archived-code-advanced

[sonic vessel]

Colors are just Vector4 values

[old agate]

Thank you!

[somber swift]

Color32 is 4 byte values in range 0-255 tho

[pure dock]

Easier to use Color32 bc it hasbyte as the type for r, g, b. You can add 1 to it since it's range is from 0-255 . . .

[old agate]

making progress. i got the rgb to count by 1 but problem is actual solid color of camera renders automatically to 255. doesnt count same way text ui is rendering the count for rgb values

this is my code

[long ivy]

33-36 and 39 are wrong. Main issue is creating a Color instead of a Color32. Color takes floats 0-1. Why not assign color directly to cam.backgroundColor? They're implicitly convertable

[old agate]

got it working!!

thank you so much @long ivy

[wary zephyr]

And also the problem might have been that he has been adding to color variable that's why the color had been changing, right?

[austere jewel]

The problem was creating a 0->1 colour using 0->255 values on line 39

[broken socket]

Maybe that helps https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/760/azure-app-service-application-logs-to-stdout.html

[frozen peak]

i have multiple 2d triggers as seperate child objects on a parent object. Now the problem is that they wont detect collisions unless either one of the colliding gameobjects, has moved. I have a player and an enemy and the enemy has a player detection collider for moving towards the player and one for detecting the player close by in order to attack. They detect collisions once and wont until the player gameobject moves again. what is the issue here

[idle stag]

so in python there's this method called repr which gives you a string with explicit escape codes & surrounded by quotes to see trailing whitespace:

In [3]: x = '\t '

In [4]: repr(x)
Out[4]: "'\\t '"
```is there any equivalent in c#?

[gray pulsar]

Check your rigidbody sleep settings. I've seen others have this problem when the rb is going to sleep unreasonably fast

[umbral scaffold]

Hello, could someone help me understand how to complete this? It seems simple but I am having trouble understanding the part about overlaying two cameras on each other towards the bottom, let me know, thank you.

https://www.exceptionlife.com/game-development/question/603/how-to-hide-player-when-in-shadow-using-unity-2d-light-system

[ionic quartz]

Hey guys, suppose I have a big 2D array as attached. What are some more optimised algorithms I can use to find the surrounding 1's around each 0; diagonals included? And when that edge has been generated, the same: finding the surrounding 1's around them

I.e:

[sonic widget]

So I am working on a script to cut objects, It worked fine but the program doesnt handle high poly meshes well. So i started to try parallel jobs with burst.
Now the problem is that each time I add a triangle or vertex I must check if they already exist in the upper or lower half array. This is so that i dont add it and I find its corresponding index for the index list.
Now each thread is independent of the other, and will be adding to their own lists.
How on earth do I now make a mesh whilst being unable to have each thread read and effect the same data

[frozen peak]

Its set to start asleep

should i change it to always awakw

[somber swift]

So similiar to bucket tool on drawing programs? If thats the case, take a look at flood fill algorithm, theres multiple more and less optimized variations of it (theres even wikipedia page about flood fill)

[ionic quartz]

It's like the inverse of a bucket tool. Like if I have a connected group of zeros, I'd like to have a ring of say "2s" around them, then a ring of "3s" around the "2s". Only replacing the 1s each time. However, I also dont know where the groups are because I'm planning to generate them using types of noise algorithms. My current strongest algorithm is to loop through the array and check the 1s to see if they are adjacent to a zero and if so convert them to a 2 for the first iteration

[idle stag]

so in python there's this method called repr which gives you a string with explicit escape codes & surrounded by quotes to see trailing whitespace:

In [3]: x = '\t '

In [4]: repr(x)
Out[4]: "'\\t '"
```is there any equivalent in c#?

[sly grove]

Nope, python has all kinds of crazy stuff.

[idle stag]

lol f

[austere jewel]

Google https://stackoverflow.com/a/14087738

[sly grove]

Well hey maybe there is some obscure method after all!

[idle stag]

lol

i was looking for a builtin one but this will do

[sly grove]

Python probably has a built-in function for folding your laundry.

[idle stag]

import laundry

[dire remnant]

anyone here know how to use configurable joints? im losing my mind a bit

[long raven]

anybody in this chat know how to setup isometric tilemaps in unity?

other chats didnt respond

[gray pulsar]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Tilemap-Isometric-CreateIso.html

[long raven]

i have this open but unfortunately it doesnt fix the issue i have

[gray pulsar]

it looks like you're getting help in beginner. Don't split the conversation

[long raven]

which is that the grid never seems to fit my sprites no matter how much i tweak

[gray pulsar]

sorry I responded here

[long raven]

the person in beginner didnt know much about iso

ima stick to beginner

[inner juniper]

I am trying to cancel a mousedown event, while the mouse button is still pressed down. Can someone guide me into accomplishing this please?

[unkempt nova]

Not entirely sure what you mean, but there's CancelInvoke to cancel invocation of an event

[tight cypress]

Anyone know how I can use unity remote 5 I have iphone 13

[unkempt nova]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7Q0DfUOawA

[grave bear]

Look into QuadTrees to improve the performance of your edge-detection algorithm. Also, try to convert it to Burst-compileable code for even more significant performance increases.

[remote drift]

Any idea about source generators?
Are they supposed to be outside of Editor folder?

I mean exactly dll and assembly def of generator code

[ionic quartz]

Thank you I'll take a look in a bit 😊

[distant pivot]

Hello !
What's the correct way of finding an UI element and enable it ?
I thought I could do it like this but it doesn't work :

    public void OnAwake()
    {
        planetInfos = transform.root.Find("MainCanvas/PlanetInfosCanvas").GetComponent<Canvas>();
        planetInfos.enabled = false;
    }

    public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        planetLight.enabled = true;
    }

[compact ingot]

this problem is usually called "edge detection" and whatever you do with spatial lookup, you probably want to use a data-structure optimized for the lookups you perform most often, most aim at nearest neighbor lookup. for your problem you need an edge walk, that would not need an optimized structure though since it a grid and the neighbors you need to check are in predictable locations.

[fallow dune]

Hey! I need to get the surface Normal direction of a raycast Hit. Can anyone please point me in the right direction ?

[snow harness]

Hey guys, can someone help me with a webgl thing?

When you have a webgl build on your website's server, does it automatically keep creating the a webgl folder? Because we don't need the 'webgl' folder, we put the build in another folder. But for some reason the webgl folder keeps coming back on our server

causing us to get a 403 error

[devout hare]

#🌐┃web

[austere jewel]

What, this? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit-normal.html

[fallow dune]

Literally hit.normal

for real?

ahahah okay

Thanks !

[alpine sinew]

Are you looking for SetActive(bool) ?

[distant pivot]

No, my planetInfos is null, though my objects look like this :

The script I'm writing is attached to the planetMesh

[alpine sinew]

Any reason you can't just cache the reference to the planetInfos? either set planetInfos public or [SerializeField]?

[distant pivot]

Because i'm attaching this script to each planet, and i didn't want to set everytime the ui to my objects

but if its the best way to do this i'll do it that way

[alpine sinew]

Well, OK - there's many ways to skin a cat, but I definitely would try to avoid the way you have now. Say in the future you cahnge "PlanetInfosCanvas" to "PlanetInfoCanvas". Now suddenly the code breaks. Rather, is there some sort of special script on that InfoCanvas which is a singleton and you can search for? I.e. FindComponent<PlanetInfoCanvasScript>() ? That will search the entire hierarchy and return the first one it finds. If you know there will only ever be 1, then that's a good fix

[distant pivot]

Yeah i guess that's my best solution, attach a script (I will still need to do that after to close my window for example) to the canvas, so I can retrieve the class instead of the object

if I understood you correctly

(I'm coming from a ☕ world, so this is a bit different to me 😉 )

[alpine sinew]

it's more like you're using the script as a tag, and saying "find me the component with this script attached to it"

[distant pivot]

Still, the script itself will be useful

[alpine sinew]

so it wouldn't work if there are ever two of the PlanetInfosCanvas in existance

but if you know there will only ever be 1 instanciated at a time, you're good

[distant pivot]

Yeah, there will be one window, with dynamic data in it

Thanks for the advice 🙂

[alpine sinew]

np

[buoyant vine]

anyone knows why rider unit test in play mode takes 2 minutes?

i literally have only ```
[UnityTest]
public IEnumerator UpAndDownSelection()
{
Assert.AreEqual(true,true);

    yield return null;
}```

[regal olive]

Anyone know how to determine forward in a 2D Isometric game?

[sly grove]

that's all up to you and how your sprites are laid out

[regal olive]

im using an enum to set what direction im walking - ie UpRight / UpLeft etc. Then i just switch on that enum, and if UpRight, i draw a line from my position to my position +1 x and y

    {
        UpRight,
        UpLeft,
        DownRight,
        DownLeft
    }

    void OnDrawGizmosSelected()
    {
        Vector3 _target = new Vector3();
        switch (PlayerFacingDir)
        {
            case PlayerFaceing.UpRight:
                _target = new Vector3(transform.position.x + 1, transform.position.y +1, transform.position.z + 0);
                break;
            case PlayerFaceing.UpLeft:
                _target = new Vector3(transform.position.x - 1, transform.position.y + 1, transform.position.z + 0);

                break;
            case PlayerFaceing.DownRight:
                _target = new Vector3(transform.position.x + 1, transform.position.y - 1, transform.position.z + 0);

                break;
            case PlayerFaceing.DownLeft:
                _target = new Vector3(transform.position.x - 1, transform.position.y - 1, transform.position.z + 0);

                break;
            default:
                break;
        }
        Vector3 targetDir = _target - transform.position;
        Gizmos.color = Color.blue;
        Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, targetDir);




    }```

This works great

but the angles do not line up with the tile grid

[buoyant vine]

to have isometric 2d

you need an angle

Gizmos.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.TransformDiretion);

try that

[sly grove]

Aren't isometric angles like 30 degrees above and below horizontal?

you're doing 45 degree angles

[regal olive]

hm yes, that still needs a vector3, which is why i tried the other thing, i could not get that to work

[alpine sinew]

like PraetorBlue said. You want 30 degree angles. Not 45 degree angles.

[regal olive]

no shit

[alpine sinew]

I'm confused what you're asking then?

[regal olive]

well im having trouble setting the angle from a float, because every method i have tried so far is requiring a vector3. that is why i tried the above code, which obviously did not line up xD

[buoyant vine]

vector2 is also a vector3

whats your exact trouble

Quaternion.EulerAngles(0,30,0); ?

[alpine sinew]

case PlayerFaceing.UpRight:
  _target = new Vector3(transform.position.x + Mathf.Sqrt(3), transform.position.y +1, transform.position.z + 0);
  break;

get familiar with the unit circle:
https://www.mometrix.com/academy/unit-circles-and-standard-position/

[buoyant vine]

or it has to be a vector3 .. where you got the values anyway

[sly grove]

Vector3 upright = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -30) * Vector3.right;
Vector3 upleft = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 30) * Vector3.left;
Vector3 downleft = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -30) * Vector3.left;
Vector3 downright = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 30) * Vector3.right;```

those can directly be used as targetDir

[buoyant vine]

why z

[sly grove]

the rotations are around the z axis

[buoyant vine]

oh ye

i remember that my brain sucks at rotating around axises

[sly grove]

but yes trig is also an option here

[regal olive]

@sly grove that was close to perfect

they were switched around, and iso is 26.565f

but perfect

thanks

[buoyant vine]

why didnt you search the value in the first place lol

[regal olive]

i never said anything about angles xD the way i did it was to try and make it fit into a tilemap grid system. where 0,0 and 0,1 would be next to eachother - but yeah would have worked in topdown but not iso 🙂

[buoyant vine]

to simplyfy stuff

rotate the camera

[regal olive]

in 2d?

[alpine sinew]

everything in unity is 3d, so yeah you can rotate the camera. even though its a "2d project", it's actually 3d but the camera is locked in just a way to make it look 2d.

[buoyant vine]

2d just means you have everything in z position at 0

nothing else

vector2 is just a vector3 with z value 0

[regal olive]

but you can use z as layer?

[buoyant vine]

yes

as its still 3d

after all

its just per "default" 0 at z

just put a 10 in your camera z

aint on the same position

[alpine sinew]

and if you're not comfortable with quaternions but you still want to do isometric instead of top-down, look at my solution i posted and get to understand the Unit Circle, then you can still do a tile-based isometric grid. #archived-code-advanced message

[regal olive]

im watching it, thanks m8

[plucky kestrel]

So I have this function that checks my entire tilemap and sees if a stalactite has ground or another stalactite above it and if not it removes it but instead it just removes the entire pillar. Here is the function:

    public void DestroyStalactites()
    {
        //Checks all tiles for stalactites
        for(int x = -mapWidth; x < mapWidth; x++)
        {
            for(int y = -mapHeight; y < groundLevel; y++)
            {
                Vector3Int cellPos = new Vector3Int(x, y, 0);
                if(stalactites.GetTile(cellPos))
                {
                    Vector3Int abovePos = cellPos + Vector3Int.up;
                    //If a stalactite doesn't have ground or stalactite above it, remove it
                    if(!ground.GetTile(abovePos) && !stalactites.GetTile(abovePos))
                    {
                        stalactites.SetTile(cellPos, null);
                    }

                }
            }
        }

    }

[alpine sinew]

Throw a couple debug outputs in there and track down which line is mis-behaving

[plucky kestrel]

It's not really misbehaving I think my logic is flawed

I'll send some context

First image is before, second is after I break one block, third is after I break a second block

[alpine sinew]

Well, i mean, technically it would probably work if you just reverse the direction in which you check the tiles. Since you're progressively deleting the tiles as you go, change your y-forloop the following:
for(int y = groundLevel - 1 ; y >= -mapHeight; y--)

[sly grove]

(which I mentioned way above the first time this question was asked)

[alpine sinew]

@plucky kestrel you're best off doing that, for now. And maybe sticking to #archived-code-general for questions like "hows this logic look"

[plucky kestrel]

Which I didn't know I was supposed to do because you didn't elaborate :/

[plucky kestrel]

Alright mb, thank you

[sly grove]

you didn't ask

[sly grove]

I don't know where that is or if I was tagged or whatever

[plucky kestrel]

Ok sry didn't tag you

[plucky kestrel]

Thank you, it worked.

[urban warren]

So like, does anyone have any idea what the heck Subsystem is/does?
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SubsystemsImplementation.SubsystemWithProvider.html

[sly grove]

I think it's some framework that the AR/XR/VR stuff is built on

[urban warren]

(there is only 2 pages of google results, that's when you know it is not used much...)

[urban warren]

That seems to be the only thing that uses it. But looking at the code, idk why it was even created or how it should be used.

[sly grove]

why go poking around weird caves ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[urban warren]

Because who knows what treasure you might find!

So after poking around some more.... I have decided that there seems to be no real reason for to exist as even the XR stuff doesn't seem to really have much code that really needs it....

[obtuse flume]

    {
        Weapon, Armor, Tower, Relic
    }

    public enum ItemRarity
    {
        Common, Uncommon, Rare, Unique
    }

    [Serializable]
    public class Item
    {
        public Sprite uiSprite;
        public string itemName;
        public ItemType itemType;
        public ItemRarity itemRarity;
    }
    
    [Serializable]
    public class SpawnableItem : Item
    {
        public GameObject prefab;
    }

    [Serializable]
    public class EquippableItem : Item
    {
        public StatBonus[] statBonuses;
    }

    [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "ItemData", menuName = "ItemData")]
    public class EquippableItemData : ScriptableObject
    {
        public EquippableItem equippableItem;
    }
    
    [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "ItemData", menuName = "ItemData")]
    public class SpawnableItemData : ScriptableObject
    {
        public SpawnableItem spawnableItem;
    }

I ran into issues with Unity not allowing me to easily instantiate a ScriptableObject during runtime. I need some items to be randomly generated at runtime, and others to have preset data. This is the solution I came up with. Is there any way to skip having essentially duplicates of every item class, or is this a good way to do it too?

[urban warren]

What "issues" did you run in to?

[hoary pendant]

Why are you instantiating scriptable objects?

[urban warren]

They said because they want to have randomly generated items at runtime.

[sly grove]

I think your model is a little bit backwards

[sly grove]

I'd do something like this:

class ItemData : ScriptableObject {
    public GameObject prefab; // can be null
    public Sprite uiSprite; // can be null
    public string itemName;
    public ItemType itemType;
    public ItemRarity itemRarity;
}

class EquippableItem {
    ItemData baseData;
    StatBonus[] bonuses;
}

class SpawnableItem {
    ItemData itemData;
}```

[urban warren]

That wouldn't work at all though. What if you want to set bonuses of EquippableItem in the editor?

[sly grove]

I don't think you ever would.

I'm imagining this is like a diablo item. There's some base stats then randomly generated bonuses

It's not an edit-time thing

[urban warren]

Yeah, I guess it really depends on the type of game/use-case for it.

[obtuse flume]

I was basing it off of path of exile, so basically diablo. Some items would have non-random bonuses and would drop from specific places.

I could see that model working without needing seperate types for items

ItemType could take over as my way of checking what type an item is, and then I just make:

class Item {
  ItemData itemData;
}

[obtuse flume]

How would I make a custom editor to edit the values nested inside of Item?

This throws a null error:

public override void OnInspectorGUI()
        {
            var so = serializedObject.FindProperty("item").serializedObject;
            Debug.Log(so.FindProperty("itemName").stringValue);
        }

[austere jewel]

A question for #↕️┃editor-extensions extensions, where I have a guide to serialised object pinned (at the bottom)
https://help.vertx.xyz/programming/editor-issues/serialisation/serializedobject-how-to#objects

[inner juniper]

I have a bug where, if a player is holding down the left mouse button over a tile gameobject (with a onmousedrag implemented that creates a highlighted spot), while a force play (a method in another script, that forces the player to play a random tile and also creates a highlighted spot) has started, a random tile is selected and moved to the wrong highlighted spot. That wrong highlighted spot should not be there, but because of the holding down of the left mousebutton on the first tile, it is creating a highlighted spot that, when the force move method is called, is recognizing both that tile's highlighted spot and the highlighted spot created by itself, causing the forced tile to move to a highlighted spot that should not be there if randomly selected. I've tried removing all spots before calling the the force move method... Setting a flag on the tile being held down, so that its onmousedrag doesnt call while the force move is called, but to no avail. I am stumped at this point, as it has been a couple of days that I've been trying to fix this bug. Can anyone give any pointers as to how I can resolve this please?

[obsidian glade]

highlighting something should probably be visual and not actually effect game logic - alternatively, reset the relevant objects and lock player input so that the forced sequence can't be disturbed

[inner juniper]

Thank you for responding. What would locking player input look like?

[woven kettle]

hey, I'm trying to create a hole into a box on run time , the box has a collider, I don't just want to make a shader mesh gap, I want also to somehow make the collider gap at the exact same region

you can think of it as a breakable wall that wont just allow you to see what is behind it, it would also allow you to walk through it

is it possible to disable collider at certain areas of the wall/cube?

[dusky carbon]

maybe? when I do stuff like this (which isn't often), I use layer trickery like in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhxs12ZfSQ

though I'm sure someone has done other ways like actually replacing/modifying a mesh collider's mesh which would be much more difficult

[woven kettle]

that looks nice, but it's definitly not optimized for android devices, i need to make multiple holes in many walls/cubes

I'm stuck with URP I think, I could used a shader mask to cut the whole, but what about the collider ?

[dusky carbon]

also explained in the video. (after 14:30)

[woven kettle]

you are right , that would probably do the trick! , thanks so much
the only thing I would need to modify is that he buit his hole as for not to render anything behind it, I actually need to rennder everything behind it except the wall itself.

[placid robin]

Is there a way to subscribe to the EventSystem to be notified about clicks on the Canvas without having the events be consumed by buttons?

[obsidian glade]

really depends on your current input architecture - guard flags on individual object event handlers, disable input actions, disable canvas raycaster, etc

from the sound of it you're just using standard input & EventSystem - simplest but rather specific method would be to put a guard flag in the handlers, if (playerInteractionBlocked) return; etc

[dusky olive]

Going off the top of my head here but would adding a listener to EventSystem.OnMouseUp suffice? Unsure if this captures the GameObject the event is happening on though

[spring flame]

Does anyone know good resources on creating unit formations and group orders for RTS games?

[alpine adder]

has anyone seen this error its when i archive in xcode.

Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
"OBJC_CLASS$_PHPickerViewController", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in NativeGallery.o
"OBJC_CLASS$_PHPickerFilter", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in NativeGallery.o
"OBJC_CLASS$_PHPickerConfiguration", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in NativeGallery.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

[patent sphinx]

Hello. Is there a way to debug in Unity through VS Code?

The only VS Code debugger extension is marked as deprecated.

[spring flame]

https://youtu.be/aorB7hzIOKM

[full field]

I've got an issue with my multiplayer game i'm working on. My cinemachine camera seems to follow the wrong character and I would need to do an: if (view.IsMine) but there is nowhere to put that code for it so I need help.

[buoyant nacelle]

I am making a projectile system. Is it more efficient to have one update method within the system, which will iterate through all projectiles and make them move or have one update method per projectile?

[meager kite]

Use community

[alpine adder]

has anyone here used ios goodies? I can't seem to build in xcode fo rit

[tidal compass]

Hi I’m looking for a game dev

[sly grove]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[dapper pumice]

Hello dear friends i have a question that is a little bit complicated:
how do i apply rotation to a vector3
i have two vector3 points (no gameobjects, no transform) and i am trying to apply a rotation according to the direction but i can not wrap my head around it somewhow. This rotation can also be a rotation of 90 degrees according to the direction:

Vector3 direction = b - a;
Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction, Vector3.up);

so what i want is the blue position

[stiff sigil]

You have a vector that represents a direction and want another vector that is 90 degrees to it? can't you just use cross product?

[dapper pumice]

i don´t know would it work? how would you apply that

[stiff sigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbOisq1MJU

there is also https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.RotateTowards.html

[sly grove]

You need to describe the rotation you want

but you can rotate any vector using:

Quaternion someRotation = whatever;
Vector3 direction = whatever;
Vector3 rotatedDirection = someRotation * direction;```

[dapper pumice]

tried that i think let me see again

[sly grove]

it works

If it didn't work, there's something wrong about how you did it

[dapper pumice]

that might be because i wanted some kind of distance

means a small offset to the right

[sly grove]

wdym by distance

are we talking about rotations or positional offsets here?

[dapper pumice]

let me draw a picture

[sly grove]

Can you explain the picture?

I get you have points A and B, and a direction vector B - A.

What is the blue arrow and the blue point?

[dapper pumice]

i want a new vector3(blue dot) exactly 90 degrees from vevtor a with a distance

[sly grove]

This isn't enough information for that

There are infinitely many vectors 90 degrees from the B - A vector

[dapper pumice]

from vector a exatcly

[sly grove]

?

Imagine rotating that blue point around the A->B axis

[dapper pumice]

like on the right side from A

[sly grove]

"like on the right side" isn't precise enough for code

you need some other vector as a plane normal or something

or a third point on the plane to define the plane

Maybe one of the world directions like Vector3.up or Vector3.right, or Vector3.forward?

[dapper pumice]

i ll try a few things and let you know. i cant use vector3.right because direction can change

[sly grove]

Maybe if you back up and explain the problem you're trying to solve it would help

[dapper pumice]

allright

[dapper pumice]

i forgot to normalize the direction it is fixed, thanks everyone

        Vector3 direction = (b - a).normalized;
        Vector3 desiredVec = a + Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0) * direction * distance;

[sly grove]

your middle two lines of code don't do anything

Vector3 direction = (b - a).normalized;
Vector3 desiredVec = a + Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0) * direction * distance;``` will do

[dapper pumice]

100%

i mixed up a few things there

thanks for your time again. gn

[finite prawn]

Does anyone know if UnityWebRequest just straight up doesn't work for getting local files on linux? I'm using stuff like UnityWebRequestTexture.GetTexture to load textures from the local disc, and it works perfectly fine on Windows, but on Linux it always fails to go through with UnityWebRequest.Result.ConnectionError along with the error message Cannot connect to destination host. I double checked the path with someone on native linux, and it's as it should be

[sly grove]

what path did you use?

[obtuse flume]

I need opinions on the solution I came up for custom item effects. These effects would be too unique from item to item to solve with a bunch of editor fields. The solution I came up with is string-based, with a class called ItemEffectManager.cs being in charge of executing necessary code when each effect is added or removed.

In ItemEffectManager.cs:

        public static void OnEffectsAdded(string[] effectNames) //Called when an item is inserted into the inventory
        {
            if (effectNames == null) return;
            
            foreach (var s in effectNames)
            {
                switch (s)
                {
                    case "crystalRegenReplace":
                        Crystal.CrystalRegen = () => 1f + PlayerStats.GetStatBonus(Stat.HpRegen);
                        Player.Instance.HpRegen = () => 0;
                            break;
                    case "crystalDamageReplace":
                        break;
                }
            }
        }

[fast pagoda]

use scriptableobject for effects instead of strings

[obtuse flume]

What data would the scriptable objects carry?

OnAdd and OnRemove methods?

[fast pagoda]

it would look something like this

public abstract class Effect : ScriptableObject
{
    void Execute(Context context);
}

[CreateAssetMenu]
public class HealEffect : Effect
{
    public float healAmount;

    public override void Execute(Context context)
    {
        context.target.health += healAmount;
    }
}

[primal ivy]

dev debate... what's more readable, the green or the red? :p

[fast pagoda]

green definitely, even though its not perfect

[primal ivy]

thanks, I might have done the red lel and my studio changed it to green... thanks for the feedback :p

[fast pagoda]

if you want more insights: red one is one line, and looks good, but if you don't know anything about the code, you're lost instantly
green one creates variables with explicit names that allows anyone reading what is the condition actually doing

[primal ivy]

more lines is probably a better coding practise, tricky when our studio has no lead devs for guidance.

[fast pagoda]

"more lines" is not really what it is about, it's more about "understanding the code quickly"

i don't know the code so i might say something wrong, but the base issue is your HasFlag methods in the first place

HasFlag doesnt really say much

[sly grove]

Green but those variable names are awful. Would be improved with better local variable names

[primal ivy]

Has flag is for using flag enums, part of .system...

[primal ivy]

yeah isDead is a bit confusing as It doesn't work when looking for an alive state

[sly grove]

allowedSurvivalStatusEnum should be renamed survivalStatus or something

damageFlag should also be renamed like damageTypeIsLegal

hasDied should be survivalStateIsLegal

so your final condition is like damageTypeIsLegal && survivalStateIsLegal

[fast pagoda]

I would say more like
legalDamageType and legalSurvivalState

[sly grove]

yeah

those are better

[fast pagoda]

and then the IsLegal method makes a lot more sense

[sly grove]

The hardest parts of programming:

• Cache invalidation
• Naming stuff

[primal ivy]

Thanks so much guys, feedback is actually fantastic

[primal ivy]

yeah, that should be it

[fast pagoda]

Easiest part of programming: making a working program
Hardest part of programming: making a working program that is easy to change (& easy to read)

[primal ivy]

oath

[fast pagoda]

i'm stupid, those are bool, those names are very wrong lol

[sly grove]

I think they make sense for bool

[primal ivy]

Found out who named the variables rushed them for a 5pm finish XD

[fast pagoda]

i thought it was enum values

legalDamageType would be expected to be something like DamageType.Steel not "true" lol

[sly grove]

it could be either 😛

English is funny like that

[fast pagoda]

🤣

[sly grove]

The verb is implied

[primal ivy]

XD

[fast pagoda]

well maybe i'm not good enough in english that i don't see the thing there is to see

[obtuse flume]

What about isLegalDamageType? That's what I would normally do but it might not make sense in other situations

[sly grove]

Imagine speaking to your secretary about a building approval you are setting up:
"Ok is the tax assessment legal?"
"yes"
"Is the survey legal?"
"yes"
"legal floorplan?"
"yes"
"legal title?"
"yes"

English can happily degenerate into having no verbs and still make sense

[fast pagoda]

yea i was thinking about like this

[fast pagoda]

ah ye

I see

[primal ivy]

this should do I think, think I incorporated the most of what you lads said :p

[sly grove]

you don't need the parentheses at the end

but yeah that looks nice

[obtuse flume]

Is there a word to describe what type of variable the Func<float> field is that I could add as a suffix to the name to make it less confusing?

public static Func<float> HpRegen_____ = () => 1f + GetStatBonus(Stat.HpRegen);
public static float HpRegen => HpRegen_____.Invoke();

[fast pagoda]

a delegate, if i understood the question correctly

[primal ivy]

fixed 😛

[sly grove]

yep it's a delegate. You could also call it something more on the nose like HpRegenFunction or HpRegenHandler

[obtuse flume]

I like handler, that's what I'll name it.

[sly grove]

You could also make a custom delegate type like this:

public delegate float HpRegenHandler();

Then your code can look like:

public static HpRegenHandler HpRegenHandler = () => 1f + GetStatBonus(Stat.HPRegen);```

which is maybe getting a little Java-ish but idk

[obtuse flume]

I could see that getting messy since I'm doing that for 13 different stats... What would the benefit be?

[sly grove]

ah perfect then you can do:

public delegate float StatHandler();

public static StatHandler HpRegenHandler = () => 1f + GetStatBonus(Stat.HPRegen);```

And you can use StatHandler instead of Func<float>

everywhere

[obtuse flume]

oh wow that's so much better

[sly grove]

which feels a lot nicer imo

[glass wagon]

If I want to create my own "update()" system, that goes through a varying number of objects/structs and calls an update method on them all, and there needs to be a way to remove and add objects/structs to this, how is this done well?

"Well" = performant, elegant and garbage free

[hoary pendant]

You can create a sort of tick system and subscribe members to a master class that performs the function tick to any of its subscribers

[stark acorn]

so I'm doing a lot of stuff in "OnDisable()"
whenever I exit the play mode
console will give me a lot of null errors as expected
am I doing things wrong or I should just don't worry about it

[glass wagon]

This sounds good! How do they subscribe to "listening" to this tick?

[glass wagon]

My initial idea was a List<> and the objects/structs, and a Manager that adds them to that List<> and iterates over them doing the update, notes down a list of all the indexes of those that need to be removed after this round of Updates(), and then does that after iterating over all of them via a reversed (high to low) index removal of the "flagged" indices of the List in that second pass.

Is this kind of the way these things are done?

[hoary pendant]

Hmm I think you'd rather the subscriber add itself to the list rather than the other way around to reduce dependencies, so you could use an Interface like ITickable with a Tick method, and maintain a list or set on the master class that is subscribed to, or I think Unity has an events system that would also be suitable for this purpose. This is the Observer Pattern if you want to research it

[glass wagon]

Cheers. Will research Observer Pattern and come back with retarded questions...

[pale pier]

Not a good idea to subscribe a struct member to an event, they get copied everywhere and you can end up with invalid data if you aren't extremely careful

[hazy hearth]

Guys, why the code is not waiting the first wait I just added?

IEnumerator CheckAndFixDependencies()
{
  // Wait the internet check to become true
  yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () => InternetManager.instance.online);

  var checkAndFixDependanciesTask = FirebaseApp.CheckAndFixDependenciesAsync();

  yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () => checkAndFixDependanciesTask.IsCompleted);

[flat marsh]

is internetmanager something you wrote? my guess would be that it does in fact wait but semantically doesnt do waht you want

[finite prawn]

sorry I missed the message, this is an example path /home/yonaton/.config/unity3d/Arcy/TwinEdge/CustomSongs/Hellsnake No Way Back (arcy)/audio.wav, which is a correct 100%

[hazy hearth]

Yes it is.
This is what it contains:
https://hatebin.com/jlwaujwppg
I tried both with both CallCheckConnection() and
StartCoroutine(CheckConnection())

As it seems it indeed waits but it says online even tho I have wifi off.
On the other hand In my phone after I build it says offline always?!

[shadow seal]

When it says online even though you have no connection, what device are you using?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-internetReachability.html
The docs say this property should not be used to determine actual connectivity, and that on non-handheld devices are always considered to be NetworkReachability.ReachableViaLocalAreaNetwork

[hazy hearth]

I use an Iphone with iOS build.
Yes I read that as well.
I found a solution for the Editor. I put both the conditions in one if.
And it seems to work fine.
I will try with phone now.
(Also I have to add that its not that my build does not support internet connection because Firebase Database works fine)

[hazy hearth]

Nope it is always offline on phone

[hazy hearth]

[Solved]: It needed an https instead of http for a phone. A warning occurs now tho:

[hasty hinge]

wtf is LEGAL SURVIVAL STATE?

im intrested

[regal olive]

I have a struct PlayerStats with 9 floats and 1 int
I want to make an operator overload that multiplies two PlayerStats together, but if any of the stats are 0 in the second struct I want it to either be ignored or turned into 1
Im trying to do this with reflection but that 1 int is messing things up I think
Im getting this error:
InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid.
Heres the code I have:

    public static PlayerStats operator *(PlayerStats a, PlayerStats b)
    {
        PlayerStats newStats = new PlayerStats();
        foreach (FieldInfo fi in typeof(PlayerStats).GetFields())
        {
            object aVar = fi.GetValue(a);
            object bVar = fi.GetValue(b);
            if ((float)bVar == 0)
                bVar = 1;
            fi.SetValue(newStats, (float)aVar * (float)bVar);
        }
        return newStats;
    }```
Are you not able to turn an int object into a float?

Is there a way I could make this work?

System.Type type = bVar.GetType();
if ((type)bVar == 0)```
Im getting the error that I cant use the varaible 'type' like a type

[mortal gust]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24447387/cast-object-containing-int-to-float-results-in-invalidcastexception

[regal olive]

I tried this:

            float aVar = System.Convert.ToSingle(fi.GetValue(a));
            float bVar = System.Convert.ToSingle(fi.GetValue(b));
            if (bVar == 0)
                bVar = 1;
            fi.SetValue(newStats, aVar * bVar);```
But now Im getting this error:
```ArgumentException: Object of type 'System.Single' cannot be converted to type 'System.Int32'.```

[lucid girder]

~~Kinda want to suggest templating your GetValue function if possible, so you'll end up with something like this: ~~
Scratch that, GetValue comes from the reflection namespace...

[regal olive]

Ok now Im very confused
Am I using fi.SetValue() wrong?

        foreach (FieldInfo fi in typeof(PlayerStats).GetFields())
        {
            if (fi.FieldType == typeof(int))
            {
                fi.SetValue(newStats, fi.GetValue(a));
                continue;
            }

            float aVar = System.Convert.ToSingle(fi.GetValue(a));
            float bVar = System.Convert.ToSingle(fi.GetValue(b));
            if (bVar == 0)
                bVar = 1;
            Debug.Log(fi.Name + (aVar * bVar).ToString()); // Damage1
            fi.SetValue(newStats, aVar * bVar);
        }
        Debug.Log(newStats.Damage); // 0```

It seems to be setting every value to 0

[sage radish]

It's because it's a struct. When you pass it into SetValue, a copy of it is being made and boxed into an object.

[regal olive]

So its not changing newStats?

[sage radish]

No, you'd have to box it into an object first, pass that to SetValue, then cast it back to the struct

But I don't recommend using Reflection for this kind of thing.

[regal olive]

Well I don’t see any other way than writing out basically what I already have but 10 times

Not very DRY

[lucid girder]

Reflection is very slow btw. If you do this often per frame, it will bog down everything else

[regal olive]

Well I’m glad you told me that because I was in fact doing this multiple times per frame

Back to the long way then

[lucid girder]

 public static PlayerStats operator *(PlayerStats a, PlayerStats b)
{
    return new PlayerStats() {
      val1 = a.val1 * b.val1,
      val2 = a.val2 * b.val2,
      //etc etc
    }
}

[regal olive]

Yeah I’ll have to add an if statement for each one as well to convert any b zeros to ones

[lucid girder]

any floats or doubles, you might want to check them for "almost" 0 instead of exactly 0 in case of floating point errors

[regal olive]

Good point thanks

[fresh basalt]

i was wondering - when rewriting some code for multiplayer, the best way would be to copy everything i need and put in another namespace and edit there, right? Or is there a better way?

[hazy hearth]

How can I first make a check and then wait for the online to be true?
I mean it may have been true from a past call but I need to check it again before waiting
The call of the method is:
InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection()

// Wait the internet check to become true
 yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () => InternetManager.instance.online);

Can I add the first code in the yield somehow? before the check online?

or even better make another yield for it to wait until CallCheckConnection() is finished?

[hollow garden]

yield return new WaitUntil(
  () => {
    InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection();
    return InternetManager.instance.online;
  }
);
``` maybe?

[flat marsh]

or (as you probably always want to get the current status when you access .online )you could make it a property that always runs the connection check

[hazy hearth]

how is that possible exactly?

[spring tulip]

hey, any idea why this works

Vector3 currentVelocity = transform.forward * z * Time.deltaTime + transform.right * x * Time.deltaTime;
velocity = currentVelocity;
rb.MovePosition(transform.position + velocity*speed);```
but when I try to normalize vector to get always same speed, it gets only in one direction  and super fast
```cpp
Vector3 currentVelocity = transform.forward * z * Time.deltaTime + transform.right * x * Time.deltaTime;
velocity = Vector3.Normalize(currentVelocity);
rb.MovePosition(transform.position + velocity*speed);```

[mild prawn]

Hi folks, does anyone know how to draw in the editor scene view? Not as a gizmo, all the time. Preferred 2D, but if I have to unproject I guess that's ok

I have a camera "proxy" following the scene view camera but it's not really ideal to position 2D graphics that way lol

[devout hare]

Because normalizing cancels out all the deltaTime multiplications on the previous line. #💻┃code-beginner next time

[alpine sinew]

I don't have an answer per se, but my first guess would be a combination of OnValidate() and gizmos

[spring tulip]

Thanks, I know how normalization works but just forgot that I should multiply it later by delta time

[mild prawn]

Ooo hopefully OnValidate is faster than Update, thanks

seems it's called at the same rate as Update in the editor

I've tried forcing updates every way I can find and think of and it's getting to the point that I'm considering faking user input lmao

Updates 2 sec after camera rotation or translation, but immediately upon scrolling

[hazy hearth]

In this, will the line InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection(); be called once? and then it will stick to the online bool till it gets the true value?

[hollow garden]

it'll be called until the predicate returns true

[hazy hearth]

so it will keep sending internet signals. alright

thank you

[alpine sinew]

are you trying to quickly place objects into a scene? is that what the goal is?

[alpine sinew]

if so, look into the GameObject brush. It's a paintbrush for 2D tilemaps, but you paint GameObjects instead of tiles. It takes some setting-up, but it does that it says.
caveat: all painted objects will be as if they are unique objects, and any updates to the prefab will not affected the already-painted objects.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.tilemap.extras@1.6/manual/GameObjectBrush.html

[mild prawn]

the goal is to draw in 2D (window space I guess?) on top of what the scene view camera has drawn (under or over the default gizmos)

I don't actually want to use a GameObject at all

if I could blank out the camera to a solid color that would work too

just need the rectangle of the scene view to be entirely one color

edit: I know it sounds silly but there is a point to it haha

[alpine sinew]

Drawing is usually done by tilemaps and not really anything else. What you're describing sounds like a major A|B problem. I don't know what you're attempting to do, but I think that you're most certainly going about it in a difficult way. Perhaps describe what led you to this, and we can suggest a better way to do it?

[oak barn]

Hi,
I'm searching about a specific case for naming convention.
I Know possible to set the name of layers and tags this way for better organisation:
NameGroup/SubNameLayer
TagGroup/TagName
EventGroup/EventName
But i have no idea how to get them from C#, especially in my case, were i have an Animation Event Named Obstacle/Head
How do i write it in my code because Void Obstacle/Head isn't working at all ... ?

[sly grove]

How do you write what in your code? I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do? When you make an animation event, you specify the function name in the animation event.

Whatever you write in "Function" should be the name of the function in your script

[oak barn]

Animation Event

Event Listener

[sly grove]

you can't name functions with slashes in them

just "GeneratorHead"

[oak barn]

This part of code is intended to be send to Playmaker
Usually i don't use the / but i think there is a possibility to do it

cause it's the same as tags and layers when you want to write it for better organisation

[sly grove]

IDK maybe C# will allow it

try it

Either way whatever is in that Function field needs to match the actual name of the funciton

void Generator/Head()```

try that

kinda doubt it will work

no it definitely won't work

[oak barn]

no i already tried of course

[sly grove]

Ok then no it's not possible

[oak barn]

how whould you do it for tag then ?

[sly grove]

do what for tag

[oak barn]

reach Canvas/Grande Serie

[sly grove]

what do you mean by "reach" it?

[oak barn]

Get

[sly grove]

get what?

What are you trying to do with it

[oak barn]

or set the tag

[sly grove]

someObject.tag = "Canvas/Grande Serie";```

or:

string tag = someObject.tag;```

[oak barn]

as a string ...ok

[sly grove]

yes, tags are strings

[oak barn]

so i'm pretty sure it's possible to get something similar for void

[sly grove]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-tag.html

[sly grove]

What do you mean?

void simply means "this function doesn't return anything"

[oak barn]

maybe void ObstacleHead(string "Obstacle/Head")

[sly grove]

no

that is not valid C#

[oak barn]

argg

[sly grove]

what are you trying to do exactly?

Your questions are very vague and confusing

Your use of tags is also confusing 🤔

I have a feeling you are trying to shove some paradigm from some other game engine into Unity that doesn't fit.

[oak barn]

nop, only working with unity

let me explain more in detail

but i think the soluce doesn't exist

In unity you can organise variables, Tags, Layers using /, so you can organise them clearly in the editor.
So i espected to directly Set the same Name To the Animation Event, and use the eventListener script to follow it to the FSM
But as you said, the void will not recognize it because of the /
but after i send a string so i am not restricted this time.
So my error was to try to name the event with /
I'll remove it and then convert it in the function directly

thanks for your help

[sly grove]

This / thing you're talking about is unique to PlayMaker. It is not a general Unity thing.

[oak barn]

did you already tried to name a tag or layers using this ?

[sly grove]

Oh I see, sure

all that does is organize them in the UI though

[oak barn]

yep

better than a big list wich doesn't scroll

[hazy hearth]

Is it possible to make a Wait until a method is finished?

NOT wait a true value from is and run it until that happens

[sly grove]

Methods finish immediately upon calling them

void MyMethod() {
  // stuff
}

void OtherCode() {
  print("About to call MyMethod");
  MyMethod();
  print("MyMethod is complete");
}```

[hazy hearth]

So I am inside a Coroutine and I need to wait first for the CallCheckConnection to update the value of online and then call wait for online. If the online is not true, CallCheckConnection has activated a panel with a button that can call it again , until the online is true

InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection();
            // Check Internet connection and wait
            yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () =>
            {
                return InternetManager.instance.online;
            });

[sly grove]

that's a coroutine

which is a little different

but what's the question exactly

[mild prawn]

I'm sorry, I can't explain why I need the editor window to be blanked. But rest assured, it is a requirement for what I am trying to accomplish. I wish I could elaborate further.

But hopefully that simplifies the question of "what are they really trying to do"

Combing through internal APIs and gasp memory hacking are next up on my ways in

[smoky lark]

Hello, i need some help i keep getting the exact same error even after i change it (The Error):Assets\Scripts\InputManager.cs(33,33): error CS1061: 'PlayerInput.OnFootActions' does not contain a definition for 'look' and no accessible extension method 'look' accepting a first argument of type 'PlayerInput.OnFootActions' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[thin mesa]

not an advanced issue. and i'd be willing to bet the action is called Look and you just spelled it wrong

[smoky lark]

i've tried

im a begginner so this looks advanced for me

[mild prawn]

just to make things clearer, this is what I'm trying to accomplish

[thin mesa]

go back to #💻┃code-beginner with this. or even #🖱️┃input-system if you just don't understand how to use the input system

[smoky lark]

ok

[hazy hearth]

The question is:
Why does it surpass the wait and shows the ad before checking for internet connection

InternetManager.instance.online = false;
InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection();
// Check Internet connection and wait
yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () =>
{
  return InternetManager.instance.online;
});
// --------------------------------------------------------------
RewardedAd rewardedAd = adManager.GetComponent<RewardedAd>();
rewardedAd.ShowAd();

[mild prawn]

What is InternetManager?

[hazy hearth]

A checker that check whether the is internet, let me show you

https://pastebin.com/L666PaNz

This is its code

[mild prawn]

When you have the ad show (without internet), what is the value of InternetManager.instance.online?

Is it true?

If so, the problem is probably in the pastebin code

[hazy hearth]

The ad is loaded way before all that so Im kinda safe to say that it can show

The problem is that im not ceratin if without internet that I will get the money

Nor that the show will actually work

[mild prawn]

I mean when rewardedAd.ShowAd() is called what is the value of InternetManager.instance.online

[hazy hearth]

let me check if it is called with false as well.

[hazy hearth]

Yes it is called without internet as well

[mild prawn]

just to make sure, added like Debug.Log(InternetManager.instance.online) right before ShowAd()?

and it was false

if false then the yield isn't waiting, if it's true then there's an issue with InternetManager

Sorry gotta jet but hopefully you find the bug 🙂

[hazy hearth]

Thank you mate, I appreciate it. Wlill do my best

[buoyant nacelle]

Can someone recommend me something, please? I am stuck. I am trying to do a projectiles system. How can I makes it work for both, projectiles (arrows, fireballs, etc) and units. In other words, new objects and existing objects. Since units can dash and jump, it makes sense to have the same system for both because it is the same functionality. Any help would be appreciated

My initial ideas was to have a parent class "projectile" with all the mechanics and then children classes as individual spells. However, I can't come up with a solution to makes it work on existing units.

[agile spoke]

Anyone else having issues with OnRenderObject when using URP? I've gone to forums and API and not sure how to do it. Need the callback to render a computer shader.

Note It wont call it at all... when I create public void OnRenderObject(){}

[stuck onyx]

I have a single scene called 'Main' that loads my game, all the load process is done syncronously. I thought by adding a 'Loading' scene first and loading 'Main' using
```SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync('Main')````

I would be able to load the game asyncrously while showing some animations in the 'Loading' scene....
But no... the 'Loading' scene gets stuck and all of a suddden goes to 100% and the other scene starts loading the game... I have 2 questions:

1. When does the scene 1 considers the scene 2 is fully loaded? when all the GameObjects are instantiated? when all the awakes are called? when exactly
2. Why the scene 1 'Loading' it's totally frozen for a few seconds before the next scene is loaded
3. Is the only way of achieving an animated load screen to convert all my game load to asyncronous?

[misty crescent]

How do I debug something like this in a WebGL build without any info? The stacktrace doesn't give me anything valuable

[compact ingot]

What’s a the other end of the trace? You could also check all divisions in the codebase and guard all of them against /0 with a Debug.Assert()

[sly grove]

looks like a divide by zero error in the IL2cpp garbage collector

seems like something you don't have control over haha

[hazy hearth]

What is the difference between this:

and this:

            yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () => InternetManager.instance.online);

[sly grove]

nothing

you've just used a named parameter in the second one, and a positional parameter in the first

The effect is the same - the compiled code is the same

[hazy hearth]

It does not wait tho and thats super weird

[sly grove]

if InternetManager.instance.online is true, it will only wait one frame

[hazy hearth]

the whole code is this:

 InternetManager.instance.online = false;
InternetManager.instance.CallCheckConnection();
while(InternetManager.instance.online == false)
{
 yield return null;
}
//yield return new WaitUntil(predicate: () => InternetManager.instance.online);
Debug.Log("is online? " +  InternetManager.instance.online); // TODO:DELETE
// AD
RewardedAd rewardedAd = adManager.GetComponent<RewardedAd>();
rewardedAd.ShowAd();

And it shows the ad without the Debug.Log for some reason

[sly grove]

Yeah you showed this code earlier

[hazy hearth]

CallCheckConnection checks whether there is internet and sets the online

[sly grove]

did you ever show the InternetManager?

[hazy hearth]

oh your are the guy from before haha 😛

let me show it to you just a sec.

https://pastebin.com/qgqyksbb

here you go , and thanks btw

[sly grove]

Ok and where are you calling this code?

[hazy hearth]

Its from my game manager. let me sent you just this method

cause its huge

https://pastebin.com/8xBRy1ic

[woven kettle]

hello,

which is more optimized ?
1 - creating an empty gameobject then add a spherical collider on it ( all on runtime )
2 - having a prefab ready of ( empty game object with spherical collider ) and use inistantiate or an objectpool script instead to spawn it

[alpine sinew]

instantiating a prefab is the quickest.

[sly grove]

really interestied in how this coroutine is started though

[hazy hearth]

You mean the press of a button? Yeah it is quite a trick i found and used this once. It completely removes the OnClick() logic

what

[sly grove]

I have no idea what this means. I was just wondering how you are starting that coroutine

I want to see the code

[hazy hearth]

oh sorry 😛 thought about the wait button press which I thought it was cool

one sec

https://pastebin.com/HadZV1ia

[hazy hearth]

right afte rthe ad the panel is shown plus online bool returns true. but for some reason it goes to the ad first

I think I fount the problem.
the prob is that the CallCheckInternet call is in the same coroutine.

[sick sundial]

Any ideas how to hot join using mirror?

[shadow seal]

What do you mean hot join?

[woven kettle]

hey,

is it possible to make SphericalCollider more like a flat circle ( maybe with 0.05f thickness )?
if not , could I make a cube collider on raycastHit as an alternative ( thin on the normal axe )?

[sly grove]

SphereCollider is a sphere, that's the point.

BoxCollider you can make whatever dimensions you want.

And if all else fails you can use a MeshCollider with any arbitrary shape you want.

this isn't a code question anyway, it doesn't belong in #archived-code-advanced

[woven kettle]

thanks, well, you are right except, I'm adding a prefab via instantiate command not the editor and I need the collider object ( in this case a cube collider ) to be a substitude of the spherical shape I used to have ( the spherical shape used to have a center, which was easy for me to alighn with the raycast hitpoint ... but i'm not sure if i could get the center of the cube correctly and reduce its width significantly on the normal axe of the raycast ... all via code )

I'm sure it's not that hard, if I could find what parameters of the cube collider I could use, maybe not for advanced codeing i guess.

[sly grove]

definitely not #archived-code-advanced stuff

[regal olive]

hey guys I am using ummorpg and burny's vehicle addon together for my project. ummorpg has a really robust mount system that can do a lot, but burny's has shooting. how hard would it be to take the shooting from burny's addon and put that on a regular mount?

[misty crescent]

That's...not reassuring. What's your suggestion on how to tackle something like this?

[misty crescent]

I am doing an if > 0 check for all denominators but the cause doesn't seem to be in any arithmetic I'm doing as shown in the stacktrace

[novel plinth]

the predicate: only points to the correct parameter slot if it receives multiple parameters

[hazy hearth]

how can it receive multiple?

[novel plinth]

i said if, if it's not, then you don't need the predicate:

[dry bridge]

Hey guys! I had just started using unity for like 6 days and would like some help regarding this. So the situation is that I am able to use quaternions to control camera rotations and, for the meantime, intend to use left mouse click to reset the rotations back to 0,0,0. My issue is that the command works and goes back to the said reset rotation BUT only for 1 frame. Here is my code for that and would appreciate any help that I could get.

{
    public float mousesensitivity = 0.3f;
    public Transform playerbody;
    public Transform currentcamera;
    public Transform defaultcamera;
    float xrotation = 0f;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 mouse = Input.mousePosition;   
        if (Input.GetButtonUp("Fire1")) 
        {
            currentcamera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.identity;
        }

        else
        {
            currentcamera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(mouse.y * mousesensitivity, mouse.x * mousesensitivity, 180f);
        }
} ```

[dusky carbon]

just be patient instead of cross-posting, not an advanced question. Every frame your button isn't released, it hits the else clause setting the rotation based on the mouse position.

[dry bridge]

Ahshi that's on me. Grew quite impatient since I've been working on it for almost 8 hrs now. Though I'll take that into consideration. Thanks!

[dark bane]

Hello! I have an app that in the title screen checks whether user's credentials are valid. If so, it should load main screen with all the features that the app will have.
With this comes one issue. I wanted to make a loading screen. From YT tutorials, I've figured that creating a persistent scene and then loading other scenes on top of it will be the best approach.
However, even though the app loads into title screen from the persistent scene, I want the program to check for validation of credentials AND then call a LoadUserInfo() function, that will drop user to the main menu. I cannot do that, because I don't know how to reference GameManager object from another script and call its public method

Here is the GameManager which is meant to handle scene changing

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static GameManager instance;
 
    [SerializeField] private GameObject loadingScreen;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject gameLogo;

    private void Awake()
    {
        instance = this;

        SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync((int)SceneIndexes.WELCOME_SCREEN, LoadSceneMode.Additive);᲼
    }
    
    public void LoadUserInfo()
    {
        loadingScreen.gameObject.SetActive(true);

        SceneManager.UnloadSceneAsync((int)SceneIndexes.WELCOME_SCREEN);
        SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync((int)SceneIndexes.MAIN_MENU, LoadSceneMode.Additive);
    }```

but I have no idea how to use it in another script

so I've tried a couple different approaches like this:

  if (connectionResultCode != UnityWebRequest.Result.ConnectionError)
     {
         if(result.Contains("0"))
         {
             SaveSystem.DeleteCredentials();
         }
         else if(result.Contains("1"))
         {
             GameObject obj = new GameObject();
             obj.AddComponent<GameManager>();
             GameManager gameManager = obj.GetComponent<GameManager>();
             gameManager.LoadUserInfo();
         }
     }
 }
}```

or simply just finding the object

but it doesnt seem to work

or I get this error NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object GameManager.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/GameManager.cs:30)

which i suppose is because of the approach with attaching a script without reference to the loading screen and icon objects

but either way, I just wanted to know, how can I just call the LoadUserInfo() function from another script

[austere jewel]

How is this advanced? NREs are the most basic exception, and calling functions is basic too.

1. Use the debugger. 2. Go through the singleton

[dark bane]

okay sorry wrong channel

[robust star]

Unity facebook instant game stuck after 90% on loading screen.
Please help me out if anyone know about it.
thanks

[mint sleet]

Hello!

declaring a "var" object does not have a new reference on memory when you declare it with the actual class name, for example, "ThisClass" ?

[devout hare]

Question unclear, but there is no difference between var and using the actual type, other than the increased risk of shooting yourself in the foot

[sly grove]

File a bug report

Another thing is reduce your usage of the garbage collector, which is a net positive for performance anyway

[slate thorn]

Hi, I need help to change the size of the box collidor on this sprite to fit exactly according to the size of my sprite. I'v already tried so many ways and nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me?

[misty crescent]

I can't profile in WebGL, so I can't check my usage of the garbage collector

[alpine sinew]

Don't cross-post your question. keep it in one channel.
<@&502884371011731486> cross-posted in #archived-code-general #archived-code-general message
and #💻┃code-beginner #💻┃code-beginner message

[humble leaf]

@slate thorn Please don't crosspost #📖┃code-of-conduct. This is a #💻┃code-beginner.

[slate thorn]

sorry, I'm new to here and didn't know I wasn't allowed to do this

[grand dagger]

Guys i have this problem The type or namespace name 'FormatOptions' could not be found wtf is this

[alpine sinew]

this is a question for #archived-code-general

[buoyant vine]

you dont have either the using directive or the a assembly reference is missing

[grand dagger]

no shit how do i make it not missing

[austere jewel]

I would upgrade or downgrade the burst package until everything compiles

[grand dagger]

ok

[alpine adder]

anyone have experience with unity cloudbuild?

particularly around deployment to testflight automatically

[long ivy]

you can use a fastlane config to do it, or there's a postbuild script floating around somewhere that uses altool that would probably work

[alpine adder]

so i have this script ```platform :ios do
desc "Push a new beta build to TestFlight"
lane :testflight do |options|

upload_to_testflight

end

I guest im more confused on how the unity cloudbuild enivronment variables work and how i would access them via script

[turbid tinsel]

hey, does anyone have any idea how to get mouse delta with a locked cursor using Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked?

or is it not possible

cuz right now I get no delta, no matter how I try to get the data

alternatively, is there a way to have a cursor position set cross-platform? I'm on linux

[sly grove]

Locked cursor shouldn't affect mouse delta readings

[nocturne ice]

anyone has issues with coroutines stopping when yield endofframe used, but null is fine, with editor 2021.3.5f1 ?

[sly grove]

Most likely your object is being disabled or destroyed before that end of frame time window.

[nocturne ice]

null works, I don't do destroy I just tested the coroutine it and coroutine dies, if you didn't try with editor 2021.3.5f1 no point of answering

[sly grove]

It's very unlikely anything with coroutines changed recently

Maybe share your code

[turbid tinsel]

Unfortunately, when I try reading it with either getaxis or input.mouseposition, locking the cursor breaks things

[sly grove]

Breaks things how

[turbid tinsel]

It doesnt work at all
0 delta

When its not locked, it works properly

[nocturne ice]

have you tried with 2021.3.5f1 ? if you didn't just don't answer me, I'll file a bug if others having the same issue or I'll revert to previous editor.

[turbid tinsel]

I am on linux tho, which could change stuff

[long ivy]

I use an API key. There's an option to use a session id that you generate with spaceauth, but it expired too fast to be useful in my experience. Look at app_store_connect_api_key in fastlane, and pass options through env, i.e. one of the steps in your lane would be

app_store_connect_api_key(key_id: ENV["ASC_KEY_ID", ...etc)

[alpine adder]

then in the cloud build environment type in the environment variable of ASC_KEY_ID

as one of the variables?

[long ivy]

yep, you'll need the kid, issuer id, and the contents of the key you generate. See: https://docs.fastlane.tools/app-store-connect-api/

[alpine adder]

last question for you. will unity cloud editor support blend files? I jsut created a build and the player failed to build and im guessing its because we have .blend instead of .fbx

[long ivy]

did you have some kind of import error? I think the sneaky way Unity supports blend files actually runs blender in the background so it's entirely possible cloud builders wouldn't support them

[alpine adder]

yeah i did. Im guessing its the main cause for my cloudbuild currenlty failing

so thats fun lol

back to the old jenkins that has a heart attack with arkit

for some reason arkit always gets disabled whenever I build with it

[runic canopy]

Can I programatically download a zip file from a Url ? Or do I need to extract the contents ?

[hoary pendant]

I mean you are basically downloading byte data, you just need to convert at the end with an appropriate API

[runic canopy]

Well what I tried doing is create a dynamic byte array and then just saving the data into a folder as .zip😆

[runic canopy]

Which clearly wont work xD

[hoary pendant]

Hmm you could use the System.IO library from c# to convert byte array to zip file path and use a library like DotNetZip to unzip it and access the contents

[runic canopy]

Would you mind me messaging you in pm?

[runic canopy]

I wont take long 🙂, I promise

[hoary pendant]

No I will not stay long, but these are suggestions, you can look up each part and you should reach what you need

[runic canopy]

Alright thanks anyways

[pastel harbor]

Sup could anyone here point me to a solution on how would I override the GIL and get multiple unity-embedded python tasks running concurrently? Pls dm or tag me when replying 🙂 thx! 🙂

[austere jewel]

Googling the first error I get info saying you can't use rigid skinning (in Maya) but instead needs smooth skinning.
That means nothing to me outside of Maya but there must be an equivalent in the FBX SDK you are using

[undone coral]

when i call camera.render with deep profiling enabled

why do i see the same stacks on the render thread and the main thread

is there a way to do a camera.render "async"?

[glacial tiger]

Hello.
Does anyone know how to make an array of references to child structures with the Burst compiler?

If I remove the pointer sign, the error disappears. But then it seems that UWS_WaterChunk is no longer a reference, and the object will be contained here.

The reference without an array works, but I need an array.

[agile yoke]

Yeah, unfortunately C# just entirely disallows using proper pointers as type arguments.
One simple workaround is storing a NativeArray<IntPtr> instead and casting those back to the right type when you use them. It loses some clarity and expressiveness though obviously :/

[drowsy laurel]

Any Idea why my batching isnt working? I'm instantiating the grass per chunk, so the gameobject count is changing when loading/unloading a chunk. Every grass object is parented to an object call "grassHolder" and I'm using the "StaticBatchingUtility.Combine(grassHolder);" function, everytime a new chunk is being generated, so that the new gameobjects are batched as well.

[glacial tiger]

Thanks. Maybe you know how to allocate memory for a structure and get a reference to it?

[drowsy laurel]

btw if you have any other ideas on how to optimize procedually generated objects, just dm me pls

[agile yoke]

Depends a lot on what you want to do ^^ Where possible it's nice to stick with safe code and just new structs, or allocate them in NativeArrays and pass around indices and such.
If you want to drop down to unsafe pointers, you can either still get pointers to inside a NativeArray (or List etc.) or you can manually allocate the memory using UnsafeUtililty

[glacial tiger]

I'm trying to implement the QuadTree algorithm. Each structure contains references to four descendants. What is the best way to implement it here?

[glacial tiger]

And then:
If you use NativeArray, how do you get a pointer to its element?
If you use Unsafe Utility, how can you use it to allocate memory for one structure? I understand that it allocates memory for buffers.

[agile yoke]

Good question. Just storing a NativeArray in each node sounds appealing but I think Unity won't let you :/

To manually allocate one struct, I'd recommend writing a simple wrapper like this:

unsafe T* Malloc<T>(Allocator allocator) where T : unmanaged {
  return (T*) UnsafeUtility.Malloc(UnsafeUtility.SizeOf<T>(), UnsafeUtility.AlignOf<T>(), allocator);
}

This would be easy to extend to taking a count so you can allocate a buffer of 4 nodes too

Just, uh, be aware that when you get into unsafe code you really do have to be careful and know what you're doing a bit. Things will blow up in hard to debug ways if you write bugs.

As in, I've spent way too much time chasing down bugs like "this pointer write silently corrupts some internal data and then 2 minutes later some other random piece of code causes an editor crash because of it"

[compact ingot]

What is your goal here anyway? If it’s performance your only option is to store your data in a data oriented way. If you malloc a pointer for each node, no matter how fancy your compiler is, it will be slow and the whole unsafe excursion is wasted

[glacial tiger]

Can I have an example of how to use this? What should I pass to allocator?

[agile yoke]

It's the same allocators as for NativeArrays and such

[glacial tiger]

Oh, I see

[agile yoke]

I also agree with Anikki fwiw, most strategies that don't involve a malloc per node are faster than doing one malloc per node ^^

[hallow cove]

hello, so, I have a ScriptableObject that has other sub objects

and I'm trying to rename them

how could I do that?

changing the name of the object seems to work

but then here it looks the same

[glacial tiger]

I want to make the execution parallel with job, I think it will still be faster than just a standard separate C# thread.

[compact ingot]

Why do you need unsafe/pointers for that?

[glacial tiger]

I think I found an example of an implementation with an array. But will NativeList be faster than malloc?

[compact ingot]

That is not how that works

you need to store your data in a way that it can be processed faster by the cpu, malloc and native array are just tools to achieve that. In itself a native array is slower than a plain array because of the thread safety overhead

[glacial tiger]

Then how roughly should I implement QuadTree?

[compact ingot]

also creating and initializing jobs creates an overhead

[glacial tiger]

My goal is not Collision Detection, but the LOD algorithm, something like those used in Terrain.

[compact ingot]

since you do not seem to be aware of all this, you should start with a plain c# one and optimize that, then maybe think about a threadsafe one, then maybe make parallelized algorithms for it

[compact ingot]

An optimized quadtree for that cannot be made ‘roughly’ it will be specific to your use case, and not your general use case, the actual one with consideration for size, the read/create/update/delete patterns over time and relation to other systems

[humble loom]

spoiler btw. unity already does oct tree spatial partitioning

so you won't gain much from adding it yourself

[rugged radish]

hello guys
are there any big, feature rich procedural mesh generation libraries available for C# / Unity ?
don't want to waste time implementing my own mesh factory if I can avoid it
tried googling, but results are mostly some simple studies

specifically interested in generating mesh strips (walls) from open or closed paths and generating "caps" for those strips

[flint flint]

Hi, why doesn't Unity use .pngs for textures? In that case, you'd get lossless compression instead of lossy, the disk size would go down a lot, and you wouldn't have to spend as much time reading from disk, because there'd be less to read (at least if it's not from a sprite sheet?)

[humble loom]

what do you mean why don't they use pngs?

they support png's. and your statement about having lossless compression and simultaneously taking up less disk size is nonsensical

when you build the game it needs a packaged texture asset that can be used at runtime. unless you're saying the game should also pack a png codec with the executable and code/decode them at runtime

(in which case it would massively bloat RAM)

[flint flint]

Many systems include .png decoders, e.g. if you make a mobile-only game, both iOS and Android provide it. And .png's are able to take up less disk space while still being lossless because they're not constrained by having a fixed number of bits per pixel

[misty glade]

GPUs don't consume PNGs. They consume a wide variety of different formats (DXT, BC7, ASTC, etc). You can use whatever textures you want depending on the loss/memory footprint you want - Unity just makes that easy for most people because the memory bottleneck on GPUs isn't really a or "the" concern

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TextureImporterOverride.html

[flint flint]

So it sounds like, for systems that provide .png decoders already, the main (and only?) reason not to use .pngs, .jpgs, etc. is to lower memory consumption

One could argue .png decoding is also non-trivial, but I imagine it's also mitigated by not needing to load as much data from disk for .pngs

[pastel harbor]

Bump 🙂

[trail quail]

is there any way to map a monobehaviour properly with a non matching filename, or to have a nested type as a monobehaviour?

i think you can addComponent a nested type/mismatched filename directly from code, but I don't remember the rules exactly

[alpine sinew]

man, some of the questions asked on this channel are just gibberish.

[alpine sinew]

example?

[trail quail]

@alpine sinew i wanna make a nested class a monobehaviour - so the filename wont match the type. I'd like to have it show up on "add component"

i forgot the rules on how the monobehaviour naming stuff works

[sly grove]

no. MonoBehaviours must be 1:1 with files and have matching names

Yes you can AddComponent one from script

but the editor won't like it

[trail quail]

is there a reference with info ?

[sly grove]

The mathcing filename restriction is about making the scripts into assets which the editor can interact with (MonoScript assets)

[trail quail]

theres no file registry or something you can hack up?

[sly grove]

No, because this is not really a documented behavior. The expectation is you always match them

[sly grove]

To what end?

Oh the Add Componenet menu

nah that's pretty much a nonstarter.

Maybe if you muck around in the AssetDatabase? It's probably in Library somewhere. Seems like a lot of effort for little gain though

It's also bound to be extremely finicky. Scripts on objects in scenes and prefabs are linked by their GUIDs, which are from the .meta files accompanying your assets. If there's no asset file, there's no meta file. I think you'd have to rewrite a large portion of the engine to get that working.

[trail quail]

i dont think it cares at runtime if you call direct from script. AddComponent<x>

but yeah I would really like a reference

[sly grove]

right that's what I said above.

[alpine sinew]

Is this an A|B problem? Like, do you really need to have the nested class monobehaviour but the parent class cannot? Like, what is the application, because there's gotta be an easier way to accomplish what you're trying to do, other than messing with the Unity engine

[trail quail]

i don't need any of it, just would prefer it

[sly grove]

that's just not how Unity works ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[trail quail]

if i could do something like hook domain reload and map a type to file that'd be great.

if not, then yeah.

[alpine sinew]

Without knowing your exact dilemma, it sounds like it'd be most straightforward to M'B the parent, then store a reference to the child class

[trail quail]

its no big deal, just something that always annoys me - especially since i can't monobehaviour private nested types.

you can just serialize and stuff but its not the same

[flint flint]

@misty glade does that sound right? That memory consumption is in many cases the only downside of using .pngs

[misty glade]

Not sure - I'm definitely not a graphics/pipeline/GPU kind of person, I just know superficially that "it just works" in Unity. 🙂

[alpine sinew]

https://answers.unity.com/questions/807623/best-image-format-for-unity-game-textures.html

@flint flint any further discussion of the efficiency of textures should probably occur in #✨┃vfx-and-particles since this channel is for code #archived-code-advanced

you're more likely to get an answer there.

[flint flint]

Thanks

[umbral trail]

What can I do if burst compiled function throws errors (and says to turn off burst to debug), but non-bursted runs fine?

[hasty hinge]

whats the best way to make turn based combat

[pure dock]

there is no best way, especially since turn-based combat is broad and consists of many different features . . .

[hasty hinge]

i cant even make coding plan for it

[pure dock]

you can start with using an fsm for each state of combat then branch out from there . . .

[pure dock]

then start with tutorials. look for multiple ones, create a prototype for each, and decide which best suits your needs. use that method and expand into your own systems/designs . . .

[hasty hinge]

got it.

[short atlas]

Hi, i had a general question on the exporting of a completed game. So for me when i build (even with low settings) and run the game, it appears to be very laggy. I have also tried to make a simple game with just a character controller and a few objects in the scene and that game also was very laggy on my PC and other PCs. Could there be a reason why this is happening?

I think its something with my export settings or PC cause it happens with anything i make (simple or complicated)...

[sly grove]

"laggy" is very vague. That could mean a lot of things ranging from actual framerate issues to issues with your camera setup or your scripts doing funny things

[short atlas]

sorry for the double question. Im being helped on code-general. Thanks anyway

[delicate jacinth]

I posted about building a C++ plugin to access Open CV a few days ago. Unity kept failing to load the dll for OpenCV because it couldn't find required dependencies. Running a dependency walker tool showed me all of the dependencies the dll relied on were present and accessible to my computer. Here is what made it work: Trying exactly the same thing on a Windows 10 machine, rather than a Windows 11 machine. Food for thought.

[buoyant vine]

is it possible in rider to turn off the "visual" display of playmode unit tests ? i dont want to see them... just run them

[split sierra]

hey is there anyone who has experience with mlAgents? i making an AI i need to feed the AI an array but it can only know certain indexes of this array while the others still need to be "locked" till it unlocks them by playing the game. It is important that the the values stay at the correct index, so i cant just feed it a smaller array with the "unlocked" numbers. Does anyone know how i could do that?

[urban hull]

hello everybody

ive been studying game development for the past months, and im using the unity api and csharp documentation as major study resources.

however, im heaving a bad time when i comes to how to approach system implementations

like

how to implement an ai or how to make procedural terrain

cutting long story short, im searching for more complex and robust study resources

as i believe the ones ive been using so far are not enough to take game development seriously

i would be grateful if somebody knows about any resource that could help me

[hoary pendant]

Concepts such as these are language and engine agnostic, so if you are limiting yourself to Unity or C#, you are cutting off a lot of available resources. Also, have you looked into textbooks about these concepts? These concepts have some of the more readily available resources. Also, you can look up syllabuses for game development courses taught in schools if you want a more regimented approach, as they may list textbooks or concepts that you can further research. Also, if you are able to find source codes for games you are interested in, you can see how their systems behave and the design architecture

[urban hull]

i have searched for books like csharp players guide for the programming language fundamentals. Learning how the approaches to systems implementation takes place in unity is the problem

[hoary pendant]

Well, you can still abstact things away from the Unity framework while staying in the environment, you can set up whole FSM without the need for monobehaviors or create a procedural generation algorithm in its own class, and use Unity as a rendering layer. Unity just provides the tools to operate within its environment

[urban hull]

i feel like my workflow is evolving to something along those lines too

so the best way to go about it is to find material for each system?

[hoary pendant]

Personally, if there's a textbook for the concept, it's a gold mine of information compared to scattered blog post snippets, so for AI, there's Programming Game AI by Example by Mat Buckland, maybe you can start there

[urban hull]

okay thanks a lot @hoary pendant

[sand raven]

does anyone know a good way to impliment a card hand holding system similar to slay the spire / floppy knights? Ive been trying to work with unitys horizontal group layout, but it still feels unintuitive

[dusky carbon]

I'm unfamiliar with UI but it would probably help others that might answer if you describe the look you want or even make a drawing showing what you want. Even if someone is familiar with a game you referenced they might not be aware of which particular details you want to emulate.

[sand raven]

right sorry, let me visualize it

the players hand of cards would look semi-rounded, as if holding a hand of cards IRL

but when hovering over a card, the others would move out of the way so the player can clearly read the bottom half of the card

i was hoping maybe someone would know of a tutorial for this kind of "hand of cards" implimentation since i cant find one online, which is surprising given the popularity of playing card games

[mortal gust]

I would use some curve/spline to put the cards on with different spacing based on your second image state etc. I think there are some assets on asset store if you want to inspect their code, probably paid.

[hasty hinge]

hi should i use start courutine for a timer or time.deltatime?

[hollow garden]

coroutines are more readable and don't look ugly if you have multiple, Time.deltaTime is negligibly more performant because of the overhead coroutines have. I use my own Timer class though, which just has a callback for when it completes and uses Time.deltaTime

[undone smelt]

anyone worked with flatbuffers ? getting error when it should work fine since im following the docs ? i understand the error but does that mean the version im using has been changed ?

private Table table;
public void init(int _i, ByteBuffer _bb)
{
    table.bb_pos = _i; //error here : Property or indexer 'Table.bb_pos' cannot be assigned to -- it is read only
    table.bb = _bb;
}```

[flint sage]

Are you using hte official wrapper?

If so, I can very much recommend FlatSharp

Much better than the official API

[undone smelt]

i've used it before and im back to flatbuffers now , there was changes in the api , fixed it already but thanks for the info

[hallow cove]

hello, I wanna get a list of all variable types available in System;

something like this

[novel plinth]

'var alltypesname = typeof(Type).Assembly.GetTypes() .Where(x => x.IsPrimitive).Select(x => x.FullName).ToList();' this to get all primitives, typing this on my phone, untested.. question remains, why the heck you want to do this!

[sly grove]

Why?

[hallow cove]

I'm trying to make a visual scripting method like VRChat's Udon

[hallow cove]

Also thank you!!

[rapid wraith]

Anyone familliar with Negamax/minimax algorithm implementations?

[hollow garden]

yes sir

[rapid wraith]

I'm trying to implement alpha-beta pruning but my program isn't doing the same thing with alpha-beta enabled compared to disabled

[hollow garden]

show with alpha beta

[rapid wraith]

        {
            if (depth >= MaxSearchDepth)
            {
                return board.Evaluate() * (board.WhitesMove ? 1 : -1);
            }

            var value = int.MinValue;
            var legalMoves = board.LegalMoves;
            
            foreach(var (from, positionsTo) in legalMoves)
            {
                foreach(var to in positionsTo)
                {
                    board.UnsafeMove(new Move(from, to));
                    value = Mathf.Max( value, -Negamax(depth + 1, board, -beta, -alpha));
                    board.UndoLastMove();
                    
                    alpha = Mathf.Max(value, alpha);
                    if (alpha >= beta)
                    {
                        return value;
                    }
                }
            }

            return value;
        }```

note that legalMoves is a dictionary of positions from as the key and a list of positions to as the value

[hollow garden]

hmm

what kinda thing is happening when alpha-beta is enabled

this seems fine

[rapid wraith]

it's making (I think?) worse moves

I can show you if you'd like

the game it's for is Antichess

(chess but if you can take you have to take)

[hollow garden]

hmm

[rapid wraith]

I'll show you screenshots of it's first moves with AB on vs off

On

[gleaming eagle]

Do you guys know the name of the program where he created it

so this slime

[rapid wraith]

vs off

[hollow garden]

well the only thing i can notice is that you're for some reason doing max on value and -negamax, it's usually like this ```
negamax(board, depth, alpha, beta) {
if depth == 0 {
return queisce(board, alpha, beta);
}

for (all moves) {
board.makemove();
score = -negamax(board, depth - 1, -beta, -alpha);
board.unmakemove();

if score >= beta {
  return beta;
}

if score > alpha {
  return alpha;
}

}

return alpha;
}

(pseudocode)

[slate thorn]

I created that on this website: https://www.piskelapp.com/p/create/sprite

[gleaming eagle]

Thank you

[rapid wraith]

the pseudocode that I was trying to implement was the following:

    if depth = 0 or node is a terminal node then
        return color × the heuristic value of node

    childNodes := generateMoves(node)
    childNodes := orderMoves(childNodes)
    value := −∞
    foreach child in childNodes do
        value := max(value, −negamax(child, depth − 1, −β, −α, −color))
        α := max(α, value)
        if α ≥ β then
            break (* cut-off *)
    return value```

[hollow garden]

hmm

never seen it done that way

[split sierra]

is there a way to sort a list of transforms by the x position of the transforms?

[hollow garden]

look into LINQ

there's a method called OrderBy which takes a predicate to sort the list by

[rapid wraith]

why does your queisce take alpha and beta as arguments?

[hollow garden]

alpha beta can be applied to queiscence search as well

[rapid wraith]

oh queiscence search I'm doing a much more basic eval function atm lol

I'm eventually gonna make it search until no move can take

[hollow garden]

well, i'm sure the code i posted works, since that's what i'm doing

pub fn search(
    pos: &mut Position,
    depth: u32,
    mut alpha: Evaluation,
    beta: Evaluation,
) -> Evaluation {
    if depth == 0 {
        return q_search(pos, alpha, beta);
    }

    let moves = MoveGen::new_legal(pos.board());

    for m in moves {
        pos.make_move(m);

        let score = search(pos, depth - 1, -beta, -alpha);

        pos.unmake_move();

        if score >= beta {
            return beta;
        }

        if score > alpha {
            alpha = score;
        }
    }

    alpha
}

(rust)

[rapid wraith]

I'll implement this and see what it does

[hollow garden]

aight, hope it works

if it doesn't, then it's not the algorithm

it could for example be your evaluation function

that's doing a dookie

[rapid wraith]

it's done something else entirely

[split sierra]

objects.OrderBy(t => t.localPosition.x);
should it work like this with linq? @hollow garden

[rapid wraith]

surely the evaluation function shouldn't matter, as long as it returns the same thing for the same board?

[hollow garden]

well that just produces a new list

so you need to assign it to something

[hollow garden]

the evaluation function should matter, because your score depends on it

so it could be playing worse moves on purpose

cause that's what the evaluation function is telling is good

[rapid wraith]

it should matter in terms of the overall eventual analysis, but Alpha-beta pruning is supposed to return the same move regardless of wether it's enabled or not

it's just supposed to be an optimisation

[hollow garden]

idk

[rapid wraith]

my evaluate is literally just this

        private int Evaluate ()
        {
            var total = -_wPieceLocations.Sum(pos => (int) PieceAt(pos).Value) 
                        + _bPieceLocations.Sum(pos => (int) PieceAt(pos).Value);
            _numPositionsAnalysed++;
            return total;
        }

[hollow garden]

[rapid wraith]

it's good enough for now lmao

[hollow garden]

well, alpha beta pruning

it prunes nodes it finds undesirable

without it it just searches it raw

and if that's your only metric

[rapid wraith]

the point is that those undesirable nodes wouldn't end up affecting the final evaluation anyways

hence why they're prunable

it's supposed to result in the same value for each eval just with fewer needed evaluations

[hollow garden]

for all i know it could just be looking at nodes with the exact same score and picking it arbitrarily

[rapid wraith]

eh?

[undone coral]

does Application.targetFramerate = -1 result in a 30fps target on DirectX 11, 60fps on DirectX 12?

should i always use 999, -1, 60...

[rapid wraith]

I figured out the issue

I think

The negation of int.MinValue is still int.MinValue

the reason being that int.MaxValue is one less than the absolute value of int.MinValue

[hollow garden]

expose it as a user setting?

[hollow garden]

ah yeah that

i use a special Evaluation thing instead of just ints

it has a predefined range of i32::MIN + 1023 to i32::MAX - 1024

[rapid wraith]

yeah it works now with my code

ok now I need to implement multithreading, move ordering, fixed search times instead of search depths and transposition tables using zobrist hashing

[somber swift]

The default value of Application.targetFrameRate is -1. In the default case, Unity uses the platform's default target frame rate.

Usually that means unlimited fps, on mobile devices it can be lower tho

[undone coral]

is anyone familiar with a private network vendor?

the objective would be to deal with issues illustrated here - https://qz.com/790208/how-the-company-behind-league-of-legends-rebuilt-its-own-internet-backbone-so-that-its-faster-for-gamers/

[modern cradle]

So I have an

list<IService> _services;
//and a
public GetService<T>() where T : IService

How do I see if the list contains a T, and return a T not an IService?

does that make any sense?

[urban warren]

Just (T) the result.
return (T)_services.Find(s => s is T);

[modern cradle]

sick onliner, trying it out!

live save, TY. Trying to google that was hellish

[urban warren]

Np, you know what is happening in that line?

[modern cradle]

linq y Lamba timey wimy

I'm not 100% on 'is', but I got the rest

but it feels pretty intuitive

[urban warren]

is is pretty intuitive, it returns a bool whether the instance on the left of it is of the type on the right.

[modern cradle]

oh nice

[urban warren]

Fun thing, you can actually cast with it too

if (service is T result)
  return result;

Same as

if (service is T)
  return (T)service;

(The top one is a tiny bit more performant iirc since it only needs to do the check once. I could be wrong though)

[undone coral]

C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\il2cpp\build\deploy\il2cpp.exe @Library\Bee\artifacts\rsp\7559046136821863181.rsp

Fatal error. Internal CLR error. (0x80131506)
   at Unity.IL2CPP.DataModel.Awesome.CFG.TryCatchTreeBuilder.ProcessTryCatchInfo(Unity.IL2CPP.DataModel.Awesome.CFG.TryCatchInfo, Unity.IL2CPP.DataModel.Instruction, Unity.IL2
CPP.DataModel.Awesome.CFG.InstructionBlock)
   at Unity.IL2CPP.DataModel.Awesome.CFG.TryCatchTreeBuilder.BuildTreeWithExceptionHandlers()
   at Unity.IL2CPP.DataModel.Awesome.CFG.TryCatchTreeBuilder.Build()

so... why might this happen

[sly grove]

IL2CPP devs did an oopsie

[undone coral]

are there are bunch of side effects that il2cpp needs from opening a project in an editor at least once?

i see this error in my attempts to automate il2cpp windows inside containers

[sly grove]

docker containers?

[undone coral]

yes

in all my CI scenarios

i have seen issues where a project has to be open "at least once"

like outside of containers

so much unity code assumes that the editor has opened the project

[rapid flume]

why is my unity hub black screen all of a sudden I am facing it for the first time

[austere jewel]

This isn't a code question, and do not cross-post

[rapid flume]

😐 so where to ask

[austere jewel]

#💻┃unity-talk . There's probably an answer on the forums though

[rapid flume]

ok

[remote oar]

anyone ever had the issue that a gameobject (in this case the playeR) gets destroyed on build? OnDestroy doesnt even get called, but the player is destroyed for some reason..

[viral pilot]

Is it used ? Maybe this : https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ManagedCodeStripping.html

[remote oar]

let me check, sec

its disabled

[dusky carbon]

what's the difference between the models it works on vs doesn't work on? works on no or single parents, but not models with multiple ancestors?

also doesn't localToWorldMatrix pretty much tell you the matrix to undo the transformations from all the ancestors?

[woven kettle]

hey, is it possible to disable physics between layers when the object enter certain trigger and re-enable it when it exits it?

also, which way is the best to check for primary number ?

[undone coral]

it sounds like you have a bug in code you alone authored

[timber depot]

Hello, i am trying to learn how to add properties to something that already exists, would anyone be able to assist me with this?

[fresh salmon]

It's not possible for properties, if you don't have edit access to the class. You can use extension methods instead.

[timber depot]

I am wanting to add more colors to the Color...

[fresh salmon]

You can make a static class that holds a bunch of your own Color values.

The source struct, Color, has been compiled and cannot be modified

[timber depot]

Yeah i know i was just trying to learn how to extend what was already there. 😕

[bright sun]

hello is anyone able to help me with my problem?

[thin mesa]

https://dontasktoask.com/ (also if this isn't an advanced issue, try beginner or general code instead)

[bright sun]

well ive asked about 3 times and had no response anywhere so its a bit frustrating. basically im trying to get a prefab to spawn next to a block. its a projectile so it needs to be facing in the same direction as the block. Ive managed to get it spawning next to the "ship" but it's not facing in the right direction

[thin mesa]

not an advanced topic. take it back to #💻┃code-beginner
if you don't get a response immediately then just wait a little while and ask again.

[brave talon]

Hi I need help, I'm developing with the XR interaction toolkit and I have multiple different scenes, all of which I want the XR interaction with a canvas (so I can press buttons) to work. The problem is when I change scenes something bugs out and it stops working. Does anyone know how to help me?

[tribal helm]

It's very little information about a problem that can have lots of different causes. 😦

[brave talon]

Oh okay i don’t know how else to explain it or what to add

[rugged radish]

hey guys
I'm generating meshes for mountains separately for each world chunk and it all behaves as expected, except the chunk seams
vertices there are perfectly aligned, but you can see a very visible seam
my guess is that is caused by Unity's normal calculation specifics
is there a way to make Unity's calculation aware that normals should be calculated as if the mesh continues further ?

meshes for terrain itself do not have this issue by the way

ok, nvm that, now that I think about it, it makes perfect sense
I guess I need to make an additional pass on the seams after the automatic normal calculation and calculate seam normals myself

[hallow cove]

is there a way to get all the classes in a namespace?

like UnityEngine?

[fresh salmon]

Sure, with a bit of Reflection, something along these lines

using System.Reflection;
Assembly a = typeof(UnityEngine.Object).Assembly; // get an object in the assembly to search
Type[] types = a.GetExportedTypes();

[hallow cove]

thank you!!

let's see if it works

yesss

[hallow cove]

thanks lots!

[nocturne tusk]

Anybody knows why this code gives different results in Debug mode and in Release mode? In Debug mode it gives the expected result. ```cs
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;

P p = new P(10);

System.Console.WriteLine(p.i1.data);
System.Console.WriteLine(p[1].data);

readonly struct P
{
public P(int value)
{
i0 = new I(value);
i1 = new I(value + 1);
}

public readonly I i0;
public readonly I i1;

public I this[int index] => Unsafe.Add(ref Unsafe.AsRef(in i0), index);

}

readonly struct I
{
public I(int data) => this.data = data;

public readonly int data;

}```

In Debug mode it writes 11 and 11, while in Release mode it writes 11 and 10.

[nocturne tusk]

Here is an interactive version in SharpLab: https://tinyurl.com/yzpfsy96

[undone coral]

what is your objective?

[nocturne tusk]

There might be a bug in the C# JIT compiler with Unsafe.Add

[undone coral]

i cannot make heads or tails of what this is supposed to do

why are you trying to modify read only fields this way

or

i don't even know

what the hell you are trying to do

[undone coral]

do you mean debug versus release il2cpp?

[nocturne tusk]

Both p.i1 and p[1] reads from the i1 field, however they result in different values

[nocturne tusk]

Nothing is modifying readonly fields, it is only reading from them

[undone coral]

what's your objective?

[nocturne tusk]

No, the C# JIT compiler on the main branch of the dotnet runtime repo

[nocturne tusk]

reading a field with an index

[undone coral]

okay... why not do it this way?

I this[int index] {
 switch (index) {
  case 0:
   return i0;
  case 1:
   return i1;
 }
}

which is exactly what grpc does

i assume you can't do what you're doing because it's wrong, not that it's a bug

[nocturne tusk]

Well, both the Unsafe.Add and the Unsafe.AsRef invocations do exactly what they are supposed to do

[nocturne tusk]

Doing it with a switch statement neither inlines nor performs well

[nocturne tusk]

It might work when index was passed as a constant and the JIT compiler was able to detect that, but when index is no longer a constant performance problem will arise

A switch will yield an unnecessary jump table when it can simply use an LEA instruction

[fresh salmon]

In release the JIT inlines the hell out of it lol. It does not even access the indexer, it just loads 10 and 11 onto ecx for printing. You might have fallen upon a compiler bug, indeed

[nocturne tusk]

Exactly, that is why I posted it here to see if others have noticed something similar

[fresh salmon]

Unlikely, something that advanced isn't common sighting here

You could file an issue on their GitHub after reproducing it on your own system (that will eliminate a potential "online compiler bug")

[sleek idol]

Hey, I'm curious if it is possible to download a file into a nativearray w/ a unitywebrequest. My main goal is to create as little garbage as possible - Unfortunately I'm dealing with a Unity version where nativeData doesnt exist on downloadhandlerbuffer.

[undone coral]

well touché

[nocturne tusk]

Yes I think I will do that. Thanks for the discussion.

[undone coral]

does the bytes[] field create a copy?

i don't remember

[sleek idol]

I would assume so

that being said, I have not tested

[undone coral]

what is the type?

i don't think it does

i mean

what are you trying to download

[sleek idol]

zip files

Pretty sure I should be able to do the unzipping with little or even no alloc, its just about getting the bytes

I'll go on with the bytes field for now and see how bad that is

maybe its fine who knows

[undone coral]

i think don't worry about it

you will allocate in order to decompress a zip file

[sleek idol]

making use of streams and unmanaged memory unzipping seems to not create garbage at least

[undone coral]

okay... but just think about it. you want to take something of length X, and then you do something that does math that turns it into length X+Y

where is Y more bytes of space going to come from?

[sleek idol]

Well yeah it will of course allocate memory, its primarily about not creating garbage as mentioned above

[undone coral]

yeah i think it'll all work out

[sleek idol]

I shall proceed, thanks

[supple crest]

Anyone use switch statements with bit fields? Trying to figure it out. Say I have the following:

[System.Flags]
public enum State : byte
{
    None = 0,
    Happy = 1 << 1,
    Laughing = 1 << 2,
    Confused = 1 << 3
}

If I want to switch this with some logic for permutations of interest, I've found I can sort of do it:

return state switch
{
    State.Happy => SmileValue,
    State.Happy | State.Laughing => JoyValue,
    _ => DefaultValue
};

What would I write to achieve a switch condition of "Has Happy and Not Confused"?

[nocturne tusk]

You probably would have to use pattern matching to achieve this.

which is basically a glorified if statement

[supple crest]

I was under the impression switches were already glorified If statements

[nocturne tusk]

To a certain extend, some switch statements can be compiled into much more performant jump tables or binary searches

[sly grove]

They are mostly but sometimes there's a jump table optimization

[supple crest]

Hrmm, fascinating. I'll have to look more into that. Maybe I'll be best served just using if statements to get the value I need in this case.

[nocturne tusk]

Yes, if you can, you should still use pattern matching because it is designed to be more readable

[supple crest]

hrmm, using things like and and and not?

haven't really used pattern matching, looking into the docs quick

[nocturne tusk]

yes, or use the when keyword so you can put conditions inside switch statements

[supple crest]

Cool, thanks for showing me this -- probably will fit the bill best!

[woven kettle]

hey, what is this error all about InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute.

I have a list List<> that stores all objects, but when new objects is too close to another one, it combines into one ( meaning removing that old object and creating a bigger one double in size ).

and if the entire box has too many objects, it destroys everything in it and disable itself.

that error occured while it was in the process of destroying everything on the list

 public Pool pool; ///////////// Pool also has a similar list ( has list for all obj in all boxes )
 foreach (Object obj in objList)
{
      int i = pool.objManagerList.IndexOf(obj);
      pool.objManagerList.RemoveAt(i);
      objList.Remove(obj);
}

[nocturne tusk]

Most collections in dotnet cannot be modified while they are being enumerated

You need to keep track of a list of objects to remove, and remove them after the foreach loop is complete

or you can use the for loop rather than the foreach loop, however it is more difficult to get right

[dusky carbon]

maybe this would work?
pool.objManagerList.RemoveAll(x => objList.Contains(x));
objList.Clear(); *

[woven kettle]

well I dont understand then, should I use Emulator to destroy the box after 1-3 sec for example ?
how could I know if it's being enumerated or not ?
I can use for loop if that would fix it, but you don't seem to be sure about that ..

[woven kettle]

I could give it a try

[nocturne tusk]

you are enumerating through it with the foreach block, but you are also invoking Remove inside that block, which is not allowed for a List<>

[nocturne tusk]

Yes you can use a for loop to fix it, however it is not easy to do it correctly when you are new to programming or C#

[dusky carbon]

either way: this is a #💻┃code-beginner problem

[woven kettle]

@nocturne tusk @dusky carbon thanks a lot, I dont know few/some basics but I'm not new to programming, either way, thanks, that would do 🙂

[dusky carbon]

the channel has more to do w/ the actual problem and not experience in programming. I have been programming for 10+ years but I still hang out in code-beginner because I'm new to c# and unity libraries (and still learn stuff from there)

[woven kettle]

me too!

[nocturne tusk]

FYI I opened an issue on dotnet/runtime here: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/71601

[undone coral]

pretty great detective work

[dim geyser]

Can anyone help me ? I want to import .jar file into my project. How can I do it?

[novel plinth]

lo and behold https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AndroidJARPlugins.html

it is not mentioned in the docs, it won't work if the .jar built from older java version

[brave talon]

Hi I need help, I'm developing with the XR interaction toolkit and I have multiple different scenes, all of which I want the XR interaction with a canvas (so I can press buttons) to work. The problem is when I change scenes something bugs out and it stops working. Does anyone know how to help me?
I'm attaching a video showcasing what happens

[undone coral]

maybe use 1 scene

you don't need to change scenes

use prefabs instead

all the dont destroy on loads

it's hard

[brave talon]

But then I have multiple other scenes later

like individual maps

and if I kept the player in the main scene, whenever I reloaded it it would create a duplicat eof the player

[dim geyser]

Do we need the latest version then ? Actually we extracted the .jar file from .aar file. Will it work?

[undone coral]

i don't mean to be unhelpful

it'll make things easier in the long run

[novel plinth]

by older there, I mean, much older version... us modders love to bring back prehistoric jars from ancient times

[brave talon]

I know, but I can't have all the maps in one scene

[undone coral]

you can prefab them out

and load them that way

[dim geyser]

Actually we extracted the .jar file from .aar file. Will it work?

[brave talon]

I guess, but isn't there a way to fix my problem across scenes?

[novel plinth]

you, I, and our lovely doggy dog pet would not know, unless you try it 🙂

[undone coral]

it's hard

there are so many things that could be wrong

you are using so many dont destroy on loads

[brave talon]

oh should that be kept to a minimum?

[undone coral]

it is just one of many pitfalls

[brave talon]

oh ok

thanks

[dim geyser]

I have getting error when I call the method from .jar - Exception: Field currentActivity or type signature not found

[brave talon]

I'm using Photon Network for my game, and when I call JoinRoom with what should be an existing room name, nothing happens, it doesn't send me to a room

[untold moth]

Debug something in on joined room

[brave talon]

that's the thing

[untold moth]

Probably better to ask in #archived-networking btw.

[brave talon]

oh ok thx

[glacial wedge]

How to deserialize a string like that: "{\"0\":\"1\",\"1\":[\"4\"]}"?

I'm using newtonsoft

Tuple<int, int[]> responses = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Tuple<int, int[]>>(response);

but it returns only (0,)

[compact ingot]

your json has a string[] not an int[]

[glacial wedge]

ohf

you are right

but it should convert it to int, no?

[compact ingot]

no#

why would it, this aint javascript

you can however add a custom converter that would try to convert them

[glacial wedge]

now thats the result: (, ) it is maybe worst xd