archived-code-general

[whole wyvern]

thank you ill try this

if its still not suitable ill try trigger events

[fiery steeple]

Hey, I just finished my minesweeper game and would like to know if someone wants to see my project and give me feedback on it please (mainly the code) ? 🙂

[austere bear]

i know this isnt the interface channel, but why in the editor my UI looks perfectly normal but in the build it looks like the second photo

canvas settings

[steady bobcat]

ui anchors

[austere bear]

where?

im not that great at interface

[steady bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

have a read, they control how rect transforms get positioned when their parent changes size
its a very common mistake and posted here all the time

[austere bear]

better lol

[steady bobcat]

change the canvas scaler mode to "Scale With Screen Size" then fix your anchors and that should be better
check a few resolutions from the presets in editor as you do this

[austere bear]

alr fixed

ty

[fiery steeple]

bump ☝️

[vestal arch]

#1180170818983051344

[night harness]

Might be a kinda don’t ask to ask thing where you might get better feedback either posting a link to a repo entirely or specific files

[night harness]

They want code review i think?

[fiery steeple]

yes

[vestal arch]

ah, i guess that'd make sense here then

[fiery steeple]

Here's my code : https://paste.mod.gg/guuzqgfnrsom/0

[night harness]

Just random thoughts/notes. Some of these may not be preferable etc.

• Highly recommend singleton patterns that find and assign the instance in the getter of the singleton (i can send an example if needed). setting in awake is prone to failure if something tries to access it before it wakes up
• In OnGameOver just flip the logic homie, (if (win) rather than (if (!win)). The way you have it now just makes it harder to read which is why i assume you needed to comment them
• This is very much a me thing but i hate the usage of var because it just damages readability, especially outside of an IDE like how I'm reading it
• Not sure what you think that RestartGame coroutine is doing, that doesn't make the scene loading async or anything. You'd need to use the async version of that function
• In GenerateMinesLocations i'm pretty sure you can just copy via constructor? eg. new List<Tile>(tiles)
• It's fine for the scope of this project probably but would be nice if tile type was via enum rather than int for readability purposes (and maybe even a scriptableobject for bigger projects)
• Personally in GenerateGrid I'm not a fan of how much public access you have in manipulating a Tile. IMO the Tile should be responsible for handling it's colour and value. At the very least if your going to have public ways of manipulating them do it via a function so you can validate the input and potentially react to it. eg. if you had Tile.UpdatePosition(int x, int y) and Tile.UpdateType(int newType) Tile could update it's color in response to those being ran.
• I'd need more context but those static lists (Tile.minesLocations and Tile.flagsLocations) looks abit weird
• In StartGame you run OnGameStartEvent before GenerateGrid. From my perspective if i'm listening to OnGameStartEvent I'm assuming the game is ready/setup. You might want a OnBeforeGameStartEvent for whatever that is being used for?

• In ClearGrid, For reasons it's a good habit to explicitly set references to UnityEngine.Object's to null when destroying them.

Hope some of these thoughts are helpful in anyway, I won't pretend I'm great at any of this though 😄

[fiery steeple]

Thank you for the feedback 👍 🙂

• Oh that's really smart and I struggled in some projects because of that 😮 Because also, doing it in the getter would keep doing that check if an Instance is already set each time I call that getter 😬
• I did if(!win) to follow the clause guard principle and return before executing the rest instead of doing if + else statement. Isn't this way, the proper way "pros" do it ?
• I totally agree, and I had them all being the type instead of var but the IDE added squiggly lines referring me that it's better to make those variable types be var instead of the type itself. What's usually used in pro environement / projects ? 🤔
• Oh yeah, I forgot to remove the Coroutine part because in the beginning I had the coroutine to wait 3 sec before restarting the game so I can see where the mines were 😬
• Just tried and no I can't because tiles is a 2D array while tilesCopy is a 1D array (check picture) and I needed it to be 1D to go through more easily than a 2D array.
• I totally agree. At first I used enums then I quit that idea for no reason 🤣 How would that work with Scriptable Object in this case or bigger projects ? 🤔
• Yeah that's smart. I will modify that, thanks 👍
• Why do they look weird ? 1 is containing all the positions of the mines and the other all the positions where the player placed a flag.
• Good point 👍 Funny thing is I don't even use that event anywhere 🤣 Should I remove it ?
• Oh, using Destroy(gameObject); doesn't set the reference to null by default ? 🤔 I don't understand the UnityEngine.Object part 🤔

[dusk apex]

Personally, I'd prefer not to search the hierarchy unless absolutely necessary. The failure in Awake can be completely negated if you keep the operations of the instance limited to the scope of itself only and instead access other objects in Start. For example: cs private void Awake() { rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();//Fine but could probably be assigned in the inspector } private void Start() { gm = GameManager.Instance;//Would always be valid if GM exists }

[night harness]

I get the reasoning but personally I think for singleton managers the cost is worth the reliability, especially if eg. another manager needs to reference gamemanager in their awake etc.. That's fair though

[night harness]

I did if(!win) to follow the cl...
Personally this function and the if/else itself is so small that it's not necessary
I totally agree, and I had them all being the type instead of var but
I cannot attest to preference in industry due to lack of experience
How would that work with Scriptable Object in this case or bigger projects ?
I'm a little bias because of my background in modding but I tend to prefer SO's over enums because enums are static and cannot be added to at runtime. Another massive benefit though is usually for something like a "content" "type" you'll usually have some correlating information (display names, icons, colors etc.) so using scriptableobjects lets you build that information in. This isn't perfect but you could use another scriptableobject to use them like an enum like

public class TileTypes : ScriptableObject

public static TileTypes Instance => /*some public facing reference eg. on a gamemanager*/
public List<TileType> AllTileTypes {get; private set;}
[SerializeField] private normalType;
public static TileType Normal => Instance.normalType;
[SerializeField] private mineType;
public static TileType Mine => Instance.mineType;

then you can use like

if (tile.TileType == TileTypes.Mine)
    etc.

Oh, using Destroy(gameObject); doesn't set the reference to null by default ? 🤔 I don't understand the UnityEngine.Object part
Unity handles object destruction in their own way, You don't need to know tooo much about it but in some occasions where the engine wants to try and clear uneeded memory, a reference to a destroyed object is not the same as a reference to a null object
UnityEngine.Object is the base class for the types affected by this (anything MonoBehaviour, ScriptableObject etc.

Why do they look weird ? 1 is containing all the positions of the mines and the other all the positions where the player placed a flag.
Personally just abit odd that no one really "owns" that data nor is it directly connected to all the other data you have setup.

Tile already knows if it's a mine or not so maybe you make a helper function that iterates through the matrix and returns the mines. Or if its never going to change and you wanna be more optimized let the GameManager at the very least own the list instead and (imo) make it a list of Tiles rather than indicies because it's just better information

Same with the flags list where tiles could probably just store if they've been revealed or not

[noble herald]

Trying to make it so left and right can't be activated if the other is activated.... so if left is ✅ then right can never be ✅ until left is ❌, and vice versa

What currently happens right now is...
Left press -> Right Press = Left ✅ + Right ❌ (What I want)
But...
Right press -> Left Press = Left ✅ + Right ❌ (I don't want this)

        if (leftHitAction.action.IsPressed() && _canHitBool == true && _rightButtonHold == false)
        {
            _leftButtonHold = true;
            Debug.Log("Left Hit");
        }

        if (rightHitAction.action.IsPressed() && _canHitBool == true && _leftButtonHold == false)
        { 
            _rightButtonHold = true;
            Debug.Log("Right Hit");
        }

        if (leftHitAction.action.WasReleasedThisFrame())
        {
            _leftButtonHold = false;
            _leftButtonRelease = true;
        }

        if (rightHitAction.action.WasReleasedThisFrame())
        {
            _rightButtonHold = false;
            _rightButtonRelease = true;
        }

[dusk apex]

Just to be clear (not arguing but explaining), I would not access another manager or anything that isn't on this object in Awake and would do those operations in Start. By the time Start is called, the Singleton manager would have already been properly set up.

[cosmic rain]

else and else if is a thing.

[noble herald]

else if would still prioritize the first one no?

either way though, if rightHitAction.action.IsPressed should make _rightButtonHold be true.... which means leftHitAction.action.IsPressed shouldn't activate because _rightButtonHold == true?

[cosmic rain]

If both can be true, you'll have to prioritize one or the other.

Or handle the case of both being true

[noble herald]

but it can only set it to true if the button is pressed.... and the _canHitBool is true.... and the opposite hit is false

if I hit rightHitAction first, that makes it "true" (that part works).... meaning there shouldn't be a way leftHitAction activates here

[cosmic rain]

Then maybe rethink the logic. Honestly, I wouldn't have any conditions for input querying. If the button is pressed, then it's pressed. Regardless of what other buttons are pressed.

It's how you handle that input is where you can implement whatever conditions you want.

[noble herald]

I have to do it like this because of the Client Side Prediction for Purrnet basically has it so I have to do it like that. I have to basically set a private bool in update, then have that be equal to a state variable which is then used for prediction (or something like that... still new to it myself 🤷‍♂️ )
https://purrnet.gitbook.io/docs/systems-and-modules/client-side-prediction/input-handling

I have the logic working in prediction which is fine, but the problem is in the update method as of now (which is what I am showing via my code here)

[little meadow]

You may need to show all the code... this seems legit to me. Is there something else that might affect the bool values? 🤔

[noble herald]

only other thing I can think of is this.... but the False part is what I have to add according to the CSP docs

    protected override HittingPlayerInput GetInput()
    {
        var input = new HittingPlayerInput()
        {
            leftHit = _leftButtonHold,
            rightHit = _rightButtonHold,
            leftRelease = _leftButtonRelease,
            rightRelease = _rightButtonRelease,
        };

        // Add A False Here
        _leftButtonHold = false;
        _rightButtonHold = false;
        _leftButtonRelease = false;
        _rightButtonRelease = false;
        return input;
    }

[harsh rapids]

why does my player move like 4x faster when i fullscreen when playing in editor

;-;

[little meadow]

I don't know when and how is this called, but it does seem to be resetting the bool to false 🤷‍♂️
So obviously the next time the other code checks the left thing they're all false and it goes inside the left if.

[little meadow]

In absolute or relative speed? 😄

[noble herald]

yeah im not 100% sure whats causing this.... im asking the Purrnet discord too but they're asleep lmao

but its weird this only happens for Right first then Left second.... but not Left first then Right second.... so I don't think this is a Purrnet issue

[little meadow]

That's just how your logic is. If you have both left and right it goes into left because it's first.

[noble herald]

my old logic I had a left method and a right method.... did it not prioritize left in that case cause it was via a method?

cause I dont recall this occurring before me trying to learn prediction logic

[little meadow]

You weren't resetting the values before, I assume

[noble herald]

idk, still weird though cause the left shouldn't even activate if the right bool is active.... and I did a debug log test on that... 😭

if the only bug from this would be left + right at same time (same frame) was it picked left... then who cares very hard to notice.... but this is a problem lol

[little meadow]

This part is wrong. You probably shouldn't have the = false there for stuff that's not single frame or something. But obviously when doing MP things are an order of magnitude trickier.

[quick token]

could be a framerate thing. if your code is running in update then it becomes dependant on the framerate

[noble herald]

I can probably try that but it might not fix it

or maybe it did...

double checking lmao

I still dont get why that impacts it but yay? 🎊

[little meadow]

You can try anything and it may not fix it 🤷‍♂️ if you have a valid quick idea or even a suspicion - you try it and then think about it with the new data

[little meadow]

Because the bool IS false the next time you check it and left is pressed, so you go into left?

Like... you're setting the bool to true to specifically prevent that... and then you're resetting it to false in something that's probably called about every frame. 😄
You see how that's a problem, right?

[harsh rapids]

ah ok

[harsh rapids]

well it turns from a normal walk into a bullet so

i fixed it

just tinkered around with fixed update

[fiery steeple]

Indeed, Tile knows if it's a mine or not and if it's flagged or not that's why the data is in that class, however to avoid each time looping through all the grid each time I request to know where all the mines are and where all the flags are, each time I set the Value to be a mine or I click to make the Tile a flag, I add it to those static List. When the Tile is no longer flagged, I remove it from that List.

So that way, I don't loop over every Tile in the grid everytime to get this information each time I request it 🙂

[fiery steeple]

I did if(!win) to follow the cl...
Personally this function and the if/else itself is so small that it's not necessary
How would you not have that if statement and make the game sill work ? 🤔

[little meadow]

They meant you could just do the if-else and it would read better. The main point of guard clauses / early outs is to handle the "boring" cases quickly and separately and not nest 20 levels of if-else

[astral orbit]

Has anyone used the C# dynamic type for anything? Didn't know this thing existed until now. Apparently it leads to spaghetti but I'm curious.

[steady bobcat]

Avoid it as much as possible, reflection is usually used instead.
It is also NOT supported by il2cpp

[astral orbit]

Okay, people said it might be slightly more performant alternative to reflection but yeah

[chilly surge]

It exists pretty much only for COM interop. Don't use it for anything else, everything you do with a dynamic turns into reflection and kills your performance, even if it works.

[astral orbit]

lmao

[steady bobcat]

dont forget unchecked, volatile and __makeref

https://benbowen.blog/post/fun_with_makeref/

[astral orbit]

That's the most cursed shit ever

No idea that those existed as well

[steady bobcat]

C# has lots of useful keywords too such as stackalloc, fixed and unsafe that can be used in more "normal" ways

[last quarry]

In most cases where it's used it can be safely replaced with object, which is the base type for all managed types.

[worn wing]

Why is there no TryGetComponentInParent???

[vestal arch]

you'd have to ask unity devs

[last quarry]

It's probably better not to rely on hierarchical relations like that

[vestal arch]

but yeah you could probably use a serialized reference for that

[worn wing]

Yeah i just fixed it like this, but weird that it doesn't exist.

[little meadow]

you can always write it yourself or do a null check

[last quarry]

Oh right, collisions have evil situations like this

Collider.attachedRigidbody can be used to avoid this but that's still kinda hacky

[fiery steeple]

What kind of modding were you doing ? 🙂

[worn wing]

Yeah I'm using this for other systems, but this is for an impactmanager (like bullet spark effects) so that would be a bad idea.

[vestal arch]

(you could also use Collision.rigidbody directly)

[worn wing]

Yes it works! No more hard coding each hit effect into the bullet script XD

[vestal arch]

couldn't you have the wall do that

to avoid the surfacetype juggling

[worn wing]

I had some issues with the bullet destroying itself on hit before the object it hit could even respond.
And i don't wanna attach a script to every wall.

So I just made an ImpactManager that can spawn any effect for a given SurfaceType and ImpactType.

Now in the bullet script i only need to pass the collision and bullet ImpactType to the manager and it handles the rest.

[vestal arch]

And i don't wanna attach a script to every wall.
you just did though?

or is there supposed to be a "default" effect when there's no surface info

[worn wing]

Yes each impactType has a default effect. My game is 95% metal surfaces so i just set that effect as the default and only have to add identifiers to the other 5%

[vestal arch]

gotcha

[warm parcel]

is there are way to set an editor-only scripting define that's not on a per-file basis, e.g. MY_DEBUG_FLAG? i want to be able to compile in some debugging features when running in the editor that are generally useful, but compile them out when profiling because they're allocating and really obtrusive in narrowing down the source of real allocations.

[hybrid thicket]

void Update()
{
    float xInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    rb.velocity = new Vector2(xInput * speed, rb.velocity.y);

    animator.SetFloat("Moving", xInput);
    animator.SetBool("IsMoving", xInput != 0);

    // only trigger jump flag when pressing Space (and grounded)
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isGrounded)
    {
        rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        isGrounded = false;
        animator.SetBool("Jumping", true);

        // jump flip
        if (xInput < 0)
        {
            spriteRenderer.flipX = true;
        }
        else if (xInput > 0)
        {
            spriteRenderer.flipX = false;
        }

    }

    Debug.Log(xInput);

}

i cant make flip during jump

[vestal arch]

the code to flip isn't running when you jump

it's only running the first frame when the jump is triggered

it's not gonna run the rest of the time either

that shouldn't be in the jump block

[hybrid thicket]

i made left and right walking animation . if flip happens left walking animation get cursed for prevent this i tried make flip happens only during jump

[vestal arch]

why not 2 separate jump animations for left and right as well?

[warm parcel]

can anyone explain these spikes? my monitor is running at 59.95 hz, so i thought this might be what vsync looks like when not running at true 60hz. however, i was flipping the system refresh rate between a few settings and then back to 59.95, and once in a while afterwards the profiler would show a smooth 60fps.

[hybrid thicket]

first time i see this UI

[last quarry]

Don’t profile the editor, profile builds. The editor is never smooth.

[warm parcel]

this is a build

[last quarry]

It says play mode

[warm parcel]

(but it's not a standalone profiler)

[last quarry]

You’re profiling play mode in the editor

[warm parcel]

are you sure that is what that means? that is a toggle between play and edit mode. if i flip it to edit mode, it profiles the editor. right now when i have the editor open, and not playing, the profiler shows nothing. i launch my dev build, and it begins profiling the dev build.

i just quit the game again before i took that screenshot, which is why it says "play mode"

[warm parcel]

so in any case, question stands (this is a profile of a build, after i have already quit the game)

[last quarry]

Check the GPU profiler then. It's not enabled by default because it has significant overhead.

[craggy pivot]

Anybody know what's causing this error in my terrain mesh generation? Google only showed decade old forum posts, which didn't have a solution.

[last quarry]

The mesh is invalid somehow. Has no vertices, invalid scale, something like that

[craggy pivot]

Oh will no vertices do that

Ok I'll try preventing that

[astral robin]

Hi ! I'm struggling a bit as to how to update a variable of a Behavior graph's blackboard from code :
don't mind the "GetComponent()" in update(). I was just trying to get it right..
I especially wanted to change the value of the second blackboard in the graph but I don't get it how..

[vestal arch]

well, what does the error say

also what's with the ? at the end

[astral robin]

the "?" was just me expressing that I don't get it .. and the error is : "There is no argument given that corresponds to the required parameter 'newValue' of 'BlackboardVariable.SetObjectValueWithoutNotify(object)'"

[vestal arch]

so do you understand that error

[astral robin]

I don't understand that variable altogether ? as it's only expecting 1 argument of type "object".
even it's defenition is :
public abstract void SetObjectValueWithoutNotify(object newValue);

[vestal arch]

yeah, you're supposed to give it a value

[astral robin]

while you know.. at least I should need to specify the name of the variable and the value I want it to be

[vestal arch]

right now you're telling to set the variable, but not what to set it to

[vestal arch]

you've already gotten a specific variable though?

[astral robin]

yeah the InputRun from the second blackboard of the graph.. I want to try to set it to true in Update()

[vestal arch]

what exactly is your question here?
how to get a variable reference, or how to set a value to that variable reference?

[astral robin]

my question is how to set the bool variable "InputRun" that live in a behavivor agent. inside a secondary blackboard.

[vestal arch]

and are you stuck on getting the variable, or setting the value?

[astral robin]

both..

the only thing I managed to get right seem to be the : agent = GetComponent<BehaviorGraphAgent>();
other than that I have no idea what i'm supposed to do next..

[vestal arch]

have you tried googling it at all

https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-to-update-blackboard-variables-via-c-at-runtime/1574260/6

[astral robin]

I did check that page ! ah I just found out the method is to be called from the agent itself and not it's blackboard ?! then I thought this didn't worked because the blackboard in the graph editor doesn't show that it changed. but comparing it at runtime showed otherwise !

[left timber]

Hey everyone,
I'm building a Player Controller using a Finite State Machine (FSM). Would it be acceptable to centralize all input-handling logic in the main State Machine script, rather than distributing it across individual state classes?

Curious about best practices here.

[errant flame]

Hi, i am trying to use messagepack with litenetlib.

I installed necessary packages from Nuget and git.

I am building the server build with IL2CPP, when I send a packet to the server from the editor I get the error:

FormatterNotRegisteredException: Project.Scripts.Network.Packet.TestPacket is not registered in the parser:

There is no problem in my transfer from server to client.

As far as I understand, some links are broken in the build processes with IL2CPP and my estimated package to be parsed.

The doc writes something like code gen stuff but I did not understand how to do it in unity.

IDE : Rider

[small schooner]

@errant flame why don't u use Unity Transport instead it has example of client and server in documentations : https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.transport@2.0/manual/client-server-simple.html

[errant flame]

I just wonder to learn litenetlib for future experiments multiplayer etc . then i searched for serializations i saw proto buff and this message pack they are so fast against json serialization i know i can use json and go ahead but want to learn .

Also i wonder does unity transport support all devices as well as litenetlib and can i do everything that i do in litenetlib ?

[small schooner]

Yes It is support all devices any platform

It is also UDP so they litenetlib equal to Unity3d transport

[errant flame]

I just started these communication things litenetlib offsers a reliable unreliable UDP protocol i guess for fast data transmission is unity transport is same thing

oh got it

[small schooner]

But actually I had some trouble when I try to use reliable protocol (chat GPT recommended me to use it for the case, I end up with unreliable protocol it worked fine for my case)

[errant flame]

For my case i just want run a physic simulation under a unity server and sync that physic simulation fast as possiable.

I think the problem is not with neither Unity Transport or Litenetlib , main problem is serialization i guess

If i use unity transport and do same think with message pack i get again same errors until i use json normal regular serialization

I know I'm starting from a difficult point and trying to force something.

But since the simulation I want to do is a bit heavy, I don't want to lose control from the very beginning.

[small schooner]

You can use Unity multiplayer they have higher lvl API that allowing to sync game objects or Entities if ECS

[errant flame]

You are right, I have reviewed most of the higher level network API's , but there is a separate learning process for them.

And for some reason I could not get used to them, I could not learn them quickly :/

[small schooner]

There are Netcode for GameObjects or for Entities and Multiplay for Matchmaker + Lobby they are not very hard to learn

but for simple game low lvl API is enough, built my own matchmaking/elo system quite quick after understand how to work with unity transport

[heady cedar]

hey guys, bit of a dumb question but do I need to do anything to reference an objective in an additive scene?

say I have a GameManager in a Systems scene that I put ontop of the game scene, can I just slot in references as usual to the manager as if it was in the same scene (in both inspector and code)?

[vestal arch]

not in the inspector, no, but you can via code
but you gotta be a little careful about maintaining the reference across scenes, if the object ever gets unloaded

[heady cedar]

hold on let me pull up my current code

my use case for this is I want to completely and temporarily suspend my main level scene (which contains everything atm) and move the player to a smaller but completely separate gameplay area, then move them back

so I was thinking I'd just use additive scenes and disable the main one, load the second one, move the player and all the gamemanager and ui stuff

my GameManager class is a static instance, it contains references to many other managers like sound, ui, mission, etc. which are all child objects

I have various other objects in the scene which reference the instance like this GameManager.Instance.AddEnemy(this);

if I move the GameManager out of the game scene and into its own additive scene can I still keepdoing this?

[vestal arch]

well you could, but you'd then have to manage the reference correctly

this will be destroyed when the scene unloads, then GameManager would have a dead reference if you don't do anything about it

that could lead to NREs afterwards

[heady cedar]

well I was hoping that I could extend this additive scene thingy so that the base scene just disables itself, the new scene loads additively on top (GameManager scene stays), then when the player's done in new scene they go back to base scene

so no object gets actually destroyed

[spare island]

Trying to use the unit testing package and I made a tests folder and some tests but I can't reference things in the main assembly for some reason, even though I have it referenced in the test assembly definition

oh wait i mightve found the problem

yeah no i dont understand this at all, lol.

it was my understanding if you make an assembly definition in the root folder it should automatically put all of your scripts into that definition, right?

[brazen nest]

Can you point me in the direction to find the correct api?

[dawn nebula]

Any problem with using RectTransforms and LayoutGroups outside of a Canvas?

[vestal arch]

scenes don't get disabled/enabled, they're loaded/unloaded

you do end up destroying gameobjects in that process

[heady cedar]

Can I not just disable all game objects in the base scene then?

Oh I guess this means that both scenes are just constantly loaded

[vestal arch]

that seems like a lot of unnecessary work

just make stuff link up properly lol

[heady cedar]

Aaaaagh

I just wanted a way to hit pause on the base scene 🫠

[vagrant blade]

!ban 1384186123344941157 scam

[tawny elk]

vera6372bt was banned.

[woeful ledge]

can someone help me with netcode for gameobjects and server/client stuff, i think i know what im doing wrong but I do not know how to fix it

[night harness]

#archived-networking

[woeful ledge]

ty

im blind didnt see that

[untold gulch]

Video for see The error🧐

[woeful ledge]

what does that mean?

[wanton olive]

Im use to VS code but ive been told that its unity integration is minimul and VS is fully integrated. Im not sure what that means honestly

So with that said. What would be best to use

VS or VS code

[chilly surge]

Whichever one that makes you most productive. If you are not sure, try both and see.

[wanton olive]

i should state that i just started using unity. Ive been doing their tutorials for the last few days. But when it came to the scripting i was a little confused because unity had me download VS but in the tutorial the guy is using VS code

Ive used VS before but i personally dont like it. Its to clunky if that make sense

[chilly surge]

Sure, personally I use VS Code for a similar reason as well.

[wanton olive]

Ok cool last question. As far as functionality goes i wouldnt have to do some extention work arounds would i if i use vs code for unity ?

[chilly surge]

It's just installing the Unity extension.

!ide

[tawny elk]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• :question: Other/None

[chilly surge]

Follow the guide here.

[wanton olive]

ahhh okay sweet thats what it means by VS is fully integrated right ? This reddit post i seen said VS is better for unity im thinking that might be why.

[shadow wagon]

VSCode I dislike using, as VS feels better
It's totally subjective, your mileage may vary

[robust dome]

keep in mind that Vs is heavy and requires much more space on your local storage

[chilly surge]

You will find a lot of people online saying all sorts of things, the most common thing people say to discredit VS Code is "it's an editor not an IDE." A lot of those people also haven't used VS Code recently to know how much C# extension has improved over time. Evaluate it yourself and see what makes you productive.

IDE is a personal tool. Different chefs have their own favorites knives.

[wanton olive]

Thanks for the help! I think im gonna stick with VS code and give it a go with the extension.

[twilit scaffold]

i think for the most part, it is fine. when you get to the point of Debugging though, I do not think VSC can do the same thing. someone else would know better though, as i do not really use VSC anymore

[chilly surge]

VS Code has all the common debugging features stuffs you would expect, breakpoints, step into, step over, view call stack, variables, etc.

[twilit scaffold]

good to know, thanks. i will erase that concern from my 'database' then 🙂

[calm silo]

Is there any Generics equivalent of the ? from Java in C#? Eg, can I make a class that normally take a generic value and tell it not to care?

[chilly surge]

No, C# generics do exist at runtime unlike in Java where they are erased.

You either propagate the generic up further, or do something like class Foo<T> : Foo.

[calm silo]

Crap... oh well

[little meadow]

(But also - Cursor! For the previous IDE discussion. Integration is a bit annoying, but otherwise it's been awesome!)

[calm silo]

So, I cant make a "Map<Type, Delegate<?>" to store callbacks for various types?

[chilly surge]

Non official VS Code (eg forks like Cursor, or even just VS Codium) unfortunately is not permitted to use the C# and C# Dev Kit extension, at least if you are abiding to their ToS. The major loss is not having the debugger, there is the Samsung debugger but I haven't used it to know how good it is.

[chilly surge]

You would just have to cast. Note that this is unsafe in either C# or Java, because neither type system has the capability to encode the relationship "each value's delegate type corresponds exactly to the key's type."

[calm silo]

I know its unsafe. But I usually make my own Add which ensures anything I add accepts the type. So yes, Runtime unsafe, reflection unsafe, but otherwise pretty ok

[chilly surge]

Yeah the best you can do is exactly that, to concentrate the unsafeness into implementation and expose only the safe public API.

But otherwise it's not any different, just store Dictionary<Type, object> or something, and then cast the retrieved value to Action<T> or whatever.

The good thing about C# is that the cast will be checked at runtime and throw if it doesn't match.

[calm silo]

You'd get a sort of class cast exception or no such method exception in java on runtime anyway. Somewhere you'll get errors if you do not properly code anyhow 😄

But the fact I can do typeof(T) in C# is a blessing ❤️

[chilly surge]

I don't really write Java, but I'm under the impression that the cast wouldn't fail since generics are erased. It would only fail when you try to call it with the wrong argument type, which can happen much later on and makes tracking down the error a lot harder.

[tawdry kite]

has there anyone who made jumping system by only script

bc i cant make my vertical collisions like rigidbodies

there is always a little space between collision and my player

if i put a low value as a distance the cast doesnt work

[dim cairn]

Why not use animations?

[tawdry kite]

Why should i try to close that distance by other things

isnt it possible to make collisions by script

[dim cairn]

Why not use colliders

[tawdry kite]

i used to make them by myself at gamemaker

And at the tutorials i've watched

he did collisions by script

[dim cairn]

You could do that... or you could click a few buttons

[tawdry kite]

But he didnt make any jump mechanic

No vertical collisions too

[dim cairn]

Are you in 2d or 3d

[tawdry kite]

3d

[dim cairn]

Somewhere along the lines of adding force along whatever axis you're using as up and then multiplying by time.fixeddeltatime

[tawdry kite]

You mean rigidbody force by force?

[dim cairn]

MyRigidbody.velocity

[dim cairn]

But also you should be looking at !learn

[tawny elk]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[calm silo]

Is there any "difference" between a const and static readonly?

[small schooner]

static u can call class.StaticVariable you cannot call const like this it is just wroks like variable

[dusk apex]

const aren't variables (as in they cannot change/be-modified)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/const
static makes the member a part of the class and not per instance.
readonly only allows the value to be assigned once and in particular places.

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

[hasty mural]

hey, question !
I have a minimap in my MULTIPLAYER game.

On the host everything is generated fine, the minimap, the player markers for everyone connected and generated marker.

but for other people than the host everything is generated (playermarker, other markers) and everything is updated but the minimap is jsut invisible, its just floating markers. is this a camera issue? the camera is generated by the script aswell. the entire code is 600 lines long idk if i should paste it in here

https://pastebin.com/G9t9kpjj thats the paste. its too long for discord

[sharp garden]

is there a way to 'terminate' a branch in the Behaviour package?
I want the Repeat While to only execute the node group immediately below it (the Passively Check node sets the relevant variable so it can break out of the loop) but it executes everything past that as can be seen in the image

the documentation doesn't cover the exact definition of 'branch' so I'm not 100% sure what does and doesn't qualify as one

(sorry if this is the wrong place to put this)

[modern dew]

why the hell is this an error

why is tmpro a different type bruh 😭

[somber nacelle]

TMP_Text is not a string, it has a text property that is a string though. TMP_Text is the actual component

[naive swallow]

Because string is not the same type as a TextMeshPro component

[modern dew]

wish they could make them the same type :/

[naive swallow]

That wouldn't make sense

string isn't a component

You can't put a string on a game object

A line of text in a book is not the same thing as a library building

[robust dome]

what are you trying to do, send some code so we can suggest a soloution

[modern dew]

I already fixed it lol

I don’t have any problems rn

[steady bobcat]

the old "i forgot to put .text"

[sudden lantern]

Hi, I’m completely stuck. I have a PageController class that manages a stack of UI windows - opening them, closing them one after another, etc. There’s also a PauseHandler class that handles pausing: it plays the canvas fade‑in animation and pauses the game. Here’s the problem: when I press the button to close the current window and return to the previous one, if there’s a second window on the stack (for example, I went from the main window into the settings menu), closing that settings window also unpauses the game. That’s because I only allow unpausing on the main window, and shutting the current window fires both the close event and the pause event at once, so they coincide and unpause the game. With a gamepad there’s no issue, since “Back” is a separate button, but on keyboard both close and pause are triggered by Escape. The only workaround I’ve found is subscribing to the pause event before the close event, but that feels like a hack and has other pitfalls. What’s a cleaner way to solve this?

PageController: https://pastebin.com/fKRcF5QT
PauseHandler: https://pastebin.com/P9q86VYa

[stray fjord]

How to disable mouse control? I really just want it to not have input, like affecting which button is currently selected or beig hovered over or anything like that.

[quick token]

with the new or old input system? with the new one I'm pretty sure you can just call DisableDevice or something. with the old one you might just have to use a bool

[stray fjord]

Thanks for response. Using the new system I believe. But you got me on the right path I hadn't looked at my eventsystem which has inspector fields that let me easily disable clicking and pointing Easy

[calm silo]

Did I forget something?
m_OnClick.Invoke(position);gets executed, but it does not invoke the associated member function cause a "List.count" is 0,

    public class Clickable : UIBehaviour, IPointerClickHandler {
        
        
        [Serializable]
        public class ClickedEvent : UnityEvent<Vector2> {}
        
        // Event delegates triggered on click.
        [SerializeField]
        private ClickedEvent m_OnClick = new();
        
        protected Clickable()
        {}
        
        public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData) {
            if (eventData.button != PointerEventData.InputButton.Left)
                return;

            Press(eventData.position);
        }
        
        [Tooltip("Can the this be interacted with?")]
        [SerializeField]
        private bool m_Interactable = true;
        
        public virtual bool IsInteractable()
        {
            return m_Interactable;
        }
        
        private void Press(Vector2 position)
        {
            if (!IsActive() || !IsInteractable())
                return;

            UISystemProfilerApi.AddMarker("Clickable.onClick", this);
            m_OnClick.Invoke(position);
        }
    }

[steady bobcat]

you dont need to do public class ClickedEvent : UnityEvent<Vector2> {} anymore you can just use the generic version directly

your question doesnt make sense though, if the event is called whats the issue here?

Ideally you will use a debugger to see what is actually happening post click event

[calm silo]

OnDataAreaClicked is not called, despite m_OnClick being invoked. Thats my issue. Havn't had any luck tracking it with the debugger yet. Working on it

Oh well, I'll dig around more :3

[steady bobcat]

If you have a breakpoint on the UnityEvent Invoke() call you can step into it and see where it goes (hopefully)

verify the subscription is still valid in inspector during play mode OR subscribe in code and ditch UnityEvent (for public event Action<Vector2> OnClick)

[calm silo]

Oh, now it works. :3

[sudden lantern]

anyone?

[merry forge]

is there any way to run code immediately after the Start() step?

[rigid island]

whats the usecase exactly ?

[merry forge]

during Start(), all my actors (character, buttons, doors, boxes) call a function in the grid system to register themselves. I need the grid system to be able to run some code once all the actors in the level are registered

basically setting up the level, e.g. telling doors to update their state depending on whether the linked button has an actor on it

[naive swallow]

Could put it in update and then in that function set a Boolean to skip over it in the future

[merry forge]

good idea

[night harness]

You could also have each actor tell a central manager that they are ready and when every actor has sent that you call whatever function or event

[merry forge]

the issue is knowing how many actors are in the level to begin with

[night harness]

well the actors could initially tell the central manager via singleton on awake or the start of start?

[dawn nebula]

I've never seen this callback in my life, and there's no documentation on it.

Is this thing safe to use?

[vestal arch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.4/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.UIBehaviour.OnRectTransformDimensionsChange.html

[dawn nebula]

Ya, 2018

[vestal arch]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@2.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.UIBehaviour.html#UnityEngine_EventSystems_UIBehaviour_OnRectTransformDimensionsChange

and it's still a thing in 3.0
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@3.0/api/UnityEngine.EventSystems.UIBehaviour.html#UnityEngine_EventSystems_UIBehaviour_OnRectTransformDimensionsChange

[dawn nebula]

Alright cool. What a useful method.

Doesn't even seem to execute at some strange time.

You just make a change to the transform and boom it's called.

[empty elm]

In ProjectSettings/Player/Resolution and Presentation, what settings should I use if I want the game to always have 16:9 ratio, but be fullscreen?
Currently I'm using Exclusive Fullscreen and setting default width and height to 1920x1080, but the documentation says the default width and height are only applicable to Windowed mode? The documentation also says Exclusive Fullscreen is exlusive to windows, but when I tried on mac it worked and had the intended effect.

[wanton olive]

hey could i have somebody please help me with getting visual studio code setup so i can use it. I did what the tutorial told me to do with visual studio but say for example if i go to type "OnTriggerEnter" and press tab it does populate the script with private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

[wanton olive]

Nvm good'ol youtube helped me out!

[soft shard]

Is there a way to check if a reference is missing (specifically, if you set a reference, then delete the object without explicitly setting the reference to null in the inspector, it will display "missing") compared to if it is null? I only need this to work in the editor so if theres some editor API or reflection thats fine (although id prefer to avoid reflection) - what I could find online suggested (object)asset) != null && asset == null (where "asset" here is a UnityEngine.Object), but this still seems to log true when the reference is "missing" or null - the reason I want to do this is so I can know if an asset was deleted outside of the project after Unity recompiles and I can then look for its original path

[little meadow]

That should work. Are you sure you did it properly? I'll go try it real quick myself, but it looks fine.

[soft shard]

Huh... Its very possible I didnt do it properly, though I just discovered using asset == null && asset.GetHashCode() > 0 seemed to work well enough, if the reference is actually null the HashCode is 0, if its "missing" it still has a HashCode but the asset will still say null, which is interesting and I think may be useful for my case

[quartz folio]

If it's not assigned in the editor then it's still Unity Null

[little meadow]

Yeah, what vertx said is what I forgot about. I did a similar thing with GetInstanceID() which is 0 if the object is unassigned. Seems to work 🤷‍♂️

[quartz folio]

Random note that GetInstanceID will be removed in a later version of unity and replaced with EntityID, which will have an index and version, so that hack will have to change 😅

Maybe the logic will be similar, who knows

[soft shard]

Interesting change, huh

[little meadow]

Eh, you can't future-proof it all 😄 If it's for your own project - it'll be mostly fine. If it's for an asset - meh. 😄 You could get .name and catch the exception and see what case you're on, but that's a lot more performance heavy and I'd not do. Also, who knows when will they decide to change .name to be something else 😛

(And of course you could do #if UNITY_VERSION_BLABLABLA to handle the different cases when need be)

[soft shard]

Lol true, though that is interesting - atm its just for my own projects maybe at some point ill make a asset version if it all works out, good ideas as well - thanks for the insight from both of you 🙂

[fiery steeple]

!code

[tawny elk]

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[stoic dagger]

Im having a problem, I need to install barracuda for this script

using UnityEngine;
using Unity.Barracuda;
using Unity.MLAgents;
using Unity.MLAgents.Policies;

[RequireComponent(typeof(BehaviorParameters))]
public class AssignModel : MonoBehaviour
{
    public NNModel modelToAssign;

    private BehaviorParameters behaviorParams;

    void Start()
    {
        behaviorParams = GetComponent<BehaviorParameters>();
        behaviorParams.Model = modelToAssign;

    }
}

But if I do that it gives me 999+ compilation errors

[earnest gazelle]

It is really annoying. When unloading the scene, I face this error, it is about navmesh agent, "Stop" can only be called on an active agent that has been placed on a NavMesh.
I know the problem, it is because the ground is destroyed before the navmesh agents
The solution is that I disable navmesh agents before unloading the scene but it is messy and awkward

[icy quartz]

Looking for a good tutorial that will show how to use replace the Unity 3rd party starter asset character with a mixamo character

[soft shard]

Maybe looking up how to import a Mixamo character in Unity should give you the knowledge needed to replace the starter character with your package - usually the actual mesh is a child that you can replace, then the animations are linked through the Animator which takes an Avatar (which links the bones of the mesh to the Animator so the states know how to manipulate them), the hardest part would likely be with setting up the import settings, which most tutorials should also show

[clever lotus]

Is this a good channel to ask for issues with Colliders and Raycast Hit registering in Unity2D??

[vestal arch]

https://dontasktoask.com

if it isn't, we'll redirect you

the answer is probably yes, but we can't answer for sure until we actually see the question lol

[clever lotus]

Sorry, alright I'll ask:
I am very new to Unity2D this is my first project. I am trying to make a Balloon Tapping Game and everything is working okay except upon clicking sometimes the Shapes are not registering the click and instead it is passing through and the background is registering the mouse click. I am using RaycastHit to identify colliders to work it out but I cannot understand how to stop the Raycast passing through objects.

[wide dock]

Show the relevant code and how the 'balloons' are set up

Also send the video in a correct format.

[clever lotus]

This is the issue where the 'Balloons' or the shapes need to be deleted upon clicking but sometimes randomly the clicks are passing through and the background is registering the click and taking the damage (see the final part where I am trying to click on the yellow square but instead of it getting deleted the health keeps dropping)

As for the code I have a Monobehaviour class that is spawning the different shapes of 'balloons':

[clever lotus]

And the individual balloon behaviours are their own different Component Codes. This is for the Triangle one that teleports:

public class PokaBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{

    public Vector2 minx, maxx;
    public Vector2 miny, maxy;
    // this basically makes a box
    public float timegap; // teleportation time gap
    float timeholder; // just a timer
    Transform gameObj;

    void Start()
    {
        gameObj = GetComponent<Transform>();
    }


    void Update()
    {

        if (timeholder <= 0) // time to teleport!
        {
            Vector3 newPosition = new Vector3(

            Random.Range(minx.x, maxx.x),
            Random.Range(miny.y, maxy.y),
            gameObj.position.z
            );

            gameObj.position = newPosition;

            timeholder = timegap;
        }
        else
        {
            timeholder -= Time.deltaTime; 
        }
    }
}```

[vestal arch]

!code

[tawny elk]

Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[kind pagoda]

hey anybody knows how to make a simple map? It can be just a flat space with some blocks which i'll turn into buildings later

do I have to create a scene?

[vestal arch]

please don't crosspost

[kind pagoda]

then where should I ask for anything

[vestal arch]

in a single relevant place

[kind pagoda]

cry about it

you aint a main character buddy

i was just asking

[vestal arch]

neither are you - it's a common courtesy to not spam

[clever lotus]

thats unnecessarily harsh

[clever lotus]

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

[clever lotus]

This is the Spawner Code I have

[clever lotus]

And this is the individual behaviour code component

Why are the Raycasts passing through objects?

[ashen remnant]

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class Meteors : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject[] Asteroids;
    private int currentAsteroid;
    public Sprite[] brokenAsteroidone;
    public bool halfGame;

    // Start is called once before the first execution of Update after the MonoBehaviour is created
    void Start()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < Asteroids.Length; i++)
        {
            float randomZ = Random.Range(0f, 360f);
            Asteroids[i].transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(transform.rotation.x, transform.rotation.y, randomZ);            
        }
    }

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

    IEnumerator ChangeSprites()
    {
        if (halfGame)
        {
            for(int i = 0;i < Asteroids.Length; i++)
            {
                int chosenSprite = Random.Range(0, brokenAsteroidone.Length);
                Asteroids[i].GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite = brokenAsteroidone[chosenSprite];
            }
        }
    }
}

I want to run a method outside of Update, so I tried using a coroutine, but you need to return in a coroutine. So where should I put 'return' in the "ChangeSprite" coroutine? Thanks

[vestal arch]

a coroutine is supposed to do something over time
your coroutine is doing everything all at once, so it being a coroutine is unnecessary

did you just copy the body of Update to the coroutine?

[ashen remnant]

yeah
i dont really know coroutines all that much

[vestal arch]

this feels like an x/y problem
what problem are you trying to solve with making the coroutine

[ashen remnant]

the goal is to have for loop change all the sprites in the list change to a list of sprites.
but in update it changes the sprites every frame, which isnt what i want

now im trying to wonder how to run a method outside of update or run a method but not every frame

my bad if its a dumb question im still not super advanced in coding

[vestal arch]

and when do you want that to happen?

[ashen remnant]

when a bool is true, which in this case is "halfGame"

[vestal arch]

and you only want it to change on that specific event?

[ashen remnant]

yes

[vestal arch]

so why not have that event also trigger the sprite change, rather than checking the sprite every time

instead of having the halfGame be public, make it a property or use a method that also triggers changing the sprites when halfGame is set to true

[ashen remnant]

i see

ill try

[worldly stirrup]

I've tested several values for foot speed, step size and step height, but it always results in this walking animation, where the legs don't move the same, and one leg gets stretched fully. Any idea for a better walking animation?

https://hastebin.com/share/akesiwodan.csharp

[gaunt mural]

Hi, I'd need some help from somebody who understands how rigidbodies work. I have made a game for my friends based on a real TV show, where you have to hit the bottom block off from a tower with a hammer without the above ones falling down. In the real show, these blocks have weight, and if the bottom one gets hit, the blocks above it dont fly upwards, or act like if they have no or little weight. They barely move. I have set their weight in Unity to a big number..but still. Any help is appreciated!

[vestal arch]

you'd probably want to also reduce friction and/or increase damping

[vale walrus]

You have gravity, mass, drag, friction, and force of the hammer hit to play with... it is not easy.

[gaunt mural]

Oh okay, I'll check those out, thanks

[hidden compass]

also make sure ur moving the hammer using physic forces..

then its ur just finetuning all that was said earlier..

drag, friction (physics materials) all that stuff

[minor oak]

Hello I'm having some trouble getting my UI to display properly. I'm trying to create the following

Outer (VerticalLayoutGroup)
|- Inner (HorizontalLayoutGroup) Should forcibly fill all of the width in outer and be max(min height, content height) tall
   |- NameContainer (LayoutComponent) Should be 1/3 of the width of Inner
   |  |- Name (Text) Should be left aligned
   |- Value Containuer (LayoutComponent) Should be 2/3 of the width of Inner
      |- Value (GameObject) Should be aligned in ValueContainer and potentially cause everything to stretch to fit if needed

Currently I'm just trying to get Inner and the containers to properly display.
Outer has outer.childAlignment = TextAnchor.UpperCenter; and displays just fine if I child game objects to it correctly
However, I tried to do the following for inner (please ignore not explicitly getting components in my pseudocode)

inner.transform.SetParent(outer.transform, false)
inner.anchorMin = new Vector2(0,1)
inner.anchorMax = new Vector2(1,1)
inner.anchoredPosition = Vector2.zero
inner.childControlWidth = false;
inner.childForceExpandHeight = inner.childForceExpandWidth = inner.childControlHeight = true;
NameContainer.transform.SetParent(inner.transform, false);
NameContainer.flexibleWidth = 1;
ValueContainer.transform.SetParent(inner.transform, false);
ValueContainer.flexibleWidth = 2;

When I do that I get the attached image (the light grey is outer, the green is NameContainer, and the blue is ValueContainer and even though you can't see it both squares are sizeDelta = 100, 100)
When I inspect I see that inner has both anchormin and anchormax = new Vector(0, 1) and is anchored right.

1. Why is this happening? What's causing it to override the anchors I gave it?
2. How do I avoid it

[icy quartz]

I am working on an Endless Runner. For a new game I want to give the user the ability to choose a charactgr. I will have 4 Mixamo characters, 2 males and 2 females they can choose from. So I am guessing I am going to create something called like ThePlayer. I will set it up to use a default mixamo character. but if they choose a different character to use, I am guessing I am going to assign a different prefab to ThePlayer. All the animations will be the same so the only difference is the look of the character. Am I on the right track?

[steady bobcat]

Your example isn't super clear but if you want to use flexable width/height correctly you should make sure preferred width/height is 0 explicitly in Layout element.

[vestal arch]

layoutgroups set their childrens' anchors

should probably ask this in #📲┃ui-ux

[minor oak]

thank you both i'll give that a go in just a minute. I didn't realize that i needed to be explicit on that to get it to fill

[steady bobcat]

layout groups, images and text provide preferred width so you want to override it to make only flexible sizing be used

[spare island]

Does it work to have a static class with a UnityEvent or does that have the same problems as using a base C# event?

[spare island]

If the difference is only cosmetic, just have a Model gameobject which you can swap which is a child of "ThePlayer"

[steady bobcat]

same problems? what problems?

If you subscribe and unsubscribe correctly there are no problems (e.g. when the monobehaviour is destroyed)

[spare island]

I always have problems with events.

[steady bobcat]

such as?

[spare island]

this one

I'm trying to do the scriptableobject thing

Where you have your events be in a scriptableobject so they're decoupled

I'm not getting any errors but when the event gets invoked nothing happens and it says it has no listeners

but its still the same instance ID?

I don't understand.

[steady bobcat]

remember that serialized event subscriptions are NOT the same as runtime subscriptions

[spare island]

Nor do I know how to debug it

[steady bobcat]

How do you subscribe to the events?

[spare island]

Should I not be using a so if I don't care about serialization?

I don't need it to be serialized

[steady bobcat]

UnityEvent can do both but otherwise just use event

[spare island]

I tried UnityEvent too, didn't work

[steady bobcat]

e.g. public event Action MyCoolEvent;

[spare island]

        public static void Bind(string eventID, Action action)
        {
            var gameEvent = Resources.Load<GameEvent>(eventID);
            if (gameEvent == null)
            {
                Debug.LogError($"GameEvent with ID {eventID} not found.");
                return;
            }
            gameEvent._onInvoke += action;
            Debug.Log($"Action bound to '{eventID}' " +
                      $"({gameEvent._onInvoke?.GetInvocationList().Length ?? 0} listeners) " +
                      $"(ID: {gameEvent.GetInstanceID()})");
        }

also, the "2 listeners" is unexpected

There shouldn't be 2 listeners

[steady bobcat]

put a breakpoint to check the event before subscription. it should be null when it has no subscribers

[spare island]

It is null

[steady bobcat]

this looks normal though so its probably user error

[spare island]

I had to add a ?

otherwise it would throw

[spare island]

I think its something to do with me reloading the scene

[steady bobcat]

Its managed code it cannot change in regards to a scene

unless you unsub or set the event to null elsewhere it will not be mutated by unity scene changes

[spare island]

So the listeners shouldn't be disappearing at all, right?

especially because its a C# event, not a UnityEvent

I dont expect the listeners to clear

[steady bobcat]

Oh it could be the GameEvent instance was GC'd so each time you are "loading" a new instance...

because its just a managed class instance

[steady bobcat]

you would need to load and keep it somewhere to get again later (e.g. dictionary)

[spare island]

So I see the GameManager initializes, it reloads the scene so it can put the game into the correct state (for the editor), then the game starts

[steady bobcat]

read what i said above

[spare island]

Hm, you might be right

I will make a dictionary

[steady bobcat]

so something like:

if(!events.TryGetValue(eventId, out var gameEvent))
{
   gameEvent = Resources.Load<GameEvent>(eventID);
    events.Add(eventId, gameEvent);
}
gameEvent._onInvoke += action;

[spare island]

yep thats exactly what i typed

[steady bobcat]

But anyway this makes the use of a scriptable object pointless

could just be an Action or whatever created when first used

unless the SO has extra data required

[spare island]

I kind of forgot why its a SO

[steady bobcat]

rando yt tutorial?

[spare island]

No I'm way past tutorial days

I've just never quite grasped how events work in unity

[steady bobcat]

Dont think about unity, think about c#

its gonna work the same, its managed code that follows the same rules

just has some funny stuff relating to == null on unity classes for assets/game objects

[spare island]

I think the reason I wanted to use an SO is because I thought UnityEvent automatically removes dead references, doesn't it?

I don't remember what the SO part was for, other than holding the UnityEvent

[steady bobcat]

the inspector made ones may do this because its all reflection based

otherwise code subs wont unless there are checks to specifically check the .target of the original subscriber

[gaunt mural]

Hey! Thank you very much for your help :) Would it be possible to ask for the unity file you made? I am not an expert really and being able to see the code indirectly would help me out a lot. EDIT: FIXED IT, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

[steady bobcat]

(perhaps your system can provide a UnityEngine.Object for lifetime checks?)

[spare island]

The problem with C# events is that they don't go away when you stop playing in the editor by default

so you get a memory leak

also applies in the game, too

[steady bobcat]

a domain reload will happen eventually so thats not that bad
but you can use events to know when play mode ends

And during gameplay its YOUR job to unsub things that should not be subscribed anymore

[spare island]

well the usual fix for that is to use on OnDestroy or OnDisable

[steady bobcat]

for a fully static class you can use the init on load things + events to know when playmode ends to clean the events

[spare island]

Ah right in a static class

[steady bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorApplication-playModeStateChanged.html

anyway this is all stuff you can do but you just have to do it correctly
If you want it to be automatic and cool then it needs that functionality to be added

[spare island]

I'm just gonna keep it simple..

It felt stinky to just drop an event in my GameManager and be like "ok now everybody go ask the gamemanager to subscribe to this"

but honestly whatever for now

[spare island]

I remember why I wanted to use a SO now lol

Pain...

I wanted to be able to drag in game events into a component so I can set up what happens on an event in the inspector

[ocean hollow]

<@&502884371011731486> off topic / potential scam

[tropic surge]

[rugged granite]

Hi everyone!

I got an error trying to automatically upload my .ipa to TestFlight through Post-build script (Unity Cloud Build (Build Automation)):

  “Failed to generate JWT token: ErrorDomain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=-43
   ‘Failed to load AuthKey file.’
   The file ‘AuthKey_<YOUR_API_KEY>.p8’ could not be found in:
     • /BUILD_PATH/.../private_keys
     • ~/private_keys
     • ~/.private_keys
     • ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys”```

In post-build.bash I tried the following two options but both don't work:
1 option:
```KEY_WITH_NEWLINES=$(echo $CONNECT_API_KEY | jq '.private_key |= sub(" (?!PRIVATE|KEY)"; "\n"; "g")' -c -j)
echo $KEY_WITH_NEWLINES > ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys/AuthKey_${API_KEY_ID}.p8```
2 option:
```mkdir -p ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys
echo "$CONNECT_API_KEY" | jq -r '.private_key' > ~/.appstoreconnect/private_keys/AuthKey_${API_KEY_ID}.p8```

In Unity Cloud Build (Build Automation) → Advanced Options → Environment Variables → Variable value for CONNECT_API_KEY I indicate in the following format:
```{"private_key":"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nMIIEv...\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----"}```

Please tell me how to fix the error? Is it wrong in my code in post-build.bash or the input format Variable value for CONNECT_API_KEY?

[hexed bough]

with unity 6.1 the editor im unable to get the editor layout as it was for facebook sdk

what has to be changed ?

it has to be something like this

same for game analytics as well
there's no login button

[steady bobcat]

ongui should still work so must somehow be broken by some editor gui change

[hexed bough]

what can be done as of now?
is it because of editor?

[steady bobcat]

make sure your not on the debug inspector mode and check if you have updated the sdks recently
otherwise I have no idea, there isnt an indication that ongui no longer works

[harsh rapids]

why is this happening

[hexed bough]

will check

[leaden ice]

looks like you are maybe missing some packages or assembly references

[modern creek]

I restarted my computer yesterday and this morning, Unity Hub is uninstalled.. What could have caused that? I can just reinstall it obviously but I'm confused

[hybrid thicket]

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6862c71ec63c81919e7691bc24c871d4

I asked ChatGPT for general information about enemy behaviour to make it easier to create. Are there any crucial parts that ChatGPT is missing?

[vestal arch]

you should generally just not use genai for that kind of stuff

[hybrid thicket]

did you ever clicked the link? there was not code just information about what to do

[vestal arch]

i read your message, that doesn't change my answer

[naive swallow]

Are there any crucial parts that ChatGPT is missing?

A soul.

[eternal sierra]

hello, i want to have a variable that can be used by other script but not inspector tied is :
private int money = 10;
public int GetMoney() => money;

the best solution ?

[vestal arch]

there's no best solution, there are several solutions

[somber nacelle]

use a property not a method to expose it to other objects, it's basically exactly the same, but remove the () and you can treat it like a readonly variable in other objects

[vestal arch]

the typical approach would probably be public int money { get; private set; } = 10;

you could also (for example) use NonSerialized/HideInInspector on a public field

[somber nacelle]

note that HideInInspector does not prevent it from being serialized, you'd want to use NonSerialized for that

[vestal arch]

ah, whoops

[eternal sierra]

it seems like public int money { get; private set; } = 10 is what i'm gonna use, i don't rly like having a getter

[somber nacelle]

i don't rly like having a getter
do you perhaps mean you don't like having an explicit getter method? because your auto property does have a getter, it's an implicitly generated getter method because that's what properties are

[eternal sierra]

Yes i mean i don't like having 2 separate names it feels like a workaround that is very tedious with a lot of variable but idk it feels like it

[somber nacelle]

That's what having an explicit backing field is and even with properties there might come a time where you would need an explicit backing field (for example if you need to add logic to your getter or setter you must use an explicit backing field)

[eternal sierra]

for exemple here on my prefab i have 10 maxHp for my enemy when i change the script to 5 why is it still keeping it at 10 ? i didn't even touch it i thought it was when modified manually then the inspector become the reference

[somber nacelle]

because it is serialized

[eternal sierra]

what is the workaround for that ? I still want to change the hp in the scene but i want the prefab to follow the script

[somber nacelle]

reset the component and it will go back to its default values

[eternal sierra]

yeah ofc but it's a bit strange to do that everytime no ?

[somber nacelle]

no, that's the whole point of serialization. whatever value is set in the inspector is applied when the object is created at runtime. the value in the inspector doesn't change just because you change the code because it has already been serialized.

[eternal sierra]

it's a prefab ofc the script should matter more that the inspector it seems logic to me no ? Is there no shortcut to like reset every prefab or idk

but i didn't put anything in the inspector tho

" i didn't even touch it i thought it was when modified manually then the inspector become the reference"

[somber nacelle]

you set the value when you first created the component with a serialized field

just because you didn't manually assign a value doesn't mean it didn't serialize the existing value

[vestal arch]

the value assigned in the script is just the default when you create a new component
it doesn't automatically change every existing instance of the component

[eternal sierra]

So there is no way to force the variable to follow the script at the start of the scene but to still access it in play mode ?

[somber nacelle]

you could just not serialize it

[vestal arch]

something like maxHP you probably do want to serialize though

[eternal sierra]

i still want to access it in the inspector and i want it public to use in other scripts, googling this i found that i can Awake it to the good value, tedious but i guess that's ok

[vestal arch]

that would make it useless as a property then lol

[somber nacelle]

why do you need to access it in the inspector if you don't plan to change it outside of play mode

[vestal arch]

everything would have the same max hp

it feels like you're trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist here tbh

[eternal sierra]

because i want to access it while in play mode ? I'm not sure i understand the question

[eternal sierra]

whn they spawn yeah which is already the case but they will have the script maxhp and then i can modify one particular in play mode

i'm plrobably creating an inexisting issue

[somber nacelle]

yeah you're just writing yourself into a corner with this line of thinking

[eternal sierra]

but i like modifying the hp while in play mode but still want the script to work x)

[vestal arch]

hp should be separate from maxhp though

hp doesn't need to be serialized unless you need it to start at a specific point

[worldly stirrup]

So, I removed the code to create the procedural walking animation, and instead made it so the legs would instantly move to their new points (the points that the red curved raycasts hit, marked by the green rays) and discovered that the issue of the leg animation not being the same, with one of the legs being streched fully isn't a result of the animation code, but an inherent issue. Any help?

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/493511037421879316/1389308708210610288/IK_Spider-master_-_video_IK_Setup_-_Windows_Mac_Linux_-_Unity_6_6000.0.30f1___DX11__2025-06-30_21-07-19.mp4?ex=68642610&is=6862d490&hm=ce3b25faa84bd300c29576fe4d1e6bb5a23033b5feaf29d1b92fca0ff61a2519&

[eternal sierra]

ok then let's say i want to have them not shown in inspector but still accessible via script what can i do ?

[vestal arch]

the thing we recommended..?

[young yacht]

do you guys use unity cloud to store your repos?

[young yacht]

@rigid island does it save binaries well?

3d meshes

[rigid island]

it saves whatever you want it to save. the limit per file is 100mb I think? then there is LFS for bigger size per file.. Sure 3D meshes though I don't recommend storing big art asset files , If they are big and barely ever change I store them in a cloud service like google drive that gives more space for free/cheap

[eternal sierra]

I can't modify it with another script like that no ?

[full pawn]

I'd like to make camera animation from weapon animation I have. There's camera_bone. This code is just locking camera and rotate it full, but I'd like that it only "affect" to main camera and player can control his camera

private void HandleCameraAnimation()
    {
        if (_holder is ICameraHolder cameraHolder)
        {
            Quaternion currentBaseRotation = cameraHolder.GetBaseCameraRotation();
            Quaternion animRotation = _cameraBoneTransform.rotation;
        
            Vector3 animEuler = Quaternion.Inverse(animRotation).eulerAngles;
        
            animEuler = new Vector3(
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.x),
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.y),
                NormalizeAngle(animEuler.z)
            );
        
            Quaternion effectRotation = Quaternion.Euler(animEuler);
        
            _playerCameraTransform.rotation = currentBaseRotation * effectRotation;
        }
    }

[vestal arch]

make the setter public or use a nonserialized field

[tame silo]

I have a weird bug, I have a Sprite array added to a script that is added to a GO. it worked fine for a few weeks, it contained 4 sprites just set in the inspector (first element being null). but now when I want to add 2 new sprites to that list, the editor only remembers that the array size increased to 6, not the references to 2 new sprites.

the scene file doesn't change, so the change is not persistent. if I hit play, the newly assigned sprites disappear, (but the first 4 references are fine, it's just the last 2 become null). I can change references to the first 4 elements just fine, it's just everything after the 4th disappears and becomes null on play

I will try to debug tomorrow and try more things, but maybe someone saw this already? is this a known bug? I'm using Unity 6000.0.43f1

[small schooner]

You may set the list size somewhere in script, or initialize the list inside script

[leaden ice]

not a known bug.

[cunning python]

can anyone help me code a throwing baseball system with a glove that can catch it without closing your hand in vr

[quick token]

i dont normally code for vr but cant you just use OnCollisionEnter or OnTriggerEnter?

[shell scarab]

Why can I not make playmode tests? in either of these folders with these assembly definitions?

this is in an embedded package, which i see is supposed to work with the test runner?

[quartz folio]

Make sure the assembly has a UNITY_INCLUDE_TESTS define constraint

[shell scarab]

ok I added that but still no. It has been able to see them under 'EditMode' but the 'PlayMode' is as shown.

Is my test defined correctly to be recognized?

[UnityTest]
        public IEnumerator PlayerInputSource_SouthWest()
        {
            PressDirectionalKeys(Key.S, Key.A);
            yield return WaitForSmoothDamp();
            AssertDirection(-1, -1);
            ReleaseDirectionalKeys(Key.S, Key.A);
        }
```Inside a class that extends `InputTestFixture`

[quartz folio]

Does the test fixture have [RequiresPlayMode] on it?

[shell scarab]

it seems that attribute does not exist in the version I'm on, which is test framework 1.5.1

[quartz folio]

Not sure, I'd restart Unity if you've not tried it yet

[shell scarab]

when I create a test assembly and a test script it looks like this and is recognized inside of the embedded package:

 [UnityTest]
    public IEnumerator NewTestScriptWithEnumeratorPasses()
    {
        // Use the Assert class to test conditions.
        // Use yield to skip a frame.
        yield return null;
    }

is it because the class my test is in extends from InputTestFixture?

[shell scarab]

I will try right now, thank you

[quartz folio]

The docs mention playmode tests so I imagine it should work fine. Your class isn't generic or abstract is it?

[shell scarab]

ah restarting Unity worked, thank you. Perhaps it is a bit unstable, I am in unity 6.2 beta.

[quartz folio]

Always a depressing time when that's the fix

[shell scarab]

ah haha yea sometimes I forget

glad I didnt spend too much time on it tho

[ocean hollow]

when working with unity's spline package, objects usually follow the spline as intended. but if i set a gameobj to start following the spline's path during runtime, it starts to exhibit weird behaviour. it still follows the path, but it seems to use some sort of broken interpolation method instead of the expected spline follow method. has anyone experienced this before?

i should add that this only happens if there are no pre-existing objects affected by the spline already

[vestal arch]

have you tried restarting the editor or resetting the library?

[woeful ivy]

i keep getting these warnings from dynamic water physics 2 plugin, and they are super confusing to me - what bindings are they talking about? why does the thing i have on the second image not work or count as bindings?

the input section in manual in question - i honestly barely get what's going on here :/

[leaden ice]

Did you read the "installation" section of those docs?

It describes exactly the situation with the missing bindings

The docs do seem a little vague

It's not clear how it's resolving which input asset to use, nor is it clear if the input needs to be in a particular action map or something

If you check the code that's emitting those warnings it should become a little more clear

[woeful ivy]

i've done that (pasted it - seemingly correctly?) but it gives the same warnings

[woeful ivy]

not really tbh, it's just this stuff
i tried logging the exception that is thrown and it is

 To change the input settings use: Edit -> Project Settings... -> Input Manager

but like, the inputs are there in Input Manager

[somber tapir]

show a screenshot of the input manager

[woeful ivy]

i also get this while in the editor
InputActionMap with path 'UI' in asset "Assets/NWH/Common/Scripts/Input/InputSystem/SceneInputActions.inputactions" could not be found. The Input System's runtime UI integration relies on certain required input action definitions, some of which are missing. This means some runtime UI input may not work correctly. See Input System Manual - UI Support for guidance on required actions for UI integration or see how to revert to defaults. UnityEngine.UnitySynchronizationContext:ExecuteTasks () (at /home/bokken/build/output/unity/unity/Runtime/Export/Scripting/UnitySynchronizationContext.cs:110)
possibly related?

[leaden ice]

That code looks like it's trying to use the old system

Are you sure there's not different code in the plugin for the new system?

[vestal arch]

what input backend is selected in player settings?

[leaden ice]

There you go looks like it's looking for a particular action map named UI

[woeful ivy]

it's just the defaults, i haven't touched anything here

okay i fixed it, i went from "Both" to just "Input System" and for safe measure removed the already disabled InputManager scripts

thanks everyone!!!

[sonic bloom]

hello everyone,

I am trying to send a command in loop to my robot, using thread in background,

void ServojSendLoop()
    {
        float prevTime = 0f;
        double interval = servojUpdateRate; // 0.008
        while (keepSending)
        {
            double start = servojStopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds;

            float[] anglesToSend = new float[6];
            float currentTime;
            lock (angleLock)
            {
                Array.Copy(targetServojAngles, anglesToSend, 6);
                servojAngleLog.Add((float[])anglesToSend.Clone());
                currentTime = (float)servojStopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds;
                servojLogTime.Add(currentTime);
            }
            float delta = prevTime == 0f ? 0f : currentTime - prevTime;
            servojLogDelta.Add(delta);
            // UnityEngine.Debug.Log($"Sent angles: [{string.Join(", ", anglesToSend)}], dt={delta:F6} s");
            prevTime = currentTime;
            robotManager.SendServoJCommand(anglesToSend, 0.1f, 300);

            // Busy-wait until the next interval
            while (servojStopwatch.Elapsed.TotalSeconds - start < interval)
            {
                Thread.SpinWait(10); // Yield CPU briefly
            }
        }
    }

It stays very close to 8 ms, but sometimes it fluctuates a little by 1 or 2 ms, is there any way to get absolute 8 ms loop time??

[little meadow]

I'd go with "no", but I'm not 100% sure. Why do you need it to be that precise?

[steady bobcat]

You can use system.timer but needs a sync object to ensure the event is invoked in the correct "thread"
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timers.timer?view=net-9.0

It could be better? not fully sure tbh

[tame silo]

even restarting the pc doesn't help

[tame silo]

I see, thanks

[tame silo]

there are only 3 references which look like this: icon.GetComponent<Image>().sprite = gameObject.sthIcons[4]. even commenting them out doesn't help

what helps is just creating a new public Sprite[] sthIcons2 array, it's only the old sthIcons that's bad

and it doesn't even help commenting out the array completely, recompiling so that the script doesn't have the array at all, and only then adding it with references back in the editor

unless I use a new variable name

so for now I will just rename

[small schooner]

looks like a bug, you may try to update your project to the last Unity3d version it could be fixed there

[tame silo]

yeah I will try that. in any case the workaround is super simple, so it's not an issue

it's just... bizarre behavior

thanks for all the help!

[fringe scroll]

Question about the life cycle of Scriptable Objects.

If I have created a Instance of a Scriptable Object and set it as a field on a MonoBehavior and the MonoBehavior is destroyed does that also destroy the instanced Scriptable Object?

[night harness]

No

[fringe scroll]

oof now I have to redesign my entire game controller 😅

Well not the game controller but a sub system that uses it.

[sonic bloom]

Sorry for the late reply, my robot needs this command at 8 ms, if the frequency changes it goes a bit nuts.

[sonic bloom]

Thanks for reply, I tried it but it seemed less accurate than the current code i have

[steady bobcat]

What kind of accuracy are you getting on desktop?

And do think about any costly operations you do that may be taking 1-2 ms

Otherwise you will want to have a queue of pre processed commands that is filled by another thread to minimise time between each cmd

[sonic bloom]

i removed all the debugging and improved a lot, but the rest of the operations are costly but necessary.
preQueued is the way it is done generally with this robot, but i need it in real time.

[steady bobcat]

I guess best case with that technique would be an 8ms delay

[austere solar]

Only 1 of 2 public fields is showing up in the inspector. Idk why. All you need to know is that Registry inherits from ScriptableObject.

[naive swallow]

You are looking at the script default values, which is most likely not what you want. Put the script on something and you should see all of the parameters you expect.

[austere solar]

It's a ScriptableObject not MonoBehaviour

[naive swallow]

Okay, then you'd need to set the variables on an instance of the SO, not the script file containing it

You probably want to use CreateAssetMenu

https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/CreateAssetMenuAttribute.html

[austere solar]

The weird part is why Sprite works but string doesn't...

[naive swallow]

Because it is an asset reference. And you're assigning default assets, not actually assigning values to variables on any instances

[austere solar]

I wanna make my game available to modding, that's why i want it to work in the Inspector too. I couldn't care less about the inspector if not for that.

[naive swallow]

The inspector you are looking at is for the script file itself, not an instance of this SO.

You will need to actually create an instance of your SO to change the values on it

[austere solar]

i see...

[naive swallow]

What you see here is akin to just doing = "SomeStringValue" on your string variable in the initializer

It changes what new instances will be created with

Since you cannot set an asset reference in code, it lets you assign one here. You can't see the string variable because you can just set that in the code

[austere solar]

ok maybe im doing BS again becouse im new to SO's so i'm still figuring out how i could use it...

[naive swallow]

ScriptableObjects are scripts that define an asset you can create, like a prefab or a texture but just containing variables. You should be adding on a CreateAssetMenu attribute so you can actually create an instance of this SO that you can drag into a variable slot in some other component

[cloud tartan]

        print(PosX);
        print(PosY);```
this snippet *should* get the position of the player, and set the posX and posY variable to the x and y position of the player respectively, and then print out the values of both variables.
What it instead does is set the player's position to 0, 0 and in return sets both variables to 0
What am I doing wrong here?

[naive swallow]

This snippet sets the player's position to PosX and PosY, then prints those values

[cloud tartan]

I got that much, but how should I do this instead?

Or at least point me in the right direction

[naive swallow]

If you want to set PosX and PosY, you want to set those variables, instead of setting position

The thing on the left of the = is the thing that you are setting

[chrome trail]

Trying to play with properties again and I'm trying to get the property to fire off an event when another script tries to assign a value to it like so.

public int currentHP { get { return currentHP; } set { currentHP = value; onUpdate?.Invoke(Stats.CHP); } }

I already know this causes a StackOverflowException because it's effectively stuck in an infinite loop, but I don't know how to design this in a way that doesn't invoke an infinite loop

[naive swallow]

Make a variable that holds the value, then use the property to read and write to that other variable

[chrome trail]

Like so?

private int _currentHP; public int currentHP { get { return _currentHP; } set { _currentHP = value; onUpdate?.Invoke(Stats.CHP); } }

[naive swallow]

You would also want to return the variable in the getter

Ah, you edited it just as I sent

[chrome trail]

Yeah, forgot the underscore

[fossil steeple]

I know that instantiating a canvas per gameobject is bad performance wise
but, if I wanted to create an hp bar above enemies
but make the hp bar a child of the enemy GO
what's the best approach?

[lean sail]

What do you mean "a canvas per gameobject is bad performance wise"?
Is this something you profiled?

[fossil steeple]

I read it somewhere
that if u have many enemies in a scene, and each enemy will have their own canvas, it will be bad performance wise

[lean sail]

If you have enough enemies, with or without a canvas, it'll be bad performance either way.

Profile it and see if you have a performance issue. Especially before going down a rabbit hole of a harder solution because you read it from someone who read it from someone who read it....

[young yacht]

you can always deactive the canvas object and only activate it when needed

works wonders

and unity handles a shit ton of enemies pretty well

as long you do it right

personally what eats away the performance is meshes and textures

make sure your enemy animations are baked and meshes that dont move are static

you should be fine

if its a 2D game then ignore what i said

[quiet depot]

Hi, trying to create a loading screen using a coroutine and unity Android. However the next scene doesn’t load?

[west lotus]

Show code

[quiet depot]

It’s literally just an IENumerator Start()

{
Yield Return new wait for seconds(3)
SceneManager.LoadScene(“Main Scene”);
}

Can’t take a photo, haven’t got discord on the computer 🤣

[west lotus]

Well for starters the capitalisation of the code you shared is wrong. This is why we need to see the exact code and what errors you have in the console

My best guess right now is that Main Scene is not added to the scene build list

Or it’s added but it’s not called Main Scene

[quiet depot]

I’m on discord on my phone, using a college computer ..

That’s the best I can do, sadly. I’m so confused.

[west lotus]

And I can’t help without more concrete info

[west lotus]

Is loading manager attached to a game object?

[quiet depot]

Yes.

[west lotus]

Well what does the console tab say ?

[vestal arch]

https://screenshot.help

[quiet depot]

Mate, it’s a college computer without discord.

[vestal arch]

you can access discord via any browser

[quiet depot]

It’s blocked.

[vestal arch]

go to discord.com/app in an incognito or guest window or something

[vestal arch]

damn, that's unfortunate.

[quiet depot]

Yes, it is.

[vestal arch]

really should find a way to share actual screenshots or code then, it gives us a much easier time helping you

[quiet depot]

Yep, I know. If I was at my computer at home I would. However that isn’t the case, I’ve searched online for answers, forums etc and now I find myself in the Discord because I haven’t found an answer. I’m working with what I have.

[vestal arch]

have you checked to see if the code is actually being reached? ie having a Debug.Log at the start of the method

[naive swallow]

Are you doing any timescale manipulation anywhere

If your timescale is 0 this will never finish

[quiet depot]

Yes, it logs.

[vestal arch]

ok, what about after the Wait?

[quiet depot]

Yep, it logs. It just doesn’t go to the next scene.

[vestal arch]

what if you rename the scene to not have the space?

and update the load call as well

[naive swallow]

If it gets to the log after the wait the only thing that'd be preventing a scene from loading there would be an error. Are you sure you haven't hidden errors in the console

[cloud tartan]

how do I get the position of another object to be referenced in a script?

[vestal arch]

get a reference to the other object and get its transform.position

[cloud tartan]

I think ive tried that but I want to use the x and y positions for PosX and PosY variables respectively

oh wait I should probably move code beginner

[vestal arch]

ok then get .x and .y

[cloud tartan]

transform.position.x?

[vestal arch]

yeah

[cloud tartan]

oh

[vestal arch]

it's a Vector3

you can get the components like any other Vector3

[cloud tartan]

is there a way to make an infinite array?

[night harness]

a list?

[cloud tartan]

actually it doesnt need to be infinite, it just needs to automatically add things

[cloud tartan]

i thought those were the same thing

[night harness]

no

what do you mean by automatically add things

[cloud tartan]

so basically, I have a script that gets the position of the player every frame, and i want to make a list of all the x positions and all the y positions it has

[night harness]

you have to do that

[cloud tartan]

do what

like is that a question?

[night harness]

you said it needs to automatically add things

you need to write code to add things to it

[cloud tartan]

well yeah, but i want it to add the new position of the player to the array/list whenever it gets a new position

I can't type out all of those positions

[rigid island]

if(oldpos != newPos)
//Add To List

[steady bobcat]

unless an int vector positions will probably never match so you need to use an approximate comparison

[rigid island]

vector3 already uses approximate

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3-operator_eq.html

[steady bobcat]

Huh you are right

public static bool operator ==(Vector3 lhs, Vector3 rhs)
{
    float num = lhs.x - rhs.x;
    float num2 = lhs.y - rhs.y;
    float num3 = lhs.z - rhs.z;
    float num4 = num * num + num2 * num2 + num3 * num3;
    return num4 < 9.99999944E-11f;
}

TIL

[vestal arch]

i had a discussion about this not really being applicable sometime ago

[rigid island]

how do you mean?

[vestal arch]

#💻┃code-beginner message

same thing applies for Vector3

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/70fff5e127c2dbc6d7d4bf9442ffc5ee20442ece/Runtime/Export/Math/Vector3.cs#L470

[rigid island]

I see.. yeah its very much depends also how you're using it too.. I wouldn't rely it on it for big things, for my uses it was always okay so yeah something you'd want to keep in mind for sure

[earnest gazelle]

There is a problem when using skeleton root motion. I use native spine system to play animations.
Imagine, for specific animation, I wanna enable root motion and after finishing it, disable it.
The problem is when disabling the root motion and play the next animation (non root motion), the character snaps back , how can I resolve it?
To enable/disable root motion, I write the code below

 _skeletonRootMotion.enabled = isActive;

I see the fields X, WorldX and Ax skeleton are not zero but by setting them to zero does not solve the problem. In the next frame, the values change to non zero again and smoothly moves to zero!

[brazen nest]

Anyone here have a good grasp on quaternions? I have to work with rotations so much but barely understand how the system works, I just know multiply something rotation by another rotation basically adds it

[naive swallow]

The general rule is: If you find yourself ever reading or writing to an individual component of a quaternion - don't.

[steady bobcat]

if you want to learn how they work: https://eater.net/quaternions

Its usually enough to construct them from Euler angles and to know how to multiply them together

[little meadow]

And if you don't know how to multiply them together, just multiply them the other way around 😂

[steady bobcat]

haha yep very true

[viscid plaza]

Sorry, maybe I'm dumb and I don't fully understand how inheritance works, but this:

foreach (var thingObject in ActiveThings)
{
    if (thingObject.TryGetComponent(out Thing thingComponent))
    {
        thingObject.GetComponent<Landmark>().ChunkId = (10, 0);
        Debug.Log(thingComponent.ChunkId + "ChunkId From thing");
        PackYourThings(thingComponent, thingObject);
    }
}

Always print 0 0 (the default for an int,int tuple) instead of the value I am assigning to Landmark, which inherits from Thing. So, if I use GetComponent (TryGetComponent) on a component that a GameObject doesn't have, but does have a component it inherits from, it returns an empty object for some reason?

Worth noting that thingObject does NOT have a Thing component assigned, ONLY Landmark. Also, ChunkId is ONLY declared in Thing, not in Landmark.

[naive swallow]

If you're trying to set the value on thingComponent, you should use that instead of another GetComponent call.

[viscid plaza]

The GetComponent call is only for demonstration.

[naive swallow]

Does the object in question have multiple components of type Thing

[viscid plaza]

No.

The problem is that I set the value inside of Landmark earlier, but when I do TryGetComponent, which should return Landmark, since it inherits from Thing, but instead it returns an empty Thing.

Or so it would seem.

[naive swallow]

Maybe show the inspector of one of the objects in ActiveThings

[viscid plaza]

if (thingObject.TryGetComponent(out Thing thingComponent))
       {
           Debug.Log(thingObject.GetComponent<Landmark>().ChunkId + "ChunkId From thingObject");
           Debug.Log(thingComponent.ChunkId + "ChunkId From thing");
           PackYourThings(thingComponent, thingObject);
       }

Here is a better example.

[viscid plaza]

Correction. Yes.

Cheers!

I was inheriting Thing on another class for no reason.

[vapid merlin]

Hi I was wondering does anyone have problem when rotating with player or moving it feels like it is sturreing a little bit like the objects them self.

Me using rigidbody for movemnt, yes rotation of camera point is in late update and actuall camera that is following rotation and position of that object is also in late update and rigidbody is set to interpolate

[fossil steeple]

this happened to me before, but i don't remember what was the issue exactly
i would advice the following:

1. comment any other code that's related to player movement/camera and test the looking around with mouse ALONE first
2. listen for input in Update, apply the actual movement in late update (i think this was my issue)

[vapid merlin]

should movemnt be in fixed update since it is physics

[rigid island]

rigidbody movement? yea ideally

[vapid merlin]

yes. Like movemnt is in fixedeupdate, keyboard input in update and camera rotation in late update

but it is more camera point and player that are rotating

actaull camera is not a child object

it is just following camera point

[rigid island]

yeah usually how its done

for camera I only used Cinemachine when it was following the player instead

but yeah lateupdate I think is usually where to add cam

[little meadow]

how are you doing the movement exactly?

[rigid island]

hopefully not using translation lol

[vapid merlin]

what do you mean by this

[little meadow]

actual code that does the movement... specifically wondering if it's using rigidbody.position, MovePosition, AddForce or velocity, or perhaps still doing transform.position

[vapid merlin]

rb.linearvolocity for moving

addforce for jumping and sliding

and wallruning

[little meadow]

hmm... that is appropriate

and how's the camera moved?

[vapid merlin]

just camera.position = camerapoint.position

camerapoint is child of player

camera itself seperate object

[brazen nest]

Thanks m8

[little meadow]

this also seems reasonable... can you record a video of the problem?

[edgy patio]

Iam getting an error on this line

transport.SetRelayServerData(new RelayServerData(allocation, "dtls"));

It says "The type or space name 'RelayServerData' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
https://paste.mod.gg/stzyavyogqxz/0

I can't find where this error is stemming from

[naive swallow]

Are you missing a using directive?

Does your IDE suggest anything

[edgy patio]

I shouldn't be, the error occurred after i tried using the older Lobby and Relay packages with the Multiplayer one. But I deleted the older ones, reinstalled the new one, and regenerated project files, and it is still ongoing.

[ruby thistle]

Hello Everyone, I have installed Unity Hub and I have installed the latest Unity Version, it is Unity 6 and some other numbers, anyway, I have created a project but when it loads a bit it crashes

[naive swallow]

What namespace does the documentation say RelayServerData is in?

[cosmic rain]

Check the editor !logs . They should have a crash report

[tawny elk]

📝 Logs

Documentation

Editor logs

Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Unity\Editor\Editor.log
MacOS: ~/Library/Logs/Unity/Editor.log
Linux: ~/.config/unity3d/Editor.log

Unity Hub

Windows: %UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub\logs
Mac: ~/Library/Application support/UnityHub/logs
Linux: ~/.config/UnityHub/logs

[ruby thistle]

I did but nothing

[cosmic rain]

Nothing what?

[ruby thistle]

I don't see error codes

But I tried forcing Unity with OpenGL and it did work

[edgy patio]

from what i can find its in here, using Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP;. Which i do have in my project.

[naive swallow]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.transport@2.0/api/Unity.Networking.Transport.Relay.RelayServerData.html
Documentation says it's in Unity.​Networking.​Transport.​Relay

[edgy patio]

Do you know which package this would fall under?

its says unity transport

which i have, but the code is not working when i try to use Unity.Networking.Transport.Relay

iam unsure how to apply this to my code to get RelayServerData to work.

[cosmic rain]

What version of the package do you have?

[edgy patio]

2.5.2

[cosmic rain]

Try deleting library folder perhaps

[edgy patio]

after deleting it do i have to do anything other than run the project again?

[cosmic rain]

Nope. Just run the project.

[edgy patio]

alraight iam going to give that a try then

[edgy patio]

error still persists

[cosmic rain]

Then you're either missing a namespace or using assembly definitions and missing a reference.

[edgy patio]

iam 99% sure iam using the correct name space

[cosmic rain]

Which is?

[edgy patio]

this "Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP;" since "Unity.​Networking.​Transport.​Relay" falls under it

[cosmic rain]

I don't see Unity.Networking.Transport.Relay in the code you shared

I'm not sure what you mean by since "Unity.Networking.Transport.Relay" falls under it

[edgy patio]

i had gotten confused, its seems like it exists in both, the one iam trying to use is the one that's in Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.7/api/Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP.UnityTransport.SetRelayServerData.html

[cosmic rain]

That's a totally different API though. Not the type you said you have issues with.

[edgy patio]

yeah i had gotten mixed up on what the relay i was calling was. This is the one iam trying to use (the link i sent) and the one that is not working.

i tried to follow this from unity https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/relay/#how-do-i-pass-allocation-data-to-my-transport

they have one small change to make it

transport.SetRelayServerData(new RelayServerData(allocation, connectionType: "dtls"));

but the issue still persist where it says namespace name RelayServerData could not be found

[cosmic rain]

Well, they don't show what namespaces they use, but they likely use the one we mentioned earlier.

[edgy patio]

when i try to use the one we mentioned earlier it does not work with their code, saying

Severity    Code    Description    Project    File    Line    Suppression State
Error    CS1729    'RelayServerData' does not contain a constructor that takes 2 arguments    Assembly-CSharp    J:\Unity chess\My project\Assets\Scripts\NetworkUI.cs    51    Active

and if i use the code they have for the relayserverdata i get this

Severity    Code    Description    Project    File    Line    Suppression State
Error    CS1739    The best overload for 'RelayServerData' does not have a parameter named 'connectionType'    Assembly-CSharp    J:\Unity chess\My project\Assets\Scripts\NetworkUI.cs    79    Active

[edgy patio]

also earlier in that same page they are using both

using Unity.Netcode;
using Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP;

in one of the other pages in that same section

[edgy patio]

still have not been able to get anywhere with this

i have been able to figure out that this code works, but idk how to integrate what i need onto it

public async Task<string> StartHostWithRelay(int maxConnections, string connectionType)
{
    await UnityServices.InitializeAsync();
    if (!AuthenticationService.Instance.IsSignedIn)
    {
        await AuthenticationService.Instance.SignInAnonymouslyAsync();
    }
    var allocation = await RelayService.Instance.CreateAllocationAsync(maxConnections);
    NetworkManager.Singleton.GetComponent<UnityTransport>().SetRelayServerData(AllocationUtils.ToRelayServerData(allocation, connectionType));
    var joinCode = await RelayService.Instance.GetJoinCodeAsync(allocation.AllocationId);
    return NetworkManager.Singleton.StartHost() ? joinCode : null;
}

and it only works because its avoiding RelayServerData

which using Unity.Netcode.Transports.UTP; should allow me to use

[cosmic rain]

It seems to me like this guide is outdated and wouldn't work correctly with unity 6. If you follow around some links on how to set up the relay packages and stuff they mention that it is deprecated in unity 6.

It also feels like you have several packages installed that are not meant to be used together or have version incompatibilities.

[agile brook]

Hi all, I just started throwing together an isometric game in Unity and made a point of using pure 2D w/ sprites rather than a 3D environment with an orthographic camera at an isometric angle. I'm currently just starting out with the basics: taking a Cartesian coordinate and converting it into an isometric coordinate and backwards.

I can spawn a grid of tiles with a given width and size ratio (so this isn't strictly isometric, as my tile sprites are a bit steeper than the expected 30 degree angle). However, when I use my inverse transformation method to figure out which tile the mouse is hovering over, I notice a strange distortion that seems to increase the further away I get from the center of the screen. I've tested this with properly isometric tiles and it still failed to work, so I believe the error doesn't come from the fact that the tiles are dimetric.

My conversion methods can be found here. https://pastebin.com/uxDJJQj1
In case it becomes relevant, the code for testing the hovered tile is here. https://pastebin.com/rEnQVD2x

[wooden gate]

hey guys, so i am a beginner to making games on unity and i came across some random issue that shouldnt happen?

 void FixedUpdate() // Check for the current states of the player.
 {

     // All states being checked.
     if (isJumping)
     {
         print("Player is jumping.");
         rb.AddForce(new Vector2(0, jump_power), ForceMode2D.Impulse);
         isJumping = false;
     }

     if (isFalling)
     {
         print("Falling");
     }

     if (isMoving)
     {
         rb.AddRelativeForce(new Vector2(x_input*movement_speed,0), ForceMode2D.Force);
         print("Player is moving.");
     }
     if (isGrounded)
     {
         print("Player is grounded.");
     }
 }

And it has to do in the "isMoving" part, where if i made it using linearvelocity or addForce or addRelativeForce, the character just does not move at all even though with the same code it used to move the character with no problem. everything else like the jumping works And all the prints get printed out

i was using linear velocity at first and it stopped suddenly and switched to addforce, then while working on a way to set a limit on the force it also stopped working

now both stopped working even though i would revert to the exact same code

Original linear velocity to move:

            rb.linearVelocity = new Vector2(x_input * movement_speed, rb.linearVelocity.y);
            print("Player is moving.");

ok i fixed the problem somehow?

printing the "movement_speed" it is changing from 5 to 0 when i never ever changed the value

the only time it gets changed is in the unity properties itself because it is [SerializedField] float

but not once in code, now i put an integar instead of the variable it works fine, i have no idea why

[leaden ice]

You would have to share your full script (including any logging code) for us to make sense of what you're talking about here.

[wooden gate]

yeah no need i found the actual problem actually

turns out i inserted the script twice in my player

which explains why i had 2 different values for the movement speed

it works completely fine now 😅

[rustic ember]

Hi! I have a question regarding the order of operations

string result = "";
int a = 1;
int b = 2;

result += a * 2 + b```

What will be the result string? "4" or "22"?

And if it's 22, will () around the math fix it to be 4?

[night harness]

4 i believe. the += is in charge of turning your value into a string

easy to test though 😄

[rustic ember]

You're right 😅 Would the same apply if it said =?

[sudden ruin]

i used this when do a post api call
cs UnityWebRequest.Post(uri, jsonData)
but it said this is obsolete? and recommended me to
cs using (UnityWebRequest webRequest = UnityWebRequest.PostWwwForm(uri, jsonData))
which isnt sending object as json anymore but in this thing: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
is there something else to use or i should ignore this obsolete

[rustic ember]

And how would that work if it said += a * 2 + b + "."

Is "math" always preferred over adding strings?

[night harness]

not sure in that specific usecase but in general the way types implicitly convert other type values is via "overloading" those signs like != and ?= so the order of execution will be handled with that in mind

[night harness]

eg. maybe imagine this as
result.UpdateValue(a * 2 + b);

[rustic ember]

I see. Thank you 😊

[sudden ruin]

the docs doesnt say .post is obsolete i guess its just editor thign and ignore it

[rustic ember]

The parenthesis are grayed out, so I assume it doesn't matter @night harness

[night harness]

remember this counts for the + too (though im not actually sure which value is in charge of that here, i know it does end up as a string)

result.UpdateValue((a * 2 + b).UpdateValue(".")) (i added parenthesis because they will implicitly be there due to being on one half of the + were the other half is a different type(?))

hopefully im right on that 😄

[mellow sigil]

There isn't anything special about the += operator in this case, the order of operations is determined by the operator precedence. += has lower precedence than * or + so it applies last. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/precedence-and-order-of-evaluation?view=msvc-170#precedence-and-associativity-of-c-operators

[summer kettle]

Why is there another 'apple' script in the Solution? How do I get rid of it?

[cyan ivy]

Do you mean the meta file? That should be there. Meta files are generated / used by the Unity Editor internally to track references to the asset and more (https://docs.unity3d.com/6000.1/Documentation/Manual/AssetMetadata.html)

[mellow sigil]

I assume they mean this part

[shadow wagon]

I'd right click to view the file in the explorer

see what folder opens for apple.cs and Apple.cs

[summer kettle]

Nvm, Unity didn't update the metadata yet. I just reset it

[last quarry]

Is that not just the class

Oh wait

[shadow wagon]

its the c# file

[last quarry]

I see apple and Apple

[shadow wagon]

couldnt help myself

[summer kettle]

I renamed the apple file to uppercase, but the engine didn't update the project file immediately

[shadow wagon]

unity and vs are weird with file modifications sometimes

ive renamed files in VS, only for unity to switch them back the moment I go back to the editor

I think its also happened when I deleted a file that then reappeared moments later

I think making new .cs files within Visual Studio also confuses unity. I get why it confuses unity, but its annoying as it can often be more convenient to make a new file in VS with a simple hotkey, than it is to go back to unity to do it there

[steady bobcat]

Unity is in control of the solution/project files so when it reloads it will re generate.
Making a new cs file should work fine in visual studio, i use the "move to xx.cs" option all the time just fine.

[vestal arch]

operators have 2 properties in this regard, precedence and associativity
precedence governs the order in which different operators are applied
associativity governs the order in which the same operator, or different operators with the same precedence, are applied
+ is left-to-right associative so (a + b) + c and a + b + c are strictly equivalent

[summer kettle]

What does it mean half-size? Horizontal or vertical?

[vagrant blade]

It's the height

[vestal arch]

it's half the height*

[vestal arch]

please don't crosspost

[edgy patio]

Thank you for your help! I was able to find a way to make it work, hit another wall though where using the relay system from unity i make a code but the other device, when trying to connect, says code not found. On the unity dashboard i can see the original session being made though.

[upbeat fulcrum]

hi, i have a problem, i hava a nav mesh agent that stop in front of a door when exist a wall to pass throught it, how i can solve it. If i instantiate another enemy, the new one can pass without problems

[cosmic rain]

Might be better to ask in #archived-networking to be honest.

[edgy patio]

gotcha, thanks for the help!

[vapid merlin]

Hi, does anyone know know good way to have like solid in air movment
I was tryinfg just to add force in direction that I want to move with forcemode.aceleration but just little bit so game does not feel to stiff(I dont want that full in air controle but just to be able to movve little bit so game is nto to stiff)
but then second jump is way to strong

[agile brook]

Bump.

[sand escarp]

lots of ways you could do this @vapid merlin. not sure what you mean by "but then second jump is way to strong" but if you want to keep control of the player in the air you could have an "inAir" multiplyer to your speed and if you are not touching the floor you multiply it by that amount. You could check if they are in the air in multiple ways , raycast, boxcollider or sphereCast depending on how you wanted to do it.

[brazen nest]

Sounds like you’re looking for counterstrike movement, has momentum, you can very slightly change it in the air sideways

[vapid merlin]

yes

I mean if I jump right for example it has very slighy change for other directions

and so on

but my method makes second jump way to big

[hexed oak]

is there no UnloadScene Synchronous that isn't deprecated?

they deprecated all the sync unload calls and slapped a note in there to say "well just use async"

[elder hazel]

Anyone here with knowledge about Handles, EditorWindow and color?

am having a problem with drawing, in the code I use the same Color for the DrawAAConvexPolygon() and DrawSolidArc(), yet they differ in color.

    Handles.color = new Color(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.a * color.a);
    Handles.DrawSolidArc(pointA, Vector3.forward, startDir, 180, radius);
    Handles.DrawSolidArc(pointB, Vector3.forward, -startDir, 180, radius);

    Handles.color = new Color(color.r, color.g, color.b, color.a);
    Handles.DrawAAConvexPolygon(
            new Vector3(pointA.x, pointA.y, 0) + startDir * radius,
            new Vector3(pointA.x, pointA.y, 0) + startDirR * radius,
            new Vector3(pointB.x, pointB.y, 0) + startDirR * radius,
            new Vector3(pointB.x, pointB.y, 0) + startDir * radius
    );

[maiden fractal]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[elder hazel]

oh sorry, my mistake

[lavish yacht]

Hi, im new here. What channel can I ask a question relating to the Unity game engine itself. Im currently having an issue where my friend can't download a build of my game because it's getting flagged as a virus. We have tried turning off safe browsing in chrome and turning off his windows security and it's still getting flagged for some reason

[maiden fractal]

#💻┃unity-talk for general questions related to topics not specifically covered by other channels

[lavish yacht]

Thank you

[limber fog]

    {
        if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, player.transform.position) < fov.viewdistance)
        {
            Debug.Log("1");
            Vector3 dirToPlayer = (player.transform.position - transform.position).normalized;
            Debug.Log(Vector3.Angle(transform.up, dirToPlayer) + " < " + fov.fov / 2f);
            Debug.Log(Vector3.Angle(transform.up, dirToPlayer) <  (fov.fov / 2f));
            if (Vector3.Angle(transform.up, dirToPlayer) < (fov.fov / 2f));
            {
                Debug.Log("2");
                RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, dirToPlayer, fov.viewdistance);
                Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, dirToPlayer * fov.viewdistance, Color.red);
                if (hit.collider != null)
                {
                    Debug.Log("3");
                    if (hit.collider.gameObject == player)
                    {
                        Debug.Log("I SEE YOU");
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }```

So this code seems to be written correctly, but i get this wonderful debug message. it states that the equation comes out false but it goes through anyway. any tips?

[somber nacelle]

pay attention to the warnings in your IDE

[elder hazel]

there is a sneaky ; behind your if statement

[wintry crescent]

What is the simplest way to have a mask that only makes rendering OUTSIDE of itself possible not inside
Both the mask and the masked object are custom graphics components already - I'm looking for a component analogous to mask but called inverse mask or something

Is there a package for this?

[small schooner]

You can invert the image and it will show the outside I think this is is the simplest way

Or you can wait until Unity Team add the invert option for mask 🙂

You can also write shader with 2 texures of same size and setup to render second texture if dot of first texture is not transparent or if dot is transparent for Inversed version it is not hard

[wintry crescent]

Flipped textures and custom materials aren't an option, it's a custom graphic component with a custom shadergraph canvas material on it
it doesn't even have a proper texture on it at all, it generates its own custom mesh and I'm a bit too stupid to figure out the code inside it XD

[wintry crescent]

yeaaah I don't think that's happening lmao

I'm trying to figure out how to change the stencil write mask in a shadergraph shader right now

if I figure that out I think I got it

[small schooner]

Why "Flipped textures and custom materials aren't an option " is not an option just open in Photoshop select all transparent part with magic wand and press invert selection and then fill it white color

[wintry crescent]

you didn't read my whole message did you?

there's no texture to edit

it generates its own mesh

it's a custom MaskableGraphic

[small schooner]

Didnt you need the sprite for mask?

[wintry crescent]

the generated mesh is used for the mask

figuring out what the generation does and reversing it is a last resort I really dont wanna do

[small schooner]

flip the mesh in this case if you know how to generate mesh it should not be hard to generate inverted version

[wintry crescent]

point is - it's not my code. I don't know how to flip it properly

I don't want to mess around with that unless I really need to

as I said, figuring that out is a last resort

[small schooner]

I do not understand how u masking the mesh?

Or u use it as Rawimage the only way i supose

If you really need I can write shader for you, but will you be able to set the texture of your generated mesh into custom shader material?

[wintry crescent]

I'm not using rawimage. I'm using a custom component deriving from MaskableGraphic

[wintry crescent]

you'd need to modify an existing shadergraph shader that does some helper stuff

[small schooner]

Is it contain shader code?

[wintry crescent]

it's a shadergraph shader

so not sure what you mean

[small schooner]

Do you have shaderName.shader file in project? where ShaderName is not necessary much shader in material path

I do not sure shader graph generate the shader but I think it should generate the shader cg file if you have it I can try to modify but I never worked with shader graph only with cg.

There is the simple shader work like this:

[merry aspen]

Hey there, I needed to learn how to add ads to a mobile game in unity6 but the guides I find online all seem outdated. Can anyone help me with that?

[cosmic rain]

You need to decide on a provider, then dig into it's documentation

Also #📱┃mobile

[dusky tulip]

Hello, I have a question on how I can replicate the cloud shadowing just like this video. https://youtu.be/_uxV9R3JrXo?si=5NQowkQuJUrh4ev9

To me, it seems like it’s two layers of clouds that are casting shadows at a different intensity, and when they overlap each other, the intensity of the shadow gets darker. (I could be wrong)

[edgy patio]

if anyone has the time, can you see why in this code, my black pieces on the client side do not detect each other? For the life of me, I can't figure it out. I was just able to fix the white pieces' movements being out of whack, but the black pieces still only detect white pieces, allowing them to be moved to other black pieces' locations and eat them.
https://paste.mod.gg/zgtxxidflcif/0

and some of the white pieces can still move in ways they shouldn't, like one piece can detect it can't move somewhere when there is one of its own but some of them can still do it

its very odd

[lean sail]

#archived-networking. though you'll want to narrow down what part of this is code is relevant when moving this to that channel. thats a lot of code to go through without even knowing what part is related to detection

that truly is some code though. I dont think id recommend to be doing multiplayer at the moment either

[edgy patio]

Yeah its definitely all kinds of messed up at this point. I have been gutting it and reworking it for the past 2 days trying to get online to work. i have a working single-player built, and for some reason thought online would be easy to implement for peer-to-peer connection. I will see If i can try to pinpoint excatly where this is failing.

[brazen nest]

Why is the class called chessman 😂

[brazen nest]

If the client does not own the black pieces, possibly there’s some functions it doesn’t have access to that detect if a space is available? Or possibly the client isn’t being updated with positions locally, and the host is. Thats a lot of code to look through buddy haha

[light wraith]

has anyone found a way to reduce Unity's long compile time?
currently unity opens up very fast, but it takes around a minute to compile my code. it's a really long time.
I see online people saying it takes them less than a few seconds. how???
I am already working with asmdefs. and reload domain is disabled

[last quarry]

Make sure the project is on an SSD and you're using a fast CPU with a lot of cores. That's all you can do, really

Domain reloads always happen after compilation, no matter what, and reload all the code in your project. So the more packages you have, the longer it takes. Doesn't matter if the assembly was recompiled or not.

[cold parrot]

One additional thing you can do is to avoid using editor callbacks like OnValidate that get called a lot, and keep anything triggered in enable/awake very lightweight. This doesn’t do much initially but can become noticeable in larger projects

[light wraith]

it is, I am on a new pc so I should be good
I also disabled domain reload, my code can handle it. It still takes a long time to recompile.
it takes an entire minute to post process il for assemnly csharp editor - sounds like il2cpp? which is wild since I use regular mono

I beleive mono has faster build times

[light wraith]

I don't use onvalidate at all :/

[last quarry]

Disabling domain reload only disables it when entering play mode, it's not optional after compilation.

And no, that's not IL2CPP. IL2CPP is only for builds.

[light wraith]

so what could be taking so long? is there a way to debug compilation?

[cold parrot]

Have you restarted the editor recently? Sometimes you can have some form of (memory) leak that makes reload progressively take longer.

[light wraith]

just restarted, still takes a while

[somber tapir]

You got a good PC?

[light wraith]

Yea, new gen cpu, 32gb ram

I started working with live editor reload (hot reload?) for playmode and for the editor. So far so good

[last quarry]

post process il for assemnly csharp editor sounds like an entities thing