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Why do my bullets always go the wrong way when my player turns around?

So I tried to make a shooting mechanism for my game. My player can shoot in the direction pointed by the mouse. My player can also turn around, facing the other way as he walks. The firing mechanism is fine when my player is facing right, but when my player is facing left (I used transform.localscale and set my x scale to a negative value so my player sprite is flipped) the gun is also reversed, i solved the problem on the gun, but when i shoot the bullet, the first bullet fired after i turn around will go in the wrong direction. I set my weapon as child of an empty game object named gunHolder like this:

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When it play, it looks like this, when i trun around and shots my first bullet, the bullet go in mirror direction:

how it looks like when it play

My shooting code look like this:

void FixedUpdate()     {                  Vector3 difference=Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition)-transform.position;         float rotZ=Mathf.Atan2(difference.y,difference.x)*Mathf.Rad2Deg;                  if(player.transform.localScale.x==1)turnOffset=0;         else turnOffset=180;          transform.rotation=Quaternion.Euler(0f,0f,rotZ+offset+turnOffset);         if(timeBtwShots<=0){             if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)){              Instantiate(projectile,shotPoint.position,transform.rotation);              float transX= (float)(player.transform.localScale.x*0.3);             projectile.transform.localScale= new Vector3(transX,projectile.transform.localScale.y,projectile.transform.localScale.z);              BulletBehaviour bulletBehaviour=projectile.GetComponent<BulletBehaviour>();             if(player.transform.localScale.x==1){                 bulletBehaviour.flip=false;             }             else{                 bulletBehaviour.flip=true;                 Debug.Log("flip");             }             timeBtwShots=startTimeBtwShots;         }         }else{             timeBtwShots-=Time.deltaTime;         }              }

So I flip my weapon based on where my player is facing. I handle my player animation when facing another direction by changing transform.localscale.x:

scale=transform.localScale; if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))      {           isMoving=true;           Vector2 movement = transform.right.normalized * -moveSpeed;           rb.AddForce(movement);           scale.x=-1;      }      else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))      {           isMoving=true;           Vector2 movement = transform.right.normalized * moveSpeed;           rb.AddForce(movement);           scale.x=1;      }

And my bullet script look like this:

void Update()     {         if(!flip){             transform.Translate(Vector2.right*speed*Time.deltaTime);                          }         else {             transform.Translate(Vector2.left*speed*Time.deltaTime);             }     }

Based on where my player facing, i change my bullet direction(I did this because before, my bullet went in the wrong direction if my player was facing left). Now my bullets are facing the right direction, it’s just that the first bullet that is fired after my player turns around always goes in the wrong direction (the opposite direction to the direction it should be, even the sprites are reversed). Anyone know why this happening and how to solve this?

DOTween capacity always increasing

I’m creating a sequence and adding a couple of tweens to it. If I call it a couple of times the tweens capacity gets increased exponentially till everything gets incredible laggy.

I’ve recorded this 30 seconds gif to showcase the issue:

My code for when the button is pressed consists of 2 simple functions:

    public void HideUI()     {         Sequence sequence = DOTween.Sequence();          sequence.Append(PremiumButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(SkinsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(RateButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(HideShowUIButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(1145, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(AchievementsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(CollectionsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(SettingsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 300), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(Up.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 400), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(Down.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, -400), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(LevelsPanel.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(2000, 0), 0.75f));          HideUIImage.GetComponent<Image>().sprite = ShowUISprite;         HideUIText.GetComponent<TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "SHOW UI";          HideShowUIButton.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => ShowUI());     }      public void ShowUI()     {         Sequence sequence = DOTween.Sequence();          sequence.Append(PremiumButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(SkinsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(RateButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(HideShowUIButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(AchievementsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(CollectionsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(SettingsButton.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(Up.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(Down.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.5f));         sequence.Join(LevelsPanel.DOAnchorPos(new Vector2(0, 0), 0.75f));          HideUIImage.GetComponent<Image>().sprite = HideUISprite;         HideUIText.GetComponent<TMPro.TextMeshProUGUI>().text = "HIDE UI";          HideShowUIButton.GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => HideUI());     }

I don’t understand what exactly is happening. Is there a memory leak? Why is DoTween increasing exponentially like that? The function suggested in the console has the prototype like static DOTween.SetTweensCapacity(int maxTweeners, int maxSequences). There’s no way I’m reaching those numbers as the console shows.

Unity DontDestroyOnLoad not always working after Android build

I’ve been using this small script as a component to any object I want to not be destroyed at scene loading.

public class DontDestroy : MonoBehaviour {     void Start()     {         DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);     } }

It has been working fine. It works for my GameOver canvas which I’ve been using for a long time whilst making the game.

Today I added the same script to a new AndroidControls Canvas I made. In the Editor it worked fine. Then I built it for Android to run on my physical phone (Galaxy S10). It gave me a Null exception.

It turned out to be caused by the AndroidControls Canvas being destroyed between scene loading (even though as I say, I tested in Editor for a few runs and it didnt get destroyed). And it gets a little weirder because after the attempted build to APK, and fail on physical device, it then failed to work in the editor. It continues to not work in each test after this in Editor, however if I remove the component and add it again, the entire process then repeats.

Please help as I don’t have a clue how to start fixing this. The only thing I can imagine it being wrong is it started as soon as I used this script on two canvas’s simultaneously. (I highly doubt I am correct but it’s the only thing I could notice at all that might be causing this).

This picture actually shows my DontDestroy component is attached to Canvas_AndroidControls, but in the Hierarchy you can already see that it is not in the DontDestroyOnLoad section (excuse the pink overlay for play-mode):

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Maybe relevant, here are some of my specs:

Win 10 Unity 2020.3.5f1 (Just downloaded NDK/SDK for Android today via Unity Modules) Android 11 (Samsung Galaxy S10)

Was youtube-nocookie.com always serving cookies or did it start recently? Is it a scam?

I’ve been using Youtube embeds in enhanced privacy mode by

chang[ing] the domain for the embed URL in your HTML from https://www.youtube.com to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com

I remember checking via DevTools (Application/Storage tab) that no cookie was actually set.

A customer just notified me that they did find cookies set by the domain .youtube-nocookie.com — weirdly, something about "consent pending", which does not change when I click play, as other sources state.
They have also alerted me to some shenanigans in Local Storage, namely an item with the key yt-remote-device-id, which has a UUID and an expiration date 10 years in the future.

I have always suspected that Enhanced Privacy Mode is somewhat of a exaggeration, but this seems to defeat the purpose almost entirely. And it makes youtube-nocookie practically useless w.r.t. a less painful GDPR-compliant user experience.

Is this a recent change? Is there any documentation or changelog on that?

SQL Server Always On AG – Is a Passive Secondary Required for Automatic Failover?

It is my understanding that for automatic failover to occur in an Always On AG environment, the replicas just need to be configured with "automatic failover," "synchronous commit" and the environment must have proper quorum (i.e. odd number of voting members).

However, according to the "SQL Server 2019 Always On" textbook by Peter A. Carter, for automatic failover to work, the secondary cannot be active and must be passive. Passive meaning the Readable Secondary setting is set to ‘No’ so it is unavailable for direct connections or read access, and obviously no backups can be done on them either.

Here is the exact statement from the textbook:

"Although we can change the value of Readable Secondary through the GUI while at the same time configuring a replica for automatic failover without error, this is simply a quirk of the wizard. In fact, the replica is not accessible since active secondaries are not supported when configured for automatic failover."

Here’s a screenshot of the "quirk"

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Note: According to the textbox, the Readonly Secondary should be set to ‘No’ if you want automatic failover to work. Thinking back, I don’t recall a successful automatic failover occurring with this set up and I believe when an issue occurred, the AG was in a RESOLVING state. Note, we have third server for proper quorum.

I’ve searched through Microsoft’s documentation to confirm whether or not the author’s statement is true but have yet to find anything that explicitly states that the secondary replica must be passive for automatic failover to work. This Microsoft article (Failover and Failover Modes (Always On Availability Groups)) states the conditions required for automatic failover but does not mention needing a passive secondary replica.

So is the author correct and Microsoft has failed to advertise this OR is the author incorrect and automatic failover does work when the secondary replica is active/readable? My objective is to have a highly available environment with automatic failover but do we need to sacrifice offloading read operations in order to accomplish this? Adding another server is not an option.

How to make my draggable object always on top?

why my object is behind another object and also disappear when dragging around like this

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as you can see the item or draggable object is always behind the second one, also behind all panel like this enter image description here

this is my draggabe script :

public event Action<PointerEventData> OnBeginDragHandler; public event Action<PointerEventData> OnDragHandler; public event Action<PointerEventData, bool> OnEndDragHandler; public bool FollowCursor { get; set; } = true; public Vector3 StartPosition; public bool CanDrag { get; set; } = true;  private Color backgroundColor; [SerializeField] private Image backgroundImage;  public RectTransform rectTransform; public Canvas canvas;  private void Start() {     rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();     canvas = FindObjectOfType<Canvas>();     backgroundImage = GetComponentInChildren<Image>();      backgroundColor = backgroundImage.color; }  public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {     backgroundColor.a = .4f;     backgroundImage.color = backgroundColor;      if (!CanDrag)     {         return;     }      OnBeginDragHandler?.Invoke(eventData); }  public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {     backgroundColor.a = 1f;      if (!CanDrag)     {         return;     }      OnDragHandler?.Invoke(eventData);      if (FollowCursor)     {         rectTransform.anchoredPosition += eventData.delta / canvas.scaleFactor;     } }  public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {     backgroundColor.a = 1f;     backgroundImage.color = backgroundColor;      if (!CanDrag)     {         return;     }      var results = new List<RaycastResult>();     EventSystem.current.RaycastAll(eventData, results);      _DropArea dropArea = null;      foreach (var result in results)     {         dropArea = result.gameObject.GetComponent<_DropArea>();          if (dropArea != null)         {             break;         }     }      if (dropArea != null)     {         if (dropArea.Accept(this))         {             dropArea.Drop(this);             OnEndDragHandler?.Invoke(eventData, true);             return;         }     }      rectTransform.anchoredPosition = StartPosition;     OnEndDragHandler?.Invoke(eventData, false); }  public void OnInitializePotentialDrag(PointerEventData eventData) {     StartPosition = rectTransform.anchoredPosition;     rectTransform.SetAsFirstSibling(); }

Does the optimized column order for a PostgreSQL table always have variable length types at the end?

There’s a popular and seemingly authoritative blog post called On Rocks and Sand on how to optimize PostgreSQL tables for size to eliminate internal padding by re-ordering their column length. They explain how variable-length types incur some extra padding if they’re not at the end of the table:

This means we can chain variable length columns all day long without introducing padding except at the right boundary. Consequently, we can deduce that variable length columns introduce no bloat so long as they’re at the end of a column listing.

And at the end of the post, to summarize:

Sort the columns by their type length as defined in pg_type.

There’s a library that integrates with Ruby’s ActiveRecord to automatically re-order columns to reduce padding called pg_column_byte_packer. You can see the README in that repo cites the above blog post and in general does the same thing that the blog post describes.

However, the pg_column_byte_packer does not return results consistent with the blog post it cites. The blog post pulls from from PostgreSQL’s internal pg_type.typelen which puts variable-length columns always at the end via an alignment of -1. pg_column_byte_packer gives them an alignment of 3.

pg_column_byte_packer has an explanatory comment:

    # These types generally have an alignment of 4 (as designated by pg_type     # having a typalign value of 'i', but they're special in that small values     # have an optimized storage layout. Beyond the optimized storage layout, though,     # these small values also are not required to respect the alignment the type     # would otherwise have. Specifically, values with a size of at most 127 bytes     # aren't aligned. That 127 byte cap, however, includes an overhead byte to store     # the length, and so in reality the max is 126 bytes. Interestingly TOASTable     # values are also treated that way, but we don't have a good way of knowing which     # values those will be.     #     # See: `fill_val()` in src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c (in the conditional     # `else if (att->attlen == -1)` branch.     #     # When no limit modifier has been applied we don't have a good heuristic for     # determining which columns are likely to be long or short, so we currently     # just slot them all after the columns we believe will always be long.

The comment appears to be not wrong as text columns do have a pg_type.typalign of 4 but they’ve also got a pg_type.typlen of -1 which the blog post argues gets the most optimal packing when at the end of the table.

So in the case of a table that has a four byte alignment column, a text column, and a two byte alignment column, pg_column_byte_packer will put the text columns right in between the two. They’ve even got a unit test to assert that this always happens.

My question here is: what order of columns actually packs for minimal space? The comment from pg_column_byte_packer appears to be not wrong as text columns do have a pg_type.typalign of 4, but they’ve also got a pg_type.typlen of -1.

Is a natural 20 always a critical hit?

Critical Hits agree:

When you make an attack and succeed with a natural 20 (the number on the die is 20), or if the result of your attack exceeds the target’s AC by 10, you achieve a critical success (also known as a critical hit).

Determine the Degree of Success disagrees:

If you rolled a 20 on the die (a “natural 20”), your result is one degree of success better than it would be by numbers alone. This means that a natural 20 usually results in a critical success and natural 1 usually results in a critical failure. However, if you were going up against a very high DC, you might get only a success with a natural 20, or even a failure if 20 plus your total modifier is 10 or more below the DC.

So if I roll a 20 on my third attack, but it is stil lower than the enemy AC (because of MAP for example), is it a critical hit, or a normal hit?

Does the use of a gunner major action always preclude the use of the Snap Shot minor crew action?

In Starfinder, during starship combat, the Snap Shot minor crew action allows a crew member who has taken a major crew action earlier in the round to fire a starship weapon during the gunnery phase. The rules state:

You can fire one of your starship’s weapons with a –2 penalty to the gunnery check. You can take this action only if no other gunner actions have been taken during the gunnery phase (including snap shot).

The wording of the second sentence raises questions. Does it disallow Snap Shot actions completely if another character intends to take a gunner major action? Does it disallow Snap Shot actions unless they’re taken before all gunner major actions for the round? Or does it simply disallow Snap Shot if the character attempting it has already carried out a gunner major action?

The scenario I am facing in play is this: a pilot has completed a pilot major action in the Helm phase and positioned the ship to put the enemy ship in the port quadrant. There are two gunners on board. The first gunner has fired at the enemy ship with a turreted weapon. The second gunner has fired at the enemy ship with a port arc weapon. The pilot’s player points out that the ship also has a forward arc weapon that has the broad arc property–meaning that it can target ships in the port or starboard arcs with a -2 penalty. He wishes to Snap Shoot the broad arc weapon at the ship in the port arc with a cumulative penalty of -4 (-2 for firing outside the weapon’s normal arc and -2 for the fact that it is a Snap Shot). This seems like a reasonable request to me, but do the rules preclude it? If they do, then had the pilot declared this intention before the other gunners rolled, would he have been able to do it within the rules?

When sharing the Eyes of Night darkvision, does a creature needs to always be 10 feet close to the cleric to be granted the benefits?

The Eyes of Night feature from the Twilight Domain Cleric, introduced in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything pg. 34, grants darkvision to the cleric:

You can see through the deepest gloom. You have darkvision out to a range of 300 feet.

It also allows the cleric to share this darkvision with willing creatures:

As an action, you can magically share the darkvision of this feature with willing creatures you can see within 10 feet of you, up to a number of creatures equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of one creature). The shared darkvision lasts for 1 hour. […]

It’s clear that the creature needs to be within 10 feet of the cleric for him to use an action to share the darkvision. But once shared, does that creature needs to be within 10 feet of the cleric to be granted the benefits of the darkvision from Eyes of Night? Since the sharing has a duration 1 hour I’m wondering what if a creature that wandered far away from the cleric would still be granted this benefit.