archived-code-advanced

[undone coral]

got it

have you investigated a pre-existing modding asset?

[hallow cove]

what's that?

[drifting galleon]

that makes no sense. you already have the materials in all other builds

[hallow cove]

no-

[undone coral]

try searching "mod" in the asset store

[hallow cove]

I need someone to be able to install the sdk, add their own materials and models

upload the map which I need to convert first somehow

and then someone can join by accessing it from the database

[drifting galleon]

use addressables

[hallow cove]

so I need to learn how to use them

I need the user making the map to not have to do a lot of complicated stuff

just make the map and press a button

[drifting galleon]

what's your game dev experience

[hallow cove]

I've been donig it for 5 - 6 years and I can pretty much make a full game

[undone coral]

there are assets in the asset store to help you do this

you can look at one to learn the whole workflow

[hallow cove]

however this is a lot of new stuff, including networking which I never got quite right

but I think I'm on the right track with taht

ok but can I use them to just, take everything in a scene, with materials, models used, everything, and just make them into addressables and then upload that?

that's all I need to know

are addressables usable for this?

ok they don't seem to be

[quartz stratus]

When calling UnitySendMessage(string gameObjectName, string methodName, string message) from a native iOS plugin, does anyone know if the third parameter, string message, is optional? I know it is when calling from a .jslib plugin, but I haven't tried it with an iOS plugin yet.

[sly grove]

The docs say this:

From native code, you can only call script methods that correspond to the following signature: void MethodName(string message);

Now if you pass null as that third parameter I'm not sure what Unity would do - throw an error or just give you a null message param

I'd say... try it and see?

worst case scenario, just send an empty string

[timber flame]

No

[shut citrus]

I've been messing around with additional Display and have managed to achieve what I wanted using win10 user32 api stuff, avoiding actual Unity code. Now I am trying to render into a very large window (6400x2560) and using Display.SetRenderingResolution does not work, it get's clamped to 1920x1080. The one thing that hurt me the most, that this is completely undocumented.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Display.SetRenderingResolution.html
It worked in the editor (the editor-windows dont have this clamp)
https://i.imgur.com/KrmYRmf.jpg

I'm wondering if there is any way to get aound this clamping behaviour?

[river musk]

I have a special walk animation I want to play when walking along a narrow platform. I use a trigger on the bottom of the player to find this narrow platform to start this walk. But I need the player to face the direction of the narrow platform. This is 3d game. The player can only move forward and backwards on this platform so they don't fall off. When they start to walk on this platform, like I said, I need the player to face the platform. I know how to cast a raycast, would this work somehow? Thanks.

[undone coral]

what is your objective?

[undone coral]

what is the direction of the platform?

[river musk]

It is like the ground, but narrow and long

Is rayHit.normal the way to go?

[undone coral]

a narrow platform sounds like it could have two directions

[river musk]

for this example a narrow platform would just be a box collider

But it wont always be a box collider, it could be a meshcollider

[undone coral]

is the platform's direction platform.transform.forward?

you can do player.transform.forward = platform.transform.forward right?

[river musk]

cant use this because you need to go onto the platform from both sides when you finish walking on it

[quartz stratus]

Will do! Lol now I just need to actually figure out how to write the native class in Obj-C or whatever

[undone coral]

@river musk it sounds like a #archived-code-general or #💻┃code-beginner question i think you'll figure it out

[undone coral]

it's not optional. pass an empty string

you can download the prime31 plugins to learn more about ios-unity plugin development

[undone coral]

did you try searching the asset store for this?

[quartz stratus]

Ah, yeah, no for sure, it's definitely a try it and see sort of question. But thought that it'd be more likely to find someone who'd worked with external native plugins in #archived-code-advanced

[undone coral]

that was meant for TitanDev

[quartz stratus]

Oh my bad

[undone coral]

you can use the dot product of the player character's input direction and the "forward" of the platform to determine which of the two logical platform directions to use

[shut citrus]

@undone coral my objective is to create an animated wallpaper that spans all 3 screens (or more). I can settle for single screens I guess, but if possible I want full expansion

[undone coral]

so you want unity to run as a process in the background, and then interact with a bunch of windows APIs to render updating desktop images?

[shut citrus]

currently the only thing in my way is the resolution limitation. I want to have one window to interact with and one window as a wallpaper that shows everything without the controls

[undone coral]

when you say spans all 3 screens

[shut citrus]

this all works. but the resolution is just capped.

[undone coral]

what do you mean? a contiguous graphic?

[shut citrus]

yeah, I make one window that spans all 3 screens

[undone coral]

you can use a render texture on your camera to create a single contiguous image large enough for all the desktops, and then slice it into each respective view. or you can render each desktop separately, using its own camera, if you line up the cameras right

how are you putting an image onto the desktop?

[shut citrus]

so 6400x2560 for my personal setup. the window gets rendered behind the desktop icons

I'm actually using a asset (live wallpaper) and have modified it quite a bit

[undone coral]

can you show me a doc for how you are rendering a window behind the desktop icons?

okay

that's helpful

[shut citrus]

but this all works

[undone coral]

i heard you the first time

[shut citrus]

it's really just the resolution. I can't render it to that window

kk 🙂

[undone coral]

so this asset, does it support multiple displays?

or did you modify it to do that?

[shut citrus]

splitting is a decent idea, but also means more draw-calls. the asset supports it, but only in the editor. it was never intended to do what I want

[undone coral]

okay

[shut citrus]

the asset is designed to place your main window in the background, not a secondary display

[undone coral]

so you modified the asset?

[shut citrus]

yes

[undone coral]

got it

[shut citrus]

well mostly repurposed some of the code

I wrote all the window management code myself

besides turning it into a wallpaper

[undone coral]

why would you use Display.SetRenderingResolution?

[shut citrus]

is there another option?

[undone coral]

why are you setting the resolution of a display?

what is the idea?

[shut citrus]

well the resolution of the large window was obviously wrong, so I tried to overwrite it

[undone coral]

okay

and it works in the editor

[shut citrus]

but it's probably wrong because of the same clamping mechanism that stops me from setting a higher resolution

[undone coral]

something works in the editor

[shut citrus]

yes. the editor windows allow super-sampling (I read that in a forum post)

or super scaling: https://forum.unity.com/threads/resolution-superscaling.447034/

[undone coral]

okay

that thread is also saying use a render texture

[shut citrus]

yeah, but the output to the screen is the problem

[undone coral]

i'm not sure why the displays are showing the wrong resolution

maybe try to use their real resolution

[shut citrus]

your splitting idea might work, but it's a horrible work-around for something that seems like an arbitrary limitation

I'm using post processing effects and the context width/height is clamped

or shows that it's clamped to 1920x1080

I guess the final option would be to start messing in Unity source-code, but that might be too much for me

[undone coral]

there's a lot going on

since i don't know how the asset really works it's hard to give good advice

[shut citrus]

it's like detectives work when you don't know why something does not work...

thanks a lot for your help, I was mainly wondering if I missed something obvious. looks like I am just at a dead end caused by this weird limitation

I really don't think the asset is even relevant in this context (only to understand what I am doing and why)

hmmm. what I have not tried is to use the main screen to resize for the full 3 screens. Not sure if Screen.SetResolution might have different limitations

[royal burrow]

Is there any other way to make dialogue narratives properly without using Ink?

[undone coral]

no

there's an asset that ships an Ink compatible UI

Dialogue System

[ivory girder]

anyone have a good example of localized controls in local multiplayer using the new input system? The issue I'm having is everything is working as intended (new players are spawning and moving) but every input moves all players. I think I messed something up because of the method I used (subscribing to events in onAwake();) It seems that my script is failing to add new distinct players and I'm not sure how to fix it since there aren't any tutorials I've found covering this method of input.

in awake im defining a new playerinputaction but this doesn't seem to matter, they're all still inexplicably tied together

I think the strategy might be to drop back to sending messages as opposed to bothering with subscription but I've been told the latter is more efficient

[sly grove]

If you're not using myPlayerInput.onActionTriggered then you're using the C# events method for PlayerInput wrong

for example if you're doing something like myPlayerInput.actions['MyActionMap/MyAction'].performed +=

[sly grove]

Also if you're doing this you're also ignoring the PLayerInput component

Actually using the PlayerInput is important so you can take advantage of all its nice local multiplayer features

such as automatic device binding etc

[undone coral]

do that

[ivory girder]

Alright, got it. Is there a good body of example code I could look at? clearly the tutorial I followed was doing it quick and dirty without multiplayer in mind

[ivory girder]

yeah this is more or less what I'm doing

my awake method looks like this atm more or less

[sly grove]

yeah you're completely ignoring the PLayerInput and all the joy it provides

you're using the generated C# class instead

which is great under normal circumstances, but not for local multiplayer

[ivory girder]

Which methodology would you recommend instead when working with local multiplayer?

[sly grove]

using the PlayerInput

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.3/manual/Components.html is a decent introduction to it and the PlayerInputManager and the ways to use them

[ivory girder]

thanks, appreciate it

[sly grove]

Also there's an #🖱️┃input-system channel!

[undone coral]

it generates a c# class??

[sly grove]

if you ask it to

[royal burrow]

Can someone please check these two codes? I made a system to switch between cameras to make cutscenes when a lever is activated. For some reason, when I use this script, on 3 cameras, in only one camera's case does the camera switch work. By switching, I mean main camera becoming inactive and other becoming active. In the case of other 2 cameras, they become active but main cam doesnt become inactive. This is the code for the lever that is activated.

//See update function

public class LeverScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    ConsequenceCam ConCam;
    public bool isActivated=false;
    Animator anim;
    BoxCollider2D triggerArea;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        anim=GetComponent<Animator>();    
        triggerArea=GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();    
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(isActivated)
        {
            isActivated=false;
            if(ConCam)
            ConCam.ActivateCinematic=true;
            triggerArea.enabled=false;
        }
    }

    void OnTriggerStay2D(Collider2D col)
    {
        if(col.tag=="Player" && Input.GetKey("x"))
        {
            anim.SetBool("isActivated", true);
            isActivated=true;
        }
    }
}

Next code is for the cutscenes attached to a UI object as I animate this object to make the cutscene movie like.

//See playCinematic,endcinematic and update functions

public class ConsequenceCam : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool ActivateCinematic;
    [SerializeField]
    float duration;
    [SerializeField]
    float destroyCamIn;
    [SerializeField]
    GameObject consequenceCam;
    [SerializeField]
    GameObject currentCam;
    Animator anim;

    void Start()
    {
        anim=GetComponent<Animator>();
        ActivateCinematic=false;
    }

    void PlayCinematic()
    {
        if(ActivateCinematic==true)
        {
            anim.Play("SequenceBegin");
            Invoke("EndCinematic",duration);
        }
    }
    void EndCinematic()
    {
        anim.Play("SequenceOver");
        ActivateCinematic=false;
        Destroy(gameObject,destroyCamIn);
        Destroy(consequenceCam,destroyCamIn);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        PlayCinematic();
        if(ActivateCinematic)
        {
        consequenceCam.SetActive(true);
        currentCam.SetActive(false);
        }
        else
        {
        consequenceCam.SetActive(false);
        currentCam.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

}

Ignore the destroyCamIn variable, I tried to fix it with that

[hallow cove]

Idk what to search for

All I know is Asset Bundles seem to be the best option and the right tool for the job

[novel plinth]

You should pointed down which section of the code... or else people wouldn't take a look at those huge chunk of codes

[royal burrow]

ok wait

done

please help someone

[spare pond]

Hello. Can someone tell me how to do collision detection without CompareTag etc.. Maybe someone will mention a design pattern or practice?

I want to make next relations:

Player - Enemy
Player - Coin

Enemy - Coin
Enemy - Player

Coin - Enemy
Coin - Player

I don't want to make multiple if statements and describe each logic. Im trying to create some system which will just execute logic. Maybe State pattern will come handy?

[granite viper]

good way to do that is with interfaces

[spare pond]

But how to make comparing automatic? Create class which will compare, but how to automate this? Is it possible to avoid 100+ checks?

[granite viper]

yes it is possible

let's say you want to be able to collect the coin as the player

you add an interface to the coin called ICollectable. In that interface you define a method Collect( ICollector collector ). When the Player or whatever overlaps with the coin trigger, the player checks the interface and calls Collect on it. Maybe ICollector has an AddCoins method on it, and the coin calls that in its Collect method

[spare pond]

Let me expand my question to clarify

[granite viper]

that would be nice

[spare pond]

Enemy - Player = Reduce hp to player on collision and make him invulnerable for a period of time.
Enemy - Coin = Enemy AND Coin destroys on trigger
Player - Coin = Collect coin and destroy coin on trigger

In my personal case destroy means move it back to object pool of course 😄

[granite viper]

when you say disable, do you mean they both get destroyed

[spare pond]

At this moment its not that hard to describe every relation in if statements, but what when i want to add and add more?

[granite viper]

well, as a general rule it's not a good idea to try and design your system to handle every possible situation

[spare pond]

Corrected

[granite viper]

you will find yourself in paralysis by analysis very quickly

often best to just do it quick and dirty and refactor as necessary

[spare pond]

Yea but i making technical specification for applying a job 😄 and thought it would be nice if i ended up with something new

[granite viper]

ah

Add IPlayerDamage interface to the Enemy, and add ICollectable to the Coin

the player looks for both IPlayerDamage and ICollectable

the Enemy looks for ICollectable

when I say "looks for" I mean in a trigger/collision event

[spare pond]

So in the end you will always add this "looks for" by yourself

[granite viper]

yes, at some point some code has to be written so that things happen

[hollow garden]

lmaoo

[spare pond]

In my mind i was thinking about collision detection system which will somehow operate logic between collision types.

Lets say create CollisionType : ScriptableObject which will have collision name variable and somehow store collisions/triggers that will have some logic related

[modest lintel]

That basically sounds like a wrapper over the collision callbacks, which you would have to code anyway

[granite viper]

I feel like that system would get cumbersome fairly quickly

[spare pond]

and CollisionController : MonoBehaviour which will have CollisionType refernce with Callbacks that will automaticaly execute logic

[spare pond]

yea basically its wrapper

[granite viper]

but yes, that is doable

and would work

it's more boilerplate

[spare pond]

Maybe something wrong with me but i want to avoid this same and infinite "looks for" things

[modest lintel]

you gotta look for a thing to do something to it 😂

[granite viper]

I mean at the end of the day you'd have to look for the CollisionController in order to call the appropriate callbacks

otherwise how would you know the collisiontype

unless you encode that in a tag or sommin

[spare pond]

You mean check for CollisionController existence on object that collides?

[granite viper]

yeah

otherwise how do you know what type you're colliding with

in order to execute the rules

[spare pond]

Not that hard i think. Before any callbacks just check if he has collisionController in order to communicate with that system

Anyways, big thank you @granite viper @modest lintel for conversation. Gonna find solutions on my problem on tech interview i guess XD

[granite viper]

my point was that you still have to "go look" for something

np

[modest lintel]

Goodluck!

[proud atlas]

Hello. How would I go about replicating the parent->child position relation through script?

What I mean is, that when you put a Cube into another Cube, its direction from the parent stays the same; all the time... (during rotation, during change of position, etc.)

Let's say I have two GameObjects (or 2 Vectors, to be more exact) and I want to "stick" one Vector to the other, like I explained.

Vector3 dir = volume.transform.position - examplePoint.transform.position;
examplePoint.transform.position = volume.transform.position + dir;

This is something I tried, it works fine, until I rotate the cube. At that point, it stays in the same position... which is understandable, I never say it should be exactly "in front of the cube", but I cannot rely on the fact, that it will always be in front of the cube, it can be behind, on the side, and so on.

volume is the parent
examplePoint is the "child" (not literally, but its behaviour must be as if it was a child of volume.

Thank you

[sand wraith]

I am facing a weird problem.
I have two scripts XYZ.cs and ABC.cs.
Both are on same game object.
I am trying to access ABC from XYZ.
But it's returning null.
I tried getcomponent<ABC>() and dropping the object in inspector to script.
I tried everything I could but don't understand why this is happening.
Can anyone tell why this is happening?

[umbral trail]

how do you know ABC is on the object?

[sand wraith]

I have added both as components via inspector

On same game object

[fathom flare]

I am trying to make an API listener in unity WebGL, how would yall do that?

I made one but i hope to get more info how u would do it

[hollow garden]

your script is called Camera

therefore it is trying to access a field in your class called main

[novel meteor]

oh holly shiet! im so dumb lmao

[hollow garden]

lmao

[novel meteor]

thank you!

[hollow garden]

np

[sand wraith]

Anyone??

[modest lintel]

show code

and #💻┃code-beginner or #archived-code-general

[kindred tusk]

Could somebody advise on this error:

In this case the file and the class name do match

This is the file:
CommandEventConfig.cs

using UnityEngine;

namespace EffortStar {
  [CreateAssetMenu(menuName = nameof(EffortStar) + "/" + nameof(CommandEventConfig))]
  public class CommandEventConfig : BaseEvent<
    CommandEventInfo,
    CommandEventConfig,
    ICommandEventFilter,
    ICommandEventEffect
  > { }

  public struct CommandEventInfo {
    public Actor Actor;
    public Command Command;
    public CombatContext Context;

    public CommandEventInfo(
      Actor actor,
      Command command,
      CombatContext context
    ) {
      Actor = actor;
      Command = command;
      Context = context;
    }
  }

  public interface ICommandEventFilter : IEventFilter<CommandEventInfo> { }
  public interface ICommandEventEffect : IEventEffect<CommandEventInfo> { }
}

[urban warren]

And screen shot of file with name?

[kindred tusk]

hmm....

Something funny is going on

[urban warren]

Seems like it should work. Maybe try creating a new file? Maybe it cached something funny?

[kindred tusk]

I'll try deleting scriptassemblies

[fresh salmon]

Yeah it's likely Unity lost track, re-create the script

[kindred tusk]

haha, yes. reloading script assemblies:

the object is now busted

Thanks!

[urban warren]

examplePoint.transform.position = volume.transform.rotation * (volume.transform.position + offset)

[proud atlas]

Thanks a lot

[hallow cove]

hey so, I figured out how to use Asset Bundles

problem is

I have to select the asset and then trigger the function

is there any way I can tell it to get an asset at a certain location and convert it

instead of taking the selection

[undone coral]

a parent constraint

[shut citrus]

@undone coral I managed to solve the problem I was having with screen resolution. I can use the main screen to stretch over 3 screens no problem and the resolution is perfect. It just does not work with a secondary screen.
Now I have a new issue. I need to switch cameras from one display to the next. This works fine by simply changing the targetDisplay. The problem I am facing is that the all my Canvas UI no longer works (it renders fine, but I can no longer click anything). I've tried removing and adding the cameras a frame later + changing the render mode, but this does not help.

oh damn... Canvas also has a targetDisplay value.

[quartz stratus]

Is there an attribute that I can assign to a method that informs the compiler that the method will be called from outside the project? I have a method being called via UnitySendMessage from a native iOS script. Ideally, I can mark it so my IDE knows it's being used.

Okay, just in case anyone's curious, I think I'll use UsedImplicitly (I'm in Rider) for this (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/resharper/Reference__Code_Annotation_Attributes.html#UsedImplicitlyAttribute)

[sly grove]

making it public is usually a good hint

[undone coral]

yes... it's called externally referenced or something like that

it's unity's version of usedimplicitly

there's also something related to il2cpp

that marks it as something that should never be stripped

you don't distribute il2cpp precompiled libraries though

so it's unusual to mark methods this way unless they are access by plugins

maybe it's in the AOT namespace

[crystal oxide]

Does anyone know how i can change values of a mask in a shader while in runtime?

[undone coral]

what do you mean

in a shader graph?

using something as a mask?

[crystal oxide]

Well i have never made a shader, this shader is made by the person who does the graphics and now i have to change the values during runtime

This is what i got, i gotta change the BlackMask Offset

[drifting galleon]

then set the appropriate property

[crystal oxide]

How i do that?

[drifting galleon]

use this and similar api https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Material.SetFloat.html

[crystal oxide]

That is the thing, this shader is not on a certain object

We have it on the forward renderer

[undone coral]

not sure. you'll have to google "animate forward passes shader unity"

[drifting galleon]

then use the appropriate api there

[crystal oxide]

how ya mean?

[drifting galleon]

urp?

[crystal oxide]

yes

[drifting galleon]

ok i don't understand. when you blit, you blit with a material for this purpose. so you still should have access to the material

[crystal oxide]

Is there a certain way i should do the reference to it in the other script?

[drifting galleon]

what other script?

[crystal oxide]

Where i change the value of Blackmask Offset

Well try to change it atleast

[drifting galleon]

? what? that's a monobehaviour

[crystal oxide]

Ok i guess i am trying this wrong

[drifting galleon]

you want it as fullscreen pass right?

[crystal oxide]

What i am trying to do is, at a certain time in the game i need it to change, planned to just call a function then

Basically yes, its a vhs filter

[drifting galleon]

you can only do fullscreen passes with ScriptableRenderFeature / ScriptableRenderPass

[crystal oxide]

Do i just change monobehaviour to it? It wont register it if i do

[drifting galleon]

what do you mean?

[quartz stratus]

Thanks

[slow fox]

Don't mean to spam, but anyone know about scripting LineRenderer in a way that doesn't lag behind the object it's starting from?
#archived-code-general message

[thick spire]

Hey guys, how does getpixels work?

When I try to do GetPixels(gameobject.position.x, 0)

It has an offest

offset for different devices

But when I do GetPixels(400, 0)

it gives me the exact correct colour

How goes GetPixels read the texture?

compared to reading say world space coordinates?

[austere jewel]

What does thismean, how do you read world space coordinates, and how does that have anything to do with getpixels?

GetPixels returns an array of pixels in a pixel area, that's it

[thick spire]

Im trying to use it with mouse coordinates

So when I have my cursor on the specific part of the texture, it should give me the exact colour of where my mouse is

[austere jewel]

What texture

[thick spire]

It's a chromatic texture

I cant show mine because its a custom one which im not allowed to show

but it looks like this

[austere jewel]

It's it on a 3D object or what

[thick spire]

Its on a ui object

I read some forums where it said you have to make some form of calculation to get the exact pixel

[austere jewel]

Then you need to convert your cursor position into the space of that rect, and then use that to sample into the space of the texture

[thick spire]

Is there a built in function to perform this?

[austere jewel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle.html does the first part

The rest would have to be manual

[thick spire]

You mean actually inputting the parameters of the function?

[austere jewel]

I mean converting from local space to pixel space

[thick spire]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransformUtility.PixelAdjustPoint.html

[austere jewel]

That could do it, I've never used it before

[latent moss]

Hi,
i am trying to register Event Handler that calls a function with args.
I had this to call the function:

itemSlot.RegisterCallback<PointerDownEvent>(OnPointerDown);

According to unity docs, it is possible to register event with args:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/UIElements.CallbackEventHandler.RegisterCallback.html

So i tried to apply args:

slotName = "itemSlot1";
itemSlot.RegisterCallback<PointerDownEvent,string>(OnPointerDown(),slotName);

slotName is a string i want to pass into the "OnPointerDown" function, but no matter what variation i try, i always get errors.

[austere jewel]

Don't call your callback

The function is a parameter, adding brackets to it calls it and then you're passing the return value to the method (presumably void)

Compare the two pieces of code you posted if you're missing it

[latent moss]

Thank you, i get what you mean, i corrected it, but it still doesnt pass the arg "slotName"

newSlot.RegisterCallback<PointerDownEvent,string>(OnPointerDown,slotName);

i thought this is the way that docs suggest, but i have an error (i will screenshot it, but must change languae of my IDE first)

Cannot change debugging language to english in stupid vscode, as it adapts from system.

This is my code

and the error underlined in red is this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs1503

[austere jewel]

Your method needs to take the correct arguments

Can you use your IDE to generate an overload

By pressing alt-enter on the error

[latent moss]

i changed the arg in method as you told me to:

The overload thing, i will try now

[austere jewel]

This looks good, presumably it works?

[latent moss]

The error is gone, i thank you very much 🙂

[vocal idol]

Not sure if i should consider this "advanced". Is this ok to post here? I'm really desperate 😁

I'm trying to stop the character (Polygon Collider 2D) from moving through a wall (Tilemap Collider 2D).

1 var hitResults = new RaycastHit2D[10];
2 var hitX = collider.Cast(new Vector2(desiredX, 0), bodyFilter, hitResults);
3 //var test = new Collider2D[10];
4 //hitX = collider.OverlapCollider(bodyFilter, test);
5 if (hitX == 0)
6 {
7     transform.Translate(desiredX, 0, 0);
8 }

Why does the character not stop moving horizontally when I run the code like this? I proved the character can collide with the wall because it does stop moving horizontally when I uncomment the two lines (3&4).

[wary quail]

Anyone have any fun tips on how I might want to program this to make the debris spiral around? Essentially its a magnetic gravity gun - I break the rocks, I can lift and suck them in

https://gyazo.com/7be6693f80229bbf2d7089d0fe06ae86

but it might be fun to have them spiral around one another

vortex like

I suppose I could have some sort of check that sees if they're close to the center, otherwise it pushed them in a direction (up down left right)

[elder dome]

I’m on mobile @wary quail but you can use a point offset by sin for the x and cos for the y feeding in a growing time value to make it move in a spiral

https://sites.math.washington.edu/~ebekyel/Math126/Spiral.html

[tight willow]

does anyone have a good water tutorial or script i can look at?

[covert anchor]

dude I already answered you, don't double post the same Q
#archived-code-general message

[tight willow]

Ik u answered it was j i didnt get anything from reading the code that exist in that github

[covert anchor]

so without a reply knowing that How can I direct you the right way, your question wasn't specific to your code knowledge just you wanted to look at scripts

[austere jewel]

This is not an advanced code question. Provide more context in the original channel you posted in so people can actually provide meaningful help

[undone coral]

there's probably an asset with tons of physics fields for rigidbodies

[sinful pecan]

messing around with some recursive stuff, is there a way to tell c#/unity there is a limited amount of iterations so it doesn't try to allocate infinite memory?

public class EcoSystem
{
    public Vector2 position;
    public float radius;
    public EcoSystem[] children = new EcoSystem[7];
}
```still happens when i don't use the array as a member and use new in the constructor
i'm guessing it's just a terrible idea to use classes and constructors for this in the first place? haha

[agile yoke]

Nothing necessarily wrong with using classes for it like this, but you need to just not call new EcoSystems[7] anymore when you're at an object that doesn't actually have children anymore

[austere jewel]

Only serialising this would be a problem

[sinful pecan]

that's what i tried, if(iterations <= 0) return; at the start of the constructor and only initializing new "selves" after that, but seems like it still still doesn't like that

[austere jewel]

The array has 7 null values in it, there's no infinite loop unless you're always initialising the indices

[agile yoke]

Oops, how did I not notice that... That's what I get for looking at code before having fully woken up 🤦‍♂️

[sinful pecan]

public class EcoSystem
{
    public Vector2 position;
    public float radius;
    public EcoSystem(int iterations, float radius_, Vector2 position_)
    {
        EcoTrack.Track();
        if (iterations <= 0) return;
        //EcoSystem[] children = new EcoSystem[7];
        radius = radius_;
        position = position_;
        EcoSystem one = new EcoSystem(iterations - 1, radius / 3, position);
        for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++)
        {
            float angleRad = (60 * i) * Mathf.Deg2Rad;
            Vector2 childPos = position + new Vector2(radius * (2.0f / 3.0f) * Mathf.Cos(angleRad), radius * (2.0f / 3.0f) * Mathf.Sin(angleRad));
            EcoSystem six = new EcoSystem(iterations - 1, radius / 3, childPos);
        }
        GameObject circle = Utils.DrawCircle(radius, World.me.matUnlitColor, Color.cyan);
        circle.transform.position = position;
    }
}```it's still not happy ![LUL](https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/368438793310699522.webp?size=128 "LUL") 
https://i.imgur.com/uAnaHdy.png

i think i just need to change my approach

[formal urchin]

hi someone can help me to fix these errors ? it's strange because just jump out sometimes and sometimes no, i think that is a editor bug but i dont know

[sinful pecan]

actually i think those errors and warnings were unrelated at that point, i might have screwed something with memory permanently in earlier attempts and should have restarted the editor sooner
switched to recursive function outside of the class anyway and got it working https://i.imgur.com/Fsr31Wu.png

[hollow garden]

that's a nice pattern

[quartz stratus]

Are these causing any obvious problems for you? In general, GUIUtility errors are seemingly harmless editor visual errors. I wouldn't worry about them unless they become an issue. Or you could report them.

[formal urchin]

No, they do not cause me noticeable problems, even so they worry me

[little egret]

Hi, I've not posted much on this server before, so I don't know if this is the correct place for this, but here goes.

I'd like to combine multiple animation curves into one, so that the width curves from several line renderers can be used for one continuous line. The same goes for colour gradients, but right now I'm focused on getting widths working correctly. Here's what I have so far, I'm aware its a little hard to understand, so sorry about that. If anyone knows a good way to achieve this, please let me know as soon as you can.
Also, I'm not sure if the tangents and weights work correctly, so that's something to bear in mind.

_width = new AnimationCurve(); // Create a new curve
for (int i = 0; i < _lineParts.Length; i++) // Loop through all LineRenderData scriptable objects containing width data
{
    LineRenderData renderData = _lineParts[i].RenderData; // Cache current render data
    for (int j = i > 1 ? 1 : 0; j < renderData.Width.length; j++) // Loop through each keyframe in the cached render data's width curve. This ignores the first keyframe from subsequent frames, to avoid overlap, this is something I'm not sure how to mitigate
    {
        float time = i * (1f / _lineParts.Length) + j * (1f / lineData.Width.length); // Get time value, this is what I'm struggling with, I'm not good at math. :(
        _width.AddKey(new Keyframe
        (
            Mathf.Clamp01(time),
            Mathf.Clamp01(renderData.Width.keys[j].value),
            renderData.Width.keys[j].inTangent,
            renderData.Width.keys[j].outTangent,
            renderData.Width.keys[j].inWeight,
            renderData.Width.keys[j].outWeight
        ));
    }
}

_lineRenderer.widthCurve = _width;

[wanton hound]

Hey anyone know how to look if every element of a list is equal

`public List<int> A = new List<int>();
public List<int> B = new List<int>();

If(A == B)
//statement true`

Will this do the trick or is there something else?

[umbral trail]

A.SequenceEqual(B)

[wanton hound]

Thx man I will try

1 more thing

How do I make a rpg defense system like diablo 2?

[lavish ridge]

just curious, how are u 'breaking' the rock into smaller ones? it it like a entirely new prefab or something else?

[wanton hound]

I mean when In diablo if enemy ever hits you even if you have 300 defense while the enemy has damage btw 12-24 the player always takes damage it does not subtracts it from the defense instead makes a chance to block that determines if it is true player takes 0 damage if false player takes a random btw min/max of enemy?

Anyone has an idea how?

[compact ingot]

those are just rules you can implement with simple if-statements

[wanton hound]

How?

[compact ingot]

#💻┃code-beginner

[wanton hound]

I mean a little snippet

What is meant by this quick RIP?

Huh

Rest in peace?

[lavish ridge]

your question is more suited for the channel he pinged

[wanton hound]

Hey I am not a beginner, if u guys think so I will look into this myself and get a good output!

[flint sage]

The answer is math

How to implement that math is probably quite trivial

[regal olive]

for some reason transform.InverseTransformDirection() isnt working correctly

here is the code: ```cs
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class localVel : MonoBehaviour
{
Rigidbody rb; // <- OBJECT NEEDS RIGIDBODY COMPONENT

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();   
}

// Update is called once per frame
void FixedUpdate()
{
    var locVel = transform.InverseTransformDirection(rb.velocity);
    locVel.y += 1f;
    rb.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(locVel);
}

}

when used on an object parented to a rotating object, it gets added velocity in the direction the parent is rotating
this should **not** be happening
the **reason** it **shouldn't** be happening is because `locVel` should be a **velocity** vector in **local space**.
`        locVel.y += 1f;` should accelerate `locVel` in the **`y-axis`**.
instead, what i am observing is acceleration in the `y-axis` **and the `z-axis`**.

[sand rampart]

Hey in here, I'm looking to implement an algorithm that can visualize a tech tree for me. The tech tree is in essence a directed acyclic graph, and I've been looking into layered graph drawing as a solution, but I can't find any resources that explain how to implement in a more approachable way. Anyone who can point me in the right direction, perchance?
I've found some potential research papers on the subject, but would like to see if I can't find something more approachable before I spend a good bunch of hours trying to follow the papers.

[sinful pecan]

is it a very elaborate, complicated tech tree that needs to be expanded a lot? because in a case i ran into recently, i was thinking similarly but then realized it's much easier to just store a bit of grid data per skill/tech manually, though in my case it was fairly simple

[proud gust]

What would be a good approach for snapping/aligning instantiated objects with another surface?
As a start, aligning spawned objects with the ground plane for instance

[granite viper]

grab surface normal, align object up with surface normal

[proud gust]

Raycasting to the bottom + 1/2 vertical bounds offset?

[granite viper]

yes, by raycasting

[proud gust]

Okay, figured that one, but I don't know how to get the proper offset

[granite viper]

this looks about right

[proud gust]

But how do I account for rotations?

Ah bounds is always world space right?

[granite viper]

you'd want to get the mesh bounds

sharedMesh.bounds

that is local space

[proud gust]

Okay

So I'd have to account for rotations as well

[granite viper]

no

because if you have the normal and hit position (assuming the object's pivot is at its bounds center), you'd place the object at hitPosition + normal * bounds.size.y * 0.5f

you will need to account for rotation to align the object's rotation with the surface, yes

but positioning doesn't require it

if you can guarantee that the object pivot is at the base, it gets real easy

since you can put the object at the hit position

[proud gust]

I see. That's fine, I'm not sure if I need to account for rotation then, positioning should be enough

Yeah, but I can't guarantee that unfortunately

[granite viper]

if you don't care about the rotation of the object itself yes

[proud gust]

Thanks for the hints, I'll try it

[proud gust]

@granite viper Works great, thanks again!

[thick spire]

Hi guys, I have a question how to read texture coordinates from mouse position

So if I put my mouse cursor on a specific part of the texture, it should give me that exact colour of the area on that texture

I need to get the texture coordinate on a UI image

[granite viper]

@thick spire first step is to get the relative position of the cursor over the image

then you can convert that into a pixel position, then you can use GetPixel on the texture

assuming it's readable

[undone coral]

it's a bunch of arcane stuff. maybe use a color picker component. if you are on a deadline, use ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshotIntoRenderTexture

getting the relative position of a cursor over the image is arcane

the ui image isn't a piece of geometry, it doesn't have UVs, it has some sense of a local space but not one that is easy to understand

[undone coral]

is the tech tree dynamically generated? if not, lay it out by hand

[undone coral]

this isn't the right approach. have you considered an asset store asset for kinematic character controllers?

[regal olive]

yes

[undone coral]

at least to study

[regal olive]

yes

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/i-made-a-localized-physics-system-in-unity-5-artificial-gravity-inherited-transforms-etc-and-want-to-port-it-to-unreal-running-into-a-large-wall-video-inside/346369

im trying to replicate this

it does not use kinematic
or at least i reckon it doesnt

[thick spire]

How do you convert it into a pixel position?

[granite viper]

if you have an x/y relative to the image (meaning that 0 is the left side and 1 is the right side), then the pixel position is Mathf.RoundToInt( x / image.width )

and same for y

[thick spire]

I found this, if its of any revelance. https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/198782/how-do-you-get-the-texture-coordinate-hit-by-the-mouse-on-a-ui-raw-image-in-unit

[granite viper]

that works

[thick spire]

Wait, do you mean that after you do RectTransformUtility.ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle, the left side of the rect transform should return 0 if you hover over it with the mouse?

[granite viper]

I don't know what ScreenPointToLocalPointInRectangle returns

[modest lintel]

a point

[granite viper]

but in either case you can convert it to be in 0-1

[granite viper]

actually technically it returns a bool and a point

so there

[thick spire]

XD

[thick spire]

do you mean by doing screentoviewport?

[granite viper]

no

again, I don't know what type of coordinates
(😒 @modest lintel) localpointinrectangle returns

so if you can answer that for me I can tell you what to do next

[thick spire]

I have this rectangle

Like someting like this which i cant actually show

Its a child gameobject

it has a ui image texture

[granite viper]

can you just implement LocalPointInRectangle and tell me what it is returning for that gameobject

[thick spire]

Ohh

Wait let me see that functio

wait

[granite viper]

waiting

[thick spire]

it returns

-347

[thick spire]

My code

[granite viper]

that's weird

can you sample it at the four corners of the rect

roughly speaking

[thick spire]

Ok

[thick spire]

So for both upper left and bottom left corner it returns -342

[frank peak]

how performant is an inverse lerp? pretty solid?

[granite viper]

yeah it's fine

[thick spire]

upper right and lower right its 342

[granite viper]

it's just a simple math expression

[frank peak]

okay good

Im looking at few different formulas and inverse lerp seems to be the simplest for my needs

[granite viper]

@thick spire do you know how big the image is

[thick spire]

its 512x121

width and height

[granite viper]

how big is the recttransform it's on

[granite viper]

ok

looks like localpoint gives you a position that is relative to the center

so you're going to want to do something like

var localX = sampledX + rectTransform.width / 2;
var uvX = localX / rectTransform.width;

same for y

[thick spire]

I see

do I then input that into getpixel?

[granite viper]

uvX is a value from 0-1 (hopefully)

[undone coral]

create individual images and add pointer click handlers for them

[granite viper]

so now you multiple uvX by the image width

and round it to the nearest int

that is your pixel coordinate

[thick spire]

the image im using is verified by my company

its custom made

so i cant really use any other assets

[undone coral]

is it 5 swatches of color?

[thick spire]

its a chromatic image

like all the colours on a rainbow but mashed together

[undone coral]

use capture screenshot then

and sample it

it will be faster and simpler than this

using a canvas scaler, for example, makes doing the arithmetic much harder

there are many pitfalls

@thick spire so trust me, use capture screenshot

[thick spire]

ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshotIntoRenderTexture

So your saying this right

[undone coral]

yes

these guys also have an eyedropper tool

https://troien.github.io/ColorPicker/

for $20

[stiff violet]

Is it impossible to use the new unity analytics on WebGL? Seems like core initialization and authentication relies on System.Threading and I see no way around that

[thick spire]

I cant use other assets because the custom one im using is verified by my company

i have to work with company asset

[remote pumice]

Hey, did somebody mess around with writing Lexers/Parsers before?

I feel like I understood the concepts, tokenization ->syntactical analysis/building AST->semantic analysis,

What's confusing me is, that almost all examples I've seen would tokenize into something that already has a meaning, for example
i have an idea would be tokenized as SUBJECT (i), VERB (have) and OBJECT (an idea),
while my brain is telling me that they should all be STRING and it's the Parsers job to give that sequence of tokens a meaning by trying to parse that STRING into a verb, subject etc depending on the grammars expectations

Any advice and/or recommendations? I've read and watched around 10 different videos and talks, if you have a really good >read<, feel free to share it, but I'm mainly looking for personal experiences!

for anyone interested, the Unity-Context is that I'm making some form of developer command system, i already have a working, easy to extend version, but I'm trying to rewrite it with a proper Lexer/Parser, for learning purposes and eventually easier extendability of the command syntax and possible features?!

[sly grove]

I've written lexxers and parsers for programming languages but natural languages are an entirely different beast

[remote pumice]

It's for a programming language like syntax

[flint sage]

If your input allows you to parse while tokenizing then go ahead, it'll be faster

But might not be possible once your syntax becomes more complex

[sly grove]

For example you cannot simply infer the verbness or nounness of a word from the word itself, as many can be Both with depending on context

[remote pumice]

I took the example with the natural language because I found it easier to understand what's bothering me in the tokenization examples

[sly grove]

Ok if it's not actually natural language it's easier

[granite viper]

the lexer understands the individual symbols that make up the language

[remote pumice]

Cause I find it nonsense that tokenizer knows, for example, what a STATEMENT would be, it would know STRING OPEN STRING CLOSE in my opinion

And parser would know it's a Statement and creating a node for the AST

[granite viper]

the parser understands how those lexer tokens get combined together into context

in other words the difference between a lexer and a parser is semantics

[regal olive]

Do you guys know if it would be possible to export a character from a Unity scene to FBX format at runtime in a compiled Unity project via code?
I was toying with the idea of making a character creator that allows users to export their characters but I am not sure how feasable is this via code.

[granite viper]

a lexer understands how to convert a string into tokens, a parser understands how to convert tokens into code (in the abstract sense)

@regal olive should be possible, would need to write or find an FBX serializer

I don't think unity has one

built-in, that is

[flint sage]

It's all just semantics and separation of responsibility, if it makes sense for your language then you can do multiple things in the some process

[remote pumice]

I know that modern parsers do the tokenization "on the fly", also I've seen examples of "functional" parsing where the tokenization process was skipped entirely by parsing in a recursive way, where the only parser you'd use would be a, example, 'commandParser' that would then call further parsers like nameParser and argumentParser which, again, call more parsers, for example stringParser which would go to letterOrDigitParser and so on, that's quite elegant but too confusing for me at the moment

I'd like to completely separate them from each other

[thick spire]

Yeah it gives a value between 0 and 1!

[granite viper]

yay

[thick spire]

Omg yes

now

[regal olive]

I see, I am not familiar with that branch of programming but do you have any idea of how common it is?

I was thinking about trying to find a freelancer to help me with it if its something feasible.

[thick spire]

i think you said to multiply a width by texture width after?

uvx i mean

[flint sage]

FBXs require a licensed library from autodesk, iirc it's not cheap

[granite viper]

@thick spire yes

uvX * textureWidth

[thick spire]

is it the width of the actual texture

or the rect transform width?

[regal olive]

I see

[granite viper]

@thick spire the width of the texture

[remote pumice]

basically what I'm wondering, in my context

Should I tokenize something like Command, Arguments etc, or rather String and then let the Parser check

• what am I expecting, grammar wise? (Would be Command first)

• is there a matching Command for String?

• more work

• create Command Node for AST

[granite viper]

I would probably err towards the former

if you can identify it in the context of the lexer, it makes your parser work easier

[remote pumice]

True! What I thought about, is multiple lexing stages, if that makes any sense

Like in the first stage, 1+1 would be NUM OP NUM

and the second would replace that with EXPR
Parser would then check if EXPR is a fit for the expected grammar

hope the abbreviations are clear XD

that would make
command(Blabla).do()
from
STRING OPEN STRING CLOSE DOT STRING OPEN CLOSE
in the first stage into
COMMAND ARGUMENTS CHAIN
in the second stage

Something like a primitive Lexer that can have more concrete lexers in connection with a parser on top of it, if that makes any sense?! 🤷‍♂️ 🤔

Also, I would, for example, in the first stage tokenize + etc as PLUS or SPECIAL because at this stage the Lexer wouldn't know if it's in a mathematical context

Anyways, I'll just continue experimenting, thx for your Inputs!

[thick spire]

It works!

Thank you so much!

[granite viper]

woot

[regal olive]

either way, how do i get movement in local space? nothing seems to be working, kinematic or not

[tardy lynx]

hey, i'm having troubles with converting my mouse position the mesh vertex in the world

i'm not sure why but it has a small offset to the real world

    private void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            Vector2 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
            Vector3 worldMousePos = cam.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(mousePos.x, mousePos.y, cam.nearClipPlane ));
            mapGen.Dig(worldMousePos, digRadius);
        }

    public void Dig (Vector3 mousePos,int brushRange)
    {

        int digX = Mathf.RoundToInt(mousePos.x* mapDetail);
        int digY =Mathf.RoundToInt(mousePos.y* mapDetail);
        test.transform.position = new Vector2(digX, digY);
        if (digX>=0&&digX<width*map.Count-1&&digY >= 0 && digY< height*map.Count-1)
        {
            int _chunkIndex =Mathf.FloorToInt(digX / width);
            Vector2 _chunkPos =new Vector2( _chunkIndex*(width-1)*(1/mapDetail),0);



            for(int i=0;i<brushRange;i++)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < brushRange; j++)
                {
                    if((digX - _chunkIndex * width - 1 + i)>=0 &&(digY + 1 - j)>=0&& (digX - _chunkIndex * width - 1 + i) < width && (digY + 1 - j) <height)
                    {
                        map[_chunkIndex][digX - _chunkIndex * width - 1 + i, digY + 1 - j] = 0;
                    }


                }

            }
            UpdateMesh(_chunkIndex,_chunkPos,meshGen[_chunkIndex]);
        }

    }

what happens is that when my player camera is at world origin, the vertex index that i get from digX and digY is correct, but the further i go to the right in the world , the bigger the gap between my mouse and the vertex index is

[regal olive]

idk what a mesh vertex even is

[versed pewter]

Is your camera set to orthographic?

[tardy lynx]

yep it is

[regal olive]

actually, kinematic does work. but is that the only way
i only want to apply a local force

so tha means i have to produce a clone of unity's physics engine just to apply a force in local space?
that sounds extremely inefficient

[undone coral]

the meaning of local space as in transforms versus local space as in physics are different

the former isn't going to help you with the latter

try spelling out the exact rules of what you want to do, in plain english, and it'll be apparent that to program it, you will not be using information about the transforms most of the time

[regal olive]

making a clone of unity's physics just to make gravity in local space seems extremely inefficient

i'll make some mockup in Blender

[undone coral]

i wouldn't use this word local space

[undone coral]

i know what you want to do

just in terms of turning it into programmable rules you have to write it out

getting better at this stuff means using words

so for example, from that video

the rules are: when an object enters this bounding region, it experiences a force opposite of the normal of some ground plane "A" in it. when it is stationary against that ground plane, it continues to experience that force "A". when something collides with it, it stops experiencing force "A".

do you see how that doesn't really have anything to do with local space or transforms?

it's an illusion, based on the sequence of things that really happened, of "local physics"

[regal olive]

wait are you saying its fake

so i do have to produce a clone of unity's physics engine just to add a single attribute
Man

[undone coral]

no...

it's not a clone of unity's physics engine

i think it comes down to understand what it means for something to be "attached" to something else in real physical terms

it will help you understand that doing what is in your image

requires calculating a force / change in velocity to create the illusion of something being "attached"

and nothing else

[regal olive]

ik how that is done
ive done it around 3 times over and it hasnt worked

[undone coral]

in the real world, you would achieve that illusion using a rigid object / attachment like a nail

[regal olive]

the only time its worked has been with using kinemtics

[undone coral]

right which is why you probably should get the asset

[regal olive]

which i shouldnt have to do

and by "using kinematics" i mean writing a physics engine with that one extra attribute
which sounds extremely inefiicient

[undone coral]

okay i think you'll figure it out 🙂

you should watch this guillermo del toro short called Geometria

you remind me a lot of the kid in that movie

[regal olive]

lol

[regal olive]

accel seems to worrk correctly for first 2 timesteps, then breaks at 3rd timestep.

seems proportional to rotation of parent (rotation spd increased from 1 -> 5)

and ofc when rotation spd is 360, it does not break

[sly grove]

What are you trying to do?

Why not just use AddRelativeForce?

[regal olive]

i just tried ordering scripts
this did not work

[sly grove]

Yep, AddForce

or AddRelativeForce

ForceMode.Acceleration for simulating gravity

[regal olive]

ive tried that

what i get is this

[sly grove]

You did it wrong then

[regal olive]

almost as if its adding to the previous force in world space

[sly grove]

Yes forces are in world space

[regal olive]

is there a way to get them to translate to local space for calculation

[sly grove]

Unless you use AddRelativeForce then it's in the local space of the body

[regal olive]

its only in the local space of the body at the instance its added
then it translates to world space

[sly grove]

I don't understand what you mean

Can you explain what you're doing

Your picture is unclear

[regal olive]

if you add a force in local space/world space, it translates to world space, calculated in local space or not

[sly grove]

Meaning what

Back up

What is happening in your game

What are you trying to do

[regal olive]

im trying to do https://youtu.be/1UqEHrXva0U

forces calculated in local space
stay in local space

[sly grove]

You'd have to use multi scene physics or something

[regal olive]

https://youtu.be/mFzPIw_nsYc this person apparently managed to acheive this without having to set the cubes as kinematic objects

[sly grove]

To separate the two physics simulatons

[regal olive]

but how

[sly grove]

This

Or use a custom physics engine

[regal olive]

ive only seen physics scenes used to predict paths of objects, not to achieve different physics simulations in the same timestep

[sly grove]

It can be used for all kinds of things

[regal olive]

ive read the docs

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.LocalPhysicsMode.html

Provides options for 2D and 3D local physics.

[sly grove]

Yes this means to create a physics scene

That's how you use multi scene physics

[regal olive]

ok but where doi start

[sly grove]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/physics-multi-scene.html

[regal olive]

there arent many examples to follow

only demos

[sly grove]

When you do difficult and unusual things sometimes you have to blaze your own trail

[mighty cliff]

Hey Guys, so i have a MAJOR game breaking problem with my automated system.
Essentially I have a system which chooses targets based on meeting a condition, and when your characters bar is full (read: ATB Bar), it performs the aciton on the target.
Now I started to implementing dying and reviving which removes/adds from the dead/alive list. It seems to be that the problem is that, in the course of someone being revived/died AFTER the vondition check for the action is performed, suddenly now the target is null and i hit the red error
Anyone know what I should do?

for context its a JRPG game system and each character ha this automated mode, so i think because theyre all separate, its causing the system break

[sly grove]

I guess you're destroying the object when they die and reinstating it?

[mighty cliff]

no no removing form list

lemme grab the other stuff

[sly grove]

But idk you really need to examine which line the error is on and figure out which thing is null

[mighty cliff]

its the chosen target

[sly grove]

It's the same as any NRE

[mighty cliff]

so heres the check

Basically, in the first screenshot, you can see the TryTacticTargets(i), which finds which enemy is eligible for the action, then if your bar is full, do it, otherwise you go to the elseif() stuff. the break is at the elseif, where the ChosenTarget is null

i think its because theres a couple of instances (player heroes) doing this and someone is either dying/reviving and being removed from that list which checks target eligibility so by the time you get to the elseif(), the guy essentially vanished

so trying to figure out how to resolve it. like do i do the check later or something?

[ruby lichen]

I am having a problem with rigidbody2d gravity physics being super slow.
the camera size is set to a massive number. this makes the camera huge. a normal sized sprite is basically invisible on the camera so all the sprites are also huge. for some reason this causes gravity to be incredibly slow as the sprites have to cover a much larger distance as the ground is in terms of unity distance much further away
I am not allowed to change the size of the sprites or the camera size which is scaled dynamically based on the screen size. So I need a way to dynamically compensate for the large and changing scale of the scene which is dynamically generated from the scripts to make gravity work properly

[sly grove]

Changing the size of the sprites is the right answer though

And zooming in the camera

[ruby lichen]

i cant change either the sprites or the camera size, i need a way to compensate by changing the units of the scene or scale the gravity of the scene in a consistent way

[sly grove]

Why can't you change them

[ruby lichen]

not my part of the project, don't have permission

[sly grove]

What's not your part of the project

[ruby lichen]

the way the camera stuff and art works

[sly grove]

Also if that's the case, you talk to the person whose job is that part of the project

Anyway surely you can change the import settings of the sprites

You don't have to change the images themselves

[ruby lichen]

don't have time to change all that and a lot of things are dependent on it so i just need a physics based solution

the camera is required to be based on the screen height

so the sprites have to be the size they are

[sly grove]

It would be so much easier and faster to change the sprite import settings than some insane gravity manipulation code

[ruby lichen]

it would. but i can't

which i already stated

right now i am just setting the physics2d.gravity to -9.81f * screenHeight/4 to compensate because that is not really the solution i want

[sand rampart]

It needs to be dynamically generated, as it needs allow for mods to add new research with ease.

[sand rampart]

Yes, it's unfeasible to manually build the layout as I cannot be certain which nodes it contains.

[ruby lichen]

Does anyone know how to compensate for my camera being scaled by the screen resolution as it breaks all velocity and gravity physics and my raycasts dont reach the right distances either? is there a way to make the world points scale with the camera?

[regal olive]

How to change the gravity of my scene?

[fresh salmon]

Not an advanced question
Not a code question
This can be done from the physics settings

[fresh salmon]

What's the type of scenePredictionPhysics

[regal olive]

for a new physics scene

[regal olive]

PhysicsScene

how to change g

[fresh salmon]

You have the answer in this screenshot, but that's for an entire scene

[regal olive]

for 1 physics scene

[fresh salmon]

I don't think it's possible

[fresh salmon]

If these are not present in the docs, they're either read-only or not accessible, or not defined

[regal olive]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.LocalPhysicsMode.Physics3D.html u see this but how tto implement this

[fresh salmon]

I don't know

[fresh salmon]

Read what it says

[fresh salmon]

Read what it says

Don't spam it

[regal olive]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics-autoSimulation.html

Physics.autoSimulation = false;```

[regal olive]

how to parent scene to game objet

[shadow seal]

What?

[drifting galleon]

what?

[tough tulip]

afaik you cant. gameobjects are present under their respective scenes. not the other way around

[regal olive]

then how am i supposed to make a physics scene local to a gameobject

[regal olive]

How feasible is to make a script that would export everything inside a Unity scene as Unitypackage at runtime?

I was thinking about hiering a freelancer for that.

[drifting galleon]

do not crosspost #854851968446365696

[delicate vapor]

yeah, my bad just didn't know where to ask here or code-beginner channel

I need a roadmap to be a professional unity developer, instead of just watching random youtube tutorials for years now

[drifting galleon]

roadmap: get a job in the games industry

[delicate vapor]

do not crosspost? 😂

[drifting galleon]

applies to questions, not answers

[regal olive]

do you knwo hp local physics

[regal olive]

so i read about physics scenes

thy are used to separate physics simulations which isnt rly what im looking for

im looking for an option to make some of Physics attributes shuch as gravity local

or rotate a physics scene

idk

[jovial totem]

So. Say I had books in my game that has text and pictures. What would be the simplest way to display the book in-game? Is there a markdown plugin that allows images? Or should the books just be an HTML document that is opened using some sort of in-game browser which iirc exists

[drifting galleon]

ui textfields and images?

[jovial totem]

Well I’d have to parse the document and automatically create those and that sounds like a pain and error prone

[sly grove]

Separate physics simulatons is exactly what you want

[regal olive]

ik but i have no idea how to use it

[sly grove]

You're hoping for a quick and dirty solution, but it doesn't exist

[regal olive]

ik one way but you dont even need a physics scene for it
it involves using a proxy platform to calculate physics
you can do that without a physics scene, you just have to make sure the proxy system cannot interact with the master, which you can easily do by separating the rigidbodies from the master to use as proxy

[drifting galleon]

local gravity, make a boxcollider and invert the gravity / etc of anything inside the collider

[drifting galleon]

well you're gonna have to parse it regardless of the solution

[sly grove]

He wants not just local gravity but local momentum etc

It's not tenable with the basic system

[drifting galleon]

tfuq does local momentum mean?

[sly grove]

It means if you shake the snow globe, it doesn't affect the snow insidy

[regal olive]

ye

[sly grove]

Two totally separate simulations

[regal olive]

ive got physics scenes spawning, but how do i rotat them?

[drifting galleon]

you could just negate the values applied to the snow and then there's no need for local momentum

[regal olive]

you cant parent physics scenes to gameObjects

so how am i supposed to rotate it

[regal olive]

ok but how do i rotate it

[remote pumice]

I may be wrong, I didn't mess around with PhysicsScenes, but I'd say you can't rotate it, a Scene doesn't have a position or rotation by itself, it's contents have positions/rotations.
That's my guess, i don't know if it's correct.
You could google for "Unity3D rotate PhysicsScene" or take a look at the Documentation if that functionality exists

[regal olive]

so then how a i sposed to utilise it in this cade

ive been on this case of physics scenes for a few hours now

i havent seen anything of the sort

🤔

[remote pumice]

To utilize what exactly?
What's your end goal? Besides a different gravity value?

[regal olive]

a separate physics system with an origin that is local to a game object

https://youtu.be/1UqEHrXva0U

i dont see why this is so difficult to implement

@sly grove doyou have any ideas

[remote pumice]

As said, I didn't mess around with PhysicsScenes/Systems before, but I doubt that a "Physics System" has an origin, it will have Colliders and/or PhysicsBodies which themselves have origins/position etc

I'm happy if anyone can correct my thoughts and I can learn something!

[regal olive]

default gravity is global not just for individual scenes but for entire projects
so ig there is nothing i can do about that

[remote pumice]

Did you try googling "Unity3D Custom Physics System"? Pretty sure you did, but still asking, I'm getting curious about this topic

[regal olive]

yes

[remote pumice]

If you're not working with additive scenes, you can have a component in each scene that'll change gravity on loaded/unloaded

[regal olive]

i was just wondering if that was the only way

custom physics seems to be the only way

it just seems extremely inefficient

i mean think about it

a clone of unity's physics engine, just to some make some of its attributes local

[remote pumice]

If you're not working with additive scenes, it's pretty straight forward, no need to "clone Unity's physics engine", just a simple assignment to a property when scene is loaded/unloaded

[regal olive]

physics scenes dont seem to offer anything that could possibly help solve the issue

other than being slightly more organised
the only thing ive seen physics scenes used for it

• predicting physics
• rigidbody collision groups
  nothing to do with local gravity/momentum

[regal olive]

wdym?

[remote pumice]

I still don't know if I so understand your end goal or why you're wanting to have a different physics system, but, again, let's say you're always having a single scene loaded, not multiple ones

[regal olive]

i sent a video of the effect um trying toa cheive

https://youtu.be/mFzPIw_nsYc

[remote pumice]

You'd just have
Physics.gravity = customGravity in your Awake and Physics.gravity = defaultGravity in OnDestroy

[remote pumice]

Ah ok, i think I get it

Looks like you just want your gravity to be another direction

[regal olive]

a physics subscene

that can be translated in a scene

without any effect on the object inside the subscene

the issue is that i dont know hwo to trnasform a subscene

[remote pumice]

That's pretty well manageable by setting Physics.gravity i think, but you'd have to handle the upwards direction of affected GameObjects yourself 🤔

Anyways, I'm just continuing to make guesses without real knowledge of the subject, I'll stop cluttering this channel and hope that somebody with actual experience can guide you

[regal olive]

a subscene is not even transformable

gravity is global to all subscenes

why is this niche so underdevloped

not just in unity

in most game engines

[shadow seal]

I mean is it not as simple as having a trigger area, and OnTriggerEnter make gravity a high number, OnTriggerExit make it a lower number?

That's what I got from that video, it's just a trigger area where you'd set gravity higher on an object inside it

[lavish lotus]

That's what you need. Ditch the Unity gravity and make your own on all objects. I've done so on my player to be able to walk sideways on walls if I please.

[undone coral]

hmmm...

[modern patio]

Anyone's unity hard freeze if you compile code while the visual studio debugger is attached?

[regal olive]

i dont want to apply custom gravity

more like

i want to transform a physics group of objects without the objects being affected by the transformations

[frank ferry]

would someone mind going into a screenshare or something and helping me spawn the food objects at the start of the game? because they spawn each time someone joins https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/952619455362519170/2022-03-13_17-27-58.mp4

[atomic maple]

hi hmm anyone know, how in PropertyDrawer to get a values from List, example for int i can do property.FindPropertyRelative("MagicNumber").intValue;

[sage radish]

property.FindPropertyRelative("IntList").GetArrayElementAtIndex(index).intValue

[regal olive]

this is ridiculous

im not buying it

im not going to use a kinematic physics engine just to make a single attribute local
until ive exhausted all other possible options

@sly grove PhysicsScene can separate simulations but it cannot produce local simulations

im pretty sure

[sly grove]

apply your imagination to this... local physics simulation is perfectly achievable with it. But like most things in game development, you might have to use a little smoke/mirrors to achieve it. It's not going to just work out of the box how you want. You may need to simulate the physics "elsewhere" and apply the simulation results from "elsewhere" to the local motion of the objects in your ship for example

[regal olive]

ik that method

the Proxy method

[sly grove]

yes

[regal olive]

thats the particular method im trying to avoid

[sly grove]

that's how i'd approach it

[regal olive]

bc its less efficient

than simulating physics

[sly grove]

less efficient than what?

[regal olive]

also

[sly grove]

The nonexistent thing

[regal olive]

it can be done without PhysicsScene

PhysicsScene just makes it more organised

[sly grove]

so why are you here asking us if you know what to do

[regal olive]

because i was wondering if it was possible to simulate local physics out of the box

[sly grove]

clearly not

[regal olive]

oof

well, physics scenes will help with organisation a ton

you can keep all the proxies in a single coordinate without them interacting with each other

but its still less efficient than flat out physics calculation

Man

[atomic maple]

hmm i want whole list not just 1 element, there is no get whole list

[regal olive]

im not sure about the validity of this statement tho

"Proxies are less efficient than Physics Calculation"

only one way to find out

[atomic maple]

so can i somehow cast property.FindPropertyRelative("IntList"). to a List<strings> or something like that

cuz this way i have to reacreate new list by itering with GetArrayElementAtIndex(index).intValue

[regal olive]

https://youtu.be/eQt7TwCr6ao?t=334 this is one of the biggest issues with proxies
Jittering caused by changing of physics calculation from global -> proxy

[sage radish]

There's no other way

[atomic maple]

totaly wierd but ok at least it works

[regal olive]

i cant imagine making a sea game

and multiplayer

[warm fulcrum]

This is... mildly appropriate to the channel but does anyone know why the com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json package just doesn't work? It doesn't seem to add references to the solution and as a result does not compile

[upbeat plaza]

I just have a quick question. I'm just trying to press "D" and have unity Debug Log the letter "D", but it seems that depending on my framerate, Unity sometimes has a major delay or even skips the key press altogether. How can I mitigate this?

Basically I've got input lag. idk if it's an advanced issue or not, but this causes major problems like the player continuing to move when I let go of input

[compact ingot]

are you polling your input in FixedUpdate()?, what are you doing with the input immediately after polling it before the log happens?

[upbeat plaza]

It's in regular Update() and I've commented out everything aside from the Debug Log statement. I would post my code but it seems this server doesn't want me to

If I press D when the screen is small, it happens almost instantly. When I press it on Maximise play, it takes up to a full second or sometimes does nothing

[compact ingot]

#854851968446365696 on how to post code

[upbeat plaza]

thank you

https://gdl.space/nesopejuqi.cpp

Actually that's a bit too partial

https://gdl.space/aqayofanos.cpp

That's got the whole statement

[compact ingot]

that doesnt compile

[upbeat plaza]

It's missing the last }

sorry one second

[compact ingot]

where and how do you set STATE?

[upbeat plaza]

It's set in public and it's always set to 1. Nothing affects it currently

[compact ingot]

show code

[upbeat plaza]

What part of it?

[compact ingot]

all of it

[upbeat plaza]

Oh one sec

https://gdl.space/azobeduwed.cpp

[compact ingot]

that code does not produce any input lag

[upbeat plaza]

Yeah it doesn't seem like it should. But on my end it's lagging

[compact ingot]

you are probably looking for the source of the problem in the wrong place

this code only manifests the issue, it is probably completely unrelated to the cause of it

[upbeat plaza]

Any chance my computer is just too weak?

It's a Macbook Pro with a uh
1.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 Processor

[compact ingot]

too weak for what?

you aren't doing anything yet from the looks of it.

what frame rate do you get in the editor in playmode?

[upbeat plaza]

Where do I see that? Is there a stats button?

[upbeat plaza]

Yeah I fluctuate in the 80s and 90s

In Maximise it drops to the 30s

I'm sure I can find out how to optimise this, even if I just have a corrupt OS or something - but really I just wanted to know if there was a way to reliably do input that isn't affected by framerate. Because even if it runs well on my system I don't want the game literally glitching up at low framerates

nvm disregard I'll stagger into the winds and figure this out on my own after I take a walk

[regal olive]

@sly grove yh so after a while i finaly done it

it is messing with the velocity attributes a little but thats expected

[upper mica]

Hey does anyone know how I can fully restart my game? If I just do SceneManager.LoadScene(0); it will unload all active scenes and load my title screen... but when I load back into the other scenes, everything is broken, because serialized references in all my scripts are pointing to the old destroyed references from the unloaded scenes.

I tried manually unloading scenes with SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync(scene, UnloadSceneOptions.UnloadAllEmbeddedSceneObjects); but this did not solve the issue. I am stumped here, and every single google answer is the simple LoadScene method

[jovial totem]

How do I have multiple projects share code? Do I make my own package and host it somewhere?

[undone coral]

@jovial totem put it on github as a private package. you can develop it with a file:../Sibling-Directory path and change it to a git:... path when it's in good shape

[undone coral]

1. don't use scenes
2. centralize your state in one place

[upper mica]

wat. how do you make a large game and not use scenes

[undone coral]

use prefabs instead of scenes

nested prefabs have obsoleted scenes for all but extremely few cases

[upper mica]

first I've ever heard of this

[undone coral]

i say it a lot. search my name + scenes

you'll see

[upper mica]

ok... does anyone else say this, or is it just you?

[undone coral]

in 2022, with the industrial and publisher game development shops i know, they don't use scenes

[upper mica]

also, how are you supposed to do operations that rely on objects being finished loading in a prefab?
with scenes, you can subscribe to SceneManager.SceneLoaded

[undone coral]

you can use scenes or addressables for the narrow purpose of loading prefabs, but i wouldn't organize my game logically around them

besides, there's no game anyone is developing here that needs loading

only stuff that 100% will always be glitchy because it's too big for any computer, or 100% too small to matter

[upper mica]

Ive managed to iron out all bugs to do with scenes so far. This restarting thing is the first I've run in to that I cant figure out

[undone coral]

thats a lot of people's experience

"I do XYZ... and now W doesn't work at all with scenes"

it was never viable to rely on scenes to restart your game

nor to organize it from menus to levels or whatever

[upper mica]

appearantly not

thats why im trying to find a different solution

[undone coral]

sorry.

it's just how it goes

[upper mica]

yea, I dont believe that

considering you're the only person i've ever heard this opinion from

[somber tendon]

I'm sure every game I made needs loading, I'm just too lazy to make a loading screen for them

[jovial totem]

No idea what this means. Is this a NuGet thing?

[undone coral]

read up the docs on packages. you can add local file system references and git references

[undone coral]

anyway, think critically if there's really loading in your game. like everything could just be loaded up front

[upper mica]

I have gone through that thought process already, and no, I cannot load everything up front

[undone coral]

there are*

try building to standalone player

and see what happens

[upbeat plaza]

those are my stats

[undone coral]

oh

yeah i'm surprised it works so poorly

[upbeat plaza]

Yeah idk what the issue is. I mean, my disk is kind of full - I've only got 9 GB left of storage on it

But doesn't this mean that if someone has a slow computer, the game will glitch up when they try to play it? In most games I play, the game simply lags. But here, it's like only the input is lagging, and that's causing major issues

[somber tendon]

It might be not the input that lags, but the debug.log itself, try making a text on screen and change the text based on your input

[upbeat plaza]

unfortunately rakyat, I've already tried other things with this. Originally the "D" made the character move, which was lagging. The Debug was just to confirm this

[somber tendon]

also, iirc there's a setting in macbook called "Slowkey" or something that delay the input, you might want to check it out if it's enabled

[upbeat plaza]

what

what kind of setting is that lol

where is it?

[somber tendon]

been a while since I had my hand on mac, but from google :
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-your-keyboards-response-speed-mchlp2264/mac

[undone coral]

i think it's a red herring and your code is buggy

[upbeat plaza]

Alright that wasn't the issue but thanks for letting me know about that because that was kind of funny

[undone coral]

maybe start with a fps example

like use an example project or an asset

or whatever it is you want to do

[upbeat plaza]

I'm almost positive it's a performance issue, because another person on this forum confirmed there was nothing wrong with my code and the response time gets faster and slower when I'm in maximise mode or not

[somber tendon]

but really I just wanted to know if there was a way to reliably do input that isn't affected by framerate. Because even if it runs well on my system I don't want the game literally glitching up at low framerates
you can just disable the camera, and have it updating at desired rate using Camera.Render();

[undone coral]

yes but how can we help you with that

try a different project for now, see if anything opens on your computer

[upbeat plaza]

I'll do that

Yeah my hardware must be messed up or something. I made a new unity project with a scene that doesn't even have a camera in it- just an empty game object with this script attached to it:
https://gdl.space/erezogihep.cpp
And I'm still getting a little bit of lag

And its URP

[jovial totem]

ok, got that. But how can I get Unity to compile it?

[remote pumice]

Hey, can somebody enlighten me? I'm in a very weird situation with the Substring method.

I am extracting tokens out of a text. When there is only a single token in that text, Substring works fine, but any further calls throws me an ArgumentOutOfRangeException for unknown reason. I am definitely not mutating the string throughout my process.
I've tested with

Debug.Log(end <= text.Length);
var substring = text.Substring(0, end);

The Debug.Log gives me true in the Console Window, but the method call is still throwing an AOOR 🤔

I can almost guarantee the error isn't on my side of the code, i have written my own GetSubstring method with 6 lines of code, passing it the same values as the original one, and it works perfectly, and I'm fine with using that instead, but I'm still curious to why that Exception would be thrown

Any ideas?

[rotund dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6AuQq_uI4&ab_channel=KnightlyAssets

I want to do whatever this video does

It explains what the code does quite clearly but it doesn't give any hint on how to code it

Can someone guide me to some tutorial that's on the same topic?

i.e. changing colors of the same objects via shader, with the help of GPU instancing, making it possible that all same meshes w/ different colors can be drawn in one batch

[sly grove]

Show the actual line of code throwing the exception, and ideally the surrounding code. Also print the length of the string and end

[alpine kindle]

Hey guys is it true that you cant serialize references to scriptable objects?

If so how does the engine do it when you assign them from the inspector?

[undone coral]

unity will correctly compile the source in the referenced package. you don't have to make a precompiled assembly

it works like all the other unity packages

[undone coral]

serialize in the sense of JSONUtility.ToJson?

[alpine kindle]

Nah using BinaryFormatters

I guess unity does use json though right? Or YAML

[austere jewel]

🚨 Binary Formatter Alarm 🚨

[undone coral]

use the shader graph instance id node https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.shadergraph@12.0/manual/Instance-ID-Node.html

[alpine kindle]

Haha i got the warning last week lol

[undone coral]

vary the color based on this node

[alpine kindle]

That JSON would be safer if the data structures were redefined

[austere jewel]

Unity uses YAML, and its serializer doesn't behave like other serializers you'll see

[alpine kindle]

Hmm I take it this means that I can't do this just because Unity does it 😦

[austere jewel]

purely because it's got awareness of the C++ side of the engine that nothing else can see

[alpine kindle]

Ahh

[undone coral]

sounds pretty radioactive.

[austere jewel]

Yes. If you want to serialize something for runtime you probably should avoid Unity Object types

[alpine kindle]

So say I want to store a list of starting units for the sake of saving a game and my units are defined by scriptable objects. Is my only option to store a list of those SO somewhere and serialize an index?

[undone coral]

if you've been at this for a week at this stage write the save file exactly as you need it

if you need an X to later read an X, write it however is intuitive to you. then, if you need field X.Y, write field X.Y

in an hour everything will work because your game isn't complicated enough to benefit from generic serialization

even if you had 100 fields to deal with it'll take you 5 minutes to write the serialization and deserialization code

and maybe a total of an hour over the lifetime of the game to maintain it

[alpine kindle]

Yeah but I imagine there are risks here if those scriptable objects change

[undone coral]

your choices are thing that doesn't work versus thing that does

so what if they change

big deal. you know how to deal with it

just roll with it

it'll add up to an infinitesimally small amount of time

[alpine kindle]

Wdym? You'd have different values for the units that were loaded from the save and the ones that were created at runtime

[undone coral]

binary formatter won't work in that situation anyway

you need to TextWriter.WriteLine at this stage, or create a "data transfer object" (the correct answer)

create a "plain old csharp" class that works with JSONUtility to represent the save file

then copy the data you need to save into that class instance

write it to a file using JSONUtility.ToJSON

later, to load the save, use JSONUtility.FromJSON

then copy fields / objects from that simple class into your scriptable objects or whatever you have going on in your game

does that make sense? @alpine kindle

[alpine kindle]

Yeah but it's not really the issue I'm having, the BinaryFormater works in general it's specifically these scriptable objects that I need a solution for. I would have the same issue with text serialization

[undone coral]

i think you'll figure it out 🙂

[alpine kindle]

Yeah worst comes to worst i'll just go with the list. I feel like this is smt Unity should have a solution for though

[jovial totem]

That’s what I thought but it said that it can’t compile anything if it’s not in /Assets

[undone coral]

hmm it will compile

[jovial totem]

oh, i guess I need to make an asmdef file? ill figure out how to do that. Also, can I make unity make a csproj file for me so I can use Omnisharp

[undone coral]

you have to reference a package in manifest.json

for it to compile

carefully read the docs there

[austere jewel]

Packages do need assembly definitions too

[undone coral]

you will need to create a package.json in the com.... directory

yes it's all in the docs

[jovial totem]

"com.slashscreen.openworldcommon": "file:S:/LocalunityPackages/OpenWorldCommon", I did thoyugh

[undone coral]

you'll figure it out!

[undone coral]

carefully read the docs

[jovial totem]

oh, do I have to name the file com.slashscreen.openworldcommon

[undone coral]

it expects a version if you put the contents in a Packages folder

[jovial totem]

folder*

[undone coral]

all sorts of stuff are glitched

carefully read the docs

[jovial totem]

This was done by the package manager

hm

{
    "name": "com.slashscreen.openworldcommon",
    "version" : "1.0.0"
}

I did this

I did all the steps in Creating a new local package here: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CustomPackages.html

[jovial totem]

maybe im reading the wrong thing. Which docs?

[rotund dagger]

I'm playing around and trying to learn about GPU instancing. Here I have a scene where I generate 10,000 balls in the scene, and for every 0.5 seconds, I randomize every ball's color.

Could someone explain to me, why is it slower when I tick the box before "Enable GPU Instancing" in this case?

[jovial totem]

not that im an expert, maybe the random function? is it on the CPU?

[jovial totem]

alright, i made an asmdef and now it's giving me compiler errors which is good. Now I have to figure out how to get Omnisharp to work

next question: how can I include a dependency for my package that is a package that is added to Assets so it isn't included in the manifest? Im trying to use YamlDotNet

[novel plinth]

There are requirements for gpu-instancing, you should read up a lot about this topic if you want to go this route...
Also note, srp-batcher hates gpu-instancing...

quite a broad of a topic, so yeah, you must do your own research on this

[upper mica]

Hey, I am looking to change the processor of on a binding in an InputAction, in an InputActionMap

one of these classes must have a method for changing the processors at runtime... anyone know where?

oh wait, maybe I can write a custom processor

[undone coral]

you should be using shader graph and URP/HDRP

not the legacy render pipeline

use the geometry index i talked about...

if you want to render 10,000 multicolored balls used vfx graph

[upper mica]

omfg I think I finally fixed this issue

if (Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WebGLPlayer)
        {
            InputActionMap playerMap = inputActions.FindActionMap("Player");
            InputAction ui_Navigate = playerMap?.FindAction("UI_Navigate");
            InputBinding leftStickWebGLOverride = ui_Navigate.bindings[0];
            leftStickWebGLOverride.overrideProcessors = "invertVector2(invertX=false,invertY=true)";
            ui_Navigate.ApplyBindingOverride(0, leftStickWebGLOverride);
        }```

might be a cleaner way to do this, but this works so...

also fixed my issue of references breaking on scene reloads.... turns out it was entirely due to static reference and events not being cleared. I changed a bunch of things that were unnecessarily static to non-static, and made sure to null out all my events OnDisable or OnDestroy

[somber swift]

How are you changing the colors of those balls? MaterialPropertyBlock?

[crystal wasp]

i think there are only 3 possibilities: material instantiating, MaterialPropertyBlock, or change the colors with screen position node (like a plane that looks like colored balls using vertex deformation/normal map, or a lot of balls sharing the same material)