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[graceful spruce]

ty i think that should work

[wintry quarry]

There should be typically not even be a copy of the prefab in the scene at edit time

[languid spire]

btw [SerializeField] does not make a variable accessible from another script

[wintry quarry]

I think he means he gets a reference to the script so he can access its data

[summer stump]

SerializeField makes it visible in the inspector

Ah

[fossil drum]

        Vector3 tgtMoveDir = new Vector3(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical")).normalized;

This seems jank, even if you have 0.001 on vertical, the normalized makes it so the moveDir is always of length 1. So maybe that gives you the idea that it's throwing you in a random direction?

[graceful spruce]

yeah that one

[stoic spear]

im just using keys, so it is correctly 0,0,0 when it is meant to be

i also removed the normalise and the issue is still happening :(

so it seems to be zooming me in the opposite direction of the keys im pressing, and only when im mid-air

it just sometimes happens, sometimes it doesnt

[fossil drum]

Well, it's hard to tell then, because I don't know which if and which else it goes into, and I also don't know all the parameters you have set.
Also you talk about zooming which I guess means it throws you in a different direction, and not something to do with camera zooming. Maybe a video/gif is handy to describe the problem.

[stoic spear]

yeah as in increasing my velocity and sending me flying away

[vestal valve]

Looks like I already did that.
Below is the code where I instantiated Boost(booster).
"ballpos" is the cube.
Now I need to use "On trigger" function on booster(Set to "Is Trigger" ON) but it must be triggered by ballpos(cube)
How to do that?
This script belongs to another gameobject(a gameobject I used just to keep the script alive, and the gameobject is "empty")

[fossil drum]

Add a bunch of Debug.Logs in your code, and see which vector is super high then. Then you can work backwards on why it does that.

[fossil drum]

Your lateral velocity goes insane, which seems derived from your normal velocity.

[fossil drum]

So add a debug.log for all the vectors in your AddForce methods.

[stoic spear]

oh i found the specific thing

so, its only on the Z axis, if i start a jump going right, then press the left button, it zooms me

so if i try to change my direction midair

ive removed the multiplier and its still an issue

[fossil drum]

        if (rbLateralVelocity.magnitude > tgtSpeed) rb.AddRelativeForce(-tgtMoveDir * (rbLateralVelocity.magnitude - tgtSpeed + addSpeed * multiplier), ForceMode.Force);

Also, this is weird, if your magnitude is high, you add more force. Maybe comment out that line.

[stoic spear]

yeah, yeah

i did that and added the inverse of that if statement to the else above it

seems to be working fine now

i am just a little silly

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/lamunjbvmq hey everyone. This is my script. The issue I have is that my character goes up and down in a straight line when I jump. It does not seem like a real jump If i make myself clear. How can I achieve that realistic jump look?

[dark laurel]

oh, wait, you're not doing it that way, uhm, standby

Oh, and I misunderstood - you're not talking about horizontal movement issues, you're talking about linear up/down - ie, gravity not being applied.

Your issue is that you're just adding "gravity times time" to your y position. You're already using a collider so if your level is all setup with rigidbodies, just enable gravity on your player object and change the bit of code in jump() from trying to do gravity yourself to just applying a one time upward force

[rotund bronze]

how can I get the position of the gameobject trough mouse click? this is what I try but failed https://hatebin.com/ybuivjiabt

[wintry quarry]

I would use Plane.Raycast here

[final kestrel]

I dont have anything with rigidbody in my game

[rotund bronze]

ah will try thx

[final kestrel]

I thought character controller and rigidbody didnt go well together

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

Plane p = new Plane(Vector3.up, Vector3.zero);
Ray r = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
p.Raycast(r, out float enter);
Vector3 worldPoint = r.GetPoint(enter);
Vector3 cellCoordinate = tilemap.WorldToCell(worldPoint);
Vector3 cellCenterWorld = tilemap.GetCellCenterWorld(cellCoordinate);```

[rotund bronze]

tyvm

[rich adder]

can you show a video? wdym up and down

isn't that wat a jump iss?

[dark laurel]

you're right.. I don't quite see at a glance what's wrong with your script though, but it's a little confusing.. like why are you setting the y velocity to -2 when the player is grounded? why are you multiplying a bunch of constants when the player jumps? why are you multiplying y times delta time and then again setting velocity times deltatime in Move()?

[rich adder]

most of the code is similiar to the example of CC move
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[final kestrel]

Setting the velocity to -2 just so there is still gravity when its grounded. I thought I should multiply the gravity in jump method to have them applied? So I could fall down I think

[final kestrel]

yes

[dark laurel]

i'd also make sure your IsGrounded() is actually retruning false while the player is in the air, since you are checking to see if the Y velocity is < 0 (then setting it to -2??)

if your isgrounded is returning true then your player is going to "float" down at y velocity = -2 no matter what

[final kestrel]

Can I post the video in this channel?

[rich adder]

yes

[final kestrel]

I should just remove that line then?

I dont double jump or anything

[rich adder]

should be mp4 format

[final kestrel]

It does not feel like im jumping its just im going up and down.

[wintry quarry]

looks fine to me. Maybe try reducing the gravity multiplier?

[rich adder]

probably that much gravity doesn't help either

[final kestrel]

can I send another video?

[rich adder]

sure

[final kestrel]

I played with the gravity settings some

[tawdry rock]

Fine to me as well. Also a cool trick if you using a cube when jumping you can rotate it in a Z or X axis depending which direction the cube faceing. So when you jump it also do a little "flip". A nice touch but adds more to the jumping vibe! 😄

[final kestrel]

Ah cool. Thanks 🙂

[late burrow]

how i alter this to give exact same results for each player
if (Physics.Raycast(allparticles[i].position, allparticles[i].velocity, out hit, allparticles[i].velocity.magnitude * Time.deltaTime, 1 << 0))

[unique gust]

hey guys i have a project a platform game and i need to know how can i set a game over when the player jumps into the void can someone help me

i already made a box collider 2d outside of the camera

[final kestrel]

Does not it feel a little like not jumping but just moving upwards or am i tripping

It was fine to me as well but a friend said so and im not sure anymore 😄

[tawdry rock]

Make a UI for the game over, hide it and when collison happens (ontriggerenter2d) setactive to true for the game over ui. also take away the control from the player with a simple bool. make sure to use using Unity.Engine.UI;

[unique gust]

I make a separeted script for the game over ui?

[tawdry rock]

on second tought, its better to monitor the player Y coords and make a if statement if it reach a amount then trigger the game over, so you dont need to make a veeery long box collison for that.

[unique gust]

I already make it and make the if for the the ontriggerenter

I just don't know how to continue

[tawdry rock]

Make a UI first then hide it.
On the player inside the update method write:

if (transform.position.y < -20)
        {
            Debug.Log("Game Over: Player went off the screen.");
            playerAlive = false;
            gameOver();
        }

make sure to have a bool playerAlive = true; then have a gameover method that will trigger the gameover ui with ex. gameOverScreen.SetActive(true);

[jagged gulch]

Working on a simple weapon recoil system from my gun. Ive followed tutorials for weapon recoil and tried a bunch of different ideas, but most seem to implement a system that just rotates the camera up and then back to the origianl position. Im more lookin for a way to just bump the camera up by a rotation so the player has to reset the camera. Ive been goin over this since yesterday afternoon to no avail unfortunately.

    private Vector3 targetRot;

    [SerializeField]
    private float recoilX;
    [SerializeField]
    private float recoilY;
    [SerializeField]
    private float recoilZ;

    [SerializeField]
    private float snappiness;
    [SerializeField]
    private float returnSpeed;

    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    void Update()
    {
        targetRot = Vector3.Lerp(targetRot, Vector3.zero, returnSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        currentRot = Vector3.Slerp(currentRot, targetRot, snappiness * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRot);
    }

    public void RecoilFire()
    {
        targetRot += new Vector3(-recoilX, Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY), Random.Range(-recoilZ,recoilZ));
    }```
with the current looking result lookin like this:

(this has easily been the hardest part of the project so far , I can't wrap my head around what to do here)

[unique gust]

Can I call you in private to explain better? And show u my code?

[tawdry rock]

sure

[sullen rock]

this is probably a dumb question, but here I go.... when I make an abstract class - lets call it "customEvent"
and then make multiple classes that inherit from it - "customEvent1", 2 and so on
can I put those classes into a collection of some sort, so I can loop through them efficiently?

[languid spire]

yes, make a collection of the abstract class then anything which inherits from it can be placed inside

[sullen rock]

So just like a List<customEvent>

?

[languid spire]

yes

[sullen rock]

And is this a dumb implementation or an actually decent practice?

[languid spire]

normal practice

[wintry quarry]

Hopefully your classes are not actually called customEvent and customEvent1 etc

[languid spire]

lol

[sullen rock]

Nah, it was just an example haha

[wintry quarry]

A typical example would be like:

abstract class Fruit {}
class Apple : Fruit {}
class Banana : Fruit {}

List<Fruit> fruits = new();
fruits.Add(new Apple());
fruits.Add(new Apple());
fruits.Add(new Banana());```

[languid spire]

fyi, works for interfaces and all inherited classes as well not just abstract classes

[valid finch]

I feel like I am missing something.
within the update I have a method.
within that method there are if statements..
when the if statement isn't true anymore the method is still running within the update.. I don't know what I'm not seeing.

[wintry quarry]

The method will run

the stuff inside the if will not run whent he condition is false

if the method is running unconditionally, it will always run

if only controls stuff inside its brackets

[sullen rock]

I've heard about interfaces a decent amount but I actually am not sure what they are about, more reading to do I suppose

[valid finch]

public void FootballFollow()
{
    if (!football.activeSelf && footballFollowing.activeSelf)
     {

         football.transform.position = following.transform.position;
         Debug.Log("Follow");
     }
    

      
    if (!football.activeSelf && !footballFollowing.activeSelf) 
    {
        football.SetActive(true);
        var stopFollow = following.transform.position;
        stopFollow.x += -3;
        football.transform.position = stopFollow;
        Debug.Log("Dont follow");
    }

    else
    {
        return;
    }

is anything in here wrong?

[wintry quarry]

Hard to say if it's "wrong" without knowing the intention

[valid finch]

When they are both false.. the second if doesnt run

the first one keeps running

[wintry quarry]

I assume that your assumptions about what is true and what is false are incorrect

use Debug.Log to check

[polar acorn]

So, let's break it down line by line.
if football is inactive, and footballFollowing is, it does the first one.
Then, if neither are active, it does the second one.
In all other cases, it does nothing

[valid finch]

correct.

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

Debug.Log($"football active: {football.activeSelf}, footballFollowing active: {footballFollowing.activeSelf}");```

(put this as the first line in the function)

[polar acorn]

Also turn off collapse so you can actually see the order the messages are coming

[valid finch]

I will use that. I am just confused.. because in the scene view as they are disabled and enabled

it lines up with what I want.. but when they are both disabled.. the states don't reflect that

even though within the scene they are clearly disabled

[sullen rock]

The issue is, I kinda need to be able to serialize the list and be able to edit the variables of each of the inheriting classes outside of playmode, which makes me feel like this is a dumb approach

[wintry quarry]

make sure you're not confusing activeSelf with activeInHierarchy

[wintry quarry]

unity serialization doesn't generally support polymorphism, especially not in the inspector

[valid finch]

wow.. didn't even know that was a thing

[wintry quarry]

you could do it with Odin inspector

[polar acorn]

Are they disabled, or is a parent object disabled

[valid finch]

top left

they are both disabled

[polar acorn]

Is this script on one of the disabled objects

[tawdry rock]

is the Character Controller has it own collider? If i put it on my player i cant got through walls but if i put it on a npc, they can go through walls.

[polar acorn]

It's not so much that it has a collider than it is a collider

[valid finch]

Yeah, I guess it is

[polar acorn]

So when its disabled the function isn't running at all

[tawdry rock]

so why does npcs enter ghost mode? xd

[polar acorn]

How are you moving the NPCs

[tawdry rock]

transform.position += transform.forward * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime;

[polar acorn]

So you're not using the character controller at all

you're teleporting

that's not going to respect any collisions

[valid finch]

Thank you, I gotta put it on another object I suppose

[tawdry rock]

teleporting pixel by pixel you mean?

[polar acorn]

Well, teleporting by moveSpeed * deltaTime

but teleporting nonetheless

[sullen rock]

My use case is - I have X amount of possible events that could happen (eg. Lights go out) and I need to trigger them randomly - could I, in theory, define abstract class of the event, make a class that inherits from it for each and serialize them outside of a list, just as separate variables and then have the "current event" variable set as the original abstract class type, so I can store any of the events that inherit from it inside?

Does that make any sense at all or am I out of the loop completely?

[valid finch]

So even though the script is still checked on the right in the inspector, the stuff isn't running because the object is disabled?

[polar acorn]

Disabling an object also disables all components on it. Disabling a parent object also disables all child objects, which in turn disables all of their scripts

Basically, disabling a thing always disables all the stuff under it automatically

[valid finch]

Ok, the fact I saw the other stuff still checked.. I didn't understand that

[wintry quarry]

maybe you're overcomplicating this. Can these events just be represented by an enum perhaps?

enum SpookyEvent {
  LightsFlicker,
  LightsGoOut,
  Thunderclap
}```

[valid finch]

Thank you

[wintry quarry]

and then just have a List<SpookyEvent>

and pick a random one from there?

then you can determine the actual behavior with a switch or a Dictionary keyed on the enum to a delegate

[tawdry rock]

So how does a AI usually move? i have this script on it which moves (well pushing) in a random direction. https://paste.ofcode.org/Q3dTx8Xvfazm9gNia8MFGE

[polar acorn]

That's why there's two different values, an object can be "Directly Disabled" or "De Facto Disabled" when one of the things containing it is disabled. ActiveSelf and ActiveInHierarchy

[polar acorn]

If you want it to use a CharacterController to move, you should use the CharacterController's .Move

[wintry quarry]

depends entirely on the requirements of the ai in question. There are many ways to move things. If you want the motion to respect physics, you'll have to move it in a physics-aware way.

such as with the CC

[sullen rock]

these events will have the player do something, thats why I though an enum wouldnt be enough

like, when lights flicker, you need to turn the switch off and on
they are also kinda all over the place - the event could be related to lights, sounds, objects and so on

[wintry quarry]

right but

you can separate that behavior from the choosing and representation of those events

especially if you want to represent it in the inspector for examplke

though I guess maybe you want parameters for all these things

[tawdry rock]

Alrighty, i will look into it. thanks for the info.

[valid finch]

I think I solved it, I just made a 3rd game object that controls the other 2.. that way I can actually turn them on and off without the script being disabled. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what was wrong.. So I really appreiate all of your help..

[sullen rock]

you are right that I am probably overcomplicating, Im trying to find a balance between maintainability and modularity

[safe radish]

Debug.Log(parentTransform.gameObject.name);
        stats = parentTransform.GetComponent<Stats>();
        if (stats == null)
            Debug.LogError("Stats component not found on parent.");```  im trying to reach my stats script on the player gameobject from my charactercustomizer script but am getting null

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of the NewPlayer game object

[safe radish]

yeah im just now realizing that newplayer is probably throwing the error, forgot that one had the script aswell as i just used it to test some stuff

[valid finch]

Seriously, thank you very much for your help. I was stuck not understanding whhy this wasn't working for way too long.

[safe radish]

that was it 👍 , im just dumb:p

[pearl lodge]

Does anyone know why this error is happening?

[modest palm]

i’m getting a directory not found exception when trying to build

[valid finch]

No luck yet, been looking

[sullen rock]

@wintry quarry I think the easiest solution for me will be a single event template class with a unityevent to handle the different logic of each of the events

[queen adder]

Is there something that could cause Trail material input missing from the particle system after enabling trails?

generally my particle system doesnt show up trail material input under renderer component after enabling Trails component

[valid finch]

var ballRandomLocation = new Vector3(Random.Range(-10.0f, 10.0f), 0, Random.Range(-10.0f, 10.0f));

So would I be able to use this in

stopFollow.x += ballRandomLocation;

[queen adder]

What could be causing it to be missing?

[valid finch]

Missing the trail material?

[queen adder]

yeah mate but if u look its missing where i am supposed to place it

its usually under renderer right under Material

its not popping out and editor is not throwing any errors aswell

[valid finch]

Is the public class missing?

[queen adder]

?

[valid finch]

Look in your code near the top of one of them that works. and compare it to the one that doesn't

[queen adder]

What code, that is particle system

[short hazel]

You're asking in a code channel, expect code anwsers

() => #✨┃vfx-and-particles

[queen adder]

Oh im sorry

[solar tide]

This code works completely fine. But someone told me that Quaternion Euler is too expensive or not to be used. Is this true? And if so, how do I change this code to make it less expensive?

[queen adder]

I though i was in unity talk , sorry

[valid finch]

{
   football.SetActive(true);
Vector3 stopFollow = following.transform.position;
Vector3 ballRandomLocation = new Vector3(Random.Range(-2.0f, 2.0f), Random.Range(-2.0f, 2.0f), 0);
stopFollow.x = ballRandomLocation.x; // Assign the x-coordinate of ballRandomLocation to stopFollow.x
football.transform.position = stopFollow;
Debug.Log("Don't follow");
}

Any ideas?

cuz I don't believe it needs to be instantiating.. so the documentation on it isn't making sense

[short hazel]

I don't know what you want to do, so hard to answer

System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot read minds through HTTP

[valid finch]

haha

Sorry. Trying to use ballRandomLocation to choose a random location for the football.transform.position

[short hazel]

football.transform.position = ballRandomLocation;

[valid finch]

This actually is working now

since I updated it

I need to add the stopFollow.y = too

[short hazel]

That's the long version but it works as well

[valid finch]

{
    football.SetActive(true);
    Vector3 stopFollow = following.transform.position;
    Vector3 ballRandomLocation = new Vector3(Random.Range(-2.0f, 2.0f), Random.Range(-2.0f, 2.0f), 0);
    stopFollow.x = ballRandomLocation.x; // Assign the x-coordinate of ballRandomLocation to stopFollow.x
    stopFollow.y = ballRandomLocation.y; // Assign the y-coordinate of ballRandomLocation to stopFollow.y
    football.transform.position = stopFollow;
    Debug.Log("Don't follow");
}

feels longer than it needs to be. I think you are right

hmm maybe not though

cuz I need the follow.
and the football.

[short hazel]

1. You don't need to store the position in the stopFollow local variable
2. Yes you can assign the whole vector directly

[queen adder]

Quick note on the issue i had, if anyone happens to have it in future, even though my editor didnt throw any error or warning, it was indeed bugged out and restarting editor fixed it 👍

[valid finch]

Thank you for sharing that. Glad you were able to fix it with a restart

[valid finch]

So, besides it being ugly and bad practice. Does dumb stuff like this hurt game performance?

[queen adder]

No, unless you are doing it in update

[short hazel]

At this scale no, even in Update

Worry more about calls to Find() and GetComponent<T>() in Update

[valid finch]

Alright. But for future reference it's always best to correct things like this before it becomes a habit

[queen adder]

it can hurt performance on low end devices dont be fooled, anything in update can get heavy, so it depends for what platform you are building for, if its for PC then its minimum impact

[short hazel]

Copying a value type around is not

[queen adder]

Good practice is to use update only when u must and for inputs

Usually if you want to have code repeat u use Coroutines instead , performance wise they are great

[jagged gulch]

Been trying to wrap my head around this and I still cant figure it out. #💻┃code-beginner message

Im just lookin for a way to bump the camera up when firing and then clamp the camera rotation at a certain point once it hits that in the recoil

any suggestions?

[pearl lodge]

When did you start getting this error?

[rare basin]

if i start a coroutine, then disable the game object, does the coroutine still run?

[narrow badge]

hey sorry

hru guys

can any one help me

[rare basin]

don't ask to ask

[slender nymph]

no, the coroutine will end if you disable the object that owns it

[rare basin]

that's a shame

i'll disable the sprite and collider then

i want my object to disappear and respawn after 2 seconds in different location

so wanted to start respawn coroutine, disble object

and hoped that it will re-enable inside that coroutine

[slender nymph]

if you call StartCoroutine on another object you could do that, it's just that a coroutine instance that is owned by a monobehaviour that is disabled will be disabled as well

[rare basin]

well i dont really have where to call that

i have Square.cs and HealthSystem.cs

health system has TakeDamage() and when the dmg drops <= 0 i call RespawnSquare() function from Square.cs

    public void RespawnSquare(float delay)
    {
        StartCoroutine(RespawnCoroutine(delay));
    }

    private IEnumerator RespawnCoroutine(float delay)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);

        SetSquareRandomPosition();
    }

    public void TakeDamage(int damage)
    {
        if (isDead) return;

        currentHealth -= damage;

        if(currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            isDead = true;
            owner.RespawnSquare(LevelDataStorageManager.Instance.currentLevelData.respawnDelay);
        }
    }

Collider is on Square Object, and SpriteRenderer is under Graphics

i just hoped that i can somehow disable the root object

I probably could have some sort of "RespawnManager"

who will call the coroutines

but idk if its a good idea

[pearl lodge]

Does anyone know who to fix this? it seems I can no longer make references to some libries like TMPro

[slender nymph]

just vs code things lmao

you could try regenerating project files. or you could consider switching to visual studio which is far less likely to randomly break

[queen adder]

you could try Edit-> preferences ->external tools -> regenerate proj files

but yeah you should also use visual studio to avoid most of issues u can come across with vscode , plenty ppl here only asking how to fix this and that on vscode

[rare basin]

I want to spawn a prefab in a random (visible) position. How can I get the "visible" area and spawn inside that area with some margin? so it doesn't spawn at the edge and half of the object is off camera etc

[queen adder]

you can use layer to cover that area and then raycast untill u hit some point of that collider of that layer

[rare basin]

I was also thinking at creating a box collider 2D and spawning inside that box collider

but idk if its good idea

[queen adder]

Try, there is not one solution to ur problem, there are probably dozen

[rare basin]

yea

ty

[pearl lodge]

Ok I fixed this.

First I installed this package to VSCode.

Then back in Unity installed this package.

All is working well now.

[slender nymph]

yeah that's how you're meant to configure vs code now that microsoft has taken over maintaining the unity extension

[pearl lodge]

I just don't know why is has to have visual studio editor installed when I use visual studio code?

[slender nymph]

because that is what creates the working project files for vs code now

you can uninstall the vs code editor package

[pearl lodge]

The unity package in vscode wanted me to install it.

[slender nymph]

huh?

i'm talking about uninstalling the Visual Studio Code Editor package. the unity extension requires the Visual Studio Editor package now

literally the one right above the one you have selected in your screenshot can be removed

[ashen ferry]

if I want to make a setting changing font of all text elements in my game what do I do

[pearl lodge]

Sorry I misunderstood. Now I got you. Will I still be able to use VScode? Well let me try it out

[slender nymph]

yes. the vs code editor package is no longer required because as you have already discovered, the unity extension in vs code now uses the visual studio editor package

[pearl lodge]

It was all working fine yesterday lol. It all makes sense now. Thank you very much! Appreciate it 👍

[rare basin]

    public void SetSquareRandomFreePosition()
    {
        //Dangerous loop, yet I don't have other idea for now
        while (true) 
        {
            var randomPos = GetRandomVisiblePosition();

            Collider2D[] squaresNear = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(randomPos, squareSize);

            if (squaresNear.Length == 0)
            {
                transform.position = randomPos;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

I am spawning a Square in a random position inside the Camera, then I am doing a check if there are no other Squares near the possible spawn position, so I am only spawning the squares in free positions, althought it doesn't work and squares spawn on top of each other, why?

[unkempt locust]

help me please

I'm trying to make a slide, but when I click the C key, the player scales down, but it doesn't go forward with the rigidbody, can you help me with this?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe tell people what's wrong

[unkempt locust]

I tell

[unkempt locust]

Here

[unkempt locust]

you can help me?

[ivory bobcat]

Without scaling, does it go forward with the rigid body?

[unkempt locust]

I want to do the following, I want the player to scale down, and be propelled forward

[ivory bobcat]

Does it work without scaling?

If it doesn't work without the scaling, it won't work with it.

[unkempt locust]

I don't know about the rigidbody, but the slide doesn't work without reducing the player's scale

[ivory bobcat]

Comment out the scaling and see if the player propels forward

[unkempt locust]

ok

[rare basin]

#💻┃code-beginner message bump

[unkempt locust]

the player is not advancing

[ivory bobcat]

So fix that first.

[wary sable]

does anyone here have much experience with the kiwicoder free behavior tree?
I'm attempting to add my own nodes but am having trouble assigning gameobjects and other classes as NodeProperties...
(for example adding a target object for a moveTo node keeps yielding a "Type mismatch" error when putting in a G.O with the valid type / class)

Ive even tried to circumvent it by searching for the target object using GameObject.find and pulling data from there but it just spits out the property anytime I attempt to use it.

[unkempt locust]

how?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe the if statement is never true or maybe the coroutine is never started

[unkempt locust]

this is my rigidbody of my player

[eternal needle]

maybe due to using overlap circle, yet these shapes are boxes

[unkempt locust]

yes, it is being started, because the player's scale changes but it is not propelled forward

[short hazel]

Kinematic rigidbodies do not react to AddForce()!

[rare basin]

no, it's not related

[ivory bobcat]

I recall kinematic disabling physics add force

[short hazel]

You activated it, compared to your prefab

"Is Kinematic" is in bold, showing that it's overriden compared to the prefab

[rare basin]

@eternal needle why are you reacting

OverlapCircle2D is just a method that gets all coliliders inside the sphere

[unkempt locust]

If I disable "Is Kinematic" my player starts to wander

[rare basin]

doesnt matter if i have BoxCollider2D lmao

[unkempt locust]

You talk to me?

[eternal needle]

do you know what a circle looks like by chance

[short hazel]

Yes

[unkempt locust]

help me

how I can fix?

[short hazel]

Disable kinematic

[rare basin]

it is not related... Physics2d.OverlapCircle2D is just for getting colliders inside a certain radius from a certain point. It can detect BoxCollider2D aswell

[short hazel]

And it will react to forces fine

[unkempt locust]

@short hazel

[short hazel]

Then you have code applying force elsewhere

[eternal needle]

and i never said it cant detect boxcolliders.

[rare basin]

??

you suggested that OverlapCircle2D wont detect "boxes"

[eternal needle]

alright ill pull out the paint drawing..

[pearl lodge]

Are you sure your squareSize is correct?

[short hazel]

No?

[rare basin]

yes its correct

[unkempt locust]

So, I just disabled "Is kinematic" and it worked!, but my player is going down ramble

[rare basin]

i understand what do you mean @eternal needle but even when putting hilarious big radius number like 10

it still doesnt detect

[unkempt locust]

I'm using Unity's Standard Assets

[polar acorn]

No, they're saying that the overlap circle and the visuals of the object aren't going to match exactly

[rare basin]

i understand i dont need them to match

i want bigger overlap than my square

[short hazel]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rare basin]

my square size is 1 units, i want to do overlap circle with 2 units from square center

even if i put like 100 radius it still spawns on top of each other

[unkempt locust]

how I can fix the poblem?

[short hazel]

Look at the code

See where you add forces

[eternal needle]

this is what i was referring to. But based on what you said above, you should add debugs or gizmos and visualize the overlap function to see if its in the correct place

[rare basin]

yea i understood what you meant sorry for the confusion

[polar acorn]

Are the squares colliders or triggers

[pearl lodge]

maybe add this to your box script

    private void OnDrawGizmos() 
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.green;
        Gizmos.DrawWireSphere(transform.position, squareSize);
    }

to see the cricles

[unkempt locust]

is the weapon

[queen adder]

hey guys I'm new to unity and i need some help. so the thing is I'm working on a prototype based on marvel snap and i need to make it work multiplayer as well as playable with AI. for this case I'm using 4 lists

1. Player Owned Cards
2. Used Cards (Player)
3. Enemy Owned Cards
4. Used Cards (Enemy)

is there any way i can use the lists outside the class by using interface which behaves as an AI as well as the player

[rare basin]

they are colliders, not set to is trigger @polar acorn

[rare basin]

alr

[short hazel]

tf does that mean? The player code obviously, where you're adding other forces for movement, for example

[unkempt locust]

When I disable "Is kinematic" unity debugs an error for me, this is the error @short hazel

[rare basin]

so it clearly shows correctly :/

[eternal needle]

are they all at the same Z position?

[rare basin]

let me share some more code I have SquareSpawnManager with functions:

    private void Start()
    {
        Camera.main.orthographicSize = LevelDataStorageManager.Instance.currentLevelData.cameraSize;
        SpawnInitialSquares();
    }

    private void SpawnInitialSquares()
    {
        remainingSquares = new List<Square>();

        for(int i=0; i< LevelDataStorageManager.Instance.currentLevelData.squareCount; i++)
        {
            Square square = Instantiate(squarePrefab);
            remainingSquares.Add(square);
            square.SetSquareRandomFreePosition();
        }
    }

and Square

    public void SetSquareRandomFreePosition()
    {
        //Dangerous loop, yet I don't have other idea for now
        while (true) 
        {
            var randomPos = GetRandomVisiblePosition();

            Collider2D[] squaresNear = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(randomPos, squareSize);

            if (squaresNear.Length == 0)
            {
                transform.position = randomPos;
                break;
            }
        }
    }

[unkempt locust]

@short hazel

[rare basin]

all on 0

[short hazel]

Can you be patient while I type lol

No need to ping every 15 seconds

[polar acorn]

Add this log after your overlap:

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} is checking a circle of radius {squareSize} around {randomPos} and found {squaresNear.Length} collisions.");

[rare basin]

kk

[pearl lodge]

Does your circle have a collider?

[rare basin]

^ yes

[rare basin]

result

[unkempt locust]

Sorry then. When I deactivated the weapon, the problem still continued, so maybe that's not the problem.

[polar acorn]

Non-Convex MeshColliders with Non-Kinematic Rigidbodies is no longer supported since Unity 5

[short hazel]

Looks like your weapon model has an issue, the mesh collider on it is not convex, but it should be, as per the error
Standard Assets is deprecated, it has been replaced with the newer Starter Assets

[unkempt locust]

yes

[rare basin]

they stack a lot 😄

[unkempt locust]

ok, and?

[short hazel]

And just fix the error

What's up with these half replies

[unkempt locust]

how I can fix?

[short hazel]

Dude

[polar acorn]

Can you show the inspectors of two of the objects that are overlapping? Any two.

[rare basin]

sure

[short hazel]

There's literally a check box that says "Convex" on your mesh collider, you need to check it

[unkempt locust]

I a new in unity, I'm sorry

[rare basin]

these squares

square 1

[unkempt locust]

thank you

[rare basin]

sorry, wrong inspector

this is the main object, Square 1

this is square 2

[unkempt locust]

Thanks, I managed to solve the gun problem, but the player keeps crashing

[rare basin]

is there a problem with spawning the Squares in a for loop? maybe they aren't processed yet or something, i dont know i feel lost

    private void SpawnInitialSquares()
    {
        remainingSquares = new List<Square>();

        for(int i=0; i< LevelDataStorageManager.Instance.currentLevelData.squareCount; i++)
        {
            Square square = Instantiate(squarePrefab);
            remainingSquares.Add(square);
            square.SetSquareRandomFreePosition();
        }
    }

[polar acorn]

I think what might be happening here is that they all check their locations at once, and no one is around yet. Then they all confirm their destinations are okay, then all teleport there together.

[unkempt locust]

Maybe this is the problem?

[rare basin]

but why tho when it's in a for loop

so it should do one iteration

then another one etc

[short hazel]

Maybe? Disable that and run the game, see if the issue still occurs

[polar acorn]

I'm guessing there's a delay between when an object moves and when its collider "catches up" due to one moving in Update and one moving in FixedUpdate

I'm not sure how to fix, but I'm thinking

At least trying to think of a way to see if this is happening

[rare basin]

public void SetSquareRandomFreePosition() make this a bool

and coroutine

and WaitUntill?

in the spawn loop ?

[rare basin]

the spawn methdo as a corotuine*

[polar acorn]

Yeah, that should do it actually

[rare basin]

let me try

[unkempt locust]

The problem disappeared when I disabled that script, so the problem is in the script, what now?

[rare basin]

    private IEnumerator SpawnInitialSquares()
    {
        remainingSquares = new List<Square>();

        for(int i=0; i< LevelDataStorageManager.Instance.currentLevelData.squareCount; i++)
        {
            Square square = Instantiate(squarePrefab);
            remainingSquares.Add(square);
            yield return new WaitUntil(() => square.SetSquareRandomFreePosition());
        }
    }

let's see

[short hazel]

Make sure you do not have a controller plugged in, or something that could give input without you knowing. Yes, steering wheels also give input, even when not touched.
Then fiddle with the stick to ground force and gravity multiplier. It might be holding down the rigidbody too hard, creating ghost forces

[rare basin]

well, i can defo see the progress but they are still overlapping (not as much as before tho and not that often)

[unkempt locust]

here?

[eternal needle]

i think it'd be easier/better if you stored a list of positions then try to spawn them based on the list rather than overlap functions

[rare basin]

i did another yield wait for fixed update

[rare basin]

lits of random positions?

[eternal needle]

the list of objects already spawned

[rare basin]

ow

[short hazel]

Ah, that's an issue I see here. You cannot have a Character Controller and a Rigidbody or Collider on the same object, they will conflict with each other

[rare basin]

and do Vector2.Distance?

yea i might try that

sounds better than my idea

[unkempt locust]

ok, how do I solve it? which one do I take from the player

[rare basin]

i already have a list of spawned squares

so i can just read their position

and do a distance check

[eternal needle]

if you want it radius based then yea that could work. you could use sqr magnitude instead and just compare it to the (squaresize * squaresize) so you save yourself a sqrt call

[rare basin]

but i feel like

it would be heavy for performance

[short hazel]

Whatever the First Person Controller script requires. And before you ask, no I don't remember which one it uses

[rare basin]

because i have levels with 500, 600, 700 squares

so if im spawning square number 400, i have to loop through all previous squares

and compare distance

and if none is near then spawn

[unkempt locust]

How am I going to solve this?

[eternal needle]

i cant imagine spawning 700 squares and doing 700 overlap functions would be much better. still this is a large amount of objects, its not gonna be instant unless you remove the randomness part and spawn them differently

[short hazel]

By reading my message again and researching what the script requires

[unkempt locust]

without the rigidbody, the slide doesn't work, and without the controller character the player doesn't work

[rare basin]

but when spawning 700 squares, im doing 700 overlaps and thats it

but then i have 700 squares with distance checks

and spawning square 699 i have to do forlopp for 698 already spawned squared

and next iteration spawning square 700 i have to do forloop for 699 already spawned

etc

[unkempt locust]

I dont know

[short hazel]

Research

Google, bing, whatever your usual search engine is

[unkempt locust]

YES, I not find

[short hazel]

Well, an alternative would be to remove the rigidbody, collider, character controller, first person controller from the object, and adding the first person controller again

If it's well made, it'll add the required components by itself

[tall nest]

Guys Microsoft Visual Studio is so crashing, should I use another IDE like Visual Studio Code? or keep the purple one

[pearl lodge]

dont you want to SetSquareRandomFreePosition, and then add it to remainingSquares?

[rare basin]

shouldn't really matter

why

[rich adder]

What kind of crashing ?

[rare basin]

it's just setting the position

doesnt matter if i add it before or after

[tall nest]

Lagging, PC goes slow

[rich adder]

Are certain is directly related to Visual Studio ? What kinda specs u got

[valid finch]

just a quick example for context. On the bottom the ball would be bouncing along only the x axis. But since this is simulated 3d space.. the example on the top is more of what it would look like. Has anyone ever attempted this. Wondering about trying to get gravity to work in this way. If not using gravity, I think just keeping a hitbox where the red circle is and faking depth using animations is the way to go.

does this belong here(or in #🏃┃animation)

[tall nest]

I wrote them on my bio

[rich adder]

🤷 try viscode then.
If it runs better use that instead as long is it’s configured w Unity.

[tall nest]

Okay

because the purple one gets 2GB ram

which is the half of my RAM

ok thanks for helping, bye

[rich adder]

[short hazel]

Poor computer, has 4gb RAM and Windows requires at least 2 by itself to work properly

[rich adder]

Time to throw good ol windows XP on that ish

[slender nymph]

man i've been struggling with 16gb recently. i can't imagine going back to 4 😱

[valid finch]

What would you call the thing I'm trying to do.. just so I know what to research? moving an object in 2d space simulating 3d? Just don't know I should word it

[slender nymph]

can you elaborate on what that means?

[valid finch]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

I think just keeping a hitbox where the red circle is and faking depth using animations is the way to go.
yeah that would probably be the way to go

unless of course you want to actually use 3d objects and physics

[valid finch]

Yeah, I am not using 3d objects.

I will use physics I think for the balls momentum

[slender nymph]

the "and physics" was also in reference to "3d"

i feel like this isn't really a code question anymore

[valid finch]

Good point. Thank you for your help

[pine edge]

Hey guys, I was wondering how I could tie two values to each other? Trying to tie a mesh's colour to a value but unsure how to do it. here's a code snippet: ```CS
// time (s) to reach peak value currently = 5
ballMesh.material.color = Color.Lerp(ballMesh.material.color, Color.red, time);
// colour needs to be peak (ie fully red) at x seconds. x = 5 in this case

[polar acorn]

If time is the time in seconds since you started lerping, you'd do time / x for it to reach the destination after x seconds

[pine edge]

I tried that but it doesn't work. it never reaches max "redness". There's also an inverse function that lerps back from red to a default colour, but by doing time/x also stops it from returning to default

[cosmic dagger]

once the time reaches the duration, you manually set the value at the end . . .

[pine edge]

but I could do that without using lerp, it would just be an instant colour change

when I say it doesn't reach max colour, i mean it's quite off

not buy say 10 in the red channel

[jagged gulch]

Hey guys, Ive been stumped really bad with this recoil system Ive been trying to implement. Ive been at this for two days scouring the web, but to no avail. Im trying to add in a basic weapon recoil system that gets recoils up when a gun is fired, but have not been able to find a guide or suggestions on how to do it. Most guides are for fully automatic weapons that reset the camera after firing is complete (which is not what Im lookin for). #💻┃code-beginner message any suggestions?

[pine edge]

so you want a system that recoils up, but leaves it to the user to recentre?

[jagged gulch]

exactly

youd think this would be easy to find

[pine edge]

can't you just follow the guide and just ignore the recentring code?

[jagged gulch]

Ive tried that

[short hazel]

I pretty much have the same code on my end for recoil, and it works
You sure there's no other scripts that set the rotation directly, and could override what the recoil script does?

[jagged gulch]

my current implementation unfortuneately spins the camera around the character if I do that

so Im trying to figure out how to clamp it at a certain rotation

[short hazel]

The clamping would be done before you add the recoil to the vector

[jagged gulch]

    {
        targetRot = Vector3.Lerp(targetRot, Vector3.zero, returnSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        currentRot = Vector3.Slerp(currentRot, targetRot, snappiness * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRot);
    }

    public void RecoilFire()
    {
        targetRot += new Vector3(-recoilX, Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY), Random.Range(-recoilZ,recoilZ));
    }``` so in my current implementation, would I clamp the targetRot in RecoilFire() or in update? or clamp currentRot?

[wary sable]

Hey, im trying to work with the kiwicoder behavior tree, and im running into an issue where it wont accept public / serialized properties from the inspector. I dont know if anyone can provide some advise or if I'm just going to have to pony up for a real BT asset.
The issue is a little tough to but into writing but in short, its just like making a public or serialized property in a normal script, where it appears in the inspector and you can select an object of a specific type from the field. Except when you select an object from that field it errors out and says that there is a type mismatch, when you literally can't select an object of the wrong type

heres a video of it as well
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1146187317502029917/1154870484362612736/20230922-2002-19.6366722.mp4
ignore the poor naming, I did this in a different project to double check it wasnt a bug caused by a bad library

[short hazel]

In RecoilFire. It dirties the code a bit since you need to apply the clamp for whatever axes you need, but it would look like this

// note the absence of '+='
targetRot = new Vector3(Mathf.Clamp(targetRot.x - recoilX, min, max), ...);

But you can do it on multiple lines if you want

targetRot = new Vector3(
  Mathf.Clamp(targetRot.x - recoilX, min, max),
  targetRot.y + Random.Range(-ry, ry),
  targetRot.z + Random.Range(-rz, rz)
);

Since the new vector is not added with += make sure to do the addition in the individual vector components

[proper mesa]

I’m new to unity and i am wondering about how i can refference a float from one script in another script.

[jagged gulch]

having some issues with that unfortuneately

[slender nymph]

get a reference to the other script then access any of its public members (variables, properties, and methods) using the . operator

[cosmic dagger]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/references

[jagged gulch]

so I tried ```void Update()
{
//targetRot = Vector3.Lerp(targetRot, Vector3.zero, returnSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
currentRot = Vector3.Slerp(currentRot, targetRot, snappiness * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRot);
}

public void RecoilFire()
{
    targetRot = new Vector3(
            Mathf.Clamp(targetRot.x - recoilX, 20, 80),
            targetRot.y + Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY),
            targetRot.z + Random.Range(-recoilZ, recoilZ)
            );
    //targetRot += new Vector3(-recoilX, Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY), Random.Range(-recoilZ,recoilZ));
}```

and used 20 and 80 as a min and max example

since my current clamp on my player script is 80

camera gets a bit wonky unfortuneately

[short hazel]

Might want to use 0 (or less) as the lower bound to Clamp. Here it says that the X rotation should be no less than 20 degrees which is not right. The default local rotation (pointing local forwards) is rotation X = 0

[slender nymph]

why are you multiplying by fixedDeltaTime inside of Update? 🤔

[jagged gulch]

guide I used did it this way

[slender nymph]

are you sure the guide was using Update and not FixedUpdate?

[jagged gulch]

nope

pain

[short hazel]

I recognize the variable names, procedural aiming system video right?

[jagged gulch]

right on the money

[short hazel]

I used that too but saw the discrepancy and put it all in FixedUpdate

With FixedDeltaTime eveywhere

Looks like it's applying horizontal recoil fine

And rotational (around Z) too

[slender nymph]

wouldn't even need to change the deltaTime to fixedDeltaTime if everything is moved to FixedUpdate since it returns the value of fixedDeltaTime when called from FixedUpdate

[timber tide]

your camera is rolling along with the directional shift

[jagged gulch]

yep

not sure why

[short hazel]

Yeah it's normal, it adds a nice touch when used slightly, need to keep the values low

not sure why
Well you apply random Z rotation in the ApplyRecoil method

[jagged gulch]

(my current setup just for reference)

Im still stumped tbh

[short hazel]

Actually when you need to rotate up, you subtract the X rotation, which means your clamp should be in the negative range, like (v, -90, 0)

I never remember, but in the Inspector, to look up, you input a negative X rotation right?

[jagged gulch]

I did see that issue when I was debugging earlier in the day yeh

[sonic sphinx]

Pardon all, I have a quick beginner question:

I have a tile-based 2D game with parallax backgrounds. When I do an orthographic zoom out, everything gets smaller (as expected!)

However, I want the far background to remain the same. Is there a way to exempt any individual layer from the zoom? Or do I need to write a script that scales the background up when zooming out?

[modest dust]

Not sure but I suppose you could have it on a canvas

Have it set to screen space overlay

It shouldn't be affected by zoom

[sonic sphinx]

Thank you! I'll investigate and see if that works.

[rare basin]

    private void Update()
    {
        transform.Translate(transform.up * moveSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }

how do i move object up but in it's local space?

[jagged gulch]

add to its localPostion

iirc

[short hazel]

Translate operates on local space by default - use Vector3.up

[rare basin]

okay

ty

[cosmic dagger]

yeah, the movement is already applied to the relative space of the GameObject . . .

[rare basin]

ow now i see second paraemeters

WorldSpace.Self etc

[short hazel]

For completness, you can pass a second argument to Translate specifying which space to apply this in

Default is local

[rare basin]

yea just noticed

thank you

[jagged gulch]

still stumped here honestly

tried inputting other values to no avail

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1043033601060647002/1120466284971294770/max_payne.gif

[shell sleet]

Is disabling the Unity splash screen in Personal version currently available in the most recent version?

[short hazel]

If you do not apply the clamp, just rot.x - recoilX for the first arg of Vector3, is it any better?

[short hazel]

It will be available in the next LTS (Unity 2023.x), releasing in 2024.
Not a code question, conversation should continue to #💻┃unity-talk

[jagged gulch]

                recoilX - targetRot.x,
                targetRot.y + Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY),
                targetRot.z + Random.Range(-recoilZ, recoilZ)
                );``` like this right?

[short hazel]

Well actually no

You swapped the two operands of the subtraction

It should be target.x - recoilX

target.x + (-recoilX) for easier visualization, like the other args

[jagged gulch]

without the clamp the camera goes flying off unfortuneately again

[short hazel]

Can you post the full updated code?

[jagged gulch]

yeah np

void FixedUpdate()
    {
        //targetRot = Vector3.Lerp(targetRot, Vector3.zero, returnSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        currentRot = Vector3.Slerp(currentRot, targetRot, snappiness * Time.fixedDeltaTime);
        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRot);
    }

    public void RecoilFire()
    {
        targetRot = new Vector3(
                targetRot.x - recoilX,
                targetRot.y + Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY),
                targetRot.z + Random.Range(-recoilZ, recoilZ)
                );
        //targetRot += new Vector3(-recoilX, Random.Range(-recoilY, recoilY), Random.Range(-recoilZ,recoilZ));
    }```

currently looks like this when playin

[short hazel]

Looks normal to me

It's not returning back to the zero rotation cause the first lerp is commented out, but otherwise I don't see issues here

[jagged gulch]

the camera spins around when ya keep firing

like turns upside down

would a clamp there stop that from happenin or nah

[short hazel]

Yeah, and a clamp won't prevent that unfortunately because the clamping should be applied to the world rotation. I guess you could make your hierarchy backwards through, the camera movement is done on the child of the object the recoil gets applied to

My code does not clamp so I think it's using that method

Or I never shot fast enough to rotate past 90°, but this gets mitigated a lot when you apply the second part of recoil, returning back to zero progressively

[jagged gulch]

Im considering leavin it as is at this point cause I cant figure out how to get past this block

unity dev really beatin my ass here cause this shit haaarrrrddddddd

I think the original code would work fine for other guns but I can fine curb the shotgun by just making the spread wide

[short hazel]

Or lower the firing rate for the recoil to have time to return back to its original rotation

[jagged gulch]

oh nah I was hopin for the opposite lol

I kinda wanted it to be slower so it took longer

thanks for the help tho, I wouldve never thought to try a few of those ideas out

[short hazel]

My system is like hybrid, it has two ways of applying recoil:

1. Procedural like you have
2. Following curves for finer, non-linear movement
   The code is a mess though lol, I'll redo it from the ground up if I'm ever bored enough to open Unity again lol

[jagged gulch]

Ive been at this recoil thing for two days when I shoudlve honestly been continuing work on my enemy ai stuff lol

my perfectionist self wanted the recoil to look like how I wanted tho so I tried in vain for these past few days

[rare basin]

why do I have this error

when im starting coroutine before disabling?

[rich adder]

script that gets disabled doesnt run Coroutine

[short hazel]

Most likely it really gets started at the end of the frame. Code up to the first yield gets executed immediately, but afterwards, mystery... on the c++ side

[rare basin]

ow

    public void RespawnSquare(float delay)
    {
        StartCoroutine(SquareSpawnManager.Instance.RespawnCoroutine(this,delay));
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

so i can turn this into a corutine

[crisp token]

anyone know if it is possible to get the vertices making a triangle given you have the triangle?

[rare basin]

and add extra yield for a frame betwene?

    public void RespawnSquare(float delay)
    {
        StartCoroutine(StartRespawningSequence(delay));
    }

    private IEnumerator StartRespawningSequence(float delay)
    {
        StartCoroutine(SquareSpawnManager.Instance.RespawnCoroutine(this, delay));
        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

looks ugly but maybe it works

[short hazel]

You need to start the coroutine on an active object, like

StartCoroutine(SquareSpawnManager.Instance.RespawnCoroutine(theOtherObject, delay));
theOtherObject.SetActive(false);

Now as long as the object this script is attached to stays active you're fine

[rare basin]

but that's what im doing

[short hazel]

No

[rare basin]

oww yea ok

i get it

    public void RespawnSquare(float delay)
    {
        SquareSpawnManager.Instance.StartRespawnCoroutine(this, delay);
        gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }

now its like that

and im starting the coroutine on SquareSpawnManager

which is a different object

[short hazel]

Yep that works

[rare basin]

works perfectly, tysm

[tender stag]

how does one round that up to two decimal places
weightText.text = weight + "kg";

like this?
weightText.text = weight.ToString("F2") + "kg";

[latent idol]

I have a "Score" script that is supposed to update the score on my TextMeshPro component, but I can't seem to get a reference to that component in the script. What component is the script supposed to be attached to?

Some of the stuff I've tried but I keep getting object reference null error

[slender nymph]

use TMP_Text rather than TextMeshPro. TextMeshPro is the non-UI text but you probably want the UI one which is TextMeshProUGUI. however they both inherit from TMP_Text so you can use that for either one with no issues

[latent idol]

OK I'll try that thanks

[slender nymph]

i would also recommend just dragging the reference into the inspector rather than using GameObject.Find then GetComponent

[latent idol]

Tried that too but it's not letting me for some reason

That's why I think the script is attached to the wrong component

[slender nymph]

is this script perhaps on a prefab?

[slender nymph]

this statement makes very little sense

your scripts are components

[latent idol]

my terminology is not great lol

should this be on the TMP_Text?

[slender nymph]

you have not switched to the correct variable type

[latent idol]

not sure how to do that tbh

[slender nymph]

your myText variable needs to be of type TMP_Text not TextMeshPro

[rich adder]

Text Mesh Pro is the Non-UI version of TMP

[latent idol]

OK I did that but I still can't associate an asset to that variable, which is why I think the script is on the wrong asset (prob not the correct terminology)

[slender nymph]

is the Score component on a prefab?

[latent idol]

no it's on a ui element

[slender nymph]

that doesn't preclude it from being a prefab. but so long as both objects are in the scene at the same time and you have the correct type for your variable then you can just drag the text object in

if it is still not working then screenshot the unity editor so that we can see both the hierarchy and the inspector while you have this object selected so we can see the Score component in the inspector

[slender nymph]

okay so if you drag either the component in or the entire Text(TMP) game object in, what happens?

[latent idol]

it doesn't do anything

[slender nymph]

wdym it doesn't do anything? can you record what happens?

[latent idol]

yes

[rich adder]

this is not even the TextMeshProUGUI component.

the font is still the old Text component

[slender nymph]

oh shit, i didn't even notice that. how did that even happen

[latent idol]

so how do i change it to the proUGUI component

[slender nymph]

remove the Text component and add the TextMeshProUGUI component

[rich adder]

make sure its the UI one

[latent idol]

wait how do you get to that one

cause i have to go under game objects

[slender nymph]

this is the add component menu

[latent idol]

and see textmeshpro in the ui

how do i get to the add component menu

[polar acorn]

You click add component

[slender nymph]

that's the button in the inspector if you scroll all the way down. it literally says Add Component

[latent idol]

ok found it

ok now a new error pops up

the object of type "TextMeshProUGUI" has been destroyed but you are still trying to access it

[slender nymph]

well it seems like you're trying to access something after it has been destroyed. you'll need to show the context for where this error is happening

at a complete guess though, i'd say it's either you forgot to unsubscribe from a static method when an object was destroyed/scene unloaded

[latent idol]

its refering to an internal unity script

i did not write this

[slender nymph]

is this error happening during play mode?

[latent idol]

yes

[slender nymph]

and what happens in the scene that triggers this error?

[latent idol]

interacting with the power pellets

in my game

[slender nymph]

well that means almost nothing to me without code context. i'm assuming that interacting with those pellets tries to change the text property of the TMP_Text object?

[latent idol]

yes

to get a higher score

[slender nymph]

can you show the code that tries to use the TMP_Text object?

and can you also show the entire stack trace for the error

https://unity.huh.how/programming/stack-traces

[latent idol]

u want the whole script

?

[slender nymph]

sure

use a bin site 👇 !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.

[tender stag]

can i use the same velocity variable for 3 different smooth damps?

or is it gonna go weird

[latent idol]

ok its not letting me accept the terms

got it

https://paste.ofcode.org/LjYpGdbtmZ2mu9MpxPEGWq

had to use a diff one

[slender nymph]

you're still using GameObject.Find and GetComponent so you're overwriting the myText variable in start. if you've dragged the component in, then just remove those lines since they become unnecessary

but i'd still like to see the stack trace for the error to determine if it even is related to your code

[latent idol]

how do i send you the error stuff

cause idk how to be able to send that

[slender nymph]

just screenshot it

[latent idol]

the object one repeats

[slender nymph]

okay so first, always focus on the first error in your console. that is causing the subsequent errors. so make the changes i suggested [here](#💻┃code-beginner message) and it should work just fine

[latent idol]

i will try it

and let you know if anymore problems arise

[latent idol]

I got rid of those lines but the errors still keep coming and the canvas part in the script went away

[slender nymph]

show the stack trace for the errors and what the code currently looks like

[slender nymph]

and the code?

[rich adder]

myText = temp.GetComponent<TextMeshPro>();
what is this line for

[latent idol]

its the same code i linked earlier

[slender nymph]

it shouldn't be

[rich adder]

is that line causing issue?
myText being re-assigned TextMeshPro from temp

[latent idol]

i got rid of that line

[slender nymph]

show the updated code

[rich adder]

ohh maybe send the code thats up to date lol

[latent idol]

https://paste.ofcode.org/QrNhSb58jM6iF5YdYBSiiv

there

[slender nymph]

add this line to Start: Debug.Assert(myText != null, $"myText is null on {name} {GetInstanceID()}", gameObject); and show what it prints

oh wait. your updated code is wrong. you're still using the wrong variable type for some reason

[latent idol]

oh which one should it be

[slender nymph]

TMP_Text

[neat tulip]

hey im trying to make my character be able to move and can't find any scripts that make me able to

on 2d

no gravity also

[slender nymph]

there are plenty of tutorials you could watch for that

[neat tulip]

ok

[latent idol]

im gonna take a break from this project i have been at it for like 4 hours

thanks for the help @slender nymph

[unkempt carbon]

does anyone know if there is a way to randomize the mass of an object?

[slender nymph]

generate a random number using something like Random.Range then assign it to the mass property on the rigidbody

#archived-shaders

[unkempt locust]

where I find this in unity?

i not find in "Windows"

please help me

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel. also depending on your version the navigation workflow has changed and you're clearly watching a tutorial from a really old version

[ashen ferry]

I have this scene with basic stuff always existing like controls and ui but star + planets and skybox changing across star systems should I use additive scene loading for planets it must exist for a reason but idk why I shouldnt just destroy those dynamic things and rebuild in same scene lol

[unkempt locust]

but, where I find this? i want create a AI for my game, Can you help me?

[slender nymph]

again, it depends on your unity version. but this is still a code channel.
#🤖┃ai-navigation

there's documentation pinned in that channel that you can read

[oblique gazelle]

help me with inventory pickup please

anyone

i cant pickup and add 5 items to inventroy

[summer stump]

What do you have so far?

[oblique gazelle]

I can pickup two

im gettting error on the second weapon

[summer stump]

Show the code. Are you using a foreach loop when picking up weapons?

[oblique gazelle]

So I am using raycast

  // ray from the camera 
  if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
  {
      hitObject = hit.transform;
      float distance = hit.distance;
      
      if(distance < 9 && hitObject.tag == "Weapon" || hitObject.tag == "Item")
      {
          showLabel = true; // SHOW THE PICKUP LABEL  


          // PICKUP THE GUN  
          if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E))
          {
              if (weaponAmount > 0)
              {
                  Debug.Log("altease one weapon in hand");
                  SwitchWeapon(hitObject);
              }
              Debug.Log("weapon pickup first " + hitObject.name);

              Transform transforms = GameObject.Find("gunContainer").transform;


              if(!weapons.Contains(hitObject))
              {
                  PickUP(hitObject.transform);
              }
          
          }
      }

      else
      {
          showLabel = false; // SHOW THE PICKUP LABEL  
      }
  }

  if(!equipped && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.G))
  {
      equipped = true; 
  }


// DROP THE GUN  
  if (equipped && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.G))
  {
      equipped = false;
      Transform game = GameObject.Find("gunContainer").transform;



      DropGun(weapons.ElementAt(weaponAmount));
  }

@summer stump

[summer stump]

So the error mentions "MoveNextRare"
What is that code?

[grave jay]

if i were to make a script to store values, should i leave it as monobehaviour or change it?

[ivory bobcat]

Should it be a component or not?

[grave jay]

yeah

[summer stump]

If it needs to be a component, then use MonoBehaviour

The script must inherit from that (or Component or Behaviour, but keep it simple and use MonoBehaviour) to be a component of an GameObject

[static cedar]

That's a lotta nesting.

[static cedar]

Can u even inherit from Component or Behaviour? (Ik u can because they're public but it seems unusable anyways even if you can.)

[summer stump]

I have NEVER tried. So i don't know haha

[static cedar]

Yeah i tried, it asks for an attribute that you can't even use.

[summer stump]

I just felt like someone would point it out, so I was covering my a

[static cedar]

[summer stump]

Good to know. Thanks for testing hah

[summer stump]

I spend too much time on reddit lol

[grave jay]

What is the easiest way to detect how a button is pressed (GUI)?

[buoyant knot]

wdym how?

[tough lagoon]

Add a listener to it. If code isn't natural to you though, you can add a function to the button triggers in the inspector

[timid quartz]

I am having trouble organizing an algorithm I want to build. I have a list of characters in a row and I want them to switch their order in the scene based on the current active character, so if the index is 1, I want character A to be first, character B to be 2nd, etc. And if the index is 4, I want character D to be first, and then A to be 2nd. I just have to set the sibling index of the characters to get the display to work right, but I have no idea how to do the math within the for loop to make it work for any length of Active Players. Any ideas?

// handle the display order
// if we have a list of 4, and the current index is 3, then the 3rd one is 1st, the 4th one is 2nd, the 1st one is 3rd, and the 2nd one is 4th
// 1 = 3rd
// 2 = 4th
// 3 = 1st
// 4 = 2nd

for (int i = 0; i < ActivePlayers.Count; i++)
{
ActivePlayers[i].transform.SetSiblingIndex( ??? );
}

[hearty ivy]

can anyone help me with my vs code intellesence

i regenerate my project files and reloaded window

and got an error message

RemoteInvocationException: Sequence contains no elements

[pearl lodge]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[hearty ivy]

boshhy

you are a saint

god bless u

[queen adder]

bro we in that channel 💀

[queen adder]

Nah its reference to a message

oh lmao its a message reference

[pearl lodge]

If you click it it will take you to the message

[queen adder]

I thought bro mentioned the channel 💀

[queen adder]

Same for me at the start

[pearl lodge]

believe me it confused me to. I looked up my old message and copied message link, and hit paste and thats what it came up with, but it worked lol

[queen adder]

Mhm

discord is getting a lot cooler with its references

But there is many videos about how to get intellisense working in vs code

[queen adder]

Indeed unlike Unity’s pricing plans 💀

💀

real

[vestal grove]

Is there a hotkey to press this "arrow"

for sprites

[grave frost]

alt + right arrow key expands it for me, might work for you too (alt + left to close it)

[vestal grove]

Thank you

it worked

[nocturne parcel]

Weird question but
Is it possible to add a type to a variable?
Like var i = int or something like that
I have this gigantic function https://pastebin.com/gj85Lm5L
And it is already complicated enough

I still need to repeat it for the land tiles

Would be easier to just change the type on tilemap.GetTile<T> instead of repeating everything again

Is that possible?

[teal viper]

There's the Type type(no pun intended). That you can use to store a type in a variable.

Though, perhaps you're doing somehting wrong if you need to rely on it.

[nocturne parcel]

That's actually exactly what I need tho

Thanks

[teal viper]

You can't use it with generics though, if that's what you plan.

[nocturne parcel]

Oh

Yeah that's rough

Can I use something like tilemap.GetTile<typeof(tile)>

And tilecan be my two different types of tile?

[teal viper]

No, I don't think you can do that. I think generics are evaluated at compile time, when tile is undefined.

Perhaps you can use polymorphism to solve your issue. Not entirely sure what you're trying to do though.

[nocturne parcel]

I'm using it to check types of neighbors

It gives me inconsistent results if I use GetTile returning TileBase

[teal viper]

You can just check the type of TileBase

[nocturne parcel]

For example, if I use is operator to check the type, it is always returning false

[teal viper]

if(tile is WaterTile water)
{  
  //do something with water tile
}
else//...

[nocturne parcel]

When I use Equals, i get a null reference too for some reason lol

[nocturne parcel]

I tried, it always gives me false

[teal viper]

I don't see how Equals is relevant here, but is should work

[teal viper]

Can you provide the code and some info on the tiles?

[nocturne parcel]

Sure

WaterTile: https://pastebin.com/SqQPXJ12
LandTile: https://pastebin.com/kGpDMTCD

Maybe I was just doing something wrong

When comparing

I remember I may have had cast the tile before comparing

I'll try again

Thanks for the help tho

[teal viper]

Yeah, try the is again and see if it works.

[nocturne parcel]

Tbf, just using type checking would accomplish the same thing I'm doing rn, same lenght

As I'm checking type already, just differently

[teal viper]

I guess so

[nocturne parcel]

So yeah, thanks for the help anyway

Would be nice to have a way to change the type of a generic in runtime

[teal viper]

You can use polymorphism perhaps:

MyTileBase t = GetTile<MyTileBase>(pos);
t.DoSomeSpecificLogic();

And then override the DoSomeSpecificLogic in each of your types inheriting from MyTileBase.

[nocturne parcel]

Wait, that's actually a very good idea

thanks

[teal viper]

Or something more intricate, depending on your needs.

[pearl lodge]

The game of life?

[nocturne parcel]

Sorry?

[pearl lodge]

Sorry I thought your code looked similar to John Conway's game of life

[nocturne parcel]

Oh

I mean, considering it's me trying to clean up a procedural generated island

[teal viper]

Loops and checking neighbors are very common in different algorithms.

[nocturne parcel]

It may have similarities

I was trying to do a flood fill algorithm without it being a flood fill algorithm

That's why it isn't the best code out there :p

[pearl lodge]

I don't know what your end task is but if it has anything to do with changing tiles to a different 'tiletype' depending on what the neighbors are, then you will most likely need a "currentState" of the tiles and "nextState" of the tiles.

You don't want to change them as your doing your for loop

[nocturne parcel]

Oh, it's not continuous. it's just one step on the island generation to clean up single out tiles.

So I don't get a random single water tile inside the island

[snow mural]

So I’m making a card game, where up to 5 hands are in play (5 cards per hand). The last card is face up and the person with the highest card will be the leader for the round.
However, if multiple people share the highest card I don’t know how to handle the situation.

So far I’ve just stored all the 5th cards in a List<GameObject>.

[nocturne parcel]

here's my island

[nocturne parcel]

Do you want more than 1 leader when it's a tie?

Care to detail more your problem?

[teal viper]

Is it a question about game design or coding? Are you asking about what to do when there's a tie or how to code it?

[snow mural]

How to code it. I want only 1 leader, and when there are multiple people with the same highest cards I want to deal another card to only those hands and check again if one has a higher card.

[teal viper]

So, only one person can have the highest card and when they pick it, no one else can?
Is that what you want?

[snow mural]

So potentially, but very low probability, having the same highest card can happen several times

[snow mural]

They don’t pick it, but the final card dealt to their hand (which is face up) decides their ‘leader value’. Highest leader value gets to be leader for the round, but only one can be leader per round

[magic smelt]

How can i call the GameObject OnMouseEnter from an array of GameObjects?

[SerializeField] private GameObject[] gameObjects;

private void Start()
{
    foreach(var gameObject in gameObjects)
    {
        //Subscribe to OnMouseDown / OnMouseEnter?
    }
}

private void OnMouseDown()
{
}

private void OnMouseEnter()
{
}

[teal viper]

Ok, so just set a bool to true when someone gets that card and when giving cards to other players, exclude that one card from the options.

[nocturne parcel]

foreach (object in gameObjects) { object.OnMouseEnter }

Tho I suspect you wouldn't need to do that if this is an event

[magic smelt]

Sadly i tried to do this earlier and didnt work:

[gaunt ice]

actually you should get component first

but i will not suggest this, instead change the gameobject[] to some monobehaviour[]

[nocturne parcel]

That's not how you should be subscribing events

You are subscribing the function... to itself?

[snow mural]

But I cannot know for a fact its the highest card until all cards are dealt out.

[magic smelt]

Well im kind of puzzled.. All I want to to do is handle the OnMouseEnter of gameobjects inside of 1 script instead of having like 100 scripts.

When I make a single script to do it for each object, it works very well

[magic smelt]

This is interesting 😮

[nocturne parcel]

So, that's how events are for, but you are doind it wrong

Lemme see if I can find a tutorial

For events

[magic smelt]

yeah i feel like it hehehe

[nocturne parcel]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/events-and-delegates-in-unity/

Good resource about events

[magic smelt]

Awesome, thank you so much 🙂

[teal viper]

Then you have a problem and you need to decide how to deal with it from the game design perspective. Do you do 2 card draws(one to know the leader and then another to make sure no one has the same card)? Maybe some other logic?

[nocturne parcel]

Also, I'm pretty sure you can use built in Unity functions for that? Just make a ray coming out of the mouse, and let the ray script handle what to do when the mouse enters, not each object

[cosmic dagger]

you should look up the method you're trying to use to see how to use it . . .

[snow mural]

No i only deal the 5 cards to each hand and then do the leader check. And when we play the card game irl sometimes 2 people get the same leader card more than 2 times in a row, so it needs to be able to re deal until there’s a leader

[nocturne parcel]

Oh, I didn't know OnMouseEnter was a Unity event

Like, a built in function lol

[teal viper]

Ok, so when you redeal the cards, just exclude any cards that are the leader or higher cards from the distribution.

[nocturne parcel]

It already does a raycast

Cool

[uncut shoal]

        foreach (var item in colliders) Destroy(item);

        var actualWidth = pixelSize * size.x;
        var actualHeight = pixelSize * size.y;
        var actualHalfSize = new Vector2(actualWidth, actualHeight) / 2;

        foreach (var rect in PDCG.GenerateColliders(pixels, size.x, size.y))
        {
            var box = gameObject.AddComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
            box.size = new Vector2(rect.size.x, rect.size.y) * pixelSize;
            box.offset = rect.center * pixelSize - actualHalfSize;
        }```

why does this only work the first time

[cosmic dagger]

this sounds like a custom solution you need to build. by default, each GameObject will react independently if using OnMouseDown method from MonoBehaviour. you can also use pointer events to use OnMouseEnter . . .

[uncut shoal]

after its used for the first time, whenever I use it afterwards, it only deletes the colliders but doesn't generate new colliders?

for example here is an object

[gaunt ice]

you add multiple boxcolliders to same gameobject?

[uncut shoal]

yes

[gaunt ice]

if it doesnt create new collider on the object, the foreach loop is not execute so PDCG.XXXX iterate nothing and yield return nothing

[uncut shoal]

yea I think I found the problem

yep I did

thanks!

[versed light]

        while (transform.childCount > 0)
            DestroyImmediate(transform.GetChild(0).gameObject);```

why would this cause infinite loop

doesnt make sense to me

[north kiln]

Afaik, it shouldn't. But it does seem like a very bad way to destroy all the children

Use a reverse for loop

[nocturne parcel]

Also, 2 lines of code doesn't really show much lol, show everything of the while loop

Oh, it's only one line

[north kiln]

@versed light (missed how long ago you posted, have a ping)

[versed light]

yeh doing it in reverse worked - would've thought destroy immediate did it instantly though

maybe it acts different in edit mode

[nocturne parcel]

I have a question about tilemap.RefreshAllTiles. Does it call the RefreshTile of each tile?

[versed light]

press f12 on the function and take a look at the code for it

unless they made it external

[nocturne parcel]

I'm having some weird behaviour when calling it

[versed light]

(f12 for visual studio) might be a different key if you use a different ide

[nocturne parcel]

Thanks, I'll try that

But I guess my problem is with tiles being scriptable objects (I'm passing a value to a custom tile class)

Hmm I'll see what I can do

ye, the tiles were getting the last value set, all of them

So I actually need to not refresh my tiles

[tawdry rock]

Hoi. Is the Space/Enter button considered in unity with some sort of "pressing" function? I mean like when you use Tab button in the browser to select a button and pressing enter will press that button like you clicked on it. I hope it's clear what i mean.
I noticed in my game if i open my inventory and there is a button to drop stuff, when i click on it and press space or enter the button still gets "clicked". If i just open the inventory and press space/enter nothing happens just after 1 click registered (with mouse) for that button.
Im pretty sure its some kind of wierd button mechanism because if i click once more anywhere and then try to press space/enter it no longer registering as i trying to press it.

[main karma]

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

[System.Serializable]
public class PlayerData
{
    public int shardTotal;
    public bool is_tutorial_done;
    public struct Level
    {
      
        public int shards;
        public float finishTime;
        public bool is_level_done;
    }
    public Level[] lvl = new Level[10];

    public PlayerData()
    {
       
    }
}```
how do I initialize the struct (lvl) in the constructor instead? (if that's even possible) because when I do it throws me the null reference exception

[gaunt ice]

you mean lvl[some index].something gives you an NRE?

[solar tide]

This code works fine. I simply put in the reference gameobject for the SwitchUnit in the inspector.
But what if I want SwitchUnit to be more than 1 object?
Maybe objects that has a certain tag or rather any gameobject that is specifically in that position in the if statement?
What do I write?

[main karma]

in playerdata yeah

[solar tide]

How do I define SwitchUnit then?

[main karma]

even if I create a new PlayerData object in another script and try to initialize any lvl I get NRE

only way it works is w the syntax I put above

[gaunt ice]

i think it is impossible to throw NRE in your case.. maybe try lev=new Level[10] in the constructor first

level is struct

[north kiln]

You have to initialize the array before you access/set its members, not doing that is the only way you would get an NRE

[main karma]

yeah that's what happens I assume

ah it's cuz I Load first and save later, so they never get initialized unless I save the game, so I try to load nothing

[analog depot]

Hi - if I had an object I wanted to rotate around another object, to point at a third object...
o
. x z

So rotate o around x (to .) to point line up with z - any smart ways?

I know I can rotatearound x, but I'm not sure of the cleanest way to figure out the angle, or indeed if tehre's a shortcut

[shy cloud]

Does anybody know why this (C#) code isn't working? It doesn't give me an error, it just doesn't do anything. I have the event triggers set up and everyting.

[north kiln]

Looks fine, though your event trigger concerns me, what object is that on?
Also, you need to configure VS

!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)

[shy cloud]

The script is on the canvas

[shy cloud]

But it is doing that

[north kiln]

It needs to be on an object like a Graphic or Collider. You cannot get UGUI events without an appropriate thing for the event system to click

[shy cloud]

What exactly do you mean by that? I added the event trigger to the button that should make the settings show up and the code to the canvas like a tutorial I watched a while ago for a tab system did and the tab system works perfectly fine

[north kiln]

Events are sent using various scripts, the one on the canvas is called the Graphic Raycaster

it looks at Graphics under the canvas and sends events if they were relevant

Events are only sent to the gameobjects that have the Graphic (like an Image) component on them. If you have a Canvas object alone, there is no event sent

[short hazel]

You also need an Event System in your scene, in case you got rid of it by accident

An object named "Event System" in your hierarchy

[shy cloud]

On the canvas I have both the object that one should trigger the event and that should be triggered by the event and both of them have a sprite renderer

[shy cloud]

I've done that before and spent about 1/2 an hour trying to find the mistake, but now it is there

[north kiln]

A Sprite Renderer is not a Graphic

[shy cloud]

what kind of graphic shoud I add then bc I dont want to affect the look of the sprite

[north kiln]

Image is the component you use inside of a Canvas

[shy cloud]

Can I then just make the A-Value of the image 0, so it is invisble?
Edit: Yes, you can

like that

[shy cloud]

Now it works, tysm! Didnt know that needs an image compenent

[ivory bobcat]

Or just give it a collider2d

[shy cloud]

the button had that

[ivory bobcat]

Something that's able to get bounds check

Maybe you did not have a physics 2d raycaster for the camera?

[ivory bobcat]

Graphics raycaster is a component for canvas

#💻┃code-beginner message

[shy cloud]

The canvas has one

[north kiln]

That's correct, it does not need to be anywhere else but on canvases and subcanvases

If it's working, there's nothing more to worry about

[ember musk]

Will methods in Debug be built into my packed game, and cause unnecessarily performance overhead?

[keen dew]

Logs yes, asserts no. Logging in builds can be switched off in player settings.

[ember musk]

ok, thanks!

[tepid cove]

im making a vr shooter and i have 1 problem, im using a bullet model (not a spheare) and my bullet flys facing one directions, its shoots in the right direction but doesn't face the right direction, lets say i turn 90 degrees my bullet i just shot will be flying at 90 degrees which looks goofy, i dont know how to fix this and i dont want to make the bullet a sphear and ignore it.

this is my code

[slender nymph]

assign its transform.forward to the spawnPoint.forward since that is the direction it is being fired in

alternatively you can pass in the spawnPoint.position and spawnPoint.rotation to Instantiate and you won't have to manually assign those on the following lines

[tepid cove]

how do i do that ;-;? im really new so all my code is from tutorials

[slender nymph]

assign its transform.forward to the spawnPoint.forward
is literally how

i'm not going to write the code for that for you

[tepid cove]

okay okay, thanks tho

[slender nymph]

and if you read the second message i sent, you'll see an even easier way

[queen adder]

How to change clipboard text via code?

[brave compass]

In the editor:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/EditorGUIUtility-systemCopyBuffer.html
But there's no built-in equivalent for runtime. There are plugins that exist that implement it for some platforms. Each platform handles the clipboard differently.

[queen adder]

hmm i need a runtime thingy 🥹

[spiral rain]

So I have a list full of scriptable objects and I was wondering if you can get one scriptable object with just the name of that scriptable object for ex I have a scriptable object named Tom so I would search for Tom in my list

[queen adder]

Use a dictionary lookup system?

[dusky vigil]

I got a pickup and drop system but every time I drop the weapon the weapon is droped at the origin of the scene instead being droped at the current location. The only thing i'm doing in the script is unparenting the weapon from the character and disabling some scripts. help pls :(.

[verbal dome]

Does the weapon have an animator? If yes, try disbabling it before unparenting.

It might be overriding the guns local position to 0,0,0

And with no parent that becomes the world position

[charred spoke]

That or the rb might remember its last non kinematic position.

[main karma]

can JSON serialize structs?

or an array of structs to be exact

[short hazel]

Serialize structs, yes. Arrays, depends on the serializer

JsonUtility cannot serialize arrays directly, you have to wrap the array in a class and serieliez the class

[queen adder]

will i get problems if i load this from json?

[main karma]

well that explains my issue

[queen adder]

ooh another json pwoblem

[main karma]

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

[System.Serializable]
public class PlayerData
{
    public int shardTotal;
    public bool is_tutorial_done;
    public struct Level
    {
      
        public int shards;
        public float finishTime;
        public bool is_level_done;
    }
    public Level[] lvl = new Level[10];

    public PlayerData()
    {
       
    }
}

I'm trying to serialize this

[short hazel]

Not sure why you write instance IDs, given that they change between game runs and object instances

[queen adder]

i just used this JsonUtility.ToJson(MainCharacterController.mainCharacter);

[short hazel]

Well it's trying to serialize some components there, not sure what the behavior will be on deserialization

[main karma]

same here, and I get this error when I try to use FromJson

Error occured when trying to read data from a fileC:/Users/Rob/AppData/LocalLow/myDevStudio/LIMBO RGB\data.limbo
System.ArgumentException: JSON parse error: Invalid value.
  at (wrapper managed-to-native) UnityEngine.JsonUtility.FromJsonInternal(string,object,System.Type)
  at UnityEngine.JsonUtility.FromJson (System.String json, System.Type type) [0x0005c] in <7fe3f96a6d704e1eaaf6ef514c2f5a51>:0 
  at UnityEngine.JsonUtility.FromJson[T] (System.String json) [0x00001] in <7fe3f96a6d704e1eaaf6ef514c2f5a51>:0 
  at FileDataHandler.Load () [0x00031] in D:\Unity Projects\LIMBO RGB\Assets\Scripts\DataPersistance\FileDataHandler.cs:34 
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError (object)

[short hazel]

Fields referencing components should probably be ignored

By decorating them with the NonSerialized attribute, probably

[oblique gazelle]

can someone help with inventory?

unity

[short hazel]

Mark the struct as serializable.
If the struct is meant to be used outside of PlayerData, consider taking it out of the class, and moving it to its own file.

[tepid cove]

im still stuck on how to do this, tried googling how to assign them together. "+" gives me an error if i do spawnPoint.position + spawnPoint.rotation;

[short hazel]

I guess they mean spawnedBullet.transform.forward = spawnPoint.forward.
Or doing = Instantiate(bullet, spawnPoint.position, spawnPoint.rotation), you choose

Both will rotate the instantiated prefab accordingly, so it faces the same way as the spawn point

If you choose the second approach, you won't need line 27 also

[tepid cove]

thank you, the problem is when asking for help is that i dont know how to code, so all the terminology is alien to me, ive just been learning how to do what ive seen but when something new pops up im clueless

[verbal dome]

What is the problem Ryldex

[oblique gazelle]

my inventory not wokring

I cant to see data about the item too

[short hazel]

Configuring your code editor should be a first, if you haven't done that yet. You'll get errors underlined red in the code directly, as well as suggestions when you type stuff (variable names, type names, etc.)

[jovial peak]

your trying to add a quaternion (spawnpoint.rotation) with a vector3 (spawnpoint.position)?

[short hazel]

!vsc

Hm

[short hazel]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[short hazel]

There we go

Do the configuration guide first

[verbal dome]

Do you really think this is enough info to help you

[tepid cove]

i got that error when i put in the cod e yo sent