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[lament briar]

yes

[undone coral]

whether or not to use carving is empirical

[lament briar]

but if I chop it down

it will not be there anymore

[undone coral]

yes* you should turn off the obstacle

it should Just Work

[pale zinc]

theoretically yes; but I understand it's A) a lot of trees and B) the navmesh is constantly being updated anyway

profile it

[undone coral]

it's empirical, but almost certainly it is best to use obstacles

[lament briar]

yeah

[pale zinc]

anyway I didn't know you wanted destructible trees. Not sure if carving is better in that case

[knotty sage]

See, there's the problem - you're making a lot of assumptions about relative experience here. I do have gaps in my knowledge regarding unity, I'm much more comfortable in C++ but I'm far from inexperienced - I'm sure you're super experienced yourself and I'm sure I have plenty of scope to make errors but I'd rather not assume anything 🙂

[undone coral]

so is that a yes or a no

are you making mistakes or not

[lament briar]

man, the worst part is that I'll add (later) tools that will increase or decrease my terrain's height

this world is a sandbox ahah

was way harder than what I thought to code it, not gonna lie

but I'm almost there, saving, world gen etc works, I can even change biome under my feet (like in Don't Starve)

[knotty sage]

so is that a yes or a no

[undone coral]

it's okay @knotty sage i just want you to thrive. are you using source control? just a simple yes or no

i don't mean to bully

[undone coral]

a lot of this complexity came from your own terrain generation

[lament briar]

by the way thanks a lot, really. If I've understood correctly how to manually carve and if creating a path in this HUUUGE navmesh doesn't lag, I've resolved one of my biggest problems. @pale zinc and @rugged radish you're my hero

[undone coral]

which i'm sure you had a reason to do

[lament briar]

yeah, well, it's the game

[undone coral]

yeah

i mean as opposed to generating in Terrain

[lament briar]

those are features

The terrain is not that easy to handle

[pale zinc]

good luck!

[lament briar]

❤️

[rugged radish]

yw 👍

[still glade]

Can anyone help me in the thread please? #archived-code-general message

[hybrid condor]

Anyone knows of a method to have access to the NET_STANDARD conditional compilation symbol from inside tests? For whatever reason it is not passed to tests.

I need to write a library that will have a slightly different behavior in .NET Standard and .NET Framework settings. A specific part will not compile in .NET Standard, so I can't just use a regular if(...)

[undone coral]

sounds like you need to file a ticket with unity 😦

you can add and remove symbols many ways programmatically / through structure. one is in the asmdef files, another is in the csc files, another is via player settings scripting defines

[hybrid condor]

hmm, yeah I guess I'll do that for the sake of the future generations. Will need to come up with some ugly work around

[undone coral]

why not target only .net standard

what does the library do?

.net framework is getting deprecated by the time your ticket will get fixed (9mos) from now anyway, so they'll maybe even say wontfix

[hybrid condor]

It's a library that's meant to target different projects. I have to support both depending on what someone uses

Yeah, it's true, framework gets deprecated, but lots of people still use it

[split sierra]

Hey, how do I copy a list with out reference?
I have a list called Items and then I want to create a new list called copyItems where I save a copy of my list and then I want to update my items list but not the copy so after the update the copyItems list should be different from the item list I tried it that way:

copyItems = new List<string>(items);

but that way when i update my items list the copy also updates

[undone coral]

#💻┃code-beginner you don't mean that the copy of the list updates when items gets new items, which it doesn't. the objects themselves update. you can look up deep copy list c# on google for some info

[hybrid condor]

For those interested, I had to resort to hooking up to UnityEditor.Compilation.CompilationPipeline.compilationStarted and setting the symbol manually via PlayerSettings.SetScriptingDefineSymbolsForGroup. Ugly, but it works

[undone coral]

so does anyone have an approach for C:/MyStandalonePlayer/mystandaloneplayer.exe -batchmode called from a terminal or command line (1) outputting the logs to the console on Windows like it does on linux and macOS and (2) quitting when the user hits Ctrl+C

[sly grove]

1. Use Console.WriteLine to output to stdout
2. ctrl c is a thing handled by your "terminal" application which usually is cmd for windows right
   https://superuser.com/a/1660884
   Maybe there's a way to change the keybinds, idk. You could use something like git bash or ubuntu subsystem for windows if you want more unix-like behavior

[umbral trail]

the editor uses -logfile - to output to stdout, not sure if that works for the player

[undone coral]

not on windows

-logfile - and -logfile CONOUT and everything else i tried do not work

[umbral trail]

alternatively you can write a log handler and output to the console

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

[undone coral]

yeah but i want the actual unity logs

like the ones where it says "DirectX 12 jobified=1 threadified=1 unified=1 poopified=1"

[umbral trail]

keep a copy of the old handler and pass everything to it

[undone coral]

what do you mean? i don't think Debug.Log is the same as Debug.unityLogger, and i don't think however unity emits its other messages to the console go through it

[ivory dome]

Hey, is there a way of determining if a field has [SerializeField] in front of it ? Using FieldInfo or SerializedProperty?

[midnight violet]

Codewise?

[ivory dome]

Yes! I'm working on a custom editor window

[midnight violet]

Maybe this gets you somewhere: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.attribute.getcustomattribute?view=net-7.0

[ivory dome]

This is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot!

[rain stone]

because it is for web recognition: an app that read your mobile screen, and when an object appears (like a heart on instagram web) does something.

[undone coral]

are you saying you want to interact with the webcam feed inside unity

[slim breach]

hey all, out of curiosity do I need to be on a mac device to generate a osx asset bundle?

[undone coral]

no

[slim breach]

i am trying to generate an standaloneosx bundle from my windows pc and it does not seem to be working. It generates a file but that file is black when I try and load in the scene

[slim breach]

here is my current code ``` static void BuildStandaloneOSX(Object assetObject)
{
string assetBundleDirectory = "Assets/_GeneratedAssets/AssetBundles/OSX";
if (!Directory.Exists(assetBundleDirectory))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(assetBundleDirectory);
}

    AssetBundleBuild bundleBuild = new AssetBundleBuild
    {
        assetBundleName = $"{assetObject.name}.assetbundle",
        assetNames = new string[] { AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(assetObject) }
    };

    AssetBundleBuild[] buildMap = new AssetBundleBuild[] { bundleBuild };
    BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundles(assetBundleDirectory, buildMap,
                                    BuildAssetBundleOptions.None, BuildTarget.StandaloneOSX);
}```

and they currently drage and drop in a sceneasset file from a little gui i made

[undone coral]

but that file is black
i'm not sure what that means

i'm not familiar with asset bundle building, but you can build an macOS targeted asset bundle on any platform

[slim breach]

I upload a scene as an asset bundle. when I download to play the scene I jsut get a black screen

[undone coral]

i think you need to find the error message that unity is trying to communicate to you

and start there

[undone coral]

ther eisn't anything obviously wrong with this. i assume if it works when BuildTarget.StandaloneWindows64 is set (or hwatever it is) the code is fine

[slim breach]

yup it works for windows

so are you thinking it could be on the download side then?

[undone coral]

i think you need to find the error message that unity is trying to communicate to you

[undone coral]

do you have a macOS device to test on?

[slim breach]

I have a macbook air im trying

I basically downloaded the standalone app onto it

and am trying to download the asset bundle too it from the clouud

[undone coral]

i get it

lol

you're repeating yourself

follow up when you've found the error

i'm sure it's telling you something in the logs

[slim breach]

but I am worried that unity wont work on it

[undone coral]

i think you should see the error first* before you try building on the air

is this an ancient macbook air?

you kind of need a modern macOS device to test on

[slim breach]

just found a log and it said connection refused

going to dig deeper from here!

thank you for the help!

[true grotto]

Hi guys, I don't really know if this is advanced but anyone knows how to check if a Camera is seeing ANYTHING? Already checked GeometryUtility.TestPlanesAABB function but I don't want to compare any bounds... Maybe I should create a BoxCast in the Camera range or something like that?

and OnBecameVisible is only for the objects and I don't really like to use it in every object

[winged jasper]

static void BuildMapABs()
    {
        // Create the array of bundle build details.
        AssetBundleBuild[] buildMap = new AssetBundleBuild[2];

        buildMap[0].assetBundleName = "Cover";

        string[] coverAssets = new string[2];
        coverAssets[0] = "Assets/Maps/DancingDivaCHN/DancingDivaCHN_Cover_2x.png";
        buildMap[0].assetNames = coverAssets;
        buildMap[0].addressableNames = new string[2] {"Cover", "Cover"};

        BuildPipeline.BuildAssetBundles("Assets/AssetBundles", buildMap, BuildAssetBundleOptions.None, BuildTarget.Switch);
    }

does anyone know why the addressable name ends up being lowercase?

[winged jasper]

anyone?

[magic acorn]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/buildassetbundles-changes-filename-case.436739/

it's just a thing apparently

[winged jasper]

hmm...

because somehow the devs managed to do it, and i'm trying to do it accuretly

[vestal nimbus]

Hi ya'll. I was wondering if it was possible to access the SpriteRenderer's keyframes in an AnimationClip at runtime. My goal is writing a mod for a game that allows custom texture packs to be loaded. Changing static Sprites in SpriteRenderer and Image is easy but the part I am stuck on is the animations, since from my knowledge there isn't a way of extracting/changing the keyframes of an animation clip at runtime

[silk sable]

I want to make an editor script where in my code I spawn a bunch of objects, and I want to be able to change the code and regenerate the objects, so that the old ones disapeared.

Am I forced to keep track of every object I spawned to destroy it, or is there some way I don't know

[silk sable]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationClip.SetCurve.html

did you check that ? seems like it could work..

I'm sure you can find some user made open source animation systems also

[vestal nimbus]

yes, but I need to copy over the rest of the animation clip

e.g. transform changes

also since I am making a mod, I can't just go into the editor and change the way the game handles animations

[vestal nimbus]

I'd just keep track of the object, since having stuff like a ToBeDeleted component or a reserved tag is slower than just keeping track of the objects

[warm forum]

Is there a way to save profiler data on Android phone? using Profiler.enabled or something else.

[weary adder]

Source Generators and asmdef Scoping problems!

[winged jasper]

but thats for asset names

im talking about the addressable in container being lowercase

[undone coral]

you can save the collected profiler data in the editor using the save button

[undone coral]

#💻┃code-beginner this is an xy problem, go to code beginner and ask how to achieve specific gameplay you have in mind

[warm forum]

So the issue is that i want to start recording the profiler at a specific point in the code and stop it at a specific point. i am able to get the save .raw file when i run the game in editor but not when i run it on the android.

My game is taking a long time on the splash screen and i want to see what might be happing in the game when its stuck. that the reason I am doing this.

[vestal nimbus]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/profiler-profiling-applications.html
Have you tried connecting the profiler via the adb?

The section "Profiling on mobile devices" gives you help on how to connect the profiler

[undone coral]

My game is taking a long time on the splash screen and i want to see what might be happing in the game when its stuck. that the reason I am doing this.
create a new scene with a button to load your game scene. start in this new scene. start the game. attach the profiler in this new scene. then click the button and see what happens. good luck on your profiling journey!

[vestal nimbus]

also yes I know that all the methods that the Animation Clip has for accessing the curves and what not are set only from the underlying Unity functions, but is there a way to still just read the values

[warm forum]

Yes, i have done that. it still doesn't work.

[warm forum]

Oh thats a good idea, i will do that. Thanks man cheers

[hybrid trout]

Hello I am having a problem with my code but it is hard to explain I am making a prestige system but it isn't working how it is supposed to```cs
public void PrestiageSaveData()
{

    Coins = 50;
    FactoryAmount = 0;
    HowMuchAdded = 10;
    CurrentSpriteIndex = 0;
    CPS = 0;
    NumOfPrestiage++;
    NextSTar();
    NextMoney();
    Save();
    
}
void NextSTar()
{
    StarAmount = NextStarAmount;
    Random r = new Random();
    RandomIndexStar = r.Next(PossibleStarIncreases.Length) + 1;
    double AfterStar = Saving.instance.StarAmount + PossibleStarIncreases[RandomIndexStar];
    Debug.Log(RandomIndexStar);
}
void NextMoney()
{
    CoinsMultiplier = CoinsMultiplierAfter;
    Random r = new Random();
    RandomIndexMoney = r.Next(PossibleMoneyIncreases.Length) + 1;
    double AfterMoney = Saving.instance.CoinsMultiplier + PossibleMoneyIncreases[RandomIndexMoney];
    Debug.LogError(RandomIndexMoney);
}

[shadow orchid]

use Random.Range and map the values to 0.5, 1, 1.5?

[plush hare]

Is there a single assembly that I can reliably use to look through all user scripts/classes with reflection?

so I can skip all of the unity backend assemblies?

[upbeat path]

No. Source code in unity goes into the Assembly-CSharp dll but external code may use their own dlls

[plush hare]

So I mean, if it's just regular C# class files stored inside of the Assets directory, it should pretty much be inside Assembly-CSharp?

I'm not sure what you mean by external code in this sense

[austere jewel]

Unless you are using assembly definitions

And editor code is in a different assembly

[upbeat path]

Yes, all used code goes into the Assembly-CSharp dll. By external code I mean code from assets which either have their own ASM Defs or are supplied in dll format rather than source code

[plush hare]

alright thanks

[pastel wagon]

I need to cut out convex shapes from arbitrary meshes at runtime. I found a CSG library that works in some cases but it fails often when the target mesh is not manifold. I think I know how to build such an algorithm, but does anyone know of a library or anything built in to Unity that would help?

Is there a method in unity for getting the edges of a convex hull?

Or even fetching the planes of the hull (meshcollider)

[compact ingot]

there is no reliable algorithm for boolean operations on polygon meshes, if you need boolean operations you need to use a constructive solid geometry modeller (i.e. CAD software) and convert that CSG geometry to a mesh.

[undone coral]

poseidon CSG works well

for this narrow use case.

you can use a voxel based one like mudbun

[pastel wagon]

What is this from? Mesh.Cut doesn’t seem to be part of unity (or I’m looking in the wrong place). But the whole problem is that the target is not always manifold

[undone coral]

well what csg library are you currently using

what is your game?

[undone coral]

mesh.cut isn't from anywhere, it doesn't exist

[pastel wagon]

https://github.com/karl-/pb_CSG

[undone coral]

did you look at poseidon?

[pastel wagon]

Not yet, I’ll check it out

That one works like 90% of the time, but when it fails it’s pretty bad

[undone coral]

you can also convert non-manifold to manifold geometry

[pastel wagon]

But it’s doing full csg intersections, while I need something slightly sinmpler

[undone coral]

well what is your game

[pastel wagon]

It’s a mod for KSP that lets you move between the inside of parts. The meshes weren’t designed for this so I need to cut out holes to connect them

I can’t just ship edited meshes

As I said, the existing library mostly works but falls apart in some cases. Maybe Poseidon will be better

[stoic compass]

Question to all you advanced programmers: Do you use only the keyboard when programming? Do you use the mouse at all, or no?

[midnight violet]

Copy pasting specific parts to pick out, I use the mosue sometimes, but besides that, I almost only use keyboard if possible

[compact ingot]

use the mouse for all functions that i can't recall the shortcut for

[stoic compass]

What about switching classes or navigating through classes?

[compact ingot]

100% keyboard

[stoic compass]

oh wow

[flint sage]

Depends really what I'm doing

[midnight violet]

You can navigate through tabs

or use quicksearch to find the class

[flint sage]

Writing completely new code that doesn't need to reference anything else, keyboard 100% (or close to)

[south ibex]

What has RendererConfiguration been changed to in the Scriptable Render Pipeline API? I'm trying to follow this: https://catlikecoding.com/unity/tutorials/scriptable-render-pipeline/lights/

but

rendererConfiguration = RendererConfiguration.PerObjectLightIndices8

No longer works because RendererConfiguration no longer exists. I can't seem to find what has replaced it (if anything) through docs, google, etc.

[stoic compass]

I've been using keyboard more, but it seems difficult to navigate down to the specific method I want and then to the specific part of the method I need to change or add

[compact ingot]

you would typically use contextual naviation (jump to definition, jump to usage, jump to last edit), maybe the first time you jump into code you use the mouse

[midnight violet]

Not sur eon windows, but on mac in VS, you can just use command + . and just type the Class in to jump to it

Same for functions or variables

It just jumps there in code

[compact ingot]

also there should be a shortcut to jump from member to member in a class (alt + arrows in Rider)

[stoic compass]

K I'll start grinding keyboard only, lol

[midnight violet]

YOu can add your own shortcuts

[compact ingot]

in RIder there is this Naviage Menu, those are your produtivity boosters

[south ibex]

Anyone know?

[lyric raptor]

does anyone have any experience with streaming audio from a website radio?

[brazen storm]

Are there built-in acceleration structures?

Other than physics

[compact ingot]

what is an acceleration structure?

[brazen storm]

A data structure that optimizes finding data

Usually spatial data structures, often used in physics and rendering

You've probably heard of a quad-tree

Or an octree

Or (most commonly used in ray tracing) a bounding volume hierarchy

[compact ingot]

then no

spatial lookup is a very situation specific problem, especially when it is supposed to be fast, that it would make little sense to include one

[brazen storm]

what

[south ibex]

so I'm guessing no one knows the solution to my problem?

[compact ingot]

thats the reason why there isn't a built-in one that is not specific to or part of a system like physics or rendering

[south ibex]

god I really despise working with the new render pipelines and unity in general nowadays. Can't use built-in because the stuff I want seem to only exist in URP/HDRP, don't want to use URP/HDRP because I want more control over rendering, making my own render pipeline is basically impossible due to out-of-date tutorials that use old API

great engine 👍

[compact ingot]

good luck finding a more customizable one

[brazen storm]

had to collect myself for a moment after reading this

but you're wrong

acceleration structures absolutely make sense to include

[south ibex]

Good luck finding any up-to-date resources on how to customize it too, apparently!

[compact ingot]

you should use the 2018 engine if you follow a tutorial thats made specifically for that

This tutorial is made with Unity 2018.3.0f2.

[south ibex]

love having to use an out-dated version of the engine so I can use an old, out-dated, and experimental API

[brazen storm]

Just because the structure isn't as optimized as it could be, which is an entire science on its own, doesn't mean having a generalized one isn't useful

[compact ingot]

is this doc outdated? https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.3/Documentation/Manual/srp-custom.html

[brazen storm]

Why don't you look for information in the official unity docs?

[south ibex]

I already said I have and couldn't find anything on what replaced RendererConfiguration

[brazen storm]

no, I mean

[compact ingot]

i'm just telling you what everyone making widely used framework has figured out, there also isn't one in all of .NET

[brazen storm]

Why not look at the unity docs for how to setup a custom pipeline

I generally don't look at tutorials outside of the docs because they're usually outdated or just bad

[compact ingot]

you can get plenty of decent R-, KD, Quad-, Oct-Trees on github

[brazen storm]

Of course there isn't one in the base language library, that's a given. I am asking if there's one in Unity. Or even if Unity has official add-ons packages with various acceleration structures.

[south ibex]

doesn't seem to go as far or as deep as the tutorial I'm currently following.

[compact ingot]

not really, the optimization packages it has are meant to enable you to DIY such things in a performant way

[brazen storm]

Then try to see if you can somehow piece them together, or end up trying to figure it out by trial and error.

[brazen storm]

You don't really DIY a performant acceleration structure that easily. There's a reason Intel has a BVH library that's worked on by a dedicated team to make it as fast as possible.

[compact ingot]

never said it is

[brazen storm]

You mean a web radio like an icecast instance?

[weary adder]

This is the way, I barely look at anything but docs for most libraries, just pop open the debugger and manually check the types out live, see how the execution flow works. Running code is the ultimate and real documentation.

[lyric raptor]

yess

[brazen storm]

What is your question?

[lyric raptor]

well i'm not entirely sure its casting from a radio station but i'm trying to retrieve a generated mp3 from amazon polly that it generates and streaming it straight into an audio source

its a bit confusing with the awssdk they provide but i've gotten to this step but it only generates a mp3 file, i was wondering if i could possibly just stream it directly from the source rather than processing it into a local file

[brazen storm]

what is that audiostream object?

you could probably just copy the data to a dynamic audio source

[quiet bolt]

lol didn't know "not" is a keyword

[lyric raptor]

it probably isnt i haven't ran the code fully yet

i mean i learned that it is

but i never used it lol

[lyric raptor]

i'm not entirely sure myself that's what i've been trying to figure out, its not in the documentation for what exactly it does, when i try to copy it to a dynamic audio source it says it cant "convert stream to" whatever audio source i try to output to

i think im missing some inbetween step

[brazen storm]

you need to create an audioclip from the stream

this is more #💻┃code-beginner though

[lyric raptor]

ah, sorry lmao

[sterile snow]

So I have a question, I have a property here of a type I've called "Entity" for some payload class, however there are occasions where I want the precise type and not just it in the form of Entity. For example, "Actor" in my codebase inherits from Entity and has some things I really want from it specifically, but since it's being assigned as Entity, these things I want are being hidden. Is there a way around this?

I have tried making the payload into a generic class but this wasn't really possible with the use cases I require from it.

I technically have a "workaround" as it stands by just saving the exact type underneath as "Actor" but I'm already running into maintenance problems since it's hardly the only type deriving from "Entity" I want to be able to extract from the payload.

[magic acorn]

does unity not give the little checkmarks next to tested methods?

[hot gale]

Right lads, I need some big brains to help me with an issue I've been working on for a bit

I have 2 colours,

I'm trying to change these 2 colours to the same colour; but with the darker shade being darker of course.

Previously I was using HSV Colourspace but that only allowed me 360 colour options

[weary adder]

If you are sure that particular instance will always be an "Actor" inheritor, you can recast its type in one of a few expressions, including some fancy type gating

Actor actor = (Actor)entity;
Actor actor = entity as Actor;
if(entity is Actor actor)
   DoSomethingWithActorCast(actor);

[sterile snow]

Oh that's actually a great solution! Well let's say I want to check if it is precisely "Actor" before I recast it. Would that check look like this?
entity.GetType() == typeof(Actor)

Keeping in mind that at this point, the property saved it as type "Entity", which Actor inherits from.

[weary adder]

Thats the 3rd example, you can just straight up check if its whatever type:

if(thing.entity is Actor) DoThing();
else if (thing.entity is OtherThing otherThing) DoOtherThingWithRecastedMember(otherThing);
else DoNotSupport();

[sterile snow]

Oh excellent, much appreciated!! Guess it was much simpler than I thought it would be.

[weary adder]

Yeah, no problem! C# handles types really well imo, wish some of these features were a bit more popular

[sterile snow]

Believe it or not I was just a moment ago trying to hack something together using generic methods and dynamic type, but this makes it so much less annoying lmao

[weary adder]

Wait, are you trying to make them the same color, or keeping the darker part darker (therefore still having 2 colors)?

[hot gale]

Like a Hue shift, but using hues before created some issues

[weary adder]

Gotcha, how you go about this is really determined where and what for your doing it, is this a texture on a model, or some sort of a datasource for another process?

[hot gale]

It's for colourising pixel art so I dont have to make a new file for each skin

[weary adder]

Ah, would recommend the tried and true making base texture grayscale and using a simple color property on a shader to tint (think this works on the built-in ones), so you can adjust it very efficiently on the fly. Throw in some draw instancing, and you can have a bunch with their own unique colors off the one texture

[lament salmon]

Yeah a simple shader is the way to go here

[hot gale]

I made a Sprite Mask and simply multiplied it by the colour I wanted

Inside of a Shader Graph

[sly grove]

So... OnControllerColliderHit gets called as part of you calling move. So you could do something like:

bool isTouchingAWall = false;
Update() {
  isTouchingAWall = false;
  cc.Move();

  if (isTouchingAWall) {
    // slow movement this frame.
  }
}

void OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit hit) {
  bool isWallHit = (hit.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.CollidedSides) != 0;
  isTouchingAWall |= isWallhit;
}

Actually from your question I'm not sure I understand how the wall normals come into play here but this general approach can be used for whatever you need I believe.

[sly grove]

that's not much more complex

in fact it's less complex

Vector3 velocity;
Update() {
  velocity = <whatever>
  cc.Move(velocity);
}

void OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit hit) {
  bool isWallHit = (hit.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.CollidedSides) != 0;
  if (isWallHit) {
    velocity = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(velocity, hit.normal);
  }
}```

no?

you already solved it

bool isWallHit = (hit.collisionFlags & CollisionFlags.CollidedSides) != 0; that's what this is for

wdym

not sure I follow

Do you not get a separate OnControllerColliderHit for each collider you hit?

yes

it should get called once for each collider you hit

how does it not? You ignore the hits on the floor, and adjust the velocity when it's a wall hit

Here https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ControllerColliderHit-point.html

With the line of code we discussed like 3 times already...?

[sly grove]

this one

well i mean if you're getting a hit normal couldn't you also just use that?

e.g. cs float threshold = 5f; if ((Vector3.Angle(Vector3.up, hit.normal) - 90) < threshold) { // it's a wall hit }

you keep adding new complications 😛

So you did, that was a while ago 🙂

I also just realized that the collision flags are on the Controller not on the struct you get in the callback

which is not super useful

Can you just give a specific tag and/or component to your "wall" objects

and look for that?

I actually also have no idea how CC handles step offset with ControllerColliderHit

do you get a callback when it goes up a step?

Could you use ramps instead of steps?

or does that break other stuff

wdym? Use them for what

You use it for what though?

A raycast or something?

I'm just not sure what you mean by multiple layermasks tbh

Your layermask can contain multiple layers

[young wraith]

Hi what is the module for AsynchronousOperation? I'm getting an error "The type or namespace name 'AsynchronousOperation' could not be found"

[somber swift]

Show the code

[pulsar tundra]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone could help me with 3d Perlin?? I would like to create spherical or elliptical shapes when marching my cube, I understand that I need to define a radius whereby the points are kept if they're within the radius and discarded if not, I'm just not sure how I would implement that

[stuck onyx]

I have this simple monorail, the car AI simply follows the waypoints in the curves, and when gets to the waypoint ask for the next one and turns.....

now.... I want to add wagons to the engine car..... am I going to need to add 1 carAI for each wagon?

I dont see any other way of doing so but seems a bit stupid

i mean the engine knows when has to change direction because it has a check method in the AI Update method that tells when has arrived to the waypoint but howelese can i tell the wagons to turn (rotate) if its not having also an AI that checks if has gotten to the waypoint?

[pliant crest]

just have a destination list

once you reach here turn or something

might not even have to be a list tbf

[stuck onyx]

yeah but what i mean is each wagon would need to be checking that

[pliant crest]

but probably does

thats fine ?

just each wagon has its own list

[stuck onyx]

hmm yeah i guess so

i thought it was a waste of resources but its just an object moving to a point in the end

[pliant crest]

worry about that later

if it really matters

[stuck onyx]

true

[pliant crest]

acouple of vector3s aint gonna break your back

in memory

[stuck onyx]

yeah, thanks

[livid kraken]

How can I make a TextMeshPro Input Field consume keyabord events so that typing in the box does not trigger other hotkeys. I'd really hate to have to write a manager and check bools everywhere if the search box is selected.

[orchid marsh]

Probably could do so with the new input system and removing/adding delegates when appropriate.

[livid kraken]

yep, but unfortunately the new input system is currently out of scope for this project

[orchid marsh]

Input Manager with an event based input detection where all input would be funneled through this class - observer pattern.

ie reinventing the new Input System (wheel)

[livid kraken]

sadly it looks like I would have to slap a Action and use that. The old Input static class that is being used seems to have no connection to the event system. The input field itlsef is consuming the BaseEventData object already

[inland prairie]

Hello, how can I get the angle values as shown in the inspector?

[devout hare]

#💻┃code-beginner but transform.eulerAngles

if you want values from -180 to 180 you have to subtract 360 from each individual axis if they're over 180

[inland prairie]

Yeah tried that and works well for axis x and z but spinning axis y makes the other axes to change

[devout hare]

Euler angles aren't unique, each rotation can have (infinitely) many Euler angle representations

[inland prairie]

Yes, that is the tricky part and why this is not a beginner question, I know the inspector is doing some manipulation behind the scenes with a property only available with reflection called m_LocalEulerAngles

However reflection is too expensive to call every update so I want to know how to calculate the value displayed in the inspector

[devout hare]

There shouldn't ever be a real need to do that

Have a separate variable that tracks the rotation you want, you shouldn't rely on what the calculated Euler angles are

[inland prairie]

That is the challenge, when I isolate variables with each angle, it works like charm for x and z

but there is no way to spin Y without it making the other angles to change

[flint sage]

Use quaternions instead

[devout hare]

If it's your own variable then it's impossible for the other values to change

[flint sage]

You're running into gimbal lock

[inland prairie]

They are changing because the value I get from eulerAngles changes

[flint sage]

Unity doesn't store the rotation as eulerangles

It's a quaternion

[devout hare]

And I'm saying don't get the values from eulerAngles

use your own variable

[inland prairie]

Once I have my own variable, where do I get the angles from?

[devout hare]

The variable is the angle

[inland prairie]

How can I transform this quaternion to display the values as displayed in the Unity Inspector?

[flint sage]

Why do you want that

[inland prairie]

Same thing, when I get each angle, rotating Y will make the other angles to change

[devout hare]

🤦

[inland prairie]

I need to get the x,y,z angles from somewhere, problem is that when I spin Y, when I retrieve the X and Z they are not 0

[devout hare]

Vector3 myRotation = new Vector3(10, 0, 42);

void Update()
{
    myRotation.y += Time.deltaTime * 10;
    transform.eulerAngles = myRotation;
}

I can guarantee that myRotation.x and myRotation.z do not change

[inland prairie]

I have an API that provides euler angles the same way the inspctor does

I need to compare those angles with my object's rotation

[devout hare]

well that's a completely different issue

you can't compare Euler angles with each other

[inland prairie]

I intent to compare the value of each axis on an euler angle

[devout hare]

Reality doesn't care about your intentions

it'll never work that way

[inland prairie]

but mathematically and logistically is possible

[devout hare]

no, it's specifically impossible mathematically

[inland prairie]

those are values stored in memory that I can compute the same way and should match

which bring me back to my original problem, how can I compute the value the same way Unity does to obtain m_LocalEulerAngles

if they do it in a deterministic way which they do, then the algorithm can be replicated and I should be able to get the same value

this is what Im looking

[devout hare]

Is that how the API does it?

[inland prairie]

I think so, I think they read m_LocalEulerAngles

but they do it not in update

problem is reading that in Update takes too much time

instead of reading it I want to calculate it

[devout hare]

And that would be faster somehow?

[inland prairie]

ofc, math operations are a lot faster than using reflection

[devout hare]

that's... not true

[inland prairie]

okay...

[devout hare]

Calculating 100 million prime numbers is a math operation. Getting the value of one variable with reflection is a bit faster than that.

(and yes, it's not exactly the same thing, no need to point that out)

[inland prairie]

so you have to bring an example that requires 100 million operations to prove your point x)

I thought you were being realistic

[devout hare]

#archived-code-advanced message

[inland prairie]

If unity is doing it for the inspector Im sure they dont do 100 M operations

[devout hare]

The point being that "math operation is a lot faster" is obviously not true

[inland prairie]

ok, you are saying than an arithmetic operation is slower than a reflection call?

[devout hare]

Are you saying that you can convert a quaternion to Euler angles with one arithmetic operation?

[inland prairie]

Please lets see facts

A call using reflection to get m_LocalEulerAngles is taking several milliseconds

Unity displayng the values in the inspector is not causing any extra time

given those facts I know whatever operation to calculate them is faster than reflection since they are already doing it every update to show them in the inspector

[devout hare]

but they're not doing that

[inland prairie]

they do, they added it on 5.3 to make easier animating similar to animating euler angles

but thats ok, thanks for the help, later will show you some profiling

[sly grove]

This is kind of an XY problem. Getting these inspector numbers is almost certianly not the best way to solve whatever problem you have.

[inland prairie]

I totally agree for most problems is preferable to work with quaternions and I would prefer so, however this problem in particular is in essence to display this values in a UI on a build for non technical people such as animators

Is in fact the same reason Unity added support to animate m_localEulerAngles, to make it easier for animators to animate in values they are familiar# from other 3D editing soffware

[compact ingot]

its not just for animators, quaternion values are meaningless (i.e. too complex) even to someone understanding how they work

[inland prairie]

Indeed, is already hard to do math with 3 dimensions vectors much more complicated to work with an imaginary extra dimension >__<

[compact ingot]

are you sure the inspector shows different values then what rotation.eulerAngles returns?

[inland prairie]

Im away from my computer now but will try again in a a couple of hours, I appreciate the help

[compact ingot]

m_LocalRotation is not a field on a Transform (it shows it in the inspector debug mode, but it doesn't really exist if you decompile the Transform class)

this is the implementation of eulerAngles```cs
private static Vector3 Internal_MakePositive(Vector3 euler)
{
float num1 = -9f / (500f * Math.PI);
float num2 = 360f + num1;
if ((double) euler.x < (double) num1)
euler.x += 360f;
else if ((double) euler.x > (double) num2)
euler.x -= 360f;
if ((double) euler.y < (double) num1)
euler.y += 360f;
else if ((double) euler.y > (double) num2)
euler.y -= 360f;
if ((double) euler.z < (double) num1)
euler.z += 360f;
else if ((double) euler.z > (double) num2)
euler.z -= 360f;
return euler;
}

/// <summary>
///   <para>Returns or sets the euler angle representation of the rotation.</para>
/// </summary>
public Vector3 eulerAngles
{
  [MethodImpl((MethodImplOptions) 256)] get => Quaternion.Internal_MakePositive(Quaternion.Internal_ToEulerRad(this) * 57.29578f);
  [MethodImpl((MethodImplOptions) 256)] set => this = Quaternion.Internal_FromEulerRad(value * ((float) Math.PI / 180f));
}

euler angles are also not computed automatically when a transform updates, they are implemented as properties using the above code to do the calculations

    /// <summary>
    ///   <para>The rotation as Euler angles in degrees.</para>
    /// </summary>
    public Vector3 eulerAngles
    {
      get => this.rotation.eulerAngles;
      set => this.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(value);
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///   <para>The rotation as Euler angles in degrees relative to the parent transform's rotation.</para>
    /// </summary>
    public Vector3 localEulerAngles
    {
      get => this.localRotation.eulerAngles;
      set => this.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(value);
    }

[inland prairie]

Indeed, thx for this, will try again looking at how this was implemented

[fickle ether]

hey everyone, i just wanted to ask that is it good if i use IEnumerator with while function for my UI lerp animations instead of LateUpdate void?
is it more performance ?

[livid kraken]

It is not more performance

[fickle ether]

so then i should keep it up on LateUpdate ?

i mean, update void is always updating it every frame, but IE won't

then what is the best solution for this, what function is most preformance for this ?

[livid kraken]

LateUpdate will also update it every frame so will IE

[fickle ether]

yes but only if i call it... like only when i wanna change the color

and then i can stop it

[livid kraken]

Well yes but during the actuall change it doesnt matter if you do it in update or lateupdate or a coroutine where you add delta time and check the time. In fact a coroutine will generate more garbage for the garbage collector

[fickle ether]

soo... then i should just keep it on update ?

but sadly update is always keeping update the color value... but IE won't

what do you prefer for this solution ?

[undone coral]

you should be using DOTween to do tweening #archived-code-general correctly implemented there's no meaningful difference between these three approaches for doing work every frame from a performance perspective

[undone coral]

BaseEventData has a used property. however, that's moving the cheese - now you have to check if an event is used 🙂

[livid kraken]

We just went with raising a Action when then inpit is selected

[undone coral]

this looks nice

[fickle ether]

thanks

[regal olive]

 public Quaternion anguloW = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, -10f);
 public Quaternion anguloS = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, 10f);

void Rotation()
    {
        float angleZ = transform.eulerAngles.z;
        angleZ = Mathf.DeltaAngle(0f, angleZ);

        if (verticalInput == 1 && angleZ <= 34f)
        {
            transform.rotation *= anguloW;
        }

        if( verticalInput == -1 && angleZ >= -34f)
        {
            transform.rotation *= anguloS;
        }

The anguloW rotates faster than the anguloS rotation, does anyone know why, and how to solve it?

[jolly token]

This requires editor-only information and not possible to obtain it in runtime 😛

In editor you can obtain with TransformUtils.GetInspectorRotation

[scenic sapphire]

Wonder how do you guys debug graphic raycast looking for unwanted raycast blockers when EventSystem shows blank selection on the editor window?

[unique ermine]

Can anyone point me into the right direction when it comes to write and read from JSON to a class?
I have a class that contains custom classes as attributes and I somehow want to write that class to JSON but with custom write functionality.
Let's say I have an attribute called 'Animal' which is from type 'Animal' which is a scriptable object.

I now want to only write the ID of that scriptableobject if I want to write to JSON with that class, is that possible?
Obviously when trying to get that class from JSON I would need additional read logic which would convert that given animal ID into the correct ScriptableObject.
Is that possible?
Any articles or anything would help :))

edit: My current solution is a bit odd in my opinion where I made an extra class for each class I want to serialize via JSON.

[jolly token]

How to do this depends on what kind of json converter library you are using. Are you using Json.NET?

[regal olive]

?

[unique ermine]

Due to me redoing my backend I'm pretty much using none anymore
so if anything suits I would pick that.

what I mean is I'm not depending on any library atm

[jolly token]

For Json.NET you'd write custom converter:
https://www.newtonsoft.com/json/help/html/CustomJsonConverterGeneric.htm

[unique ermine]

Alright, I'll have a look at it.
It does look like I need it

[inland prairie]

Actually using reflection to get this information works on compiled builds just fine, except that this call is expensive

[jolly token]

m_LocalEulerAngles is not an actual field according to unity cs code, and typeof(Transform).GetField("m_LocalEulerAngles", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic) is null. What do you mean by you are accessing with reflection?

[inland prairie]

like this:

SerializedObject serializedObject = new UnityEditor.SerializedObject(transform);
SerializedProperty serializedEulerHint = serializedObject.FindProperty("m_LocalEulerAnglesHint");
Debug.Log(serializedEulerHint.vector3Value);

[jolly token]

This is unity serialization, and SerializedObject is editor-only API

So I doubt "works on compiled builds" is true

[inland prairie]

For some reason this is working fine on a non dev build, even CLoud build compiles just fine, but I do know is not good to use this private API since this might eventually change

That is why Im trying not to use it

[jolly token]

The type or namespace name 'SerializedObject' does not exist in the namespace 'UnityEditor' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

That gives this when you try to build

Even if you get it working, m_LocalEulerAnglesHint is something editor set when you change rotation through inspector

Not usable with all other rotation change happening in runtime

[inland prairie]

If thats the case maybe there was something else when I tested it, however is not worth investigating because that is the exact thing I dont want to use

I tried a few things and one of them was working on a build, however it was just as PoC as I never intended to use private API

[jolly token]

Yeah anyways obtaining m_LocalEulerAnglesHint is not what you want, as it only set when you changed via inspector/gizmos from editor

[inland prairie]

yep, this is what I said from the beginning 🙂

Im trying to calculate these angles myself the same way the Unity inspector does

I just cannot figure it out

sometimes I feel I get it but there is always one scenario when it doesnt work

[jolly token]

Because you can't without saving euler angles as separate variable

And that's what inspector does with the hint information

[inland prairie]

yeah, I will need to go back and have separate axis convertion of euler angles so each one of them is calculated idnependently of each other

started like this but didnt got it quite right so I moved to some other operations like Vectr3's SignedAngle methods and other things

but will revisit again my euler angle logic and see if I can get it right this time

[pastel wagon]

ended up making my own...seems to work ok in simple tests at least:

[jolly token]

Sounds like it will cause gimbal lock .. anyways
This may be what you want, not tested myself
https://forum.unity.com/threads/quaternion-to-three-hinge-joints.552892/#post-6375027

[inland prairie]

yeah the gymbal lock is what Im mostly dealing with

I cannot find a deterministic way to know when I should substract 180 from the other axis to zero them when one axis is spining and after some point gets into a gymbal lock and changes the value of the other axis

[inland prairie]

I already tried this but has the same defect

[jolly token]

Well good luck, I don't think Unity does it with algorithm, I'm pretty sure it is only possible in Unity because user uses gizmo handle which gives specific axis they are willing to rotate. In runtime we don't have such information

[inland prairie]

Thanks, well, will see because calling this internal m_localEulerAngles seems to compute it at that time

[tribal willow]

what exactly are you facing?

i came late i think

[inland prairie]

I also know other 3D software have their own logic to display this info on the editors and I think they have come to a standard

[inland prairie]

Oh, I am trying to calculate the values of each axis of a rotation as shown in the Unity inspector

it sounds simple but the challenge is when Unity has to rotate the other axes by 180 to avoid gimbal lock, but on the inspector they still show as zero since they are doing some internal manipulation to show it like that

[tribal willow]

In Unity, when you rotate a GameObject, the rotations on each axis are stored as Euler angles in a Vector3 object. You can access the current Euler angles of a GameObject by using the transform.eulerAngles property.

[inland prairie]

thats right, but the euler angles do not represent what is shown on the inspector

[tribal willow]

However, it's important to note that the Euler angles shown in the inspector are not always accurate when it comes to gimbal lock. This is because when Unity encounters gimbal lock, it will automatically rotate the GameObject on one or more axes to avoid the issue. This means that the Euler angles shown in the inspector may not accurately reflect the actual rotations of the GameObject in the scene.

[inland prairie]

That is precisely the problem I am facing

[tribal willow]

To get the actual rotations of the GameObject, you can use the transform.rotation property, which returns a Quaternion object representing the rotation. You can then use the Quaternion.ToEulerAngles method to convert the Quaternion to Euler angles, which will give you the true rotations of the GameObject, even in cases of gimbal lock.

[inland prairie]

Yeah, however I don't need the real rotation, I need the values as shown in the unity inspector

This is for a dev tool for non tech people like animators where they will provide values as shown on the inspector, they need to see them on a build

[tribal willow]

// Get the Euler angles as shown in the inspector
Vector3 eulerAngles = transform.eulerAngles;

// Print the Euler angles to the console
Debug.Log("X: " + eulerAngles.x + ", Y: " + eulerAngles.y + ", Z: " + eulerAngles.z);

[inland prairie]

That is correct, but this wont always reflect what the inspector shows

[tribal willow]

the Euler angles returned by transform.eulerAngles will be in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis, so you may need to adjust the values if you want them to be in a different range. Also, as mentioned earlier, the Euler angles shown in the inspector may not always accurately reflect the actual rotations of the GameObject in the scene, so you may want to use the transform.rotation and Quaternion.ToEulerAngles methods instead if you need the true rotations of the GameObject.

[inland prairie]

Precisely my problem, it doesn;t seem to be deterministic

[tribal willow]

what about

Vector3 eulerAngles = transform.localEulerAngles;

[inland prairie]

Yeah but that is ok, I don;t want the actual rotation values, I need to obtain the values as shown in the inspector

[tribal willow]

try
Vector3 eulerAngles = transform.localEulerAngles;

[thin mesa]

the angles returned by transform.eulerAngles aren't only unsigned angles, they can be signed angles as well. it really depends on how they are interpreted from the quaternion

[inland prairie]

this will present the same problem when unity avoids the gimbal lock

[tribal willow]

// Get the current Euler angles of the GameObject
Vector3 eulerAngles = transform.eulerAngles;

// Rotate the GameObject on each axis by the same amount as shown in the inspector
transform.Rotate(-eulerAngles.x, -eulerAngles.y, -eulerAngles.z);

// Get the new Euler angles of the GameObject
Vector3 correctedEulerAngles = transform.eulerAngles;
``` this could work then

[inland prairie]

it does

I was thinking something around that, however at some point and it doesnt seem to be deterministic, one angle will stop matching

[tribal willow]

// Get the current rotation of the GameObject as a Quaternion
Quaternion rotation = transform.rotation;

// Convert the Quaternion to Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis
Vector3 eulerAngles = Quaternion.eulerAngles;

[inland prairie]

Tried that but if the object was rotated to avoid gimbal lock then some axis wont match what is on the editor

[tribal willow]

well i dont see more solutions

[inland prairie]

most difficult is to know when an axis was rotated so I can account for it in my computation

because for a Quaternion, there are multiple ways to resolve

[tribal willow]

use the Quaternion.ToEulerAngles method, which converts a Quaternion rotation to Euler angles in the range of -180 to 180 on each axis. This means that the values returned by Quaternion.ToEulerAngles`??

will match the Euler angles shown in the inspector,

[inland prairie]

let me try that

it works 100% for 2 axes, is always one of them when I spin it at some point other axis will change, this is because I calculate all of them on Update

[tribal willow]

what happened 💀

[inland prairie]

I need to figure out if I need to multiply each axis for Pi or 180 or something else because Quaternion.ToEulerAngles is giving me some values between -Pi and Pi

just need to convert it to Degrees

[tribal willow]

The Quaternion.ToEulerAngles method returns Euler angles in the range of -180 to 180 on each axis. This means that you do not need to multiply the values by Pi or 180 to convert them to the correct range. The values returned by Quaternion.ToEulerAngles are already in the correct range and can be used as-is.

[inland prairie]

I need to convert it to Degrees like this:

        eulerAngle = new Vector3(eulerAngle.x * 57.2958F, eulerAngle.y * 57.2958F,eulerAngle.z * 57.2958F);```

[tribal willow]

To convert the values returned by Quaternion.ToEulerAngles from radians to degrees, you can simply multiply each value by 180 and divide by Math.PI. This will convert the range of -Math.PI to Math.PI to the range of -180 to 180, which is the same range as the Euler angles shown in the Unity inspector.

[inland prairie]

yep

[tribal willow]

yeah works

[inland prairie]

180/pi is 57.2958

however the gimbal lock gets in the way >__<

[tribal willow]

// Get the current rotation of the GameObject as a Quaternion
Quaternion rotation = transform.rotation;

// Convert the Quaternion to Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis
Vector3 eulerAngles = rotation.eulerAngles;

Vector3 eulerAnglesDegrees = new Vector3(
    eulerAngles.x * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.y * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.z * 57.2958F
);

[inland prairie]

this is close

[tribal willow]

what did u do?

[inland prairie]

but I need to keep track on how many spins it has done

I did the last thing you suggested

[tribal willow]

u want to keep track?

[inland prairie]

oh but it doesnt work well on other axes

[tribal willow]

// Initialize counter variables for each axis
int xSpinss = 0;
int ySpins = 0;
int zSpins = 0;

// Get the current rotation of the GameObject as a Quaternion
Quaternion rotation = transform.rotation;

// Convert the Quaternion to Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis
Vector3 eulerAngles = rotation.eulerAngles;

// Increment the counter variables if the Euler angles on each axis exceed 360 degrees
if (eulerAngles.x > 360) xSpins++;
if (eulerAngles.y > 360) ySpins++;
if (eulerAngles.z > 360) zSpins++;

// Convert the Euler angles from radians to degrees using the formula provided
Vector3 eulerAnglesDegrees = new Vector3(
    eulerAngles.x * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.y * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.z * 57.2958F
);

If the Quaternion.eulerAngles property is not giving you the correct Euler angles on some axes, it is likely because the Quaternion rotation of the GameObject is not in the range expected by the eulerAngles property. This property expects the Quaternion rotation to be in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis, and if the Quaternion rotation is outside of this range, the eulerAngles property may not give the correct results.

[inland prairie]

still doesnt work, it seems eulerAngles is not going over 360

however the Inspector knows how many spins it has done somehow

probably getting that info from the gimbal widget in the editor

they probably keep track of a separate variable for the user input rotation

then convert that to their object rotation but still display the input the user is using on the inspector

if that is actually what they are doing then this problem has no solution

[tribal willow]

// Get the current rotation of the GameObject as a Quaternion
Quaternion rotation = transform.rotation;

// Convert the Quaternion to Euler angles in the range of -180 to 180 on each axis
Vector3 eulerAngles = rotation.ToEulerAngles();

// Adjust the Euler angles to match the values shown in the inspector
eulerAngles.x = eulerAngles.x % 360;
eulerAngles.y = eulerAngles.y % 360;
eulerAngles.z = eulerAngles.z % 360;

// Convert the Euler angles from radians to degrees using the formula provided
Vector3 eulerAnglesDegrees = new Vector3(
    eulerAngles.x * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.y * 57.2958F,
    eulerAngles.z * 57.2958F
);

[inland prairie]

same issue

I think that is actually how they are doing it so there is no solution

[tribal willow]

You are correct that the Quaternion.eulerAngles property does not take into account the number of full revolutions (or "spins") that a GameObject has made when converting a Quaternion rotation to Euler angles. This property only returns Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis, and any rotations beyond this range will be wrapped back into the 0 to 360 range.

[inland prairie]

they must have a separate varialbe storing what the user entered, lets say 540 degrees

then they convert those 540 degrees to a rotation on the object which is 180

and then there is no way to obtain from the object what the initial user intention was, you cannot know if they input 180, or 540 or 900, all you can know is that the object is rotated 180

only the editor is keeping track of that user input and that is what they are showing on the inspector

[tribal willow]

{
    // The Euler angles entered by the user in the inspector
    public Vector3 eulerAngles;

    // The current rotation of the GameObject as a Quaternion
    private Quaternion rotation;

    void OnValidate()
    {
        // Update the Quaternion rotation of the GameObject when the user
        // changes the Euler angles in the inspector
        rotation = Quaternion.Euler(eulerAngles);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // Update the rotation of the GameObject with the calculated Quaternion rotation
        transform.rotation = rotation;
    }
}
```Unity may use a separate variable to store the Euler angles that are entered by the user in the inspector, and then convert these values to Quaternion rotations for the GameObject in the scene.

[inland prairie]

that seems to be what is happening

[tribal willow]

// Get the user-input Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis
Vector3 eulerAngles = transform.localEulerAngles;

[inland prairie]

This is probably why using reflection to get the user input value was the only way to get that value in the inspector, but this will not work on a build

[tribal willow]

the only way to get the user-input Euler angles in a build is to use the Transform.localEulerAngles property, which returns the user-input Euler angles in the range of 0 to 360 on each axis. This property is supported in Unity builds and can be used to get the user-input Euler angles without using reflection.

[inland prairie]

that is almost true

however if the user inputs -1 on the inspector

euler angles will still return 359

Im referring as user input as the input the dev user enters on the inspector or by using the gimbal widget

Yeah, need to create a tool that reflect this values so animators and non tech people can give specs to developers

[regal olive]

To get the correct Euler angles on all axes in these cases, you will need to use a different approach. One way to do this is to use the Quaternion.ToEulerAngles method, which converts a Quaternion rotation to Euler angles in the range of -180 to 180 on each axis. This method is more flexible than the Transform.localEulerAngles property and can handle Quaternion rotations outside of the 0 to 360 range.

[compact ingot]

FYI, the inspector representation of the rotation makes a call into native code with a rotation order parameter

    [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
    private extern void GetLocalEulerAngles_Injected(RotationOrder order, out Vector3 ret);

  internal enum RotationOrder
  {
    OrderXYZ,
    OrderXZY,
    OrderYZX,
    OrderYXZ,
    OrderZXY,
    OrderZYX,
  }

[inland prairie]

interesting, this explain why it seemed to be non deterministic because there are many scenarios and I could not cover all f them

[compact ingot]

and rotation order seems to be an Editor only thing even in native code

    [NativeMethod("GetRotationOrder")]
    [NativeConditional("UNITY_EDITOR")]
    [MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]
    internal extern int GetRotationOrderInternal();

[inland prairie]

but ofc it has to be deterministic

[compact ingot]

you could ofc make your own logic for consistently displaying a quaternion like the editor does

[inland prairie]

yeah but there is a big problem I explained before

tho is more a problem that can be avoided

because there is no way to know if the intended rotation was -1 or 359, the inspector can show either -1 or 359 and in a build you would not know this

but this is a silly problem because we can just tell the animators and designers to only use values between 0 and 360

if a non tech person sees the dev used -1 when looking at the inspector but in the specs it says 359 they might get confused

but again, is not a real problem as long as we tell them to only use values between 0 and 360

[compact ingot]

there is some argument to be made for allowing any value in euler angle fields in a UI

[inland prairie]

it is

[compact ingot]

constraining it to 0..360 is very annoying

[inland prairie]

specially if an animator designer wants to animate in certain direction

[compact ingot]

for anyone

[inland prairie]

is more clear to say animate from 0 to -10 than from 0 to 350

[compact ingot]

its silly to add a keyframe to go form 360 to 0 smoothly just because you cant use a value that would rollover

[compact ingot]

not the same thing

[inland prairie]

yes this is what Im trying to say

[compact ingot]

0 to -10 is 10°, 0 to 350 is 350 degrees

[inland prairie]

this is why I wanted to match what the inspector shows in a build

[compact ingot]

and it has to duplicate the editor behaviour exactly?

[inland prairie]

if possible because this tool will help them define the angles the devs should be using

[compact ingot]

well, if you can live with a somewhat custom behaviour you should be able to DIY something similar to what the editor does internally

[inland prairie]

Im thinking I will need to know the velocity the animator is rotating the object in a build in order to determine if the angle is intended to be 359 or -1

[compact ingot]

you need to see the next keyframe to figure that out

[inland prairie]

yeah, or the previous frame

[compact ingot]

no

you need to see the next one

[inland prairie]

but I cannot see the future =S

[compact ingot]

its in the data, ofc you can

[inland prairie]

I mean

they are not creating animations with this tool

they are only prototyping

they move things and place them with certain rotation and positions then they take note of the values they see on the inspector

but using the Unity Editor creates overheat for them

[compact ingot]

thats fine but then they are also not capturing any information about direction

[inland prairie]

so we want to make a build

[compact ingot]

so you need to tell them to add that data

[inland prairie]

yeah

[compact ingot]

dont infer it from some weird assumptions

[inland prairie]

that or I try to get their intention by looking the direction they are rotating things

[compact ingot]

you can give them handles like in a animation editor to define the direction

[inland prairie]

yeah

[compact ingot]

dont do that, use handles, way fewer edge cases

[inland prairie]

that is true

[compact ingot]

inferred stuff like that is always annoying when its not 100% predictable

[inland prairie]

I have separate data from the input they will use regardless, I can use this data to know their intention

[compact ingot]

i'd abandon the notion of their intent

make them specifiy it explicitly

don't omit data because you think you can infer what a designer was thinking

[inland prairie]

Well, the input is specific, the intention is what is only certainty inside their heads

[compact ingot]

exactly, so force them to make it explicit

have them write it down

[inland prairie]

if they moved the joystic left to rotate, this input will tell me I should use a negative degree

[compact ingot]

no

this will fail

it will be unreliable and your designer will not trust the system works

there is just no way to do this reliably for all possible edge cases

[inland prairie]

that is possible because they might had overdone it and want to reduce the angle by moving the joystick to the right

[regal olive]

bro how long u can be stuck on this one

leave behind if its their problem like the unity

[compact ingot]

you should indeed stop overthinking it

and ditch all ideas of inferring designer intent

[inland prairie]

Well, point is that I am paid to design a system that will make their lifes easier by doing most things for them

making them not use the editor anymore

[compact ingot]

you are making it worse if you start inferring stuff

they will hate your tool if they cant spec stuff explicitly

[inland prairie]

yeah, so will instead somehow request they capure data such as direction explicitly

[compact ingot]

yes

also take a step back and look at your design of the tool from the POV of a cynical observer, explain exactly why it isnt a dumb overcomplication

mind that the actuall boost to productivity is usually not in making a nice tool to record or construct something, its in putting tools in there to go back and edit/fix/test changes efficiently

[inland prairie]

for the most part it is done, they are actually happy with it but the biggest feature request is for angles to match what a dev will enter in the editor

[compact ingot]

tbh this seems like a flawed workflow

[inland prairie]

yeah, but that is out of my scope =/

[regal olive]

@tribal willow gave a lot of sample you could do some adjustments to get it working

[inland prairie]

I tried to push for a system where they would not write down specs and instead export those data and import them into unity directly

but received push back, they want to still capture this data in redline documents to share with devs and execs I think

[inland prairie]

for the reasons we explored there is no actual solution for that, as we have come to realize is that we need to capture the direction and amount of spins

because that data is only available on the editor

[regal olive]

o sad

maybe read it from memory idk

[inland prairie]

we can, but only in the editor x)

once the build is compiled, that Editor API is stripped out

[regal olive]

):

[inland prairie]

Come to think of it, this is exactly what happens when animating on Unity, if you make a key frame with rotation 0 and another key frame with rotation 180, who knows what is the direction it will animate x) Being explicit on direction is the key

[compact ingot]

exactly

[regal olive]

unreal engine is shining for you sir. maybe its the only solution

[inland prairie]

LoL

[weary adder]

Wut, how did I miss C# 8 has special indices operators? Let’s you do things like instantly select last element and what looks like spread/range selection

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-8.0/ranges

[austere jewel]

No idea, pay attention more 😛

It's wonderful in combination with spans, having read-only stack-only slices of things like strings save you so much overhead

[eager glacier]

Working on a 2d puzzle game and implementing puzzle completion. For example, the user completes a puzzle, a bunch of gears start turning, they can't move the puzzle anymore, music begins to play, after a few seconds the screen darkens, and then the next scene is loaded.

I was writing my own set of components for doing the sequenced stuff. But then I decided to look around to see what already existed and found the timelines package. It works pretty well, despite the sparse documentation, and I soon had my scene converted to use timelines.

But then I noticed an issue, while I could use signals and a signal receiver on one object to trigger some of the end of level changes, i.e. disabling user input scripts and loading the next scene after a few seconds. There doesn't seem to be a way to broadcast a signal to a bunch of disparate GameObjects with their own SignalReceivers. I started writing my own set of components that would retransmit a signal from the PlayableDirector object to other objects with just SignalReceivers, but I wanted to know if there was something I was missing.

[keen cloud]

Is there a method to calculate space complexity of a function

in c#

i found one for python but not c#

ie https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59114941/is-there-a-python-method-to-calculate-space-complexity

[sly grove]

Is that not just telling you to use a memory profiler?

[keen cloud]

hm

[keen cloud]

yeah thank you im bad

[inland prairie]

Hi again, I moved into another topic but still dealing with Quaternions, this time I try to find the middle angle of 2 quaternions using
Quaternion.Lerp(angleA.rotation, angleB.rotation , 0.5f);
However you can see on the gif, the middle angle jumps to the other side as soon as the angle is more than 180, I cannot figure out how to still give me the middle point

https://i.gyazo.com/cfd56965a9b3c59b593a07eaea7f4e75.gif

Appreciate any help

[austere jewel]

Don't use quaternions

Quaternions do this fundamentally

[inland prairie]

If I dont use them wont I get into gimbal lock issues of euler angles?

[austere jewel]

I have no idea what your setup is, but gimbal lock is about compound rotations, if this is only rotating on one axis, then if that axis isn't squashed by freely rotating the transform on many axes, then it's fine

Quaternions are all about "the shortest path", and don't over-rotate

[inland prairie]

Ok, so using euler angles do you know how to get the middle rotation between 2?

[austere jewel]

Ideally you would be storing the single angle used to create that rotation as 0->X and you'd just divide that number by 2

[inland prairie]

I do have 2 gameobjects each with their rotations

[austere jewel]

but if you've just got that rotation expressed as a transform because you're dealing with other systems, then use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.SignedAngle.html (and a little bit of maths to convert from -180->180)

[inland prairie]

Want to find the middle angle

No, I do have 2 transforms so Im trying to find the middle angle between them

[austere jewel]

Those transforms have two directions, your two red rays. You need a perpendicular vector (which you could use the cross product to get), axis, and that function should help you to produce the green direction, by rotating the first direction in axis by that result.
I'm honestly not sure if there's some easier functions to wrangle it with, that's just the route I would go

[inland prairie]

Thanks, will try that

[sterile snow]

So I'm running into an interesting performance issue and I'm looking for some thoughts. I'm making a text adventure game that supports scrolling back through the text (all the way to the beginning if the user desires) and each message is its own object, organized down a scroll rect. But eventually the messages will start making the framerate drop, especially as I have installed Text Animator to give these messages additional flavor.

I'm not sure what my options are for tackling this, other than selective enabling and disabling of the message objects perhaps. Though that fucks with the scroll rect, and I wouldn't know how exactly to figure out which ones to enable and which not to.

[stone jewel]

could put the text in "chunks" similar to how minecraft loads chunks only when visited insted of having everything loaded at once, hope it makes sense

[undone coral]

you can use the Optimized Scroll Adapter from the asset store to tackle this issue.

the technique is called recycling

good luck!

[undone coral]

what is this actually for? unity has animation tools, that permit you to keyframe euler angles, that behave like maya's graph, and i think it Just Works

[unique ermine]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/zc9ued/write_custom_classes_into_json/
If anyone can help me regarding JSON ^^^
A much detailed explanation of my problem in my post

[compact ingot]

your solution is on the right track, what you are doing is exactly what you should do, you could however avoid the duplication of AnimalCurrentHealth by storing the data struct in a field on AnimalCage

[unique ermine]

With the custom class representing the data that's supposed to be saved?

[compact ingot]

yes, as in the edit above: make that data the actual data that the class uses, avoid the duplication but definitely make these data structs, its a very good thing in general if you need to exchange state between systems without coupling the object instances

[unique ermine]

can you explain the duplication prevention a bit more? I don't get it rn.
do you mean that for the fields that I'm going to have in both theses classes I could combine into a extra class and use that instead?

[compact ingot]

public class AnimalCage : Monobehavior
{
    public Animal StoredAnimal;
    public AnimalCageData stateData; // use this to serialize state and rediscover StoredAnimal
}

[unique ermine]

ohhh

that makes so much more sense

Thanks! Good suggestion

Guess I was on the right track then, thought there was a better way

[compact ingot]

this is the better way 😄

its half way to data oriented programming and a life lived in happiness

specifically (here) this is composition

[unique ermine]

yeah I'm trying to make my code rn much better and cleaner.
Also working with the SOLID principal and proper naming conventions finally haha.

We all start somewhere

[compact ingot]

indeed

you are on the right track!

[regal olive]

Hi does anyone know why the rotation counterclockwise is faster than clockwise?

    public float speed = 100f;
    public float speedY = 0f;
    private float verticalInput;

    public Quaternion anguloW = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, -10f);
    public Quaternion anguloS = Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, 10f);


    private void Start()
    {
        transform.eulerAngles = Vector3.zero;
    }
    void Update()
    {
        verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Rotation();



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

        gameObject.transform.position = gameObject.transform.position + new Vector3(speed * Time.deltaTime, verticalInput * speedY * Time.deltaTime, transform.position.z);

        
    }


    void Rotation()
    {
        float angleZ = transform.eulerAngles.z;
        angleZ = Mathf.DeltaAngle(0f, angleZ);

        if (verticalInput == 1 && angleZ <= 34f)
        {
            transform.rotation *= anguloW;
        }

        if( verticalInput == -1 && angleZ >= -34f)
        {
            transform.rotation *= anguloS;
        }

[midnight venture]

@regal olive I don't see anything wrong in code, so it's likely just analog controller going farther left than right

I'm not sure if there is some recommended range, but in general you can't assume analog controller can reach full range on any axis, or zero

[wooden egret]

@regal olive Quaternion.Euler(0f, 0f, 10f); is really all you need. You could *= that value negatively with a - next to it. like transform.ratation *= -anguloW. Also Try the rotation method in FixedUpdate.

Dang it. I typed it wrong.

[midnight venture]

Oops, nvm you are actually checking if it’s exactly 1/-1 so I guess it’s not analog after all

[tired fog]

Hellu, I'm trying to generate a bunch of meshes through the job system and the new advanced mesh api. I got the whole system working with a single mesh data extracted from Mesh.AllocateWritableMeshData(1), which is pretty nice. Now I wanted to generate multiple of those, so my plan was to change that 1, to let's say 10, create a single jobhandle for each of the items on the array, and then via JobHandle.CompleteAll or JobHandle.CombineDependancies(thearray).Complete() run each of the jobs

However, im getting an error like this, and I don't quite understand, how is that possible, the error comes from assigning data to the meshdata of the job

Are each of those meshdata not independent from each other? (so that modifying one doesn't affect the others), or must it be done another way? (instead of passing the mesh data to the job, pass the mesh data array as a whole)
As for reference

[sly grove]

They are independent but typically they expect you to be modifying the entire array in parallel in your job

SO it's assumed unsafe for two jobs to be working on the same array at once

Actually kinda curious why you have 10 different jobs?

instead of one job doing the operations in parallel

If you really have 10 different parallel operations each doing a single mesh, you can typically use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Unity.Collections.LowLevel.Unsafe.NativeDisableContainerSafetyRestrictionAttribute.html to disable the safety restrictions as needed. You just need to be really, really sure you know what you're doing

This is only feasible if:

• None of the jobs are touching other jobs' meshdatas
• None of the jobs are dependent on results of another

[tired fog]

Well, one job handles a single mesh, and is actually made of multiple job handme to generate that single mesh.

Yeah, that would be the case, aka disabling it should be good

But i will look into instead of working per mesh, work with the whole array, but i can't think of an easy way to do that

All of the steps to generate a single mesh are parallelized through a vectorization of the vertexs

Can a job handle be executed inside an execute of a job?

[past talon]

I have objects, which simultaneously change their color and play an sound clip. audioSource.Play() plays a sound clip with some delay. Any guess why?

[flint sage]

Probably because it's loading it

IIRC there's a preload setting somewhere

[sly grove]

make sure there's no dead air at the beginning of your sound clip

[past talon]

@sly grove i removed any

[silk junco]

Hello I have a problem if anyone can help. I have a list of points that defines the outside edges of a shape (Convex Hull). What I need help with is getting every point inside of that shape to fill it in. The positions are local so the each middle is (0,0)

This is what it should look like

[undone coral]

you should try to create all the jobs up front, so that unity is aware of how they are related to one another and schedules accordingly

ideally, you are authoring your jobs to be burst compilable

[undone coral]

this is a bug in your code

[undone coral]

this is odd. you don't need a native array of jobhandles...

they can be created on the stack

[sly grove]

I think there's a ton of hard-to-decscribe assumptions baked into this concave hull result you've got here

if it was convex, it'd be easy

[silk junco]

The only way I can think of it working is by drawing a line left to right if there is an end point already defined then do same up and down. then keep doing it until no more missing spots.

[sly grove]

but then wouldn't you end up filling in stuff like this?

unless I'm misunderstanding your algorithm

[silk junco]

So if they are at least 2 existing points on the row/column fill in between them. Alternated from left to right / top to down

etc

[magic scroll]

Hello, Is there any option in Unity Localization to load stringtable in format of json file on runtime?

[tired fog]

It shouldn't be, the code works just fine if I complete the job individually at the point of creation, and every mesh data (the one the error references) is/should be independent, i don't touch anything outside the same job (every single job is independent from each other)

[tired fog]

I'm using the native array of job handles to prepare multiple independent job handles, its the way most of the documentation does it (or via native list (that doesn't exist anymore) or via job handle. Complete all)

[tired fog]

Okay, so that's the plan, create all jobs, and call a single complete, so that unity can optimize and organise as needed, but by doing complete on all the independent arrays, unity doesn't like it

The problem in theory comes from the fact that each object from meshdata array is considered dependent, so, what i understood js, or i disable safety features, or i create a job to work with mesh data array

[fading quiver]

good evening everyone. a suggestion please: I am practicing in VR script. I have a numeric keypad, from 0 to 9. I would like to associate "buttonNumber" variables to each key with the corresponding number. How should i proceed in your opinion?

[weary adder]

Wait, what about NativeList not existing?;

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.collections@1.4/api/Unity.Collections.NativeList-1.html

[tired fog]

Weird, doesn't exist on my Unity, I'm on the lts everything

But anyway, i don't really need it either

[signal reef]

Is it possible to "delegate" a collision event so other classes can listen to the same collision event without tight coupling all the scripts to the object with a collider?

Making so that I can notify other scripts functionalities

[thin mesa]

use an event

[sly grove]

There's a reason they're called delegates in C# 😉

[signal reef]

I think I answered my own question 😓

Sorry, it seemed more complex in my head

[south ibex]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm5tRVNQxFs Trying to get a result similar to this.

They seem to be using an edge detection algorithm to create the highlights on the blocks

This is the closest I've gotten so far but it's still pretty undesirable

Uneven thickness, as-well as pixels disappearing depending on camera angle, outlines flickering, etc

This is the shader code for the edge detection

void Outline_float(float2 UV, float OutlineThickness, float DepthSensitivity, float NormalsSensitivity, float ColorSensitivity, float4 OutlineColor, out float4 Out)
{
    float halfScaleFloor = floor(OutlineThickness * 0.5);
    float halfScaleCeil = ceil(OutlineThickness * 0.5);
    float2 Texel = (1.0) / float2(_CameraColorTexture_TexelSize.z, _CameraColorTexture_TexelSize.w);

    float2 uvSamples[4];
    float depthSamples[4];
    float3 normalSamples[4], colorSamples[4];

    uvSamples[0] = UV - float2(Texel.x, Texel.y) * halfScaleFloor;
    uvSamples[1] = UV + float2(Texel.x, Texel.y) * halfScaleCeil;
    uvSamples[2] = UV + float2(Texel.x * halfScaleCeil, -Texel.y * halfScaleFloor);
    uvSamples[3] = UV + float2(-Texel.x * halfScaleFloor, Texel.y * halfScaleCeil);
    for(int i = 0; i < 4 ; i++)
    {
        depthSamples[i]  = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthTexture, sampler_CameraDepthTexture, uvSamples[i]).r;
        normalSamples[i] = DecodeNormal(SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, sampler_CameraDepthNormalsTexture, uvSamples[i]));
        colorSamples[i]  = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraColorTexture, sampler_CameraColorTexture, uvSamples[i]);
    }

    // Depth
    float depthFiniteDifference0 = depthSamples[1] - depthSamples[0];
    float depthFiniteDifference1 = depthSamples[3] - depthSamples[2];
    float edgeDepth = sqrt(pow(depthFiniteDifference0, 2) + pow(depthFiniteDifference1, 2)) * 100;
    float depthThreshold = (1/DepthSensitivity) * depthSamples[0];
    edgeDepth = edgeDepth > depthThreshold ? 1 : 0;

    // Normals
    float3 normalFiniteDifference0 = normalSamples[1] - normalSamples[0];
    float3 normalFiniteDifference1 = normalSamples[3] - normalSamples[2];
    float edgeNormal = sqrt(dot(normalFiniteDifference0, normalFiniteDifference0) + dot(normalFiniteDifference1, normalFiniteDifference1));
    edgeNormal = edgeNormal > (1/NormalsSensitivity) ? 1 : 0;

    // Color
    float3 colorFiniteDifference0 = colorSamples[1] - colorSamples[0];
    float3 colorFiniteDifference1 = colorSamples[3] - colorSamples[2];
    float edgeColor = sqrt(dot(colorFiniteDifference0, colorFiniteDifference0) + dot(colorFiniteDifference1, colorFiniteDifference1));
    edgeColor = edgeColor > (1/ColorSensitivity) ? 1 : 0;

    float edge = max(edgeDepth, max(edgeNormal, edgeColor));

    float4 original = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D(_CameraColorTexture, sampler_CameraColorTexture, uvSamples[0]);    
    Out = ((1 - edge) * original) + (edge * lerp(original, OutlineColor,  OutlineColor.a));
}

[sly grove]

This may be better asked in #archived-shaders ...

[south ibex]

Is it possible to improve it to avoid these issues?

[fringe apex]

how do I get procedural world generation with (colored terrain) using Perlin noise

[sly grove]

Please read #854851968446365696

[fringe apex]

using UnityEngine;

public class TerrainGeneration : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int width = 256; //x-axis of the terrain
    public int height = 256; //z-axis

    public int depth = 20; //y-axis

    public float scale = 20f;

    public float offsetX = 100f;
    public float offsetY = 100f;

    private void Start()
    {
        offsetX = Random.Range(0f, 9999f);
        offsetY = Random.Range(0f, 9999f);
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        Terrain terrain = GetComponent<Terrain>();
        terrain.terrainData = GenerateTerrain(terrain.terrainData);
    }

    TerrainData GenerateTerrain(TerrainData terrainData)
    {
        terrainData.heightmapResolution = width + 1;
        terrainData.size = new Vector3(width, depth, height);

        terrainData.SetHeights(0, 0, GenerateHeights());
        return terrainData;
    }

    float[,] GenerateHeights()
    {
        float[,] heights = new float[width, height];
        for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
            {
                heights[x, y] = CalculateHeight(x, y);
            }
        }

        return heights;
    }

    float CalculateHeight(int x, int y)
    {
        float xCoord = (float)x / width * scale + offsetX;
        float yCoord = (float)y / height * scale + offsetY;

        return Mathf.PerlinNoise(xCoord, yCoord);
    }
}

[shadow seal]

Coloured Perlin Noise?

[abstract folio]

My asset appears to be changing value when I save it. check out this log , and the code that generates it... https://hatebin.com/tqeoqfplib looks like it's reassigning the default value to the member, but I don't see why.

possibly relevant, the map object containing the RenderInfo is a ScriptableObject.

Any ideas why it might be changing when I try to save it?

[jolly token]

Which code is assigning the value to 200?

[abstract folio]

not shown, it is done in a momonbehavior, which calls the Save function shown, when done.

note that before I save the asset the HeightScale member has value of 200, and after I save it, one line later, the same member has a value of 300

[jolly token]

You should show that code, why is assignment logged between presave and postsave logs

[abstract folio]

why? to debug this problem.. this is the closest I got to where the value changes without an assignment.

this is that code: Debug.Log("Assigning HeightScale: "+ heightScale); map.renderInfo.HeightScale = heightScale; Debug.Log("confirming HeightScale: " + map.renderInfo.HeightScale); I'll show the log it generates too.. one mo

[jolly token]

I mean the log from your property setter here is logged between presave and postsave

So something is setting that when you call SaveAssets();

[abstract folio]

yeah, weird

but note it assigns the right number 200

[jolly token]

ik, but suspicious that something unintended is happening

[abstract folio]

lemme check the stack trace

it's the OnEnable for the map ScriptableObject. Intended to resassign the materials.. here is the code called: public void ReAssignCurrentValuesToMats() { HeightScale = HeightScale; SlopeOffset = SlopeOffset; WorldCurvatureRadius = WorldCurvatureRadius; } which is a janky way to calls the setters (which assign the value to materials)

wierd I know.. but it does show the correct values...in the logs, so thats not whats causing the value to change, or ya think it is somehow?

(I do NOT understand why this would call OnEnable tho- but perhaps thats secondary)

[jolly token]

So it's calling the OnEnable again 🤔
I would check other codes that uses OnEnable or such, maybe it's loading or creating map again for example?

Also I'd do SetDirty when change the value

[abstract folio]

            map.SetDirty();
            UnityEditor.AssetDatabase.SaveAssets();
            Debug.Log("postsave Assets- heightscale is:" + map.renderInfo.HeightScale);```

that was it.. SetDirty

thank you @jolly token!

[jolly token]

Oh that also removed OnEnable ? SO are weird 😛

Good luck with the project

[abstract folio]

good spot, yeah still no idea WHY this happened/is necessary- but whatever- moving on,lol Cheers

[short vigil]

||https://github.com/Matthew-J-Spencer/Formations/blob/main/Scripts/ExampleArmy.cs
https://github.com/Matthew-J-Spencer/Formations/blob/main/Scripts/BoxFormation.cs||

I've been using these two scripts for a project in spoilers.
Everything works fine and dandy but when I turn the formation it doesn't well, turn. This means I can't turn the formation diagonally as it always corrects itself to be straight.

Video of what I want to happen

Video of what actually happens:

[undone coral]

can you uh, say in words what your bug is

the video looks glitched

i don't think this library is sufficient for the problem you're trying to solve

there's no such thing as a "simple" script for this

[fervent sage]

Data-structure suggestions:
What's the "best" way to store tile data for an infinitely growable map?
So we start at 0,0 and can move in any direction and discover "tiles" which are randomly generated.

If I use List<List<>> I'd be having to store the origin index and constantly add things to the start. I feel like using a dictionary/map for the index would be more intensive though for the same result really.

Any thoughts? Maybe have four List<List<>> for all 4 sectors of the map?

[midnight venture]

Never-done-this-kind-of-thing-answer on gut feeling: I would go with two dimensional arrays of appropriate size and then have two dimensional list where you store the arrays

Makes the adding something into the middle problem less of an issue and manipulating the array of specific size will be fast

And even if the list manipulation will potentially be slow, it’ll be so rare event you don’t have to worry about it much (and you can also predict when it will likely happen)

[pliant crest]

you wouldn't

storing infinite data is a bad design pattern

just store the cached loaded area around the player

[fervent sage]

Uh, isn't this the same thing?

[pliant crest]

its a predefined size

it doesn't grow

[fervent sage]

Well, I can't just "not do this", e.g. Minecraft. How do you store the chunks there?

[pliant crest]

what do you mean?

[fervent sage]

Even if I only care about the few close tiles I still need to store the whole map

[pliant crest]

minecraft doesn't load the whole map into memory

you store the map on disk

and stream the segments you need

and preload the segments you might need

[fervent sage]

Ok sure, well then for arguments sake lets say I do the same, but in practice this wouldn't really be needed, at least for now

It won't grow that big in practice

[pliant crest]

then just create an array of the max size

if thats not a problem

[fervent sage]

then how would you store in memory the other chunks?

[pliant crest]

what do mean sorry?

whats stopping you from doing that

[fervent sage]

No I'm asking about the data structure

[pliant crest]

i thought you aren't doing chunks

since it won't grow that big

[fervent sage]

Say I am doing chunks

Would you have chunks saved by co-ordinate?

and access the new ones you need*

[pliant crest]

you'd make a grid of grids basically

[fervent sage]

Sure, but that first grid can grow infinately in any direction

[pliant crest]

thats fine

[fervent sage]

Its the same issue just in chunks, so how best to represent that?

[pliant crest]

like i said

if its infinite

you have to offload it to disk

[fervent sage]

Sure

I am asking datastructure on kisk

disk*

[pliant crest]

like if i was to do it something like the hash of the vector2/3 value

of the grid of grid's coordinate

or you can just use a string

store that as the file name, then store the grid data as serialized

from your cell data

that way you can easily find the grid of your current segment

and know the offset

otherwise generate it

[fervent sage]

So just use a hashmap

Guess that would be the best for something like chunks

[tired fog]

Can someone explain this to me better?

I'm starting to hate the fact that meshdataarray is considered a single object

How is one supposed to do a per vertex job, per mesh, when you can't parallelize it since you can only use a mesh data inside a job?

[undone coral]

you can open the Burst settings and enable debugging

so that you get real stack traces

my guess is: this is a real bug in your code and that you have surmounted the issues with mesh data

[undone coral]

no one data structure can solve all problems for 2d games. tilemaps scale a very long way though. how large does the map really have to be?

[tired fog]

Meh, I don't understand unity anymore. I enabled the debugging and now there are no errors anymore lmao

I guess it needed to recompile or something, not sure why now is working

[undone coral]

unfortunately the guy who created Burst also maintains 5 other things

that are all very important in unity

so while he is a genius, there are going to be bugs and limitations

you can post the code to the forums and maybe he'll help you out

[undone coral]

since you are doing some kind of random generation, i think the bug is real

and if you author a test for example, that runs a thousand times, you will find the bug

a good approach for this sort of thing is to get a 100% correct implementation in plain C# first

[tired fog]

I doubt it, the bug has never appeared before. I have it working really nicely with a single meshdata, Just allocate one writable mesh data and use that one. And it worked. The only change later was that, instead of allocating one, allocate let's say 10, and create a new object from scratch to handle each of those 10. So each one of the meshes are literally and hard-coded separated to each other

The only bug that I think I found was during the generation of the meshes, where it was setting the buffer per mesh, and that was affecting the other meshes. After generating first all meshes, and then doing the generation the code works

So I guess that thanks @undone coral since you made me looka bit more carefully to how the meshes where generated

[light falcon]

who can help me figure out why DOTween is messing with one of my settings menu's volume sliders? The settings menu doesn't even have any DOTween logic attached to it and the slider is only referenced and modified by the settings menu

[undone coral]

do you think you have a bug in your own code, maybe in how you are using DOTween?

[light falcon]

haha wow what a major bug this is

if my slider's function is anything but 'SetMasterVolume', it works fine

[undone coral]

hmm

i don't think there is going to be a bug in DOTween here

but you can post a snippet and maybe we can help you find what may be weird in what you are doing

[light falcon]

nothing else in my code or in my UI references this SetMasterVolume function

as soon as I change the name and set the slider's function to the new name, it works perfectly, as long as the name isn't exactly 'SetMasterVolume'

and by changing the name I do not mean refactoring it so all references are updated as well, no, I mean literally changing it

[jolly token]

Is something calling it by name? e.g. UI or animation event?

Stacktrace says DOTween is tweening your slider, and when slider value change your method is called via event

[light falcon]

I know, but nothing is calling the function other than the slider itself. After adding dotween I haven’t touched the settings menu, so it’s impossible that I referenced it with dotweens somewhere. Solved it by changing the name of the function. Weird stuff…

[jolly token]

What does InGameOverlay.cs line 133 do? That's where the DOTween calls

[light falcon]

_saveButton.GetComponent<UIButtonLogic>().SetInteractable(false); - a totally different script

[jolly token]

Probably the script changed since stacktrace logged 😌

[light falcon]

nope, that was it

unless unity magically changed it at runtime

[jolly token]

Is it in the SetSliderValue method?

[light falcon]

that line however, does use dotween, but that is called in the other script UIButtonLogic

[jolly token]

Stacktrace seems like it's lambda inside of SetSliderValue

[light falcon]

something messes with dotween but I can't think why

not sure what the issue is, but I blame dotween for it

and a simple rename has fixed it without giving any nullreference errors, so it's no longer an issue

[jolly token]

I'd say that's unlikely and there is probably hidden bug that you didn't notice..

[weary adder]

I'm throwing it out there again, anyone have any experience with getting C# Source Generators scoped to an asmdef?
The docs are pretty clear about them working under a asmdef, and while I can get the generator to run globally, I can't seem to get it to work while scoped, wondering if I'm just missing something, or its just broke for now?
https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.2/Documentation/Manual/roslyn-analyzers.html#analyser-scope-anchor-link

[undone coral]

is there a way to find all references to a component at runtime?

[jolly token]

What kind of result are you expecting? Reference from.. where?

[undone coral]

any other component in the scene

[jolly token]

There wouldn't be performant way.. you can check all the fields of all the components 😛

[undone coral]

yeah

it is too bad i cannot replace-in-place components at runtime

[jolly token]

You can have a component as wrapper and changes inner implementation

[undone coral]

i'm trying to replace UGUI components

maybe i can achieve this

for canvas scaler

it became super tedious

[jolly token]

Maybe UI toolkit is better for.. 'adaptive UI' I assume

[abstract hill]

Hi everyone,
I'm looking into async and how its used and I am a bit stuck with a specific implementation. My work is using an API in which a request to a server is being made, this request is not async. I would like to make an async function that can have a cancelation on if this request takes too long, everything online seems to have the cancelation checks set during smaller steps of the exceution, however since this is a single function being called from the API I cant do this, is there a way to have a cancelation in this case?

[jolly token]

Surely your http (assumed) client would have timeout option?

[abstract hill]

It does have a timeout built into it, but we can't control its length.
Its a bit frustrating but the level of access I have on this API (without me going into the project which I'm not sure my work will allow) is to call a GetLicesnse() function, in which a license object will be returned to say if its valid or not. It doesn't however say if it timed out or not.

I'd like to have the ability to define the error or timed out due to bad connection, or wrong license key inputed but right now without manually having our own timeout function which is shorter then the built in one I'm not sure its possible.

[jolly token]

Hmmm you cannot cancel the blocking API this way, you'd need to modify their code to support cancellation

[abstract hill]

Ah thank you. I thought this might be the case but was holding out hope!

Thanks ^-^

[jolly token]

If you are okay with running it on other thread you could consider this, but will get messy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.thread.interrupt?view=net-7.0

[abstract hill]

Thank you, ill have a look!

[undone coral]

a while ago i wrote an answer... to the guy building the city simulation game, about async await limitations, thread interruptibility, etc. standby and i'll share it with you. it will illuminate something importanta bout asycn await

[undone coral]

#archived-code-advanced message

i hope this will be helpful. cancelation is a complex topic

[tired fog]

So, if I don't put that Job.Complete, unity throws errors, any idea how is that possible?

[abstract hill]

Thank you! Sorry for the late reply, I was having dinner ^-^

[undone coral]

hmm

it's pretty self explanatory to me... so i am worried you have gotten pretty deep into not understanding how this stuff works 😦

you have done something really weird here

the whole snippet is weird

[tired fog]

I thought the deal of Job.IsCompleted was supposed to be true once the job is done, so that Job.Complete shouldn't be called

[undone coral]

i saw earlier that you allocated the mesh array data as temp

that's really significant

[tired fog]

I'm not sure where you saw that

[undone coral]

did you?

[tired fog]

I did not, no

[undone coral]

hmm

it's too bad you keep sharing htis as screenshots

because it would be easy to find

so what is your goal?

[tired fog]

Mmm, true

[undone coral]

the syntax is odd

it sounds like you want to generate meshes

what are they? what's the game?

just state plainly and succinctly what you've been trying to do

[tired fog]

I'm doing some procedural world generation through diferent noise functions with Jobs, Burst and Advanced Mesh API

I did a version with plain C#, I switched my code (with, as far as I know, the appropaite tweaks) to work with the packages mentioned before

[fervent sage]

Tile map? And probably no more than 30 tiles accross

[undone coral]

okay

so that wasn't a very helpful answer

what is the game?

[tired fog]

There's no game

[undone coral]

i'm not trying to be annoying

okay

[tired fog]

The goal is to generate a procedural world

[tired fog]

Nono don't worry, im also trying to explain myself so we can understand each other :))

[undone coral]

can you paste the first 5 lines of the job struct and the public void Execute(int index)you've authored? something like

        [BurstCompile]
        internal struct MyMeshGenerationJob : IJobParallelFor
        {
            [ReadOnly]
            public NativeArray<float4> InputBuffer;

            // Output spectrum buffer
            [WriteOnly]
            [NativeDisableParallelForRestriction]
            public NativeArray<float4> OutputBuffer;
            ...
            public void Execute(int index) { ...
        }

[tired fog]

Mmm, let me see

So the job is actually made of JobHandle.CombineDependancies(list of jobs per chunk)

The most basic job scheduled looks like this

[undone coral]

okay.

let's just start with a simple one

any job

[tired fog]

(how did u make that code box?)

[undone coral]

hmm

you make it by wrapping your code in 3 backticks

so

do you have anything of the form

        [BurstCompile]
        internal struct X : IJobParallelFor { ... }

[tired fog]

[BurstCompile(FloatPrecision.Standard, FloatMode.Fast, CompileSynchronously = true)]
public struct Displace<N> : IJobFor where N:struct, INoise{
    [ReadOnly] NativeArray<Vertex4> vertices;
    [WriteOnly]    NativeArray<Sample4> outputNoise;    

    [ReadOnly] Settings outputNoiseSettings;

    float2 offset;
    int seed;

    public void Execute (int i) { ... }

[undone coral]

okay

[tired fog]

They are scheduled like this

    public static JobHandle ScheduleParallel (NativeArray<Vertex4> vertices, NativeArray<Sample4> outputNoise,
        Settings noiseSettings, Vector2 offset, 
        GenerationSettings generationSettings, JobHandle dependency
    ) => new Displace<N>() {
        vertices = vertices,
        outputNoise = outputNoise,
        outputNoiseSettings = noiseSettings,
        offset = offset,
        seed = generationSettings.Seed
    }.ScheduleParallel(vertices.Length, generationSettings.Resolution, dependency);

[undone coral]

hmm.

well

[tired fog]

This workflow to make the jobs was from catlikecoding.com tutorials, mainly where I learnt how to use the advanced mesh api and jobs and such

[undone coral]

okay

[tired fog]

Not sure if there's any advantage to have a job and schedule parallel or jobparallel and normal schedule

[undone coral]

also, you can write cs after the first three backticks to enable code formatting

so have you ever looked in the profiler

to see how things are executing?

[tired fog]

I have tried, but I can't quite understand what I see

[undone coral]

okay

have you looked at this documentation page?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Unity.Jobs.IJobParallelFor.html

[tired fog]

Yeah, so In theory what I have achives the same result

[undone coral]

hmm

why did you declare displace a generic?

anyway

i think i know why

so let's ask some bigger picture stuff

[tired fog]

N is a struct of type INoise, that contains a static method to generate a specific noise function. So i can use diferent functions

Lets see

[undone coral]

is the idea that the game should keep rendering while you generate the terrain?

[tired fog]

Yes, the idea is that the game doesn't get stuck while loading the terrain chunks

[undone coral]

like when do you need the terrain

[tired fog]

I load the terrain in relation to certain distance to the player, with a maximum treshold

It checks distance, it stores all the positions that need to generate a chunk. It prepares all the jobs needed for those chunks and schedules

Then it waits until the jobs are completed and assings the mesh and texture to the chunks

[undone coral]

okay

[tired fog]

(by waiting means that it checks the job until is completed, otherwise continue doing whatever is doing)

[undone coral]

okay

[undone coral]

Yeah, so In theory what I have achives the same result
well, it does not. what more can i say

it sounds like you haven't yet successfully generated a mesh, right?

have you managed to generate any mesh?

[tired fog]

I generate plenty

[undone coral]

okay

i mean, using the jobs?

but you're saying you have an error?

[tired fog]

Yup

[undone coral]

what errors?

this all feels very blub

you've written a lot of code, and kind of blubbed through a lot of errors

[tired fog]

I have an error if I don't put the complete after checking if isCompleted

[undone coral]

and i don't really comprehend the parts of the picture in between teh very bottom and the very top

[tired fog]

Most of the errors from before I managed to fix them one way or the other

[undone coral]

okay

do you ever call JobHandle.ScheduleBatchedJobs?

[tired fog]

The picture I just took it rn while it was generating. It was still missing some chunks

[tired fog]

I do not

[undone coral]

okay

well you have to call Complete in order to interact with the job's data

have you read https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/JobSystemTroubleshooting.html ?

Call JobHandle.Complete to regain ownership
Tracing data ownership requires dependencies to complete before the control thread can use them again. It is not enough to check JobHandle.IsCompleted. You must call the method JobHandle.Complete to regain ownership of the NativeContainer types to the control thread. Calling Complete also cleans up the state in the safety system. Not doing so introduces a memory leak. This process also applies if you schedule new jobs every frame that has a dependency on the previous frame’s job.

it actually talks about the explicitly

[tired fog]

I see, I did not read that neither found it before until now

[undone coral]

use JobHandle to manage dependencies rather than trying to schedule jobs within jobs.

okay

so it sounds like you have parts of your map you would like to generate mesh data for