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[worldly jolt]

im downloading visual studio it takes so long

vscode is not good for c#

unfortunately

[magic linden]

Really?

[worldly jolt]

no theres lots of extra features in visual studio that arent in vscode

and visual studio is build for just .NET and c++ developement wheras vscode is for a lot of languages

[static cedar]

Actually it's whatever people make it for.

So it's close enough I guess.

[worldly jolt]

wdym

this gonna take so long

[static cedar]

You generally download packages, made by 3rd parties sometimes. Before using VSC.

I'm also fairly certain that the C# package (by Microsoft) is discontinued for VSC. But unity has its own package for unity development specifically but VS is still better supported anyways I think.

[magic linden]

Yeah visual studio's auto-complete functions are amazing

[static cedar]

You also have suggestions.

[queen adder]

I like rider better tbh

[worldly jolt]

rider is like $1000000 per month

289 usd per year for the full ide

149 for the min

[static cedar]

Real.

The only thing Rider has and VS don't is namespace refactoring in masses.

You do have sync namespaces but come on, it will turn your namespaces into MyGame.Assets.Scripts.. I don't like it.

[woven arrow]

Hello guys, I have a question:
I am trying to create a 2D Plattformer and I want to have a isGrounded Variable in my PlayerMovement Script. The Script has to know what's Ground and what's not, so I watched a tutorial in which Layers were used to define what is ground and what not. My Question: What's the difference between Layers and Tags? And when to use which one?

[languid spire]

The main difference between using Layers or Tags in your context is that you can use Layers in RayCasting (i.e. LayerMasks) to optimise the cast

[woven arrow]

So in my case tags are the better choice?

[languid spire]

no, Layers are the better choice

[woven arrow]

But my case has nothing to do with RayCasting, or did I understand something wrong?

[languid spire]

it's not just RayCasting, that was just an example, it's also useful for optimizing Collisions and Triggers

[woven arrow]

So when to use tags?

[languid spire]

I never use tags

[woven arrow]

Ok 😄

Thank you for the help

[queen adder]

Why is my A* Pathfinding agent returning a desired velocity of 0?

While it is still moving towards a target?

I've checked that I'm including the library, "using pathfinding;", the prefab has a component called AIPath

The AI destination setter gets set

[languid spire]

why are you getting and setting values on a prefab?

[queen adder]

It's small butters

That wonder around the garden area

I'm using a state machine to set them to wander around

By setting a random target position

[slender nymph]

that wasn't their point. the point was you are checking those values on the prefab not the instance(s) in the scene

of course the prefab which is not in the scene will have a desiredVelocity of 0 because it is, notably, not in the scene to even get a path

[queen adder]

oh

this does make sense actually

[languid spire]

yes, oh!

[queen adder]

that was a minor mistake, uhhhhhh

embarrasing 💀

[lean basin]

Hello, I'm trying to use DOTween to tween Rig's weight property. But it gives an error

public void SetEnabled(bool status){
        rigObject.weight = 1f;
        if (status) {
            DOTween.Kill(uid);
            DOTween.To(rigObject.weight, x => rigObject.weight = x, 1f); // << The error is in this line, in the variable X in second argument.
        }
    }

Error message is : Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to 'float'
Cannot implicitly convert type 'double' to 'float'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

I don't know where the string is coming from.

[languid spire]

I think the string is a false positive. Try (float)x

[slender nymph]

isn't the first parameter of DOTween.To supposed to be a delegate? 🤔

[rare basin]

why are you storing the uid btw

you can just do Tween tween

then tween.Kill();

and tween = DOTween.To(...)

and you might want to use DOVirtual.Float

if you want to modify float during X seconds

(startValue, endValue, duration, delegate)

[lean basin]

is it like this?
DOVirtual.Float(rigObject.weight,1f,0.2f,() => rigObject.weight = ???)

do I need extra variable to replace ???? nvm tween = DOVirtual.Float(rigObject.weight,1f,TWEEN_DURATION, x => rigObject.weight = x);

[teal viper]

I don't think you can parse it into float implicitly.

[round moon]

can someone explain why my virtual came change position after i set follow to object amir(player) but when i see on udemy when virtual camera set follow to player(doggy) thats position virtual camera stay ?

"btw sry if my typing english it doesnt good anyway bro🙏 "

[wind meteor]

why

when

i play the game

its dont work

[slender nymph]

jesus christ, finish your thought before pressing enter

[slender nymph]

your camera is likely not where you think it is

[round moon]

ssshh i cant recrod it on udemy just blank @,@

[teal viper]

Can't see anything from the udemy video. Probably protection from piracy.

[round moon]

Wait ill record via my phone

[round moon]

thats it video from udemy , but sry if my video was blur , coz my camera phone was broken😞

[round moon]

@teal viper thats video from udemy

[royal ledge]

Do particles collider force work right of the box or do i have to grab the collider force in a script and write it's behaviour?

Solved: Yes it does just work, had to just adjust some settings

[cunning rapids]

Set a raw image's anchor to scale with screen size but the white triangle didn't cover the entire screen?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel
perhaps you want #📲┃ui-ux

[slender nymph]

so tell them that, not me

[acoustic arch]

you have 2 cameras

[queen adder]

Hi all i got a question.
In my game right now i have a panel with a scrollbar that has hundreds of different rewards in it.
Those rewards become active when the player levels up.

So say they reach level 10. Then the 10th reward will be available to claim.

The only problem i have is if the player reaches say level 50, they open the panel scroll to the 50th reward claim it and close the panel.
Then when they level up to level 51. They have to scroll again all the way from the 1st reward through to the 51st.

Is there any way that i can save the scrollbar or something so when the player levels up to say level 51 then when they open the panel it will automatically show the 51st reward and they dont need to scroll from the 1st all the way through to the 51st.

[little meteor]

Hi all i got a question.

[azure zenith]

I am making a main menu, however I would like a background image in my main menu. I want to get the background image of my gameplay. How can I get it?

[eager elm]

if you want just an image you can take a screenshot and use that. For a video-type background you'd need to generate a mock level or you could simply have your main menu in the gameplay scene.

[pure sigil]

Hey everybody 👋 I'm making an old school ddrpg game in unity in the style of eye of the beholder. I'm getting stuck on character movement/rotation. I'm having trouble rotating my character and setting where they are looking as their new look position so that i can move forward in that direction. In this case if I want to move forward (by pressing the W key) they move in the original forward vector and not the new rotation forward vector. Any help is greatly appreciated!

[upbeat merlin]

New to Unity. Does anyone know what Carl(the guy is the unity tutorials) uses as extentions in his visual studio?

It would help me a lot having to not remember everything word by word

[fossil drum]

If you mean suggestions, then setup your !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)
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[upbeat merlin]

Ima try

Thanks

[sand veldt]

i have an issue with unity animation it was working fine before i created a andoride build but not its not work any reasons

they are playing in animator but its not show up

[celest flax]

If you have an if-case like if(a || b, which condition is tested first?

[eager elm]

left to right

[upbeat merlin]

That worked but the descriptions dont appear

[fossil drum]

Can you show a screenshot of your Visual Studio?

[upbeat merlin]

Sure

The descriptions do appear while hovering over the written formula

But dont appear in the selection menu

[fossil drum]

Oh, this is Visual Studio Code...

[upbeat merlin]

It is

[upbeat merlin]

Should I get both then?

[upbeat merlin]

Oh

My bad OG

[fossil drum]

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are 2 different programs

What are you looking at from Carl then?

Can you show a screenshot of that?

[fossil drum]

That looks like Visual Studio, not Visual Studio Code.

[wintry quarry]

yep, definitely not VS Code

[upbeat merlin]

Well then which should I use

Im confused

[wintry quarry]

That's up to you

If you want it like your Youtube guy, use Visual Studio

[upbeat merlin]

I mean code has similar things

So I might just stick to it

Thanks

[upbeat merlin]

This has helped a lot

Thanks a lot

[boreal tangle]

Does someone know how I fix this. I just try to put a repository in my unity project but this pops up

[timber tide]

I don't think you need us to read that for you

[boreal tangle]

I know what it says but I can't just remove the file

[fossil drum]

Git LFS should be able too I think (never tried it)

[frosty hound]

You should be using the unity gitignore so you're not pushing the Library folder

[slender nymph]

you shouldn't be committing your Library folder

[boreal tangle]

Why

[lucid jetty]

You need to gitinore yoour unity file otherwise its to large

[boreal tangle]

Ok

[frosty hound]

Library folder is locally generated when you open the project, there's no reason to commit it.

[boreal tangle]

Ok

[frosty hound]

It's also massive, as you're seeing

[boreal tangle]

Yeah

Thank you

[lucid jetty]

Hello im making a enemy ai system that kills the player when he got hit by the enemy but the problem is that it doenst work do you ❤️ it would help me a lot if you guys know how to fix this problem here are my two codes:

https://pastebin.com/eh5PprRk Enemy
https://pastebin.com/zEH1p8hN Player script

[timber tide]

Probably clarify what part isn't working and what have you debugged

[lucid jetty]

I think the part that isn`t working is collision.collider.CompareTag("Player")) to send you to other scene

i debugged when i touch the enemy but i dont see boom so

[timber tide]

well, for one I think you should consider letting the player handle the callbacks for damage when they collide with the enemy

[lucid jetty]

what do you mean by that?

[timber tide]

Do you have colliders on both the player and enemy yeah

one of them needs to have a trigger collider is you're using the collision events

I don't think it works if both are trigger colliders though, I'm a little rusty on them

[boreal tangle]

When making a git repos, do you know which option is the library I need to ignore

[lucid jetty]

i added a rigibody to the enemy then its works but the problem than is that he doenst chase the player anymore and just getting stuck or walk to somewere else

[wintry quarry]

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Unity.gitignore

[boreal tangle]

Ty

[timber tide]

Well, if it's logging now then that means it must be working, so what logic you're doing after that is now a different problem ;p

ah, try adding a kinematic to the enemy

[lucid jetty]

than its works but when i touch the enemy i dont die

[timber tide]

I'm assuming you're just using trigger events but not the actual physics

[lucid jetty]

only when i disable the is kinematic in the rigibody then the scene would load but the ai is not chasing the player

[timber tide]

player has a rigidbody too right?

[lucid jetty]

nope

[timber tide]

Honestly, I would just suggest using spherecast at that point then

[lucid jetty]

istead of the rigibody for the enemy or in the script?

[timber tide]

Each enemy can spherecast (or circlecast for 2D) around themselves, and you just do the collider checking* through that

what you're trying to do is possible but it's some combination of kinematic rigidbodies and triggers. Oh, actually im confused, maybe you're just using collisional events when you actually want trigger events

[maiden compass]

Hey guys how you doing ? I have a really simple thing I would like to do,

I have a shadergraph where I have a float property, I would like to change that property accordingly to a timer that I have in a script.

How can I do it ? I'm not familiar with normalize or things like that.

[lucid jetty]

can i send you my unity game so you can fix the problem and tell me wants the problem was

because im trying to fix this problem now for 4 hours straight but i dont have a clue what i need to do

[rich adder]

link the float to the timer

[maiden compass]

Mmh yes, I know I have to do that, but how ?

[rich adder]

I haven't seen your scripts 🤷‍♂️

[maiden compass]

My property have a range from 0 to 1, and my timer from 0 to 5

Give me 1 sec

[eternal falcon]

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[maiden compass]

    [SerializeField] private Material paleSkinShader;

    [SerializeField] private float timerLenght;

    private bool timerCount;

    private void Update()
    {
        if (timerCount)
            timer();
        else
            return;
    }

    private void timer()
    {
        float timeLeft = timerLenght;

        timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;

        if (timeLeft !< 0)
            timerCount = false;
    }

(I know it's probably trash, it's just to prove a concept so it's okay)

[timber tide]

Hold on let me open unity and check

[buoyant knot]

learning about new() was a gamechanger. Can't believe I've been here for 6 months, and I just learned it a couple weeks ago

[timber tide]

wat

[rich adder]

should be something like
normalizedValue = (timerValue - minValue) / (maxValue - minValue);

[maiden compass]

So the first member should be "my timer lenght - time.deltatime" / "my shader property - time.deltatime" ?

[rich adder]

not at all

[maiden compass]

Yeah..

I knew I didn't understand x)

[rich adder]

min and max are the values of your timer

if you said 0-5

then min is 0 and max is 5

[timber tide]

Ok, I think I know the problem. You're using Collisional events when you want to use Trigger events and I should have realized that. If you're not using rigidbodies for any reason remove them and use OnTriggerEnter instead. Make sure both your enemy and player has their collider set to IsTrigger

[rich adder]

timerValue is your current timer time @maiden compass

btw this float timeLeft = timerLenght; should prob not be in update '

since you only want it to set to max in start of timer

[maiden compass]

You're right

[rich adder]

alright, after thats fixed should be able to get it working

float minValue = 0;
        float maxValue = 5;
        float timerValue = 2.3f;
        float normalizedValue = (timerValue - minValue) / (maxValue - minValue);
        Debug.Log("Original Timer Value: " + timerValue);
        Debug.Log("Normalized Value: " + normalizedValue);```
as An example, gives

[maiden compass]

Gonna try that ! Thanks !

[rich adder]

if (timeLeft !< 0)
fix this too lol
<= would suffice

! means not

so if time left is not smaller than 0 set timer to false

[maiden compass]

Oh, though it meant strictly inferior

Didn't script in month, I'm rusty

(not that I knew what I was doing before )

[rich adder]

thought you meant you did so much Rust for a second you forgot c# 😏

[edgy hearth]

Would this video tutorial for wall running work if I was using a character controller instead of a rigid body? https://youtu.be/gNt9wBOrQO4?si=CEjm3NCtuuN6ypJG

[timber tide]

I'm confusing myself now. Does unity really require rigidbodies for OnTriggerEnter? Why does that even make sense

It should be be independent to that of the collider component

[rich adder]

you can use CC with triggers just fine

its a physics object as well 🙂

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerEnter.html

Docs saying you do need a kinematic rigidbody

[rich adder]

cc is very similiar to a kinematic rb

its like mix between kinematic and rigidbody or somehing

[timber tide]

Yeah, but you can't use the events with the collider component alone

[rich adder]

it has velocity and simple gravity

you def can

[slender nymph]

surprisingly OnTriggerEnter can be used with a CC and no rb

[rich adder]

only thing that dont work is OnCollision but CC has its own OnControllerColliderHit

[timber tide]

Ok, so the docs just using kinematic as an example then

I don't really use the trigger events anymore. Only the collision if needed, otherwise I stick to casting it through updates

[summer stump]

No, the docs are just unfortunately wrong. The table at the bottom is at least a bit misleading

[rich adder]

hell yeah its wrong, shits moving it with translate

cringe

unity doesn't adhere its own advice

[edgy hearth]

So, uh, should I try using the character controller instead?

[lucid jetty]

@timber tide i fixed the problem now its works ❤️ now i need to fix that if i load the new scene the mouse cursor unlocks do you know how to do that?

[rich adder]

probably not since the video relies on rigidbody physics

for like velocity and drag

[edgy hearth]

Ok thanks, I’ll try to find some other tutorial

[maiden compass]

Allright, I'm lost my man (or girl, I don't know) 🫡

[rich adder]

what part?

[maiden compass]

    [SerializeField] private Material paleSkinShader;

    [SerializeField] [Range(0f, 5f)] private float TimerLenght;
    [SerializeField] private float timerValue;

    private bool timerActive;

    private void Start()
    {
        timerValue = 0;

        timerActive = true;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        if (timerActive)
            Timer();
        else
            return;

        paleSkinShader.SetFloat("_DiffuseBlending", 0f);
    }

    private void Timer()
    {
        timerValue += Time.deltaTime;

        if (timerValue >= TimerLenght)
            timerActive = false;
    }

At the "Setfloat" part

I've put 0 so I have no errors, but I can't figure how to put the normalize thing in there.

[rich adder]

well take the example I put and switch up the values 😛

[maiden compass]

"normalizedValue = (timerValue - minValue) / (maxValue - minValue);" this part ?

[rich adder]

yeah

make a method and put it in the set float

[maiden compass]

Ooooooooh

I think I understand but I don't know how to write that

[gaunt sandal]

Thanks, I'm checking that out. I have a lot of objects because I need a big ocean, and the water assets all seem to work about the same way: Lot's of tiles. Small-ish tiles are needed to the wave effects. I'm absolutely open to suggestions on how to reduce the number of objects though.

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private Material paleSkinShader;
    
    [SerializeField] private float minValue = 0;
    [SerializeField] private float maxValue = 5;

    private float currentValue;
    private bool timerActive;

    private void Start()
    {
        currentValue = maxValue;

        timerActive = true;
    }

    private float NormalizedValue(float timeValue)
    {
        return (timeValue - minValue) / (maxValue - minValue);
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        if (timerActive)
            Timer();
        else
            return;

        paleSkinShader.SetFloat("_DiffuseBlending", NormalizedValue(currentValue));
    }

    private void Timer()
    {
        currentValue -= Time.deltaTime;

        if (currentValue <= minValue)
            timerActive = false;
    }```

[timber tide]

Sorry little busy, but probably describe your problem more and someone might have an idea

[maiden compass]

Thank you it works like a charm 👌

Really appreciate, have a nice evening

[rich adder]

you too!

[spare sparrow]

Have a bit of a problem where i can use textmeshpro in the editor but whenever i try doing "using TMPro" in my code it isnt recognized by rider. I have the package isntalled under package management so im kinda confused

[rich adder]

try Regen Project Files

[errant kayak]

how would one replace the nested runtimeAnimatorController of an AnimatorOverrideController in unity? Im trying to just set the runtimeAnimatorController within my variable but it doesnt seem to be working..

[eager elm]

are you writing code inside an assembly?

[spare sparrow]

Nope, cs script

[spare sparrow]

I that entirely broke my project last time 🙂

[rich adder]

It should never do that..

but yeah also checking if you're using Assembly Definitions

Regen Project Files just regens the csproj files

highly doubt it would ever break anything

[spare sparrow]

I do have one assembly definition for my tests

[rich adder]

alr well if your script is in that assembly , did you add reference to TMP ?

[summer stump]

I don't see how that would be possible

[spare sparrow]

Im not sure tbh, imma just copy my project rq and try regen files

[primal dirge]

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision) {
If(collision.collider.CompareTag("Player")){
Debug.Log("YEY");

}
}

[primal dirge]

@rich adder this is the basicaly the only stuff in my script

And I said that it is a script problem because I tried adding a collider and rigidbody to the player and nothing

Besides it has character controller

[rich adder]

screenshot both colliding objects and their inspector

[lucid jetty]

i fixed it but now i came to new issue now when i shoot a enemy its getting destroyed but when i wait longer in the game it doenst work anymore and the enemy cant be killed anymore its so weird

[bitter oar]

Hey, i need help. im using unitys new input system, and i want to do that when you move your left stick SIGNIFICANTLY from the position it was last frame, something happens, and if you move it a just a bit from where it was last frame, nothing happens. any help?

[rich adder]

I think this but not sure
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.8/manual/Processors.html

#🖱️┃input-system

[eager elm]

save the input from the last frame and compare it to the input of the current frame.

[bitter oar]

yes, but how do i check how much it has moved? i want there to be a deciding factor

[primal dirge]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19dQTolUq_v4FZddCeP8AJn5Q5gFCSlDB

[bitter oar]

like if it moved A LOT i want to do something

[eager elm]

Vector2.Distance() for example

[rich adder]

why not just throw the screenshots on discord

[bitter oar]

oh

didn't know that was a thing

but what is the max? 1?

[summer stump]

A bunch. I dunno exactly
I've seen six in a message before iirc

Edit: sorry, totally misread that.
I thought you meant images lol

[eager elm]

up is 1, down is -1, so the max would be 2

[bitter oar]

oh

ok

so can i do like if (Vector2.Distance(lastStickInput, currentStickInput) < 1)
{
do something
}

[primal dirge]

After I updated it doesn't let me send screenshot

[stuck palm]

why isnt my player spawning on the position of the spawnpoint? it is saying its changing but it doesnt. here is the code that runs when the player is created.

private void Awake()
        {
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
            if (FindObjectOfType<SpawnPoint>() != null)
            {
                foreach (SpawnPoint sp in FindObjectsOfType<SpawnPoint>())
                {
                    if (sp.id == id)
                    {
                        Transform spawnTransform = sp.transform;
                        transform.position = spawnTransform.position;
                        print($"setting transform to spawnpoint {sp.id}, {spawnTransform.position}");
                    }
                }
            }
            else
            {
                print("no spawnpoints found! spawning in center");
            }
        }

[rich adder]

you drop the photo in the text chat? it should work

[eager elm]

ye, but moving that much in one frame could be quite challenging. You might want to use a timer that updates the lastStickInput every 0.2sec or so instead of every frame.

[stuck palm]

its meant to spawn on one of the points.

[eager elm]

do you use Unitys PlayerController? If so you have to disable it before teleporting the player and then enable it again.

[stuck palm]

the player is spawned in via the player input manager, but its controlled with rigidbodies

[rich adder]

you might need to call MovePosition to teleport it to that position

eg rb.MovePosition(spawnTransform.position);

[stuck palm]

thats done it, thank you! there is like a frame where it spawns in the center, is it possible to avoid that?

[rich adder]

does it still do it if you do rb.position = spawnTransform.position

it might be waiting for the next Physics frame to move it

or cheese it fix and disable the renderer until that frame is hit

[stuck palm]

still does it but its less noticeable. the main part i can see is the trailrenderer on the hands and feet so i might just disable those

[primal dirge]

It says retry, it gives like a connection error

[rich adder]

You can use a Coroutine and probably do what i suggested of starting it with disabled renderer and then do yield return new WaitForFixedUpdate

[rich adder]

wth..are you using a normal discord client?

oh these are phone photos..oh dear.

[primal dirge]

No idea, like I use discord at the phone

[primal dirge]

Sorry, do you understand?

[rich adder]

why don't you use it on your PC and you know. screencapture like a normal person lol
https://screenshot.help

also see one of the colliders is still trigger

[spare sparrow]

regening project files did not fix my problem

[rich adder]

ok but what about the question you replied to?

[spare sparrow]

this is the only assembly file i have

[summer stump]

You seem to have an error in LapDetector
Is that what you're working on now?

[spare sparrow]

yea this is the error

[rich adder]

can you show where this asmdef is in Project

[spare sparrow]

the one just called scripts

[rich adder]

right

so did you add TMP in there

click it and look at inspector

[spare sparrow]

not sure how they work, just blindly followed a guide for that

[rich adder]

then don't use it

[spare sparrow]

i need to have tests for the asignment

so im kinda forced to have it

[hexed terrace]

Best read up and follow a guide properly, instead of blindly 😄

[rich adder]

they are useful for compartmentalization but also isolate assemblies

[queen adder]

how do you locate a "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object" in the hierarchy?

[rich adder]

which is what is happening now

all your scripts are isolated from TMP and other assemblies not linked

[hexed terrace]

the stacktrace tells you which class it happens on, and clicking it usually pings the game object

[spare sparrow]

fair point but i just need to get the project done for a deadline and would just like to be able to use TMPro in my code

[queen adder]

it's not doing it to me

[summer stump]

Does it say it is from UnityEngine or mention Graphs?

[timber tide]

@lucid jetty stick to this channel if you need help. You're more likely to find the help you need. Also, try to clarify your problems out and debug if possible.

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ScriptCompilationAssemblyDefinitionFiles.html
takes one look at the docs and tells you everything 🙂
(including adding references)

[queen adder]

graphs

[summer stump]

Then it is an internal unith error
You can ignore it.

It is from windows inheriting from Graphs. Like the Animator or ShaderGraph
You can close those windows and restart Unity if you want to get rid of it

[spare sparrow]

Im really not try change anything about the assembly definition, all i want to do is figure out why i cant use textmeshpro

[stuck palm]

how can i make nice and snappy movement with rigidbody? right now its just sliding everywhere

[waxen pecan]

Hey i am facing a problem. I want to change the direction and fov from vr cameras within the meta sdk. Right now i am playing around with render textures but actually id like to avoid that

[queen adder]

it doesn't allow me to play some of the animations that are in play during the game

[modest dust]

It was already explained to you, it isolated your scripts from TMP and other assemblies

Simply add the TMP assembly reference to the list

[summer stump]

That sounds like a separate issue.
Try closing the windows and restarting unity though, to be sure

[hexed terrace]

Because your asmdef currently says "only use the code under this asmdef" .. if you want to use TMP, then you have to reference the TMP asmdef in yours. Readin the docs ages ago would have gotten you this answer

[hexed terrace]

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[waxen pecan]

Alright, thanks 😊

[queen adder]

it seems the error appears when I click on a specific button

solved

don't know why it was giving that error

[summer stump]

Yeah, it is a weird one. But it is surprisingly common too

[queen adder]

thanks for the help!

[rich adder]

Btw your issue is clear.
Your one collider is Normal collider but your other is trigger

from the screenshot

OnCollision doesn't get called on dynamic rigidbody with normal collider in trigger.
only 2 solid collider

[stuck palm]

anyone know what i can do here?

[rich adder]

snappy and rigidbody is funny

[summer stump]

Are you using AddForce?
How about GetAxis?
Both of those will slide you around. Both together makes it worse

Use Velocity and GetAxisRaw
Or kinematic as nav said

[rich adder]

if you want snappy then make custom forces

ie Kinematic rb

[rich adder]

addforce is taking into account your mass btw

if you .velocity for example which overrides the mass you notice its more "snappy"

also drag amount and physics material matter a lot (with dynamic rb)

[stuck palm]

i did a dirty fix by just making the drag big and increaseing the add force

but i'll try velocity

[rich adder]

ah yes found it.

[summer stump]

And what about the movement? How do you get input?

[stuck palm]

new input system

movement is a vector 3 that is set by an input event

[stuck palm]

velocity works well, thank you

[stuck palm]

what is kinematic rb? luckily i dont have to make jumps in my game so im fine

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-isKinematic.html

this used to be a paid asset
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

[stuck palm]

using velocity makes the character fall extremely slowly for some reason

[rich adder]

yea because now you're overriding forces each frame

[stuck palm]

ah

[rich adder]

including physics gravity

[stuck palm]

does kinematic work with gravity?

[rich adder]

you make your own MovePosition but you can achieve the same effect

i found the code on unity forums once lemme see if I can scoop it

var positionOffset = (Physics.gravity * gravityScale) + (direction * speed);
    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + positionOffset * Time.fixedDeltaTime);```

Original
```cs
    var positionOffset = (Physics2D.gravity * rb.gravityScale) + (direction * speed);
    rb.MovePosition(rb.position + positionOffset * Time.fixedDeltaTime);

[stuck palm]

that would be good, thanks

[rich adder]

it was for 2D but i modded

sauce
https://forum.unity.com/threads/no-gravity-using-rigidbody-moveposition.830304/#post-5502652

[summer stump]

Kinematic means it will not respond to forces, so no, you do it yourself

For velocity responding to gravity, you need to set the y velocity to the rigidbody's current y velocity, then it will work right

[stuck palm]

i just fall through the floor is this normal

[rich adder]

do you have colliders ?

[stuck palm]

yes, this is my code

[rich adder]

hmm try starting it a bit above ground maybe ?

last time I tried that code it was working so pretty sure it should

[stuck palm]

yeah still through the floor

i might just stick with rigidbodies tbh

i mean like

kinematic

[rich adder]

are you not using that on kinematic?

[stuck palm]

yes i am

sorry i meant dynamic

[rich adder]

maybe MovePosition doesn't care about collisions in 3D

[stuck palm]

i tried the forcemode.velocitychange thinking it was the same as changing velocity, but it made the character so fast

[rich adder]

velocitychange says is time independent so you probably needed fixedDeltaTime in there

[stuck palm]

what about the character controller component?

[rich adder]

what about it ?

[stuck palm]

could i achieve snappy motion like that?

if it doesnt use rigidbodies

[rich adder]

sure plenty of people use that.
its the same principles as kinematic rigidbody

[stuck palm]

i'll have a play with that than

[rich adder]

you also must make your own gravity

unity has an example on .Move

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.Move.html

[solemn fractal]

hey guys.. If I have a list, and I use that if: cs if (_enemyList.Count < 30) if I have more than 30 elements inside my list it should not go inside the if right? I created a debug log and even when I have more than 30 it goes inside the if. what I am doing wrong?

[stuck palm]

fully admitting that i asked chatgpt for this... but how can i make my player face where theyre moving? i want it to be smooth which is why i tried slerp, but for some reason it just faces the world origin. with rb i just used moverotation

[summer stump]

Show the rest of the code. You are right that it should not

[solemn fractal]

ok, well there are too much things happening, too much code jsut wanted to check that info .. i will figure it out.. thank you a lot. you also answered me in another channel will check now

[rich adder]

because gpt is stupid and doesn't know any better

[stuck palm]

nvm i fixed it on my own

[rich adder]

that's def not how you lerp

[stuck palm]

i got rid of the - transformpotiion thing

this is my fixed code

[rich adder]

lerp is still wrong

https://unity.huh.how/programming/specifics/lerp/wrong-lerp

[solemn fractal]

I found the prob ty

[stuck palm]

i dont understand the problem

it works the way i want it to

wait i just read it

i still think its okay enough, like i cant use smoothdamp for my purposes

and idk if a tweening library is necessart

[muted wadi]

i have some code that updates this text based on the number stored in another variable, how would I make the variable amount display but also display a certain amount of 0's in front like in old arcade games?

[rich adder]

if you t ink thats still correct
ヽ(。_°)ノ

[stuck palm]

im happy to change it but

[rich adder]

string myString = $"{scoreAmount:0000}"

[stuck palm]

idk if smoothdamp is good for a constantly changing value?

i could be wrong

[muted wadi]

does this work if the variable is a float?

[rich adder]

should

[muted wadi]

thanks much

[stuck palm]

do you know why my jumping is really delayed sometimes?sometimes its instant, which is why i find it weird. the inspector shows the player is grounded at the right times

[wintry quarry]

wdym by delayed

[rich adder]

isGrounded i bet is the issue

its very opinionated when it considers itself grounded xD

[stuck palm]

i'll press it, sometimes it will do it, sometimes it wont

[wintry quarry]

Debug.Log, but likely it's the groundeed check yes

[stuck palm]

thats weird lmao

[wintry quarry]

you have Collapse on

so it's impossible to tell when it's grounded and not grounded

especially inside the OnJump call

you're not logging it where it counts

you're probably logging it somewhere else

[stuck palm]

its like a true every once in a while

[wintry quarry]

Do you know how CharacterController.isGrounded works?

It has a very specific, very predictable method of working

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController-isGrounded.html

The last time Move was called is what matters

and if that move call pushed it into the ground, it will be true

otherwise, false

[muted wadi]

@rich adder i have no idea why this might be happening

[rich adder]

uh show current code

[muted wadi]

{
    string scoreString = $"{score:000000}";
    string killsString = $"{kills:0000}";
    string stardustString = $"{money:00000}";

    moneyText.text = "Stardust: " + money.ToString(stardustString);
    scoreText.text = "Score: " + score.ToString(scoreString);
    killsText.text = "Kills: " + kills.ToString(killsString);
}```

[stuck palm]

Should I just use my own grounded method then?

I had one when I used rigid bodies

I think it's still in there

[wintry quarry]

probably

[rich adder]

is the score 4000 when you showed that?

[muted wadi]

its set to 4000 through the editor yeah

[wintry quarry]

you're doing score.ToString(scoreString)

you should just be writing scoreString

[rich adder]

ahh yes good catch

[muted wadi]

oh duh

[wintry quarry]

not only that

you don't need the concatenation

[muted wadi]

i can just do scoreString?

[wintry quarry]

just do killsText.text = $"Kills: {kills:0000}";

for example

no need for the extra variable and secondary concatenation stuff

[muted wadi]

oh that makes sense

[wintry quarry]

scoreText.text = $"Score: {score:000000}";

[muted wadi]

thanks a lot

ironically i haven't done much practice with strings and stuff at all

[rich adder]

The one Unity does in their proper TPC/FPS controller

private void GroundedCheck()
{
    // set sphere position, with offset
    Vector3 spherePosition = new Vector3(transform.position.x, transform.position.y - GroundedOffset, transform.position.z);
    Grounded = Physics.CheckSphere(spherePosition, GroundedRadius, GroundLayers, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore);

    // update animator if using character
    if (_hasAnimator)
    {
        _animator.SetBool(_animIDGrounded, Grounded);
    }
}```

very simple stuff but does major difference in detection

[mild mortar]

public class MovingPlatform : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 1;
    [SerializeField] GameObject[] waypoints;
    int currentWaypointIndex = 0;
    private Vector3 lastPosition;

    public Vector3 direction => waypoints [currentWaypointIndex].transform.position - transform.position; 

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {    
        if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, waypoints[currentWaypointIndex].transform.position) < .1f)
        {
            currentWaypointIndex ++;
            if (currentWaypointIndex >= waypoints.Length)
            {
                currentWaypointIndex = 0;
            }
        }
        // Move towards
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, waypoints[currentWaypointIndex].transform.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

        lastPosition = transform.position;

    }
}

Anyone have any idea why this cube of mine just keeps going forever in one direction?

I wanted it to go back and forth between the two waypoints

[gaunt ice]

parent position is affected by its children and the children position are modified by the parent when the parent move
circular dependency

[cinder plover]

https://gdl.space/itonaniciq.cpp
Anyone knows why this doesnt work?

[summer stump]

Not without knowing what "doesn't work" means

[cinder plover]

It doesnt log

Idk why tho

Like the debug log doesnt activate

[summer stump]

It is not hit or headHit

Debug BEFORE the if statements

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/physics-messages/2-trigger-messages-3d

[cinder plover]

That does work

[summer stump]

Make sure the physics message actually gets triggered

[cinder plover]

It does

but in the if

both dontć

[summer stump]

Ah ok, so the issue is just the if statements then

[rich adder]

why are you storing collider anyway lol

public Collider hit;
public Collider headhit;

[cinder plover]

to know if it was a body hit or a headshot

[rich adder]

you should at least use tags

[summer stump]

What gameobject is target on?

[swift crag]

checking exactly which collider you hit sounds fine to me

[cinder plover]

Where are the tags

[swift crag]

Although, the logic seems backwards

other is the collider that hit you

[rich adder]

ig depends whats selected in the colliders

[cinder plover]

On the target?

[swift crag]

so other is a bullet

[cinder plover]

ah

shit

[swift crag]

Unfortunately, you can't ask what your collider was in a trigger message.

unlike with a collision message.

but all is not lost: you just need to use separate game objects

[summer stump]

What fen is saying is why I asked

[swift crag]

Give each part of the target a separate game object with one or more colliders

You'll put a component on each game object that reacts when hit.

[cinder plover]

kk ill try it

[swift crag]

Maybe each one can have a float that says how much damage is caused when it's hit.

[rich adder]

btw slight optimization not related to your issue.. @cinder plover
not set transforms individually and use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetPositionAndRotation.html

[swift crag]

that method name is a mouthful

i often avoid using it just because it's so annoying to look at

[summer stump]

I told someone to make a bool yesterday, and they named it isLowPriorityDestinationCurrentlySet

[rich adder]

lol must be really useful if they went ahead and made one for Local too
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetLocalPositionAndRotation.html
there is also the Get equivalent
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.GetLocalPositionAndRotation.html

[swift crag]

sounds like a proper C# developer to me

[rich adder]

I wonder what the efficiency of it is , i never benchmarked it

I just blindly trusting unity on this one

[rich adder]

imagine we were still working with limited variable name sizes.? how would you even shorten that xD

[swift crag]

bool goodLuck

[rich adder]

xD

[summer stump]

lpdcs

[rich adder]

oh my. that would be a curse

[swift crag]

printer on fire.

[hybrid gust]

So I'm running into an issue in my scene, where I have an interactable object I can pick up and put down. I'm handling both the 'pick up' and 'put down' functions with raycasts. Only issue is that, because I'm playing the object at RaycastHit.point, my object is always going to clip halfway into wherever I place it. Any tips or ideas? I tried looking online for an answer and all I got was this vdeio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNOAeQqXgg0. Which is ALMOST like the issue I'm haing, except I'm trying to fix this at runtime and not in the editor. But it is a good visual representation of what my issue is.

[rich adder]

must lpdc my lpdcs

[bitter oar]

can anyone explain to me why unity doesn't let me put this in an if statement?

(Vector2.Distance(inputManager.prevDefinedMovementInput, inputManager.movementInput) < 1f || inputManager.previousMovementInput = inputManager.movementInput)

it says:
operator can not be applied to 'bool' and 'vector2'

but what does it matter? im only checking if one of them is true..

[swift crag]

I would suggest shooting a raycast from under the floor

Compare the hit point to the center of the object. Offset the object by the difference.

[rich adder]

you're using = instead of ==

[bitter oar]

oh my god im so stupid

thank you so much

[hybrid gust]

I might not be understandng, wouldn't the difference always be zero?

[swift crag]

specifically, offset it by the differnce after running it through Vector3.Project, kind of like this:

Vector3 placePoint = // do your first raycast to decide where it goes
Vector3 bottomPoint = Vector3.zero;
if (Physics.Raycast(placePoint - Vector3.up * 3, Vector3.up, out var hit, 5f, LayerMask.GetMask("Item"))) {
  bottomPoint = hit.point;
}

Vector3 correction = placePoint - bottomPoint;
placePoint += correction;

[swift crag]

This would be a second raycast.

[stuck palm]

yeah thats similar to what i used already

[hybrid gust]

OHhhh. I think i see wym

I kept thinking of my object as a single point and not as a whole thing with bigga^^ collision box. Yeah that makes a ton of sense

[swift crag]

you want to place it at the red X, and you do

then you shoot a ray to find the blue X and offset by the difference!

[hybrid gust]

Huge help thank you

also what program is that?

[swift crag]

no prob (:

The physics should behave properly. You'll move the object (and thus its collider) twice instantly

So it won't go flying after clipping into the floor from the first move

[cinder plover]

https://gdl.space/rafequfeye.cpp
I changed it to game objects but it still doesnt work :(

[swift crag]

I think you'll want to set the transform directly for the first move

Then set the rigidbody position for the second move

[swift crag]

that's not what I meant.

[hybrid gust]

Cause I could using something like this to visualize my problems

[swift crag]

this and hit can't possibly be equal; they're unrelated types

[swift crag]

my suggestion was to put the regular and head hitboxes on two separate gameobjects

[hybrid gust]

nvm I just realized that is an IOS app

[swift crag]

it's Notability, yeah

[cinder plover]

i did that

[swift crag]

Okay, so you should have a "Target" component on both objects, too.

[hybrid gust]

I could kiss you

[swift crag]

Each one will respond to trigger messages caused by its own colliders

So Target would only have one damage number prefab (you'd assign a different one for the head target and the body target)

Each one would just say "i got hit, so spawn my damage number prefab"

[hot niche]

using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMouseLook : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float sensitivity = 2f;
    public float verticalLimit = 80f;

    private float rotationX = 0f;

    void Update()
    {
        // Mouse Look
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivity;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity;

        // Apply rotation to the player around the Y-axis (horizontal)
        transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);

        // Apply rotation to the camera around the X-axis (vertical)
        rotationX -= mouseY;
        rotationX = Mathf.Clamp(rotationX, -verticalLimit, verticalLimit);

        // Apply the rotation to the camera (not the entire player)
        transform.GetChild(0).localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotationX, 0f, 0f);
    }
}

My camera is rotating left/right instead of looking Up or Down

[rich adder]

which object has this script ?

[hot niche]

the "Player" its just a cylender

its doing this instead of looking up

[ashen wind]

I have this third person camera that rotates around the player and moves up and down as you move the cursor:

            pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch + -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity, minPitch, maxPitch);

            Vector3 pos = Target.position;
            Quaternion rot = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, heading, 0);
            pos += rot * (Vector3.back * distanceToTarget);

            transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, pos, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rot, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);

the problem is I want the camera as a child of the player so it moves with the player, and the way I've coded it resets the camera position every frame, overriding the parent/child positions setting

how do I fix this

[wintry quarry]

why are you controlling the camera's position at all in this script?

[ashen wind]

because when I move the cursor a certain amount up or down, I want the camera to move up or down

so that it rotates around the player

[wintry quarry]

to move up or down? Or to rotate?

Oh like an orbit camera?

[rich adder]

just to make sure can you show your gizmos in local space for the object that holds the script, in scene view

[wintry quarry]

You should just be dealing with local positions, not world positions

[ashen wind]

yes exactly

[wintry quarry]

so do that

transform.localPosition exists

[ashen wind]

let me try that

oh god

[wintry quarry]

Note that - Vector3 pos = Target.position; will need to be converted to local space too

it's unclear what Target is exactly

[hot niche]

im still fairly new at this can you elaborate?

[rich adder]

ohh your facing the red?

[hot niche]

yes

[rich adder]

thats why when you rotate you going sideway

[swift crag]

Red - X - Right
Green - Y - Up
Blue - Z - Forward

[rich adder]

your forward should be Blue

[swift crag]

Those are the three axes.

[hot niche]

oops lol. Im soo dumb haha

[rich adder]

common issue 😏

[swift crag]

When you have the scene view in "Local" mode, you'll see the handles (e.g. the arrows in your screenshot) lined up with the local axes of the selected object

[hot niche]

the reason why I did that was because the camera icon

shows a "window" facing forward

see like a TV

[swift crag]

Perhaps your camera is on the wrong side.

[hot niche]

maybe

lemee rotate it il brb

[swift crag]

Switch to "Pivot" mode and select the capsule.

(from "Center" mode)

[rich adder]

yup, make that camera frustum face the same direction as blue

[swift crag]

The camera should be looking in the direction of the capsule's blue arrow.

It should have no rotation around the Y axis, as a result

[hot niche]

il have to unchild the laser gun

to do this as its rotating everything

[rich adder]

well having correct gizmos is priceless in time saved later

[hot niche]

TY for the the advice

[swift crag]

Yes, you should get a good grasp of how things are oriented and positioned

I rarely have to "guess and check" anymore

[hot niche]

im used to the war thunder CDK gismo being the red line as the front so yeah my bad

[rich adder]

in 2D generally Red is "Forward "

(technically right in unity)

but topdown you can also make Up your forward

[swift crag]

yeah, Vector3.forward points into the screen if you put your scene view into 2D mode

[cinder plover]

Ok i did that it works, but now melted plastic is coming out of my vr headset

[swift crag]

i hate when that happens

[cinder plover]

same

[swift crag]

is it overheating and lagging?

[hot niche]

he created an infinite loop I think

lagging his headset to death

[cinder plover]

when the bullet hits yeah

and crashes

does it activate multiple times or something

[swift crag]

Show your new code.

[rich adder]

are you recursively doing something?

[swift crag]

I can't guess what you wrote!

[hot niche]

@rich adder it works yayyyy

[swift crag]

Perhaps spawnedNumber has a collider on it?

[hot niche]

TY

[cinder plover]

nope

[rich adder]

np!

[swift crag]

You're unconditionally spawning a number every time anything sets off your trigger collider.

[ashen wind]

it's so close, but there's still a problem when I try to walk. the walking transform.Translates the parent, (which is what Target is) and somehow that makes the whole thing go out of whack.

            pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch + -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity, minPitch, maxPitch);

            Vector3 pos = Target.localPosition;
            Quaternion rot = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, heading, 0);
            pos += rot * (Vector3.back * distanceToTarget);

            transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.localPosition, pos, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rot, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);

should I be using localrotation too?

[wintry quarry]

the walking transform.Translates the parent, (which is what Target is)
I have no idea what this means tbh

what is target? Which object?

oh sorry

it's the player/parent?

[ashen wind]

I have a player gameobject with its own script that calls transform.translate when it walks. that object is the value of Target in the camera script

and is also the parent of the camera gameobject

[wintry quarry]

You don't need to ever do Target.localPosition

that's nonsense anyway

[ashen wind]

oh yeah that makes sense

since it's the topmost parent

[wintry quarry]

Vector3 pos = Vector3.zero; would be correct here

transform.localPosition is in the coordinates space of its parent

so Vector3.zero would be the parent's location in that coordinate space

[hot niche]

How do I rotate the gizmos of an object without rotating the object itself

[swift crag]

what are you trying to do?

[swift crag]

you probably need to parent the object to an empty object

[hot niche]

its causing the rotation of my gun to be wrong

[wintry quarry]

go into blender

and fix the mesh

and re-export it properly

[swift crag]

That would be preferable, yeah.

[wintry quarry]

Or yes, use an empty parent

[swift crag]

But you might need to use an empty parent anyway

[ashen wind]

oh wait, actually it's like this:

where the camera script is on player_camera and the rigidbody/Target gameobject is capsule

[swift crag]

e.g. to adjust the exact position the gun sits at

I almost always wind up setting up objects like this:

• Gun
  • Model

[wintry quarry]

that's what you said before, no? Target is the parent

[ashen wind]

so I think that's why I was doing target.position

[swift crag]

the model is not the root object

[hot niche]

i dont have blender so il do the empty parent trick im too lazy to do blender, its more of an @ home project thats not gonna be published anywhere

[ashen wind]

ok just checking that it doesn't need to be localpos

[wintry quarry]

in this case, everything I said here is correct: #💻┃code-beginner message

[ashen wind]

no it's not. got it

[hot niche]

I created an empty parent, fixed its orientation and its doing this

[swift crag]

non-uniform scale!

A parent of that object has a scale with uneven values.

This will cause skewing.

[ashen wind]

something is still wrong somehow

when I move the camera rotation goes crazy

[hot niche]

1,1,1 on both the parent and the cutter itself

whats busted

[swift crag]

Oh wait, I didn't read that properly.

I thought it was stretching.

It's just rotating around the wrong axis.

Are you rotating PlayerCamera, perhaps?

[ashen wind]

            pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch + -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity, minPitch, maxPitch);

            Vector3 pos = Vector3.zero;
            Quaternion rot = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, heading, 0);
            pos += rot * (Vector3.back * distanceToTarget);

            transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.localPosition, pos, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rot, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);

this calls on the camera script

[hot niche]

I think so. Original rotation works peroperly on the "player"

[swift crag]

Look in the scene view as you look around

you can grab the game view window and move it to the side

[hot niche]

without the edited gun script, the gun will rotate left and right with the player

but il look up and down and it will just stay where its at

[ashen wind]

@wintry quarry do you think the reason it's getting messed up when I move has something to do with the distance calculation that I do in start()

distanceToTarget = Vector3.Distance(transform.localPosition, Target.position);

[hot niche]

I undid the broken script and this is where its at now

[swift crag]

ah, right: the gun follows you looking left and right, since that rotates your whole body

[hot niche]

How do I get it to look up and down too

[swift crag]

You could parent it to the camera, or you could separate logic to rotate it up and down

[hot niche]

parented it to the camera it works

yayy

[wintry quarry]

youwouldn't use localPosition for this distance calculation

.position would be correct

[ashen wind]

private void Start()
    {
        pitch = transform.eulerAngles.x;
        heading = transform.eulerAngles.y;
        distanceToTarget = transform.localPosition.magnitude;
        

    }
    void Update()
    {
            pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch + -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity, minPitch, maxPitch);

            Vector3 pos = Vector3.zero;
            Quaternion rot = Quaternion.Euler(pitch, heading, 0);
            pos += rot * (Vector3.back * distanceToTarget);

            transform.localPosition = Vector3.Lerp(transform.localPosition, pos, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, rot, Time.deltaTime * smoothing);

[ashen wind]

it's still doing this

perhaps it's the pitch and heading calculation?

or maybe it's in my player movement code

           
            rb.velocity = Vector3.zero;

            Vector3 camEuler = cs.transform.eulerAngles;
            camEuler.x = 0;
            Vector3 moveDir = Quaternion.Euler(camEuler) * new Vector3(direction.x, 0, direction.z).normalized;
            transform.Translate(moveDir * Time.deltaTime * speed);



            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(moveDir.x, moveDir.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(player_capsule.transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
            player_capsule.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);```

I think maybe when I change player_capsule.transform.rotation

it's messing it up

[wintry quarry]

I highly recommend just using cinemachine e.g. Cinemachine FreeLook rather than writing this yourself

[ashen wind]

because when I wrote that code

it wasn't parented

[wintry quarry]

Also yes you're mixing up Rigidbody motion with Translate?

That's a recipe for disaster

[ashen wind]

oh do those not play nice? i was gonna do translate when grounded and rigidbody when airborn

that's why I have rb.velocity = 0

[wintry quarry]

absolutely not

Either use physics or don't

you can't mix and match

[ashen wind]

why not? it hasn't caused problems yet

[wintry quarry]

it will

subtle, nefarious, weird collision issues, etc.

[ashen wind]

so the rigidbody should be on the parent gameobject?

and then I should use rb.move or something

for player grounded movement

[slender nymph]

if you're using velocity or force for jumping/air movement then you'll want to do the same for ground movement

[ashen wind]

ok

[inner juniper]

what is this error?

[wintry quarry]

It says the error,.
A NullReferenceException on line 109 of PlayerMovement.cs

[inner juniper]

okay i will check

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[inner juniper]

wait but at line 109 isnt anything like speedcontroll

[slender nymph]

line 109 should be within the SpeedControl method

[languid spire]

which method is line 109 in?

[inner juniper]

wha...?

[wintry quarry]

Huh?

that's absolutely inside SpeedControl...

[slender nymph]

your text object is null. also configure your !IDE

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

anyway clearly text_speed is null

you have to assign it

[inner juniper]

oh i see it now

okay

[wintry quarry]

Also yes your IDE is not configured, that's going to make your life quite difficult

[inner juniper]

how do i configure it?

[wintry quarry]

by following the instructions you were just linked

[inner juniper]

and im sorry im bothering im VERY new to c sharp programing

[inner juniper]

oh i didnt even nocided that thx!

[queen adder]

Hey guys, Im having trouble with Vector3.MoveTowards. This is my code but the gameobject is going somewhere completetly different instead of following the player

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "somewhere completely different"?

Also this code is framerate dependent

it will move at different speeds depending on your current framerate

[ashen wind]

@wintry quarry got it working and changed everything to rigidbody. ❤️ appreciate you

[queen adder]

(In the black) The purple game object is supposed to follow the orange player (In the white) but instead moves somewhere else and I don't get why

[wintry quarry]

I would guess it's not referencing the correct object

how did you assign the player reference?

[queen adder]

hello, i am struggling with a problem that is tough to find why it's happening. basically, what i'm trying to do is a fog of war effect where i have a 2D tilemap over top of another tilemap and based on the location of the player, set some tiles to null in the fog of war tilemap that shows in the full screen map.

the problem is my code works fine in the editor, and all the expected tiles are disabled. however, when i run the code in the windows build, it will not work the same. it will disable tiles fine, up until the first time i open up my full screen map window. then it will not disable tiles anymore. the full screen map window has a RawImage that points to a RenderTexture which my Camera is rendering to.

i would appreciate any help to understand where the problem might be.

my code in Update

  Vector3Int playerCellPos = currentGroundTilemap.WorldToCell(playerPos);

  for (int x = -revealRadiusX; x <= revealRadiusX; x++)
  {
      for (int y = -revealRadiusY; y <= revealRadiusY; y++)
      {
          Vector3Int tilePos = new Vector3Int(playerCellPos.x, playerCellPos.y, 0) + new Vector3Int(x, y, 0);

          var tile = currentFogOfWarTilemap.GetTile<Tile>(tilePos);

          if (tile != null)
          {
              currentFogOfWarTilemap.SetTile(tilePos, null);
              currentFogOfWarTilemap.RefreshTile(tilePos);

              UpdateRenderTexture();
          }
      }
  }                ```

@wintry quarry

[wintry quarry]

ok but

where did you drag TankPLlayer1 from?

Is it a prefab?

Or is it the player in the scene?

BTW there is no need for self references or transform references.

you can get your own GameObject with .gameObject and the Transform with .transform

[queen adder]

Tankplayer is a prefab, but I am dragging it from the heirarchy

[slender nymph]

you can also call GetComponent on any component, including this

[wintry quarry]

Things in the hierarchy are not prefabs

Prefabs only live in the project folder

[queen adder]

I think I see the problem now

I am dragging it as a prefab

[wintry quarry]

Show exactly what you dragged into where? Because I think you're referencing the prefab

yep

[queen adder]

Thanks for the help

[wintry quarry]

So you're moving to the prefab's position, which is likely 0

[queen adder]

It was something else but yea

I can't drag the object from the hierarchy into the inspector now 💀

[wintry quarry]

because prefabs can't reference scene objects

[queen adder]

How do I make it so the prefab follows the player then?

[wintry quarry]

You have to give the enemy a reference to the player after you spawn it

simple example, for a spawner script that does it:

public Enemy enemyPrefab; // assign in the inspector to your enemy prefab
public Transform player; // assign in the inspector to your player in the scene

void SpawnEnemy() {
  Enemy newEnemy = Instantiate(enemyPrefab);
  newEnemy.player = player;
}```

[queen adder]

works in editor, doesn't work in build examples. the player would be centered in the middle of the screen, so i expect that it would remove the appropriate fog of war tiles as the player moves.

exact same code, and i've debugged to check that it's executing the same SetTile(null) code, but for some reason, my render texture isn't updating with the latest tile data from my camera

[queen adder]

I see

[slender nymph]

i would recommend using a debugger to step through the code to see what is actually happening in your build
https://unity.huh.how/debugging/debugger

[queen adder]

thanks for replying, i definitely did attach the debugger and stepped through the code to see that it was setting the tile to null as i expected.

but the problem is, when i set a tile to null in the tilemap, somehow the change does not propagate back to the camera render and subsequently to the render texture that is shown in my RawImage in the UI

[queen adder]

Also, is the Enemy class actually a thing or was it an example? Because I used GameObject thinking Enemy was an example and got this
'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'player' and no accessible extension method 'player' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[wintry quarry]

it was an example

[wintry quarry]

It needs to be whatever your actual enemy script is called

not GameObject

[queen adder]

Ohhhh

[wintry quarry]

btw you can do Quaternion.identity instead of Quaternion.Euler(0,0,0)

[queen adder]

ahh gotcha

my bad

ahh right because the prefab reference was an Enemy object not a GameObject

[slender nymph]

Instantiate is a generic method that returns the same type you pass to it as the first parameter. so if they pass an Enemy object as the first parameter then it returns an Enemy object

[queen adder]

yeah i misread the code oops

removed the stupid comment

You probably need to reassign the player variable of the 'MentosMinionController' script in the inspector.```
MentosMinionController is my 'Enemy' class btw

[wintry quarry]

show the c ode

[queen adder]

Spawner code

[wintry quarry]

If you're doing this the player assigment stuff needs to be in Start not Awake

but realistically

[queen adder]

It works now

Thanks so much

[valid palm]

Hi! I need help please!
So, this is my character roster

whenever I press Shift, the present character gets disabled and I control another one

its all fine except for the animations

when I change controls while running the disabled script character keeps doing the run anim

[slender nymph]

sounds like you aren't updating parameters when you disable it. of course you haven't shown any !code so that's just a guess

[eternal falcon]

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[valid palm]

I will send it

https://pastebin.com/5dn04qZ6

[slender nymph]

You only change the animation state in Update. Update does not run on disabled components

[valid palm]

which void can help me?

[rich adder]

a void is nothing more than a return type for method...

[valid palm]

sorry, I meant function

[slender nymph]

Take a look at the docs for MonoBehaviour and see which one lines up most with what you want to do

[valid palm]

alright, will try, thanks!

[hot niche]

So the gizmos are incorrect causing me a boat load of issues. I opened the gun in blender, how do I fix the gizmos?

[rich adder]

blender

use the Apply Transform when you export

[hot niche]

im in blender

[rich adder]

Z forward / Y up. in Apply Transform

[hot niche]

Im pressing Z this is what shows up

[rich adder]

I did not say press Z. I said when you export Apply Transform with following settings #💻┃code-beginner message

[hot niche]

aaaah gotchya

[hot niche]

Got it thanks! lets reimport.

axis is still busted

[vernal ore]

Try this on the mesh import settings

[rich adder]

😏

[rich adder]

try this @hot niche

[hot niche]

It reversed it

[rich adder]

are you exporting FBX ?

this isn't code question btw. next time goes in #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[hot niche]

oops il go there sorry

[hot niche]

im doing, File export

[rich adder]

that doesnt answer

[hot niche]

im exporting .obj

[rich adder]

ok so you didn't follow what I said..

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[hot niche]

OOOH i see, export the file as .fbx

[vernal ore]

Me and my artist spent a bit of time to make Unity look the same as in blender. There are different ways to do this but you might be interested in our setup. This was based on the blender axis and not on the unity ones.

[slender nymph]

you should also make sure this isn't just an issue of your tool handles being set to Global instead of Local

[vernal ore]

All our models look at Unity's Forward Direction (Z in Unity and -X in Blender).

[pastel flume]

Hello I have a question about character movement
my character movement is functional but when I use a jump it doesn't work while the character is moving
and the code that makes the character fall down faster also don't work well while the character moves

I'm using the unity input system

it reads a 2d vector of wasd movement and applies it

to the rigid body

in a fixed update

[eternal needle]

You'll have to show the !code, I'm gonna assume though this partially due to manually assigning velocity and the drag on the rigidbody causing it to hover

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[pastel flume]

https://paste.ofcode.org/vNdEiPPEFqGEMMfJKH3Yhj

[pastel flume]

what would you reccomend
i only just started a day ago
and there's impulse and a lot of other stuff

didn't wanna go with transform.translate tho

[eternal needle]

Yes you are overwriting the velocity, so the vertical velocity is basically ignored. You should make a Vector3 that stores what the combined velocity should be, then assign that to the rb velocity

[eternal needle]

Im not a fan of using addForce to move the player, unless you need the player to really react in a physics based environment

[pastel flume]

i see

[pastel flume]

should i keep a private variable in the head then

just storing the player movement

forceDirection += new Vector3(move.ReadValue<Vector2>().x, 0f, move.ReadValue<Vector2>().y) * movementForce; here sets it to 0

so that's the overwriting

[eternal needle]

I would, but only because you would directly assign that global vector3 during the new input system methods. Not because the method particularly needs it

[pine dagger]

public class MouseLook : MonoBehaviour
{

    public float mouseSensitivity = 0f;
    private float xRotation = 0;
    public Transform playerBody;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity;

        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90, 90f);

        transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);
        playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
    }
}
```whys my sensitivity so god damn high

ive tried 100f, 0f, 3f

[slender nymph]

try 1

and make sure you're changing it in the inspector, not just the field declaration

[pine dagger]

slightly better for some reason

[pine dagger]

alright

ah that fixed it for some reason - changing in the inspector

[wintry quarry]

well you weren't actually changing it until you did that

[vapid cypress]

Question:
I have the above visual code that detects movement along a 2d player character based on left or right. I want to make it so that it flips my character to face the way that he is moving. IE) if he is moving left he is facing left and if he is moving right he is facing right.
How would I go about doing that with the current setup I have in visual coding?

[pine dagger]

oh, how come? surely i was changing it in the code no

[summer stump]

Inspector takes precedence

[pine dagger]

interesting

[summer stump]

Unless you do it in a method like Start or Awake

[pine dagger]

oh

[timber tide]

spriterender has flipping methods so get the direction from velocity and decide when to flip

[wintry quarry]

If the code took precedence then there would be no point in the inspector

How would you set two enemies to have different HP for example

[pine dagger]

I just assumed that once the game is ran the script runs from the start too initialising the variables to what you have set

[wintry quarry]

It does, and then Unity replaces that with the serialized values from the scene or prefab asset

[pine dagger]

ohh right

[vapid cypress]

So what would that look like with visual code? What node am I going to grab to attach to the Rigidbody 2D set velocity node

[timber tide]

the heck do I know

I don't really touch visual scripting

[vapid cypress]

I wish I could just normally code it

[wintry quarry]

Visual scripting uses all the same stuff as regular scripting

it's just... visual

but all the properties and functions are the same

So if you want to use flipX on the SpriteRenderer for example, you do exactly that

[vapid cypress]

the main thing I'm struggling with is getting it to link to the velocity

[wintry quarry]

well that's a property of the Rigidbody2D

[vapid cypress]

Specifically due to the fact that this script uses GetAxisRaw instead of normal inputs

[wintry quarry]

In what way is GetAxisRaw not normal?

[vapid cypress]

It is I've just never used it before, we started with 3D not 2d so we were using actual button inputs

[wintry quarry]

3D and 2D have nothing to do with input

Input works the same way in both

[summer stump]

I think they mean they had UI buttons that triggered events

[vapid cypress]

I mean that we used getkey

[summer stump]

Oh

[vapid cypress]

And so I could just attach the flipx to those

[summer stump]

Well it's exactly the same then

[wintry quarry]

GetKey returns true or false
GetAxis returns a number

otherwise it's not much different

(and also has nothing to do with 2d or 3d)

[summer stump]

Yeah, sorry I was flippant with my response. Not exactly the same.
It's just not gonna be different enough that it should be an issue

[vapid cypress]

I might just be having a brainfart honestly but this is what it looks like rn

[summer stump]

Convert to a bool condition like if (Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") > 0);
Instead of it already being a bool

[timber tide]

usually you use GetAxis when you deal with analog controls because it's not just a true or false

I mean, it can be if you want to implement it that way

[wintry quarry]

this is for a facing left/right check

I believe

[vapid cypress]

yes

[wintry quarry]

so it will certainly be a check of > 0 or < 0

[vapid cypress]

Character movement is not an issue just the orientation of the facing

[wintry quarry]

see what you're doing with the velocity?

getting the y part

do the same thing

but get the x

and then feed that into a comparison node

see if it's > 0 or < 0

and face right or left based on that

You could do it either with the velocity or with the horizontal input axis. Up to you

[vapid cypress]

So like this

[wintry quarry]

something like that yes

[vapid cypress]

doesn't it need to be lit up to work too

[wintry quarry]

I hav eno idea I don't use visual scripting

[rich adder]

I think its because ur missing Input from rigidbody

[wintry quarry]

Don;t you need to set that to happen in Update for examplke?

[rich adder]

is this needs to be connected to something no?

[vapid cypress]

The other one isn't

[wintry quarry]

no but it has the On Update thing

[timber tide]

where's the entry point to all this

[wintry quarry]

right now you're not telling it WHEN to run this code

[vapid cypress]

So add a second update node

Yep

[wintry quarry]

maybe? Is that even possible? Can it be attached to the same one? Again I don't know how VS works

[vapid cypress]

Just one big massive brain fart

[timber tide]

oh I see

[vapid cypress]

Yeah it needed a second update node

Each update node can only have 1 pathway

[timber tide]

man who knew 5 lines of code required so much work

[wintry quarry]

pretty sure you don't need two set flip Xs

you can just feed the bool directly into the value

nor do you need the if

[vapid cypress]

mostly me being sleep deprived and dumb dumb

[vapid cypress]

Yeah I'm removing them now and testing it

[summer stump]

I think it's mostly node-based code being wild and difficult

[azure zenith]

How do I disable player movement without accessing the player movement script?

[vapid cypress]

Could be that too

[summer stump]

Impossible to answer as asked

[vapid cypress]

That was the last thing I needed too

[summer stump]

How does it move? Rigidbody? Transform? The animator? Is it in Update or Fixed update or using callbacks?

[vapid cypress]

For that project anyways

[timber tide]

I can see the use of this stuff, but it would be nice to just inject some c# code in places

[vapid cypress]

Not allowed, has to be ALL visual scripting

[acoustic arch]

https://hatebin.com/qcwkblqllg
it detects being grounded perfectly fine, but it only jumps id say 1/4 of the times i click the space bar which is odd
so it must be something with the playerVelocity.y

[vapid cypress]

🥲

Though huh it doesn't stay facing the last way it always defaults back to being facing the right

[pastel flume]

i've tried setting the y value to the rigidbody velocity but that just infinitely adds more jump height to the character

[rich adder]

the motto of any Visual Script

[summer stump]

Are you adding or setting the velocity?

[azure zenith]

So you have to access the player movement script?

[pastel flume]

https://paste.ofcode.org/vNdEiPPEFqGEMMfJKH3Yhj
adding an impulse force to the rigidbody based on wasd input from input system

[summer stump]

How did you get that from what I wrote?
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[pastel flume]

but the jump gets overwritten or messed up

[azure zenith]

The player has rigidbody attached

[summer stump]

You have addforce in at least three places.
Also why set that movement vectors y value to 0 when you just add back in the y velocity again immediately after?

[summer stump]

It has it attached. But is that how you move?

And what about the other questions? (About where the code to move is)

[pastel flume]

there's just one add force
the move() was meant to just handle movement but now i'm trying to add jumping and it's not really meshing well

[summer stump]

Sorry, I meant three places you modify movement. One addforce two velocity

[pastel flume]

yeah
so the movement adds the force of the x and z
based on input
and when spacebar is pressed the velocity upwards is increased

how would you reccomend

implementing

the jump/movement

[edgy hearth]

im watching this tutorial for sprinting and crouching, and the dude is using a rigidbody for his character and not a CC. How can i change this code he wrote to work for my CC?

sorry if its a dumb question this is my first time doing game dev and even using c#

[rich adder]

well they wont work the same