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[verbal dome]

That looks like the Windows 3D viewer?

Don't double click the 3d file

[silk night]

Dont try to preview stuff by using the inspector, use the Spacebar to trigger the jump

[tawdry rock]

opps, wrong reply, sry

[austere monolith]

let me show you a video

[timber urchin]

I am, I was meaning that the actual inspector doesn't change when I press jump

Or wether im grounded

[silk night]

For your jump: because its only true for one frame, depending on your framerate thats ~10ms

no way you can see that

[austere monolith]

it works on the bot but not the model i want to be animated

[silk night]

Isgrounded because you only update it on OnCollisionStay, while you are in the air you touch no collider

[verbal dome]

Yep and for the grounded check, the logic is wrong

Yep

Maybe OnCollisionExit instead

[silk night]

set it to false on OnCollisionExit and to true in OnCollisionEnter

(with a ground tag check)

[timber urchin]

Ah alrighty

Got it thanks

[verbal dome]

Though I find physics queries (OverlapSphere, Raycast etc) more robust than collisions for ground check

But you can try that later

[silk night]

Are you sure your model you want to animate has the same rig as your bot?

If the bones are different the animation does not work

Also as mentioned before, the right channel for you is #🏃┃animation

[timber urchin]

I honestly dont have a clue why I didn't think of this too begin with haha thanks alot it works perfect

[verbal dome]

The problem I see with collision-based ground check:
Let's say you stand on 2 floor objects at the same time. You move right, and you no longer touch the floor on the left. This causes OnCollisionExit to trigger and your isGrounded becomes false even though you are still touching the floor on the right

[timber urchin]

Ohh yeah that makes sense

[languid spire]

so use an int instead of a bool

[timber urchin]

So im assuming the change in the jump bool in the inspector wont be visible when it happens due to it being so quick?

[verbal dome]

Yes

[timber urchin]

Alrighty thanks that makes sense

[verbal dome]

Inspector updates at like 10fps only

[timber urchin]

Oh damn

[verbal dome]

Yeah that solves that.
The second issue is that it just usually isn't great for 'game feel'. Having a groundcheck that extends slightly out of the shape will feel a bit more forgiving

And less rapid changes

[white glade]

Hello ,
I trying to do a camera wobbling , when the player move and when the player sprint
my problem is when I change the offset of the visual camera it shakes a lot , so is there any way to remove it ?

    public void ChangeCameraWobbling(float zOffset, float amplitudeGain)
    {
        virtualCamera.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin>().m_AmplitudeGain = amplitudeGain;
        virtualCamera.GetCinemachineComponent<CinemachineBasicMultiChannelPerlin>().m_PivotOffset.z = zOffset;
    }

this is my code and here is a vedio of it

[tawdry rock]

how can i animation cancel? for example if my roll animation is 30 frame but if i jump stop the rolling and start jumping animation? im using currently animator + triggers via c#

[silk night]

transition with a trigger and no exit time

[tawdry rock]

i unticked the exit time, care to explain me this transition thingy?

[silk night]

with exit time you can only exit at a specific frame

without you can do it anytime

but that only works with a trigger

or do you mean what a transition is in general?

[tawdry rock]

i think i got it, thank you.

[dapper lava]

i have a soldier with empty game object at the end of gun but when the soldier(parent) rotate the game object(child) doesnt

[crystal magnet]

Hello there. Can someone help me about this error? This error doesn't affect anything in the game's functionality, but I don't know what it means and I don't really understand what it says. This error only appears at the beginning of the application execution. If I close the unity editor and open it again it disappears, but after a certain amount of programming time it appears again.

[silk night]

Does it move with the tip just not rotate?

[dapper lava]

it moves together with soldier when i rotate him and move him but doesnt rotate itself

[languid spire]

Unity Editor bug, nothing you can do

[dapper lava]

i rotated the guy but the object doesnt

[proud trellis]

whenever i try to open unity hub it says there is a critical error quits. would you be able to help me?

anyone be able to help me*

[crystal magnet]

Ah I see. I've been doing some projects to train and I thought there was something wrong with what I was doing.
Thanks

[languid spire]

which hub version?

[silk night]

Do you have the pivot on world space maybe?

[proud trellis]

latest

[dapper lava]

like here?

[silk night]

yes

if you set it to object it shows the real rotation

"local" sorry

[languid spire]

revert back to 3.5.2. I posted a download link for it a few days ago in #💻┃unity-talk

[proud trellis]

ok thank you

[dapper lava]

ok so it was rotating but i couldnt see it

[silk night]

yes, most likely

[dapper lava]

should i keep it pivot and local

[silk night]

you can stick a 3d object on it

to see if it rotates

usually you wanna keep it global

[dapper lava]

it rotated when i selected it with "Rotate tool" on scene

[proud trellis]

ive scrolled back on your last week of dms and cant find it

would it be possible for you to send another link

[summer stump]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[languid spire]

#💻┃unity-talk message

[grim stream]

For some reason it doesn't fetch the object reference. I cannot find why.
There is one object in the scene with a Level script

[slender nymph]

is it active?

[grim stream]

Yes i think so

or yes

it is

Its being referenced by other objects. just this one that doesn't want to

[slender nymph]

then you need tp provide more context. are you certain that line of code is running? are you certain it runs after the Level object has been created/activated/whatever?

also if both objects exist in the scene at edit time you're better off just serializing a reference to the object directly instead of using Find

[grim stream]

Oooh okay i found the problem. I put the reference as public. to give access to inheriting classes. How do i give inheriting classes access to the reference without putting it as public. Or should i not do it like that

[short hazel]

protected

[slender nymph]

inheriting classes can access public or protected members

but i also don't see how it being public makes it not work

[grim stream]

🤷‍♂️

When i put it to private it worked

[slender nymph]

are you sure that is what fixed it, and not perhaps just saving the code and compiling some other change?

[silk night]

My guess would be on a race condition with random outcome 😄

which object loads first

[grim stream]

Might be that. but now i know protected is a thing so ill use that 🙂

[buoyant matrix]

So I'm trying to instantiate a projectile and have it move in the direction I'm facing... I haven't figured out the facing part, but my projectile doesn't move at all. Im doing the following, and my projectile speed logs at 4, and my transform.forward logs as (0.00, 0.00, 1.00), but when I multiply them, my velocity is (0.00, 0.00). What am I doing wrong? float projectileSpeed = projectile.GetComponent<ProjectileBehavior>().projectileSpeed; Debug.Log($"Projectile speed: {projectileSpeed}"); p.velocity = transform.forward * projectileSpeed; Debug.Log($"Forward: {transform.forward}, Velocity: {p.velocity}");

[slender nymph]

you're gonna need to provide more context. is this 2d?

[buoyant matrix]

Sorry, yes. This is 2d. I'm pretty new. What context can I provide to help?

[slender nymph]

well that's why it doesn't work. transform.forward points forward along the z axis which is just used for depth.

[grim stream]

what is p?

[buoyant matrix]

p is a RigidBody2D

[slender nymph]

you probably need to use transform.right or transform.up depending on the rotation of the object when it is not rotated

[buoyant matrix]

Ahhhh. Okay. I tried transform.right, but I think the projectile just stayed there too. But let me try again.

[dapper lava]

i atached camera on top of my player but i dont want it to rotate when i move my mouse around how do i do it

[slender nymph]

don't make the camera a child of the player

use cinemachine and just make the camera follow the player but not rotate with it

[buoyant matrix]

Ugh. That was it. Thank you. 😄 Is there a good way to get the facing of the current sprite? Or do I need to save it as a variable and change it anytime we change direction?

[dapper lava]

cinemachine?

wouldn't it just be easier

every frame just reset camera rotation to 0 0 0

[slender nymph]

if you are only flipping the sprite and not the actual object, then you'll need to track where it is facing manually. if you rotate the entire gameobject then you can just use transform.right

[buoyant matrix]

I definitely don't, and it just shoots to the right, regardless of facing, so I'll have to keep track of direction and rotate manually. Thank you!

[slender nymph]

i mean, you can try that. that doesn't mean it will be any good though. you're better off just using cinemachine if you don't want shitty camera controls

[dapper lava]

how to use it and what is it

i will just google

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f,0f,0f);

i started unity yesterday that's good enought

[slender nymph]

i mean okay. but you should still learn how to use cinemachine. it's an incredibly useful tool and you won't end up with stuttery/shitty cameras

[buoyant matrix]

I'll google.

[dapper lava]

i will

[buoyant matrix]

That was easy. 😄

[silk night]

Boxfriend just suggested cinemachine 2 weeks ago to me, it was like switching from a toyota to a lambo, you will thank him later 😄 and i was using the old camera system for 3 years before

[dapper lava]

i want my game first to wark later to look
i like programming more

[silk night]

cinemachine works better, it looks the same by default

old camera is basically dumb and you have to do everything by hand, cinemachine you tell it what to do and it just does

[slender nymph]

just beware that having your camera as a child of your player is even worse than just writing your own camera script for it. it's rotation and scale will also be affected by the player. and if you are moving your player with physics you'll end up with a very stuttery looking camera (though it will just appear as if your player's movement is what is stuttering)

[dapper lava]

now itry to make a background
and i have rock texture and it worked in 3d
but i dont know how to put it on 2d sprite

[ruby python]

Would anyone know of any guides/tutorials on how to do vertex displacement through code (not shader), ideally for a sphere please? I've had a look around but everything I've found is shader based, which won't work for what I have in mind. 😕

[silk night]

Look for sebastian lague

he has a series where he makes a planet

[ruby python]

Yeah, I'm looking at his planet generation stuff atm, but tbh I'm a bit lost translating what he's doing with noise toi using an image instead.

[silk night]

Convert the texture to a Sprite2d

click on it and you can set the type at the top

[dapper lava]

ok and how do i make the pattern repeat or do i have to put 100 10x10 sprites to make abckground

[silk night]

well you can just put a plane in your game and apply the texture to it

instead of a sprite

[buoyant matrix]

I just switched from doing individual keypresses for movement (WASD) to using Input.GetAxis() to get whether someone is pressing a key... I've noticed that it went from being very precise movement to there being a 'cooldown' where the axis is still going from 1 to 0. Is there a way to avoid that and instantly have it hit 0 when I stop pressing a button?

[silk night]

or switch the image type to "tiled"

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/WoWoneto07.png/raw

[summer stump]

Use GetAxisRaw. GetAxis uses smoothing

[buoyant matrix]

Perfect! Thank you!

[dapper lava]

later would it be possible to add ability that i move UP the 2d plane temporary change character to 3d so he can see other from above as walking sprites on sheet of paper and shot them

[silk night]

certainly possible

but not a thing we could just explain here

thats a multi step process

[dapper lava]

can you change camera of a player with script mid run

[slender nymph]

that's even easier with cinemachine

[dapper lava]

oh yes

the camera is lagging i am learing it

tutorial said i should have cinemachine up here

i dont have it

[silk night]

Go to windows -> package manager

[dapper lava]

i see

[silk night]

and there in unity registry search for cinemachine

[slender nymph]

even if you have the package it's not up there anymore. you can create cinemachine objects from the regular Create menu.

[silk night]

oh right 😄

[dapper lava]

got it

can i pin cinemachine to the top

[silk night]

no need for that

just rightclick in the hierarchy and it offers you to create everything you need there

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/MoWaqivI74.png/raw

[dapper lava]

can i reduce the delay with movement

[silk night]

what delay do you mean exactly?

[slender nymph]

probably means the damping for the camera

[dapper lava]

when i move the camera move with delay

and where can i change the camera view size

[slender nymph]

yeah reduce the damping on the vcam

[dapper lava]

how do you reduce it

[slender nymph]

change it from it's current value to a lower value

[silk night]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/pIWiNefo27.png/raw

[dapper lava]

and camera distance

so i can see more

[slender nymph]

you should go through the documentation pinned in #🎥┃cinemachine to learn how it works instead of asking for every little thing

[buoyant matrix]

What should you expect in a script, when you call transform.parent? I assumed (incorrectly) it would be the parent of the current script?

[slender nymph]

it would return the parent transform for this component's transform. if the object has no parent it will be null

[buoyant matrix]

Is there a good way to get the "main" object this script is attached to? Ideally, I'm trying to get a variable from another script attached to the same object.

[slender nymph]

what do you mean the "main" object?

[buoyant matrix]

So I have a Player Gameobject, and attached is two scripts. I'm trying to get a variable from the other script attached to the Player object.

[slender nymph]

if it's the same object it's just transform or gameObject. or you can just call GetComponent to get another component on the same object

[buoyant matrix]

oh. I was making this way too hard.

(As usual 😄 )

[slender nymph]

you would probably benefit from going through some beginner courses to learn how to use the engine. i recommend the pathways on the unity !learn site

[eternal falcon]

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[buoyant matrix]

Thanks. I'll take a look as soon as I figure out how rotation works. 🙂

[acoustic arch]

should i weapons base stats be held on the scriptable object for it?

or how else should it be done instead

[proud trellis]

still having issues anyone got any suggestions?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[summer stump]

As you were told before. Not a code question. #💻┃unity-talk

[summer stump]

ScriptableObjects are good for base stats. You want them generally to be unmutable, and store the mutable data like current stats in a class (monobehaviour or poco)

[proud trellis]

why r u buggin

[summer stump]

What? I'm just pointing out that you have been told multiple times that this is the wrong place to post that.
You're welcome

[buoyant matrix]

So I can see the facing, and I can see the euler angles, which go like 0.00, 0/90/180/270, 0 but my projectile always only shoots right. If I'm facing up or down, it doesn't shoot at all. What am I doing wrong here? Rigidbody2D rigidbody = projectile.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>(); Rigidbody2D p = Instantiate(rigidbody, transform.position, transform.rotation); p.transform.eulerAngles = transformProjectile(); // This returns the vector3 Debug.Log($"Euler angles {p.transform.eulerAngles}"); float projectileSpeed = projectile.GetComponent<ProjectileBehavior>().projectileSpeed; Debug.Log($"Rotation {transform.rotation}"); p.velocity = transform.right * projectileSpeed; Debug.Log($"Forward: {transform.right}, Velocity: {p.velocity}");

[slender nymph]

are you actually rotating the object this component is attached to? or are you only rotating the sprite?

[buoyant matrix]

Hrm. good question. I think I'm rotating just the rigid body.

[slender nymph]

that would rotate its transform (on the next physics step). if this component is attached to that same object or a child object then it would rotate with it

[buoyant matrix]

Hrm. No, p is the instantiated projectile... Rigidbody2D p = Instantiate(rigidbody, transform.position, transform.rotation);

So that should rotate the whole thing, shouldn't it?

[slender nymph]

well the projectile would be rotated to the same rotation that this object is rotated to, yes.

[buoyant matrix]

I updated my code above... If the euler angles when I'm facing right are 0, 0, 0 and when facing up, 0, 270, 0 and facing down, 0, 90, 0 and when facing left, 0, 180, 0 shouldn't that rotate the projectile that's instantiated?

[slender nymph]

why are you changing its rotation immediately after instantiating it with a specific rotation? just give it the correct rotation when you instantiate it

[buoyant matrix]

Oh. That would make more sense.

[slender nymph]

it will also not make a difference as to whether it is rotated or not and has no effect on the velocity since you are using this object's rotation for the velocity, not the spawned projectile's rotation

[buoyant matrix]

oh. because I didn't know how to go from a vector3 to a qquaternion. 🙂

[slender nymph]

why do you need to?

and again: #💻┃code-beginner message

[buoyant matrix]

Because when I change to this: Rigidbody2D p = Instantiate(rigidbody, transform.position, transformProjectile()); it says to use a quaternion, and it can't change from a vector3 to a quaternion

[slender nymph]

but what does transformProjectile do

[dapper lava]

how do i add velocity in direction object is facing

[buoyant matrix]

It looks at the player's facing, and returns a vector3 based on that facing.

And that vector 3 is 0, 0/90/180/270, 0, which is obviously wrong. 😄

[slender nymph]

instead of showing all these disjointed snippets can you share the whole fucking class so that i don't have to play 20 questions to learn wtf your code is supposed to be doing?

[dawn sparrow]

is it possible to write you own mesh class and custom mesh shader/renderer ?

[eternal needle]

Transform.forward is that direction

[slender nymph]

only in 3d 😉

[buoyant matrix]

Sure. sorry. I was trying not to flood the channel.

[dapper lava]

transform.forward += 1; for example?

[slender nymph]

!code 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[slender nymph]

this line makes no sense

[buoyant matrix]

https://hastebin.com/share/guquvixeye.csharp

[slender nymph]

return new Vector3(0, -90, transform.eulerAngles.y);
why are you putting this object's Y rotation as the z rotation?

[eternal needle]

This would be the equivalent if you told me that you are looking east, and I told you to add 1 to that.

[modest dust]

Basically check what is the type of the variable you're trying to modify (and if you even can modify it)

[buoyant matrix]

@slender nymph Because I'm an idiot. :/

[dawn sparrow]

i'm trying to render a voxel world using cubic chunking (32x32x32), so what that means is i can do away with the float-level precision for each vertex of an individual mesh, i only need 6 bits per axis to describe the position of any vertex in a chunk mesh relative to its chunk

issue is, unity meshes uses floats to describe their chunk positions, and shaders follow that by taking in floats from the datastream

i dont need float, i need a single byte per axis, or just 18 bits to describe a vertex position, + 1 float4 for the chunk position relative to the world origin

[buoyant matrix]

okay. changing it to return new Vector3( -90, transform.eulerAngles.y, 0); didn't make a difference. I'll go watch some unity videos first.

@slender nymph thanks for your patience.

[dawn sparrow]

I've thought of two solutions for this:

1. write my own mesh class
2. leave vertices and triangles empty for a default unity mesh, and instead utilize a TEXCOORD to stream in my custom data

I'm tempted to go with option 2 cuz it sounds much much easier but i don't know how much memory waste that'll entail

so i'm not too sure what to do, i have no experience with meshes or shaders so i might have things completely backward

[acoustic arch]

would this still work if items could be upgraded and stats on it increased?

[summer stump]

Yeah, you wouldn't be increasing/upgrading the SO though, you would do it to the "current" values in the class

You could even make the upgrades ScriptableObjects though

[acoustic arch]

yeah

[proud trellis]

your welcome for what? bro thinks hes a mod when im only asking for help on a simple fix

[acoustic arch]

is it bad that the stats manager is cluttered at the moment with a lot of variables going around?

it feels a little clunky

https://hatebin.com/jnrdfdblak

and bad to look at

[summer stump]

This.... is.... the wrong.... channel.
There are 5 mods and 21807 people online.... so yeah, the residents (and all community members really) try to help out.

[dawn sparrow]

follow channel rules, no ones gonna answer your questions if they're asked in the wrong channels

[modest dust]

Doesn't need to be a mod to remind other people to follow rules

[summer stump]

Well.. if you feel like there's too many there, you can try to separate it into more specific stats. You can use a POCO and have the StatManager have subclasses like the HealthStats, OffenseStats, etc.

But really, there aren't too many there. Looks fine to me

[acoustic arch]

alright, im just new to coding and always curious if im going overboard on something simple

but i am having an odd error and im not sure what it is

https://hatebin.com/wnzfmmttyj - slot manager

on line 15 it says object is not instanced if an item slot is active

[summer stump]

Yeah, that can be a double-edged sword. I would say just try to get it working, and don't be too worried about refactoring later.

[acoustic arch]

https://hatebin.com/lpaesrfgbc - the quick bar slot

my 2nd time ever using properties so i mightve made a mistake

[proud trellis]

nobody answers any questions in the correct chat, so i went to an active channel for advice.. do not think this was unreasonable at all

[dawn sparrow]

sure, but you were a bitch about it

[summer stump]

What is the error?
Btw, color values are between 0 and 1. In your case, it won't make a difference (because it was max values anyway), but if you wanted it a precise color, either use decimals between 0 and 1 or Color32

[dawn sparrow]

and still, not the correct place, continue asking in the correct channels or searching it online

[summer stump]

Well.. it was
Provide more info and maybe someone would help?
All I saw were screenshots

[proud trellis]

theres not much more info i couldve provided

[summer stump]

Ok... lmfao
Maybe the logs????

[acoustic arch]

oh thats just cause of the slots have a white square and it annoyed me so i made them either transparent if nothing there, or fully parent if theres an item

[proud trellis]

what r u on about

[acoustic arch]

bro if people are wiling to help why not just provide the right fuckin stuff dude

[summer stump]

There are... logs. They tell you why things happen... Google it

[acoustic arch]

ask where to gettem if you dont know

[acoustic arch]

the error is that its saying NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
QuickBarManager.Update () (at Assets/QuickBarManager.cs:15)

in unity

not the compiler

but im not sure how it would be getting that

its only when a slot is active and it has an item in it

[spark trail]

Hi guys, I have a Player object and a gameobject that will be "collected" if a certain part of the player object touches the gameobject. I've added Colliders to both and marked the pickupObject as 'trigger'. On the player object, I have two colliders, one to act as the physical "body" of the character and one to act as the point that will be used to "collect" the pickupObject if it comes into contact. However, no matter what I do, I cannot seem to get this to work. It either triggers on the body and not the top, or none of them at all.

[summer stump]

Ok yeah. That's a runtime error, so it wouldn't show in the compiler. Can you show the inspectors for the Quickbar

[acoustic arch]

yeah

[acoustic arch]

the manager or the actual quickbar slot?

[modest dust]

statsBasedOnHeldWeapon is null probably (you never set it to anything)

[summer stump]

The QuickbarManager
Eh, and one of a Slot

[summer stump]

So, your issue is that you want the collider used to collect to be the only one that triggers the pickup?

[spark trail]

Yeah

[acoustic arch]

slot icon is the slot, i need to rename it

[spark trail]

Yeah

[summer stump]

Are both colliders on the player NON-Triggers?

[spark trail]

Yes, I've tried making one a trigger and both non-triggers but either way it didnt work

[summer stump]

So, I see it says None in the ItemInSlot box

[acoustic arch]

yeah but if i fill it in, it takes itself out

[summer stump]

Both need to be non-triggers. And both colliders are on the same object? Or is one a child?

[acoustic arch]

when played

hold on

i know what to test

[spark trail]

Both are currently non-triggers and both are on the same object yeah, one under the other

[summer stump]

if (QSlotReplica._itemInSlot != null)
{
    _itemInSlot = QSlotReplica._itemInSlot;
}

This should probably be == null not != null

[summer stump]

Can you show the inspector for the player? (show the whole editor, don't crop it)

[spark trail]

Okay

[acoustic arch]

i think its cause its trying to set the quickbar on the normal screen, but not inside of the inventory where you can put things in the quick slots there

[acoustic arch]

it should just be replicated from the inventories quick slots

[spark trail]

I originally had two box colliders. (google suggested mixing the colliders and checking for the type of collider to determine the "correct" collider. This hasn't worked since now the Box collider never triggers when the pickupObject comes into contact with it but the polygon one does which is the opposite of what I want 😄

Ahhh perhaps the polygon debug message is actually the pickupObject's polygon collider?

[summer stump]

If you used other, that would be it. But if you don't use other, it wouldn't be.
Show the !code

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[spark trail]

Sorry I'm not sure what you mean. There's also no code besides the code I posted earlier, it's just inspector components. The pickupObject has a 'polygon 2d' collider which is marked as a 'trigger', the playerObject has two colliders, one is polygon and one is box collider. Both are not marked as a trigger but one is acting as the "body" of the player, the other collider which is a box, is above the body collider so that if the pickup object touches the "top" of the player ( I guess like a headshot in a FPS game?) it will then trigger and "collect".

however in my testing, I cannot seem to achieve this. The pickupObject is triggering both the player colliders and I can't find a way to separate them

[summer stump]

Oh, I missed the code you posted earlier I guess. I wanted to see the CollisionController code. I don't see that posted above

other is the parameter passed by OnTriggerEnter btw

[summer stump]

Also, it would have helped to see this uncropped, as I asked. You cropped it to only show the inspector

[spark trail]

okay I edited my post as it was slightly wrong, that's the current situation ^
and I can repost code no problem

oh sorry I thought the other bits were not importnat

a moment 🙂

    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D col)
    {
        Debug.Log("OnCollisionEnter2D" + col.GetType().ToString());
    }

    void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("Type: " + collision.GetType().ToString());

    }

One sec, lemme do that agian so its easier to read/se

[summer stump]

Ah yeah, OnTrigger2d's parameter is defaulted to collision. Sorry, that's what I meant by "other" earlier

[summer stump]

These are still cropped to only show the inspector..

[spark trail]

OHHHHHHHHHHH you want the 'scene' ?

[summer stump]

I want the entire editor

every single thing on the editor

[spark trail]

Haha so sorry I misunderstood

Okay is that it? 🙂

You can see the little green hollow box at the top, that is the point in which pickupObjects should actually trigger and "collect", but not the polygon (body) of the playerObject

[summer stump]

Yes, ok that is perfect.
Now that I can see what's going on, I can difinitively say you want the top part to be a child object

[spark trail]

I see

How might I do that? do I make another emptyGameObject and then attach the collider there?

[summer stump]

You would make a new empty game object and make it a child like you have the GroundCheck and SkyCheck

[spark trail]

Yeah, okay I get it now

[summer stump]

what is SkyCheck btw? That seems like a good thing to use for this purpose

[spark trail]

This makes so much sense now.... I can see why it was not working before.

Yes you're right SkyCheck would be ideal for this

[dapper lava]

how bad are particles for fps

[dawn sparrow]

can i create a custom mesh class whose vertices have custom data? I know about TEXCOORD data but I'm trying to reduce the number of bits per vertex from 4 bytes per axis to 6 bits per axis, and I'm not sure how else to do this

[dawn sparrow]

as long as its reasonable, afaik the unity particle system is efficient

not a major impact

[spark trail]

One more question, somewhat unrelated. How could I make it so the playerObject collider is "strong" and pushes other colliders (objects) out of its way as it moves around with no loss of "movement" ?

[dapper lava]

so i have 2d game and bullets are very small and i want them to glow

[dapper lava]

do you want it to be rigidbody

[spark trail]

Yea

[dapper lava]

you can just put mesh colider without rigid body so it won't be able to be pushed back

i think there is mass option in rigidbody

[spark trail]

Oh I see

Thanks

[summer stump]

Kinematic rigidbodies will be "strong" and dynamic will be "weak"
Kinematic ones don't respond to forces

[dapper lava]

or you can give them huge mass and they will react very little

[spark trail]

Thanks guys , much appreciated 🙂

[summer stump]

Yeaaahh... that will have some consequences, but it's ok

[dapper lava]

i started yesterday

[deft quarry]

I'm working on a 3d game and trying to get the hang of unity. When I move and look around my game objects in the scene, it looks like stop motion instead of the fluid movement and im not sure whether this is a camera, or movement issue, or if its something else.

Might be a little hard to see in that video

[dapper lava]

if i make a prefab and then change script will script of prefab also change?

[short hazel]

Change script in what way? The code itself, or you modify some values in the Inspector?

[timber tide]

If it's on the scene and you add a script it wont unless you click in the inspector to apply changes to the actual prefab asset instance

otherwise open up the prefab editor window and apply the script

[short hazel]

The things you touched compared to a prefab will be in bold, with a blue bar on the left of the Inspector

[dapper lava]

the script used for the prefab

[short hazel]

That does not answer the question

[dawn sparrow]

I'm trying to store vertex positions for my mesh in an optomized manner, so does anyone know of a way i can my per vertex position data in a TEXCOORD while leaving vertices[], triangles[], and all the other datastreams empty?

[short hazel]

Code changes are applied everywhere

[dapper lava]

for example i change varaible speed

so does prefab get coby of the script or will the prefab change how it works when i change the script

[short hazel]

In the code or on the Inspector??? We'll get to it one day I hope

[dapper lava]

in project files

[short hazel]

That's not a valid answer lmfao

[dapper lava]

i go to bed

gotta go

[short hazel]

1. Code
2. Inspector
   Choose 1 or 2

[dapper lava]

i think code

[short hazel]

You think?

[queen adder]

noncoalesomething does work in non-unity objects right?```cs
Shop toedit = AllShop.FirstOrDefault(shop => shop.shopID == ID) ?? AddNewShop();

[short hazel]

No

Ah, non-Unity objects it does

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.SetVertices.html
Through the mesh class?

[dapper lava]

tis either code project.cs or what inspector for sure not inspector so it has to be code

[short hazel]

The Inspector is the thing on the right that shows the Transform, where you can add scripts and change their values

[dawn sparrow]

or, my other solution is to figure out how to write my own mesh class with my custom data

then figure out how to write a shader for that custom mesh class

[timber tide]

right, you'd use the vertex buffer functions it has then

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.SetVertexBufferParams.html

[dapper lava]

i mean the project.cs script

[timber tide]

that stuff

[dawn sparrow]

but it sounds a lot easier, if it's possible, to kind of use the existing mesh class as a husk that doesnt store any information in its traditional fields, and i route all my custom packed data thru TEXCOORD

[dapper lava]

probably not inspector

[short hazel]

Okay so the code.
Code changes are applied automatically throughout the entire project

[dapper lava]

i have never opened code from inspector

ok

thanks

[dawn sparrow]

wait

is this exactly the function

[timber tide]

yes, there's new advanced mesh methods which you can just use the vertex buffers directly

[dawn sparrow]

i was praying to the lord

exists?

ok, im not at all familiar with the lingo, like i'm not sure what exactly thatmeans but I'm pretty sure this is literally exactly the thing i was looking for

thank you so much man

so is this the "husk" thing i was talking about where it basically pretends there x number of vertices ?

[timber tide]

yeah, the difference between these methods and what the mesh class original has is you can pass all variables at once, instead of position then triangles, ect

I mean, this is like peak optimization if it matters I guess

[dawn sparrow]

thing is im creating a voxel world

so having so much precision is worthless for that

i saw a video where someone packed 96 bytes of per-vertex data into just 4, and it makes a lot of sense

but they did that in opengl, was trying ot figure out how to translate that into unity

[timber tide]

Right, you can probably just compute it all directly instead of using unity's API (or rather access the graphics API without going through too much of unity's API calls)

[dawn sparrow]

can you set a custom data type with this i wonder?

i guess it doesnt matter, since i need 4 bytes only

and that neatly packs into a float

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rendering.VertexAttribute.html

it's limited to these

[dawn sparrow]

i can probably work with that

[timber tide]

Oh, I thought it had indices/triangles too. Huh

I forget this stuff a bit

Also this:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Graphics.RenderMeshIndirect.html
To render multiple mesh datas at once

[frank light]

here is my full code: https://pastebin.com/1P7gPrTM ,

Hi I am trying to use the new input system for my jump code but it keeps giving me this error: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I am doing it just like the example in the docs, so I am confused. does anyone know my problem?

[timber tide]

what line

[frank light]

48

[final trellis]

quick question about Mathf.Approximately(), is a variance of Mathf.Epsilon really "big" enough to account for floating point shenanigans?

[timber tide]

        if (playerInput.actions["Jump"].IsPressed() && _groundedPlayer)```
Quite a few things here, so I suggest you to debug log each of these such they are not null and then maybe you can find yourself the answer.

[silk night]

That function is specifically made to handle floating point shenenigans

[timber tide]

Breakpoint would be better since it's in update, but otherwise make sure playerInput is set in the editor

[short hazel]

Depends on whether the numbers are close to zero or not. If not, it applies an epsilon of 0.0000001
Check out the source code for that implementation

[final trellis]

istg ive seen floating point funny moments higher than epsilon

[short hazel]

Definitely, the bigger the value, the higher the error

[frank light]

are you saying there are multiple things that i am doing wrong?

[final trellis]

but Mathf.Approximately still returns true for these cases?

or am i misinterpreting the methods functionality

[short hazel]

Yes, it does

[timber tide]

It means that if you've a lot of accessing or checking in a single line and that's where your error is, then you may not get the exact error of what was not set.

So what you'd want to do is check each individual operation you're doing, starting from the first.

[final trellis]

ok just making sure bc i have while loop anxiety lol

[frank light]

ok i fixed it, thanks for the help

[final trellis]

also wait the regular == automatically approximates when it comes to Vectors?

[timber tide]

Oh, does it? I still don't trust it enough ;)

[final trellis]

me neither, esp as a while loop condition

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3-operator_eq.html

yeah what the hell unity

these 2 things sound like they should be swapped

programmers cannot name things ig

well just in case ima make an 'emergency exit' in the loop lol

[hushed spire]

I have a parent script that a few different children scripts extend. Is there a way to find all of the different scripts that extend this parent inside of the scene? like looping throughGameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("ParentTag")and than using GetComponent<ChildScript>() for all of them, except the child script's name will all be different, their only similarity being they all extend the Parent script.

[summer stump]

The parent script could have an enum that would be the type of the child, then you know what to call GetComponent as. Or there is reflection.
But maybe say what you're trying to do, because this seems like an XY problem

[hushed spire]

Trying to deactivate every child script in the scene

For a game over sequence basically

What do you mean by "there is reflection"?

[summer stump]

Then why not just deactivate the parent objects? Or do you want all the NON-inheriting classes to remain active?

You should google reflection, but it's costly and not great to use

[hushed spire]

I can't deactivate the parent objects because of the models attached to them

[polar acorn]

So, you want to find all objects that are child classes of some specific type?

[hushed spire]

Yes

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.FindObjectsOfType.html

[hushed spire]

Oh wow

This is going straight into my dumb moments to remember later

[summer stump]

Oh, I thought you were using that to start with. I see now it was by tag.
Sorry lol

[hushed spire]

All good, I appreciate it

[polar acorn]

If you also need to filter by tag, better to search by type first, then iterate through and check the tag

Just make sure to use CompareTag not == to check the tag

[silent haven]

https://pastebin.com/twB49GcZ
I made a code that moves a slime to a certain position and then slowly moves them to another, choosing one of three colors. my problem is that while the slime is in fact moving, it doesn't seem to be affected by the moveSpeed variable, even if i change it it's still the same speed

[summer stump]

Do you change it in code or in the inspector?

[silent haven]

in the code

[summer stump]

The inspector will override the initializer
Change it in the inspector or set the value in Awake or Start

[silent haven]

i see, thanks for the answer, it should work now

[fickle stump]

hey, does this forum only focus on unity 2D/3D or also VR?

[slender nymph]

there's an entire #🥽┃virtual-reality channel if you have a question that is specific to vr

[fickle stump]

yeah was wondering wether that is for code questions aswell or just general VR question stuff

thank you y

[high pawn]

Hey, i can ask a question here ?

[fickle stump]

yes

[high pawn]

Here is my game when i start it instant with the level, and after when i use my menu to start the level, why my luminosity is so different ? idk how to fix that

[rich adder]

This has something to baking light

Even if not baked you should hit the bake button in lighting tab

[high pawn]

i just found :), ty

[trail gull]

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.TryGetComponent<Goal>(out Goal goal))
        {
            SetReward(+1f);
            EndEpisode();
        }

        if (other.TryGetComponent<Wall>(out Wall wall))
        {
            SetReward(-1f);
            EndEpisode();
        }
    }

could someone tell me why im getting this error?

The type or namespace name 'Wall' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

im getting the same error with 'Goal'

Wall and Goal are 2 3d objects I have with scripts 'Wall' and 'Goal' which are empty attached to them

[teal viper]

Share the Wall script.

[trail gull]

Its empty

[teal viper]

Doesn't matter.

[trail gull]

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

public class WallCollision : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

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

oh

i see

[teal viper]

It's not a Wall

[trail gull]

yeah I just figured

thank you!

[trail gull]

do you mind explaining what the things you input into if (other.TryGetComponent<Wall>(out Wall wall)) mean

like why do I use 'Wall' and then 'out Wall wall'

[teal viper]

You can read more about the method in docs:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.TryGetComponent.html
To put it simply, TryGetComponent is a generic method that takes a generic type and returns true/false depending on if it has found a component of that type on the object. If found, it outputs it in the out parameter.

[summer stump]

You don't need the <Wall> part
And you can do (out wall) if wall is already a declared variable

Wall wall;
if (other.TryGetComponent(out wall)

Would work too. Declaring it separately doesn't make sense if it's local. It's more for when it's a class variable so you can use it in other methods or classes

[static cedar]

Might be confusing for first timers how it works especially when C# lets and prefers you to automatically cut down what can already be said implicitly.

[trail gull]

Ah okay I think I understand

[static cedar]

The thing between the <> is the generic type argument, it's basically how the entire method operates as whole based on the type since it can dictate what type arguments or what it returns, depends on how they make the method work.

The out keyword is just another way to return a value from a method, since the method already returns a bool (true or false).

The Wall after out is the type of the argument. Noticeably, the type changes based on what's inside the <> or the generic type parameter.
Like he said earlier, you can cut down the thing inside the <> because C# already knows what the generic type is based on what you put in the arguments alone.

If you hover on the method the tool-tip should show TryGetComponent<TComponent>(out TComponent wall) where TComponent : Component or somewhere around that at least.

[timber urchin]

I've been trying for a while to do it on my own without help or searching and nothing seems to work, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction of making the player movement follow where the camera is facing i've got another script handling the camera

https://hastebin.com/share/inegovasel.csharp

https://hastebin.com/share/zexacepiwu.csharp

And this is the camera script

[timber urchin]

Ohh wait I'm guessing my mistake is not rotating the character on the horizontal axis with the camera 😂

[mental wren]

Hi, need help with using unity for simulations

Basically the plan is to have NPC(s) that navigate the world based on slider settings (how much of the traversal journey will involve running, jumping, etc.)

The end goal is to use some type of ingame camera to record the pathing or resulting world interactions that said NPCs have.

What unity libraries or workflows that can be used for this?

[brazen narwhal]

why wont even the debug show up?

[gaunt ice]

the update is early return

that means you cant grab weapon once the current weapon is null

[brazen narwhal]

thx

[buoyant matrix]

Why if I do something like this so I g et an error? I'm checking for existence, and it's possibly undefined, but possibly defined? int x = 1; string myWord; if (x == 1) { myWord = "Hello, world!"; } if (myWord) { Debug.Log($"My word was {myWord}"); } It tells me Use of unassigned local variable 'myWord'

[ivory bobcat]

What if x isn't 1?

[brazen narwhal]

set it to "string.Empty" when you initialize it

[buoyant matrix]

Then myWord should be undefined and it won't go into that if block?

[summer stump]

It WILL go in the second though

[buoyant matrix]

@brazen narwhal This was actually something I found out when I was trying to debug a problem with another class. The real class is SpiritBehavior, which I can't set to string.empty 🙂

[brazen narwhal]

oh ok

[buoyant matrix]

@summer stump Is there a different way to check for definedness?

myWord would be null, if x wasn't 1. Right?

So it wouldn't go into the second if?

[polar acorn]

Then you should still set it to something

[buoyant matrix]

Or do I not understand C# at all (which is quite possible, I'm very new to it)

@polar acorn Can I just set it to null??

[brazen narwhal]

the error is just that the variable is undefined, so you have to somehow define it as something

[polar acorn]

There is a difference between null and undefined. Undefined cannot be checked for, because an undefined variable literally does not exist. It's not a pointer with nothing in it, it literally does not exist to check

[buoyant matrix]

Gotcha. Thank you. That makes sense.

So I have to manually set it to null.

[brazen narwhal]

yes

[polar acorn]

There's a difference between an empty box and the abstract notion of a sudden lack of boxes

[buoyant matrix]

That makes sense.

[brazen narwhal]

this is actually a great explanation of the difference

[buoyant matrix]

I'm coming from a different language, where there is a difference between undefined and null, but var something; is null. Although, now that I think about it, I'm not 100% sure I'm correct.

[feral ice]

Player.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, turn.x, 0);
how can I make it so that it only rotates the x
(basically get rid of the 0s)

[buoyant matrix]

@brazen narwhal @polar acorn That is a very good explanation, and i really appreciate it.

[polar acorn]

C# actually does the act of allocating memory for a pointer when you assign a variable. This means a variable that is never defined but also never used doesn't take up any memory

[brazen narwhal]

yea it really depends on the language

[buoyant matrix]

Ahh. That makes a lot of sense, thank you.

I'm coming from node, where everything uses memory (not really, but it was funny in my head...)

[brazen narwhal]

some coding languages set variables to null when initialized

[polar acorn]

Ones more user friendly ones more memory friendly

[brazen narwhal]

yea

[buoyant matrix]

It makes sense. and If I wasn't writing code at 1am, I'd like to think that would have been obvious to me. 😄

[brazen narwhal]

usually higher level languages do that

[buoyant matrix]

I also didn't realize it's 1am. Thank you again, both of you. I'm off to bed.

[brazen narwhal]

gn

[supple wasp]

How can I make a button create multiple scenes as new projects?

[swift stag]

I'm having trouble loading back the HDRP pipeline

[queen adder]

Can I make an OnPointerEnter work in this tilemap(white thingies)?

omg silly forgot to send the screenshot,
PS. the error is irrelevant btw

[static cedar]

I can only think of Lua for this.

Considering nil is another term for null.

For Javascript, I think they use undefined by default.

[static cedar]

string.Empty user versus "".

[rancid pollen]

how do i take a look at available overloads for any function/method on the user interface ?
i am using Visual Studio 2022, default keyboard shortcut settings.

[static cedar]

TBH, just type out the method, type a , inside the method parameters and u should see an arrow that you can scroll up and down to on the tool-tip.

That's how I've been doing it.

[teal viper]

Type it to to the parenthesis and inside you'll get a tooltip with numbers like 1/3. At that point you can use up/down keys to switch between the overloads.

You can also f12 the typed method to find it's definitions.

Lastly, there are docs.

[reef patio]

Hello, does anyone have a level changing script I could look at?

I tried a few and they all fail to work, but visually code goes through

[rancid pollen]

This is what i used for my first game, very basic in nature.
Don't forget to enable the scenes in your Build Settings.

[reef patio]

i'll try it and ill brb

how would I replace it to those 2 levels from 1 to 2?

[rancid pollen]

you make a method that changes scene from level 1 to level 2 and then you call that function upon a button click, or any other triggers

[reef patio]

one moment ill update it

[rancid pollen]

since you created the strings, GAMEPLAY_SCENE and MAINMENU_SCENE, use those inside the SceneManager.LoadScene();

[reef patio]

is that okay?

[rancid pollen]

and after that you have to use "loadMainMenu()" or "restartGameplay()" on a button click or other trigger

[reef patio]

how do I manage to do that?

[rancid pollen]

how do you intend to change the levels in your game ?

[reef patio]

I have an object I can create

[rancid pollen]

is it by click of a button or character dying, etc ?

[reef patio]

walking on to a platform

[rancid pollen]

then you need to insert the loadMainMenu or the other function into the OnCollisionEnter2D or OnTriggerEnter2D depending your game

[reef patio]

its 3d

do I need 2 scripts?

[rancid pollen]

no, just insert the restartGameplay() into your Collision function

so that when collision takes place, the level 2 scene is loaded

[reef patio]

one moment

how do I insert that to a collision function 3d?

im lightly confused

[rancid pollen]

you usually have a OnCollisionEnter in your player script, or in the platform script on which the player will walk at some point

[reef patio]

i dont see it

[rancid pollen]

then you need to create it

[reef patio]

ok can you help me with creation?

[rancid pollen]

no, unfortunately. Don't have much time.

[reef patio]

oh

can i add you to friends and we can chat later about it?

[rancid pollen]

sure

[reef patio]

ok ttyl

thanks

[languid spire]

May I suggest that you follow some tutorials from !learn because you seem to be lacking a lot of very basic knowledge

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[dapper lava]

how do i check for collision when the object isn't projectile for example i want to make laser but make it stop when it hits wall and dont come out from the other side

because it is not flying i cant check frame by frame for collision but i have to check have there been any object on the path of the laser and if there were few i need to find that was first and change position of laser end to this of an object

i could make small invisible object fly at very high speed and when it hits something it will ge me anwser i just thought of it but then there will be little ddelay

and if wall is thin is it possible the object will miss the wall between frames if it moves too fast?

[fierce shuttle]

Sounds like you may be looking for a Raycast: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html
Which will fire a invisible line in a direction and store everything that was hitt along the way into a RaycastHit array, theres also a "NonAlloc" version of most casts which let you control what gets returned, and all casts work best using layers to filter unwanted objects along the path - there is also a "LineCast" if you know the end point of your laser, which will stop at the first thing hit, however all of them rely on the thing your hitting to have a collider to be detected - there is also Physics2D that offer similar functionality if your game is not using 3D objects/collision

[dapper lava]

thanks

one mroe question

[hazy folio]

ive also got a question

how do i make a tight 2d player control with colliders because wall clipping is an issue and using tilemaps makes corner blocks hard to use

ive got a ground check hitbox below to check for ground but it clips into the wall and gives an unintentional wall jump

[dapper lava]

i am usint transform.psotion to move my character 2d. but i use rigidbody to detect collision so it pushes me back when i try to go thourgt wall. so i could use velocity to make dash for my character i could use velocity but because gravity is set to 0 the velocity never stops and i move in that direction all time is there a way to slowly negate all velocity like here

so when someone pushes me or i dash the velocity fade away for example in 1 second

[dapper lava]

help this guy first ^

[solemn fractal]

hey guys, does unity have a built-in method or feature to show in the screen a timer? Like appear in the screen a timer 10 minutes and it decreases every second until 0? or it needs to be done 100% via code?

[cloud flume]

hi everyone, trying to create a 3d movement system from scratch but im stuck, i got the player rotation with the camera but it still moves in the same direction, im trying to get the player to move in the direction of the camera, any help please?

[modest dust]

Well, what do you expect to happen?
You're moving the player using horizontal and vertical input, not including the rotation anywhere

You could take a reference to the camera transform and use it's forward and right vector

[cloud flume]

i got it nvm just switched that out on the player movement to follow to camera direction!

[modest dust]

Multiply these by the input and add them together

Oh

[cloud flume]

do you know hoe to fix this though, only lets me jump to a certain height then falls slow

[modest dust]

No idea, I rarely ever play around with physics

Play around with the mass and jump force

[dapper lava]

can i change the refresh rate of Update() function?

[modest dust]

Update is called every frame

[languid spire]

no, it is based on the execution time of your code

[modest dust]

You could play around with either Coroutine or InvokeRepeating

[dapper lava]

and can i ```cs
timer = 0;
in update->
timer + Time.deltaTime;
if(timer > 0.05){
timer = 0

// here you do what you want the function to do

}

will taht work?

[modest dust]

More or less, yeah

[dapper lava]

unless someone have 5fps

[languid spire]

that is basically what FixedUpdate is for

[heady nimbus]

I feel like I'm having a really stupid brain fart right now...

I cannot get my floating head boss to register collisions with the walls.. boss has a poly2d trigger collider, floors and walls all have box colliders.

Neither ontrigger or oncollision will register vs the walls, but trigger will register vs the player. I didn't think trigger required a rigidbody to interact

[languid spire]

all collision/triggers require a Rigidbody

[dapper lava]

and ```cs
void FixedUpdate(){

}```
is premade function of unity same as Update?

[hallow badger]

is there good course? where i can learn the basic of unity?

[languid spire]

yes

[dapper lava]

thanks

[modest dust]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[languid spire]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[hallow badger]

WoW that is a lot

[quaint thicket]

I have a bunch of GameObjects stores in a Dictionary variable. Instead of searching through the Dictionary, I was wondering if there is something I can add to the GameObjects, like a reference number, so I can match it to the correct dictionary entry?

[gaunt ice]

dictionary is unordered and you retrieve the gameobject by key

[quaint thicket]

I'm not sure if I understand but I have a idea for that.

[languid spire]

if it's a runtime only dictionary not to be saved then use GetInstanceId()

[quaint thicket]

I can use that also.

Thanks

[tulip folio]

I have an issue in my game when my score is 20, i need 120 points for 3 stars but its saying i have 3 stars 🔥

[short hazel]

Show your code, perhaps your conditions are backwards

[short hazel]

Yeah they're backwards

The first one says "if 120 is greater or equals than your score"

It's most likely always the case

[gaunt ice]

you dont need to check the socre in update loop, you just need to check if when you updating the score btw

[short hazel]

Swap the two operands of >=

[tulip folio]

ohhhhh

[gaunt ice]

or turn >= to <=

oh wait

[short hazel]

I find it more legible for the thing that changes to be first in the condition. Like if (null == something) is really ugly to me

[gaunt ice]

the order is different...

[neon fractal]

how do I reweight this point depending on the camera position, I can't figure it out

[tulip folio]

I don't know what i'm doing ive just barely scraped this all together 🫡

[short hazel]

For such a "high-score system" you need to check the conditions in descending order, ie

• If the score is greater than 120
• Else, if the score is greater than 90
• Else, if the score is greater than 60
• etc.

[tulip folio]

should i do like if (ThreeStarScore <= ScoreCount && ScoreCount > TwoStarScore)

[gaunt ice]

no

[short hazel]

No, take advantage of how else if works

[tulip folio]

how would i write it then

[short hazel]

Like this ^

[tulip folio]

gotchu

lemme give it a whirl

alright that all works now

idk how im so dumb for getting the symbols wrong + having different ones ordered oppositely 😭

[ruby python]

Af'noon all, I'm working on a circular gravity system and trying to add some 'falloff' but I'm struggling a bit with the Maths.

I have a gravity amount, a falloff inner radius and a falloff outer radius. (inner radius gravity should be at 100%, outer radius it should be 0%). My brain is completely failing me and can't seem to wrap my head around it. lol.

[gaunt ice]

gravity is proportional to M/R^2, not so understand

[short hazel]

Doable with a remap operation (InverseLerp + Lerp) probably. The InverseLerp operates on the physical distance you are between the two radii, and the Lerp takes that percentage to calculate the falloff

[ruby python]

It's not 'real' gravity, it's simulated/faked. It doesn't need to be physically accurate.,

I just need a %age multiplier between the two radii.

[gaunt ice]

do distance checking and apply your custom function(distance) returns force
(1-(distance-min)/(max-min))*force
force is vector btw

[short hazel]

Pretty much what a remap does internally yes

[ruby python]

Okay thanks fellas.

[floral barn]

does this mean that i cant use this for Unity?

[static cedar]

Yep.

Gotta make the

namespace Input
{
}

sad.

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys, I have a prob here. I have this OnTriggerEnter2D on my player script. And I am getting an error saying Object reference not set to an instance of an object. But I think I have it, tried with dif ways even tho nothing works.

Is that not referencing the enemy? or should I do other way? tried algo with findobject of type instead of assiging it on the inspector.. also didnt work

[gaunt ice]

you should use "other" in the parameter

[solemn fractal]

oh

[gaunt ice]

it is reference something in the file but not the scene

[languid spire]

iirc you are assigning the data variable once a prefab has been instantiated so refering to data on the prefab will, of course, return null

[solemn fractal]

you mean something like that? cs playerCurrentHeath =- other._enemyPrefab.data.attackDamage;

[short hazel]

Collider does not have an _enemyPrefab member, so no

[gaunt ice]

other does not contain the definition of _enemyPrefab

you need getcomponent

[languid spire]

you have not even bothered to find out what is actually null, just made an assumption

[wintry quarry]

Also =- is not a thing

[gaunt ice]

technically valid

[solemn fractal]

hmm ok

[short hazel]

Doesn't really matter, since getting a value on a prefab instead of on what you hit, is invalid

[solemn fractal]

when I instantiate my enemy an Enemey ScriptableObject controls how much damage he deals

[gaunt ice]

just assign negative of attack to hp

but doesnt make sense

[short hazel]

Yes so use GetComponent() on other to find the script that has this scriptable object reference on it, then you'll be able to access the value

[brazen canyon]

Excuse me guys.
I'm having problem with subscribing my Jump function with my Jump Action

I already created the Jumper Action but the code keeps telling me that I haven't created it

[solemn fractal]

hmm never used that way, so I can use GetComponent() inside the onTriggerEnter2d? crazy

[short hazel]

You can use GetComponent on any variable of type GameObject, or Component (which Collider2D inherits from), so you can use that on other to find a script on what you just hit

[solemn fractal]

Amazing, thank you very much !

[solemn fractal]

Did like that and worked, thank you !! cs _enemyPrefab = other.GetComponent<Enemy>();

[short hazel]

Yep, though it's not a prefab you're getting, it's the script on the prefab instance (the copy of the prefab in the scene)

[solemn fractal]

So there is no =- ? so I should do what? like that? cs playerCurrentHeath = playerCurrentHeath - _enemyPrefab.data.attackDamage;

[short hazel]

-=, not =-

[solemn fractal]

if I use -= i get error

[short hazel]

a -= b is the shorthand for a = a - b

[solemn fractal]

Oh my mistake I am getting no error, thank you

[gaunt ice]

there is not =- operator but =- (or =+, =*) can be valid or exists in source code

eg int x=-1

[floral barn]

 private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rigidBody2D.velocity = inputVector * speed;
    }
    private void GetInputVector(Vector2 inputVector)
    {
        this.inputVector = inputVector;
        this.inputVector.Normalize();
    }

Since i receive the movement input from an event how do i reset the input vector so it doesnt moves forever? should i make an event for when i stop pressing movement input?

[grim stream]

I copied my project onto an USB drive and moved to another pc. On th other pc the Console is floded with Errors like this:

Why or how?

[languid spire]

You have duplicate scripts
btw the correct way to copy between projects is to use Assets->Export on the original project and Assets->Import on the new project

[short hazel]

Or to use source control like Git

[grim stream]

Manage to fix it

[grim stream]

Thanks for the tip, ill do that next time

[dapper lava]

is FixedUpdate usually direct update from Update

[gaunt ice]

i remember fixed update is called before update

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

[wintry quarry]

not sure what you mean by this?

[dapper lava]

i mean that at least at my level using Update may change character speed or fire rate but changing it to FixedUpdate doesnt have any downsides

maybe it has downsides but not ones that may happen in my program

[wintry quarry]

Update doesn't "change character speed or fire rate". It's just a function that runs every frame. You might have written bad code inside it that does those things but that's not Update's fault.

[ruby python]

!code

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[ruby python]

Seriously don't know what's going on with my brain today, can't seem to think my way out of this.

float targetDistance = Vector3.Distance(body.position, transform.position);
targetDistance = targetDistance - innerGravityRadius;
Debug.Log(targetDistance);

//gravityMultiplier = .........

I need to get the 'gravityMultiplier' based on the targetDistance. With my current 'base' values, gravityInnerRadius is 0 and my gravityOuterRadius is at 450.

The multiplier at 0 should be 1, and 450 should be 0.

Seriously struggling to figure out the maths. 😦

[wintry quarry]

float gravityMultiplier = Mathf.InverseLerp(gravityOuterRadius, gravityInnerRadius, actualDistance);```

[ruby python]

Oh very cool. Thank you. actualDistance being the targetDistance (player)?

[short hazel]

Distance between the outer radius and the player position

[ruby python]

Ah sorry, brain cabbaged. Thank you.

[short hazel]

It's because the "lower bound" of the Inverse Lerp here is the outer radius (so the outer radius gives out a percentage of 0)

[surreal wagon]

does anyone know how to create a new inctance of a prefab in unity

[short hazel]

An alternative would be to Inverse Lerp starting with the inner radius, and do one minus that to reverse the 0-1 multiplier

1 - InverseLerp(inner, outer, distanceFromInner)

[wintry quarry]

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

[surreal wagon]

thanks

[ruby python]

Right, I get what you mean. Thanks 🙂

[acoustic arch]

whenever your on a line just hover your mouse to the left of the lines number and that little popup will show itself

then you can click on it and itll have some suggestions like that show up

idk if thats exaclty what you were asking but

[modest dust]

Try Alt+Enter

weird

should work

[heady nimbus]

I want to create a couple lists of "waypoints" to define some movement patterns, but then I want to be able to select one of these "paths" at random.

My default thought was a List of Lists of gameobjects. Is there a "standard" way of handling something like this?

[gaunt ice]

an array of points first
then an array of the path, where the path contains the indices of point in the first array
it can reduce the memory usage

[heady nimbus]

So same concept, just with arrays then?

[gaunt ice]

list is nothing more than array, you can use list

or construct a graph

this should be much better since you can run graph algorithm on it

[heady nimbus]

I'm not familiar with graphs, I'll have to look that one up, but it sounds appropriate here

[ruby python]

I'm really sorry to bother you about this, but it's seriously annoying. what am I supposed to be assigning to 'actualDistance'? Need a break and food, but this is the last 'bit' I need to figure out. lol.

[modest dust]

Had only the second option available before, didn't have my VS configured

Well then, you have your answer.

Also, he's probably using Resharper

[gaunt ice]

struct Vertex{
  public Vector3 worldPosition;
  public List<int> nextPositions;//contains the indices in graph
}
Vertex[] graph;
```here you have a graph

[ruby python]

@short hazel (Sorry for the ping, but this is really frustrating me)

[short hazel]

What kind of inverse lerp do you have here?

[ruby python]

!code

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[ruby python]

I may have broken it.....lol.

gravityMultiplier = Mathf.InverseLerp(outerGravityRadius, targetDistance, actualDistance);

[short hazel]

Yeah, it's InverseLerp(outer, inner, distanceFromOuter)

[ruby python]

okay, 1 sec

Player distance from outer yes?

[short hazel]

Correct

[ruby python]

hmm, okay, well my playerdistance from outer (actualDistance) is correct and reporting correctly, but the multiplier stays at 0

[short hazel]

Ah wait the radius distances are in world space right? In that case you should be able to just put the player position there

[ruby python]

okay, 1 sec will give it a go before I have a tantrum. lol.

ah no, can't put the player position cause vector3

[wintry quarry]

the actual distance of the player from the planet

[ruby python]

Okay, I'm assuming the inner gravity radius (surface of the planet)

[wintry quarry]

i'm not 100% sure inverselerp actually works backwards like that so you might have to do

float gravityMultiplier = 1 - Mathf.InverseLerp(gravityInnerRadius, gravityOuterRadius, actualDistance);```

[ruby python]

Oh my god I am such a moron

I was setting my outergravitydistance variable to be how far above the innergravitydistance it was (ie 450), so the calculation didn't work because they needed the world distance.

Sorry guys, but seriously thanks for the help.

[verbal dome]

Far clip plane in the scene camera settings

You can select an object and hit F to focus on it in the scene view, this will auto adjust the clipåing planes

[solid verge]

I am trying to make two buttons and if you hold the button on the right the play will move until you stop holding. I tried Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) and it won't work.

i connected the void MoveToRight function to the button

[verbal dome]

Yeah that resets the clipping planes too.

[solid verge]

nvm i solved it

[rich adder]

flip it

[short hazel]

Looks like the script that makes the stuff "look at" the player is backwards

You need to multiply a vector by -1 somewhere

[ruby python]

Last thing with this now I promise. lol.

But I'm struggling to apply the gravity multiplier to the gravity value. (max gravity = -10)

  gravityMultiplier = 1-Mathf.InverseLerp(innerGravityRadius, outerGravityRadius, targetDistance);
  Debug.Log("Gravity Multiplier" + gravityMultiplier);
  //gravity = ..........;

No matter what I try it either goes nuts, or returns a value 1/10th that of the multiplier 😕

[short hazel]

Value check: all 3 values you pass to InverseLerp are relative to the center of the body (planet)

[ruby python]

Yes they are.

That was the problem with the other thing.

[short hazel]

Does the log show correct values?

[solid verge]

Yo how do i make so if you only click on the button a function works?

[ruby python]

Yes, it shows the correct multiplier based on the players distance to the surface of the planet.

[rich adder]

plug it to the OnClick function

or use Ipointerclickhandler

[solid verge]

But i want to make it so if i hold the button the function works

[ruby python]

This is the whole thing, for reference.....

https://pastebin.com/eb7L6063

[rich adder]

ohh you mean a keyboard button

use GetKey

[short hazel]

Gravity at the closest position (less than the inner radius) is -10, and goes to 0 the farther away you go, right?

[solid verge]

No

[solid verge]

mouse

[rich adder]

GetMouse

[ruby python]

That's correct, at the 'outeredge' the multiplier reads as 0, and on the surface it reads as 1.

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetMouseButton.html

[ruby python]

At 1, the 'actual' gravity should be -10.

[short hazel]

So you can execute the second part of the remap, which is passing the ratio you get from InverseLerp to a Lerp with the min and max gravity

grav = Lerp(minGrav, maxGrav, multiplierFromInverseLerp)

[solid verge]

If i use GetMouseButton it reacts to when i click anywhere on the screen

i want to react only when i hold it on the button

but when i assign a public void to on click

it doesn't work when i hold it

only when i click it

[short hazel]

Which means that for this, you do not want to do a 1 - for the InverseLerp

[rich adder]

use event tirggers
or
you need a custom script and use Ipointerclick interface

[solid verge]

how to use event trigers

[ruby python]

Okay, will give it a go 🙂 Thank you again.

Okay progress, it works and matches the distance, but it's 'inverted'

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-EventTrigger.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/SupportedEvents.html
https://styly.cc/tips/unity-eventtrigger-interaction/

[short hazel]

Show the few lines of code where you have the two Lerps

[ruby python]

OH! I just put the 1- back in and it works perfectly.

[short hazel]

Ah yeah I thought you were in the reversed configuration still, where the lerp was from the max radius to the min

[ruby python]

Aaah okay. Seriously though, both you and @wintry quarry thank you so much for the help.

[bronze yacht]

Hi Guys im doing a tutorial from YT and there was a point where i needed to programm Picking up items with raycast i did exactly the same thing but it doesnt work

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

public class SelectionManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static SelectionManager Instance {  get; set; }

    public bool onTarget;

    public GameObject Interaction_info_UI;
    Text interaction_text;

    private void Start()
    {
        interaction_text = Interaction_info_UI.GetComponent<Text>();

    }

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Instance != null && Instance != this)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Instance = this;
        }
    }


    void Update()
    {
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0));
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10))
        {
            var selectionTransform = hit.transform;

            if (selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>() && selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>().playerInRange)
            {
                onTarget = true;

                interaction_text.text = selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>().GetItemName();
                Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(true);
            }
            else //if there is a hit, but without an Interacable Script
            {
                onTarget = false; 
                Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(false);
            }
            
        }
        else //if there is no hit at all
        {
            onTarget = false;
            Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}  ``` 

Could somebody help me? Im so desperate to fix this problem so if anyone could help me i would pay 10$ to fix it

[short hazel]

Your errors mention line 32 of the script you posted. Something is null on that line, but you're trying to access it anyway, resulting in an error

a.b will fail if a is null, for example

[buoyant knot]

Is there a clean way to "bake" a property?

[short hazel]

to what?

[buoyant knot]

I have something like this

but I have a class that holds a collider, and the type of that collider stays fixed.

oh wait, should I just use a virtual extension method, and add it to each instead of downcasting?

or is that a bad idea?

the main issue is PolygonCollider2D just can't do it

[short hazel]

Static stuff can't be virtual, but you can add overloads of that method

[buoyant knot]

wdym

I want to basically tie get/set to a generic "radius"

[short hazel]

Multiple GetColliderSkin methods, with different parameter types

[eager elm]

is it possible that your camera is not tagged as mainCamera? Otherwise clicking on the error should show you the line

[buoyant knot]

but then how does Collider2D call it cleanly?

[bronze yacht]

How do i check?

[buoyant knot]

I feel like my Collider2D would be taking in an arg, and then using a switch case block to downcast... again

[short hazel]

Ah you mean you don't have the concrete type at runtime

Stick to the extension method with the switch

[buoyant knot]

I have a class which has a reference to Collider2D, which I believe is abstract

well, I am wondering if there is a clean way to just directly tie it, because the class that holds a collider2D is going to keep that type of collider

but it would also be better if I could just have a virtual extension method

[short hazel]

Is that class a MonoBehaviour? If not, you can make it generic with a type constraint

[buoyant knot]

I'm pretty sure Collider2D derrives from Monobehaviour

[short hazel]

From Component sure, but that's not the question

[bronze yacht]

Yes that was it but i still cant pick up items for some reason

[buoyant knot]

oh yes, the holding class derrives from MonoBehavuiour

[short hazel]

Take some debugging steps to see what's null on the affected line. See #💻┃code-beginner message

[bronze yacht]

ok

[buoyant knot]

this just sounds like a really simple challenge, but idk if I can avoid going through a switch-case every time I call

[eager elm]

make sure you have a InteractableObject component on the objects you want to click and that they have a collider. And that tutorial is kinda meh looking at the code you have posted.

[summer stump]

You also want to put print in a bunch of places to find what conditions are true and false

[short hazel]

Okay so making that one generic is not possible. I don't see a way of making that better with extension methods. Since these are static, making them virtual is not possible

I'd stick with the switch

[buoyant knot]

ugh, if only I could edit Unity classes -.-

ty

[bronze yacht]

Like this right

[buoyant knot]

another question: can I make an extension property?

[short hazel]

Just show line 32 of the script, if you didn't take the hint

[eager elm]

Can't you have a float value inside your own class that acts as your colliders radius?

[short hazel]

SelectionManager.cs

[bronze yacht]

I posted my Script before

[buoyant knot]

I will, but I need to very frequently read and assign to the collider during a frame

[eager elm]

he already fixed that, he has something else now

[buoyant knot]

mostly assign

[summer stump]

They figured out the error already

[short hazel]

What? Where

[summer stump]

It was the camera not tagged as MainCamera

[bronze yacht]

Well it doesnt show the error but it still doesnt work

and its still in that code

[short hazel]

Ah ok, they didn't explicitly say that was the issue lol

[bronze yacht]

picking up the items and the name getting displayed still doesnt work

[eager elm]

as the other comment said, use Debug.Log("some text"); to figure out what code isn't getting called

[bronze yacht]

yeah doing that rn

So i did debuging like this Here 3 and Here 4 where called but 1 and 2 wasn't

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

public class SelectionManager : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static SelectionManager Instance {  get; set; }

    public bool onTarget;

    public GameObject Interaction_info_UI;
    Text interaction_text;

    private void Start()
    {
        interaction_text = Interaction_info_UI.GetComponent<Text>();
        Debug.Log("Here 1");
    }

    private void Awake()
    {
        if (Instance != null && Instance != this)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            Instance = this;
        }
    }


    void Update()
    {
        Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0));
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10))
        {
            var selectionTransform = hit.transform;

            if (selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>() && selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>().playerInRange)
            {
                onTarget = true;

                interaction_text.text = selectionTransform.GetComponent<InteractableObject>().GetItemName();
                Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(true);
                Debug.Log("Here 2");
            }
            else //if there is a hit, but without an Interacable Script
            {
                onTarget = false; 
                Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(false);
                Debug.Log("Here 3");
            }
            
        }
        else //if there is no hit at all
        {
            onTarget = false;
            Interaction_info_UI.SetActive(false);
            Debug.Log("Here 4");
        }
    }
}```

[buoyant knot]

@short hazel In a similar vein, is there a smarter way than this:

[summer stump]

You don't need to debug start. Do EVERY if in update
Especially important is right after the raycast

[bronze yacht]

wdym

what do i place

in the code

[summer stump]

There is a line that says raycast.
The line after it
That is the most important debug

[bronze yacht]

and there i place debug.log something

and check if it is called

[short hazel]

No, not really. So stupid for them to have a base class and not pull the common properties up to it

[buoyant knot]

if only the language had the tools to work around it

[short hazel]

Yep, inheritance! But it's not even used here lol

That's what you get for trying to support multiple languages at once, and not even modify the stuff when all the alternative languages are dropped

[brazen canyon]

Guys I need a little help
How to regenerate the json-like file for this Input system

[short hazel]

You have auto-save enabled, so modifications are applied instantly. What's the real question here?

[brazen canyon]

So I added that Jumper Action recently
After I generate this file

So when I subscribe a function to this action

This error shows up

[short hazel]

Are you looking at the right file? Its name does not match the Input Actions Asset

[brazen canyon]

I know, I named it so nothing get confused ._.

[summer stump]

Did you originally name it Jump?

[short hazel]

You can't rename it yourself!

[brazen canyon]

The first time I added, Yes

[short hazel]

Well you can, but only in the "Generate C# class" options

[brazen canyon]

Then I changed to see if it works with different names

[short hazel]

It won't. It will generate a new one named PlayerMovement on each save of the Input Actions Asset

Unless you modify it directly from the generation settings

[summer stump]

Where did you change it?

[brazen canyon]

Not exactly "change"
I deleted it and created a new action with a new name

[nimble sorrel]

Sorry to interrupt, but I'm having a bit of trouble with hitbox colliders and onTriggerEnter. I've added a box collider to my player gameObject, checked the "isTrigger" box, and did the same for my enemy. theoretically, the OnTriggerEnter method on my playerController script should activate when the two box colliders overlap (right?). However, as far as I can tell, the method seems to be getting called when the enemy's hitbox overlaps at all with the player's gameObject, rather than the collider. Is there something I'm missing here?

oh I think I've found the issue - or started to at least

it seems rather than activating on the gameobject, it's activating on the second hitbox I added to a child of the player (I used a child object to handle interactions)

[brazen canyon]

I wonder if I can delete this old file and make it generate a new one ?

[short hazel]

It already generated a new one. If you need to change its name, then do so from the Inspector

[nimble sorrel]

First solution that comes to mind is to reorganize my prefab hierarchy so that the two objects containing their colliders are even with each other? Since I believe Unity uses colliders from children objects as well. But rather than reorganizing my hierarchy is there not a way to just...consider the colliders separately?

[short hazel]

Select the asset => where you ticked "Generate C# class", you'll have a field where you can type a class name

[knotty gust]

why am i getting a sharing violation on path error here https://hatebin.com/qspkbelvvn

[eager elm]

if Here 2 is not logged but Here 3 than it means the object you clicked doesn't have the InteractableObject component or the player is not in range.

[short hazel]

Due to bad code! What happens if an exception occurs say on line 11? Your stream is never closed, you have a dangling open stream to the file now. Trying to open another one throws this exception. You're good for a Unity and/or whole computer restart now.
And use a using statement to properly handle file access!

[knotty gust]

i see

[eager elm]

and while you are at it, use XML or JSON to save files

[knotty gust]

using statement?

[short hazel]

using (FileStream fs = ...)
{
    // Use the stream as 'fs' variable
}
// stream automatically disposed, even if an exception occurs

[knotty gust]

okay okay

[knotty gust]

how are they better?

[short hazel]

Whatever type of stream you use really, as long as it implements IDisposable, it should be done in a using statement to avoid memory leaks or unclosed handles

[bronze yacht]

i was able to fix it thank you so much so do you have paypal?

[knotty gust]

is iDisposable always used in the filestream?

or is it something i would have to implement myself

[short hazel]

The class implements IDisposable yes

[nimble sorrel]

is there any way to tell a script to ignore the collider on a GameObjects that's a child to the GameObjects storing the script (and the collider that I do want to use)? or do I just have to restructure my hierarchy so that the two GameObjects are even

[short hazel]

You'll get a compiler error anyway if you try to put something that does not implement IDisposable into a using statement

[real void]

hey how could I make a list in C# like this im new to scripting and this would help a lot!

[knotty gust]

okay thank you

[rich adder]

public List<MyType> myList
public MyType[] myArray

[real void]

Thank you!

[rich adder]

consider using
[SerializeField] private
instead of public when possible

[summer stump]

More flexible. More control over where they go. You can have more than one file. Just as easy. Just better in every way

You can also use BinaryWriter. Any custom file will do ya

[knotty gust]

okay ill look into it, thanks

[eager elm]

you don't have to convert everything to string and than convert back manually

[knotty gust]

so its better for writing to the file?

[short hazel]

I use zip files to store stuff. Especially useful if you have multiple payloads to save, System.IO.ZipArchive allows edit of a single entry without unpacking the archive and re-packing it again

Keeps everything tidy in a single file for the user, if they ever need to move it around

[knotty gust]

that would be useful later on

thank you

[short hazel]

Basically a small file system in a single file. Lots of programs do that, Office files are ZIP files containing some XML

You can change the extension of an xlsx file to zip, and explore how it's made inside

[nimble sorrel]

I'm sorry to pester but can I please get a response to my question? a simple "no, you have to redo the hierarchy" would be fube I just wanna know if there's an option or a feature that I'm missing. Is there something wrong with how I'm asking my questions?

[summer stump]

It's not clear what you mean. Are you talking about physics messages like OnTriggerEnter or OnCollisionEnter or just actual collisions and bumping things.

[nimble sorrel]

physics messages - specifically onTriggerEnter

[summer stump]

Put the script on the child and send the info up to the parent

If you want the other way. Then not really. A rigidbody will treat all child colliders as one compound collider

[nimble sorrel]

the issue I'm having is that I'm trying to have the player respond to the enemy when the enemy collides with a small hitbox on the player (functionality that I execute in OnTriggerEnter), but the functionality is getting activated on a larger trigger that I have as a component on a child to the player GameObject

[nimble sorrel]

This answers it, thank you.

will the child object (soon to be a sibling) need it's own rigidbody?

[summer stump]

If you want it to react to physics yes.

[nimble sorrel]

it doesn't use any physics or anything - just checks whether the player is in range of interactable objects

[summer stump]

If it is a trigger collider, it just needs one of the colliding objects to have a rigidbody. So either THAT would have the rigidbody, or the thing hitting it needs one

You can also check out spatial queries though. Like OverlapSphere or raycasts or CheckBox (there are a bunch)

[nimble sorrel]

unfortunately the enemies do not have a rigidbody (they're ghosts so I'm using that as an excuse to not have them manage physics or pathfinding), so I suppose that means I need to add a rigidbody

I may check out those other options, but I'd rather avoid reworking the whole system if I can avoid it

thank you

[silver dock]

Im trying to save character information to playerprefs (which it does according to Debug.Log), then load it (which it again does), and then update the ui with loaded data (which it does) but apparently every stat is just "0" instead of the value that was saved from the last session. anyone willing to look at my script and tell me where i went wrong?

[jaunty wing]

var NormalizedDirection = Direction.normalized;
        
// Set the velocity
playercharacter.velocity = NormalizedDirection * speed;

Am I able to multiply

var NormalizedDirection = Direction.normalized;

by something so that the velocity is realitive instead of being world space?

[nimble sorrel]

I think rather than multiplication you'd want to add the transform of the object who's position you want the relative position to be based on

[verbal dome]

transform.InverseTransformDirection

Thats one way

[jaunty wing]

Thanks

[silver dock]

its just a text based game, i dont need to save positions, just some values

[summer stump]

They responded to the wrong person.
And yeah, show !code. Not much we can help with without it

[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

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
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.

[silver dock]

https://hatebin.com/qynvdfnzdr

[nimble sorrel]

omg I sure did respond to the wrong person mb

[silver dock]

lol

[brazen canyon]

Excuse me I need a little help
The Generate C# File button is gone.

[eager elm]

why do you call gameManager.LoadCharacterData(); and not the method on the same script? NVM

[verbal dome]

#🖱️┃input-system

[eager elm]

It's hard to tell but maybe the problem is that you update the UI twice, once in the Load method and then in UpdateUI().

[summer stump]

I see you have a LoadCharacterData in the gamemanager too?

[short hazel]

Select the asset in your project files.

[verbal dome]

Are you sure you dont have an extra object that is also writing to the PlayerPrefs?

[brazen canyon]

Thank you
I found it

[gray flower]

for some reason when i imported a unity project it didnt automatically generate a csproj for me. and so when i open a script it always leads to the start screen of vs studio. anyway to generate one? (im in version 2022.1.4f1 btw)

[nimble sorrel]

upon finding other issues with the hierarchy restructure I decided to check out overlapCircle (I'm in 2d). but I see that it's also a collider - won't that still cause the player's rigidbody to use the overlapCircle in it's composit collider?

[summer stump]

No, it won't be attached to the object. So it won't be included

[nimble sorrel]

huh ok nice, ty

wish me luck I've already spent a lot longer on this than I expected lol

"oh I just need to go in and adjust the size of the player's hitbox that'll be the easiest thing on this todo list" (<- naive and foolish)

[silk night]

Set your editor to VSCode in the preferences

and !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)
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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[silver dock]

mhm yeah thats not the problem, i just tried removing the updateui() method

[gray flower]

already done that

[silver dock]

yea its empty tho

[silk night]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/wEHUpuZA88.png/raw do you have those options?

[eager elm]

use Debug.Log(age); right after to load it to see if the problem is with playerprefs or not

[gray flower]

i dont. how do you even get these?

[silver dock]

yea im sure, there is nothing else writing to playerprefs

[silver dock]

it logs with 0

[summer stump]

After you save and stop the game (and before loading), navigate to the PlayerPrefs file and look at it

[silk night]

Did you install Visual Studio atleast once?

[gray flower]

i have visual studio?

[silver dock]

where can i locate that file?

[silk night]

nvm