Question by TomaszKozera · Jul 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM · ui version-control save scene version control

automatic decimal changes on UI elements?

I'm seeing a lot of unexplained behaviour on UI elements. When I open and immediately save a scene without any changes, my git tool shows changes such as these:

-m_Size: 0.9999981
+m_Size: 0.99999607

So somehow a change was done not as a result of my actions. I also have no editor scripts that would calculate or change properties on editor level. Additionally , the changes are on 6th digit position which is weird and seems to indicate a floating point precision differences on some calculations.

The bottom line is that when I open the scene and save it I end up with a ton of changes that actually don't do anything important but make it harder for me to sift through which files should be uploaded to repo.

Any ideas as to what is causing this? Is there a way to get around this?

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Hellium · Jul 20, 2018 at 10:45 AM 0

As indicated, it's due to the lack of precision on floats, I don't think there is any way to change it.

TomaszKozera Hellium · Jul 20, 2018 at 11:01 AM 0

But why is the value changing in the first place?

Hellium TomaszKozera · Jul 20, 2018 at 01:04 PM 0

Because when you saiy to your computer "assign 0.9999981 to this variable" (during deserialization of the project), it's not able to assign the exact value (becaue it's not able to, due to lack of precision) resulting in this change in your version control system.

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