Introduction to Game Development (E21: coroutines)
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- In this episode we look at coroutines in Unity.
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The clarity of this tutorial is just mind boggling, its pretty amazing what talents you have for teaching Sebastian. Please never stop.
You are 10000% correct
Been using corotines for many years, but a few things explained here taught me new ways of using it... You, sir, are a wizard!
Your voice is really calming, thank you for this tutorial!
8:23: never knew u could do that.. killed inside
8:38: at this point he's just repeatedly stabbing me... feeling soooo stupid rn
my thoughts exactly, i've been doing it one object at a time.
edgy
Being a student in video game programming in college and having ADHD, it's not always easy to keep the pace and understand the same way or as quickly sometimes, but your videos are by far part of the few ressources I use that are near perfection ! ( Since perfection doesn't exist ^^ )
So I want to say thank you and I am very grateful!
Hey Sebastian! I've watched your tutorials for a long time now, keep up the good work! Even though I'm more eager on the "more advanced" tutorials, I still like to follow this series, because there's always a chance to learn something new!
About coroutines I kinda want to make this small clarification (I'm pretty sure that you know about this so maybe this is more for those who might be reading comments) :
You can start coroutines from non-MonoBehaviour derived classes, however you do need a reference to a MonoBehaviour derived class, and for that you can then call Start/StopCoroutines (because they are - after all - just public functions). This might come in handy from time to time if you want for example build a some sort of state machine that's composed of multiple regular C# classes, but which are initialized from a MonoBehaviour-derived class.
Once again, thanks for the great tutorials! I'm still looking forward to the continuation of the Procedural landmass generation series. Cheers mate!
The best explanation of Unity Coroutines I have ever seen. Thank you for this great tutorial!
This is literally the best tutorial i ever saw in my lifetime
You sir, are one of the greatest tutor on RUclips. You know how to keep it simple, easy to understand. Thanks a lot
Magic explanation of co-routines - saved me a lot of agonizing reading of documentation.
...I never thought of the word as “co-routines”. That hyphen really makes it clearer,
Freaking loving these Intro to Game Dev videos, dude.
Well damn, that was good!!! Not only is your style concise, but it's extremely well done in how it takes a viewer through WHY some things are done (jiggling box).
I have no words to explain how thankful I am. I was searching for whole one day to solve this issue. I am greatful to God you helped Sebastian. Thank You Veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy much.
This is the best explanation of coroutines that is online
I would be really interested in a "Behind coroutines" video where you explain how it works under the hood and what is possible! Nice vids bdw!
Thanks a bunch! I've been confused by all these yield elements as nobody bothered to explain them in their videos up until this one ^_^ Great job!
I really like the way your lessons were constructed.
Thanks!
Holy cow. I have literally watched dozen videos about coroutines but none of them where super understandable like this video. Thanks mate!
Super Crystal clear Explanation You are Awesome Sebastian.
Dude just saved me! I didn't see anywhere else that i could use yield to wait for another coroutine like that. Thanks!!
This is so far the best tutorial on coroutines I have been able to find. Thank you.
Been trying to understand coroutines for months now and you made it so easy!
Dude seriously. these videos are the best for people looking to start and brush up on some skills. Also lately you've been pumping them out keep it up :D
I'd love a follow-on episode to this going into more depth of what to take into account when deciding to use a coroutine vs doing operations within an update method
One little note: inheritance from MonoBehaviour is not the only condition to coroutines working. Script should be on an object on scene, otherwise we will get NullReference. Thanks for tutorial, awesome as usual :)
Very surprised nobody mentioned that if you press space after setting up everything and while it's following the path of the waypoints, all of the waypoints move and the square goes back to not knowing what to do, pretty easily fixed but just thought it was interesting.
Thanks again for the awesome series!
Thank you for creating such amazing and easy to understand tutorials. Really help me a lot. You're AMAZING.
I like this episode very much, I will definitely be using coroutines more in the future as my game develops.
U are truly one of the best. GOAT. Tysm sir
And I have thought I already knew everything about coroutines... ^^
This kind of reminds me of Threads, i was wondering, are Coroutines just the same thing as Threads?
no, coroutine runs on a single thread
clearer explanation: stackoverflow.com/questions/1934715
Thank you so much! I'm learning a lot from you.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is a must see for anyone learning Unity
NICE, worth it to watch the stuff i knew, now its on to new stuff, and its awesome. So many things i was trying to figure out. Great job, and awesome!
Sir, you are the definition of World Class!
Bro just want to say that you are doing great job i am following your tutorials and all are very good and well explained please upload the other tutorials videos soon thank you.!!
Thank you very much, great tutorial, like always!
Hi Sebastian. I have been learning a lot from you. thes coroutines are bit confusing and taking a bit in understanding these. Your explaination towards the end helped a lot. Thank you for excellent videos.
If you still check the comments could you please tell the difference between. yield return null; and yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
Both of these had same result so I was not able to make out what is the difference.
Comments from experienced friends are equally welcomed.
By far the best unity tutor!
These vids are amazing. Please keep making these!
Subbed! I hope other videos are as good as this one too!
such a great video, thank you!
Have you covered enums in another video? If not, that is an idea for another upload. Thanks as always for this upload
dude, perfect recpa no cap
just found him --> HIS TUTORIALS ARE FIRRRE
You should really start a teaching career, you would be the best teacher in the university :D
Hey Seb, thanks for the awesome vids!
I'm curious - in my script I changed the 'insideUnitSphere' to 'insideUnitCircle' and it works fine. However, the circle's radius is on the x and y axis. Is it possible to change it to the x and z axis to get a random position parallel with the grand plane?
Thanks again!
- Kyle
Hi, there's no particularly elegant way to do this, but simply: Vector2 pos2D = Random.insideUnitCircle; Vector3 pos3D = new Vector3(pos2D.x,0,pos2D.y); ...will do the trick.
Could you make a series about AI? Especially about a goal orientated AI like GOAP. I can only find good tutorials about state machines.
Sebastian thanks so much for the well and clearly explained tutorial. 😃👍
very nice but will have to rewatch this once more this week to really get it all
amazing examples... !
Great tutorial, very detailed and clear.
That was a beautiful explanation! Thank you, I learn a lot.
Really good video
while (true){
RUclips.comment("AWESOME TUTORIAL!!!!");
yield return new waitForSeconds(1.0f);
}
Thank you so much
Love the Tutorial! Just wondering when your next landmass generation tutorial will come out, I was really looking forward to learning how to make water.
Woow thanks man for this amazing Playlist ... thanks
Hello! Thank you for your amazing tutorial :)
One question on the Move Ienumerator. Could it be that the evaluation of transform.position != destination gave always true due to floating point compare issues (imagine they are "almost" equals but differs only for some floating point)? Is this ever happened to you? Should we use some “Math.Abs” method or similar?
Cheers!
I was wondering the same thing! I usually don't compare floating point values literally for this reason. But I kinda expect it's no problem, since the 'movetowards' will make the position end up at the exact 'destination' vector, including the same float 'errors' as the one in the comparison operator, so even with the float weirdness they are probably still exactly equal.
Not gonna lie. I am a newly self taught C# and Unity user, and at 5:58 I was so excited cause I saw this bug before he said anything and tried fixing it myself. I felt so great in myself that I was able to fix it and get it working without any outside help. Then I continue the video to see that my fix wasn't what Sebastian was going for 🙁
Now, I know that I still feel great that I was able to fix it on my own, but still was a hit in the gut when he continued on to explain stopping of coroutines 🤣
Here is my fix that I am extremely proud of, yet glum about lol:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class Part10b : MonoBehaviour
{
bool isMoving = false;
void Update()
{
if (isMoving == false)
{
if(Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.Space))
{
isMoving = true;
StartCoroutine(Move(Random.onUnitSphere * 5, 8));
}
}
}
IEnumerator Move (Vector3 destination, float speed)
{
while (transform.position != destination)
{
transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards (transform.position, destination, speed * Time.deltaTime);
yield return null;
}
isMoving = false;
}
}
Great video. Thank you!
You are awesome , just one doubt , don't you think threading will provide us more flexibility than co-routines and probably you could make another tutorial on threading and compare these approaches . Pls keep doing the great work
youtube had usubed me!! i lost so many good tutorials!!! i have to watch them all again
1. i am subed to 300+ channels ( i am fu**ed)
2. i dont want my phone to fu**ING RING EVERYTIME SOMEONE UPLOADS SOMETHING
I HATE RUclips! now everyday my phone will ring 10minutes in total... aarggghhh
Thanks!
Thanks for make this taturial 🙌🏻
Wow, your videos are actually good and helpful thank you so much.
Would you mind telling me how long have you been working with Unity?
About 7 years.
Sorry, the reason why I asked that is because after seeing your videos on terrain generation, a* and cave generation, I honestly feel like crap about my unity skills, and simply wanted to know the amount of time and experience required.
But, I am glad you are making these tutorial. Lot of people (including myself) are learning a lot from you. Thanks.
Oooh! So that's how you lock the inspector! I feel so dumb now... all the struggle...
Excellent video :)
Nice!
noice this tutorial gave me idea about how to implement tower defence game.
Awesome tutorial as always.
Please can you make a tutorial of threadings in unity?
love your vids, is there anyway to implement a random method instead of the object going through the array in order? thanks
good tutorial
isn't the start function is called only once (at the start of the game) ..but this makes it look like it's called multiple times? + why should we use while? (in "move" method) cuz without the "while", the code still seems right (the cube moves a little bit then jumps to next frame and so on until it reaches the destination ) so why we need the "while"?, I am really confused..any help?
love sir
...extremely useful , thank you ...... ; ] ,,
Is that the benefit of Unity on Apple where scripts compile in no time?
did not know you could yield return startcoroutine. I need that for my board game movemnet.
so the only reason you are giving to use a coroutine is that our game does not get screwd from a bad loop?
everything else u did there could have happend with a normal method, right?
Probably, but your code will get very complex very fast. You'll need to maintain variables for identifying if the object has moved completely or not, and even for a fairly small application, it can cause a lot of trouble. I was initially avoiding coroutines for a project, but I've realised I could have completed it way quicker if I did use coroutines, and the code would be maintainable as well.
Thank you for the tutorials, can you do some on multiplayer?
So you mean each coroutine has it's own dedicated frame? I don't get it.
My idea and why I'm here is that i want to chunk off parts of my open world game and load them in depending on players proximity to them with coroutines - I wonder if using a different thread would be better ?
Is there anything wrong with using the coroutine like this in the second example:
Coroutine the_routine;
if (the_routine != null)
StopCoroutine(the_routine);
the_routine = StartCoroutine(Move(trg));
IEnumerator Move (Vector3 trg)
{
//logic...
the_routine = null;
}
It's unnecessary to set it to null, because there's no need to call StopCoroutine if the couroutine has finished running.
So the_routine will be null as soon as the Coroutine has finished even if I don't set it? Because I don't want to call StopCoroutine on a Coroutine which has finished already or do I?
No it will not be null if you don't set it. However, since you don't need to call StopCoroutine if the coroutine has already finished running, there's no need for it to be set to null.
But then if I call this method again I may use StopCoroutine on a finished coroutine, no?
But nvm^^ I worded my original question poorly. You used a IEnumerator variable to store the coroutine. I used a variable of type Coroutine are there any important differences here? Is it ok to do it that way?
why not using yield return null; for the FollowPath coroutine? What would happen?
I think i can answer myself now, it will pick the second way point on the next frame before finishing the previous way point! So basically it is a coroutine running inside another coroutine ;)
Yay 2!
Will you be making a 3D Character Controller in unity from scratch anytime soon ??
Oh yes, please.
Is this at all what you're looking for? ruclips.net/p/PLFt_AvWsXl0djuNM22htmz3BUtHHtOh7v
It also covers the 3d modeling/rigging/animation side of things though.
Not exactly I have already completed that tutorial series and it was amazing, but I was looking for something more or less like the one that you made in the 2D platformer series but instead this one for 3D models like the one you show how to make in the Character creation series !!Thank you for the quick reply!
He's made 3rd person camera tutorials now, if ure still wondering :P
Have you changed to mac?
And how do you think of it for unity development?
Have always been on mac, it works fine.
What is your monodevelop font?
pls seb
It is probably custom theme, you can download it from Sebastian's github: github.com/SebLague/MonoDevelop-Theme
Why did you use Vector3.moveTowards instead of Vector3.Lerp?
Each function has a different way of calculating the return value. Lerp will appear to start fast and slow down as it approaches, while moveTowards will keep the same "speed". That's the simplistic tl;dr explanation (also lerp will almost never reach the target, with those arguments). Try it yourself and see how they work.
RaidenFreeman Vector3.Lerp() will reach the target and can move at a constant speed but you have to do some calculus instead of just giving a speed on the third parameter
Hi! I was wondering what would be the best way to control a character in a top down dual stick shooter on pc(actually wasd + mouse).
I'm asking because it's a little weird that the movement of the player(forward, back, left, right) is relative to the environment. Is there a better way?
Mario Biavati well the camera is locked, no rotation, only X/Z movement. The camera basically follows the player. The player rotates towards the mouse pointer and the wasd movement becomes weird.
That's what I used in my 3d game: pastebin . com / myPidkmx (remove spaces from link)
I had camera as an input (camera was rotating around player, in your case it will be mouse).
Hope it helps.
You should separate your game objects. Have one as the root and keep it empty. Have another one, that contains your model. Move only the root object with wasd. Rotate ONLY the child object. This way, the parent's rotation remains constant, and movement "forward" is always the same, no matter where the model is facing. If you need more help, tell me!
isnt Coroutines same with thread =?
Hey bud, did you abandon the 2D platformer series?
Hi thank u but "Kinematic Equations" :(
Hmmmmmm......................................................................................................................
can I like twice?
I'll be honest: especially for experienced programmers, coroutines are crappy. Threading is much better, as it is true simultaneous code, whereas coroutines, block the rest of the program while running (you can't reach the next frame until the coroutine yields). Ofc, I don't know if you should do a video someday on threading, as it is pretty advanced and it can confuse people a lot.
Yes and no. You can't access the UI thread through another thread because sadly the whole thing isn't thread safe, so it's more a way of controlling breaks between code paragraphs/within loops.Unfortunately, if you don't use a MonoBehaviour (but e.g. a ScriptableObject) but have to access the UI thread to e.g. update on something while doing some heavy work that also needs access to the Unity framework, you're pretty much fucked.