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[gaunt basin]

im trying to display a text on my screen for context i already have text that shows up in game

[civic aurora]

why isnt my input going in here? Is it because its not a TMP If so how do I type it so it is? This is what the declaration looks like [SerializeField] public UnityEngine.UI.InputField inputField;

[gaunt ice]

legacy InputField is not tmp inputfield

what is gui?
one line of code tells us nothing

[tawdry drift]

yes just like you said, declaration is like

[SerializeField] private TMPro.TMP_InputField inputField;

or

using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;

public class NewBehaviourScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private TMP_InputField inputField;
}

[steady spindle]

Good morning, I keep coming up with a NullReferenceException when the game/app starts but I see nothing wrong.

[queen adder]

Did this originally ping me? Discord alerted me to this as a message

[steady spindle]

https://paste.mod.gg/aphlawxayzhe/0 GameManagerScript

which is attached to GameManager

Not sure what gives, I see nothing null.

32 goes to here: currentMoneyText.text = "$" + currentMoney.ToString("#,#");

which that line worked before...

[slender nymph]

make sure you don't have more than one of that component in the scene where any others do not have your text objects assigned

[steady spindle]

found it, script was attached somewhere else too, must of missclicked

Thanks 🙂

this is how it started (from a tutorial on YT)

and this is my changes / additions

need to fix scrollrect, it doesnt scroll right but bleh

[topaz mortar]

So I had something really weird yesterday.
I added a version number to my API, making it not process any older versions of the game.

{
    if (version == 2)
        return true;
    return false;
}

[CloudCodeFunction("SaveCharacter")]
public string SaveCharacter(int version, string playerId, int level, int experience, int strength, int dexterity, int intelligence, int statpoints, int basehealth)
{
    // Only accepts saves from the latest version
    if (!checkVersion(version))
        return "Wrong game version.";```
But for some reason it just kept working on all the clients that did not have this version parameter yet?
Then I changed the 2 to a bigger number and then it suddenly started working (which means it stopped working for the older clients)

Any ideas? Just curious here

[queen adder]

were you getting null pointer?

[topaz mortar]

no errors or anything, it was just letting clients without version still save somehow

[verbal dome]

Yeah sorry - im on mobile and I guess i tapped your name at first

[queen adder]

Personally I'd invert the final check, much easier to check directly for currentversion and blanket all the wrong versions in an else.

[steady spindle]

What channel should I join for ScrollRect help? Tried #🖱️┃input-system but its quiet atm.

[gaunt ice]

it is a force update that request any client update the app?
do the checking on cloud is safer

[queen adder]

Does a null bool return 0 or an error?

[eternal needle]

bool isnt nullable unless you specifically declare it to be so

[queen adder]

I think it's some funky niche issue with partly undeclared bools being rendered as 0 then. But I'm probably very wrong.

[gaunt ice]

uninitialized bool?

[eternal needle]

my vote is on the very wrong part, "undeclared" bools are just false. It is a struct and will have a value even if you dont assign it one. "Rendered" is just initialized

also they are definitely not directly converted to 0, i believe thats just a c/c++ feature

[queen adder]

🤔

[gaunt ice]

if it is c/cpp, it will be random value
just safety feature, initialize the memory to zero

[ivory bobcat]

What's the error?

[queen adder]

So it will read the boolean struct as false if it's uninitialised?

[eternal needle]

it is the default value
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/default-values
that being said, you cant just do

void SomeMethod()
{
  bool b;
  if(b)
    ...
}

It doesnt really make sense to do anyways, but if the bool was global instead of local then it would work

https://dotnetfiddle.net/WWtZXY the global vs local thing if it wasnt clear

[queen adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

no errors, just very strange behaviour

Also let me know if you guys crack this, I'm very curious now

[eternal needle]

I dont think anyone here could suggest much about that problem, because theres definitely a lot more context we are missing in it. It could be something as simple as they forgot to change the version number. Or that the older versions of the game didnt have this code and would use the cloud function regardless. And then its possible they updated it in such a way where they tested a version where the client had this code

[gaunt ice]

Just place the code in backend
If no version is provided or the version is less than supporting one, then dont process

[topaz mortar]

The code I posted is on the backend in UGS Cloud Code Modules
It's called from clients - the issue was that my last client didn't have the version parameter yet, so it was calling the cloud function without that parameter, but the could function somehow still ran and saved the character

only thing I can think of is it somehow converted whatever the playerid string was to the number 2 - but I don't see how

UGS CCM seems kinda buggy though, so maybe it just didn't save or load properly

[craggy bane]

How do I add delay to a button click, let's say 0.5f seconds

[uncut holly]

so i need help to understand this code fully

so in my input manager both the horizontal and verticle is set to the x axis but the x axis shown in the scene is sideways. while i can understand the Input.GetAxis code i do not understand both theVector3.forward and Vector3.up code cos of the direction of the x axis and unity tutorial lack of explanation. Am i able to assume Vector3.forward code just means the direction the car is facing and the Vector3.up is sideways of the x axis.

sorry for the long paragraph im really confused at the axis

[south hamlet]

does anyone know how to fix this networking issue when i'm using netcode and i've created a server and joined on a different screen but it's not showing up the character but on the other screen i can see the character so one of the character is client?

[uncut holly]

oh i forgot the 4th code is set to trasnform.rotate my bad small mistake. though im still confused about the axis

[queen adder]

A) Compare a variable to time
B) Use a coroutine.

[south hamlet]

i've been trying to figure this issue out for weeks but i can't seem to get both screen to see each other but only the other person can see and i can't see the character it's something to do with replicating the character

the weird thing is that the character has like two characters in the body which means the main player body is stuck to the other player but on my screen it looks perfectly fine but they can't see me but i can see them

[queen adder]

try transform.forward instead of vector3.forward.

I believe transform is global, and transform is relative to the objects transform (Position/Rotation)

[craggy bane]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

Is your movement script client orientated?

[craggy bane]

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class ButtonDelay2 : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Button button;
    public float delay = 0.5f; // adjust delay time here

    void Start()
    {
        button.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
    }

    void OnClickDelayed()
    {
        StartCoroutine(DelayClick());
    }

    IEnumerator DelayClick()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
    
    }
}

debug log

This is my button delay script and it won't work

[south hamlet]

the movements are perfectly fine and they function normally it's just that the character's body is client on the other screen but i can see the body on the other screen which is odd

[craggy bane]

i attached it to the button and everything

[queen adder]

Using Mirror or Netcode for Gameobjects?

[verbal dome]

How do you know it doesn't work? The coroutine does nothing but waits for the delay
You need to add some code after the yield

[south hamlet]

i'm using netcode for it

[craggy bane]

Which I'm new to coding

[verbal dome]

Whatever you want to happen, you need to add the code for it after yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);

So that it waits and then runs the code

You didn't tell us what you want the button to do

[uncut holly]

do i change the vector3.up to transform.up as well

[craggy bane]

So like a Onclick?

[craggy bane]

I want it to be able to be pressed once every 2 seconds or so

[queen adder]

Can do, depends on the context of it

[verbal dome]

Okay so you want to disable it, then delay, then enable it

[queen adder]

What's your process for sending something to the server / being updated to cleints

can you show an example

[craggy bane]

yeah

[south hamlet]

is it okay if i could dm? it's kinda hard to explain

[craggy bane]

disable it after click tho

[verbal dome]

@craggy bane Set button.interactable to false before the yield... line, then set it to true after

That is, if you want it to show but be disabled

[queen adder]

Yeah go for it

[craggy bane]

Yes

[craggy bane]

Thanks

[uncut holly]

ah i see ... though i still have confusions with the axis, the x axis is pointing sideways yet my vertical imput is set to x axis. then when i code it in transform.forward shoudnt it travel along x axis instead?

[amber spruce]

is it possible to change the size and stuff of my players collider in code

[verbal dome]

Yes, look at the documentation for that collider and see what's available

[uncut holly]

ah lol; i saw the beginner scripting in the pinned comments how come i dont see beginner scripting in unity pathways haha

[queen adder]

Use the Z axis instead (transform.right). or you can rotate the model so it is facing blue arrow forward.

Hold on I think I'm conflating X and Z

[craggy bane]

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class ButtonDelay2 : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Button button;
    public float delay = 0.5f; // adjust delay time here

    void Start()
    {
        button.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
    }

    void OnClickDelayed()
    {
        StartCoroutine(DelayClick());
    }
   void OnEnable()
    {
        button.onClick.AddListener(() => button.interactable = false);
    }

    IEnumerator DelayClick()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
    
    }
    void OnEnable()
    {
        button.onClick.AddListener(() => button.interactable = true);
    }

}

the disable works

but enable after the delay doesn't

Type 'ButtonDelay2' already defines a member called 'OnEnable' with the same parameter types

Oh wait nvm I fixed it

[verbal dome]

That's not what I told you to do

[craggy bane]

What

[verbal dome]

    IEnumerator DelayClick()
    {
        button.interactable = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        button.interactable = true;
    }```
This is all you needed to add

Are you using ChatGPT? Where did this OnEnable/OnDisable stuff come from?

[craggy bane]

My script uses events

[uncut holly]

theres no z option in input manager

[craggy bane]

This doesn't work gang

[queen adder]

Don't need it there, just map Z to vertical or horizontal if it's moving sizeways / red arrow forward

[craggy bane]

Ok I got it thanks

[queen adder]

replace X with Z, or rotate the model inside of an empty parent object

[raven kindle]

I am trying to make a parallax effect in my game, i want the background to be generated again once it has moved off the screen.
My background has lots of objects, how can i attach all of this into a sprite renderer?

[uncut holly]

lol the program works just fine haha ... maybe i just need more time to understand the axis thanks for the help anyways @queen adder

[raven kindle]

Can anyone help with this?

[craggy bane]

Yo osmal how do I apply this script to 4 other buttons

It's only working on one right now

[verbal dome]

Add the script component to the other objects too?

[craggy bane]

It won't work

[verbal dome]

Things work when you do it correctly

[verbal dome]

And if you use this code ^ then it's on you

[craggy bane]

Tough

😔

[verbal dome]

So what code are you using?

[craggy bane]

Urs

[verbal dome]

And what doesn't work exactly?

[craggy bane]

using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.Events;

public class ButtonDelay3 : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Button button;
    public Button button2;
    public Button button3;
    public Button button4;
    public float delay = 0.5f;
    public UnityEvent enableButton;

    void Start()
    {
        button.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
        button2.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
        button3.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
        button4.onClick.AddListener(OnClickDelayed);
    }

    void OnClickDelayed()
    {
        StartCoroutine(DelayClick());
    }
    

   IEnumerator DelayClick()
    {
        button.interactable = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        button.interactable = true;
    }
    IEnumerator DelayClick2()
    {
        button2.interactable = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        button2.interactable = true;
    }
    IEnumerator DelayClick3()
    {
        button3.interactable = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        button3.interactable = true;
    }
    IEnumerator DelayClick4()
    {
        button4.interactable = false;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        button4.interactable = true;
    }

}

I did this

now

Let me test this

[verbal dome]

Remove those 2-4, go back to what you had

Then add the script to the buttons, not some other object

[craggy bane]

Thats what I did

[verbal dome]

Okay well you don't need 4 methods/button references

Each button takes care of itself

[craggy bane]

this one doesn't work either

[craggy bane]

Ok

YESS IT WORKED

[queen adder]

I suggest looking into for statements, indexing and lists next

You can turn scripts like that into modular lists where adding objects is as easy as pressing a little tick and dragging it in instead of making a unique variable for every object.

[queen adder]

Hey yall i got a question.
In my current project i have a level select screen.

I opted to make it a scroll view so the player just has to scroll up to see new levels or down to see previous levels. (Something like the candy crush level layout).
My only issue is. Im trying to save the level that the player is currently on.
Eg. If they on level 50 and they exit the game and go back into the game i want the level to show as level 50. I dont want it starting at level 1 again and then they have to scroll all the way back up to level 50.

So does anyone know how i would be able to save the position of the current level the player is on?

My levels are not prefabs. They are images that have a button script on them. And i setup my level layout (type of board, goals, etc) in a scriptable object

Sorry for the bad explanation. Im not sure how to ask this question.

Im using unity and c#

Basically i have say 100 levels.
Player is on level 50.
Player changes scenes or exits game then returns back to level select screen.
I want the current level of 50 to be shown in the centre of the screen instead of level 1. So that way the player doesnt have to scroll for 10min to find their current active level

PlayerPrefs should help

save the position to that then get and set the position in the start function

[queen adder]

The position of the active level thats inside the scroll view?
So would that then make my scroll view auto jump to the current level the player is on?

I'm not sure what physically changes inside of the scroll view as I don't use it, but I think it adjusts the position of it's child object right

Also how to i save a position in playerprefs? 😅

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

they're incredibly useful

[raven kindle]

Why cant i drag a prefab onto a sprite renderer?

[queen adder]

Im not too sure.
I know i can make a layout group but then my content will all be in a straight line which i dont want.
I want it in a squiggly line so i have been duplicating the first level image then placing them in the positions that i want them in

[bold nova]

Hi, everyone. Trying to make an enemy to shoot. Was just testing. Does anyone know why unity stopped entering the play mode after this lines of code?

while(true)
{
randomAttack = Random.value;
if (randomAttack > attackProbability)
{
enemyAnim.SetTrigger("EnemyAttackTrigg");
new WaitForSeconds(1);
}
}

[queen adder]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/scrollview-scroll-position.463048/

might help too

Thank you

[raven kindle]

Why cant i drag a prefab onto a sprite renderer?

[cosmic dagger]

you have a while loop without an exit condition (that never ends), so the program crashes . . .

[cosmic dagger]

also, try formatting the !code when/if posting . . .

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[queen adder]

Tis a prefab, and not a sprite

[raven kindle]

How can i make it so my script is using a prefab

[cosmic dagger]

does the prefab have a SpriteRenderer component on it?

[raven kindle]

I am making an endless runner, i want the background to be infinite (so it keeps generating new parts)

my background has lots of different objects tho

[queen adder]

[SerializeField] GameObject spritePrefab;

There's probably better ways of doing it than instanciating a prefab tbh

[raven kindle]

How would this work?

[cosmic dagger]

a prefab is just a GameObject saved as an asset in your project folder. make sure the object you drag has the correct component (type) as the field in the class (script) you want to attach it it . . .

[raven kindle]

My code rn is :

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

public class Parallex : MonoBehaviour {

    private float length, startPos;
    public GameObject cam;
    public float parallexEffect;

    void Start () {
        startPos = transform.position.x;
        length = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().bounds.size.x;
    }
    
    void FixedUpdate () {
        float temp = (cam.transform.position.x * (1-parallexEffect));
        float dist = (cam.transform.position.x*parallexEffect);

        transform.position = new Vector3(startPos + dist, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);

        if      (temp > startPos + length) startPos += length;
        else if (temp < startPos - length) startPos -= length;
    }
}

[queen adder]

maybe a seamless teleport?

[raven kindle]

it just moves the old part at the front

once it hits a certain point

[queen adder]

Did you get this online?

I think it's for infinite / looping backgrounds

[raven kindle]

yes it is

thats what i wanna make

but my background has lots of objects in, instead of being one sprite

like this

i have them saved as prefabs tho

[queen adder]

Yeah I'd suggest a seamless teleport to the start or spawning a 2nd copy of the prefab with Instanciate

[cosmic dagger]

then group them into a prefab and use that prefab so everything moves together . . .

[raven kindle]

and attach the prefab to the script?

[rocky canyon]

manipulate the prefab just as u would a sprite. etc

its jus a transform

[cosmic dagger]

or use multiple parallax scripts for each layer to move them independently from others. that works if each layer moves at different speeds . . .

[raven kindle]

i have that already

[rocky canyon]

p. p. parallax

i always had a rough time making parallax scrolling stuff to be perfect

[raven kindle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit45k6CUMk&t

But he is using assets not prefabs

and idk how to transform the prefab

[rare basin]

what

[queen adder]

add it as a GameObject variable

then modify it like you would any other object

[raven kindle]

i will try

[raven kindle]

does that mean i need to change in the hierarchy, that the layers are prefabs not lots of objects?

[queen adder]

I'm not sure I'm getting what you're asking

[raven kindle]

can it be like this

or does it have to be prefabs

[queen adder]

you want the layers to come in on say the 2nd loop layer 2?

[raven kindle]

no they start from the beginning

[queen adder]

I have no idea what you mean

[raven kindle]

nevermind

[rare basin]

you should learn what prefabs are

@raven kindle

[polar acorn]

Show code

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/quaternions/members

[polar acorn]

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

You can get a vector3 representing that orientation with .eulerAngles instead of rotation, but there's an infinite number of vector3s that can represent that quaternion, so it might not match the inspector exactly, but it will at least be a number with three values that are in degrees

[raven kindle]

What do i need to replace transform.position = new Vector3(startPos + dist, transform.position.y, transform.position.z); with to make it transform the prefab instead?

[queen adder]

you'd need to initialize a variable of the prefab, then change them to target that yummy variable

[raven kindle]

how would i do this?

[queen adder]

Do you know how to initialise a normal variable?

i.e. a float or boolean

[raven kindle]

yes

[polar acorn]

This will move the object this script is on. Is this script on the prefab

[raven kindle]

yes

but it doesnt move it

[queen adder]

what Gameobject specifically is it on

[raven kindle]

its on all these

[polar acorn]

Show the full script. !code

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[raven kindle]

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

public class Parallex : MonoBehaviour {

    private float length, startPos;
    public GameObject cam;
    public float parallexEffect;

    void Start () {
        startPos = transform.position.x;
        length = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().bounds.size.x;
    }
    
    void FixedUpdate () {
        float temp = (cam.transform.position.x * (1-parallexEffect));
        float dist = (cam.transform.position.x*parallexEffect);

        transform.position = new Vector3(startPos + dist, transform.position.y, transform.position.z);

        if      (temp > startPos + length) startPos += length;
        else if (temp < startPos - length) startPos -= length;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

Did you assign cam?
Any errors in console?

[raven kindle]

No errors

[wintry quarry]

You sure? Show the console window

[polar acorn]

While the game is playing?

[raven kindle]

it makes the objects in the back move fine,

[wintry quarry]

Show the inspector of the objects

[polar acorn]

You said they weren't moving

[raven kindle]

I mean, when the game is running, the objects move slowly (trees, rocks etc)

But when i get to the end of the background, nothing happens

It needs to move the old section of the background and move it to the front

this happens

[wintry quarry]

Why would you expect it to do that if you didn't write code for that

[raven kindle]

i thought i did

float temp = (cam.transform.position.x * (1-parallexEffect));

if (temp > startPos + length) startPos += length;     
else if (temp < startPos - length) startPos -= length;```

Doesn't this do that?

@wintry quarry

[polar acorn]

Have you tried logging those values and see if it ever fulfills that condition?

[wintry quarry]

Idk, did you test if that code is running when you expect it to?

[raven kindle]

ill try

when it reaches 50 it should move the background

startpos + length is always -1.38

for all objects

startpos doesnt change for some reason

[wintry quarry]

You need to log all the variables.
temp
length
startPos

[polar acorn]

Why would it?

You don't change it anywhere other than inside these conditions

And if you're depending on it changing to enter these conditions that's not going to help much

[raven kindle]

Length is always 0. StartPos is always -1.38. Temp is changing to where the player is

When temp is 50, the first background should be moved

What do i need to change to make this work?

[polar acorn]

Where does 50 come into all this? I don't see any 50s anywhere in the code

[raven kindle]

each background has a different point when it needs to be moved

        else if (temp < startPos - length) startPos -= length;```

I thought this did it ?

[polar acorn]

Okay but where did you get 50 from?

You said start pos and length are constant values

[raven kindle]

its just when the first object needs moving

[sly wasp]

Ohh ok

[polar acorn]

So plug those in and think about what the code is doing

What is -1.38 + 0?

[sly wasp]

So I actually got it working, thanks

[raven kindle]

yes its -1.38

[polar acorn]

Okay, and what a out -1.38 - 0?

[raven kindle]

the same..

[polar acorn]

So how were you expecting that math to change the value of startPos

[raven kindle]

length needs to be changed?

its the size of the gameobject?

idk

i just followed this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zit45k6CUMk&t=217s

[polar acorn]

Where do you set length

[polar acorn]

So then the size of this objects sprite is 0

[raven kindle]

but surely if temp is > than startpos+length, then startpos would change?

[polar acorn]

It would. You'd add or subtract length to it

Which is 0

[raven kindle]

but it doesnt change

right

[polar acorn]

And again, what is -1.38 + 0?

[raven kindle]

yes

so how to fix this?

[polar acorn]

Make length not 0

[raven kindle]

so make the camera start not at x=0?

[polar acorn]

What does that have to do with length

[raven kindle]

length = GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().bounds.size.x;

oh

he sets the size to 5

i didnt realise

[polar acorn]

And how did you get "camera position" out of that line? What about that line made you think the length had anything to do with camera position

[raven kindle]

i dont know

thought it was get position

or something

[polar acorn]

You should read the code you write

[raven kindle]

but my camera size

is also 5

yes

then where can i change this value in the inspector?

[polar acorn]

Again, where are you getting camera from this

[raven kindle]

bounds.size?

[polar acorn]

Why do you keep going back to the camera

[raven kindle]

where is that?

game object inspector

i saw size in the video

[polar acorn]

What about this line makes you think it has anything to do with the camera

[raven kindle]

it has nothing to do with camera

but where can i change bounds.size?

[polar acorn]

So then why do you keep coming back to the camera to figure out why this line is 0

[raven kindle]

i saw camera at the top of the picture

how can i change the value for this?

[polar acorn]

Code means things. It's not magic. The code only does exactly what you tell it to. So, what does this line set length to?

[raven kindle]

to the size setting in the sprite renderer?

gets the width of the sprite

[polar acorn]

So, what is the size of the sprite in this objects sprite renderer

[raven kindle]

i dont see it

do i need to make the draw mode tiled?

[polar acorn]

When you click on the sprite file in unity it should show you the size of it

[polar acorn]

What sprite does this object use

[raven kindle]

lots of different ones

i still dont see width

[polar acorn]

Just pick one of your objects with this script. What sprite does it have

[raven kindle]

it has none

[polar acorn]

Because it's the size of the sprite file.

It's how big your image is

[raven kindle]

ohh

[polar acorn]

So this object has no sprite

What is the width of nothing?

[polar acorn]

So that's why length is 0

[raven kindle]

right

[polar acorn]

Because the width of this object is 0

[raven kindle]

do i need to give it a sprite?

or how can i set the width

it should be 20

[polar acorn]

Either give it a sprite or don't set length to be the width of the sprite

[raven kindle]

ok

it works!!!

though when it moves the platform it looks like it skips a bit

[wraith wadi]

I am spawning one object and i have 5 scripts with different movement pattern.
i want this object to adapt 1 script movement depending upon some bool or int value or scene.
do i have to make it's prefeb 5 time and attach each script or is there a better way to do it?

[timber tide]

You can make a unique* prefab for each script if you wish, but otherwise that's fine too

[polar acorn]

transform.forward

[queen adder]

lol

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by "from a local rotation"?

And what is "a transform.forward"

If you can't explain, we can't answer 🤷‍♂️

[gaunt ice]

transform.forward is in world space
if you need the forward in local space, multiply the rotation with vec3.forward

[queen adder]

use ms paint drawings or gif recordings of strange behaviour if you're struggling to explain

[wintry quarry]

The object's forward direction in its local space is always just Vector3.forward

The object's forward in world space is transform.forward

[queen adder]

i thought vector3 forward was just the none relative forward direction

[silk night]

Vector3.forward is world relative
[Transform].forward is object relative

[wintry quarry]

Vector3.forward has no inherent dimensional meaning until it's used in context. It's just the vector (0, 0, 1)

[regal bane]

I'm looking for a ball that moves just like pong in a 3d world but only in the X and Z direction.
Until this point, I did not manage or found to have any good scripts that does just that. I'm getting desperate : / Even chatgpt doesnt know

[polar acorn]

Right, but "Local forward direction in local space" is just 0, 0, 1

[queen adder]

ahh, un-confused

[summer stump]

transform.forward is in world space. It is a vector that takes the rotation of an object into consideration when making the vector though. Think of it like a conversion

It is the world space forward of an object

[icy sluice]

var targetDir = (target.transform.position - rb.position).normalized;
Vector3 forwardDir = rb.rotation * Vector3.forward;

var currentAngleX = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.right);
var targetAngleX = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.right);

var currentAngleY = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.up);
var targetAngleY = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.up);

var currentAngleZ = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.up);
var targetAngleZ = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.up);

float inputX = controller.UpdateAngle(Time.fixedDeltaTime, currentAngleX, targetAngleX);
float inputY = controller.UpdateAngle(Time.fixedDeltaTime, currentAngleY, targetAngleY);
float inputZ = controller.UpdateAngle(Time.fixedDeltaTime, currentAngleZ, targetAngleZ);
Debug.Log($"{currentAngleX}  {targetAngleX}");
rb.AddTorque(new Vector3(inputX * forceAmount * 0, inputX * forceAmount, inputX * forceAmount*0));

curently having problems with angles
if anyone know how to fix it

[wintry quarry]

This is massively overcomplicated 😬

[icy sluice]

ik
i cant get SignedAngle to work properly

currentAngleY did manage to make it work

[wintry quarry]

I'm not sure what controller.UpdateAngle does

[icy sluice]

thats a pid controller

that works fine

[wintry quarry]

Something like this is what I'd do:

Vector3 dir = target.transform.position - rb.position;

// Optional, if you want to rotate only on the y axis:
dir = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(dir, Vector3.up);

Quaternion target = Quaternion.LookRotation(dir);
Quaternion current = rb.rotation;

Quaternion diff = target * Quaternion.Inverse(current);
Vector3 eulers = diff.eulerAngles;
// plug eulers into your PID controller here if you want

// add the torque
rb.AddTorque(forceAmount * eulers);```

not sure how to integrate it into your pid controller

maybe just using eulers

Probably would be cleaner if it worked directly with quaternions though

[icy sluice]

i need a current angle(gameobject angle)
and target angle

and it does pid stuff to turn it

i need it for realistic missles

[queen adder]

what type of missile you modelling

[icy sluice]

realistic, i dont want want it to look arcadey so i would use pid controller so it can also be doged(as like missle having trouble to keep up)

dont worry about pid controller, giving input to pid controller is a problem here

[queen adder]

IR air to air style?

[icy sluice]

ye

[queen adder]

that's a lot of vector math

[icy sluice]

var currentAngleX = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.right);
var targetAngleX = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.right);

var currentAngleY = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.up);
var targetAngleY = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.up);

var currentAngleZ = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, forwardDir, Vector3.up);
var targetAngleZ = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, targetDir, Vector3.up);

this is the main problem

the SignedAngle's

[gleaming wagon]

Does anyone know why my text isn’t appearing? I tried adjusting the font size but it isn’t apearing

[idle pike]

Are you sure TextMeshPro is downloaded? I had the same problem and I removed, then added the component again and it automatically opened an install prompt.

[wintry quarry]

are you looking at it from the right direction?

Also #📲┃ui-ux

[gleaming wagon]

Yes I am, any direction will not work, also when I start the game it doesnt appear

[gleaming wagon]

yes it works for other texts

only this specific one it doesnt

[idle pike]

Could be the scale of a parent object that's messing with it as well. But yeah probably not coding related.

[wintry quarry]

is this a world space canvas or something else

[gleaming wagon]

Any solution to find the right scale?

[queen adder]

turn off autosize and try playing with the size

[gleaming wagon]

yes it is

[wintry quarry]

you should generally not be scaling UI at all

[gleaming wagon]

Didn’t work

[polar acorn]

The scale of every canvas element should be 1,1,1

[gleaming wagon]

alright, but its absolutely massive then

[idle pike]

Change the size parameters instead (width/height)

[polar acorn]

Your current scale is bigger than 1,1,1

[gleaming wagon]

thats the text

[polar acorn]

Which is what I'm talking about

[polar acorn]

This should also be 1,1,1 then you can change the size

[summer stump]

Change width and height. Not scale.
Scale should be 1,1,1

[near cove]

so if i have 4 points defining 2 segments, (x1, y1) to (x2, y2), and (x3, y3) to (x4, y4)
how would i write code that calculates if those two segments intersect each other?

(thats for a linerenderer script btw)

[gleaming wagon]

I did all of that for every object, still not showing up

Every UI in my canvas

Oh I figured it out

[gleaming wagon]

It was the Z scale being 0 for some reason, thanks for the help!

[wintry quarry]

Maybe a good chatgpt question for once. It gave a pretty good solution involving cross products when I asked.

[silver salmon]

something is broken?

game runs

[wintry quarry]

looks like an issue with visual scripting

[gleaming wagon]

I have a question, can I have 2 different post processing volumes that affect different objects? Or different cameras?

[silver salmon]

Yes i know everyone seees it

[gleaming wagon]

I have searched for a way to do this on google and youtube and it seems that no one knows how to do this, or it doesn’t work

[summer stump]

Probably a question for #💥┃post-processing

[summer stump]

I think they bring it up because this is a code channel. #763499475641172029 has a completely separate server. Very few people on this channel know much about visual scripting

[near cargo]

Hello! for some reason when I run my game in the editor, the audio mixers seems to be global, but when I build the game the mixer volumes seems to reset on every scene, this is how I am writing the mixer volume. In the editor I can verify the volume stays consistent in every scene but in my builds the volume resets to 0 every time on every scene, also I can verify both Debug.Log's get called in development builds (volume doesnt stay consistent still)

public class SettingsUI : MonoBehaviour
{
    public AudioMixer audioMixer;
    public Slider effectsVolumeSlider;

    public void Start()
    {
        if (PlayerPrefs.HasKey("effectsVol"))
            effectsVolumeSlider.value = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("effectsVol");
        else
        {
            PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("effectsVol", 1);
            effectsVolumeSlider.value = PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("effectsVol");
        }
    }

    public void SetVolume(float volume)
    {
        float debugVol;
        Debug.Log("Setting volume to " + volume);
        audioMixer.SetFloat("effectsVol", volume);
        PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("effectsVol", volume);
        audioMixer.GetFloat("effectsVol", out debugVol);
        Debug.Log("effectsVol Float Value: " + debugVol);
    }

    public void GoBack()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene("MainMenu");
    }
}

[craggy bane]

yo how do i add a timer on my quest script

[desert elm]

I have been advised to use Vector.Normalize by a friend, but I still do not understand how it works
Isnt a Vector value a single point? how can it have direction or lenght?

[craggy bane]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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

[fossil tree]

hi i have maybe a dumb question but can i take every single composent of this picture with unity if yes how?

[craggy bane]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class QuestGiver : MonoBehaviour
{


    public Quest quest;

    public Player player;

    public float timerDuration;
    
    

    public GameObject questWindow;
    public Text titleText;
    public Text descriptionText;
    public Text RepText;
    public Text OctoSnackText;
    public Text TimerText;

    public void OpenQuestWindow()
    {
        questWindow.SetActive(true);
        titleText.text = quest.title;
        descriptionText.text = quest.description;
        RepText.text = quest.RepReward.ToString();
        OctoSnackText.text = quest.OctoSnackReward.ToString();
        TimerText.text = quest.Timer.ToString();


    }

    public void AcceptQuest()
    {
        questWindow.SetActive(false);
        quest.isActive = true;
        player.quest = quest;
    }
    
    public void DeclineQuest()
    {
        questWindow.SetActive(false);
        quest.isActive = true;
    }

   public void OnTimerFinish()
    {
        StartCoroutine(TimerRoutine());
    }

    IEnumerator TimerRoutine()

    {

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(timerDuration);
        quest.OnTimerFinish();
        Debug.Log("Timer Finished");
    }


}

quest.OnTimerFinish();

'Quest' does not contain a definition for 'OnTimerFinish' and no accessible extension method 'OnTimerFinish' accepting a first argument of type 'Quest' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

How do I fix this issue

[rich adder]

not a code question

[craggy bane]

I'm trying to make a timer on a quest script

[fossil tree]

where i need to ask so?

[rich adder]

#📲┃ui-ux probably

[polar acorn]

Then my guess would be that Quest does not contain a definition for OnTimerFinish

[craggy bane]

yes

😭

[verbal dome]

Why are you crying

[craggy bane]

I have a meeting with the company who created The Line

NEOM

[rich adder]

how could you be using something that dont exist

[polar acorn]

So why are you trying to call a function that you didn't make

[craggy bane]

I had no sleep for the past 13 hours

I'm sorry cuh

i just fixed it

thanks

dawg now its saying The type 'QuestGiver' already contains a definition for 'OnTimerFinish'

[wintry quarry]

Probably a duplicate script

[polar acorn]

Or two functions in one class

[wintry quarry]

Are you confusing Quest and QuestGiver?

[craggy bane]

No

[fossil drum]

A Vector3 is 3 floats. So for example transform.forward is 0, 0, 1.
So its a vector3 of length 1, that points forward. You can also have 0, 0, 500 of course.
That's a vector3 of length 500 that also points forward.
Lets say you move left and forward, so you press A and W, and force that into a vector, which is -1, 0, 1.
You want to normalize this, because you don't want the vector to be longer then 1, then you get ~-0.71, 0, 0.71. This is also the reason why old games move faster diagonally, because they don't normalize the input vector.

[craggy bane]

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

[System.Serializable]
public class Quest
{
    public bool isActive;

    public string title;
    public string description;
    public int RepReward;
    public int OctoSnackReward;
    public int Timer;
    

}

this is the quest script

[polar acorn]

So where's the function

[craggy bane]

ontimerfinish?

[polar acorn]

yes

[wintry quarry]

So actually yes you are confusing them. Notice how this doesn't have the function

[craggy bane]

it goes here as int or what

[polar acorn]

Do you know what a function is

Or "Method" I guess if you wanna be technical

[craggy bane]

how am i being tehnical gang

technical

[polar acorn]

That was a comment towards anyone else who felt like correcting my terminology

[craggy bane]

Ok

[polar acorn]

Because technically C# doesn't have functions, it has methods

[craggy bane]

👍

so ontimerfinish goes in quest script

gotcha

[polar acorn]

I thought you said you fixed it

[craggy bane]

i fixed it then it gave me this

(51,9): error CS0102: The type 'QuestGiver' already contains a definition for 'OnTimerFinish'

[polar acorn]

So where's the function

[craggy bane]

dawg idk

its been 6 minutes just explain to me like im a baby learning his alphabet

[polar acorn]

Okay: If you want to call a function, it has to exist

[craggy bane]

and where will this ontimerfinish exist

and what will it exist as

[polar acorn]

Where do you want it and what do you want it to do

[craggy bane]

I want it to count from 139 to 0 and want it in my quest giver

[polar acorn]

If you want it in the quest giver why are you calling it on the quest

[desert elm]

oh, okay! thanks!
so it will normalize the vector based on 000
hm, is it possible to normalize the vector relative to another vector?

[craggy bane]

because one of u told me to

[polar acorn]

when

[ivory bobcat]

Quest giver has that method, not quest.

[craggy bane]

Gangy

[polar acorn]

You are the one who is trying to call the function on Quest

If you want to do that, it has to exist

So, why are you trying to call Quest's function if you wanted it to be on the quest giver

[craggy bane]

do I need to make like a seperate quest script with the name quest time

[polar acorn]

If you want to call a function

[fossil drum]

so it will normalize the vector based on 000
It makes a vector of length 1, so not sure if that's what you tried to say.

[polar acorn]

it has to exist

that's it

[craggy bane]

ok bro

thanks for the advice

[ivory bobcat]

What're you trying to do on that line?

[craggy bane]

have a good day bro

[polar acorn]

You're calling a function OnTimerFinish on the Quest object. Quest does not have a function OnTimerFinish

[craggy bane]

Yes cuz someone told me to gang

[polar acorn]

So, instead of trying to call a function that doesn't exist

[craggy bane]

forget that

[fossil drum]

And I'm not sure what you mean by Normalizing a vector relative to another vector, that doesn't make much sense to me.

[craggy bane]

so just call it on questgiver

[polar acorn]

Either
A) make it exist
or
B) don't call it

[desert elm]

sorry, lemme try to explain better-

[fossil drum]

Perhaps if you explain your problem that your friend told you why you need to use Normalize would make it all a bit more sense.

[desert elm]

Right so
I want to create a random point in a circular area. My friend told me to find the center of that circular area, modify it by a random vector, and then normalize the resulting vector, and then multiply that by a random value between 0.1 (a small number ) and the radius of that circle

something like this
ab is the centre of the circle, x, y is the random point created by the first modification

[fossil drum]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.html
You could just use the existing methods for a random point:

insideUnitCircle Returns a random point inside or on a circle with radius 1.0 (Read Only). So this is 2D
insideUnitSphere Returns a random point inside or on a sphere with radius 1.0 (Read Only). And this is 3D

[desert elm]

oh
thank you!

[silver salmon]

Debug.Log("Welcome to the");

[fossil drum]

And sure you could do what your friend told you.
Just have an random x value, random y value between -1 and 1, make a vector 2 out of it, normalize it and multiply that vector with a random value.
Then add your original a, b to that.

[desert elm]

Okay, that helps me a lot- could I just
then create the random point, then add a, b to it?

[fossil drum]

If I read your question correctly, you can do insideUnitCircle and multiply it by how big of a cirle you want + your a, b vector.
That should do the trick.

[desert elm]

yep, thats it, thanks

[desert elm]

can you find the vector2 values of a transform.position value?

[fossil drum]

I can be implicitly converted, so you can just do Vector2 = Vector3

[silver salmon]

!vc

[eternal falcon]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[vast vessel]

hi lads, i have something weird going on, i have a physics.raycast that hits a big collider, but it returns the collider on its parent game object, even though im shooting at the smaller collider, any way i can fix this?

here ive sent the hirearchy of the gameobjects, their colliders, my code and the debug resaults

i know it looks overwhelming but its not a lot trust me

in short : raycast hits object B, returns object A. object B is a collider that is a child of object A

[verbal dome]

use hit.collider.gameObject, not hit.transform.gameObject

[vast vessel]

whats the diffrance?

[verbal dome]

hit.transform and hit.rigidbody refer to the object that has the rigidbody

[vast vessel]

ohhhhh

why would transform give me the rigidbody?

that seems weird

[polar acorn]

A rigidbody sort of "claims" all colliders on it or child objects. This allows a rigidbody to have complex shapes without needing a high fidelity mesh collider, and gives you a way to differentiate parts of the object

[verbal dome]

It doesn't give you a rigidbody, just the transform of thet object that has it

[polar acorn]

If an object has a rigidbody, it becomes responsible for handling raycasts and other physics queries

for example, if you have a headshot hitbox, you still want the player's rigidbody to be the one that reports the hit, so you can call a function on that player

[pulsar lodge]

https://gdl.space/rijopuqahi.cs Can anyone help me, I am trying to load different backgrounds based off of the scene my character was previously in, I've tested and the SceneIndex is getting passed correctly through my scriptable object. My issue is when the battle starts the background is all white, i'm guessing it cannot find the refence image.

I have tried the full file path but thats not working

[polar acorn]

Your code is using Resources but you haven't shown your Resources folder, what does that look like?

[wraith wadi]

what is the other method? beside making unique prefeb?

[pulsar lodge]

Thats probably my issue then, its not in the resources folder.

[polar acorn]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/assets-resources-and-assetbundles#5c7f8528edbc2a002053b5a7

[pulsar lodge]

So i have them in there now,

[minor roost]

i have a tetris game but when a piece is at the bottom it can still move side to side

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[minor roost]

https://gdl.space/seqoqaduca.cs

piece system here

https://gdl.space/ixakimeqeh.cs

[minor roost]

this is board

[rich adder]

did you debug when you call HandleMoveInputs

[minor roost]

no?

[polar acorn]

Looks like you enable input at any time that Time.time is greater than moveTime

and moveTime is only ever changed if valid is true

So see if that's being read as true when you don't expect

[minor roost]

so what do i change

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[minor roost]

huh

[rich adder]

you have to learn to debug if you want to get anywhere with code

[minor roost]

dam

so what do i change

[summer stump]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[minor roost]

ty

[steel forge]

https://pastebin.com/GNFPqzAP
It doesn't register collisions and idk why. I have a spike set to trigger and a triggerbox around my character. At the beginning of the scene (When I start it) it registers the first debug log, but never again. Neither when colliding with smth that is a trigger or wehn colliding with smth. that isn't.

[rigid kite]

Hello, Im trying to save my game with binnary. I followed a tutorial about it and i tried to not change anything.

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


[System.Serializable]
public class DersData
{
    public bool[] dersDurumu;

    public DersData()
    {
        dersDurumu = new bool[10];
    }
}

public static class SaveSystem
{
    
    public static void Save(DersData ders)
    {
        BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(GetPath(), FileMode.Create);
        formatter.Serialize(fs, ders);
        fs.Close();
    }
    public static DersData Load()
    {
        if (File.Exists(GetPath()))
        {
            BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
            FileStream stream = new FileStream(GetPath(), FileMode.Open);
            DersData data = formatter.Deserialize(stream) as DersData;
            stream.Close();

            return data;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Save file not found in" + GetPath());
            return null;
        }
    }

    private static string GetPath()
    {
        return Application.persistentDataPath + "/dersData.qnd";
    }
}

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

public class DerslerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] List<Button> dersler;

    public DersData data;

    
    private void Awake()
    {
        data = SaveSystem.Load();
        print(data);

    }

    public void YaptiYapmadi(int index)
    {
        if (dersler[index].image.color == Color.red)
        {
            dersler[index].image.color = Color.green;
            data.dersDurumu[index] = true;
        }
        else
        {
            dersler[index].image.color = Color.red;
            data.dersDurumu[index] = false;
        }
    }
}

When I save the game there is no problem. But when I try to load i get this error:

SerializationException: End of Stream encountered before parsing was completed.

[calm coral]

You should not use it at all

What tutorial did you watch? From like 1995 ?

[rigid kite]

No like 2021

I'll build to android

I tried to watch a tutorial for PC too but I don't know if it's can be used to android. so i just found a new tutorial.

[solemn fractal]

hey guys, any tips on how to do that movement with my enemy? like passing by the player next to it, and going outside the view, and coming back other sice, almost in a straight line? not in a circle.

[calm coral]

Idk if it's going to work on Android, I'd try playin with System.IO.File.WriteAllText()

[rigid kite]

Thanks I'll try it.

[steel forge]

I've never done it, but if a circle doesn't work, an elyptical orbit might?

[solemn fractal]

maybe, i am just trying to figure it how, tried some stuff and didnt work.

[steel forge]

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

public class Die2Piks : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    public GameObject Player;
    public Vector3 Startposition;
    // Update is called once per frame
    private movement Moving; 
    void Awake(){
         Moving = GetComponentInParent<movement>();
    }    
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        Debug.Log("Ded Trigger 1");
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Death"))
        {
        Debug.Log("Ded Trigger 2");
        Moving.enabled = false;
        Debug.Log("Ded Trigger 3");
        Player.transform.position = Startposition;
        Debug.Log("Ded Trigger 4");
        StartCoroutine(enable());
        }
    }
    IEnumerator enable()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
        Debug.Log("Ded Trigger 5");
        Moving.enabled = true;
    }
}```
easier to read if you can help

[polar acorn]

Which logs do you get

[wraith wadi]

is there a YouTube tutorial that explains or teaches working with lights and glow for absolute beginners? or a document?

[verbal dome]

Glow is usually a post processing effect called 'bloom'

Light flares exist also

[steel forge]

from the ones i give out? the first once, when the scene starts and then none. Is there another place to get logs?

[cosmic dagger]

Sounds like it's rotating along an oval-shaped pattern . . .

[polar acorn]

If the first one logs and none of the others, then this object collided with an object, but that object doesn't have the tag Death

[solemn fractal]

kind fo yes, but woiuld be more like a straigh line.. just passing by it.

[steel forge]

It doesn't log on collision. It logs once at the very start of the scene, then never again

[polar acorn]

If the thing that logs is your Ded Trigger 1 then it is colliding with something, or the function wouldn't be running

[verbal dome]

Is this script on the player, and what does the hierarchy look like?

[steel forge]

I know that, that is what is confusing me. The player starts a bit in the air to avoid clipping, it lands on the ground, which isn't a trigger, the player itself has multiple objects, but only the one with the script is a trigger. It collides once with a trigger, idk which, and then never again.
@verbal dome the script is on Capsule, which is a trigger

[verbal dome]

Does player have a rigidbody?

[steel forge]

no, only a player controller

[polar acorn]

How about instead of logging random text that doesn't give you any information, instead log the object you collided with

[steel forge]

Wait a sec

[steel forge]

it logs the character controller

[polar acorn]

Then whatever object this script is on is colliding with the character controller

[steel forge]

it is, i know that because the character controller is inside it. Just why doesn't it react to anything else and since when is a character controller considered a trigger? I've never heard of that before.

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnTriggerEnter:

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

[ivory bobcat]

Debug.Log($"{name} was triggered by {other.name}", this);```

[steel forge]

1. I have a 3D Collider on the capsule and on the spike
2. isTrigger is on on both
   3.is where my error was. thx, good to know

[verbal dome]

Rigidbody doesn't mix with CharacterController btw.

[steel forge]

i know, it on the spike. I've already made painful expiriences...

[steel forge]

does the rigidbody rule also apply to OnCollisionEnter?

[faint sluice]

Yep

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnCollisionEnter:

1. Thou Shalt have a 3D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt not tick isTrigger on either of them
3. Thou Shalt have a 3D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[faint sluice]

Commandments are eternal

[steel forge]

thx

[winter cedar]

its giving me null

[rich adder]

did you plug output in the inspector

If not You have a copy somewhere

either output doesn't have a textmeshpro on it

you 're probably looking for a TMP_Text, You have to show more context

[winter cedar]

yeah i see it now thx

someone know how to fix this?

[polar acorn]

Show !code for ReadInput

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[winter cedar]

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

public class ReadInput : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string input;
    public Button gameb;
    
    public void Readstringinput(string s)
    {
        
        input = s;
        Debug.Log(input);
       
    }
}

[polar acorn]

Did you save

[winter cedar]

yup

[polar acorn]

Run it again

[winter cedar]

ok

so its not giving me a error but its not showing the text I put in the input field

[polar acorn]

Nothing in this script does anything with the string you pass it

[winter cedar]

ohh ok\

[rich adder]

what about the Log?

[chrome storm]

hello i used a code from chatgpt and theres an error that says "the type namespace "IEnumerator" caannot be found"

ive never heard of a IEnumerator what is that

[foggy void]

🙄

show code

put in code block please 🙂

[chrome storm]

😅 k

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

i feel like your disapointed that i used chatgpt..

[rich adder]

yes because it probably didn't mention about namespaces

[muted wadi]

chatgpt sucks at coding

[rich adder]

its spam generator

[muted wadi]

yup

[chrome storm]

i just wanted to see what it does

[muted wadi]

even when you ask it to explain what parts of code do, it can still get it wrong

[chrome storm]

because i failed

XD

[rich adder]

yup just spews other peoples words scrambled with no verification of accuracy

[rich adder]

once you learn the very few basics you can pretty much solve anything

[chrome storm]

alright scrap chatgpt

[eternal needle]

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

[muted wadi]

you can make it work if you want to quickly solve some very small beginner queries, but anything more is impossible for chatgpt

[rich adder]

In Unity context they are used for coroutine but they are more than that

just goes iterates through a collection

but unity did some black magic and made it some async thing

[chrome storm]

the code i did yesterday i believe it work its the "inspector bar" thats wrong but i dont get what

[muted wadi]

question: is starting a coroutine within a coroutine a good idea?

[rich adder]

yea why not

[muted wadi]

ok good, i thought maybe it's really expensive to run

or just really inefficient

[rich adder]

depends how many you're calling and where, everything you do has impacts

but its pretty normal to StartCoroutine from another coroutine

[muted wadi]

yeah one of my teachers advised me to be careful about how many updates i use and how to be more efficient

[foggy void]

Github Copilot >

Very useful, if you are a student in highschool I highly reccomend it. (Dont use it as a tool, use it as a friend to ask questions and learn 🙂 )

[rich adder]

this isn't even the same tech

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ depends on the use case. Id say it'd be more indicative of a weird coding practice but could have valid scenarios

[muted wadi]

actually heard that's pretty good but its also paid so i passed on it

[foggy void]

If you are a student, you can keep it for free until you leave highschool.

Alongside with a shit ton of other benefits

[muted wadi]

im in uni but i dont think our campus has copilot as a free thing

hell they barely even have adobe

[foggy void]

Doesn't matter if your campus does it or not

[rich adder]

you can probably get it still thru Github

[foggy void]

Github regardless of if campus agrees allows you to signup

Just need some form of POE (proof of education)

like student id works

[muted wadi]

oh interesting

[foggy void]

(best thing is student id)

[rich adder]

abuse it while you can

[foggy void]

others are hard to get in with

[chrome storm]

rq

is this code ok https://hastebin.com/share/nubivamine.csharp

[muted wadi]

it felt kind of cheaty though

[chrome storm]

i think it is

[muted wadi]

using chatgpt

[rich adder]

https://education.github.com/pack

[foggy void]

It is cheaty using ai, that's why I use it as a friend not a tool. Don't get addicted to it, learn off of it.

[chrome storm]

it does feel like cheating

[eternal needle]

ok in what sense, does it work?

[foggy void]

does it compile? probably

[foggy void]

fuck around and find out

[rich adder]

just like cheating you won't learn anything

then you have to fake it to make it your whole life

[muted wadi]

yeah originally i was using it to generate me a script and explain every part of that script until I understood what was going on and why. But eventually it wasn't explaining things properly and was getting stuff wrong so i stopped using it

i never want to cheat my way through with chatgpt because its so short sighted, learning it yourself is much more fulfilling

[foggy void]

thats why you limit yourself and dont ask it straightforward questions

[near cove]

for some reason i cant get this oncollisionenter to work

can someone help troubleshoot

[foggy void]

Okay well that is oncollisionexit..

not enter

[near cove]

i mean collision exit

[timber tide]

case closed

[near cove]

it doesnt work still

[foggy void]

case closed

done

thats a wrap

[near cove]

bro no its a collision exit and it doesnt work. when my object leaves the other collider its doesnt reload the scene

[short hazel]

Place a log in that, does it execute?

[near cove]

imma try

no logs

[short hazel]

It's weird how the method name is a bit grayed out, but maybe it's just the analyzer reporting incorrectly

[foggy void]

Check in 3d view that they are actually going to touch? Does that matter? I don't know

[polar acorn]

The Three Commandments of OnCollisionExit2D:

1. Thou Shalt have a 2D Collider on each object
2. Thou Shalt not tick isTrigger on either of them
3. Thou Shalt have a 2D Rigidbody on at least one of them

[near cove]

yeah it says "unused method"

object1 has polygon collider

object 2 has a collider and a rigibody

dont see whats wrong tbh

[polar acorn]

Show the full !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.

[muted wadi]

im trying to make a coroutine where an object moves to the positions of game objects inside a list until it reaches the end. This is what I have so far but im not sure if im on the right track. The way I think this is working is that for every object inside hitList a coroutine is being started in which the object will move to that position and once it has reached close enough to that position, a boolean will be returned which tells the previous coroutine to do the same for the next object. Is this correct or am I wrong?

{
    for (int i = 0; i < hitList.Count; i++)
    {
        cr = StartCoroutine(MoveToEnemyPositions(i));

        yield return cr;
    }
}

IEnumerator MoveToEnemyPositions(int currentPos)
{
    

    yield return null;
}```

[rich adder]

you would combine a while loop with Vector3.distance to each point, dont put start coroutine in the loop

[near cove]

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

[polar acorn]

Yielding a coroutine means the current coroutine stops until the new one finishes. I'm assuming you plan to add more stuff to the second one because right now it's got no purpose at all.

[muted wadi]

where would i put the while loop?

[muted wadi]

yeah i do

[rich adder]

inside the coroutine

[muted wadi]

so I shouldn't use the second coroutine for this?

[rich adder]

don't see a purpose for it

[muted wadi]

i had a problem earlier where the objects were moving so vector3 didn't work, but i changed the object so this shouldn't an issue anymore

[rich adder]

idk what any of this means

[muted wadi]

sorry im rambling

[rich adder]

first worry about how you scroll through an array/list

that would be the first step

[muted wadi]

sorry i just thought about this but why would i use a while loop instead of a for loop? Wouldn't it be better to move to a position for each item within the list?

[rich adder]

what youre trying to do is starting a coroutine for each point on the same gameobject? how will it know which one to go to if they're all starting at the same time to different points

[muted wadi]

i deleted the second coroutine, now its just one coroutine with a for loop inside

[rich adder]

why do you need a for loop I dont understand

are you controlling multiple objects?

[muted wadi]

no just one, think of it as a ball

[rich adder]

ok so it doesn't need for loop

[muted wadi]

im confused

my impression is that when the coroutine starts, the ball will do a thing for each item within the list

[rich adder]

you tell it to go to point A, when it reaches point A you tell it goto point B

rinse and repeat

[muted wadi]

the problem is that i dont know how many points will be in the list when the coroutine is started

[rich adder]

its not the only ofc you can literally just give it a list of tasks to do , there are many ways to do something

[muted wadi]

would it be okay if i explained what im trying to do a bit more so there's no confusion?

[rich adder]

exactly why you shouldn't care about all of them, just the one you're going to

lets make a thread

[muted wadi]

sure

[alpine wraith]

can someone explain the following error to me?
Main Camera: 1 camera overlay no longer exists and will be removed from the camera stack.
I was using 2 overlay cameras (screenshot 1), and as soon as I enter play mode one of them is gone... (screenshot 2)

the error comes from the "Universal Additional Camera Data" script in line 462. (not written by me but added to cam automatically)

[north kiln]

Is it an error

Or is it just a log saying that it removed the camera from the stack? Presumably because you're Destroying it somehow

[modest barn]

I've been struggling for weeks with MonoBehaviour instantiation but I've always just ended up finding workarounds, but now I'd really just like to use new() to create a new object of a script, but I can't because that script inherits from MB. Can someone just really quickly guide me through how I can imitate this exact behaviour but with AddComponent() or whatever other method I need to use?

[polar acorn]

Instead of calling new() call AddComponent

[north kiln]

You cannot imitate the exact behaviour, you can only create a method you call after using AddComponent

[polar acorn]

Add the component to the object you want to

[covert cairn]

I'm trying to instantiate a prefab from a scriptableObject but for some reason it's giving a NullReferenceException. I have everything assigned in the inspector so I'm having a hard time figuring out where it's going null.
The line that instantiates it but throws an error is: Instantiate(weapon.equipment);
and the class it pulls from is written like this:
public class EnemyWeapons : ScriptableObject
{
public GameObject equipment;
public Vector3 weaponPos;
public float fireRate;
public int bulletsPerShot;
}

[modest barn]

Does it matter what object I choose? I have a Main object that's currently just holding scripts so I'd prefer to use that

[polar acorn]

It'd be whatever object you want the component added to

[polar acorn]

What line throws the error

[timber tide]

"The line that instantiates it but throws an error is: Instantiate(weapon.equipment);"

Debug your weapon and then weapon.equipment

[modest barn]

I don't want to use any components really, I just want to call a function from a Dropdown menu, which has a script called DropDown.cs, and I just need to call a method within that script from another script.

Would it, in that case, matter where I put the component?

[polar acorn]

so why is it a monobehaviour

[modest barn]

The script is a component in my Main object that is holding scripts

It is so that I can do this

[polar acorn]

So it already is a component on an object

why are you trying to add it to another object?

[covert cairn]

Debug what specifically though, as far as I'm aware, there is no other point in the code that could be causing an issue because this is the only part that isn't just a variable.

[modest barn]

I don't want to add it to another object I just want to grab a public variable from inside it (non-static) for which I of course need an object reference

[polar acorn]

Okay so why are you asking how to add it to another object

if you don't want to add it to another object

[modest barn]

I just wanted to use new() to create an instance to get that variable

Literally all I want to do is get that variable from the other script

[polar acorn]

why

you have an instance

use that

[modest barn]

Sorry, I'm new to Unity. Does having the script as a component on an object instantiate it?

[rich adder]

it creates an instance

of the script

[modest barn]

Oh

How do I access that instance?

[rich adder]

GetComponent usually

[modest barn]

Serialize the Main gameobject?

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[rich adder]

yeah when possible always make fields in the inspector, and assign that way

[modest barn]

I'm guessing that for my situation serializing the object would work fine and wouldn't be worse than getcomponent

[timber tide]

Yes, debug exactly that. You want to check if the weapon object itself is null, if it isn't then perhaps what you're accessing on it is null.

in that order

[modest barn]

So let's say I'm going to [SerializeField] GameObject main (that's how I would do it, right?), how would I access the script that is a component of that GameObject?

[rich adder]

no you serialize the type for the script

[polar acorn]

Why would you reference the game object instead of the script you actually want

[rich adder]

^ this. Every Monobehaviour has access to their own gameObject& transform already

[covert cairn]

The weapon object isn't null or at least doesn't have a reason to be as it is attached in the inspector, and same thing with the weapon prefab.

[polar acorn]

What line is throwing the error

[summer stump]

The name of the class is the type.

public class Foo : MonoBehaviour { }

public claas Bar : MonoBehaviour 
{
  [SerializeField] Foo foo;
}

[covert cairn]

this: Instantiate(weapon.equipment);

[polar acorn]

Then weapon is null

[covert cairn]

but weapon.equipment isn't null

[modest barn]

So I have a GameObject, which has a component that is a script, that contains a public variable that I need to access. How would I [SerializeField] a component of a GameObject? I didn't know that was possible.

[covert cairn]

that's why I'm confused

[timber tide]

Don't always trust the inspector. Always debug your values

[north kiln]

That screenshot doesn't show weapon

[polar acorn]

You would [SerializeField] the component you want

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

Just like this

That is literally all you need to do

[covert cairn]

this does

[polar acorn]

This shows that one instance of this script has weapon

[rich adder]

they even thumbs up and asked the question xD

[polar acorn]

It does not show that every instance of this script does

log it

[modest barn]

Got it, thank you. I didn't even know you could drag and drop components from the Inspector! I have a loooot to learn 🤦 Thank you all for the help

[covert cairn]

It's the only instance I have though

[polar acorn]

is it though

Log it

[summer stump]

You almost never need a GameObject variable. You can even instantiate an object by referencing the script on it. It will also instantiate everything else along with it

[polar acorn]

Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name}'s weapon is {weapon}",this);

Log it

[rich adder]

it was in the page you were linked

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

[covert cairn]

on weapon or the script that instantiates it

[polar acorn]

On the script that is throwing the error

[covert cairn]

omg

i'm so dumb

I dragged it onto my canvas at some point

💀

i'm offically quitting gamedev

[polar acorn]

This is why you always check

The errors can not lie. If it says you have one of these scripts with weapon null, then you do. It's up to you to find out where

[covert cairn]

Fair enough I just assumed I had perfect knowledge of my scene

I guess I just accidentally dragged it to the wrong thing at some point

ok thx

[alpine wraith]

yeah sorry i was destroying it unknowingly.. I thought unity was destroying it for some reason so i came here

[boreal tangle]

private bool isGrounded()
    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.BoxCast(coll.bounds.center, coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.down, 0.1f);



        Debug.Log(hit.collider.gameObject);

        return hit.collider != null;
       
    }

does someone know why the boxcast hits the player instead of the ground

[north kiln]

Why would it not? You have applied no logic to make it not do that

[boreal tangle]

but I directioned the cast down so it should it the ground

[muted wadi]

i keep getting this error but I have no idea why, can anyone help me understand what might be causing it? Full script here https://hastebin.com/share/azizoyikuw.csharp

everything in the coroutine has a reference to my understanding, really stumped

[north kiln]

Check the values and see which one is null

[muted wadi]

how do i do that?

[north kiln]

Using the debugger, or logging

[muted wadi]

which value should i be checking exactly?

[strong path]

im trying to make an animation start thru collision of a box collider and the animation just won't play

could it be a code problem?

[north kiln]

The ones that can be null on the line where the error's being thrown from https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[muted wadi]

so everything in the coroutine that can be null?

[north kiln]

If you're confused, go through the resource I linked

[strong path]

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

public class AnimTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] public GameObject player;
    [SerializeField] private Animator anim;

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider col)
    {
        if (col.gameObject == player)
            anim.Play("LiamWalk");
    }
}```

[muted wadi]

is the object that has the script set as a trigger?

[strong path]

wdym

[muted wadi]

so the object that has this script should have a collider component

[north kiln]

Have you checked whether the function is being called at all?

[muted wadi]

is the option "IsTrigger" on that component ticked?

[strong path]

yes through the console, and its not

[north kiln]

Go through the physics message debugging resource that is pinned to this channel

it should become clear pretty quickly what you've done wrong

[strong path]

my code would still work the same if i used either col or collider right

[muted wadi]

@north kiln im trying to debug stuff but i dont really know what im doing even after reading the thing you sent

[strong path]

OH MY GOD

IT WASNT 2D

THANK YOU

[fathom ether]

Whats the best way to implement a messages log box with a max amount of messages?
Something similar to the picture is what im looking for

[muted wadi]

how do i know what thing i should be debugging?

[north kiln]

You know what line it is because of the stack trace, and you know what the reference types on that line are, so check all of those by logging before that line

[rich adder]

a simple List<string>

[muted wadi]

im not sure where to find "d__8.MoveNext" in my error

[strong path]

LETS GO

[muted wadi]

apparently thats the method

[muted wadi]

lockOn is the class

[rich adder]

MoveNext, sounds like a coroutine

[north kiln]

and :40 is the line of code

[strong path]

only problem is he still starts his animation on his own automatically even though "Play Automatically" is ticked off, what do i do

[muted wadi]

and then BailiffMove is the coroutine, but i dont have MoveNext anywhere in my code

[muted wadi]

but thats just referencing the line that starts the coroutine

[rich adder]

can you show Line 40

[north kiln]

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

[north kiln]

if (Vector3.Distance(throwB.newBall.transform.position, hitList[currentHit].transform.position) < 0.8f)

You have changed your code since that error

[muted wadi]

i just added a debug.log

[north kiln]

throwB throwB.newBall hitList hitList[currentHit], one of these is null at some point

[rich adder]

where did you assign throwB

[muted wadi]

throwB is a reference to a class, its at the very top of the script

[muted wadi]

this one

[north kiln]

That's a declaration, not a reference

[rich adder]

thats declaring

[muted wadi]

oh sorry

[rich adder]

where did you assign

[muted wadi]

im not sure i understand

[north kiln]

Though, I have no idea how it got to line 40, surely DiscThrow is a struct if it got there?

[muted wadi]

let me send the discThrow script too

[rich adder]

how do we assign a value in code ?

[muted wadi]

thing = amount

[rich adder]

ok so where did you do that

for throwB

[rich adder]

🤔

[muted wadi]

oh wait

is it because its private

[rich adder]

you just said = assigns something, this isn't assigning

[muted wadi]

christ im dumb

[rich adder]

yeah its private, but that has no affect in assignment

[muted wadi]

man im really confused, does something need to be assigned to that?

[strong path]

if i remove the animator, it doesnt play the animation at all but it cant run without the animator

[muted wadi]

surely it just needs to be declared and thats all?

[rich adder]

how does it know which DIscThrow instance you want

DiscoThrow is meerly a blueprint

[muted wadi]

there's only 1 DiscThrow, and im referencing a variable from inside that class, how come that doesn't work?

[polar acorn]

How is the code supposed to know which Disc throw you want

[rich adder]

there can be 1 or 0 or millions, it makes no difference to the computer

it wants to know which one of these you wanna get/set this variable from

it would be kinda counterproductive if it magically plugged itself in

[muted wadi]

okay lets assume that its newBall because an object is being instantiated there

how would I specify which newBall i want to reference?

[rich adder]

you're assigning a new ball to an object that doesn't exist

maybe brush up on what an actual instance is

[muted wadi]

am i misunderstanding what an instance is?

[rich adder]

you're probably confusing it with Unity's Instantiate which is somewhat similiar

[muted wadi]

what is the difference between Instantiate and an instance?

i thought they were linked

[rich adder]

In regular cSharp you have to create an object from the blueprint (class) you defined

thats an instance

MyClass foo = new()

foo.Something()
foo is the instance itself

in unity a script is a component which creates an instance when its on a gameobject

so you can't new() monobehavior classes

[muted wadi]

this makes no sense to me

i understand a script is a component

but how does it create an instance when its on a gameobject?

[rich adder]

it just does it internally , not something you should worry

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Component.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html

[rich adder]

but yeah because you cannot new() a monobevahoior , to use the instance you assign the one on the gameobject

[muted wadi]

i think i understand monoBehaviour, its inheriting values from another class called monoBehaviour

[rich adder]

public class LockOn : MonoBehaviour

[muted wadi]

yeah

[rich adder]

yea : inheriting

[muted wadi]

my lockOn class is inheriting certain values from MonoBehaviour

[rich adder]

properties and methods

[muted wadi]

right

[rich adder]

so whoever has LockOn script on they have that instance

[strong path]

do animations always start by themselves

no matter what i do

[rich adder]

depends on your animator 🤷‍♂️

[strong path]

i need my sprite to stop animating as soon as i start the game

[muted wadi]

so then i dont understand, why am i getting an error for newBall even though it hasn't been instantiated yet?

[strong path]

but i have no clue what im doing wrong

[rich adder]

did you start it with an empty state?

[rich adder]

because I told you its not newBall lol

[strong path]

this is what my animation things look like

[rich adder]

newBall is being assigned to an object that doesn't exist (as far as the computer knows)

[strong path]

is my animation tree the problem

[rich adder]

dont use animation first of all lol

that component has a mind of its own lol

[muted wadi]

but why? newBall is assigned in the throwB script

[rich adder]

you need to make states inside your Animator

[strong path]

oh

[rich adder]

Scripts are not objects

they're just blueprints to an object

[strong path]

like a collision trigger?

or bool?

[rich adder]

no like you put an idle state , empty state, whatever other animation inside then control them via parameters

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

follow some beginnner courses on animator

[muted wadi]

im really confused. The way I see it, the newBall variable in the DiscThrow script is being assigned the discPrefab object. What doesn't work there?

[polar acorn]

Where is it being assigned

[rich adder]

you're confused because you're missing the basics tbh

[muted wadi]

throwB.newBall = Instantiate(throwB.discPrefab, throwB.discSpawn.position, throwB.cam.transform.localRotation);

[rich adder]

you have to understand the difference between references and declaring

[polar acorn]

Where is discPrefab being assigned

[muted wadi]

in the ThrowDisc script

[polar acorn]

Show that

[summer stump]

Am I missing something, where is throwB assigned? In the inspector?

[rich adder]

is throwB throwing null btw

[polar acorn]

Actually yeah

[muted wadi]

hold that thought

[polar acorn]

Where is throwB being assigned

[muted wadi]

{
    public GameObject discPrefab, newBall;```

[rich adder]

they know that assigning is = but somwhow this is missing the spot

[summer stump]

That is a declaration, not assignment. Just to be clear

[polar acorn]

Okay, so this is public. Is it assigned in the inspector?

[muted wadi]

{
    // MAKE CLASS A SINGLETON
    
    public List<GameObject> hitList = new List<GameObject>();
    private DiscThrow throwB;```

[polar acorn]

So where is throwB being assigned

[summer stump]

Where do you assign then though?
That is not an assignment, it is a declaration. Something completely different

[muted wadi]

i believe so

[polar acorn]

Let's close the door on this avenue for the time being. Where do you assign a value to throwB

[rich adder]

💀

[summer stump]

Don't believe. Confirm. Just look at the inspector
Does it say "none"? Or the name of an OBJECT?

[rich adder]

you literally have to do the same thing except that Unity has option to also use inspector, but not if the field isn't serialized to expose it and assign it there.. @muted wadi

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

[muted wadi]

okay so

i think im going insane

[polar acorn]

Simple question: Where do you assign throwB

[summer stump]

Just show the inspector for the object already

[rich adder]

like telling someone I have a have a party at my House and guest ask where is your house, and you reply.. "House"

[polar acorn]

Where do you tell the code which GameObject throwB is

[muted wadi]

i dont think i understand what you mean by that honestly

[polar acorn]

You have a variable called throwB

What object is in it

[teal viper]

Time to go learning some C#/unity basics!🪄