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Okay, welcome to office hours. It is time

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So if you have questions, please feel free to drop them into the office hours channel

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I'll get them answered in the order that they appear. Otherwise, we're gonna sit in

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unimaginable unending

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Silence mmm. Okay. We have a first question of the day, which is from specs

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Which says I've asked a bit before but it's been a while. So why not? I'm running ahead the server again

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I'm trying to get near

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Logs into an elk elastic stack

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unfortunately the timestamps and the s logs only have the time and not the date of an experience with such things any advice on how

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I might do this. Um

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Do they not have the date? I was not aware. Let me

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Just open up a log file just for my personal reference here. Yeah, they only have a

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Only have the time interesting. Um, you could probably base it on the

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Like the name of the file when you ingest things we do have the date in the name of the file there

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So maybe you can pass that out logging is actually something which I really really really want to improve

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Like we don't really use like a standard logging library right now, and I would love to get one situated

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I'd also get to one get one situated where you can kind of provide like a little bit of config to it

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So for example when a user has a problem with Neos and we know it's in an area. Let's say physics I can say

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Run Neos with this like command line flag and it will enable extra logging about physics because right now what happens is if we

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Needed say extra logging about our problem

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We would commit changes to Neos in everyone's sphere that would update the locking to include that information

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And then when it was fixed we would then on the next update remove that information and that would allow us to

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Stop doing that that would also allow us to not remove those log lines from the code

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I'm weird and and maybe a little bit sort of

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Obsessed with it, but if a log line exists in code it should exist forever because there's sometimes a lot of work that goes into

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Creating logs or creating specific log messages, and we shouldn't need to delete that we should just disable it if we don't need it anymore

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There's lots of libraries for doing that we're just not really using any of them

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So we need to that one improve a lot of the stuff there

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Next question from

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Actually, I'm gonna jump to specs is because it's a follow-up

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Who asks when the date rolls over does Neos create a new log file and you date will it continues the same file?

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I have no idea. I have no idea

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We'd have to have basically like a 24-hour session running and then see what happens at the date boundaries. I don't know

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So gun Griffin asks what restrictions can oppose filter apply

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Can it be manually clipped I use a raycast to tell it to limit the motion in that direction

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So a post filter has like a number of components that you can use

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I actually have the code base open which is a rare occurrence right now, but

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It does mean I can I can look them up all real quick for you, so I just find references to post filter

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okay, so

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You can do what's called a smoother

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post filter that one will sort of make your

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Controls smoothed Gable has an example of that inside Neos essentials gadgets

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Skibbles toy shop and then there's a weight in there and it feels like a heavy weight

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And that's because it's smooth lerped in you grabbing it. That's also good for like levers or heavy wheels or something

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There's a part in Fundamentally 8. This is a sideline, but hey we have time. There's not many questions

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there's a side part in Fundamentally 8 where you're you're descending through a building and there's this

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big wheel to open up part of this like basement level of a building and

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You need to spam like the x button on your controller to do it and the speedrunners of that game have sort of

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Narrowed down the mathematics of spamming that big wheel to a tee so they can get through as fast as possible

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If you can't do it on the first try

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Another member of your party in this rPG will then join you and then you have to spam it less because then there's two bodies

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On that wheel spinning it

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So that's a sideline. It's cool

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I know what they call it in the speedrunner community is like first try valve or whatever it is and it's very difficult

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It's like I don't know. I'm not gonna get this right

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It's like 120 button pushes over a period of like a minute or I don't know whatever the the limit is

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But that's what it's meant to you know meant to signify

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Hefty lifting would be a good use of that post filter

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Moving on post filters. There's a rotation

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a rotation constraint that prevents you from Rotating whilst you're holding it so things like again levers

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And wheels would be really good for that one. I haven't actually used that one a lot mostly because you know

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It uses similar things to a joint and joint scary

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Joint scary, there's pose offset that will basically offset you and a position in a rotation when you grab it

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I'm not really sure why you would use that but hey, it's there

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The one that is probably more applicable to guns actual question though is the box constraint

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So what the box constraint will do is when you grab something you only be able to move it in that box and because there's

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A box it's got three dimensions if you only want left and right make the box really

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Really short, but really wide or really deep just you know remove that height

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And then you don't need to be able to move it up and down stuff like that

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Manually clipped use a raycast to tell it to limit motion you would do that using the box constraint. That's

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All there is really to them if you want any more sort of other pose restrictions that you've got please do drop them a feature

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Request on the github and we'll get it sorted

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Whenever we can or if it's a good idea

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Remember when you're like asking for things like that ask for what you would like to happen rather than your intended approach

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So for example here and you're doing good in the way that you've asked it

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I'm just pointing out because there's an opportunity to

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Gun asked use a raycast to tell it to limit motion in that direction

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We don't need a raycast to do that

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You could use a raycast to do it and then calculate the the distance based on that

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But what we need is an ability to limit the range of motion the amount of motion, right?

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So that doesn't technically need a raycast that could be static. It could be dynamic

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So make sure you kind of separate those two so that we don't get lost in the sort of like

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Why would you need a raycast and said it's like oh you could use a raycast to have this effect

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Moving on to our next question we have from unnamed cyborg cat has anyone tried creating a physics gun yes

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I believe quite a few people have just off the top of my head. I would probably go off. I wrote

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Sorry, we're really like scariest mod, so maybe they would know if someone has one or maybe they made them on themselves

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I'm not sure, but sorry would be my target to go ask that particular question

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Specs asks lately myself and friends have experienced issues joining sessions. Yes

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We're aware of that one I think we're looking into it today

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It's probably just the relay server like pooping again, so we'll take a look at it should be fixed today

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If not, I will I'll bash bash fruits around a little bit too. It's fixed gently of course just like that. Hey fix it um

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Really almost too fuzzy. It's a way to swap into another avatar. That's in the world via logics. Yes

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There is the equip avatar

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Node is inside the avatars folder

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So cool like just take a look at it. You can find inside my public folder

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I think it's in like public proper prime tools. There is the avatar equip

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Tooltip that basically you can just point at an avatar and equip it it sounds weird

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But there was a bug for like one update where you couldn't equip avatars that are in the world and so I made that tool

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quickly

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It's also got I don't think actually release that version

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No, turkey turkey edited it. There's one way you can

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Select an avatar with secondary and then duplicate and equip it over into

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Like the other ones there

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That will just change the avatar not teleporting equip avatar will just change your avatar

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It shouldn't teleport you the context menu does teleport you as far as I'm right

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Name cybercat asks about Hypno space outlaw. I have no idea what that is and so no I have not checked that out

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electronic asks so I have a user parent or one of my avatars and users can walk around on a box collider with it when

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I move manually they tend to stay in place, but when I move my stick even slowly they tend to fall off

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I've been advised to use a box collider for the parent that is fairly large to basically catch them is the better way to do

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This um no, that's what you'll have to do

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Look into how the character parent who works this comes a lot a lot in elevators basically if you stop colliding with that

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Call a collider it will be parent you and so what's happening

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There is probably like an update order or something like that is happening to decollide them from the collider

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So that's cool. I didn't think it actually got taken down taken down. We didn't delete it

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I don't think we delete anything for that's a reference of Turks tool being taken down. I think it has

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So you just keep an eye on that collider make sure they're not

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De-colliding with it you might be able to hook up some light logics to try and figure that out a little bit more

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Because you can detect when they de-collide from it

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You know like children count change or something like that and maybe sort of narrow down

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What's going on there moving course to Fuzzy's question is there a recommended theoretical discovered maximum number of children you compare it before things get upset

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Not that I'm aware of you'd probably end up in issues

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quite rapidly, but like not quickly at all you should never have to worry about it

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This does come up a lot as well people worry sometimes too much like I understand the worry

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But if there is like a performance problem or like a limitation or something like that

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Then we should take care of it with you like we should take care of that for you

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So you don't have to worry about it. No, we see that's

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Children a parent can have children a parent. Oh, yeah, that's a different thing. Yeah number of slot children

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There is a limit

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I thought you were talking about trees like descending down children parent children children children children like a branching tree

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That's probably got no limit, but number of slot children. There is a limit. I forget what that is again

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You shouldn't worry about it. It's probably close to one of those other

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boundaries yeah, yeah

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You shouldn't like it shouldn't like it shouldn't you shouldn't have shouldn't have anything there there are then of course as he brings up the

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JSON limits as well sometimes there are limits on on JSON when saving it good example here being that folder

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So I prevented it from being created, but I haven't obviously what's going on

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I haven't fixed up so that it will then be okay in the actual UI

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There's people that were creating folders that had incredibly long names

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They were using colors or ASCII art to make their public folders

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that was breaking stuff because the folder length was too long and

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Some of the validation just just couldn't handle the link for that. It was related to the JSON and synchronization

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So I put like a sort of stopgap on that in the create directory menu

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So you can't make them really long

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But I haven't then gone back and done the rest of the operations there to clean up from behind next on was to

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Has who says on unis player not sure if the right place to ask is there some kind of general plan to simplify

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I knew as his UI. Yep. There is that's the UI overhaul roadmap. Also. Take a look at the myths page on our wiki

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and this page is sometimes quite sort of

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Bludgeoning in the way that it's worded. It's not intended like that

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It's just intended to be as quick and as blunt as possible just to get in the message out there

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So we want to improve the UI we know it's bad. We are going to improve it like it's not intentionally this way

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It's not on purpose that it's terrible. It's just not finished

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We will finish it at some point in the future

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TBD fuzzy is there a nice way to discover and not off an object exists XYZ other than looping through everything from root down

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Checking yeah collider. So again, I guess happens a lot and I keep hearing about it. So I'll keep saying it

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People worry about colliders being Aggie or colliders being problematic if you do them correctly, they're totally fine

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So what you would do there is probably take a small and I say small because you're trying to look for a singular point a small

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sphere active Collider

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teleport it to that position and

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Detective any collisions occur and then turn it off if you do that all within like a couple of update cycles. You're fine

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There's no like it's fine

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That would enable you to sort of see what's going on there now

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You could technically do sort of weird bounding box stuff

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But you would have to look through all the children there if you want like a dynamic access without looping through the children and descending

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Colliders the way to go

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And speaking of that, maybe I can tutorialize it at some point head on over to the creator jam

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Not this week's but last week's creator jam that was about bread and carbohydrates

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There is a small wheat farm there where I I use active colliders. I I use them. They're good

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They work well

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And you can kind of see how I advise doing that over there

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You can grow wheat and then harvest it and grind it into flour because that's part of the cup jam if to so

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It was a good job

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Etronus points out that the object that you're trying to discover must have a collider that is correct if an object doesn't have a collider

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It's kind of a bug sort of like if it's like an art world or it's your own world cool

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But if it's someone else's world don't spawn stuff that doesn't have colliders that happens a lot with sort of like

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I don't know half finished

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projects or something like I'll go into a world after it's been open for a couple of hours and it just be like

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There is a sphere the size of the Sun in the background

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Why is no one removed it and they're like we can't find it. It has no collider, and I'm just like

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Really?

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Active colliders active cut yet

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You just I know that we have the pseudo physics via the collider at the character colliders that are active, etc

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Just just don't do it. Just don't do it

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Electronus points out additional clarifications about collider types double check my table

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you'll see there, but there's something there an avatar would do that because avatars have the the

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Colliders on them that do have collision

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If you wanted to go for the non collision ones then maybe maybe raycast to help there like kind of it like picturing like this

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Robot that flies around the map that just goes like okay couldn't get a collision with my active Collider

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Pupupu of a bunch of raycast couldn't get a collision with my actual raycast cool. Guess there must not be anything here

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But yeah, I don't don't descend madly through the through the hierarchy of just drive yourself mad. Oh

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I'm sorry. I did miss that question. Thank you for re-asking it. I try not to

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Crafting asks is it possible to make any contact means that aren't arcs. Yes, if you don't use our context menu system

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I said lots of people do it. They put like UI or tooling that exists on their avatar

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That is not arc related

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I guess a good example here is prominent that comes to mind is there is jacks like

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Wrist gauntlet thing that has a lot of sort of menus and stuff on it on arcs

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There's lots of people that do sort of customized avatars that go extreme

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And they've got all sorts of like yeah, just imagine like Iron Man menus in your head

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There's lots of those that exist those aren't arcs, but if you only use our context menu systems, then nope they gotta be ox

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And Griffin asks can you reference an item by relative hierarchy path Robin specifics lock ref no?

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What you're asking therefore is like almost CSS style searching

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in HTML you can kind of search for like

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Look for any cube which is under a sphere like you can totally do that in web programming web development

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It's totally easy to do, but you cannot do that there

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You might be able to do in the future and the reason I say that is whenever

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Fruits puts out something that has a text box like dynamic variables parent data links

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Tag slot names all sorts of stuff like that. He'll sometimes reserve characters so for example inside dynamic variable system

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There are reserved characters that you can't use for your dynamic variables the reason why those are reserved is so hey

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I'll follow this up the question with is it just search by name. Yeah, there's fine child by name which

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Confined a child by the name. There's no

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Fancy searching you can do there this fine child by tag

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There's no fancy searching you can do there to descend also reminder tags are singular

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Node there the reason has tag exists is because it is a shortcut rather than doing get tagged equally cool

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It's like has tag instead

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It's it's like one or two less nodes fuzzy ask is there a way to get sound from one place to appear to be coming

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from another place yes um

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You know got a video on that one

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Let me let me see if I can find the video for you, and we'll take a look

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Yeah, yeah remote audio

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Essentially though what you do is you?

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Anywhere, there's an audio output component is where?

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The audio actually comes out of audio output is the is the component that plays the audio so let's say you have a music clip

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They exist in the world and you play it there

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There's usually an audio output on it

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You know the green the green sort of circle thing you could go into that audio clip and you can remove the audio output and wire

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Up an audio output elsewhere. That's what a lot of the sort of video players DJ systems

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Surround sound systems do they like take your audio data, and they wire it to different audio sources

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That's how you get sort of audio around there also check out my public folder. I think it's under gadgets

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I've got a tin can telephone here remember you know tie two tin cans together a piece of string and then spoke into them

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I've got that working that uses remote audio to do that

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That's a bit complicated like if you unpack it. You'll probably go. Oh, that's because I made it like many years ago, but

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What it essentially does is it redirects your audio output when you're holding a can to the opposite can as an audio output?

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Moving on to OZ question may have asked this before but is finding a child by tag more efficient than funny by name given the most

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Technically, they're about the same. They're probably about the same the reason I say that is because find child by tag

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But find child by name has to do a lot of string stuff, so they're like about the same

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Find child by name doesn't have to do any sort of predicate matching you can just do a for each so

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Honestly, you shouldn't have to worry. This is again what I talk about where I'm like if you're worried about performance

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Let us worry about that. We don't do it right now as much as we should

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But we did do it with one note that doesn't be released yet

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but will be other is just count occurrences fruits, and I had a

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Disagreement and this time is a polite disagreement these happen all the time of programming

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They're amazing and you should learn to understand that those happen that they're cool about the performance of a counter currencies node

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And which methodology were doing so we wrote tests to see how fast it was we found a faster methodology for doing that

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And so you as a user should never have to worry about how fast counter currencies is because we've done that testing for you

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That's the design of Neos right you shouldn't have to worry about performance if you do it means we should do more work

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Okay, so the way that it's done with the Tim. Sorry. I'll state the question

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It's not a question, so I kind of just like paraphrase into a question so fuzzy is asking what I previously said about

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Audio was only applicable to avatars and not like an in-world microphone, so it's a little bit difficult with like a

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a user's voice because the only way to obtain a user's voice right now

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Dynamically is to use an avatar equipping event so the tin can telephone what it technically does when you grab it is

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Tin can and says here's the audio stream use it and then you get a quick back to your original avatar

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So I know you're asking about a clip avatar above that tin can does both of them

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Um and then what that does is it lets you gain access to it. That's the only way that you can do it with

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Within avatars voice with a user's voice right now. Is that kind of weird equipping route SLS talks about ref hacking

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I don't advise ref hacking because it can break at any

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Moment so don't advise it it could break tomorrow. It could break yesterday

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I don't know could even technically break during a session it just depends like

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It's a bit crazy there if you're doing non avatar audio though. There's there's lots that you can do. There's the avatar frame slot

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That's why there's like a square and you can put the sound effect in it

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There's a bunch of components for doing that and a bunch of

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Like stuff there like random audio clip player stuff like that you can redirect that to any audio output throughout the world

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There's a bunch of like optimizations that can be done with audio outputs. I do want to talk about on a video at some point

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Something which I see for a lot of for example is when people use those frame slots

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They forget to remove the audio output on the actual green circle thing

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and what that means is you actually doubled your audio output components, which means you've

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So let's say you're walking through a hall of fire and you've got fire coming out of the wall into you know

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For the entire walkway rather than for each flame at the same time

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And if you want the flames to be different color, you only have to write it one place. So that's a good tip there. Oh

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It's it's great when when people have to continually ask better and better questions to get exactly what they need

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I love it

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So fuzzy has updated the question again and saying that they would like to pull audio from the world itself including avatar or ambient noise

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You're talking more about sort of

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Recording what's going on in the world from a from an audio point of view?

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That we don't really have anything for and the reason is that like audio coming like out to your ears only goes through one

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Thing there. I think there's technically like something in the unity side of things which is the component that does that

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It's like the the point in space where you hear the audio coming from. There's only like one of those right now

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And that exists in your head

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There's a bunch of stuff that like only exists inside the unity side of things and it's completely invisible to you

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It might be an audio listener component. I could open up the unity project

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It's usually quite scary when I do that. It tries to recompile shaders sometimes which takes two days

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I'll find it at some point. But yeah, like it's uh, there's lots of like unity related stuff

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That we hope to open up to you at some point. They then be able to mess around with for example

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I'm quite interested in we want to do sort of voice calling or in some cases video calling between people in the

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In in Neos and to do that we would need like a better system for audio listeners as they're called

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So ears in the world, there's lots of ways to make like, you know mouths and speakers and stuff like that

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There's only one ear that exists inside your avatar. It's right in the middle head

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jumping around

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electronicis what's the limit on audio outputs? I never forget. I never forget. I always forget

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I always forget that it is something along the lines of 32 to 64

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I would always give yourself a little bit of headroom and aim for maybe 28

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just because you've got to remember the people in the world are technically an audio source as are

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Context menus or bells on their neck, by the way

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If you have a bell on your neck that rings when you move around, please adjust it

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So it's not on the global audio channel and consider making it not make noise at all. Thank you

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Like you're taking up an audio output from the rest of the session to be annoying. Sorry

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That's just the way it is

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electronicis, but they're the most important more show me your importance through being a good person and through the work that you do inside me

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So I don't even mean the stuff that you create

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I mean being a community member and then you'll get all my attention, especially if you write talks

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Fuzzy ask is there a way to swap left and right audio channels and someone know

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You might be able to do that in the user inspector. But again, I wouldn't really advise it

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If you do with the developer to create new editor user inspector

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There's a bunch of stuff in there and like if you play over the wrong thing

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You will crash your game or you will disconnect yourself from the rest of the like just be careful with that stuff

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But you might be you might be able to do it in there. Don't negatively scale ahead

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Audio has nothing to do with

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Like what your head looks like there is something in like how small you get that can affect the audio

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That's because the audio engine sort of on a sort of how big things are and tries to sort of mess around audio on that

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You'll notice that on an audio output. There's like in the scale max scale

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I haven't played with that person because I don't really understand it

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But maybe you're making like a borrower's game and you need like bigger things to sound bigger

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I don't know. It's there play around with it. Fuzzy says it'll be interesting challenge. Sorry Fuzzy Fox. There's two to two Fuzzy's

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Fuzzy challenge to play with reversed audio. Um, when you say reversed you mean swapped L and right L R

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Sorry

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Or do you mean like reversed as in speaking backwards? Oh, they mean to know them. Oh, yeah

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Yeah, be interesting. I don't know

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Take a look at I'm gonna forget the name of it and probably spend like 20 minutes trying to find it if anyone knows it

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In the in the channel, please please please drop it by there is a audio only RPG game on Steam

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It won a bunch of awards you play it you play it with your eyes closed

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I mean there is text on the screen if you want to but like you don't see your character

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You don't see the enemies, but you can like battle people have like full-on boss fights. You don't see anything. It's amazing

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moving on to

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Additional questions actually just a little anecdote before we get on to the next question here because I see business lawyer in there

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There was one time when business lawyers microphone was emitting

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Absolutely eldritch cosmic horror noises. I don't remember why I think it's something to do Windows 10

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But they joined Aegis wolf and I on

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The moon landing world

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She's already quite sort of dark and dreary and dim and spooky and they just like because it's also spherical gravity

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They kind of like crested over a hill of this spherical gravity world and they were just like speaking just absolute

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Horror at us and it was terrifying at a recording of in-game

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I will try and get it outside a game so I can post it here

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But it was it was terrifying on the audio recording. I have it includes the hitch that would happen before

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We had a good garbage collector, which was the long you played Neos the worst the hitch got

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And you knew it was happening because all the audio sources would hitch you'd hear like

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And they would like get through the hitch and his cosmic horror recording includes some of that

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It was terrible especially with the glowing bird eyes of the beak

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Just sort of like bouncing up and down of this like oh, it was terrible. Yeah, it was really old like first couple of months

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I was scared like I was scared and then once I was scared

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It was business lawyer periodically coming back into the world and trying to see if it was fixed or not

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Last questions, I guess because we're running over in time

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Girl Griffin asked us an intimate audio source keep a channel busy. Yes, depending on how you use it

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There are people here that will disagree

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periodically with what I say, but

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Use play one shot more lots of people like don't use play one shot these days

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I see lots of sort of parented audio outputs or parented green circles, etc

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The reason I say use play one shot more is because it creates and then deletes the audio output

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It creates then deletes the audio output and people say well it makes a slot

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I'm like yeah, but we can optimize that for you like if that's got a problem

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We'll optimize it for you like maybe we'll do a play one shot update where it doesn't create a slot

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And it'll be more performant if you go out of your way to make systems that we don't understand

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We can't optimize them for you later. So I always advise wherever you can play one shot

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It's it's just a lot better

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It creates the audio output and then removes it if you need to have the audio output around good example here would be repetitive

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Noise that needs to occur background music or like ambience stuff like that crickets wind howling stuff like that go for it

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But the moment you don't need that sound turn off the audio outputs enabled flag the enabled flag and needs to be off if you're not

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Outputting audio through the audio output turn off the enabled property of the audio output that will mean it won't count to your limit

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But it can still exist and be there

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Footsteps you should question why you need footsteps if it's a game world or you've got atmosphere sure if your avatar individually has footsteps

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My headaches do not like that spec says

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They suggest play one shot

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But maybe limit if it's spammable like no more than 380 plays in a time

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We did keep audio source counselor

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Do keep an eye on that one if you spam it then you will create more than you would have found if you had used

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a static audio output

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Something which I usually do and do advise doing a lot more

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Particular things like play one shot and also raycast and stuff like that is make sure that you're filtering the user that the impulse occurs

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Into just one user like sometimes, you know, it's just a one user like if it's on a button push or something like that

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but if you're not sure there's throw in a equal equal if node and don't fire the impulse because uh

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That leads to problems sometimes, you know

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You'll you'll have an impulse that you didn't expect to be able to be caused by multiple users

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Being caused by multiple users and then at point you'll have n sounds rather than one sound because n is the net of people in

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Fuzzy Fox asks is the audio limited because the audio system we're using yes

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It's a unity limitation those limitations do exist in a lot of audio engines

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It just depends on the ones that we are using

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I don't know what it would be or how prevalent it would be but I would I would estimate the the unreal has it

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I'd estimate that cry engine has it I would estimate that they all have it. It's just the way that audio works in some regards

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I'd like it to not be there but like but probably need a new audio engine for that. I don't know whatever

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It's good that it needs to be there though. If you think of like traditional game programming

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The audio engineers you'll see that on the credits of our audio engineer. What does that mean? That means both sort of mixing?

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Creating the sound stuff like that. That's more audio production though

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But that also means like how the audio feels in the game and how it's activated in the game

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it's very very complicated and they would keep an eye on how many audio sources they had even if there wasn't a limit because

417
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Audio is resources dresse ask about sound filters. We do have some but they only apply to

418
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Globalized audio right now and they're also sort of like a box, right?

419
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So there are a cube around you that does that effect?

420
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I would like to be able to sort of more limit that to particular sounds etc. It's good for voices

421
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But again, it's only on broadcast audio. So annoying that is an audio engine limitation

422
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Yeah, if you wanna know more about audio

423
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Um speak to ng and if you want to know more about randomized audio stuff speak to fur who does audio for roller coasters

424
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That's a really interesting conversation

425
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Ask them about the Hagrid ride ask them about the Hagrid ride with that. I think we're done

426
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We're running way over on time here

427
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So I will go ahead and leave off here

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if you have other questions, feel free to DM me any time and I will get back to you as soon as I can and

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And this will be up on sound later today. You'll have a good day. Bye. Bye