💻┃code-beginner

[frosty hound]

Use a for loop?

[cunning heath]

Hey can you link me to a resource for editor scripting

[dry smelt]

Is https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/csharp a good place to learn c# for unity and for other stuff

[slender nymph]

yes

[rich adder]

not as much as editor scripting, more like how to access that list through a reference and iterating over the elements to assign values

so yes, learn actual basic C# operations

[cunning heath]

I figured that out. I needed to GetComponent<tile>.variable to get the variable

[rich adder]

indeed. Do note GetComponent is strictly a unity function

you would not access regular classes like that

[cunning heath]

yeah. I forgot what I learned earlier.

I got scared when I was ordered to go read the basics

[rich adder]

yeah it can feel like a brush off answer but sometimes knowing the basics really do be solvin 80% of issues

[cunning heath]

Also if I just do instantiate it doesn't create a prefab? and only prefabutility.instantiate creates a prefab?

[rich adder]

yeah for editor you would use the Helper class

idk what your exact use case is but ScriptableObjects are good for templating some data

[sterile radish]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

sometimes its easier have 1 prefab and many Scriptable Objects for data templates
you can do some powerful shenanigans @cunning heath

[cunning heath]

Thanks

[sterile radish]

I'm currently trying to make it so whenever I press my fire button, I shoot 3 bullets at once. However currently, I seem to have broken something in my code as now I can't seem to shoot at all.
https://hatebin.com/awlguqyewk

[halcyon osprey]

Hey again, followed through a bit more and got pretty good progress going, I understand how most of the code works, other than the addition of lines 22-25. It's supposed to trigger idle animations, but the if statement depends on the condition that movement x and y are not equal to 0. Ive been assuming that the axis of numbers represent the directions, and hence anything between -1 and 1 would be a walking animation, not an idle animation. I think I have the visualization of the axis confused, or I'm just missing a vital part of information.

[rich adder]

whats broken ?

check console for errors?

[rich adder]

and are you sure this timer += Time.deltaTime; is not supposed to go outside that if statement ?

[rich adder]

f specifies that is float btw

[halcyon osprey]

Sorry, forgot to add the numbers, 22 starts at if (movement.x != 0 || movement.y != 0)

[sterile radish]

i want to achieve something like this however with my current code, I can't seem to get any bullets instantiating at all

[cunning heath]

what did you set for bulletcooldown

[rich adder]

did you try the rest of my replies ?

only counting cooldown going up when use keeps clicking ? idk seems off to me

[sterile radish]

yeah i put timer += Time.deltaTime;outside of the if statement and whenever I click my fire button the timer does set back to zero however my fire method doesnt seem to work after that

[rich adder]

did you check console for errors. ?
if there is none, make sure to Debug.Log the function to see if its called

[sterile radish]

oh

i didnt see that reply sorry

[main anchor]

i made this code where it would allow my camera to move in a normal way in a first person camera, but it won't let my camera move left or right, where did i go wrong?

[rich adder]

!code

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[buoyant knot]

you just assigned your rotation twice

[main anchor]

oops

[full imp]

I realised that when I rotate the child object, the position changes
https://gyazo.com/113f12bc7b117d4cd2bd63c21778f214.gif
Is there some sort of formula that I have to apply to change the position when I'm rotating the child object?

^ still haven't found anything for this unfort

[buoyant knot]

line 32 overwrites lines 26 and 30

[rich adder]

the child is moving maybe because pivot is not fully centered

not sure

[main anchor]

i deleted line 30, would that fix it? or should i delete line 32

[rich adder]

ur pivot is in center mode right now so its hard to tell where it is

[buoyant knot]

i’m saying all your rotation lines are overwriting and deleting whatever you had before

[main anchor]

oh ight icic

[buoyant knot]

you need to multiply the quaternions

or quaternion.Rotate

[sterile radish]

I debug.logged some stuff and it turns out the function is actually being called but the code inside it (after the debug.log line) is not being properly ran

[buoyant knot]

but i think you need to multiply the quaternions

or make one quaternion with both X and Y euler angles

but idk how the math works out

[rich adder]

did you check the hirerchy to see if they're spawning ? pause simulation and check their position

[buoyant knot]

because 3D rotation math is cancer

will literally kill you

[rich adder]

fr

[sterile radish]

yes, there is no bullet clone in the hierarchy

[buoyant knot]

all you need to know is linear operators will not betray you

and linear operators don’t normally commute

[rich adder]

which line you put debug.log

[buoyant knot]

rotate by X then rotate by Y is NOT the same as rotate by Y then X

very important to remember this

never forget that

[sterile radish]

https://hatebin.com/qpowyvqwoh
at line 36

[buoyant knot]

anyway, off on plane. later

[rich adder]

if nothing is spawning after it you have def have a NRE then

[slender nymph]

the only reason the code following the Debug.Log would not run is if you get an exception on line 37

[sterile radish]

what is a NRE?

[sterile radish]

oh okay

[slender nymph]

NRE == NullReferenceException

[rich adder]

You said function is running because of log , did you originally have the log in the same spot ?

[sterile radish]

idk all my values in the inspector are filled out

[sterile radish]

no i only put it after you suggested

[rich adder]

so where did you put it before

when you said this

you have to be specific, I dont know what you did

[sterile radish]

at line 36 (the first line inside of the for loop)

[halcyon osprey]

Didn't know about the code blocks, sorry. Here you go, I also added comments on what I knew and noted what I didn't understand : https://hastebin.com/share/givipeheya.csharp

[rich adder]

ok so it was at the same spot.. could've just said that

[sterile radish]

oh sorry

[rich adder]

anyway so yes then check console for errors

Firing!!!" should be printing 3 times, if it only printed once on click you def have NRE lol

[sterile radish]

yes it printed 3 times after i only clicked once

[slender nymph]

show the entire console window

[slender nymph]

no exceptions which means the code is running just fine

are you just not seeing the spawned bullets? because that could be a positioning or sorting layer issue

[sterile radish]

omg i think i know why

[rich adder]

🥁

[slender nymph]

ooh maybe it's an issue with collision detection and the bullet is being immediately destroyed because it collides with whatever is shooting it

[sterile radish]

yes i fixed it!!! it turns out on my bullet script i added a thing where whenever it collided with something it would destroy itself (thing is that whenever I would shoot, all of the bullets would collide with each other so they were actually spawning but only for like 0.1 seconds)

[slender nymph]

put your bullet on a layer that doesn't collide with whatever is shooting it so that won't happen

[sterile radish]

yeah i did

thank you guys

[rich adder]

no wonder they didnt even show in the hierarchy

[sterile radish]

yeah lol

[rich adder]

nice lol
btw there is a feature to do game frame by frame, sometimes it can help find these quick things

[tulip venture]

"Parameter 'Speed' does not exist." although it does, any work around?

        {
            if (moveDirection == Vector3.zero)
            {
                anim.SetFloat("Speed", 0, 0.2f, Time.deltaTime);
            }
            else if (moveDirection != Vector3.zero && !Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
            {
                anim.SetFloat("Speed", 0.5f, 0.2f, Time.deltaTime);
            }
            else if(moveDirection != Vector3.zero && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
            {
                anim.SetFloat("Speed", 1, 0.2f, Time.deltaTime);
            }
        }```

[swift crag]

It does not exist.

[slender nymph]

are you sure you are referencing the correct animator?

[swift crag]

Perhaps you have a parameter named " Speed", with a leading space

(i forget if you're allowed to do that)

or perhaps you have the wrong animator, yes

[tulip venture]

im pretty sure yes

[slender nymph]

well it's either that or your parameter has whitespace in it

[swift crag]

double click on the parameter in the parameter list and make sure the name doesn't have any spaces at the end

[tulip venture]

nope

[tulip venture]

ive also got this thing

            anim = GetComponentInChildren<Animator>();```

which is called On Start

[slender nymph]

and you're certain it gets the correct animator?

[rich adder]

what about the one in the Parameters section of animator, sometimes the one in blend tree isn't the same

[warped sable]

Anyone have any ideas why I can build locally but when I try to build using unity automation cloud build im getting a gradle error.

ERROR: Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 incompatible Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details

[slender nymph]

not a code issue

[tulip venture]

ive only got the one parameter

[swift crag]

assign the animator directly to rule out having the wrong animator

[tulip venture]

and this means its connected right?

[rich adder]

no necessarily

You can type anything there and Blend Tree doesn't complain

[tulip venture]

in the script?

[swift crag]

well, in the inspector

serialize the anim field and drag the correct animator into it

[tulip venture]

so how do i properly connect them?

[tulip venture]

alright

[rich adder]

make sure you do have speed here btw

[tulip venture]

i do

[slender nymph]

and that is where you checked for whitespace in the parameter name?

[tulip venture]

yes

[rich adder]

i sometimes paste it directly from params list to code

and turn it into a string to hash

cause strings 💩

[tulip venture]

whats hash? hashtag? lol

[swift crag]

you turn the string into an integer

[rich adder]

dont worry about that rn lol but yea

[swift crag]

this integer is what's actually used to identify the parameter

[rich adder]

i was gonna say hashbrowns but Fen beat me with the real answer xD

[swift crag]

shaders use the same idea

[tulip venture]

okay okay

[swift crag]

each name is mapped to an integer

[rich adder]

🚅 numbers 🚄:💨

[swift crag]

also, show us the parameter list if the error is persisting

[tulip venture]

alright

my brain is exploding rn so gimme a second

[copper perch]

also what does this mean?
Like do I need to tell google play about my sketchfab assets, and pixabay and zapsplat sounds?
I copy pasted it below from play store console

Provide advance notice to the Google Play App Review team
The Google Play App Review team accepts advance notice about your upcoming app or store listing publishing event.

We only accept advance notice in the following scenario(s):

You have written documentation proving that you have permission to use a 3rd party's intellectual property in your app or store listing (e.g. Brand names and logos, graphic assets, audio, etc.).
You have written documentation proving that you have permission from a government or government agency to make apps on their behalf (e.g. apps that facilitate a government process such as voting or ID validation). Learn More
You have written documentation proving that you have permission from a recognized healthcare organization to develop and distribute an app in affiliation with them. Learn More
You have gambling or casino-style elements in your game, and need to provide your Korean Game Rating and Administrative Committee (GRAC) rating certificate to Google so your game can be distributed in Korea. Learn More
Please Note: If you submit a request that's not covered by the above scenario(s), you may not receive a response. For other questions, contact our support team.

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[swift crag]

this has nothing to do with programming in unity

this is also unrelated to unity

[tulip venture]

well i ran into a problem

my animator controllers are completely broken

i dont even know how or why it happened

but theyre like, completely blank

and i get a ton of errors when creating new ones

[teal viper]

Try resetting windows layout or removing the animator tab and adding it again.

[tulip venture]

worked 👍

[grizzled stirrup]

is there a way i can check the rotation of something

like which direction it's facing

[teal viper]

transform.rotation or transform.forward depending

[grizzled stirrup]

ok ty

[rotund hull]

i am trying to make a camera follow adn whenever a "Block" tagged object comes into the trigger the object is activated and the opposite when exited, but its not working

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[rotund hull]

https://gdl.space/odalopoxas.cs

[slender nymph]

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

[rotund hull]

i am trying to make a camera follow adn whenever a "Block" tagged object comes into the trigger the object is activated and the opposite when exited, but its not working

[acoustic arch]

https://hatebin.com/gfrtgytlzy
im getting a null error after i changed from not static -> static -> not static to test something

im not sure how come

[rotund hull]

thank you

[polar acorn]

What error

What line

[acoustic arch]

it says in a comment but i think its 16

[polar acorn]

Then either inventorySlots or inventorySlots[i] is null

Try using logs to find out which

[acoustic arch]

oh ok so when i outputted inventorySlots[any] it was null

would the objects reset in the inspector after changing from static to not static?

[polar acorn]

Then that would be the problem. You're trying to get the itemInSlot of nothing

[acoustic arch]

ill look into it

[acoustic arch]

🙄

yeah thats why, is there a way i can make all the slots not just vanish after any small change?

[polar acorn]

they don't

[acoustic arch]

idk why this is happening then

[polar acorn]

What is happening?

[teal viper]

Didn't you change something to static? Probably because of that.

[acoustic arch]

it is but it happens when i change anything

[polar acorn]

Define "Anything"

[acoustic arch]

whatever is set to anything in the inspector for what i change sets it to null in the inspector

[polar acorn]

What are you changing

[acoustic arch]

it was to test something

i didnt change anything

i just made it static

[polar acorn]

That's changing a lot

[acoustic arch]

i bet

[polar acorn]

The reason the list was deleted was because you deleted it

static variables don't belong to any instances of the class, which means this instance no longer had a list

So, the values disappeared because you literally removed the variable from this object

[acoustic arch]

ohhhh yeah

your right

[acoustic arch]

how exactly do static variables work?

theres only 1 instance of them correct?

[polar acorn]

They belong to the class itself

Not any specific instance of it

[acoustic arch]

and cant be changed outside the class?

[polar acorn]

That would be determined by the access modifier, if it's private or public

[acoustic arch]

yeah

[polar acorn]

and has nothing to do with the static-ness

[acoustic arch]

what use does it do being static

compared to not

[summer stump]

You can access the variables and methods from the Type, not an instance
Which makes sense sometimes, but if you want more than one, it does not
Generally you need to be very cautious when making something static

[polar acorn]

a static variable belongs to the class. Anything with a reference to the class can access that value

[acoustic arch]

oh so its like if you wanted to make a variable with that type

the static variable would be the same inside it

[summer stump]

Not quiite

[teal viper]

It's simply a matter of where the variable is stored. Instead of being stored in an instance, it's stored on the type itself.

If you don't understand that, you probably need to learn a bit about object oriented design in general.

[acoustic arch]

i do get it

somewhat

[polar acorn]

Imagine a class is like a blueprint of a house. It is not actually a house, it just says how to make one. You cannot live inside a blueprint, and if you looked at a house you couldn't tell whether the builprint that it was based off of had white or black ink

A static variable is something about the blueprint

[rich adder]

public class Foo
{
    public static string Name;
    public string LastName;
}

public class Main
{
    private void Method()
    {
        Foo.Name = "Awesome";

        Foo foo = new Foo();
        foo.LastName = "Sauce";
    }
}```
You would not be able to doo foo.Name since it Belongs to the class itself

[polar acorn]

A normal instance variable is a variable of the house

[acoustic arch]

oh so you can just let the classes type be the reference for it

which is basically what you guys have been telling me

[acoustic arch]

would Name be changed in the Foo class?

or only within the Method

[rich adder]

it only belongs to Foo so instances dont have it

[acoustic arch]

so if i said

private string MyName = Foo.Name;

//MyName = "Awesome"

if i said that somewhere else

[rich adder]

that would do nothing but overwrite what you took

you can only have 1 Name so it would not be useful for example in that case

[acoustic arch]

im just wondering like if you had a 3rd class and did Debug.Log(Foo.Name);

what would it output

[rich adder]

whatever the original Foo.Name was

[acoustic arch]

so null

[polar acorn]

Whatever value Foo.Name was set to

[polar acorn]

Strings can't be null

[acoustic arch]

""

[rich adder]

well

[rich adder]

arent they reference type?

[acoustic arch]

inside the Foo class, like a default value

[polar acorn]

In C# they're kind of a weird hybrid, they're immutable reference types so for all intents and purposes they behave like structs and also like arrays

[slender nymph]

strings can be null. there is even a IsNullOrWhiteSpace method that checks for null

[rich adder]

I was wondering cause sometimes I do get null but never tried in unity. yeah and I had to use this method ^

[copper perch]

I made a feature graphic on Canva.
Just like the google playstore told me to do, because they need a feature graphic image for the gameplay video.
I made my image on Canva by 1024 x 500 pixals and google will not accept it for some reason.
I downloaded it to the file explorer and uploaded it but it will not take it.

[slender nymph]

this is still a code channel. and has nothing to do with unity

[rich adder]

this isn't code related is it?

[polar acorn]

My bad then, I'm juggling a bunch of programming languages and String is different in every language

[polar acorn]

Show code

[copper perch]

oh sorry

[acoustic arch]

i can barely even learn a single one

[rich adder]

takes time

practice

[acoustic arch]

idk what static is, but i do know Func<> and delegates

[rich adder]

you shouldn't really worry about static unless you have specific reasons to use it you shouldn't

if you're making some type of extension method or something they're pretty much needed, but thats another topic

[acoustic arch]

im still trying to learn return values very well 💀

but i still use them and they work

[rich adder]

😏 hope you're at least following a structured course.

[acoustic arch]

uhhhhhh totally, i just use c# docs like w3 and microsoft

plus some Sololearn c# on my phone but like i gotta go through like a bunch of basic stuff for me till i get to stuff i need to learn

[rich adder]

later try https://edabit.com/ too

[static cedar]

YouTube

[acoustic arch]

thats where i started i managed to find a pretty good playlist of videos that did great for me

[dense root]

what's a good way to get the image to switch based on the word in my placeholder text? i.e. apple to hand

[rich adder]

do a switch or something

[dense root]

can you explain a bit more?

[rich adder]

https://www.w3schools.com/cs/cs_switch.php

[dense root]

well how do I change the image programmatically?

[rich adder]

image.sprite = mynewsprite;

[dense root]

something like this
inputField = GameObject.Find("InputField (Legacy)").GetComponent<InputField>();

[rich adder]

oh my

why are you doing this

[dense root]

It's for my inputfield

[rich adder]

why just use the inspector

using names like that is like super brittle

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private InputField inputField; <--- Assign from inspector

you probably should be using TextMeshPro version of UI inputfield / text

[dense root]

It works so I'd rather not touch that right now

Just loooking to change the image based on the word

[rich adder]

if somehow name ever changes your whole code breaks, why do you want brittle code

such a small change takes a second to do..

[dense root]

How do I get the currentWord from my ReadInput.cs script into my ChangeImage.cs script?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/references/serialized-references

make a reference, use the . operator

[dense root]

I'm not sure how to use SerializedReferences, is there an easier way?

[rich adder]

that is the easiest way

whats so diffcult to drag something in a field in the insepctor 🤔

that should been one of the first things of unity to learn

[dense root]

because i don't want to break anything

[rich adder]

what you're doing now is more prone to breaking then actually listentning to someone who maybe has a little bit more experience ?

[dense root]

i'm listening

[rich adder]

I dont understand the struggle

you want help but refuse

[dense root]

okay let me read this real quick

so I want to serialize component references?

enabling me to access said component in other scripts?

[rich adder]

yes usually

[rich adder]

thats what a reference is for

you clicked the first link yes?

[dense root]

yes

do I serializefield in the changeimage script?

[rich adder]

yes

[dense root]

public class ChangeImage : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] public ReadInput readInput = null;
    
    public Image oldImage;
    public Sprite newImage;

    
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Debug.Log(ReadInput.currentWord);    
    }

no dice

[rich adder]

because u did it wrong

you did not check the link did you

it even has example

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/references/serializing-component-references

[dense root]

i'm reading it right now

yes i'm reading that :)

oh i need to drag to my changeimage component

[rich adder]

also you're not using the variable in your script you sent ReadInput is not the instance, you're just telling the script you're going to put that type in there

do note [SerializeField] is only used on private fields to show inside inspector, they're not necessary on public because they are serialized in inspector already

[dense root]

How do I drag my reference to the target component?

[rich adder]

select the script /object with the field you want to fil, and lock the inspector at top right or right click script pop out with properties

I dont understand you already have public fields already so you should know how to use serializefield 🤔

nothing changes..

[dense root]

I'm super new I was following a t utorial

[rich adder]

mhm well now you know what serialized reference is

[dense root]

thank you

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys, i want to make a way that when I fire with my player, and it hits an enemy the bullet will bounce to the closes enemy 1 time. Cant figure it out a way to do it, any ideas?

[silent valley]

Hey, How can I reference the sliders background image? I managed to find a way to reference the fill as seen in the code. But cant find a way to reference the background other than having to drag it in the inspector

[rich adder]

find the closest enemy and redirect the bullet

you can use for example Distance or Physics

or both

[solemn fractal]

yeah, i thought about that. but I am trying to fit that into my logic.. so i guess I will need to do that way ok

thank you

[rich adder]

it depends how your enemies also setup in terms of colliders and whatnot

for example my enemies have limbs usually

so I look for specific limb closest

[solemn fractal]

in my case all the collisions for the player bullet are being held into the bullet script it self

using OnTrigger2d

[rich adder]

how do you move the bullet in the first place

[solemn fractal]

it goes where m y mouse is

    private void Shoot(){

        Bullet bullet = Instantiate(_bullet, new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 0 ), Quaternion.identity);
        Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        mousePosition.z = transform.position.z; 
        Vector3 moveDirection = (mousePosition - transform.position).normalized;
        bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = moveDirection * bulletSpeed;
        Destroy(bullet.gameObject, 2.0f); 

    }```

[rich adder]

background image would be in the child no ?

look at hierarchy

[solemn fractal]

but the shoot method is in the player not in the bullet

bullet class is just managing the collisiongs with it self

[rich adder]

so when it collides you can check closest enemy and ray cast and give direction / velocity to it the same way

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. i never used raycast. tried once but seems kind of complicated.. will need to check better how it works

[rich adder]

well raycat is useful if you want to hit closest enemy but not go through walll, so maybe get one that isnt behind a wall

[silent valley]

You are correct. But I get errors in my game

[solemn fractal]

ok thank you

[rich adder]

what is fill rect because it doesnt have any children

also what is the problem of not using the inspector, why not just serialize the references ?

[solemn fractal]

are those 2 lines the same? I can omit the private and it will be private? cs private float _number; float number;

[silent valley]

it's to reference the fill so IG it doesnt have a child.

[rich adder]

yup

its ugly but yes

[solemn fractal]

yeah ok hahaha thank you!!

[silent valley]

I just want to learn how to do stuff inside scripts without cluttering the inspector.

[swift crag]

Your new code is way worse than the tiny amount of space a serialized reference would take up

[swift crag]

This code is incredibly fragile. it depends on the exact arrangement of your objects, and will break as soon as you rearrange the hierarchy at all

Just serialize the field.

Now, if you have many components that are all logically grouped together, it might make sense to create a new component to tie them together

public class Statbar : MonoBehaviour {
  public Image fill;
  public TMP_Text counter;
}

now you can just reference a single Statbar, then grab the component you need from it

statbar.fill.fillAmount = 0.5f;

You could also abstract it, of course

statbar.SetAmount(30f);

[buoyant knot]

i only search for component in child if I’m super sure it’s going to be there. like in a script where I am setting the transform’s parent

[swift crag]

public class Statbar : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] maximumValue;
  [SerializeField] Image fill;
  [SerializeField] TMP_Text counter;

  public void SetAmount(float amount) {
    fill.fillAmount = amount / maximumValue;
    counter.text = $"{amount} / {maximumValue}";
  }
}

now you don't even care how the statbar works

your code just tells it to show an amount

[buoyant knot]

this is correct

listen to him, and don’t ignore just because you got your code working for 5 seconds

[silent valley]

Fen... has taught me alot. He is one person I will ALWAYS listen to :p

[swift crag]

I used to write code that looks like this, but I avoid it like the plague now

Even when just hacking something together really quickly, it's just easier to assign a few references and be done with it

I have a lot of very small components in my games

using TMPro;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class InputActionIconPart : MonoBehaviour
{
    public TMP_Text label;
    public Image image;
}

heck, this one is just two components glued together

I use this to put together tutorial popups

[buoyant knot]

i usually serialize a ref to the gameobject (or just one component), then GetComponent

[swift crag]

I have zero serialized GameObject fields in this game

okay, well, there are two public ones, but that's because I wanted to debug something in the inspector :p

those fields are for remembering the last-selected game object for a UI

[silent valley]

Would you do this even if you're ever going to use it once? Your popup is used many times I assume

[swift crag]

well, I only use it in one place in my code

[hybrid gust]

been trying to reproduce the procedural skybox shader's behaviour of drawing a sun based on the main directional light. How can I do something similar in a shader graph shader?

[swift crag]

Even if I'm only using something once, I'll consider making a component for it. If I don't, then I'm still going to reference everything

[silent valley]

Giving it a go now. Be right back. thanks Fen. You're always very clear

[swift crag]

no prob (:

[hidden path]

i wanna add a controlable bird to my game i am having trouble with the controller do you guys know any tutorial for the movement controller

[solemn fractal]

I did something like that, but here inside here the bullet wont move right? it would need to stay in update method i imagine ```cs
private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other){

    if(other.CompareTag("Enemy")){

        Enemy enemy = other.GetComponent<Enemy>();

        Collider2D[] nearbyEnemies = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(transform.position, _detectionRadius);
   
        foreach (Collider2D enemyCollider in nearbyEnemies){

            if (enemyCollider.CompareTag("Enemy") && enemyCollider != enemy.gameObject){

                // Calculate the direction to the nearby enemy
                Vector3 moveDirection = (enemyCollider.transform.position - enemy.transform.position).normalized;
                Bullet bullet = Instantiate(_bullet, new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 0 ), Quaternion.identity);
                bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = moveDirection * _bulletSpeed;
                Destroy(bullet.gameObject, 1.0f); 
            }
        } ```

[rich adder]

[solemn fractal]

Just need to make it on update to test. but cant find a way..

[timber tide]

why are you instantiating then destroying in the same frame or am I reading this wrong

[solemn fractal]

destroying after 1 sec

[timber tide]

oh, I see

I forgot destroy actually had that overload

[rich adder]

oh right

[solemn fractal]

but i need that movement to happen on update.

[rich adder]

you only need to set vel once

[solemn fractal]

and its not. but as I have all the info inside the on trigger 2d

vel?

[rich adder]

also how many bullets because this is only going to the last one in the loop

[solemn fractal]

i cant think a way to make the bullet hit 1 enemy and go to the other so what I did . or trying to do is basically when i hit the enemy it will spawn another bullet and go to the closest enemy

but i need that movement code to be in start.. but how if it is inside the on trigger 2d?

and needs to be inside the on trigger 2d as I have all the info there

[timber tide]

You can make a init method for your bullets and just assign to that when you instantiate them

[solemn fractal]

hmm ok, will try. Thank you

[timber tide]

Yeah, what you really want is a constructor, but you can't use those when you derive from a mono. So, your own initializing method is the next best thing.

[solemn fractal]

well it seems too advanced for me. I will try something else for now, but took note here, thank you !!

[rich adder]

what is currently happening

with the code

[buoyant knot]

what is going on here

[rich adder]

afaik you only need to set velocity once for bullet

as you did in the fire method

[solemn fractal]

I basically just copied and pasted

what I done before

[rich adder]

Im guessing youre spawning it at the wrong spot

and bullet is probably colliding with enemy already

[solemn fractal]

but there is where I have the actuall position of the one that was hit by the bullet

[rich adder]

where ?

[solemn fractal]

how can I know outside the on triggerEnter2d that who is who

[buoyant knot]

so what are you trying to do

[rich adder]

slow down a sec mate

[solemn fractal]

shoot, hit one enemy and spawn or make the same bulelt go to the closes enemy

[rich adder]

you should fix your spawn point first on the second bullet

[buoyant knot]

so like a targetted ricochet?

[rich adder]

pretty much

but hitting closest

[solemn fractal]

basically yeah. after kil the first boss I would get a new skill and that skill would be the bounce bullet, that can bounce 1 time

[buoyant knot]

ok, so bullet should have an OnTriggerEnter to know when you hit an enemy, right?

[rich adder]

I would say use the same bullet but Ig instantiating another is ok

[solemn fractal]

hit 1 enemy and go to the nearest enemy

[solemn fractal]

that is what I have

[buoyant knot]

ok, are you in 2D or 3D?

[solemn fractal]

2d

[buoyant knot]

ok that makes this way easier

[solemn fractal]

I wish.. haha!

[silent valley]

@swift crag works like a charm and actually makes things hella easier

[buoyant knot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.OverlapCircle.html

[rich adder]

they have that already afaik

[timber tide]

I actually just change direction for my ricochet projectiles, but spawning another can work. Problem is if you want to save a history of targets already hit it's probably better to use the same bullet.

[silent valley]

is there a way to Serialize or something or do i ALWAYS have to make something public to access from another script?

[buoyant knot]

ok so you have a list of all colliders/objects in a radius of the first bullet collision?

[solemn fractal]

people here already sent me that today.. but well, for a noob looks harder than it seems.

[buoyant knot]

you want to use this method

you need the second overload

or the third

[solemn fractal]

I will try to understand that overlap circle better tomorrow and see what I can get.

thank you

[buoyant knot]

let me just jot down the strat

[rich adder]

you can probably do Overlap with a Linq

for distance sorting

[solemn fractal]

I am using it already

[solemn fractal]

if (!_hasBouceShot){
                
 Collider2D[] nearbyEnemies = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(transform.position, _detectionRadius);
       
  foreach (Collider2D enemyCollider in nearbyEnemies){

  if (enemyCollider.CompareTag("Enemy") && enemyCollider != enemy.gameObject){

      // Calculate the direction to the nearby enemy
      Vector3 moveDirection = (enemyCollider.transform.position - enemy.transform.position).normalized;
      Bullet bullet = Instantiate(_bullet, new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y, 0 ),Quaternion.identity);
      bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = moveDirection * _bulletSpeed;
      Destroy(bullet.gameObject, 1.0f); 
   }
   }
}```

[buoyant knot]

1. OnTriggerEnter2D: check if you hit a valid enemy.
2. If so, use OverlapCircle to make a list OR array of all colliders in a radius of the enemy you hit.
3. Filter through that array/list. Use Collider2D.Distance to know how far the bullet collider is from from that collider. We enumerate through that list to find colliders that 1) are NOT the enemy we just hit, 2) a collider for a valid target, and 3) has the smallest distance (using Collider2D.distance

[solemn fractal]

my prob is that my code for the movement is inside the OnTrigger2d so it wont move.. as it is not inside the update method

[rich adder]

how do you move it whe nyou first shoot ?

[buoyant knot]

I would define a method in the scope here. bool IsValidTarget(Collider2D target). write this function to return true when the collider belongs to a valid target

[solemn fractal]

void Update()
    {   
        PlayerMovement();

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R) && canShoot && Time.time >= _shootTimeZero || Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R) && canShoot && Time.time >= _shootTimeZero){

            Shoot();
            _audioSource.Play();
            _shootTimeZero = Time.time + fireRate;

        }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.R)) {

            ToggleShooting(); 

        }

        if (_isShooting && Time.time - _lastShotTime > fireRate){

            Shoot(); 
            _audioSource.Play();
            _lastShotTime = Time.time; 
        }
    }```

[buoyant knot]

are you sure _hasBounceShot should have a ! in front?

[solemn fractal]

i tested without it, but the prob is that it is not inside update

first time it is inside update method and it its being shoot by the player Class

[buoyant knot]

that is not the question

[rich adder]

  Collider2D[] colliders = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(bullet.transform.position, detectionRadius);
//
        Collider2D closestCollider = colliders.OrderBy(c => Vector2.Distance(bullet.transform.position, c.transform.position)).FirstOrDefault();```

[buoyant knot]

if !hasBounceShot means to do that if it should NOT bounce

[solemn fractal]

at the time it is going inside the if as my variable is set as default to false

jsut for testing

i am forcing it to go inside the if

but later I will remove the !

[buoyant knot]

i see where the confusion is

[solemn fractal]

as it should only shoot when i get the power killing the boss

[buoyant knot]

ok and you want 1 bullet to make many bullets when it bounces

because that is what the code does

[solemn fractal]

1 bullet, make 1 bullet, and hit nearest target. well yeah if it was inside the update.. true

[buoyant knot]

and also it tries to destroy this bullet 10 times if it finds 10 enemy colliders

[solemn fractal]

didnt thinkg about that

[buoyant knot]

and it also makes 5 bullets if you find 1 enemy with 5 colliders

you see what the issue is now, right?

[solemn fractal]

a lot of issues

[buoyant knot]

yes

start by trying to identify 1 target

[rich adder]

^^ #💻┃code-beginner message

[solemn fractal]

the most important one is that I am stuck still.. but I will try more tomorrow and see if I can get it done. Thank you all for the help.

[buoyant knot]

set GameObject target

then just iterate through your list

[solemn fractal]

sometimes I jsut cant sleep when I cant do something on the code but its 3:22am and I need to work at 8h30

sadly

[buoyant knot]

you’re doing this the Linq way, which is smart, but I don’t think he’ll learn the lessons he needs to learn using this

you’re teaching chess, while the man is learning checkers

[rich adder]

I figured they can just plop that in and move into the actual fun part which is making bullet go from one enemy to the closest in 1 go but yeah ig lol

[buoyant knot]

point being, make one GameObject target = null. Use a for loop to go through all colliders you found. If 1) the collider doesn’t belong to the current target object, 2) belongs to a valid target, and 3) has a closer distance than the current target, then replace target with the one you find

[frail adder]

Why is there a little hiccup in the middle of the run? When I look at the y values of the virtual camera and the player, the virtual camera's y value seems to fluctuate slightly at random moments when the player is moving.

[buoyant knot]

then after for loop, if target != null, that means you found a valid closest target. so then shoot it

[rich adder]

hmm not sure its code related tho

[frail adder]

yeah im not sure either, im using cinemachine to follow the player

[rich adder]

I had the same thing happen to me in 2D although not sure its similiar problem

[frail adder]

what was the issue for you?

[rich adder]

I'm stil trying to find out xD I work mostly 3D for this exact reason, weird quirks

thought it was Pixel Perfect making it look extra wobbly

then tried a whole bunch of diff Transposer setting

[summer stump]

Not sure if you were answered, but there is [SerializeField]

[silent valley]

I did that and it still said I cant access it due to protection

[rich adder]

yes because its private

[summer stump]

Oh. Serialize only makes it visible in the inspector.
You need public to make it accessible in another script

[silent valley]

yeahh

Thought so. Just ought to ask if there was a secret code to keep it nice and privated but maybe be able to refrence something from it?

[summer stump]

You can make it a property using get and set

So for example, making it publicly accessible but only privately settable:
public Transform target { get; private set; }

[silent valley]

I will look into this. Thank you

[frail adder]

I fixed the issue by switching out the capsule collider for a box collider, but with the box collider, it just got caught on the ground randomnly. Is this the best way to fix the issue?

[rich adder]

if you're using tiles use composite collider + static rigidbody

I think composite component already adds it

you'd have to also enable "used by composite"

the original problem might of been the same thing then

whats called Ghost colliders

lol

[frail adder]

wait what are ghost colliders and why are they only present when using a capsule collider?

[dense root]

So I've exposed my serialized reference to the target component:
[SerializeField] private ReadInput readInput;

Referenced the target component in the inspector (see pic)

But I still can't access the member I want

void Start()
{
    Debug.Log(ReadInput.cirrentWord);    
}

[rich adder]

they're both the same problem

the capsule just "bounces"

because it probably has momentum

if you're using rb movement

[frail adder]

oh ok is there any workaround for that while still using a capsule collider?

[rich adder]

if they're tiles I told you can use the composite collider2d

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CompositeCollider2D.html

[rich adder]

wdym you can't access it how ?

you're still not using the variable

you'tr tying to directly use the class which is non-static

[frail adder]

im really sorry if this is an obvious question, but compositecollider2d only offers itself for box colliders and polygon colliders, is there any way to use it for a capsule collider?

[dense root]

oh... what's the best way to approach this?

[rich adder]

mate you literally named your reference to the component readInput

access the values through that

you can't use the class directly, its just a blueprint for an object

[dense root]

oh hahahahaha

thank you

did I do the serializefield thing correctly?

[rich adder]

yes

[dense root]

great thank you so much

[rich adder]

you see how also with oldImage youre doing oldImage. instead of Image.

[dense root]

right

[rich adder]

it would make no sense to use class directly because they wouldn't be different ones you could use xD

[dense root]

right right haha

wait so i'm not getting an error anymore but it's not printing currentWord

[hidden path]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[dense root]

is there something wrong with the way i'm calling this?

    void Start()
    {
        Debug.Log(readInput.currentWord);    
    }

[rich adder]

screenshot entire console in playmode

[dense root]

currentWord is a string so I should be good to go right?

[rich adder]

its working mate

is just blank

[dense root]

but currentWord is the word displayed

and it's not printing out the currrentWord

[rich adder]

let me see where you assign it

the other script you grab its value from

[dense root]

This is where I set it

        if (inputField != null)
        {
            inputField.onEndEdit.AddListener(OnEndEdit);

            // Set the focus back to the input field
            inputField.Select();
            inputField.ActivateInputField();
            
            // Sets currentWord a random word
            currentWord = GetRandomWord();
            
            // This sets the placeholder text
            SwapPlaceholderText(currentWord);
        }

How it's set:

    string GetRandomWord()
    {
        if (placeholderWords.Count == 0)
        {
            Debug.LogWarning("No more words in the list.");
            return null;
        }
        
        // Use Random.Range to get a random index within the list
        int randomIndex = Random.Range(0, placeholderWords.Count);

        // Get the word at the randomly chosen index
        string randomWord = placeholderWords[randomIndex];
        
        //  Remove the selected word from the list
        placeholderWords.RemoveAt(randomIndex);

        // Return the selected word
        return randomWord;
    }

[summer stump]

Aren't your tiles boxes? I saw it earlier, and i don't remember any capsules?
But if you do, I guess you'd need to approximate it with the polygon collider.
I don't really do 2d much though, so I'm not sure

[frail adder]

yeah, my character had a capsule collider, which was causing the original issue of some jittering

ive decided to just go with a box collider now so its all g

[summer stump]

CompositeCollider would be for the tiles, not the character. The characters collider shape is completely irrelevant here

[rich adder]

no i need to see the whole script

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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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.

[rich adder]

use a link

pl

[dense root]

okay will do

https://gdl.space/otubobesat.cs

you should be a mod with how active and helpful you are

would the mods be mad if i pinged them and suggested it? 😂

[rich adder]

yeah its silly dont lol

but ty for kind thought

[rich adder]

you're setting /printing it both in start

there is no guarantee the second script doesnt run first before text is set

well you can manually force order of scripts, that but thats out of the scope and usually last resort

[frail adder]

oh shoot i completely misinterpreted where to put the collider okay tysm

[rich adder]

what I would do is just initialize the chosen word in Awake @dense root

[dense root]

how do you recommend I fix the order of precedence?

oh

so i declare awake and then initialize there?

[rich adder]

yes Awake runs before start in terms of event order

so its always best method for initialization

[dense root]

i see

[rich adder]

let me know if it prints know

[dense root]

but i don't get why it doesn't print anything to begin with

[rich adder]

its printing

[dense root]

like on the subsequent enters shouldn't it print currentWord?

[rich adder]

no

[dense root]

oh

[rich adder]

you only put it in Start

so it runs when unity tells it to

which is once in Start of script

You could use event but thats more advanced

OnCurrentWordChanged?.Invoke(currentWord);

[dense root]

it works! but only on the first press

[rich adder]

its not first press, its first run

[dense root]

Maybe it has something to do with the fact I migrated all of my start code to Awake

[rich adder]

well yeah now it sets the word first by the time Start is called by game loop, u already set the word when its read

[dense root]

but currentWord changes with each time the user presses enter (assuming input is correct)

[rich adder]

nvm

wrong tag srry

[rich adder]

I know

you need a way to tell the other script that

it wont magically do stuff

[dense root]

oh haha

[hidden path]

How do I make a controller for a bird I am stuck on this for days

[dense root]

how do i tell it to put the word on its script or it gets the hose again?

[rich adder]

lol Ideally you make an event Like I mentioned

[dense root]

how so?

[rich adder]

start with a UnityEvent which is easier

you see How you AddListener to EndEdit of Input ?

thats a unity event

everytime you EndEdit it gets invoked

you can do the same for the currentWord

[dense root]

so i want to addlistener?

[rich adder]

you could if its a UnityEvent yes, but you can also connect it via inspector

make a thread I'll explain it

[summer stump]

Gotta be more specific. A bird could have a lot of different kinds of controllers...
What do you WANT the bird to do?

[rich adder]

"the player control script" ?

what is that

[summer stump]

Since you were asking earlier, I assume you haven't taken a c# course? There are pinned resources in this channel, or I like
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

After that, move on to unity's learn pathways
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

There are a TON of ways to do it. Depends on desired movement feeling, genre, how complex you want it, whether you want realistic physics, 2D/3D, etc.

No problem!

[nimble apex]

player control is a system, it is very broad, movement is just a small part of it

[patent compass]

How can i make the selected tiger on 1 to jump to 3rd node.
using gameobjects as nodes.(red dots)
tiger can only jump if there is a sheep in between.

[timber tide]

Make each node contain a reference for each direction (N, E, S, W) then populate them accordingly.

[patent compass]

the 3rdnode on right only has neighbouring nodes on left and bottom. So should i keep Top and right as null?

[timber tide]

Yeah, make each node always contain the exact amount of directions, and before trying to access the next node direction you'd check if it is null or not

if it's null then it's an invalid move

[patent compass]

How can i access the next node?

[timber tide]

Ah, actually the pinnacle makes cardinal directions a little tricky, so probably some extra logic there hmm

[languid spire]

what does your Node data structure look like?

[patent compass]

I made a list called neighbouringNodes, and added the neighbouring nodes from the inspector to the list.

[timber tide]

You can just recursively call the next node, but always check if it's null beforehand

[languid spire]

I would suggest

List<Node> nodes
List<List<Nodes>> lines

where lines contains all of the nodes in any given line

[patent compass]

so store all the nodes in one row to this lines list?

[patent compass]

can you explain what you mean by recursively? sorry english isnt my primary language

[languid spire]

yes, store all of the rows with their corresponding nodes

[patent compass]

and then?

[languid spire]

then it is very easy to loop through and see what is connected to what

[timber tide]

How would a user select this move from the pinnacle to down here if that's valid at all
https://i.imgur.com/cSXgree.png

oh, it's this type of game I think I've played it

[patent compass]

It can be done if a sheep is in between the arrows you posted.

[timber tide]

so node 0 to 8 can be a valid jump

[patent compass]

yup, as i said, if there is a sheep in between.

[timber tide]

Right, then I guess all you really need to do is check if the selected node is a neighbor, and if a sheep is available.

Node 0 could technically just have 4 South neighboring nodes in a list which you can check all from

[languid spire]

using my system

1. Loop through lines and select each line which contains tiger1
2. Loop through lines from 1 and select each line containing the destination node
3. 2 should produce 1 line.
4. loop through the nodes in line 2. If the distance between source and destnation is 1 it is possible
5. If it is possible, does the node between source and dest contain a sheep
6. It is a valid move

[umbral bough]

Hi, I have a closed sprite shape that gets frustum culled when my players goes too high(it goes out of the view range) and for some reason it won't appear when the player gets back in view.
I can't consistently replicate this but am 100% sure it's frustum culling cuz I debug logged on in/visible and it doesn't log visible when it gets in player's view.
Can somebody please help me, I've been dying mentally for quite a while now.
Best case scenario would be disabling frustum culling for this object but I couldn't find anything on it.
Thanks in advance!

[wintry quarry]

You can always set the bounds for any renderer manually

[teal viper]

The issue is that they're using a sprite renderer with a custom shape that they generate procedurally and move through space iirc.

And I'm not sure how sprite renderer bounds are calculated.

[wintry quarry]

Right so they should also be procedurally setting the bounds too

[umbral bough]

let me look into that, thanks!

[wintry quarry]

Bounds is writable https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Renderer-bounds.html

[harsh panther]

Typed up a simple "Hello" message in Virtual Studio and when I test it in Unity I get this message

[umbral bough]

I've done this in the start function of the object that's disappearing and still, as soon as it goes out of the camera view, it just disappears:

var b = _rend.bounds;
b.size = new(1, 1000, 1);

(yes, I properly got the ref to the renderer)

[umbral bough]

it says what the issue is, you are using the old collab system instead of plastic

[harsh panther]

how do I use plastic

[wintry quarry]

Uninstall collab

[eternal needle]

Deprecated basically means you shouldnt use it anymore. It is outdated

[wintry quarry]

Actually upgrade the version control package or just uninstall it

[wintry quarry]

Completely irrelevant to your hello message

[eternal needle]

You probably dont also need plastic.. git is far superior.

[reef pasture]

hi i wrote a Singleton cs

public abstract class Singleton<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : Singleton<T>

{

    private static T _to;

    private static object m_lock = new object();

    public static T To
    {
        get
        {
            lock (m_lock)

            {
                if (_to == null)
                {
                    _to = FindAnyObjectByType<T>();
                }
            }
            return _to;

        }
    }
}

and a unit cs

    public class UnitHandler : Singleton<UnitHandler>
    {

        [SerializeField]
        private Unit worker, healer, warrior;
    }

but when i start game. i found the worker, healer && warrior is null.

[harsh panther]

Would I do that through package manager?

or

[reef pasture]

i already set the worker,healer && warrior on UnitHandler

[harsh panther]

I'm very new to Unity sorry if it's an obvious question

[umbral bough]

if it's a package then it's most likely done via package manager

[wintry quarry]

The package manager is how you manage packages, yes

[wintry quarry]

You used a general C# guide for your Singleton instead of a unity guide

Go find a unity example

For example this locking nonsense is not needed in Unity

[harsh panther]

worked, thank you

[ivory bobcat]

Why wouldn't they be null? The Singleton isn't related to these members not having proper references.

[eternal needle]

You might have a 2nd unit handler somewhere then if its null and you assigned the values. That or you make them null somehow in script

[wintry quarry]

FindAnyObjectByType?? That's not a thing

[umbral bough]

I also assigned b back to _rend.bounds in case that was the issue, still the same thing.

[wintry quarry]

Bounds is a struct. Unless you do _rend.bounds = something, you are not modifying the renderer bounds at all

And why (1, 1000, 1)?

[umbral bough]

just to make sure that y bounds are in range of the player's view

when player goes too high I get the invis message, I am assuming that it happens because it gets out of the y view range

[teal viper]

Instead of trying random solutions, debug the bounds during the issue to see if they are in the camera frustum and if not, why

[timber tide]

public enum Unit
{
    None,
    Sheep,
    Tiger,
}

public enum Direction
{
    N, S, E, W
}

public struct NodeNeighbor
{
    Node neighbor;
    Direction direction;
}

public class Node
{
    public List<NodeNeightbor> nodeNeightbors;
    public Unit currentUnit;
}

public static class Utility
{
    public static Node NeighborChecker(Node node1, Node node2)
    {
        foreach(NodeNeightbor neightbor in node1.nodeNeightbors)
        {
            if(neightbor == node2)
            {
                return DirectionChecker(node2, node1.Direction);
            }
        }
        
        return null;
    }
    
    public static Node DirectionChecker(Node node, Direction dir)
    {
        foreach(NodeNeightbor neightbor in node.nodeNeightbors)
        {
            if(neighborNode.direction == dir)
            {
                return neighborNode.Node;
            }
        }
        
        return null;
    }

}```
Something like that would be my implementation. The pinnacle doesn't really cause any issues, assuming you know the second node you're jumping over.

also assuming I know what game this is

lel

[reef pasture]

Unity does not need locking, right?

[umbral bough]

ok, no matter what y size I assign to bounds it's always the same, guess I'll have to do something else then.

[languid spire]

@patent compass And here is my solution
https://pastebin.com/ZqK45wva

[eternal needle]

lock is more for multithread. everything u do in unity will be single threaded unless you for some reason want to introduce multithreading

[velvet pagoda]

Does anyone know of a way to get this game object to move to where the arrow is pointing with script? The "Quest Box"s are Scroll rects that are either set active or not based on 3 buttons, like different tabs of a quest menu. I've tried for 3 hours to figure out a way to do this to no avail and I can't find anything online. I want these game objects (the "Quest1, 2, 3, etc.") to move freely between these three quest boxes during gameplay dynamically with the quest progression.

[eternal needle]

what have u tried

you should be able to just set parent on them

[velvet pagoda]

I've tried making the worst spagetti code on the planet?

this didn't work

[eternal needle]

🤔 why are you comparing to strings of "true" and "false" instead of bools

[velvet pagoda]

this is in a function that gets called every time the Ui is shown for the first time

its the Naninovel plugin that I'm using, their weird system where all their varibles are stored as strings.

[eternal needle]

i have not seen this plugin, you are either using it wrong or you should stop using this plugin. this is garbage

[velvet pagoda]

no this is working as intended i'm 90% sure. its a visual novel scripting plugin that makes it easier to write dialogue.

[eternal needle]

but to solve your issue, you should first have all these quest objects in some array then loop through them. Based on some bools or enum you set (or however you choose to represent quest data), you can put them into Active, Unactive, or Complete

[eternal needle]

easier to write
all their varibles are stored as strings
This is like the worst thing i have seen if it is true

even the easier to write part is wrong, you dont get autocomplete/intellisense on strings like this

[velvet pagoda]

you hardly need variables that aren't strings when you're writing dialogue anyway. and vscode has a plugin that autocompletes this stuff, its fine. It's really handy for me, who hardly knows how to code and has no idea what an array, or a loop is

[eternal needle]

If you're fully committed to using this current method, throw all those quest objects in an array still and loop through them to check if the value is true or false. Then you can set their parents.
You should add debugs to see why this is not working as expected, like maybe some of these if statements are not true when you think they are

[velvet pagoda]

ok i'll try

[timber tide]

Guess they're just parsing everything for some reason

who needs type checking anyway. Just don't make mistakes

[velvet pagoda]

okay so I put all of the quest game objects in an array called "Quests" but how am I meant to distinguish between "quest_1_got" and "quest_2_got" each time it loops?

for reference, here's how those variables are being defined in the first place. something like "quest_2_GET" will get set from false to true during gameplay, and when this ui is opened it will turn that "NaniNovel" variable into a Unity variable with a similar name. the GET variable relates to you recieving a quest and the just "quest_2" variable relates to the quest being complete. Would it be better to scrap this system and change it to an Int that just goes from 0, 1, 2 depending on whether the quest is undiscovered, active, or completed?

[eternal needle]

i highly suggest learning how to code properly so you can write this in a managable way, starting with basic c# so you can at least learn loops, arrays, classes. Get away from the mentality of "its mostly dialogue" or that you dont know what an array/loop is so therefore use this plugin. These kind of practices you're learning wont be adaptable to any other project.

[eternal needle]

im pretty sure this would also be an error, since you defined Quests locally but your collection is named Quests.
nvm its an error if both are defined locally

[velvet pagoda]

is this not right?

[eternal needle]

yes this is a array of game objects, in your foreach i recommend naming the local variable differently like

foreach(GameObject Quest in Quests)

you have to use Quest then, not Quest_1

actually now that I look at this monstrosity more, these variables are not associated with some script on your game object...

[velvet pagoda]

what just call all of them "Quest" in the hierarchy?

[patent compass]

Your code looks complicated. Can you explain how i can impllement it?

[languid spire]

Complicated? It's extremely simple
What don't you understand about it?

[eternal needle]

no, but i just saw what your variables are. This isnt adaptable to any valid solution i was suggesting unless you store the strings on some script. I truly hope this plugin you are using is free, because this is horrible. I would really suggest more, but I feel like you just need to go do c# basics first then come back to this project. All of my suggestions may just end in me having to write the code for it to be understood

[patent compass]

How to implement it?

[velvet pagoda]

Oh thats okay, I'll try and think of something else. I did pay $100 for this plugin. And this game is already released and a year into development so I can't really scrap it like this. I was just looking into better ways to display quest progress to the player, it's fine I can leave it as it used to be.

[eternal needle]

if you really need to continue with it in its current shape, add debug.logs outside the if statements here to print out what the values are. If these arent what you expect, then you now must find out why they arent assigned properly

[velvet pagoda]

Well I think I've found the problem, none of the debug logs I wrote show up, not even the else one. as far as I can tell the function just doesnt run at all, even if I assign it to a random button and click it.

[eternal needle]

put the debugs outside of the if statement, you only need the debug.log for Quest_1_got once

that way you can see if it is like "TRUE" instead of "true". right now your code only prints if it is true or false

it could even be "true " or " true". something thats very hard to see unless you look closely

[velvet pagoda]

the function definitely not playing at all so it doesn't matter. i wrote a debug log outside that just said "hello" and that doesnt even show up in the console.

oh wait

maybe forget everything i just said, I think im blind.

I didn't know I had to click that button...

I'm going to go stand in the corner of my room for a few minutes

[velvet pagoda]

This is exactly what was happening. debug says its returning as "False" with a capital F

That's really annoying because THIS is how the plugin tells me they are defined...

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ cant help you there, this is something to do with your plugin now that is using string based variables. This issue wouldnt exist if these were bools.
My best guess (since I am unfamiliar with the plugin) is that either the plugin is changing the strings internally, or you are changing the strings through script somewhere and forgot. I would say your best option is to add a completely new test string so you know it is not used anywhere else, assign it a value and see if that value is capitalized by the end. If not, something you are doing is changing it

[velvet pagoda]

nah its fine now, i can work with this, i just didn't know it was happening. it all works now, somehow... Only problem is that the Quest_1, etc. gameobjects disappear when they are moved to anything but the active quests tab. could it be this causing that? I'll try doing what this says to do.

[modest dust]

SetParent is one thing

position is another

How exactly are these gameobjects "disappearing"?

[velvet pagoda]

they just aren't showing up in their tab anymore. I'll see if i can get a screenshot

They're meant to show up here. and those buttons on the right change which objects show up here. sometimes the starter quests show up if i skip my intro. but the ones i havent unlocked yet never show up in the unactive quests tab

and by tab I mean i'm setting these scroll rects as inactive based on which tab is open

[modest dust]

Well, the easiest way to check what's going wrong here is to just move them and check the scene view, hierarchy and inspector for answers.

[velvet pagoda]

hierarchy isn't updating during gameplay so i dont know how to check. and there isnt anything in the scene view. they move automatically based on the quest progress too

[velvet pagoda]

nvm, i figured out how to view it. it seems they're being sent to the right place, but the scale for the moved objects get set to 0, 0 for some reason?

i have a vertical layer group and a content size fitter on all of the scroll rects

fixed it all, finally it all works. Just needed to set the transform.localScale to 1,1,1 Don't know why they were getting set to 0,0,1 when they were moved but oh well.

[crude prawn]

im trying to make so the new input system is integrated with my project and i managed to do it with the movement but im having troubles with looking around. https://pastebin.com/vfhxh3vr

for context this is how its setup

[fossil drum]

        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(mousePos.x - transform.position.x, mousePos.y - transform.position.y);
        transform.up = direction;

What are you trying to do here?
Why are you using a position of the transform.

[crude prawn]

no idea its from the old input system

found it on google

[crude prawn]

o this is setting so wherever the mouse cursor is where the player looks at

[fossil drum]

Well your transform position will probably be 100 on the x at some time, and you minus the mousePos.x from it to get a direction. It makes no sense at all imho.

[crude prawn]

yheah ik bro

how i fix?

lmao bro is not know how to fix

[solemn fractal]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[solemn fractal]

Hey guys, I am trying to hit an enemy with my player bullet, and when it hits it, it will scan for nearby enemies and if it finds it, it will spawn a new bullet that will go towards that new nearest enemy. But the bullet wont move. Any ideas? https://paste.ofcode.org/kYyHpHWwdssb2x3CBnkgEe

[grizzled stirrup]

correct me if i’m wrong but i don’t think you have any lines of code that actually moves the bullet?

[solemn fractal]

I do, its the cs Rigidbody2D bulletRb = bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>(); bulletRb.AddForce(moveDirection * _bulletSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

already tried using .velocity from the rigidbody but also doesnt work

the bullet spawns and stay there

[fossil drum]

enemyCollider != enemy.gameObject

The collider will never be a gameObject.
So ```cs
moveDirection = (nearestEnemy.transform.position - enemy.transform.position).normalized;

`nearestEnemy` is probably `enemy`. Debug.log your movedirection, it's probably 0.

foreach (Collider2D enemyCollider in nearbyEnemies) {

[solemn fractal]

oh

makes a lot of sense.. hahaha

well, let me try .. actually I thought it had to be != than the enemy.gameobject as i dont want the enemy hit to be counted there.. isnt that correcT?

[short hazel]

The issue is that you're comparing a collider against a GameObject. The two types are different and the condition will always succeed in your case

[solemn fractal]

hmm.. so I also need to fetch the enemy collider to compare with it right?

[fossil drum]

Or you get the gameObject from the collider and compare 2 gameobjects. I think that works.

[short hazel]

The better solution ^
Avoids an unnecessary GetComponent

[solemn fractal]

Ok I am trying to wrap my mind around what you guys said. 😅

But I need the collider because I need to use the OverlapCircleAll

[teal viper]

components have reference to their GO.

[short hazel]

Just enemyCollider.gameObject != enemy.gameObject
Gotta think backwards for that one, but it works

[solemn fractal]

hmm yeah I was going to paste that here now to ask cs if (enemyCollider.CompareTag("Enemy") && enemyCollider.gameObject != enemy.gameObject)

will try like that, thank you

it works hahaha

I am so dumb. I was really trying to compare 2 dif types omg and I read so many times the code trying to figure it out

thank you a lot

[teal viper]

Actually your ide should show you a warning saying that it's always gonna be true or something like that.

[short hazel]

Unfortunately it won't, because of Unity's override of ==...

[solemn fractal]

yeh it was not

[teal viper]

Hmm... Pretty sure I've seen a warning like that.

maybe not the ide but the unity console?🤔

[short hazel]

Haven't touched the recent versions in a while, but maybe they added a C# analyzer that checks these comparisons and emit a warning if they're "illegal"

[solemn fractal]

It works perfectly. But now I have another issue to fix.. as I want the the bullet just to spawn 1 time, so its like that. Player shoots, bullet hits 1 enemy, bounce 1 time and that is it. It will only bouce again when the player shoot and hit another enemy. Will try to think about something now but if u already have any insights about it, otherwise I will be back later here if I didnt manage to do it, thank you for the help agaion

[tawdry nymph]

I am working on a game where the player is a square with different ability's on each side and can switch between them by rotating but I don't really know how to make that, it keeps getting stuck on the first ability it gets. this is my code so far.

[buoyant knot]

why are you destroying the bullet and making a new one

[buoyant knot]

like, why don’t you just teleport the old bullet, and give it a new velocity?

[umbral bough]

Ok, I had some time to debug it now and what I've found is that as soon as the shape goes invisible, bounds are not updated either even tho new terrain is being generated.
This is then causing it to never appear again even tho the newly generated terrain enters the player's view.
I honestly have no idea how I'd prevent this behaviour/make it update it's bounds even tho it's invisible and I'd really appreciate your or anybody else's help.

[buoyant knot]

what part is the issue

[umbral bough]

This seems like a really odd behaviour or maybe even an unintentional one with sprite shapes but I can't really tell cuz I've never done low level stuff with engines so idk.

[tawdry nymph]

it should switch when rotating the player but it doesn't

[buoyant knot]

you should use a pastebin instead of a sketchy .txt file !code

[eternal falcon]

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// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[tawdry nymph]

oh sorry

[buoyant knot]

are you using collider.bounds?

[umbral bough]

renderer.bounds

let me send you what I am debugging rq

private void Update()
{
    GenerateTerrain();
    var b = _rend.bounds;
    b.size = new(1, 100000, 1);
    _rend.bounds = b;
    Debug.Log($"min: {_rend.bounds.min}, max: {_rend.bounds.max}");
}

ignore the size part, was just testing sm

[buoyant knot]

just as a sanity check, make sure it doesn’t get disabled

[umbral bough]

like the object in the inspector or?

[buoyant knot]

i know for collider2D.Bounds, it will give you totally wrong numbers if the collider component is disabled. idk if Renderer does that as well

[tawdry nymph]

https://gdl.space/kavobicugi.cpp here it is

[umbral bough]

nah, not weird numbers, the numbers it had when it was last visible

[buoyant knot]

holy balls, you need to structure your code better lmao

[umbral bough]

and since the bounds never update, player entering the terrain range doesn't render it again and you just fall through it :/

[tawdry nymph]

yeah sorry about that i have no idea what i'm doing to be honest

[buoyant knot]

i can see that

i think you need to restruture to organize it. You should not have separate if statements and lines of code for each individual direction

this is when you should be using enums, switch-case blocks, and basic array+loop

[tawdry nymph]

i dont know what sthose are

[buoyant knot]

learn

they are all extremely important and basic tools of the trade

and your life will be immensely more difficult if you don’t know how they work

[tawdry nymph]

is an enum an IEnumerator?

[buoyant knot]

i would start by learning how arrays and for loops work

[buoyant knot]

no

[tawdry nymph]

oh

[buoyant knot]

an enum is like an integer in a trenchcoat

enum Cardinal { Up, Right, Down, Left }

this defines a new type (Cardinal), with very specific values

tied to ints

Cardinal.Up is 0, so if you write Cardinal.Up, it will automatically tie that to the number zero

writing: if (dir == 1) makes absolutely no sense, because what the fuck does it mean for dir to be 1.
but if you write if (dir == Cardinal.Right), now we know exactly what that means

[tawdry nymph]

okay that makes sense

[buoyant knot]

so then you can make an array

do you know what arrays are?

[tawdry nymph]

its like a list right?

[buoyant knot]

an array is like a list that cannot change size

continuous block of memory

i could have an array of objects, like GameObject[] objectArray = new GameObject[4];

this is an array of 4 gameobejcts

and if I tie that meaning to a Cardinal, then I can encode and decode the information of what is where

first, just to go back to enums

Cardinal.Up is actually of type Cardinal (which is an enum type)

(int) Cardinal.Up converts it to an actual integer, which in this case would be zero

and I can do the reverse: (Cardinal) 3, this gives me an object of type Cardinal which is the same as Cardinal.Left

do you follow so far?

[tawdry nymph]

yes

[buoyant knot]

so what I can do is; objectArray[(int) Cardinal.Up] this corresponds to the entry in the array for Cardinal.Up, which is the same as objectArray[0]

i can assign by:
objectArray[(int)Cardinal.Up] = myUpObject

or if I have Cardinal dir, I can go back and retrieve by objectArray[(int)dir]

which gives me the entry that corresponds to that specific direction

can you make array indexers take enums tho?

i don’t think so

ah, I did it explicitly

anyway, do you understand, filemissing?

and do you know how for loops work?

[gaunt ice]

i remember enum cant be casted to int implicitly
or try it now?

[buoyant knot]

i always did it explicitly

[gaunt ice]

(that why i use static class sometimes)

[buoyant knot]

btw tina, this is the code in question

[tawdry nymph]

yes i understand how for loops work but i'm getting confused by how you combine the enum and the array

[buoyant knot]

if I have the array, I can assign to specific directions of the array based on the enum

objArray[(int)dir] = objectInThatDirection

point being, if you represent what you want to access based on an enum, then you can write your code to go retrieve/write based on that enum

so instead of writing something 4 times for up down left and right, you write it once

[gaunt ice]

i think struct can achieve this in some ways

struct Enum{
  const int enum0,enum1,enum2...
  int value;
  static implicit operator int(Enum e){
    return value;
  }
  static implicit operator Enum(int a){
    return new Enum(){value=a};
  }
}
```that you can have an implicit int-enum conversion, sounds more works to do

[buoyant knot]

you can either calculate the enum for the specific direction you want to work with, OR loop over all the values to just query every direction

does this make sense?

in my case, I have one function that converts a Vector2 to a Cardinal (enum for up/down/left/right)

[umbral bough]

should I ask this in #archived-code-general/#archived-code-advanced?

[buoyant knot]

I make that function once to convert. Then let’s say A collides with B with some vector from A to B

now I can use my function to convert the vector to a Cardinal enum

and then access whatever spot in my array corresponds to that direction

if this still doesn’t make sense, watch some youtube tutorials on enums

[tawdry nymph]

okay i will

thanks for the time

[solemn fractal]

hmm never thought about it.. its a good idea.. 😛

[spark ravine]

Why are my Aniamtions not working?

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

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody), typeof(BoxCollider), typeof(Animator))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody rb;
    public Animator animator;

    [SerializeField] private float speed;

    Vector3 currentMovement;

    [SerializeField] private float animBlendSpeed;

    private void Awake()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {

        Vector2 move = InputManagerScript.instance.Move;

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y) * speed;

        currentMovement.x = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.x, move.x * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);
        currentMovement.y = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.y, move.y * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);

        rb.AddForce(movement, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        animator.SetFloat("test", currentMovement.x);
        animator.SetFloat("test", currentMovement.y);
    }
}

[swift crag]

i don't know what "not working" means

so you're going to have to explain

[spark ravine]

it just stays in idle position, because the value of it(earlier I tried to use a hash) stays at the max negative int

This was my code before:

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

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody), typeof(BoxCollider), typeof(Animator))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody rb;
    public Animator animator;

    [SerializeField] private float speed;

    private int xVelocityHash;
    private int yVelocityHash;

    Vector3 currentMovement;

    [SerializeField] private float animBlendSpeed;

    private void Awake()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        xVelocityHash = Animator.StringToHash("xVelocity");
        yVelocityHash = Animator.StringToHash("yVelocity");
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {

        Vector2 move = InputManagerScript.instance.Move;

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y) * speed;

        currentMovement.x = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.x, move.x * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);
        currentMovement.y = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.y, move.y * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);

        rb.AddForce(movement, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        animator.SetFloat(xVelocityHash, currentMovement.x);
        animator.SetFloat(yVelocityHash, currentMovement.y);
        Debug.Log(xVelocityHash);
    }
}

[swift crag]

"the value of it" being the parameter value?

or do you mean that xVelocityHash was a bogus number?

[spark ravine]

-1879171339 thi si the debug.Log

[swift crag]

that's just some random negative integer

the maximum negative int would be under two billion

[spark ravine]

oh ok

still weird tho

[swift crag]

Click on the object with the animator on it in play mode

this will let you see the state of the animator controller

If you can't change the value of test, then your script is indeed setting the float parameter correctly

If you can, your script isn't doing anything

[spark ravine]

you mean this?

[swift crag]

Yes, select the object with the Animator component on it while the game is running

[spark ravine]

I cant changeit

[swift crag]

Okay, so currentMovement.x is zero

You should just log those values so you can see them in the console -- or serialize currentMovement and look at it in the inspector

Something is wrong with your input

[spark ravine]

already did, they are working fine, so is the movement

[swift crag]

currentMovement is not used to move the helicopter at all

so the helicopter moving correctly wouldn't prove that currentMovement has non-zero values in it

[spark ravine]

no, but I logged it and it was correct and I said the moving is working fine, so the input also works

[swift crag]

both x and y?

because you're using x, then y, to set the test parameter

[swift crag]

if currentMovement.y is zero, then the float parameter will always be zero

Show me the code you're currently running. Don't remove any log statements.

[spark ravine]

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

[RequireComponent(typeof(Rigidbody), typeof(BoxCollider), typeof(Animator))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Rigidbody rb;
    public Animator animator;

    [SerializeField] private float speed;

    private int xVelocityHash;
    private int yVelocityHash;

    Vector3 currentMovement;

    [SerializeField] private float animBlendSpeed;

    private void Awake()
    {
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        xVelocityHash = Animator.StringToHash("xVelocity");
        yVelocityHash = Animator.StringToHash("yVelocity");
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {

        Vector2 move = InputManagerScript.instance.Move;

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(move.x, 0, move.y) * speed;

        currentMovement.x = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.x, move.x * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);
        currentMovement.y = Mathf.Lerp(currentMovement.y, move.y * speed, Time.fixedDeltaTime * animBlendSpeed);

        rb.AddForce(movement, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
        animator.SetFloat(xVelocityHash, currentMovement.x);
        animator.SetFloat(yVelocityHash, currentMovement.y);
        Debug.Log(currentMovement.y);
    }
}

[swift crag]

well, did you go back to using two float parameters named xVelocity and yVelocity?

the screenshot of the animator showed you only had a test parameter

[spark ravine]

yeah I know but changed it back afterward as it didnt help

[solemn fractal]

!code

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[spark ravine]

that large enough for a website??

[swift crag]

it's borderline, but i think it's fine here

[solemn fractal]

40 lines

[swift crag]

quick sanity check

disable your component and then try modifying the parameters manually during play mode

you should be able to change them, and you should be able to make the helicopter animations play

[spark ravine]

3 lines too much rly? xD

[solemn fractal]

Ok guys, I have a prob here that maybe the way I did it, and what I want to do it will not be possible as it is now. Player shoot the bullet, the bullet hit one enemy and it spawns another bullet that goes to the nearest enemy. It works great. BUT when it hits the next enemy it bounces again to another one, and so on and so on and so on. Tried to use booleans or counters but cant figure it out a way to do this using the way I create the script. Any insights? https://paste.ofcode.org/36HrLT3nn2bjD9VEDkxVQ35 and I want it to bounce jsut 1 time. or when hit the first enemy it will spawn 1 bulelt and that is it. Not forever as it is now.

[spark ravine]

the aniamtions dont work in the animator or in game, jstu in the aniamtions tab, lol

[rich adder]

what I suggested last time is not to create a new bullet and use the same bullet

put a counter for how many enemies is hit

[swift crag]

so you are able to change the animator parameters in the Animator window in play mode

but nothing happens

[spark ravine]

yep

[swift crag]

and if your component is enabled, you can't change the parameters, and they're always zero?

[solemn fractal]

the prob with that, is when my player lvl up and get a lot of attack speed.. it will be a proib

[swift crag]

Or are the parameters changing as you move around?

[solemn fractal]

because when the bulet is hitting enemies I am already shotting again

[rich adder]

what ? how so?

[rich adder]

so ? thats a totally new bllet

[green bridge]

hi, I have an ongoing issue I have bee trying to solve for the past two days. when building for android the error I am getting is Failed to update Android SDK package list. Can anyone help me please ? Thanks

[rich adder]

you only need to create 1 bullet per shot, not 1 bullet per ricochet

[spark ravine]

the apramters are changing

[verbal dome]

Have an int on the bullet, something like splitsRemaining. Only spawn new bullets when this int is > 0 on the parent bullet.
When spawning new bullets, set the new bullet's splitsRemaining to the parent's splitsRemaining - 1

[swift crag]

Oh. That would've been good to know earlier :p

[spark ravine]

but is seems like it doesent matter if I change them manually or the code does the animations dont work#

[swift crag]

this is a problem with your animator

[spark ravine]

yep

[rich adder]

this is good too yea

[swift crag]

Perhaps your animations are generic and they're being applied to a different armature

so the animation was made for a different skeleton

[spark ravine]

how can I look what they are if I didnt import them?

[rich adder]

same bullet also work tbh but yeah up to you. @solemn fractal

[swift crag]

when you click on an animation clip in the inspector, the Project window will show you where it comes from

[rich adder]

instantiating a whole bullet just for ricochet, put some Pooling then 😛 instantiating and destroying causes some overhead later

[solemn fractal]

I tried that, but was not being able to make it work. Also tried creating another bullet but had other problems. But now I know I have 2 solutions that I just need to figure it out how to implement it. Thank you all

[green bridge]

I have set custom paths to both sdk and jdk

[spark ravine]

yeah but there arent any options, like if I would have imported them

[swift crag]

This means you duplicated the animation clip out of the asset it originally came from

(or you just dragged animation clips directly into your project)

[spark ravine]

I created them in this project

[swift crag]

Oh, I see. You made them by hand.

[spark ravine]

I justclicked on my player in the hirachy and made them

[spark ravine]

something wrong with that?😅

[swift crag]

no, that's fine

you should ask about this in #🏃┃animation, though -- this isn't a code problem

[spark ravine]

will do

[amber spruce]

anyone know how i can play a animation only once so not looping it but play it once

[rich adder]

untick loop

[orchid trout]

how do I get a position along a spline asset?
I cant even figure out "what" this asset is or how to access it - it doesnt appear to be a 'Spline' and its also not a 'SplineContainer' either
When I say Its not one of those things what I mean is I cannot access any of the things documentation says exists when I try to reference those in that

[rich adder]

its a bit complex but its easy

I have it on my other project, give me a minute Ill open it up

[amber spruce]

where?

[rich adder]

on the animation clip

[swift crag]

the component labeled Spline is actually a SplineContainer

[amber spruce]

still dont see it

[rich adder]

also this

[swift crag]

entity.transform.position = splineContainer.Spline.EvaluatePosition(t);

an example of usage

[rich adder]

you need a conversion iirc

[swift crag]

Spline will be the first spline in the list

to go backwards -- from a world position to a t value -- use

SplineUtility.GetNearestPoint(splineConatiner.Spline, position, out float3 result, out float t);

you can pass an extra argument to tell it how many times to iterate

it's some kind of approximation

[rich adder]

yup

thats what I have but then you have to change it

i did

 var distance = SplineUtility.GetNearestPoint(spline.Spline, adjustedPoint, out float3 xyz, out float t, 3,2);
        nearestPoint = new Vector3(xyz.x, xyz.y, xyz.z);
        nearestPointResult = spline.transform.TransformPoint(nearestPoint);```

[orchid trout]

Why does it return a float3 and not a vector3? I cant seem to even use that in my script

[swift crag]

It's using the new Unity.Mathematics types

[rich adder]

because it uses mathematics clas

[orchid trout]

Oh its new

[rich adder]

look at my example

[swift crag]

It implicitly converts, though

at least, when you assign it

float3 x = Vector3.one;
Vector3 y = x;

[amber spruce]

so i did that but how i have it play my animations right now is i set a bool to true and when i hit the ground i set them to false (talking about my jump and double jump animations) is there a way to just play them one time

[orchid trout]

VS is doing something weird
It says mathematics doesnt exist, but when I right click on the float3 and say 'add using directive' mathmatics just begins existing, even though nothing in that line changes