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[queen adder]

im using 2017 and my vsc is configured

[rich adder]

mate your code editor and unity version have nothing to do

[polar acorn]

it's for every unity version ever made

Because it's not a Unity thing

it's an IDE thing

[meager sentinel]

well it says this

[rich adder]

you'll be fine

[meager sentinel]

Oh k, ty

[queen adder]

yea, didnt noticed that before, such bad misinformation

(still waiting for peeps to pull you over to VS though)

[rich adder]

they're getting rid of mac version of vs

[queen adder]

oh mac, that changes things

[rich adder]

so annoying having to switch to vscode for my mac

[queen adder]

so that's why no "use VS" comments in 😁

[rich adder]

Use VS if don't want problems 🙂

[slender nymph]

or rider if you can't use vs

[queen adder]

mac have rider?

[rich adder]

ye

all platform

[queen adder]

android rider is promising

[rich adder]

im just poor

[slender nymph]

just be a student and get it for free. or grab it during one of their EAP times

[queen adder]

but actually, ill buy rider if they can do android

[rich adder]

ew coding on mobile lol

[queen adder]

not that bad if you have work with lots of idle times

anyway too chitchat already, let's drop

[amber spruce]

Vector2 screenPos = cam.WorldToScreenPoint(target.position);
Vector2 offset = new Vector2(0, 50);
Vector2 finalPos = screenPos + offset;
transform.position = finalPos;

smth like that

[rich adder]

thats like an uneccessary amounts of extra vars with a magic number lol

[amber spruce]

i know it can be compressed down but that would work

right?

[rich adder]

yea

well if its UI shouldn't you use anchoredPos ?

[amber spruce]

idk it works

[rich adder]

sweet

how did you come up with 50? don't use magic numbers XD

[eternal needle]

try it on different aspect ratios, that 50 might cause it to break in certain resolutions

[rich adder]

smart

[amber spruce]

oh yeah it does

[amber spruce]

i just used it for testing lol

[queen adder]

hardcoding numbers are nasty and usually will bite you later 💯

[amber spruce]

how would i get the correct number then?

[queen adder]

wait i dunno the whole problem

[rich adder]

idk adjust them inside the inspector

[amber spruce]

this was my original message

[rich adder]

but. i think the problem was the anchord pos

[amber spruce]

wouldnt it still get messed up with different aspec ratios

[rich adder]

anchoredpos should be on the canvas no?

[queen adder]

ah it was offset, it should be fine as long as it looks what you wanted, thought u are using hardcoded for anchors/pivots

[rich adder]

honestly I havent done too much UI to have a straight answer sorry

[slender nymph]

easy answer: instead of hardcoding any sort of offset, give the object this UI element is follow a child object that the UI object will follow instead and just offset the child object. then you won't need an offset specified for the UI object

[amber spruce]

well i have it following a object its just for some reason it puts it underneath the object

[slender nymph]

right so make it follow a child of that object that is offset so that this object appears in the location you want

[amber spruce]

ah ok

[slender nymph]

then you won't need to do any addition to get the position, you just get the target's position in screenspace and make that the UI object's position

[amber spruce]

now i gotta figure out where exactly i want it to go so it doesnt look weird

[queen adder]

What callback can I use that works like update but in scene mode?

[rich adder]

Update can work in editor btw

[queen adder]

just every refresh though

I kinda want a constant thing

nvm, ig i can just use menuitems for this case

[rich adder]

what are you trying to do

[queen adder]

put tilemap tiles in scene using keyboard keys

i press w it put wall on where my mouse in scenetab is

[whole isle]

would any1 like to assist me in the animation chat

ive been at it for a while

still cant find a fix

[rich adder]

could've sworn there was such a class for editor

[queen adder]

catching inputs in edit mode?

[rich adder]

was this I think

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

you probably need it inside here though
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Editor.OnSceneGUI.html

[queen adder]

this is cool stuff (know it instantly since methods are smallcase lol)

[lethal kestrel]

with dictionaries is there a way i can get the just the string inside the brackets. e.g get "string" from [string].

[slender nymph]

like you have a string that contains brackets in the string? or do you mean something else?

[lethal kestrel]

so im basically using a raycast to hit an object and get the string name from that object. string itemToDrop = hit.transform.GetComponent<GroundItem>().ToString(); . then i pass it to another method called addItem which takes the string and checks it in the dictionary.

[slender nymph]

well for starters, you shouldn't be relying on object names for logic. that's a road that leads to ruin

[lethal kestrel]

but the dictionary cant find the item

[queen adder]

I'd add my own string field actually, what is it for?

[lethal kestrel]

the object also has a scriptable item on it called wood for example

AddItem("Wood", 49); this works
AddItem(itemToDrop, 1); but this doesnt

[queen adder]

oh inventory system?

[lethal kestrel]

its for picking up items and adding it into an inventory

yeah

[fluid kiln]

hello!
I'm making my code modular!
Let me make an example

Health stat

% Health stat

They are both stat objects
Is there any way to make Health stat scale with % at an updated value without it increasing infinitely?

[queen adder]

what is itemToDrop?

a string?

[lethal kestrel]

yeah

i get a string based off the item scriptable

well i think i do.

[rich adder]

probably a curve?

[queen adder]

no error in console?

[lethal kestrel]

no error just cant find it in the dictionary

thats why im thinking the brackets are including in the check

[queen adder]

try to log what it is first before trying to look ipt up in dict

[lethal kestrel]

so its trying to check [Wood] instead of "Wood"

[queen adder]

instead of guessing if it have [] or not

[lethal kestrel]

Debug.Log(itemName);```
thats how i check for it after it passes

[queen adder]

log it before, nvm it's a tryget

[slender nymph]

okay so the issue was actually removing the brackets from a string the whole time and isn't really related to the dictionary.

but still, don't rely on the names of gameobjects for your logic. give your GroundItem class a variable that you can assign the item type to and use that instead

[lethal kestrel]

ohh right so its checking "Wood" instead of [Wood]?

[queen adder]

sq brackets makes it confusing if you dont apprecite dictionaries being list with keys

[lethal kestrel]

Would you mind if i quickly showed you that script cause that leads to a scriptable.

i might have done this the hardest way without even needing to

[slender nymph]

cause that leads to a scriptable.

[lethal kestrel]

ill pm u its weird

if thats okay

[slender nymph]

no

[lethal kestrel]

my apologies

[slender nymph]

post your !code here

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[lethal kestrel]

https://gdl.space/ilaxetayis.cs?

[slender nymph]

instead of calling ToString on your GroundItem component, you should access its itemScriptable variable (not a very good name btw) then access that object's itemName variable

[queen adder]

yea, it's total fail if that thing is cloned

[slender nymph]

i would personally not even rely on a string to determine what the item actually is. i personally prefer enums for item types

[queen adder]

id do both, one for dicts, one for functionality lookup

id rather do strings in dicts than enums

[slender nymph]

but why?

[lethal kestrel]

i see can. My thought was using scriptables as an easy way to change different variables of my item. then just to call it and check it

[queen adder]

orange font more readable than enum blue

[slender nymph]

with an enum as the key you know there will only be a set number of different items in the dictionary. with a string if you have any that are perhaps spelled wrong (since there's no compile time checking for it) you may end up with a different number of objects in the dict than you'd be expecting

[queen adder]

but strings as item name makes itmore versatile in editor

I can easily add an item without having to change code

if it needs a function, like eat a food, only then i will extend my enum

dont have answer there, really hard to find an inventory system to follow

it's an intermediate concept (with a lot of way to implement)

[lethal kestrel]

yeah i made my inventory first then tried using scriptables as items and dictionaries to store them just gotta finetune some things i guess. appreciate the respones tho very helpful!

[fluid kiln]

What does that mean?

[rich adder]

are you trying to increase the maxhealth or whatever as you Progress ?

[queen adder]

add a second float field that is total heath modifier?

thats my understanding of the q

like there's a constant hp, and a percentage hp

[fluid kiln]

Il trying to make my code modular, the %health increase has to manage itself and same for health and I’m thinking of ways to do this since it will be the base for lots of similar stats that share these 2 base classes

[queen adder]

oh.. your character parameters are it's own classes

[slender bridge]

Sounds ambiguous to me. Sounds like you need to establish your anticipated design to know if using an abstract class is necessary or if a StatManager class will work

[fluid kiln]

There is like a base class for a generic stat, like say intelligence then there is a subclass that is called limited stat that has a max value that can be increased or lowered

[fluid kiln]

Im projecting the design on paper and optimizing it before putting it to code

Im trying to make something modular for a long term complex game

[queen adder]

I can imagine the concept, idk what the question is though

[fluid kiln]

And I wasn’t using scriptable objects at all which many told me is a mistake

[queen adder]

you dont need SO for this

better not to

just composition

[fluid kiln]

Hmmm I think it’s better shown than explained

[queen adder]

nvm,SO can do better

[fluid kiln]

I do not make classes for every stat.
But I make a skeleton of what every stat would need

And then I make a SO to create the stat itself

[queen adder]

ye i understand that part, i just dont know what you are mainly asking

you seem to be good enough to implement it

if you asking if it's doable, it is, is that what you need?

[fluid kiln]

There is a subclass that is called percentage stat , and it increases another stat by a percentage based on its base value, what I’m asking is, how can I do that modularly

Cuz if I use update it’s gonna increase it infinitely

If I use start it’s gonna happen only once

[slender bridge]

ok so here i thought you were asking about a design question

[queen adder]

use a float that get's accessed when you needed the field

[queen adder]

me too lol

[fluid kiln]

Oooh design whise I scrapped the whole old code and decided to to restart making it modular before it was too messy of a spaghetti.

Idk if it was al the right idea but it felt right.

[teal viper]

You could have a base value and a list of modifiers. Each modifier would apply a different operation to the base value. Loop the modifiers and call their apply method whenever you want to get the modified value.🤔

[fluid kiln]

You’re right! Thanks!

[queen adder]

anyway, if you're still not totally set on that, interfaces are cleaner way to keep modular data

might as well consider it

[fluid kiln]

I’ll investigate thank you!
Still have to 100% fathom what is the difference between what I am doing now and what I was doing earlier(with prefabs instead of SO’s).

Hopefully I won’t find an event more efficient way that makes my life less complicated and I’ll have to rewrite the whole thing again

[queen adder]

we could give better insight if you share some of that juicy codes

[teal viper]

It doesn't have to be 100% efficient. If it fulfills it's purpose it's good enough. Otherwise you're never gonna have any progress.

[fluid kiln]

Oh it’s a lot of separate codes and sadly I’m on bed.
I would have to give you a tour of my project haha

[fluid kiln]

You’re right but at the same time I don’t want to be vincolated in the future when I’ll have to introduce something, I want it to be very flexible and having most of the things on scripts like I used wasn’t that.

So I decided to use the code skeleton into SO’s approach.

[teal viper]

You can't predict what you'll need in the future and wether it would fit your existing code. The best you can do is decide on the feature set of your app and make sure current implementation is built with it in mind.
You can also always refactor.

There's almost no code that can't be adjusted to fit some new purpose. Especially since you have the whole source code.

[fluid kiln]

Do you feel like my current approach would be even better with interfaces?

My old project didn’t even use subclasses nor abstract classes, it truly was a disaster

[teal viper]

I've no single clue what your current approach is. You didn't share any code.

[fluid kiln]

Fine fine let me get up of bed lol

using UnityEngine.UI;

public class HealthManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int maxHealth = 100;
    public int currentHealth;
    public Text healthText; // UI Text element to display health

    // Event triggered when health changes
    public delegate void OnHealthChanged(int currentHealth, int maxHealth);
    public event OnHealthChanged HealthChanged;

    void Start()
    {
        currentHealth = maxHealth;
        UpdateHealthUI();
    }

    // Method to take damage
    public void TakeDamage(int damageAmount)
    {
        currentHealth -= damageAmount;
        if (currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            currentHealth = 0;
            // Trigger any events or actions for player death
            // You can add a method call here or dispatch an event
        }

        UpdateHealthUI();
        NotifyHealthChanged();
    }

    // Method to heal
    public void Heal(int healAmount)
    {
        currentHealth += healAmount;
        if (currentHealth > maxHealth)
        {
            currentHealth = maxHealth;
        }

        UpdateHealthUI();
        NotifyHealthChanged();
    }

    // Update UI text to display current health
    void UpdateHealthUI()
    {
        if (healthText != null)
        {
            healthText.text = "Health: " + currentHealth.ToString();
        }
    }

    // Notify subscribers that health has changed
    void NotifyHealthChanged()
    {
        HealthChanged?.Invoke(currentHealth, maxHealth);
    }
}

Example of old code, the healthmanager did EVERYTHING for the health stat

[queen adder]

omg

[fluid kiln]

this is the new code

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "NewPlayerStat", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/Player Stat/Player Stat")]
public class PlayerStat : ScriptableObject
{
    public string name;
    public float amount;

    public float GetAmount(){
        return amount;
    }
    public void SetAmount(float x){
        amount = x;
    }
    public void AddAmount(float x){
        amount += x;
    }
    public void RemoveAmount(float x){
        amount -= x;
    }

}```

[queen adder]

that can be like cut 1/3

[fluid kiln]

yes i realized that and restarted

and this is a subclass of it

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

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "NewRegenerativePlayerStat", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/Player Stat/Regenerative Stat")]
public class RegenerativeStat : PlayerStat
{   


    public bool canRegen = true;
    public PlayerStat affectedStat;
    float timer=0;
    public void Update(){
        timer += Time.time;
        if(timer>=1 && canRegen){
            affectedStat.AddAmount(amount);
            timer = 0;
        }
    }
}

[queen adder]

still can be simplified, just do a prop setter

[fluid kiln]

wdym?

[queen adder]

public float Amount 
{get; 
set{
  amount = value;
 // do some logic with value
}```

[teal viper]

I mean, that's fine. What exactly do you feel is the problem with it?

Okay, so you want to have a generic stat class?

[queen adder]

that's like too much things to remember

my derpy heart cant

[timber tide]

I actually don't dislike being verbose on the data being set because when you run into stuff like DealDamage(float value) method sometimes I ask myself do I put negative values in here or positive

[fluid kiln]

yes that and if i want to add something i'd have to bugfix stuff much more, where in this system i feel like thanks to polimorphism and overriding i have to be way less worried

[queen adder]

ye, i normally have DeltaSomething() for this matter

[teal viper]

Do you need it to be an SO? SOs are more for immutable data. I think it can be just a plain class.🤔

[fluid kiln]

oh, then they are NOT what i tought they were

i tought they were like gameobjects and prefabs but no need to be instantiated

pain.

[queen adder]

they are more of a normal object

that you can turn into asset

[fluid kiln]

problem is and what confuses me the most is, you can do that with gameobj aswell

[timber tide]

well, it depends how you want to do it. It's not necessarily incorrect to write to them but usually you'd just use a plain c# script

[queen adder]

gameobjects lives in unity heirarchy

SO's dont (they live in references)

[fluid kiln]

you lost me here sorry

X.X

so since its unchangeable stuff you're saying i should use them for things like

unique items

[queen adder]

they're not unchangeable

[timber tide]

you use them as if you were to use json or plain text

[queen adder]

it's just their stats are decided at the start

[fluid kiln]

oh i see

well ill drop them then

still learned a lot from sublclassses,static classes and such;(they fixed a lot of clutter in my old code)

Now ill go back to bed and watch a video about interfaces.

[queen adder]

but you're right on that fact that they are more useful on storing data of unique items

[timber tide]

You can treat them like prefabs and create instances of them to write to which is fine.

even use them like a singleton/static class

[solemn fractal]

is better to use always fixedupdate or just update?

[queen adder]

but yea, interfaces are interesting if you understand it, you can do

public class Goblin : IHealth, IMana, ISanity

and stuffs

[fluid kiln]

that sounds like dragging scripts into an object?

[queen adder]

hard coding capabilities

[fluid kiln]

like if i want a goblin to walk i'd just put a walking script on him?

oh

ill have to check that

cuz i won;t understand it without scenarios haha

[queen adder]

actually, ignore the verbs there, just do store the interface for the stats

the attack, run and walk better go in inheritance imo

[fluid kiln]

I’ll have to check that out cuz like SOs I’m not fully grasping it and I’ll end up using it wrong

But the doubt is the same why use SOs when there is prefabs and why use interface when there is components and viceversa

[lethal kestrel]

huge thanks to @slender nymph got it working after some messing around with what u said.

and @queen adder ❤️

[slender bridge]

Depends, input for update, physics in fixed update. do you have a specific example ?

[fluid kiln]

Oh I get it now it’s like class inheritance but instead of inheriting you only share a method

For sake of polimorphism

[solemn fractal]

using rigid body to move things

[fluid kiln]

Well that’s super useful!!

[queen adder]

yes exactly

[slender bridge]

think of scriptable objects for a card game where each card has the same attributes but different values at instantiation.

[queen adder]

so each stats can do differently depending on where they are

[fluid kiln]

Yes I grasped that, my point is can’t I just make a prefab and just manually change the values anyway?

[slender bridge]

you most certainly can

[fluid kiln]

And what are the differences then?

[slender bridge]

personally i use fixed update, its almost a requirement when you have fast moving rigidbodies

[queen adder]

you can share SO between different things

they're the same, except, gameobjects are physical obj

and SO's are like immaterial

if you put it that way

[fluid kiln]

I see thanks!

So like when an item drops on the ground and is looted instead of keeping it in the scene I can just turn it into a SO?

[queen adder]

and btw, avoid using GO prefabs as holders u pass around

[timber tide]

public interface IEntity : IAttackable{}

public class Enemy: IEntity
{
  [SerializeField] EnemySO data; //can also inject it through an assign/init method for object pooling
  
  float health = data.health; //copy data you are going to change into the class
  float attack = data.attack;

  //EnemyTags enemyTags = data.tags 
    //you don't always need to copy data and instead choose                    
    //to read directly from the SO if it's not meant to ever change

  public EnemyTags Tags => data.enemyTags;

  public Attackable(IEntity attackingEntity) //Required implementation via interface
  {
    //Attack
  }

  public ChangeHealth(float healthValue)
  {
    health += healthValue;
  }
}```

[queen adder]

that's just not their job and can be nasty if it go wrong

[fluid kiln]

Yep I figured they only work in current scenes

[queen adder]

you is typed that for like 10 mins? 🥹

[fluid kiln]

I need to put some kind of on start auto attach on them to fix that

[fluid kiln]

Thank you!! ❤️❤️

[timber tide]

it was more complicated before I realized maybe it didn't need to go too crazy

almost had the interface IDoesYourTaxes

[fluid kiln]

Ugh with all these tools the hardest part is figuring out when to use what

I guess that’s been the main issue for me

But yes everything is doable with anything

So far interfaces sound so good for things like Iclickable Idraggable that’s the first thing that comes to my mind

So the inventory system will make me hate myself less at least

[queen adder]

if you just want these 2, there's already logic provided by unity for them

but, if you understand interfaces as how they are, it's great

[timber tide]

they're useful because otherwise you'd have to type check the implementation, but interfaces guarantees that if your enemy has the IAttackable interface then it must have the method implementation Attackable(attacking entity) and you can directly call it without caring what logic is contained

[fluid kiln]

Yeah and if you want to animate say 3 different things in a given List<> you can just do foreach animate with IAnimable

[timber tide]

and likeso, you can pass types around by their interfaces, not caring what the actual type is. This is helpful to group stuff such as all your enemies and allies together such as a list of List<IEntity>

[fluid kiln]

Ooooooh that’s amazing omg I’ll have to theorycraft so much tomorrow on paper

When I used unity some months ago it didn’t have an integrated version control, or better yet, it did have it but it was a hella bugged add on. Is this new one good?

[robust condor]

How do I NOT hide the cursor when I click on the play window?

[fluid kiln]

Sorry for bombarding you with questions lol.

[fluid kiln]

Wdym?

[queen adder]

you are disabling the cursor in your code somehow

do you use Cursor anywhere in your code?

[fluid kiln]

Oh now I get it

[robust condor]

@queen adderNo, I have the 3rd person controller installed, maybe that does it?

[queen adder]

what is that? a new unity package?

if so, i guess that does it

cant help there though

[rich adder]

yes

[robust condor]

Yeah that was it, it is a starter asset

[fluid kiln]

Besides SO, prefabs, inheritancy, interfaces, extension do you think there are more tools that are important?

[queen adder]

delegates my beloved

and unityevents

[fluid kiln]

Okay events I think I know about

But it’s basically interfaces 2.0 with one less step nay?

[queen adder]

no

they are more or a box that can hold method/s and call it later

[fluid kiln]

Like when x Triggers every class triggers Y method

[queen adder]

no

x and y can put letters in that box, then you can call that box later, anything inside will fire then'

[solemn fractal]

if I use fixed in one script i need to use in all the others?

[fluid kiln]

Oooh I see so its for things that share a method like prefabs and interfaces that are in the scene?

[queen adder]

omg they are their own thing, dont connect them to others

they just can hold methods, doesnt care where from, as long as the methods match them, they will hold it and fire when you want\

if you want to do something when your main character die

have a delegate hold it, then fire when the player die

or if you want the goblin king to get mad when you kill a goblin, have a goblin register their deaths to the goblin king,

https://gdl.space/iqebofoyup.cs got it working after some time lol, need it? @rich adder

[fluid kiln]

Thanks!

[rich adder]

don't mind if I do 🙂

going to come in handy , making some editor tools

thx!

[queen adder]

I 100% hope my tile pallete isnt so slow for me though that I needed to go make this

[rich adder]

doesn't Keycode better than a string

or was that not working?

[queen adder]

i prefer string than enum in inputs (because vsc sometimes do weird suggestions)

esp in editor things

I do change it on final builds though

[rich adder]

yeah I'd make an abstraction class for rebinds but I'll stick with enum
was just wondering if Event.keyCode worked, i'll just try it out ig 😅

[slender bridge]

If its rigidbody movement I would always use fixed update unless you have a good reason not to. The only thing that can cause more crap is if you have any object positions that need to be synced that run in different update methods. rigidbodies are normally used in fixed update for consistency in physics calculations.

[queen adder]

answer is, fixedupdate and update have their own jobs

update are guaranteed per frame (it will catch anything that happens)
fixed only happens at physics interval

[woven crater]

Any good tutorial on how to use interface?

[rich adder]

imo lookup traditional c# ones

[queen adder]

this is my first year of game design and programming and i tried doing this assignemnt but i couldnt understand it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNtOcDryKv4

[rich adder]

this guy is good though for gamedev
https://youtu.be/-asqmmY-FUM

[rich adder]

movement of which video ?

also that youtube channel is pretty good, which part do you not understand ?
although that video he don't put rigidbody movement in fixed update which is wrong

[timber tide]

that assignment looking a little overdue

[queen adder]

i got past the first one then in the middle of the second one he switched to somthing else in the play view

i was copying what he did exactly but when he got to that part

my stuff broke

[rich adder]

🤷‍♂️ whatever that means

[queen adder]

ill try doing it again right now

[slender bridge]

now thats a true programmer

[queen adder]

very

doesnt say what year though

u is safe

lol

could be 2079 or could be 1990

i wasnt even in existance then

wait unity didnt block the "lol", i remember server blocks short comments

bug?

mayhaps

ok imma go work on it, ill send a message here if it doesnt work

[solemn fractal]

thank you

[rich adder]

regex is a hit or miss sometimes

also the mods put it not unity lol

[queen adder]

regex is handling it?

[rich adder]

yup

[queen adder]

oh my god, i dont even have microsoft visual installed on my laptop

how do i install it again i forgot

!ide

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[queen adder]

thmank

[magic linden]

Probably a dumb question but how would I reference the collider of a gameobject in a script that isn't attached to said gameobject?

[low perch]

you’d have to have a variable of the gameobject with the collider

[magic linden]

No the other object is just an empty gameobject with a collider attached, no script

[low perch]

yeah ik

[magic linden]

Oh sorry I thought you were asking me if the other object had a variable, I misread

[low perch]

public GameObject collider_object;

fill it in in the editor

collider_object.getcomponent<>

i don’t really remember the exact syntax but you get the point

[rich adder]

why do that

just reference the collider directly

[low perch]

why not do that

because you can’t serialize components

[tender breach]

I'm making a tetris-like game, but when the pieces aren't 0 degrees, they don't fall down.

[low perch]

show code

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private Collider col;

[low perch]

and you mean are 0 degrees

[low perch]

there’s no way of filling it in though

[rich adder]

what are you talking about ? do you even unity lol

[magic linden]

Testing that one now

[nimble tartan]

Hello guys do you have any article that advises about good practices and mainly patterns for Assets folders and Hierarchy?

[rich adder]

the only way that isn't possible if the said reference was on a prefab and you want a scene collider or vice versa

[rich adder]

its mainly preference Imo

i always put my script folders as _Scripts they're always ontop the project files

same with _Prefabs

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/425uvc3w

[rich adder]

dude what shite IDE are you using

why is the code not formatted

[tender breach]

Visual Studio

[rich adder]

? did you configure it

[teal viper]

Can you take a screenshot of how it looks like in the ide?

[magic linden]

Yep, that worked!

Sorry forgot that SerializeField was a thing

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/p3u6rns8

[low perch]

You need to reset rotating = true

[tender breach]

I think I formatted it

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[tender breach]

It's falling down, but only when the degress is 0.

[teal viper]

You don't need to do it manually. Your ide should do it for you.

[tender breach]

Well I forgot.

[rich adder]

scroll up

[hoary karma]

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) { Debug.Log("test"); if (other.CompareTag("Snowball")) { currentHealth = currentHealth - snowballDamage; Debug.Log("damage taken"); } else if (other.CompareTag("Gift")) { Debug.Log("Work"); CameraEffects.ShakeOnce(); currentHealth = currentHealth - snowballDamage; } } why is this ontriggerenter not working? when it hit the "Snowball" object it does register and subtract the health. but when it hit the "Gift" object, the Debug.Log("test") is printed on the console but it doesnt subtract the health or print the Debug.Log("Work")??

[rich adder]

this code doesnt move anything anyway @tender breach

[low perch]

Yes but you never set Rotating to true after it goes false

[low perch]

two backticks

[rich adder]

three

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[tender breach]

That's not the issue. Whenever the degrees of the piece is 0, it falls down, but when the degrees is 90, it goes left, and when the degrees is 180, it goes up.

[low perch]

oh

[teal viper]

Where/how do you move it?

It doesn't sound like physics is moving it.

[low perch]

you can have a gameobject set always at 0,0,0 rot and a sprite child that’s the actual piece and it rotates

and move the one always at 0,0,0

[tender breach]

Examples of where?

[teal viper]

In code.

[tender breach]

I don't understand.

[tender breach]

I use code

[teal viper]

You must be moving it somewhere, otherwise it wouldn't movem

[low perch]

show it

[teal viper]

Share that code

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/ea73pdud

[rich adder]

lol

[eternal needle]

what on earth is that formatting

[hoary karma]

the "Gift" (the particle with large collider set to is trigger) object is clearly hitting the other object i attached that script with (the other object collider is not set to is trigger). what's wrong?

[rich adder]

this isn't the moving script

[rich adder]

still waiting on that screenshot for vs to confirm

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/ea4fiiyt

[teal viper]

That's the same thing you shared earlier.

[tender breach]

They are different scripts

[eternal needle]

you should first format your code properly, because there is no way you can clearly understand what its doing

[rich adder]

you're using worldPos

[tender breach]

What do you mean?

[rich adder]

regardless of rotation its gonna go same way nvm then hah

[tender breach]

How do I fix it?

[teal viper]

Transform.translate would move the object in local space, so if it's rotated, the movement direction would rotate as well.

At this point, I think you should follow a tutorial...

[rich adder]

wait is default local?

[teal viper]

For translate, I think it is🤔

[tender breach]

I tried tetris tutorials, but they had similar code.

[eternal needle]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages
go through this for your physic message problems

[teal viper]

Similar != The same

[rich adder]

could be , just remember having to use the Space.Self, but i barely use it honestly]

[teal viper]

Docs say it's relative to self by default

[rich adder]

ah ok forgive me then 😅

[teal viper]

That's fine. I don't use it either.

[rich adder]

then you actually want the opposite of what i said

put it to world space direction, so keys always put it same direction regardless of rotation

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Space.World.html

[magic linden]

Okay so I know that worked but is there a way to do it in code without SerializeField?

[rich adder]

Dependecy Injection

https://unity.huh.how/references/simple-dependency-injection

assuming the only way you cant use serialize field is the object is prefab and ur referencing something in scene or vice versa
otherwise you should be using only serializefield, no reason otherwise .
Maybe TryGetComponent for other realtime stuff

[eternal needle]

whats the use case? if these are completely unrelated objects where you cant use [SerializeField] then you would likely be getting these through some physics functions like raycast or the physics messages

[rich maple]

how do i pause only the vector movement and not the animation in unity?

[rich adder]

pause vector movement? wdym

[rich maple]

i mean, i just want to pause movements of gameobjects

[rich adder]

so put a bool?

if(canMove)
//do movement stuff

[rich maple]

coool

thanks

i think i can do thate

[rich adder]

all i could think of with limited info 😅

[rich maple]

ah no problem

[queen adder]

im trying to write a bit of code that makes the projectiles destroy when they hit objects other then their clones all the layers are set up and its still not working could i have some help?

[rich adder]

go through this
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[queen adder]

ok

gms

[hoary karma]

i literally don't do anything but now the Debug.Log("test") is not printing anymore??

[eternal needle]

sounds like you did something, still the link would be useful to tell you why nothing is debugging.

[nimble tartan]

What may I have to put on Awake method and Start method? The same for Update and FixedUpdate?

[summer stump]

What are you asking exactly?

They are pretty different, in that start and awake run once in the objects lifetime, while update and fixedupdate run many many times

[nimble tartan]

The main diference about what kind of code I have to put inside each one.

[verbal dome]

You dont have to put anything in them

[north kiln]

You don't have to do anything

[summer stump]

Things that you want to happen once go in start/awake

Things that you want to happen over and over go in update/fixedupdate (some caveats here)

[nimble tartan]

ok... I have one thing that happen once, when I call in Awake, when I call in start? The same for update ones.

[north kiln]

Generally Awake is used for gathering references/early setup, Start is used to act on that setup.
Update is self-evident, and FixedUpdate is for physics.

[summer stump]

Not really sure what you're asking still, sorry

[nimble tartan]

let me give a real example

[verbal dome]

They are special methods that are detected and called automatically by Unity

[nimble tartan]

I have one player variable like total HP that is intialized one time... where should I have to put in Awake or Start? I have a GetComponent to get for example, a AnimationControl... where I have to put?

What question I have to make to decide where I'll put the code that is called only once

[summer stump]

All of that in awake or start. Doesn't matter too much.
Generally awake though, because it is a self-reference

[north kiln]

Why is total HP not initialised in the declaration/inspector?

[nimble tartan]

because comes from database

I have more than one player and each one have its own total hp

[summer stump]

Ah, is the database needing to be initialized in memory?
Maybe do that earlier stuff in Start to give the database time to finish whatever it needs to do

[rich adder]

with databases ideally you want async

unity is meh with asyc tho so ig coroutine too works

they have async void Awake() 😬

[timber tide]

make an init method and just populate that until ready

[sly wasp]

Hey, how would I do a yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeF) but if a bool is set to true do a different function?

So it interrupts and stops the waitforseconds

[rich adder]

nvm

[sly wasp]

Ik how to use wait until a bool is true, but I don’t know how to do both

[rich adder]

i dont understand why wouldnt a regular if + else work?

if(somethingTrue) DoOtherThing(); break;

[pseudo ermine]

Hey Hey!

I hope everyone is well, it’s currently 4AM and I’ve had an idea for a college project however, I would like some ideas/advice on how to construct it, you could say.

The idea is a checkpoint system where UI is used, if the player has reached this checkpoint, unlock it on the checkpoint selection menu and then when they load in again, they can choose to go from that checkpoint.

[summer stump]

if (bool)
yield return WaitForSeconds(10);

else
yield return WaitForSeconds(20);

?

[pseudo ermine]

You could use coroutine.

[sly wasp]

Ok I need to explain better, you guys obviously can’t read minds (I’m meaning this literally not an insult)

[summer stump]

What?
This IS in a coroutine. And I'm answering someone

[rich adder]

knowing the use case sure wold be useful 🙂

[pseudo ermine]

I have no clue what you were doing, seen a delay and suggested coroutine.

OH

OOPS

ITS 4AM 😂

[north kiln]

don't use WaitForSeconds, instead use yield return null; inside of your own loop that counts, and break out of the loop based on a boolean

or use WaitUntil with two checks, one against time and the other against the boolean

Or switch to async, learn how all that works, and use a cancellation token 😄

[robust condor]

I am using triggercolliders, how can I call "other.MyCustomFunction" on the object that enters the trigger? Ofc trigger script does not know if MyCustomFunction exists or not beforehand, so need to see if it does before calling

[sly wasp]

So I have a bool
saveMeTime = false

When my character crashes it runs a coroutine and needs to wait for a specific amount of seconds (5.95f in my case), then it runs some other stuff under that. But I’d like that to not happen if I use a saveMe (revive) function. So what I did was create that bool, and under the wait for seconds I put
If (saveMeTime == true)
Other balalalalaaa

That works great. But what if I crash and revive, then crash very soon, the wait for seconds hasn’t finished yet so then it will run that code too early because it sees saveMeTime as true

I put saveMeTime to true at the beginning of the crashing coroutine

[north kiln]

You should cancel the old coroutine

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StopCoroutine.html (use the one that takes a Coroutine object)

[summer stump]

Coroutine routine = StartCoroutine(Method());

(Not the best way, but just an example of how to cache the coroutine in order to stop it)

[verbal dome]

Sounds like you just want a save system.
Writing to a JSON file is a decent choice

[sly wasp]

I’ve done a lot of attempts to try to stop the coroutine, but it seems to not work. I also don’t know how to rephrase that coroutine because it has
CrashCoroutine(string anim) (I have something for it to determine it’s an animation already)
So when I need to run that corutine I have CrashCoroutine(“fallAnimation”)

When I rephrase it it gives me errors then, I’d also have to change all the other parts in my script to match this new rephrased coroutine

Pretend rephrase says cached

[verbal dome]

What exactly did you try to stop the coroutine?

[north kiln]

Here's my complicated "how to stop a coroutine and track whether one is running" page https://unity.huh.how/coroutines/stopcoroutine

[sly wasp]

This looks pretty helpful, thanks

But my coroutine has

CrashCoroutine”(string anim)”

[north kiln]

I have no idea what that means or why that stops you from using this method in any way

If you're talking about passing a parameter to the coroutine, just do that

[sly wasp]

I get an error that says

There is no argument given that corresponds to the required parameter ‘anim’ of ‘Character.CrashCoroutine(string)’

[north kiln]

and did you pass a string to your coroutine?

[sly wasp]

Yes

[north kiln]

Show your code then

[robust condor]

I have some navmesh agents I move on click, and I spawn like 100, but some are really slow at moving while the other 80 are going in a huge blob, the rest are kind of lagging behind and not moving to the point

[verbal dome]

From a quick google search I saw that apparently there is a limit of around 100 agents until they start bunching up

Bottom answer here https://discussions.unity.com/t/how-many-nav-mesh-agents-can-i-have-in-a-scene/189143/2 @robust condor

[sly wasp]

My computer is taking a while
I’ll send a short example

private Coroutine deathPlayer;

void Start()
{
deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer()):
}

public IEnumerator DeathPlayer(string anim)
{
WaitForSeconds(f):
Functions
}

[robust condor]

If I make them kinematic they will move where they need

[north kiln]

You're calling DeathPlayer() without the string argument, as I asked

[sly wasp]

You mean to put it like
deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(string anim));
?

[north kiln]

No, that's not how you pass an argument to a function

[ivory bobcat]

You'd only need the type if you're declaring a new variable or casting - not including class member definitions and whatnot.

[north kiln]

Your function is declared as DeathPlayer(string anim), it needs a string passed to it. Either pass a string variable DeathPlayer(MyString), or use a string literal DeathPlayer("Example").

[sly wasp]

I need string anim because I declare the animation name in other parts of the script when running the coroutine

[north kiln]

Then pass it to your coroutine

I don't know how clearer I can be. You declared a function that takes a string, you never passed it a string. That's an error. Pass it a string and the error will go away

[rich adder]

is the IDE not even underlining this

[summer stump]

public String foo;


deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(foo));

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/methods#method-invocation

[sly wasp]

Will
deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(""));
work because I have no errors

[north kiln]

sure, that is an empty string

[summer stump]

Are you trying to pass an empty string?
What do you WANT to pass in? It's your code

[sly wasp]

yes

[summer stump]

Ok then sure. Not sure why you would want that, but have at it

[sly wasp]

k ill try it

here is previous code
StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer("stumble_lower"));
how would I use that new cached coroutine tto use it like this
stumble_lower is an animation

[north kiln]

... literally the same way

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html
StartCoroutine returns you a Coroutine

[sly wasp]

ohh wait i think i get it

[rich adder]

you're just storing it in that object to be able to stop it later

[violet topaz]

how do i fix this bug it not following the player and rotates weirdly

[north kiln]

!code

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[north kiln]

Please link to large codeblocks

[violet topaz]

ok

[ivory bobcat]

You'd reference it so you can refer to it later when you'd want to stop it #💻┃code-beginner message

[violet topaz]

https://gdl.space/ezupuyozem.cs

[robust condor]

I have a script I want to have on all my NPCs, do I really need to add it to all prefabs? Imagine if I make a new script and have 200 prefabs I need to attach this script to

[timber tide]

1 prefab 200 SOs (or 1 prefab 0 SOs and 200 serializedReferences)

[verbal dome]

You can use a base prefab that all NPCs are variants of

[teal viper]

You could use nested prefabs or prefab variants.

Or what Mao suggested.

[verbal dome]

I believe theres even a way to make an existing prefab a variant of another?

[teal viper]

Ideally, you don't want to configure every single npc by hand. They should be generated at runtime from data.

[robust condor]

I tried to attach a script a game start to all tags "NPC" but it seems that is not supported when I googled

On spawn of the NPC I mean, instantiating

[verbal dome]

That's possible. But not ideal since the newly added NPC component will have default values

[ivory bobcat]

Sure it is. Show your implementation.

[verbal dome]

Not an issue if all of the NPC data is in a SO, though. Just assign the SO

[robust condor]

How do I reference my other c# script?

[ivory bobcat]

Inspector field of the manager doing the instantiations

[teal viper]

You wouldn't need to reassign references if you have a "placeholder npc prefab" that has all the required references set. You just need to setup it's visuals, stats and whatever other data that is unique to the character.

[robust condor]

@ivory bobcatI can't drag my C# script into a SerializedField

[ivory bobcat]

Why not?

[verbal dome]

Are you dragging in the script file itself? Drag the object that has the component instead

[robust condor]

So I need to have a gameobject in the scene just sitting there with the script attached?

[verbal dome]

I fell off the tracks, what is this other script?

[ivory bobcat]

Is it not serialized, not a reference type or?

[robust condor]

So I have my NPCManager, and NPCSpawner GO, they are two different scripts, in the NPCManager I have a Speech script, now it is a GO child of NPCManager and Speech is the only script on it. Then I want to add to every new spawned NPC by NPCSpawner so I can call .SayText()

[sly wasp]

Ohhhhhh I get it now. Doing
deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(“Animation)); is the way it functions, just like regular start coroutine, thanks!

[robust condor]

I was able to put the GO with my script as reference in the inspector, not a raw C# script itself

[teal viper]

If you just need to add a component to a gameObject, use AddComponent.

[rich adder]

wdym by a 'raw' c# script

[verbal dome]

Script file I assume?

[robust condor]

From the Project folders

[rich adder]

like a monobehavior or a poco

[verbal dome]

Anyway, as dlich said you just need AddComponent with the correct type as parameter

[rich maple]

using UnityEngine;

public class SimpleFloating : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static bool animPos = true;
    public Vector3 posAmplitude = Vector3.one;
    public Vector3 posSpeed = Vector3.one;

    private Vector3 origPos;

    private float startAnimOffset;

    void Awake()
    {
        origPos = transform.position;

        startAnimOffset = Random.Range(0f, 540f);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        /* position */
        if (animPos)
        {
            Vector3 pos;
            pos.x = origPos.x + posAmplitude.x * Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.x * Time.time + startAnimOffset);
            pos.y = origPos.y + posAmplitude.y * Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.y * Time.time + startAnimOffset);
            pos.z = origPos.z + posAmplitude.z * Mathf.Sin(posSpeed.z * Time.time + startAnimOffset);
            transform.position = pos;
        }
    }
}

So, I have this code.. i reference this script in another script and whenever i want to pause game, i put animPos = false (because i dont want to pause some animations)... But whenever i resume game by making animPos = true the gameObject position is reset... How do i stop the resetting ?

[robust condor]

Okay now it added the component but the default values are broken, should I set them in the spawner script where I do addcomponent or can I use another gameobject for the settings, or should I use a SO?

[verbal dome]

I pointed that out here

[robust condor]

I need to reference a canvas and a tag

[verbal dome]

And here

[robust condor]

Okay will try that then

[verbal dome]

If you need to reference something in the scene then you need to do it via code (in this case, since you add the components dynamically)

SO assets or prefabs can't reference scene objects

The spawner script could hold the reference to the canvas, I guess

If it's a shared canvas and not instantiated for each NPC, that is

[robust condor]

Oh okay

Is it better to add an empty class to a GO just to reference it and find it by type or should I use the GO name?

[rich adder]

100% Type

don't ever use strings like that

[north kiln]

Why do you want to reference it?

If you just want to use SetActive then referring to it via a GameObject reference is fine

never use names, but you can just refer to the object just fine

[frigid sequoia]

Maybe I am dumb, but why is my player capsule getting significantly slowed when in a moving platform?

[rich adder]

we can't possibly know that without scripts/setup 😅

[frigid sequoia]

I have an script to parent the player to the platform when on top of it, so it keeps it on it and another one that moves the platform with transform.Translate

[eternal needle]

parenting the player isnt such a good idea, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense because you especially dont want the player scaling and rotating around the center of the platform.
Have the platforms either apply some movement to the player, or add to some vector on the player movement script to tell it what it should be moving by

[frigid sequoia]

I literally just copy pasted that from a tutorial; it worked perfectly before XD

[eternal needle]

before what, you just said its significantly slowed

[rich adder]

true not for nothin many tutorials do use CC parented to platforms

[eternal needle]

beginner tutorials are mostly shit

most of them are copied off each other, doesnt matter the quality of the content. for youtubers it is a matter of publishing work first and screaming to be seen

[rich adder]

yeah kinematic rigidbody would be best bet prob

[frigid sequoia]

I changed the code of the parenting of the platform so it also works with some stuff that needs to be dragged around; but since it did some weird things with the scale; I had to change the whole hierarchy attaching all the scripts and the platform itself to an empty object with 1 as scale

I think is cause the player doesn't like to be moved with a translate from the parent and a AddForce from the player controller

Don't really know how to work around that

[eternal needle]

<#💻┃code-beginner message>

idk why that message link isnt shortening 🤔

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I read that, still now idea of how to do that

Vector are complex XD

[eternal needle]

then start learning, if you give up before trying to learn vectors then honestly you might as well go do something else.

[verbal dome]

You use CharacterController? Or rb?

[verbal dome]

Apparently RB. Yeah rb does not like being parented to a moving object. Unless it is kinematic then it is fine

[eternal needle]

if a specific part of what i said above is confusing, you can ask and i can try to clarify. But i cant really suggest anything since you havent shown the movement code

[frigid sequoia]

The basic movement script is no more than rb.AddForce on the input vector; nothing more

I can share if you think it might help

[rich adder]

why not just make platform kinematic rigidbody ?

and use MovePosition

[eternal needle]

I think with addForce it might be a little more difficult because you arent directly in control of what the current movement vector should be. Like if you addForce once, it can technically just keep going forever.
You might have to change a lot to get proper platform movement

[summer stump]

You put < > around it.
probably by habit from other links. I do that too lol

[eternal needle]

What I do is just assign directly to the .velocity what the current movement should be, so this would be easy to add platform movement. A platform would just add to some vector on the player script. then in the player script it'd be as simple as
rb.velocity = movement + externalForces every frame

[eternal needle]

ah, it gave some embedded thing before which is why i did that

[frigid sequoia]

Could it work if I set the player velocity to be its own velocity + the vector of the moving platform translate though?

[eternal needle]

not its own velocity, otherwise you'll quickly hit infinity. it would pretty much be what i said above. you cant really combine moving the transform and rigidbody movement. things will break like your rigidbody might start jittering, your camera might start jittering, player might be able to teleport into objects.

[verbal dome]

Could also do normal movement + rb.MovePosition with the platform's movement

[frigid sequoia]

So we just don't move players with addForce then?

[timber tide]

If I were to have projectiles that used rigidbodies for continuous collision checking, how would this this apply to objects using character controller movement?

[minor vault]

my console keeps spamming this error, can someone help me?

[timber tide]

^ try resetting the error otherwise sounds like maybe a material broke

[verbal dome]

I wanna say and tell us

[timber tide]

that requires precise testing :(

[verbal dome]

Maybe speculative is the best option here?

[rich adder]

Works well on netcode at least, idk how fast yours are tho

[verbal dome]

Since ContinuousDynamic needs the other objects to have Continuous according to doc
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody-collisionDetectionMode.html

[timber tide]

I cant manage making my own interpolation checking it's just bad

was trying some raycasts and a spherecast but there's a lot more math to it I feel

and ive no clue how to sync that all up

[rich adder]

raycast backwards from back of bullet?

[robust condor]

So I have a trigger collider, when an NPC enters this collider I want to call a function on my NPC using Collider other.SayText("..:") but the trigger doesn't know of this function.Should I use events or should I check what type of entity enters the collider and search for my Speech script on other? Or perhaps the logic is best reversed, have the NPC do the SayText when it enters the collider?

[verbal dome]

Tunneling is the term for this if you didnt know @timber tide

Or anti-tunneling

If you wanna search for some resources

Should be engine agnostic

[rich adder]

probably have a textspeech handler on the enemy

[timber tide]

ye I do that too but if there's many other colliders in the way then it registers pretty badly on what it hits.

[robust condor]

@rich adderI have a SpeechHandler on my NPC, but if I have two different trigger colliders, how do I know which one it entered?

[verbal dome]

Could always ditch CC and go with a RB 🤷‍♂️

[summer stump]

Have them on different objects
You can't know which trigger it entered if they're on the same object

Then just do TryGetComponent

[rich adder]

truth

[timber tide]

it's a special CC though for A* project that I've been appending upon

helps with avoidance than just bumping into crap

[rich adder]

they don't give you like the path / direction between each node?

[robust condor]

@summer stumpI have two prefabs, one is house and one is a mine with box collider trigger, NPC walks into one of them and it triggers the OnTriggerEnter script on the house. Should my trigger script use TryGetComponent<SpeechHandler> on the "other"?

[summer stump]

Yeah, that is one way to do it. If they are THAT different, it may be worth doing a quick CompareTag first though

[timber tide]

there's an illusion of collision but I still can affect them with my own forces.

[summer stump]

I was imagining you had multiple trigger colliders on one object

[robust condor]

I am also doing if (other.tag == "NPC") {

[timber tide]

it's interesting but it helps from enemies getting stuck together

[summer stump]

Ok, well that should narrow it down, then yeah do TryGetComponent

[rich adder]

Your npc sould only display whats stored in that particular linked trigger

[robust condor]

So best practices is to make the trigger say the NPC text, instead of the NPC itself?

[rich adder]

SpeechHandler should ideally only Get that text from the triggers

[robust condor]

if (other.TryGetComponent<SpeechHandler>(out SpeechHandler hit)) {
hit.SayText("I am relaxing at home!");
}

[rich adder]

No the npc just is a "client" of speech aka it only plays back the speech

grab the speech from the trigger

since they all vary by locations

[north kiln]

Always use CompareTag("Tag") instead of == "Tag", it's faster and it produces errors when tags don't exist

[robust condor]

Alright

[rich adder]

Much better than tag yes this keeps it more generic

but you should store the text in a variable, so each trigger can contain different strings to grab

[north kiln]

With interfaces you can make it even more generic

[rich adder]

public class NPC : MonoBehaviour, ISpeechHandler { }

[robust condor]

I get Tag is not defined with CompareTag, despite it actually having a tag check I click on it in the scene... when I spawn the NPC gameObject.tag = "NPC"

[north kiln]

Is the tag defined in the tag manager?

[robust condor]

Yeah

[north kiln]

Wait, you say Tag is not defined, did you do CompareTag("Tag"), ie. my example, instead of CompareTag("NPC")?

[robust condor]

Hehe oops 😄

[minor vault]

console keeps spamming this error when entering play mode, can someone help?

[timber tide]

I can only assume you've some material with unassigned / null properties on one of your gameobjects

maybe a texture

or rather the material reference is bad

[north kiln]

If restarting doesn't fix it, I would guess that if you're using a render pipeline, the asset/renderer is busted somehow.

There are a lot of warnings (disabled/hidden), presumably they would also help to figure it out

[fringe plover]

!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.

[fringe plover]

i make character rotate, but it started to do this when i jump, everything worked before..
https://hatebin.com/cimzlepjlf

[subtle canyon]

Are you sure that's not part of the jump animation itself

[manic zinc]

i want to create character controller
so i should use character controller or rigidbody to move character?

[subtle canyon]

Depends on multiple factors, each has their own pros and cons

[manic zinc]

dani use rigidbody in muck
and i want to make a game like muck
so should i use rigidbody?

[subtle canyon]

If you choose Rigidbody you get

• Built in Gravity , Drag etc.
• Can easily interact with physics objects

If you choose Character Controller you get

• Can easily handle slopes , steps
• Easy to make it snappy
• Also doesnt get stuck on walls

[timber tide]

for the most part, rigidbody moveposition and other methods would be implemented similarly to how you just do general direct transformation movement but instead of delta time we'd use fixedDeltaTime, right? How about rotational methods like quaternion.rotatetowards/vector3.movetowards and similar methods?

[fringe plover]

ofc, it worked before i added rotation code

[verbal dome]

rb.MoveRotation/rotation/AddTorque/AddRelativeTorque

Oh youre asking whether to use deltatime there?

[subtle canyon]

oh let me take a look at your rotation code then,

[timber tide]

more that if I can plug in rotatetowards or am I required to lerp with move rotation. Oh, maybe they're similar

[manic zinc]

thanks, I think I choose rigidbody

[eternal needle]

if its kinematic, then it is the exact same as affecting the transform but you just use the rb methods. MovePosition just gives it velocity temporarily during the move

[verbal dome]

You can combine rotatetowards and moverotation if you want

Moverotation just sets the rotation while using interpolation

[timber tide]

I'm just trying to move a lot of projectile logic to RB to try out the collisional checking

[nimble scaffold]

By mistake I have done factory reset of my pc which has all unity projects so would I be able to backup them???

[rich adder]

hard lesson on !vc

!vc

[eternal needle]

let me guess, no version control or stuff on github?

[eternal falcon]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

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

[nimble scaffold]

Nothing, backup doesn't exsisted

[verbal dome]

Do your projectiles need to be rb? One solution is to use raycast, you can make it travel over time also.
Or spherecast if the projectile needs to have "volume"

[rich adder]

if the files are physically deleted what do you expect

[nimble scaffold]

Today my crush also told me to use unity and my pc is full of trash so I done factory reset 😭😭

[rich adder]

are you sure files are deleted and just only apps refreshed

[nimble scaffold]

Backup by acc

[rich adder]

did you check off to delete all files?

[nimble scaffold]

Ye

[fringe plover]

well, uhh, i know that data from disc can be restoreed, they are still stored on disc and waiting to be replaced, watch youtube videos ig

[eternal needle]

Hm does the memory still get cleared by a factory reset? maybe you can hire someone to go through and restore from your drive

[timber tide]

I don't need rb beyond checking collision. I've a lot of high speed projectiles which don't just fly straight so it's been quite tricky to get right.

[eternal needle]

but if you're a very beginner and didnt have much, you might honestly just wanna start again. as you dont wanna fuck up ur computer and it might take time to do this

[rich adder]

you can try one of those hard drive scanners for deleted files

tehcnically your files don't delete from HDD unless the space gets overwritten

[verbal dome]

First step is to stop using that computer. The data is still there but free to be overwritten if you use the disk

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[eternal needle]

You would likely have to hire someone to go through it for you though

[nimble scaffold]

Ok

Ill restart

[fringe plover]

i said same thing
#💻┃code-beginner message

[subtle canyon]

@fringe plover So what you are basically trying to do is rotate the character in the direction of where we are going so if I press "A" for eg it should rotate left? Is that right?

[robust condor]

I gave a prefab with a rect transform, but the position of it gets reset everytime I instantiate the prefab as a child. Why does it not say at 0,2,0?

[verbal dome]

I personally use raycasts so I dont have to deal with fast moving RB's
My projectiles move at realistic speeds (300-1000m/s)
I didnt use any fancy math for the trajectory, I think I just add a gravity to the velocity when I update it and some drag/damping

[subtle canyon]

just add a script to the prefab and set it to where you want manually

[fringe plover]

yes ig.. i just used code from tutorials, i dont even know what Helper class do

[verbal dome]

@timber tide I raycast the projectile forward each FixedUpdate and have a visual object that is interpolated in Update

Not saying you have to do this - its just what I settled on

[timber tide]

What are the parameters of your raycast though? I can't seem to formulate mine to make sense for how long this raycast should be.

[verbal dome]

Just have a velocity vector3 in the projectile and use that as the direction, and its length as the maxdistance

You set velocity to the shot direction when shooting ofc

[subtle canyon]

Well the helper class's .ToIso() method convert's a 3 component vector into a quaternion with 4 components so it's just fancy math to convert a vector into a quaternion.
But I think the code for what you are trying to do should be a lot simpler

Wait let me refactor your code @fringe plover

[verbal dome]

@timber tide if projectile hits nothing after ray, move it to its current position + velocity

[fringe plover]

i can send prefab if u want...

[timber tide]

There's also times where I frame drop and it completely skips a bunch of colliders, but I've not been doing anythign in fixedupdate which could probably be related.

[verbal dome]

Thats why fixedupdate is cool, it runs pretty reliably

[nimble scaffold]

So clean

[subtle canyon]

sure, that would be helpful

[verbal dome]

If your frames drop, the physics sim will still (try to) run as many times as needed to catch up @timber tide

[fringe plover]

illl make zip and send in dms

[subtle canyon]

ok

[timber tide]

I would think update is more precise though if it's checking more than fixed, but perhaps my assumptions are wrong for how update is working with my transformation movements

[verbal dome]

Colliders dont update between physics updates, not by default anyway I think

Also remember... fixedupdate can run more than update if your frames are under 50

(At default setting)

[timber tide]

Yeah, I know but why does a lot of tutorials and even the documentations show a lot of general transformation movement without fixedupdate

there's very little reason to do it out of fixedupdate if you're dependent on collider information

[verbal dome]

Those thing arent physics related most likely

[eternal needle]

I think fixedupdate makes more sense for this if you have rigidbody movement

[verbal dome]

For me it works like a charm

[timber tide]

it makes sense if you're using rigidbody methods, but even for collider checking

[eternal needle]

its still a physics function though, would it have up to date information if colliders move every frame?

[verbal dome]

I dont like it to be frame dependent so just ditch update

[timber tide]

if collider info is updated via physics updates then I guess I should just shift all my code over to it

[verbal dome]

I think it depends on a setting in the physics

[nimble scaffold]

Which is best hrurp or urp???

[timber tide]

because my very fast projectiles do eventually clip through walls and even with some determination through raycasts, any framedip makes it obsolete.

[nimble scaffold]

Okay I'll ask my crush

[eternal needle]

i pretty much just do this in fixed update. I think I might have to add a overlap check at the start because i realize this might have a rare case where it can miss

        bool didRayHit = Physics.Raycast(
            transform.position, direction, out RaycastHit hit, speed, damageableLayers);

        lengthTravelled += speed;
        transform.position += direction * speed;

[verbal dome]

Yeah thats my basic idea too

[nimble scaffold]

Is there much difference in urp and hdurp?

[eternal needle]

this isnt coding related at all, you really dont need to spam as well

[nimble scaffold]

No no just asking

Next time I'll choose from urp or hdurp that's why

[eternal needle]

yes, so just ask in the right channel id:browse

[nimble scaffold]

But pls tell me

Is there much difference?

[eternal needle]

i guess i am your crush then

[nimble scaffold]

Whatt

Fine

I'm asking it in #archived-urp

[eternal needle]

do you also overlap check? not entirely sure if i need to but my thought process is:
it may raycast, not see anything, moves the position
something else moves into that position at the same time
the start position is overlapping an enemy, so 3d raycast ignores the collider and it misses.

[timber tide]

I'll probably give kinematic w/ moveposition a try eventually, but for now I'll probably just shift it all over to fixedupdate

[verbal dome]

I dont, I havent noticed an issue when playing against bots in single player

But I think I get what you mean, I need to do some testing

[timber tide]

even the forums there's a bunch of mixed opinions on the best way to handle this stuff

[eternal needle]

at high speeds i can imagine its a very rare bug if it does exist

[verbal dome]

Could be noticeable on moving targets from distance though

Might be solvable with execution order too

Move all players before moving projectiles?

[eternal needle]

i see the same things when it comes to talks about how to handle melee attacks too. Im sure theres a lot of ways but some ways might just be harder or have small edge cases

[robust condor]

_RectTransform.anchoredPosition = new Vector3(0, 2, 0); does not set the Z to 0, it spawns at -900 something, what gives?

[verbal dome]

@eternal needle I could do a second raycast back to the previous projectile position at the end of fixedupdate 🤔

In case something moved there in the meantime

[eternal needle]

its probably not worth worrying about, if it happens then visually it'll probably look more like the projectile just missed the enemy. The enemy would have to move its entire collider worth of distance every fixed update, for it to be an actual noticeable issue

[verbal dome]

I think it would just make sniping moving targets etc. more forgiving (which I want in my case)

[timber tide]

If there was quite a radius to the projectile, I guess you'd sphere cast many times ahead or perhaps just use a few more raycasts to cover the area

hmm I think the raycasts would probably be more performative because otherwise I'm looking at 8-10 spherecast to cover the area hah

[verbal dome]

Spherecasts are a bit costly yeah

[eternal needle]

the anchored position isnt what you think it is. you likely dont need to be directly setting the position anyways
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RectTransform-anchoredPosition.html

[eternal needle]

I was thinking just still raycast but do an overlap sphere to check before if it is colliding with anything

[verbal dome]

Theres also SphereCast/RaycastCommand for performance, havent implemented it myself yet
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SpherecastCommand.html

[timber tide]

yeah that makes sense

[rich maple]

what is the best way to pause a math function?

[timber tide]

wat

[verbal dome]

Dont cross post

[robust condor]

I have been trying to get tmp text to look at the cam for an hour now, but it is tilted:

private void LateUpdate()
    {
        transform.LookAt(_Camera.transform);
        transform.RotateAround(transform.position, transform.up, 180f);
    }

[timber tide]

I think there's a component that does that for you

[eternal needle]

rotate around is probably causing that, why are you rotating it around itself

[robust condor]

Because otherwise it is mirrored

[eternal needle]

then that is something you should fix in the inspector

[timber tide]

I don't really understand the rotating, shouldn't lookat suffice here?

[robust condor]

@eternal needleI instantiate it dynamically

[eternal needle]

yes LookAt alone should be fine, thats all i use for doing the same thing

[eternal needle]

then fix it in the prefab

[robust condor]

The prefab doesnt remember the pos

It is a child of another prefab

[eternal needle]

what does the position have to do with the rotation, your text is just backwards in the prefab

[robust condor]

The prefab rotation is 0 0 0

[verbal dome]

Is the script on the same object that has the text?

[robust condor]

I tried flipping all values

[verbal dome]

Oh thats a recttransform

Thats for UI

[robust condor]

TMP added it

[verbal dome]

Are you using the UI version of TMP?

[robust condor]

No

[verbal dome]

Theres a world space version too

[eternal needle]

I think this would have to be in world space yea

[verbal dome]

Did you put it in a canvas?

Why would it give it a recttransform

[robust condor]

No it's on the character

[verbal dome]

Try removing the recttransform, it should have a normal transform

Right?

[robust condor]

That is all it adds by default

[rare basin]

I don't understand why do you have everything under one objct

[verbal dome]

Oh apparently it uses recttransform now okay

[rare basin]

rect transform + mesh renderer?

is it for the 3d text mesh?

[eternal needle]

@timber tide @verbal dome incase you were interested, i tested this on my navmesh agent running directly towards me. I think about 1/30 of the projectiles didnt hit without the overlap check. All of them seem to hit with the overlap check, but its somewhat awkward on what size to use (since raycasts dont have width). With overlap sphere and a radius of 0.1f, 1/5th of my projectiles were hitting through the overlap instead of the raycast.

[robust condor]

I can't remove the rect transform

[verbal dome]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/can-you-use-textmeshpro-with-the-regular-transform-component.1180837/

🤔

[robust condor]

This is for 3D world space above characters head

[verbal dome]

Where do you overlap again exactly? At the shot start position? Or along the first ray?

[timber tide]

I'll probably fool around with a larger spherecast than needed and do some positional calculations to fine-tune some of the stuff.

[eternal needle]

my code is a little shit cause i just wanted to test, a bit of the code is related to other stuff but this is what i tried.
https://gdl.space/osizirekeh.cs
Check to see if it travelled already (length > 0) so it doesnt try colliding with my player
Overlap check, if it hit anything then return early
Raycast

i might change that first part so it checks if it moved more than 0.1f, which is the radius i used

[verbal dome]

Im a bit unsure still what problem the overlap solves

But Im also sleepy

So theres that

Maybe it'll click for me later today/tomorrow 😄

[eternal needle]

my paint description if this makes sense

[verbal dome]

Oh yeah that totally makes sense

Now that you visualized it i get it

[eternal needle]

in the first part i meant it doesnt reach the enemy, not misses but i cant edit text in paint lol

[verbal dome]

Could also just use Physics.queriesHitBackfaces = true, right?

[verbal dome]

Nah I get what you mean

[verbal dome]

This will work for my case at least

[eternal needle]

i was thinking that, but is there a way to apply that to one raycast? or would you have to set it true then false afterwards

[verbal dome]

Gotta set it to false after because it is static yeah

No biggie

Thanks for pointing this out, I was thinking of something slightly different before

Didnt think of this edge case

[eternal needle]

np, i only thought about it because of your past conversation with mao, and was working on my ability system

[royal ledge]

mr.materials[2] = cardFront; // This line does nothing
Debug.Log(mr.materials[2]); //Returns same material as before

Anyone have any clue why this might not work? I can change material on the mesh in the inspector just fine, just can't manage to do it in runtime, can there be something wrong with the mesh? Import settings? Throws 0 errors btw

[verbal dome]

materials returns a copy of the materials array

So you need to get it, then modify it and then assign it back

[royal ledge]

@verbal dome yuuup. Thank you

[robust condor]

If I want 1000 combinations of my character models, should I load all possible clothing, hair etc. in one prefab and then randomize the selections on spawn and hide the rest on every character spawned?

[rare basin]

now imagine if you have 100 characters in one scene

each having 1000 combinations

each combination contains X different objects

result = milion object

[vocal thorn]

Can someone look over my Code? I feel like somethings wrong and I can't put my finger on it.

[robust condor]

@rare basinSo what to do, delete all the children that are not selected?

[rare basin]

spawn only the neccesary objects for instance

[wild cargo]

Maybe a system where you have scriptableobjects with data for storing the clothing type, IDs and prefabs of each item, then when you want to load the character just choose from the SOs you've created, get the prefab and spawn it to the correct position

[ivory bobcat]

The more information, the better. Other than that, just ask/provide the question/problem rather than ask if someone's willing to do it.

[wild cargo]

You could for example have a struct ClothingInfo and store an array of clothing SOs and a transform that is positioned where the prefabs should be spawned

[timber tide]

I've managed to set some testing up, but I'm kind of confused on the consistency of speeds here based on the timestep of fixedupdate. A timestep of 0.02 makes my previous values I've had in update much, much quicker.

[wild cargo]

Then have an array of ClothingInfo and from each item, choose a random SO, instantiate it and parent it to the transform within the ClothingInfo

[vocal thorn]

Sorry yeah. Basically, I'm making a small Whack-a-Mole game, the function is meant to be that once the player goes to the table they have to press E to Interact. So far so good, I feel like I'm processing the code completely wrong and having a form of Overflow because my Game crashes imediately after I press E. Something I'd like to mention is that I can't open my game anymore since I changed my Code slightly...

Game Object (1) is my Trigger and Box-Collider.

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

public class WhackaMoleStartUpdater : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject otterTop;
    public GameObject otterMiddle;
    public GameObject otterBottom;

    public int counter = 0;
    
    void Start(){

        otterTop = transform.Find("topotter").gameObject;
        otterMiddle = transform.Find("middleotter").gameObject;
        otterBottom = transform.Find("lastotter").gameObject;
        if (otterTop != null && otterMiddle != null && otterBottom != null){
            if(otterTop.activeSelf || otterMiddle.activeSelf || otterBottom.activeSelf){
                otterTop.SetActive(false);
                otterMiddle.SetActive(false);
                otterBottom.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
    }

    public void WhackaMoleGameStart(){
        while(counter < 30){
            randomappearance(otterTop);
            randomappearance(otterMiddle);
            randomappearance(otterBottom);
            counter++;
        }
    }

    void randomappearance(GameObject otter){
        if(otter != null){
            otter.SetActive(false);
            
            var hInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            var vInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
            int xlocation = Random.Range(1,3);
            Vector3 newx = new Vector3(2.5f,hInput,vInput);

            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(Random.Range(0,6)*1000);

            if(xlocation == 1){
                newx = new Vector3(0f,hInput,vInput);
            }
            else if(xlocation == 2){
                newx = new Vector3(-2f,hInput,vInput);
            }

            otter.transform.position = newx;
            otter.SetActive(true);
        }
    }
}

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

public class PopupScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private Image popupImage;
    public KeyCode interactKey;
    public UnityEvent interactAction;
    public bool range = false;
    public bool interacted = false;

    private void Start(){
        if (popupImage != null){
            popupImage.gameObject.SetActive(false);
            }
    }

    void Update(){
        if(range == true){
            if(Input.GetKeyDown(interactKey)){
                interactAction.Invoke();
                interacted = true;
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other){
        while(interacted == false){
            if (other.CompareTag("Player")){
                range = true;
                popupImage.gameObject.SetActive(true);
                print("Entered");
            }
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other){
        if (other.CompareTag("Player")){
            popupImage.gameObject.SetActive(false);
            print("Exited");
        }
    }
}

Okay... That was larger than expected sorry.

[ivory bobcat]

Sounds like an infinite loop

The first thing I see that throws a red flag is counter and the possibility that it doesn't reset in time before the next call to the function - have not checked the entire code yet.

[keen dew]

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(Random.Range(0,6)*1000) <- this is called 90 times, it sleeps on average 3 seconds -> game freezes for 4-5 minutes

[ivory bobcat]

When does it crash? What's the pattern?

[vocal thorn]

I would use a for, but I havent programmed the counter to go up with a click yet. This is pretty much just a test to see if they move x axis

[vocal thorn]

I thought it was in Milliseconds?

[teal viper]

Why would you freeze the main thread anyways😱

[keen dew]

Yes it is. 0-5 times 1000 ms = 0-5 seconds

[vocal thorn]

ah okay... what could i put instead?

I basically want it to wait until it changes x axis again

[keen dew]

Look up coroutines

[vocal thorn]

At the moment, I can't start my game at all. But when I could it began when I entered the trigger, but I fixed that and now its when I press E

[ivory bobcat]

When does the game crash? (the while loop is fine, it'll simply be ignored if the counter is greater than or equal to thirty)

So what function is fired when you press e?

Are there any particular details?

So you've got to be targeting a valid creature?

What about on misses?

[vocal thorn]

When I press E, it sets up the Interact Action, and the Popupimage i have shouldn't be displayed anymore, plus my WhackaMoleGameStart() function should start

[eternal needle]

Im a little unsure what you mean, which values were quicker?
I do have to go so if you want to create a thread or dm me I can look at this more tomorrow

[vocal thorn]

I haven't coded that in yet, so that shouldn't be a problem

[timber tide]

Yeah, np I'll probably experiment a bit more

rather, you don't multiply by fixedeltatime (oh maybe you do outside of that snippet of script)

[fluid kiln]

Hey everyone! Quick question: I'm working on a game with skills that can have various traits like AOE, toggle, aura, instant, delayed, or lingering. I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle these aspects in the game's code without using traditional inheritance since a skill might have only one aspect at a time. Any suggestions or ideas on how to tackle this?

[timber tide]

so you're completely dependent on the timestep

[ivory bobcat]

Alright, so comment out the thread sleep and see if the problem persists.

[eternal needle]

I'm not on pc but I remember theres somewhere in my code that I do set the speed = something * 0.02 since FixedDeltaTime is always 0.02 anyways. If this was in update then yea you would have to consider the deltaTime

[vocal thorn]

okay

[ivory bobcat]

If the problem goes away, you'll need to find an alternative for delaying other than sleeping the entire thread (likely the main thread at that)

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe consider a coroutine or self implement a timer

[vocal thorn]

This has been possibly my main issue too...

[ivory bobcat]

Did you save?

Were there any errors?

[vocal thorn]

My code gets sent automatically to the game- and no errors no.

[ivory bobcat]

If you didn't save, it'll be the last working compilation which would be the thread sleep version

[timber tide]

now I need to simulate my sudden fps drops just so I can test if my logic works perfectly

[vocal thorn]

save what specifically.

the code or the game

[ivory bobcat]

The code, assuming you're testing this from the editor play session.

[vocal thorn]

im using VSC

its on auto-savwe

[ivory bobcat]

Alright, just making sure.

[vocal thorn]

dw

[ivory bobcat]

Try setting the counter to 30 before the while loop to avoid any random appearance and see if the problem persists - trying to isolate it to the random appearance function.

counter = 30;
while(counter < 30)
{
...
}```

[vocal thorn]

I'm currently trying to use a suggestion from another user in this chat, they said that coroutines would be good? Thoughts?

[ivory bobcat]

Unless you're positive the sleeping is what's causing the crash, it'll not help you much - although you'd definitely want to not sleep the main thread.

Doing too much isn't good. Focus on how to undo the crash aka what's causing the crash.

[vocal thorn]

does the EnterPlayMode not loading count as a crash?

[ivory bobcat]

No

[gaunt ice]

no, just freeze

crash means the editor killed by your os

[vocal thorn]

I can't quite do anything if I can't test it in play mode...

[keen dew]

You'll have to remove the thread.sleep everywhere you've used it. My guess is that you have it somewhere that runs at game start

[vocal thorn]

I've only used it once, and in that one function.

[golden otter]

you shouldnt use thread.sleep tho

[ivory bobcat]

So I'm assuming your game is immediately ending now without the appearance function

[golden otter]

if the intention is to not slow the main thread

[ivory bobcat]

Disabling that function shouldn't have caused the game to not be launched

[keen dew]

Try restarting the editor/computer, using it has possibly locked a thread somewhere

[vocal thorn]

okay, I just reverted all my changes.

[vocal thorn]

I've force quit my editor about 5 times by now...

[keen dew]

Yes, that's why restarting the computer might be a good idea

[ivory bobcat]

So without thread sleeping, it's still crashing?

[golden otter]

you could use coroutines for delaying actions

[vocal thorn]

It's actually my first time hearing about coroutines.

[gaunt ice]

Using thread.sleep is not a good idea
It stuck the whole thread and you cant do anything no matter ui or playing
And you need !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[ivory bobcat]

We're not certain if that function is his only problem but yes.

[ivory bobcat]

Is this still crashing?

If so, sleeping isn't the issue.

[vocal thorn]

I'd genuinely love too, but I can't at the moment, im on the tightest scheduele imaginable. My deadline was tommorrow, but they changed it to be in 2 hours.

[ivory bobcat]

The only other thing that's questionable would be the lines setting the otter to inactive/active

[vocal thorn]

Give me a moment

No, I still can't run the game

[ivory bobcat]

Not being able to run the game isn't related to the changes made thus far

You've got something else going on

[vocal thorn]

I thought so, that's why I've been slightly confused so far

A forum says this, could this be it?

[ivory bobcat]

Assuming you're referring to the play button not working and not the e interact key

[vocal thorn]

I mentioned it here ^^

[ivory bobcat]

Are you using await?

[vocal thorn]

No im not...

[ivory bobcat]

This isn't a programming problem anymore. Try #💻┃unity-talk and make sure to not use that sleep function.

[vocal thorn]

Okay, thank you.. I was actually in that channel before i came here

I probably should have done with from the beginning, but I reset the changes to code I made before it began, I'm going to try to load it up now

Okay, turns out: it was a coding error

I accidently built a forever loop

I can enter again

2nd Update: The game doesn't crash anymore, but my "otters" aren't showing up.

[ivory bobcat]

Post your updated !code and link it here

[eternal falcon]

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[vocal thorn]

I think i have an idea as to why they're not showing up

could it be that my function in my other script isnt running?

[ivory bobcat]

Avoid guessing by placing logs

[vocal thorn]

I just did

the function does start

I have a rough idea of whats happening.

[ivory bobcat]

The wackamole game will start and immediately finish

[tawdry mirage]

if i want to make pseudo-ballistics, where projectile flies with constant speed and changes it's angle every fixedUpdate (until it's angle is vertical), i can calculate distance of straight line trajectory easily and then apply some multiplier to compensate for trajectory's curvature. If i know max distance at which projectile's trajectory will look like halff-circle, how to calculate this multiplier?

[ivory bobcat]

Whatever you've got going on after that while loop would be what's to occur thereafter.

[ivory bobcat]

Physics projectile motion formula

[vocal thorn]

The main issue I'm seeing here is that the otters are meant to stay visible even after the end of the program.

[whole isle]

any1 know how i can make it back to 2d

idk what i did

nvm

how do i get rid of that

[ivory bobcat]

This is the programming channel but it would be this button

[whole isle]

mb and thank u i just saw beggginer so i went here

[ivory bobcat]

#💻┃unity-talk would be the general non code channel

[vocal thorn]

I think i just found my issue