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[uncut dune]

I never tried it

Idk

[weary crystal]

Done. So if I build, will they be able to install like an Android apk file?

[weary crystal]

It's a different question... Not related to the one I asked before...?

[uncut dune]

its in the wrong channel tho

[gaunt ice]

i think you need mac to build it

[weary crystal]

And I didn't "Cross-posted it" Can you check #💻┃unity-talk Please?

[ivory bobcat]

Cross post and off topic misuse of channel.

[weary crystal]

Well, I'm afraid I've been asking all type of questions in this channel and helpers never hesitated to help, I'm sorry if you didn't wanted me to ask here but as said the other channel is inactive.

[zenith cypress]

So ask then wait? Inactivity doesn't dictate using other channels for unrelated questions. This isn't a coding question.

[weary crystal]

Got it, thank you and I'm sorry.

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure to provide more info as well. Not doing so will likely yield you less response https://dontasktoask.com/ (some won't bother to request for details)

[weary crystal]

Alright

[swift stag]

Turns out I do have assets that need URP lol, but thanks

[silent obsidian]

I'm trying to animate my player, i've added some checks for the character's movement state (if he is running or jumping). I got the jumping animation right but the character keeps running even if in theory should not pass the checks.

Am I missing something here? I am sure the problem has to do with the timing of the code execution but I can't seem to be able to find a solution on my own.

void Update() {
        hzInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) {
            jumpKeyWasPressed = true;
        }
    }

    private void FixedUpdate() {
        Move();
        Rotate();
        CheckGrounded();
        CheckRunning();
        AnimationBrain();
        if (jumpKeyWasPressed && isGrounded)
        {
            Jump();
            jumpKeyWasPressed = false;
        }
    }

     private void CheckGrounded() {
        isGrounded = Physics.CheckSphere(groundCheckTransform.position, 0.15f, groundMask);
    }

// Player should be able to play the running animation only if he has velocity on the X axis and he is grounded
    private void CheckRunning() {
        isRunning = rb.velocity.x != 0f && isGrounded;
    }


    private void AnimationBrain() {
        // Jump animation brain
        if (isGrounded) {
            animator.SetBool("isJumping", false);
        } else {
            animator.SetBool("isJumping", true);
        }

        // Running animation brain
        if (isRunning) {
            animator.SetBool("isRunning", isRunning);
            Debug.Log("Rb.velocity.x: " + rb.velocity.x);
            Debug.Log("isGrounded: " + isGrounded);
        }
    }

[uncut dune]

how do I put a layer in my script without having to create a field for it

can I just do "LayerName"?

[polar acorn]

Well, you only set the animators isRunning to true. Nothing ever sets it to false again

So once you're running once, the animator's parameter is always true

[polar acorn]

Do you need a layer, a layer index, a layer name, or a layer mask

[eager elm]

LayerMask.NameToLayer()

[polar acorn]

These are all different things

[uncut dune]

layermask its for a raycast

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LayerMask.GetMask.html

[silent obsidian]

hm, shouldn't it return false if the character is not changing it's position?
isRunning = rb.velocity.x != 0f && isGrounded;

[polar acorn]

The boolean in this script is changing just fine

But you only ever set it in the animator when that bool is true

The animator's parameter is never set to false

[uncut dune]

something like this works?

[silent obsidian]

Ohhhhh okey i see. thank you a lot

[unreal phoenix]

if I add 'vector.x' to the the Y component of that vector that I'm adding, the Z value is getting affected somehow

    private void MoveCamera(InputAction.CallbackContext context) {
        var vector = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        var cameraRotation = cameraObject.transform.localRotation;
        var quaternion = new Quaternion {
            eulerAngles = cameraRotation.eulerAngles + new Vector3(vector.y * -1, 0, 0) * 0.1f
        };
        cameraObject.transform.localRotation = quaternion;

    }

[polar acorn]

There are an infinite number of euler angles that can represent one specific Quaternion. You are likely seeing a different Vector3 that represents the same orientation you gave it

You should never expect that getting the .eulerAngles of a rotation follows any sort of rules. It doesn't have any sort of "memory". If you apply a rotation on one axis, all it's going to know is the result. When you do .eulerAngles it's going to return whatever Vector3 represents that orientation it happens to compute first

[unreal phoenix]

Ah

[heady nimbus]

Just to confirm, if I have a prefab, I can't reference something in the scene to that prefab until that prefab exists in the scene right? (holy hell I'm not even sure that made sense to me...)

[quiet dune]

I have a question about understanding the connection between a game object (go1) and attached scripts (sc1): If i set a variable of type sc1 in a random script, can i drag any game objects that have sc1 attached to it into the variables field in the unity editor?

[polar acorn]

A prefab is an object that lives in a folder instead of in a scene. Scenes only exist when that scene is loaded, but your file system always exists. So, a prefab cannot reference an object in a scene because the prefab always exists while the scene only sometimes exists.

[heady nimbus]

Thank you. I'm just trying to figure out a way to "link up" these zone transition points without all zones needing to be in the scene at once...

[silent obsidian]

Another quick question if you don't mind, should the player state checkers be called in Update or FixedUpdate. I am quite confused, my intuition tells me that they should stay inside the FixedUpdate method as they're using physics.

[unreal phoenix]

Suggestion then for adding rotation to a game object?

This works perfectly

    private void MoveCamera(InputAction.CallbackContext context) {
        var vector = context.ReadValue<Vector2>();
        cameraObject.transform.localEulerAngles += new Vector3(vector.y * -1, vector.x, 0) * 0.1f;
    }

[signal tide]

Can anyone help me configuring me IDE I am not able to do it. Does anyone know any tutorial or some video??

[heady nimbus]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[signal tide]

I tried to follow all the steps but the intelisense is not working idk why..

[subtle veldt]

Is there a way to have a 2D joint with constant pulling force and affected by gravity ?
I tried with the Spring Joint 2D but the force is proportional to the distance of the 2 Rigid Bodies.
I also tried with a Distance Joint 2D but I cannot control the pulling force and it seems to change the gravity a bit because the object I've attached to it is slowed down although it's going into the same direction as the pulling of the Distance Joint 2D.

[subtle yacht]

Hi, i have a little problem on my project. I'm sure it's very easy but i don't know how to do it x)
I have this Sound and I want to drag it into a component in my player.
But when i'm going in my Player to acces my component, the hierarchy changes and i can't access my sound anymore.
Can someone know how to do it ?
(Sorry for my english)

[slender nymph]

prefabs cannot reference in-scene objects. you would need to get the reference to that object at runtime when you spawn the prefab
https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[subtle yacht]

Oh okay so i need to create my Sound into my player ?

[slender nymph]

or you just need to pass it to the player when the player is spawned

[subtle yacht]

Ok thx you very much 👌

[dawn sparrow]

I know this isn't coding but not sure where else to ask:

I have a model which uses a texture with transparent pixels (area not circled in red), but when I tick "Alpha is Transparency" after converting the texture to a sprite, I get the second image, where the previously uncircled areas just seem to randomly sample a non-transparent part of the texture. Anyone know why this happens?

[buoyant knot]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[hidden bone]

What would be a simple code for changing a Text Gameobject to whatever is in a txt file? i have gotten explanations before but i still cant get it to work

[polar acorn]

.text = File.ReadAllText(...)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.readalltext?view=net-7.0

[twin bolt]

I'm using Ontriggerenter, for a script that forces the player to crouch while inside of a trigger, but if the players collider, even somewhat exits the trigger, the function is called. How do i make it so that the function is only called when the player is fully in or fully out of the trigger?

[hidden bone]

How do i convert a string to a gameobject? I get this error when trying mygameobject = mystring, the gameobject being the Text Gameobject and the string being the data retrieved from the txt file

trying to put the string into this

[polar acorn]

You can't

[eternal needle]

You dont convert a string to a gameobject. You instead populate a string field on a component (which is your Text on a gameobject)

[polar acorn]

Strings are not game objects and "converting" one to the other is patently absurd

[hidden bone]

ok, how should I do it then?

[polar acorn]

I have no idea what you're even trying to do

Setting a gameobject to a string makes no sense

[eternal needle]

You want to first get a reference to the Text component instead of the gameobject, then assign its .text field to your string

[hidden bone]

I want to get text from a .txt file and make this text object display the text from the .txt file

[eternal needle]

You probably want to use text mesh pro instead also

[polar acorn]

So you want to change a property on a text component on an object

[hidden bone]

yes

[polar acorn]

I told you how to do that

[hidden bone]

i must have not understood

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[hidden bone]

yeah i have seen that

i have a string

i just dont know how to put that in the text component of the gameobject

[polar acorn]

So set your Text component's .text to that string

[hidden bone]

how?

[polar acorn]

Set that component's .text to the string you want

using =

[hidden bone]

thegameobject = thestring.text?

thats the only thing I can think of

[polar acorn]

what?

No

You're setting .text to something

not setting an object to something's .text

[twin bolt]

How could i go by forcing the player to be unable to uncrouch, when there inside of something that is to small to stand up in?

[polar acorn]

And strings don't have a .text property

[hidden bone]

public GameObject TheText;so turn this into text instead of gameobject?

[polar acorn]

Whenever you want to uncrouch, raycast up the distance you'd gain by standing up. If that hits something, don't uncrouch.

Or spherecast, or boxcast, or whatever shape fits your character

[twin bolt]

Ok, so kind of like checking if grounded?

[polar acorn]

Yes, if you want to reference a Text component, use that type

[polar acorn]

Yeah, a ceiling check is kind of just an upside-down ground check

[twin bolt]

ok

[hidden bone]

im not getting any compiling errors but nothing seems to be happening

[polar acorn]

Show code

[bitter carbon]

hey, is there a simpler way of writing this:

also, si this correct

[polar acorn]

Not sure how you expect that to simplify

Well, actually

there is

[bitter carbon]

idk, in some languages u can use %

[polar acorn]

playerZ == 5

[hidden bone]

https://pastebin.com/ve4PpEJn

[bitter carbon]

no because i wanna see if it is a multiple of 5

[polar acorn]

Then why are you using division instead of modulo

[bitter carbon]

thats why i asked if there is simpler way, idk how to do that

whats modulo

[spiral oak]

In C# too

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/arithmetic-operators#remainder-operator-

[spiral oak]

Modulo is the rest of the division (%)

[polar acorn]

1. You're getting the Text component from itself. You have the component already. You don't need to get it again.
2. You immediately overwrite the text again with the file name of the object you're opening
3. Does the log print anything?

[hidden bone]

yeah it logs

[polar acorn]

So it would change the text of that element to this:

[bitter carbon]

so this better?

[spiral oak]

Yep

[hidden bone]

oh

[bitter carbon]

i remeber using in python i just sorta forgot what it did exactly but ik now

[spiral oak]

It just checks if the rest of the division is 0, which means that the number is multiple of 5

[bitter carbon]

yea, for some reason m,y script still doesnt work which leads me to a seconf question

[twin bolt]

Is this the proper way to do it? https://i.imgur.com/Usbou1g.png

[hidden bone]

I cant convert the List variable Filelines to text either

[polar acorn]

Well, first off, no need to do TransformDirection(Vector3.up) you can just use transform.up. And if the distance is 1 that should work

[bitter carbon]

will the z go to 5 ever or will it just go to only floats as i need it to detect when 5 happens

[polar acorn]

Because a list is also not a string

[bitter carbon]

as the player is running i mean)

[polar acorn]

It's unlikely to hit exactly a multiple of 5

[twin bolt]

For the distance do i just subtract my crouch height from my standing height?

[polar acorn]

5.00000001 % 5 is not 0

[polar acorn]

Yes

[bitter carbon]

oh, so i gotta round it to int ig

[twin bolt]

Okay thanks.

[hidden bone]

Would it be possible to store the data from the .txt file in a string instead of a list?

[polar acorn]

Yes, using the function I sent you

[hidden bone]

ok

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[twin bolt]

Thanks, that was easier than i thought.

[bitter carbon]

anyone know the word for like rounding in c# so i can search in unity api website

[polar acorn]

rounding

[bitter carbon]

that doesnt work

when i search it

[bitter carbon]

oh i just went to unity API website

[unkempt locust]

Guys, I wanted to know, how can I improve my programming knowledge, I wanted to make a boss batte, can anyone help me?

[hidden bone]

Im getting compiling error "Access to the path '...' is denied

[polar acorn]

Then access to path ... is probably denied

[hidden bone]

fixed it, i forgot to add the .txt

[upper yoke]

Hey I think I already asked but what is the best way to do that without pattern matching in a MonoBehavior again?

[short hazel]

if (a == null || b == null)
    return false;

return a.Name == b.Name;

[upper yoke]

using == would recursively call the current method

[short hazel]

You can't, then

[upper yoke]

👀

Unity throw exceptions because of this :(

[ripe shard]

.Equals(null)

[short hazel]

I'd implement the standard IEquatable<EffectInfo> interface

And use Equals

[cosmic dagger]

use the Equals overload . . .

damn, late . . .

[upper yoke]

ah that's a good idea indeed

My Equals call == but I guess it shouldn't then

[ripe shard]

equals should check reference equality

not value equality

[hidden bone]

        TheText.text = readText;
        Debug.Log(readText);
        TheText.text = readText;``` the program successfully logs the contents of the .txt file but the Text component is not changing to the contents of the .txt file. im not getting any compiling errors

[polar acorn]

First off why are you setting it twice. Second, if the log is happening then you are changing the text of TheText. What object did you assign it to?

[hidden bone]

oh thats a typo i forgot to remove the bottom one

[upper yoke]

I'm don't really know much about this but example in the documentation seems to say the opposite, would you have example on how to implement it?

[hidden bone]

i assigned TheText to this Text gameobject

[polar acorn]

Show a screenshot of your full Unity window, with the object that has this script selected so you can see the inspector, where TheText is set

[ripe shard]

yes, that way then, if you do that you can solve the recursion

[polar acorn]

Okay, now show the same screenshot but after hitting play

[upper yoke]

ah okay, I was just a bit confused by the difference between value and reference equality in C#, not sure how these work
but yeah I'll do that thanks!

[polar acorn]

Oh, wait, this is an input field

you haven't changed the value of the input field, so it's overwriting the text

It sets the text to whatever the value of the input field is, so it can be typed into and show up on the screen

Change .text on the InputField, not the Text component

[short hazel]

Value equality is "are these values identical?"
Reference equality is "do these two variables point to the same place in memory?"

[hidden bone]

so public InputField inputfield; inputfield.text = readText;?

[polar acorn]

yes

except use the correct type

Wait nevermind

[short hazel]

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object) can be used to perform reference equality

[polar acorn]

ignore me

that's the wrong link

it is InputField

[hidden bone]

thx for all the help, it works

[polar acorn]

It's been so long since I've used non TMP, it just looked wrong to me but that's my bad

[hidden bone]

also sry for being so slow and bad

[upper yoke]

oh interesting, thanks

[junior seal]

if anyone could help that would be great

So im trying to make a project in Unity using assets from the unity store and included were some sliding doors that had code along with it. Im trying to make that code work with my player object but im having a hard time understanding what the code is doing. Code: https://paste.ofcode.org/NuPjadE2j8x3FW3RBVvHwh

[silk night]

What part do you not understand?

[junior seal]

The trigger events really. Like i attached the script to the doors and assigned the transform thing to it but it still isnt opening when the player gets close to the door.

and I dont understand what its doing or what i need to do to make it work

[silk night]

Does your character have a Rigidbody?

[junior seal]

no but it has a collider

[silk night]

To trigger a trigger you need a rigidbody on one of the objects

preferably the player

[junior seal]

i do? can you explain why? im quite new

[polar acorn]

Rigidbody is literally the thing that calls OnTrigger

[silk night]

Look at the matrix at the bottom: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/CollidersOverview.html

[junior seal]

i didnt know-

okay so how exactly would i set up the rigidbody? i just kinda added it and pressed play and it went crazy

[silk night]

turn kinematic on

[junior seal]

ah okay cool!

Okay so i did all that and the doors still arent opening when the player gets close

[silk night]

what layer does your character have?

[junior seal]

characters

[silk night]

with a capital C?

[junior seal]

yes

[harsh owl]

 if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
 {

     Vector3 currentSteeringAngle = tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles;
     currentSteeringAngle.y = Mathf.Clamp(currentSteeringAngle.y, -45, 45);


     if (currentSteeringAngle.y < maxSteeringAngle)
     {
         float rotationAmount = -steeringSpeed;
         Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentSteeringAngle);

         tireTransformRight.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationAmount, 0);
         tireTransformLeft.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationAmount, 0);


         Vector3 clampedRotationL = tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles;
         Vector3 clampedRotationR = tireTransformRight.localEulerAngles;

         clampedRotationL.y = Mathf.Clamp(clampedRotationL.y, -45, 45);
         tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles = clampedRotationL;

         clampedRotationR.y = Mathf.Clamp(clampedRotationR.y, -45, 45);
         tireTransformRight.localEulerAngles = clampedRotationR;
     }
 }
 else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
 {

     Vector3 currentSteeringAngle = tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles;
     currentSteeringAngle.y = Mathf.Clamp(currentSteeringAngle.y, -45, 45);


     if (currentSteeringAngle.y < maxSteeringAngle)
     {
         float rotationAmount = steeringSpeed;
         Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentSteeringAngle);

         tireTransformRight.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationAmount, 0);
         tireTransformLeft.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationAmount, 0); //


         Vector3 clampedRotationL = tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles;
         Vector3 clampedRotationR = tireTransformRight.localEulerAngles;

         clampedRotationL.y = Mathf.Clamp(clampedRotationL.y, -45, 45);
         tireTransformLeft.localEulerAngles = clampedRotationL;

         clampedRotationR.y = Mathf.Clamp(clampedRotationR.y, -45, 45);
         tireTransformRight.localEulerAngles = clampedRotationR;

     }
 }

[silk night]

can you add a Debug.Log("test") in OnTriggerEnter to check if it even triggers at all? Like first line of that function

[junior seal]

yea sure

[slender nymph]

so you're still operating on the eulerAngles which i explicitly suggested not doing. and for this exact reason

[harsh owl]

why it working for steering right tho

i can steer left and right like i want to, but just between 0 and 45

but not between -45 and 0

[junior seal]

how do i check if it triggered?

[polar acorn]

Because it's probably not -45 it's probably 315

[silk night]

Walk into it and check if your console shows a "test" line

[junior seal]

it does not

the console in unity right?

[silk night]

yes

[junior seal]

then no it doesnt

[silk night]

Can you show me a screenshot of your character inspector with all components?

[junior seal]

yes!

[slender sinew]

the values it shows you in the inspector are not what they actually are in code

in the inspector, the eulerAngles are able to go negative

[harsh owl]

yea i figured that out now

[slender nymph]

it's almost like someone warned you not to rely on eulerAngles for this exact reason

[slender sinew]

if you want to do what you are doing, you should create your own variables to keep track of the angle

[junior seal]

@silk night

[slender sinew]

then just set the eulerAngles equal to your custom values at the end

[harsh owl]

bro im trying okey

[silk night]

How are you moving your character right now?

[junior seal]

the character controller and the script. you want to see the code?

[silk night]

yeah, ill test something, give me a minute 😄

[junior seal]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class characterController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [Header("----- Components -----")]
    [SerializeField] CharacterController controller;

    [Header("----- Player Stats -----")]
    [Range(-10, -40)][SerializeField] float gravityValue;
    [Range(2, 8)][SerializeField] float playerSpeed;

    private Vector3 move;
    private Vector3 playerVelocity;

    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        move = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * transform.right +
              Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * transform.forward;
        controller.Move(move * Time.deltaTime * playerSpeed);

        playerVelocity.y += gravityValue * Time.deltaTime;
        controller.Move(playerVelocity * Time.deltaTime);
    }
}```

[silk night]

Ok, can you show me a screenshot of your door too?

[silk night]

This looks alright, just one thing, class names should be Capitalized

[junior seal]

oh okay

[twin bolt]

I have a structure in my scene that causes a decrease in performance even when culled, or not being looked at, mostly because of the lights. I want to use ontriggerenter and exit to disable it, when in a area that you cant see it in. My problem is that the structure isnt just a square or rectangle, meaning i need to use multiple colliders, but that wont work since multiple colliders on one object, doesn't work all as one big collider. how do i fix this?

[silk night]

One child-object per collider

OnTriggerEnter should bubble up in the hierarchy

[twin bolt]

I dont understand, so if i use child objects colliders, it will look as one whole collider?

[silk night]

It wll trigger a OnTriggerEnter on the child, if your child does not catch that event it should bubble to the parent

[cosmic dagger]

if the parent object has a rigidbody, collision methods will propagate up to the closest GameObject with a Rigidbody component . . .

[unkempt locust]

I have one question

How do I improve my knowledge of Unity programming?

[polar acorn]

Do more programming in Unity

[silk night]

Think of a small scale project, a game you like, a mechanic of a game you like, and recreate it

and dont start too big

[unkempt locust]

Yes, but for example, now I wanted to do a boss battle, but I don't know how to do it, I tried looking on YouTube and I couldn't find any that were in 3D

[unkempt locust]

hm

[silk night]

Then think of what a boss battle consists of, recreate it piece by piece, a "boss battle" is way to broad to be covered in one tutorial

[junior seal]

is capitalizing the name supposed to make it work?

[unkempt locust]

Yes, thank you

[cosmic dagger]

keep programming every day, even for a small amount of time. create a bunch of different systems and mechanics. re-do them by memory or attempt to refactor them . . .

[polar acorn]

Why would the concept of "Boss battle" even have dimensions? It's not graphics, 2D and 3D are not applicable to the concept of fighting a large thing

[silk night]

No, its just clean code, c# classes should be capitalized

[unkempt locust]

yes, I program every day in unity

[junior seal]

gotcha. you said you were gonna test something?

[cosmic dagger]

it's suggested, to fit standard code guidelines (naming convention) for c# . . .

[unkempt locust]

I have a certain fear of not getting a Game Developer job.

[silk night]

Yeah, went nowhere, thought transform.position might not trigger but it did

[junior seal]

hek. I dunno what im doing wrong

[silk night]

Can I get a screenshot of the door with all components?

[silk night]

also just to test, create a cube, set its collider to trigger and add following script:

using UnityEngine;

public class Testscript : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        Debug.Log("test");
    }
}

then walk into it with your player

[junior seal]

i dunno if im doing it right lol

[silk night]

OHHH

your collider is not a trigger 😄

or is the trigger somewhere in the children?

[junior seal]

OHHHHHHH do i need to do that with the player one too??

[silk night]

No, the one that should trigger your door when you step in it, needs to have "is trigger" checked

[cosmic dagger]

typically, you improve as you create different mechanics and refactor old code based on new things you learned. a great practice is answering others' questions here or online in the forums/discussions . . .

[silk night]

trigger = does not block walking into it, just triggers OnTriggerEnter
no trigger = blocks walking into it, does OnCollisionEnter instead of OnTriggerEnter

[junior seal]

okay so my capsule needs to have Is Trigger activated?

[silk night]

Not your player

the door needs to have a trigger somewhere you can step in

[junior seal]

okay so how do i do that?

[silk night]

does your door have any children?

[junior seal]

no

should it?

[silk night]

Then add an empty child

and add the box collider component

[unkempt locust]

thank you

[silk night]

size it to the area you want the door to open, and set trigger to true

[unkempt locust]

But lately my fear is not getting a job

[cosmic dagger]

i learned a LOT from answering questions on unity answers, the forums, and in here . . .

[junior seal]

can i set the other half of the door as the child?

so that i dont have to add 2 empty children?

[unkempt locust]

I will follow your advice

[unkempt locust]

.

[twin bolt]

I tried making two child objects with collider and adding a rigidbody to the parent, but it still doesnt work, right.

[eternal needle]

if you're a beginner and havent gone through school (or anything that'd provide validation that you learned how to code) then you 100% should not be relying on getting a game dev job soon.

[silk night]

are the two door sides in different parent objects?

[unkempt locust]

I'm still 14 years old, but I'm afraid I won't get a job

[junior seal]

no? they dont have parents they are just their own objects

[cosmic dagger]

what isn't working right? is the collision method on the parent or child?

[twin bolt]

Not sure, I'm trying to make a render system where if the player is not within a trigger, than a region is disabled.

[eternal needle]

a lot of the people here are gonna be like 2-3 times older than you. You got A LOT of time for now, just keep learning. In a lot of places, you arent even legally able to work yet

[polar acorn]

I wouldn't worry about it. Chances are good that by the time you'd be looking for one, society will have utterly collapsed and devolved into a primitive state of subsistence farming in a nuclear-scarred hellscape

[unkempt locust]

I'm happy that it's not long before Jesus returns, but remember, we don't know when he will return, and there are still some signs left and the appearance of the Anti Christ

[silk night]

I would suggest following:
Parent: Door Script

• Door side left
• Door side right
• Trigger object

[unkempt locust]

I want a job bro

[summer stump]

You're 14 bro...
Now, if you need code help, certainly ask. Otherwise you should find another server for all this

[unkempt locust]

I just wanted to know, how much does a game developer earn per week and if it is difficult to find a job

[summer stump]

And this is a channel for helping solve code problems, so that would be off-topic.

There is no off-topic for the whole server.

I'm sure there ARE servers that could give you an estimate. But it would depend on so many things. The first question would be a WIDE range, and the earnings would almost definitely not be weekly

[junior seal]

I did that. And it still hasnt worked im so confused on why this isnt working

[silk night]

Can you check with a Debug.Log if the trigger now works?

[junior seal]

oh sure

[silk night]

maybe the doors just dont move or something

[junior seal]

nothing

[silk night]

so you have a child that has a trigger box collider?

[summer stump]

This is an OnTrigger not working?
As told by Digiholic:
The Three Commandments of OnTriggerEnter:

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

[junior seal]

yes

[junior seal]

w a t

[summer stump]

What?

[silk night]

Just as a test, add a rigidbody to the door parent too please

[summer stump]

Is the issue that you are not receiving an OnTriggerEnter message?

If so, those are the three main rules for getting it

[junior seal]

so news, as soon as i pressed play, it activated and lifted itself on the y axis into the sky, and then i got the test message, but i wasnt even near the door

but they opened

[silk night]

Oh yeah, the doors themselves trigger the trigger 😄

[summer stump]

If this is still the code, then nothing checks WHAT collides with them before opening

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        
        if (status != DoubleSlidingDoorStatus.Animating) {
            if (status == DoubleSlidingDoorStatus.Closed) {
                StartCoroutine ("OpenDoors");
            }
        }

        if (other.GetComponent<Collider>().gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer ("Characters")) {
            objectsOnDoorArea++;
        }
    }

[junior seal]

i didnt like, set them to trigger tho

[silk night]

Oh yeah, wait it checks for the layer

[junior seal]

i didnt write this code. it came with a prefab pack i got off the unity store. this is why im having trouble

[summer stump]

There are NO triggers touching the doors? OnTrigger is sent to both of the colliding objects. So maybe it's from something else?

[junior seal]

exactly?

[summer stump]

What?

[silk night]

Can you log the other.name in OnTriggereEnter?

[summer stump]

It looks like it only checks that to increment an int too

[silk night]

with that you can find out what triggers it

[junior seal]

like theres not triggers on the doors-

[silk night]

But there is colliders on the door

that touch your trigger

[junior seal]

okay so you want me to debug.log on what?

[silk night]

in the OnTriggerEnter

do Debug.Log(other.name)

[junior seal]

ah okay

its my doorway

[silk night]

Did you write the layer check yourself?

or was it in the asset?

this line: if (other.GetComponent<Collider>().gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer ("Characters")) {

[junior seal]

it was in the asset

so its getting the collider from the door frame?

[silk night]

Yes

[junior seal]

so do i need to remove the door frame collider?

or just add the box collider to the doorframe?

[silk night]

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
        if (other.GetComponent<Collider>().gameObject.layer != LayerMask.NameToLayer ("Characters")) return;

        if (status != DoubleSlidingDoorStatus.Animating) {
            if (status == DoubleSlidingDoorStatus.Closed) {
                StartCoroutine ("OpenDoors");
            }
        }

        objectsOnDoorArea++;
    }

try with this

[junior seal]

it works sorta

like if my player moves towards it, the doors open and close and such, but they moved to rise in the air again

[unborn veldt]

How's that possible guys?

the main thread, with an async function, is blocked for 90% of the time just waiting

[silk night]

what is the position of either door when nothing has happened yet, like what you see in inspector

[unborn veldt]

Seems like the worker 2 is blocking the main thread.. how?

[silk night]

Show your code

[junior seal]

this is before

this is after

[unborn veldt]

That's not my code, that's Unity's function

Called there (that's a thread created by me)

[silk night]

Your doors should be on 0, 0, 0 when starting out, only move the parent

[unborn veldt]

Changing jobWorkers to more than 1 worsen the problem

[junior seal]

but then id have to move everything to go around the doors? plus im gonna have multiple sets of doors so how it that gonna work?

[silk night]

you move the doors to 0, 0, 0 inside the parent

then move the parent around

[junior seal]

the parent is the script

[silk night]

yeah, if you type 0, 0, 0 they will be on the same position as the parent

[junior seal]

they move tho

[silent obsidian]

How can I listen for an input inside an OnTriggerStay?

 private void Update() {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) {
            isMouse1Pressed = true;
        } else {
            isMouse1Pressed = false;
        }
    }

  
    private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other) {
        if (other.gameObject.layer == 8) {
                Debug.Log("i'm in first if");
            if (isMouse1Pressed) {
                Debug.Log("i'm in 2nd if");
            //     player.DamageObject(other);
            }
        }
    }

If i left click it never gets to the 2nd debug.log.

[junior seal]

i made it 0, 0, 0

and it moved into the sky

[silk night]

just put 0, 0, 0 for both, then move the parent with the script to where you want your doors

[junior seal]

OHH

okay yea they stay in place, but now they move forward and backward instead of in and out

[short hazel]

Try with GetMouseButton. There might be more than 1 Update executions than OnTriggerStay executions over the same time span, as Update usually runs faster than the physics engine

[junior seal]

for example

[short hazel]

GetMouseButtonDown returns true for the first frame it was held down only, so like 16 milliseconds

at 60 fps

[silk night]

did you rotate them?

[junior seal]

nope

[silk night]

in the screenshot the x axis is rotated

0 it again and rotate the parent

[junior seal]

if i do that, the door will be flat instead of up and down. thats the way the asset is for some reason. everything that is vertical has that x rotation

[silk night]

alright, then make it flat 90 atleast

[junior seal]

okay

[silk night]

one min, ill change something in the script for you again

        leftDoorClosedPosition    = new Vector3 (0f, 0f, 0f);
        leftDoorOpenPosition    = new Vector3 (slideDistance, 0f, 0f);

        rightDoorClosedPosition    = new Vector3 (0f, 0f, 0f);
        rightDoorOpenPosition    = new Vector3 (-slideDistance, 0f, 0f);

[junior seal]

now they go inside of eachother

this is so weird-

[silk night]

switch the - slideDistance

add one at the top, remove it at the bottom

[junior seal]

THANK YOU

holy hek

[silk night]

And remember, dont drag the doors, only the parent, or you will have the same problems 😄

[junior seal]

thank you so much for the advice. this helped sooo much

[silent obsidian]

That solved it, thank you a lot

[twin bolt]

How do i change this: https://i.imgur.com/cxMQXlK.png To make crouching smoother, and not snapping to a certain scale

[fair steeple]

Evening. I'm getting these errors when trying to build my game. No idea how to fix them.

[swift crag]

use Vector3.MoveTowards, perhaps

[twin bolt]

Okay

[swift crag]

You are trying to compile code that uses the UnityEditor namespace

All code that references UnityEditor must not make it into a build. That namespace does not exist in builds.

In this case, "GUITools" sounds like something that's editor-only anyway

Any folder named "Editor" will be excluded from builds

[polar acorn]

You cannot include any code that uses UnityEditor. Put it in a folder named Editor so it is not included

[swift crag]

You can also use #if UNITY_EDITOR to conditionally exclude chunks of code, if you need more fine-grained control

[swift crag]

or Vector3.SmoothDamp

note that smooth damp never quite reaches the destination. I often combine both MoveTowards and SmoothDamp

[fair steeple]

Like, I should move all the with "using UnityEditor" to Editor?

[polar acorn]

yes

[fair steeple]

fuck I have like 30 files lol

[twin bolt]

How would those work with local scale?

[swift crag]

just transform.localScale = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.localScale, target, Time.deltaTime * changeSpeed)

i kinda wish you could just do transform.localScale.MoveTowards(...)

but, alas, struct returned from a property...

I set target in the if/else if/else statements, then just move towards the target unconditionally.

[twin bolt]

I'm setting my own values, so it keeps saying "cannot convert from floaat to Vector3"

[swift crag]

Construct a vector and store it in a variable, then move towards that

you could always do it inline, but it'll get ugly

transform.localScale = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.localScale, new Vector3(1, whatever, 1), Time.deltaTime);

[swift crag]

That's why I like to do it this way.

I'd be repeating myself if I included the MoveTowards in every single branch, after all

MoveTowards is very reliable. It will exactly reach the target if you're close enough

I confidently do stuff like this all the time

thing = Mathf.MoveTowards(thing, 1, Time.deltaTime);

if (thing == 1) {
  ...
}

No wiggle room required. MoveTowards methods return their second argument if the first argument is close enough to it

SmoothDamp never quite reaches the target

[twin bolt]

Now it doesnt fully crouch, it goes down like half an inch.

[twin bolt]

Would animation work?

[fair steeple]

Hey, I tried moving the files over to a Editor folder and now the game is broken and I can't just drag all the files over to their Game Object. Can I make Unity find those files or is there another way to build the game?

[wintry quarry]

from the error above you only had one file that used UnityEditor

that's the only one you need to move

oh and your AUdioManager you need to just remove the editor stuff from

or wrap it in a preprocessor directive

[swift crag]

Show your code.

[swift crag]

Sure, but I prefer to use code, not animation. Notably, animators will always write values to every field they control, even if you're not currently playing an animation that controls that field

So they can be very heavy-handed

[twin bolt]

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

[swift crag]

You should be running MoveTowards every frame

All of the Vector3 methods just take some inputs and produce a result. You aren't starting a coroutine or something here

[twin bolt]

How would that work with crouch though?

[swift crag]

You would set a target value in Crouch

[twin bolt]

Do i enable a bool when the player presses a key?

[swift crag]

then use that target value in Update

Or you could do that, yes

You could set a crouched bool, then use it to decide what to move towards in Update

[twin bolt]

Then have it keep going until the height equals what i want?

[swift crag]

You can just do it forever

But yes, that's what'll happen

void Update() {
  var bar = toggled ? Vector3.one : Vector3.zero;
  foo = Vector3.MoveTowards(foo, bar, Time.deltaTime);
}

void Toggle() {
  toggled = !toggled;
}

If you want to be able to just set the value once and have it work automatically, then you need something like DOTween, which handles all of that for you

I've always just done things myself.

[silent obsidian]

How do you guys handle the logic for health/attack systems where there are multiple types of enemies? Should I just create a base class like "CombatEntity" where i can store all the shared methods and properties?

[swift crag]

that's a common approach if everyone works roughly the same

you can also go with interfaces, e.g. Damageable

[cosmic dagger]

'Combat' implies these types are only used in combat. is that true?

[silent obsidian]

Yes

[swift crag]

that interface would contain a TakeDamage metho

[cosmic dagger]

so you have separate enemies apart from combat?

[hoary citrus]

You could use the component approach, where you have a "HealthAndDamage" class that you can attach to any object and it handles the health and damage aspects

[cosmic dagger]

a common method i've seen —i'm writing a blog about now — is having a base class with an IDamageable interface like Fen suggested, or separate classes that implement the interface. either way works . . .

[silent obsidian]

Correct me if I'm wrong please, I'm not really familiar with strong typed languages. That approach would allow to handle modifiers? For example if one type of enemy is rather a prick and requires different/more properties and methods than the base class can provide?

[timber tide]

CombatEntity that takes in a ScriptableObject of CombatEntitySO

[swift crag]

You could either derive from a common base class

or go with composition

Composition is often the better approach.

For example, you could give each entity a list of damage modifiers

a damage modifier would be an object that you hand a damage instance to, and get a new damage instance back

so you could slap a 50% damage reduction on an enemy by just adding an object to that modifier list

I've been building games recently by making a very bare-bones Entity class, then adding features through composition

[timber tide]

Ye, OOP is kinda hard for this type of stuff

[swift crag]

an entity gets a Grabbable component if it can be grabbed by a larger entity

for example

[timber tide]

because you can dig yourself a hole pretty easily if you thin out the classes

[silent obsidian]

Composition in this case refers to @hoary citrus's proposal?

[swift crag]

Yes -- it's where you combine things

rather than inheritance, where you make a more specific version of an existing thing

[twin bolt]

https://i.imgur.com/o2LYMY2.png

still not working

[swift crag]

Well, yes, you set Crouching to false

MoveTowards is going to return a vector that's a little bit closer to the target value

You have to do that over and over to reach the target

[swift crag]

Just do this.

[swift crag]

Unity naturally pushes you towards composition thanks to how it's architected

Every "thing" in your game is a GameObject with components on it

[swift crag]

If you are crouching, this moves towards [0,0,0]. If you are not crouching, it moves you towards [1,1,1].

It moves towards that target every frame

I don't bother trying to "stop" the movement when you reach the destination. x = MoveTowards(x, 1, Time.deltaTime); simply does nothing if x already has a value of 1.

[twin bolt]

i'ts working after removing "crouching = false"

[swift crag]

Right. It now moves towards the crouched scale every frame as long as Crouching is true

You will also want to move towards the uncrouched scale every frame when Crouching is false

[swift crag]

Hence why this makes sense. Just pick the target and then unconditionally move towards it.

[twin bolt]

only issue, is when pressing c again, it resets back to the standing position, and back down

[swift crag]

Sure. You aren't moving towards the standing scale.

You're just setting it, presumably

There is no "magic" here. The C# is doing exactly what you tell it to. If you want to smoothly approach a value, you must write code that smoothly approaches the value.

[buoyant knot]

you guys talking about a Grabbable component?

[swift crag]

i just mentioned the idea offhand

[silent obsidian]

As a webdev, the paradigm shift is rather confusing. Thank you a lot guys, but just to make sure.

Let's say that I have a Player and multiple types of enemies.
The recommended approach (composition?) would be to have multiple scripts that I can attach to those entities? such as:
HealthManager
MovementController
but if i want to add an item pickup system to the player and to one specific type of enemy I would only attach that script to the player and to that specific enemy type?

[swift crag]

Right.

I might do something like this

public class Entity : MonoBehaviour {
  public Brain brain;
  public Locomotion locomotion;
}

the Brain's job is to respond to questions, like "Which way do you want to move?"

PlayerBrain uses inputs to answer those questions. EnemyBrain has some basic AI logic in it.

[buoyant knot]

I use a GrabbingHandler on something that grabs. it checks for being able to grab.

When an entity hits trigger, we look into its EntityDataHolder for a flag to see if it is grabbale.

If grabbing, it puts an EntityAttachmentHandler onto the thing we grabbed.

[swift crag]

then the Locomotion's job is to look at what the Brain wants and make it happen

Things can get messy super quickly, of course

You can have trouble with 'leaky abstractions'

[buoyant knot]

EntityAttachmentHandler is used for various types of attachements, and I use an interface: IEntityAttacher, so the EntityAttachmentHandler can communicate with the script being used to attach it

I hope this whole system makes sense

[swift crag]

You will need some time and practice to make sense of these ideas.

I have prototyped a lot of games.

And I'm still footgunning myself

[buoyant knot]

the better you get, the less inheritance you use. But then you reach a point where every time you use inherittance, it’s really good

[swift crag]

Yeah.

I've been using a ton of state machines recently

[buoyant knot]

better said; novices trap themselves into shitty unnecessary inheritance patterns more than they need to

[swift crag]

public class Flyer : Enemy { }
public class Shooter : Enemy { }
public class FlyingShooter : ??? { }

meanwhile, with composition

a Flyer is just an enemy that uses a flying locomotion

a Shooter is just an enemy with a ShootingBehaviour attached to it

[static cedar]

Wdym by that?

[swift crag]

and thus a FlyingShooter is an enemy with both

[timber tide]

"but if i want to add an item pickup system to the player and to one specific type of enemy I would only attach that script to the player and to that specific enemy type?"
Another way instead of checking interface/components is to just use flags. I'm not that big of a fan of changing prefabs up and checking components between similar types. I rather just have all enemies drop items, but if an enemy has nothing in their loot table then they wouldn't drop anything anyway.

[swift crag]

It's when you start having to punch holes in your abstractions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction has some examples

I've written code where it casts the entity's brain to PlayerBrain and does some special stuff if that's the case

[twin bolt]

I got it working (thank you), my only issue is speed of uncrouching and crouching.

[swift crag]

You'll want to adjust the third argument to MoveTowards

[static cedar]

Public override MyMethodThatINeedToInheritButDontWanna() => throw new InvalidOperationException();

Stuff like that?

[swift crag]

This too

AAAAAAA

you reminded me

[Serializable]
public class InventoryMeleeWeapon : InventoryItem
{
    public WeaponSpec spec;

    [JsonIgnore]
    public override ItemSpec Spec => spec;

    [JsonIgnore]
    public override bool Stackable => false;

    [JsonIgnore]
    public override int StackCount {
        get => throw new InvalidOperationException();
        set => throw new InvalidOperationException();
    }
...

[twin bolt]

"Time.DeltaTime * speed" ?

[static cedar]

So far, I think I'm winging this fine.

[swift crag]

I gotta redesign this

[swift crag]

This is a violation of the Liskov substitution principle.

[static cedar]

I never had a method that I need to inherit but don't wanna. Even if I did, I squashed those.

[swift crag]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle

[swift crag]

Right. Time.deltaTime * 5 will move by 5 units per second, assuming you call MoveTowards every frame

If you're going from [1,1,1] to [1,0.7,1], a speed of 1 would make you crouch in 0.3 seconds

[silent obsidian]

And there lies my next question. If i have a weapon system in which each gun has the same properties but different values, are there other ways to set that up instead of creating a separate script for each gun type?

[timber tide]

Same idea

[swift crag]

Instead of having separate scripts, you just configure the values differently.

Two common ways to do this:

• ScriptableObjects let you create assets that store data. You can then reference these assets.
• [SerializeReference] lets you serialize a parent class, but then store any object that derives from the parent

[swift crag]

WeaponSpec is a scriptable object that holds lots of data in [SerializeReference] fields

[CreateAssetMenu(menuName = "Item/Consumable Spec", fileName = "New Consumable")]
public class ConsumableSpec : ItemSpec
{
    public Consumable prefab;
    public int stackCount;

    [SerializeReference]
    public List<Effect> effects = new();
}

here's a nice terse example, actually.

[timber tide]

Composition is prone to edge cases, but trying to squash all the bad combinations is simply just testing what assets you're going to add and as the programmer, not make your weapons completely overpowered by shooting ricocheting explosive shotgun shells. (Actually that sounds pretty badass)

[swift crag]

Effect is an abstract class.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Localization;

[System.Serializable]
public abstract class Effect : Animancer.IPolymorphic
{
    public abstract string Label { get; }
    public abstract string Description { get; }
    public abstract string Magnitude { get; }
    public abstract void Apply(Entity entity, float magnitude = 1f);
}

Each deriving class implements Apply in its own unique way

A healing item might thus be configured like this.

(yes, even my stats are, themselves, scriptable objects)

turtles all the way down, baby!

it can be kind of annoying if you can't be sure that every entity will even have a health stat

but it's also wildly flexible

You have to put your foot down at some point and add some constraints

The more you hard-code, the easier it is to reason about your game

but the less room you have to play around

[silent obsidian]

I'm a little bit sleep deprived. Am I correct if I see scriptableObjects as being fixed (I'm thinking fixed as in interfaces) containers which stores data? If so I think that's what I was looking for in regards to my weapon system.

[static cedar]

Me: broke down every part of my weapon system at every last bit.

[swift crag]

I would not relate scriptable objects and interfaces

A scriptable object is just an object that you can store as an asset.

They work very well as data containers, though.

[swift crag]

e.g. I mandate that every entity has animation layers for locomotion and for actions

and that they all have states for flinching

and I mandate that they all have humanoid IK. huh.

...I think I should refactor this...

me from 6 months ago was a real dingus

[static cedar]

I think ScriptableObjects are more like JSON with some QoL.

[swift crag]

but hey -- programming is an iterative process

[timber tide]

JSON with types

[swift crag]

you discover where you over-constrained and where you under-specified

and you make adjustments

one funny thing I've noticed is that I've used very similar architectures for vastly different games: a horror game, a platformer game, and a soulslike game

[static cedar]

And automatically adapts to the layout of the script.
But does SO adapt when you change to a closely related type like int to long? Would that cause the stored data to default?

[silent obsidian]

@static cedar with that i can very well relate to huh

[swift crag]

It's a serializable object. That's it.

[timber tide]

well, that's up to how unity serializes

[swift crag]

there's nothing really special there

that's the magic

I used to use SOs entirely for configuration data, but now I'm branching out

I'm currently using them for a settings system. I store the current setting value in a non serialized field (loading it in when the game boots up)

[timber tide]

I was actually using JS for webgl and hated the whole no type aspect of it all and then my friend told me im an idiot for just not using typescript

[swift crag]

Everyone who references the SO can see the value.

[swift crag]

TS is a godsend

[static cedar]

I think TS is bulky.

[swift crag]

It is! It adds lots of constraints.

Adding static type checking will, by definition, make some programs impossible to express

[silent obsidian]

As I just started learning C# I am actually starting to appreciate strong typed languages more. Perhaps I should just start doing typescript aswell

[swift crag]

and make others very annoying to express

but, in return, you can reject many kinds of invalid programs

and also make it more clear what your valid programs do

I've written some big pages in both JS and TS

Coming back to an old JS project is miserable. Zero idea of what's going on.

[static cedar]

No, I think it feels bulkier than other languages with static typing.

[swift crag]

It does feel pretty unique compared to a lot of other langs

[silent obsidian]

@swift crag we're using JSDoc at work

[static cedar]

And type checking is a pain or just weirder in TS and JS.

[opal fossil]

how to move gameobject to the next steering location without them having the navmeshagent component?

[swift crag]

i don't know what a "next steering location" is

[teal viper]

Move the transform or apply forces/velocity to a rigidbody.

[opal fossil]

pretty much making gameonbejcts go to a destination smartly without the navmeshagent. the navmeshagent doesnt move the character in the way I want it to (using rigidbody velocity)

[opal fossil]

yh thats simple, but i want them to get to a destination with pathfinding

[teal viper]

Then you'll need to combine navagent and rb "smartly"

[opal fossil]

:/

ill give it ashot

[teal viper]

Generate the path with a navmesh agent, but don't let it control the movement. Instead move along the path manually with an rb.

[opal fossil]

that sounds like a good idea. why didnt i think of that 😭

[swift crag]

You can even let it "control" the movement if you want

by just reading its desired velocity and using that to move the object

Although, I just realized that it would probably be more reliable to just look at its path and move the object accordingly

I'll have to play with that

[opal fossil]

yeah i think thats the better option

[swift crag]

actually, omg, i can't believe i didn't think of this lol

i've been telling the agent to move, then snapping its simulated position back to the actual position of the object every frame (since it will otherwise run off ahead of the object)

lmao

[limber laurel]

I'm currently using the following code to rotate my camera in LateUpdate, but it causes the camera to rotate faster sideways when looking up or down. I'm assuming it has something to do with using quaternion multiplication, does anybody know how I should fix this?

//Get mouse input
mInput = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y"), Input.GetAxis("Mouse X"), 0);
//Multiply current rotatation by all the mouse input stuff
actualCamera.transform.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * vertSens * -1f, mInput.y * Time.deltaTime * mouseSens, 0);
//Lock Z axis
actualCamera.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(actualCamera.transform.localEulerAngles.x, actualCamera.transform.localEulerAngles.y, 0);

[wintry quarry]

you are multiplying mouse input by deltaTime, which is incorrect

The other problem is the use of reading back euler angles to try to lock the z axis

The typical foolproof approach is to use two separate objects. The parent object rotates on the y axis, the child (the camera) rotates on the local x axis only

[opal fossil]

yh that could lead to some issues. though how r u going to process when to jump, climb ladders, etc? i just thought of that

[limber laurel]

That was my original approach, but due to using rigidbodies for the character controller, I had to separate the camera from the player

Removing deltaTime definitely helps the camera feel less jittery, but doesn't fix the main issue

[wintry quarry]

Separating the camera from the player makes this approach easier not harder

although I don't see why the camera can't be a child of a Rigidbody

[limber laurel]

Cameras on rigidbodies always lead to some jitter when moving and rotating, and a couple of reddit/unity forum threads told me the best way to fix it was to separate the two and do things in lateupdate

[junior seal]

Hey! im trying to build a basic fps game. I have made the level and one of the things you have to do to get into another room is destroy some glass. now, i already have a barrier up, but i was wondering if there was a way to replace the asset with another one once that one gets damaged. like for example, say you shoot a window, once the bullet goes through the window, the glass shatters. how do i do that in unity with low poly assets?

[teal viper]

The simple way would be to replace the intact glass mesh/prefab with the broken one.

[wintry quarry]

That's not true. If you have interpolation on the Rigidbody and you rotate the Rigidbody on the Y axis rather than the Transform then it is fine

[junior seal]

and how would i do that in code?

or would i even do that in code? how would i do that in general lmao

[teal viper]

Deactivate the intact object and activate or instantiate the broken one.

[junior seal]

okay ill try a few things and if i have trouble ill come back. thank you!

[limber laurel]

Huh, interesting, I'll try to redo the camera to work that way

[junior seal]

hey so how would i instantiate something? like how would i even get access to the thing im trying to make appear? two different scripts?

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/InstantiatingPrefabs.html

[junior seal]

thank you

[empty radish]

i am having a problem where if you dash in a different direction as when you jump it dashes than goes back to jumping in the direction of the original jump

here is my dash and jump stuff

[wintry quarry]

you'd have to show all your code

share it in a paste site

[empty radish]

https://pastebin.com/CCvTGg6j

[wintry quarry]

you're not disabling your normal movement during the dash are you?

Also you're using GetAxis, which has momentum to it

[empty radish]

not sure how to disable it

also what would an alternative to getaxis be?

[wintry quarry]

GetAxisRaw

[wintry quarry]

a bool and an if statement

[empty radish]

i got that part

[empty radish]

but like how do you just disable that current movement

[wintry quarry]

put it in an if statement

or return early with an if statement

i.e.

if (!dashing) {
  // do normal movement stuff
}```
or
```cs
if (dashing) return;

// do normal movement stuff

[empty radish]

would yield return null work since its an IEnumerator

as in like the yield part of it wont cause any problems

[wintry quarry]

what?

yes you can use yield return null in Dash since it's a coroutine. You're already doing this.

you can't use it in Update

not sure what that has to do with what we were just talking about though

[empty radish]

ohhh i see

i thought you were talking about putting that in the jumpevent

[unreal imp]

My freinds,how i could make that if my object fall like 30 meters or more and then collides with the floor or another transform it's destroyed?

[empty radish]

alright i still cant really see exactly where you want this if statement to go

[wintry quarry]

Record the position at which you left the ground

record the position at which you hit the ground again

subtract the y parts

[wintry quarry]

where your movement code is

[empty radish]

do you mean by where the PlayerMovement() is called in update

because that just pauses all movement

[unreal imp]

Do you have any script reference?

[wintry quarry]

you're doing moement in the Dash coroutine

you dont want the normal movement while that's happening

[wintry quarry]

no...

it's a basic thing

[unreal imp]

Why record to part which left the ground?

Ah yes,this is referenced to Y coordinates

[wintry quarry]

you wanted to know if you fell 30 meters

[empty radish]

i think you may be misinterpreting what im asking for, the issue i have is like this (if you can understand it lol)

[wintry quarry]

you have to know where you fell from

[empty radish]

how do i make it so it stays falling in the dash direction

after the dash

[wintry quarry]

As far as I can tell from your code your movement comes entirely from your input

so it's going to go in whatever direction you're holding your input in

I see your Jump is also a coroutine for some reason?

that's really odd

[empty radish]

it was from the tut i watched for it ik theres other ways to do it

[wintry quarry]

Watch a better tutorial

[empty radish]

tbh

[wintry quarry]

that's pretty awful

especially combined with the SimpleMove that's happening all the time

and the fact that it's having you call Move like 3-5 times per frame

It doesn't work properly on obstacles if it's called more than once per frame

[empty radish]

does FixedUpdate only call once per frame then?

[wintry quarry]

FixedUpdate gets called once per physics update

I don't see how that matters or is relevant here

[empty radish]

it was just a question

im trying to use what information i know compared to what im working with, im sorry if its not "relevant"

just trying to learn

[junior seal]

okay so i can figure out how to make the intact glass disappear but i cant figure out how to replace it. i followed the code the website provided but its not working for some reason?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by not working

what happens when you try

what code did you write

[junior seal]

so ill "shoot" the glass, the glass disappears but the new broken glass prefab does not appear

[wintry quarry]

right so

what code did you write

is the code actually running

are there any errors?

have you looked in the hierarchy for the newly spawned object?

etc

[teal viper]

Also what "website" are you talking about?

[wintry quarry]

I assume the unity manual page I linked earlier to them

[junior seal]

yea that

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class DamagedFullyObjects : MonoBehaviour, IDamage
{
    [SerializeField] int HP;
    public GameObject myPrefab;

    void Start()
    {

    }

    void Update()
    {

    }

    public void takeDamage(int dmg)
    {

        Debug.Log(gameObject.name);
        HP -= dmg;

        if (HP <= 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
            Instantiate(myPrefab, new Vector3(-3, -2, 11), Quaternion.identity);

Debug.Log("Spawning Broken Glass");
        }

    }
}```

thats the code

[wintry quarry]

ok so - is the code running?

put a debug.Log in there

[junior seal]

no errors and it doesnt spawn but the code runs just not that line

[wintry quarry]

that says like "Spawning Broken Glass"

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log to make sure

and check your console for errors

[junior seal]

i have one in there-

[wintry quarry]

you have one before the if statement

we need to know if you got inside the if

[junior seal]

ahhh okay

[wintry quarry]

also kinda odd to hardcode a position like that new Vector3(-3, -2, 11)

[junior seal]

and theres no errors

[wintry quarry]

my guess is either:

• you didn't assign the prefab and you're getting an error
• the broken glass is spawning just in a different place than you think

[junior seal]

well is there another option?

[wintry quarry]

of course...

why not use the position of the unbroken glass object?

[junior seal]

okay well what is it? this is my first time in unity so imi sorry

that is the position of the unbroken one, but it wouldnt necesarily work if i access the unbroken object directly because the item gets destroyed before i try and spawn the broken glass

[wintry quarry]

I doubt it. That's probably the local position from the inspector

which is not a world position

transform.position to get your own position

[wintry quarry]

which I assume this script is attached to the unbroken glass

[junior seal]

the message showed up, show its literally fine

[wintry quarry]

looks like it spawned just fine

[junior seal]

thats a different prefab

[wintry quarry]

that's not a prefab, since it's in the scene

prefabs only live in the asset folder

[junior seal]

thats for the window on the wall, im trying to spawn proken glass in the big gap

dude its a different asset

see

[sour wren]

Guys, i imported an Revuelto with an Door animation, but i wanna redo this animation for my door returns to the original place, how i can solve it?

[wintry quarry]

ok so show the inspector of the destroyable glass, and show the prefab you're trying to spawn

[summer stump]

It's in the scene, so not an asset. It's an instance. That's all they're saying
Also, it is not a prefab instance, which would be blue

[wintry quarry]

ehhh - in playmode/at runtime they're not blue

so it's hard to say 😉

[junior seal]

well i got it from an asset list is what i was trying to say lol

[summer stump]

Ohh, missed it was at runtime

[junior seal]

this is for the broken one

[teal viper]

Is that actually the object in the scene?

[junior seal]

no

[junior seal]

its in the prefab list

yee im confused

[polar acorn]

Dunno what the original problem is but here's something that might clear things up:

Prefabs only exist in the file system. Once you put it in a scene, it is no longer a prefab, it's an object. When someone says "Did you set this to a prefab" they mean specifically a file in the project folder. Not an object in the scene.

[summer stump]

Trying to catch up, you want to destroy a glass... wall? And then spawn a broken glass wall from a prefab?

And the wall is being deleted, but the broken model is not spawning, even though the debug is popping up?

[junior seal]

exactly right

[junior seal]

i mean yea the prefab is in the project folder

[polar acorn]

This is the current code?

And the log is happening?

[junior seal]

i added the debug part to it but yes

both logs are happening

but the broken glass wall is not spawning

[polar acorn]

GameObject newObject = Instantiate(...)
Debug.Log($"Spawning in new object {newObject.name}", newObject);

It'll have the name of the new object. Click on the log, and it'll highlight the thing in the scene that it created

[junior seal]

someone said something about world position?

[polar acorn]

Well, yes, you are spawning it at exactly -3, -2, 11. Did you look at that position?

[junior seal]

yea thats where the other glass is

[nocturne parcel]

Does RefreshAllTiles() refresh all the tiles at the same time or does it so one by one?

[polar acorn]

Can you show the inspector of this object?

And try out that updated log, it should show you an object in the hierarchy when you click it. Show the inspector of that as well

[junior seal]

so the actual object that has te script is the Glass_Barrier_001 thats a child of the barrier in general. thats the position of the barrier but if i click on the glass its 0, 0, 0 bc it is the child of the barrier

[polar acorn]

Is Room 2 also at 0,0,0?

[junior seal]

WAIT

its spawning

just the scale and rotation is incorrect. how do i make it spawn with the correct rotation and scale?

[polar acorn]

It'll take the scale of the prefab

And you're passing in a position and rotation

So give it the values you actually want

[junior seal]

how do i pass in the correct rotation bc the rotation passed in isnt correct

[polar acorn]

Instead of giving it Quaternion.identity, give it the value you actually want

[junior seal]

okay thank you

[summer stump]

Assuming the wall being destroyed is the rotation you want (dunno why it wouldn't be), use that for the newly created broken glass wall

[polar acorn]

If the intention is to replace the one that has this script on it, why are you even using hard-coded values instead of just using the values from the object spawning them

[tiny kiln]

I have this prefab, which is a UI button to display different selectable avatars. I want the parent (Avatar) button Image to act as a container, that way when selected, the background shows a different color. And the child (Sprite) Image to display the actual avatar sprite.

Here is my current code:

GameObject avatar = Instantiate(avatarPrefab, avatarListContainer);
Button avatarButton = avatar.GetComponent<Button>();
Image avatarButtonImage = avatar.GetComponent<Image>();
Image avatarImage = avatar.GetComponentInChildren<Image>();

avatar.name = avatarSprite.name;
avatarButtonImage.color = defaultColor;
avatarImage.sprite = avatarSprite;

however Image avatarImage = avatar.GetComponentInChildren<Image>(); isn't selecting the child (Sprite) Image component, but is selecting the parent (Avatar) Image component. How do I correctly select the child Image component?

[wild silo]

Lowkey at this point im just planning on restarting, making a new script and trying harder to plan things out... There's just so much wrong with my first movement script and so many things depend on one another

For movement, given I want these functionalities, is a Rigidbody or CharacterController "better" or "easier"

MovementController
In charge of all physics of a gameobject, this will handle movement
1 - In air
1.1 - Velocity maintained from when the ground was left (player archs)
1.2 - No jumping
1.3 - Air strafing
2 - Grounded
2.1 - Not sliding
2.1.1 - Walking
2.1.1.1 - If neither run or crouch button pressed
2.1.2 - Running
2.1.2.1 - If run button pressed, even if crouch button is already pressed
2.1.3 - Crouching
2.1.3.1 - If crouch button pressed, given run isnt already pressed
2.2 - Sliding
2.2.1 - If crouch button pressed while run butten held down, or when player is moving faster than a certain threshhold
2.2.2 - Player starts at whatever speed they were at at start of slide, then decelerates. (Ie if coming from a slope the player can slide very fast)
2.3 - Steep Sliding
2.3.1 - If player is on top of a steep slope beyond a certain angle, they will slide down it
2.3.2 - The player should be able to jump off slope, but not up the slope
2.3.3 - The player can strafe left and right going down the slope
3 - All
3.1 - Gravity

I understand you can theoretically use either, but a time limit is approaching and I sort of have to make the right choice here

[cosmic dagger]

problem is, there is no 'right' choice. with a CharacterController you're beholden to its Move methods and how it checks for collision, and Rigidbody has multiple ways to move a GameObject — which is its own discussion . . .

[teal viper]

I'd say rigidbody regardless

Never seen a point in the character controller.

That being said, there are many approaches with an rb as well. The main branching being between kinematic and dynamic.

[cosmic dagger]

Rigidbody will give you the most control if using velocity for movement, but you need to consider *and * incorporate outside forces into your calculations to apply it correctly . . .

[eternal needle]

non-kinematic rigidbody is fine for most of those except slopes. For ex: when you add force against a slope and start going up it, you don't suddenly lose all that velocity and start falling when you reach the end of the slope. your character will go off it more like you rolled a ball up it instead of walked up it

[wild silo]

The main reason I was leaning towards character controllers when I started the project is a lot of people were talking about having to "fight" with the rigid body to ge the physics you want. But 4 months into the project and I still cant get fking sliding to work properly

[eternal needle]

everything else you listed is quite simple with rb and forces

[wild silo]

Yeah, that was the other thing is most articles/tutorials to learn these, 90% use rigidbodies lol

[teal viper]

In the simplest cases, perhaps. But I wouldn't call it "fighting with it". It's more about knowing how the underlying systems work and adjusting your implementation accordingly.

People that say that they had to fight with the rb, probably didn't spend enough time to learn how it works. Or misunderstand something about physics in general.

[wild silo]

Yeah, that makes sense. Either way switching to a completely different system is going to be rough, tbh I kinda get it done by next Tuesday... Which has got me wondering if its better to just leave sliding out for now and work with the character controller for the deliverables

[teal viper]

Deliverables?🤔

[wild silo]

Capstone for college

my group wanted to do a game

[sour fulcrum]

Right now I do it super grossly and cache the transform, enable a character controller, use it's Move(), disable the character controller and add the difference the cc added. works pretty well so far for super jank

[wild silo]

and we gotta launch a "beta" version next week

[teal viper]

Up to you. It's probably not impossible to implement whatever features you need with the current setup. Might be really messy though.

One thing to consider is what exactly that college task requires you to do.

[wild silo]

then polish it for the "final" deliverable in December

Well the requirements are kind of set by us

I think the idea is to sort of let us manage our own projects to get a feel for it.

I ended up doing Movement, Inventory, and Weapon controllers for scripting

so I have a gun script that more or less lets us make any type of gun from it

I have an inventory script with a bunch of item types using Scriptable objects

and the movement I had everything except slopes working, but I put it on the backburner for a while in favour of the other systems

[teal viper]

In which case it's totally viable to leave out a feature or two. Developers in the industry do that constantly.

[eternal needle]

Since this doesnt sound like a specific game dev course, id say you could definitely leave out a lot of real features. Your entire mark is gonna be based on what's showcased, since no marker will go through your entire project to see what features you coded.

This is like the hackathon advice, you can essentially hardcode the whole thing as long as it looks cool enough lol

[wild silo]

I guess, but I also lowkey wanted to work on this past capstone, and have it for a portfolio

[wild silo]

Bro I wanted to do the halloween game jam but it literally happened right in the middle of midterm week T_T

[teal viper]

Nothing prevents you from rewriting it afterwards.

Should have enough time to polish it.

[wild silo]

Hopefully... I might just leave out sliding for now then... Its really dissapointing cause I feel like I was so close in so many regards, but it just kept getting messier and messier

[eternal needle]

you could always keep the code but just leave it unused in the showcase, like comment it out/remove any input that would cause you to slide. I remember doing projects similar in school, so I assume yours is gonna be similar to mine. You probably wont have that long to showcase this to the marker, the code wont be read, and you'll be marked on stuff like meetings, documents (requirements and such). So having like 5 seconds of your showcase being sliding probably wont help your mark

[unique violet]

How would I make a script to scale this text objects corners to each of those dots?

im aiming to recreate the transform gizmo at runtime so the user can edit and make there own things

[eternal needle]

text mesh pro has an auto size feature

[unique violet]

no like scale the text object

just any object in general

[timber tide]

the transform scale?

[unique violet]

yup

[cosmic dagger]

a UI object is different from any object. it would work different in 3d . . .

[timber tide]

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

[cosmic dagger]

i believe they just want to resize the UI in-game . . .

[unique violet]

yeah

but i want to scale the corners individually if possible

[wild silo]

Yeah for sure, honestly this is prolly a lesson of biting off more than we could chew

The whole concept of the game was an FPS Roguelike

we initially went with 5 levels, 4 classes, and 10 items with all systems finished

now we are at 1 level, 1 class, and atp "most" features finished

With a team of 4 fyi

[queen adder]

Guys, does anyone know the best way to get started when making a game like Simulacra and Emily Is Away?

[modest dust]

1. Open Unity and your IDE of choice
2. Work

That's usually the best way people go for

Simply plan out your project and implement one thing after another

[queen adder]

I know, but i'm trying to figure out the logic of the coding. Like the chat bubbles, how to make it move up when a new message comes in. That's the thing that's holding me back, the rest is simple, like making a button that opens a new ui etc.

[modest dust]

Then ask how to make chat bubbles, not an entire game - be specific and you're more likely to get a valuable answer

[copper pumice]

1. Make scroll rect
2. Scroll to bottom on event
3. Profit

[modest dust]

^

[queen adder]

Thank you 🙂

[copper pumice]

As for the code itself a quick search gave me this:

scrollRect.normalizedPosition = new Vector2(0, 0);
``` Havent tested it tho.

[queen adder]

kk, i'll look into it, thank you! 🙂

[solemn fractal]

Hello friends, why cant I use the random method here?

[verbal dome]

Read the error

[solemn fractal]

I read but I didnt understand that is why I am asking 😄

[verbal dome]

It probably does not know if you mean System.Random or UnityEngine.Random

Yeah

[solemn fractal]

How to fix?

[verbal dome]

Use quick fix to see the options

Do you see the light bulb?

[copper pumice]

You can type: UnityEngine.Random, or System.Random depending on the one you need.

Or configure the using statements at the top of the file

[solemn fractal]

So it seems that in Update I can use

But not in Start method

[verbal dome]

Is it a different script

[solemn fractal]

I mean outside

even using the ligh bulb it fixes 1 prob and give me others

[verbal dome]

You want to use UnityEngine.Random here. But you have using System; so it doesn't know which Random class to use, UnityEngine.Random or System.Random

[solemn fractal]

float randomNumber = UnityEngine.Random.Range(-8.2f, 8.2f);

Like that worked thank you

[verbal dome]

👍

If you use it a lot in a file, it can be cleaner to just type using Random = UnityEngine.Random at the top of the file

[solemn fractal]

got it, thank you!

[teal viper]

You're using Mathematics here. I don't think you need that namespace...

Don't keep unnecessary usings.

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys. I have a small piece of code where I spawn some stuff, and it works, but after getting 1..2.. or 3. It gives me an error. saying I want to access somethin I already destroyed. But yes When I pick it up I destroy it and eventually i spawn another one.. so why would it say I am trying to access something I already destroyed? ``` public IEnumerator PowerupSpawnRoutine(){

     while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.0f);
            int randomPowerup = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, 3);
            Instantiate(_powerups[randomPowerup], new Vector3(randomPowerup, 5.8f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
        }

}```

I use the same code to spawn some ships and work fine but for mypower ups doesnt work and its just the same.

my ships that work fine ``` public IEnumerator EnemySpawnRoutine(){

     while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(2.0f);
            float randomNumber = UnityEngine.Random.Range(-8.2f, 8.2f);
            Instantiate(_enemyShipPrefab, new Vector3(randomNumber, 5.8f, 0), Quaternion.identity);
        }

}```

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show what it is you're destroying exactly

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[wintry quarry]

Presumably you're destroying something from that list you're spawning things from though

[solemn fractal]

https://paste.ofcode.org/GBHf4XPPHS4E9mxnqv6Ytr

that is my powerups script.

[wintry quarry]

You're destroying the object that the coroutines are running on. That will stop the coroutines

[solemn fractal]

So why for my enemy works fine? https://paste.ofcode.org/GPp4GuwkrcsFt4EGm766cL

if I am also deleting it

[wintry quarry]

Anyway what's in the list you're spawning power ups from? Are they prefabs or scene objects

[solemn fractal]

they are prefabs

my enemies also prefabs

[wintry quarry]

You sure?

Show the list

[solemn fractal]

and I am following a course I am doing code and everything is 100% iqual and for me doesnt work.

[wintry quarry]

There's a difference between a prefab and an instance of a prefab in a scene

[solemn fractal]

this?

[wintry quarry]

99% of the time people say this they're mistaken

[solemn fractal]

I agree

[wintry quarry]

Why do you have copies of the prefabs in the scene?

Delete the ones from the scene

[solemn fractal]

because i didnt have the spawn so far

so to test things

I had to just leave it there

to hit play and test if it was working

[wintry quarry]

Now you have it

So delete them

Basically I bet you are referencing those rather than the actual prefabs

[solemn fractal]

OH i know I think. i assigned to the spawn manager on my last SS the prefabs from the hierarch and not from the project folder

let me test

[wintry quarry]

Yes that's what I said

[solemn fractal]

Yeah amazing Man, thank you. That worked

😍

[mystic oxide]

im still new to this, how do you access gameobject from another scene?

[wintry quarry]

There are many ways, it depends on the circumstances.

Singleton pattern
GameObject.FindWithTag
Opportunistic referencing

[trail halo]

Hey, i want to acces this float value via script so that i can change the rotation speed of the hdri sky. How do i access this float?

[young warren]

Please google "how to access rotation value of hdri sky unity"
You'll find answers

[trail halo]

Haha instantly found something. Tried googling before but didnt seem to use the right words, thanks

[ruby python]

Mornin' all, I was just wondering if there was a more 'elegant' way to do this.

Idea is that it's a 'Super Soaker' type water pistol (ie, needs water and air pressure to operate), so trying to figure out the best way to 'detect' whether the pistol has both of these elements etc.

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            GameManager.instance.AdjustAir(1f);
            GameManager.instance.AdjustWater(1f);

            if (GameManager.instance.playerAir <= 0)
            {
                DisableLineRenderer();
                //do crappy spurt  -- maybe show message
            }
            else if (GameManager.instance.playerWater <= 0)
            {
                DisableLineRenderer();
                //Do 'dry fire' -- maybe show message
            }
            else if (GameManager.instance.playerAir <= 0 && GameManager.instance.playerWater <= 0)
            {
                DisableLineRenderer();
                //Do Nothing  -- maybe show message
            }
            else
            {
                lineRenderer.SetPosition(0, gunMuzzle.position);

                RaycastHit hit;
                if (Physics.Raycast(gunMuzzle.transform.position, gunMuzzle.transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, weaponRange, weaponImpactMask))

Blah blah blah, you should get the idea. 🙂

[languid spire]

Read your code

else if (GameManager.instance.playerAir <= 0 && GameManager.instance.playerWater <= 0)
            {
                DisableLineRenderer();
                //Do Nothing  -- maybe show message
            }

will never happen

[ruby python]

Ah I think I see my mistake. That should be first no?

[languid spire]

yes

[ruby python]

Okay, thanks. 🙂

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. I have the using UnityEngine.UI; at the top. Is I just use the variable type as Image it doesnt allow me and I need to use as it is in the image below. is there a way that I can just write Image instead of the way it is now?

[static cedar]

I think it's because UnityEngine defines an Image class too.

[mystic oxide]

i tried findwithtag before asking the question, still return null, other ways is still very confusing to me, is there like a keyword for looking up for that problem on google/youtube?

i was trying to store username to other scene's script

[eternal needle]

is this username for like multiplayer? if its singleplayer then an easy way would be a singleton and make some game manager script. Then put a public string in there for your username and anything can access it as long as the object exists

[wintry quarry]

It won't return null when done properly

But yeah some central manager Singleton is the typical way to go here

[static cedar]

Is there any way to enforce singleton on a monobehaviour script?

[pseudo sable]

public static Singleton Instance { get; private set; }
private void Awake() 
{ 
    // If there is an instance, and it's not me, delete myself.    
    if (Instance != null && Instance != this) 
    { 
        Destroy(this); 
    } 
    else 
    { 
        Instance = this; 
    } 
}

from https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/, some good info there too

[sand glen]

What you mean

// Singleton
static SomeClass _instance;
public static SomeClass Instance {
    get => _instance;
}
private void Awake() {
    if(_instance != null && _instance != this) {
        Destroy(gameObject);
        return;
    }
    else _instance = this;
    DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);   // If you want it to persist through scenes
}

This proved to me as best version of singleton

[astral topaz]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[teal viper]

The error says that the class doesn't contain a method called Interact. Read the error.

[languid spire]

This variable declaration has nothing to do with your error

[ruby python]

Not sure if in the right place, but is it possible to stretch an object dynamically along it's Z Axis so that it's end point is the same as the termination point of a raycast?

[teal viper]

This is inside the interface. Not your class.

[languid spire]

obviously not
InteractablePopup is not IInteractable which would be accessed as interactable anyway

what?

Do you see an Interact method in that script?

btw your code looks an awful lot like GPT garbage

[modest dust]

Follow a C# tutorial

An interface cannot be used unless you add it to your class

[ionic elk]

any info on whats going on?

[modest dust]

public class InteractablePopup : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
// Implement IInteractable below
}

[ionic elk]

like is it a logic error or a compiler error?

[languid spire]

but even then you need an instance variable to call it not a class name

[unreal phoenix]

is there a way to do this without making the variable a method?

private bool myBool { if(SomeThing) {return true;} else {return false;} }

[pseudo sable]

can shorten it to private bool myBool => SomeThing;

[unreal phoenix]

What

[pseudo sable]

functionally the same as the code you posted, since SomeThing is already a bool that you're using in your condition

[young warren]

Yeah. What you have is basically if SomeThing is true, return true. Else return false

So just return SomeThing?

[unreal phoenix]

Assume that (Something) is not simply a boolean variable, otherwise why would I even make a new bool?

[young warren]

If it's not a boolean variable, you could not have put it in the if statement like that

Please don't provide false examples and expect an accurate answer

[pseudo sable]

SomeThing can be replaced with any condition

private bool myBool => SomeThing && SomeThingElse == "Hello";

[young warren]

Whatever SomeThing is, it needs to have equated to a boolean

[pseudo sable]

private bool myBool => ThingThatsInTheIfCondition;

[unreal phoenix]

you can do this???

private bool playerOnGround => Physics.CheckSphere(transform.position - new Vector3(0, playerCollider.bounds.extents.y / 4, 0), 1f, layerMask, QueryTriggerInteraction.Collide);

[young warren]

Well, what does CheckSphere return

[pseudo sable]

yep, so long as CheckSphere returns a boolean

[gaunt ice]

lambda expression is still method...

[pseudo sable]

it is

all variable getters are technically methods

[unreal phoenix]

But now I don't have to convert playerOnGround to GetPlayerOnGround()

[queen adder]

Does anyone know how to fix this? Basically, I have intergrated my Unity WebGL game into a site but the page that handles my build is on top of my navgiation bar

[unreal phoenix]

That sounds completely like a html issue

[queen adder]

it is but it's the build file that unity provides

[unreal phoenix]

What is responsible for the nav bar?

can you not put the build into a div and conform it to a flex layout?

[timber tide]

scoot it down a bit

[unreal phoenix]

How to turn off these hints being above a line in VSCode?

I thought they were called inlay hints but apparently not