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[wintry quarry]

they they won't be getting hit by this raycast. Can you prove otherwise?

Follow the steps linked above and don't skip anything even if you think you did it already

[polar acorn]

Yes, the links you were sent

Log the name and layer of the object your raycast hits

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not certain of your setup but here's an example: https://gdl.space/munegarivi.cs

[tawdry rock]

Yay! i think its working now. I had some "issue" that other rays caused me. I only slept 4 hours in the passed 2 days so can't really think straight. Thank you for your time guys.

[vestal valve]

Guys, How should I display other language text?

[ivory bobcat]

You can watch a tutorial or read the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@0.2/manual/index.html

Whatever you can find on the net and that is easier for you. Tutorials and docs should be easy to find for Unity.

[wintry quarry]

you need to use a font that supports those symbols

[vestal valve]

what font should I use?
It already supports in editor..

[wintry quarry]

Any font you want that supports those symbols

whatever font you are using currently for the ui text does not support it

find one that does and use that

[silent valley]

I have a float called "lifetime" which is for my battery % . I'm struggling to add it to this part of the script. I want my light to start flickering at 10% lifetime

[ivory bobcat]

What's this script?

If anything, you could evaluate life time in some update and have it modify the light intensity.

[silent valley]

it's for my flashlight. I have made it so my flashlight flickers. just cant do it for it to only happen at 10%

[ivory bobcat]

Ah, okay. cs if life time > threshold return

You'd do this prior before any of the above. No point in doing anything if the condition isn't true.

[silent valley]

so i can put all this into a bool and if true then this activates?

[ivory bobcat]

Umm I'm not sure what you're saying exactly but you'd simply not do the other stuff if the condition isn't met.
If anything, you might also want to reset the intensity before returning so that when the battery increases over the threshold, it resets.

light intensity = default
if battery > threshold
    return
...
light intensity = flicker```Where you'd flicker if the threshold (low on battery) is met.

[lethal cargo]

Can someone give me fpc controller or movement ?

[ivory bobcat]

"Unity fps controller"

You can also try the asset store and see if there are any free ones

Or paid ones.

[lethal cargo]

alr il try thx

[silent valley]

I might find tutorials on flickering scripts. I'm not sure what half the script means and I don't like that

Thank you though

[lethal cargo]

is this good?

[wintry quarry]

It's free - give it a shot

[ivory bobcat]

Probably.

[lethal cargo]

alr

[silent valley]

Sorry, I have one more question. Regarding custom methods. I've looked it up before and it didn't quite make sense to me. Why is the method custom and not for example put in the void Update?

[wintry quarry]

• This organizes the code better. If you want to do other things in Update that aren't related to lights flickering, they are separated logically.
• You can now call LightsFlickering from other non Update places as well, if you need that.

[frail hound]

What would the best method of doing a top down camera be? Should I just keep it attached to the player sprite?

[wintry quarry]

Cinemachine is the answer to any and all camera questions basically

[frail hound]

I mean I was thinking of just putting it in between the cursor and player

[ivory bobcat]

Consider doing some tutorials on cinemachine

[wintry quarry]

idk what you mean by that exactly but whatever you want to do, it's best done with Cinemachine

[frail hound]

I mean im just putting the main camera somewhere

[ivory bobcat]

It's powerful and you'll learn to appreciate it's features - future prospects of buttery smooth transitions (free) at the cost of learning.

[wintry quarry]

Yes the best way to put the main camera somewhere is by using Cinemachine

[silent valley]

ohhhhh. I get it. so by referencing the lightflicker method in the update itself. Now i can do whatever I want in the lightflicker method without having a ton of stuff all in the update method itself

[frail hound]

Can I not just use transform to put it over the player?

[wintry quarry]

you can do whatever you want. Your question was "what's the best method" and so I'm telling you.

[ivory bobcat]

Should probably be fine but you asked for the best 😅

[frail hound]

I was kinda talking about the best in terms of something I can throw together in like 20 minutes but thank you anyways

[lethal cargo]

i drag this to main camera?

[silent valley]

You should have a prefab or something which is already set up

[wintry quarry]

cinemachine is much faster to throw together than writing a custom script

it's a few clicks

that's the point

[lethal cargo]

this

?

[silent valley]

open it and drag the fps controller into the hierarchy/scene

[lethal cargo]

i dont see it

[lethal cargo]

where is that

[silent valley]

Assets/EvolveGames/RealisticFPSController

Thank you @wintry quarry @ivory bobcat for your help. Managed to get my flickering effect when below 10% and works flawlessly while understanding all the code

[dreamy ingot]

Hey so i'm trying to plan out a unity project and was wondering if i could get some opinions on its feasibility.
I want to try and build a library/plug in for creating templates for spells so that you can quickly generate different basic spells and modify them.
I'd like to be able for it to support the D&D spell slot costs and Mana costs methods so you can choose which ones you'd like to use in whatever game.
I'm going to try and let you specify stuff like the spells name, its range and duration, effects from a set of presets, types of projectile behaviors for the user to choose from or create their own implementations as they need.
I just want to make a customizable structure that others could import and work with.

[cosmic dagger]

sounds like an asset. that'll be a lot of work to make it modular, let alone a ui/custom editor for the creation process of the spell/skill, but it's feasible . . .

[wintry quarry]

share the video as MP4 so it gets embedded

also share your code !code

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[maiden charm]

hey guys need some help with vector2 if possible

not turning green

[rich adder]

!vs

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[sharp flower]

Hey, can someone help me with movement jitter on an FPS rigidbody setup? I've scoured the forums and can't seem to get anything to work. Everything is super smooth when just looking, or when just moving, but when I move and look at the same time, it becomes definitely NOT smooth.

Things I've tried:

-Messing with update vs. fixed update vs. late update.
-Interpolation on the rigidbody.
-Messing with Time.deltaTime in relation to the controller scripts.

Player Controller: https://gdl.space/ibuvamayak.cpp
Mouse Look Controller: https://gdl.space/vawiyevani.cs

[maiden charm]

thank you looking now

updating as we speak

still not working unfortunately

[languid spire]

instead of setting transform.localRotation on whichever objecrt has the Rigidbody you shuold use Rigidbody.MoveRotation

[vestal valve]

Where does the text go?
I just changed font size from 26 to 27.

[maiden charm]

still no vector2 😦

[languid spire]

still not configured correctly

[maiden charm]

any idea how?

[languid spire]

!ide and follow ALL of the steps carefully

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[maiden charm]

installed manually followed the entire link.

[languid spire]

when this changes you know you've done it right

[maiden charm]

okay will have another look thorugh

[ivory bobcat]

Did you select the workload?

[maiden charm]

i get no option for that lol

[ivory bobcat]

Sure you do. Run the installer again

[languid spire]

where are you looking?

[maiden charm]

i do now lol

thats ticked now

[ivory bobcat]

It's often overlooked but you should be fine now if everything (the easier non missed parts) is done 👍

[maiden charm]

yeah i thought it was on visual program not installer lol

[ivory bobcat]

The other workloads aren't necessary and can reduce install time if you don't have them selected.

[maiden charm]

okay will have a look soon, gotta nip out so back in a hour hopefully refreshed

[sharp flower]

Thank you, that helped greatly...not sure it's perfect but a big improvement

[languid spire]

golden rule, never mix transform or character controller movement or rotation with rigidbody

[sharp flower]

noted, I appreciate the lesson!

[crisp gate]

!vs

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[solar tide]

Hey, how do you use the "FindChild" function but it gets many childs?

I can only get 1 with this

[slender nymph]

what FindChild method are you referring to? do you mean GetChild? because that gets a child at a specfic index. why would that return more than one child?

[solar tide]

I wanna do something like
gameObject.transform.FindChild("body", "head")

But the Find Child function only works on 1 child

[slender nymph]

that's not FindChild, it's just Find. and much like GetChild it only gets a specific child. just call it for each one you want to get

[hushed hinge]

I don't get what is going with this in the tetris game righ tnow

[slender nymph]

those last things are likely editor errors. but also you should always start diagnosing issues from the first error in your console not the last

[queen adder]

try restarting editor

and see if it persists

[hushed hinge]

ok

[solar tide]

I'm trying to use the CompareTag function but it keeps returning a null exception error

[slender nymph]

you can create whatever you have the skills to create

[slender nymph]

that's unrelated to the CompareTag method. whatever you are calling it on is likely null

[slender nymph]

this should help you diagnose the issue https://unity.huh.how/programming/common-errors/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[solar tide]

does the compareTag function use mesh colliders to find it's target or no?

[slender nymph]

CompareTag has nothing to do with colliders. all it does is check whether an object has a specific tag

the only relation that CompareTag has to a collider is that Collider inherits from Component so it inherited the CompareTag method. the method does not care what kind of collider it is, it's only purpose is what i stated before

[solar tide]

I fixed it.

[hushed hinge]

I got a problem with the red and black tetrominos is that unlike from the rest when I turn them around they do not go into the walls but for the red and black ones they go into the walls when I turns around, how can I fix this?

[slender nymph]

typically if you need help with your code you should show the !code

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[hushed hinge]

https://gdl.space/qedahafezu.cs

https://gdl.space/ovaxivaqiw.cs

[timber tide]

I don't think it was in the original, but what this technique is usually called is a wall kick, you either displace these blocks when you decide to rotate them near a wall, or just prevent the ability to rotate them.

Actually looking at it again, you don't seem to update the actual block coordinates for what they can occupy when you rotate them

[hushed hinge]

then how do I fix it?

[timber tide]

When you rotate your blocks, however you're storing the coordinates for each segment, it needs to be updated

[hushed hinge]

I don't know how to update that

[timber tide]

 bool CheckIsValidPosition ()
    {
        foreach (Transform mino in transform)
        {
            Vector2 pos = FindObjectOfType<Game>().Round(mino.position);

            if (FindObjectOfType<Game>().CheckIsInsideGrid(pos) == false)
            {
                return false;
            }

            if (FindObjectOfType<Game>().GetTransformAtGridPosition(pos) != null && FindObjectOfType<Game>().GetTransformAtGridPosition(pos).parent != transform)
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

        return true;
    }```

So here you're iterating through all the transforms on your game object and checking if it's inside of the grid

Not too sure from here, but some of the segments should be returning false, yet they are not.

[languid spire]

In your Rotate method if it is not a valid position you are using -90 3 times. if it is valid you use 90 only twice

I presume you mean to Rotate, check if valid if not rotate back

[edgy prism]

Hello I am trying to make a questUI that tracks objectives i.e. items collected X/5 and I figured doing this in update is a worse idea than using an event action but im unfamiliar with them if I do

OnUpdated += UpdateObjectiveProgress;

How do I then reference my event action in another script? Is it just ClassName.OnUpdated?

[polar acorn]

The script with the event on it should be the one calling the function

Other scripts reference this script to subscribe to it

[edgy prism]

I think im with you so far so that means I need a reference in my other script to the script to invoke the event?

[polar acorn]

Essentially, the thing with the event needs to know when to invoke the event but doesn't care to reference the things that actually use it.
The other scripts need to reference the event-caller to subscribe to it but don't care about the thing that triggers the event

Turns it to A -> B -> C instead of a web where all three things need to know about each other

[edgy prism]

Ahh I understand you thankyou, so I need a reference in the script that is invoking the event, I was under the impression I could just invoke the event without a reference stupidly

[polar acorn]

You'd still need your listeners to reference the event invoker, but this pattern prevents you from needing them to reference each other. If there's only ever one source of the event, you can make it static, then the subscribers can get the reference to the event with ThatClass.OnUpdate += ... but events must be invoked on the class that defines them, so the event needs to be on the script that knows when it should activate

[civic aurora]

!code

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[edgy prism]

Thanks for clearing this up it was my poor understanding of events I assumed that I could use them similarly to singletons but like you say its just to reference something happening without each script needing to know about eachother

[civic aurora]

https://hatebin.com/uvzsznbaqh why are the bullets going through the enemy?? The enemy should be taking damage

i have the bullets set a trigger and a box collider 2d on the enemy

[summer stump]

If the bullets are triggers, they won't get the OnCollision message

OnCollision is between two non-trigger colliders

[civic aurora]

oh you are right

should i make 2 types of bullets one for enemies and one for player?

[summer stump]

Why not use the OnTrigger method you already have for both enemy and player?

Just drop all the code in OnCollisionEnter into OnTriggerEnter (and modify it to use collider instead of collision)

[civic aurora]

it wont let me make another ontrigger

[summer stump]

No.
Put it IN the SAME ontrigger

You don't need a second one

[civic aurora]

oh ok

thank you

yes it works now 🙂

[hushed hinge]

I don't know what to change

[hushed hinge]

everything worls except for the red and black tetrominos and I don't know what I am supposed to do

[timber tide]

Didn't you say your teacher was writing the code for you? Why not ask them to resolve it?

[hushed hinge]

actually, I am not in school anymore since that was my last year and I was looking at tutorials to make that, I don't know what went wrong

[jagged gulch]

Lookin to create a shotgun in my project but having some difficulty wrapping my head around raycasts. I currently have it setup to shoot in the direction Im looking but not sure how to randomize which direction the raycasts point in.

    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
    RaycastHit hit;
    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, shotgunRange))
    {
      Debug.Log("Shot has collided with " + hit.collider.gameObject.name);
      Instantiate(bulletHole, hit.point, Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal));
      }
 
}```

[slender nymph]

if you google "unity shotgun raycast" you'll get plenty of results with examples of how to randomize the direction of the rays within some parameters for the shotgun blast

[timber tide]

My best suggestion is learn to debug your code and log the coordinates of your blocks, specifically this value right here:

            Vector2 pos = FindObjectOfType<Game>().Round(mino.position);```

[jagged gulch]

I did but most were already setup with their own weapons involving different systems they implemented

ex. most dont use ScreenPointToRay or have different raycast setups

[timber tide]

Make sure these values match up correctly to what should be inside of the grid, because even though you're using row/columns, your game is still using approximation for the position, thus casting floats to ints (basically rounding your values down to the nearest integer)

[jagged gulch]

raycasts have always been an issue for me

[slender nymph]

well in that case if you don't want to use a different setup then you can keep your multiple rays in the same spot 🤷‍♂️

[jagged gulch]

I just wanted to see if anyone had advice on how I could implement it with mine without having to redo the whole system I had setup, like wouldnt it just be possible to adjust the direction of the ray after its been created

[slender nymph]

the only thing you need to change is how you construct the ray

but if you refuse to even bother reading about how to do that, why should anyone put in the effort of explaining the exact same things you'll find in hundreds of google results?

[jagged gulch]

thought Id just ask

[queen adder]

u really should search up youtube there are literally tutorials for ur issue

[unreal imp]

boys,how i should change a text mesh with script? ``` private void Start()
{
healthText.text = "Health " + Health.ToString();
}

[slender nymph]

like that. but you probably want to do that when the Health variable changes rather than just in Start since Start only runs once in an object's lifetime

[cosmic dagger]

do you currently have a problem with what you have?

[jagged gulch]

I did, and the only ones there were not the best tbh. One video was literally just uses multiple if statements and adjusts the values in set increments rather than it being random

another was 30 videos deep into a fps controller series

[hushed hinge]

I don't know what I am supposed to change

[jagged gulch]

Ill try and see what I can take from them

[unreal imp]

nono, it will also change constantly when there is some change ```public int Health = 100;
public GameObject player;
TextMesh texthealth;
public int getHurtWithCollideObject = 2;

private void start()
{
    healthText.text = "Health " + Health.ToString();
}

private void OnCollisionEnter(collision collision)
{
    if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Toilet") && collision.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude >= getHurtWithCollideObject)
    {
        takeDamage((int)collision.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude);
    }
    if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Toilet") && collision.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude >= getHurtWithCollideObject*2)
    {
        takeDamage((int)collision.rigidbody.velocity.magnitude/2);
    }
    if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Explosion"))
    {
        takeDamage((int)Health%50);
    }
}

override takeDamage(int damage)
{
    healthText.text = "Health " + (Health =- damage).ToString();
}

[queen adder]

just use some Random.Range variables where u want it to be random

[cosmic dagger]

again, so what's the problem?

[jagged gulch]

I wasnt sure if using multiple if statements for each pellet was good code practice like the video was showin

[slender nymph]

let me guess, the issue is actually that you are getting a NullReferenceException because you never assign the variable anywhere?

[cosmic dagger]

first, make it work, then make it better/performant if you have issues . . .

[queen adder]

nothing wrong with if statements but there is no need for one for raycasting shotgun except if(you hit) do that

[unreal imp]

the problem is that it does not show the health variable on the screen

[unreal imp]

yeah ❤️

[cosmic dagger]

do you have any errors?

[unreal imp]

nope,on the script no

[timber tide]

You want to debug the Vector2 there, and you also probably want to some white space or filler text after the foreach

[slender nymph]

yeah so stop ignoring the errors in your console. make the variable either public or decorate it with the SerializeField attribute and then drag the relevant TextMesh object into the inspector

[cosmic dagger]

in the unity console?

[hushed hinge]

?

[unreal imp]

yes

[cosmic dagger]

bruh, you should start with that. any error means smth wrong or bad happened. we can't do anything until all errors are fixed . . .

[unreal imp]

the error is: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object PlayerHealth.Start () (at Assets/PlayerHealth.cs:14)

[slender nymph]

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[ivory bobcat]

With your initial accurate and perfect shot, just apply an offset to each pellet's final destination. You could use random inside unit circle with some scalar and just add that offset to the target. The result would have raycasts shot towards those points rather than the center.

[hushed hinge]

I do not understand what you mean

[unreal imp]

ok i will try

[summer stump]

Research debug. You need to know that foundational concept

[cosmic dagger]

you're using a variable called healthText in your code but you have a field called texthealth. those are two different names . . .

[timber tide]

The positional variable, throw that into your debug.log there :)

[cosmic dagger]

i don't see healthText created anywhere in your script. you should have errors in your IDE . . .

[unreal imp]

on the script the name is correct,maybe is the error of the message i sent 😅

[cosmic dagger]

how do you send code with incorrect text, that doesn't make sense? which is it? send the correct !code so we can see where the issue lies . . .

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[hushed hinge]

I don't get where I'm supposed to put it

[jagged gulch]

Where should I apply the Random.InsideUnitCircle offset to in the code?
like

    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
    RaycastHit hit;
    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit + Random.InsideUnitCircle, shotgunRange))
    {
      Debug.Log("Shot has collided with " + hit.collider.gameObject.name);
      Instantiate(bulletHole, hit.point, Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal));
      }
 
}``` since its a vector3?

or someplace else?

[summer stump]

Debug.Log can take values. Not just words you enter.
Try putting the VALUE in there
Just having "rotate" is useless

[ivory bobcat]

You'll have to think about it. You'd only want one raycast for the origin.

[hushed hinge]

what am i supposed to write?

[maiden charm]

so im back, still struggling with getting this vector 🥲

[summer stump]

Mao mentioned positional value... so what do you have there that has to do with positions?

[hushed hinge]

I still don't get it what I am supposed to do

[summer stump]

What value is a position. In your code?

Right here
#💻┃code-beginner message

Honestly, I didn't see the beginning, I don't even know what you want to fix. Mao said log position, and you literally have a variable right there

[hushed hinge]

I. still. don't. know. what. I. Am. supposed. to. do

[summer stump]

How can you not? I don't understand. No offense, but wtf lol

[hushed hinge]

here

[timber tide]

The idea is your check position is not returning false despite your blocks going out of bounds, so first let's see what those values are

[summer stump]

Put... the position... value... in the debug.
How could you possibly not understand that?

[hushed hinge]

what values?

[summer stump]

Holy mother of....

No, that is a word, not a value

[polar acorn]

Are you trying to log the words "position value"?

[hushed hinge]

I do not know what I am supposed to write

[polar acorn]

What do you want to log the value of

[hushed hinge]

I don't know why the red and black tetromino are the only ones that are like that

[timber tide]

Where did you read up on this tutorial btw just curious

I wouldn't suggest doing tetris games by aproximation in the future. You can easily just do a 2D array and check via index.

[hushed hinge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aurEgWxDfQQ&list=PLiRrp7UEG13axMHD7Kqdiy30c7ZBu_Zn7

[summer stump]

As I said before, read about debug.log
You have a profound misunderstanding about how they work. You can do this

int value = 3;
Debug.Log(value); // this will show a 3

So put the VALUE in there

[jagged gulch]

thanks for the tip on Random.InsideUnitCircle

Evantually figured it out by doing this

                {
                    Vector3 direction;
                    Vector2 randomSpread = Random.insideUnitCircle * spread;
                    direction.x = randomSpread.x;
                    direction.y = randomSpread.y;
                    direction.z = 0;
                    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition + direction );
                    RaycastHit hit;
                    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit , shotgunRange))
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Shot has collided with " + hit.collider.gameObject.name);
                        Instantiate(bulletHole, hit.point, Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal));
                    }
                }```

[slender nymph]

just so you know, if you ever plan to visualize these rays, they don't start at the same place. the directions are also all just straight so you may even notice some issues with them potentially hitting things they wouldn't otherwise hit if you just randomized their direction a bit

[unreal imp]

ok again, I have a problem and it is due to the speed detection of an object when it collides with another, in my case if my toilet object collides strongly with the floor, or another prop or is shot, it will explode, but my problem The thing is that if I drop it at 200 meters for example and it crashes into the ground or something else, nothing will happen because it seems that the speed value is very small and to explode against an object it must have a certain speed, which is a public variable ( for example 7 speed and I am using rigidbody.velocity.magnitude)

[slender nymph]

holy hell mate, did you take that printing the integer 3 as what you literally need to do instead of just an example of how you can print relevant information to the console?

[civic aurora]

why is the enemy heath bar not decreasing when the enemy is losing health? https://hatebin.com/ojqpdaalzg

[ashen ferry]

XD

[jagged gulch]

will look into that, thx

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, you should probably stop waiting for someone to write the code for you and instead read the words people are saying and put a bit of critical thinking into it

[hushed hinge]

?

[polar acorn]

No one is going to write the code for you

[slender nymph]

any errors in the console?

[hushed hinge]

I only did what I saw

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[civic aurora]

nope

[slender nymph]

is it printing the correct fill amount or is it printing 1?

[civic aurora]

its not printing it

[slender nymph]

if it isn't printing then that code is not running

[unreal imp]

show the script

[slender nymph]

(they did)

[unreal imp]

mmm

[civic aurora]

im sorry it is printing it

i think its just not showing visually

[hushed hinge]

I still don't know what I'm doing wrong

[slender nymph]

either something else is changing it, or you are operating on a different image component than you think you are

log the fillAmount before you change it as well

[polar acorn]

What is the value you want to log

[queen adder]

Yall how to make the player not affected with gravity while dashing ,so it dashes on a staight line

[hushed hinge]

what value?

[polar acorn]

Yes

What is the thing you are trying to log

[slender nymph]

set its gravity scale to 0 for the duration of your dash

[queen adder]

i did but still didnt work

[slender nymph]

probably also reset its Y velocity to 0 immediately before the add force as well

[queen adder]

Also ur the guy that teached me Github lol ,thank u

[hushed hinge]

what. value.? I don't get it

[queen adder]

i also have this in my update methode

[polar acorn]

What is the thing you're trying to print

[summer stump]

My code wasn't for you to copy..... it was an example.

[hushed hinge]

I just don't get they are the only tetrominos that just goes right into the wall after rotating near it

[queen adder]

WHY WOULDNT IT WORK 😭

[slender nymph]

have you bothered logging the position being checked in your CheckIsValidPosition method?

[polar acorn]

Set the Y Velocity to 0 before setting the gravity scale to 0

[slender nymph]

just to be clear, do you want it to move only horizontally when it dashes?

[queen adder]

rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x , 0f);
?

[queen adder]

exactly

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
yes

[hushed hinge]

like this?

[slender nymph]

christ, mate

[timber tide]

:)

[polar acorn]

Do you want to print the word CheckIsInsideGrid?

[queen adder]

u mean this? rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x , 0f);
?

[polar acorn]

Is that what you're trying to do

[slender nymph]

you could even just set the entire velocity to 0 if you don't want the horizontal movement to affect the dash distance too

[polar acorn]

Tell me, what do you think Debug.Log does

[queen adder]

Ayy that works , btw i also want the dash to happen in a short time ,like 0.1 sec or so

[hushed hinge]

I don't know what I am supposed to write, the tetromino red and black tetrominos are not supposed to go into the wall when rotate like the other tetrominos does

[timber tide]

You want to know their positional values to fix the issue

[polar acorn]

And you've been told to use Debug Log to view the value of the variable that might be causing the issue

And it's been almost an hour and you haven't logged it

[timber tide]

first we need to log those values and print them to the console

[slender nymph]

that's what your dashingTime variable is for. you can reset velocity back to 0 again when the dash completes to ensure that the force is no longer affecting the rb

[hushed hinge]

I still don't know what I am supposed to write there,

[polar acorn]

Log

The

Position

[hushed hinge]

how do I Log the position?

[polar acorn]

you put the value

in the log

[slender nymph]

inb4 "Debug.Log("the value");"

[polar acorn]

Seriously, debug log should literally have been the first line of code you ever wrote

This should not be hard

this should have been squared away before you did anything else

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/debugging/logging/how-to

[timber tide]

Neat, is that some unity AI

[slender nymph]

nah, it's vertx's site

[polar acorn]

No that's all written by Vertx

[timber tide]

ah, I see

[polar acorn]

who got tired of answering the same questions so much he bought a domain and made a site

[polar acorn]

Called it

[hushed hinge]

I don't know what I am doing right now

[slender nymph]

yes that is clear

[polar acorn]

We can tell

[eternal needle]

you should go do some basics of c# first

debugging shouldnt be the hard part of this

[slender nymph]

read this https://unity.huh.how/programming/debugging/logging/how-to

[polar acorn]

How did you get so far without ever debug logging a value

Again, this should have been the first line of code you ever wrote. Every tutorial that explains unity will start with a debug log

If you didn't, you skipped an important starting step

[hushed hinge]

I am not good with complex writing

[polar acorn]

This isn't complex writing

it's putting a variable in a log

[ivory bobcat]

Examples are shown in #💻┃code-beginner message

[hushed hinge]

I know that but I still don't know what I'm doing with it

[slender nymph]

you've already been told you need to log the position(s) you are checking

[ivory bobcat]

You'd want to log the position and see what's not behaving as expected.

[hushed hinge]

what position?

[slender nymph]

do you just not know what your CheckIsValidPosition method does?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming pos

[polar acorn]

The position you're checking if is valid or not

Find out what position is not doing what you expect it to do

[hushed hinge]

the rotating one, yes

[polar acorn]

So log the position so you can see what the last value of it was when it does something you don't expect

[hushed hinge]

I don't know how I can log the position

[polar acorn]

you put the position

in the log

as the parameter

[civic aurora]

the image is the fill icon because i have it set in the prefab place.

[hushed hinge]

I don't know what I' doing

[polar acorn]

do you know how to call a function

and pass in a variable

if not then you should not be doing any of this

you need to learn the basic syntax of C# first

Then make a game

[polar acorn]

stop

do not pass go

do not collect $200

[hushed hinge]

I do not collect

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

At this point, we cannot help you. You fundamentally do not understand enough C# to even get an answer at all. Even if we could get the logs to find the information enough to find out what the problem is, you would not be able to understand any solutions we give. We cannot go further until you learn how to at least communicate about code

[hushed hinge]

... I'm going to cut my wrists

[slender nymph]

suicide is not a joke. seek help

[polar acorn]

Go through the intro to C# tutorial I linked, and go over the documentation you've been linked for how Debug Log works

[hushed hinge]

all I did was look at tutorials and did what they said and I don't get why this is happening with jsut the black and red tretromino

[polar acorn]

We are fundamentally unable to communicate any solutions to you until you at least know what code terms mean

[hushed hinge]

I know the documentation but I still don't know what I'm going to write

[polar acorn]

Tell me, how do you call a function in C# with a parameter

[civic aurora]

use chatgpt

[ashen ferry]

If I have a planet with slots and slots have resources you can mine + you can build buildings, some of them mine resources others craft stuff from inventory im just going at it but sphagetti is forming lol how would topology or how u call it look like, what is a slot what is a building how it all ties together

[polar acorn]

They can't even understand a human explanation, a spambot will not help

[hushed hinge]

I won't restart everything to the start

[ashen ferry]

bro why u even arguing

[civic aurora]

you dont need to restart just put your code in chatgpt and ask it what is wrong

it will tell you the problems and how to fix it

[ashen ferry]

bro u gotta give perfect prompt for it to do that and at that point its programming again lmfao

[languid spire]

you do not need to restart, what you do need to do is go through your code line by line and understand what it is doing

[languid spire]

worst advice ever

[civic aurora]

how?

[languid spire]

because then you do not learn

[timber tide]

chatgpt is** a mixed bag. Even if you are trying to learn from it, you still need to distinguish from that it* may be wrong about

[hushed hinge]

I don't know why it's doing that, everything in tetris works perfectly fine with all the tetrominos when I go next to walls and rotate and I do not go in the walls, but the red and black tetrominos does, I Just odn't know why just these 2

[timber tide]

I've had some success learning some graphic apis earlier this month with it. It's pretty good when your questions are usually in the documentation as it does seem to be trained on it.

[ivory bobcat]

The rotating piece likely goes against the wall and when flipping again something magical happens. This something needs to be debugged.

[stiff anchor]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[languid spire]

well to start with, you are thinking in colours not shapes, look at the shape of those pieces and think what happens when you rotate them

I still do not know what shape red and black are

[hushed hinge]

they are S ans Z Tetrominos

[hushed hinge]

they are S and Z Tetrominos

[languid spire]

Ok, so where is their pivot point, how do they rotate?

[wraith mulch]

ahhhh geez i dont know ive been making game for far too long already and i dont knwo what to do anymore... i already had it finshed, compressed the whole game folder to upload it to itch.io but then i noticed it occupies too much memory (around 1.50 GB) and i realised i absolutely forgot about optimizing it. then i started deleting some assets to optimize the game and i fully destroyed it. the biggest problem i have now is that when the player and the obstacle collide, the obstacle doesnt destroy and the game does not restart itself. it says i should use DestroyImmediate() method instead of Destroy(), but when I use it DestroyImmediate(), the console complains that "destroying components is not permited"
obstacle's script: https://gdl.space/bajewepuci.cs

and player's script: https://gdl.space/efoyanopit.cs

[hushed hinge]

I don't know where I can see their pivot point

[languid spire]

so how can you rotate them if you do not know that?

[short hazel]

When it says that, it most likely means you're trying to destroy a prefab instead of an instance of it in your scene. Unity prevents that so you do not lose your asset in your project files

[hushed hinge]

it's been a year since I last worked on it, I don't rememebr much

[languid spire]

@hushed hinge It strikes me you have done an awful lot of copy paste and almost nothing in understanding what you are doing

[hushed hinge]

I was only looking at tutorials

[languid spire]

man, dont be a child, I work on programs I wrote 45 years ago without any problems whatsoever

[timber tide]

DestroyImmediate() is usually used for editor scripts. You should be destroying stuff during the runtime, not in the editor.

[short hazel]

Line 25 of ExplodedObstacle is probably the culprit, you do not use the result of Instantiate one line above it

Actually, it's line 27, you're calling this on the prefab

[languid spire]

You are supposed to learn from tutorials, not just copy them

[wraith mulch]

yeah i have two prefabs of the obstacle, one in whole and one is made out of smaller pieces cause i wanted it to explode and scatter around when they collide, but it did not work work and it still doesnt work...

[short hazel]

Again it is because you are not using the return value of Instantiate on line 24

[wraith mulch]

i guesss i can just give up on the scaterring around part

[short hazel]

Compare with how you're doing it on line 36

[timber tide]

If you're going to follow tutorials, follow along and type as they do. Don't just pull their code from their repository. If you don't understand it after all that, do it again or ask questions here about specifics.

[wraith mulch]

should i write it like

GameObject scatteredObstacle = Instantiate(explodedObstacle, transform.position, Quaternion.identity);
        Destroy(originalObstacle);

?

ahhh wait how do you properly format it?

[short hazel]

And then use scatteredObstacle yes, on line 27

[wraith mulch]

remind me of how to format code blocks please ^^'

[short hazel]

```cs
// Code
```

[wraith mulch]

aaahhhh without the space

[hushed hinge]

it rotates from there

[wraith mulch]

thanks, im usually stupid ^^'

[hushed hinge]

I asked in chatgbt and added more details to my saying for it to understand what is wrong with my script

[languid spire]

so your pivot point is in the wrong place to start with

[short hazel]

Pivot looks good to me for the SRS version (used by most games), but there's a lot of them

Most of them use a 3x3 grid for rotations, except for the straight bar

[languid spire]

No, pivot should be between the blocks, not in the center of one of them

[short hazel]

Nope, if you do that, on half the rotations your tetrominoes will be misaligned on the grid

[ivory bobcat]

I think Tetris has them on individual blocks

[languid spire]

in a 3x2 pivot is at 1.5, 1

[short hazel]

The link I posted has images showing the pivots

[maiden charm]

struggling to GetAxisRaw

[civic aurora]

https://hatebin.com/vssatqdkqe how can i make it so that when space is pressed one time the text is skipped to the end of the sentence, and when clicked 2 times it is moved on to the next sentence

[wraith mulch]

aaahhhhh why do i have to be so duuuuuuummbbbbbb

it still tells me that it wants me to destroyimmediate

[slender nymph]

that means you're trying to destroy a prefab instead of the spawned instance

[wraith mulch]

here's the new script: https://gdl.space/eyirakegaw.cs

[short hazel]

Make sure you're calling GetComponents* on the instance, not the prefab

Yup called it

Line 29

[wraith mulch]

i dont know what and how and where to do this part

[short hazel]

It's not relevant anymore because you're doing it now

The issue is that you're not using scaterredObstacle on line 29

[wraith mulch]

????

[maiden charm]

anyone able to help with this?

[wraith mulch]

wait should i use scateredObstacle instead of rbs?

[slender nymph]

GetAxisRaw is a method on the Input class

[maiden charm]

but it doesnt work for me?

[slender nymph]

have you even tried it?

[rich adder]

also vector3 doesn't have .position

its already a pos

[wraith mulch]

oh no wait instead of explodedObstacle, huh?

[short hazel]

scatteredObstacle.GetComponentsInChildren<Rigidbody>();...

[wraith mulch]

yeah omg im so stupid

[polar acorn]

When did you use it

[short hazel]

InputEvent is not Input, check again

[wraith mulch]

but then i dont have to change anything on this line, right?

rb.AddExplosionForce(Random.Range(minForce, maxForce), explodedObstacle.transform.position, explosionRadius);

(line 32)

[short hazel]

You do, scatteredObstacle here too

For the position argument

[wraith mulch]

yupo thanks

also

[maiden charm]

meaning when i type the getaxisraw

[rich adder]

InputEvent doesn't have that method

you wrote the wrong class

[wraith mulch]

i want to destroy the originalObstacle when the player collides with it and i have it on line 36, but im not sure whether it'll work this way?

[polar acorn]

Have you actually tried using it? Show the error you get when you do

[short hazel]

Isn't this script attached to the obstacle you want to destroy? In that case that would be a simple Destroy(gameObject) to destroy the object this script is on
Also not sure why you're instantiating a new exploded obstacle on line 39 just to play some particles, you can do this on the one you instantiated on line 25

[wraith mulch]

aaahhhhhh i wanna cryyyyyyy

[wraith mulch]

yeah i just figured xd

its just that i already got too much help from too many people on this game and so the game got really confusing

i had it all complete but i did not optimize it, and when i started deleting the assets i thought i didnt need anymore i basically deleted half of the game

[wraith mulch]

also yes, it is attached to the obstacle i want to destroy, i.e. originalObstacle

[short hazel]

ie. gameObject

You do not need originalObstacle because it would be like referencing yourself, it's unnecessary

You didn't drag-drop the object itself in the script's Inspector did you?

[naive glacier]

Hello guys, is this expected behavior for child prefab objects? I am trying to override the color but it keeps reverting back when I want to apply it

[wintry quarry]

Does this script have a custom inspector?

[naive glacier]

Yup, I just realized that I have some stuff in OnValidate that are resetting the values back

I was freaking out for a while

[queen adder]

i think the build doesnt include anything it doesnt need, i could be wrong though

[topaz coyote]

Does anybody know how I can make it so that a Parent object always visually appears over its children?

I have a Prefab which contains a TextMeshProGUI as the main object/prefab source, and an image child I want to appear BENEATH the text. I could fix it so that the main object is the image, with the text as the child, but I just want to know if what I asked is possible, as it will make it much easier for me instead of having to re-write tons of different scripts.

[timber tide]

You can try canvas grouping

such that you create an additional canvas and then order them with that. Otherwise you can try swapping the hierarchy around at times but that's dependent on your use case.

"and an image child I want to appear BENEATH the text."
You can just add the text as a child to the image component

[topaz coyote]

Yeah, I'll probably just do that. I just wanted to see if another method was better before I went ahead and re-created the Prefab and fix the scripts. All good though!

[timber tide]

My reading comprehension is bad, but the grouping idea does work for some situations, though reading it again, yeah just child the text ;)

[orchid trout]

what's the smartest way to map all 20 faces of an icosahedron to values?
I have a low poly mesh of the 20 triangle faces, but I'd like to return dice roll results from that

My naieve guess is that I could somehow convert vector3 euler angles to dice results? But I have no idea what vector values every face would be, seems error prone on my part trying to divine that info

that also might not work either because if the mesh isnt sitting perfectly flat, the euler will be some other value

[frosty hound]

Smartest way would be pure math.

Friendly way would be empty objects placed in the center of each face rotated outwards with a simple component to give it a value property.

Either way, when the dice stops, you find the face whose dot value with world up is closest to 1 to get the most up facing value.

[orchid trout]

oh I see what you mean, game objects on each surface, that is very friendly but less cool than doing it with math
But I suck at math

I'll try game objects for now but I feel like thats going to mess up the results because I won't be able to perfectly position each object's vector3 position dead center of the face

[frosty hound]

You don't need to always go the smartest route, the alternative is fine.

You don't actually need to position them perfectly, it's their rotation that matters. I only said put it on the face for visual ease.

[orchid trout]

ooh their rotation, not their position

I misunderstood that

[ashen ferry]

ayo new unexplainable issue just dropped how this could possibly keep printing that log if panel is already activated I use same thing in statement and activation so its same game object https://hatebin.com/jzdzhodumt

I already fixed it by referecing gameobject directly without getting it from animator but what the hell

[jagged gulch]

Having an issue with debugging, couldnt find any resource online with this issue, but Im trying to do Debug.DrawRay, but the rays only appear onscreen for a quick second before disappearing

not sure if its because I have debug.drawray in update() or something else but I dont know why they quickly appear and then vanish

                {
                    Vector3 direction;
                    Vector2 randomSpread = Random.insideUnitCircle * spread;
                    direction.x = randomSpread.x;
                    direction.y = randomSpread.y;
                    direction.z = 0;
                    Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition + direction );
                    RaycastHit hit;
                    Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction * 100, Color.green);
                    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit , shotgunRange))
                    {
                        Debug.Log("Shot has collided with " + hit.collider.gameObject.name);
                        Instantiate(bulletHole, hit.point, Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, hit.normal));
                    }
                }```

[ashen ferry]

use overload where u can set its duration

[north kiln]

That's how they work. If you want them to draw for longer use the duration parameter or call draw repeatedly

[jagged gulch]

gotcha, sorry haven't used drawray in ages so I wasnt sure if thats what it was supposed to do

[light arrow]

I’m having trouble making my camera follow my character like have the camera alwsys behind my player even when I rotate but what I have now is it kinda rotated at a different speed than my player so it starts off behind my player then can end up infront of my player or to the side of it can anyone help me

[wintry quarry]

I recommend using Cinemachine instead of custom coding a camera script

you can get the behavior you want in a few clicks instead of bashing your head against code

[upper spire]

is there any way to fire a ray or something similar, and then get the direction of its bounce? im trying to create a realistic mirror.

[wintry quarry]

sure, a raycast combined with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Reflect.html

[upper spire]

thanks! this is exactly what i was looking for.

[upper spire]

    public Transform mirrorcam;
    RaycastHit bounce;
    Vector3 bounced;
    public LayerMask mask;
    void Update()
    {
        Physics.Raycast(playercam.transform.position, mirrorcam.transform.position - playercam.transform.position, out bounce, Mathf.Infinity, mask);
        bounced = Vector3.Reflect((mirrorcam.transform.position - playercam.transform.position), bounce.normal);
        mirrorcam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(bounced);
    }

this is the code i wrote, im trying to reflect the way that light reflects off of real mirrors, but it isnt working. it wiggles on all axis, but very subtly. are there any obvious problems in my code?

[steel girder]

can u show the class initialization as well?

[upper spire]

sure. here.

using UnityEngine;

public class MirrorEffect : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform playercam;
    public Transform mirrorcam;
    RaycastHit bounce;
    Vector3 bounced;
    public LayerMask mask;
    void Update()
    {
        Physics.Raycast(playercam.transform.position, mirrorcam.transform.position - playercam.transform.position, out bounce, Mathf.Infinity, mask);
        bounced = Vector3.Reflect((mirrorcam.transform.position - playercam.transform.position), bounce.normal);
        mirrorcam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(bounced);
    }
}

[orchid trout]

after much data entry and determinine of values, got it werking 👍 Thanks for the help

[frosty hound]

Awesome, nice work 🎉

[wintry quarry]

You're treating a direction vector as if it were a set of euler angles

which is ????

Quaternion.Euler(bounced); makes no sense

maybe you wanted Quaternion.LookRotation(bounced);?

[upper spire]

ah yes, thank you!

[upper spire]

it works great now but is there a way i can make it only rotate on the y axis?

[wintry quarry]

zero out the y component of all the vectors you're dealing with

[upper spire]

zero out?

[wintry quarry]

set to 0

equivalent to projecting the vectors on the x/z plane

[sour fulcrum]

with Unity's Script Execution Order, does that play nice with Inheritance or do I have to specify everything

ie. if i have UIManager before Inventory, Will everything that inherits from Inventory go after UIManager?

[wintry quarry]

Unclear. Try it and let us know

[unreal imp]

Hey, if this code is being executed in the update, does it mean that rays will be generated continuously every time the E is pressed without deleting anyone? Is there a way to avoid it so that there is no lag? ``` void Update()
{
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.E))
{
objectAnimator = gameObject.GetComponent<Animator>();
ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(new Vector3(Screen.width / 2, Screen.height / 2, 0));
if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactDistance) && hit.collider.gameObject == gameObject)
{
InteractWithObject(gameObject);

        }
    }
    }```

[timid quartz]

Why is my sprite so offset from the origin? It's the only object in the prefab (there's no parent or children here) and yet it's really offset from where the actual object "is" for some reason

it means I have to offset the circle collider 2d to get it to match up

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "without deleting anyone"?

[unreal imp]

some ray

welp,first of all is that true that i say?

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what you are saying

the code will run every frame since it's in Update

beyond that I don't follow what you're saying

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, interactDistance) && hit.collider.gameObject == gameObject)

is this code you're trying to put on interactable objects?

[unreal imp]

So a ray will be generated every time I press E and they will accumulate? since the code is in the update

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "accumulate"?

[verbal dome]

Rays are temporary

[wintry quarry]

rays are not persistent objects that live in the world

[unreal imp]

because none of them are erased

[wintry quarry]

a raycast is just an instantaneous computation that happens

[unreal imp]

ahhhhhhh

[wintry quarry]

there is nothing created that needs to be erased

[unreal imp]

thanks so so so muchhhh 😘

[wintry quarry]

that being said this is very inefficient if this is a script you have on many objects in the scene

[timid quartz]

oh, I think I found my answer - this particular sprite is from an animation and I think the animation has it displaced?

[wintry quarry]

you'd be much better off just having a single Interactor script on the camera that does a single raycast each frame. Rather than doing one raycast per interactable object.

[unreal imp]

do you know how to do that?

[wintry quarry]

I just explained how to do it basically

you just do one raycast per frame. Call an Interact() function on whatever object you hit with that one raycast

[unreal imp]

oka

[summer stump]

You also don't want to call getcomponent there. You are using gameObject which is the gameObject that script is attached to, so just do it ONE time in awake or start

I know you are rewriting this, but the point still stands

[wary delta]

So OnCollisionStay won't work with a ray?

[rich adder]

wdym work with a ray ?

[summer stump]

A raycast doesn't produce or possess a collider, so no it wouldn't cause any OnCollisionX nor OnTriggerX messages to be sent

[wary delta]

I thought a ray would create a Collision or Trigger event on what it hit.

[rich adder]

A ray detects colliders

[wary delta]

yep, and in detecting them, I thought it could also activate them. I was wrong.

[rich adder]

right, thats something you code through the collider component when is found with araycasthit

[wintry quarry]

A ray is just an imaginary math concept. It means a point and a direction

Rays don't "do" anything

A "Raycast" is a math operation in which you find the intersection of a ray and any colliders in the scene

[wary delta]

but it can "hit" something... it was just a misunderstanding

[wintry quarry]

No it can't

Raycasts hit things

Ray != Raycast

[rich adder]

casting is the physics part ye?

[wary delta]

it did to me a minute ago.

so does a raycast hit create a collision or trigger event on the object it hit?

[hoary citrus]

No

[wary delta]

ok.

[timid quartz]

say I have a player and I want there to be an evil cloud that when the player enters the cloud, I want something to happen. should I put the collision script on the cloud or the player? and should I mark the cloud as a trigger or not? right now I have the script on the cloud and if it's a trigger the player walks through it without the special stuff happening (no collision reported) but if it's set as not a trigger, when the colliders touch the thing happens, but the player can't walk through

[rich adder]

trigger would be better no?

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like you want a trigger collider and for the logic to be on the cloud script

[timid quartz]

when I do that then collision doesn't report

[wintry quarry]

"no collision reported" means you're likely just doing it wrong

Show what you tried

[timid quartz]

it's a very simple script...
void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
{
print("player entered!");
}

[wintry quarry]

OnTriggerEnter for triggers

[timid quartz]

OHHH

[wintry quarry]

Look up examples

[timid quartz]

thank you!

[silent valley]

Hi, is there a way to be able to make it so i can write the bool parameter of an animation in the inspector? I commented what I'm after. Hope it makes sense

[rich adder]

like a string?

[timber tide]

make a public bool, no?

[cosmic dagger]

You want to assign the bool parameter, like the parameter name or just the value?

[wintry quarry]

Just make a public bool field, no?

Or I guess a string if you meant the parameter name and not the value

[cosmic dagger]

Use a string to access the name for StringToHash to get its anim id or just use a bool variable to assign its value. Not really sure which one you want . . .

[silent valley]

What I want was the access the name. I'm aware about the public bool. So StringtoHash is the way to go?

[rich adder]

StringToHash is more efficient for the animator to lookup that parameter

[silent valley]

Thank you. I'll look that up

[wintry quarry]

To start with you can just use a string

[silent valley]

Thank you. 🙂

[valid finch]

I want to remove a game object from the scene when the player collides with it. Can I delete items from the scene with a certain tag from within my playercontroller script?

I already set it to change the animation on the player after they collide with the tag, was just wondering if I could also destroy the item with that tag from the scene, since it is a unique pickup. not like coins or whatever

or any better way to go about removing it from the scene. doesn't have to be destroyed.

But, I don't want the player to be able to see or collide with it anymore

[polar acorn]

If you want to destroy the object when the player collides with it, why do you need to delete an item with a specific tag? Just destroy the object on collision

[valid finch]

How would I go about that. The item in the scene doesn't have a script attached to it.

[rich adder]

but has a tag?

[valid finch]

I was just using the item to change animation state of the player

[polar acorn]

How are you identifying when the player hits it

[valid finch]

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D football)
{
thisAnim.SetBool("hasBall",true);
}

[rich adder]

if(football.CompareTag("YourTag"))

[polar acorn]

So, that's going to fire whenever this object collides with literally any trigger

[valid finch]

that code is within the playercontroller script. So whenever a player touches the ball they get their animation set to that and hasBall is true

[polar acorn]

Whenever the player touches the ball any trigger they get their animation set to that

[valid finch]

So it shouldn't fire unless a player touches it right? Or am I missing something

[polar acorn]

It will fire when the player touches any trigger. Is that what you want

[valid finch]

I thought since I set the tag to football it was only checking for that

[rich adder]

thats not a tag

[polar acorn]

You aren't checking a tag anywhere

[valid finch]

Collider2D football) << I thought this is where the tag went

[rich adder]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_method_parameters.php

[valid finch]

but.. that doesn't make sense. Navarone what you said about the compare tag is right

sorry for the dumb question.

[polar acorn]

That's the name for the variable

[rich adder]

the parameter name is just for you

[polar acorn]

It could literally be anything and the code would be identical

It could be Collider2D TheChungasAmongus and the code would be unchanged

[valid finch]

haha So I could refernce TheChungasAmongus within the code then. I see the use of that now

[polar acorn]

Yes, it's just the identifier by which you reference "The collider this object hits" in that function

[valid finch]

Thanks for the link navarone. Sorry I need to brush up badly. Lots of stuff I don't remember.

So I can just use the if tag compare within my method

[rich adder]

yeah

[valid finch]

I made a public gameobject football
So I could assign the football in it so I can destroy it from within the playercontroller.

Is there a better way to go about that. I am thinking that when the ball is fumbled or thrown.. the public gameobject football won't be set because I had to manually drag it in.

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[valid finch]

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D hasFootball)
 {
     if (hasFootball.CompareTag("Football"))
     {
         Destroy(football);
         thisAnim.SetBool("hasBall", true);
     }
 }

[rich adder]

you should name things a little bit mor clear, hasFootballis just a collider2D should just be collider

[cosmic dagger]

true, that sounds like a bool variable . . .

[valid finch]

Yeah I just changed that

[rich adder]

should just be Destroy(collider.gameObject);

iirc colliders like transform, always have access the object their on

[valid finch]

So I am thinking I should probably not destroy the football. when collided with

[rich adder]

any component pretty much if its on a gameobject lol

[rich adder]

if you want a specific one you don't need the field in the inspector, the reference

you're doing stuff to it, after tag checks out

Collider2D is the thing you collided with

[valid finch]

So after they collide with the football the animation changes to look like its carrying the ball. If I do destroy the ball from the scene.. is it possible to place an object back into the scene if it isn't in the heirarchy?

if that even makes sense..

[rich adder]

yeah thats pretty much instantiation

easier to just deactivate the object if you plan on spawning the same thing

[valid finch]

Yeah I do just plan on only having the one football.

That can be fumbled handed off and passed

[rich adder]

yeah you can reset positions and move it around even if its deactivated

as long as you have the transform referenced

[valid finch]

the game object isn't actually attached to the player, I use the animation to show it is being held

So should I put a script on the football to follow the player, while it is deactivated?

[rich adder]

no deactivated objects dont run script afaik

[valid finch]

shit

lol

[rich adder]

just set its position when you need it, or parent it

parenting essentially follows it without needing a script

[valid finch]

There are going to be a bunch of players. I'm gonna have to look into making the football become a child of whichever player has it

Or I could add in the player script, when they pass the ball. reactivate the football, and then give it the players current transform?

[rich adder]

you could also just have a main script that keeps the ball following whoever has control of it

[valid finch]

football.transform.parent = transform;

something along those lines..

I like the gamecontroller script idea

[rich adder]

could even be BallController

[valid finch]

for keeping score.. stats.. time.. ball possession

[rich adder]

ideally you want a a script to only deal with one thing

[valid finch]

Do you find it better to keep all of that stuff in one script

or is it cleaner

ahh alright, that's what I was wondering

[tropic crown]

Im trying to toggle a UI visibility using code and and an if statement to show a you died screen if health reaches 0, but I cannot for the life of me figure out what to put in the if statement to toggle the UI on??? please help

[valid finch]

What is your PFP of navarone. It looks bad ass btw lol

[north kiln]

You should start by configuring !vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[north kiln]

It should not say Miscellaneous Files in the top left

[valid finch]

^ It really helps out a lot

[rich adder]

generated thru ai

[tropic crown]

how do I do that?...

[valid finch]

Those links provided above

follow those, and you will be in a happy world of coding.

[valid finch]

Thank you for the guidance by the way, I really appreciate it. You all are awesome on here.

[rich adder]

You're welcome!
& yes its a good learning community

[valid finch]

So with that main script that makes the ball follow the player. If football is deactivated. It would still be able to follow the player, since the code making the football gameobject move is on another FootballController gameobject

[rich adder]

as long as the object is referenced yes you can move it while disabled

[tropic crown]

I configured VS, any help for the code?

I assume its pretty simple I just dont know what im doing

[rich adder]

show us its configured @tropic crown

[tropic crown]

this?

doesnt say misc files

[rich adder]

looks good !

saved yourself future headaches / syntax errors 😛

[tropic crown]

ty

[rich adder]

so what do you want to toggle exactly?

[tropic crown]

I have a UI of a black screen and a child text that says you died*

[rich adder]

you have that gameobject / blackscreen referenced yet?

[tropic crown]

I believe so

[rich adder]

I assume you died is on the gameobject you want to toggle ?

[tropic crown]

yeah

[rich adder]

it would just be youDied.gameObject.SetActive(true);

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SetActive.html

[rich adder]

eh u used a _

dont copy verbatim lol

[tropic crown]

yeah yeah

got it

ty

[valid finch]

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider)
 {
     if (collider.CompareTag("Football"))
     {
         thisAnim.SetBool("hasBall", true);
         football.SetActive = (false);
     }
 }

won't let me do that within a method group

[worn harbor]

Hey guys, does anyone know what I did wrong? Lets say I have a GameObject that has a script connected to it that is using OnDrag, OnBeginDrag and OnEndDrag.

This is the script (Test Script)

https://paste.ofcode.org/cUMhXZXezDUVHJzdPbLGzw

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

public class TestDrag : MonoBehaviour, IBeginDragHandler, IDragHandler, IEndDragHandler
{

    public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnBeginDrag");
    }

    public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnDrag");
    }

    public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnEndDrag");
    }
}

Now on the GameObject, I added an Event Trigger in which I added the Begin Drag, Drag, and End Drag and I conncted the same GameObject with the script to it.

But for some reason when I looked up the function, the options for OnBeginDrag, OnDrag, and OnEndDrag weren't there.

[valid finch]

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[white yew]

SetActive is suppose to be a method, no?

[valid finch]

CS1656 Cannot assign to 'SetActive' because it is a 'method group

[rich adder]

also don't crosspost :p

[white yew]

Right... so... Are you assigning false, or calling with argument of "false"

[rich adder]

it's a method not an assignment

methodsHaveParenthesis(somethingHereSometimes)

[white yew]

The problem here is that you have a equal sign there. I am unsure if this was intentional, or by accident.

[valid finch]

I was just trying to disable the game object and i saw that SetActive was the way to go about that

I was trying to do it within my if statement

[rich adder]

it is but its a method

methods don't use =

[valid finch]

Ohh shit

ffs

[rich adder]

when in doubt always look at the !api

[eternal falcon]

💻 Learn in detail about the scripting API that Unity provides https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/

[valid finch]

i get you both now.. just so used to always using = when writing true or false

[rich adder]

= is for assignment

[valid finch]

right and the setactive method im using is false

[rich adder]

not only for bools

[white yew]

Try Pomodoro timing. Helps destress your brain for long stressful work environment.

I'm surprised that your IDE doesn't tell you that you have a problem here.. Would recommend reading the pinned #854851968446365696 post @valid finch

[valid finch]

It did tell me it was a method. and gave an error

I wasn't thinking about the =

[distant current]

is it a good idea to use scriptable objects for switching scenes? I want my player to keep his position as where he enter when he gets back to previous scene and also keep the data like the inventory and when the player picks up an item from previous scene and switch to another scene then get back, the item shouldn't be there

[white yew]

You could just make the player [DontDestroyOnLoad]?

Or have the player save information before loading a new scene, and then instantiate the player after scene loaded.

[valid finch]

Never heard of that, I just googled that. Sound like a good way to work

[white yew]

Scriptable Object should be used as a template instead of items.

[rich adder]

it's wild but SetActive is an internal C++ thing lol
I assume is just doing some extra magic but in a nutshell the method passes the bool

[white yew]

I should program in c more often..

[valid finch]

Kind of like the Update() is internal

[rich adder]

yea Update is calling the C++ side

[white yew]

Isn't it backward? Update is called from the c++ side...?

[rich adder]

unity's c# is just an API essentially to the c++ engine

[valid finch]

Any good google search ideas to find a list of internal built in methods within C#

[rich adder]

apparenetly every Update is calling the C++ side, so even empty Updates can indeed call the backend

[valid finch]

Like a list of things like Update() Start() FixedUpdate()

are there more I am missing

[white yew]

I'm confused. Update is invoked from C++, and any API you interface with Unity is directly calling interops to C++...

[white yew]

Awake(), LateUpdate(), OnDrawGizmos(), OnGUI(), OnTriggerXXX, OnCollisionXXX, yes there's a lot more.

Something like this might help you https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[valid finch]

Very awesome link

thanks

[rich adder]

not sure how it all works behind the scenes tbh I just remember reading this so I avoid keeping Update anywhere and try to limit its use
sauce : https://resources.unity.com/games/unity-e-book-optimize-your-mobile-game-performance

[valid finch]

Gonna get back to work. Just a random question, out of curiosity is it possible to change executionOrder. I don't need to do that, just like to learn some new stuff

And like to know limitations

[white yew]

Yes! - See this https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-MonoManager.html

[zenith cypress]

Update is called from C++ land. The first time a mono type is initialized, it uses reflection to gather all the "magic" functions like Update, FixedUpdate, OnEnable, etc, grabs their pointers, and sends them off to a buffer in the internal code. Which then calls the function via that pointer.

[white yew]

As per the actual Unity execution order - no. You cannot change Unity's event flow.

[white yew]

SendMessage() is expensive. That's sort of what unity uses to send signal to events such as Update() and FixedUpdate().

[valid finch]

Thank you, You earned that brain in your name 🙂

[rich adder]

Ahh I see, that makes sense

kinda wild how empty Update/Events can still allocate resources

[zenith cypress]

Oh do I have a resource for you https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LowLevel.PlayerLoop.html :)

https://medium.com/@thebeardphantom/unity-2018-and-playerloop-5c46a12a677 good read on changing the order

[white yew]

This seems excessive... To go as far as to change the game engine's loop order...

[rich adder]

afaik if you start depend on changing scripts order, something in the whole system is flawed somewhere

[white yew]

If it's flawed, it wasn't considered initially.

[zenith cypress]

I've used it in a few projects where I just needed a renderer and my own execution loop It's quite nice

[white yew]

Speaking of dangerous code, I'm dealing with JNI and unity's interops.

[north kiln]

I probably wouldn't reorder it but injecting stuff is very normal 😄

@queen adder #archived-unitytips is not for questions, provide your !code properly with context

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[valid finch]

 private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collider)
 {
     if (collider.CompareTag("Football"))
     {
         thisAnim.SetBool("hasBall", true);
         football.SetActive (false);
     }
 }
------------------------------FootballController Code Below

 void Update()
 {

     football.transform.position = following.transform.position * Time.deltaTime;
 }

The ball gets disabled upon triggering, but the hasBall animation isn't activating.. is it happening too fast or something?

Cuz It is definitely immediately moving to the player's location

[rich adder]

check the Animator at runtime to see if all the transitions are working

also whatsu up with that Time.deltaTIme on the follow code lo

[valid finch]

bad habit

nothing is showing up even though I'm getting the default running animation. although it should be the hasBall animations

The running animations are working as they should

but not transitioning anymore. They used to transition when I had the ball not following the player

[rich adder]

make sure you selected the instance running animator not the one in project window

also show transition for hasBall

[valid finch]

It's working now

The animator isn't showing realtime inputs while in gameview though

That time.delta time was messing it up or something..

Just curious why the animator isn't showing live blend tree changes while playing

It's not a giant deal right now. Was just wondering why it isn't showing. Gonna call it a night shortly.

[rich adder]

it does if you select the correct object that is playing that animator

its a bit tricky

[valid finch]

Oh.. damnit

always the most simple shit. I had the scene selected not the player..

[rich adder]

usually is..
when I started and wondered why none my transitions were working :p

[valid finch]

I wish I could move my blend tree around like I can with the base layer

thats just nitpicky stuff. it really doesn't matter

Goodnight, thanks again

[fossil tree]

A people know how i can make a local game ? Like i use 1 controller for control my char and the other people use a other controller

[ivory bobcat]

Look into the new input system.

[fossil tree]

Ok i gonna look that ty

[solid coral]

How to avoid such code duplication in classes? They have a difference of a couple of fields.....

[modest dust]

Inheritance

[solid coral]

I use interfaces, due to the fact that multiple inheritance is prohibited 😦

[modest dust]

I mean

[modest dust]

You can just create a base class with all the common fields

and inherit from that

[ivory bobcat]

Definitely ought to couple the shared members into a single base class if they do the same thing.

[modest dust]

Or, if inheritance is really not what you want to do

Then you could create a class / struct inheriting from nothing, containing all the shared members

and have it as a field

[ivory bobcat]

Correct, not everything needs to inherit MB

[solid coral]

what's wrong?

maybe I should write a code, not a screenshot?

[ivory bobcat]

A class would inherit item and interface the iweapon.

[solid coral]

I didn't understand(. please rephrase

[wanton prism]

interfaces cannot inherit from classes

[solid coral]

but what should I do if the code in Item is the most repeatable

[gaunt ice]

c# not allow multiple inheritance
so you should first define a base class inherits from SO then your custom class inherits from this class
or use composition instead

[wanton prism]

C# allows you to inherit from multiple interfaces, but from only one class. Try to change Item from abstract class to an interface.

[nimble kernel]

Hello everyone !
I need some help simulating/triggering a mouse click in the interface of my game.
In my game, the player can use either keybaord+mouse or a controller to play. I and them to be able to use the controller in the menu of the game.
Since the interface of the menu is not a usual grid with horizontal/vertical movement between things, it's not great to simple show the focused button, and I have chosen to have the controller move the mouse in the menu, even though I know it's not a great UX.
I have already written some code that let me move the mouse with the joystick of the controller (without preventing mouse movement at the same time), but I can not figure out how to make it click the mouse.
Here is my current code :
https://hastebin.com/share/ogutupacaj.java
This code is called in the Update function of my menu.
Can you guys help me ?

[solid coral]

is it possible to inherit an interface from an abstract class?

[stiff birch]

An interface can't inherit from anything

[solid coral]

the first screenshot is the code that gpt wrote... I was deceived(((

[stiff birch]

Don't use GPT...

Unless you already know how to code, and know how to differentiate working and non-working stuff, it's a very bad tool to code

[ivory bobcat]

SO Item
SO Weapon : Item
SO Range : Weapon
SO Melee : Weapon
...``````cs
SO ItemsInGame
  Item[] items;```

[neon ivy]

anyone have experience with the UnityGoogleDrive plugin? not sure what this means

nvm, turns out I wasn't handling the url correctly

problem solved, now I have a byte[] of a .obj / .fbx file. how do I turn it into a unity object?

[final kestrel]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEditor.Experimental.GraphView;
using UnityEngine;

public class CharacterControllerFrom0 : MonoBehaviour
{

    CharacterController _characterController;
    [SerializeField] private float _moveSpeed = 2f;
    [SerializeField] private float _jumpStrength = 2f;
    [SerializeField] private float _gravity = -9.81f;
    private Vector3 _velocity;
   


    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
         _characterController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        MoveForward();
        ApplyGravity();
       
    }

    private void MoveForward()
    {
        _characterController.Move(transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * _moveSpeed);
    }

    private void Jump()
    {
        if( Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            
        }

    }

    private void ApplyGravity()
    {
        _velocity.y += _gravity * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

Hey all. I'm using character controller component and this is my code. I'm trying to apply gravity but cannot seem to get it work.

[slender nymph]

you need to actually use that _velocity variable somewhere

[ivory bobcat]

Apply gravity before moving

Also with CC you'll want to multiply gravity by delta time twice

Example from the docs https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[final kestrel]

Thanks.

[sullen rock]

"A Native Collection has not been disposed, resulting in a memory leak. Enable Full StackTraces to get more details."

uh.... how tf did I manage to create a memory leak in C#

[slender nymph]

have you been using any native collections in your own code (such as with the jobs system)? if not, then it's likely just an editor error and you can restart the editor if it bothers you

[sullen rock]

IEnumerators belong there, dont they?

[slender nymph]

no

[sullen rock]

in that case I dont think I have

[slender nymph]

i'm not talking about the System.Collections namespace. i'm referring to unmanaged data structures that unity provides in its code base

like NativeArray and NativeList

[sullen rock]

I dont think Im using any of that considering I dont even know what they are

[slender nymph]

well then if the error bothers you just restart the editor

[sullen rock]

huh

well that worked

thanks

aaand... its back, lol

[slender nymph]

and again, if you are not using any native collections in your code you can safely ignore it as it is likely just an editor error

[sullen rock]

Im just gonna pretend its not there until it breaks something

[sullen rock]

something doesnt feel right tho... Im getting really low fps

[slender nymph]

use the profiler if you have performance concerns

[unique hull]

Hello everyone , i cant seem to get Cursor.Setcursor to work / Appear in my project

Is there any packets or something that i need to have before it works?

[verbal dome]

Did you do this

[ivory bobcat]

Are you referring to this one? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Cursor.SetCursor.html

[unique hull]

Yeah im using that as a reference

[unique hull]

Texture seems to work on everything else , just that the Cursor.Setcursor doesnt exist

[ivory bobcat]

Case sensitive

It should be Cursor.SetCursor

[unique hull]

That was becouse i wrote it in discord

But it doesnt exist as a function even

[slender nymph]

you've probably made your own Cursor class or a variable called Cursor

[unique hull]

Checked that , nothing called cursor

[verbal dome]

You have using UnityEngine, right?

[covert matrix]

hi im trying to make a gameobject active when pressing the Z key while the player is colliding with an npc.
the player does stop when the player's and npc's collider hits, but nothing shows up on console logs when they do, so pressing Z does nothing
https://gdl.space/ibelesanaw.cs

[slender nymph]

share the full script

[verbal dome]

Does your IDE detect other unity classes (is it configured)?

[unique hull]

I found the problem

UIElements has a Cursor function

Ill just have to make a new script for the cursor specificly for this one.

Thanks for the help 🙂

[slender nymph]

just use the fully qualified name UnityEngine.Cursor or a using alias

[ivory bobcat]

Are they in trigger mode?

[unique hull]

That.... i didnt think of that xD

Thanks alot. That helped

[covert matrix]

neither of them are

[ivory bobcat]

OnTriggerEnter2D implies you're doing a trigger event rather than a collision event. Also 2d.

Then use the non trigger variant

OnCollisionEnter2D

With parameter type Collision2d

[covert matrix]

hmm after changing it to

    {
        Debug.Log("player colliding with npc");
    }```
it still isnt working

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-messages

[spiral glen]

how do you make the camera consistent with different monitors?

[slender nymph]

care to be more specific about what exactly you are referring to?

[spiral glen]

When running my code as a program it makes everything really small when in the unity editor it's the right size

[slender nymph]

are you referring to your UI objects being the wrong size/location?

[spiral glen]

Gimme a sec I'll get a screenshot

The red box is what it looks like on the unity editor

[slender nymph]

so yes, your UI. see the documentation pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how to anchor and scale your UI objects

[spiral glen]

swag ok

[steel kestrel]

I want the Agent to start jumping from the beginning after a fall, but it seems that it won't recalculate the path unless I execute Agent.CompleteOffMeshLink(). How should I prevent it from recalculating the path?

[strong parrot]

My project has audio files that get generated in real time. Whats the best way to add the audio to an audio source while the project is running?

[rare basin]

add component then assing clip and play

[final kestrel]

 void Update()
 {
     ApplyGravity();
     MoveForward();
     Jump();
 }

private void Jump()
{
    if( Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)&& IsGrounded())
    {
        _velocity.y += Mathf.Sqrt(_jumpHeight * -2.0f * _gravity*_gravityMultiplier);
    }

}

private void ApplyGravity()
{
    if (_velocity.y < 0 && IsGrounded())
    {
        _velocity.y = -2f;
    }
    else
    {
        _velocity.y += _gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        _characterController.Move(_velocity *_gravityMultiplier* Time.deltaTime);
    }
    
}

When my character executes the first couple jumps it sometimes lands right on the ground and sometimes below it. What is causing this?

[wintry quarry]

Why is your CC radius and height so small?

Also from the code snippet you shared it seems you're calling Move multiple times per frame

CC behaves best with a single Move call per frame

[final kestrel]

How do I achieve this?

[wintry quarry]

Simply add the two vectors you would have used for the two individual Move calls

And call it once on the sum

[final kestrel]

Could it be that my asset is too small and skin width is set to minimal as possible?

[final kestrel]

Ah all right

oh you mean move in apply gravity?

[wintry quarry]

I mean one combined move call for both the vertical and horizontal motion

probably in ApplyGravity() I would just adjust the _velocity

likewise in MoveForward()

then elsewhere do the actual Move with the combined values

[final kestrel]

  void Update()
  {
      ApplyGravity();
      Move();
      Jump();
  }

  private void Move()
  {
      _characterController.Move(transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * _moveSpeed);
      _characterController.Move(_velocity * _gravityMultiplier * Time.deltaTime);
 
  }

  private void Jump()
  {
      if( Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)&& IsGrounded())
      {
          _velocity.y += Mathf.Sqrt(_jumpHeight * -2.0f * _gravity*_gravityMultiplier);
      }

  }

  private void ApplyGravity()
  {
      if (_velocity.y < 0 && IsGrounded())
      {
          _velocity.y = -2f;
      }
      else
      {
          _velocity.y += _gravity * Time.deltaTime;
          
      }
      
  }

I did this

[wintry quarry]

that's still two Move calls per frame

the idea is combine them into one

[final kestrel]

Ah okay so you mean do the vertical and forward movement in one cc.move

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

  private void Move()
  {
      Vector3 horizontalVelocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;
      Vector3 totalVelocity = _velocity + horizontalVelocity;
      Vector3 totalMovementThisFrame = totalVelocity * Time.deltaTime;
      _characterController.Move(totalMovementThisFrame);
  }```

[final kestrel]

So I was moving twice per frame before

 private void Move()
 {
     horizontalVelocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;
     totalVelocity = _velocity + horizontalVelocity;
     totalMovement = totalVelocity * Time.deltaTime;
     _characterController.Move(totalMovement);
 }
``` now Its like this

Uhm okay. Can you explain how this solved the "going below the ground" after jumps?

Was it that I was moving too fast to detect the collision?

[foggy canyon]

Hey guys
I am new here
Hey can someone help me?
i have a Unity project more than 2GB, till now i used Git for version control but now git do not cover 2gb or more file size for version control in free plan
which version control do you guys use?

[safe radish]

I'm thinking about how to implement stats for my units. i want them to have individual values x their jobs base stats. would it be a good idea to give the iv's and stat calcs on the units stat script and keep the base stats of jobs in a pure c# class?

[rich adder]

Git .
you're probably not using .gitignore

[rare basin]

Hello. I have a game that I need to Instantiate 500 objects of the same prefabs on start in random position (2D Sprites). What is the best optimization idea for this? I feel like doing for with 500 iretarions is bad idea

[rich adder]

ScriptabaleObject (baseStats) -> POCO Class (copying and modified stats)

[oblique ginkgo]

+1 on the gitignore problem, but I'd like to add that your .gitignore might not actually be working. I find this is usually because the project directory (Assets, Packages, etc.) are not in the same level as the .gitignore

[rich adder]

yup, something to keep in mind

[oblique ginkgo]

If they dont need to move then you can probably instantiate them while the scene loads and disable

[rich adder]

computers can handle way more than 500 iterations

[rare basin]

It's going to be a mobile game

[rich adder]

do it in a Coroutine

it should at least help freezing

[rare basin]

1 per frame?

[foggy canyon]

so here is detailed issue:
i used to work from macOS
i created a project there, worked on it for a month,
YES, do use gitignore. My .gitignore file code is exactly copied from the Git unity template for gitignore
it worked well till now when i was on MacOS
but i just purchased Windows yesterday and today when i do git clone with the link
it clone the project in local but here is the bug:
"ImportFBX failed" and i cannot see any mesh renderer

[safe radish]

so make 1 SO for every units jobs base stats and switch those out for different jobs?

[foggy canyon]

all my mesh renderer are missing
ALL PREFABS mesh missing and it is NOT PINK but white or transparent and missing

[oblique ginkgo]

Can probably do this, I still recommend running the instantiation in a loading sequencce so the player doesn't see the freezing while they instantiate

[rare basin]

could you elaborate?

[rich adder]

true

put it in a loading screen

[rare basin]

load scene async, put loading screen

[rich adder]

are you sure the repo was correctly uploaded?

[oblique ginkgo]

I'm not sure if Awake methods are part of loadsceneasync, but if they are then instantiate in awake.

[rare basin]

and when the scene loads and and all objects are instantiated then remove the loaiding screen with nice fade out

[foggy canyon]

i dont know
i am noob honestly
how can i make sure of that though?

[rich adder]

you can switch them out like assets yea, you just need them to copy the base stats, then use a regular class copy over if you want to modify the values

[rare basin]

still, should i do it in a coroutine? async loading + coroutine 1 object per frame

[rich adder]

never modify a SO for base stats

[rare basin]

or async loading and 500 iteration for loop?

[oblique ginkgo]

Coroutine would help if you'd like to eliminate freezing in the loading screen. If you're okay with the loading screen freezing then do it in a for loop.

[rich adder]

for loop can just be thrown in the corotuine

[rare basin]

but then 500 frames (1 object per frame)

capped at 30fps

will take some time, no?

[oblique ginkgo]

Well, yes, but by for loop I mean straight synchronous

[rare basin]

yes i know

im talking just pure for or for with yield return

[oblique ginkgo]

Benchmark it out, see how many instantiations you can do per frame without freezing

[rare basin]

i am capping my game framerate for mobile platform to 30fps, to if i am about to instantiate 500 objects that will take 500 frames approx

[rare basin]

yea will do

thank you for the ideas

[foggy canyon]

i commit and push again i guess and recheck my gitignore file

[rich adder]

make sure you pushed with the gitignore committed

[rare basin]

also i want to avoid spawning objects in the same position as my other object

any idea how to achieve that?

pick random position, do overlapbox2d and check if there is any object inside that box

if yes, repeat?

[rich adder]

checkbox

[rare basin]

if no, spawn?

[rich adder]

or overlap sure

[rare basin]

yea ok

[oblique ginkgo]

Overlap would work yes

[rare basin]

i wonder how will that be in optimization wise

[oblique ginkgo]

By the way,

[rare basin]

cuz i can see a sitaution where it's at 499 iteration and there is not much space

and its trying to find empty space al ot

[polar acorn]

All of the physics check methods are very fast by design

[rich adder]

would not worry about such a thing early

[rare basin]

okay

[oblique ginkgo]

Quoting lordofduct off the unity forums here:

How Awake and Start is setup it's:

0. You call LoadLevelAsync (you may not have, this is step 0, because the game may have just been started and steps 1 and on still occur)

1. Load of scene occurs, objects get deserialized and created.

2. Once everything is created, Awake is called on all scripts. It is safe to grab references to other objects in scene, BUT those objects may or may not have had Awake called on them.

3. All enabled/active scripts have Start called on them. This is guaranteed to happen after ALL Awake calls. So intercommunication between scripts is cool.

4. If LoadLevelAsync, and you yielded the AsyncOperation, this will now return. As far as I can tell it's the frame FOLLOWING the 'Start' call on all the objects loaded.

So you can run all this in a loading screen, yes.

[polar acorn]

You shouldn't feel bad about using any of them as much as you need to, they are unilaterally faster than any sorts of alternatives

[rare basin]

alr

idk if you have followed the context

[polar acorn]

Obviously doing nothing is better than doing anything, but the physics methods are designed to be used frequently

[oblique ginkgo]

sidenote this is a thing that should be added to the documentation

if its not already

[rare basin]

ow so i can do the initialization in awake then

if i understand correctly

[oblique ginkgo]

Yeah, Awake or Start

[rare basin]

cool, tysm

[west arch]

So I have ton of string contents in scriptable objects that are remote addressables. I need help with how to work with dynamic contents like this. I meant I've searched any localization tutorial but must of them just a simple tutorial like localization in the build. In my case these string contents is a CDN which is downloadable later by user. Someone enlighten me please!