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somber swift
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And which one you’re using rn?

crystal wasp
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if i can i use gpu particles. its the easiest way

somber swift
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Oh wait you’re not the same person 😂

royal mauve
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Question:

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If I want to put data from a "Local Host" (Ampps) into my Unity Project, using PHP and mysql, and I want to graph that data, is someone able to help me find a way to do this?

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I know it is possible, but I don't know how atm.

midnight violet
fallow eagle
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Hi ! Is there anybody who's already used Zenject or Extenject here ? I was wondering if they are any compatibility issue with supports (pc, consoles, etc) i should pay attention to

sage radish
fallow eagle
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Ok, thank you for your answer 🙂

umbral trail
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I am trying to use PrefabUtility.GetPropertyModifications to apply some overrides to a prefab, but I can't find any docs on how to actually do that with the PropertyModification results from this function, does anyone know of any examples of how to use it?

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I tried creating a SerializedObject with SerializedProperty but it doesn't seem to be registering as a change

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I'm trying to programmatically do this apply:

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untold magnet
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Question - I **think **a really simple one: I have a map editor in my game that saves/loads custom serialized binary files to Application.persitentDataPath; this works absolutely fine. But now I want to make a few of these files locally with my tool and then move them into Unity assets so I have a few "built in" game maps. As far as Unity is concerned, they're binary data blobs files - what to do with that is my domain and is already fully solved. I naively think I want to make a ScriptableObject to point at a collection of my data files but... what variable data type would I actually need to use here so I can drag and drop these files? I can't put FileInfo pointers in my ScriptableObject. I can't drag and drop byte[]... I want/need something that ultimately lets me get a stream I can BinaryFormatter::Deserialize from. Is there a variable type I can use in my ScriptableObject here for this, or am I just wrong thinking I even want a ScriptableObject in the first place to enumerate them?

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I half-suspect ScriptableObject is wrong and I just needed to be pointed at a different concept to go open docs for 🤔

untold magnet
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for posterity - someone just mentioned to me "TextAsset" which also awkwardly necessitates me giving a ".txt" extension to my files, but then I can get ".bytes" off them and deserialize the binary from there. That actually works and I can reference a few of these in my ScriptableObject. Definitely awkward but it is now solving my problem 👌

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for clarity, that looks like this:

public class MapDB : ScriptableObject
{
  public TextAsset[] Maps;

  [System.NonSerialized()] private GameMap[] _maps;

  public GameMap[] GetMaps() {
    if (_maps == null) {
      _maps = new GameMap[Maps.Length];
      for (int i=0; i<Maps.Length; i++) {
        var stream = new MemoryStream(Maps[i].bytes);
        _maps[i] = (GameMap) new BinaryFormatter().Deserialize(stream);
      }
    }
    return _maps;
  }
}

^ I'm sure there's a healthier way, but... anyhoo.... 🤷

winter yacht
sage radish
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@untold magnet You can create a ScriptedImporter to import any file type into whatever you want. So you can get Unity to import your custom level file extension as a Scriptable Object.

But, you usually wouldn't be modifying the source file, like how Unity doesn't modify source audio and art assets.

worldly hull
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Hey, it's a while I get this kind of errors (months now)

Library\ScriptAssemblies\RobocraftX.Blocks.Ghost.pdb: Copying the file failed: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

I didn't care about them so far, but in 2021 they are considered compilation errors and prevent the application from starting in editor. Do you have any clue what can it be? The another process is unity itself 😦

bold plank
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Hello , how can i create a funcuning computer in my game , i wanna put "wikipedia" for search details for a person ?

fresh salmon
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Somebody is trying to post stuff here

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But failing?

maiden gull
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I am

fresh salmon
maiden gull
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I'm puttin my code between ''' '''

fresh salmon
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The bot removes unformatted code and you'll end up muted if you do it too much

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Wrong ticks

maiden gull
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Hi, I am trying to have a transparent background on a WebGL build with URP.
I have tried this solution :

    glClear: function(mask)
    {
        if (mask == 0x00004000)
        {
            var v = GLctx.getParameter(GLctx.COLOR_WRITEMASK);
            if (!v[0] && !v[1] && !v[2] && v[3])
                // We are trying to clear alpha only -- skip.
                return;
        }
        GLctx.clear(mask);
    }
};
mergeInto(LibraryManager.library, LibraryGLClear); ```
But it's not doing anything. I also tried replacing "GLctx" by "gl" to make it match the context but then I have some weird artifacts
maiden gull
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Does anyone know where I can find the default glClear function so I could try and modify it maybe?

primal hamlet
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Does anyone have any very simply explained resources on how to rasterize a 3D model into voxel positions? I've done a lot of googling but anything I've found is either very poorly documented, or not performant enough.

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I've been plugging away at this for a few weeks but I can't find a fast efficient way to say "this cube grid space is within the mesh = true"

queen kiln
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Dumb question about c#:
Can I provide default implementations in interfaces, like I can do in Java? I tried in c#, but somehow an implementor is not seeing the main interface method, only if I cast to the interface.

(A as IA).defaultMethod()

Am I missing something?

sly grove
fresh salmon
queen kiln
tough tulip
queen kiln
tough tulip
queen kiln
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Okay. Sweet. I will try that out

regal olive
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Hey, I hope this is the right channel. I am networking a game and have setup an animator using Animancer. Basically, I have a 2Dmixer that receives my input direction (up down left right) and the animation time. The issue is that when the input direction changes the animations just snap to a different one. I want there to be a tiny interpolation in between for a better visual result. The issue is that I am not entirely sure how to achieve this with Animancer - especially as I control the animations using network time. Any ideas?

compact ingot
# regal olive Hey, I hope this is the right channel. I am networking a game and have setup an ...

in networking you basically sync the "hard" values on a data object and then have an interpolator that applies them to a separate visible representation of the object. The simples way would be to apply some exponential smoothing like this (pseudo-ish code)

void OnNetworkTick() {
    _newInput = GetInput();
}
void OnUpdate(float deltaTime) {
  _smoothInput = Vector2.Lerp(_smoothInput, _newInput, 1f - Mathf.Exp(-sharpness * deltaTime);
  animancerMixerTransition.SetParameter<Vector2>(_smoothInput);
}
undone coral
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does anyone have experience embedding lua inside their game?

regal olive
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@compact ingot that seems reasonable. What is the value range for sharpness?

compact ingot
undone coral
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my objective is to define an entire turn based game rules as something embeddable

regal olive
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Thanks.

undone coral
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so for example, a game loop that is a lua coroutine, which "waits for all user inputs" that may come from a single player unity game and a bot, or from networked users

fossil girder
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This post explained making patches for an app.

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How is this done? Do I need source code or can anyone make patches?

summer pulsar
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Whats the difference between a Task.run and a Async Task? without Task.run?

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I am thinking one is on the main thread async task and runs concurrently by yielding and time sharing with the main thread. The other one lets us run a task on another thread

formal lichen
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I think you're right elle

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async Task and UniTask let you do async stuff within the main thread

stray pewter
formal lichen
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the scheduler then is in control over bouncing back and forth

stray pewter
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Task is essentially C#'s promise implementation if you know the promise pattern, .Run has the work done on the ThreadPool. await implicitly creates a Task for the pattern, and does the work on the current thread

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Is there a way in Unity to, say at compile time, gather all the scriptable objects of a particular type and update a field in a prefab with that list?

drifting galleon
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promise is essentially javascripts async / await though....

stray pewter
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async / await is syntactic sugar around Task/Promise

drifting galleon
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probably

stray pewter
granite viper
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@stray pewter FindObjectOfTypeAll

drifting galleon
drifting galleon
granite viper
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no it is not

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call FindObjectOfTypeAll in a build preprocessor

drifting galleon
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sure, that could work too

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maybe easier even

granite viper
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what is a "source generator"

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@stray pewter actually, try AssetDatabase.FindAssets

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you can use something like AssetDatabase.FindAssets( "t:YourType" )

drifting galleon
# granite viper what is a "source generator"

primarily a lightweight program that reads all your code and generates more code based on what it finds. but it can also include and work on non-code assets. it's kinda like reflection but at compile time

granite viper
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that wouldn't work tho, bc he's trying to get instances of scriptable object assets, not the classes themselves

stray pewter
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so FindObjectOfTypeAll / AssetDatabase is how to collect all the list I want, but where to do that?

granite viper
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in a build preprocessor script

stray pewter
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ah, google was failing and just giving me the obsolete version

drifting galleon
stray pewter
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@granite viper thank you

granite viper
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@stray pewter the obsolete method group had a link to the updated interface

stray pewter
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that's what I get for not reading completely

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appreciate both of those, thanks!

snow ermine
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Gonna use bevy the superior engine

drifting galleon
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🤣

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i needed that. finally some sarcasm

manic escarp
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Hi all, I'm looking into making a server that simulates my game state and does hitbox/colision checks using a simple .net console app... I wanted to try to do it without a headless unity instance. Is there any sort of library out there for simple collision/hitbox detection I could use? I do not need physics simulation.

undone coral
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that library is called... a physics engine

manic escarp
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gah!

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any c# libraries that you recommend?

undone coral
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UniTask has ways to start a task on a background thread or the main thread, and to toggle between them within the task.

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but everything in the unity API that has long IO times, like UnityWebRequest, already does work on background threads, so you don't have to worry about it

cosmic loom
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hey guys

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can you give me some help with a easy to medium math problem that I am facing in my game?

undone coral
cosmic loom
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Imagine the scenario:

You have a world with 15000 cells in it

At water level 50 the amount of land cells is 12214 (81% of the world)

At water level 150 the amount of land cells is 2374 (16% of the world)

How we can deduce from this data what would be the ideal water level for the world to have 30% of it as land?

cosmic loom
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I guess it has to do with Two Point Slope Form but I am too dumb with math

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I just want a deduction given these 2 values

undone coral
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terrain surface area doesn't decrease linearly with height

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usually it's quadratic

cosmic loom
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oh

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This was just a hint that a math friend gave me

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But I just need a good guess/deduction, don't want it to be perfect

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it is in a random generated map

compact ingot
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you need at least one more data point to construct a reasonable interpolating curve

cosmic loom
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hmmm

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i can have it easily

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but then how I do the formula?

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Which I use/how to implement it?

compact ingot
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multiple ways, you can make a guesstimate by drawing a spline through the values (i.e. in a vector drawing app) or do actual polynomial interpolation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial_interpolation

Polynomial interpolation

In numerical analysis, polynomial interpolation is the interpolation of a given data set by the polynomial of lowest possible degree that passes through the points of the dataset.Given a set of n + 1 data points

    (
    
      x
      
        0
      
    
    ,
    
      y

...

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there are also statistical interpolation methods that may be more helpful if you know the generating function of the terrain

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the answer for your two datapoints is approx. 128 btw.

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as you can see its not 100 at 0, so you definitely need a curve 😉

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cosmic loom
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I managed to get the Two Point Slope Form functioning

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But I need only some estimate, the world is too much random for exactness

compact ingot
regal olive
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Hey Can anyone help me with an issue i am having with photon and animation rigging? This is pretty advanced code at least to advanced for me.

jovial totem
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I have a local custom package I am making. I need to include another package (YamlDotNet), but it's the kind of package that doesnt have a com.company.package type of URL , it goes directly into the assets folder. How do I make the system know it needs YamlDotNet as well? (If I include it directly in the package, it conflicts with the one I already have in my project.)

midnight violet
regal olive
silk canyon
tough tulip
quiet bolt
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is it in any way possible to load assets without using a Resources folder?

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it sucks that LoadAssetAtPath only works in the editor

austere jewel
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#📦┃addressables is a form of runtime loading that may be what you mean? You can also do OS-specific stuff as any other application can.

quiet bolt
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ill check it out then

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i mean it's no biggie for me tbh

hazy hearth
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Hey everyone, I followed brackeys Save system on youtube and I managed to make a currency system where my player now saves the coins they have after every run of the endless runner game. The load happens every time the game is launched.

My problem is the following:

I will make the game for ios. The currency will be able to buy skins etc. Do I need to make my player's coins to be saved somewhere online instead of the device? How do I connect it with the app store account in order to be global?

Any suggestion on how to proceed?

hushed fable
midnight violet
sage radish
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You will always have to calculate the world transforms of the parents to get the world transforms of the children. I can't find any references to it, but I'm certain that Unity is caching things behind the scene to only calculate when things have changed.

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So calling transform.position on the second to last child and then on the last child shouldn't cause double work

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In that case, transform1.TransformPoint(transform2.localPosition) will give you the world position of transform2

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I'm interested to hear if that runs faster for you

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No, you need the rotation and scale of the parent as well

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The rotation and scale of transform2 has no effect on its own world position

gilded wing
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are there sensible patterns for not repeating code that does the same thing just for different components of vectors?

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like i find myself copypasting blocks of code and changing the Xs to Ys pretty often when doing stuff with vectors ...

flint sage
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Vectors expose their components as an array as well

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But generally not really no

sly grove
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for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
  myVector[i] = myVector[i] + 1;
}``` for example
gilded wing
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oh cool thanks, that should help

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man, i should probably like ... just read through the docs in general a bit, to find the obvious features that i don't even know exist

cosmic loom
slow mica
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Hey all! Is there anyway to detect a trigger collision with a tree painted on a terrain? Cant figure it out. Thanks!

midnight violet
slow mica
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yeah

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but trigger colliders dont work on terrain

midnight violet
slow mica
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yes

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    // Use this for initialization
    void Start()
    {
        // Grab the island's terrain data
        TerrainData theIsland;
        theIsland = GameObject.Find("Terrain").GetComponent<Terrain>().terrainData;
        // For every tree on the island
        foreach (TreeInstance tree in theIsland.treeInstances)
        {
            // Find its local position scaled by the terrain size (to find the real world position)
            Vector3 worldTreePos = Vector3.Scale(tree.position, theIsland.size) + Terrain.activeTerrain.transform.position;
            Instantiate(theTree, worldTreePos, Quaternion.identity); // Create a prefab tree on its pos
        }
     
    }

this code gets all trees on terrain and spawns a collider, if possible I'd like to isolate one type of tree to spawn a collider on

midnight violet
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Wait, you are not even using the paint on terrain to paint the trees?

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Oh sorry, misread

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Cant you just place a prefab right at the terrain without instantiating a prefab for each tree?

slow mica
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sorry

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here's what I want

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I want to be able to paint the trees, then at runtime spawn a collider on one type of tree so that the player can interact with that specific tree

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however I need trigger colliders

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which cannot be painted

slow mica
midnight violet
slow mica
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im confused I am painting prefabs

midnight violet
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And those prefabs have a collider with trigger on it?

slow mica
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correct

regal flax
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but when it spawns it some times it spawns them on the edge

thick spire
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Hey guys

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So I'm trying to do auto-capture

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it works for android and ipad

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but for some reason, it doesnt work with iphone 8

mellow copper
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Hi i've been wondering on how people setup a function callback ;

void actionCall(args, () => {} //CALLBACK? )

Like how do we declare a function that calls a callback like this? I've tried to search on google but i only see Actions not this way of calling back

devout hare
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What do you mean by "like this"

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Action for callbacks that don't return a value, Func for callbacks that do

mellow copper
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Func

tribal star
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i cannot find the dll files of the game but i see a file ScriptingAssemblies.dll which has a lot of strings of dll files (which i could not find)

hollow garden
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Action and Func are delegate types

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Action and Action<T> are something like ```cs
public delegate void Action();
public delegate void Action<in T>(T a);

mellow copper
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oh i see thanks!

hollow garden
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np

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some might prefer using normal delegates instead of Action and Func

flint sage
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There's also Events

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You can only invoke those in the class they're defined in

gilded wing
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is there any kind of way to see what the "current script execution order" is during runtime? i guess those values aren't actually retained during actual execution and the reason i'd like to see it probably points to an architectural issue - i know the execution order value each script is set to, but in a few cases the same public method is called from multiple places and they might have different relative timing which could cause issues

flint sage
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Script execution order is only for events that Unity calls

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Whatever method you call does not care about it and is called immediately

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There's a tab in project settings iirc

gilded wing
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but any method that is called ultimately arises out of a call unity did do (at least in my project without custom threading or whatever), i'd like to know that base timing

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like if Foo has a public method Bar that is called by N different other MonoBehaviours which could each be in different positions in the order, i'd like to slap a debug statement in Foo.Bar

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precisely because the method calls are immediate

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and like i said this just smells like an architectural issue but it'd still be helpful if it could be done

mighty dagger
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Any tips on how to structure Unity scripts? What are the professional "hard rules" in commercial projects?

I work as a backend developer so we have many "hard rules" in our projects like controllers calling only services, repositories etc.

I know trying to replicate MVC in Unity is bad but I'm trying something like below. One GameObject can have several scripts. The scripts are divided like below in case of Player GameObject:

  1. PlayerController - should be the only "entry point" to this GameObject. The only script in this GameObject which has Update() and Start() methods. Handle Input,Events, delegate to other scripts. Should have no "state" except for model and view
  2. PlayerModel - handle "business logic" like HP or how much damage is to be done (no Monobehavior, plain object), no references to Vectors, 3D, etc. No Start/Update methods. Has state.
  3. PlayerView - handle references to other Gameobjects needed by this gameobjects. Handle 3D calculation, Vectors. No Start/Update methods. Has state.
  4. Services like PlayerService, PlayerSoundService - NO state except for configuration. Plain functions, can operate on model/view.

What do you think?

drifting galleon
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mvc is really not beneficial in unity

mighty dagger
sly grove
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The main separation of that style that's worth doing in Unity is to separate your game state into a nice manipulable, and ideally serializable data structure that you can use for saving/loading game state, networking, etc.

drifting galleon
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follow SOLID, but work with composition rather than inheritance

mighty dagger
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What about things like input? For example when I move the mouse, and try to find which script did something. Without dividing into e.g. "controllers" I'd need to look into each scripts, since any of them can have "Update()" method and potentially create some side effects when Input is changing.

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I'm curious what's the best practice in professional projects, where I imagine there can be hundreds of scripts/gameobjects.

drifting galleon
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have the input necessary for that component in that component itself

mighty dagger
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So I imagine they must have some rules in professional projects.

drifting galleon
mighty dagger
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I'm not convinced 😃 what if you have several scripts attached to 1 gameobject? In that case 1 script updates the movement based on input, and other script can also update movement based on some other condition. So it's difficult then to find out what updates based on what. Unless we make a rule that only 1 script updates the movement (so like PlayerView above but called PlayerMovement). Or unless we try to use 1 script for 1 gameobject? But not sure if that makes sense.

drifting galleon
mighty dagger
hallow elk
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I can say with confidence that having individual scripts that handle individual player functions saves 5000 headaches later. As an example, this is what is on the player controller for The Callisto:

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drifting galleon
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no, because then you are checking for everything non concerning and delegating it to all kinds of different scripts. i guess it would be a OOP solid approach, but not a unity solid approach

hallow elk
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The modularity of these scripts makes them incredibly manageable.

drifting galleon
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the most important thing you want is to have self contained 'plugins'

compact ingot
regal flax
compact ingot
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as they say, there is never enough time to do something right, but there is plenty of time to do it again later.

mighty dagger
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Also thank you all for input, very helpful

drifting galleon
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Separate script

rotund dagger
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Hey anyone here familiar with photon (PUN)? I want to have some data that isn't specifically belonging to any player (public to everyone) and should be modifiable by every player's behaviour. What tool / function / interface should I look into?

drifting galleon
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Rpc?

unique ermine
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[SerializeField] private C_InventoryItem currentItem = null;

this is for some reason not null

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it's just an empty C_InventoryItem object

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how can I make it null from the start?

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because I want to check

if(currentItem == null) {
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and its always false, because it's never null

hallow elk
sly grove
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You could make it not be serialized - that'd be one option

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another option is to give it a bool isInitialized field and use that instead of a null check

unique ermine
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Makes sense

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Thanks a lot

undone coral
undone coral
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input system and event system let you author input-related stuff without Update

undone coral
rotund dagger
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Can I send an RPC to an object that I do not own?

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The logic of my code is as followed:

  1. The first player entering the room will create an object, attached with a Photon view.
  2. There's an RPC method that can be used to change the value of an attribute A
  3. This attribute A is streamed with OnPhotonSerializeView
  4. The other players joining the room will first fetch this object. Then if they want to make change to the value A, they call the RPC method, basically sending a request to the owner of the object to make this change to A
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So right now what I'm getting is:

  • The owner of this object can change A, and the result will be broadcast to the other players
  • The other players' requests to modify A are ignored. There's no error message so I don't know where I should look into
undone coral
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are you working from a pre-existing sample?

rotund dagger
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No I'm doing it from scratch

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What I want to do here is to have a public piece of data that every player can modify

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Something that logically shouldn't have an owner

undone coral
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you should work from a pre-existing sample if you want to be set up for success

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photon has great samples and docs

undone coral
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there's no such thing as an X with multiple owners.

regal flax
undone coral
mighty dagger
undone coral
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InputSystem and EventSystem is input problem solving for teams of 1+ people

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Input is for teams of exactly 1 people. if you are using Update to do stuff, in my experience, only the original author can modify that Update

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why does Update exist? because it's how flash worked. "Update was a mistake"

languid jay
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Hello everyone, I always struggle to find naming conventions / variable names convention / GameObject "constructor" conventions, you know...
Are there any books or official documents or whatever?

undone coral
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Unity's naming scheme isn't 100% plain old editorconfig compatible

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i use Rider

languid jay
undone coral
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then the structure of the scripts matter less

undone coral
mighty dagger
undone coral
languid jay
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a and c must be set by the instantiator, how do you make it explicit?

public class Player : MonoBehaviour
{
    public a;
    public b;
    public c;
}
fresh salmon
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Make a constructor that take these two values

languid jay
fresh salmon
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Before proceeding, your class doesn't derive from MonoBehaviour right?

languid jay
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Fixed.

fresh salmon
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Then you can't use constructors on these

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Deal breaker

languid jay
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I created a function called "Constructor" that by convention would be called after the Instantiate, but I haven't seen anybody doing this

fresh salmon
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Unless that class only stores data, and is not meant to be directly attached to a GameObject, and receive Unity messages such as Update

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If you need it to be attached to a GameObject, then you can throw exceptions or log errors in that script's Start method

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Like this

void Start() {
  Debug.Assert(a != null);
  Debug.Assert(b == 0);
}
languid jay
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And I also can check if the instantiator called the constructor twice and so on

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What do you think?

fresh salmon
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It seems like a good alternative to constructors yeah, especially when they're blocked like that

languid jay
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void Start()
{
    Debug.Assert(isInitialized);
}
fresh salmon
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And in the "constructor", Debug.Assert(!isInitialized) to have an error if you call it multiple times

languid jay
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I think I will call it "Init"

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Thanks for the help @fresh salmon !

undone coral
granite viper
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Is there a reason Awake doesn't work for this purpose?

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Ah, missed the note about the "instantiation"

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Don't mind me

arctic robin
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Is it possible to change the shader of only 1 object during runtime?

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I want to create a "collision" effect that where I only want the closest object to light up by changing the shader.

granite viper
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yes it is

rotund dagger
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Photon doesn't sync movement when there's no movement detected, is that how it works?

arctic robin
rotund dagger
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So the thing is, I have an objct with a Photon Transform View Classic attached

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And the object has some movement that starts as soon as it's initiated

granite viper
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@arctic robin check out MaterialPropertyBlocks

rotund dagger
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And this movement cannot be perfectly synced to the other clients - on other clients' screen, this movement is only partially done

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I wonder why

arctic robin
granite viper
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👍

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@arctic robin as an addendum, if you use materialpropertyblocks in certain ways (read: everyday use cases) it won't result in any extra draw calls either

regal flax
granite viper
#

usually the "advanced" is interpreted in roughly absolute terms rather than relative

arctic robin
granite viper
#

yay

arctic robin
#

Furthermore, whats the recommended way of "hiding" a gameobject without disabling it?

granite viper
#

disable the renderer

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or move it really far away

arctic robin
#

What if it consists of multiple children?

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GetComponentInChildren?

granite viper
#

move it really far away

arctic robin
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haha ok

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Thought of hiding the renderer and Vector(0,0,0)

quartz stratus
arctic robin
#

Also is it possible to set the anchorpoint of a cube?

granite viper
#

do you mean the origin of a unity cube?

arctic robin
#

Right on. I have a rectangular cube that I'd like to fill with cubes 1/4th it's volume each step.

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Going left to right

granite viper
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you cannot change the origin of the default unity cube

arctic robin
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Hmm

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Any suggestions on the best way to do what I'm trying to do then

granite viper
#

code

arctic robin
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That's where I'm at. Just wondering if you had more pointers or perhaps any standard objects thatd do the job

granite viper
#

if you get the bounds, then a placement step would be bounds / 4

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in order to offset their position (assuming you want to child the smaller cubes to the bigger cubes), you need to subtract 1/2 the cube's size from your positioning

arctic robin
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Haven't worked with bounds before, what do you mean by that?

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Atm Im cavemanning it like this

granite viper
#

with the unity default cube that works, bc the cube has a size of 1

#

but if you want to get the real bounds you can grab the renderer or mesh bounds

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off the MeshRenderer or MeshFilter

arctic robin
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Interesting

granite viper
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(mesh bounds is local to the mesh, renderer bounds is an world space AABB)

arctic robin
granite viper
#

Axis Aligned Bounding Box

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basically means that all the axes of the box always align with the world's x, y, & z axes

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even if the mesh is rotated

arctic robin
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Ah, got it

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Docs seem to use mostly colliders

granite viper
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yeah colliders also have AABB

arctic robin
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Haha cool

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Is min and max arbitrarily positioned?

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Furthermore, I got the scale down thanks to your bounds suggestion, now the question is just the position.

granite viper
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if you look closely, you'll see that min and max are positioned so that they are perfectly touching the outermost points of the collider at every moment

arctic robin
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How does that work in a 3D environment?

granite viper
#

same idea, but with a third dimension

arctic robin
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E_Primordial_Cube <- when on a cube would it be bottom left and top right and vice versa?

granite viper
#

it would be the smallest unrotated rectangular prism possible that completely contains the cube

arctic robin
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Interesting

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Am I thinking about this correctly?

unknown.png
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Size of block spawned is all well and good

granite viper
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why are you using both bounds and blockBounds

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but yeah that should work

arctic robin
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Seems the object moves on the z axis, and incorrectly for that matter.

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        Bounds bounds = GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().bounds;
        Vector3 objectScale = new Vector3(bounds.size.x/4, bounds.size.y, bounds.size.z);
        objectScale.Scale(new Vector3(0.93f, 0.93f, 0.93f));

        GameObject blockman = Instantiate(seqBlockPiece, transform.position, transform.rotation);
        blockman.transform.localScale = objectScale;
        blockman.GetComponent<Renderer>().material = renderer.material;
        blockman.transform.parent = this.transform;

        // Move correctly

        Bounds blockBounds = blockman.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().bounds;

        Vector3 newPos = new Vector3(bounds.size.x / 2 + blockBounds.size.x / 2,
            blockman.transform.position.y, 
            blockman.transform.position.z);

        blockman.transform.localPosition = newPos;

Ugly code, will be cleaned up

arctic robin
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Yeah I'm stuck lol

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These are the box's reported bounds?

unknown.png
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Trying swapping between local and world space bounds but the spawned cube's bounds are equal to that of the box it spawns in.

umbral trail
#

Is the way a scene is serialised deterministic? Or does new stuff get added to the end?

full flax
#

I'm creating a bunch of new gameobjects at runtime and i would like to serialize them so it doesn't have to go through the steps everytime you launch the game, how would i do that ?

frozen imp
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@full flax Don't cross-post.

full flax
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sorry

random dust
#

Perhaps somebody here knows something about the problem I have:
Sometimes, one of my asynchronous methods running in the background are not informed of a cancellation token cancelling.
These tokens are cancelled, but IsCancellationRequested does not appear to be true.
Is it possible that the reference to the token source is somehow lost?
The weird thing about this is that the WaitHandle of this token does get a notification when the token is cancelled.

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So right now I use https://hatebin.com/kjgyqahbed, but I want to use https://hatebin.com/uwbbjapiek because this is a proper implementation that implements INotifyCompletion and ICriticalNotifyCompletion. The latter sometimes does not work, however. The method that uses this is https://www.toptal.com/developers/hastebin/ikuyepalux.csharp. Line 20 gets the task, line 24 awaits it, and line 30 should be logged when cancelled. This does not always happen, however, even if any of the other task complete and the loop restarts.

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So I wonder: why does this task using a wait handler work, but an implementation of INotifyCompletion and ICriticalNotifyCompletion does not? Because if I replace line 20, var cancellationTokenTask = cancellationToken.AsTask(); to var cancellationTokenTask = cancellationToken.AwaitCancellationAsync();, everything works fine.

timber flame
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I have some custom packages. Core, Utility and some modules
Core package depends on Utility package and module packages depend on Core package.
How can I figure it out and resolve the dependencies?
A project can use some modules, for example Module1 and Module2.

Core => Utility
Module 1 => Core
Module 2 => Core
...
maiden turtle
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Do scenes have any advantages over prefabs that I'm not aware of? To me, prefabs are superior in every way. Instantiating a prefab to get tye scene's content feels way simpler that loading a whole scene. It simplifies the management of singletons, because I don't have to dontdestroyonload and kill off new instances, or any other nonsense. And I can still have a test scene where I'd set things up. What am I missing?

maiden turtle
drifting galleon
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you can't have prefabs without scenes

maiden turtle
drifting galleon
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for better singleton behaviour, look at scriptable objects

maiden turtle
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I know what those are

drifting galleon
maiden turtle
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how do they solve the problem

maiden turtle
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and more test scenes for setting up the individual prefabs

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That will only exist in the editor

drifting galleon
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why are you writing this in code-advanced? it has nothing to do with code, and certainly is not advanced

fossil bloom
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Hello, I have a few questions about how memory gets allocated when creating variables of type interface in C#:

  1. Does creating a variable of type interface in a function allocate the memory of that variable on a heap or on the stack if it was assigned as a struct?
  2. If you create an array with generic type interface and populate the array with structs. Are those structs allocated as objects just like classes on the heap and the array simply becomes an array of pointers to those objects?

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maiden turtle
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actually, all structs internally have their reference version. it derives from object and has all the usual crap that classes have (like type info, virtual method table)

silent dagger
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Hello there 👋

maiden turtle
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  1. yes
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each one individually

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if you want to avoid that, use generics

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structs can imlement i terfaces mainly for their use in generics

silent dagger
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I'm trying to achive a pretty complex input system (with the New Input)
the player controller is a TP and with AWSD I can control the character as usual, what I would like to achive is to play "dodge" animation on double-tap on AWSD too

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dodge/roll ... you know what I mean.

fresh salmon
silent dagger
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Sorry, ok thank you 😄

fossil bloom
pastel moth
#

Hey everyone, I'm not sure where is best to ask this question but how "taxing" are counters using deltaTime on the game? I.E "could" the game run 100s/100,000s of these counters at the same time without any degradation - of course there are lots of other factors to consider, but for an example assume pong if you need to

sly grove
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not that taxing

#

the calling of thousands of Update functions on its own is worse than the actual use of deltaTime and adding the numbers

#

And to get a real answer for your question - try it and see. Use the profiler

pastel moth
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My goal is trying to determine how far along a path the "enemy" is - there are potentially 100s of enemies in the game, which all have their own counters for debuffs blah blah (as you'd expect within a game), I can't think of the logic needed to determine the distance between start>finish when the path can wind back on itself

sly grove
#

how is the path defined

pastel moth
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There's a winding path which counts from 0 = start > # = finish

sly grove
#

and not sure how a deltaTime counter is relevant to that really

#

0 = start > # = finish I don't understand this notation

pastel moth
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It's not, but I can't think of how to determine the "closest to the end" enemy

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So, there will be 10+ "waypoints" that the enemy will follow

sly grove
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the enemy which has the least remaining distance to travel

pastel moth
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Distance will vary depending on the level and waypoints that are set

midnight violet
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are you using navmesh?

sly grove
#

for each enemy and each remaining waypoint it has to travel to - you add the distance from the enemy or the previous waypoint to that waypoint

#

the sum of those distances is the remaining distance

pastel moth
pastel moth
midnight violet
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this might be handy about waypoints, distance left on paths and what not. But just a suggestion to look into and evaluate. If you already got a working waypoint system, I'd go for praetorblues approach

sly grove
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If you don't know the path then obviously you can't compute the remaining distance

#

I don't know what an attack point is

#

but you said you had waypoints

pastel moth
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I'm getting confused between both of your questions but it's a tower defense game which has a winding path - I am literally thinking of adding a timer to each enemy so that when I know it's on "waypoint6" I will use the timer of each enemy to determine who is "closest to the end" - however, this timer is useless for any enemy that isn't the closest to the end and if there are 1000's of enemies, it's a useless timer; but I'm sure there's better ways of achieving what I want anyway

sly grove
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i don't see what a timer would do for you

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unless you just mean to calculate the age of the enemy

midnight violet
pastel moth
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Tower assumes highest counter = closest to "end" ; I use the waypoint # to determine which group of enemies I should pick between

#

I'll get a screenshot example of what I'm on about

midnight violet
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So you want the tower to always attack the enemy with the farthest progress on path?

pastel moth
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Correct

midnight violet
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And they change depending on movement speed, slowing towers and what not

pastel moth
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But the path can interwine so the towers will select what is closest/further from it - but not tell which is closest to the "finish" zone

midnight violet
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So the enemy with most progress and within range of tower

pastel moth
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Yeah; I.E = Greatestpath && within "range" (of tower)

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Green = start, red = finish

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midnight violet
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Okay, got it. So you got the range of the path, because you can just add up the distances from waypoint to waypoint, right?

pastel moth
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Ahhhhhhh right, that makes so much sense - I guess I was hoping for a more intuitive way of doing it

midnight violet
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And same goes for your player

pastel moth
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I just need to calculate the distance between x-y then work out where the enemy 'is' on that path

midnight violet
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Just register the enemies with the waypoint and pass the waypoints 'progress' on the whole path to the player + the players distance from the last waypoint. That should give you the total percentage on the path

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In that case you get dynamic progress if your enemies get knocked back for example

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So enemy hit waypoint 1, use waypoints progress on whole path plus enemy to waypoint distance, which could also be negative until you reach next waypoint

pastel moth
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Ah okay, that's why I was thinking of adding a counter - I know which waypoint the enemy is 'walking' on, so I was just going to use the 'highest' number from "enemy#" and then make the tower attack that. So, on the pic, the towers are placed on the white squares and enemies will walk along the grey path.

midnight violet
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Do the enemies have colliders on it?

pastel moth
pastel moth
midnight violet
pastel moth
midnight violet
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And again, progressOnPath from your enemy can always be currentWayPoint.progress + DistanceTo(currentWayPoint) / wholePathLength

sly grove
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depends how much you care about those nuances

#

but age might be a good starting point that you can improve on later

midnight violet
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I would not go with a timer/age counter tbh, thats why I would register for the positions

sly grove
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(I've thought about these tower defense things a lot 😆 )

pastel moth
pastel moth
midnight violet
sly grove
#

ideally you would do something like timeToDestination = remainingPathDistance / speed for each enemy. And use something like what twentacle is talking about to calculate remainingPathDistance

#

then you pick the enemy with the smallest timeToDestination

pastel moth
midnight violet
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Just curious why you even need the timeToDestination. I think I am missing something from your guys thoughts

pastel moth
midnight violet
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Oh okay. Yeah, just get the right now path progress and that should work. So you always got the realtime position and your towers can handle it better instead of assuming who might be furthest 🙂

sly grove
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so they may be the more dangerous ones to worry about sooner

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it depends how smart you want your towers to be

midnight violet
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I also never seen an enemytype that ages over time and dies if not reaching the end, would be a cool addon, sorry, brainstorm mind active 😄

sly grove
#

again you could use all kinds of metrics in this calculation and mix and match:

  • distance to end
  • time to end
  • age of enemy
  • hp of enemy
  • distance from tower
  • some kind of weighted combination of all of the above
midnight violet
sly grove
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you could even have upgrades for towers that switch it from a dumb metric like "distance from tower" to something smarter like "distance to end"

pastel moth
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Haha, I'm being a complete pain in the arse and allowing the players to potentially specify whether they want the towers to attack closest/furthest/[x] enemies

sly grove
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yeah I've thought a lot about this over the years lol

sly grove
midnight violet
sly grove
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I used to play a crapton of tower defense games back in the Starcraft Brood War custom games scene.

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There's so much nuance in there that people don't realize

midnight violet
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Yep, good old SC times

pastel moth
pastel moth
pastel moth
sly grove
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I was thinking more calculating the total distance to the target (the player's nexus or whatever) not just to the next waypoint

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Not sure if that's what you mean

pastel moth
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Ahhh, so you were thinking of calculating the full length path of the enemy - so Waypoint 0 > waypoint [x]?

sly grove
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yea

#

it can be largely cached too - especially if the path is known beforehand and all the enemies follow the same path

#

you can just calculate that once at the beginning and reuse it constantly

#

and the enemies can just take totalPathDistance - distanceTraveled to get the remaining distance

#

Then you just keep track of distanceTraveled which is pretty easy to do

pastel moth
#

That makes so much sense! So just to specify it, I can calculate in the Start() what the total distance is and assign a travelID to the enemies. For my duplicates/summons (mid-path), I can just duplicate the current travelID and it will then adjust itself based on 'its own' speed and towers will know whether its faster>closest to the finish-line

pastel moth
sly grove
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distanceRemaining = totalPathDistance - distanceTraveled
Then the part that concerns speed is:
timeToDestination = distanceRemaining / speed

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speed only matters if you're worrying about which enemy will reach the target in the shortest time

#

if you just want to do which enemy is closest to the target / farthest along the path then you don't worry about it

pastel moth
#

I'm not trying to intervene with "just because enemy speed is 15, shoot at that one because the other enemy is speed 5" - I am literally trying to determine which is closest to the "finish-zone"

wooden cedar
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But yeah as shown above is the right approach

midnight violet
#

How are you moving the enemy? with transform.position?

rotund dagger
#

Could someone explain to me how Photon works in a general sense?

#

I'm quite confused when writing Photon code. It feels like each player gets a copy of the synced data, but there's also the concept of a master client, and the setup isn't serverless... So it's kind of like P2P, but it's not

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It's like there is a server required to do some work (matchmaking and passing around data), but you cannot really write server code or store any custom data on the server

#

It's not making a lot of sense to me

midnight violet
quartz stratus
#

Is it still possible to emulate different network connection types in Unity? There used to be a feature that allowed you to do that in 2018 or something.

#

I mean, I could open a bunch of browser tabs. But ideally, there's a built in feature...

minor crypt
#

Hello! any idea how i can make this work?

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fresh salmon
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Try passing int[,] in the type argument?

#

Or nothing at all, it can infer the type from the argument

minor crypt
fresh salmon
#

I cannot seem to find any docs for that method, but from your code its signature is

static T[] GetSubArray<T>(T[] array, ...)
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So it may not be what you need, what do you want to do with that array?

minor crypt
#

i want this without loops

unknown.png
fresh salmon
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Ah, so like a 2D slice of it, here the 4 values of the "bottom right square" of the initial array

minor crypt
#

in this case it is in the corner, but in the real case it can be anywhere in a larger array

granite viper
#

dude just use loops

fresh salmon
#

You need loops yeah

modest lintel
#

this is not python

minor crypt
#

but the loops are not going to slow down the code?

modest lintel
#

no

#

whatever you use, its gonna loop anyway

fresh salmon
#

AFAIK there is no n-dimensional slice of a n-dimensional array method implementation in C#, and if it ever exists, it uses loops internally

minor crypt
#

ok, then I'll use loops, thanks to everyone!

jagged notch
#

Hey everyone. Loaded question time. I have been tasked to see if there is any current networking solution that could
be used to allow authoritative cross-server gameObjects. i.e. could be used to "stitch" scenes together client side
(one per server) and allow players to traverse between server scenes and interact across them without the player ever
realizing and doing so avoiding "zones"/cutscenes. Open world style similar to WoW and others. I have looked at Mirror
and while it is a very reliable multiplayer codebase, there is no method for one server to relay gameObject updates to
another or to "hand off" control of an instantiated gameObject. From what I have been told by a few people, they do not
think it would be possible to add this feature without at least a few people of very high skill level and an
extremely large time frame. Any direction or thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks (I am open to DMs if you feel it necessary)

granite viper
#

yeah that's very complicated

jagged notch
#

It sounds like a small 'addon' but it is quite a feat since it has to be reliable and not stutter/effect gameplay actions.

granite viper
#

yeah it's not small

#

you're getting into deep MMO design

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you need to architect your entire game around this ability

#

managing stuff across different servers is a massive headache

#

and carried a lot of deep implications

jagged notch
#

That is slightly different. Here we are just looking for server to server hand off of authoritative game objects without the destruction of the original object or a loss, lag or duplication of player input.

granite viper
#

what is slightly different

#

you're not just talking about hand off, you're talking about a seamless transition between servers

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that goes both ways

#

is this only for players? what if someone shoots something across a boundary?

#

what if someone bounces between the seam quickly?

jagged notch
#

yes, this was described as any object but also player objects need reliable input. regular game object traversal between servers is actually fairly easy in mirror as you can create, destroy server side and represent client side without it actually destructing. the player object and its input is the biggest concern.

#

as for bouncing between, there would need to be a 'boundary' zone along the "seams" to indicate where data sharing starts, and a point of client changeover along with a fast-bounce protection that if a player is quickly moving back and forth it will only make the first official handoff and create a delay until the next unless the client reaches a furthest point from the seam itself.

granite viper
#

how does the client communicate to the server?

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is there a central hub, or is it talking directly to the server its currently in

jagged notch
#

in this case each 'area'/scene is hosted by its own server. as normal the client connects to the server it would be on, as it gets close to the 'seam' that the server is aware of and connected to, it would tell the client to additionally connect to that server to start receiving updates and be ready for a possible switchover.

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This is a thinking kind of based on how Mirror currently works and would need to be adapted.

modest lintel
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I feel like you would need a hub anyway

jagged notch
#

But that is why I am looking if anyone has better suggestions or alternatives

#

What would the purpose of the hub be exactly?

#

orchestrating connections between servers?

granite viper
#

I don't have any alternative suggestions, that seems about like how you'd have to do it

jagged notch
#

how would that solve the problem of not destroying the players gameobject on the server (and subsequently the client) when traversing between servers?

modest lintel
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That being on of them yes. Transferring a player to other servers too, two area servers directly communicating between themselves feels wrong without anyone else knowing whats happening.

jagged notch
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but the data would not be relevant to any other service or server for any reason. (?)

modest lintel
#

Game state..?

granite viper
#

@jagged notch I don't know what networking solution you're using, but you'd need to have the transmitted objects know that they have two "parents", so that they only get destroyed if they have no parents left

jagged notch
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Mad: Was using Mirror as an example. with an authoritative server setup, the server networkInstiates the playerObject (or any network updated object) this creates it on any connected client as well as tells newly connected clients of these obejcts and to create them/update them.

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The server then does all the trusted collision checks etc for code safty reasons etc. if the object is destroyed, the client also destroys the object. (and all other connected clients)

#

Thusly, a "plugin" for Mirror that would override some of this, such as the destruction of the clients copy of the gameobject and changing the servers copy of the gameobject from being the 'master' to a regular game object (and vice versa on the 2nd server) would be a solution. This prevents the client and other clients from having the specified playerObject destroyed, and the client could make a quiet switch between authoritative servers

#

Writing a whole networking solution from the ground up is not an option for obvious reasons. Which is why I am hoping for ideas other than the current one to make use of existing technology somehow since I have not been able to find anyone with the expertise to make the necessary changes to Mirror. 🙂

granite viper
#

mm afraid I can't help you there. I am good for philosophical discussions of networking but I don't know the breadth of tools available 😄

jagged notch
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I greatly appreciate it either way 🙂 Thanks though!

lethal marsh
#

Guys, who can check and give feedback on code architecture ?

granite viper
#

I dunno if anyone wants to trawl through a code base

#

but if you have a specific architecture question you may ask it here

lethal marsh
#

it's a space shooter. and I don't have any specific q about architecture.
I will wait
Thanks

timber flame
#

To simulate pedestrian movement (random) in city/town building games, the common way is to use flow field with random noise (perline noise)?

granite viper
#

that is one way

timber flame
#

Usually they are not completely random, right? They are painted?
flow fields

compact ingot
jagged notch
# compact ingot SpatialOS is all about that. Not cheap, not easy, enterprise level solution. htt...

Thanks. Like you said, it is quite expensive and only goes up. It also requires using their servers as a hosted solution. They have also since increased their prices and it would be unwise to develop a project around a company/business that can literally hold your project hostage for more money when they deem fit. So it really does not fit this need. (You might notice that recently they have hidden and removed any references to pricing)

#

Also, things like Unity's fight a few years ago with Spatial is another example of reasons to not want a project wholly reliant on such a setup.

compact ingot
#

When it comes down to business, it only matters what you can afford, and finding people who can build a MMO at that scale is almost impossible. So it might be the only option.

#

most good gamedevs have been hired by one large company or another to protect themselves from competition

jagged notch
#

Agreed. Thankfully this is not a full MMO and we are just looking to solve a particular solution. Granted it takes keeping a lot of things in mind and having a good understanding of both unity and networking.

undone coral
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it is a mature multiplayer platform

jagged notch
#

I have not found a similar solution with photon either

undone coral
#

can you give a logline of what your game is? @jagged notch

undone coral
jagged notch
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This is a multi-use case. just need to achieve basic concept of allowing objects to move between scenes/servers seamlessly

#

the initial case use would be for a space based game

undone coral
jagged notch
#

as for the network requirements?

undone coral
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like what the game is

jagged notch
#

sci-fi fps/space battles

undone coral
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cool

#

have you/your peeps operated another multiplayer game before?

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it's okay if the answer is no

jagged notch
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a small round based game similar to among us

undone coral
#

how did you do the backend for that?

jagged notch
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visually? or network?

undone coral
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network - like did you use photon? gamespark? playfab? did you operate servers on EC2?

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was it peer to peer?

jagged notch
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Mirror

undone coral
#

so players punched in an IP address to join matches?

#

it was hosted on devices?

jagged notch
#

no, the dns was hard set. It was hosted on our servers

undone coral
#

okay

#

and how did you operate those servers?

jagged notch
#

I ran the servers in headless mode

undone coral
#

you started an EC2 instance?

jagged notch
#

no, we have our own servers

undone coral
#

your own physical hardware?

#

were these windows machines?

jagged notch
#

yes, we have several racks and a few 10Gbe uplinks @ at datacenter

#

No. Debian

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actual metal, not vps deployed

undone coral
#

okay, and which of the following would describe your peak concurrents
1-10
10-100
100-1,000
1,000-10,000
10,000+

jagged notch
#

for that game? pfft, 100-1000, nothing serious

#

was only a 2 week event

undone coral
#

okay

#

got it

#

my feeling is, there is nothing essential to your logline in terms of "seamlessness"

#

you should use photon

jagged notch
#

a. dont want to pay for others servers when we own our own already

#

b. we have not seen any examples of photon being used for traversing between scenes

#

without the use of some sort of "zone" / "loading screen"

undone coral
#

it's not clear why that's essential

#

to your gameplay

jagged notch
#

the game would appear to the players as a large contigious space, leaving from a station, into a ship, into atmosphere, onto planetoids

undone coral
#

you could make a nice illusion that would work for space specifically

jagged notch
#

but could you actively fight across said illusion?

undone coral
#

usually the seams are limited by number of concurrent players present, not literal transformational scale/ game content

compact ingot
#

unity cant do "huge worlds" without loading screens

jagged notch
#

which is the point of multiple servers to spread it out

#

and load each area sectionally

compact ingot
#

has nothing to do with compute performance

#

unity just cant do it because of its architecture

undone coral
#

going from 1,000 concurrents to 10,000 is like going from rank 4,754 on steam to rank 822... it's very hard

jagged notch
#

not worried about the concurrents, those can be limited to 100~200 per server

#

the issue is crossing the space

undone coral
#

anyway, to keep it grounded in reality

compact ingot
#

"huge" means lots of assets and objects, not huge is physical size

undone coral
#

if i were you

jagged notch
#

if this was not an authoritative system it would be fine

undone coral
#

i would start with a specific photon sample that does what i want to do engineering wise

#

and create fun within those limitations

compact ingot
#

there is no point in making an fps if you want to make an MMO, and photon has no mmo sample

jagged notch
#

so the whole goal would be a seemingly contigious space game

#

where you could fps/ship fight at any location without getting stopped by location limitations

undone coral
jagged notch
compact ingot
#

however making an mmo with server-phasing or whatever you call it is out of scope of even well funded and experienced teams

compact ingot
undone coral
#

world of warcraft lacks seamless instance traversal right?

compact ingot
#

yes

jagged notch
#

it does it all the time

undone coral
#

hmm...

#

is this the only MMO you play? @jagged notch

compact ingot
#

original wow that is

jagged notch
#

you can move/fly from one location to another many many many zones away, fight or do anything along the way

#

I have been playing mmo's since original EQ came out

undone coral
#

can you list them?

jagged notch
#

even original wow 16~ years ago supported this

undone coral
#

it's promising that you as a human being try new MMOs 🙂

compact ingot
#

in wow you never leave the server though

undone coral
#

but on the flip side, the bulk of the audience for these things is, you are playing the same MMO forever, by definition

jagged notch
#

the "server" is a name for a "shard" of players

#

there are many many many servers that make up wow seperated by zones

compact ingot
#

doesnt matter what you call it

#

it took blizzard over a decade to make that work

undone coral
#

trying to stay grounded in an executable reality here

jagged notch
#

any specific zone can go down where you simply can not cross into them

undone coral
#

your best bet is photon

compact ingot
#

original wow had nothing even close to server-sharding

undone coral
#

can i ask how you orchestrate your own servers?

jagged notch
#

which offers nothing like this

undone coral
#

and how do you do observability for them?

jagged notch
#

depends on the need. kuber sometimes

undone coral
#

so your game backend, it existed as a container?

jagged notch
#

everything is setup based on use case

vestal lily
#

does anyone know how you could store numbers that are 2^1024 or larger? my only idea atm that i dont really like is to store it as a string in a struct/class

compact ingot
undone coral
#

or was that deployed differently?

jagged notch
#

the kub cluster was managed seperated from unity. we tracked usages and loads and as needed we spun up new systems

undone coral
#

okay

jagged notch
#

not that you would ever put anything like that directly in unity

undone coral
#

hmm

jagged notch
#

that is a network/server managemment system

undone coral
#

photon is your best option here

vestal lily
jagged notch
#

btw, i get your concern, I am not john doe avg windows user wanting to make a game. 😉

undone coral
#

the person funding all of this is not going to give more money* because of a "better" networking decision

jagged notch
#

While my specialty is networking for the past 16~ years, I am still lower intermediate with unity, but I am not doing the actual game programming. that is for the team

undone coral
#

they care*, but they care more about graphics

jagged notch
#

graphics are great, but the the core game engine/system must be stable, reliable and reasonably efficient

undone coral
#

if your team wants to develop an MMO, focus on a sick demo, just like No Man's Sky did, which did everything you're describing for the most part

#

do the demo in unreal. after all, while unreal won't help you make something that isn't an FPS, it will help you get something financed

#

everything else we're talking about... your servers are going to be obsolete by the time you use them

#

because the development cycle on something like this is so long

#

and the marketing budget to build this kind of audience would be huge

jagged notch
#

right now its not about all of that

#

it is about a simple proof of concept

undone coral
#

you can easily, seamlessly move between large transforms in unity

compact ingot
#

you cant proove anything about an mmo that doesnt exist

undone coral
#

for 1 player

#

there are no unsurmountable obstacles

#

build the scene

#

for 2 players it will still work well

jagged notch
#

yes, but the point is to make a proof of concept to show that it is possible to make a "game space" that spans multiple servers without loading in/out or hindering gameplay

undone coral
#

i develop a unity streaming technology. in my framework, you make a local multiplayer game and stream the cameras to each player

compact ingot
undone coral
#

receive their inputs, and it works really well. but that obviates the need of a networking engineer

#

doing what you do well involves eliminating your job description. do you see?

compact ingot
#

the best proof that its possible is another project that has already done it

jagged notch
#

dont need 100's

#

just need 20~30 even

compact ingot
#

i'd not buy that as a proof of concept

undone coral
#

so if you want to make an innovative new game, my approach is going to be 1,000x better than writing a networked game

#

because the problem IS the networking.

#

if you lose all enthusiasm for this by eliminating the networking blah blah, don't do it

jagged notch
#

That is all fine, but I am to attempt to find a solution matching this goal and say with confidence "there are no alternatives and it is simply an impossible task" or "here is an option of how to do what is requested".

undone coral
#

one option is to use a networked streaming solution, like Stadia except publicly available and multiplayer

#

that would make your task possible

#

then your team is developing a local multiplayer game, from its point of view, and can use extremely powerful machines that are unconstrained in terms of content & scale

jagged notch
#

please explain how using said network streaming solutions solves the current limitation in unity of maintaining authoratative collsions etc for a playerobject (or any object) across multiple servers so I can better understand.

undone coral
#

your end user receives audiovideo, and sends inputs, like stadia / geforce now / xcloud

jagged notch
#

so in the case of 9000 CCU, and a a large amount of unity scenes ...

undone coral
jagged notch
#

it still does not solve the issue of it being hosted on our servers

#

and not have any dependency on third parties

undone coral
#

okay, suppose you can host it on your own servers

jagged notch
#

yes, so back to the current goal of looking for a method of handing off authoritative control of gameobjects between servers.\

undone coral
#

you can run this software on your own servers, if you choose

#

why not? it's software, it runs on computers. why not use your computers.

jagged notch
#

can you point me to such software?

undone coral
#

i DM'd you a demo

jagged notch
#

Thank you, i feel quite closed minded because I am not understanding how this relates to the networking needs

undone coral
#

it's okay

#

now imagine what you just saw, except two people connect to the same unity instance

#

your unity game you engineer as a local multiplayer game, with input system local multiplayer.

#

however many people you want really

#

you can run the unity game, the CLIENT, on a very powerful computer

jagged notch
#

i mean, the load for a single instance would become insane

undone coral
#

not as much as you'd think

#

what is 4 1080p players, if not 1 4K player...

jagged notch
#

what does the 1080p... .. you mean the whole thing is streamed??? video?

undone coral
#

and now poof. you don't have to constrain yourself in terms of gameplay you can do networked

undone coral
jagged notch
#

i mean.. that is waaay outside of the needs of this.

#

ppl can install and run the software fine

undone coral
#

i'm trying to solve hte problem for you

#

and there you go, you saw it

#

you can run many concurrents, and they share a world seamlessly, and you are less constrained because the game can run on an extremely powerful computer

jagged notch
#

some server is hosting the unity instance.. at some point, it has a memory and cpu restriction

undone coral
#

and you don't have to write a line of networking code

#

you build servers, so you know those limits are pretty high

#

even the craziest multi-socket servers cost less than 1 year of an engineer's time

#

anyway, just think about it

#

you asked for the solution

#

you saw it, it wasn't vaporware

jagged notch
#

sounds like an interesting alternative that I can present as another option

undone coral
#

good, good 🙂

#

see i was helpful

#

especially for a proof of concept

#

which might just need a few players sharing this big world

jagged notch
#

essentially you have proposed the same as stadia but suggessting they host both the server and client instances(?) even just the server instance.

undone coral
#

stadia is great. you wouldn't have a server per se

#

the server and the client are the same process

#

just like a local multiplayer game

#

stadia can't do this, yet, not for a few years, because it's virtual desktops

jagged notch
#

alright, that option aside, I still need to continue to look for a solution fitting the request.

compact ingot
#

its basically a mainframe with terminals

jagged notch
#

To be able to use headless instances of unity servers to perform authoritative control over gameobjects that can be passed between them without gamepley interruption.

undone coral
#

improbable has been trying to do that for a while

#

they reinvented DOTS, which is reinventing cap'n'proto

#

and trying to use Unity as just a rendering engine, which it's not that good at anyway

#

so think about it.

#

you can try operating an idiosyncratic database inside unity

#

that's improbable's strategy

#

you can get the source code to unity, and install mellanox adapters in your servers, and try to operate some kind of shared state view with a known latency

#

whatever is the HPC community's redis

upbeat plaza
#

Hey guys, I've heard that rigidbody manipulation is supposed to be done in FixedUpdate exclusively, but I've also heard that user input is supposed to be done in Update() exclusively. So where would the code saying something like "If I press D, rigidbody add force to x direction" go?

undone coral
#

clear the flag when it's been applied in fixed update

#

but input system does this for you already

upbeat plaza
#

so you're saying that input in Update() already does this?

undone coral
#

no

#

you're right ytou gotta worry about this

#

Input System, a unity package

#

has some features for it

#

the reason this exists is because

#

if you had an action that was like, press a button

# 
button down   B
updates     UUUUUUUU
fixed up.      F   F

observe that's possible that a fixed update by itself, in a naive case, will not "hear" the button being pressed

#

input system deals with this

#

it will correctly propagate the fact that you pressed a button forward in time

#

this requires knowing the difference between a button press (which should propagate forward) versus a mouse position (which should be whatever is the latest value)

#

or pressing a button twice should have 2x the effect of pressing it once... depending on how you define this to Input System

upbeat plaza
#

welp that's a lot more complicated than I thought it would be but I guess it is what it is

upbeat plaza
#

nvm disregard I'm just gonna learn the new Input system lol

upbeat plaza
#

Thank you that makes a lot of sense. However Im using the new input system now and though it’s disappointingly complicated for something so basic as input, I gotta learn it because I’ve heard this is where Unity’s going so it is what it is

granite viper
#

tbf input is anything but basic

honest hull
#

Hey if I have a XMLNode, how do I get its children as XMLNodes?

undone coral
midnight violet
honest hull
#

Doesn’t that return xmlelement?

midnight violet
honest hull
#

Don’t think so

midnight violet
#

So whast the difference

agile yoke
midnight violet
#

Elements is just a serialization of your nodes to get serialize into your target class. In xml code wise, its still a node within the structure

agile yoke
#

(Also, an XmlElement is also an XmlNode)

midnight violet
honest hull
#

Oh ffs thx
Time to redo about 400 lines of code lol

#

I thought xmlelement had different functions and was a different thing than xmlnode

timber flame
#

I have some custom packages. Core, Utility and some modules
Core package depends on Utility package and module packages depend on Core package.
How can I figure it out and resolve the dependencies?
A project can use some modules, for example Module1 and Module2.
I would like to add/remove these modules in a project dynamically according to requirement

Core => Utility
Module 1 => Core
Module 2 => Core
...
ruby steeple
#

Does anyone use https://github.com/rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET for Steam Achievements? I'm using the latest release 20.1.0 via Package Manager.

I have a problem with CallResult<UserStatsReceived_t> never being received / my OnReceiveUserStats handler method never getting called, even though the request seems to go through - later calls to SetAchievement and other APIs that REQUIRE RequestCurrentStats being successfully completed seem to work at least partially (Achievement gets unlocked and toast pops when I close the game).

I store the CallResult in a class variable so it isn't disposed of by Garbace Collect and have confirmed SteamAPI.RunCallbacks() is called every frame.

// Steam API calls like SetAchievement or ClearAchievement won't work until
// RequestCurrentStats has been called and its result successfully received.
UserStatsReceivedCallResult = CallResult<UserStatsReceived_t>.Create(OnReceiveUserStats);
SteamUserStats.RequestCurrentStats();
GitHub
GitHub - rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET: Steamworks wrapper for Unity / C#

Steamworks wrapper for Unity / C#. Contribute to rlabrecque/Steamworks.NET development by creating an account on GitHub.

mighty cliff
#

Hey guys, Im trying to do an Automated System of Actions.
So my character/s do a set of actions (1-4) when their bar is full. I have a problem where, if they do an attack, and the enemy dies between actions, they still "Attack" the dead person. So trying to figure out how to change targets/stop all remaining actions on their turn.
file is a flowchart, and the SS is the actual Scripting

📎 Tactics_Controller.drawio unknown.png unknown.png
swift socket
#

hello

#

do anyone knows how to get the exact rotation value in the inspector

#

i want TransformUtils.GetInspectorRotation but works on build

drifting galleon
#

Keep track of the angles in your script

swift socket
#

give me an examples

swift socket
drifting galleon
#

float x;
x += rotationchangethisframe;

mighty cliff
#

welp there goes mine

regal olive
#

how to rotate a

#

vector on a plane

swift socket
gusty monolith
#

How do I figure out if my application is quitting in the OnDestroy() method? Can I do something smarter than this:

bool quitting;
 void OnApplicationQuit() {
     quitting = true;
 }
 void OnDestroy() {
     if (quitting) {
         //application is quitting; don't spawn more stuff
     } else {
         //application is running, proceed normally
     }
 }
drifting galleon
#

What are you doing in OnDestroy()?

gusty monolith
#

sending some signals

#

to other components

#

which should only be executed if your application is still running

drifting galleon
#

yeah i think what you're doing is the only possibility

gusty monolith
#

oh well :/

heady quartz
#

partial classes across 2 assemblies, any solutions?

drifting galleon
heady quartz
drifting galleon
#

not so easy. you could use a asmref to link your scripts, but then they will be put into the extended assemmbly, not your own

heady quartz
sage radish
heady quartz
# sage radish If there's any solution, it would have nothing to do with `partial`, because it ...

apparently there are a couple of ways to run it but not simple (without needing to manually build a sharedproject every time you make a change)
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48277694
https://stackoverflow.com/a/61910792

Stack Overflow
Should you use a partial class across projects?

I have a class library with all my database logic. My DAL/BLL.

I have a few web projects which will use the same database and classes, so I thought it was a good idea to abstract the data layer...

Stack Overflow
Is it possible to have two partial classes in different assemblies ...

I have a class called 'Article' in a project called 'MyProject.Data', which acts as the data layer for my web application.

I have a separate project called 'MyProject.Admin', which is a web-based ...

sage radish
left slate
#

Is there a recommended type of async class for doing level generation? Specifically with 2D tilemaps - I've heard you can run into issues with standard .NET threads making calls to unity functions, and IEnumerables slow down the logic dramatically

plucky laurel
#

why async? are you after threading or ?

left slate
#

Yeah

#

Logic is too slow to do on the main thread as it freezes unity, ideally we will do it in the background whilst the player is doing something else (or at least display a loading bar)

plucky laurel
#

before you go into using standard threading, try solving the task with Job system

#

oh so you are after async

left slate
#

Yeah

plucky laurel
#

afaik you can split the jobs into chunks and run them asynchronously

left slate
#

looking at the docs now, seems you can schedule one and just not call job.Complete() so it won't wait for it to be done

plucky laurel
#

there are several methods for async, c# async - allocates tasks, UniTask - non alloc if not threaded, More Effective Coroutines - coroutines but fast and non alloc

left slate
#

Are jobs not async?

#

They seem to be

plucky laurel
#

can you link?

left slate
#

to what?

plucky laurel
#

i dont see any async specific api apart from scheduling and handles, is this what you mean? that they are running on a separate thread?

left slate
# 
// Create a native array of a single float to store the result. This example waits for the job to complete for illustration purposes
NativeArray<float> result = new NativeArray<float>(1, Allocator.TempJob);

// Set up the job data
MyJob jobData = new MyJob();
jobData.a = 10;
jobData.b = 10;
jobData.result = result;

// Schedule the job
JobHandle handle = jobData.Schedule();

// Wait for the job to complete
handle.Complete();

// All copies of the NativeArray point to the same memory, you can access the result in "your" copy of the NativeArray
float aPlusB = result[0];

// Free the memory allocated by the result array
result.Dispose();```
#

If I never call handle.Complete(); then the job should just continue on it's own in parallel to the main thread right?

plucky laurel
left slate
#

"Note: Jobs do not start executing when you schedule them"

#

So if you have to make the main thread wait by calling complete() what is the point of it being it's own thread?

plucky laurel
#

that you can multithread your code

left slate
#

Surely if the other threads have to wait for one to complete you may as well just do it on the main thread though right?

plucky laurel
#

its an api for doing effective and safe multithreading

left slate
#

Feel like I must be missing something here

plucky laurel
#

no, you can chain together jobs

#

you establish a job execution hierarchy, dependencies etc, then run it all

#

you split the ms you spend in one frame over several frames reducing the frametime

left slate
#

Does the frame not hang on the Complete call?

plucky laurel
#

does the frame itself not hang until it draws on screen?

left slate
#

Right

#

The whole point is I'm looking for a way to have frames keep rendering while this goes in the background

plucky laurel
#

yes why i said initially

left slate
#

I think I'm missing something here

plucky laurel
#

you have some workload that you can do over several frames

left slate
#

How does it get spread over several frames?

plucky laurel
#

you can start the jobs each frame, allow to render, then start the jobs again

#

until your workload is complete

left slate
#

I thought that you have to call Complete() to get them to run, which halts until they're done

#

is that wrong?

drifting galleon
left slate
#

aha! How?

plucky laurel
#

yes, but you can setup it in such a way that you dont dump the whole workload into a single frame

drifting galleon
left slate
#

ah perfect

#

This should be enough for me to take a crack, cheers

left slate
plucky laurel
#

jobs are designed for efficiency and safety

#

so you have to copy data, pass it to job in special containers

#

then copy it back to your ref types

heady quartz
left slate
plucky laurel
#

pure threading, threadpool all that, async tasks

#

no access to unity api in them

left slate
#

that's the problem

#

I need access to the unity api as I'm using tilemaps...

plucky laurel
#

it wont work in any case

left slate
#

Was hoping to avoid building my own structure and translating it

plucky laurel
#

you would still have to create intermediate structures

#

do calculations raw then use the results on the main thread

left slate
#

I have a few, but most use things like unity's vectors etc

#

Gonna have to rebuild this logic from the ground up I guess

plucky laurel
#

depends whats the map size

#

how long it takes right now

#

?

left slate
#

1-2 minutes on my PC

#

though our testers have had varying results, depends on hardware ofc

plucky laurel
#

yeah thread awayyyy

#

assume potato, 2 mins is a lot, tho rimworld with mods manages to take half and hour to load on some machines

left slate
#

yeah for sure - hence trying to get it async

#

we need to optimise too but implementing that will be less painful once it doesn't freeze unity

plucky laurel
#

if you just need async its completely different approach

#

you can use any method, it wont matter, like coroutines

#

you just need to intelligently split the load

#

i.e. approximate what maximum amount of ops you can do per frame on this users machine

#

you can do that iteratively, start with some approx max number, then reduce it until you have 16ms

left slate
#

I'm gonna have to refactor the whole thing anyways, may as well get it to just run on a true async thread with some custom data types

plucky laurel
#

then use jobs

left slate
#

build some hashed tables to store the data etc which will speed up access

#

yeah

#

Thanks for the information

remote pumice
#

Hey, short question about LL/LR parsing,

does LL basically create the most upper node first, then the nested nodes, then their nested nodes etc,
and LR the most nested node first, then their upper node etc?

Or is that unrelated to LL/LR at all?

I've read quite a lot of posts, I've understood it as LL parsing the tree top->bottom and checking the tokens from left->right and LR parsing the tree bottom->top and checking tokens from right->left, depending on the current rules expectations,
but idk if that's quite right, I'd be happy if somebody could explain it to me in very short words

regal olive
#

Anyone here familiar with using Animancer?

#

I have animation for a 2D blend tree such that I have 4 directions (no diagonals) but the diagonals work because they get blended from for example the right + forward animations.

#

The issue is that I have to use different left/right animations depending on whether I move forward or backward.

#

I am not sure how I can achieve this.

plain abyss
#

I've got an await using FileStream fs = new(...) that is properly waiting for the file to be found or created, but if there's an error (say, with permissions prevent file creation), it just keeps waiting forever. How can I set a timeout for this? After some number of seconds I want it to just throw an error and move on. Documentation online shows how to add a timeout for Tasks, but I don't know how to do it with this constructor

drifting galleon
#

there should be a timeout parameter for anything that can work with a timeout

#

*overload

plain abyss
#

There's ways to set a Timeout on a FileStream, but I don't see a way to add one to the Constructor. I didn't even know it was possible to await a constructor

fresh salmon
#

You don't await the constructor itself with await using, you implicitly await its DisposeAsync method that will be called when execution falls out of scope. So it would be perfectly valid to set a timeout inside the using block, as it will only await after the using block

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Example run (sorry for long url)
https://sharplab.io/#v2:C4LgTgrgdgNAJiA1AHwAICYCMBYAUKgBgAJVMBWAbjz1QGYT0iBhIgbzyM5PtIDYSAHCX4BZAIYBLKAAoAlGw5clqAJwli0gBpEAHkQC8RKAFMA7nNmKlndrmv2SmFdIBEASSgBnCXGPqiAEYANgD2AMYA1i6yVHYOSjoAdAAiIQDKwBAAZllysfEAvlbWxcpOrgCCWcDGYP7B4VExxUW4rTQ8jNogRG4VngCeUGHJEp4ADiGeYsHGeLbK9JpyBgB8js4uTCFewJBhNXBEUp7AYsPG0bHFdCQALESpGdm58vrrpJupUgDmRKcvACEV2ocU4t1QQgAamIghBjKh+KMJlNjP0hmE5MUFg4APS4/4SAC2ECCYhqRAAFsYxAA3AZEM6eCKlLiqYQpYxkgbSTAEfnNMHWT6uZGTTzGI5iaq1Ih8/lEzwgoWtApAA=

plain abyss
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I'm still not fully sure how to put in a timeout inside of the using block, I'm not sure how to get the Task object from that line to attach a timeout callback to

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Or, wait, hang on, can I use FileStream's built-in timeout thing? Let me try

fresh salmon
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It could work, if it throws an exception when the timeout is reached it'll still exit the using block gracefully and dispose

plain abyss
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Hm,

await using (FileStream fs = new(path, FileMode.Create))
{
  fs.ReadTimeout = 5000;
  fs.WriteTimeout = 5000;
  //Do things
}

I put a breakpoint on the first line of this block, and one after this block, and neither is hit

compact ingot
undone coral
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it is throwing an exception

plain abyss
undone coral
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hmm

plain abyss
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If the directory doesn't exist or there's permission issues, I want this to timeout so I can display an error

undone coral
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it is throwing an exception so neither breakpoint will be reached

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i see

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that's not what those timeouts mean

plain abyss
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Yeah, that's what I was trying to ask about earlier, but this was the closest I could find

undone coral
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you can search async stat c#

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on google

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stat == checking if a file exists

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might stop existing between when you check and when you use it

plain abyss
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Is there a sort of catch-all error thing I can do for this? Try-catch doesn't seem to work. I can just display a generic "There was a problem" error message, but I want to try to catch all sorts of issues that could arise with it

undone coral
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or whatever it is in C#

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you can run it in a thread and time it out. are you accessing external or network storage?

plain abyss
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Network, yeah

undone coral
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maybe do File.Exists

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is this a large file you cannot copy?

plain abyss
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It's actually being generated on a remote service. This is supposed to be creating a file I can then access on the network file system. I'm passing data and a filename to a web service that'll be generating something that can be used by an entirely different program on that machine

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Checking if the directory exists is working, at least for the most common error case. I'm just gonna hope no one messes with permissions and then tries to run this again. If they never discover it can happen then it's not my problem

undone coral
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i see

undone coral
foggy canyon
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anyone familiar with photon?

undone coral
remote pumice
# undone coral what is the game?

The Parser is for something you could call a Modding Tool, not for a Game, it does have a Unity Context if you're in doubt with that 😀
If you were in doubt, dont worry, i think I know where I have to ask my questions, open for being teached upon that.
But the actual Context itself doesn't have anything to do with something that's probably a fundamental part of parsing 🤔
I'm by the way still looking for helpful Input, if anybody can try to explain LL vs LR in their own words or tell me if my understanding is correct

remote pumice
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I'm not into networking, but I think I understand your question.

So, this is just my theoretical brainstorming:

Bodies may be linked to a AccessKey,
Players have AccessKeys,
Bodies are mutated only from the Server, changes through Local Players are made via sending the Input to Server and processing it there.
If a Player disconnects, his AccessKey gets stored somewhere, locally. The body will stay present for X time and any mutating by Server and other Players can still be done.
If the Player reconnects, it will, if any, pass the stored AccessKey, if the Body with this AccessKey is still present on the Server, it will reconnect.

I don't know if that would be a working concept, but sounds logically to me

Also, sorry, but #archived-networking

sour olive
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Thank you for the help, i didn't see the networking my bad. 😅 @remote pumice

undone coral
frail lake
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Hello

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How can I rotate with DoROTATE

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In Z axis, between 45 and -45

undone coral
frail lake
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:d

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yes you are right thank you

hazy hearth
# midnight violet If you want to let people use ios and android with the same account, you gotta p...

Hey sorry for the super late reply. I dont want them to share the same account. Lets say only for the ios . If i have in app purchases is it safe to just save the info locally? For example that the player purchased a skin. Isnt this hackable , letting the somebody change the binary files and enabling all skins? How do I make it retrieve info from The appstore that they actually purchased the skin or achieved the highscore etc

undone coral
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prime31's ios store asset lets you implement IAP on iOS

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all the store assets support checking a signed receipt from the platform

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you wouldn't implement this yourself

undone coral
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why would vulkan crash on linux with no screen, but directx & metal do not?

arctic robin
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For optimization on the HoloLens 2, Microsoft suggests I use this.

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However, based on the docs, I'm not quite sure where to change it.

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shadow seal
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You just write it in any class

arctic robin
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Must it be attached to a gameobject?

shadow seal
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I mean that depends how you do it, but yes if you use a MonoBehaviour class

arctic robin
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What's the option?