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[random sand]

    {
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(transform.position - CameraControl.hitDist);```
this script makes my object face the direction I want it to face but
```void FixedUpdate()
    {
        cj.targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(transform.position - CameraControl.hitDist);```
doesn't. cj is a configurablejoint and angular drive is 10000. anyone know why?

[hybrid karma]

sorry where am i using that?

[slender nymph]

where you intend to start the Mark coroutine

[west arch]

Guys I just upgraded my TextMeshPro to version 3.2.0-pre.6 but I got this error Library\PackageCache\com.unity.textmeshpro@3.2.0-pre.6\Scripts\Editor\TMPro_CreateObjectMenu.cs(339,31): error CS0117: 'Object' does not contain a definition for 'FindFirstObjectByType'. And when I checked inside the script that line and many other lines is white color. Definitely there's something wrong here but I just have no clue.

[languid spire]

which Unity version are you using?

[west arch]

I'm using Unity 2020.3.38f1

[languid spire]

Hmm, docs say it should be there

[west arch]

What should be there?

[languid spire]

FindFirstObjectByType

[west arch]

Yea but that's the issue. Starting from Object is not there. Also GameObjectUtility. Basically I was just upgrade and import TMP essentials. Then I got that weird error

[azure zenith]

Help

[teal viper]

Don't crosspost. No one would be able to help you if you don't provide details.

[royal linden]

can someone help me understand wwhy this sends my camera to the moon

[queen adder]

Hey im looking for some help, im using Mirror and SteamWorks so i can play with some friends once me and my boy are done with the game. I just got done setting up the Player Model and animating it.

for some reason the transform.position.y in the inspector is constanly changing values same happens with the rotation.y which makes my camera turn by itself.

Also whenever im standing the characterController.isGrounded is constantly returning false for some reason which makes my player go into a part of the jump animation, and when i jump characterController.isGrounded is true and goes back to false...

Code:
https://pastie.io/hncegw.cs

Any help is appreciated

[languid spire]

you are adding 5 to the Y of position every loop

[queen adder]

Options.SetResolution (System.Int32 resolutionIndex) (at Assets/2D/Scripts/Options.cs:51)``` what does this mean

[royal linden]

oh its a loop?#

[languid spire]

what did you think LateUpdate was?

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[royal linden]

idek

[languid spire]

Try reading some docs then

[queen adder]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Audio;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Options : MonoBehaviour
{
    /// <summary>
    /// - Manages the options menu
    [SerializeField] private AudioMixer audioMixer;
    [SerializeField] private TMPro.TMP_Dropdown resolutionDropdown;

    Resolution[] resolutions;

    // Resolution Options
    void Start()
    {  
        resolutions = Screen.resolutions;

        resolutionDropdown.ClearOptions();

        List<string> options = new List<string>();

        int currentResolutionsIndex = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < resolutions.Length; i++)
        {
            string option = resolutions[i].width + " x " + resolutions[i].height;
            options.Add(option);

            if (resolutions[i].width == Screen.currentResolution.width && resolutions[i].height == Screen.currentResolution.height)
            {
                currentResolutionsIndex = i;
            }
        }

        resolutionDropdown.AddOptions(options);
        resolutionDropdown.value = currentResolutionsIndex;
        resolutionDropdown.RefreshShownValue();
    }

    public void SetVolume(float volume)
    {
        audioMixer.SetFloat("Volume", volume);
    }

    public void SetResolution(int resolutionIndex)
    {
        if (resolutions != null)
        {
            Resolution resolution = resolutions[resolutionIndex];
            Screen.SetResolution(resolution.width, resolution.height, Screen.fullScreen);
        }
    }

    public void Quit()
    {
        Application.Quit();
    }
}

well why is my resolution list null

[west arch]

Not sure why you delete your answer but not problem. Okay so I've tried to regenerate the project files. I also even rebuild the solution lol(I have no idea why am I doing this). But still no luck 😢 . Re import also didn't help

[languid spire]

Odd, I didn't delete my answer. Can you screenshot your complete VS window

[west arch]

my visual studio window?

[languid spire]

yes

[queen adder]

Anyone can help me look into this it's the only thing im lacking in regards to the player movement :/

[west arch]

like this?

[languid spire]

your IDE is not configured
!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[west arch]

Oh that's weird. I've been using it for a year since the last update. Will check it asap and be back soon

[static cedar]

And you never noticed? ;-;

[languid spire]

This is the giveaway. It should read Assembly-CSharp

[west arch]

I never know the difference in my IDE till he mentioned it 🤣🤣🤣 that's a new important tiny thing for me! Thank you @languid spire !

[topaz mortar]

what is the easiest way to generate/make getters for all my private variables?
[SerializeField] private ItemTypeSO itemType;
I got a whole bunch of these and want to be able to only read the value from other scripts

I'm using Visual Studio

I've been looking at properties vs fields a bit, but don't really understand when I should use each

Is this how I create a property that is read-only?
[SerializeField] public Sprite Sprite { get; }
Is there any reason I shouldn't be doing this?

[north kiln]

You can't serialize properties.
You can serialize their backing fields if they have a setter, but it's generally best to do it separately.

Choosing one over the other... Use a field when you're serializing something. Generally that's private. Then use a property where required to control access from the outside and to add validation.

Though, properties are slightly slower than fields, so sometimes people avoid them in high performance situations. There are caveats

[topaz mortar]

when/why would I want to serialize something?

[north kiln]

So you can set it in the inspector

[stiff birch]

Also when you want the data set in inspector not to be discarded

[topaz mortar]

so I need to do it like this?

public Sprite Sprite { get => sprite; }```

[topaz mortar]

how would it be discarded?

[stiff birch]

Well, when selecting another object to be inspected, or entering play mode for example

[north kiln]

That is one way, yes. The C# standards have private variables prefixed with an underscore, but that is preference

[languid spire]

It is never a good idea to have variable names the same as class names

[topaz mortar]

so I should use something like itemSprite instead?

[languid spire]

yes

[topaz mortar]

public Sprite Sprite { get => _itemSprite; }```

ew need to change the property name too

[languid spire]

no it was the variable Sprite you should not use sprite is fine

[delicate portal]

Hey, somehow my Player cant really move, the CapsuleCast doesnt really seem to work, either for the radius I guess, but it should be right. Can you help me?

    {
        //Collision detection
        float moveDistance = movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
        float playerRadius = .5f;
        float playerHeight = 1.5f;
        bool canMove = !Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerHeight, playerRadius, moveDir, moveDistance);`

**More code```

[topaz mortar]

ah so my code is good like this?

[languid spire]

no

[SerializeField] private Sprite sprite;
public Sprite ItemSprite { get => sprite; }

[topaz mortar]

ah kaj

ty 🙂

[topaz mortar]

"doesnt really seem to work" is not really enough info
what is happening or not happening? any errors? what is supposed to happen?

[delicate portal]

No errors, the player supposed to have a hitbox, but instead, it gets move blocked from the air

But the height and the radius should be right

[ashen ferry]

whats up with the ItemSprite { get => sprite; } does it do anything different than just ItemSprite => sprite;

[north kiln]

They are the same

[ashen ferry]

aa ok

[neon ivy]

void Start()
    {
        backendActive = true;
        StartCoroutine(TickUpdater());
    }

    IEnumerator TickUpdater()
    {
        while (backendActive)
        {
            if (active)
            {
                TickPing.Invoke();
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(1 / TickSpeed);
            }
        }
    }

trying to make a tick event, I'm subscribed to it in another script but it doesn't seem to work. anyone know why? backendActive is only there to avoid a while(true) loop

[north kiln]

If backendActive is true and active is false you have an infinite loop

Also, waitforseconds will wait and then occur on the next available frame, so this is an inaccurate way to make a tick

[sacred cradle]

uh

what do i do here

i wanna learn CSharp

[north kiln]

Look at the pinned messages, as directed

[sacred cradle]

ok thx

yeah but i like uh

want someone to teach me

reading isnt my profesion

no?

[north kiln]

Then pay a tutor or take a course

[sacred cradle]

i have no money!

[west arch]

@languid spire So I've read the IDE Configuration and checked if it was configured. I checked both via UnityHub and manually. And turns out I actually already did that. I even updated the packages. But still no luck.

I'm gonna report this as a bug I assume?

[north kiln]

No. Does the IDE look configured when you look at your own code (not text mesh pro's code)?

Also not in your screenshots is the external tools setting in Unity's editor preferences

[sacred cradle]

hey i actaully like this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

[west arch]

Yeah I guess. I saw my assembly there. While the TMP one is Miscellaneous Files

[north kiln]

Then it's configured

[west arch]

This right?

[north kiln]

Yup

[sacred cradle]

BRO

[west arch]

Yea. Then it's a bug

[sacred cradle]

c# is 10X easier then i thought

[north kiln]

What is a bug? It's configured

[languid spire]

can you open the solution explorer and screenshot that

[west arch]

I meant this error haunt me for hours. If it's configured then it should not like this

[north kiln]

Your Unity version musn't be compatible with that version of the package

[sacred cradle]

this didnt work

it told me to do that

ohhhh

wait

ik what they mean now

[west arch]

There are tons of them. Which one do you want?

Some name is confidential

[sacred cradle]

why does this just keep loading
string myFriend = "GreenX";
myFriend = "Ezra";
Console.WriteLine(myFriend);

[languid spire]

just wanted to see which projects are in your solution

[sacred cradle]

oh

just my wifi

😄

[west arch]

Ohh it could be that. I'm gonna find out what version of Unity compatible with TMP 3.2.0-pre.6

[neon ivy]

the accuracy isn't all that important in this project, I just need a custom update loop because I don't want to loop through a list of 7000 elements too much

[languid spire]

it is ok, I checked for you

[west arch]

You meant this?

[languid spire]

yep, TMP is not there

[west arch]

Damn right, must be the version problem

I can't find the articles about unity version compatibility here https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.2/manual/index.html

but

https://forum.unity.com/threads/3-2-0-pre-4-release-now-available.1376289/ I assume it needs higher unity version in pre 6. So yeah unity version need to be upgraded

[sacred cradle]

why does this websites code tab so slow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/hello-world?tutorial-step=3

[west arch]

Case closed. Thank you guys! You're awesome

[sacred cradle]

just keeps loading

BRO

its still loading

why

@north kiln

my thing wont load

DDEWvugjergejr

can someone just help me 😭\

bro

@fickle plume

can you help me?

[fickle plume]

@sacred cradle Don't ping people into your questions. And don't ping moderators with non moderation issues.

[sacred cradle]

sorry

im new here

and idk who to ask

[fickle plume]

Read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[sacred cradle]

oke

[topaz mortar]

read #854851968446365696 and think before you ask something
how do you expect anyone to help you with the information you have provided us?

[sacred cradle]

ok ok sorry its just late at night and idk what im doin

ig ill just figure it out by myself god damnit 😦

[north kiln]

Well, this isn't even Unity-related at this point

[sacred cradle]

im tryna learn the thing but its not loading

[north kiln]

Well, that's Microsoft or your wifi, we can't help

[sacred cradle]

, _ ,

[heavy geyser]

Hello I am having an issue with changing the transform position of a gameobject. we are supplying a direction for the gameobject to move in, and for how many steps (think sort of like chess). The for statement in the "Move" function is being called, but the game object is not being moved. if anyone could help that would be great! thank you!

p.s the code is a hellscape cause this is for a uni game jam and we are in crunch mode rn: https://pastebin.com/ZFDRMWJe

[heady nimbus]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[heavy geyser]

I am getting no errors in Unity, or my IDE. Sorry, I should have stated before

[heady nimbus]

Oh sorry that was for me, not you. Lol

[heavy geyser]

oh gahaha my bad

[heady nimbus]

Trying to determine if there have been any new options for IDE since VSCode had been fully dropped at this point

[tiny leaf]

is there a way to calculate the velocity from a collision or would it be too difficult since it looks likes the velocity keeps decreasing over time

[languid spire]

start by logging the values passed into Move

[north kiln]

It's the opposite. VS Code has just started properly being supported again.

[tiny leaf]

wait nvm

[heady nimbus]

Wait for real? I thought they had just "fully dropped support" recently. I know the debugger extension had been dumped like a year ago, I didn't hear anything about fixing support

[north kiln]

Yes. They moved to the C# Dev Kit https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code-configuration

[heady nimbus]

Thank you, I'll take a look through this

[heavy geyser]

The values that I am passing through are accurate to what I expect. (e.g direction(-1.00, 0.00) time: 3)

[languid spire]

what about gridSize. Check the inspector not the code

[heavy geyser]

The grid size value is what I expected (since the grid we are moving on has a scale of 0.9, it is set to 0.9). We have tried increasing this value but it has no effect

[queen adder]

Okay so I'm not a Unity beginner but I am a VR Beginner, I'm starting a VR project and I was wondering if Unity or Unreal is the better engine. The specifics of my project is for it to run efficiently and reliably on low-end devices with a lot of content, multiplayer (on my own server), and an entire storyline. No biased answers, please.

[languid spire]

screenshot the inspector that this script is attached to

[heavy geyser]

Of course please bear with

[heavy geyser]

Here you go, I also included the console because despite me printing the values of the directionhalf, and timehalf arrays, they don't update in inspector (confusing since in console the output correctly)

[languid spire]

Are you sure you are calling the script on the correct object?

post code where you call it

[random sand]

{

    private ParticleSystem particle;
    
    void Start()
    {
        particle = this.gameObject.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();
        particle.Emit(1);
    }
    void Update()
    {
        if (!particle.isPlaying)
        {
            Destroy(this.gameObject);
        }
    }
}```
hey, I made this script to put on a prefab that instantiates at the position that a raycast makes contact with something. problem is, the animation doesn't play. also is there a more efficient way to do this?

[ashen ferry]

low end devices with lots of content makes this unity or nothing situation imo, ue5 pros over unity is from its monster graphics you wont use, development will be slower as well, u should research such important question on ur own noone can give straight answer tbh

also higher floor overheads and u need that fps for vr

[heavy geyser]

I am calling the Move() function from the InterpretMorse() function which is called from an external script called InputMachine. Here is the where I am calling it:

 if ( pI > 3 ) {
            playerController.InterpretMorse(ControllerArray);
            pI = 
            
            if (pI == 3) {
                ...
            }
            MorseReset();
        }```
the `ControllerArray` variable is an array that is updated with values that change depending on which type of morse code symbol they type.

[queen adder]

Tbh, I think the only things Unreal have over Unity is that Unreal has Nanite and Lumen; also the fact that Unreal allows you to create AAA games as an indie developer in no-time, but I will say it def makes games look more bland. I think I will go with Unity but the only reason I am considering Unreal because of the recent trust breach and the fact that a massive amount of Unity developers are switching to unreal.

[heavy geyser]

the controllerArray is parsed into the InterpretMorse() function in the other file (that has the broken code) and is being split into two 2-digit arrays, the direction, and time arrays which are then parsed into the Move() function

here is the InputMachine code if you need it: https://pastebin.com/dnWvL2VF

[teal viper]

How does it allow you to make AAA games? Does it create a multimillion company for you and promotes your title to worldwide renown?🤔

[languid spire]

And the playerController variable is set to the PlayerAgentController component from PlayerAgent gameobject in the inspector?

[heavy geyser]

indeed

[queen adder]

AAA Quality games. With Nanite and Lumen it's just the Asset Store + Nanite & Lumen, also the FPS template and easy-to-use multiplayer functionality, it's not very difficult.

I'm not saying you can create a AAA game in Unreal as an indie dev, was more using that as an expression or whatever. Just saying that it's much easier to implement quality un Unreal.

[languid spire]

I see you also have a PlayerAgent prefab, are you sure you used the GameObject from the scene not the prefab?

[heavy geyser]

yes

AH!

Fixed it!

Thank you so much Steve

[queen adder]

I plan on programming my own server functionality but I want to use a third-party server as well. Are there any 3rd party servers that can give me manual server-client-server responses that allow you to program implementation manually? Or do they all have custom libraries?

[languid spire]

Humour me. Debug.Log GetInstanceId() in your PlayerAgentController script

[heavy geyser]

I fixed it man

it somehow decided to work when I changed transform.position += new Vector3(...); to transform.position = new Vector3(...);

[broken anvil]

can anyone help me with a script? i want to child an object to a child of the collided object on trigger

[languid spire]

Odd, that should make no difference

[heavy geyser]

it somehow fixed it? it boggles me too

[sacred cradle]

YO

[tiny leaf]

Let’s say I wanted to access different weapon objects on the ship. Would it be better practice to give each one its own serialized field (more fields) or to have an array of them (less descriptive naming when accessing them since indexing)

[languid spire]

you can have both. Use an Array and an Enum for the indexer

[tiny leaf]

okay

[charred spoke]

Or a Dictionary

[cosmic dagger]

ohhh snap!

[charred spoke]

What did I do?

[cosmic dagger]

we went from an array + enum to a dictionary. what will we see next?

the options are endless . . .

[mellow ledge]

[2D] yo, i implemented a jump mechanic that uses a raycast for a ground-check. Now im watching a guide on wall-jumps and they use empty transforms positioned right (or left) of the player. Obviously this works but i'm trying to understand why use this approach and not a horizontal raycast? Can i use this method for ground jumps too? is one better than the other?

[timber tide]

You can do it many ways, but the empty transform way gives some better debugging visuals probably

[charred spoke]

Empty transforms? Or two colliders on each side?

[timber tide]

oh yeah they probably have colliders^

[charred spoke]

Cause a empty transform wont do jack

[cosmic dagger]

yeah, they probably have colliders on them . . .

[mellow ledge]

uh they have a field of type Transform and they place a new Empty to the right side. They do have colliders yeah mb for poor word choice

[charred spoke]

Well if anything a box collider is a bit heavier collision calc than a raycast

Maybe they want some thickness due to gameplay reasons, but then there is box cast

[cosmic dagger]

it depends on the amount of coverage you want/need for your game. a collider will be a larger volume/area of space to check (when jumping) hitting a wall, as a raycast is a single ray shot in one direction. you can shoot multiple rays in an arc to search a greater range for a wall as well . . .

[mellow ledge]

yeah it seems weird not to just use a raycast to e

[charred spoke]

I wouldn’t call it weird. It all depends on what you want

[mellow ledge]

all i need is "am i touching a wall" (so not a ledge smaller than the player)

Does using the collider have a clear benefit over the raycast

[timber tide]

coverage

[mellow ledge]

but then i can just increase the ray size no?

[charred spoke]

It does not and for your ledge case a raycast might be better. I would even do 3 raycasts and make sure all of them are hitting the same object, that way you can calc the step hight too

[cosmic dagger]

nope, a ray is basically a single line in space with a distance . . .

[charred spoke]

Rays are rays they dont have a size. A thick raycast is a sphere cast or a box cast

[mellow ledge]

mm right

[charred spoke]

Well they dont have thickness they have a length

[mellow ledge]

gotcha

ill just use the raycast for now then. Thanks for ur advice

[topaz mortar]

Does this look ok/good?

{
    List<Item> itemList = character.Equipment.GetEquippedItems();

    foreach (Item item in itemList)
    {
        characterArmor += item.BonusArmor;
        characterMinDamage += item.BonusMinDamage;
        characterMaxDamage += item.BonusMaxDamage;
    }
}```

It's kind of a trip to go from CombatScript -> Character -> Equipment -> Item to get the bonus stats

[timber tide]

ye

[cosmic dagger]

this looks fine, but it really depends when and how often this is called. you could update your stats when any item is equipped on the character. this seems like it'd be done after an equip session is complete . . .

[topaz mortar]

yeah not gonna call it every frame 😛

[cosmic dagger]

i'd invoke an event after an item is equipped to update the stats . . .

[topaz mortar]

I'll look into that

currently working with pre-equipped items, there's no actual item-equipping yet 😦

[silk night]

then you actually only need to run this once, when loading, just figure out every state change you may have on those items and only then execute it

[ashen ferry]

spoiler alert if u plan on having debuffs on those stats and unequipping at any point it will be hard asf to handle all the cases without just recalculating each frame

or that was skill issue on my end idk

[formal bolt]

Oh my gosh

Why is it so hard to make a simple movement!!!!! >>>>:(

[topaz mortar]

there should be hundreds of tutorials on it on YT

[formal bolt]

nahg

its undertale like

and collision is kinda weird idk why am i make it weird

and i have issue at making player can slide when walking toward wall

i fixing it rn

[queen adder]

Top down pov?

[timber tide]

this is one perk of having automatic garbage collection

[formal bolt]

yea

having a bad time rn

[swift crag]

ah, you're doing the movement for the combat segments

So the problem is that you can't slide when moving diagonally against a wall?

[formal bolt]

yes

[swift crag]

How are you doing movement? You can show us your !code

[eternal falcon]

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[formal bolt]

how to show

[swift crag]

see the bot message

[formal bolt]

its to much character in the code

[swift crag]

you'll want to use one of the pastebin sites.

I like https://gdl.space

paste your code in, click the save button, and copy the link

[formal bolt]

like this?

https://gdl.space/oxipulequz.cs

i have not much time left

i going to sleep

and also this script https://gdl.space/muyonowuco.cpp

[swift crag]

That looks like a reasonable approach. But when does CollisionDetector.isOutsideBox update?

I think you need to check if you're outside the box after each attempted movement

It sounds like you're only checking once per frame

[formal bolt]

uh

okay

but its on other gameobject

[swift crag]

How does it work?

[formal bolt]

a box where player can only walk

on the second script

https://gdl.space/muyonowuco.cpp

[swift crag]

ah, so it's using a trigger collider

[formal bolt]

yes

pls dm me

i dont want

[swift crag]

I would suggest using a Bounds instead.

You can ask if a point is inside of a Bounds.

[dry tendon]

Hey, does someone know how could I do that kind of animation to the icon of my game in unity?

[swift crag]

So you can just check if the player's position is inside a rectangle

[formal bolt]

how?

[swift crag]

actually, Rect would be more appropriate for 2D

[formal bolt]

im new

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rect.html

I would put down two empty objects at the top left and bottom right corners of your play area.

[queen adder]

Is the problem like the player cannot go right next to the wall because of collision boxes?

[formal bolt]

dm me the answer i dont want the answer to gone and i need to scroll up when wake up

im going to sleep

[swift crag]

public Transform topLeft;
public Transform bottomRight;

Rect bounds;

void Awake() {
  float width = bottomRight.x - topLeft.x;
  float height = bottomRight.y - topLeft.y;

  bounds = new Rect(topLeft.x, topLeft.y, width, height);
}

void Update() {
  if (bounds.Contains(Vector2.zero)) {
    Debug.Log("[0,0] is inside the rectangle");
  }
}

[swift crag]

Here is an example.

[formal bolt]

dm me ok?

i want the answer in dm

[queen adder]

Dude just save as notes

[formal bolt]

oh

[swift crag]

I don't want to DM people. You can just search for this mention tomorrow @formal bolt

[formal bolt]

how?!?!?!

[queen adder]

Also don’t demand things from other people when they are the ones helping you

[swift crag]

This will let you check if the player is in bounds whenever you want.

[formal bolt]

ok.

[swift crag]

That way, you can check if your horizontal move was okay, then check if your vertical move was okay

Another option would be to just use Bounds

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Bounds.html

[formal bolt]

bye bye

[swift crag]

specifically: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Bounds.ClosestPoint.html

[formal bolt]

ima sleep

[swift crag]

this can just snap you back in bounds

[formal bolt]

kk

if im not going to sleep my dad is gonna cut my wifi for 2 days

zzzzzzz

[queen adder]

Then sleep

[dry tendon]

Hey, does someone know how could I do that kind of animation to the icon of my game in unity?

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/lszsdtmkfo
I have this rotator on my player. Whenever I enter trigger that is either called rotator 1 or 2, player turns that way. But the thing is. When I fall off the platforms. The character just rotates without entering trigger. Can someone point why this happens?

I can post a video if needed.

[queen adder]

Could you post a video

[final kestrel]

Of course.

[swift crag]

how does your player move? this could just be because you're using a rigidbody that has unlocked rotation

i see a rigidbody is involved

[final kestrel]

Yes with rigidbody

[queen adder]

Yeah that was what I was going to say

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/psrobefqoe

This is the player movement script

[queen adder]

And everytime you trigger the rotations

You could unlock it

And rotate it

[queen adder]

And lock it afterwards

[final kestrel]

The part where I fall down the platforms.

[swift crag]

ah, so the direction is changing

Are you logging when you enter these triggers?

[final kestrel]

no not really

[swift crag]

Make sure you aren't just hitting a trigger you forgot about

[final kestrel]

I'm positive there is no trigger in there

[queen adder]

In the method where it creates the game to end (like death screen or the what causes the end screen to pop up) just set the player velocity to 0

Using updates

[swift crag]

Okay, but have you proven it?

Log every time you enter a trigger.

I'm positive about a lot of things until I'm not (:

[queen adder]

Casaken there has to be some sort of trigger because how would you trigger the death screen?

[swift crag]

oh, look at this

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("RotatorLeft")&& canRotate)
        {
            diff = Quaternion.Euler(0, -90, 0);
            canRotate = false;
            StartCoroutine(EnableRotationAfterDelay(.4f));
        }
        

        if (other.CompareTag("RotatorRight")&& canRotate)
        {
            diff = Quaternion.Euler(0, 90, 0);
            canRotate = false;
            StartCoroutine(EnableRotationAfterDelay(.4f));
        }
        _rb.rotation *= diff;
        _rb.velocity = diff * _rb.velocity;
    }

this unconditionally causes you to rotate every time you enter a trigger

[final kestrel]

Oh actually

[swift crag]

it doesn't matter if the trigger doesn't have the appropriate tag

[final kestrel]

you're right the base ground

[swift crag]

You should return early if you didn't hit a valid trigger

[final kestrel]

hmm

[queen adder]

Yes so recheck the method of the base ground

[final kestrel]

So the base ground which is a fail condition trigger. Causes me to rotate cos im triggering rotator regardless of its name

[swift crag]

Right.

[final kestrel]

Can you tell me how it does that unconditionally? I have the rotator names in the if parameter?

[near saddle]

How can i access a variable from another script in a prefab script

[queen adder]

You could either redefine the methods used to rotate so they are specific to axis or you could make it so when it hits the death trigger it will set rb.velocity = new Vector2(0,0)

Vector 3*

[swift crag]

Read your code from top to bottom.

[queen adder]

And make the methods that move the player disabled

[final kestrel]

ahh these?

[final kestrel]

Hmm all right

[swift crag]

• If you hit "RotatorLeft" and you can rotate, set diff and disallow rotation
• If you hit "RotatorRight" and you can rotate, set diff and disallow rotation
• Rotate the player

The third point is not conditional.

You should bail out immediately if the tags aren't right.

maybe

[unique hull]

Either bail out or set a bool for "If dead" or the like

[swift crag]

if (left) { ... }
else if (right) { ... }
else { return; }

_rb.rotation *= diff;
_rb.velocity = diff * _rb.velocity;

I would call this an early return

returning early can be useful for a method that does a series of checks and, if they all succeed, runs some more code

you just return if the condition is not met.

[final kestrel]

all right

[unique hull]

Doesnt he want to update velocity even if either left/right is conditional?

[queen adder]

To that method add another condition like a bool like “Dead” and if true disallow the movement code

If its false you allow it

[swift crag]

This would just mask the problem.

Any other trigger would be able to cause the bug.

You should fix the root cause (touching any trigger makes you change direction), not the symptom (touching the death trigger makes you change direction)

[queen adder]

I told him to either fix it entirely or just do something like that

[unique hull]

Put a bool for the _rb.rotation inside the left/right check?

[final kestrel]

uh okay i will try. Thanks

Okay i made it. Thanks everyone.

[near saddle]

how can u make a prefab access another variable without it being on the screen

i cant reference

[queen adder]

Np

[swift crag]

Prefabs cannot reference scene objects, if that's what you're trying to do.

[near saddle]

Yeah

How do i work aroudn that

around

[shy cloud]

I've got a slider which isn't interactable, I've already researched about it on the internet, but none of the fixes I found worked

[swift crag]

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

Whoever spawns the prefab should assign the reference.

[mellow ledge]

i make a raycast going right or left, depending where im facing, for a wallcheck.

void OnJump()
    {
        if (IsNearWall() //???
        {

        }

        if (IsGrounded())
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpSpeed);
        }
        else if (canDoubleJump)
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpSpeed * doubleJumpMult);
            canDoubleJump = false;
        }
    }

private RaycastHit2D IsNearWall() // Other return type maybe?
    {
        Vector2 facingDirection;
        if (transform.localScale.x < 0) facingDirection = Vector2.left;
        else facingDirection = Vector2.right;

        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(hitbox.bounds.center, facingDirection, 0.1f);
        return hit;
    }

What's the better approach here?

• Should IsNearWall() return the direction of the hit wall to its caller OnJump() OR
• Should OnJump() do the direction check and tell isNearWall() which direction to check for by passing a Vector2

[heavy quarry]

when installing new unity version, it asks me to install vs 2019. but i already have 2022 version. can i untick 2019 and just use 2022 with game dev for unity workload?

[silk night]

Yes, unless you are installing an ancient version of unity it should work with 2022

All LTS versions should support 2022

[final kestrel]

Hello! is me again... https://hatebin.com/aqvnooukeg
https://hatebin.com/cvmmkgdzaq. These are my player controller and player triggers scripts. I am trying to disable movement on death. Taking the isDead bool from player triggers and putting it in the if condition on FixedUpate. I thought It would not run the codes in there if player was dead but it does not seem to be working.

[silk night]

Do you need the direction the wall is later on in OnJump?

[mellow ledge]

only to know which direction to jump away from

[silk night]

Please Debug.Log() the isDead state on FixedUpdate and check if its actually dead

[silk night]

Is it like a wallrunning thing? Or why do you jump away from the wall when the player just jumps

[mellow ledge]

oops i wanted to use a gif as exmple

[mellow ledge]

yeh its supposed to be a walljump

[silk night]

Then I would output a tuple of (bool hasLeftWall, bool hasRightWall) from IsNearWall

        public void Test()
        {
            var (a, b) = IsNearWall();
        }
        
        public (bool, bool) IsNearWall()
        {
            return (true, false);
        }

[mellow ledge]

tht makes sense. Can you compare it to this for me please and tell me why yours is better

private Vector2 forward;

bool IsNearWall()
{
  //Perform raycast to forward vector
}

void OnJump()
{
  if(isNearWall())
  {
    //Jump code
  }
}

void Flip()
{
  if (movementInput < -0.01f)
  {
    transform.localScale = new Vector2(-1, 1);
    forward = Vector2.left;  
  }
  else if (movementInput > 0.01f)
  {
    transform.localScale = new Vector2(1, 1);
    forward = Vector2.right;  
  }
}

[final kestrel]

I will do it sorry I have to eat. Will get back asap.

[silk night]

I mean its just the way i would prefer it, I would not say its better, just preference

[near saddle]

how do i slow down GetKey

so it waits a bit

[mellow ledge]

ah gotcha. i thought maybe it matters performance wise. in past experiences (not gamedev) ppl advised against tuples unless they were single use discard type things

[near saddle]

Im using it for my shooting script

[rich adder]

add a delay between

[silk night]

Look for yield new WaitForSeconds coroutines

[near saddle]

how would i do that?

Okay

i found it

[silk night]

If you are already using DoTween the DoVirtual.DelayedCall might be an option too

[rich adder]

no

[near saddle]

o

[rich adder]

you need a coroutine

[silk night]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/WaitForSeconds.html

[near saddle]

ah okay ty

[rich adder]

void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKey(keycode) && canShoot)
    {
         //shoot
        StartCoroutine(Cooldown(shootSpeed));
    }
}
 IEnumerator Cooldown(float delay)
{
    canShoot = false;
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
    canShoot = true;
}```

[near saddle]

Tyvmmm

[final kestrel]

  private void FixedUpdate()
  {
      if (!playerTrigger.isDead)
          Debug.Log("Is not dead");
          Move();
          if (canJump)
          {
              Jump();
              //set it to false after jump because we dont wanna go flying upwards.
              canJump = false;
          }
      else
      {
          Debug.Log("Is Dead");
      }
       ```
It keeps saying is dead.

does not see the if above.

[final kestrel]

refering to this

[polar acorn]

Let me fix your indentation so you can see the problem

private void FixedUpdate()
{
  if (!playerTrigger.isDead)
    Debug.Log("Is not dead");
  Move();
  if (canJump)
  {
    Jump();
    //set it to false after jump because we dont wanna go flying upwards.
    canJump = false;
  }
  else
  {
    Debug.Log("Is Dead");
  }
}

[final kestrel]

where are my curlies

ahh

[polar acorn]

I put every curly brace you put in the code you showed

[final kestrel]

okay the log works now but I still got movement.

private void FixedUpdate()
{
    if (!playerTrigger.isDead)
    {
        Debug.Log("Is not dead");
        Move();

        if (canJump)
        {
            Jump();
            //set it to false after jump because we dont wanna go flying upwards.
            canJump = false;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log("Is Dead");
    }

}

after death that is

[polar acorn]

Are you sure that movement is coming from here

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/sqlhvhfyyd

this is the whole thing now

and yes this is where I do the movement

the only thing thats coming from another script is isDead

[polar acorn]

So, you set a velocity

but you never stop moving when you're dead

[final kestrel]

yes

[polar acorn]

so that velocity still exists

[final kestrel]

I made this

Ahh so. After setting the velocity once, It does not matter if i keep setting it in fixed? Thats why it keeps moving whether player is dead or not?

[polar acorn]

Newton's First Law of Motion

An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by a net force.

[final kestrel]

wohhh thats cool

[languid spire]

I don´t think they teach basic physics in school anymore

[final kestrel]

I just thought it would stop if im dead thats all 😄

with the isDead boolean

[languid spire]

why would a boolean affect a Vector3?

[polar acorn]

"Dead" is just a concept that exists in your head. It doesn't mean anything in code that you don't specifically tell it

[final kestrel]

Like if isDead is true then it would stop the Move function resulting in stopping.

I mean true

[final kestrel]

I understand now

Thanks guys.

[amber spruce]

how exactly would i get the first thing in the list in another class

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

[Serializable] public class PickMoveset : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string moveset;
    public List<string> moves = new List<string>();
    public void PickGravity()
    {
        moveset = "gravity";
        moves.Add("push");
        moves.Add("pull");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves);
    }
    public void PickLevitation()
    {
        moveset = "levitation";
        moves.Add("levitate");
        moves.Add("float");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves[0]);
    }
}

like i want to get moves[0] but in a different class

[languid spire]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[amber spruce]

so lets say i wanna use serialized references do i gotta serialize my string and list

and would i use serialized reference

[languid spire]

your string and List are already serialized because they are public

[amber spruce]

ok so in another class how would i refernce them sorry if im not understanding

[languid spire]

first get a reference to the GameObject the script is on
second get a reference to the script
third access the variable

[polar acorn]

.moves[0] oughta do it

[amber spruce]

yeah i know for that but i need to get the class or smth right

[polar acorn]

You would need to know which PickMoveset you want to get the moves[0] from yes

[amber spruce]

alright thanks

[amber spruce]

this is my code what its meant to do is set text to those variables but it doesnt

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

public class ChangeUIText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Text_Move1;
    public GameObject Text_Move2;

    PickMoveset pickMoveset;
    

    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move1_text;
    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move2_text;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text = Text_Move1.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        textmeshpro_Move2_text = Text_Move2.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text.text = pickMoveset.moves[0];
        textmeshpro_Move2_text.text = pickMoveset.moves[1];
    }
}

anyone know what im doing wrong

[polar acorn]

First off why are you serializing game objects solely to get components from them. You should just make the TMP variables public and drag those in

Second where do you assign pickMoveset

[amber spruce]

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

public class PickMoveset : MonoBehaviour
{
   public string moveset;
   public List<string> moves = new List<string>();
    public void PickGravity()
    {
        moveset = "gravity";
        moves.Add("push");
        moves.Add("pull");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves);
    }
    public void PickLevitation()
    {
        moveset = "levitation";
        moves.Add("levitate");
        moves.Add("float");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves[0]);
    }
}

[polar acorn]

I don't know what you're showing this

This has nothing to do with either of my questions

[amber spruce]

thats where i assign it isnt it

[gaunt ice]

this is just a script

[polar acorn]

This is what the class PickMovement is

[languid spire]

no, thats where you declare it

[amber spruce]

ah

[polar acorn]

I'm asking where you assign the variable pickMovement inside ChangeUIText

[amber spruce]

here??

[rich adder]

declaring and assigning are confused to be the same thing, but they are different.

[polar acorn]

Where do you assign that

At what point do you tell the code which PickMoveset you put in the variable named pickMoveset

[amber spruce]

i dont think i did that lol no clue what that is

[rich adder]

assigning is usually done with = , unless it was done in the inspector

[polar acorn]

Which PickMoveset do you want to get the moves from

[gaunt ice]

i think you dont know what variable=something is called, but you have used it, the = is assigning something to the variable

[amber spruce]

theres only 1 pickmoveset though

[polar acorn]

And how does the code know that

there could be one

there could be seven trillion

[amber spruce]

So how do I tell it the right one

[polar acorn]

which one do you want to use

[amber spruce]

The one I have 😂

[polar acorn]

So tell it that

How are you telling it which Text objects you want to use to display the text?

[amber spruce]

thats how i think right

[polar acorn]

Yes. So do that

[amber spruce]

How

[polar acorn]

Drag it in

[hard ore]

Guys, how do i make it so perlin noise would only generate a few stone blocks here and there instead of layers of blocks

[rich adder]

bloons is never assigned

bloons is null because you never assigned it

no you're only assigning dmg from towerData.damage

[summer stump]

That is a declaration

Assignments happen in the inspector or with an = sign

[rich adder]

just make it public and assign it in the inspector

same way you did BaseTowa

so?

make aprefab

which object has bloons script and which one has ProjectileDmg

[summer stump]

What IS Bloons? You want that to be the single bloon that should take damage?

I'm confused by the goal with this script? If you want the balloon you hit, use the collision passed in from OnCollisionEnter

[rich adder]

dont you want the one from the collision ?

[polar acorn]

Which bloons do you want to call TakeDamage on

[rich adder]

Collision2D collision your parameter has that info

[polar acorn]

So get the Bloons script from the object you collided with

write what

[summer stump]

You should use getcomponent or trygetcomponent to get the bloons script from the collision through the collider or something

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D.html

[rich adder]

you already check that object for a layer

instead look for the component you want, bloons

[vale blade]

google what a NullReferenceError usually means, from there it's pretty clear that something isn't initialized. Then you search how to initialize that variable with a target in Unity.

if you configure your IDE properly that helps too with suggestions as to what could be going wrong.

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[rich adder]

yeah this is good, would be better to write something more robust with TryGetCompnent

if one is not found somehow

it doesnt break yes

if (collision.gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer("Balloons"))
{
    if(collision.gameObject.TryGetComponent(out Bloons bloons))
    {
        bloons.TakeDamage(dmg);
    }
    Debug.Log("Bhealth");
    Destroy(gameObject);
}``` @lament kernel  
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.TryGetComponent.html

[vale blade]

I'm experiencing some issues getting a character to properly orient towards my player. Why is my character rotating off axis? I thought LookRotation was supposed to only rotate around the given axis?
var lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position, transform.up);
LookAtTarget and transform.position are both at the same height (y), so I wouldn't expect this tilt to occur?

using UnityEngine;

public class RotationMotor : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform LookAtTarget { get; set; }

    private void Update()
    {
        var lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(LookAtTarget.position - transform.position, transform.up);
        if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, lookRotation) > 5f) // 5f is the tolerance angle
        {
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, lookRotation, .1f);
        }
        else
        {
            enabled = false;
        }
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        LookAtTarget = null;
    }
}

[rich adder]

chances are the pivot of your duck is slightly higher than the penguin

so it tilts up

you can make a new V3 look target not include that axis

[vale blade]

ah you're right, they're both at 0 in pause, but my navmesh seems to adjust the duck to 0.08 y on start.

[rich adder]

hmm the lerp isn't correct
https://unity.huh.how/programming/specifics/lerp/wrong-lerp

[rich adder]

iirc because it snaps on a navmesh

you could use this also
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.RotateTowards.html

[vale blade]

Thanks, this works fine for now

private void Update()
{
    // Calculate 2D target diff in X and Z
    var diff = LookAtTarget.position - transform.position;
    diff.y = 0;

    // Find the rotation that looks at target
    var targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(diff, transform.up);
    
    // If the angle difference between these rotations exceeds tolerance
    if (Quaternion.Angle(transform.rotation, targetRotation) > _angleTolerance)
    {
        // Lerp towards target rotation
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, _smoothingSpeed);
        return;
    }
    
    // Disable once target rotation has been reached
    enabled = false;
}

[rich adder]

hmm as long is works ig lol very strange code..lerp is still wrong..

gpt strikes again

[amber spruce]

so i did that by using the GameObject thing what do i do for a script

[rocky owl]

Hello people, i need help. Im doing a follower of the camera but the camera is blinking

pls help me 😦

this is my code

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[summer stump]

That's not how you lerp

The value needs to go from 0 to 1

But you are multiplying a set value by a value that goes up and down but is generally a tiny fraction like .06. Which won't work

[rocky owl]

where?

[summer stump]

Where what?

[rocky owl]

nah sorry

i remove time.deltatime?

[charred spoke]

Read this https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

[rocky owl]

Thanks 😄

[amber spruce]

anyone know how i can attach a script to a script component

[desert wedge]

hoping someone can point me in the right direction. im trying to clean up my code but i have hit a snag
right now i have all these fields im trying to compact down, they are set via the inspector and need to continue to be so

        [BoxGroup("Buttons")] [SerializeField] private TextBlock useEquipText;
        [BoxGroup("Buttons")] [SerializeField] private UIBlock2D combineButton;
        [BoxGroup("Buttons")] [SerializeField] private TextBlock combineText;
        [BoxGroup("Buttons")] [SerializeField] private UIBlock2D discardButton;```

So im moving them into a seperate class, each containing one UIBlock2D and one TextBlock (These are novaUI classes, monobehaviors)
``` [Serializable]
    public class NovaUIButtonCombo
    {
        public UIBlock2D button;
        public TextBlock text;
    }```

then im testing with
``` [SerializeField] public NovaUIButtonCombo TestButton;```

issue is that its not showing in my inspector at all. I need both the button and text to be serialized but they arent i dont even see just a single field for the entire object. how can i get this working? it would make my code a lot more organized...

[vale blade]

dotnet version doesn't have much to do with your IDE configuration but you do you

[amber spruce]

like how i have those 2 objects attached to it

[rocky owl]

does it also work for movetoward?

[vale blade]

might be a good usecase for Scriptable Objects instead.

[polar acorn]

The same thing but use the scripts type

[amber spruce]

nvm figured it out its monoscript

[desert wedge]

what i do is value = mathf.lerp(value, goal, 1f - mathf.exp(-sharpness * time.deltaTime)) where sharpness is how fast you want the lerp to be

[vale blade]

what?

[desert wedge]

well they are in scene references, so i need references to objects

[rocky owl]

Thanks 😄

[vale blade]

You can lerp any number your heart desires

[amber spruce]

so it still doesnt work i attached the PickMoveset script to it and now im using that but .moves is errored

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using TMPro;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;

public class ChangeUIText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Text_Move1;
    public GameObject Text_Move2;
    public MonoScript Moves;

    

    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move1_text;
    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move2_text;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text = Text_Move1.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        textmeshpro_Move2_text = Text_Move2.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text.text = Moves.moves[0];
        textmeshpro_Move2_text.text = Moves.moves[1];
    }
}

[rocky owl]

I understand

[amber spruce]

heres where i attached it

[vale blade]

ah fair. i think you might have to write a custom editor script then, i don't think you can show sub-fields in a serialized class. i might be wrong though

[amber spruce]

not sure if thats waht you meant to do or not

[desert wedge]

dang was really hoping to not have to do that lol, okay thanks

[vale blade]

actually I might be wrong here

[desert wedge]

I was trying to ask chatgpt but it kept running me around in circles, i have roughly 0 esperience with editor scripting lol

[vale blade]

Isn't this what you're looking for?

[polar acorn]

MonoScript does not have anything named moves

[amber spruce]

it does though

   public List<string> moves = new List<string>();

[polar acorn]

No, it doesn't

[desert wedge]

yep

[polar acorn]

Show me where in the documentation for MonoScript there is a property named moves

[desert wedge]

and my IDE (rider) does say that its serialized but its not in the inspector

[amber spruce]

doesnt adding this make monoscript that instead

[polar acorn]

No

[amber spruce]

then how do i do what you said to do

[polar acorn]

If you want to use pick moveset use that type

Why did you use monoscript

[vale blade]

it may be because the stuff in the Serializable class has to be Serializable for it to show up.

[amber spruce]

what type do i use

[rich adder]

if you're manually picking in Unity, then you doing it wrong

[polar acorn]

The type you want

[vale blade]

aka UIBlock2D and TextBlock have to be serializable themselves @desert wedge

[amber spruce]

so does this work

    public PickMoveset pickmoveset;

[polar acorn]

[desert wedge]

i mean i can set them in inspector now if they are outside of that class

[amber spruce]

so there are no errors but the text is still new text

[polar acorn]

Show the current code

[amber spruce]

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using TMPro;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEditorInternal;
using UnityEngine;

public class ChangeUIText : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Text_Move1;
    public GameObject Text_Move2;
    public PickMoveset pickmoveset;

    

    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move1_text;
    TextMeshProUGUI textmeshpro_Move2_text;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text = Text_Move1.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        textmeshpro_Move2_text = Text_Move2.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        textmeshpro_Move1_text.text = pickmoveset.moves[0];
        textmeshpro_Move2_text.text = pickmoveset.moves[1];
    }
}

[polar acorn]

So either you are getting errors or the text you're changing is not the text you're looking at

[amber spruce]

oh i get this

[desert wedge]

and this is how it looks in IDE

[polar acorn]

So maybe you should check before you say there's no errors

[amber spruce]

my bad

[polar acorn]

Look at the line the error is on. Something there is null but you're trying to use it anyway

[vale blade]

that's odd. I don't know the origin of TextBlock etc so I'm not sure what the issue is there.
maybe just restart the editor haha

[amber spruce]

        textmeshpro_Move1_text.text = pickmoveset.moves[0];

this is the line

[desert wedge]

hmm dang, alright thanks

[polar acorn]

So either the text mesh is null, pickMoveset is null, or moves is null. Try logging them to find out which

[vale blade]

it's weird because if I try this it appears outside and inside

but if I remove that Serializable above SomeOtherObject it dissapears both inside and outside the test object

[desert wedge]

hmmmmm

yeah idk i just backtraced the UI blocks and it turns out they arent monobehaviours? but they do attach to game objects like mono behavious. but at no point could i find them inheriting from monobehavior

[amber spruce]

ok so pickmoveset and moves are both null because it seems it doesnt save it

[vale blade]

might be some funky serialization setup in that framework then. i think you're better off asking on a forum dedicated to that ui framework, sorry bud

[amber spruce]

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

public class PickMoveset : MonoBehaviour
{
   public string moveset;
   public List<string> moves = new List<string>();
    public void PickGravity()
    {
        moveset = "gravity";
        moves.Add("push");
        moves.Add("pull");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves);
    }
    public void PickLevitation()
    {
        moveset = "levitation";
        moves.Add("levitate");
        moves.Add("float");
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex + 1);
        Debug.Log(moveset);
        Debug.Log(moves[0]);
    }
}

why does moves not save?

[desert wedge]

its okay thanks for trying so hard

[polar acorn]

Where do you set moveset

[vale blade]

If you load a new scene all your variables are reset, if that's what you're asking

[desert wedge]

okay extra weird
i made a New Class with a UIBlock2D and 2 floats and made it serializable, in that one it shows up for some reason

[amber spruce]

in Pickmoveset

[amber spruce]

^

[polar acorn]

So, what specifically was null, you said pickMoveset but you showed moveset

[amber spruce]

moves is null

but pickmoveset is moves and moveset so if they are null then so is it

[amber spruce]

moves isnt null at first it shows what it is the very first time then its null

the debug that says what it is in Pickmoveset says what it is but the debug in CHangeuitext has it as null

[polar acorn]

No, if pickmoveset is null then what moves and moveset are is a fundamentally nonsensical question

So, is pickMoveset null inside ChangeUIText

[amber spruce]

Yes

[polar acorn]

Then fix that

Where do you set pickMoveset

[amber spruce]

i think thats this

    public PickMoveset pickmoveset;

[polar acorn]

And where do you set it

[amber spruce]

wdym

[polar acorn]

Where do you set the variable

[amber spruce]

thats in the ChangeUIText

[polar acorn]

where do you say which PickMoveset you are putting in the variable pickMoveset

[amber spruce]

here?

[polar acorn]

Yes, so, that's an object in your scene, correct?

[amber spruce]

yeah

thats attached to the canvas

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for that object

[polar acorn]

No, the PickMoveset

[amber spruce]

there is no pickmoveset object

[polar acorn]

Then what did you drag in

[amber spruce]

the pickmoveset script

[polar acorn]

That's not a PickMoveset that's a script file

So you don't have any PickMovesets in the scene

[hexed cosmos]

Does anyone know how to solve plugin issues?

I'm trying to build an apk

[amber spruce]

ah ok i think i got it now

so now i just got this

ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

[polar acorn]

Then you're trying to get an index from moves that doesn't exist

[amber spruce]

So I add 2 moves to it and I try and get 2 moves

Not sure how it’s outside the index

so yeah it doesnt seem to save it or whatever

cause getting moves[0] says it outside of it

[vale blade]

Nice. Maybe could be because you didn't have the class in a separate file?

[desert wedge]

so it turns out im an idiot and was editing the wrong script lol

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of PickMoveset

[vale blade]

Hahaha

[amber spruce]

it gets stuff added to it when you press a button on the start screen

[polar acorn]

So there's nothing in it

[polar acorn]

How does that happen, and when does that happen

[amber spruce]

so it happens in the pickmoveset script

[polar acorn]

where

[polar acorn]

Ah, I see now

[amber spruce]

its in a differnt scene

[polar acorn]

Okay, and do you click this button before a single frame has had a chance to render

[amber spruce]

dont think so lol i aint that fast

[polar acorn]

So, when the first frame renders, it runs update

which is looking for the first two elements in moves

which don't exist

because you haven't clicked yet

[amber spruce]

well changeuitext doesnt start happening till you enter that next scene i think

cause its not in a scene besides that one

[polar acorn]

So then how does the PickMoveset in the new scene get anything added to its moves list

[amber spruce]

isnt it the same as the pickmoveset in the old scene

[polar acorn]

no, why would it be

Have you done anything to make it so?

[amber spruce]

and i also have it change scenes first then add stuff

so wouldnt it be doing it for the scene your in

[polar acorn]

It'll change the stuff on this instance, which is the one that is in the scene that no longer exists

[amber spruce]

so how do i fix this

[polar acorn]

You have two PickMovesets. One in the old scene and one in the new scene

[amber spruce]

how do i have them be the same and sync

[polar acorn]

Make the earliest one a DontDestroyOnLoad but then you'll need to find a new way to reference it
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.DontDestroyOnLoad.html

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

[amber spruce]

i got it to work with just making the variables static

thank you very mucj

[amber spruce]

now i gotta figure out how to fix the text cause rn its super scuffed

[silk night]

what part of it is scuffed? to big? 😄

[amber spruce]

the fact that the text isnt centered

[silk night]

make the text-element canvas the same size as its parent and then in the text option you can use the center option

I assume the background thingies are their parents?

[amber spruce]

yeah they are

[amber spruce]

they are all under 1 canvas

[silk night]

so the 2 background lines is one image? or are there 2 images?

[polar acorn]

Did you actually put the text in the center of the canvas

[amber spruce]

yeah but since the text changes you can center it right

[polar acorn]

Yes, just click the button for centered alignment

and make sure the rect for the text spans the whole area you're centering it on

[amber spruce]

where is that

[polar acorn]

The row that says "alignment"

[amber spruce]

ah ok thanks

[silk night]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/wovoQUPo76.mp4/raw This is how i center text relative to its background

depending on if you want the same height, you can also use the bottom right in the first panel

[amber spruce]

works now thank you very much this helps so much

[thorn perch]

script 1: Enemyhealth (screenshot 1)
script 2: ProjectileBehaviour (screenshot 2)

i am trying to figure out How exactily my projectile behaviour deals damage to an enemie and how those 2 objects interact. And WHY it works because i really dont understand it

What i understand is that i have a maxhealth, and currenthealth.

looking at the script the currenthealth should reflect the same amount of maxhealth, though i dont know why, and wouldnt this then imply that in theory, if i made a heal item, theres actually no limit to the nemies health ?

Then i see that if the "takedamage" is being used it will subtract the same amount of the value to "damage"

Since damage is a public in projectile behaviour, this is what causes the script being able to "communicate with eachother" and i am therefore able to call upon "damage" it will subtract the amount listed with damage value.

If the value of current health reached 0 then a "event" called die should take place wihich is then destroying the game object.

But in projectilebehaviour, under check if the collision is with an enemy, i dont really understand this part. and why i have written EnemyHealth and enemyHealth and there is nothing in between, what does this do ?

Would the first one be a direct representation of "Enemyhealth" sccript ? i figure that "enemyHealth" is just the action of which is defined below in an if statement which calls upon takedamage and the value damage to deal damage to enemie.

I see that in the getcomponent it references the EnemyHealth script and looks for a object that has a collider and contains a Enemyhealthscript ?

[silk night]

1. Game starts, you spawn and current health gets set to the value of max health ONCE
2. A projectile is presumably fired
3. The OnTriggerEnter2D on the projectile detects, that it touched the player trigger
4. The projectile fetches the player health instance from the touched player
5. The projectile reduces the fetched player health by its damage amount through the TakeDamage method

[thorn perch]

thanks this was helpful! i notice EnemyHealth is is a class, i need to figure out what that is to figure out why its written before the variable. But i think i can google that so i dont spam this channel too much, thanks agai !

[cyan gate]

Don't know what channel this fits in, but i can't figure out basic first person character controls. I tried to follow a tutorial but it didn't work and had no error messages. Can someone send me a project file with a standart capsule that has first person character controls set up? I'm using unity 2022.3.11f1 btw

[silk night]

What did not work, did it just not react to anything you do?

[cyan gate]

Yes

[silk night]

Can you paste us the !code ?

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[buoyant knot]

EnemyHealth doesn’t sound like a good component. I would probably define an EnemyState component, to hold different sorts of mutable data about an enemy

that way it can hold more than just health

[silk night]

Splitting up state like that can have its reasons, for example that you can have inanimate objects that do not have health, get a healthbar by just attaching that one script (e.g. you can now shoot that door to get through it)

[buoyant knot]

in that case it would be a HealthBar class, which reads from a generic enemy state script. Just looking at futureproofing

[cyan gate]

It was the default preset from the asset store.

The ''tools'' section didn't appear on my toolbar

So i couldn't set it up properly

I tried to do it manually

[mellow ledge]

 void OnJump()
    {
        Debug.Log("Jump");
        if (IsNearWall())
        {
            if (movementInput != 0 && (Mathf.Sign(movementInput) == Mathf.Sign(forward.x)))
            {
                float launchDirectionX = -forward.x * 4;
                Vector2 jumpDirection = new Vector2(launchDirectionX, jumpSpeed * wallJumpMult);
                Debug.Log($"Launching to {launchDirectionX}");
                rb.AddForce(jumpDirection, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
                Debug.Log("Walljumped!");
            }
            return;
        }

        if (IsGrounded())
        {
            Debug.Log("Grounded");
            rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpSpeed);
        }
        // else if (canDoubleJump)
        // {
        //     rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, jumpSpeed * doubleJumpMult);
        //     canDoubleJump = false;
        // }
    }

private bool IsNearWall()
    {
        Debug.Log($"Raycast to x {forward.x}");
        RaycastHit2D raycastHit = Physics2D.Raycast(hitbox.bounds.center, forward, 0.5f);
        if (raycastHit.collider != null) Debug.Log(raycastHit.collider);
        else Debug.Log("No wall detected");
        return raycastHit;
    }

void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(movementInput * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);

        if (!canDoubleJump)
        {
            if (IsGrounded())
            {
                canDoubleJump = true;
            }
        }
    }

Hi, hours later im still stuck on the walljump. every msg log happens, it even logs the "launching" msg with the correct Vector values, but i dont actually jump off the wall. all i see is vertical gain. What am i missing?

i disabled dbl jump on purpose to test this btw

[keen dew]

You overwrite horizontal velocity on every fixedupdate

[polar acorn]

The first line of FixedUpdate sets the velocity to whatever you're holding on the joystick

[mellow ledge]

i thought that was the issue, but every solution i thought of didnt work

what do i need to modify so it doesnt override it?

[polar acorn]

What do you want to happen if you walljump away and hold a direction in the air?

[mellow ledge]

besides i did expect the velocity change from the walljump to affect that things value

[mellow ledge]

so ur supposed to hold the directional key towards the wall, then pressing jump will "knock" you off it

up and awy from the wall

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, what do you want to happen if you, for example, immediately switch to holding the other way?

Do you want the direction held to have any affect on air movement or do you want to just cancel out any sort of lateral movement until you land?

At what point can inputs start working again?

[mellow ledge]

if u switch it before jumping, nothing, if after, the usual knock

[mellow ledge]

i guess moving in the air should count

but i do like the thought of being able to jump climb up a wall

[open vine]

Hey, im trying to make a grenade but do I need to just attach an explosion force to the grenade or would i have to get all the rigidbodies in the area and affect and add explosion forces starting from the grenade position?

[polar acorn]

You would probably get some sort of overlap sphere to find all rigidbodies in a radius of the blast and add explosion force to all of them with the grenade's origin point

[mellow ledge]

rb.AddForce(jumpDirection, ForceMode2D.Impulse); my main confusion is why this doesnt override it. Like, my fixedupdate is reading velocity which should have been affected by this previous update call

[open vine]

gotcha thanks!

[polar acorn]

Let me phrase it this way:

int x = 7;
x += 14;
x = 3;
Debug.Log(x);

What is this log going to print?

[mellow ledge]

obv 3

but i dont see why x = 3 happens

[polar acorn]

So why would your velocity be any different?

velocity = MovementInput;
velocity += wallJumpForce;
velocity = MovementInput;

[mellow ledge]

cuz i _think its doing

int x = 7;
x += 14;
x = x + smth;
Debug.Log(x);

hmm

[polar acorn]

rb.velocity = new Vector2(movementInput * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);

The X component of this velocity is movementInput times moveSpeed

Neither of which has anything to do with your walljump velocity

[mellow ledge]

right im seeing

the thing is

if i make my current velocity part of that ill just speed up a lot over time

[polar acorn]

So you could use AddForce and then clamp the speed to some maximum value

[mellow ledge]

addforce in the jump

clamp in where?

[polar acorn]

AddForce for normal movement

[mellow ledge]

the sad thing is ive been coding in c# for yrs but this physics stuff stvll confuses me

[polar acorn]

Clamp the magnitude after you set it

[mellow ledge]

hold on

[edgy prism]

When I have a function that takes parameters that can be null do I have to say "MyFunction(X = null, Y = null, Z = null, ActualParameterIWantTouse)" or is there a simpler way?

[polar acorn]

You could make the nullable parameters optional, by putting a default value for them and putting them at the end

void MyFunction(ActualParameter, X = null, Y = null, Z = null)

[edgy prism]

My ActualParameter is nullable too

[summer stump]

But if you actually want that parameter, don't make it optional

[edgy prism]

I dont always want it im just asking for cases when I do

[polar acorn]

You can still pass a null, but if you want to be able to ignore it, you need it to be optional and after any required ones

[mellow ledge]

so i have this now

 void FixedUpdate()
    {
        //rb.velocity = new Vector2(movementInput * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
        rb.AddForce(new Vector2(movementInput * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y));

        if (!canDoubleJump)
        {
            if (IsGrounded())
            {
                canDoubleJump = true;
            }
        }
    }

i still struggle to understand what i should clamp tho

sorry if im being sloww, my brains fried

[edgy prism]

I think I may be confused but the way I currently set it up is with several Nullable parameters but if I want to use one I also have to specify that any that come before it are null right?

[polar acorn]

After you use AddForce, slap one of these on the velocity and cap it to your maximum speed:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.ClampMagnitude.html

[edgy prism]

Obviously I can ignore it when im not using any of the nullable parameters just in the scenario I want to include one and not the others

[polar acorn]

If you've included all the required parameters, you can add any optional ones by name:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/named-and-optional-arguments#named-arguments

[mellow ledge]

im still lost. i do this in a new line? how will that stop the previous from going too far

[summer stump]

rigidbody.velocity = clampedValues

[polar acorn]

After you add force, clamp the magnitude of the velocity. Meaning if the magnitude is higher than some value, it'll reduce it to that value

[mellow ledge]

ok i get what it does but not where it should go

[summer stump]

After addforce

Like... the line immediately after

[mellow ledge]

OH

[summer stump]

Because that is where it may be above the max speed

[edgy prism]

Ahhhh brilliant thankyou! This will save me some time

[mellow ledge]

i thought i had to calc the clamp at the same time but its supposed to cut it off

[mellow ledge]

just to confrm

        Vector2 movement = new Vector2(movementInput * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);
        rb.AddForce(movement);
        rb.velocity = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rb.velocity, moveSpeed);

[polar acorn]

Yep that should do it

[summer stump]

Is moveSpeed the max speed you want?

[mellow ledge]

yes

but it didnt work

my jump height is much lower than it was now and movement acceleration and decelration is super slow. Not even walljumping

[polar acorn]

You've just made a pretty significant change to your movement system, you're gonna need to mess with numbers.

You might also want to consider clamping just the X component instead of the whole thing

[mellow ledge]

that makes sense

clampMagnitude expects a vector tho, how am i gonna clamp only the x

[polar acorn]

Instead of using ClampMagnitude, just use a normal clamp

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Clamp.html

[split sage]

I don't know why but my visual studio keeps breaking, I cant put a method undernetth void update or have void update under other things. its missing them dotted lines and unity is reading it differently to what im seeing. Can someone clear up what I might be doing wrong? I have a feeling its using tab to move code to the left but also feel its not that?

[mellow ledge]

i "cant clamp the x value of a Vector cuz its not a variable". i can only clamp it bforehand which doesnt solve it

[mellow ledge]

showw the top of ur file

[languid spire]

you cant clamp the x value of velocity because it's a Property

[queen breach]

why i can't build the game to IOS?

[mellow ledge]

yes i know

its derived

[slender nymph]

you need to configure your !IDE

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[polar acorn]

You cannot both get and set the X value of the velocity in one line. Put clamp around the movementInput * moveSpeed in your new Vector2

[mellow ledge]

that doesnt change anything. My jump launches me to the sky, and horizontal movement has vry slow acceleration and deceleration

[polar acorn]

Again, you're gonna have to play with the numbers. You'll probably need less vertical force, more horizontal

[split sage]

Followed the top link and got it installed, reopening the script results in the same issue

[polar acorn]

You'll probably need to have a different value for how much you add and your top speed

[swift crag]

did you follow every step?

you don't just install the editor

you also install a package, and then configure Unity to use that editor

[slender nymph]

the issue is caused by a syntax error. configuring your IDE will not fix it, it will just highlight it so that you can fix it

[mellow ledge]

how am i supposed to clamp smth AFTER the addforce when the addforce requires said clamped vector?

this feels like a recursive circle to me

unless im just really bad at english

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, you wouldn't want to clamp that before the add force

So, what you need to do is get the velocity into a variable, clamp the x value of it, then set the velocty back to that variable

[split sage]

ooohhh I see the mistake I made, I was trying to change a value for a int but stupidly put the access modifier at the start when it was in void update

[mellow ledge]

and this happens after addforce yes

ok that makes more sense. ty

[slender nymph]

correct. now make sure that you get your IDE configured as it is a requirement to get help here

[heady nimbus]

Alright, I'm having a weird issue with VSCode set up... It's a new project, I only have 2 scripts right now. The first one I made, everything is highlighted correctly, intellisense seems correct, but the second script in the exact same location, syntax highlighting is off, and intellisense is spotty...

[swift crag]

Has Unity reloaded since you created the second script file?

It needs to recreate the project files before you will get any intellisense (beyond text-based suggestions)

[heady nimbus]

It's recompiled, but I haven't fully closed it... I dont' think

[swift crag]

Recompiling should be enough.

Close and reopen VSCode. If it's still happening, then show us what the editor looks like with the broken file open.

[heady nimbus]

Yea it's not doing it. I've recompiled, closed VSCode and "Open C# Project"

Oh, wait a minute, got a version error for Visual Studio Editor when re-opening this time. That's new. I'll update that real fast. 1 min

[swift crag]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

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

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[swift crag]

the instructions require updating the Visual Studio Editor package to 2.0.20 or later.

[heady nimbus]

Yea, I missed the update apparently. Still, that didn't seem to do it. Here's the comparison. They're at the exact same path.

[swift crag]

since you were missing one step, you should really make sure you haven't missed any others.

[swift crag]

go through this from top to bottom.

[thorn perch]

Hi again, sorry to bother,
but in my enemyhealth script i am trying to detect collision with "player" which has a Playerhealth script that should allow it to take damage but when doing debug.log on the collision in enemyhealthscript. Nothing comes out, Any idea why ?

ive checked the collision matrix. Everything is colliding with everything.
Player has a tag "Player"

both has rigidbody2d on it and collision components.
istrigger is unticked, both has colliders approperiately sized.

on enemyhealthscript i use the collision detection from my "projectile" and it works perfectly, the enemy dies when hit by projectiles.

but my player doesnt take damage when enemy touches it. Any Ideas?

the link below contains 3x script.

1st: PlayerHealth.CS - not taking damage from Enemyhealth
2nd: Enemyhealth.cs - not detecting collision with player using debug.log

3rd: Projectilebehaviour - this one collides and detect properly with enemye, but why doesnt this same script work on enemy vs player?

https://gdl.space/dovudinaku.cs

[swift crag]

share your !code correctly, please

[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.

[thorn perch]

one sec

[deep glacier]

You're using OnTriggerEnter

Use OnCollisionEnter

[thorn perch]

i dont really understand this comment, can you give me an example?

[heady nimbus]

Yea, I don't see any other missed steps here... I restarted unity and VSCode again after updating that package and checked all the extensions to make sure they're all up to date

Wait, what the hell??

Uhh... I fixed it. Lmao...

[polar acorn]

Use one of the linked paste sites and put the links here

[thorn perch]

thanks i will do moving forward

[heady nimbus]

I moved the script window from the docked view to the full view and it's all working now... Lol

[thorn perch]

this didnt work for me, also note i use a projectile with the exact same portion of the script which does work (ontriggerenter) really appreciate the suggestion though! 😄

[deep glacier]

You said you unticked "isTrigger" right? On both colliders?

If that's the case, I'm curious how you're still getting trigger events

[thorn perch]

Yes thats correct, Ive edited my post containing all 3 scripts.

the projectile vs enemyhealth works.

enemiehealth vs playerhealth doesnt.

all 3x objects has "is trigger" unticked.

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnCollisionEnter:

1. Thou Shalt have a 3D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt Not tick isTrigger on either
3. Thou Shalt have a 3D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[thorn perch]

3d collider? i mean why is bullet vs enemye working then i am so confused right now xD

[polar acorn]

OnCollisionEnter is for 3D collisions

Do you have 3D colliders?

[thorn perch]

ehm nope

its all 2d

[polar acorn]

Then why are you using the 3D collision message

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnCollisionEnter2D.html

[thorn perch]

Oh actually i think it was a suggestion from someone higher up and it didnt work so forgot to change back xD the original was a direct copy of ontriggerenter2d which works on projectilebehavioru

lemme fix it and try again

nope still nothign

[polar acorn]

Show updated code

[thorn perch]

will do one sec

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, show the inspectors of the two objects involved in this collision

[deep glacier]

My bad, I syhoulda been specific. There's a 2D variant

[covert nest]

does OnPointerEnter only work on canvas elements? it doesnt seem to be working at all for my object.

[thorn perch]

screenshots of enemy and player inspector
ffs... it doesnt previiew ? (using snipping tool)

[polar acorn]

https://screenshot.help/

[slender nymph]

it looks like you've removed the extensions from your image files

[thorn perch]

I just used copy paste from snippingtool really, did it again with 1 image, now it works dunno why xD

[polar acorn]

Neither of these are Triggers

[thorn perch]

but this one works: and its set up the same way, i dont understand

[polar acorn]

This bullet is not a trigger, but that little highlight there means the prefabs (likely the ones you're spawning in as you play), are triggers

If you want to use OnTrigger___ then at least one of them needs to be a trigger

[thorn perch]

oooooh so making a prefab automatically makes it a trigger?

[polar acorn]

No

Just the fact that you've changed the one in the scene

[swift crag]

The bold text means you have modified that property.

[polar acorn]

But did not change the prefab

[thorn perch]

ohshit,,, i put in a new prefab,, ur right, it is a trigger

damn... so i need to use one that doesnt require a trigger (dont want trigger because it makes enemy and player phaze through eachother

[polar acorn]

If you want to detect a collision, use OnCollision

[thorn perch]

thank you for the pointer and helping me on this, sorry im thick as brick when it comes to this stuff

now i need to google how to use oncollision xD

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS its workign !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@polar acorn
@swift crag
@slender nymph
Thanks guys !!!!

[sacred zenith]

Hello everyone,
In this scenario I have, switch_controllable(GameObject) is declared in CAMERA CONTROLLER. How can I call this function from other scripts?
I tried using delegate/event, but the way I see this is not a good case for that.
Is there a better solution than what I am doing now?

Without using the UI reference please

[polar acorn]

why not

[sacred zenith]

I try at max to keep stuff in code, just in case I delete a gameobject from the scene and to add it back I have to look at all the references it needs and drag them again

In the prototyping phase that I am right now, this happens a lot

[polar acorn]

Setting references in code is just as vulnerable to that

You could still be attempting to reference something on an object you've deleted

[sacred zenith]

Very true

Is this "design" I showed in paint unpractical?

Should I approach this from another angle?

[polar acorn]

I don't really know what the image is indicating, honestly

[sacred zenith]

Three separate scripts, I want the ORANGE and BLUE to be able to call the method SWITCH_CONTROLLABLE that is declared inside the RED script

[static cedar]

[polar acorn]

Yeah, so, having them reference the red script and call it is the way I would go about that

[ashen ferry]

why not a simple singleton

[sacred zenith]

Will look into that

[ashen ferry]

on camera controller, u can do stuff to it from anywhere then

[sacred zenith]

Nice, will try that

If I declare the switch_controllable as static, is that a specific programming pattern?

Just that method would be static

[ashen ferry]

just declaring method as static isnt suddenly some pattern singleton isnt about methods u looked up something else

[frosty hound]

Have the bullet keep a list of cookdowns

[ivory bobcat]

Or set the bullet instance to ignore the specific collider after hitting once

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[frosty hound]

That's probably easier if you don't expect the bullets to hit them again at some point (bouncing bullets)

[twilit trail]

hey if i need to hold on to three sets of key-value pairs, what is the best container to use, an array of Dictionaries? I'm having trouble with the syntax.

private Dictionary<string, int>[] appearanceData = [new Dictionary<string, int>(), new Dictionary<string, int>(), new Dictionary<string,int>()]; 

well it doesn't really need to be key-value pairs, i just need the values, the keys are fixed

[ivory bobcat]

Looks overly complex. What are you doing in particular?

[twilit trail]

but i don't want to access them with magic numbers

character customization for three characters. I need to move their appearance data from the scene where they are created in the UI using Images to the gameplay scene where they use SpriteRenderers. The values are things like shader values, etc.

[tame thorn]

I have a sword as a child of the player. I want the sword to move in relation to the player, but its just going to a specific x and y in the map.

public class SwordController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform swordCursor;
    public Vector3 defaultPosition;
    public Quaternion defaultRotation;
    public float rotationSpeed = 5.0f;

    void Start()
    {
        defaultPosition = transform.position;
        defaultRotation = transform.rotation;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            if (swordCursor != null)
            {
                //Point towards SwordCursor Object
                Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(swordCursor.position - transform.position);
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // Smoothly move back to default position and rotation
            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, defaultPosition, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, defaultRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }
}

[twilit trail]

i guess a 2d array of ints accesed using an enum would work actually

[ivory bobcat]

So currently.. it would seem you've got an array of three dictionaries of type string/int. What's the string representing? The int? And why an array? (is this for a particular reuse pattern?)

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe modify local position rather than world position.

[twilit trail]

yeah forget the dictionaries i think i was overthinking it. I can just use an array like appearanceData[0, Appearance.Skin] or similar

where the first field is the player index

and the second is an enumerated set of fields

[soft timber]

no

[tame thorn]

Er, how could one do that? Sounds like exactly what I need tbh

[summer stump]

transform.localPosition

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-localPosition.html

[tame thorn]

oop, ty!

woa it worked
Im certified genius now

[ashen ferry]

maybe when spawning weaker enemy pass into it reference of bullet which killed stronger one and ignore that bullet in ur take damage method

[sacred zenith]

In Unity, 1 unit is 1 meter. So, if I want a 1.7m character, I can create a cylinder with scale 1.7 in the Y axis?

[swift crag]

assuming the cylinder's height at the default scale is 1 unit, yes

This does not appear to be the case.

(for the default Cylinder object, at least)

it has a radius of 0.5 meters and a height of 2 meters

[sacred zenith]

oh

Alright, thank you

[light moss]

I am having a problem with my terrain. As you can see there are weird lines in my terrain, they came out of nowhere and I do not know how to fix it. I am using a material called FixGaps that prevents from screen tearing so I do not even know if the material is the problem or the terrain is.

[light moss]

Can someone please help?

[teal viper]

Doesn't sound relevant to this channel.
That material uses a standard shader, so I don't think it's relevant.
What does seem relevant is probably that your sprites overflow into adjacent tiles.

[tame thorn]

I have the main camera separate from the player, so when my camera moves vertically, the sword doesnt stay in the middle of the screen
how can i make it follow the vertical movement of the camera?

public class SwordController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform swordCursor;
    public Vector3 defaultPosition;
    public Quaternion defaultRotation;
    public float rotationSpeed = 10.0f;

    void Start()
    {
        defaultPosition = transform.localPosition;
        defaultRotation = transform.localRotation;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
        {
            if (swordCursor != null)
            {
                //Point towards SwordCursor Object
                Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(swordCursor.position - transform.position);
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            // Smoothly move back to default position and rotation
            transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.localPosition, defaultPosition, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.localRotation, defaultRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }
}

[open apex]

What's the difference between void start and void update?

[swift crag]

You can read about all of the messages here: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html

notably

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Start.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Update.html

[summer stump]

Since you're saying void. I will also say that void is simply the return type. It means it does not return anything. When talking about methods, you don't need to include the return type. Just say Start and Update

[swift crag]

right

int Foo() returns an integer; string Bar() returns a string

and void Baz() does not return anything

the methods are named Foo, Bar, and Baz, respectively

[open apex]

👍

[cosmic dagger]

yeah, i don't have a return type either . . .

[teal viper]

We don't know that for sure. You might be lying.

[cosmic dagger]

that could be true. i can be overriden though . . .

[teal viper]

But if you're overriden, the signature must stay the same. We wouldn't even know you were replaced by a different person.

[cosmic dagger]

exactly . . . 😉

[open vine]

Hey guys I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction to make an inventory. For functionality I'm trying to have 3 slots that you can equip in fps fashion.

[teal viper]

YouTube I guess. There are plenty of tutorials on inventory systems there. Or just google. There are so many ways to implement it, that there isn't one particular resource to point to.

See what there is and choose the one that suits you best.

[open vine]

Gotcha, I was thinking I should try it out first but seeing as I've no clue on how to even start that's probably the best idea. Thanks!

[hushed spire]

Using an AnimatedTile, need to pause the animation and saw I could do so with something called a TileAnimationFlag.(https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.TileAnimationFlags.PauseAnimation.html)
I can't find any information on how to use it, and as expected doing tile.TileAnimationFlags.PauseAnimation() only results in errors stating
"'AnimatedTile' does not contain a definition for 'TileAnimationFlags". Help is greatly appreciated!

[teal viper]

You'd use these flags in AddTileAnimationFlags and other similar methods of the Tilemap:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.html

[hushed spire]

Good timing, I just figured out I need to to be referencing a Tilemap. Now I have this issue: " 'Tilemap' does not contain a definition for 'AddTileAnimationFlags'"

[cosmic dagger]

TileAnimationFlags is an enum. you need to select one of the enums: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.TileAnimationFlags.html

[hushed spire]

Which seems to go directly against the Tilemap public methods api

[hushed spire]

the above message

[teal viper]

You might be able to set the tile flags directly too:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tile-flags.html

Unless it's only a getter. The docs don't reveal that.

[hushed spire]

didn't work- my guess as well

[teal viper]

Are you sure you're using the correct type?

[teal viper]

What didn't work? Error?

[hushed spire]

Yes, I have an array of Tilemaps I assign in the Inspector

this is the line:

animatedTiles[0].AddTileAnimationFlags((-22, 4, 0), PauseAnimation);

I realize I need to convert the ints into a vector

Still doesn't recognize the method however

[teal viper]

Is animatedTiles an array of tiles or tilemaps?