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[summer stump]

Google "playerprefs unity".
The path is different for differen operating systems

[eager elm]

Then saving is the problem. For example you never set 'age' to anything. I recommend you dont split the ui display stuff and the generating stuff into different methods, the way you do it is gonna make you error prone.

and my guess is that maxStatValue is not actually set to 100 in the inspector. If you have a serialized variable than the inspector will overwrite that value and the one you have assigned in the code doesn't matter.

[verbal dome]

@silver dock Saving all the data to playerprefs in lateupdate is a bit odd too. Would be better to save only when data changes

[silver dock]

no its set to 100 in the inspector, and im not sure what you mean by your first text

[silver dock]

what method should i save it in? only the update gets called again and again afaik, rest need to be called

[silver dock]

yea its 0

[eager elm]

In GenerateCharacter() you don't assign any value to your 'age' variable. https://hatebin.com/dplcplqucl

ah crap, UpdateUI() should be called in GenerateCharacter() and not SaveCharacterData()

[queen adder]

What's the best approach to make any world gameobject do something when they are clicked?

[languid spire]

Use the IPointerClick interface

[queen adder]

i tried that, idk why it wont work on non-ui

had to add an image and put it under a world space canvas for it to work

[prisma hound]

is the scripting for pc game dev and android game dev same and we just have to build it for android after coding in pc????

[gaunt ice]

the input handling maybe different

[prisma hound]

yes but except that????

i have just started unity so i dont really know anything about it

like are the classes and their methods same for pc and android?

[gaunt ice]

there maybe some sdk targeted for either pc or mobile, but i think you dont need to worry about this

[prisma hound]

oh

where can i find resources for learning unity for android?

[queen adder]

https://unity.com/mobile-solution-guide

[prisma hound]

Tysm

[wanton swallow]

does anyone know how to make the automatic firing mode work with the new input system?

private void Start()
    {
        switch (firingMode)
        {
            case FiringMode.Auto:
                inputManager.playerControls.Shooting.Mouse1.started += _ => Shoot();
                break;

            case FiringMode.Semi:
                inputManager.playerControls.Shooting.Mouse1.started += _ => Shoot();
                break;

            case FiringMode.Burst:
                inputManager.playerControls.Shooting.Mouse1.started += _ => Invoke("BurstFire", 0);
                break;
        }
}

i don't know how to read if the mouse is being held and if it's being pressed

[queen adder]

aww, onmousedown doesnt work on tilemap collider 🥹

ig no other option than to raycast and IClickable interface

[short hazel]

Raycast, get hit point, execute tilemap.GetTile(point) to check which tile you hit

[rich adder]

think you might also need WorldToGrid

[short hazel]

Yeah, docs aren't clear on whether the point you pass to GetTile are world coords or cell coords

I guess they are since the method only accepts a Vector3Int

[rich adder]

yeah, I just look at Vector3Int and assume grid

[queen adder]

dont think id need to know what i hit, i just need to do something if the mouse hit any tilemap

anyways, what is the raycast format for making a raycast from mouse click to world pos?

[rich adder]

ohh in that case you still need WorldToGrid
raycast pos != gridpos/tilemap

[rich adder]

ViewToRay or ViewToWorld

[queen adder]

            Vector2 ray = mapCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit2D[] hits = Physics2D.RaycastAll(ray, Vector2.zero, 1, LayerMask.GetMask("Ally", "Enemy"));```just copied from my other game 😅

havent used that viewtoray before though

[rich adder]

do note if you choose ray instead of pos you need tilemap collider

[queen adder]

this is just what i want to hit anyway

if i hit any of that tilemap, i want to show a menu

[rich adder]

var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); var cols = Physics2D.RaycastAll(ray.origin, ray.direction, float.MaxValue, tilemapLayer);

not sure RaycastAll is really needed tbh lol

[queen adder]

rc all cause the tilemap can overlap it's weird yea 😄

[rich adder]

yea i suppose

[queen adder]

shame, cant derive from collider 🥹

[rich adder]

what is even the point of doing that lol

also that switch 😬

[steady isle]

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

public class FollowPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform player;
public Vector3 offset;
// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
transform.position = player.position + offset;
}
}

what is the error in that

[rich adder]

yu tell me

[steady isle]

wat

[summer stump]

If you got an error, you need to tell us what it is
How would we know?

[steady isle]

should i send code too

[steady isle]

sry i started yesterday

[rich adder]

looks like you have a copy of this script

[languid spire]

duplicate script

[steady isle]

how to fix that

[fringe pollen]

Delete the duplicate

[summer stump]

Delete the duplicateS

[steady isle]

i only have 3

different ones

[summer stump]

Show the project window where the scripts are

The error is saying you have multiple script duplicates

[rich adder]

the filename might be different but the classes are copies somewhere, search through VS

[summer stump]

Show the main assets folder too

[languid spire]

there you go

[summer stump]

And there they are..

[steady isle]

yea i got that

mb

im so dumb

[summer stump]

Probably held control while moving them?
Which will copy move

[steady isle]

oh

i needa learn how to read errors😅

[brazen canyon]

Excuse me guys
Can anyone explain this fuction for me please ?
Thank you

Why the formula is Sqrt(jumpHeight * -3.0f * Grav) ?

[timber urchin]

player look

[grim stream]

I enabled PixelPerfect on the canvas and now my background image just stoped displaying. Why?

[summer stump]

Not a code question
#💻┃unity-talk

[rich adder]

square root of jumpHeight * grav * -3

[brazen canyon]

Yes, but why is (jumpHeight * -3 * Grav ) ?

[eager elm]

There is no reason for it to use Matf.Sqrt, you can replace it with something else, especially since it doesn't seem to change

[brazen canyon]

Oh

[eager elm]

it's just some numbers someone threw together

no idea why gravity is even in there

[rich adder]

Unity wrote it

[brazen canyon]

You mean why Gravity is even in here despite the existence of Unity's built in components like Rigidbody ?

I don't know

The guy I'm watching, he did it

[rich adder]

because Character Controllers don't have gravity, just a simple form of it

so you have to make custom usually

[brazen canyon]

WHATTTTT ???

[rich adder]

https://medium.com/@brazmogu/physics-for-game-dev-a-platformer-physics-cheatsheet-f34b09064558
here is some outlines on the physics parts

[brazen canyon]

What else can we use other than Character Controller ?

[rich adder]

Rigidbody

[queen adder]

i'll have handle in default for what to do when i hit many things

[brazen canyon]

Thanks

[rich adder]

eh why not just if(hits.length >0 )

but also that GetComponent is a possible race condition you might want to fix

always replace GetComponent wit TryGetComponent

unless you're doing parent or child i suppose

[eager elm]

I guess the formula is the way it is so when you set the jump height to 3 the character will always jump 3 units up, no matter how high the gravity is

[brazen canyon]

Why ?
Is there something wrong with GetComponent<>() ?

[brazen canyon]

Ohhhh

[rich adder]

because it gives you a sense of Defensive coding by having a nice check for null

[queen adder]

le trygetcomponent hits[0].transform.GetComponent<IClickable_L>()?.Left(); 😄

[rich adder]

if(hits[0].TryGetComponent(out IClicable_L clickableL))
{
clickableL.Left();
}

[queen adder]

low budget tryget 🥹

[rich adder]

same concept

[queen adder]

u2017 dont have tryget 😭

[rich adder]

oh fr?

bonkers

[queen adder]

yea, been a pain from the beginning

[rich adder]

ehh make your own extension method 🧠

[queen adder]

always had to getcomp, then null check a cached var

[brazen canyon]

there are {} and Left() ?

[rich adder]

yes just saw that u were missing that in switch 😉

[brazen canyon]

What's with the Left() ?

[rich adder]

ops just missing a )

[rich adder]

idk its their method in the script lol

[brazen canyon]

Yeah I saw this line of code and got curious.
Don't mind me

[rich adder]

TryGetComponent is just a shorter way to write

var myComponent = transform.GetComponent<MyClass>();
        if(myComponent != null)
        {
            myComponent.DoStuff();
        }```

[queen adder]

the ? operator looking at tryget while sipping tea

[brazen canyon]

I wish I knew this before one of my test

[steady isle]

when i am typing my code a lot of times the thing where you click tab to autofill doesnt show up

why is that

[rich adder]

anytime you use a component is good practice to do != null before using it

just incase its not there you don't get NRE (null reference exceptions)

[rich adder]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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[rich adder]

configure it

[queen adder]

actually, why does tryget have to exist when ? can do its job?

[rich adder]

Unity components dont support it

[short hazel]

?. cannot do its job with Unity objects

Doesn't check for the "destroyed but not null yet" state of them

[brazen canyon]

Welp
Sleep time
It's half past 2 am
I got a game making class tomorrow

I mean today moring

[rich adder]

also ??=

unity cant

(for unity components)

[queen adder]

i dont even know what that does so ig izzfine

[rich adder]

you can use it for Coroutines for example though

[short hazel]

?., ?[], ??, and ??= yeah, these do not play well with anything deriving from UnityEngine.Object

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/null-coalescing-operator#examples

[acoustic arch]

so on each weapons item data it holds the weapons prefab

can i just instantiate the object as a child of the weapon holder and destroy whatever was being held originally to switch between weapons?

if so how do you instantiate as a child object

[short hazel]

Instantiate has a few overloads that take a Transform as their last argument, this is the transform that will be the parent

[queen adder]

shhh... I cant even hit the tilemapcolider```cs

    if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        Debug.Log("Clicked");
        if(!EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
        {
            Debug.Log("here");
            // var raycasthit = Physics2D.RaycastAll()
            Vector2 ray = camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit2D[] hits = Physics2D.RaycastAll(ray, Vector2.zero, 1, LayerMask.GetMask("Clickable"));
            switch(hits.Length)
            {
                case 0:
                    break;
                case 1:
                    Debug.Log("Clicked one");
                    hits[0].transform.GetComponent<IClickable_L>()?.Left();
                    break;

            }
        }
    }```I'm hitting a normal box colider though..

[slender nymph]

are you certain that hits.Length isn't perhaps more than 1 when you click on a tilemap collider?

you should also ideally be using the NonAlloc version of that method rather than allocating an array each time you click

[queen adder]

i am currently testing with normal raycast

not all, still not hitting it

im hitting other kinds of collider though

[steady isle]

when I am trying to make the score add by 1 every 1/10 of a second how can i code that (picture provided is my current code)

[slender nymph]

you need to show the current code. also why are you even using a raycast rather than OverlapPoint?

[queen adder]

        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            Debug.Log("Clicked");
            if(!EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
            {
                Debug.Log("here");
                // var raycasthit = Physics2D.RaycastAll()
                Vector2 ray = camera.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
                RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(ray, Vector2.zero, 1, LayerMask.GetMask("Clickable"));
                if (hit.collider != null)
                {
                    Debug.Log("Clicked one");
                    hit.transform.GetComponent<IClickable_L>()?.Left();
                }
            }```

mb, but this is the current code

[queen adder]

score += Time.deltaTime * 0.1f

[steady isle]

it currently shows a rly big decimal in gamefor my score instead of adding it by 0.1 im not sure why

[steady isle]

I forgot about delta time ty

[queen adder]

it is continous though, it doesnt do ticks that are actually each 0.1 sec

[steady isle]

yea i see that

[queen adder]

if you wants ticks, usea coroutine

[slender nymph]

btw are you certain the colliders are where you think they are? since you've not bothered to enable gizmos we can't actually see them

[steady isle]

its still a rly long decimal

[slender nymph]

yes that's what happens when you just print a double without formatting it
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings

[queen adder]

the gizmos are over the tilemap, lemme get a SS

[slender nymph]

while you're at it, you should print useful information instead of these practically useless "here" logs

[queen adder]

idk if it's visible, but there's a very thin green gizmos in side the tilemap layout

[steady isle]

i dont get it

[slender nymph]

you're just printing the double without formatting it. so it's going to print the entire thing. and if you haven't learned about floating point inaccuracies then you should go learn about that now

[queen adder]

string formattedFloat = score.ToString("F2");

for 2 decimals

[steady isle]

there still is a lot of decimals and i just tryna get a whole number

[queen adder]

then F0

[steady isle]

alr

this what showing up

[slender nymph]

show your code

[slender nymph]

lmao

you're not even using the formattedFloat. you're also formatting it before you assign to it

[steady isle]

so what should i do

[queen adder]

🥹

[modest dust]

Damn

Probably a programming course

[queen adder]

use the formattedstring in the line that changes the text

[pseudo frigate]

i was trying to follow along with a tutorial and they said to copy the script on the screen but dont ever show all of line 67 here:

https://pastebin.com/FKjKzsM2

    Quaternion ClampRotationAroundXAxis(Quaternion q) 
    {
        q.x /= q.w;
        q.y /= q.w;
        q.z /= q.w;
        q.w = 1f;
 
        float angleX = 2f * Mathf.Rad2Deg * Mathf.Atan
 
        angleX = Mathf.Clamp(angleX, minimumX, maximumX);
        q.x = Mathf.Tan(0.5f * Mathf.Deg2Rad * angleX);
        return q;
 
    }

what is likely to be the end of that? " float angleX = 2f * Mathf.Rad2Deg * Mathf.Atan"

[slender nymph]

i believe the correct answer to solving this issue is "use cinemachine"

[daring tundra]

Is there a common/known way of avoiding OnTriggerExit2D being called when a player exits out of the game while inside a trigger?

When I exit the game in Unity while inside a trigger, OnTriggerExit2D is called and I don't want that to happen

[languid spire]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-wantsToQuit.html

[slender nymph]

i don't think that is supposed to happen 🤔 are you sure OnTriggerExit is being called when the game is closing?

[flat slate]

!code

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Posting code

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

[flat slate]

https://gdl.space/vusagisaba.cs

this is my script

[steady isle]

that no work 😦

[flat slate]

but unity says that "sentences.Clear();" doesnt references an object

[slender nymph]

show your code

[slender nymph]

you changed nothing functionally. all you did was move the line

[steady isle]

so wat i gotta do

[modest dust]

A programming course

[slender nymph]

you're probably calling StartDialogue either before Start has been called or on the wrong object (like on a prefab)

[modest dust]

If you can't solve an issue of this level then a programming course would be best

[slender nymph]

start with the beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[modest dust]

Because at this rate we would just end up babysitting you through every script you make

[languid spire]

look at your code, at which point do you want to turn scrorefr into a string?

[neon sparrow]

instead of using the ScoreFr variable you should use formattedFloat

also you should probably set formattedFloat after you update Scorefr

[slender nymph]

inb4 formattedFloat += Time.deltaTime * 1f

[queen adder]

OMG!!..... IT WAS THE RULETILE...

ruletile is using the sprite as collider

now i gotta manual these all ig

[steady isle]

so just changing the naem of the variable?

[slender nymph]

lol no

[neon sparrow]

no

[modest dust]

Dear god

[slender nymph]

please do yourself a favor and go learn the basics instead of wasting your time by guessing how you are supposed to code

[neon sparrow]

read your code slowly

point out where you use formattedFloat

not where you assign it, but where you actually use it

[steady isle]

to make my variable scorefr formatted

[steady isle]

so the line where i set the text

[neon sparrow]

not why

but where

[flat slate]

the problem is that the name Textmesh works but the dialogue not

[neon sparrow]

right

[steady isle]

the line where i set the text

[queen adder]

tbh it's a "learn c#" scenario already

[neon sparrow]

but what variable are you using there

[slender nymph]

huh?

[steady isle]

scorefr

[neon sparrow]

and you should be using...

[steady isle]

formattedFloat

[neon sparrow]

there we go

[steady isle]

but i tried it

[neon sparrow]

well try it now

and show what youve tried

[neon sparrow]

ok

why did you change the code

you just need to replace one variable

[short hazel]

It's not a float, and it's not formatted lmao

[polar acorn]

What's the point of multiplying by 1?

[flat slate]

the name is working and it starts aswell from the StartDialogue but the dialogueText doesnt work either it has to start with the StartDialogue function

[daring tundra]

That doesn't work if the player crashes right?

[slender nymph]

what do you mean by "doesn't work"? are you still referring to the NullReferenceException?

[flat slate]

it doesnt show up

[polar acorn]

What is formattedFloat

[languid spire]

nothing works if the player crashes

[slender nymph]

well i'm not a mind reader so i don't know what you mean by "it doesn't show up"

[flat slate]

as you see here

[steady isle]

Idk I was told to replace the variable

[modest dust]

I believe it would be faster to just take a C# course instead of guessing

[slender nymph]

if you cannot even explain what you think is supposed to be happening then i'm not going to continue to try helping you

[flat slate]

look

[neon sparrow]

that is not what i meant

[steady isle]

Oh Rory

Sorry

[flat slate]

the dialogue text has to show below the "....." but it doesnt

and i dont know why

[queen adder]

aight... that's now the most anticlimactic debug for the month..

[neon sparrow]

in here, just replace "Score: " + scorefr; with "Score: " + formattedFloat;

its really not that hard

[daring tundra]

right, but a trigger could still be abused that way if they deliberately crash their game and thus leave the trigger in the eyes of the game

[steady isle]

Can you please explain what formatted float does

[neon sparrow]

what 😭

its your code man

[modest dust]

Ok, that's actually getting funny now

[polar acorn]

Once again, what is formattedFloat

There's nothing called that in the code

[neon sparrow]

click the message i replied to

[slender nymph]

if is your double formatted to 0 decimal places like you asked for before. this is why you need to stop wasting our time and go learn the fucking basics man

[neon sparrow]

its his old code

which i have no idea why he changed

[languid spire]

what? The player has crashed there is no game

[slender nymph]

someone else gave them that line unfortunately

[modest dust]

He changed it because he has no idea what he's doing. Just let him go so he can learn the basics, nothing good will come out of this

[neon sparrow]

😔

[daring tundra]

actually true, but i still want to avoid OnTriggerExit being called just to be sure

[polar acorn]

If the question is just how to display a float with some number of decimals, why not just use ToString with a number formatter?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/standard-numeric-format-strings

[slender nymph]

have you even bothered confirming that it is being called in that circumstance? because it shouldn't be

[languid spire]

good luck trying to catch something when your code has completely stopped running and is probably no longer even in memory

[daring tundra]

yes, the code debug.logs whenever it exits the trigger and it debug.logs that specific message everytime I stop the game

but i thought that was normal since i haven't done anything weird

[slender nymph]

weird seems it's probably a quirk of 2d since it does not happen with 3d. either way though, it really shouldn't affect anything the game has technically already started quitting at that point since it's called after the Application.quitting event is invoked

[steady isle]

I was doing brackeys’s course on how to make a video game and the way he did the score made me want to do it a slightly different way I started yesterday and I am still learning how everything is used together

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses linked in the pins. start there.

[steady isle]

Ok got it

[steady isle]

Should I be starting with c# and unity in the first place tho

[slender nymph]

my opinion is that you should learn c# separately from unity first. then it will be easier to learn how to use the unity engine's API

[steady isle]

Got it

So I’ll try learning c# without unity then thank you

[sour fulcrum]

Though it can be valuable to look at it in a Unity context for practical applications and examples of more general c# concepts

[steady isle]

heres the result btw

[sour fulcrum]

Inheritance as a whole is really easy to understand with game examples etc.

[neon sparrow]

Still not it

[steady isle]

i legit copy pasted what u wanted me to do tho

[polar acorn]

You should instead read things and learn what they mean instead of copy pasting

[steady isle]

i now understand what formattedFloat is but idk y its not workin

[polar acorn]

formattedFloat does not exist

[steady isle]

do i gotta call it

[polar acorn]

You have nothing by that name

[steady isle]

thats why i was confused as to why _tud was giving me that code line

[slender nymph]

but you did have a variable by that name. you just removed it for no reason

[steady isle]

cuz it didnt do anything

[slender nymph]

which, again, is why you've been told to just go learn the basics

[steady isle]

ima try once more

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

because you weren't using it. stop wasting your time and go learn how c# works

[sour fulcrum]

People on this discord aren’t professionals dropping polished videos, not all help is going to be perfect and various assumptions will be implied in certain suggestions. It’s a lot harder to take suggestions at face value if you don’t understand them fundamentally

It’s really not easy starting to code

[slender nymph]

fun fact, this is what they are trying to use. it was just being stored in a local variable because someone else posted that as an example and they just took it literally and dropped the line into their code with no thought as to what it is or how to use it

[steady isle]

i am on the website, with no help as to what to look at

because dropping a link is enough

[slender nymph]

go learn the basics

[steady isle]

which pinned thingy do i use

[neon sparrow]

Learn basic syntax of c#

Little by little youre going to put them together

[polar acorn]

Intro to C#

[neon sparrow]

Then it just becomes intuition

[polar acorn]

shows you how to use, declare, and assign variables

[steady isle]

why is there a dollar sign

[steady isle]

so im using the dollar sign to call a variable within my statement?

[slender nymph]

start at the beginning and do all of it. and pay attention to it.

you clearly missed the part where it explained what that was for

[sour fulcrum]

honestly for that specific code tutorial example the $ seems a little unnecessary ngl

[slender nymph]

string interpolation is used a lot throughout that series of courses. they should pay attention to what is being taught to them so that they understand the following courses

[sour fulcrum]

I don't disagree but at such a early stage where imo a big aspect of stuff clicking is patter recognition it is abit of a curveball considering it's specific to strings and somewhat of a shortcut to doing that.

I think a big moment that helps a ton in understanding code at the start is figuring out what the author gets to name themselves and what is required based on the language rules

[earnest ginkgo]

Hey can someone give me an idea of how to make a character 2d move with buttons

[wintry quarry]

That's quite vague. Why not look for a 2d movement tutorial or follow unity learn

[summer stump]

Capture button input.
Create a vector from it.
Apply that using the rigidbody or transform

[acoustic arch]

can i make an object hold a prefab thats in the scene that can be changed?

so that if the active weapon gets swapped with another one the 2 prefabs switch with each other

[steady isle]

imagine it actually explained what that was for tho

[slender nymph]

you mean like this where it even helpfully links to the documenation page for it?

[steady isle]

yea like that

they should have something like that

[summer stump]

They do... the screenshot is from it lmfao

[steady isle]

where

[slender nymph]

this is why i told you to start with the first course and do all of them. then you wouldn't miss stuff from literally the second lesson in the first course

[steady isle]

Are there any easier languages with simpler syntax

That can help me build up to c# cuz I’m clearly not ready

[slender nymph]

it's going to take you even longer to learn if you go and learn a completely different language first

[steady isle]

Oh

[summer stump]

C# is pretty darn easy compared to many languages honestly. But there's things like python and ruby I guess. But it'll hold you back because they are substantially different. Just do the tutorials without skipping anything.

[uncut crypt]

Is there a way to refrence these values in a script

[ivory bobcat]

Reference the component. Access the properties.

[slender nymph]

those are the transform.localPosition localEulerAngles and localScale

[uncut crypt]

I mean how would write it in the script

[uncut crypt]

Thanks ill see if that works

I typed the message as the other one was sent

[slender nymph]

also make sure to look at the docs
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.html

[daring tundra]

I actually did it this way, I started with html/css and moved to javascript then to C#. See Supersimpledev's tutorials on Youtube to get started

[uncut crypt]

Is it possible to see values for a different object

[slender nymph]

what do you mean by "see values"

[rich adder]

easy: reference the other object

[uncut crypt]

how would you write that

Just plug in the obj name?

[slender nymph]

i'm gonna go learn how to make a bowl a cereal, learn how to cook a batch of meth, then i'm gonna finally learn how to bake a cake. that's basically what you've claimed to have done to learn c#

[rich adder]

making a reference should be something you outta learn, its not a particular code

eg
[SerializeField] private Transform someObject

ideally you use Components / Object (classes) directly instead of just Transform

depends what you do

[uncut crypt]

Okay

[daring tundra]

you mean javascript is harder?

[rich adder]

dynamically typed :\

messy

[slender nymph]

where did i say that?

[daring tundra]

cook a batch of metch then learn how to bake a cake

meth

[rich adder]

uh lets not reference hard drugs

[slender nymph]

yes, both of those things are not that difficult. but one of them is ruining lives

[daring tundra]

lmao

[fierce shuttle]

Prefabs dont exist in scenes, they exist in the project files, scenes can have references to prefabs though - what is it exactly that your trying to do? What is your use-case to add a bit more context to your question? Are you just trying to have input swap 2 prefabs that have been previously instantiated into the scene or something else?

[sour fulcrum]

(Also to extra clarify, Scenes can have references to prefabs and they can have instances of prefabs)

[fierce shuttle]

^ Yes, good note "instances" was the word I should have used, as its likely more relevant to what they are wanting to do

[ripe oyster]

Hi all! Having an issue here with my script (not made by me). Whenever the VRChat SDK tries to build my avatar, it comes back with these compiler errors and due to my non-existent knowledge of coding in Unity, I need help lol

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

public class FindAnimationClips : EditorWindow
{
    [SerializeField]
    private List<AnimationClip> _clips = new List<AnimationClip>();

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        var serializedObject = new SerializedObject(this);
        rootVisualElement.Add(new Button(GetAllClips) { text = "Get all clips" });
        rootVisualElement.Add(new Button(SetToLoop) { text = "Set Animations to loop" });
        rootVisualElement.Add(new Button(Unloop) { text = "Disable Animations loop" });
        rootVisualElement.Add(new PropertyField { bindingPath = nameof(_clips) });
        rootVisualElement.Bind(serializedObject);
        serializedObject.ApplyModifiedProperties();
    }

    [MenuItem("Tools/Multi-Anim Loop Toggle")]
    private static void Open() => GetWindow<FindAnimationClips>().Show();

    private void GetAllClips()
    {
        string[] guids1 = AssetDatabase.FindAssets("t:AnimationClip", null);

        foreach (string guid1 in guids1)
        {
            Debug.Log(AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid1));

            AnimationClip animClip = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<AnimationClip>(AssetDatabase.GUIDToAssetPath(guid1));

            if (!_clips.Contains(animClip))
            {
                _clips.Add(animClip);
            }
        }
    }

    private void SetToLoop() => CanLoop(true);

    private void Unloop() => CanLoop(false);

    private void CanLoop(bool canLoop)
    {
        foreach (AnimationClip clip in _clips)
        {
            var settings = AnimationUtility.GetAnimationClipSettings(clip);
            settings.loopTime = canLoop;
            AnimationUtility.SetAnimationClipSettings(clip, settings);
        }
    }
}

[slender nymph]

!vrchat

[eternal falcon]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[ripe oyster]

Its not a script from VRChat, its a custom script made a mod and a helper from this server

Its not something for VRChat either. Its stopping the upload of the avatar because the script has compiler errors

[slender nymph]

then it probably needs to be put into a folder titled Editor

[ripe oyster]

Ah! Perfect6! Might I ask why that worked?

[slender nymph]

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

content inside an Editor folder will not be included in the build process since it will be considered part of the editor assembly

[heady nimbus]

I'm suddenly getting this error and 2 warnings that I don't recognize... I'm not positive their related to each other... Anyone familiar with these?

[slender nymph]

the error is an editor error related to some graph editor window you have open. it can typically be ignored but if it bothers you just close which ever window uses the graph editor (animator, shader graph, etc)

the last two logs are warnings and unless you're writing code that uses jobs or native collections you can ignore them as well

[sturdy lintel]

In my scene I have some gameObjects that are inactive due to a toggle state. I want those inactive gameObjects to also get destroyed using the method below. But this is not happening. What changes are required ??

private void DestroyOtherAxisFrames(string node)
    {
        GameObject[] axisFrames = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("AxisFrame");

        foreach (GameObject obj in axisFrames)
        {
            if (obj.name.StartsWith("AxisFrame-") && !obj.name.Equals("AxisFrame-" + node))
            {
                Destroy(obj);
            }
        }
    }```

[slender nymph]

FindGameObjectsWithTag cannot find inactive objects
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag.html

[sturdy lintel]

any alternative then?

[heady nimbus]

I think they started popping up when I tried to create an async task, but I backed that code out. I don't believe I have a graph window open so I'm assuming I'll just need to restart unity to clear that one. Thanks!

[slender nymph]

get a proper reference to the objects instead of using any of the Find methods

[slender nymph]

you absolutely do have some window using a graph view open, otherwise that error would not happen. unless it is stale from when you did have one open

[heady nimbus]

I don't recall EVER opening one, because I don't even know what it is. Lol. But that doesn't mean I didn't open it at one point by accident. I believe you that's what it's from, I just don't have it now is all I'm saying

Oh holy hell I just had a bunch of them spam when I switched to the animator window now

[slender nymph]

my dude, the animator is a graph view

like, it's literally one of the two examples i gave of windows that would cause that error

[heady nimbus]

Oh shit my bad, I didn't see you say the animator

[queen adder]

Starting vector, travel a given distance at a given direction, new vector. How do I calculate the new vector?

[teal viper]

PointA + direction * distance

[silk night]

Is there an easy way to freeze gameplay (like objects falling, stopping animations) without having an effect on UI / UI animations?

setting timeScale to 0 messes with more than just the physics stuff 😄

[teal viper]

You could set the fixed timestep to 0 I guess.

[silk night]

Oh yeah right, ill try that, thanks 😄

[queen adder]

Danke

[teal viper]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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.

[topaz gorge]

now might someone know why i can save my game on my pc but on others and doesnt do anything, and i am using Application.persistentDataPath which im finding odd isnt working on other computers https://gdl.space/oqedusiziw.cs

[teal viper]

Do you see the error from the try catch block?

[topaz gorge]

No

which is my confusion

[teal viper]

How are you confirming that it doesn't work then?

[topaz gorge]

Ive had my friends try to make a new game on there pc's

[teal viper]

And?

[topaz gorge]

nothing

nothing happens

[teal viper]

How are you checking of the error was printed or not?

[topaz gorge]

https://gdl.space/qoninupupu.cs now this could also be the cause but im still not finding anything wrong

I even gave them the project files to load the project

and still nothing

[acoustic arch]

i'm sorry for such a late response but yeah i just to be able to have a child GameObject be able to be changed to whatever item is in the active slot

[topaz gorge]

now i was thinking at first that it was maybe there anti virus deleting files but thats also not the case either

[acoustic arch]

i'll probably have to Destroy, the Instantiate

[teal viper]

How do you know that the error was not printed?

[topaz gorge]

Because it never displayed itself or in any logs?

[teal viper]

What logs are you looking at?

[topaz gorge]

i looked through everything in the built version and project and still have nothing

[teal viper]

From your friends PC?

That experienced the issue?

[topaz gorge]

indeed using screen share they went through all of it

endless something was missed im at a loss here

[teal viper]

Try removing the try catch and letting them play the new build.

[topaz gorge]

Ill give it a go and let you know

[teal viper]

Also add more verbose logs at each stage of saving/loading.

[topaz gorge]

will do

[teal viper]

You want to see how far the execution went.

[topaz gorge]

for sure

[fierce shuttle]

That may be up to how you design your game, for mine I instantiate the weapons once, make them a child then disable all of them - I then have only 1 referenced as a variable, when I want to change weapons, disable the referenced one, enable the one I want to change to, and update the reference - if you will be destroying and instantiating weapons often (for example, maybe enemies drop weapons) you could look into an object pool

To give you a general idea of my approach, it looks something like this:

public Weapon drawnGun;
public List<Weapon> allGuns;

void SpawnGuns() { ... }

public void SwapToGun(int index)
{
if(drawnGun != null) {drawnGun.Disable();}
drawnGun = allGuns[index];
drawnGun.Enable();
}

Thats not verbatim code, but a general idea, some input might call SwapToGun and pass the next/previous index to switch to, and if a weapon is already in-hand, hide it, otherwise just swap the weapons - and SpawmGuns is where all of them would get instantiated and stored in the list once, or handled by an object pool if need-be

[acoustic arch]

i think my biggest problem now is referencing the child object weapon that is getting destroyed

and then instantiating a new weapon in place of it

[fierce shuttle]

Why might you want to destroy it as opposed to disabling it? Do you only plan to use the weapon once?

[acoustic arch]

well no but there's a lot of different weapons

[cosmic dagger]

i don't see why you need to destroy the weapon (unless it's single-use), but you should already have a reference to the gun you want to disable . . .

[acoustic arch]

it uses scriptable data and that holds the items prefab in it

if i just disable it that means i have to put every prefab as a child object of the holder?

but only some items have prefabs (only weapons or visual items)

it's a 2D game that works like an RPG where you have to craft the weapons and stuff

[fierce shuttle]

If you do not start with these weapons, then it might make sense to create them when you need them, and then keep them referenced in case the player wants to use them again at a later point in that game session, but if its a collection of weapons the player starts with, you could spawn them all initially in your "holder" and then hide all of them except for the one the player is currently trying to use - for example if you have a craftable sword, you dont have to instantiate that sword to your "holder" until the game is in a state where that sword should exist (ie: they have the materials to make it, its stored in some saved inventory, or part of some loadout, etc)

[acoustic arch]

so basically keep all items in the quick bar slots (they are all weapons or items the player can switch to holding) as disabled until active

and those disabled GameObjects become Destroyed and Instanced when being replaced by different items/weapons

i guess that makes sense

[fierce shuttle]

Thats one way, since you have a "quick bar" I would just keep all those items in the quick bar disabled until the player swaps to it, and only destroy/instantiate new ones if the player decides to modify the quick bar

[hybrid tapir]

i wonder how unity does the endless grid thing that the beat saber level editors have

[teal viper]

Probably a custom shader.

[hybrid tapir]

the custom platforms creation does require it to be made with a unity project with a 2018 version of the editor cuz of all this custom stuff (including shaders)

like a project from the creator of the mod has all this custom stuff in it

[teal viper]

Okay

[rich adder]

just play the audio clip. what would be the use case?

[silver dock]

History log prints in Debug.Log after being loaded, but doesnt update the UI text, pls help
https://hatebin.com/jcziovyhot

[cerulean stirrup]

i think he wants to play the audioclip through the microphone

[eternal needle]

how come you are doing historyText.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>() when historyText is already a TextMeshProUGUI?
If you manually put some text inside the tmpro component, do you see that one?

[silver dock]

thats not the issue here, even before i added that it wasnt updating the text

[eternal needle]

I understand that, but still that get component does nothing. You said the history log debugs meaning this is probably an issue with the tmp component. Did you try manually putting text in it and see if its visible?

[silver dock]

Yeah its visible

it just doesnt update it, cause its empty even in the inspecter

[eternal needle]

then i believe it isnt updating the correct tmpro object

do you have any console errors/ can you show a screenshot of the object that has HistoryLog on it?

[silver dock]

there is only one historytext, and its correctly assigned

[silver dock]

no console errors

[eternal needle]

if its truly referencing the correct object and the debug is printing some text for loadedHistory (not an empty string), then my only other guess would be that you are calling ClearHistory() somewhere or setting the text to empty somewhere else

[teal viper]

Or referencing a prefab

[eternal needle]

true it is probably referencing a prefab

[silver dock]

there's not a single prefab in this project

[teal viper]

Then one of the things that bawsi mentioned.

You can use a breakpoint or Debug.Break ot examine the state of the game at that point in time.

See if the text changes.

[supple wasp]

How can I make this block move, scale and rotate?

[gaunt ice]

Adjust the parameters in inspector or drag it with your mouse

[silver dock]

good guess

[eternal needle]

protip if you didnt use this, you can find anything thats using your method with this button Find All References

[silver dock]

Haha i just tried removing the method, and saw the console error, thanks

[dry spruce]

https://paste.myst.rs/vzfw56pq @summer stump

[summer stump]

So you have to change the type of the Text variables to TMP_Text
You had it as that from the screenshot here
#💻┃unity-talk message
Did you change it back?

[dry spruce]

yes

[summer stump]

Ok. Well that is the only issue. Change it to TMP_Text, then drag you Score object and the Timer object into the boxes. That is it

Text is a legacy type of component you aren't using. So you do not want that

[mystic oxide]

can anyone explain why the function not showing on OnClick

[summer stump]

Did you drag the script into OnClick or an object WITH the script attached? It has to be the latter

[mystic oxide]

it's showing on my other project, not on this.. strange

[mystic oxide]

still not showing up, i dragged the gameobject instead of dragging the script last project

[summer stump]

Got any compiler errors?

[mystic oxide]

nope

[static bay]

It doesnt match the signature of the UnityEvent

[summer stump]

Can you show the inspector again WITHOUT the dropdowns showing

Oh yeah huh. Multi-parameter methods aren't able to be subscribed via the inspector afaik. You have to subscribe via code
Good catch Lazy 😆

[static bay]

You can define a UnityEvent<string,string> and subscribe there.

But yes it's likely best to just subscribe via code and define where the parameters come from there.

That MainLogin class will need access to the Username and Password text fields to get their values.

[mystic oxide]

i could do it this way... but not sure its efficient/good

[gaunt ice]

Wrap the start coroutine to another method

[static bay]

It's completely reasonable to hook into events this way.

[summer stump]

In what way would it not be efficient or good?

[mystic oxide]

something about faster, tbh idk

but its work on other script

"hello" is the function

[summer stump]

Does it have two parameters?

[mystic oxide]

ah yes

wait

[summer stump]

It has 0 parameters

[mystic oxide]

yea its has zero

dosen't work for 2 i assume

[summer stump]

That was what we said above, yes

Only works with 1 or 0

In the inspector of course

[mystic oxide]

mb, bit skill issue with english language

anyway thanks!

[summer stump]

No worries!

[silver dock]

Is there something with this scriptable object script?
i cannot assign the items i create with it

[eternal needle]

show the script in the unity folder, the error is saying the file and class name are not matching

[silver dock]

like in the explorer?

[eternal needle]

in the unity project tab

but yea thats still a matching name

🤔 maybe u need to recompile or something, unless i am missing something

[fossil drum]

Isn't he trying to add the PetData as a component?

[silver dock]

im trying to assign them here

[fossil drum]

Yeah, you need to drag it into an Element slot

[silver dock]

yeah which leads to the error i showed above

[languid spire]

screenshot console

[eternal needle]

the error is different for me if i try

[fossil drum]

Whats the code for the PetItems list/array?

[snow mural]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/497873729578336276/1171001305351856230/image.png?ex=655b16f3&is=6548a1f3&hm=36c468f06148400e735388c8b465509f1dd16d6cac5fe9d44a3b828df9425fdb&

How do I get the light to invert? So only the edges are lit up instead of the edges being shadowed

[silver dock]

its empty

[fossil drum]

Like he asked, screenshot it, some new people hide the errors.

[eternal needle]

#archived-lighting probably? not a code question

[fossil drum]

Then the code for your list/array

[silver dock]

this?

[fossil drum]

Ah, are you adding the script instead of a scriptable object? Did you create one?

[languid spire]

wait, wait wait.
Are you trying to drag the script into there or a PetData asset you created?

[silver dock]

PetData asset

[languid spire]

show asset in project view

and inspector

[fossil drum]

This doesn't seem right to me. Can you create a new one?

[silver dock]

yeah i tried creating multiple new ones, its the same. is my unity broken? lol

[fossil drum]

Well I don't know then. Perhaps someone with more knowledge on SO's can help.

[sour fulcrum]

sometimes Unity can get weird like this if you renamed the class name then the .cs file or vis versa

try restarting Unity, or if that doesn't work deleting the Library folder from your project folder (this just holds cached data that it will rebuild when you delete the folder and re-open the project)

[silver dock]

thanks for the help guys, fixed it

[mild mortar]

Trying to use root motion atm on my character. Noticing a weird thing on the animator tab where my values (Lateral, forward) seem to constantly be changing in the animator and causing the character's animations to kick in some times. Like walking forward without any input from me.

Anyone have any ideas where I'm going wrong?

Code is too big for discord limit apparently so I just paste linked it

https://paste.ofcode.org/ys4VBmkqy7X35msK7jJ3zT

[queen adder]

Can somebody help me with this line

Ship_Rigid.AddForce(Ship_Rigid.transform.forward * EngineForce);

It does not move the ship at all
Its in 2D, everything is set up properly

[fossil drum]

Well if you say everything is setup correctly, what's the EngineForce then?

[gaunt ice]

set the engine force to be 100000

[fossil drum]

Oh, and it's 2D, forward is not valid in 2D. Use right or up.
Forward means it goes into the world.

[queen adder]

      // Calculate engine force to add
      float EngineForce = MovementInputRaw.y;
      EngineForce *= Acceleration;
      EngineForce *= Time.fixedDeltaTime;

[queen adder]

ahh thats probably it

Yep that fixed it

thanks

[fossil drum]

[obtuse aurora]

HELLO
I am trying to change this code from this video I found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=3sWTzMsmdx8
(it is a movement script)

I am attemting to change it from aswd keys to the arrow keys
Can I pritty please mabey have a little bit of help???

This is the code

[wintry quarry]

If it's using GetAxis then it already works with arrow keys

Anyway you haven't explained what issue you're having

[obtuse aurora]

I would just like to try and rewrite the code but to work with just the arrow keys and not the aswd keys

Like a local

game

[wintry quarry]

There is no need to rewrite any code to achieve this

[obtuse aurora]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Go into the input manager and remove the bindings of the axes from the wasd keys

[obtuse aurora]

Well thats good

[obtuse aurora]

Okay

right i have just relized that I have no idea were that is

[wintry quarry]

[obtuse aurora]

Is that it

[wintry quarry]

No you're still looking at code

Remember when I said this has nothing to do with code

Stop looking at code

[obtuse aurora]

okay

[dry spruce]

Why this is happing?

[wintry quarry]

Your code is trying to access a reference that isn't assigned to an object

[solar berry]

how to make 2D animation work when timescale=0?

[obtuse aurora]

@wintry quarry

[wintry quarry]

Yep that's the input manager you found it

[obtuse aurora]

I am very pleased

thank you for helping me

praetorBlue

also

Cute cat

[dry spruce]

solution?

[wintry quarry]

Stop doing that?

Make sure you have properly assigned all references before using them

[topaz mortar]

I have a pretty complex UI with lots of different windows and elements in it
Is there a way to trigger an event on right click, no matter where that right click happens?

Specifically: I have a button that changes the cursor to a sell icon and then when u click an item it sells that item
But I want the cursor to change back to standard if you right click anywhere
My issue is this logic is currently on the Item, and there's plenty of places on the UI that are not items

[gaunt ice]

cant you capture input in update loop?

[topaz mortar]

yeah but it only captures it when I click on an item

I have like 10 different UI windows that can all be open or closed

[thin sedge]

Hi! I'm making a sort of Space Shooter type game and was wondering how I would make the enemies spawn from any direction rather than from the top only. Please reply to this message so I get notified. :)

I can show any material needed

[topaz mortar]

there's tons of youtube guides on this

[thin sedge]

How have I not found any? I guess I'll look around more🤷‍♂️

[gaunt ice]

idk what is your design but you should be able to capture any mouse input independent of any UI

[topaz mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PfJZtnfc_Q&t=200s

[thin sedge]

I'll check it out! Thank you

[reef patio]

does anyone know how to create a trigger level changing script...?

[topaz mortar]

a what what?

[reef patio]

a object in game 3d scene, that has if you tap it with your player capsule it changes to another scene

[topaz mortar]

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=unity+change+scene+on+trigger

[reef patio]

ill try it, thanks

ok it worked

thanks

but I need to add a spawn point for the capsule now for the next level, is it just copy capsule and paste to the next level?

I got it, copy and paste the capsule and add the camera to it, worked, it properly level transitions to the next of a player start in the right zone

[glass crest]

Hello, is it possible to language localize a word in which the code looks for any occurrence of that word in all strings in the game without having to go to each text that has a string and put a localization key there?

[teal viper]

Maybe with some reflection you could implement something like that, but I doubt there are assets that do that, as no one does localization retroactively.

[glass crest]

Could you explain more what do you mean by reflection? although I don't see it a good practice for a programmer to spend hours translating words and sentences from language to language and then go to the 500+ places where those words are implemented in the game as texts and add keys for them (apart from what you said)

[teal viper]

Reflection is a feature in C#/dotnet for coding the code. Sort of meta programming. It allows you to find and manipulate existing code in the project.

No, normally the programmer doesn't go through the game text to localize it. Most decent projects, use some kind of localization system(either third party or developed for the project), that takes a key and returns a string based on the application/system language.
Programmers are only involved with writing/integrating the system. The translation and asset organization is usually done by designers or some other miscellaneous role in the team.

[glass crest]

Gotcha, makes so much sense, thank you

[teal viper]

The point is that localization is something that is supposed to be considered at the early stages of the project.

[glass crest]

That indeed is the right thing to do

[normal arrow]

is it possible to call a function where some part of is name is a string variable ?

i have in mind something like this :

{
  MyFunctionmyString();
}```

[gaunt ice]

yes, use reflection to find the method

or invoke

[normal arrow]

Okay thanks i didnt know i could use invoke for that ! So i did something like this

    {
        MyOtherC#Script.instance.Invoke("MyFunction" + myString, 0);
    }```

[hexed terrace]

Use string interpolation for strings that use values, it's cheaper

($"MyFunction{myString}", 0)

[fierce shuttle]

Is it cheaper than using string.Format or string.Concat to do something similar?

[charred spoke]

Using $ is shorthand for string.Format

[scarlet skiff]

aight so im using this to make my object move around, when i just spawn in the object, it goes straigh ahead, everything is fine n dandy, but whne i play around with the rotation, then try to move... then it becoems just a bit off, dont know why tho

[wintry quarry]

What does "a bit off" mean and why are you using trigonometry?

Why not just use transform.forward * movementSpeed?

[scarlet skiff]

a bit off = doesnt work right 💀

[scarlet skiff]

cuz i want the direction to depend on where the object is looking

which depends on the rotation

note: after further testing the pivot point was off

so ill fix that n see

[scarlet skiff]

wait... forwards automatically checks where it is looking?

[wintry quarry]

Yep, that's the whole point

You don't need to do trigonometry

[wintry quarry]

This statement is so vague as to be meaningless and doesn't help anyone fix your problem

[fossil drum]

Hello,
I'm trying to make a simple 2D character controller for a platformer game. (code -> https://paste.ofcode.org/AFzVG46MF9c43xBKUJGUUb)
the code is simply supposed to provide a player that can walk on flat surfaces and jump while affected by gravity.
My problem is that I can't seem to find a way to handle diagonal collisions. If my player moves diagonally and hits an edge it gets stuck ...
I am supposed to first check for horizontal collisions, move horizontally, only then check for vertical collisions and move vertically. But still it fails to check .. can you give me some hints of what I may be doing wrong .. ?

[scarlet skiff]

the direction wasnt forward

but yea ill js use the .forward

alright so... quick question...
I had my teacher on how to copy components, since i had a newer model for my object. When he was showing me how to do it, he dragged the new model from the project folder (bottom area) straight to the layers instead of the scene, and now like i cant see the object, i cant drag it from the project folder area to make a new one, and yea uhmmm what

like uhmm i assume that when it was draggon into the layers it created the object

but i dont see it in scene

[wintry quarry]

There's no such thing as "dragging it to layers"

do you mean the hierarchy?

just double click it in the hierarchy to see the object

or press F

[scarlet skiff]

yes

doulbe clicking or pressing f is uhmm not doing anything

[wintry quarry]

try again

oh

wait

you're in game view

switch to scene view

this isn't a code question

these are basic general unity questions. #💻┃unity-talk

[scarlet skiff]

wait nvm

i figured it out

thanks

[vital sage]

This is my first day ever actually trying to learn Unity. I'm trying to add a feature to this open source Unity 2018 project, and I'm kind of stumped. I see these components have (Script) appended to the end, but I don't see any script fields to open said "script" in Visual Studio. Am I misunderstanding what this is?

Are these base Unity objects just referred to as scripts?

[rich adder]

Components are scripts

not all scripts are components

[buoyant knot]

And those components are built-in. You can write your own

[vital sage]

Ah I see, thanks y'all

Is there a difference between "objects" and "components"?

[rich adder]

yes GameObjects carry components

[wintry quarry]

"object" has many different meanings in many different contexts

in the epistomological sense, everything is an object

in the C# sense, everything is also an object

and then there's the UnityEngine.Object which all of these things also are

but in the sense that Unity has GameObjects, components are NOT GameObjects

they are attached to them

[vital sage]

Thank you for explaining that to me, I appreciate y'all

[scarlet skiff]

"Pivot" refers to the origin point of rotation according to the model itself, while center is calculated by unity?

ok so...

if both are wrong

and dont rotate in the actual middle

does that i gotta change the pivot point in the model?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[scarlet skiff]

could an incorrect position for the rotation point be the cause of this not working right?

(not working right = the direction isnt actually forward and is almost unpredictable)

[eager elm]

maybe you need transform.up, is your game 2d or 3d?

[polar acorn]

Translate is already local. Use Vector3.forward instead of transform.forward

[scarlet skiff]

3d

[wintry quarry]

why did you switch from AddForce to Translate

they are not 1:1 replacements

as digi said if you're using Translate, you would use Vector3.forward not transform.forward

[scarlet skiff]

i didnt know how to make addforce work

but yk this works now

[buoyant knot]

i have just gone cold turkey off of Translate if something has a rigidbody or any colliders

every time I put transform.Translate or set transform.position manually, i wind up needing to refactor it later anyway to make it work properly

[scarlet skiff]

how do i interact/see an empty

[buoyant knot]

what

[scarlet skiff]

one of those

that u get from "create empty"

nvm

[wintry quarry]

there's nothing to see

[scarlet skiff]

figured it out

[wintry quarry]

you interact with it just like that

[scarlet skiff]

it had spawned somewhere far away at first thus my confusion

[fierce shuttle]

You may be able to solve that with a frictionless PhysicsMaterial2D: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-PhysicsMaterial2D.html

[wintry quarry]

Why are you doing a separate boxcast for vertical and horizontal movement

combine everything into one

and it will work fine

[buoyant knot]

you can also cast in the direction you are moving

[wintry quarry]

which is exactly what you would do when you combine everything into one cast + one move

[buoyant knot]

also, i would avoid BoxCast in favor of Cast in case you add edgeRadius in future

i had to refactor my BoxCasts like that before because of that

I assume you are doing separate casts now to check for wall floor and ceiling separately

I would use Cast. Cast outputs RaycastHit2D, which has a field for normal.

The normal tells you the angle of contact, so you can decide if you want to consider yourself grounded or on wall etc based on a single given hit

i currently use OnCollisionEnter/Stay to know if I’m grounded, and I’m going to be changing in future because these methods evaluate after your physics update

where did the other guy’s message go?

[rich adder]

probably solved it

[buoyant knot]

i think his issue isn’t code, but in the physics settings

let’s hope so

[scarlet skiff]

im making an thing that can throws projectiles, so i was thinking, if i make it a rigid body, and i then give it an upwards speed and a forward speed, would the gravity handle the rest?

like if set upward speed to 100

would gravity make the speed 100 - gravity * time

[buoyant knot]

gravity is a global variable

so you can’t give just one thing left gravity, if that is what you mean

but if it is a dynamic rigidbody, then you can start it with upward speed, and gravity will make it accellerate down

as it travels

[scarlet skiff]

no i meant if i have a speed that is taking an object up, but this object is affected by gravity, how would the speed change?

[buoyant knot]

i would use a kinematic equation to calculate the speed you need to give it, btw

[scarlet skiff]

what i am afraid if that.. like.. suire gravity will result in a speed down, but this speed wont be reduced from the speed i give to the projectile, so there will be a speed dragging the projectile down, but the upwards speed stays at 100

[rich adder]

gravity is simply doing Vector3(0, -9.81, 0)

[buoyant knot]

unity uses Euler integration.
Every frame, you move by deltaX = deltaTime * velocity.
And deltaVelocity = deltaTime * force / mass

[scarlet skiff]

i would NOT want:
speed up : 100
speed down: gravity

but instead want
speed up: 100 - gravity * time

[buoyant knot]

gravity is straight acceleration, so every frame, velocity += gravity * deltaTime

[scarlet skiff]

yes id like to have a speed i give to the projectile - velocity

[buoyant knot]

if you start with a large upwards velocity, it will take many frames for gravity to completely change your direction

[rich adder]

https://www.google.com/search?q=projectile+motion

[buoyant knot]

if it is a dynamic rigidbody, try rigidBody.velocity = newVelocity;

or myRigidbody.AddForce(additionalVelocity, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

[scarlet skiff]

but does the velocity grow so big that the speed i gave originally doesnt matter or is the speed i had originally reduced by the gravity til it eventually becoems negative

[summer nimbus]

is there a script that combines animations at all?

[rich adder]

combines animations?

what that even mean

[buoyant knot]

the velocity changes whenever you change it. if it is a dynamic rigidbody, velocity also changes whenever the physics system says to

if it has gravity, it will have velocity += gravity * deltaTime every frame

and there is no terminal velocity unless you program it

[summer nimbus]

i have multiple animations that follow a sequence i would like to be able to get a script to put them one after the other and combine them into 1 animation]

[buoyant knot]

you mean an animator?

an animation is like a sequence of sprites that show in a given order (with/without looping)

[summer nimbus]

if it can turn multiple animations into one sure

[buoyant knot]

an Animator is like a finite state machine that lets you change between Animations on one gameobject

[rich adder]

Animator wont change the original keyframes or other animations

its just playing the clips

[buoyant knot]

scripts can tell the animator which state to go to

[summer nimbus]

i find it hard to explain things

[buoyant knot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator-fireEvents.html

[summer nimbus]

i would like a script where i can drag in 2 or more animations it then creates a new animation putting them in sequence

[buoyant knot]

This might be the tool to allow your script to know when one animation ends, I think

[dapper lava]

how can i check for collision but not any colission but between two specific objects

[summer nimbus]

since this is for vrchat i cannot change the animator

[dapper lava]

how can i make object have collision trigger but keep working colisions

[rich adder]

Use Tags or Component filter

[dapper lava]

thanks

[buoyant knot]

OnCollision callbacks give a Collision/Collision2D argument. This object has the collider you hit in it

[dapper lava]

can you change object visibility in game
turn of rendering but keep everything working

[rich adder]

yes ofc

[buoyant knot]

I’m trying to explain that you might be able to use the fireEvents bool to get messages when one animation ends

[scarlet skiff]

okey thanks

[dapper lava]

thanks

[buoyant knot]

that way you can have a script that automatically starts one animation the moment another one ends

understand?

i’m not super familiar with doing this, but that is what that feature seems to be for

[summer nimbus]

custom scriptss cant be uploaded for vrchat so although that would work in unity it wouldnt work in vrchat

[rich adder]

this should be in
!vrchat

[eternal falcon]

Join the growing VRChat community as you explore, play, and create the future of social VR! https://discord.com/invite/vrchat

[rich adder]

and its not code related

[buoyant knot]

if you can’t use code, then that cannot be a code question

[slender nymph]

I've gone ahead and tested this behavior and confirmed that it happens in both editor and build but only for OnTriggerExit2D, it does not happen at all for OnTriggerExit. it is also called after the Application.quitting event is invoked which is even more weird. Now that the bug reporter tool is working again today i've submitted a bug report so hopefully it can be addressed

[daring tundra]

wow, thanks! weird that it only does that in 2d, seems not intended?

weird that this hasnt been seen before

[slender nymph]

yeah i assume it's probably not intended. it could also be a more recently introduced bug. what version of unity are you using?

[summer nimbus]

custom scripts can be used in unity but cant be uploaded to VR chat. The code I'm looking for is a tool to combine multiple animations into one. Since this will all be done in inside unity there is no need for it to be uploaded to VR chat and thus can be used

[daring tundra]

2022.3.7f1, so one of the newer ones yeah

unless i gotta update i havent been paying attention to that

[dapper lava]

if my prefab uses a script and i change the script in project files will the script used by prefab also change or by making a prefab all components are copied to make it functional separate object

[slender nymph]

well you're about 5 patches behind, but that is still a fairly recent version. but i did confirm the bug in the latest 2023 tech stream release so 🤷‍♂️

[wintry quarry]

nothing is copied. Scripts are referenced

if you change the script, it changes the script

that would be a nightmare otherwise

[buoyant knot]

yes, if I have 5 different prefabs with a MyBehaviour component, and I edit MyBehaviour.cs, all of the prefabs just reference that new (altered) file

[dapper lava]

my wall have box collider2D and my bullet have circle collider2D with trigger
bullet.cs->

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col){
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

the bullet doestn disapear when it hits wall

[slender nymph]

OnTriggerEnter is for 3d colliders. you want OnTriggerEnter2D

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

[dapper lava]

thanks

and the website looks very suseful

[dusky bay]

Yeah mb, Sorry i didn't say I solved it by making a seperate hitbox and I made a mistake in my message.

[final kestrel]

Can I ask DOTween related questions here?

[dapper lava]

could i for example

void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D col){
        col.health += -10;
    }```

i need to get the script atached to the object

[slender nymph]

collider does not have a health property. you can use something like TryGetComponent to check for a specific component that has a health property and get it to assign to it

[dapper lava]

getcomponent<scriptname>()

and then .health

[rich adder]

Collider2D param holds the object u hit

[ivory breach]

Can anyone show me pseudocode for reloading my weapon with reserve ammo in mind?

[hexed terrace]

yep, assuming it's code

[rich adder]

whats "reserve" ammo mean

[dapper lava]

thanks

[prime loom]

Im having a weird issue. With TMP line break is not working properly i have this. In a TMP text in canvas. The info gets taken from a string list and get feed that. If i manually type the exact line then \n works as intented. But when doing it via script with the text.text = list.text its not

[ivory breach]

It's "reserve", not "reverse"

[rich adder]

ops mistyped ..anyway , same question

[ivory breach]

The number of ammunition you currently have that's not in the weapon magazine

[rich adder]

so check if magazine remaining == 0 then grab from the reserve ammo

or put reserve ammo in the mag

[hexed terrace]

if reserveAmmo is > clipsize, reload

hmm, no, doesn't need to be more than clipsize

more than 0

[rich adder]

if(currentammo > clipsize )
store ammo in reserve
?

[hexed terrace]

if reserveAmmo is > 0, clipsize = full, reserveAmmo - clipSize

[ivory breach]

There are three variables, ammo in magazine, magazine size and the ammo in reserve

[rich adder]

maybe clarify , are you talking about depletion or pickup/refill

[ivory breach]

Refilling the magazine based on the number of reserve ammo

I know if the reserve ammo is more than the magazine size, you simply refill the magazine and deduct the reserve ammo by the magazine size

[rich adder]

but depends on game, for example one of my games you can pickup individual bullets and fill mag 1 bullet at time

but if mag was full then goes in reserve

[ivory breach]

In other words

if (reserve ammo >= magazine size)
{
    current ammo = magazine size
    reserve ammo -= magazine size - current ammo
}

But I don't know the logic of what happens if the reserve ammo is less than the magazine size

else if (reserve ammo < magazine size)
{
    ???
}

[polar acorn]

Try plugging in some numbers. If your gun holds 12 bullets, and you have 5 bullets in reserve, and there's 3 bullets currently in the gun, what would you end up with?

How many in the gun and how many in reserve?

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/fvacuqkenm
On the first video my character just falls down how I like. But when I change directions. Even though I think I use Local axis, The falling gets kind of messed up as it can be seen in the second video. I am using DOTween

[ivory breach]

8 in the gun and -4 in reserve

[polar acorn]

How do you have -4 in reserve

I'm not asking what your code does right now I'm asking pure math

[ivory breach]

Integers can go in negative values

[summer stump]

But bullets cannot

How do you have a negative amount of bullets?

[polar acorn]

Yes but reality cannot. How can you have a bag with negative four bullets in it

[ivory breach]

In normal math, you would have 8 bullets in mag and 0 in reserve

[rich adder]

instead of transform.position.x maybe do localPosition
or change it to transform.right * amount

[polar acorn]

Correct. Now, let's make those numbers using only 12, 5, and 3. Add or subtract those numbers to the starting value of the gun and the reserve ammo to get to the answer of 8 in the gun and 0 in reserve

[hexed terrace]

And in game, this would mean you can't reload

[ivory breach]

You can actually, but you wouldn't fully refill the magazine

[hexed terrace]

You cannot reload if you have 0 bullets in reserve 😄

[summer stump]

They mean reload again. You have 0

[ivory breach]

Oh ok

[final kestrel]

Sorry I did not get it. When I replace transform.position.x with local position the result is the same.

[ivory breach]

This is where the confusiom starts, but I'll try

[polar acorn]

Your starting value in the gun is 3. What do you add to make 8

[ivory breach]

Add 5

[final kestrel]

transform.DOLocalJump(new Vector3(transform.localPosition.x + 8f, transform.localPosition.y - 12, transform.localPosition.z), 13, 1, .8f).SetEase(Ease.InSine);

[polar acorn]

And your reserve ammo starts at 5. What do you add to it to make it 0?

[ivory breach]

Umm... None of the numbers here can change it to 0

[polar acorn]

Why not

[ivory breach]

The mag size is 12, the current ammo count is 3, and the reserve ammo count is 5, like you said earlier

[polar acorn]

Those are your building blocks. You are free to use whatever mathematical operations on those numbers

So, what do you do using only 12, 5, and 3 to make 5 into 0?

[modest dust]

Some advanced math going on here

[ivory breach]

Oh no

This is where my brain p much short-circuits

[polar acorn]

This is very basic algebra

What number can you math with 5 to make 5 become 0

[wooden minnow]

what am i doing wrong? it works for 1 side but for the other it just teleports when it reaches the max rotation and i dont know why
https://pastebin.com/yaaN3Bdn

[polar acorn]

If this is too advanced for you then you're going to have a very very bad time trying to make a game

[polar acorn]

So the issue with rotation is that -30 is the same as 330, which is, in fact, greater than 30

Clamping rotation is always trouble because of the cyclical nature of degrees

[wooden minnow]

ok so what do i do

[silk night]

Store a target rotation value you clamp instead of the real current rotation

[wooden minnow]

that doesnt tell me anything

[polar acorn]

You should set euler angles, but not read from them

Keep your own stored value for what the degrees should be, pass them to the objects transform, and never read them back from the transform

[silk night]

Create 3 class properties: targetX, targetY, targetZ

Then you edit them on keypress, clamp them and at the end set them as the current rotation, or even better store them in one Vector3

[oak mist]

Good Afternoon. Im trying to map my little test turret to move using a controller. Left joystick moves the tank up and down, and right joystick rotates the turret left and right. My left joystick is working fine, but my right keeps being fed a value of -1 and i have no idea why. Any solution for this?

[ivory breach]

Let me think a bit, then I'll come back

[polar acorn]

Does your joystick have four axes?

[oak mist]

I believe so, its a regular ps4 controller

2 on left, and 2 on right

i checked a mapping on reddit and followed it

again i could be wrong here

[silk night]

Where is the second one on the right?

[wooden minnow]

ok so
create a vector3
copy the rotation onto the vector3
edit the vector3
and then copy the vector3 back to the object rotation?
did i understand that correctly?

[oak mist]

is the guide i used

[silk night]

Do not copy the rotation into the vector3, only ever edit the vector3 and apply the vector3 values to the rotation at the end

[wooden minnow]

ah ok

lemme try that

[silk night]

and keep the vector3 persistent as a class property

dont make it a local variable

[wooden minnow]

dont know what that means

nvm i do

[silk night]

    public class TestView : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private Vector3 _targetRotation; // <- this one
    }

[oak mist]

what would you recommend?

[modest dust]

current += reserve; // Add all reserve to current
reserve = current - magSize; // Reserve is how much over magSize your current bullet count is
if (reserve < 0) reserve = 0; // Reserve can't be negative 
current -= reserve; // Clamp your current bullet count to max of magSize

So if you have current=3, reserve=5, magSize=12 you get
current += 5 // 8
reserve = 8 - 12 // -4
if (reserve < 0) reserve = 0 // true
current -= reserve // 8-=0 -> 8

And if you have current=11, reserve=3, magSize=12 you get
current += 3 // 14
reserve = 14 - 12 // 2
if (reserve < 0) reserve = 0 // false
current -= reserve // 14-=2 -> 12

Or just simply make a loop to increment current and decrement reserve until either current == magSize or reserve == 0

[silk night]

are you using the new inputsystem for this?

oh nvm, just saw the Input calls

I'd try other axis and if they output the values you want

[oak mist]

fair enough

ill try all inputs and see what happens

[ivory breach]

I was thinking too much on doing them all in a single line xd

[modest dust]

Don't

[quasi rose]

Sometimes taking a step back, and writing it out, without code, can be very helpful.

[slender nymph]

this is a lot of math to just do

current = Math.Min(reserve, magSize);
reserve -= current;

oh wait, that's not entirely correct for what they are trying to do. one sec

[modest dust]

this code discards what's already in the gun

[wooden minnow]

ok that works but is there any way for me to rotate while ignoring the current rotation of other axes?

[summer stump]

magSize - currentMagAmount for the second param maybe
Then of course currentMagAmount += current at the end

[silk night]

Not sure how you mean that

[ivory breach]

I'm not very good at math, and I have an assignment on the line

And it isn't even unity related, it's UE5

[slender nymph]

var remaining = current;
current = Math.Min(reserve, magSize);
reserve -= current - remaining;

[slender nymph]

yes i am aware, hence the message directly above yours

[ivory breach]

True

[wooden minnow]

if my object is rotated on the Y axis when the X axis is also affected by that
instead of going something like a line it will now go diagonal because the Y axis is rotated

idk how to explain it

[silk night]

can you show a video?

[wooden minnow]

of what

[silk night]

how it currently behaves

[oak mist]

Every other axis either causes the same rotation (4th and 5th button), Does what i want it to do but the wrong axis (3rd Button), or does what the 3rd button does, and also stops taking input from my other joystick

what i might do, is take input from the third button, then add 90 degrees to the rotation (or its equivulant)

[final kestrel]

Can someone help me out with this one?

[silk night]

Hmm is that the only input you currently have or would you have to rework everything when switching to a different system? If its the only input I suggest you have a look at https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.7/manual/index.html

It has way better control for gamepads and even an input device debugger where you can look at what your gamepad is doing

[prime loom]

Any help with this^

[oak mist]

ill take a look, thanks alot

[hexed terrace]

use <br>

[silk night]

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/reteXApa30.png/raw looks like this, i can see any axis thats currently modified

[wooden minnow]

how would i make it so each axis doesnt affect the other ones

[silk night]

use .localRotation

[wooden minnow]

that didnt really do anything

[prime loom]

Its not a br \n. If i manually use \n it line breaks

[wooden minnow]

OMG ITS THE SECOND TIME I CLOSE UNITY BY ACCIDENT

[silk night]

Please show your code

[wooden minnow]

https://pastebin.com/4sCqtSjr
using rotation/localrotation wouldnt change anything if im doing it like this

also why isnt unity giving me a warning or asking me to save when im accidentally closing it

this is the second time i've reset my project

[hexed terrace]

Did you even bother to try <br>?

[silk night]

Oh you want camera dependent rotation? like if its upside down and you press left you want it to go left instead of the updside down right? idk if i explained that well 😄

[wooden minnow]

im confused

[prime loom]

I cant access the string that comes with \n they are getting downloaded from a client server

we cant go and change that

[hexed terrace]

parse it

probably regex it to find \n and replace with <br>

[prime loom]

i even try to replace it

[gaunt ice]

why the log can display \n, it supposed to be new line character, it maybe \\n

[slender nymph]

it's probably a literal. use @"\n" in the Replace call

[prime loom]

That helped

What does a literal mean. And what does @ does

[hexed terrace]

\n will give you that text, it has no escape, you would do \\n in the string to escape for the \n to be accessed

[slender nymph]

@ is used for verbatim strings. which is what i actually meant when i said literal. because string literals can contain escape sequences like \n

[prime loom]

oh

Nice to know

Ty

[slender nymph]

it's likely that the original string had that escaped or that it was a verbatim string to prevent that escape sequence

[heady nimbus]

(2D) I'm instantiating several projectiles at once around the edges of an object, trying to make them "burst" out in every direction.

I have the rotations set so that the "forward" of the object should be pointing in the direction I want it to travel, but I'm not sure how to calculate that movement. What process should I use for something like this?

[buoyant knot]

first, is it kinematic or dynamic?

and do you just want it to go in a straight line

[heady nimbus]

I had a kinematci RB on them because I don't want them to physically interact with things, just trigger colliders. Straight light, like a burst shot

[buoyant knot]

then you have 2 options

[heady nimbus]

But I don't know if kinematic is exactly what I want/need either so I'm open to suggestions

[buoyant knot]

one is to just give the rigidbody velocity in the direction you want. that is easiest

despite what people will tell you, 2D kinematic rigidbodies CAN use velocity

[heady nimbus]

I did try that at one poitn but it didn't seem to be working so I probably wasn't doing it correctly. Is there something specific you need to do for kinematic then?

[buoyant knot]

this velocity gets ignored on any physics update where you issued a MovePosition command

first you want to basically teleport the rb to its starting point. you could try setting rigidbody.position manually

then set its velocity

if you call MovePosition after that, the target destination will get basically overwritten

[heady nimbus]

Yea, I haven't been using MovePosition for this part. Why is it necessary to set the position of the RB? I don't think I've seen that before

[buoyant knot]

because the rigidbody and transform write positions back and forth

rigidbodies are like a separate API

when the RB moves during physics step, it moves the transform and colliders with it

i don’t fully understand why they need to be separated like that, but they are

and you would need to call Physics2D.SyncTransforms to make everything immediately line up, but that has cost because we’re updating everything all at once

unity devs didn’t think to make an overload to just sync the one object

when you move rigidbody.position, it will immediately move the collider2Ds attached to it. So the .bounds and Cast calls will be correct

[heady nimbus]

Ok, at least they're moving right now, but they're just firing across the screen in the same direction, how would I calculate moving in the current "forward" direction based on rotation

[buoyant knot]

otherwise some shit won’t make sense. I could initialize an object at 0,0. Set its transform to 50,100. Then check for ground by raycasting down at the bottom of collider bounds. Well congrats, you just checked for ground at 0,0

is your game grid based?

[heady nimbus]

No

[buoyant knot]

you can probably use transform.up

[heady nimbus]

I'm thinking maybe it should be based on how many "nodes" I've been creating, but this is all really jsut for a boss fight

[buoyant knot]

transform.up is the vector that currently points up for that transform

I would define a rotation matrix by 90 degrees to rotate the vector real quick

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotation_matrix

for the case of 90 degrees, rotation is trivial

[glacial chasm]

Projectile is floating instead of moving forward