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[wintry quarry]

Literally just converting this to FixedUpdate yea

[tepid cobalt]

Fixed update better for rigid active and Update for passive?

[ruby python]

Okay cool. I do get confused with the different updates if honest, so many different 'opinions' about it out there. lol.

[wintry quarry]

There's a pretty broad consensus that physics goes in FixedUpdate but it's definitely nuanced

[ruby python]

Okay cool. Thanks for the help (and the patience. lol.)

[frozen dagger]

how to make words move to another line?

like here

[eternal needle]

Escape sequence \n for a new line

[frozen dagger]

thx

[scarlet skiff]

ok so one problem i have rn is that the rockSpawner is not following everything else like it should

the parent has a movement script that moves the whole thing when certain buttons are pressed but the rockSpawner is still stationary

[modest dust]

could be set to static

or have a non-kinematic rigidbody

[scarlet skiff]

oh yea

it doesnt have a rigidbody

but i dont want it to have one

[solemn fractal]

hey guys if I have that code here, when the time gets lower it will start a bunch of coroutines.. how can I or where can I place that piece of code to ensure that this happens only 1 time? start method?

[gaunt ice]

what is currentTime

[solemn fractal]

i create a countdown.. that starts at 1200 seconds

i want it when it arrioves in 1150 it start a coroutine

but on update it will start it multiple times no? i just need it to start once

should I craetae a bool and control it?

and say if bool yes and _uimanager.currentTime 1150 ?

[gaunt ice]

you may not need to check it in update depends on how the variable is updated

[scarlet skiff]

this is the spawner

[halcyon geyser]

show ur movement script

[scarlet skiff]

https://paste.ofcode.org/QbwFfXurXXbvUVWsiX4Epy

i assume it is cuz addforce only works on rigidbodies

as someone mentioned earlier

but idk what to do then, i need the catapult as a rigidbody.. but also i need the spawner

unless... i just spawn rocks based on the catapults local cords and make the catapult itself spawn the boulders?

[hexed terrace]

If Catapult_1 is moving around, all the children will move with it

The children do not need a rigidbodie as well

[scarlet skiff]

well idk

i did add the rockSpawner to the parent

but it still didnt move

i am thinking now to just use the catapult as a spawner too

i am trying to make the spawnPosition follow the catapult

[hexed terrace]

Quaternion.Identity is the short hand way of doing a new one at 0,0,0

also, you haven't given that instantiate a parent, so it's going to spawn in the world at that pos, not as a child

[frozen dagger]

upgrades.SetActive(false); turning off object right?

[hexed terrace]

Try it and see!

[languid spire]

new Quaternion(0,0,0,0) is an invalid Quaternion value

[buoyant knot]

pretty sure he wants Quaternion.Identity

[languid spire]

yes, which is new Quaternion(0,0,0,1)

also why you never use default when initializing a Quaternion

[scarlet skiff]

something like this..?

[hexed terrace]

no

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

[languid spire]

what is the result if you multiply anything by zero?

[rancid tinsel]

any idea why this doesn't do anything?

the idea is to make the object move towards it's rotation (so if y rotation is 45 then move in top right direction) but im not sure i understand the syntax

[wintry quarry]

do you happen to be in 2d?

[rancid tinsel]

yes

[wintry quarry]

transform.forward is along the z axis

which doesn't exist in 2d

[rancid tinsel]

ohh i see

[wintry quarry]

so effectively you are setting velocity to 0

try transform.right or up

[rancid tinsel]

is there a similar thing for 2D at all?

[languid spire]

very probably transform.forward * ballSpeed generates a value too low to overcome inertia

[rancid tinsel]

is there nothing that would be able to just move the object in the direction its facing? im rotating the object in the script a lot

[wintry quarry]

literally what I told you will do that

[scarlet skiff]

well 0

i didnt want aby rotation

idk anymore

[rancid tinsel]

ohh the .up one works like i wanted it to, sorry i misunderstood what it does

thanks

[scarlet skiff]

i feel like im missing so much, gotta find a tutorial or something before i continue

[wintry quarry]

yep, it depends on whether "up" or "right" is "forward" for your sprite

[rancid tinsel]

yeah i just assumed up would move it up the y axis lol

so id have to do a mix of up right up left etc

[eager elm]

you can also set up an invisible object that already has the correct rotation you want to apply to the spawned bolder and then set the bolders rotation equal to that invisible's object rotation.

[wintry quarry]

Vector3.up is just the general "up" direction. transform.up is up relative to the object's orientation

[rancid tinsel]

hmm it works but the ball shoots really fast initially and then slows down, and doesnt seem to move at the same speed, any idea why thats the case? i ended up multiplying by deltaTime as well

[wintry quarry]

multiplying by deltaTime is definitely wrong

[rancid tinsel]

am I meant to divide?

[wintry quarry]

neither

velocity is velocity

If I say what's your velocity you would just say "5 m/s"

[rancid tinsel]

oh its not affected by framerate?

[wintry quarry]

The physics engine will move it the appropriate amount each simulation frame

velocity is expressed in meters per second

there is no framerate adjustment you need to do

[rancid tinsel]

i see, thank you! i got it to work 🙂

[rancid tinsel]

why is it returning some weird number instead of "135"? im trying to debug an issue im having but this is really confusing me

[topaz mortar]

I think you are rotating by 90 instead of setting the rotation to 90

[rancid tinsel]

thats what its meant to do, i want it to rotate by 90 or -90 depending on the angle its moving at

or at least i think thats what i want but sometimes it rotates in the opposite direction, and thats what im trying to debug but its giving me weird decimals 😭

[eager elm]

are you reading transform.rotation or transform.eulerAngles?

[rancid tinsel]

transform.rotation, i assumed it would give me the value it shows in the inspector on the debug

am i meant to be using the other one?

[eager elm]

ah nvm, I see it, you need to use transform.eulerAngles

[rancid tinsel]

like this?

and .z at the end if i just want the z value im guessing

[polar acorn]

Rotation is a quaternion. A four dimensional normalized vector. The x, y, and z components of which have nothing to do with the axes of normal euclidian space

[vast yoke]

[polar acorn]

The issue with using a vector3 to represent rotation is that there are an infinite number of them that represent the same orientation. So unity stores it as a quaternion and converts it as needed

.eulerAngles returns one such conversion, and changes to it are applied back to the internal quaternion

[rancid tinsel]

i see, so is it just any time i want to debug rotation, or are there other things i need to watch out for with this?

[polar acorn]

But there's no promise that it's going to behave. If you add a 90 degree rotation to x, next time you call eulerAngles it might have 0 rotation in x, but have values for y and z that produce the same orientation.

Basically, if you want to be dealing exclusively with angles and not 4D wizard numbers, you should only ever set eulerAngles, don't try to read from it. Make your own internal variables for what the rotation on a specific axis should be

[polar acorn]

If you just want to log it, then it's fine. It only becomes a problem when you're trying to directly manipulate the values of eulerAngles instead of using methods like .Rotate

[rancid tinsel]

i see

im finding it difficult mathing the rotation right now because obviously if you add 90 to 315 its going to not do what i want lol

[buoyant knot]

are you in 3d?

[rancid tinsel]

2D

[buoyant knot]

2D rotation is easy af

[rancid tinsel]

this is what I have so far

[polar acorn]

.rotate should handle that case just fine.

[buoyant knot]

do you have a rigidbody? i assume so

[rancid tinsel]

it just did this meaning the ball changed direction from top right to top left

[buoyant knot]

and is it dynamic or kinematic

[rancid tinsel]

dynamic

wait let me paste the whole thing brb

[buoyant knot]

ok, so you want to give it torque to rotate then

[rancid tinsel]

https://gdl.space/jalugezeyo.cs

[buoyant knot]

you can’t ensure a specific angular velocity with dynamic rbs

but… you can do a lot of things

[rancid tinsel]

im just using the rigidbody for transform.up

trying to make a pong clone rn

[buoyant knot]

myRigidBody.angularVelocity = 5f;

[rancid tinsel]

would that do the same as this?

[buoyant knot]

if your object is moving, you want a rigidbody, and you don’t want to move the transform

[buoyant knot]

yes, but angular velocity

angular velocity controls rotation

do you kind of understand?

[rancid tinsel]

not really

[buoyant knot]

do you understand linear velocity

[rancid tinsel]

i did this instead and its rotating very slowly so i definitely dont understand 😭

[buoyant knot]

velocity is a vector. every frame, you will move by velocity * deltaTime

velocity controls position (x, y, z)

angular velocity controls rotation

[rancid tinsel]

oh so it would go instead of the rotates not the one i changed

[buoyant knot]

2D angular velocity is just a float. like degrees to spin per second

[rancid tinsel]

i wouldnt want it to rotate over time though

i want it to snap to a different rotation

[buoyant knot]

oh, i thought you wanted it to rotate

ah, hmmm that’s more challenging with a dynamic rigidbody

[rancid tinsel]

well its a pong clone so when it hits a wall, i want it to change directions by 90

or player

[buoyant knot]

and you want the rotation to be instant

like one frame to the next

[rancid tinsel]

yes

[buoyant knot]

rigidbody.rotation i think

[rancid tinsel]

would it not do the same thing as the current code i have though?

[buoyant knot]

you are moving with the physics system

[rancid tinsel]

the only issue i currently have is when it goes above 360 or below -360

[buoyant knot]

moving transforms can be dangerous when you move with physics

you’ll have shit break as you add features and have no idea why

it is generally prefered to make modifications via rigidbody API

[rancid tinsel]

but if i was changing the movement wouldn't i just override the current if statements

as in add a bool likke

if (movementDifferent) do this

[buoyant knot]

i’m just telling you how to set it to a specific angle

the logic around that is your responsibility

but i would do something like rigidbody.rotation = (rigidbody.rotation + 90f) % 360;
or something. not sure if % operator works on floats the same, but something like that

make sense?

[rancid tinsel]

not really 😭

[faint sluice]

Today I learned that in firebase

Databasereference.child(0).valuechanged += doSomething;
Databasereference.child(0).valuechanged -= doSomething;

Does not actually subscribe and unsubscribe to same references

DB = databasereference.child(0)
DB.valuChanged += doSomething;
DB.valueChanged -= doSomething ;

To properly sub and unsub

Wasted 2 damn hours after this crap

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/qjkrgwjtch Why do you think i cannot see the effects of fall multiplier in my script? Its inside the JumpAction method.

[wintry quarry]

you're only calling JumpAction one time per jump, right at the start of the jump.

naturally at the beginning of the jump, your y velocity will be positive

so only if (_rigidbody.velocity.y > 0) will happen

(btw you can just use else instead of the whole opposite condition)

[final kestrel]

Ahh so I have to keep calling while falling as well

[wintry quarry]

and while rising

if you want that first part to work too

[final kestrel]

How do I do that?

[wintry quarry]

but it kinda sounds like you're also letting "normal" gravity affect things at the same time?

[final kestrel]

Yes.

[wintry quarry]

so this is all just very weird

[wintry quarry]

in FixedUpdate or with a coroutine

[final kestrel]

Ah yes I use normal gravity and also changing fall speed and jump speed

 private void FixedUpdate()
 {
     //Vector3 newVelocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;
     //newVelocity.y = _rigidbody.velocity.y;
     //_rigidbody.velocity = newVelocity;
     //_rigidbody.velocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;


     Move();
     

     if (canJump)
     {
         JumpAction();
         if (_rigidbody.velocity.y > 0)
         {
             _rigidbody.velocity += Vector3.up * Physics.gravity.y * (_lowJumpMultiplier - 1) * Time.deltaTime;
         }

         else
         {
             _rigidbody.velocity += Vector3.up * Physics.gravity.y * (_fallMultiplier - 1) * Time.deltaTime;
         }
         canJump = false;
     }

 }
``` you mean like this?

ah no it does not work

[wintry quarry]

you'll want to track if you're in the air currently

if you are then do this logic

that's separate from initiating the jump

[final kestrel]

Okay I put it outside if in fixed update

[wintry quarry]

so separate them

[final kestrel]

my bad

It seems to be working now thanks a lot.

But its bad that I use both gravity and applying some on my character as well?

[wintry quarry]

no it's fine

though it might be simpler if you disabled normal gravity on this Rigidbody and just managed it entirely in your script

[final kestrel]

Hmm I will look into it then. Thanks for your time.

[wintry quarry]

If this is working though, probably fine

[buoyant knot]

in general, I’m a fan of setting rigidbody gravity scale to zero. unless you need constant force that scales to that global variable

logic generally goes something like:
if grounded, gravity = 0; (avoids slope problems)
else gravity = other value;
You can also tune gravity at different stages of a jump to land/rise differently

[desert elm]

I have a question- How could I find the Vector3 coordinates of the mouse?

[buoyant knot]

are you using the new inputsystem?

new inputsystem allows you to make an input for MousePosition, which you can then read

also, you can’t get Vector3 coordinates. only Vector2 coordinates that exist in screen space

[desert elm]

oh right, that was a typo-

[buoyant knot]

if you are using old inputsystem, it is probably worth changing if you want to eventually make something involved

[desert elm]

and pretty sure no, I do not use the new input system

[buoyant knot]

but it does take effort to learn

[desert elm]

Then no I probably do not have the time to learn even more about coding

[buoyant knot]

are you comfortable with events / delegates?

i can’t help then. i don’t know enough about manipulating the old inputsystem

[stable portal]

hi everybody i need help i have my prefab and i have attatched my script to it and in that script i want to put a reference in my public GameObject and my another script but if i try to do so it says Type mismatch. anybody knows how to fix it?

[teal viper]

Please follow my advice and read #854851968446365696

[desert elm]

is there really no function to just find the current coordinates of the mouse

[buoyant knot]

please don’t post the same question in multiple channels

[undone juniper]

guys i am using ridgedbody movement but its very slippery when i let go specially after run any idea how i can fix this

    private void HandleMovement()
    {
        float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        float currentSpeed = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) ? runSpeed : walkSpeed;

        Vector3 move = transform.forward * verticalInput + transform.right * horizontalInput;
        Vector3 moveVelocity = move.normalized * currentSpeed;

        if (!isDashing)
        {
            rb.velocity = new Vector3(moveVelocity.x, rb.velocity.y, moveVelocity.z);
        }
    }

[buoyant knot]

there probably is. but i’m not that well versed in the old inputsystem

[teal viper]

There are. Check the Input class docs.

[buoyant knot]

the main advantage of the new inputsystem is that buttons call events, so you can avoid a bunch of Update() scripts that all check “is A button pressed?” every single frame

[desert elm]

found it

[buoyant knot]

so… what happens when move is Vector2.zero

which is when the controller is dead center

[undone juniper]

nothing

[buoyant knot]

right. and if move = (0.0000001, 0) ?

your new x speed is move.normalized.x * speed

which is… max speed

the result is the same as (1,0)

and is actually faster in x than (1,1)

[undone juniper]

wait wait

[buoyant knot]

you understand what you did wrong now?

[desert elm]

What does calling something awake mean?

[buoyant knot]

Awake gets called the moment a script gets instantiated

[undone juniper]

so i need to add if magnitude > 0.1 ?

[buoyant knot]

if I call:
MyScript script = AddComponent<MyScript>();
Debug.Log(“hi”);

What happens in order is:

1. A new MyScript is added
2. script.Awake() is called
3. script.OnEnable() is called
4. Debug.Log(“hi”) is called
5. script.Start() is called

[buoyant knot]

ok. so you still want (1,1) to have slower x speed than (1,0), right?

[desert elm]

Right so-
I just need to call awake before this script in question?

[buoyant knot]

at any rate, you would want to define in the class:
private const float CONTROLLER_DEADZONE = 0.1f;
so when you want to change it (and you will) it is very clear how/where to change the number

[undone juniper]

the issue i have when i dont press anything the character moves a bit and stops its like a soap

[buoyant knot]

you don’t call anything . Unity calls these methods the first time a component enters the scene

[buoyant knot]

well, at what point does x velocity become zero?

[teal viper]

You shouldn't use constructors with MonoBehaviours.

[undone juniper]

yeah

[buoyant knot]

the answer is only when the controller is pointed straight up/down

[desert elm]

So, what am I supposed to do?

[buoyant knot]

which is wrong

[teal viper]

Use Awake and Start to initialize your components.

[buoyant knot]

you need to watch some basic tutorials, dude

otherwise you’ll be guessing your way through, and will have a bad time

[desert elm]

I wonder how I haven't thought of that yet-
Uh, right- any recommendations?

[buoyant knot]

youtube

there are so many

try gamemaker’s flappy bird tutorial for starters

[unique stump]

Hello, is anyone familiar with this error and know how to fix this?
PPtr cast failed when dereferencing! Casting from GameObject to Renderer!

It will be from 3rd asset, because I don't have any scripts by myselft, only empty project with asset

how to find where this error is?

[desert elm]

got it

[unique stump]

and this error lead me to this prefab withous any scripts

[rich adder]

screenshot the full error

[wintry quarry]

Try reassigning the renderer in that Renderers list?

[teal viper]

Yeah, unless there are any scripts on the child objects, I'd guess it's just a weird unity bug.
Might be solved with what Praetor recommend.

[unique stump]

ok I will try and I have one more bug

when i selected the reflection probe on scene the engine slows down

and now I don't understand if this is problem from a reflaction probes in unity

or from 3rd asset Zibra

and this is how refl probe looks like. On scene its ok but in inspector is white

[merry spade]

Why is my snowboarder bugging around?
Code:

  void Update()
  {
        if(activeGame)
        {
            
            if(Input.touchCount == 1)
            {
                Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
                if(touch.phase == TouchPhase.Began)
                {
                    if(touch.position.x < (Screen.width / 2))
                    {
                        skidirection = 0;
                    }
                    else if (touch.position.x >= (Screen.width / 2))
                    {
                        skidirection = 2;
                    }
                }
                else if(touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved)
                {
                    if (touch.position.x < (Screen.width / 2))
                    {
                        skidirection = 0;
                    }
                    else if (touch.position.x >= (Screen.width / 2))
                    {
                        skidirection = 2;
                    }
                }
                else if(touch.phase == TouchPhase.Ended)
                {
                    skidirection = 1;
                }
            }
            switch (skidirection)
            {
                case 0:
                    transform.Translate(-0.5f * Time.deltaTime * speed, 0, 0.5f * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.World);
                    break;
                case 1:
                    transform.Translate(0, 0, 0.5f * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.World);
                    break;
                case 2:
                    transform.Translate(0.5f * Time.deltaTime * speed, 0, 0.5f * Time.deltaTime * speed, Space.World);
                    break;
            }
}

I hope this code is enough to find the problem

so basically the code checks if you press left or right and then if you press left (case 2) you go left and if you press right(case0) you go right and if you press nothing( case1) you go straight

but the player is buggy

[fringe pollen]

What exactly is the problem? The way that the character jumps a little?

[merry spade]

yes

maybe it is the camera

code of the camera:

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

public class CameraScript : MonoBehaviour
{

    [SerializeField] private GameObject player;
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    
    void Update()
    {
        gameObject.transform.position = new Vector3(player.transform.position.x + 0.408f, player.transform.position.y + 2.726f, player.transform.position.z - 2.723f);
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Put it in LateUpdate

[fringe pollen]

The camera is following along fine

[wintry quarry]

you can simplify this as transform.position = player.transform.position + new Vector3(0.408f, 2.726f, -2.723f); btw

or even make the vector a public field and set it in the inspector

[merry spade]

thats weird lateupdate worked but why? thank you

[wintry quarry]

then it's just transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;

[merry spade]

ok i will do this

[polar acorn]

The order objects move in update is not always the same. Sometimes, the camera moves first, then the player moves, then next frame, the player moves before the camera, causing the camera to cover twice the distance in one frame, half the distance another.

LateUpdate ensures that the camera only moves after all the stuff it's supposed to follow

[merry spade]

yeah that seems to be the problem thank you!

[woeful hedge]

public class InputHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    Vector3 iHateQuaternion = new Vector3(0,0,0);
    float input;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, -180, 0);
    }
}```

So I just made this and added to sprite and It dosent work now

[polar acorn]

What doesn't work about it

[woeful hedge]

transform.rotation is not setted to (0,-180,0)

[wintry quarry]

how do you know?

What is it set to?

[wintry quarry]

180 is the same thing as -180

[polar acorn]

Looks like it is

[woeful hedge]

oh

shiot

i wanna die

tested and expected to 180 -> 0

and coded to 180 -> 180

[wintry quarry]

0 and 360 are the same and 180 and -180 are the same

[strange shale]

ugh... I don't know why is not working right...

I want to make a simple script to move a ball left, right or jump

when I have the jump in the script, everything works smoothly,
but when the move left/right is included... it feels like that the ball is moving through tar

That is the entire script

[polar acorn]

You're overwriting the velocity with your horizontal movement

You want to keep the Y value so you aren't resetting it to 0 every frame

[strange shale]

so... I gotta change the 0f for something else, right?... but what?

[wintry quarry]

why not just the existing y veloicity?

but also - be careful because you don't want to do that before multiplying by speed

[strange shale]

so what you're saying is... I need to make a new command to make the velocity ignore Y?

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what that means

I'm saying you need to "replace that 0" as you said, with the existing y velocity

but also you need to make sure only the x part is multiplied by speed because right now you're multiplying the whole vector by speed

[strange shale]

I think... I get it

Changed to this

Now its working fine

I could probably refine it better but... for a college project, this should do

[sullen wraith]

Does anyone know why I am having a problem with collision on a box in a very specific rotation. When i rotate the cube that way the line goes through, but not if i rotate it any other directions.

[strange shale]

Wait... something went wrong...

now the ball is being yeeted so hard that I have no idea why is doing that

[wintry quarry]

It's a bit unclear to me:

• Which two objects we're talking about
• What components are on the two objects
• How the two objects are moving

[wintry quarry]

because you weren't careful about multiplying speed in as I warned you about 😉

make sure you're only multiplying speed into the x value you are setting. Not the whole velocity vector (which now includes the y part)

[strange shale]

Even the jump command is yeeting the ball, and that is a completely different command

[wintry quarry]

same answer, this is your problem

[strange shale]

I think I see the problem...

Speed is being applied every tick, when it should only be applied when I'm moving

[wintry quarry]

no

that's not the issue

[wintry quarry]

this is the issue

[sullen wraith]

Yeah that could have been better described haha 😄 Although i thought that the images showed it quiet good. Anyway i fixed it. Turned out that having a child components attached with their own colliders created the issue due to Unity auto converge colliders when creating a prefab....

[strange shale]

ohhh

[vital tangle]

Hello I need help

[strange shale]

placed it here

it seem that it worked

only the X is now getting the speed

Now I need to find out why only sometimes the jump works

pretty sure that its caused by running the same command twice in the function

[vital tangle]

can anyone help me with this

{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        m_Bones bones = new m_Bones();
        Data dat = new Data();
        dat.Array.Add(1);
        bones.Array.Add(dat);

        string j = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(bones);
        Debug.Log(j);
    }
}
public class m_Bones
{
    public List<Data> Array { get; set; }
}
public class Data
{
    public List<int> Array;
}```

when I access the list or the array

it says object reference not set

[polar acorn]

Where do you create those lists

[vital tangle]

wdym?

[polar acorn]

Where do you create the lists that m_Bones and Data contain

[vital tangle]

I cant understand what you are trying to say?

[polar acorn]

Where do you create the lists that those variables hold

Those are empty boxes. Variables that can hold a list

but you have never put a list in them

[vital tangle]

wait let me add them

[cinder sinew]

Hi how can move my origine/main at the top of the branch ?

[keen dew]

You don't seem to have any local branches for some reason

Right click on the latest commit, choose "New branch..." and name it "main", then push to origin

[cinder sinew]

Like that?

[strange shale]

It seems to work fine now but... I don't couldn't figure out why the Jump only work sometimes...

[cinder sinew]

Ok i made a new branch , but how push to origin ?

Like that ?

[keen dew]

Yes, "push main to origin" does indeed push main to origin

I don't know if it starts to track origin/main automatically, I've never done it with Fork

[cinder sinew]

Do you think i have to check one of these checkbox?

[keen dew]

Those selections should be correct

[cinder sinew]

I get that error

[keen dew]

Well that's quite self-explanatory (and unrelated.) You've exceeded the free limits of the LFS service

[cinder sinew]

Aouch

Ok thank you so much @keen dew 🙏 🙏

[strange shale]

lets try a check using axis instead of key...

[final kestrel]

  if (_rigidbody.velocity.y > 0)
  {
      _rigidbody.velocity += Vector3.up * Physics.gravity.y * (_lowJumpMultiplier - 1) * Time.deltaTime;
  }

  else
  {
      _rigidbody.velocity += Vector3.up * Physics.gravity.y * (_fallMultiplier - 1) * Time.deltaTime;
  }

Can someone explain why it is subtracting 1 instead of initializing the multipliers from the beginning?

If i have 5 then its gonna be 4 and I do not get it

Why not just initialize it 4

[trail gull]

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {

        if (other.TryGetComponent<Wall>(out Wall wall))
        {
            Debug.Log("ended");   
        }

I have lots of walls with a script called 'Wall' attached to them, why isnt this doing anything in my player script?

When my player collides with the walls with the script 'Wall' on them, nothing happens

[languid spire]

you could start by checking that the method is actually being executed

[wintry quarry]

PS you don't need the <Wall> here - the compiler can infer that.

[wintry quarry]

What are you talking about exactly? subtracting 1 from what?

[polar acorn]

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about here. Nothing's initialized here, and what "multipliers from the beginning" do you mean?

[ember fractal]

Make sure you've got one of your colliders set as a trigger

[final kestrel]

Sorry I should give the whole script

[errant violet]

yo guys

I want to modify the audio of the game for real airplane alarms, I have the files but I don't know how to modify it, can you help me?...

(im new with unity fr)

[languid spire]

do not cross post

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/oqdtyjnaju The two if statements in the fixed update handling the vertical velocity. Code subtracts -1 from both low jump and fall multiplier. I am trying to understand why the -1.

[wintry quarry]

didn't you write the code?

[polar acorn]

Well, why did you put it there?

If you don't want the -1, don't put it?

[final kestrel]

Yes I did. I was using just the multipliers. But a friend told me to use -1 to better handle the gravity without much explaining.

[wintry quarry]

Maybe ask your friend

[final kestrel]

I thought it was just common practice to do that thats why im here.

[wintry quarry]

But I guess... they wanted to be able to express something as a number like 1.2 but then actually use 0.2 in the calculation?

[wintry quarry]

no

[final kestrel]

Ah okay sorry then.

Because it did not make sense at all. If i have to subtract 1 from the value i set then why not directly use that value instead.

[ember fractal]

Is the value used somewhere else in the code in a context where you'd want the original (+1) value used?

[final kestrel]

No they are just in fixed update

nowhere else

[wintry quarry]

why not just get rid of the -1

and just define the value as 1 lower in the inspector

e.g. if it was 1.2 you can make it 0.2

I guess that's the reason

if you want to consider it as a "multiplier" you'd do 1.2 (aka 1.2x gravity)

but since regular gravity is still in effect, the 1 is already accounted for

so your code only should be adding the 0.2: hence you subtract 1.

[final kestrel]

Yes thats what I thought but im only a beginner so i thought it would not work.

[delicate portal]

Hey why do I get this error???

[slender nymph]

not a code question. and maybe just take a look in #💻┃unity-talk where that question belongs and you'll see that there's currently server issues

[delicate portal]

Ah alright

[nova bluff]

hello guys

i made a small system of weapons, player can get weapon from ground attach it to a objects that it's in his camera view. the problem it's i can't reset the rotation of the weapon to 0 0 0, it seems like the user position it's changing the actual rotation. for example, if i position the player in the left side of the weapon will cause rotation values to be different from the values of right side. this is my code so far. any suggestions, please?

ViewModel.cs:

    public void GiveWeapon(GameObject worldObject)
    {
        worldObject.tag = "Weapon";
        DeployWeapon(worldObject);
    }

    public void DeployWeapon(GameObject weapon)
    {
        weapon.transform.SetParent(m_ActiveWeaponHolder.transform, true);

        weapon.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(-0.18f, -0.03f, -0.6f);
        weapon.transform.rotation = Quaternion.identity;
        
        m_CurrentWeapon = weapon;
    }```

PlayerLookAt.cs 
```cs
    void Update()
    {
        GameObject weaponObject = LookinAtWeapon();

        bool pressedAttachButton = Keyboard.current.eKey.wasPressedThisFrame;

        if(pressedAttachButton)
        {
            GameObject player = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Player");
            player.GetComponent<ViewModel>().GiveWeapon(weaponObject);
        }
    }```

thanks in advance

[wintry quarry]

use localRotation, not rotation

[nova bluff]

worked

thanks

didn't think rotation actually it's world rotation

still noob

[soft scarab]

How do I access a script from another game object again?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[soft scarab]

But how do I access the other game object?

[rich adder]

depends how you plan on interacting with it?

[slender nymph]

you get a reference to it . . .

[soft scarab]

How do I get a reference again?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[soft scarab]

I am instantiating it, so I can't just drag it

[slender nymph]

Instantiate returns the reference to the instantiated object

from there you can pass it to any object that needs a reference to it

or if you only need access to it in a collision or raycast, well those both provide the reference

[soft scarab]

How do I get the reference to the instantiated object?

[rich adder]

they just told u lol

[wintry quarry]

did you read this part @soft scarab ?

[soft scarab]

It returns the reference, but where does it return the reference to.

[slender nymph]

do you know what it means when a method returns something?

[wintry quarry]

It... returns it

[soft scarab]

I have a feeling I got it all wrong

what does returns mean?

[wintry quarry]

It means when you call the function MyFunction() you can use that in any expression and it acts as the value returned

for example you can store the result in a variable:

var myVar = myFunction();

Or pass it into another function:

SomeOtherFunction(MyFunction());```

[rich adder]

probably should start some c# courses 😅

[soft scarab]

Yeah, I am taking a Unity course right now, but I am going a bit off the course to try and add some things myself

[rich adder]

well hopefully its a structured course that actually teaches you about basics of the language you're working with

[soft scarab]

It is, but I am going off track, and I just didn't realize that you could store Instantiate in a variable. That is why I was confused

[soft scarab]

This is the course btw https://www.gamedevrocket.com/

[rich adder]

Ohh I see, Im familiar with some of their YT tutorials. They do have their own art style which is good

[soft scarab]

Yeah, the course also comes with art tutorials. I am making a top down shooter, but I was running into the problem that the enemies were spawning on top of me, so I was trying to make indicators as to where they would spawn

[edgy prism]

Potentially maddeningly stupid question but the rect transform of one of my gameObjects has a "Height" value and ive googled but I cant for the life of me figure out how to access this value in code

[rich adder]

have you looked at the docs?

sizeDelta you need

[wintry quarry]

whether it shows "height / width" or "left / right/ bottom / top" etc depends on what anchor preset you have chosen. But all of that data is encapsulated by the sizeDelta and anchoredPosition of the RT

[edgy prism]

Ahh right thankyou very much

[edgy prism]

I did have a look but I wasn't sure what actually included the height

[buoyant knot]

if class A contains a field of reference type class B (with no auto-initialization), and I call A’s constructor, does this constructor allocate memory to :

1. hold an instance of class B, + a reference to it?
2. hold a reference to an instance of class B?
3. neither?

[slender nymph]

it allocates the like 4 bytes that a reference takes as part of its own heap allocation. it does not allocate all of the memory that class B would take on the heap

[buoyant knot]

ty

[sullen wraith]

Hey is there a way i can have multiple trigger colliders on the same object without having unity convert all the colliders into one? I have tried to following setup. The black shape on the image (parent) have a box collider 2d and have two child objects with their own colliders. the two child object is linked to the parent and saved as a prefab. doing it this way the collisions tend to break. Any ideas how i can possible detect when something hits the two smaller colliders? 🙂 Thanks long question i know

[wintry quarry]

without having unity converge all the colliders into one
What do you mean by this?

Unity doesn't do this unless you're using a CompositeCollider2D

[barren terrace]

Hi! I'm trying to use collision.contacts, but it tells me that collision does not contain a definition for contacts. The line i wrote I took it right from unity's documentation: ContactPoint contact = collision.contacts[0];

[wintry quarry]

what type is collision?

[barren terrace]

Collision

[wintry quarry]

you sure?

Show the rest of the code

[barren terrace]

I mean

sorry

Collider

[wintry quarry]

Well there's your answer

[barren terrace]

oh

[wintry quarry]

Note that if this is OnTriggerEnter, contacts are not generated for triggers

[barren terrace]

ohh

that's the problem

thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Also - collision is a poor name for a Collider variable! See how confusing that was?

[sullen wraith]

I might mistake what's happening to my prefab with this post : https://forum.unity.com/threads/physics-shape-bool-to-prevent-childs-collider-being-merged-with-parents-on-convert.1310672/

[wintry quarry]

that question is about ECS Physics and PhysicsShape

not related to normal Unity colliders at all

[sullen wraith]

Anyhow, i am really lost on what options i have in this case. I need to register when a line hits one of the two colliders. The colliders needs to be a child object and should be detected in the script attached to the parent

[wintry quarry]

Put scripts on the children

have the scripts call a function on the parent

"Hey parent, I got hit!"

public class Slot : MonoBehaviour {
  enum Position {
    Top, Left, Right, Bottom
  }

  public Position MyPosition; // set in the inspector

  void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
    GetComponentInParent<ParentScript>().RegisterTrigger(MyPosition);
  }
}``` Just a quick and dirty example

[cunning rampart]

Assets are not downloading. Even after creating a new empty project I see 3 errors. help 😦

[summer stump]

Servers are down

[cunning rampart]

Isn't my mistake?

[short hazel]

Ah we found who did it

[summer stump]

The package manager part, no.
The NullRef maybe
As the error itself says, it is likely from the server

[sullen wraith]

@wintry quarry Yeah i tried that earlier but no luck. I might have set it up wrong. I will try that again 🙂 . Btw having child colliders messes the parent collider up. The white line coming from the bottom should be stopped by the boxcollider on the parent (line 1 ) but it gets stopped by the child line 2 when rotated like that. Any idea why?

No problem when it is like this

[cunning rampart]

how to fix this? o-o

[summer stump]

Wait until the server is no longer down? What do you mean fix?

[summer stump]

https://status.unity.com/

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show how you set everything up 🤔

like what components are on each object

and how they are configured

presumably if the child collider is a trigger this doesn't make sense

[cunning rampart]

Sorry, I just recently started learning English. It’s just that you seemed to say that it was a silent mistake, but also mine? In short, all I have to do is wait?

[sullen wraith]

@wintry quarry parent

child

i tried one child with two colliders, and two child objects with one collider each

[wintry quarry]

why does the child have two colliders

yeah I would make each a separate object

also you can put kinematic rigidbody2Ds on the children to make them separate physics objects

[sullen wraith]

my last hope after i have tried the latter https://discussions.unity.com/t/differentiate-between-colliders/235508/4

[wintry quarry]

this person is just making a dumb mistake of putting them all on the same object

[sullen wraith]

@wintry quarry I am clearly missing something important. i does not work

[wintry quarry]

Aren't you in 2D?

You need to use OnTriggerStay2D

and Collider2D

[sullen wraith]

@wintry quarry Yeah i am in 2d, still nothing, tried triggerstay, trigger enter, trigger exit...

[wintry quarry]

show what you tried

[weary moss]

i put a for loop inside my code and now it doesn't work(the code is for a background effect), now when i play it the fps goes to 2 and the textures become weird and stretched.

[wintry quarry]

why did you put a for loop here

that's not going to do anything

other than be really slow

[weary moss]

so that it goes up only to 0.8

[wintry quarry]

Let me repeat^

[weary moss]

and increases

[wintry quarry]

for loops don't magically make your Update take more than one frame to complete

Update always takes one frame

your ENTIRE LOOP is running in a single frame

[weary moss]

oh

[wintry quarry]

and that's why your frame is taking half a second to run

[weary moss]

now i get it

thanks

[wintry quarry]

void Update() {
  render.material.mainTextureOffset = Vector2.MoveTowards(render.material.mainTextureOffset, new Vector2(0.8f, 0), Time.deltaTime * velocidade);
}```

this is what you want for example

[summer stump]

So, the package manager cannot be accessed. That has nothing to do with you. You have no control over it nor can you affect it.
The errors are resulting from that. I didn't see your second picture when I looked before, but those are also because of the server being down

In short, none of it is your fault

[sullen wraith]

@wintry quarry Could it be that my LineRenderer used to "trigger" the trigger is not correctly setup?. It hax a collider and also a rigidbody

[wintry quarry]

i have no idea - again you'd have to show the code you tried

so far all I saw was the 3d version of OnTriggerEnter

[soft scarab]

What does this error mean?

[eternal needle]

It's an editor error most likely, you should be able to ignore it unless you wrote editor stuff

[wintry quarry]

hard to say without seeing the full error

[soft scarab]

ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: _unity_self
UnityEditor.SerializedObject.FindProperty (System.String propertyPath) (at <582c35e8f45345d395e99f8e72e3c16d>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.BindPropertyRelative (UnityEngine.UIElements.IBindable field, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <af95451922f042e9a8d1a10956fb36a2>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.BindTree (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <af95451922f042e9a8d1a10956fb36a2>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.SerializedObjectBindingContext.ContinueBinding (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element, UnityEditor.SerializedProperty parentProperty) (at <af95451922f042e9a8d1a10956fb36a2>:0)
UnityEditor.UIElements.Bindings.DefaultSerializedObjectBindingImplementation+BindingRequest.Bind (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualElement element) (at <af95451922f042e9a8d1a10956fb36a2>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeBindingsUpdater.Update () (at <d293f45b4ec64e6c9e762fe89794e7a5>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdater.UpdateVisualTreePhase (UnityEngine.UIElements.VisualTreeUpdatePhase phase) (at <d293f45b4ec64e6c9e762fe89794e7a5>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.Panel.UpdateBindings () (at <d293f45b4ec64e6c9e762fe89794e7a5>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIElementsUtility.UnityEngine.UIElements.IUIElementsUtility.UpdateSchedulers () (at <d293f45b4ec64e6c9e762fe89794e7a5>:0)
UnityEngine.UIElements.UIEventRegistration.UpdateSchedulers () (at <d293f45b4ec64e6c9e762fe89794e7a5>:0)
UnityEditor.RetainedMode.UpdateSchedulers () (at <af95451922f042e9a8d1a10956fb36a2>:0)

[wintry quarry]

Yeah it's an editor ui bug

[soft scarab]

so how do I fix it?

[wintry quarry]

you don't

best you can do is submit a bug report

and otherwise ignore it

[soft scarab]

ok, thank you

[swift crag]

restart the editor and see if it goes away

[calm osprey]

why does setting a float called startSize to = transform.localScale = 0.2;
not work? I thought floats work with decimals. is this not the proper way to scale stuff in code?

[slender nymph]

0.2 is a double not a float. 0.2f is a float though

also transform.localScale is a Vector3

[rich adder]

if scale was 1 value it would not be very useful would it 😛

[swift crag]

A double won't automatically change to a float because you might lose precision, and a float won't automatically change to a Vector3 because they're just completely unrelated types

You may want to use Vector3.one times something.

Vector3.one * 0.5f is equivalent to writing new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f)

see also: Vector3.zero and the various directions, like Vector3.right

[calm osprey]

(0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f) doesnt work either though

[swift crag]

Show your code.

I do not know what you are doing.

[calm osprey]

private  float startSize;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    startSize = transform.localScale = (0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f);
}

[swift crag]

that is not the correct syntax.

[polar acorn]

localScale is not a 3-tuple either

It's a Vector3

[swift crag]

(0.2f, 0.2f, 0.2f) creates a "tuple".

[polar acorn]

If you want to set it to something that something has to be a Vector3

[slender nymph]

and you cannot assign a Vector3 to a float variable

[swift crag]

which is an ordered, fixed size bundle of three items. It has nothing to do with Vector3

That is why I wrote new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f), not (0.5f, 0.5f, 0.5f)

and yes, Vector3 cannot convert to float, beacuse those are two unrelated data types.

Perhaps you want to do this.

startSize = 0.2f;
transform.localScale = Vector3.one * startSize;

[calm osprey]

what's the difference between Vector3 and Vector3.one?

[swift crag]

Vector3 is a type.

It is a kind of thing.

Vector3.one is a property that gives you a vector where all three values are 1

Vector3 foo = Vector3.one;

foo is a variable that holds a Vector3.

[calm osprey]

so it's like vector3 but for when I know all 3 values will scale together?

[swift crag]

It's not "like vector3"

Vector3.one is a vector

just like writing new Vector3(1, 1, 1)

[polar acorn]

Vector3.one is identical to new Vector3(1, 1, 1)

Kind of like how 3 is not "like a" number, it is a number

[swift crag]

Both of these give you an object whose type is Vector3

float x = 1.5f;
Vector2 y = new Vector2(1, 2);
Vector3 z = Vector3.right;

x is a float, and 1.5f is a literal float value

We call it a "literal" because it's...literally a value

y is a Vector2, and new Vector2(1, 2) returns a Vector2

float w = new Vector3(1, 2, 3);

This is bogus. w is a float, and new Vector3(1, 2, 3) returns a Vector3

There is no automatic way to convert a Vector3 to a float

Thus, you get an error.

[calm osprey]

nvm i think i get it

ty

[spiral narwhal]

    [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "StarterDeckDefinition", menuName = "Data/New StarterDeckDefinition", order = 0)]
    public class StarterDeckDefinition : ScriptableSingleton<StarterDeckDefinition>
    {    
        [SerializeField] private List<Card> _starterDeck;
    }

Why is this field always reset automatically? It doesn't really behave like a ScriptableObject at all

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "reset automatically"? What are you expecting it to do that it's not doing?

[spiral narwhal]

The field is reset from the asset without me removing the references myself

[polar acorn]

Does anything else modify _starterDeck? Did you fill the list with asset files, or something ephemeral like scene objects?

[spiral narwhal]

No just a ScriptableObject

I then run a test from within rider

[polar acorn]

Does anything modify the list at run time

[spiral narwhal]

No there is just a getter

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

namespace main.entity.Card_Management
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This entity represents the deck that the player starts with once the game is loaded.
    /// It is a scriptable singleton, there can only be one instance of this entity in the editor. 
    /// </summary>
    [CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "StarterDeckDefinition", menuName = "Data/New StarterDeckDefinition", order = 0)]
    public class StarterDeckDefinition : ScriptableSingleton<StarterDeckDefinition>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// The starter deck as it will be assigned in the editor.
        /// Note that there can only be a single instance of this field.
        /// </summary>
        [SerializeField] private List<Card> _starterDeck;

        /// <summary>
        /// Retrieves the starter deck as it is defined in the editor
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The starter deck as a list of cards</returns>
        public List<Card> Get() => _starterDeck;
    }
}

(entire class)

[polar acorn]

...which gets a list that could be modified

Do you?

[spiral narwhal]

No it just returns the field

[polar acorn]

Show the code that actually interacts with _starterDeck

Whatever code calls Get()

[spiral narwhal]

using System.Linq;
using main.entity.Card_Management;
using UnityEngine;

namespace main.service.Card_Management
{
    public class DeckService : Service
    {
        /// <summary>
        ///     Contains the deck of the player at all points in the game.
        ///     This is created automatically once the service is instantiated, and loads the starter deck as it is
        ///     defined in the editor in a random order (shuffled).
        /// </summary>
        private readonly CardPile _deck;

        /// <summary>
        ///     Creates the singleton of this service if it does not exist and then starts the game
        /// </summary>
        public DeckService()
        {
            Instance ??= this;
            LogInfo("Successfully set the DeckService's singleton instance");

            LogInfo("Now retrieving starter deck definition");
            _deck = new CardPile(StarterDeckDefinition.instance.Get(), true);
            LogInfo("Deck has been set and shuffled");

            LogInfo("Deck consists of these cards:");
            if (debugMode) _deck.Pile.ToList().ForEach(card => Debug.Log($"\t-{card}"));
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///     The non-thread-safe singleton of the service
        /// </summary>
        public static DeckService Instance { get; private set; }
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, you now have a CardPile that you pass this object's list to, can you show CardPile?

[spiral narwhal]

        /// <summary>
        ///     Provides a way to create a new card pile and instantly fill it with a set amount of cards
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="cardsToFill">The non-null, non-empty list of cards to fill it with</param>
        /// <param name="shuffle">Determines if the content added to the pile should be randomly added or not</param>
        public CardPile([NotNull] List<Card> cardsToFill, bool shuffle)
        {
            Assert.IsTrue(cardsToFill.Count > 0, "Should not try to fill card pile with an empty list.");

            if (shuffle)
                while (cardsToFill.Count > 0)
                {
                    var indexToAddNext = Random.Range(0, cardsToFill.Count);
                    Pile.Push(cardsToFill[indexToAddNext]);
                    cardsToFill.RemoveAt(indexToAddNext);
                }
            else
                cardsToFill.ForEach(Pile.Push);
        }

Sure

[polar acorn]

So, this has a reference to the _starterDeck list, and it removes things from it

[spiral narwhal]

Does it refer to the actual Singleton field when I use RemoveAt?

Ah

So I should never return the field directly, just a copy?

[polar acorn]

What you could do is change Get() to always return a copy:

public List<Card> Get() => new List<Card>(_starterDeck);

Just don't use Get() over and over or you'll make a ton of garbage. It doesn't look like you are anywhere, just make sure to call Get() once and cache that reference

[spiral narwhal]

Ahh thanks! :)

[polar acorn]

This is actually a quite well compartmentalized design, so it's a very quick fix

[soft scarab]

I have an instantiated object, how do I instantiate a prefab from that?

[polar acorn]

Do you want to instantiate that object or a prefab

[soft scarab]

A prefab

[polar acorn]

Then call instantiate with that prefab as the first argument

[soft scarab]

I have an enemy, that I want to spawn more enemies

[polar acorn]

So that enemy should have a reference to a prefab, and it should Instantiate them

[soft scarab]

I feel stupid. I already had references to other prefabs, but for some reason I didn't realize I could do that

thank you

[wind void]

if i have 2022.3.1f1 and my friend has 2022.3.12f1 will that cause issues working on something together

[strong wren]

Odds are it will work, but downgrading is unsupported and I wouldn't be surprised if something would eventually go wrong. This isn't a code question.

[wind void]

yeah i didnt know where else to post but thanks

[summer stump]

#💻┃unity-talk

[soft scarab]

My code is randomly stopping for long periods of time and then the cylinder is not accurate. Does anybody know what is wrong? if(Vector3.Distance(transform.position, targetPosition) < 1f) { if(Time.time>nextSpawnTime) { Destroy(tempSpawnCylinder); Instantiate(enemies[Random.Range(0, enemies.Length)], spawnPoint.position, spawnPoint.rotation); spawnPoint.position = new Vector3(Random.Range(minX, maxX), 5, Random.Range(minZ,maxZ)); tempSpawnCylinder = Instantiate(spawnCylinder, spawnPoint.position, spawnPoint.rotation); nextSpawnTime = Time.time + timeBetweenSpawns; Console.Write(nextSpawnTime); } }

[silk night]

That is not nearly enough code to know why your game is randomly stopping 😄

also what do you mean by stopping, does it freeze, does it not do certain stuff anymore?

[soft scarab]

This is supposed to have a spawn location randomly move around and spawn enemies, with a cylinder indicating where they are about to spawn, but the spawn location just freezes and stops moving or spawning anything, and then the cylinder is completely off

The enemies still move though

[open vine]

Hey so I'm trying to get all colliders in the overlapsphere but how do I check for which one has the shortest distance?

[verbal dome]

Collider.ClosestPoint + Vector3.Distance

[open vine]

It says I cant add those since one returns vector3 and the other a float

[summer stump]

Well, you can use those, you just have to do it right

[verbal dome]

I didnt mean you should literally add them together

Loop the colliders, get their closest point to the overlapsphere origin and chheck the distance to that point

If that distance is less than current best distance, store that distance and collider

If that is confusing, maybe google something like 'minimum distance for loop c#'

[twin bolt]

How do i remove the PM and AM from the time?
Text.text = DateTime.Now.ToShortTimeString();

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/custom-date-and-time-format-strings

[azure zenith]

[tacit sapphire]

For some reason my "tank" moves and rotates incredibly quick when V-Sync is disabled, is that because i havent used that "Delta-time" thing?

[swift crag]

If you move by a constant amount every frame, then your movement speed will depend on your framerate

[tacit sapphire]

thats what im thinking

but whats the difference between "DeltaTime" and "Fixed DeltaTime"

[swift crag]

so if you move by 3 every frame, that's 3 meters per frame

[slender nymph]

you're moving using transform.Translate without accounting for deltaTime, so yes. also #763499475641172029

[swift crag]

if you move by 3 * Time.deltaTime every frame, that's 3 meters per second

[tacit sapphire]

and im assuming V-Sync is limited to 60 fps?

[swift crag]

I believe it's based on your monitor's refresh rate?

So probably 60 fps.

[tacit sapphire]

so mine would be 75 fps max

[swift crag]

If you move by 1 meter per frame, you'll move at 60 meters per second with v-sync enabled

and some unknown, but probably higher, number of meters per second with it disabled

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-deltaTime.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-fixedDeltaTime.html

[tacit sapphire]

ill learn delta time, thanks

[swift crag]

Use deltaTime in Update.

[wintry quarry]

(and faster on a different monitor with a higher refresh rate)

[swift crag]

fixedDeltaTime is the length of the physics timestep

which would be more relevant in FixedUpdate

but Time.deltaTime will be equal to Time.fixedDeltaTime in FixedUpdate anyway

[sour fulcrum]

Also worth noting by default fixedeltatime is at 50fps

[swift crag]

I wouldn't say it's at "50 fps", exactly

I guess it will be equivalent to deltaTime if your game happens to be running at 50 frames per second

[silk night]

Is there a way to create a reference to a script in the inspector?

I have a powerup scriptable object and for different powerups I want to drop an inheritor of "IPowerupCondition" to have a code check if that powerup can spawn, just doing public IPowerupCondition Condition; gives me a field but I cant drop the script in there

[slender nymph]

the script itself is not an instance of that object so of course that wouldn't work. You could use something like SerializeReference and some editor scripting to create an instance and serialize the reference to it.
or you can grab an asset that does that for you like this one made by vertx https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.SerializeReferenceDropdown

if the powerup is a monobehaviour or scriptable object though, you'd want to use an actual base class rather than an interface since the editor does not serialize interface references (except for with something like that asset i sent)

[silk night]

Well odin seems to include that by default, the serializereference already did the job

thanks

[silk night]

To give some context:

https://img.sidia.net/ZEyI5/CAxUDAsE49.png/raw

It is a scriptableobject and i created a class through that interface for the check

var category = _contexts.config.powerup.PowerupCategories;
var testPowerup = category[0];
Debug.Log(testPowerup.Condition.Check());

namespace InfinityShooter.Powerup.PowerupScripts
{
    public class ChainPowerup : IPowerupCondition
    {
        public bool Check()
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
}

Perfect, works like a charm, was just missing that SerializeReference 😄

[sick star]

Hey, here I have a script that randomly chooses a windowPoint from an array
I'd like to know how to reference which windowPoint has been chosen randomly

For example:

Destroy(windowPoint chosen by the Random.Range)

[slender nymph]

instead of doing it all in one line like that, you can choose the random object from the array on one line and assign it to a field. then use that when setting the destination. then your chosen point is conveniently stored in a variable accessible throughout the entire class

[teal viper]

Or cache the index.

[sick star]

something like that?

[summer stump]

Probably want to do 0 to windowPoints.length

[vital sage]

Hey, this is more of an editor problem but I only see beginner sections for scripting so I'll put it here.
I'm a noob to Unity and I have this camera in this open source game that i'm modifying, and currently, theres a 3d camera that renders to the middle of the screen. Is there a way for me to shift it to the right in the editor? I tried moving the viewport rect, but it seems to cut off some of the camera on the sides more and more when I modify the Viewport X coord.
I made an image to explain what i mean. the white part is the original positon of the camera, and the red part is where I want it to be.

[slender nymph]

this, but no +1 since it is max exclusive

[slender nymph]

modding discussions are not allowed in this server

[vital sage]

modding?

this is an open source project lol

im porting it to mobile

[summer stump]

Yeah, I was thinking because it was max exclusive, but taking a second to think about it you're right lol. Quick mafs

[summer stump]

Which is a modification

[slender nymph]

yes, modifying a game that is not your project

[summer stump]

Irrelevant whether it is open source. It's just a rule for the server

[sick star]

I tried it out and I can access the component now. Thanks for the idea!

[vital sage]

well damn sorry

[slender nymph]

it's also not a code question anyway

[vital sage]

i mean theres nowhere else besides figuring it out myself

but i understand

[harsh marsh]

If I am correct, occlusion culling only disables renderers (e.g., meshrenderers) if they are not visible to the camera. So, in theory, since I have very tight and small rooms, could I manually disable/enable objects/renderers/lights based on the player's location (using collider triggers for detection) and achieve the same effect (performance-wise)? Or am I missing something obvious?

[slender nymph]

occlusion culling also takes into account what the camera can see. sure you can enable/disable stuff based on where the player is, but if you want the same actual behavior you'd then need to take into account the direction the player faces and its field of view, as well as what objects are being obscured by other objects

now, if we're just talking frustrum culling then yeah you can basically just take into account the player's position and rotation. and use a dot product to determine what is within its fov

[harsh marsh]

I have quite small corridors and rooms attached with a door, so it is quite easy to define what the player is "supposed to see". I am having some problems with occlusion culling, so I had the idea of doing it manually via code instead. I just started to wonder if I missed any magic tricks that I could not achieve with the previously explained system.

That said, thank you for the reply, got better understanding what to look for.

[hollow axle]

How do you make screen edge collider? I tried using Box collider on ScreenEdge object but it didn't work. Ball object currently has only rigidbody 2d component

[teal viper]

Better constraint the object programmatically. You can get object position in screen/view space and reflect/stop it if it's exiting the bounds of the screen.

[topaz gorge]

private void UpdatePlayerLocations()
        {
            foreach (var kvp in playerLocaterMap)
            {
                PlayerManager player = kvp.Key;
                GameObject locater = kvp.Value;

                if (player != null && locater != null)
                { 
                    int distance = Mathf.RoundToInt(Vector3.Distance(gameObject.transform.position, player.gameObject.transform.position));

                    locater.GetComponent<Locater>().characterDistance.text = distance + " M";
                }
            }
        }

Might someine be able to diagnose the reason why the characterDistance.text isnt being set properly as i have put in debug logs for the locations and for the distance viriable and it was all correct, and the GetComponent is also right

now i know i shouldnt be getting the component each time but that will be changed

[hollow axle]

turns out I just need to put ScreenObject on the same parent as Ball object. Thanks anyway

[feral ice]

right now when I want to rotate the player around itself, it rotates around the y axis instead. is there a way to make an object change the direction of its xyz axises?

[slender nymph]

you seem to be lacking syntax highlighting for unity types. you'll need to get your !IDE configured 👇

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[feral ice]

yeah the intellicode doesnt work either

[arctic parcel]

hi i am having issue using GetComponent<> on another game object. It seems to be creating a new instance of it rather then getting the original instance

[cosmic dagger]

GetComponent doesn't create an instance. show your code . . .

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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📃 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.

[cosmic dagger]

that's a lot for one line . . .

i don't see how this creates an instance. it calls Respawn from the PlayerController component on the "Player" child of said parent . . .

[arctic parcel]

beats me too

[cosmic dagger]

how do you know it creates an instance?

does the method work correctly?

is it being called?

[arctic parcel]

because in the function it calls i do Respawning = true;

but in the PlayerController update function if i do Debug.Log(Respawning) its false

[cosmic dagger]

after the method is called, Respawning is still false?

[arctic parcel]

yes

[cosmic dagger]

do you have more than one Player GameObject?

[arctic parcel]

thats the func it calls

im pretty sure i only have 1

[cosmic dagger]

do the two logs appear?

[arctic parcel]

yes

[cosmic dagger]

what is the output of the second log?

does that show true or false?

[arctic parcel]

it shows true

[cosmic dagger]

what is the code that checks in Update?

and this log never shows in console (after calling Respawn)?

Debug.Log("player is respawning. Timer is: " + respawnTimer);

[arctic parcel]

no

im calling respawn from a script attached to an animator

override public void OnStateExit(Animator animator, AnimatorStateInfo stateInfo, int layerIndex)

[cosmic dagger]

that's fine, as long as you have access to the script and method you want to call . . .

[arctic parcel]

as far as i know i do

dont get why its not working though

[cosmic dagger]

is the component enabled or disabled when Respawn is called?

[arctic parcel]

ill check

its disabled

[cosmic dagger]

that's why . . .

[arctic parcel]

damn was just one line

[cosmic dagger]

Update methods don't run on disabled components . . .

[arctic parcel]

whats a way to hide it without disabling it

thx for the help btw

[vast vessel]

Put the code on something else. Like a game manager

[arctic parcel]

ok

also how do i have an animation play just once

i got this die animation but the guy keeps dieing over and over

he only needs to die once

im using the inbuilt animator thing

[silver dock]

i think you can turn off loop

[arctic parcel]

in the animator?

[silver dock]

select the animation clip

and youll see an option in the inspector

[arctic parcel]

ok

i see a lot of dots and things

ok nvm i see

it has loop time unticked atm

[south dune]

any able to give me a hand? i'm an artist that knows very little about code but trying to create a power jump
i got the jump working but i can't figure out how to reset the value of the power jump after he lands

[ivory bobcat]

Just post what you have attempted and explain what works, doesn't etc #854851968446365696 for how to post questions.

[south dune]

ok gotchya sorry, https://gdl.space/ozuwucagaz.cs here's the sorce i'm using for character movement, I have the Jumpnow/jumpforce in but i want it to do something simular to thishttps://imgur.com/35MfBCr, i've tried it and it doesn't work for me

[round scaffold]

this might be something stupid but im having a problem with my player where i want them to build up speed as they run which works perfectly fine,
but as i was trying to make a basic jump script for some reason it kept altering the height of the jump, --going faster would make the jump lower and slow down the player--
is there anything in here thats messing around with the players Y speed that could be messing with the jump??

https://gyazo.com/589800d6f4e17e3bb47035403bc55ee2

https://hatebin.com/itqaaycspj

this is the player movement script

[gilded sinew]

hi all, i am using few text fields to see what lines of code run and what doesnt, and this highligted line of code doesnt run for some reason any idea why?

learning cloud save and i am stuck on this

[languid spire]

Is CloudSaveService your own script?

[gilded sinew]

no, i installed cloud save package and using that code

this is what i am getting

its strange because i took this code from tutorial 2-3 weeks old shouldnt be outdated or something

[silver dock]

how can i make a scrollrect go down automatically when new content gets filled using code?
like i want it to stay at the bottom, and mask the top content instead

[gaunt ice]

Attach content size filter to the content gamobject and set the scroll rect normalized position to 1 or 0 (i forgot which one)

[silver dock]

which one of the three options?

[gaunt ice]

I use Preferred size

You should ask it in ui ux , more experienced people there

[languid spire]

Looks like that method is obsolete in CloudSave v.3.0. So switch to the one specified in the error message

[silver dock]

i dont think that channel is very active, plus i was told it needed code

[gaunt ice]

Now see if the height of content rect tf get increased after new gamobject added to this rect tf, if yes then success

[gilded sinew]

ah i see i understand. i am kinda beginner in this, could you tell me quickly how should my line of code look like? dictionary that i want to save is called "data") ty for help Steve!

i tried how they said and it gets error again

my syntacs in c# is not the best 😄

[languid spire]

the error message is telling you exactly what you need to change it to

[silver dock]

in my setup, there arent new gameobjects added. im using it for a history log thing, and the script adds the event to the same textmeshpro gameobject as they happen

[gaunt ice]

I remember for this setup my previous approach wont work, you need to fixed the text size and calculate the size of text rendered in the tmpro and manually change the rect tf size delta of gameobject

[teal viper]

I'm a bit skeptical about that approach.
Regardless, you should be able to set the normalizedPosition property of the ScrollRect component to change the scroll position.

[teal viper]

I don't think content size fitter is relevant to your question. I think you have been misunderstandood.

[silver dock]

how can i set the normalizedPosition? i dont see it

[teal viper]

Via code... If you don't want to do it via code, you're in the wrong channel.

[gaunt ice]

You may need this GetPreferredValues(String)
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@3.0/api/TMPro.TMP_Text.html

[teal viper]

They just want to scroll the scroll rect. Not change it's size.

Unless I'm misunderstanding?

[silver dock]

well then whats the code for it? guide me a bit here

[silver dock]

sorry im bad at explaining

[teal viper]

Google "unity ScrollRect normalizedPosition API". Look at the docs page. And maybe some examples.

[silver dock]

okay

[burnt vapor]

The warning message is pretty clear; that method is considered obsolete and you should replace it as specified.

A deprecation warning suggests you start migrating your code to an updated version. Deprecated code can still be used, and will continue to work until it is completely removed in a future version (or maybe it's never removed, it depends on the product).

So your code not working is not a result of the deprecation warning. Does the code reach this part of the code at all?

[silver dock]

i dont think we need to work with normalizedPosition here?
Lemme reexplain what i wish to achieve
Like imagine discord, if you open a channel which doesnt have unread messages, it loads the bottom of it, and it stays at the bottom when new messages are recieved, unless you scroll up yourself. I want exactly that

[gaunt ice]

You need it

[silver dock]

its not doing anything, i tried setting it to 0 and 1 both

[gaunt ice]

Is your content rect tf height changed?

After new log is added to the text gameobject

[gilded sinew]

ty my man no error anymore i am building now and will test it. I just got cought by surprise bcs i legit copied code from youtube video 3 weeks old, it was strange to me that it would be patched in meantime, but turns out it is and guy was using older cloud save pack

[silver dock]

nope

[gaunt ice]

It has to be increased by your code

[burnt vapor]

This is why you don't copy paste code and understand what code is supposed to do.

[gilded sinew]

[teal viper]

Then your ScrollRect setup is incorrect. Or the timing of setting the property is wrong.

Can you scroll it manually?

[silver dock]

yeah

ill try moving the transform of the text itself

[gilded sinew]

guys i have code written for cloud save and now it runs without errors in logcat but when i go to UGS under LiveOps i am not getting anything saved there that i want to for testing purposes. Any Idea why?

Saved texts get displayed (did it to see if code breaks somewhere)

@burnt vapor

[burnt vapor]

I'm sorry but this is neither something for this channel nor the Unity server in general. This is something you should be asking the developers or in a server where people use this service as you have much better luck getting a proper answer here

If the text is displayed, and there is no error, then it's something that most likely must be fixed outside of Unity. Maybe you use the wrong credentials?

[gilded sinew]

oh sorry

[quaint thicket]

I'm trying draw a debug ray from one GameObject to another GameObject but as you can see in the picture the ray doesn't appear in the game view, just the scene view. ```cs
public static void DebugRay(GameObject startObject, GameObject endObject, Color lineColor)
{
if (startObject != null && endObject != null)
{
Vector3 direction = endObject.transform.position - startObject.transform.position;
Debug.DrawRay(startObject.transform.position, direction, lineColor);
Debug.DrawLine(startObject.transform.position, endObject.transform.position, lineColor);
}
}

[gaunt ice]

turn on the gizmos

[quaint thicket]

Thanks

[hollow pier]

When I import a image import settings window shows me size of a result asset in bytes which is very handy when we experimenting with settings. However import settings of a 3D fbx model doesn't show result size information. Is there known common ways to get this information rather then produce build every time to manually test it overall size?

[solemn fractal]

hey guys. I have a boss in my game, and i wish that around him minions would just rotate around him, trying to do like that, but it seems they are rotation around it self and not the boss. What is wrong here?

public class BossMinions : MonoBehaviour
{

    private Boss _boss;

    private float _orbitSpeed = 5.0f; 
    private float _orbitRadius = 5.0f;
    private Vector3 originalPosition;

    void Start()
    {
        _boss = FindObjectOfType<Boss>();
        originalPosition = transform.position;
         
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float angle = Time.time * _orbitSpeed; 
        float x = Mathf.Cos(angle) * _orbitRadius;
        float y = Mathf.Sin(angle) * _orbitRadius;

        transform.position = new Vector3(_boss.transform.position.x + x, originalPosition.y + y, _boss.transform.position.z);

    }
}```

[slender sinew]

This looks like a 2D game, yes?

[solemn fractal]

yes

[slender sinew]

I notice you are using originalPosition.y for the Y

and not the boss position

[fossil drum]

_boss.transform.position.x + x, originalPosition.y + y, _boss.transform.position.z this seems strange to me. Like Nephren says.

[solemn fractal]

Yeah omg that was the prob. thank you very much

If I have an object and 4 childs of this object, is there a way to control individually the childs position?

[slender sinew]

If you use the .localPosition, you can control its position relative to the parent

[solemn fractal]

but how can I say which child I am controlling?

because noiw all the 4 circles are rotating above each other

and I want to control their position so they move like in the SS above

[slender sinew]

You could create a list or array of GameObjects, or make 4 individual GameObject variables that you assign in the inspector

[solemn fractal]

oh, ok

thank you for the idea

[slender sinew]

You would probably have a script on the boss itself which controls all 4 minions

and rotates them around itself

[solemn fractal]

and would u recommend having just 1 script for the boss? or separated for the mininos? because now I have 2 scripts.. 1 for the boss

and one for the minions

[solemn fractal]

hmm ok u just answered my question while i was asking 😛

[slender sinew]

I would recommend 2 scripts but it's up to you. If you need a lot of communication between the scripts then it is probably easier to put them into 1 for now

You can have more than 1 script on the boss object

[solemn fractal]

hmm got it, thank you again

[vital cargo]

Does anyone know this extension?. I've been developing a game for 3 month and just watched a tutorial and found this

[gaunt ice]

!ide

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[solemn fractal]

Hey guys I have this piece of code that is working fine. ```cs
void Update()
{
float angle = Time.time * _orbitSpeed;
float x = Mathf.Cos(angle) * _orbitRadius;
float y = Mathf.Sin(angle) * _orbitRadius;

    minionOne.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x + x, transform.position.y + y);

    minionTwo.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x + x, transform.position.y + y);

    minionThree.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x + x, transform.position.y + y);

    minionFour.transform.position = new Vector2(transform.position.x + x, transform.position.y + y);
} ``` I have 4 circles around 1 big circle.. and I want them to go around the middle circle.. they are going around but all on top of each other.. and of course as they have same position being updated.. but I tried to change the values there and stop going around the middle big circle.. what Am I missing here?

Using a boss.script on the boss and that is it

[eager elm]

wouldn't it be easier to have an empty GameObject as the parent of the minions and rotate that rather than all 4 individually?

[hexed terrace]

Just use
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.RotateAround.html

[eager elm]

to make it work with your solution, you should create a list for your minions and than loop through it, each time increasing the angle by 360 / numberOfMinions.

[solemn fractal]

hmm ok guys thank you for your input, I will try what you guys said.

[solemn fractal]

with this method it rotates on its own axis.. even passing the first parameter and the other object axis

[solemn fractal]

what do u mean? empty object being the parent for all minions? but the boss is doing that already no ?

the middle object boss will be moving all the time so they need to stick to him and rotate around

[hexed terrace]

I use this for basic planetary orbits ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. for me is rotating on its own axis.. and not the axis from the object I am passing in the parameters

[hexed terrace]

show ya code

[solemn fractal]

here is the position of the object I want to be surounded correcT?

[hexed terrace]

yup

[solemn fractal]

yes that is what I am doing

minionOne.transform.RotateAround(transform.position, Vector3.up, 30 * Time.deltaTime);  ```

transform.position is like that as it is the boss script and its in the boss object, so it should be getting the boss position

[hexed terrace]

it's 2d, don't you want it to rotate around Vector3.forward ?

[solemn fractal]

oh, i thought that I could use up in 2d too.. let me check

[hexed terrace]

you can, but Vector3.up is ALWAYS up in 3d space

[solemn fractal]

oh yeah now works. ok easier way for sure, now I will try to make all 4 rotate in dif position. thank you

[solemn fractal]

got it, thank you

[hexed terrace]

Just put them in the 4 positions you want, no code change required

[solemn fractal]

omg, that was the most amazing most simple solution ever works like a charm

thank you !!

[olive lintel]

hey guys, is there any function that can check if I have changed the pixelwidth/pixelheight of my Camera?
ideally a boolean variable akin to something like "Camera.ifPixelHeightChanged()"

[hexed terrace]

If you're changing the pixel width/ height, you can just have your own event that you call after doing the change

[swift crag]

otherwise, compare the current value to the old value every frame and then do your work when you notice a difference

[spiral narwhal]

Assert.IsFalse(LocalizationSettings.SelectedLocale is null, "There is no locale selected");

Why is the selected locale null if I have the specific locale selector set to "en"? In the docs, it says that that selector determines the language if all other selectors fail, so it should be set to English

For more context, I'm starting the application from a unit test:

        [Test]
        [SetCulture("en")]
        public void Sample()
        {
            new GameService();
        }

[wintry quarry]

what happens if you wait one frame before doing this

[spiral narwhal]

That seems to work!

Actually, just using [UnityTest] instead of [Test] works already

[neon fractal]

code ``` [SerializeField] private Transform headPoint;

private void FixedUpdate() {
    transform.position = new Vector3(headPoint.position.x, headPoint.position.y, headPoint.position.z);
}

how to make the camera follow, but not as badly as shown in the video?

[polar acorn]

Put it in LateUpdate to make it better, or use Cinemachine to make it best

[neon fractal]

I changed it, it doesn't feel like anything has changed, I'll look at the Cinemachine guides

[verbal dome]

Since you were changing the camera in FixedUpdate (don't do that), I suspect your code has more problems regarding execution order

headPoint is probably not rotated or moved in sync with the rest of the rig

[wintry quarry]

why not just transform.position = headPoint.position;?

[verbal dome]

It kinda looks like it's just a rotation problem tbh

Not sure if it jitters positionally

[neon fractal]

I don't think there is any difference

[verbal dome]

Exactly, so type it simpler 😄

[wintry quarry]

exactly

other than it being a lot faster and simpler

[hollow zenith]

How can I do [Range(1.01f, 2f)] and make it step at 0.01?

[verbal dome]

True, currently it does three transform.position position calls which is not exactly free

[wintry quarry]

round it to nearest 0.01 in OnValidate

[neon fractal]

😈

[wintry quarry]

do note that 0.01 is not actually a number that can be represented in a floating point with perfect precision though

[hollow zenith]

I will probably not use Range then 😄

[wintry quarry]

Maybe make cs [Range(101, 200)] public int hundredths;

[hollow zenith]

Can I limit the input instead?

[wintry quarry]

and then just do division in your code

[gilded sinew]

guys pls help i am losing braincells. since morning trying to figure out what is wrong.

When i use anonimous authentication i am able to save some data to UGS cloud save but if i use google play authentication i cant and i am getting this error

[hollow zenith]

yeah I think that might work too

[slender sinew]

I have never used UnityServices, but I can only assume that you have to await the UnityServices.InitializeAsync() call

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you need to do UnityServices.InitializeAsync();

[slender sinew]

you are currently calling it like an normal method

[wintry quarry]

yeah you're not waiting for it to finish

[gilded sinew]

but it is at the top of the code guys

look

[wintry quarry]

we know

[hollow zenith]

maxExperience = (int)((float)maxExperience * (float)(characterSO.expGrowth / 100));

This looks ugly :c

[slender sinew]

do you know what async is?

[wintry quarry]

you're not waiting for it to finish

it's async

[slender sinew]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.purchasing@4.4/manual/UnityIAPInitializeUnityGamingServices.html
Refer to their example of how they use it inside an async method

[gilded sinew]

okay guys ty ❤️ ill try

[verbal dome]

If you have intA * intB, it's enough to cast just one side to a float: (float)intA * intB instead of (float) intA * (float) intB

[hollow zenith]

I just reaized, I used int

Range works fine

I need to use more floats in my code 😄

Yes the above I had to cast it back to int tho

(int)((float)intA * intB) which is still ugly

so I changed my variabes to floats and I will convert them to ints when I have to display them.

[round scaffold]

im having a problem with my player where i want them to build up speed as they run which works perfectly fine,
but as i was trying to make a basic jump script for some reason it kept altering the height of the jump, --going faster would make the jump lower and slow down the player--
is there anything in here thats messing around with the players jump?
https://gyazo.com/589800d6f4e17e3bb47035403bc55ee2

https://hatebin.com/itqaaycspj

the script for the movement

[slender sinew]

Seems like you are clamping the magnitude of your velocity when moving horizontally, which includes your vertical velocity

What you should do is cache your vertical velocity in a float variable at the top of FixedUpdateMovementHandler, then do your horizontal movement calculations, then at the very end set your vertical velocity back to that variable you cached (so that your horizontal movement code doesn't affect your vertical velocity)

[gilded sinew]

while i am waiting for build to be done so i can test it, what saving you using, using firebase?

[round scaffold]

aighty

[eager elm]

or don't use Vector2 in your MovementHandler method, instead only work with a float

[round scaffold]

thank u mr cat man

[wintry quarry]

yep it's rigidBody.velocity = Vector2.ClampMagnitude(rigidBody.velocity, mData.topRunningSpeed);

[gilded sinew]

how u save data in your app/game?

[hexed terrace]

very common requirement, have a google

[eager elm]

The same way you would save a physical game. For chess, you would write down a list containing each unit, their position and to which player it belongs.

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[ruby python]

Oookay, I seriously don't know why I have such a blind spot when it comes to rotations in Unity. lol. But they're giving me grief again.

I have a ship(space) that has engine pods that I want to rotate based on the direction of travel....

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W))
  {
    thrusterFLCurrentRotation = new Vector3(thrusterFL.rotation.x, 0, 0);
    if (thrusterFLCurrentRotation.x < forwardRotation)
    {
    thrusterFL.localEulerAngles = Vector3.Lerp(thrusterFLCurrentRotation, new Vector3(forwardRotation, 0, 0), thrusterRotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }
    shuttleRigidBody.AddForce(transform.forward * maxForce, ForceMode.Acceleration);
  }

At the moment the thruster that I'm trying to rotate 'snaps' to about 18degrees. (forward rotation angle is 90, 'base' rotation is 0)

Please help. lol.

[sage mirage]

Hello, guys! I have a question. When I am pausing my game, I want it to freeze and when unpausing I want it to unfreeze. I know basically how to achieve that but I don't know how to make that, when I have also IEnumerators in my script. So, What I did was I wanted with a specific key to pause and unpause game with a delay. So, when I am trying to pause my game with Time.timeScale it pauses but never unpauses the game because it stuck on freeze.

Check my code here

 {
     if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape) && pauseIsActive == true)
     {
         StartCoroutine(ResumeGameAfterDelay());
     }
 }



 IEnumerator ResumeGameAfterDelay()
 {
     yield return new WaitForSeconds(resumeDelay);
     pauseIsActive = false;
     pauseMenuScreen.SetActive(false);
     Debug.Log("Pause menu screen is disabled!");
 }



 public void PauseGame()
 {
     if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape) && pauseIsActive == false)
     {
         StartCoroutine(PauseGameAfterDelay());
     }
 }



 IEnumerator PauseGameAfterDelay()
 {
     yield return new WaitForSeconds(pauseDelay);
     pauseIsActive = true;
     pauseMenuScreen.SetActive(true);
     Debug.Log("Pause menu screen is enabled!");
 }```

and I have putted those 2 methods on my ``Update()``

```void Update()
{
    PauseGame();
    ResumeGame();    
}```

[summer stump]

Lerp goes from 0 to 1, what is thrusterRotationSpeed?

Also you never want to multiply the third parameter of lerp by deltaTime
The value is supposed to increment, deltaTime goes up and down (or stays the same)

This site has good explanations of lerp
https://unity.huh.how/lerp

[delicate portal]

I'm checking if the player can move by a capsuleCast. The problem is, I want to be able to go up on slopes, but I cant because if the capsuleCast detects something, I cant move. How can I go up for examples on a staircase? Or just a little little slope?

bool canMove = !Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerHeight, playerRadius, moveDir, moveDistance, obstacleMask, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);

[ruby python]

thrusterRotationSpeed is how fast it rotates. It's weird cause I'm using pretty much the extact same code on another aspect of the thing and it works fine. lol.

[summer stump]

Lerps third parameter is a fraction value, not a speed
It returns a SINGLE value between the first two parameters, at the fraction given by the third

[ruby python]

Well this is the code I'm using for the other rotation thing I've got and it works perfectly........

if (currentRot.x > openAngle)
            {
                currentPos = Vector3.Lerp(currentPos, new Vector3(currentPos.x, currentPos.y, openPosition), smallRampSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
                currentRot = Vector3.Lerp(currentRot, new Vector3(openAngle, currentRot.y, currentRot.z), doorSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            }

[summer stump]

And you see how that is significantly different, right?
Still not a great way to lerp, but it would actually work at least

[ruby python]

Yeah, tbh I just noticed my error.

[fair steeple]

Hey! I'm looking to make this pattern.

I have this code here
https://pastebin.com/rN2j2BTS
https://pastebin.com/kHEpjsRS

It turns on and off emission in a blink pattern across a Game Object array and then I trigger that from a manager script. The problem is that no matter what combination of numbers I use in LevelManager I never get it right.

Anyone knows how to do this right?

[slender nymph]

instead of doing it like that where you start 3 coroutines, just have a loop inside 1 coroutine that loops through your array and calls the StartBlink method on the right object in sequence then just waits until it's time for the next one to proceed

[fair steeple]

That makes sense

Thanks

[naive lion]

Im going to have enemies in my game
I am currently setting up a health system for my player
Should I do this in the player controller or have a script that just handles the health attribute called 'HealthAttribute' so I can reuse it for enemies?
I am just unsure how this may eventually interact with healing the player with pickups and auras
Or should I have a player health script and then a seperate Enemy health script

[delicate portal]

Hey! I'm checking if the player can move by a capsuleCast. The problem is, I want to be able to go up on slopes, but I cant because if the capsuleCast detects something, I cant move. How can I go up for examples on a staircase? Or just a little little slope?

bool canMove = !Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerHeight, playerRadius, moveDir, moveDistance, obstacleMask, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);

[solemn bobcat]

It's a good practice to split components when possible. If you separate the controller from the rest of the logic, you will be able to easily swap it with aother kind of controller (e.g. AI controller, network controller, etc.). If you separate health from the rest of the logic, you will be able to easily assign it to any objects you want (e.g. enemies, chests, buildings, etc.), even if some of those don't have any controller.

[twin bolt]

How do i check if a string contains a integer higher than 20?

[short hazel]

I don't like where this is going - why are you storing numerical data in strings?

[solemn bobcat]

If you move the capsule slightly above the player's feet level, it will no longer detect small height differences.

[twin bolt]

I'm making a platform in my game, that requires a object that weighs over 30 pounds, and i wanted to store the weight of each item in the name.

[short hazel]

No

Don't store data in object names

[solemn bobcat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CTaXlJUso

[short hazel]

Use a script attached to that object

[polar acorn]

Jesus christ how horrifying

[modest dust]

Whenever I think that nothing will ever surprise me anymore, a guy like this comes up and proves me wrong

[twin bolt]

ok

[short hazel]

Something truly horrifying would be to display the weight on the object with a Text component, then get its value using OCR

[delicate portal]

Well I want thats you can literally walk on upon that

[summer stump]

In what way? You could call a public method from the other object

Not really enough details to say though

Then reference a script on that other gameobject and call a public method on it

otherObjectScript.StartAnimation()

Call it whatever you want

[modest dust]

This anwser kinda feels like:

- I want to trigger something
- Provide some details
- I want to do a dance and then trigger something

Kinda feels unrelated. A better answer would be to tell us what is the relation between the first and second object

But yeah, a public method is one way of doing that

Reference the door in the pressure switch and call the public method

[short hazel]

That's a good candidate for events! Especially if the pressure switch can activate various things

[white crag]

im having a problem with figuring out shooting bullets in 2d
i cast raycasts for deducting health and then instantiate a bullet prefab for show

i then check the distance between the bullet and hit object for determining when to destroy the bullet
but this method seems to be a little inconsistent

im guesing its due to the bullet speed any solutionss?

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! If I want to click for example a pause button on my user interface and to pause the game with that. How to interact with that button? Is there a prebuilt method that I can use to do that?

[white crag]

do you know how to hook up a UI button with a function through script?

[rich adder]

You can hook into the OnClick event

[sage mirage]

Of course I know!

[modest dust]

Nothing much. You trigger whatever you want to happen through the pressure switch, the door itself does nothing, it's just being controlled

You could hook up the door to an event in this way tho

[rich adder]

are you making pressure switches?

[short hazel]

Then use an event

That way you can make the link directly in the Inspector

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/KahTBQ_vwq0
this might help out its basic but works

yeah iphone mic

stinks

[shadow shale]

quick mask question, trying to protype a very simple text effect, text scrolls up and disappears, I've just slapped a Mask component on the panel; it works like I want it to when the alpha of the Image on the panel is 1, but everything disappears when the alpha is 0. For the effect I need the alpha to be 0. Just want to do it in the fastest dumbest way for the moment and do it right later.

so that's with alpha set to 1 on the panel container, but if i put it my game the alpha of 1 still creates a visible rectangle around the text, so i need it to be 0

[swift crag]

Well, yeah: if the image's alpha is zero, it's opaque nowhere

so the mask hides everything

If you don't want to see the image, you can uncheck "show mask graphic" on the mask componnet

[rare basin]

you can do it with upgrading text mesh pro to newest, experimental version

then use the RectMask2D component

#💻┃unity-talk message

if i understand correctly what are you trying to achieve

[pliant oyster]

I added this script and now my button doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know why? All I did was add a "OnButtonPress" like the tutorial I read says.

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

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

    public void OnButtonPress()
    {
        Debug.Log("Button pressed.");
    }

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

[polar acorn]

Where do you call OnButtonPress

[pliant oyster]

In here

Within the Button

[polar acorn]

Does the button react to being pressed? Does it change color or animate as you move your mouse around it?

[pliant oyster]

Nope. I have a custom animation which worked before adding the script.

[polar acorn]

Is there an event system in the scene

[pliant oyster]

I had one, but deleted it because I ended up not using Visual Scripting because the screen for it didn't pop up.