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[uncut dune]

seriously?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[uncut dune]

damn

[wintry quarry]

public fields are poor practice. Public functions and properties are ok

[uncut dune]

glad I use [SerializeField] mostly

[wintry quarry]

if float1 was a property though, the first example is ok

[uncut dune]

ok thank you so much

[cosmic grove]

yea i could try that, though idk how to control direction, but pretty sure i can search it up. thanks

[hidden bone]

How would one save text from an Input Field and load it on launch

[rich adder]

cheap way : PlayerPrefs
good way: save into a file

[hidden bone]

alright, how would i save it into a file?

[rich adder]

JSON usually

using System.IO class to create a new file

[hidden bone]

ok thanks, i'll look into it

[rich adder]

its not text from a field but the same concept applies..I typically do explenation, this one just runs thru it without explaining but most of it is self explanitory i thnk
https://youtu.be/Q0_xreJMldM

[swift crag]

pro tip: there are methods to read/write all text from/into a file

you don't have to open a stream and then do a 20 line song and dance, as I originally did

🫠

        var text = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data);
        System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Path));
        System.IO.File.WriteAllText(Path, text);

e.g.

[rich adder]

Is that the TextAsset class?

[swift crag]

you can skip line 2 if you're just writing into Application.persistentDataPath

no, that would be for a text asset you build into the game

[hidden bone]

How do i get the data from the input field?

[rich adder]

OnValueChanged or OnEndEdit

or .text

[hidden bone]

ok thanks

[queen adder]

how are the outline effects/shaders achieved

[swift crag]

One way is to push the mesh outwards a little and render its backfaces

Another is to do the outline as a post-processing effect

https://bgolus.medium.com/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9 has a nice discussion of that

bless bgolus

[queen adder]

ty, I searched "unity outline shader" and didn't amount to anything other than errors ill check that out

[swift crag]

https://github.com/alelievr/HDRP-Custom-Passes includes an outline effect as an HDRP custom pass

[swift crag]

which render pipeline are you using?

[twin bolt]

Why am i getting a error at the foreach statement: https://i.imgur.com/jT5iPpv.png

[polar acorn]

I don't see an error

Is your IDE configured

[twin bolt]

https://i.imgur.com/paDTGHR.png

[twin bolt]

Yes

[polar acorn]

You're iterating over Transform but trying to store the result in GameObject

Can't cast Transform to GameObject. I was honestly expecting that one to be a compile error, not a runtime

[twin bolt]

oh ok

[calm coral]

Hey I have a question, why Vector3.zero.normalized is not normalized? When I try to print that out it returns vector 0,0,0

[wintry quarry]

what would you expect it to return?

it's actually something that doens't make any sense at all

[calm coral]

No idea, but normalized is supposed to be always of length 1, right?

[wintry quarry]

a normalized vector is one in the same direction but with length 1

what direction is Vector3.zero pointing in?

[polar acorn]

The fact that it returns 0,0,0 instead of throwing an error and crashing is a concession

Mathematically, it should cause your program to explode

[calm coral]

Yeah I thought it will throw an exception

[wintry quarry]

It's basically like dividing by zero

[calm coral]

Indeed

[wintry quarry]

if this is something that comes up in your game, simply check that the vector isn't 0 before doing it

[polar acorn]

Since normalization is mostly used to get the direction of a vector, rather than for pure math, they figure "no movement = no direction"

[calm coral]

Well, I need to put Vector3.Dot() and 2nd argument is the Vector3.zero point, and as you know for dot product both vectors needs to be normalized

[wintry quarry]

that doesn't make sense

[calm coral]

I need to find out if player is looking at the center of universe

I mean at point 0,0,0

[wintry quarry]

the dot product takes two direction vectors
Vector3.zero is not a direction

[polar acorn]

The dot product of a 0 vector also doesn't make sense

[wintry quarry]

If you think your player's look direction vector is Vector3.zero there's something wrong in your program before this point

looking at zero is not the same as having zero as the look vector

if I'm standing at 1, 0, 0 and looking at 0, 0, 0, my look direction is -1, 0, 0

If i'm standing at 0,0,0 and looking at 0,0,0, then I've just ripped a hole in the spacetime continuum

that's kinda like looking at your own head

[calm coral]

Right, I just realized I guess 'm doing something wrong

[calm coral]

Yeah

[calm coral]

Yep, exactly, my bad. Thank you both!

I've just found this ||@wintry quarry@polar acorn||

[acoustic arch]

could someone help explain how i could have my players full sprite with all child gameobject sprites together as another image inside of the inventory?

i heard i should use Render Texture, with a Raw Image

but im confused how to do this

i have made a 2nd camera with a raw image and idk what to do yet

[acoustic arch]

i got it figured out

without google too 😏

[swift crag]

did you throw the render texture into the Raw Image component?

[mellow jacinth]

Basically i’m here to learn unity i’m not even beginner i’m too bad at programming.

Help me out

[polar acorn]

!learn

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[mellow jacinth]

Thanks

!learn

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[polar acorn]

Yes that is the command I sent you why did you type it again

[cyan wigeon]

anyone knows what this refers to ?

as in where to find it

realised this is the place:

But it still dont work any ideas what I need to adjust config wise? I am using unity Localization package

[wintry harbor]

I'm getting this error for this script. Could someone explain what the error message means to me? I already added a Circle Collider 2D to the game object.

[polar acorn]

The parameter type of your function is incorrect

OnTriggerEnter2D does not take a Collider as a parameter

[wintry harbor]

Oh, I see. Should I change it to Collision?

[polar acorn]

You should look up what type it takes

[mellow jacinth]

Idk

[wintry harbor]

Oh, it takes Collider2D. My mistake, thank you for your help!!!

[final trellis]

anybody know a fix for this?

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure += and -= increment after use, so it's clamping, then adding. Put the += and -= on separate lines, then run the clamp afterwards

[timber tide]

Is Vector3Int serializable or am I crazy

[sonic yoke]

Im making a game about you being in the woods camping and you see a big nest and you have a gun. And you have to kill all the spiders that come out and you have to survive waves. And at the 10th wave you see a HUGE spider and you kill it. And if you beat it a cutsene will play where you take hair spray and a lighter and light it on fire and it blows up. Then it says to be continued and i need mods any body wanna help?

[final trellis]

strange, will try that

[polar acorn]

Do you have an actual question

[sonic yoke]

yes i need help with invers kenimatics here in a bit

[polar acorn]

Okay, so ask the question

[sonic yoke]

can you help

[polar acorn]

You haven't asked a question yet

[sonic yoke]

I asked if you can help me with it i've never done it before.

[polar acorn]

Do you have an actual question or are you just trying to get someone to commit to solving your problem before you've even said what it is

[summer stump]

The server rules are that you should just state the specific issue you have and someone might help. No need to ask if someone can help

[magic condor]

I'm making a mod for Gorilla Tag, a VR game, and I have no idea what I'm doing. I have the mod template but I cant figure out how to code this. All the mod does is puts an object in a certain place.

[sonic yoke]

Bub, I am asking if you want to become a dev for my game. That is the question. If you don't want to say it, don't waste my time.

but ill go to the thing

[polar acorn]

!collab

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[final trellis]

"bub" bro thinks hes wolverine

[sonic yoke]

Bruh, best come back of the year.

[summer stump]

It's against the rules to ask that here

[sonic yoke]

oooohhhhhh

[sonic yoke]

thx for telling me

[polar acorn]

I told you twice

It's in the bot message

[sonic yoke]

not twice once

[polar acorn]

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[sonic yoke]

ooooohhhhh srry bout dat ill use the thing you sent me

[final trellis]

must be something weird with changing the source time in general when it comes to the ends bc that doesnt work either, the debug logs are there to confirm it is clamping properly

it works completely fine when seeking left and right in the middle of the audioclip tho

jsut has trouble with the ends

[polar acorn]

float newTime = src.time + 5;
src.time = Mathf.Clamp(newTime, 0f, clip.Length);

Add first. Then clamp

[final trellis]

yeah i tried that before and it diddnt work so that code screenshot is my newst attempt at a solution

seeking left out of bounds does actually reset it to 0 but still produces that wonderful red error saying its out of bounds, seeking right out of bounds just produces the red error, but twice

[polar acorn]

Try this, with new log:

float newTime = src.time + 5;
newTime = Mathf.Clamp(newTime, 0f, clip.Length);
Debug.Log($"Setting time for clip to {newtime} / {clip.Length}");
src.time = newTime;

And show the log right before the error comes up

[final trellis]

ok so looks like it works now ( istg i wrote the code exactly like that ) but only for going below the bounds, going beyond the bounds still produces an error ( only 1 this time! )

[polar acorn]

Looks like it doesn't like time being exactly the length of the clip

You probably want to subtract a small amount from it

inside the clamp, try clip.Length - 0.001f or something similar

[final trellis]

also hey i diddnt know you could do $"blah blah blah hey check out this variable its {varName} isnt that cool" instead of "blah blah blah hey check out this variable its " + varName + " isnt that cool"

[polar acorn]

Yep, it's called String Interpolation and it's great

[final trellis]

holy hell

what the hell

why is 27.2185 - 5 = 0

i love math, especially when it makes sense

so yeah no big scary red errors but now this is happening

[polar acorn]

What's the code look like currently

[final trellis]

should I post all of it too?

[polar acorn]

At least the two Seek functions

[final trellis]

for context of what im doing, its basically a mini audioplayer

[opal fossil]

can I use CharacterController in some objjects, and rigid body in other objects if its convenient for the gameobject in the same game?

[final trellis]

hitting the end of the clip seems to freeze up the playback entirely, no seeking back or forward, just doesnt do anything, but the values being recorded are max value of clip - 5 = 0 and max value of clip + 5 = 5

[polar acorn]

Strange. Try changing the log to include src.time as well:

Debug.Log($"Setting time for clip from {src.time} to {newtime} / {clip.Length}");

[polar acorn]

Yes as long as you don't have both on the same object

[opal fossil]

nicee

[polar acorn]

and also if you don't expect any of the rigidbodies to move around the character controller

it's just gonna shrug off any forces that hit it

[final trellis]

first image is seek left from max, second is seek right from max

seems to reset to 0???

which i kinda get but ???

wait i got the worlds worst idea

oh ok i think i found the issue

unity's handling of looping audio clips is just weird

i had to toggle on looping for the audiosource and it works but yeah it loops now, easy fix tho.

thank you unity very cool

thank u btw i was completely bewildered and there wasn too much info online i could find lol

[devout minnow]

Hi im relatively new to unity and i was just curious on i could replace my transform movement with physics movement? Can anyone help me?

[silk night]

Put a rigidbody on your player, reference it in code and then use the MovePosition or AddForce methods, depending on what you want to base your movement on

[queen adder]

can the PropertyDrawer of list be manipulated? I dont wanna see the Element x thingie in here

[silk night]

public class MyList<Type> : List<Type>
{
    
}

Then edit the propertydrawer of "MyList"

[queen adder]

what a hack, nice !

[sharp bloom]

I dont know what the hell this is but it looks cool...trying to make circular shaped pattern for enemy attacks

[zinc hill]

is applying gradient noise to shader expensive??

[broken hazel]

I'm getting a CS8803 Error with this area

I would like help finding out what to do with this and for clarification it for terrain generation

[teal viper]

Are you using notepad for coding..?

Also, why a photo?

[summer stump]

People don't usually have error codes memorized, and the same code can have different messages. What does the TEXT of the error say?

But I can't tell from your screenshot, do you have an opening curly brace for the class?

public class TerrainGenerator : MonoBehaviour
{ <- this
}

It looks like it is missing

[static cedar]

Seems like it.

[summer stump]

@broken hazel Oh dang. Just realized you can see the super pixellated and blury error message at the bottom! Nice.
I'm gonna say it's the missing curly brace, since it is complaining about top-level statements

[static cedar]

Also next time. Windows + Shift + S.

[broken hazel]

My laptop slow

[teal viper]

I don't see how that correlates with taking photos...

Or even just sharing the code properly
!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[broken hazel]

I also don't have discord on my computer

[summer stump]

It's available in the browser, or you can download it.
Just... don't take photos of the screen please. It is awful haha

Or hell, copy the code, email it to yourself, send it via your phone
Millions of ways to do it lol

[broken hazel]

Lol and your thing worked

Ty

[teal viper]

Get yourself an ide. If your computer can handle unity, surely it can handle VS or VS code too.

[raven trench]

if i make a variable can it be called in any script or just the script its made in

[swift crag]

A variable declared in a class -- a field -- can always be accessed inside the class that declares it

If the field is public, then any class can see it

If it's protected, any child classes can see it

If a field is not static, you must have a specific instance of the object to access it

If the field is called foo, then, within the same class, you can write this.foo (or just foo) to access the field

that will give you your own instance's copy of foo

If you have an instance of the class stored in a variable named bar, you can access the field with bar.foo

(assuming that the field's visibility lets you see it)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/access-modifiers

[calm coral]

Hey, how often is OnGUI() method called? If I google it's allegedly called a few times more than Update() but no info how many times exactly

[swift crag]

I know that it gets at least two calls.

[north kiln]

1. There is no exact number
2. Why are you using OnGUI

[swift crag]

i use OnGUI pretty frequenetly to make debug interfaces

[drifting horizon]

hey how do i make a simple system to check when an object is touching the ground?

[swift crag]

you should not do anything in OnGUI that changes state if it doesn't involve calling a GUI method. So Time.timeScale = GUILayout.HorizontalSlider(Time.timeScale, 0.25f, 2f); is fine, but player.health += 1; would be a bad idea

[swift crag]

you'll want to look up "unity ground check" for some examples

but two good options are:

• shoot a raycast from the player's center towards the ground and see if it hits anything
• use Physics.CheckSphere to test if any ground colliders are near the bottom of the player

(or, in 2D, use Physics2D.OverlapCircle / Physics2D.OverlapBox)

[drifting horizon]

okay ill look into that thanks

[calm coral]

To use GUI.Label() method. No exact number? Weird

[swift crag]

it should not matter to you

[calm coral]

Aight

[swift crag]

you should not be doing anything in OnGUI that depends on the exact number of times it's called

[north kiln]

Yes, but why are you using GUI.Label? Are you making a debug GUI or are you making a full UI for a game? Because it's only use these days should be the former

[swift crag]

I only discovered that it gets called multiple times while doing some logging. I never noticed for quite a while

[north kiln]

even modders should be using UI Toolkit 😛

[calm coral]

Got it, thanks!

[swift crag]

i should figure that out, eventually

[drifting horizon]

hmm, the second method seems convenient, but is there any way to make it not check in a square or a circle? a long rectangle would work better

[swift crag]

CheckBox checks a rectangle

[drifting horizon]

oh it takes a vector2

[swift crag]

whether using 2D or 3D

[drifting horizon]

for some reason i read that as a float

[swift crag]

it can be any combination of side lengths

[drifting horizon]

yea got it

[calm coral]

Well, doing some playground to experiment with calculations and to easily print it to the screen I use GUI.Label()

[north kiln]

Sure 👍 that's a fine usecase

[broken hazel]

hi im back

so in row 54 there is something wrong and in the one that is similar. Can you help me? i can give the error code if that helps

[north kiln]

You are required to use an !ide to get help here

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[teal viper]

We can't even see line numbers like that? Do you expect us to count lines? 🥴

[cerulean stirrup]

you put an = instead of a +

[broken hazel]

float xCoord = (float)x / width * scale = offsetX;
float yCoord = (float)y / height * scale + offsetY;

[cerulean stirrup]

float xCoord = (float)x / width * scale = <-- here offsetX;
    float yCoord = (float)y / height * scale + offsetY;```

[north kiln]

@cerulean stirrup #854851968446365696 also says not to give answers to people without configured IDEs

[drifting horizon]

im using vscode and its not autofilling. i have the unity extension, and it was working a bit ago-- idk what changed

[swift crag]

Did you follow every single step?

[broken hazel]

i fixeded it

[swift crag]

Top to bottom. No creative interpretation, no skipping steps, no substitutions, no "it's probably good already".

[broken hazel]

ty again lovely people

[drifting horizon]

well not from the beginning, since i already configured it a while ago, do i need to uninstall stuff?

[swift crag]

From the beginning. You do not need to uninstall anything, but you do need to ensure that every single step has been accounted for.

[summer stump]

Seriously get an ide. You have NO IDEA what a gamechanger it is. I would stop all work until doing it

[swift crag]

After doing this, you should also restart the code editor and, if it's still misbehaving, look in the Output logs for the extensions

[ashen ferry]

row 54 shows pic of notepad

[broken hazel]

alr ill force my store to work

[swift crag]

just use VSCode. it'll work fine

[drifting horizon]

ah, got it. thanks a ton, i had to read closely

[swift crag]

was it the Visual Studio Editor package?

obnoxiously, that thing is locked by the "Engineering" feature by default

[drifting horizon]

it was, when i set it up i used the visual studio code editor package which is apparently deprecated now, and my visual studio editor package hadnt been updated

[swift crag]

indeed. this changed a few months ago

the Visual Studio Code Editor package has been deprecated for a long time, but now it's completely obsolete

[drifting horizon]

any idea why this isnt triggering? i gave the floor the "floor" tag, and boxcollider2d

[young warren]

Might help if you drew a debug gizmo for it

[drifting horizon]

whats that

[north kiln]

and also use CompareTag instead of comparing tags using equality.

[young warren]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-draw-a-physics-overlapbox-for-debugging.1274051/

[drifting horizon]

hmm, the physics debugger doesnt seem to detect the invisible box

[polar acorn]

What do you mean? Did you draw the box and it's not showing up?

[drifting horizon]

oh do i have to manually draw the box in the code?

[polar acorn]

Either the code isn't running or the box is nowhere near where you expect

[slender nymph]

yes. physics debugger does not support 2d

[drifting horizon]

so do i use the "gizmos.matrix" method from this forum?

[queen adder]

does anyone know how to fix this error “Setting the parent of a transform which resides in a Prefab instance is not possible {GameObject: ‘PhotonVRVoice’).”

[slender nymph]

yes, don't call SetParent on a prefab

[queen adder]

How do i do that😭

[static cedar]

[slender nymph]

well look at where you are setting an object's parent and make sure that you aren't doing that to a prefab

[queen adder]

Mk

[north kiln]

Usually it's because you're instancing something and not then modifying the instance

[queen adder]

Im so confused😭

[north kiln]

If your code is throwing that error, send the code

[queen adder]

Wdym

[north kiln]

What are you having trouble understanding? Don't cross-post as well.

[queen adder]

No body answered in gen chat srry

[teal viper]

You need to wait at least a few minutes to get an answer.
Following the "asking questions" guidelines in #854851968446365696 can help get help faster too.(or at all)

[queen adder]

Im abt to just quit on this game😭 ive had to restart over and over for almost a year now bc it breaks every time

[drifting horizon]

do i need to be worried about the layermask?

[teal viper]

How is it that you can't fix(or at least understand) that error after working on it for an year..?

[drifting horizon]

i cant find any way to fix this issue (not even sure how to draw a box)

[queen adder]

Idfk💀

Im stupid in the head

[teal viper]

More likely that you didn't learn the basics properly or trying to work on something you're not ready for yet.

[teal viper]

Start from breaking down your code. See if that overlap detect anything at all.

[queen adder]

Its a gtag fan game that ive seen 8 year olds do better than me at😭

That shrug was uncalled for

[drifting horizon]

oh damn it does detect something

so its a tag issue

[teal viper]

The fact that it involves photon and vr, makes me really doubt that an 8 years old could implement it. Unless they are a genius and was studying unity and programming for a few years.

[drifting horizon]

oh wait i think its detecting the player first...

that would make sense

[summer stump]

You probably SHOULD use a layermask to avoid that

[queen adder]

Nah its smth with the photon voice

[drifting horizon]

alright thanks

[queen adder]

My error is smth with the photon voice

[teal viper]

Your error was explained to you several times by now.

[slender nymph]

that's unlikely. it's most likely something with your code when you instantiate the photon voice gameobject

[queen adder]

Im too dumb to understand

[slender nymph]

there are beginner courses pinned in this channel and on the unity !learn site
start with those

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

!learn site

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn

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[teal viper]

That's an excuse.
You just didn't do any learning required for that project.

[summer stump]

First of all, stop that.
Second, they asked for the code so they could help 🤷‍♂️

But yeah, this may be too much to start with? Unity's learn page would help

[queen adder]

I did i just dont understand certain things

[teal viper]

Then you miss even more basic knowledge that is required to understand whatever you didn't understand.

[slender nymph]

if only there were learning resources you were directed to that would help you begin to understand

[teal viper]

Proper learning involves learning everything from the bottom up.

[queen adder]

I tried

It doesnt always work out for everyone asshole

[teal viper]

If you encounter something difficult during your learning, it's ok to ask the community. We might be able to explain or direct you to proper learning materials.

[slender nymph]

this is definitely not the tone you should be taking with people trying to help you. if all you are interested in is throwing yourself a pity party because you don't understand and you refuse to go through the beginner courses so that you can understand, then why are you even here? go throw your pity party somewhere else where someone may actually care

[queen adder]

Again i did learn and ALSO again it doesnt always fucking work out, you guys are just lucky it did for you

[drifting horizon]

any decent way to prevent objects falling at high speeds from passing through the floor?

[slender nymph]

lol it's nothing to do with luck. you have to put in the effort to learn

[rich adder]

try turning on collision mode to continuous

[drifting horizon]

where do you do that

[teal viper]

anyways, unless you have actual specific questions, there's no point in continuing this conversation.

[slender nymph]

continuous collision detection on the rigidbody can help with that. but another way is to just not move things at super high speeds

[summer stump]

It has nothing to do with luck. It has to do with perseverance. It also has to do with taking SMALL steps. Learning comes in many forms, and the form you took obviously didn't work for you. You can give up, or try another. But don't lie to yourself and say it has to do with you being "dumb" or others being "lucky". It's only been a year. That is nothing.

[mossy arrow]

when i hit the bar it should show a game over sceren but that is not there, how do i fox this?

[slender nymph]

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

[mossy arrow]

what is this?

[slender nymph]

the troubleshooting steps you need to take

[mossy arrow]

what do i press?

[ivory bobcat]

Also, make sure to save.

[mossy arrow]

life saver

[slender nymph]

please try and put at least some effort and thought into what you are doing

[mossy arrow]

bro I dont get this

[slender nymph]

yes. so read it

[mossy arrow]

then what did i do

[slender nymph]

well you're obviously working in 2d so clearly you need to click the "I am working in 2D" option

[ivory bobcat]

Are you working in 2d or 3d?

[mossy arrow]

2d

[ivory bobcat]

Don't try to skip out on reading - fast reading isn't applicable.

[slender nymph]

also have you put a log or breakpoint inside of your OnCollisionEnter2D to check whether it is actually being called?

[mossy arrow]

i was reading this "Comparing tags using equality; use CompareTag to get proper warnings.
Destroying components instead of their gameObject, leading to the appearance that nothing happens.
Ignoring errors that throw exceptions, these cause the code after to not run (fix the exceptions to resolve the issue)."

[slender nymph]

read the entire fucking page

[ivory bobcat]

So pick the appropriate one

[mossy arrow]

WHAT THE FUCK IM I DOING

[mossy arrow]

i did

[ivory bobcat]

You aren't receiving physics messages because likely your setup is incorrect. Follow the guide to ensure everything is correctly setup.

[mossy arrow]

im on a tut

i did what he did but i might have to look more

im go i have to do sum rq

[ivory bobcat]

This is the solution.

[mossy arrow]

ok thank you

[calm coral]

Hey, how can I create multiple lines? I can't add multiple LineRenderer components to the same game object, is there a way to split that line into a few parallel lines?

[timber tide]

make multiple gameobjects as siblings?

[calm coral]

Most likely I'll have to please ping me when replying to me

[timber tide]

ping'd

better to keep multiple of the same components on multiple different GOs anyway

[charred anvil]

I can’t fall asleep

!bugs

[eternal falcon]

Reporting bugs

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[somber wren]

has anyone an idea of why it is doing that ? Here is my little script to control my spider.

[slender nymph]

if you do not plan to rotate the object using physics then constrain the rotation on the rigidbody

[somber wren]

ok yeah it works ty

[slender nymph]

also there are a few weird choices in that code. why are you rounding your input (which should just be -1,0,1 with digital input) then also clamping it to that range?

[somber wren]

i guess bc with a controller its not always -1, 0, 1 ?

no ?

yeah the clamp should be useless tho

[slender nymph]

correct it is not, however if you want to support being able to move slower with a controller when not maxing out the joystick axes then you shouldn't be rounding it

[somber wren]

yeah true, i'll remove it. I won't lie i took this piece of code online because i just needed a controller quickly, but now looking at it you're right

Now is still my biggest problem, i don't know how to change my transform.up with my cross vector of the legs without conflicting with the forward vector

[queen adder]

We really need a counter of peeps who go profane against boxf

[slender nymph]

i don't know what you mean by this so you'll probably need to provide more details if you want help

[somber wren]

https://discussions.unity.com/t/combine-transform-forward-and-transform-up/44025 this

this it not my post, but same problem

im looking at it right now

[queen adder]

just add the vectors? nvm the problem was so deep to readback

[slender nymph]

i'm certainly not an expert when it comes to rotating objects like that in 3d since i mostly work in 2d, but from the looks of it the first two replies to that should cover it 🤷‍♂️

[somber wren]

i need to get the LookDir from my input angle :')

i dont know how to do, maybe im missing something

funny it is that most ppl are good in 2D and doesnt work in 3D, this is my first project for uni and they throwing us in procedural animation in 3D with unity 👍

[slender nymph]

multiply the transform.forward by the result of Quaternion.AngleAxis(your angle to change, Vector3 representing the axis it should rotate around which is probably just transform.up)

[somber wren]

okay i see what you doing here, seems cool

but i cant multiply and vector and a quaternion

[slender nymph]

yes you can, the quaternion just has to be on the left side of the multiplication operator

[somber wren]

oh yeah

internet was telling me to do some intermediate calculus i was like "really ?"

thank you xD lemme try

ok its working for my controller, but when i put back the modifications of my transform.up it doesnt work and it doesnt move

Here are my transformations of the transform up

[candid oyster]

how to select a random number from 0 to 3?

[somber wren]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[candid oyster]

thanks

[light moss]

Can someone please help? For some reason my enemy only shoots to the right and does not shoot depending which side it is facing

[slender nymph]

it's most likely due to code on your actual bullet

btw that shootcooldown coroutine doesn't actually do anything

[light moss]

the actual bullet just has velocity

[slender nymph]

yes, and that velocity is sending it to the right

[sullen rock]

okay... I have a very specific question about execution order
line 33 in a script A instantiates a gameobject that has a script B on it
line 34 changes a value in script B
does this change execute before or after OnEnable in script B

[slender nymph]

after

[sullen rock]

fuck

thanks

[slender nymph]

Awake and OnEnable are called before Instantiate even returns

[sullen rock]

well, time for a workaround

[slender nymph]

what exactly are you trying to accomplish?

[sullen rock]

edit: does this change execute before Start in script B?

[slender nymph]

no, start is called later in the frame or even the next frame

[sullen rock]

so yes, the change of value from script A does execute before start in script B

[slender nymph]

wait, yeah i misread the question, but the info i provided is correct.

[sullen rock]

and the use - Im generating random environment blocks as the player is moving and starting it "low" and moving the enviro parts up as the player gets closer to emulate the feeling of looking into the distance

and the issue is, when I instantiate the "starting" blocks when you first load an app, they start low as well

using start instead of awake/on enable solves the issue

[light moss]

This is my Bullet Velocity. how can I have the bullet shoot to the left or right depending where the enemy is facing

[slender nymph]

either rotate the bullet so it faces the correct direction when you instantiate it, or you need to pass the desired direction to the instantiated bullet so you can apply that direction when you assign the velocity instead of just using transform.right

[light moss]

This code makes my bullet freeze for some reason

[slender nymph]

don't make it an int, just use a float. the cast is probably screwing it up somehow

[light moss]

it still freezes

[slender nymph]

print the values of your variables

[light moss]

It says "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object BulletVelocity.Start () (at Assets/Scripts/Player Scripts/BulletVelocity.cs:18)" However I have Rigid Body Component for the Game Object already

[gaunt ice]

line 18 is transform.parent

[slender nymph]

you are not assigning a parent in your Instantiate call

[light moss]

so what do I change it too?

[gaunt ice]

the bullets hava no parent, do them needs parent? or can be gameobject directly under the scene?

[slender nymph]

either assign a parent in the Instantiate call by literally just adding transform as the fourth parameter or use some other way to determine the direction. such as passing the direction to the bullet when you spawn it

[flint pilot]

hello everyone I am fairly new to this world, I have this problem that I can't solve, it gives me the error : NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Tire.<Update>g__NewMethod|6_0 () (at Assets/Scripts/Tire.cs:29)
Tire.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Tire.cs:25)

[wintry quarry]

Seems like a basic NullReferenceException .

Either script1 or script1.bulloni is null

[flint pilot]

if you want i can show you the other script

[wintry quarry]

Not really necessary

[flint pilot]

so what i can do

[wintry quarry]

Figure out which of those things is null and fix it

[gaunt ice]

the script is public, you dont need get component to assign it

[flint pilot]

what do you mean, sorry for these questions but really I'm going crazy

[gaunt ice]

just drag and drop it in the inspector

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log is the first step to take

To figure out which thing is null

[somber wren]

How can i make my raycast hit take the first hit only ? like i have a platform under the ground, the hit will take that coordonates and not the ground itself

Like on this scene, the raycast will not care about the little platform on top of the ground

[flint pilot]

I'll explain what I need this script for, I need to remove 5 bolts via VR to a wheel and after I remove these bolts I reactivate the rigidbody and the interactable grab, doing as you said of course it happens that as soon as I remove one of them already it reactivates the wheel

[somber wren]

and it makes this

[teal viper]

Does it have a collider? Is the raycast using any layer mask and is the platform on an included layer?

[azure zenith]

Help

My AudioClip will not play

Why?

audioclip.play();

?

[teal viper]

I don't think you can play an audio clip like that.

There is probably no such method.

And you're probably getting errors.

[azure zenith]

What can I do then?

[somber wren]

all layers on default, not using any layer mask and yes ground has mesh collider, and the other platforms have box colliders

[teal viper]

Then it's probably an issue with your code, rather than the raycasts. How do you confirm whether they hit the platform or not?

[somber wren]

when i debug the hit, it detects both objects (ground and cube/sphere), but doesnt take count of others that the ground

[teal viper]

Are you using RaycastAll? Why?

[somber wren]

No just Raycast

[teal viper]

Just raycast only hits one object. The first one it encounters.

[somber wren]

hmm i see

maybe bc i raycast downward

thats why spherecast were better !!

but spherecasts makes my bug through ground sometimes

[teal viper]

Draw debug rays. It's not quite clear where the origin of the rays is and what direction they have.

[somber wren]

the origin is the tip of my legs

the end

and direction is -transform.up

i was using sphere cast, but it makes me bug

[teal viper]

That's probably the issue. Raycasts that start within a collider, wouldn't detect it.

[somber wren]

yeah...

so its just a raycast probleme now, its better i like it

with spherecasts :

[teal viper]

What I'd do, is raycast from the joint down towards the tip, instead from the tip of the leg.

[verbal dome]

Do know that spherecasts ignore a collider if they start from inside that collider

Like if the initial position of the sphere already overlaps something, it wont detect it

Solvable with OverlapSphere or CheckSphere, at least.

Video looks like theres more issues tho

[azure zenith]

Help

[teal viper]

Stop crossposting.
Check the guidelines on asking questions here:
#854851968446365696

[azure zenith]

I followed this, yet it still does not work: https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/AudioSource.PlayOneShot.html

[gaunt ice]

"AudioSource".PlayXXXXX

[azure zenith]

I have an audioclip

[candid oyster]

Hi, I want to make it so that a prefab instantiates at the spot of a gameobject

its nearly working but I need to convert the gameobject into a vector somehow

[frosty hound]

You can't convert a GameObject into a Vector. However you can use the GameObject's transform.position

[candid oyster]

yep, thats exactly what I needed

thanks

[azure zenith]

?

You need an audio source for an audio clip

Unity is a pain in the ass

And this channel is dead

[cerulean stirrup]

means it doesnt exist

AudioSource is a component you can add to a gameobject

add it there and you can assign a AudioClip and modify audio settings

[azure zenith]

I have added it

Exactly what I have done and yet it does not work

[cerulean stirrup]

did you reference it

[gaunt ice]

the warning tells you that the audioclip is null

the variable references nothing

[cerulean stirrup]

probably that the AudioSource has no AudioClip attached

[azure zenith]

In my inspector, the audio source has the audio clip

[gaunt ice]

but playoneshot takes audioclip as on of its argument, so what you pass into it

[azure zenith]

My clip

My audio clip

That should be correct

[gaunt ice]

have you check if it is null before you pass into palyoneshot?

[cerulean stirrup]

well its obviously null

[frosty hound]

Instead of playing 20 questions, just show your code. It's a waste of time to claim you've done it all right.

[azure zenith]

I think I fixed it

[teal viper]

Probably better ask in #🖱️┃input-system

[sour fulcrum]

Whats the vibe on the performance of something like a Physics.OverlapBox?

[blissful trail]

i se i didnt know there was a channel for that thank you very much

[cosmic grove]

guys why

 public void SetCameraX(float xAxis){
Cam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Cam.transform.rotation.x , Cam.transform.rotation.y ,Cam.transform.rotation.z) ;}

setting the rotation to 0,0,0?, shouldnt it be the same as it was before

dont mind the random argument

[teal viper]

It... Takes CPU time...🤷‍♂️

[teal viper]

Because transform.rotation is a quaternion, yet you try to use it as Euler angles.

[sour fulcrum]

idk just wanted a like "its probably not going to be a problem before almost anything else" to a "it's like using getcomponent a ton" type scale haha. i get its a vague question

[teal viper]

It depends on many factors and your use case.
But generally it's fine to use just like get component.

[cosmic grove]

theres too many angle systems.

[teal viper]

There are no angle systems. There are rotation representations. And only 2.

[cosmic grove]

like degrees and rad?

also i fixed it

[teal viper]

Degrees and radians are basically the same. It's like meters and kilometers.

Quaternions and Euler angles are different.

[cosmic grove]

agree to disagree , but yea theyre a unit

[cosmic grove]

ig ill research more on to that then

thanks

[azure zenith]

Okay, my sound is still not playing but there are no warnings this time

[buoyant knot]

degrees and radians just differ by a factor

[teal viper]

Only errors?

[buoyant knot]

they are effectively the same, except mixing them up will make your calculations totally wrong

[azure zenith]

Neither

The sound does not play though

[north kiln]

Go through these steps to see if your issue is one of them.

[azure zenith]

It is not muted and volume is 1

Btw, my game audio works so footsteps can be heard

It just does not play sound when you collect the item

[teal viper]

How many times ere you asked to show code or info on your setup? Or read the #854851968446365696 on asking questions?

[azure zenith]

I just want possible advice

I don't want to share my code

I made an audio source and dragged and dropped my sound

[silk night]

Does your camera have an audio listener?

[north kiln]

I gave you a list of steps, if it's not a code problem then move to #💻┃unity-talk

[arctic maple]

@wintry quarry hey, we managed to fix the issue yesterday and just thought i'd let you know what caused it.

the problem was that our entire game was organized into empty header objects that were tagged EditorOnly. stuff like ----UI---- etc. this was for organisations sake and ended up being fine in editor. originally, objects weren't supposed to be children of these categories so the empties were marked as editorOnly to make that clearer. they were just supposed to be inbetween everything in the hierachy. later someone forgot this and made them all have children at some point. no error about this either, since it technically wasn't an error.

such a silly mistake lol.

[subtle veldt]

Hellooo !
Quick question : I have this GameObject wich is where the player will shoot from and it's rotating to look at the mouse position, but I want it to rotate around the player. I want it's pivot point to be in the center of the player. How can I do that ?

[barren vapor]

Change the X value of pivot. It's displayed in the inspector

[slender sinew]

if the GameObject is a child of the player, you could set its transform.localPosition equal to either transform.up * someDistance or transform.right * someDistance, depending on how the rotation works.. someDistance would just be how far away you want it to be from the player

(I am assuming you mean you already have the rotation code working)

as in, the object is rotating properly but just not in the right position

[subtle veldt]

Hm no my GameObject only has Transform and a script.

[barren vapor]

Normally your gameobject should have a Sprite renderer to display the sprite

[subtle veldt]

There is no sprite that's why I was asking, it only tracks where the player will shoot from.

[barren vapor]

It's a child of the gameobject?

[subtle veldt]

Yeah that works thanks !

[wintry quarry]

make an empty GameObject called "Pivot" at the center of the player as a child of the player.
Make this thing a child of the Pivot at the appropriate offset
Rotate the pivot as needed

[subtle veldt]

Yeah I thought that would work but it's using another game object whereas there are ways to do it with code only like Nephren told me

[dusk dust]

hey guys, I'm building an Android game, and I have Images that I call and display in runtime,how and when is the best place to store it so I can access it after I build?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "images that I call"?

what kind of access pattern are you requiring

[buoyant knot]

if I use kinematicRigidBody.MovePosition(pos), is there any way to read that RB’s current targetting moveposition? Or do I just need to log it somewhere, and reset the log every frame?

[wintry quarry]

Seems like you already have it in the pos variable

The Rigidbody doesn't expose it anywhere, no

[buoyant knot]

that’s what I was getting at. ty

[dusk dust]

A list of image file names (png for ex), that I iterate through, and open the image file, and place it on an Image game object

[wintry quarry]

Why not just a List<Sprite> (aka direct references to the assets)

why do they need to be image names?

[dusk dust]

ya that's what I mean, the problem now is how to store the images and get access to it after I build. (I can't access the asset folder after the build)

[wintry quarry]

Why do you need to access the asset folder?

[silk night]

Look up the Unity Resources system

[wintry quarry]

Again what's wrong with the direct references?

what kind of access pattern are you requiring
^ this is the question you really haven't answered

[dusk dust]

sorry I thought I answerd, I don't actully know all the access patterns, but what I'm tring to do is to open them like a file (File.readAllBytes)

[static cedar]

Ngl, the more i check around here, the more i see even though these problems are easy to solve, most of the difficulty comes from how ur gonna explain it.
Props to u guys ig.

[calm coral]

Hey, is there a way to write a binary number as a float not Int32 ?

[wintry quarry]

I'm saying why are you trying to access them that way?

[wintry quarry]

no

[buoyant knot]

that doesn’t make sense

[wintry quarry]

you could do (float)0b110 but idk why on earth you would

[calm coral]

Alright

[static cedar]

And i don't know why you want to write a float input in binary either.

[buoyant knot]

if you just want to set a constant 6f, just write 6f

you probably want to define a constant for that or something tho

[calm coral]

Well, I wanted to express for example 1/4 as binary 0.01 so I expected something such as lineRenderer.widthMultiplier = 0b0.01; but that doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

Why?

what's wrong with 1/4f or 0.25f?

[dusk dust]

idk, that what I thought it's the way to do, what is the best way that you think of ?

[buoyant knot]

like
private const float DEFAULT_LINE_WIDTH_MULTIPLIER = 6f;

[wintry quarry]

Directly reference the image as a Sprite wherever you need it

as I mentioned in my first response

[calm coral]

That's the case where I know 0.25 is equal to binary 0.01, number such as 0.3 can't be expressed equally in binary, right? It's an irrational number?

[wintry quarry]

0.3 is a rational number with an infinitely repeating binary representation

[buoyant knot]

computers don’t use irrational numbers

[silk night]

the questions is, WHY do you want to write them as binary?

[buoyant knot]

you are trying to solve a problem that does not exist

[slender sinew]

you don't need to read images via bytes to load them, you are in a game engine with a renderer and asset pipeline, you can just drag the images into your project and reference them using the Unity inspector

[calm coral]

Alright...

[wintry quarry]

since the binary representation of 0.3f is infinitely repeating why on earth would you want to represent it in binary?

[static cedar]

Definition of irrational number is that it can't be expressed in fractions right?

[calm coral]

To not lose on precision

[wintry quarry]

literally impossible

[buoyant knot]

you can’t

[wintry quarry]

changing the way you write the number doesn't help you at all in that regard

a float is a float

[lapis stirrup]

public class SceneManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public void LoadScene(string sceneName)
{
SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneName);
}
}

what's wrong?

[silk night]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

you named your class SceneManager

[queen adder]

At what point should I stop in this video so I know I have learned enough CSharp for Unity https://youtu.be/M5ugY7fWydE?si=9J4CeU9Wfn71IOaw

[wintry quarry]

right at the very end, and then you still don't know enough

[static cedar]

Different video to what i watched.

[dusk dust]

how could I refrence them without the inspector?

[queen adder]

it wouldn't be enough?

[buoyant knot]

i feel like I can’t describe more about the precision thing without horrendously confusing the man

[queen adder]

what video did you watch?

[silk night]

why dont you want to use the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

It will take you months to become semi proficient, and years to master it

[slender sinew]

and thats assuming you are actively trying to learn basically the whole time lol

[wintry quarry]

Using one of:

• Addressables
• Resources
• StreamingAssets

[dusk dust]

cause I want to generate them automaticly based on the level,

[dusk dust]

ok thx 💙

[slender sinew]

like... you generate them while the game is playing?

you should describe what you ar trying to make

[neon fractal]

Heeelp
code: https://gdl.space/ukigomofuh.cs
problem: https://youtu.be/GUZe9NG8pvk

[dusk dust]

USE them not generate

[static cedar]

Until you know classes, generics, and read docs and de-compiled library, that should be a point where you can rely less on lengthy tutorials like those and learn more by experience and reading text.
I didn't even know abstraction when i started on unity. I would say i got the bare minimum for self learning.

[slender sinew]

then why did you say generate, haha

[teal viper]

Either use debug logs or step through the code with a breakpoint to see what cells were found(if any) and whether the conditions to destroy them are satisfied.

[slender sinew]

anyways, you can still use the inspector to reference the images... even if you assign them to each level at runtime

[queen adder]

Ahhh I see, the bare minimum is up to classes and generics?

[neon fractal]

I've already "debugged" it like this. Everything is located but Destroy(cell.gameObject); it doesn't seem to work, even Log("cell.name") shows everything correctly

[queen adder]

My biggest problem with these vids though I have a bad attention span so idk how anyone watches these head on

[teal viper]

How exactly did you debug?

[static cedar]

I guess.
You can google what's boxing and stack/heap allocation someday.

[static cedar]

Feel free to deviate tbh.
As long as you try some quick examples on what you learned that's well and good.

[teal viper]

Also, the logic of the deleting method really doesn't make sense.

[neon fractal]

?

[teal viper]

Okay. Why did you remove that from the code that you shared? And what does is it output to the console when you test?

[static cedar]

@queen adder This is the one that i watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxznTygnRfQ

[neon fractal]

It shows the name (or id) of the cell, after which it should be deleted

[polar acorn]

If it logs, then it does destroy whatever object has that cell component. If the thing that you're expecting isn't destroyed, then that object is not cell

[teal viper]

comment out Destroy and change the log to: Debug.Log(cell.name, cell.gameObject);.
Then when the message is printed in the console, click it and look at what object is highlighted.

[neon fractal]

that's what I need, so that a random cell with the desired id is deleted

[teal viper]

And it does. The question is wether it's the object you expect to be destroyed.

[dusk dust]

I'm trying to make a game that generates blocks that fall and inside them is an image, and you have to choose the right answer for each block, It's like a teaching game, to teach you English.
so it will be an image falling and you choose the responding word for it, so the block should be generated on runtime, my problem is I want an optimal solution to reference the images, and put it in the block

[neon fractal]

After these actions, it did not delete but added. I will figure out why this is so

[polar acorn]

Nothing in this function could possibly be "adding" anything. If anything is adding a cell, it's not this code

[neon fractal]

I understand that.

[polar acorn]

Do this:
#💻┃code-beginner message

Click on the log, see what highlights

[teal viper]

Then that's the reason probably. When one was destroyed another one was added.

[neon fractal]

Yes

[teal viper]

If you log something in that new object's awake or OnEnable, you might see what spawns it in the stack trace.

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[ruby python]

Okay, so what in the holy hell am I doing wrong here? The camera just isn't moving to where it supposed to be (stays static in the scene). My Target is an Empty just in front of my object. It looks at it fine, but the position of the camera isn't changing at all.

public Transform target;

    public float smoothSpeed = 0.125f;
    public Vector3 offset;

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Vector3 desiredPosition = target.position + offset;
        Vector3 smoothedPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, desiredPosition, smoothSpeed);
        transform.position = smoothedPosition;

        transform.LookAt(target);
    }

[wintry quarry]

which object is this script attached to?

[ruby python]

The Camera.

[slender sinew]

you sure smoothSpeed is properly set in the inspector.. ?

[wintry quarry]

Show the inspector

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of the object this is attached to

[slender sinew]

public variables with an initial value in code is a common problem here, it will just use whatever was serialized in the inspector

[pastel talon]

Hello! I have a function that activates an animation when I click on an object. The problem is I can't re-activate it because it stays activated even after the animation has finished. How do I re-activate it?

[ruby python]

I've tried adjusting the smoothtime to lower and higher values, the camera just doesn't move to the rear of the ship when it rotates (it's like it's using world coords.

[polar acorn]

1. Instead of using GameObject just drag in the Animator directly
2. Instead of toggling an animator component on or off, you should set a parameter on it to transition between states.
   https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/animator-controllers

[slender sinew]

well.. it is

[polar acorn]

It is using world coords

[slender sinew]

using world coords

[polar acorn]

You have nothing in your code that uses local

[slender sinew]

localPosition is the position of the transform relative to its parent, position is the world position

[polar acorn]

You're moving to the position that is 30 units behind the object in world space

[slender sinew]

that's not the problem here though, because everything in the script is using world coords, which should be fine I would imagine

[polar acorn]

If you want this thing to stay a fixed distance behind the object as it rotates, you should probably just use Cinemachine that does all that for you

[slender sinew]

oh well, if your ship rotates it would be a problem

[ruby python]

I tried changing it to localPosition, and the camera went batshit nuts and caused unity to error out because it went out of bounds or something.

thing is, this is the code for pretty much ever single camera follow script I've seen.

[polar acorn]

Yeah that's not what you should be doing either

[polar acorn]

It's the code for every simple camera follow script you've ever seen

[ruby python]

Yeah, but even this isn't following. lol.

[slender sinew]

you would have to use the target's local position as the desired position too, because it is also a child (on the same level of hierarchy)

[polar acorn]

It is following

[slender sinew]

if you wanted to switch to local position

all .position would have to become .localPosition

[pastel talon]

The problem is that the animator is on another object, so just dragging in the animator doesn't work. But thanks for the link!

[polar acorn]

Yes it does

[ruby python]

@slender sinew Nope, that causes Unity to completely wig out.

[slender sinew]

can you show that code?

[ruby python]

gimme a sec

[polar acorn]

Change the variable type to Animator and drag in the other object

It being on a different object changes nothing

[pastel talon]

I believe I tried that before but I guess I did something wrong then

[viral hemlock]

Is piskel a good pixel art creation tool ?

[wintry quarry]

It's ok

[viral hemlock]

Sorry if this is of topic

[ruby python]

sokay, think I got it figured. Thanks for the input fellas.

[gusty hazel]

why doesnt the if statement work in this code

[polar acorn]

!code

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[polar acorn]

And the if statement does work. If the code inside it doesn't run, then other doesn't have the tag "walkFinish"

[neon veldt]

How do I rotate something around one axis with Mouse Input?

[polar acorn]

Also, when checking tags, you should use CompareTag, not ==
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.CompareTag.html

[pastel talon]

I've read through the tutorial but I don't understand how I execute the animation without doing what I already am doing?

[muted wadi]

im making a DDR style game mechanic but I'm having an issue where sometimes when the note collider is intersecting the collider that the player is meant to activate, it just passes through instead of registering it as hit. Does anyone here have experience with that type of thing?

[polar acorn]

Make an animation state that plays the animation you want, make a transition to it that depends on a parameter, toggle the parameter in code

[polar acorn]

If it's moving by rigidbody, there should be a dropdown where you can change "Collision Detection" to "Continuous"

[muted wadi]

I've changed it to continuous and tried out all the other collision detection methods but the problem still persists

[pastel talon]

How do I decide between float int bool and trigger?

[polar acorn]

How do you decide when making a variable if it should be a float, int, or bool? (Trigger is just a bool that auto-resets itself after use)

[muted wadi]

im wondering if maybe it could be because of the script that I use to move the cubes downwards, though I don't think it should be breaking the collision detection

float fallSpeed = 1.5f;
private void Update()
{
    transform.position += Vector3.down * fallSpeed * Time.deltaTime;
}```

[polar acorn]

Yeah that's teleportation

Teleportation does not collide with anything

[muted wadi]

ah

damn

[pastel talon]

yeah what's the difference between them?

[silk night]

MovePosition on the rigidbody instead

[polar acorn]

One is a float, one is an int, one is a bool, and one is a bool that automatically sets itself to false after you use it

[pastel talon]

Lol I dont know what neither of those are. What, are they just random names that dont mean anything?

[polar acorn]

Then you should not be coding yet. You need to learn the basics of C# before you actually try to implement anything.

Look at the intro to C# in the pins

[silk night]

float is a number with decimal point
int is a whole number
bool is true/false

and what digiholic said

[pastel talon]

So what you're saying is my teacher should not be teaching? lol

[polar acorn]

If this is a class I'm guessing you should have paid attention on the first day of class

Because this is day one stuff

[silk night]

day 2 to be generous, day 1 is installing the ide 😄

[polar acorn]

If you don't know what int, float, and bool are, you are not ready to be implementing anything. You should be barely at "Hello world"

[pastel talon]

I've been paying 100% attention. I'm one of the most attentive in class. I guarantee you she just sucks then

we went straight into it on day one

[silk night]

how are you even programming without knowing what a bool is

[pastel talon]

I don't even know

[gusty hazel]

        Debug.Log ("Detected");
        cowText.text = "Press E to interact";
        ani.SetBool ("Detected", true);
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("walkFinish")){
            Debug.Log ("colided");
            walk = false;
            TutStart ();
        }
    }```

[pastel talon]

she just teaches us functions and makes us copy them

[gusty hazel]

why isnt the collider working

[polar acorn]

Does "Detected" print in the console

[gusty hazel]

no it doesnt

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnTriggerEnter2D:

1. Thou Shalt have a 2D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt tick isTrigger on at least one of them
3. Thou Shalt have a 2D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[gusty hazel]

3 thats the issue

[neon fractal]

@teal viper Thank you for pushing me in the right direction. I fixed my problem

[muted wadi]

I've changed the script to use movetowards and its working a little better, but sometimes the colliders will still pass through, not sure why

current collision settings are set to extrapolate and continuous detection

[silk night]

Use continous on the rigidbody

oh nvm

is your object really fast?

like could it pass before a next physics tick?

[muted wadi]

nope

its pretty slow

[polar acorn]

Show the updated code

[muted wadi]

i am using an ontriggerstay to check for the collider though

[silk night]

Then better check for enter

[muted wadi]

 float fallSpeed = 4f;
 Rigidbody rb;

 private void Start()
 {
     rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
 }
 private void Update()
 {
     rb.MovePosition(transform.position + Vector3.down * Time.deltaTime * fallSpeed);
 }```

[silk night]

Serialize the rigidbody and fill it in inspector btw

wont help your problem but just a general thing

[muted wadi]

that wont work for the ddr because it only does a check the second the collider enters the other collider, i need it to continuously check which object is inside the collider so the player can press a button and it gets destroyed no matter if its 10, 20 or 50% through the collider

[silk night]

can you fill me in what ddr means?

[muted wadi]

if you get what i mean

dance dance revolution

its a rhythm game

[silk night]

oh yeah i know that, just didnt know the abbreviation

[muted wadi]

ah

[silk night]

can you check if Enter works as expected though?

[muted wadi]

sure

as expected, I have to press the button at the exact frame it enters the collider

otherwise it wont be registered again and will just pass through

[silk night]

I mean just if it detects the enter 100% of the time

and just doesnt detect the stay 100% of the time

Technically you could do a HashSet which stores all objects that triggered enter and removes all that triggered leave, destroy all elements of HashSet on pressing the button

[muted wadi]

worth a try

[subtle yacht]

Hi, i have an issue on my script and I wonder if someone can help me in a call ?

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[azure zenith]

Which is better? To destroy a gameobject or to set active to false when you pick it up?

Or does it not matter?

[muted wadi]

is it a lot of objects or just a few?

if its just a few then you might be better off setting active to false, in case you ever find a need to reactivate it

[subtle yacht]

Nice help

[calm coral]

I guess it matters if you later want to do something with it. Deactivate if you want to enable it back and use later, destroy if it's not going to appear in the game ever again

[polar acorn]

Thanks I worked hard on it

[summer stump]

Just ask your question

[azure zenith]

Oh, alright. Thank you

Also, my sound does not seem to be working when I pick the item up

[silk night]

If you plan to reuse it set it inactive

[azure zenith]

Alright, cheers

Can an OnTriggerEnter contain sound?

[calm coral]

This method contains reference to the triggering object. If that object has a sound component attached then probably yeah

[subtle yacht]

Ok sorry for all the images, i just script a program to switch weapon in my game and it return me this error
There is my script :https://gdl.space/benelomepe.cs

[polar acorn]

Looks like your code is expecting an Animator, but you've got a legacy Animation component on your object. You should use an Animator

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/animator-controllers

[subtle yacht]

Ok thanks I will try to do it 👌

[polar acorn]

See how easy it is to get a question answered when you actually ask one instead of expecting someone to jump into DMs with zero information as to what the problem is

[subtle yacht]

Yeah sorry, I didn't really understand your site. I'm still learning English

[merry nebula]

Anyone know how I could merge 2 healthbars into one? I have my P2 attached to my P1 and they should count as a single entity, but they have completely different functions and so therefore they aren't really one thing, but they should still share HP. (the comments at the top are kinda me thinking if I should make 2 separate scrits, but idk if that would work so am looking for a solution here 😵‍💫 )

[silk night]

!code

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[merry nebula]

https://gdl.space/iluvalihij.cs

[polar acorn]

If they should share health, then the Health object should not be on each player, but on some sort of shared object they both reference

[merry nebula]

Yeah but they lose health once they are hit, and I can't really make such a custom collider.

[polar acorn]

If the Health object exists in some neutral place, instead of getting it from the player you hit, reference it directly on the enemies and have them deal damage to the shared health system when they hit the player

Or make a new script that handles the shared health that your current Health script references instead of having its own copy of

[swift crag]

This should have nothing to do with the healthbars. The healthbars should strictly exist to display a health value

[fiery geyser]

Hy Guys, I have a problem in an online game where robots are constantly on the server and players can enter and interact with them, but I have a bug that if the server is empty and someone enters, the objects in the robots' hands get bugged, can someone get me help or have an idea of ​​what causes this??

[swift crag]

Your UI shouldn't be running your game

[swift crag]

way too vague. do you have any information about in what way the objects are getting "bugged"?

we also don't know what multiplayer framework you're using, how holding objects works, etc.

[wintry quarry]

what debugging steps have you taken so far?

[chrome wasp]

My collision will not work and I am super confused

So I have followed steps in the course I am doing giving rigidbody to my character and making sure they both have box colliders

And there is some collision but if I just hold forward I go through it

[silk night]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

How do you move the character

[chrome wasp]

wsad

[wintry quarry]

sounds like you're moving your character by teleporting it with the Transform rather than actually moving with the Rigidbody.

[polar acorn]

How are you moving it

not what buttons

[wintry quarry]

not asking what buttons you use, asking what method you're using in the code to move it

[chrome wasp]

float xValue = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal")Time.deltaTimemoveSpeed;

Variable

[rich adder]

thats not movement

[chrome wasp]

transform.Translate (xValue, 0, zValue);

[wintry quarry]

yep so

[polar acorn]

There we go

that's teleportation

[chrome wasp]

yeye

ahhh

[polar acorn]

teleportation does not respect colliders

[chrome wasp]

Right because we are just teleporting forward frame by frame

[swift crag]

if you are using a rigidbody, you need to let the rigidbody handle things

otherwise it's like getting on a bus and then trying to steer it yourself

it's gonna crash

[bitter carbon]

cna anyone help me please, for some reason it fully works exept the x position is like off by 0.4 / 5

[chrome wasp]

how do I let rigid body handle

[swift crag]

go to the scene view and select the object you're moving. make sure you are in "pivot", not "center" mode. press W to show the movement arrow gizmos.

do they appear where you expect them to?

[rich adder]

look up the movement methods for Rigidbody component

[swift crag]

Here is an example of what could be wrong. The cube isn't actually positioned correctly.

[bitter carbon]

it was alr on pivot ill check the other thing

yea the other thing is good

[azure zenith]

AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(PickUpSound, transform.position); does not work

[bitter carbon]

it is perfectly in the middle with same rotation as urs

[rich adder]

are you sure game view is not just muted?

[azure zenith]

No

It is not

[chrome wasp]

So do I just need to use another way to make my cube move?

[swift crag]

a very easy thing to miss

[azure zenith]

I can hear other sounds

[swift crag]

rb.MovePosition will move the rigidbody to a new position

This will do so in a way that respects colliders, assuming the rigidbody isn't kinematic

[chrome wasp]

and then do I just use that instad of the teleportation methods?

[swift crag]

Right.

rb.position = ... will teleport the rigidbody to a new position, without trying to move it from point A to point B

which you might sometimes want

[chrome wasp]

So I would get rid of the transform.translate thing?

[swift crag]

Yes.

You'll want to compute the new position based on the distance you want to move

probably rb.position + moveAmount

[bitter carbon]

is it better tu use transform.position than rb.position???

[rich adder]

you tried playing same sound in other audio sources ?

[rich adder]

neither

[bitter carbon]

then what???

[rich adder]

rb.moveposition, addforce, .velocity

[bitter carbon]

how does that make it better?

[chrome wasp]

I literally started Unity yesterday i am confuse

[rich adder]

because they're methods made specifically to move by physics

.velocity is kinda forcing it but stil respect physics

[bitter carbon]

what if i dont want it to move with phyiscs (i dont in this current scenario)

[rich adder]

then you don't get accurate collisions, interactions physics

[chrome wasp]

I am not sure how to impliment rb.position + moveAmount into my code

[azure zenith]

OMG

HAHAHAHAHA

I DID IT

I finally did it

[bitter carbon]

id recomend completeing a course/tutoiral if youve only been doing it for 1 day

[rich adder]

you can just replace your .translate code with .velocity tbh

[azure zenith]

I got told I needed an AudioSource but I actually did not

[delicate portal]

Can i modify this object's rotation somehow?

[rich adder]

told by whom ? PlayAtPosition creates its own audiosource

[bitter carbon]

anyone know how to make this work properly it works but for some reason its ofsetted on the x

[flint pilot]

i need a hand on something, so i have five bolts of a wheel and each of them has an equal script that defines, when the drill is near unscrew the bolt. i need to make the wheel understand that when all five bolts are unscrewed i can detach it. now it detaches but right after i remove one

[rich adder]

why are u using indecies on locations

[chrome wasp]

I'm doing a really large course but he just introduced collision and it wasnt working form e

[rich adder]

weird

[chrome wasp]

alr

[bitter carbon]

ok

[polar acorn]

Someone already gave you something to look for. Check to make sure your objects pivot is actually where you want it to be

[azure zenith]

I used PlayClipAtPoint

[bitter carbon]

idk i thought it was the easiest way

[bitter carbon]

ive alr responded to that and it is

[chrome wasp]

"Transform' does not contain a definition for 'velocity' and no accessible extension method 'velocity' accepting a first argument of type 'Transform' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

error message

[rich adder]

no you have to use the rigidbody not the transform

[ruby python]

Would anyone please take a look at this and see where I'm going wrong? Pulling my hair out at the moment.

In the first image, the little solar panels are supposed to be pointing in the direction of the sun (Just on the Y axis for now), but the angle is way way off and I can't understand why. (Second image is to illustrate their 'neutral' position).

[SerializeField] Transform sun;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        Vector3 targetDir = sun.position - transform.position;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetDir.y, 0f);
    }

    private void OnValidate()
    {
        Vector3 targetDir = sun.position - transform.position;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetDir.y, 0f);
    }

[chrome wasp]

ohhhh

k

[rich adder]

we've been talking about rigidbody this whole time

[bitter carbon]

its transform

no capital T

[pastel talon]

How do I trigger particles?

[bitter carbon]

... dont respond if u cant help as it wastes both of ours time

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-velocity.html
if your rigidbody is kinematic use rb.MovePosition

[polar acorn]

Don't ask a question again if someone is currently in the process of answering it

[bitter carbon]

no one is but ill note that for futture if that ever happens

[pastel talon]

I have two particle effects that I downloaded from the assets store. I want to trigger them on command

[polar acorn]

... dont respond if u cant help as it wastes both yours time

[flint pilot]

Someone?

[bitter carbon]

i helped there is no captial T

[rich adder]

whats the question?

i don't get iit

[fiery geyser]

I'm using Photon Fusion, I believe the problem is that when the server is empty the Object stops being a parent of the hand and I don't know how to save this even with an empty server

[rich adder]

you're wrong.

the method is on Transform class and it doesn't help the main issue they had.

[polar acorn]

Keep a count of how many bolts have been removed and how many you need to remove. Whenever you remove a bolt, add one to the first number. If the amount removed is equal to the amount required, detach the wheel

[polar acorn]

No, you said nonsense that had nothing to do with the question. There is no velocity property on transform

[bitter carbon]

well i font use capital T and mine works so unless my entire vs has been hacked i think im right

[polar acorn]

Show your code that uses transform.velocity and doesn't thrown an error

[bitter carbon]

i dont use velocity but yes

[fiery geyser]

I'm using Photon Fusion, I believe the problem is that when the server is empty the Object stops being a parent of the hand and I don't know how to save this even with an empty server I tried to reset the rigidbody of the objects when the server is empty but it didn't work, I'm looking for a way to keep this Parent inside Photon Fusion

[polar acorn]

Okay so why did you say using lower-case transform would suddenly magically make transform.velocity work

[bitter carbon]

i dont have time to argue so ill be afk

[polar acorn]

that's literally what you replied to

[rich adder]

.Play or .Emit

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem.Emit.html

[chrome wasp]

dude this is just not working

I might take a break from Unity again lol

like idk

[rich adder]

"just not working" is not helpful

guess we just throw our hands up and say "iss broke" 🤷‍♂️

[chrome wasp]

the problem is I am not familar enough with everything to know what I need to change

In the course I am watching the teleporting works somewhat fine but it won't work at all for me

[rich adder]

did you look at the example ?
you're working with components.
Transform is a comeponent, Rigidbody is a component

all your doing is changing using methods on transform to methods on rigidbody

[chrome wasp]

right so I tried replacing transform to rigidbody

"Non-invocable member 'Rigidbody.velocity' cannot be used like a method."

[rich adder]

what don't you show what you did instead

[ruby python]

Please? I'm going bald. lmao

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-velocity.html

[rich adder]

these messages don't help , we need to see what you typed

[rich adder]

we sent you twice the docs to .velocity

[silk night]

!code

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[frosty hound]

You need a reference to your rigidbody component.

[rich adder]

how do you see it written in example

[frosty hound]

Simply typing Rigidbody means nothing to the code, it doesn't know what rigidbody you're referring to.

[gaunt ice]

!ide .....

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[silk night]

that too 😄

[chrome wasp]

I tried to understand them

[candid oyster]

honestly as a begginer I must agree that the docs are really hard to learn from

I found a lot more luck with youtube videos

[rich adder]

its a lack of understanding how basic c# works

nothing much to do with unity

knowing Class vs Instance differences

[polar acorn]

A direction and a rotation angle are not the same thing. You're rotating about the Y axis based on an amount from a normalized vector, meaning you will be rotating horizontally by less than one degree

[rich adder]

any API is difficult to understand without basic language knowledge

[ruby python]

@polar acorn Of course is. lol. Well don't I now feel like a complete muppet. I really should stop doing this coding milarky at the end of the day. lol.

[chrome wasp]

"Import Error Code:(4)
Message: Build asset version error: assets/mover.cs in SourceAssetDB has modification time of '2023-10-19T16:55:26.4573584Z' while content on disk has modification time of '2023-10-19T16:55:31.8948717Z'"

[lavish ingot]

Unity docs are some of the best tbh.

[chrome wasp]

Now Im getting that

[rich adder]

dont worry about that warning rn

[candid oyster]

Im not trying to argue with yall

Im just saying that I was in a similiar situation to Lilith

[rich adder]

yeah but saying "finding luck on youtube" is bad advice

[chrome wasp]

I started it and it spammed the console with a million errors telling me rb variable has not been assigned

[polar acorn]

Well, has it been assigned?

[chrome wasp]

No but what do I assign it as

float?

[lavish ingot]

The velocity.

[polar acorn]

What Rigidbody do you want to move

[candid oyster]

im not giving advice, Im just sharing my experience

you obviously know a lot more then me

[chrome wasp]

my character gregg

box

[polar acorn]

So assign it to that

[lavish ingot]

Read the docs.

[rich adder]

were past that

doc doesnt say about assignment

[gaunt ice]

drag the rb on your character and drop into the variable apperas in the inspector

[lavish ingot]

Then I wish them the best of luck.

[chrome wasp]

Gregg already has rigid body component

[gaunt ice]

you can assign other components in inspector through the same way (including your script)

[pastel talon]

How do I make sure the particles doesn't play on start?

[rich adder]

uncheck Play On Awake or w/e is called

Starts Awake

forgot what is called

[chrome wasp]

am too stupid

[lavish ingot]

Lazy*

[chrome wasp]

stupid

[polar acorn]

So assign your variable to that

[chrome wasp]

So I assign my variable to gregg?

[polar acorn]

To gregg's rigidbody

[pastel talon]

where is that?

[polar acorn]

if that is the one you want to use

[rich adder]

on the main component

all the way at the bottom

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

Play On Awake

[chrome wasp]

how would I write that in code

[polar acorn]

you wouldn't

you would drag the object into the variable on your script

[pastel talon]

thanks!

[rich adder]

anything public will appear inside the inspector as a field

[chrome wasp]

so for the variable would I write public Gregg =