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[copper nexus]

what if you have thousends hundrends of GOs?

it will laggy

[undone coral]

well, for starters, you won't

and two, tough cookie

you're making a unity game

maybe try it with GPU instancing

checked

[copper nexus]

but go itself not so good

[undone coral]

anyway

i have said my piece

[copper nexus]

bc many blocks will have own behaviour

[undone coral]

you don't have a working game yet

if you do things my way, you'll have a working game much sooner

this mesh generation thing is a huge distraction

[copper nexus]

ye it will be much easier to made jsut GO

[undone coral]

you can always try to optimize it later

[copper nexus]

but for what price?

[mighty latch]

Trying to replicate software like Stormworks is gonna require a ton of technical ability

[copper nexus]

actually kinda like space engineers also

[copper nexus]

so what i need to learn?

[mighty latch]

The basic principle isn't too hard to implement, but when looking at performance, there are probably a lot of processes under the hood to optimize performance

[copper nexus]

ye

can you give advice? i wanna MP game with in game coding + creating of smth. I also was thinking about "like screeps but with c# and with spaceships creations where you can build your own ship (istrolid as reference)".

will it be intresting game at least?

[mighty latch]

By all mean you should try, but if you're offering tools to create 3D meshes, or in game ways to code in C#, you will yourself need to be very familiar with how these work

I'd say, just make it work for starters and go on from there

[copper nexus]

bc its easy imagine this concept in 3d world where player has own ship. own factories etc. but 2d simplify it much

[copper nexus]

i have exp with Mirror

[mighty latch]

you can also try Mesh.Optimize and see how it perrforms

[copper nexus]

thanks

[undone coral]

well gpu instancing is a very performant shortcut

for many interesting models you could combine, it's much faster than static

you can use poseidon CSG or another csg asset with runtime generation for a lot of other geometry creation tasks

you will need to do a lot more research @copper nexus , jumping into mesh generation is generally a Bad Move

[glass anvil]

i wanna MP game with in game coding + creating of smth. I also was thinking about "like screeps but with c# and with spaceships creations where you can build your own ship (istrolid as reference)".

making this 2D instead of 3D is still complicated.. if you're asking these questions here chances are it won't happen to be clear.
Start smaller, like way smaller unless you've released a game already this is pure fantasy imo.

[heady bane]

is the c++ standard library xcode uses set during the unity build time?

im really struggling with getting a native plugin working since it has c++17 features

and xcode is not using c++14 or c++17 features

features that it should be able to use, but just doesnt

[arctic robin]

Hi!
I'm having a hard time profiling my application on the HoloLens with Unity. I know when a certain section of my application hits, it tanks performance, but I'm not entirely sure why, and am having a hard time finding the script that is tanking performance.

[undone coral]

what is the plugin trying to do?

[undone coral]

not in il2cpp

[drifting galleon]

check the profiler

[undone coral]

but that's academic

you're asking the wrong question

you will have trouble linking a complex library linked against libstdc++ (a GNU library from gcc) versus libc++ (the llvm one)

[heady bane]

its a chess engine, stockfish 15. I need a chess engine in a mobile game im making for a class

[arctic robin]

Right but I don't know what to make of this

[undone coral]

are you confident you are having a libc++ versus libstdc++ issue?

[heady bane]

what is the difference?

[undone coral]

stockfish isn't open source right? it's distributed via binaries?

[heady bane]

its open source

[undone coral]

hmm

c++14 or c++17 features
this can be enabled with a flag

have you tried googling it?

[heady bane]

I have, though it does get rather confusing since there seems to be multiple methods and not really a guide

[undone coral]

how are you adding stockfish to your game?

[heady bane]

im using it as a native plugin

Im unsure if it will work, but it seems to be the most common response ive seen to how to add a chess engine to unity

use stockfish and add it in as a native plugin

[undone coral]

hmm

well i think this is a worthy thing to learn but (1) it's really challenging and (2) stockfish is idiosyncratic in a lot of very not useful ways

that will not translate to other modern programs

dumping the stockfish source into your xcode project isn't going to work

somebody created a libstockfish library using cmake

but it wasn't merged

this is essential because stockfish by itself is a binary, and its build process in a Makefile is challenging to translate

you would need to work with this fork

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/3012

which would at least get you started with producing a Stockfish.framework / stockfish.bundle you can work with and wrap

i.e. stockfish as a library

if your goal is to get a chess engine going

i would not do this

[heady bane]

what would you do for a chess engine?

[undone coral]

the simplest thing would be to use a weaker one that is just written in c#

and be done with it

if you really want to use stockfish in

an afternoon

[heady bane]

I think ill go with a c# engine

[undone coral]

you would write a rest API around its linux binary

for example what this is https://github.com/andrewmacheret/chess-server-lambda

[heady bane]

ooh that could work too

[undone coral]

but this is other arcane stuff

that is also sort of useless

[heady bane]

ah

[undone coral]

you will basically never in your life need to wrap a cli program that doesn't have a library

in a REST API

unless you like, want to work for Palantir working for the government

[arctic robin]

Can I in a subclass "hijack" the "Update" function, run 2 lines of code, and then run the rest of the superclass' Update function?

[undone coral]

@heady bane this one actually seems to be

the most realistic to understand in a day

https://github.com/ncksllvn/chess-api

but i'm concerned there's no setup.py

[heady bane]

Thank you

[undone coral]

it's tough. you have to know a lot about programming 🙂

i agree it's cool to have a really good chess AI

i would probably try to finish this with a C# chess AI library

i mean that you have to know

a lot about

worthless garbage

[heady bane]

Yea, i think ill go with a c# chess engine. I've spent a lot of time on stockfish already and I thought I was getting closer than I was to the solution, but yea this part is taking too much time

[undone coral]

like deploying an AWS lambda isn't that hard

but it's worthless knowledge

if you are at a stage where you really have a UNITY_..._EXPORT c extern declared

and being called

you could use the cmake based build i linked

and get a libstockfish /Stockfish.framework you can actually use

with a header

[heady bane]

I think you could have the superclass call an abstract function that the subclass has an override function for

[undone coral]

it's not usless but it's arcane

[heady bane]

yea

[undone coral]

it's really the stockfish's people's fault for being stubborn about not making it a library

[heady bane]

it seems to be pushing into a lot of weird areas to even get it tostart doing something

[undone coral]

the python thing is probably closest

to running on your laptop with 1 click

then you would use UnityWebRequest and it would be Good

you'd have to deploy the server somewhere though

[arctic robin]

Ah ok, I tried doing this but seems there's some funky business

[heady bane]

the deploying servers part is what has made me a bit hesitant about that option. Getting a server set up for a small uni project isn't really worth the fuss I think.

[heady bane]

im kind of unsure what you're doing in this script. I may have misread your question

oh okay

I meant an abstract and a override function

okay sorry, i made have messed this up a bit, sorry.

I think base.Update() should work

[arctic robin]

Did some troubleshooting, did indeed work. Just need to rework a seperate part of the code in order to get it to work. Thanks for the feedback! 😄 ❤️

[buoyant vine]

dont call base.Update

make the base update also private

[arctic robin]

[buoyant vine]

which will unity lead to invoke both

in the right order

which will be base => child

[arctic robin]

Hmm okay let me check it out

[mild yew]

Hi! I've got a public field Component in a parent class, in a child class I want to decorate that field with an [Attribute] which limits access somewhat.

Is there a clever way to do that, or would I need to write a custom Editor for the childclass 😬 ?

I would be looking something akin to the virtual keyword for functions.

[buoyant vine]

make parent property abstract

[mild yew]

sounds like a good approach, here's where I am now:

parent:

child:

[buoyant vine]

what is your target ?

your child is overriding the parents component

not

[mild yew]

the generic ComponentReference<> class should be able to place any component in the field, but the inherited class should only be able to place components which are restricted by an attribute into the field

[buoyant vine]

and what restriction would that be ?

give example

[mild yew]

in this case I want it only to be able to have components be accessable which are part of the gameObjects.GetComponentsInChildren

[Dropdown()] supports custom functions

the alternative would be to implement a custom Drawer for ColorReference and copy over code from the DropdownAttribute, but I would rather not if avoidable - or in general if there's a better way to achieve this behaviour.

[buoyant vine]

should the getchildren reference on itself

or on the one that you drag in

[mild yew]

on itself

[buoyant vine]

public abstract Component child {get;set;} ?

with that the child needs to implement it

where you can also set annotations

for it

[mild yew]

hmm, can I add Drawers to properties though?
Afaik you'd have to have a serializable field, for the inspector to catch it

[buoyant vine]

ofc you can

[mild yew]

👀

alright, will try

[buoyant vine]

in ressources i posted a readonly drawer

which can draw properties

you just have to add [field: ... ]

works wonderful

my thing is supposed to make it grey...

[mild yew]

yes! exploring [field:] more is definitely super valuable! Thank you.

I'm iterating through it atm, but ran into the issue that the inheritance tree might be a little to deep, as it currently goes ComponentReference<> -> PropertyReference<> -> ColorReference

but I think I'll flatten the inherited hierarchy

the problem being that the abstract property from ComponentReference has to be implemented in PropertyReference leaving me once again with two serialized fields 😬

[drifting galleon]

maybe try SerializeReference instead

[mild yew]

interesting, where would I apply the attribute? In PropertyReference[field:] or ColorReference[field:] ?

[buoyant vine]

i dont get it ... why would it be 2 ??

[drifting galleon]

i think PropertyReference

[mild yew]

both members implement the property with fields

[buoyant vine]

show code

doubt that

why both would have to implement it

[mild yew]

tried all three permutation, sadly SerializeReference couldn't magic this ^^

[buoyant vine]

ofc not

why would it?

[drifting galleon]

yeah sorry. was just a guess that it might work

[mild yew]

abstract base class:

child class 1st degree:

child class 2nd degree:

[buoyant vine]

why does field reference implement it ?

if it cant handle everything?

[mild yew]

don't mind the SerializeReference attribute - it's switched over to Field again

[drifting galleon]

ah no there^^ SerializeReference doesn't work

[buoyant vine]

in other words : why does fieldreference override the component and implement it , if it cant fully tell what its supposed to do ?

make it in the second class also abstract

until your class can fully implement it

[mild yew]

yeah, that's the thing FieldReference or rather PropertyReference needs also be able to function, so instead of having ColorReference inherit from PropertyReference, it should directly inherit from ComponentReference -> that's what I meant by having to flatten the hierarchy

[buoyant vine]

i think you didnt fully thought out your inheritance

which is bad.. XD

[mild yew]

ColorReference is just a specialized (non generic) form of PropertyReference, but both need to be able to be used.

[mild yew]

obviously, that's what I'm doing here 😛

[buoyant vine]

inheritance is not an easy task

so good luck

[mild yew]

that's why I'm taking this approach ^^

[buoyant vine]

[mild yew]

but thank you very much for the aid! ❤️

[buoyant vine]

atleast you know now how to serialize a field

[mild yew]

I knew before though ^^

[buoyant vine]

meant with the field: that you can put your own drawer in it

[mild yew]

yeah! That's a+ knowledge right there! Thank you very much for it.

[buoyant vine]

you should try out my script in ressources

to make readonly attributes in editor

[copper nexus]

so. i get this with CombineMesh. then i .Optimize() it.

but still has not needed triangles inside. How i can fix that?

also whould be awesome to apply greedy mesh there

[mild yew]

I think you'll have to implement a function to remove interior faces

[drifting galleon]

optimize mesh only get's rid of close together vertices afaik

[copper nexus]

also i want to combine em

this is optimization what im talking about

[mild yew]

sure, you'll probably need to find a library with functions for it

there's no default for that in unity afaik

[copper nexus]

ok. what about edges inside ?

[drifting galleon]

that's not what unity is for to do anyway

[copper nexus]

public void Start()
    {
        var combineInstance = new List<CombineInstance>();
        for (int x = 0; x < X; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < Y; y++)
            {
                for (int z = 0; z < Z; z++)
                {
                    combineInstance.Add(new CombineInstance
                    {
                        mesh = Voxel.Mesh,
                        transform = Matrix4x4.TRS(new Vector3(x, y, z), Quaternion.identity, Vector3.one)
                    });
                 
                }
            }
        }
        var mesh = new Mesh();
        mesh.CombineMeshes(combineInstance.ToArray());
        mesh.RecalculateNormals();
        mesh.Optimize();
        Debug.Log(mesh.vertexCount);
        Debug.Log(mesh.triangles.Length);
        MeshFilter.mesh = mesh;
    }

[mild yew]

assetstore link: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/modeling/mesh-optimizer-154517

this looks like something ur looking for

[drifting galleon]

that should really be done by the artist in a 3d software^^

[mild yew]

not neccessarily - LODs etc shouldn't always have to go through manual labor

[copper nexus]

you cant optimize grid that was genereated at runtime

only manual optimization

[drifting galleon]

yeah

[drifting galleon]

yeah of course not. but looking at the page preview image, that shouldn't be done at runtime

[mild yew]

even if not during runtime, unity doesn't have a default library for the task.
This really needs either a full on asset, like the one I linked above, or a seperate library.

[drifting galleon]

becaue that's NOT a thing unity needs to do nor should do

[copper nexus]

thats still dosent solve edges that inside cube

[mild yew]

you'll need to write a script which collapses the interior edges and faces then

it's not a default task - you'll have to either do it yourself, or find an asset/library which already can do it.

[buoyant vine]

blender has a function for that to remove useless vertices

and optimize them

[mild yew]

Blender also has an option to Select (and consequently collapse) all interior faces afaik

[buoyant vine]

yes

it can optimize everything

[mild yew]

I wish haha

[buoyant vine]

your meshes are excluded ... but every others can be optimized 😄

[mild yew]

working with landscape photogrammetry in my job - and even though blender is part of the pipeline - it's not the best at optimization 😬

[drifting galleon]

well i'd say that involves huge meshes and that's def gonna be a difficult algorithm to write

[mild yew]

yes, that's why we're working A) with a company which entirely specializes on Realtime optimization for Photogrammetry assets (Realities io) and they B) have an entire pipeline built around it. ^^

[buoyant vine]

sometimes a mediocre optimized mesh is worth more than a perfect optimized mesh

[drifting galleon]

but i would say that's not a usual use case for blender
at least it's more niche than others

[mild yew]

ofcourse, ofcourse - not trying to take anything away from blender - working with it for years and love it

just - it doesn't optimize everything - I would even say, optimization isn't it's strong suit, compared to everything else it brings to the table

[buoyant vine]

just want to put my mediocre blender knowledge into it...

why do you not bake it ?

[drifting galleon]

? what's baking gonna do

[buoyant vine]

you make a low poly and put the high poly around it like a skin

which will result in reducing drastically the mesh vertices and edges

[drifting galleon]

i don't think that's viable for fotogrammetry

[mild yew]

is that intended for @copper nexus ?
I think he's generating a mesh at runtime - probably something akin to a custom voxel solution

[buoyant vine]

idk

and my knowledge with meshes is limited so ima head out

[mild yew]

@buoyant vine refactored my classes to have a flattened hierarchy:

now there's an abstract BasePropertyReference, a Generic PropertyReference and a ColorReference, which inherits on the same depth

[buoyant vine]

humm

[mild yew]

no good?

[buoyant vine]

the naming : nope

what is a nfo??

[mild yew]

haha, true

[buoyant vine]

why is propertyPath in camel case when its public?

same for value

[mild yew]

to stay consistent with in the project scope 😬

[buoyant vine]

=> nfo == null ? default : (T) GetValue(component);

to make it an expression body

im very picky there XD

but its not necessary

if you dont want it

its just "extra" .. i like it more

[mild yew]

but do you mean => _nfo == null ? Or is nfo => nfo == null ? somehow valid?

[buoyant vine]

public T GetValue => nfo == null ? default : (T) GetValue(component); make it expression body get only

which would be

public T Value => nfo == null ? default : (T) GetValue(component);

then

[mild yew]

hmm, I think I'd still prefer to be able to set Value from within the class

so I dont think I'll remove the setter from value all together

[buoyant vine]

you can also write the setter

like you would for a backing property

this is just the shortest way 😄

of your last method

[mild yew]

fair, I'll take it in to consideration and will iterate a bit more 🙂

[buoyant vine]

im just making suggestion

you can do whatever you want to do in your code

if you want to iterate with forloop to 100000 before returning value go ahead 😄

[mild yew]

lol, yeah I just dont want to copy suggestions into the code, without understanding the reasoning behind it myself - so I'll take some time. 🙂

[stuck onyx]

why if a set a 256x256 texture into a plane of 4096x4096 the texture stretches? Id like it to appear as 256x256 as a part of the plane

should i use 16 diffferent 256x256 planes to avoid this?

[buoyant vine]

because a "texture" is a bucket of color, unity paints the entire thing with the bucket per default

[stuck onyx]

what should i change to avoid this?

[copper nexus]

ye its kinda voxel game

[stuck onyx]

use 16 differert meshes?

[buoyant vine]

idk sorry

[stuck onyx]

oki thanks anyway!

[mild yew]

is this on a 3D mesh or 2D image?

[stuck onyx]

2d

[mild yew]

change the import settings of the texture to repeat

[stuck onyx]

the texture i ccreate it in runntime, ill see if theres an option

[mild yew]

alright, I think then you want to adjust the uvs of the plane to fit the scaling you're intending

you could also preferably alter the Textures Tiling in the material of the plane

[stuck onyx]

ok the tiling i kow where it is

[mild yew]

👍

[stuck onyx]

whats this UV thing?

or is it the same?

[mild yew]

UVs are to meshes (even 2D) what tiling is to textures... kinda

[stuck onyx]

oh but i cannot modify that from unity can i?

[mild yew]

you can, but I think you'd rather change the tiling

[stuck onyx]

ill try

thanks a lot!

[mild yew]

np

@buoyant vine this is where I am now. Also hopefully made the naming a bit more clear by differentiating more directly between the serialized value in the PropertyReference and the targetSourceValue

[buoyant vine]

if you only inherit it for giving it the serialize field then you could serialize it in the first place ?

as i think your entire thing doesnt make sense if you dont serialize the property you want to set

to find the children

@mild yew

[mild yew]

well the purpose was to have ColorReference put an extra attribute on the component property

PropertyReference<T> should not have the attribute but ColorReference should

[woeful fern]

Hi,

So I am looking out for how can I implement a system in a modular way where I've 2 scenes which gets switched from Scene 1 to Scene 2 and I have UI animations, one for the Scene 1 and rest three for Scene 2, where I've created 4 .anim files and want to run it through script according to requirement but I want help in how should go for it i.e. what is the most modular way to manage the all UI animations through a single script for both the scenes and by using a single animator and would just replace the .anim at runtime.

Please help me out with this. Would be really thankful.

Thanks in advance

[maiden turtle]

Is your UI DontDestroyOnLoad or something?

[woeful fern]

No it isn't a Singleton class. See, I have 4 animations, one for 1st scene and remaining for 2nd scene to play in. But I want some way except singleton to play these animation through a single script for both the scenes.

[compact ingot]

DDOL does not mean it is a singleton

[woeful fern]

Yeah basically UI is not kept as DDOL

[woeful fern]

Is there any other time we keep it as DDOL?

[compact ingot]

plenty of ways, but your terminology is vague

you need to be precise about what exactly you want, a script is just a text file with some code in it, you can use one text file, to contain the definition of one class that gets instatiated two times, which means technically, you have made it play with one "script"

what you probably want is to run it through one object/instance, which means it can't be a monobehaviour or it has to be DDOL

[mild yew]

I think Kartik needs to split up his problem, Unitys timeline is very extendable and probably has what he's looking for in terms of sequencing animations, secondly he needs to look up methods to do cross-scene references

[compact ingot]

there is no reason to avoid DDOL if the purpose of the object is to persist across scene load or to transfer state

[woeful fern]

Yeah, now I get your point.

[compact ingot]

think of DDOL as a separate background scene that just never unloads... because thats what it actually is

[woeful fern]

As a seperate scene or as a seperate GameObject which exists for all the scenes whether at the time of switching or pausing etc.?

[compact ingot]

scenes are just containers for grouping objects

to make them loadable

[woeful fern]

Ahhh okay. So DDOL is nothing but a scene of unloadable objects, am I right?

[compact ingot]

the default behaviour is to have only 1 scene, and on each load everything loaded gets destroyed, but since that is very limiting, you can have scenes load additively (without destroying what is already there) or use DDOL

[woeful fern]

Which persists throughout the application is running, right?

[compact ingot]

yes

you can still destroy them, but not via scene (un)load

[woeful fern]

Yes, this Ik.

Thanks for this insight @compact ingot, I think I might be able to solve the problem now

[compact ingot]

great

[woeful fern]

Thanks once again

[stuck onyx]

Anybody knows how to create a RenderTexture just capturing an area of the screen? I've been looking around the forums and docs and seems is not possible by passing a rect to the camera

is there any other way?

[obsidian glade]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-targetTexture.html

[stuck onyx]

yeah i've tried that, it simply ignores it

more people in foums with the same problem

[copper nexus]

how to solve overflow of objects in voxel world?

i.e. rn its fine to get 101010 chunk. but how does minecraft solves that? bc it has 1616256. ik that it dosent renders all block with their verts/triangles. but it can be in minecraft too?

[stuck onyx]

i've tried the SetTargetBufffers but it didnt work,

[obsidian glade]

not sure why that would be - I think I used it about a year ago and it seemed to work as intended

[stuck onyx]

ill try again then, i did it just beforre i've set the cam to Render()

maybe doing it earlier ....

[stuck onyx]

do you think you have the script around?

if not its ok

[obsidian glade]

you could try using Graphics.Blit directly too, afaik this is what targetTexture effectively does anyway

[stuck onyx]

wouldnt that overhead the operration?

what im trying is to use less ram with it

anyway, noted, ill give it a trry too

thanks a lot

[obsidian glade]

had a look and I think I replaced/removed it at some point as I was trying to achieve something a bit different (ended up as Graphics.Blit and ignoring the camera entirely)

not sure on what the most performant way of doing it would be

[stuck onyx]

👍 thanks a lot

[regal olive]

i am generating a cube marched terrain, and want to bend it so it becomes some sort of ball. any ideas?

[drifting galleon]

easiest: use a shader

[regal olive]

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i need to learn shaders

[drifting galleon]

you can do it with shadergraph

[regal olive]

need reference

[drifting galleon]

Exponentially offset the vertex position based on some value. E.g. distance to camera

[regal olive]

nonono it is not for that kind of thing

i am basically generating low poly trees with that, so i want to bend it to make the leafs of the tree

[drifting galleon]

That sounds like overly complex. Ever tried bending a square piece of paper into a sphere? The results won't be good

Weird stretching and artifacts guaranteed

[regal olive]

right. but i didnt find any good tutors on cube marging and ended up with that..

[sand haven]

If you want to use a marching cubes algorithm, you want to essentially generate a 3d-grid in the shape of a sphere and then add complexity using 3d-noise

Something like fillamount

You essentially go through the grid and fill if its within a distance of your centerpoint

[regal olive]

void PopulateTerrainMap()
    {

        // The data points for terrain are stored at the corners of our "cubes", so the terrainMap needs to be 1 larger
        // than the width/height of our mesh.
        for (int x = 0; x < width + 1; x++)
        {
            for (int z = 0; z < width + 1; z++)
            {
                for (int y = 0; y < height + 1; y++)
                {

                    // Get a terrain height using regular old Perlin noise.
                    float thisHeight = (float)height * Mathf.PerlinNoise((float)x / density * 1.5f + seed + 0.001f, (float)z / density * 1.5f + seed + 0.001f);

                    float point = 0;
                    // We're only interested when point is within 0.5f of terrain surface. More than 0.5f less and it is just considered
                    // solid terrain, more than 0.5f above and it is just air. Within that range, however, we want the exact value.
                    if (y <= thisHeight - 0.5f)
                        point = 0f;
                    else if (y > thisHeight + 0.5f)
                        point = 1f;
                    else if (y > thisHeight)
                        point = (float)y - thisHeight;
                    else
                        point = thisHeight - (float)y;

                    // Set the value of this point in the terrainMap.
                    terrainMap[x, y, z] = point;

                }
            }
        }
    }

this is generating the terrainmap atm

[sand haven]

That being said I think it might be smarter to make different individual meshes, like leaves and trunks, in modeling program and then procedurally combing them into good trees. It gives you more control and honestly better looking trees

[regal olive]

i really want to stick to the generation, not manual modelling..

[sand haven]

I mean if you're doing it for learning that's fair, otherwise I would advice against it

But try to generate a sphere first with marching cubes. After you got that down do a second smaller sphere (in the Same mesh) ... Then add 3d pelin noise

Try to pay attention to how much are you using processing time, these things can get rough

[regal olive]

i think ima scrap

[stuck onyx]

Sorry to bother you again but after reading the docs of Graphic.Blit…. Isnt the purpose of this function just the opposite of what we were talking?

Blit takes a texture as source and a renderTexture as destiny

But what i want to do is just the opposite

Am I missing something?

[obsidian glade]

the source texture can be taken from what the camera renders, in OnRenderImage() say

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ScreenCapture.CaptureScreenshotIntoRenderTexture.html looking for this maybe?

[modern cobalt]

I'm thinking of using the unity profiler API in unit tests, has anyone here this in the past? Wondering if there's any gotchas with it when using it on multiple unity-tests run sequentially.

My use case right now would be looking for memory leaks in unity.

[mighty latch]

When creating a program that relies on serialization/deserialization, how do you usually handle updates and older formats?

[flint sage]

You encode a version into it

[mighty latch]

Okay, and then you'd add "legacy" method to handle deserializing them and converting them to the current version?

[flint sage]

Yeah there's a few options for those

[mint sleet]

Hello Folks!

Is it possible to use "Access token" to make API call from outside of the website?

For example API calls in Postman with scraped access token of a website?

Or is there any security bound between the frontend and backend of the website?

I'll sign in with my national credentials to a state website and will scrap the access token and will make an web application working into the backend. My goal is this.

[devout hare]

The token can expire

and it probably will if the site requires strong authentication

[mint sleet]

They use OAuth and there is a refresh token too.

So when the access token returns 400, I'll make a new request with refresh token.

@devout hare

[raw schooner]

hey, was wondering if it's possible to infer what version of the IL2CPP library (compiler?) is being used by which unity version

[copper nexus]

how stormworks made? how space engineers made?

i mean editing of structures

[hollow garden]

watermelon

[tacit hedge]

so im watching a turtorial on A* pathfinding , but because im dumb i really don't get why it is Vector3 worldBottomLeft = transform.position - Vector3.right * gridWorldSize.x / 2 - Vector3.up * gridWorldSize.y / 2; and Vector3 worldPoint = worldBottomLeft + Vector3.right * (x * nodeDiameter + nodeRadius) + Vector3.up * (y * nodeDiameter + nodeRadius); , anyone mind explaining to me how it works

[buoyant vine]

thats whats called trash code

prob none has the mood to get into that

its the complete opposite on how to write code

[hollow garden]

so basically for the first one

assume transform.position is the center

if you subtract half of gridWorldSize.x on the x and half of gridWorldSize.y on the y

then you're gonna be at the bottom left of the thing

and well the second one just composes a point inside that area that's defined by gridWorldSize with (x * nodeDiameter + nodeRadius) as the x and (y * nodeDiameter + nodeRadius) as the y

[tacit hedge]

oh thanks a lot that basically explains everything

[dapper shuttle]

I want to get all Types which are derived from an interface
so I googled things and tried them but failed
all codes are working but the result's list's count is zero

so.. how can I get all Types ( not classes nor instances) which derived from certain interface?

[maiden turtle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/TypeCache.GetTypesDerivedFrom.html

Outside Unity you'd iterate through all loaded types and check which ones are derived from the interface by using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.type.isassignablefrom?view=net-6.0#system-type-isassignablefrom(system-type)

Or another method similar to that

[dapper shuttle]

@maiden turtle Thanks a lot!!

[lean nest]

hello, what could be causing that web request calls dont work on the editor play mode, only on build

[calm sleet]

Hello guys
How to set Main camera to specific cinemachine virtual camera/cinemachine (irrespective of priority) through script ?

[hazy hearth]

How would you guys suggest me to stop the game until the rewarded Ad is finished?

[maiden turtle]

you need to deactivate the old one and activate the new one.

[maiden turtle]

Time.timeScale = 0

This is the simplest way, but it will affect everything

[calm sleet]

no both needs to be active

in multiplayer game one player sees one camera that follows one cinemachine , and other player sees second camera that follows second cinemachine

[regal olive]

How do i make the legs not let the entire body move, I want the feet to lock the body too
(Im an moving the prefab itself)

[snow grotto]

What? Could you try a different explanation?

[regal olive]

So I want the feet to stay on the ground, that works, but I want the feet not to move with the body, they do

The code simply Does a raycast from the Gray circles and sets the green circles on the hit point, the green circles are the feet

[snow grotto]

You could just stop updating the target position right? And only update it when the player moves a distance

[regal olive]

Yes but the Empty objects will still move if I move the character object

[snow grotto]

You could or child it in a way that they don't move with the game object moving or calculated from local to world but that depends on what style you prefer. There are probably other options but that is what I can come up with now

Or have the target be a separate variable that you set it to

[regal olive]

Hmm I’ll see what I’ll do

Thanks

[snow grotto]

Np

[buoyant vine]

you prob will run into camera bumping when you go up the stairs ?

[regal olive]

Yeah i will, but thats not the player luckily

[buoyant vine]

aight

[regal olive]

All my players are beans, cant break the rule

[buoyant vine]

why do you not make just make it "cheap" if its only for the stairs

[regal olive]

Nah it not for stairs, its for nothing just testing IK lol

[buoyant vine]

oh

[regal olive]

yeah

[buoyant vine]

then nvm good luck with your bumping 😛

[regal olive]

Im just following this tutorial and like the spider body stays in place mine doesnt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Gjhr1IP6w&ab_channel=Codeer

[buoyant vine]

wow that looks goody

gotta build that into my game

i dont need it probably... but i love random things that i dont need at all

[regal olive]

Same

[buoyant vine]

fits perfectly to my ingame terminal that i dont need

[regal olive]

lol

[buoyant vine]

and i hate animation

IK are easier for me than making an animation lul

[regal olive]

SAME

OH you know what i just realized

I should be moving the Torso, then the feet stay

[buoyant vine]

that you need a terminal?

oh nvm

[regal olive]

lol

Damn it never mind

[silk bronze]

Hey I'm trying to get pathfinding working with a procedually generated map, and i can't for the life of me figure it out and everything i've looked up hasn't helped either. I'm trying to use the heightmap data to tell a character where to go but it's not working. Anything helps! (Unity 2D)

[somber swift]

How youd like the heightmap data to be taken into account exactly?

[silk bronze]

so it's perlin noise (so 0 to 1) and i'm trying to form either a navmesh or something of the sort based on that

[somber swift]

But what is the perlin noise doing on the navigation process? Is it something like 0 -> cant walk 1 -> can walk 0.5 -> can walk but try to avoid when possible?

[silk bronze]

so from 0 -> 0.4 can't walk and from 0.42 -> 0.7 they can

[somber swift]

Do you want the value between 0.4 and 0.7 affect the path or is the area always either walkable or not walkable?

[silk bronze]

for that area yes it should be walkable\

[somber swift]

But do you want value of 0.41 work differently than 0.69? So should some areas be easier to walk than others?

[silk bronze]

no, all alreays from 0.4 to 0.7 should all walk the same

[somber swift]

Are you looking for ready assets to do the path finding or do you want to do all yourself?

[silk bronze]

im looking for either

[somber swift]

Pretty much no matter which pathfinding method you use you have to learn how A* works. Grid based A* could be easier to implement but navmesh based A* could be more performant

[raw path]

Hi there
does anyone know the mathematical operations behind a "directional warp"?
I have a noise texture / sine wave texture (2d float array with 0-1 values) and want to distort it this way

[silk bronze]

alrighty thank you!

[somber swift]

Unitys navmesh system relies on A* too

You could just use the heightmap data to create the grid of walkable and unwalkable areas

[heady bane]

What is a good way to set up python scripts on a server fo unity to communicate to?

I know of the web request part in unity, but im stuck thinking of what to do on the server side

[buoyant vine]

( why would you use python on server side ? )

[heady bane]

cause I cant see how to get python on iOS

in unity

especially since the python code has a lot of machien learning code in it

which barracuda can handle the models

but I need a solution to it and fast

[raw path]

@heady bane usually all machine learning libraries have some sort of native compiler to them so you can generate binaries that can be integrated into Unity

Thats how I did it with TensorFlow; have my models defined in python, and then generate the corresponding paltform binary

[heady bane]

i dont really want to deal with more of those after having to mess around with stockfish for days with no progress

I know i should be able to export the model as an onnx file

but its the other processing I need to

and that code requires 10 different imports

I just need something that can get that code to run on unity in ios

and I know a server can do that

I dont have time to mess around with trying to get 10 different things working on ios

like opencv

sorry, just getting stressed.

I thought i knew how to get this all working.

but it has backfired badly

[proper wing]

Does anyone perchance know how to switch between XR plugins programmatically?

[undone coral]

are you trying to use the stockfish api built around python?

have you succeeded running that code on your laptop

then getting the ios client to connect to that?

[heady bane]

no i stopped using the stockfish api

[undone coral]

okay

[heady bane]

it wasn't possible to get it running

[undone coral]

you couldn't sort out that API?

just ran out of time?

[heady bane]

more i tried to intergrate it into the app

then I ran out of time for that

[undone coral]

are you trying to get an app to interpret an actual chess board?

via the camera?

[heady bane]

yes

[undone coral]

the solution is similar, you upload the photo to a separate server which reads the image, then sends back the results

[heady bane]

so what should I use server side?

[undone coral]

well

are you uploading a photo of a natural physical chess board

or a photo taken through an iphone of a 2d graphics chessboard as rendered by popular chess websites

server side you use what you're most familiar with

[heady bane]

well, i have the code for the model, and im using a real image to upload

the problem is that while ive done quite a bit of unity side server stuff, i havent really made a custom server to run python scripts before

[undone coral]

i see

this model works for demonstration purposes?

if the model was authored, trained and tested in python

you can use flask to quickly turn it into an API

[heady bane]

flask?

[undone coral]

it's a python package that lets you annotate a python method as an http route

if you need this to Just Work for python, you can use a tutorial like this - https://www.serverless.com/blog/flask-python-rest-api-serverless-lambda-dynamodb/

@heady bane when is your deadline?

this way we can limit how much extra stuff you have to do

it sounds like you are working with a few other people who made these individual pieces and you're responsible for integrating it all

sounds like "software studio"

[heady bane]

today,and its a uni project where one of the members has gone silent for months

[undone coral]

okay you should

cancel all not working features and work only on the polish of the unity game

like adding animations and effects

this package implements stockfish via a unity plugin - https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/ai/strongest-chess-ai-stockfish-203224

you can ask for a copy of the osurce since stockfish is gplv3

so he'll have to give it to you for free

i don't think it's worth trying to read a real chess board with the camera @heady bane because probably the code that you received from a teammate to do that doesn't work

it's a very challenging problem and unrealistic that people giving you stuff the day of the deadline achieved it

[undone coral]

if the class values these sorts of features piled on

i think the server approach is the way to go

[buoyant vine]

gpl != cost free software

has nothign to do with it

[undone coral]

Well really what would be most helpful

It’s just tough I don’t wanna send you down a journey for something g that will never be done

[unreal lichen]

Hi. So i have this parent class where it have a delegates and event there. And this class have a property of ScriptableObject which have a public method to subscribe to the parent class' event. I use this method on the Start method of the parent class. Now i have a class that derived from that parent class and want to use invoke that event on Update. But for some reason, it threw this error

The event 'InventoryController.PlacedOut' can only appear on the left hand side of += or -= (except when used from within the type 'InventoryController') Assembly-CSharp

here's my base class code
https://pastebin.com/RLTUTyYj
and here's the class that derived it
https://pastebin.com/7ULRXYxU

why can't i invoke those events?

[heady bane]

thank you for the help, and I understand yea. i should have asked earlier, but it just got a bit out of hand with just getting the chess engine part working

[honest hull]

Hey so if I pack 4 uints into a single uint, is the max size of each of the packed uints 255?
Is there a way then for me to store 1 large and 1 small uint in one uint? What would be the max size of that?

[neat panther]

I think you might be a little confused on the whole concept of events.
PlaceOut and PlaceIn are events which allows other class to subscribe to it by using += or unsubscribe using -= in which case the subscribed class will call the subscribed function (on the right hand side of the +=) when the base class invokes the event.
The error you're encountering is precisely to prevent programmers from accidentally overwriting the subscriber or triggering the event, therefore only the base class is allowed to call the PlaceOut() event.
If you were trying to invoke the delegate and returning the ItemData, you should be invoking PlaceOutHandler instead of PlaceOut

[unreal lichen]

ohh, i see

but what happend if i have two classes derived from that parent class? if i invoke PlaceOutHandler on class A, will it be invoked on class B too?

[neat panther]

No it would not. PlaceOutHandler is just a delegate on another function that takes an index and return an ItemData. You can use PlaceOutHandler just like any normal functions.
On the other hand, calling PlaceOut() in InventoryController would invoke all subscribed functions on other classes (which are typically not inherited from your event caller, but can be)

[undone coral]

it's all going to work out 🙂

[undone coral]

you could in principle use varints

[undone coral]

there are a lot of tricks @honest hull

it depends on what the values are. for example if they're all similar to each other you can store an average and three offsets

[honest hull]

hey whats the equivilant of 0b11111 on GPU? trying to a bitwise and

[silk trench]

I'm trying to add sliding down ramps for my CharacterController, and the problem is that when I'm on a ramp, gravity is constantly building up, so when I fall off the edge of it, my player snaps down immediately because the gravity becomes some ridiculous number like -20

I feel like this is a common problem because all gravity is handled the same way with CharacterControllers

[quiet fable]

hello friends, i have a code with different result at CPU and GPU (Compute shader)
can you please help me to solve this?
I want create normal texture for my sphere planet from noises that i have in _1dUcData
this code working by unity jobs but the same code dose not work on unity compute shaders

    uint y = py + UcBorder;
    float xPos =(_1dUcData[y * ucHeight + max(0, x - UcBorder)] -
                 _1dUcData[y * ucHeight + min(x + UcBorder, width + UcBorder)]) / 2;
    float yPos =(_1dUcData[max(0, y - UcBorder) * ucHeight + x] - 
                _1dUcData[min(y + UcBorder, height + UcBorder) * ucHeight + x]) / 2;
    float3 normalX = float3(xPos * intensity, 0, 1);
    float3 normalY = float3(0, yPos * intensity, 1);
    // Get normal vector
    float3 normalVector = normalize(normalX + normalY);
    // Get color vector
    float3 colorVector = float3(0,0,0);
    colorVector.x = (normalVector.x + 1) / 2;
    colorVector.y = (normalVector.y + 1) / 2;
    colorVector.z = (normalVector.z + 1) / 2;
    // Start at (x + _ucBorder, y + _ucBorder) so that resulting normal map aligns with cropped data
    if (x >= UcBorder && y >= UcBorder && x < width + UcBorder &&
        y < height + UcBorder)
        result[id.x] = float4(colorVector.x, colorVector.y, colorVector.z,255);```

i know the problem is from getting _1dUcData data.
the problem result is empty normal texture.
when the code do - between two part of _1dUcData[] its going to zero

[regal olive]

AmeetZ DEV — Today at 1:21 PM
Hey Guys, I need some help regarding Mathf.PingPong()
I am trying to make a Bobbing effect using that function,
So... here is what I did

 public Transform graphicTransform;

 private void Update()
 {
     //Ambience Effects
     float offset = Mathf.PingPong(Time.time, 1f);
     graphicTransform.position = new Vector2(graphicTransform.position.x, offset);
 }

It works, but not the way I want it to
The y position of the Parent GameObject is 5 but the graphic goes to bob at the world center that is y = 0... I really don't understand why it is subtracting from the original y position...
Please Help!

[rocky mica]

position = world position

over there you are overwriting the Y coordinate

so if it was 10 before, you are now setting it to whatever offset is, overwriting the value

you wanna use localposition

[heady bane]

im not sure if I can get serverless to work. its being weird with the aws authentications

[bold mountain]

Hi ! Anyone knows how i could create a way for UnityEvents (here : https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityEvents.html ) to work with enum types?

[kindred tusk]

public UnityEvent<MyEnum> MyEvent;

oh wait...

You won't be able to set the enum in inspector, if that's what you mean.

But you can still trigger events from code

[bold mountain]

yeah, i know
I was thinking about overriding the UnityEvents Class in a new one, and only adding a way to display enums

[kindred tusk]

What exactly are you trying to do?

[bold mountain]

well basically, i've got my huge dialog system, and i've got an enum containing all characters. My tool is destined to be used by non devs, so i can't just have an int representing characters, it wouldn't be easy to use at all, you'd have to remember each characters' ID, not easy at all. If it's something that has to be done, well i'll do that, but if i can avoid, it could be great

so that' why i thought about trying to implement a non primitive type
But as soon as i looked into the metadata of the classes, i knew this was a hard task, so idrk

[kindred tusk]

I meant with events

Although first thought there: you should use a scriptableobejct for the characters

Instead of an enum

Maintaining an enum makes it impossible to add characters without editing code

But if you use an SO a designer can create a new character and set their name etc.

Anyway, this is how I usually fix the "can't send X data from unity event" problem:

public class EventDataExample : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] MyEnum myEnum;
  [SerializeField] UnityEvent<MyEnum> myEvent;
  public void OnSendEvent() {
    myEvent.Invoke(myEnum);
  }
}

OnSendEvent would be triggered by a UnityEvent (for example UI.Button.onClick)

And I just put this component on the same object as the other event script (e.g. UI.Button)

[bold mountain]

i do
And the enum is updated automatically

[kindred tusk]

If you have SOs then you don't need an enum

[bold mountain]

so i can just put the scriptable in parameter lol

[kindred tusk]

You can pass SO instance

[bold mountain]

yeah lmao
thanks!

[kindred tusk]

you wrote code gen for this?

haha

[bold mountain]

yeah lmao
File.Write and shi

[kindred tusk]

Ah well, it's a good skill to have

But yeah, totally unnecessary

SO just solves this by each instance essentially being an "enum value"

Might need a bit of creative coding in parts

[bold mountain]

well since i can put an enum value anywhere (not in events tho), i can have a tool that's easy to use, UX friendly, and you don't have to fetch scriptables everytime. Plus, i've got a "SearchableEnum" attribute which works perfectly well, so even tho i have a shid ton of characters, i can search em by name, and most importantly: people that don't know shid bout unity can too!

[kindred tusk]

SOs are searchable too

And are UX friendly

In fact I'd say that's the main appeal

[bold mountain]

After a long reflexion, i think i might reconsider no using the enums on my next iteration
I'll ask what the team thinks lol
Thanks a lot!

Also, i cannot get the parameter of a custom event, can i? Like getting the name "Camellia" for instance, from the EventsToTrigger variable?

[buoyant vine]

oyur transitions on method will get exctly your camellia when invoked

[kindred tusk]

Uh... you can

It's in the dropdown elsewhere

There are two sections...

[kindred tusk]

I don't have enough context here, what is EventsToTrigger?

[bold mountain]

UnityEngine.Events.UnityEvent lol

[kindred tusk]

Oh, the event itself

You mean if you do Invoke(MySo)?

It's an option in the dropdown

[bold mountain]

wait, context of why i wanna use that:

public override string ToString() {
        string res = "";
        res += "- Triggers some events :\n";
        for (int i = 0; i < EventsToTrigger.GetPersistentEventCount(); i++) {
            res += EventsToTrigger.GetPersistentMethodName(i);
        }
        return res;
    }```

[kindred tusk]

🤷 I have no idea. I have never used that.

[bold mountain]

i have the method name here, and i'd love to have the parameter too

[kindred tusk]

I'm sure it's possible, but I don't know if there's a method for it

No

Instantiate

Invoke is a method on UnityEvent to call the event

There is also MonoBehaviour Invoke which is something else

[flint sage]

Looking at the source, you can't get the arguments. Need to use reflection if you want

[bold mountain]

the god themselves

[bold mountain]

Never heard of that, i'll go check out the documentation, thanks!

[kindred tusk]

You can also use SerializedObject since UnityEvents are serialized (that uses reflection internally)

But you shouldn't need to do this, since you can sinply see the arguments in the inspector

[bold mountain]

well one thing's for sure: no method has "Arguments" or "parameter" in its name

[flint sage]

Oh is this in Editor?

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/UnityEvent/UnityEvent.cs#L748

Thsi is what you're looking for

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/d76ca0c1f57f36891cb231ed36e80a795d9244d2/Runtime/Export/UnityEvent/UnityEvent.cs#L537

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/d76ca0c1f57f36891cb231ed36e80a795d9244d2/Runtime/Export/UnityEvent/UnityEvent.cs#L397

[bold mountain]

it's private, isn't it
Great lol
I can't just modify nor access this, can i?

[flint sage]

Again, is this editor?

[bold mountain]

oh, yeah sorry

this tostring will only be used in editor and not in runtime

[flint sage]

UnityEventTools has regsitering/deleting

Otherwise use SerializedObject to go through the members

[bold mountain]

i guess i'll use SOs when i can lol
thanks!

[worthy lodge]

How to get a transform.up from a quaternion?
I get the quaternion from a Matrix4x4, so cannot use regular transform commands

[flint sage]

Vector3.up * quaternions

Or hte other way around

idk

[sage radish]

If you have a matrix, you don't need to extract the quaternion to transform directions. You can do:

Vector3 up = matrix.TransformVector(Vector3.up)

[plush lion]

Hey, I have a quick question about configurable joints

I have two instances of the same character, one of which is simply animated through an animator, and another which is a ragdoll. The ragdoll one has bones at the wrong places. His shoulder and clavicule bones, which do not have any rigidbodies or joints, are out of positions and way into the arm itself, while the animated character has all bones at the correct position. My hypothesis as to why, is that my configurable joints, used for the ragdoll, are messing with components that do not have rigidbodies attached. For reference, my hierarchy for the arm looks like this:
spine -> clavicule -> shoulder -> upper arm -> lower arm -> hand
Of these, only spine, upper arm and lower arm have rigidbodies and joints. The joints of the upper arm is attached to the joint of the spine.
My question is, is it possible that my upper arm joints is "pulling" my clavicule and shoulder bones closer to its position because it is attached to their parent ?

[maiden turtle]

Hi, I've made a test shader. The idea is to highlight edges or something like that. I based it off of the default fog template.
However, Unity shows compilation errors: fragment input user(NORMAL0) was not found in vertex shader outputs
And same error with TEXCOORD0. What the heck does that mean?

Shader "Unlit/NewUnlitShader"
{
    Properties
    {
        [NoScaleOffset] _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
        _BaseColor ("Base Color", Color) = (1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
    }
    SubShader
    {
        Tags { "RenderType"="Opaque" }
        LOD 100

        Pass
        {
            CGPROGRAM
// Upgrade NOTE: excluded shader from DX11; has structs without semantics (struct v2f members normal,viewDir)
#pragma exclude_renderers d3d11
            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            #include "UnityCG.cginc"

            struct appdata
            {
                float4 vertex : POSITION;
                float3 normal : NORMAL;
            };

            struct v2f
            {
                float3 normal : TEXCOORD0;
                float3 viewDir : TEXCOORD1;
                float4 vertex : SV_POSITION;
            };

            sampler2D _MainTex;
            float4 _MainTex_ST;
            float4 _BaseColor;

            v2f vert(appdata v)
            {
                v2f o;
                o.viewDir = WorldSpaceViewDir(v.vertex);
                o.vertex = UnityObjectToClipPos(v.vertex);
                o.normal = UnityObjectToWorldNormal(v.normal);
                return o;
            }

            fixed4 frag(v2f i) : SV_Target
            {
                // sample the texture
                fixed4 col = _BaseColor;
                col.a *= dot(i.normal, i.viewDir); 
                return col;
            }
            ENDCG
        }
    }
}

[somber swift]

sure hlsl is coding language but #archived-shaders is a thing

[plush lion]

So I've been experimenting, I tried adding empty objects in my hierarchy to see if they get pulled too, and yes, the moment they get in between spine and upper arm, they get moved. Now the weird thing is, it continues to do this even when I remove during runtime the joints and rigidbodies

I'm quite lost here

[bold mountain]

Hi! i'm working with dotween, and with sequences. Somehow my sequence.Duration() is equal to 0 even though the delta between beginning and ending isn't 0?
The debugged float after begin and end is just Time.time.

[sly grove]

Turn off Collapse

[bold mountain]

i'm making my code easier to explain lol i'm coming

Okay wait, my problem seems to be elsewhere:

sequenceGo.Play();
await Task.Delay(Mathf.CeilToInt(goingTime) * 1000);
Debug.Log(sequenceGo.Duration());
Debug.Log(sequenceCome.Duration());
sequenceCome.Play();```
here, i tried making one character go away and one taking it's place, and even though i have a task.Delay (and goingTime isn't != 0, i debuged.logged it and it evaluates to .75, the value that it's supposed to have. But here's the catch:

the beginning of the tweens of the character going away and the other taking its place, are at the same time. Even though they are clearly split by a Task.Delay().

[warm sinew]

I've asked this in general, but no one has idea

Need advice. I'm creating editor script rn, that modifies a lot of files at ones (scenes too). I'm using https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.StopAssetEditing.html and turned off auto refresh. But importing still continue happens. Any idea how to find what is causing importing?

And yes, first is called StartAssetEditing()

[undone coral]

what is your objective?

what does the editor script do

[undone coral]

why are the hierarchies of the ragdoll and character different?

[plush lion]

Simply put, I use a script to create the ragdoll, and it creates a rather simple ragdoll, where the model has a much more complex rig. I can't make a script that creates a specific ragdoll to my model because the rig might change sometime during dev

[undone coral]

did you try starting with an asset store asset?

it seems like something low ROI to roll yourself

and a lot of pitfalls

there's no such thing as a simple ragdoll

[plush lion]

true

well, I tried a different direction to my whole problem, but I'll keep your advice in mind if I ever come back to it

thanks

[ancient rain]

What I've made is system where it is performant (this is local multiplayer with up to 5 people and I'm trying to make everything as performant as possible) and scalable to add muzzle flash VFX through scriptable objects where you can make a prefab of the VFX and plug in the prefabs particle system to the scriptable object. It will then take that particle system make a copy and then add the copy to a VFX object on the weapon where I can the cache it and call play whenever I see fit. Then I get the error "Setting the random seed while system is still playing is not supported. Please wait until the system has stopped and all particles have expired or call Stop with ParticleSystemStopBehavior.StopEmittingAndClear to completely stop the system." I know why, what, and how its happening but I have no idea how to fix it since the method that is handling it is dealing with generics. I'm sure you cant just tell it to not set this one random variable... here is the code that copies the values... https://paste.mod.gg/fjkwxemvodeq/0 Thank you with any help I can get!

On a side note I really don't want to try object pooling because the system I already have is built for gameobjects... and I don't want a whole separate object pooling system to keep track of.

[warm sinew]

I have a big open world, that are divided by cells of scenes. I'm using gaia biome spawners to generate biomes onto them. Editor script loads scene, spawn GOs, terrain details and textures, saves and unloads

[regal olive]

Hey Guys, I need some help regarding a small Floating/Bobbing Effect I am working on for my game... Here is the issue, I am using Mathf.Sin(); But for some reason, the Y value here isn't Transform.position.y

 [Header("Variables")]
    public float amplitude;
    public float speed;
    private float tempYPosition;
    private Vector3 tempPosition;

    private void Start()
    {
        //Getting the Original Y Position
        tempYPosition = transform.position.y;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        //Ambient Effects
        tempPosition.x = transform.position.x;
        tempPosition.y = tempYPosition * amplitude * Mathf.Sin(speed * Time.time);

        //Setting the Offset Position
        transform.position = tempPosition;
    }

Can anyone help me out here?

[ancient rain]

im not sure if it is your issue, but keep track of the original position of the object and use that

wait

ermmm

u are

im stupid

sorry

[regal olive]

No Problem, I am confused on why it is not using the position value

[ancient rain]

which position

[regal olive]

transform.position.y

[ancient rain]

ah

so the temp position is not setting to the y position?

[regal olive]

Yep, Exactly

[ancient rain]

herrmmph

[regal olive]

Wait, Let me try Logging that and checking to confirm

[ancient rain]

ok

[regal olive]

Well... When I logged it, the value was as it needed to be

But the Motion is still at Y = 0

[ancient rain]

I've had these weird ass issues before... let me think

[regal olive]

Oki

[ancient rain]

can you send a video so i can see what its doing

[regal olive]

Yea... One sec

[ancient rain]

ok

[regal olive]

Give me few Minutes... OBS for some reason is taking time to open up lol

[ancient rain]

in the meantime try transform.localPosition.y

[regal olive]

Ok

[regal olive]

Nope, It still is the same... Floating at Y = 0...

[ancient rain]

im looking trying to think, one sec

[regal olive]

Yea sure...

[ancient rain]

ok.... try putting in transform.position.y into the part with the amplitude and Sin(), its not going to work, but see what happens

instead of temp y position

[regal olive]

Ok

[undone coral]

I think Gaia pro 2 has terrain tiling with additively loaded scenes, did you try it?

[regal olive]

Nope...

[ancient rain]

tell me if it still floats at y = 0

[regal olive]

It still does

wait I think I got an idea...
I will try adding the Y position, rather than multipling

Let me see

[ancient rain]

then something is setting the Y pos maybe?

DISABLE THE SCRIPT AND PLAY

oops caps lock on...

[regal olive]

Holy... It works.... uhhh what

[ancient rain]

with multiplying

[regal olive]

no... I changed it to adding

[ancient rain]

oh

[regal olive]

tempPosition.y = tempYPosition + (amplitude * Mathf.Sin(speed * Time.time));

[ancient rain]

nice

[regal olive]

Thanks Btw... You helped!!!!

[ancient rain]

lol

[regal olive]

Thank You!

[ancient rain]

yw

[warm sinew]

it is very bad. It instantiates a lot of scriptable objects to save them as files. But it means that it is required to use import each terrain + there is only usage for ALL terrains or terrains by one.

And when using on big ammount of scenes - it loads all scenes. And even dedicated server with 128 GB Ram can't handle this

[ripe spade]

hi! does anybody know how to import csv files for unity localization at runtime? or if its even possible

[plain abyss]

Okay, so, odd question, but does anyone know a way to update a mesh's origin without moving the mesh?

Context: I have some procedurally generated meshes. For this example, consider a door. That door is generated as a mesh at position 0,0,0 with vertices at, say, 10,0,0, 11,0,0, 10,2,0 and 11,2,0. So, the origin of the door mesh is at the origin, and if I were to rotate it, the door would "orbit" the origin. What I want is to be able to put the origin at 10,0,0, and have the mesh's vertices at 0,0,0, 1,0,0, 0,2,0 and 1,2,0, so I can rotate it on that "corner" to open and close the door.

[gray pulsar]

What do you mean by "not moving the mesh"? Like it ends up in the same apparent position after the transform?

Can you offset the position of the GO the mesh is attached to and apply the opposite offset to each vertex?

[plain abyss]

Yeah, right now the door is where I want it to be, but the actual GameObject is at 0,0,0. I want the door to remain where it is, but with the origin actually at the position of the mesh. I figure I'll need to do something like that, but I'm not actually sure how I'd programatically get the "true origin" of a mesh.

Although, now that I've asked this question though I've just had a bit of a brainwave. My door meshes are rectangles, and since I just need it to be at one edge for an opening animation, I don't actually care which corner I find. Any of them work. I can just grab the first vertex I find and make that the origin, then the rotation will work fine. I don't care if the door opens in or out.

[gray pulsar]

nice! Glad I could rubber duck for you

[undone coral]

hmm

[undone coral]

if you wanted to improve performance of particles, you would use vfx graph's built in pooling system

[ancient rain]

Hrmmm that actually seems like a pretty good idea, thanks!

[undone coral]

https://jakejameson.medium.com/unity-visual-effect-graph-instancing-using-the-point-cache-property-binder-component-983136d8cdbe

this is the approach today

there is instancing in 2022.2

[grim oxide]

Is there a way to do something like GetComponent but target an interface (i.e. a component with that interface)? 🤔

[unkempt nova]

GetComponent works on interfaces

If the interface is on a mono

So you can just specify an interface, it will grab any components implementing it

[grim oxide]

Oh well there you go

Which does it return if it finds multiple

How does it define 'first'. Script execution order perhaps? 🤔

[unkempt nova]

First one it finds

No idea how it defines it, just starts looking until it finds one afaik

[modern cobalt]

Huh, that would clean up an ugly area of my code then!
I was looking for interfaces in children and had an ugly for loop filter with 'IsAssignableFrom' to get the interfaces out of the monobehaviours.

[grim oxide]

Fortunately I won't have two on one and will never need to know!

[rocky mica]

haha that's nice to know

I just have been hard casting it

it looks ugly but if you know that a reference to an interface is indeed a mono behavior you can do it

[modern cobalt]

I already made the change from monobehaviours->interfaces to just getting the interfaces directly. All tests passed so I'm happy with it

[flint sage]

@plain abyss SerializedObjects aren't the same as reflection, they're still slow but fundamentally different things. They are also the recommended way when interacting with fields on an object during edit time

[plain abyss]

What?

[heady bane]

I tried doing the sls deploy, but I got this

[thin frigate]

had anyone used "frame debug" ?

my render target has only RT 0 and Depth

officer example :

screen will be black if i chose Depth

[flint sage]

That depends on what your render mode is like

Or w/e it's called

[thin frigate]

how to change render mode?

in frame debug?

or project setting?

[flint sage]

4 RTs is deferred rendering and 1 is probably forward rendering

[thin frigate]

so, how to show "depth" in screen?

in rt0

in depth

[flint sage]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-depthTextureMode.html probably set this

[thin frigate]

let me try it

thanks

color is wired..but it's work

thanks a lot

[flint sage]

Depth is just one channel so R is the first channel

So it's red

[thin frigate]

got it

[buoyant nacelle]

Hey guys, I would appreciate advice on how to structure my code. I am creating a game similar to LoL/Dota, and I am currently working on a stats system. My idea is to have a Scriptable Object with all possible stats (health, mana, etc), then have derivatives of this object with concrete static data for each hero. After this, I want to have a generic abstract script, which will contain in-game stats and be attached to the hero. This script will take static data for the hero and add possible modifications. So, it will have something like MaxHealth = BaseMaxHealth + MaxHealth Modification. My question is how to make my generic script to take data from static data for a specific hero?
Also, I am curious what you think about organising it in this way.
To summarise, the structure is one scriptable object with possible data, multiple static data derivatives of these scriptable object for each hero and one generic script, which takes this static data and modifies it

[buoyant vine]

your approach is the wrong

dont think about "static data"

thats the most stupid thing you could do

ive made my card game data which has the same problem like yours
problem : needs to be resettable

i would recommend not to use scriptable objects at all

because it doesnt make sense 😄

lets say you got HP and Attack

this means you got a protected value which can be cahnged

[flint sage]

You can use scriptableobjects but only as a data store, not as runtime data

[buoyant vine]

and a readonly data which just calls the resetable method of the data

namespace Model.Cards.Data
{
    [Serializable]
    public abstract class CoreData<TVal> : IResetable<TVal>
        where TVal : CoreData<TVal>
    {
        [field: SerializeField] public string Name { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public Attribute.Environment EnvironmentType { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public int Cost { get; set; }

        public virtual void ResetTo(TVal data)
        {
            EnvironmentType = data.EnvironmentType;
            Cost = data.Cost;
            Name = data.Name;
        }

        public bool Equals(CoreData<TVal> other)
        {
            return other != null && EnvironmentType.Equals(other.EnvironmentType) && Cost.Equals(other.Cost) &&
                   Name == other.Name;
        }
    }

``` for example thats my data

[flint sage]

Also doesn't make much sense to keep it as scriptableobjects since you will want a server authorative model and your server is unlikely to use scriptableobjects

[buoyant vine]

    [Serializable]
    public class EntityData : CoreData<EntityData>
    {
        [field: SerializeField] public Attribute.Nature NatureType { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public int Attack { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public int Breakthrough { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public int Armor { get; set; }
        [field: SerializeField] public int Health { get; set; }


        public override void ResetTo(EntityData data)
        {
            base.ResetTo(data);
            Attack = data.Attack;
            Breakthrough = data.Breakthrough;
            Armor = data.Armor;
            Health = data.Health;
            NatureType = data.NatureType;
        }

        public bool Equals(EntityData other)
        {
            return base.Equals(other)
                   && Attack == other.Attack
                   && Breakthrough == other.Breakthrough
                   && Armor == other.Armor
                   && Health == other.Health;
        }
    }


``` an extension of the above classs could be like that ( prob thats what you want )

        protected EntityData ChangeableData;
        private EntityData ResetData

and you would call the ressetto

with its private data

in editor you only let the private data be settable

not the protected one == your scriptable objec

also you would have duplicate classes with scriptable objects which is just cancer in maintainability

you can do mine and on server side you check the values additionally which would be most secure i guess

to do a double check

as user would have to modify code and addtionaly break through your server

which is neear impossibility

[buoyant nacelle]

Thanks, guys. I can see now how scriptable objects create problems in this case.

Are you aware of any videos/articles I can watch/read on this? I am relatively new to Unity/C# (came from Warcraft 3).

Or maybe you could give me a simple example of how this could be structured.

@buoyant vine , in your example, in the abstract class CoreData, where data is coming from? How does the EntityData class understand where to take the data from (in this case which card it is)?

Are scriptable objects are just not good for multiplayer game because of the problem you described?

[mighty stone]

Yeah the problem is mainly with your server side, you would not want scriptableobject for the server

[buoyant nacelle]

I see

Thanks

[mighty stone]

My current way of doing it is to just load those configs from json file, since its easier for both server and game designers to do balancing

I can give you some example if you want

[buoyant nacelle]

This would be great

[mighty stone]

Ok, I'm commuting so I will dm you some example later

[buoyant nacelle]

Thank you)

[buoyant vine]

SOLID, clean code, Uncle bob,kent beck , grady booch

KISS , YAGNI , DRY

[buoyant nacelle]

Thanks

Another question I have is actually regarding SOLID. I have a Movement Types class, which takes any input (interface), checks what Movement Type the Unit has and then its extension performs a specific movement type (For example, walking). As a type of movement, I have RightClick. Would it make sense to abstract RightClick because, for example, I might want to right-click to something else rather than movement at some point in time? What would be the way to abstract it? Maybe event?

public class RightClickMoveInput: MonoBehaviour, IMoveInput
    {
        public Vector3 MoveInput {get; private set;}
        public Camera playerCamera;

        private void Update ()
        {
            GetInput();
        }
        
        private void GetInput()
        {
            if (!Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1)) return;
            Ray myRay = playerCamera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit myRayCastHit;

            if (!Physics.Raycast(myRay, out myRayCastHit, Mathf.Infinity)) { return;}
            MoveInput = myRayCastHit.point;
        }
    }

[buoyant vine]

make a keycode field that you swap

if you dont want to move make it null

If(currentkey != null && Input.GetKey(currentKey) => move

and stop that "reduce nestings blabla" if it doesnt simplify your code

it sucks ass in that case as you just make everything the opposite of human thinking

which makes it barely readable

[buoyant nacelle]

thanks

[buoyant nacelle]

: D

[buoyant vine]

RaycastHit myRayCastHit; whats that tho ?

stop that

Physics.Raycast(myRay, out var myRayCastHit, Mathf.Infinity do that instead

            RaycastHit myRayCastHit;

            if (!Physics.Raycast(myRay, out myRayCastHit, Mathf.Infinity)) { return;}
            MoveInput = myRayCastHit.point;

====

if(Physics.Raycast(myRay, out var myRayCastHit, Mathf.Infinity) MoveInput = myRayCastHit.point;

its equivalent and shorter

which is apart from more readable

not against the human way of thinking

[buoyant nacelle]

Makes sense in this casse

but this does not work as well when your if clause is much bigger

or you have multiple nestings

[buoyant vine]

what?

give an example

[buoyant nacelle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qEadSQfSfo

[rapid flume]

how to make the UI buttons work while its hold

[buoyant vine]

function unnecesary () => return a != b && a > b; done or the mentioned one in the vid

no nesting crap

we dont do dat

it has some values but not in your case

but nesting would just be in your case that you dont have the brackets

which doesnt give you any advantage

and in your case its even more unreadable

which is against any SOLID principle you want to follow

[buoyant nacelle]

I agree that in my case it didn't make sense

Thanks for recommendations

[buoyant vine]

the entire "clean code" stuff is about making readable code

that means you can break all principles if in your case it doesnt fit
thats an important thing you need to keep in your mind

in most cases it fits

[weary dagger]

Hey folks, I'm having an issue with Unity Netcode. Trying to establish my first connectivty between Host and Client. Well, I have a NetworkObject which is working fine on the Host. But on the Client it doesn't have that checkmark checked "Is Client" therefore any client code is working.. any ideas?

[hazy hearth]

Why all my entities that use this code are all sychrinized?

    void Start()
    {
       
        screenBounds = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, Screen.height));
        startTime = Time.time;
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        startTime += Time.fixedDeltaTime;
        transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x - step, Mathf.Sin(startTime) * screenBounds.y / 2);
    }

I mean I use Time.time and I spawn them in different times

But they follow the same sychonized rhythm

[buoyant vine]

lets say time.time is on 0.04

then next fixedupdate proc would be 0.05

where you add it

to 0.09

but next proc of fixed is 0.10

so anything that spawns in between 0.0000001 and 0.4999999999 is synchronized

as example

[hazy hearth]

so largest time between spawns fixes it

[buoyant vine]

idk you dont use anywhere the start time

[hazy hearth]

Because only now that i test it they spawn so frequently

[devout hare]

Time.time is the time since the game started so regardless of when you spawn they'll all end up with the same startTime value

[hazy hearth]

I do in mathf.Sin

[buoyant vine]

ah nvm

[hazy hearth]

ohhhh

[devout hare]

what you probably want is startTime = 0 instead in Start

[hazy hearth]

So what time should I keep

alright

[buoyant vine]

which would lead again to the problem i mentioned i guess

[devout hare]

Or if you want them to start in different positions, startTime = Random.value * Mathf.PI

[hazy hearth]

Works super fine 😄

Thank you

Thank you both

[lavish isle]

script1 https://www.codepile.net/pile/zJNVbQJr
script2 https://www.codepile.net/pile/bZ6pvNBj
how would i go about attaching script1 to the objects that script2 creates automatically

[buoyant vine]

instantiate has a return value

[hazy hearth]

Also, Is fixed delta time better than delta time in my case?
Casue Im going to use it on a phone and I want it to be exactly the same

[buoyant vine]

return that

when script 2 calls them

and let script 2 store them in whatever

[devout hare]

There's no physics simulations involved so this should be in Update

[hazy hearth]

But as I understand it. If Update() is faster on a faster machines

So When I put it on my phone it will count way faster

Slower*

[buoyant vine]

thats unimportant, as you negate the speed with the time

you will be with 1 fps as fast as with 10000 fps if you negate the fps with the deltatime in update

[hazy hearth]

fixeddeltatime or deltatime?

[buoyant vine]

in update you need deltatime ( wher your code should be anyway as mentioned allready )

Time.deltaTime returns the amount of time in seconds that elapsed since the last frame completed. This value varies depending on the frames per second (FPS) rate at which your game or app is running.

thats deltatime

and fixeddeltatime is that

Time.fixedDeltaTime controls the interval of Unity’s fixed timestep loop (used for physics, and if you want to write deterministic time-based code).

[hazy hearth]

This is my code right now

    void Start()
    {
       
        screenBounds = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Screen.width, Screen.height));
        time = Random.value * Mathf.PI;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        time += Time.deltaTime;
        transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x - step * Time.deltaTime, Mathf.Sin(time) * screenBounds.y / 2);
    }

It works. Will it work exaclty the same with a phone?

[buoyant vine]

dont see why

it should not behave same

you should get some simulation test devices

you can install them on your pc

[hazy hearth]

I do test it every time I make something new

[buoyant vine]

these are ful emulated phones

where your pc simulates that exact processor and OS

very fancy stuff

[hazy hearth]

But when I was using StateMachineBehaviors for an animated boss
whenever I used deltaTime in OnStateUpdate() it was way faster in the editor that in the simulation. So I used FixedDeltatime and I was saved

[slow sparrow]

Is there a callback which I can use to have code run every time an instance of a scriptableobject is created via CreateAssetMenu?

or alternately if i write a parameterless constructor will that be called?

[devout hare]

You did something wrong then

[slow sparrow]

^

fixeddeltatime shouldn't be used outside of fixedupdate usually

[somber swift]

And deltaTime should be used in fixedUpdate 😂

[meager kite]

How would i go about having my camera follow a curve? Currently my camera when i scroll just moves up and down depending on the direction scrolled. How would i make it move along a curve, where the higher up from the ground it is, the quicker it moves down, and the closer it is to the ground, the more it moves forward

Sorta like this

[mighty stone]

Are you trying to achieve the third person camera zoom effect?

[remote drift]

I have an array of bytes, serialized chunk (array) of structs in ECS
How can I get a pointer to this byte array?

I have a pointer to other chunk, to which I need copy my bytes

[meager kite]

Yeah sorta i guess, but the camera is independent of any character

[unkempt nova]

Think you want a dolly path for that (Cinemachine) https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.cinemachine@2.3/manual/CinemachineDolly.html

[somber swift]

you can take a look at different ease functions to do certain "shapes": https://easings.net/

[meager kite]

Thanks for the readings guys, ill check em out

[wispy bronze]

Could somebody help me out with a forum I posted? It's about gamecenter not working in my unity project.

[urban hull]

hello everyone

i have seen some people opening namespaces to show implementation of api classes like System.Collections.Generic to show implementation for List<T>

and I want to check UnityEngine to check the implementation for the Input class

do anybody knows how can I do that?

[buoyant vine]

press ctrl B when you are over Input class

then you should jump to implementatin

[urban hull]

im using the atom editor so ctrl b opens the currently open scripts search

how this command is called on visual studio?

[buoyant vine]

wait

"Go to Implementation"

in navigation

in rider

[urban hull]

ok, thanks a lot @buoyant vine

[remote drift]

Any idea what type components can possibly be in this scope?
(IntPtr)(components + (i * savedType.elementSize)) , where i and elementSize are ints.

Declaration of components looks like this:
var components = this.Deserializer.ReadBuffer<byte>(headerChunk.Length * header.ElementSize);
But wtf is inside Deserializer is unknown.
a bit of context: this is serialized into byte array NativeArray of unmanaged structs

[wary timber]

how i can give every player one script?

to avoid host move every client

[sly grove]

usually you just have code on the script like if (isLocalPlayer) ...

[wary timber]

um how i can do this

[broken folio]

Class called CoinPickUp:

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other) {
        if (other.gameObject.tag == "Duck") {

            CoinScore.coinAmount += 1;
            Destroy (gameObject);
        }
    }

Class called RandomSpawner:

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) SpawnObjectAtRandom();
    }

so in randomspawner i want it to run that "SpawnObjectAtRandom" when that item is destroyed in coin pickup.... how do i change the code in RandomSpawner to do that

[sly grove]

#💻┃code-beginner

[broken folio]

:O dam... straight up like that

[sly grove]

pretty much every networking framework has a way to do this

[wary timber]

hm

you know where I can find way to do this?

[sly grove]

in the documentation/examples for your network framework

[wary timber]

are you have link>? netcode

[slow crypt]

Hi everyone, semeone have idea how to fix this ? I am on the latest version....

I tried to use INetworkSerializeByMemcpy
but netcode takes more than FixedString32Bytes

I saw that someone reported the bug but the case is closed https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects/issues/1396

if i use a string is not possible to create a NetworkList

[buoyant vine]

are you serious on the first picture? post it properly

[slow crypt]

sorry I take another

[buoyant vine]

no

#854851968446365696

dont post screenshots

post the error properly and the code properly

[slow crypt]

public struct LobbyPlayerState : INetworkSerializable, IEquatable<LobbyPlayerState>
{
    public ulong ClientId;
    public FixedString32Bytes PlayerName;
    public bool IsReady;

    public LobbyPlayerState(ulong clientId, FixedString32Bytes playerName, bool isReady)
    {
        ClientId = clientId;
        PlayerName = playerName;
        IsReady = isReady;
    }

    public void NetworkSerialize<T>(BufferSerializer<T> serializer) where T : IReaderWriter
    {
        serializer.SerializeValue(ref ClientId);
        serializer.SerializeValue(ref PlayerName);
        serializer.SerializeValue(ref IsReady);
    }

    public bool Equals(LobbyPlayerState other)
    {
        return ClientId == other.ClientId &&
            PlayerName.Equals(other.PlayerName) &&
            IsReady == other.IsReady;
    }
}

error CS0315: The type 'Unity.Collections.FixedString32Bytes' cannot be used as type parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'BufferSerializer<T>.SerializeValue<T>(ref T, FastBufferWriter.ForPrimitives)'. There is no boxing conversion from 'Unity.Collections.FixedString32Bytes' to 'System.IComparable'.

excuse me here is the code, I'm trying to make a NetworkList to access the names of the players to place on a UI

[undone coral]

why are you you using FixedString32Bytes

[buoyant vine]

FixedString32Bytes doesnt implement the interface IComparable

[undone coral]

use a string

why is there a lobby state? if you are implementing this you are working too low level

[slow crypt]

if I use string the NetworkList say me ``` The type 'LobbyPlayerState' must be a non-nullable value type, along with all fields at any level of nesting, in order to use it as parameter 'T' in the generic type or method 'NetworkList<T>'

[undone coral]

i mean i don't know that much about unity's new multiplayer package, but if it asking you to do this you should not use it

[undone coral]

i think this package is not ready for prime time

you really should not be using it to make your game

stop while you are ahead

[buoyant vine]

isnt netcode the old mlapi ?

[undone coral]

based on what the user is doing the code is new

[buoyant vine]

kay

[undone coral]

but it's hard to tell. all of this stuff does not work

[buoyant vine]

if you want anyway a lobby system why do you not use photon which PRIMARILY focused on lobby games

[slow crypt]

so it's not good to use the netcode for GameObjects? it better that I use Photon instead?

[undone coral]

in my opinion if you're getting bogged down by an arcane bug like this

and your game is otherwise pretty standard

you should use photon so you can move on with life

[buoyant vine]

i dont even know how you would setup a entire multiplayer game when you are only allowed to use non nullable objects

[slow crypt]

the game will be a battle royal style where I would like to manage several clients in a server and have waiting people

[undone coral]

this is a long journey.

[buoyant vine]

use photon

[buoyant nacelle]

I understand this

[undone coral]

whenever these games are written in a statically typed language like C#, you wind up with a dictionary of enums -> values

so that you can reference the fields dynamically but without reflection

[slow crypt]

thanks so much!!!

[undone coral]

you would separate BASE_MAX_HITPOINTS, MAX_HITPOINTS, etc. etc.

[undone coral]

waiting girls

[buoyant nacelle]

fish-networking would be fine as well

[buoyant vine]

never heard of that

[slow crypt]

aahhh google translate sorry

[buoyant vine]

yeye "google translate"

[buoyant nacelle]

what do you mean by reflection?

[undone coral]

for example you might have a piece of code that reads

[buoyant vine]

reflection is used to get deep into stuff like making a class loader / set variables even when they are private

should not be used in buisness logic