Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

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Just spent about an hour deleting a file while maintaining the same functionality. The cost of this refactoring work is obvious but the benefits are ... what's the positive analog of "insidious"?

Dear diff:

Wat?

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Suppose you have a prefab Spawner that has a variable frequency and a link to a GameObject SpawnZone.

You instantiate Spawner in your scene, attach a SpawnZone (an object local to scene), and play with the frequency. When you have it the way you like it, you apply the changes to the prefab.

Of course, the prefab will now get your updated frequency and won't get your SpawnZone.

The surprise: Unity also silently rips the link to your SpawnZone out of your local instantiation of Spawner. You have to manually reattach it.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Got some good replies on a couple of channels. In summary:

To find references to a particular component (such as a transform) in a scene, click on the … for that component in the Inspector and pick 'Find Reference in Scene'.

To find GameObjects using a certain script, type the script name (without spaces) in the Hierarchy search bar.

More search features here:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/search-additional-searchfilters.html

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Things I wish I could do within the Unity editor:

Find all references to a particular GameObject in the Hierarchy.

Search the Hierarchy for all GameObjects with a particular script attached.

Are these things possible? If so, how? If not, why not?

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

@htdrake's aging iPad is giving out, so she's in the market for a new tablet. Having been radicalized here, we're reluctant to buy a new FAANG machine*. Does anyone have a Linux tablet they love?

This would be mainly for web browsing, occasional email, and some games.

*FAANG Machine is the name of my next band.

#tablet #hardware #asktodon #linux #foss

This afternoon has been a demonstration of the DRY principle (Don't Repeat Yourself).

Someone made a copy of a huge, complicated script, made various temporary changes, and then ran out of time before they could sew the patient back up.

That left me to figure out how their script (and associated collections of Unity objects) differed from the one in the other scene.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #shudder

Handy Unity tip: if you click on an error, warning, or Debug.Log message in the console, you get a stack trace.

It *may* even trace causality through an event system, which would be a huge win.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Working on some Unity code, I hunted down a bug that was caused by a variable not being properly set in the editor.

The name of that variable?

"Variable"

#unity #unity3d #GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment #sigh

Gyah! Unity's "dig through a vast tree of GameObjects to manually wire things together" approach is going to make me tear out my luxuriant, flowing hair. I can see how it lets a non-coder do simple things, but it does not scale! It's tedious and error-prone.

#unity #unity3d #GameDev

Acquatic animals in the style of Dean. #MastoArt #drawing #octopus #squid #orca #whale

Ah, that glorious two days between "it's too cold to leave the back door open for the dog" and "it's too hot to leave the back door open for the dog".

#DogsOfMastodon #pdx #weather