[leaden ice]

you're only moving dot and then comparing distances for transform

[quartz folio]

Even if it did end there's no yield in the loop so it begs the question why it's a while as it'll execute in one frame

[leaden ice]

anyway there's no reason for this to be a loop... yeah exactly this^

[cursive coral]

Is there a easy and effective way to change the direction in which unity physics gravity acts. For example dynamically changing the gravity to be in x axis during gameplay.

[leaden ice]

Yep just set it to whatever you'd like

Physics.gravity = whatever;

[olive ridge]

the point of it is to make it so that a dot moves back whenever another object is in the radius

[cursive coral]

Is it really that easy lol

[leaden ice]

yep ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cursive coral]

One line of code

[leaden ice]

why wouldn't it be?

[cursive coral]

Is physics.gravity accessible

[olive ridge]

thats the point

[cursive coral]

I don't have my pc rn so can't check

[leaden ice]

Why would I tell you that if it wasn't?

[leaden ice]

then obviously the loop will never end

[olive ridge]

it moves the dot away from another object and recalculated their distance

[cursive coral]

I was expecting it to be difficult

[cursive coral]

Okk

[leaden ice]

but you're calculating the distance to the object the script is on, not the dot

so moving the dot won't change that distance at all

[olive ridge]

ohhhh

i see it now

[leaden ice]

anyway read the rest of what we wrote - the loop makes no sense even if you didn't have that error

[olive ridge]

so how do i make it not use a loop?

i basically want to make it so that meshes deform whenever another object is present

ive tried other methods but theyre all super buggy

[leaden ice]

If you want to do something once per frame, that's what Update is for

anyway it's really quite unclear what effect you're going for here

moving a "dot" object isn't going to deform any meshes

[olive ridge]

    {
        List<Vector3> List2 = new List<Vector3>();

        float circumferenceProgressPerStep = (float)1/sides;
        float TAU = 2*Mathf.PI;
        float radianProgressPerStep = circumferenceProgressPerStep*TAU;

        for (int i = 0; i < sides; i++)
        {
            float currentRadian = radianProgressPerStep * i;
            GameObject dot = Instantiate(spawnDot, transform.position + new Vector3(Mathf.Cos(currentRadian) * radius, Mathf.Sin(currentRadian) * radius,0), transform.rotation);

            float angle = Mathf.Atan2(transform.position.y, transform.position.x);
            dot.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0,0, angle);
            
            float distance1 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city1.position);
            float distance2 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city2.position);
            float distance3 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city3.position);

            while (radius > distance1 || radius > distance2 || radius > distance3)
            {
                dot.transform.Translate(0.1f, 0, 0, Space.Self);

                distance1 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city1.position);
                distance2 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city2.position);
                distance3 = Vector2.Distance(transform.position, city3.position);
            }
        }
        return List2;
    }

the dot is local to the for cycle

[olive ridge]

the dots position is where the vertices will be made

[leaden ice]

what is the ultimate goal of all of this

[olive ridge]

to spawn a dot and add its position to the vector3 list

the vector3s is where the vertices will be

[leaden ice]

That's not an ultimate goal

that's an intermediate goal

why do you want list of vertices.

What is the ultimate goal here?

[olive ridge]

so that the mesh gets spawned

[leaden ice]

Thi sis too abstract

What kind of gameplay or visual effect are you going for?

[olive ridge]

you know how whenever spheres in agario touch they deform?

i want to do something similar so as to show controlled territory on a map

[leaden ice]

For something like that my mind jumps to a Voronoi style shader effect. Distantly related example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw7Krz6M9ps

to be honest if I recall Agario correctly I don't remember any kind of deformation effect

[vestal arch]

-# gotta validate that assumption, go play rn

-# and uh yeah there is deformation

[olive ridge]

ok this is huge

def gonna check it out

[thin hollow]

I have a problem - my game uses a custom light shading model (toon) shader. This makes decals incompatible with it - they get baked into the extracted lighting pass as additive objects (could be useful for faked lighting tho...).

So I thought, I'll need to make my own decal implementation, and I thought about using a boolean operation to cut out a cubic volume of mesh from the level, redo its UVs so that the texture would be projected on it from one direction, apply the decal texture, offset the vertices by a tiny amount along normals to avoid zfighting, and turn off shadow casting.

Such a solution will likely be too slow to work in real time, but does it make sense at all, or is there a simpler way of achieving the same goal of "I want to get a mesh that tightly hugs a part of the level geometry"?

[sleek wharf]

Hi guys can someone PLEASE help me? I'm going crazy, baiscally i have made after a lot of assle and weeks this EnemyAI script, which includes 2 patrolling modes (waypoints and free roam) and alot of other things.. i have a big problem i also have included a death sequence where the script choose randomly between 3 death animations and then die. but after he dies hg still rotate towards the player even after litteraly disabling the script, animator, rigid body, colliison , i tried disabling every component in the inspector of the enemy but he still rotate towards the player. please help me

Script: https://paste.mod.gg/mabbypuaaxjm/0 (dont steal, all copyright to me)

thank you to everyone that might help me

the enemy isnt influenced by any other scripts

[steady bobcat]

Found this cool tutorial: https://www.ronja-tutorials.com/post/054-unlit-dynamic-decals/

[finite falcon]

I'm having a small issue with this code:

I really want to be able to rotate my mirror without also rotating the little popup icon,

But when I implement code to reset the icon's position and rotation, it overrides everything else and I can't rotate anything! I'd really appreciate some help :[

[naive swallow]

What calls Interact?

Also, there's no need to do GetComponent<Transform>, every class that implements GetComponent also just has .transform

use that instead

[finite falcon]

Interact is from a separate script that's just for seeing how close the player is to the object, once they're close enough, the popup appears and the player can interact with the object!

[leaden ice]

If you don't want an object to inherit the position and rotation of another object, you should not make it a child of that object

Consider using a PositionConstraint instead, or rearranging the hierarchy so that the thing that rotates is not the root parent of that object's hierarchy and the text is under a different thing than the thing that is rotating

[finite falcon]

I did consider that, but the popup has to be a child of the mirror object or else it won't work with the script :[

[leaden ice]

you will have to refactor the script somewhat

that is the easy part

[naive swallow]

If that function is called every frame, it's going to set the position and rotation every frame

Ah, wait, I see, you want it to stay in place, I thought your issue was that it wouldn't move

Yeah, you'd need it to not be a child object

[finite falcon]

Oh no it only checks the player's location every frame! Sorry, I should have explained it better- that's my bad!

[finite falcon]

Dang it, I feel like that could take me a while to redo

[leaden ice]

it's really just a matter of shuffling some references around

[naive swallow]

Just make it a public field and drag it in

[finite falcon]

I'm gonna have a quick go and see what I can do, thanks for the advice!! I'll be back in like 2 minutes

SUCCESS!! THANKS GUYS!

It really was that simple, I can't believe how dumb I am

[signal moon]

I have a very weird bug there

I have something that works completely fine in the editor, but not in build

The problem lies here: 'name' should never appear, and it doesnt in editor, as its placeholder name for major arcana

    {
        UpdateNextMajorArcanaText();
        roundsUntilMajorArcanaText.text = RoundsUntilMajorArcana.ToString();
    }

    private void UpdateNextMajorArcanaText()
    {
        if (MajorArcanaDraw.selectedCard != null)
        {
            string cardName = MajorArcanaDraw.selectedCard.name;
            nextMajorArcanaText.text = cardName;

            // Reset to default before assigning a new tag
            nextMajorArcanaText.tag = "Untagged"; 
            nextMajorArcanaText.tag = GetArcanaTag(cardName); 
        }
    }

    private string GetArcanaTag(string cardName)
    {
        switch (cardName)
        {
            case "The Moon":
                return "Moon";
            case "The Sun":
                return "Sun";
            case "The World":
                return "World";
            case "The Fool":
                return "Fool";
            case "The High Priestess":
                return "High_Priestess";
            default:
                return "Default_Tag"; // For unknown cases
        }
    }```

    {
        if (majorArcanaDeck.Count > 0)
        {
            selectedCard = majorArcanaDeck[0];
            Debug.Log($"Top card selected: {selectedCard.name}");
        }
        else
        {
            // If no cards are left in the deck, shuffle graveyard back into deck and try again
            Debug.Log("No cards left in the deck. Refilling the deck...");
            RefillDeckFromMajorArcanaGraveyard();
            UpdateSelectedCard(); // Retry updating the selected card after refill
        }
    }```

[mossy snow]

I've seen this type of bug appear if your text update code is somehow order dependent, and the script update order in a build is different than in the editor

[signal moon]

I see, but i don't know how to check and make build same as editor. The whole functionality of drawing cards at the start of the turns isnt working, so i assume the whole script went down

[mossy snow]

well you can test the theory by changing the script execution order yourself

[steady bobcat]

Do you mean the part that says "6:Name" ? What is the text variable name so we actually understand the code 😐

[signal moon]

ooups, sorry

nextMajorArcanaText.text

In the editor it looks like that

[steady bobcat]

            nextMajorArcanaText.tag = "Untagged"; 
            nextMajorArcanaText.tag = GetArcanaTag(cardName); 

why do this twice? the second can only fail with an exception and I presume it will just fuck your logic anyway

is this using the Gameobject name?

very un reliable if so as when we Instantiate() it will become "MyThingy (Clone)"

[signal moon]

public TMP_Text nextMajorArcanaText;

[steady bobcat]

No what is MajorArcanaDraw.selectedCard

[signal moon]

I honestly wrote it 3 months ago, i don't remember why this particular part was there, it might be a mistake

[signal moon]

public static Transform selectedCard;

[steady bobcat]

Right so you are using gameobject names. As I said, its a bad idea.

Tbh for things like this id use ScriptableObjects for data and reference them on the pieces so you can share this data (such as name) reliably

Tags also become pretty shit with any semi complex game

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

[signal moon]

i was just checking the other system that bases itself on gameobject name, and it works

it seems that just one script broke

[silk cloak]

I'm trying to get this to say things like 10k, 1m, 1b, etc. I have the code setup to do just that but I'm not all too familiar with Unity yet. Unsure if this is the correct area to ask this or if this should be in ui-ux. How can I get it to use the code I wrote?

Should this be in ui-ux?

[signal moon]

You are getting variable text right? Simply do something like if number > 1000 then :1000 + k

[signal moon]

i recreated the issue

i made this script execute first at 100 execution order

making it on -100 worked fine

[split junco]

I get this error log when I'm switching scenes. It's happening after the Awake and Start methods have been called.

This only happens when I am switching scenes---not when I load each of them independently. My question is, where exactly should I look to find this error?

The error does not provide a script location.

[cosmic rain]

Are there any details/callstack to these errors?

[silk cloak]

Something like this, right? I tried it and it's not showing up how I'd like it to. Meaning, it's showing the exact same big numbers ```private string FormatNumber(double number)
{
if (number >= 1_000_000_000_000)
return (number / 1_000_000_000_000d).ToString("0.#") + "T";
else if (number >= 1_000_000_000)
return (number / 1_000_000_000d).ToString("0.#") + "B";
else if (number >= 1_000_000)
return (number / 1_000_000d).ToString("0.#") + "M";
else if (number >= 1_000)
return (number / 1_000d).ToString("0.#") + "K";
else
return number.ToString("0");
}

[cosmic rain]

What doesn't work? You'll need to provide a better explanation of the issue.

[silk cloak]

I want it to show "1k" for 1,000, 1m for 1,000,000 and so on. It's still showing the whole number of gems I have.

[lean sail]

the logic itself looks correct, I dont think your issue is here. Some beginner level debugging should've shown you this. Though i dont know if you should proceed this way anyways.
Usually games that go super high into numbers like this don't actually store stuff like 100 trillion. Is there really a need for you to store something like 1_000_000_000_001? You could just use up to 4 digits, then append a K,M,B,T, etc and keep track of which unit they're at

[cosmic rain]

How are you using the method?

[lean sail]

Its really just a waste to be calculating such large numbers

[chrome sage]

if i wanted a real and robust IInteractable system, is there any top tier resources on the subject? because i imagine a radius component and a isInteractableInRange function will get limiting very quickly.

[lean sail]

what kind of resources are you looking for? IInteractable is an interface. You call a method through the interface -> component "interacts".
interacting is going to be extremely unique to your game so its unlikely any tutorial fully suits your needs. Nothing about it specifically requires a radius component or this isInteractableInRange function. honestly I have no clue what you mean by "real and robust" in this case

[chrome sage]

ya its a stupid question. what i NEED to do is keep trying it out on new interactables and 'feeling' if its responsive and produces an expected result. and seeing what happens when i run into more then one IInteractable in its radius....

im going for a topdown rpg, i kinda want to keep it to the two mouse buttons (so i can just do 1 finger and 2 fingers on mobile) so youd click an empty tile to move the player and click a chest to open it and click an npc to walk up and talk to it and click on an enemy to enter the encounter screen.

id probably default to just piling all the different logic in the player controller, which i think i want to avoid.

[cosmic rain]

Sounds like something that should be handled by the interactable object itself.

The only thing that I'd put on the character itself is changing the animation state(possibly retrieved from the interaction/interactable object), movment and similar stuff directly related to the character.

[trim island]

Hi, I'm trying to detect the specific terrain component under the player, but for some reason, my raycast is not hitting it. Anything wrong in my code?if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out RaycastHit hit, rayDistance)) { if (hit.collider.TryGetComponent<Terrain>(out var terrain)) return terrain; }

[vestal arch]

for future reference, see below
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[tawny elk]

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[vestal arch]

have you tried debugging? is it perhaps just hitting itself, which does not have a Terrain component?

[trim island]

Yes, the raycast doesn't hit anything. It doesn't enter the first if

[cosmic rain]

1. Visualize the ray with debug rays.
2. If the ray originate within the terrain(or very close to it), it would not detect it. Maybe try shooting it from a bit higher.

[trim island]

That did the trick, thanks!

[trim island]

Another question: I'm trying to create a tree damage system, that, at runtime, detects the nearby PAINTED trees at a certain distance and allows the player to chop them. Now I have 2 ideas about how to do this: 1) once I detect the nearby trees (withinn 3m) I replace their painted instance with a prefab, and when the player is further away, remove the prefab and add the tree instance again. This however comes with a number of challenges and optimizations that are quite complex to do. 2) I add a place holder game object in the same place as the tree instance, and use that to do all the damage calculation. When the health reaches 0, I remove the tree instance and the placeholder, and when the player goes away I only remove the placeholder.

One thing that complicates this is that unity doesn't allow to add mesh colliderst to painted trees, you must use a primitive collider. And if the tree is straight, no problem, but I have some irregular trees and I should add from 2 to 5 primitive colliders to properly map the trunk surface.

Now the question is: is there a standard/recommended way to do this? What are the main optimizations you would use?

[hardy pasture]

Should I add Assets/Resources files to gitignore? It creates those files when creating the WebGL build.

[latent latch]

Well, like are you using the resource folder? lol

You've got assetbundles if you need any dynamic loading otherwise

[fiery steeple]

Why it doesn't let me call the event here please ? 🤔 And it says the event is supposed to have 2 arguments while I declared it with only 1 🤔

[mellow sigil]

The null conditional operator is ?. not just a question mark

[fiery steeple]

same issue still 🤔

[somber nacelle]

you cannot invoke an event from outside of the object that owns it

that's kind of the whole point of the event modifier

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/event

[fiery steeple]

is there a way around that ?

[somber nacelle]

yeah, don't use the event keyword or just call a method that invokes the event

of course trying to get around the entire point of the event keyword likely means you don't need the event keyword on that delegate

[fiery steeple]

or move the event in the OnAreaEnter.cs class ?

Yeah switching to that class solved the issue, thanks 👍

[rain sonnet]

I dont understand why docs tutorials have minimal explanations and i dont know if its just me that is dumb but often when i follow their tutorials exactly step by step they dont work and i often have to add custom code because it seems like they forgot to add some code for the tutorial to actually work. Is this common?

[dusk apex]

Which doc in particular?

[rain sonnet]

Right now i am looking at character controller for netcode for entities multiplayer. Like they show how to set up both first player and third player and they say now i am able to move with "WASD", but from what i can tell theres not even an input bindings in the scripts they told me to add.

[leaden ice]

Most likely you're missing something

[dusk apex]

Maybe you should provide the link

[rain sonnet]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.charactercontroller@1.0/manual/get-started-first-person.html

[leaden ice]

Not seeing where it says you can move with wasd

[rain sonnet]

I also tried this one at first:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.charactercontroller@1.0/manual/get-started-third-person.html
because i followed this tutorial:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/CharacterControllerSamples/blob/master/_Documentation/tutorial.md

and under it says i should be able to move:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/CharacterControllerSamples/blob/master/_Documentation/Tutorial/tutorial-charactersetup.md

last link should show

[leaden ice]

Did you have your console window open?

Make sure there's no errors

[rain sonnet]

yeah theres no errors

i found their onlineFPS sample that works, so i guess i can mix those two together and use their input system

[leaden ice]

Hard to say from my phone without seeing the project in front of me

[rain sonnet]

alright, thanks anyway

[hot wagon]

Hey, im on Unity 6 and I've been trying to render the depth of the backfaces of a certain layer to a texture and I can't seem to get this to work.

Im using URP rendering, do I use a renderer feature for this?

[leaden ice]

Why don't you show what you've tried?

[hot wagon]

haha, because I have tried so much 😛

[leaden ice]

I can't seem to get this to work
Seems to imply you tried something

[hot wagon]

I have been going back and forth between all AI models, to try and get something to render

so what I currently have is this feature:

and this backface shader:

Shader "Hidden/BackFaceDepth"
{
    Properties
    {
        _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType" = "Opaque" "RenderPipeline" = "UniversalPipeline" }

        Cull Front // This is the key part - culling front faces to render only back faces
        ZWrite On
        ZTest LEqual

        Pass
        {
            Name "BackFaceDepth"

            HLSLPROGRAM
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag
            #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl"

            struct Attributes
            {
                float4 positionOS : POSITION;
            };

            struct Varyings
            {
                float4 positionCS : SV_POSITION;
                float depth : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            Varyings vert(Attributes input)
            {
                Varyings output;
                output.positionCS = TransformObjectToHClip(input.positionOS.xyz);
                output.depth = output.positionCS.z / output.positionCS.w;
                return output;
            }

            float4 frag(Varyings input) : SV_Target
            {
                // Output linear depth (not the non - linear Z buffer value)
                return float4(input.depth, 0, 0, 1);
            }
            ENDHLSL
        }
    }
}

[cosmic rain]

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[hot wagon]

But there is really no point in sharing my code, since its just AI crap, i just would like to understand the broad steps on how to achieve this.

[cosmic rain]

This is correct to a degree imho.

[leaden ice]

I mean the basic approach could just be:

• set up a camera with the culling mask set to just that layer
• Have the objects all exist with the backface shader
• Render that camera to a RenderTexture

I'm sure it's possible with a renderer feature too but I'm not incredibly familiar with how those work

[quartz folio]

Can't you just use the render objects feature

[hot wagon]

Ill read about it, im new to URP

Maybe i can explain what I want to achieve; probably helps

[quartz folio]

I suppose it won't render to a texture. It's probably a more appropriate question for #archived-urp

[hot wagon]

I have created this silhouette feature in URP:

And it works well, but now since im working a 2.5D game, what I would like to achieve is volume aware occlusion culling, so if a sprite is in front of a mesh its back faces, I want it to render normally

But only if its behind the backfaces I want to render the silhouette

That way when e.g. my character stands on the stairs, it does not clip with the stairs:

(i know this is not a character but a sword, just for testing)

[leaden ice]

Wouldn't the backface thing give you a silhouette here anyway?

since you're behind the backfaces of the nearer part of the stair mesh?

I'm not convinced that's the right heuristic

[hot wagon]

hmm you could be right actually

[leaden ice]

It seems like what you want is if the object is inside the mesh, it renders on top of it, but if it's outside and occluded by the mesh, it renders as silhouette?

[hot wagon]

yes! exactly

[leaden ice]

Actually I guess you could do it if your backface depth texture was built using a LE comparison?

li.e. you always get the furthest backface for each pixel

that could make sense I think

[hot wagon]

yeah i have it:
Cull Front
ZWrite On
ZTest LEqual

i also don't know if it conceptually works haha 😛 but in my head it did

[leaden ice]

Ok so yeah I think this makes sense in theory, I don't know that I'm expert enough to tell if that code is correct and if not how to fix it

[hot wagon]

so my better bet is to go to #archived-urp

[leaden ice]

probably

and/or #archived-shaders

[hot wagon]

Thx!

[stuck hatch]

Anyone know how to create test with TestCase with IEnumerator method?

I have this test but it's always return "Method has non-void return value, but no result is expected"

    [UnityTest]
    [TestCase("Assets/BundledAsset/level1/Level 1.unity", AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded, "", 1f)] // Level 1 - Success
    [TestCase("Assets/BundledAsset/level2/Level 2.unity", AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded, "", 1f)] // Level 2 - Success
    [TestCase("Invalid/Scene/Path.unity", AsyncOperationStatus.Failed, "Download Error!", 0f)] // Invalid Path - Failure
    public IEnumerator HandleSceneLoadResult_ParameterizedTest(
        string sceneKey,
        AsyncOperationStatus expectedStatus,
        string expectedErrorMessage,
        float expectedSliderValue)
    {
        LogAssert.ignoreFailingMessages = true;

        // Act: Attempt to load the scene
        var handle = Addressables.LoadSceneAsync(sceneKey, LoadSceneMode.Single);

        // Wait for the scene load to complete
        while (!handle.IsDone)
            yield return null;

        // Assert the expected status
        Assert.AreEqual(expectedStatus, handle.Status, $"Expected operation to be {expectedStatus}");

        // Call the handler and update UI accordingly
        menuController.HandleSceneLoadResult(handle);

        // Assert UI behavior based on expected status and result
        Assert.AreEqual(expectedErrorMessage, menuController.downloadProgressText.text, "Text message mismatch");
        Assert.AreEqual(expectedSliderValue, menuController.downloadProgressSlider.value, "Slider value mismatch");

        yield break;
    }

[thick terrace]

it's been a minute since i did this but i think you might need to do it differently for [UnityTest] tests, the docs say to use ValueSource instead in this case: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.test-framework@1.4/manual/course/test-cases.html

[leaden ice]

That error is coming from your [TestCase] annotation I'm pretty sure

[hot wagon]

Alright finally figured it out 🙂 Thanks again @leaden ice

[leaden ice]

nice

[ivory elm]

So im trying to make the camera follow the player but i dont know how... can anyone help?

[vestal arch]

have you tried googling for tutorials?

[ivory elm]

good idea i knew i would get help somehow 😁

[steady bobcat]

The answer is always cinemachine!

[vestal arch]

i mean, that's the first place you should look lol
it doesn't involve waiting for someone to answer

if you have specific issues after that, then you should ask for specific help

generic question -> generic answer
specific question -> specific answer

[ivory elm]

ok so its 2d and i just addd the camera as a child to the player which worked but now the player is shaking a bunch

[rigid island]

camera as child of player should not be affecting anything.. you have to show more info on the setup.

Also yeah just use cinemachine, it literally has a simple "Follow" slot without needing to parent anything to it

[ivory elm]

oh...

[chrome sage]

well this is embarrassing. can anyone help me figure out what it is I'm supposed to google? what i want is to condense the main camera and main gameplay to the side and have a separate status window, this status window would persist between the overworld and the encounter screen. 'split screen' seems wrong, so what is it I'm asking? bonus points if there's an easy way to switch its position too (in case i ever get left handed players....)

[leaden ice]

THere's two main ways to do this

one is to modify your main camera's viewport so it only draws to like 80% of the screen

then put your UI on the remaining 20%

The second way would be to render the main camera to a RenderTexture, then draw the main camera view in a RawImage UI component, likewise taking up the left 80% of the screen

Example camera settings for the Viewport solution

[chrome sage]

ah, thank you. the viewport one seems like the simplest, say I used the viewport solution, would i be able to easily switch back to 100% of the screen for when i would want to show cutscenes?

[leaden ice]

sure you'd just have to change the viewport again

or switch to a different camera with a different viewport

[chrome sage]

and there's PLENTY of tuts on camera switching, so I know what I want now, thanks again.

[empty elm]

I recently repainted some tiles in my level, and now the player is unable to detect the ground in various places with raycasts on the environment layer. collisions still work normally.
it appears to happen only in places that I newly painted (tiles that didn't exist before). I made sure everything is on the same tilemap layer, and the layer is tagged Environment.
any ideas why this could be happening? The only info I know is that the player's raycasts aren't hitting anything while standing on some sections of the ground, while it works fine on other parts

[leaden ice]

Which parts don't work?

And which tiles are those parts using?

[empty elm]

they're on the foreground layer, the tilemap polygons show that they're included and the layer is correct (first screenshot).
And the collisions work which is the weird part, but raycasts can't detect it

and as I mentioned they are all tiles that were empty space before, and I newly painted. There are other tiles that are newly painted, but those work fine

[leaden ice]

Can you show your raycast code?