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[queen adder]

Okay then just make it not a local like

float timer = 0;
private void Update() {
  timer += Time.deltatime;
  // the rest
}

[acoustic arch]

how do i make it so that when i rotate the player it's always facing forward on the x-axis

i have to make it a child object of something right?

[queen adder]

Depends on how you rotate it

Mouse movement i guess?

Or key presses

[acoustic arch]

mouse movement

[queen adder]

oh and also

3d?

[rare basin]

so how do you want to rotate him and keep him facing fowrad on the x axis on the same time 🤔

do you have head as a separate object?

[acoustic arch]

just so that i move forward in the direction their looking

[rare basin]

you just said you want to rotate

[acoustic arch]

yeah the whole body is in parts like a normal model

[queen adder]

This is what I do usually

public class Player : Monobehaviour {
  private InputManager _inputs = InputManager.Instance;

  [Header("Rotation Values")]
  [SerializeField] private float sensX = 20f;
  private Vector2 rotation = Vector2.zero;

  private void Awake() {
    if (_inputs == null) _inputs = InputManager.Instance;
  }

  private void Update() {
    // Basically just get the rotation.x value from your horizontal mouse movement,
    // Idk what way you do it yourself, but it should be pretty easy.
    rotation.x += _inputs.GetLookInput().x * Time.deltaTime * sensX;

    Quaternion yaw = Quaternion.AngleAxis(rotation.x, Vector3.up);
    transform.localRotation = yaw;
  }
}

Not 100% sure its gonna work the way you want it to work, idk how your project and other code is set up

but it'll rotate the player character left or right

[acoustic arch]

i think my code and everything is all good i just need to make it rotate locally

[queen adder]

fps controller?

[acoustic arch]

yeah

[queen adder]

oh

[acoustic arch]

i'm using RigidBody

not character controller

[shell herald]

how do i check if i get inputs from a controller or from keyboard&mouse

[queen adder]

just shot you a dm

[rare basin]

InputSystem.current

on new input system

            InputDevice inputDevice = InputSystem.devices[0];

            if (inputDevice is Keyboard || inputDevice is Mouse)
            {
                Debug.Log("keyboard/mouse");
            }
            else if (inputDevice is Gamepad)
            {
                Debug.Log("controller");
            }    

[shell herald]

thx

and why doesnt this work?

[languid spire]

because that is not valid C# syntax

[shell herald]

how would i do it correctly?

[languid spire]

what are you trying to say with that line?

[shell herald]

if i get an input corresponding to Fire2, it should fo these lines

[languid spire]

so why (0) ?

[shell herald]

oop, i originally had it at "Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) and simply forgot

[teal viper]

You even underlined the line! How did it not ring any bells??😅

[shell herald]

but even without the 0 it doesnt work

[languid spire]

true because GetAxisRaw does not return a bool

[teal viper]

Does it throw an error? Read it.

[shell herald]

the error is "method name expected

[languid spire]

what? show code

[languid spire]

so? if GetAxisRaw is what?

[shell herald]

what does getaxis raw actually give me? is it a range from 0 to 1?

[languid spire]

read the docs

[teal viper]

The compiler is confused. It doesn't understand what you are trying to do.

[languid spire]

neither does the programmer apparently

[shell herald]

thats why im in the beginner channel. i dont even understand how to read the unity scripting docs because the entire page is built like a hierachy

[honest idol]

can someone help me I keep getting this error when ever I try and cloud save, it keeps saying there is something wrong with my script and i only have 2 scripts but they are both correct and I'm so confused someone please help.

[languid spire]

the only thing to understand is

[shell herald]

so i have to do GetAxisRaw("name") >= 1) to get it to trigger every time a button under that axis is pressed

yep, works

[rare basin]

would be simplier to just use the new input system

[queen adder]

Yeah tbh

Its so much better than the old one

Does need a bit of tutorials to understand it, but code monkey and samyam did some unbelievably high quality work explaining it amd showing it off

[tawny cave]

hello, I am trying to compare the position of a object at frame-1 and current frame to know if the object is moving or not. Problem is that I have an error telling me the vector2 position variable (for frame-1 position) isn't declared and it doesn't work if I declare it in public class block....

[queen adder]

Also its a bit funny how they didnt fix a typo for years now, making it so the search box doesnt work for listening for inputs

But the 1.8.0 pre-release packages do work now lol

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show the code and any errors you received. What you're describing is very straightforward

You have to declare the variable outside the method

[tawny cave]

that's what I have...

as you can see I try to declare Vector2 lastPosition right in the public class but it doesn't work

I get an error in currentPosition != lastPosition

[amber spruce]

anyone know for this

[buoyant knot]

as a sidenote, your speed should probably be declared as:
[field: SerializeField] public float speed {get; private set;} = 3f;

[teal viper]

It doesn't look like you're using the "lastPosition" field at all.

[wintry quarry]

You are redeclaring the variable on line 63. Don't do that

[teal viper]

Maybe share the whole code.

[buoyant knot]

serialize field makes it appear in inspector. public lets other classes see it. private set stops other classes from modifying your speed. =3f makes the default value in inspector 3 (or whatever) when you make a new component

[tawny cave]

right what the correct syntaxe to assign it to the position then ?

[buoyant knot]

lastPostion = ….

[wintry quarry]

Just get rid of Vector2 at the beginning of line 63

You don't need to repeat the type every time you assign the variable

[buoyant knot]

Vector2 lastPosition declares a whole new variable, also named lastPosition

[wintry quarry]

That creates a new variable

[buoyant knot]

and no, the IDE will see that and just let you do that

because it assumes you know what you’re doing

because you can totally declare something like:
public MyClass(float variable) {
this.variable = variable;
}
So you can make methods where the argument has the same name as one of your class fields

btw another other common option to declare a variable is:
[SerializeField] private float speed;
This makes speed only accessible within this class, but makes it appear in inspector (and saves the value)

[tawny cave]

problem is that it gives me an error

[wintry quarry]

Why'd you get rid of new

[buoyant knot]

that doesn’t make sense

[wintry quarry]

I only told you to remove the beginning of the line

Leave the rest alone

BTW you can just do lastPosition = transform.position;

[buoyant knot]

you are trying to assign lastPosition to be a new instance of a Vector2, created with its constructor

[wintry quarry]

You don't need to be crafting the thing from scratch in the first place

[tawny cave]

I only want 2d vector so idk if that would work

[wintry quarry]

It works

Try it

It converts automatically

[buoyant knot]

Vector3 and Vector2 can be cast into each other

this is an implicit cast. Since lastPosition is a Vector2, and you are trying to assign a Vector3, the program searches for an implicit cast of vector3 to Vector2

other classes require explicit cast. Which requires something like: lastPosition = (Vector2) transform.position;
(if that were an explicit cast)

[balmy sky]

private PlayerControls playerControls;
    private void Awake()
    {
        playerControls = new PlayerControls();
    }
    private void  Start()
    {
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard.performed += ctx =>ToggleAactiveSlot((int)ctx.ReadValue<float>());
    }
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        playerControls.Enable();
    }
    private void ToggleAactiveSlot (int numValue)
    {
        Debug.Log(numValue);
    }

[balmy sky]

so i set up my 1-4 keys on keyboard via the input system and tried to print them with numValue howhever it would always print me "1" no matter if i press 1,2,3,4 on the keyboard...
someone mention i can use callbackContext.control.name which returns the name of the key that was pressed , any idea how to implement that in script ?

[wintry quarry]

ReadValue<float> is only going to return 0 or 1 for keyboard keys

You've assigned alt keys basically, not other values

You should just make 4 separate actions and assign each to an individual key

[balmy sky]

no way of bypass it by using callbackContext.control.name? and then int.Prase to convert string to index ?

[queen adder]

Why would you want to overcomplicate it this much?

[wintry quarry]

What happens if the user rebinds the key? It's much more robust to make 4 actions

It will take you 2 minutes

[queen adder]

KISS (Keep it simple, stupid)

Dont hate on me, thats the acronym

[swift crag]

this smells fishy

it's a little hard to express. you're relying on information that just happens to exist for the keys you're using (the name you get back from control.name)

if you want four input actions, define four input actions

it's like if I decided how much health an enemy gets based on what color its material has

[wintry quarry]

Sounds exactly like a lot of code we see around here 😁

Anything to avoid actually explicitly spelling out intentions

[topaz mortar]

I have a a BuyItem script that sends a request to a database to remove the gold and add the item
If I do _ = BuyItem() it works perfectly in the client but it bugs in my database
if I do await BuyItem() it lags on the client and looks & feels really slow/weird
The database sometimes lags a second or two - causes items to duplicate, or multiple buys where you don't have enough gold but the gold is not substracted from database yet when you click a second time, ...
Is there any easy way to fix this? I want it to be smooth client side but work properly on the server side

[buoyant knot]

there should be 4 separate input actions defined for each key

your code should depend on the inputaction that is invoked. Not on the specific key pressed. that is kind of the point of inputsystsem

[ionic kelp]

hello, when I want to build my game, it shows me an error message. Can you help me please

[buoyant knot]

because if you put this into PS5, and you are checking for pressing the 1 key, a PS5 controller doesn’t have a 1 key

[balmy sky]

so basicly u want me to seperate each key to an invidual action?

[buoyant knot]

yes

[swift crag]

Yes. If they're completely generic actions, then just call them "Action 1", "Action 2", etc.

if you later decide you want to use QWER instead of 1234, you can now easily change the input bindings

[buoyant knot]

InputActionAsset lets you bind different keys to one action. So you can make a “Jump” input action. This input action is triggered by: spacebar on keyboard, gamepad button 4, PS5 controller X button, Nintendo Switch joycon A button….

[swift crag]

and if you decide you want to use an xbox controller, you can just add a binding for controllers

[buoyant knot]

then you don’t need to code anhthing different

[swift crag]

One of the main goals of the input system is to separate bindings from actions

this is for an infinite runner game

[buoyant knot]

because your code just reads/subscribes to “Jump” and not the specific gamepad button

[swift crag]

This is one case where the benefits are less obvious

[balmy sky]

basiclly the keys are for inventory scroll and which number the player press the same inventory slot index gets highlighted, is it really the best way ?

[swift crag]

I also have at least one project where I've got something like

"Action 1", "Action 2", "Action 3", ...

[buoyant knot]

i would not call them like that, but that is the idea

like “InventorySelect1”, “InventorySelect2”

[swift crag]

where each one is literally just any ability the player might have

hence the vagueness

[buoyant knot]

InputSystem listens for any keys that trigger InventorySelect1. Your code listens to InventorySelect1.

[balmy sky]

thats right

[swift crag]

I can see why this would feel bad to implement

[buoyant knot]

code no longer needs to know if you are on keyboard or xbox or a toaster

[swift crag]

we'd all be annoyed if we saw this:

public float value1;
public float value2;
public float value3;

just do a List<float> !

[buoyant knot]

tbf, you are assigning separate buttons on a keyboard/controller

[swift crag]

I think the tricky thing here is that this feels like numeric input

[buoyant knot]

so how the hell do you know which button on a joycon is 1 vs 3? lol

[swift crag]

e.g. letting the user type "32" or "13"

but it's not. you just happen to have nine actions corresponding to the 1-9 digits.

[buoyant knot]

that is right

make sense, segev?

[swift crag]

If the user was just typing in a number, you'd absolutely not make ten input actions for each digit

you'd just read keyboard input

[buoyant knot]

yes

agreed

i still have an issue with input system for several months that I never figured out

[balmy sky]

very much it does , your help is much appriciated , ty ❤️

[queen adder]

I remember the painful days before I knew about lists, I'd add like 40 lines for 40 different objects to disable on function 🥲

[buoyant knot]

it’s an error called “controller binding not found”, or something. I think the cause comes from trying to bind/unbind a virtual mouse, but it’s hard to diagnose because the error message is not useful

[buoyant knot]

this is why I advocate for basic programming classes lol

the biggest mistake novice programmers make is honestly bad style

[queen adder]

bad style?

[buoyant knot]

let me see if I can pull up an example

this is what bad style looks like:

    var r = ((int)o << rb[(int)b])
        + ((int)o >> (4 - rb[(int)b]));

   r = r & 0b_1111;
    if (b >= 4) {
        r = (r & 0b_0101) + (r << 2 & 0b_1000) + (r >> 2 & 0b_0010);
    }
    return (Cardinal) r;
}```

the code is written in a way where you cannot tell wtf it does

[queen adder]

good lord

[buoyant knot]

in grad school, I once got a program to run a complex specialized instrument

the program was about 2000 lines long. super technical. variable names a, b, c… j, x , y z t w

one comment with a citation to a paper

i had to tell my PI “this isn’t happenning, chief. We’d need to start from scratch.”

point being, style isn’t something you learn from bro code or braexys. You learn that in school lol

[queen adder]

I mean I don't use correct snakecasing or anything like that, but my code is still readable 🙂

[buoyant knot]

instructors will not put up with bad style. you will straight up fail your class if you have bad style

[queen adder]

I actually got marked down in VB lessons for optimizing the code too

very sad moment

[ionic kelp]

hello, when I want to build my game it gives me an error message

[queen adder]

Post the message

[ionic kelp]

Ok

[gaunt ice]

the only two things i understand it &0b1111 and if(b>=4){}, i guess it is trying to swap the Left/right up/down

[queen adder]

Show us the PlayerMovement script

Line 1

[ionic kelp]

Ok

[buoyant knot]

same code but in proper style:

public static Cardinal RotateCardinal(Cardinal original, Rotation rotateBy) {
    Debug.Assert((int)original >= 0, "Tried to rotate a NEGATIVE cardinal value! Cardinals should be 0-15!");
    Debug.Assert((int)original < 16,"Tried to rotate a cardinal that was >15! 15 is the max for having the total # of directions!");

    // Bitshift to represent rotation. Moves all 4 cardinals into right spot in flags
    int rotated = ((int)original << rotationBit[(int)rotateBy])
        + ((int)original >> (4 - rotationBit[(int)rotateBy]));

    // Now the main 4 bits are right. Get rid of out-of-range bits.
    rotated = rotated & 0b_1111;
        
    // More bitmath. That operation above rotates by 2, so L/R are flipped. now isolate U/D and add back in
    if (rotateBy >= Rotation.sigma) { // Need to do a mirror plane
        rotated = (rotated & 0b_0101) + (rotated << 2 & 0b_1000) + (rotated >> 2 & 0b_0010);
    }

    return (Cardinal) rotated;
}```

[ionic kelp]

Here ?

[rare basin]

thats not how you share code

!code

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[rare basin]

also #854851968446365696

[buoyant knot]

this should give Tina some closure

[rare basin]

you cannot make build with Editor namespaces

[rare basin]

either delete it if you are not using that namespace

or add preprocessor directives

#if UNITY_EDITOR

[buoyant knot]

btw, the code I posted was just for demo purposes. To show good vs bad style. not because i needed help with it.

[cosmic dagger]

did you end up making/using scene gizmos icons, or just ones for your scripts?

[tawny cave]

so I am still trying to check if an object is moving by comparing its position at frame and frame-1, here is my code but it still doesn't work because "currentPosition" always has the same value of "lastPosition"

[buoyant knot]

i downloaded some icons and put them on some key monobehaviours that appear frequently. it made it a lot easier to navigate gameobjects with ~10 scripts

[rare basin]

!code

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[rare basin]

because you assing it to the same value

in the same frame

[tawny cave]

is there a way to save the position at frame-1 then ? I tried using the methode LateUpdate but didn't seem to work that well

[cosmic dagger]

oh, definitely. i started making my own gizmos to select empty GameObjects from the scene. now i'm hooked on making icons for specific scripts, like controllers, managers, databases, etc. i'm afraid every script will have their own custom icon, lol . . .

[rare basin]

what do you need it for

[tawny cave]

I need an ennemy to change direction when it's stoped by a wall (like a goomba in mario)
I am doing a 2D game with 3D assets btw

[rare basin]

firsly, you dont need an extra variable for currentPosition

just use transform.position instead

then in the LateUpdate() i'd just do

    void LateUpdate()
    {
        if (transform.position != lastPosition)
        {
            Debug.Log("Object is moving");
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.Log("Object is not moving");
        }

        lastPosition = transform.position;
    }

[buoyant knot]

if you are using the physics system, then you need to do this at the end of fixed update

[rare basin]

he is not

[tawny cave]

iam using characterController

[buoyant knot]

i’m not familiar with how character controller plays in terms of physics

[rare basin]

keep your Move() in update and in late update use the code i've pasted

[buoyant knot]

if you need last frame position, then you need to save current position right after whatever mechanism actually changes it

[vital spade]

is there a way to get like a log of what happened right before unity stopped responding and I had to manually close it through task manager?

[buoyant knot]

yes. open console

on mac, it is console. idk the windows equivalent

[rare basin]

unity should generate crash dump file on crashes

[vital spade]

do you mean the console in unity editor?

[buoyant knot]

on mac, it is the system console

[vital spade]

does it still count as a crash if I had to manually close it through task manager? if yes where can I find those

[rare basin]

let me guess, infinite loop? 😄

[vital spade]

I'm using windows

[rare basin]

stackoverflow exception?

[vital spade]

honestly I don't know what's causing the crash but I'll report back when I find out 😄

[rare basin]

90% of the cases are infinite loops freezing the entire editor and sometimes PC aswell lol

[buoyant knot]

if you have a stack overflow, unity will instantly crash and close. If unity freezes, that might be an infinite loop, and idk if you can see that on an editor log

[teal viper]

It probably didn't generate the crash dump if you shut it down.

[gaunt ice]

freeze doesnt generate editor log

[vital spade]

hmm, how could I find out what's wrong then

[teal viper]

With a debugger

[buoyant knot]

but when you say freeze, the whole thing stays open, but stops responding, right?

[vital spade]

yep

[teal viper]

Technically, your app is still running. It's just not doing anything productive.

[buoyant knot]

ok, infinite loop i bet

[vital spade]

I'll go through the code again maybe post it here if I can't find it myself

[buoyant knot]

first thing to check are any while loops or recursive calls you added recently

then add an emergency escape loop count

[teal viper]

The fastest way to debug would be to cause the freeze and break with a debugger during it.

[buoyant knot]

int interations = 0;

if (iterations > 100000) {
Debug.LogError(“Fatal error. infinite loop.”);
break;
}

[vital spade]

I was thinking about how I didn't add any new loops and how there are only like 3 loops in the entire game, I think I know what's causing it now lol I'll try to fix it 1 sec

[buoyant knot]

both while loops AND recursive calls are common culprits.

but with infinite recursion, you’d probably hit stack overflow

[vital spade]

yp it was a loop

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[wintry quarry]

yes. Activate Slot 1, Activate Slot 2, etc..

[vital spade]

        for (int i = 0; i < enemyPrefabs.Length; i++)
        {
            GameObject enemyPrefab = enemyPrefabs[i];
            int count = enemyCounts[i];

            for (int j = 0; j < count; j++)
            {
                Vector3 randomPosition;
                RaycastHit2D hit;

                do
                {
                    randomPosition = GetRandomPositionFromCamera();
                    hit = Physics2D.Raycast(randomPosition, Vector2.zero, Mathf.Infinity, enemySpawnLayer);
                } while (!hit.collider);

                GameObject enemy = Instantiate(enemyPrefab, randomPosition, Quaternion.identity);
                enemiesInLevel.Add(enemy);
                Debug.Log("Spawned an enemy");
            }
        }

this loop specifically if anyone was wondering, I forgot to create an enemyspawnarea in the boss room.

[rare basin]

that looks like a terrible architecture

[vital spade]

well this is the beginner's chat after all I don't claim to be an expert

[rare basin]

loop inside a loop inside another loop

you should avoid nested loops

loop in a loop

but double nested loops are damn.. 😄

[buoyant knot]

you should especially avoid a nested while loop

nested for loops are ok, but you need to be in control because the amount of calls grows quadratically

[cosmic dagger]

wow, never seen those before . . .

[vital spade]

this spesific loops gets called like twice in the whole game therefore I was not too worried

[swift crag]

the real danger is that you write a while loop that terminates after a very random amount of time

[buoyant knot]

i have several in my codep

[swift crag]

or that never terminates!

[buoyant knot]

yes, that is a major hazard

[swift crag]

                do
                {
                    randomPosition = GetRandomPositionFromCamera();
                    hit = Physics2D.Raycast(randomPosition, Vector2.zero, Mathf.Infinity, enemySpawnLayer);
                } while (!hit.collider);

[rare basin]

gambling

[swift crag]

There is nothing stopping this from running forever.

It's also hard to reason about how long it will run for.

[rare basin]

if you are making an enemy spawner, If I was you I'd try to make it from scratch, avoiding nested loops

[buoyant knot]

i do have nested for loops. Like, if I need to search a tilemap for all instances of tile t, then I need to go: for (x in range) for (y in range)

[swift crag]

I wouldn't say that nested loops are a problem at all here

[vital spade]

yea this is a SpawnEnemy method

[swift crag]

you can have a five layer bean dip of for loops and it'll just be slow (assuming each loop runs many times)

[rare basin]

sure for grids etc its good

[swift crag]

it makes perfect sense to do a double for loop here

[rare basin]

but i dont see a reason to make them for spawning enemies (as long as it is not grid-spawning system etc)

[swift crag]

for each enemy spawner, do:

for each enemy to spawn, do:

find a spot

That's completely normal.

I think your problem is that "find a spot" can fail to terminate

[static cedar]

Fun tip: try stack allocing stuff inside a loop.

[nimble scaffold]

Is photon the only best multiplayer networking system? Is it better than fishnet?

[rare basin]

there is a lot of networking systems

[vital spade]

so you're saying change this part to "for each enemy to spawn" instead of this "for (int j = 0; j < count; j++)"

[swift crag]

no, I'm not saying to change anything about the for loops

I'm just describing what your algorithm is doing

[nimble scaffold]

Hey @rare basin in order to do a system that my gamemode can max handle 10 players do I need to to configure room manager script?? I'm using photon

[vital spade]

well i think what happened last time is the find a spot did not terminate because there was no spot therefore unity froze

[rare basin]

i don't know what is your room manager script and what is your concept and code architecture

[swift crag]

Precisely. That'd mean the do..while never exits.

I would suggest having it give up after a certain number of tries

[nimble scaffold]

A typical room manager script

[buoyant knot]

i also have another nested set of for loops to iterate over all my assets. I have Wheels with lists of Family, which have lists of ObjBase, which have lists of alternate ObjBase, and each ObjBase can have multiple tiles.
My TileDirectoryClass has a big loop that goes:
foreach (wheel)
foreach (family in wheel)
foreach (objBase in family)
AddBase(objBase);
foreach(altBase in objBase) AddBase(altBase);

AddBase(objBase) {
foreach (tile in objBase) {
add tile to directory
}

[vital spade]

I'm pretty new how would i add that condition?

[rare basin]

that doesn't tell much

[buoyant knot]

that is 5 layers of nesting

[swift crag]

you could use another for loop, really

[nimble scaffold]

!code

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[buoyant knot]

i don’t need help. I’m just discussing in the nested loop discussion

[nimble scaffold]

Okk

[swift crag]

bool spawned = false;

for (int try = 0; try < 10; ++try) {
  // try to spawn
  if (itWorked) {
    spawned = true;
    break;
  }
}

extreme pseudocode action

[nimble scaffold]

Okay sire

[vital spade]

okay i see what you mean, i'll give it a go

[buoyant knot]

point being, my 5 layers of nested loops works fine because I’m in total control. I know exactly how many iterations the innermost nested part of the loop needs to run. I know it’s finite, and small enough to finish everything in the blink of an eye

the layering of lists in lists in lists is just for organizational purposes

[swift crag]

yes, n^5 is okay if n is small

or if most of the loops only run a small number of times

in this case, the nesting is irrelevant

[buoyant knot]

it’s not really n^5. Total iterations is locked. So the number of layers of nesting could be 1-100, and it doesn’t matter

[swift crag]

that's what i said, yes :p

it's n^5 with a small value of n

or maybe O(abcde) with small values for a-e

[buoyant knot]

it’s actually O(totalTiles)

[swift crag]

zeus's problem is not that the innermost loop is being hit too many times

[buoyant knot]

yes

[swift crag]

it's that the innermost loop runs forever

[swift crag]

yes, and totalTiles is a function of the number of wheels, families, objBases, and altBases

po-tay-to po-tah-to

my point is that you should analyze this exactly like you would any other algorithm

[buoyant knot]

I mean I have a fixed number of tiles. then i put them into wheels/family/objBase etc to organize them. So exactly how i choose to split them up is irrelevant

[swift crag]

it's not "different" because the numbers are fixed

[buoyant knot]

because the loop is built backwards, in a sense

[swift crag]

ah, yes, I see what you're saying

you know it's fine because you know how many tiles you have

you don't have to think about all of the other factors

that's fair

[buoyant knot]

exactly

and I know that whole thing runs once at the very start of the game. so performance cost is de minimus

[red kindle]

is this correct place to ask for guide with 0 hours in coding? 😄

[wintry quarry]

it's the correct place to ask a specific question about a specific thing you're having trouble with.

[buoyant knot]

you want some amount of experience first, or you won’t understand our help

you can be learning, but it doesn’t help if you have never coded at all

because then we’d be doing it for you entirely, and that’s not how we roll

[red kindle]

I understand. Is the unity tutorial content good or would you recommend me something else to start with?

[wintry quarry]

it's good enough

[buoyant knot]

i would try learning basic programming first tho, tbh

fundamentals are important

[tawny cave]

it works, thank you very much !!

[buoyant knot]

like learning to speak spanish before becoming a telemarketer in Spain

[red kindle]

sure sure

[buoyant knot]

most intro programming courses teach python, because it is very beginner friendly

good starting point

[red kindle]

thanks man I will ask you guys when I meet my first wall

[tawny cave]

is there a transform method to rotate an object by 180° ? (like just make it look backwards)

[rare basin]

transform.Rotate might work

depends on what do you want to achieve

instant rotation or smooth etc

[slender path]

Does anyone have a good recomendation on making an inventory system that is kinda like minecrafts?

[buoyant knot]

usually I multiply the quaternion by the relevant quaternion

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Rotate(….) * transform.rotation;

something like that

[swift crag]

might want the other way around

actually, does that matter here? i remain fuzzy on this

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html

[buoyant knot]

i expect quaternion multiplication to not be commutative

[swift crag]

yeah, it applies the lhs, then the rhs

I need to get a better handle on that

[buoyant knot]

rotation operators are not hard to deal with as long as you don’t need to get into the weeds, and remember they aren’t commutative

[swift crag]

yeah, I just want to have a better intuition for what happens if I, say, switch them around

[buoyant knot]

imagine a cat. head to tail is X axis. top to bottom is Y axis. left to right is Z axis.

Rotate by 90 degrees, X then Y. vs Y then X

[swift crag]

oh yeah

the cat winds up with a different orientation

[buoyant knot]

that’s how my physical chemistry professor explained it to me

and the difference is the commutator

the commutator for that is Z rotation

at least that is what i remember

[shell herald]

i played around with it am still quite confused

[swift crag]

what about it?

[swift crag]

i should point out that this is the old input system you're using here

[swift crag]

whilst this code is for the new input system

If you're using the old system (i.e. you aren't using the Input System package), you'll need to do something different

[shell herald]

i switched to the new one

[swift crag]

okay, so what is the problem?

[shell herald]

right now, i get what is plugged in, but i want to get the last input. because even if i input with my controller, it still debugs the keyboard

[swift crag]

ah, I imagine that devices is just a list of all available devices

[queen adder]

hi my visual studio code does not have the list of unity functions after i do rb.

[swift crag]

have you followed the steps in !ide ?

[eternal falcon]

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[rare basin]

iirc there is InputSystem.current

and you can just check if current is Keyboard etc

[swift crag]

nope -- maybe you're thinking of stuff like Mouse.current

[rare basin]

hmm maybe 😄

[swift crag]

I use control schemes in one of my games to decide which input hints to display

[queen adder]

yes

[swift crag]

I subscribe to InputUser.onChange

InputUser.onChange += OnInputUserChange;

[rare basin]

you can use the OnActionChange calblack

yea exactly

[swift crag]

    void OnInputUserChange(InputUser user, InputUserChange change, InputDevice device)
    {
        if (user.id == playerInput.user.id && change == InputUserChange.ControlSchemeChanged)
        {
            SetControl();
        }
    }

this is from a class that displays an input icon

[rare basin]

i saw this in Code Monkey's video about virtual mouse

[swift crag]

here, have the entire class https://gdl.space/hucavigovi.cs

hey, I can get rid of that TODO!

you can ignore most of the SetControl method.

I use InputBinding.MaskByGroup to filter bindings by control scheme

[rare basin]

tyvm

[swift crag]

since I'm using control schemes

It sounds like you just need to know what kind of device is being used, so most of this is irrelevant, actually, lol

[swift crag]

you really just need this

Although I am a little unsure what device will be here!

since I'll have both mouse and keyboard devices in use

[shell herald]

thx

[swift crag]

show me screenshots of:

• the External Tools settings
• the package manager "In Project" list

[swift crag]

Do you need to know whether a keyboard or gamepad caused an action to run?

Or do you need to know when the user switches from keyboard to gamepad input?

[queen adder]

il get the other one sec

[shell herald]

i need to know when the user switches. i have a mechanic that works slightly different for controller users so i need to switch if needed

[swift crag]

I would suggest creating control schemes and assigning your actions to them

Then you can just check user.controlScheme.Value.name to see which scheme they're using

[swift crag]

(using a method like this)

[queen adder]

@swift crag is it this?

[swift crag]

Yes, and that looks good

Visual Studio Editor is up to date

Close VSCode, then double click a script asset to reopen it

[queen adder]

im getting this, does this mean anything

[queen adder]

didnt fix

ngl im probs gonna just delete and use microsofts version of visual studio instead

its fine

[slender path]

Does anyone have a good recomendation on making an inventory system that is kinda like minecrafts?

[swift crag]

that was gonna be my next question!

There is an extension called ".NET Install Tool" that's supposed to automatically download the software you need

For some people, it doesn't work. Mysterious.

You should be able to just hit "Get the SDK" and install .NET yourself

[queen adder]

yeah i installed it, probs not in the right place though because it didnt work

[swift crag]

you'll need to restart VSCode at the least, and probably your computer too

[signal cosmos]

to make a type of 2D controller for a character similar to the game Hollow Knight, how should I do it professionally,Give me concrete advice, what should I use?

[swift crag]

tbh, I'd say to just try it. Do it several ways -- both kinematic and non kinematic rigidbodies

Make small games (maybe look for game jams to do) with very different platforming mechanics

[rich adder]

just download the sdk manually

[swift crag]

you want to make your game feel as fair as possible, so learn about things like "coyote time" (letting the player jump for a brief moment after going off a ledge)

[queen adder]

restarted pc

but still same problem

[swift crag]

This is the extension that downloads the SDK, not the SDK

[queen adder]

oh

[swift crag]

did you click "Get the SDK"

[queen adder]

yes

and installed it

[swift crag]

show me what you installed

[rich adder]

download 7

8.0 is still not full release

[swift crag]

ah, yes, I should have specified

[queen adder]

ok 1 sec

installed this

restarted everything

still wont autocomplete any unity code

@swift crag thanks for ur help but i am just getting the purple version instead

i give up

[rich adder]

did you regen project files after you did this?

[queen adder]

no

il try that

[swift crag]

give that a whack, yeah

[queen adder]

that worked

thanks

[rich adder]

woo

[queen adder]

been stuck on this for like days, been youtubing and googling and you guys solve it super fast

thank u!

[dull eagle]

Hey guys, is there a way to stop the checkmark from disappearing whenever the toggle "Is On" property is false? Would like to instead change it to a different image.

[rare basin]

wdym

[rich adder]

I've done that step so many times at this point 😛

even though I still use VS

[wintry quarry]

Change the Toggle Transition from None to sprite swap

[dull eagle]

Only gives me two options, fade or none

[queen adder]

Usually when i have a no unity code problem in vs, if i go to Asset>Open C# project, instead of clicking on scripts or right click open, it works fine

Glad you got it working tho

[wintry quarry]

Remove Checkmark as the graphic for toggle transition
Instead scroll up to "Transition" and use sprite swap there

[humble lantern]

Hey can you see why percHit may be 0? I have the Code and what the Debug line gave me. Both Input numbers are in int and the output is specifically declared a float but its just returning 0 instead of 0,75.

[polar acorn]

int division

(float) amount / (float) MAX_HEALTH

[humble lantern]

ohh thank you

[buoyant knot]

3 / 2 = 1

[humble lantern]

because it rounds, alright

[buoyant knot]

integer division is defined that way, to always output an int

1.5 is not an int, so no matter how it does it, you will never get 1.5

[humble lantern]

is there a similarly easy to miss reason why my slider always has double the value it was supposed to get? it was supposed to get its current value - 0,75 but instead it got its current vallue -1,5 which means it ended up being -0,5 and not 0,25

[buoyant knot]

so most int division gives the same result as rounding down

[humble lantern]

image set to fill* not slider

[dull eagle]

Don't really get how I can swap the sprite with that whenever the "Is On" value changes

[eager elm]

You can play around with the checkmark and background sprites. Checkmark is active when it is "On" and the background is visibile when it is not.

[dull eagle]

@eager elm The checkmark is always active, whenever the "Is On" is set to false it just changes the graphic alpha to 0

[fickle karma]

Hello i have these 2 scripts, and currently im only able to move the gameobject which i put into my inspector. I need to achieve a functionality where when a gameobject is clicked i can move the object clicked, and not the one in the inspector. By adding a static variable or other stuff, i just destroy the already achieved functionality. Im not good enough to add this on my own.

https://paste.mod.gg/ahrkeqofsuet/0
https://paste.mod.gg/qupcikcckvtp/0

[queen adder]

how do i fix this

im tryna make flappybird

[polar acorn]

You need to put code inside your function

Semicolon means "end of line"

So there's nothing in your SpawnPipe function

[swift crag]

it terminates the statement, yes

It's exactly the same kind of error as this:

if (false);
  Debug.Log("I shouldn't run!");

this is equivalent to...

if (false)
{

}
Debug.Log("I shouldn't run!");

[queen adder]

there is you can see the instantiate below

[swift crag]

in this case, it's not a compile error, but you will get a warning.

[swift crag]

There is no code in your SpawnPipe method.

[polar acorn]

That's not in the function

[swift crag]

You ended the definition with that semicolon.

[queen adder]

ahhhh

i see

thank you

[red kindle]

okay so first trouble

I get an error when I edit my script in visual studio and it does not find same commands as the tutorial video does

The error code is CS1002 ;expected

[polar acorn]

Is the line underlined in red

[slender path]

so i am trying to make a button have a listner but am adding it via code. does anyone know how to add the object to it?

[red kindle]

No its not

[polar acorn]

Then you need to configure your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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[slender path]

so i am trying to make a button have a listner but am adding it via code. does anyone know how to add the object to it?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Events.UnityEvent.AddListener.html

[red kindle]

Ty bro!

[slender path]

i don't think that works with the way I am using it

[polar acorn]

AddListener(SpawnInventoryItem)

[slender path]

it caused this error what you suggested

[wintry quarry]

just do it manually in your code with an OnValueChanged listener tbh

[red kindle]

so its find the Visual Studio Code and it opens the script in the VS but it does not autocomplete the code

[polar acorn]

Then you've missed steps

[polar acorn]

Show the full line of code as you have it

[eager elm]

that means you are missing a ; on like 18

[polar acorn]

If it's not underlined in your IDE, you need to configure it. !ide

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[humble lantern]

hey since I cant find a clear answer online, is there a simple way to get the length of an animation clip using its name?

[rich adder]

I bet using animation events would be better

[polar acorn]

Can you show SpawnInventoryItem?

[dull eagle]

Yeah that's probably the best way to do it

[languid spire]

yeah, so difficult to find https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimationClip-length.html

[humble lantern]

zamn

[polar acorn]

That function has a parameter, so it does not fit the built in delegate. Even optional, it still has one. You should make an overload that has no parameters, and one with a defined item

[slender path]

ok

[humble lantern]

thats still not finding it by name though, i know that it has the property length but i dont know how to find the animation clip itself.

[languid spire]

An AnimationClip is an asset so use Resources.Load just like any other asset

[slender path]

So I did that and it is not adding the listener, should I be able to see it when I hit play

[polar acorn]

It will not show up in the inspector

Use logs to check if it's running

[slender path]

It is not working

[polar acorn]

Show the SpawnInventoryItem function with no parameters

[polar acorn]

So, you aren't getting the "CLICK" message when you click on it?

[slender path]

nope

[polar acorn]

Try putting in another function manually in the inspector and see if that one logs, to see if your button is working at all

[tawny cave]

how do I create a quaternion that is looking in the forward direction of an object, and another quaternion looking in the backward direction of that same object ?

[boreal tangle]

Does someone know a good tutorial for a state machine

[slender path]

It does not seem to be working, I also added another button but that did not work either

[shell herald]

in me not really understanding and being confused, i watched through some yt videos and came up with this, however its not really working. even if i dont use the gamepad, i can only get a "controller" debug message. https://hastebin.com/share/galequpalo.csharp what did i do wrong or not understand?

[polar acorn]

Is your button responding to the mouse at all? Is it highlighting when you hover it, animating when clicking, and so on?

[swift crag]

Quaternion.LookRotation is the method you want.

[tawny cave]

alright so I need 2 vector3 for this right ?

[swift crag]

transform.forward and -transform.forward

since there's no transform.back

you should also pass transform.up as the second argument

Quaternion.LookRotation(transform.forward, transform.up) for example

The second argument determines which direction is "up" for the resulting rotation

[wintry quarry]

Forward is just:
transform.rotation

this will be the same as Quaternion.LookRotation(transform.forward, transform.up)

[tawny cave]

this one is for the axis which the rotation is relative to ?

[swift crag]

I would not say that.

[polar acorn]

In order to define an orientation from a "forward" direction, you'd need to also know which direction should be up, since it can rotate about that axis and still be facing the same way

You need two directions to define an orientation

[swift crag]

if you do Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward, Vector3.right), the resulting rotation will:

• point in the forwards direction
• be rolled 90 degrees to the right

[tawny cave]

ok makes more sens ^^

I just have a syntaxe error preventing me from doing the thing tho :/

[balmy sky]

Hey Fen, sorry for the delay ,but is that what u guys were meaning ? i did create a seperate action for each number key , however i had to do 5 lines of code to initialize those lol , the code works though but it seems clunky, any advice please ?

[rare basin]

look Rotate() docs

Rotate is a function

you cant use it as a variable

[balmy sky]

public class ActiveInventory : MonoBehaviour
{
    private int activeSlotIndexNum= 0;
    private PlayerControls playerControls;
    private void Awake()
    {
        playerControls = new PlayerControls();
    }
    private void  Start()
    {
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard1.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(0);
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard2.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(1);
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard3.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(2);
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard4.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(3);
        playerControls.Inventory.Keyboard5.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(4);

    }
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        playerControls.Enable();
    }
    private void ToggleActiveHighlight(int indexNum)
    {
        activeSlotIndexNum = indexNum;
    
    foreach (Transform inventorySlot in this.transform)
    {
        inventorySlot.GetChild(0).gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }
    this.transform.GetChild(indexNum).GetChild(0).gameObject.SetActive(true);
    }

}

[rare basin]

you can't assign anything to a function, it doesnt make sense

[swift crag]

rotation, not Rotate.

[swift crag]

It's not really avoidable, yeah. You can't neatly say "every number key is an input action"

I guess you could make a List<InputActionReference>.

and then iterate over it

[balmy sky]

yea list did come to my mind but i have no idea how to import each input and their index

[swift crag]

InputActionReference lets you reference a specific input action

[balmy sky]

👍 ❤️

[plush zealot]

I'm using this Script to controll a third player character, the character is supposed to turn into the camera's direction on a movement input while the camera is able to look around freely. Unfortunately it's not working as intended, even tho I followed a tutorial on it and double checked the script multiple times, any help appreciated.

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class third_player_movement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public CharacterController controller;
    public float speed = 6F;
    float turnSmoothVelocity;
    float turnSmoothTime = 0.1f;
    public Transform camera;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float horizontal = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float vertical = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
        Vector3 direction = new Vector3(horizontal, 0f, vertical).normalized;

        if(direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
        {
            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + camera.eulerAngles.y;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);

            Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward;
            controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
        }
    }
}```

[swift crag]

so what is your problem?

you haven't described a problem.

[plush zealot]

it didnt change rotation

on input

but i found the issue

i forgot to

refrence what transform to rotate

lol

has to be "controller.transform.rotation" in the 7th to last line

[vale blade]

Is there a clean way to serialize dictionaries in the inspector?

right now I'm using a custom class

[wintry quarry]

Use a premade SerializableDictionary solution or just serialize a list of key/value entry structs and load them into the dict in Awake

[swift crag]

this is what I usually do

[vale blade]

yeah that's kind of what I'm doing now, creating a warpper SerializableDict class like so

[Serializable]
public class SerializableDictionary<TKey, TValue>
{
    [SerializeField] private List<SerializableKeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> _contents;

    private Dictionary<TKey, TValue> _dictionary;
   
    private Dictionary<TKey, TValue> Dictionary
    {
        get
        {
            _dictionary ??= InitializeDictionary();
            return _dictionary;
        }
    }
    
    public bool TryGetValue(TKey key, out TValue value)
    {
        return Dictionary.TryGetValue(key, out value);
    }

    private Dictionary<TKey, TValue> InitializeDictionary()
    {
        return _contents.ToDictionary(keyValuePair => keyValuePair.Key, keyValuePair => keyValuePair.Value);
    }
}

[swift crag]

especially if the data doesn't change at runtime

The problem with making a List<KeyValueStruct> and making a dict out of it in Awake is that the dict won't update if you mess with the list

it's also annoying if you need to access that data in editor scripts

i ran into that yesterday

[wintry quarry]

There aren't really any other options for this that aren't just slight variations of this.

[swift crag]

i decided to just keep the list and search it every time 🫠

[vale blade]

fair enough

[swift crag]

(the list has at most six things in it, so whatever)

[vale blade]

was actually considering that as an alternative too haha

[wintry quarry]

You can solve this with ISerializationCallbackReceiver if you really wish

[swift crag]

i'm already dealing with enough eldritch information

i'm not kicking this anthill more than I have to :p

[tiny hawk]

When resolving merge conflicts for things like File ids, is it better to go with the source code, base code, or destination code?

[red kindle]

How do I type decimals in VS?

[languid spire]

4.81f

[balmy sky]

[SerializeField] List<InputActionReference> inputActionReferences = new List<InputActionReference>();
    private void  Start()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < inputActionReferences.Count; i++)
        {
            playerControls.Inventory.inputActionReferences[i].performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(i);
        }
           
    }
``` getting "PlayerControls.InventoryActions' does not contain a definition for 'inputActionReferences" error , any idea why ?

[swift crag]

you're trying to access playerControls.Inventory.inputActionReferences

you probably forgot to delete playerControls.Inventory off the front

also, you'll want to do inputActionReference[i].action.performed

InputActionReference lets you reference a specific input action. The outcome is the same as getting the InputAction from that playerControls object

i presume that's the generated C# class

[vale blade]

I'm working on this game where I have NPC's that are powered by ChatGPT, and I want to have prompts in which I can parse bits of other prompts.
I feel like I'm switching data structures every day lmao

For now I settled on a solution where I can parse certain properties from scriptable objects into a prompt.
I'm going slightly insane though, asyou can misspell the token identifiers in the prompt and then stuff just breaks, so you have to be very precise.

No idea what a better solution for this would be haha

I mean it's not terrible but tomorrow I'll wake up and want to refactor it all again haha

[short hazel]

You have the most versatile way to do it. Another simpler way of doing it is to use string.Format(), but you lose the explicit names as they're replaced with placeholder elements {0}, as well as accessing sub-properties with your dot operator a.b

[balmy sky]

yea it is , well , u solved the error but now the code dosnt work sadly , the methoed ToggleActiveHighlight dosnt get called and when i try to Debug .Log it says Value cannot be null

[swift crag]

show me the error.

along with your current code.

[balmy sky]

[SerializeField] List<InputActionReference> inputActionReferences = new List<InputActionReference>();
    private void  Start()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < inputActionReferences.Count; i++)
        {
            inputActionReferences[i].action.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(i);
        }
           
    }
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        playerControls.Enable();
    }
    private void ToggleActiveHighlight(int indexNum)
    {
        activeSlotIndexNum = indexNum;
    
    foreach (Transform inventorySlot in this.transform)
    {
        inventorySlot.GetChild(0).gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }
    this.transform.GetChild(indexNum).GetChild(0).gameObject.SetActive(true);
        Debug.Log(indexNum);
    }

[swift crag]

and where is that error coming from?

see the stack trace

I'm suspicious of that ToggleActiveHighlight code

[balmy sky]

[swift crag]

oh, this is just the inspector having a fit

it's trying to find a property that doesn't exist, for some reason

restarting the editor generally cleanses these demons

cleanses, exorcizes, whatever

[balmy sky]

lol ill try

[loud topaz]

I created an animation state in the Unity Editor but its missing in the Controller File, but why?

nothing fancy

[swift crag]

Hit "Save Project" in the file menu

see if the file changes

ctrl-S saves the open scene. I'm a little unclear on what actually triggers non-scene assets to be saved.

I've never had a problem with them not saving...

[balmy sky]

the demon has been cleansed ! but now we need to deal with anotehr one becasue it dosnt print at all lol

[loud topaz]

nevermind works like a charm. saved the unity file. feeling stupid.

[swift crag]

one thing to check: try doing inputActionReferences[i].action.Enable(); in the start method

This shouldn't be necessary

since you're already doing playerControls.Enable(), which will enable those input actinos

But I've never really used the generated C# class option

[shell herald]

#💻┃code-beginner message

bump

[swift crag]

"transform child out of bounds" means you asked for a bogus child index

[spiral oak]

Hi, I have offered myself to a studio to program a inventory system for their game, but Im a bit nervous. So, could I show you the code structure (just name ans describe the classes and interfaces) Ive devised so that you can opine if its good? Or this channel is only for issues?

I know, "dont ask to ask", but Im not sure if I can ask that in this channel

[eternal needle]

You could ask it, but you'd probably need to give a ton of details for someone to be able to properly review it. Like how the inventory is used through other systems

[loud topaz]

Unity should show an asterisk at the top when changing something in animation controller.

[rich adder]

Nope

Animator Controller is its own asset

[swift crag]

Some assets do show that they're unsaved.

[rich adder]

true yeah some custom SO do it

[spiral oak]

Well, the studio didn't tell me so much details about it... So for now I'm making it pretty simple. They just told me "you have to program an inventory", and after so much questions I found out that I have to do a basic toolbar. I think the items arent stackable.

[buoyant knot]

the first step in writing a program is figuring out what you need it to do.

[swift crag]

inventories are a common source of Design Problems (tm)

[buoyant knot]

you need to ask more questions before you do any coding

[swift crag]

they're complex

get more information and whiteboard how it'll work

[buoyant knot]

they aren my that complex, but you really need to clearly define the constraints early on

[loud topaz]

thx for the correction

[buoyant knot]

because changing the constraints later might require you to start from scratch

[swift crag]

you often have several kinds of data mashed together into the inventory

weapons, items, key items...

some things can share behaviors and some can't

it gets gross

[spiral oak]

I know... I think the studio doesnt have a clear idea of how it really should work after all the questions I've asked. But I want to help them, even being aware of their poor organization

At least, for now I want to make a little prototype

[eternal needle]

Ask them more before you end up wasting time, like what the inventory does in the first place (not just hold items), what can it hold, can I drop items, can I swap items, can I use every single item that's in the inventory. Etc

[swift crag]

are all items similar, or are there different kinds of items that need vastly different treatment?

[spiral oak]

Okay, thank you. Ill try to get all the answers I need (:

[eternal needle]

I ran into some problems making an inventory already and it's gotta somewhat be remade. It really is important to know what you want first. In mine, everything inventory related somehow became a dictionary holding different data

[eternal needle]

Try to make a list of questions before you contact them though so you arent going back and forth 20 times. Ideally they shouldve given you a list of functional requirements for it

[spiral oak]

Yeah, Ill make a list of questions, thanks (:
I have a special talent for ending up helping disaster studios

[balmy sky]

trying to wrap my head arount this , the logic seems right 😕

[swift crag]

Maybe do some logging.

Are you off by one now?

Maybe you used to do 1-4 instead of 0-3

[keen dew]

i is in a closure so it's always off by one. Should be

for (int i = 0; i < inputActionReferences.Count; i++)
{
    int index = i;
    inputActionReferences[i].action.performed += ctx => ToggleActiveHighlight(index);
}

[balmy sky]

i tried logging inside the for loop and it does print me 1 to 5

[balmy sky]

omg u solved it lol

[short hazel]

Yeah that copy (int index = i;) is required when working with loops with lambdas that capture the loop variable in it. Otherwise at the time the lambda is executed, i will be always equal to .Count because the for loop has finished executing

[balmy sky]

@swift crag @keen dew ty so much!! ill restrain from spamming this channel for today at least xD u guys are amazing

[balmy sky]

yap! works like a charm

[buoyant knot]

yeah. don’t lay down a single brick until you know if the house is even made of brick

[heady coyote]

I have the canvas shown below in my project. My goal is to be able to change the source image of "Image" to one of 7 possible images during runtime. Does anyone know how I could achieve this?

[rich adder]

public Sprite[] myImages ;

var randomImage = myImages[Random.Range(0, myImages.Length)];
imageComp.sprite = randomImage;```

[wintry quarry]

This^ but it's assuming you want a random one. The imageComp.sprite = someSprite; part is the most important bit. The rest depends on how you want to choose which one. to set it to

[heady coyote]

ah so you mean if it isn't a random image i just replace the randomImage line with how I select the image?

[rich adder]

if you want a specific one just use the index of it

myImages[3] - this one gives 4th one for example

(assuming you want to keep them in a list of 7 sprites)

[wintry quarry]

sure, however you want to select the thing

[heady coyote]

i've made the array for my images and added my elements. what is imageComp?

[graceful citrus]

    private void Update()
    {
        float translationfb = Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * thrust * Time.deltaTime;
        float translationlr = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * thrust * Time.deltaTime;

        ri.AddForce(transform.forward * translationfb, ForceMode.Force);
        ri.AddForce(transform.right * translationlr, ForceMode.Force);

        rotationX += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivity;
        rotationY += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * -1 * sensitivity;
        cam.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(Mathf.Clamp(rotationY, -80, 80), rotationX, 0); ;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, rotationX, 0);
    }

this code is making the movement considerably more jittery than i expected. why is it doing this?

[wintry quarry]

You are adding forces in Update, whch is a big nono
you are also rotating a Rigidbody via the Transform, which is another nono

[polar acorn]

The image component whose sprite you want to change

[graceful citrus]

right, alright but what's the alternative to that

[heady coyote]

and how would i get that image component?

[wintry quarry]

All physics belongs in FixedUpdate

[graceful citrus]

ahh i see

yeah you right you right

[rich adder]

make a reference to it

[graceful citrus]

idk how i forgot that lmao

[wintry quarry]

you can do the rotation here via rb.rotation if you wish, that part should be ok assuming it's simple y axis rotation on an upright capsule

[polar acorn]

The same way you get any other component

https://unity.huh.how/references

[graceful citrus]

yeah its just a capsule

so i rotate rigidbody? not transform?

[wintry quarry]

you'll also want to enable interpolation on the rigidbody

[graceful citrus]

do i do the camera rotation in fixedupdate too?

or does that stay in update

[wintry quarry]

no

neither

neither rotation needs to go in fixedupdate

only the force

Also Time.deltaTime should not be multiplied into the force calculation either

[graceful citrus]

wuh?

why not?

[wintry quarry]

because it doesn't make any sense

Time.fixedDeltaTime is already incorporated into the default ForceMode for AddForce

[graceful citrus]

oh sick

[wintry quarry]

and you'll be calling it in FixedUpdate, so everything will line up

[graceful citrus]

rightttt

i forgot how helpful unity is lmao

movement still seems rather jittery tho

i might be going insane, but this definitely looks jittery

[stuck palm]

is there a way to get a list of PlayerInputs that have joined?

[rich adder]

Id look at code in this example
https://github.com/UnityTechnologies/InputSystem_Warriors

https://github.com/UnityTechnologies/InputSystem_Warriors/blob/056e74b1701f3bd2f218a34a46d6d2cc1e167a78/InputSystem_Warriors_Project/Assets/Scripts/Managers/GameManager.cs#L83

[copper perch]

Bad news today Glock US Legal department said I cannot use a glock gun in my game.
I spent all that time making the glocks and animating them, making sure they were commercial free from the Unity Asset store.
I tried to alter the glock, like remove bits from the main gun like the trigger and sight, to make it look different but they said it still looks too much like a glock.
Just letting you know this in case your using a copyrighted gun in your game.
But Dead Trigger 2 uses dual glocks, and so does the game Contract Wars, so I am not sure of the copyright permissions these games companies have or if they use the glocks illigally in their game.

[frosty hound]

Not sure why that has to do with coding?

[frosty hound]

But like anything that involves an IP you have to pay for a license.

Again, nothing to do with coding.

[rich adder]

wait what Glock shape is trademarked?

tf

[polar acorn]

Show code

[copper perch]

sorry wrong area

thanks

[rocky canyon]

yup, those are 100% glocks btw

[keen hinge]

Okay so I cant get my Groundcheck Transform to appear under my scripting for the player. Any advice?

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[gusty void]

hi, just wnated to ask why im getting a nullreferenceException on my PlayerMovement ? thank you

[short hazel]

You need to configure Visual Studio so it works with Unity

!vs

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

[keen hinge]

https://gdl.space/opexacakuz.cs

new code

[short hazel]

Line 57: you haven't finished typing the code for that function. This produces errors, so Unity can't update your code until they're all fixed.

[keen hinge]

ty

[short hazel]

If that line is not underlined red, configure your code editor, this simplifies programming by a lot

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)
• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[keen hinge]

And that fixed it, tysm

[queen adder]

why does my ui game object not apear in scene view

[short hazel]

It's there, select it in the Hierarchy, move your mouse over to the Scene View and press F to focus it

[queen adder]

thank u found it

[copper perch]

In some computer games and RPGs, you get real guns with fake names. They have the appearance and the characteristics of the real gun, but not the name.

The reason appears to be avoiding potential lawsuits from the manufacturers of said firearms; it's a lot easier to prove a trademark infringement over a name than over the unique likeness of a weapon, and many companies haven't trademarked the latter anyway. There's also the issue of editorial control; much as car companies can dictate that vehicles in videogames not be shown crashing or being damaged as a requirement for licensing, gun companies could potentially demand their weapons only be shown in certain situations as a requirement for inclusion of their trademarks. Oddly, this often happens even with guns with which trademark issues wouldn't be relevant, whether because they're so old that trademarks have lapsed or because their developers went out of business.

In recent times, the likenesses of firearms have also been subject to this trope. The high level of graphical detail that modern computer games are capable of has caused some to fear that gun companies could take legal action on likenesses alone, regardless if a game uses fake names. Visual examples can range from minor embellishments to entirely fictional firearm models, the latter of which is typically done by merging visual elements from several real-life firearms into one designnote . In any case, the statistical behavior of these fictional guns are often closely modeled after real-life examples.

[polar acorn]

Show code

[short hazel]

They can't let go over the fact that you indeed cannot use intellectual property and trademarks without permission

[eternal needle]

if(isGlock)
  Lawsuit();

[short hazel]

Context messages

1. #💻┃code-beginner message
2. #💻┃code-beginner message
   Still not a code question though

[copper perch]

yes ill not use glocks then

🤕

[short hazel]

This is a code channel

[copper perch]

im depressed

sorry

[short hazel]

Can you not continue the conversation here? Thanks

[hardy fox]

@short hazel sorry to be nuisance but could you breakdown what u were trying to tell me in #archived-code-general

[short hazel]

if (enemy != null)

This checks that the enemy is not destroyed. It is essential, because without it, you get the error you're experiencing right now

[fickle karma]

bump

[short hazel]

So in the braces { } right after that line, you're 100% sure the enemy is not destroyed, therefore you can use the enemy variable all you want there. After the braces, it might be destroyed, so you might get the error

[maiden current]

I'm in my way to make a save system with JSON. I have an interface implemented in all the objects which I have to save or load data.

My problem is that I want to save or load the data from all objects who have implemented the interface, whether they are in the scene or not, I don't know how to do this. I don't know another approach besides searching the objects in the scene.

[hardy fox]

so after the enemy is destroyed is something still searching for the enemy but causing an error as the enemy isnt there anymore?

[dry tendon]

Does someone know a god free audioManager?

[eternal needle]

if an object isnt in the scene, how are you going to save anything related to it? What functionality do you hope happens

[short hazel]

Yes, you access enemy.transform which is considered as a "search"

To be sure you won't get the errors, you need to move all the code that's after the yield and that uses the enemy variable, inside of the if statement

[maiden current]

. How do I else save the data in other scenes? If I have 2 worlds and I save in the second one, how do I save the data from things in the first world?

Saving between scenes? What If I want my game to only have manual saving?

[polar acorn]

Well, if you buy into the whole omnipotence thing it'll be hard to find anything god-free

[dry tendon]

and a good one even paying a bit?

[hardy fox]

thank you so much, you explain stuff so well!!

[eternal needle]

I really dont know what you mean, are you talking about 2 scenes loaded additively? Easiest thing imo is having the objects to save register themself with a singleton save manager, instead of trying to find the objects.
If you're talking about 2 different scenes entirely, not additively loaded, then idk what to tell you. The objects arent there, so you wont be able to save an object that isnt there

[dry tendon]

i found a free one, but as far as i know it just let me to make more clear and ordered the project...

[maiden current]

I've also thought about doing a persistent Save manager but I don't really know how to approach it. However thanks for secunding my thoughts hahaha, thanks!!

[eternal needle]

i have honestly not answered anything, I am asking you what functionality you are trying to achieve. What are you trying to save, what relation did your 2 worlds have that they needed to save things in each other?

[maiden current]

I didn't want to be annoying with lots of questions . What I meant with the worlds analogy is that I have let's say a town and a dungeon in different scenes. If I interact with an NPC in the town that leads to a change in the map and I later go to the dungeon and save the game there...

When I load the game again I want to load the changes made in the town scene too. I know I have to do a DontDestroy GameObject with an static class that holds...

Nevermind I just figured out while writing this what to do with the persistent class

I wasn't understanding but now I do

me and GPT 3.5 what could go wrong

[rocky canyon]

lol, nothing that ur aware of 😄

[swift crag]

You want to use a serializable "progression" class that holds all of the game's progression data

when you quit the game, you serialize it to disk, and when you relaunch the game, you deserialize it

I'm figuring this out myself for a Soulslike game.

[stuck palm]

im using the player input manager, and when i load a scene the data doesnt get reset

[swift crag]

where does the player input manager component exist?

[stuck palm]

its an empty in the scene

[hardy fox]

why is the word coins not appearing?

[swift crag]

Is the object you have selected right now a child of the canvas?

[hardy fox]

no

[swift crag]

UI text needs to be a child of a canvas.

(or a grandchild; it just has to have a canvas as one of its parents)

[hardy fox]

ah okay

having another error

[swift crag]

What is line 33?

[loud topaz]

Question: How do i make that work? The idea was a Platform, where the Players gets attached to, to move with it. After Exiting the Trigger unparents the Player. Problem: The Player changes its Size and stuff when i set the wordPositionStays to true, if false he teleports away.

[swift crag]

One option: make the platform like this:

• Platform (not scaled, player is attached to this)
  • Surface (scaled, has the renderer and collider)

You generally shouldn't parent things to non-uniformly-scaled transforms. It causes headaches.

[polar acorn]

Either enemy is null or it has no EnemyHealth component

[loud topaz]

Can i "apply" the scale?

like in blender for example

[swift crag]

Sure. Apply transforms in Blender.

note that the platform may still be scaled (e.g. to [100, 100, 100]) by the import process

[swift crag]

I would suggest doing this.

[hardy fox]

was working fine until i added a stystem that collecst coins that the nemy drops when it dies

[swift crag]

"Surface" would be the model

[swift crag]

well, now it's not working fine

so you'd better diagnose that

[polar acorn]

Doesn't change the fact that either enemy is null or it has no EnemyHealth component

[swift crag]

The code does test enemy != null

[loud topaz]

thx ill look into it

[stuck palm]

how can i sort this out?

[hardy fox]

but ive added enemy != null?

[polar acorn]

Doesn't change the fact that either enemy is null or it has no EnemyHealth component

There's two things in that sentence

[solemn fractal]

hey guys, my player movement is very basic. But I am afraid that when I am going in diagonal, i go faster than up, down, left and right. 2d game. here is the code: ```cs

private void PlayerMovement(){

    float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    transform.Translate(Vector3.right * playerSpeed * horizontalInput * Time.deltaTime);
    transform.Translate(Vector3.up * playerSpeed * verticalInput * Time.deltaTime);

[polar acorn]

the word "or" is what is known as a "conjunction" to connect two independent clauses into a sentence

[frosty hound]

You need to normalize your direction prior to using it in your movement.

[solemn fractal]

oh ok thank you! mankes sence

[hardy fox]

enemyhealth

[polar acorn]

If the code didn't exist then your code wouldn't even compile. That was never on the table

[solemn fractal]

but the direction is the Input, and it doesnt accept the normalize

[hardy fox]

no clue what your saying

[swift crag]

showing us this code told us nothing.

it doesn't matter what that script contains

GetComponent<EnemyHealth>() returns null if it can't find the component.

[polar acorn]

I'm saying either enemy is null or it has no EnemyHealth component

[frosty hound]

You'll need to construct a new vector2 which is both your horizontal and vertical input then normalize that vector.

Then you translate your position once using that vector (instead of twice like you're doing now)

[hardy fox]

but my enemys health script is called "EnemyHealth"

[swift crag]

That script defines a kind of component

[loud topaz]

got it working 🙂 @swift crag

[swift crag]

That doesn't mean the enemy has that component

[swift crag]

or that whatever you hit here has that component

You should log enemy, as well as the result of enemy.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>()

[hardy fox]

what will that do?

[swift crag]

logging enemy will show you what you're actually detecting with that physics query

[polar acorn]

No one is doubting that your script exists

[swift crag]

and enemy.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>() will show you if the enemy has an EnemyHealth component

[polar acorn]

the enemy object doesn't have one on it

[solemn fractal]

hmm ok got it, thank you!

[swift crag]

yes. the script just defines what an EnemyHealth is. this doesn't mean that every object in the scene has an EnemyHealth

it's like if I told someone what a dog was, then expected them to automatically have a dog

[hardy fox]

how do i give the enemy th eobject?

[polar acorn]

The same way you add a component to anything

Either drag it onto it or hit the Add Component button

[swift crag]

You might be hitting the wrong object here: an object that doesn't have an EnemyHealth component

We'll know for sure if you just log those two things.

[hardy fox]

this?

[swift crag]

That is an EnemyHealth component, yes.

[polar acorn]

This object has an EnemyHealth component.

Since the enemy object does not have one on it, then this is not the enemy object

[swift crag]

I'm not sure why you're spending your time doing anything other than this right now.

It will tell you exactly what is happening.

[hardy fox]

its attached to the enemy

[solemn fractal]

but where here I add the vector? u mean I use only 1 cs transform.Translate(vector etc..etc..) ??? ```cs
private void PlayerMovement(){

    float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

    Vector2 vector = new Vector2( horizontalInput, verticalInput).normalized;

    transform.Translate(Vector3.right * playerSpeed * horizontalInput * Time.deltaTime);
    transform.Translate(Vector3.up * playerSpeed * verticalInput * Time.deltaTime);```

[swift crag]

I do not care. Log enemy and enemy.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>().

[hardy fox]

no clue what log is mate, unless you mean debug.log

[swift crag]

Yes, Debug.Log.

[polar acorn]

Logging is often logging, yes

[timber tide]

why are you multiplying by world right and up

you got a direction speed and delta time

[hardy fox]

no clue where the debug.log is supposed to go

[tawny cave]

I need help with this, I don't know how to make collision detection functions work. I don't even have anything showing up in the console (all I want to do is to detect if the player is in collision with a mob and teleport it to the beginning of the level). Both player and mob have a capsule collider btw

[swift crag]

before you try to use the result of enemy.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>()

[swift crag]

are those syntax errors on the method names? that seems odd

or is that another color

[short hazel]

Warnings it seemy

[swift crag]

are those inner functions, perhaps?

stuck inside another method

[short hazel]

Yeah probably

[tawny cave]

it says function is decalred but never used

[swift crag]

If you declare a function inside of another function, it only exists inside of the containing function

[short hazel]

Yeah, it's a local function, take it out of whatever it's in right now

[swift crag]

You need to declare these things directly inside the class.

[frosty hound]

As the direction in your Translate function call as the first parameter

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Translate.html

[polar acorn]

Some time after the values exist, and some time before the error causes the program to stop

[timber tide]

oh it's using translate call

[hardy fox]

think its time to give up on programming

[swift crag]

log is not Log

[short hazel]

Uppercase "L"

[swift crag]

pay attention to spelling and capitalization.

[polar acorn]

What is a Debug.log

[short hazel]

You will also need to debug the two things Fen told you, not some random string

[hardy fox]

is this correct?

[short hazel]

No

[swift crag]

well, no, you aren't logging the things I asked you to log.

but it is valid syntax

[short hazel]

See #💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

Why are you logging random things instead of logging what you were asked and what would be useful to know

[timber tide]

I'm confused here. Wouldn't it just be Translate(directionVector * speed * deltatime). Why are we using right and up here

[swift crag]

also, I would suggest passing enemy as the second argument. this will let you click on the log entry to be taken to the thing you hit

Debug.Log(enemy, enemy);

like so

[solemn fractal]

not sure, i though i needed it at the time but always worked fine

[swift crag]

this will help if it turns out you're hitting something weird

[frosty hound]

That's legacy to what they were doing before. The next step is to replace that entirely with the newly constructed vector input.

[hardy fox]

mate ive got 0 brain cells and have no clue what im doing

[tawny cave]

it was in void update, I took out and it's inside the public class now but I still dont have anything in the console (no more syntaxe error tho)

[swift crag]

if you aren't willing to put in any effort here, then we can't help you

If you aren't clear on something, ask

[polar acorn]

Then either stop and think or actually read what you've been told to do

[swift crag]

don't just do random things and then throw it back at us

[timber tide]

reminds me of some old snes games where running diagonal was busted too

[hardy fox]

failing to understand exactly what i need to do

[swift crag]

What is unclear about this? #💻┃code-beginner message

[meager gust]

then perhaps you need to take a step back and learn programming without the complicated 3D engine in the middle

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message
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[hardy fox]

will do eventually

[hardy fox]

idk how to log stuff is my point

[swift crag]

Debug.Log(enemy);

[rocky canyon]

you need to log the values of 'enemy' and the getcomponent..

[polar acorn]

Then you should not be doing anything else until you do

[rocky canyon]

after you check if its there..

[swift crag]

this will log the enemy variable.

[polar acorn]

Debug Log should literally have been the first line of code you ever wrote in unity

if you don't know how to do that, then you are way ahead of yourself

[rocky canyon]

if enemy is !null -> debug.log(enemy) so u know what it is.

[swift crag]

you can pass whatever you want to Debug.Log. It will get turned into a string and written to the console.

[hardy fox]

went straight in

[rocky canyon]

if enemy is null then u find out why its null

[short hazel]

These will detect collisions / triggers in a 3D project, so make sure you're using 3D rigidbodies and colliders.
Post screenshots of the Inspectors of the two objects that are supposed to be part of a collision here.

[polar acorn]

Yes, "going straight in" would involve you writing a Debug Log as probably the first line of code

[rocky canyon]

but if it aint u'll know what it is.. by using enemy.name for example to log it's name or w/e

[rocky canyon]

remember a variable is a container, you can log any variable to get its name, type, value, etc.. using Debug.Log()

[swift crag]

Put it inside the curly braces.

[polar acorn]

Okay stop everything

[rocky canyon]

inside the brackets.. with the rest of ur code

[polar acorn]

do not code any further

go into the pins

do the intro to C# course

[rocky canyon]

lol

[polar acorn]

and learn how to write anything

[swift crag]

if you don't understand why this has completely changed the meaning of your script, then you need to sort that out first.

[polar acorn]

You should not be coding anything yet. You are still in the "learning what words mean" phase

[swift crag]

we've spent about 15 minutes trying to get you to write two lines of code. you need more practice.

[rocky canyon]

yes, thas correct.. but do u know why?

and when, it runs

[tawny cave]

ah didn't know I needed a rigidbody as well, thanks

[polar acorn]

Congratulations, after trying literally every combination of letters and places to type them you have stumbled into the correct answer. Now go learn how to actually write code
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

[hardy fox]

im guessing if it was outside it would be irrelevant as were trying to test when there is an enemy

[rocky canyon]

ya, when the if(statement) is true

[short hazel]

On at least one of the two objects yep

[rocky canyon]

so its in the if statements { ... } body

[tender stag]

i just made this editor script to make the enemy field of vision

[tawny cave]

should it be the mob or the player then ?

[tender stag]

how do i re create this through code?

like with a raycast

[hardy fox]

practice makes perfect

[polar acorn]

Monkeys on typewriters is not practice

[hardy fox]

is there anything else i should log?

[polar acorn]

you need to actually think things through and then execute on them, not just guess until people on discord tell you it's right

[short hazel]

Depends on how you're moving your objects. For best collision accuracy you should be moving using a Rigidbody, so why not on both objects?

[rocky canyon]

try and see.. see what it logs.. maybe log its name.. make sure its the thing u expect it to be.

[swift crag]

sounds like you just want to measure the angle between the player and the enemy's forward direction

[rocky canyon]

if it is, debug the getcomponent to see if that is what its supposed to be, etc

[swift crag]

If it's below a limit, shoot a ray and see if it hits an obstacle

[tawny cave]

as of now I move both of them with a characterController because that's all I know yet ^^'

[swift crag]

If you want that nice rectangular FOV, you'll want to test the horizontal and vertical angles separately.

[meager gust]

you can use dot product

[short hazel]

Oh, then you want to use the dedicated OnControllerColliderHit() function instead of OnCollisionEnter

[meager gust]

@tender stagyou don't want to shoot out 10,000 raycasts

[tender stag]

and check if anything is inside of that?

of the angle

[tawny cave]

I saw this function but apparently it doesn't work if the player isn't moving

[polar acorn]

Now, what does that log

[short hazel]

Right, do note that a Character Controller emulates both a Rigidbody and a Collider (without being any of these at all!), so putting a Rigidbody and/or a Collider aside the Character Controller will make them conflict, you'll have weird movement issues as the physics system battles against the Character Controller

[swift crag]

To do that, you can do something like this:

Vector3 toPlayer = player.transform.position - transform.position;
Vector3 eyeVec = transform.forward;

Vector3 verticalToPlayer = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(toPlayer, transform.right);
Vector3 horizontalToPlayer = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(toPlayer, transform.up);

float vertical = Vector3.Angle(eyeVec, verticalToPlayer);
float horizontal = Vector3.Angle(eyeVec, horizontalToPlayer);

ProjectOnPlane gets rid of the part of a vector that lines up with the second argument. So, the first one throws out the left-right part of the vector, and the second one throws out the up-down part of the vector.

(eyeVec should probably be the enemy's head transform)

You can think of ProjectOnPlane as "squishing" the vector into a plane whose normal is the second argument

so Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(transform.position, Vector3.up); gets rid of the Y component entirely, for example