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[vocal thorn]

i just dont know how to fix it

[vocal thorn]

Okay, I need some help again

My otters are visible

but their coordinates are completly jumbled up

[ivory bobcat]

Have you looked into coroutines yet?

[vocal thorn]

this is where they are atm (I stopped the game, the coords keep on changing)

[vocal thorn]

I have yes, but I don't understand how to implement them

[ivory bobcat]

If not, consider investing some time into that to substitute your delay feature from sleep

[vocal thorn]

thats the plan, however right now the coordinates are my priority, i can't tell why they're moving wrong.

[patent compass]

!learn

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[ivory bobcat]

Else the game/while-loop will immediately end (an undefined behavior which no amount of bandaid can help)

[lucid atlas]

hello every1, im new

[vocal thorn]

hiya, same here

[rare basin]

!code

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[rare basin]

also don't use print()

[lucid atlas]

what should i do now🥺🥺

[rare basin]

ues Debug.Log instead

[lucid atlas]

can some1 show me what should i do🥺🥺

[vocal thorn]

understood

[rare basin]

please learn how to ask questions

[lucid atlas]

oh my apologize

[ivory bobcat]

This is important @vocal thorn

[wild cargo]

Install Unity, try to make a simple game, when you encounter an error google first and if you find no results then post here

[vocal thorn]

Im aware that the loop ends.

but that shouldn't change the fact that the coords change...

[vocal thorn]

https://hatebin.com/otvvhqfrvs

[rare basin]

and pls adapt your formating and naming conventions

to one standard

it is unreadable

[ivory bobcat]

Immediately, so no amount of replacement will matter - which is what your appearance function does.

[lucid atlas]

i installed but im Python programmer, not C programmer, so idk how 2 code em 😦

[rare basin]

then learn it, this is a code realted help question

when you will have an issue with particular code/system/mechanic then you can ask here

also unity is C#, not pure C

[ivory bobcat]

You'll either need to learn how to code with c#, find/use specific code on the net (non flexible) or !collab with others

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[lucid atlas]

we don't have something to convert them right?

[vocal thorn]

I'm really sorry if this is super annoying, but I can't quite understand what you mean..

[vocal thorn]

any suggestions?

[rare basin]

google the unity programming naming conventions

[vocal thorn]

Right. Thank you!

[ivory bobcat]

Everything will finish in one frame

[vocal thorn]

I'll send the updated version

[vocal thorn]

OH.

Okay, understood. That's the reason why the Coroutines exist right?

I just read up on that

A slightly random question, but if anyone knows Java, do you have any Tips on how to use that knowledge (other than Algorithms) in C#?

[wild cargo]

Well if you have the knowledge in Java, then you'll find there's similar/same concepts in c# and you don't even have to learn them bc you know how they works

Common sense basically

[rare basin]

it's just different syntax

as any other language

[gaunt ice]

Dont always use class
java have no struct....

[whole isle]

is mine wrong cause in the videio they have asset

[gaunt ice]

please watch(?) the video more carefully

[whole isle]

oh is it not in the IEnemurator

[vocal thorn]

I moved from Python to Java this year, and it was quite simple, but a few changes. Java to C# is relatively close from Syntax (in my opinion ofc), however I just can't quite grasp everything like with the Java transition, I think that might be my main issue.

[ivory bobcat]

While loop is outside of the coroutine or any function which was invalid

[whole isle]

yh i put it in

[vocal thorn]

Right I just changed the variables. I hope it's easier to understand now.

https://hatebin.com/uwtpkqfcnc

[whole isle]

im facing this error now

[ivory bobcat]

Read what the error says

[whole isle]

do i cahnage it to blueslime

[ivory bobcat]

Hint: Something's different

Type name = stuff

[north kiln]

The code is completely different in those areas

[ivory bobcat]

You'll want to follow along more carefully

[north kiln]

The name of GameObjects do not relate to how you write code

[vocal thorn]

Is a Coroutine something i should look into?

[whole isle]

k thx imma try fix it

[ivory bobcat]

Either that or you'll have to implement your own timers.
Or use task-await, invoke, etc

[vocal thorn]

From your personal experience, which one is more reccomendable?

[whole isle]

can u elaborate pls

[ivory bobcat]

It'd be relative to the task at hand (none are deprecated) https://www.codinblack.com/how-to-run-a-method-at-certain-time-intervals-in-unity/

[ivory bobcat]

What you've done was Type = name = stuff instead

[north kiln]

Among some other basic and important differences

Just compare the two?

[whole isle]

like this line?

[gaunt ice]

please compare your code and the code video shown char by char

[ivory bobcat]

This doesn't include c#/unity tasks (which are a bit more complicated) @vocal thorn

[whole isle]

fixed that line

[whole isle]

ok

[vocal thorn]

I think I'll test out CoRoutines first, see how it works and come back to that if it doesnt work that well...

thank you though!

[whole isle]

fixed it thx guys

[north kiln]

It would be much easier to write if you tried to understand why you were writing it

[vocal thorn]

Before I dissapear into Coroutines, I have 3 Otters and I'd like for the code to run for each at the same time, is that possible? (As in, my coroutine would change the position of one otter only and not all 3)

[north kiln]

Yes

You have 3 instances of the Otter class and they each run their own coroutine

[vocal thorn]

They're GameObjects, does that make a difference?

[vocal thorn]

if i were to type:

startCoroutine(randomappearance(otterTopRow);
startCoroutine(randomappearance(otterMiddleRow);
startCoroutine(randomappearance(otterBottomRow);

wouldn't the next Coroutine start once the first one is done? Or am I thinking completely wrong, and a Coroutine is like it's own process?

[north kiln]

You are thinking wrong either way

[vocal thorn]

Okay. Do you mind explaining? I'm sorry for the inconvieniece

[north kiln]

The code executes each coroutine until their first yield, and then the next frame Unity resumes at that point of each coroutine if the yield has passed

Nothing executes in parallel/simultaneously, but there will be 3 coroutines running at once

[vocal thorn]

Okay Okay.

[north kiln]

You can use the debugger and step over the code for the first execution and see where it goes. Though the next frame execution jumps to the yield from unmanaged code when Unity calls it

[vocal thorn]

Just so that i know I'm understanding it correctly:
the yield in one Coroutine has nothing to do with the yield in a different one, for example:
CoRou 1 -> yield return null;
CoRou 2 -> yield return new WaitForSeconds(5);

it wouldn't wait for those 5 seconds so that it CoRou could move on. Because It's not connected.

[north kiln]

They are separate state machines, yep

[vocal thorn]

This is so dumb, but I love the debugging tool in Java, how do you use it in Unity? I've seen the Debug icon at the bottom, but i dont see a change.

[rare basin]

google it

[vocal thorn]

Okay, I think i understand the concept now thank you.

[rare basin]

"how to debug in Unity using a debugger"

[vocal thorn]

👍

Thank you all so much for your help.

[north kiln]

There's good resources pinned about debugging with VS. the video series is quite thorough

[vocal thorn]

Thank you!!! I'll def look into it

[sour fulcrum]

bit of a weird question, I have a terrain that im loading into a scene OnSceneLoaded

but due to its resolution and trees and such it seems to drawcall bomb the build into crashing

[teal viper]

That wouldn't crash the build. At least not directly.

[sour fulcrum]

is there a built in way to gradually stream this in or can i like professionally unity to brace for impact

[teal viper]

Indirectly you could be running out of vram, but I highly doubt it.

Inspect the player/ crash logs. There must be some clues to what caused the crash.

[sour fulcrum]

im doing some weird unity mod type stuff here w/ assetbundles so i think it might be in this case along with some other stuff. I know the specifics of that isn't the vibe of this server but i was hoping for a more generic solution for it if it exists

[teal viper]

The generic solution is: investigate the crash and eliminate it's cause.

There's no more generic than that.

[rare basin]

do you have any code to share?

as this is a code related channel

[teal viper]

Or logs.👀

[rare basin]

anyway, use addressables on that and recude draw calls by batching, making atlas materials, merge meshes together into one

there is a lot of optimization you can do

do LODs etc, many drawcalls = cpu bottleneck

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

[sour fulcrum]

I would love to use Adressables here but as it’s mod related I cannot

I’ve been looking through the logs a ton and I can’t find anything that points towards the crash specifically that doesn’t also occur on a build that successfully loads. I can add logs to places but aside from the function where i create it I don’t know where specifically unity crashes between then and the crash, will post a log but ofc it will be missing a lot of context

[rare basin]

without any context/data/logs/errors we cannot help you, espeficially in a code related channel 😉

[sour fulcrum]

no forsure

i can send partial code and crash log

[rare basin]

just debug the issue, try to load smaller terrain

see if the problem is indeed in the big terrain itself

then maybe async load it piece by piece

[teal viper]

The crash would be the last thing in the logs. Also if it actually crashes, there should be a dedicated crash log.

Or crash report.

[rare basin]

what do you even my by crash

does the app just fereze and dont respond

or do you have unity crash message?

[sour fulcrum]

game freezes before crashing, i do not get a crash message

not avoiding btw in the process of getting info

[teal viper]

Could be an infinite loop then

[rare basin]

so this is not a crsah

either infinite loop, or you load extremaly insane amount of data (which i doubt it)

[teal viper]

Connect the debugger to the build and break when it freezes(it might break automatically too)

[sour fulcrum]

Player.log with crash
https://hastebin.com/share/puqiciciji.yaml

This is the code that instantiates the terrain on OnSceneLoaded (it spawns the prefab, moves all its root objects to the scene and turns itself off)

                        GameObject mainPrefab = Instantiate(Terminal_Patch.newMoons[StartOfRound.Instance.currentLevelID].MainPrefab);
                        if (mainPrefab != null)
                        {
                            Logger.LogInfo("Moving Custom Moon To Scene : " + scene.name);

                            SceneManager.MoveGameObjectToScene(mainPrefab, scene);
                            mainPrefab.transform.DetachChildren();
                            mainPrefab.SetActive(false);

this is the end of the function and crashes after this, depending on the terrain settings

[sour fulcrum]

can I do this at runtime?

[teal viper]

Sure

[teal viper]

Could be a script in the terrain.

[sour fulcrum]

didnt know that! i'd love if you could point me in the right direction for that

[sour fulcrum]

only has terrain, terrain collider and ive experimented with a rigidbody too. i've had crashes and no crashes regardless of the rb

[sour fulcrum]

how would i go about doing that?

tried googling but couldnt find any solid answers

[teal viper]

Google "attaching debugger to unity build".

From the logs, it looks like it's something in the hdrp render render loop, but it's hard to say anything specific, since there are debug symbols missing.

[sour fulcrum]

I was under the impression I was limited from doing that as this is a mod that’s injected to a preexisting build

[vocal thorn]

Hello- it's me again. I think I have the Coroutines figured out, the only thing I can't right now is something fairly basic. My otter is always at the wrong coords.

    IEnumerator randomappearance(GameObject selectedOtter){
        Debug.Log("Coroutine Started");
        selectedOtter.gameObject.SetActive(true);
            var hInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
            var vInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
            int xlocation = Random.Range(1,3);
            Vector3 newx = new Vector3(vInput,hInput,0);

            if(selectedOtter != null){

                if(xlocation == 1){
                    newx = new Vector3(vInput,hInput,0.7f);
                    Debug.Log("reached location changer start 1");
                    yield return null;
                }
                else if(xlocation == 2){
                    newx = new Vector3(vInput,hInput,1.4f);
                    Debug.Log("reached location changer start 2");
                    yield return null;
                }
            selectedOtter.transform.position = newx;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(Random.Range(0,3));
            }
    }

When looking at the coords that I want, they're completely off...

[ivory bobcat]

Log the position

Place a break point and verify with the inspector

[teal viper]

Could be. I don't know how exactly you're building it, so can't say much.

[ivory bobcat]

Local position would be what you'd see in the inspector.

[vocal thorn]

the position i want is (0,0,1.4)... It's slightly off.

[teal viper]

Probably better contact the actual game devs.

[ivory bobcat]

Show the logs

Are you certain they're the same object?

[vocal thorn]

quite yes

[ivory bobcat]

Debug.Log($"{selectedOtter.name} has a position of {selectedOtter.transform.localPosition}", selectedOtter);```

[vocal thorn]

okay

[ivory bobcat]

Place it before the yield statement but after assigning position

[vocal thorn]

just did!

[ivory bobcat]

What did it print?

What was highlighted yellow when selecting the debug log?

[vocal thorn]

im starting to see the issue

its using the parent, not the children

[ivory bobcat]

So you've got a clearer image of what's going on now.

[vocal thorn]

yes

not sure how to fix it though

one second i think i might have found the issue

nevermind

still cant find the issue

i know what the issue is, im not sure how to resolve it

[ivory bobcat]

Was that with the edit? #💻┃code-beginner message

[vocal thorn]

what edit?

[ivory bobcat]

The edit to the code I provided.

[vocal thorn]

Ah sorry, i didnt see it

[ivory bobcat]

It should be the correct object with the edited code

Previously it was analyzing whoever was managing the three

[vocal thorn]

Yes! It's selecting the Children now

[ivory bobcat]

So is the info correct?

[vocal thorn]

is there a way to get the axis of the children instead of the parents too? I think thats whats happening,

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you meant to move relative to local position

[vocal thorn]

this is how im getting the coordinates at the moment

could i put a selectedOtter.Input.etc()?

[ivory bobcat]

...localPosition = newx;```

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not sure what you're doing so I've got no advice.

[vocal thorn]

I tested it and It didnt work

[vocal thorn]

Error code I get with localposition

[ivory bobcat]

Take my log example as a reference

[vocal thorn]

Ah, okay I see my error

I think the parent is moving with them because the coords on the children are looking great, but they're landing in the middle of nowhere

[ivory bobcat]

The inspector position would be the local position of the object relative to it's parent. If you want their world position to be at the specific coordinates, use position like before.

The inspector value will not be what their world position is if they're child to another object not at (0, 0, 0)

[vocal thorn]

is there a way to lock the parent into place?

i found a solution

if anyone else ever has this issue

just add a rigid body and put all constraits on

[rare basin]

you said you got the naming conventions don

[vocal thorn]

I attempted, did i not do it right? I understood it as easy to understand variable names, the first letter small, the other words (if present) with a capital...

[rare basin]

IEnumerator randomappearance(GameObject selectedOtter)

that is not a propper funcion naming

infact it makes me not even wanting to read the rest of the code 😄

[rare basin]

newx so this should be newX based on your conclusion, why isn't it

[vocal thorn]

I forgot about the functions

[vocal thorn]

I personally don't really set much worth on the names of my variables, i know they're important, however I keep on forgetting follow the guidelines. Apologies.

[static cedar]

Probably used to not having the .Net naming convention.

Microsoft seems to hate snake_case.

[vocal thorn]

Im coming from Java and Python, so possibly? (I have no idea.)

[static cedar]

Basically:

• Classes, Structs & Functions: PascalCase
• Getters/Setters: PascalCase
• Variables: camelCase
• Private field variables: _case (I don't think people hear this often but i'm pretty certain Microsoft suggests this and can see this on some of their standard libraries.)
• Interfaces: IPascalCase (Yes, with the I at the start.)
• Attribute Classes: PascalCaseAttribute (With the Attribute at the end. Don't worry about having to use the entire name though, compiler lets you cut the Attribute at the end when using the attribute.)

[vocal thorn]

Thank you! I'll try to keep that in mind.

[static cedar]

Nah, don't. Just follow the naming convention when the compiler notification gets annoying.

I do snake_case for my variables.

[vocal thorn]

Okay?? Slightly confused now

but thanks nevertheless

[static cedar]

There's just some people that wants you to stick to those guidelines as much as possible. I'd prefer to stick to whats right for me.

[vocal thorn]

I feel like that's a good mindset.

[gaunt ice]

you can have your own set of naming convention

[static cedar]

[median mortar]

Hi guys, how do I assign Meshes/Materials from a ScriptableObject?

...
[SerializeField] ArrowSO type;
...
private void OnEnable() {
        MeshFilter meshFilter = this.gameObject.AddComponent<MeshFilter>();
        MeshRenderer meshRenderer = this.gameObject.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>();
        meshFilter.mesh = type.meshFilter.mesh;
        meshRenderer.material = type.meshRenderer.material;
}

public class ArrowSO : ScriptableObject
{
    public BowSM.EArrowType _ArrowType;
    public MeshFilter meshFilter;
    public MeshRenderer meshRenderer;
    public Material material;
}

Doesn't work like that, Filter/Renderer are still none in the inspector...

[static cedar]

In that case, just disable the compiler checks for the above.
I personally don't wanna see "IDEXXXX: The name must be in fuck u case."

[vocal thorn]

ty !!

[rare basin]

Sure, then you join a company where they are adapted to the standards, and you need to adapt yourself so why not adapt frmo the start to the standards?

[teal viper]

I don't see you assigning these fields anywhere.

Assuming you're talking about the SO fields

[static cedar]

I hate how you have a point.

[rare basin]

lol

[static cedar]

I don't think i'll be a programmer for work though. But i can bend myself in work.

[gaunt ice]

i suggest you follow the naming standard actually, it is easier to read some source code of standard libraries

[static cedar]

That's just the bare-minimum.

[rare basin]

also when you share code to public

when they are adapted to standards

it is much easier to read your code

instead of your own naming conventions

[teal viper]

Some conventions are widely accepted in the developer community. If you go against them, it would be more difficult to get help.

[static cedar]

Are there standards on how you sort the members of a struct/class/interface?

(Top to bottom)

• Constructor
• Fields
• Properties
• Methods
• Private Methods
• Static Methods
• Operators
• Nested class or something

I guess?

[teal viper]

There aren't really that I'm aware of, but most people just end up having a similar layout.

fields and properties at the top and methods in the bottom/

[gaunt ice]

usually i will align them manually to reduce padding space
in cpp you can put variables in header, left the methods in other file

same as c

[static cedar]

U can do the sorta the same with partial in C# too.
So why not?

[median mortar]

I'm having an ArrowSO, that hat some Meshes and Materials, created several of them for different Arrow Types
Now I want to assign the different Meshes and Materials to just one Arrow Object, that can change it's appearance/behaviour depending on the SO given to it.

public class Arrow : MonoBehaviour,IArrow
{
    #region StateMachine
    ...
    #endregion
    #region ArrowSpecifics
    [SerializeField] ArrowSO type;
    #endregion
    ...
    private void OnEnable() {
        MeshFilter meshFilter = this.gameObject.AddComponent<MeshFilter>();
        MeshRenderer meshRenderer = this.gameObject.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>();
        meshFilter.mesh = type.meshFilter.mesh;
        meshRenderer.material = type.meshRenderer.material;
    }
    ...
}

[teal viper]

Okay. So what's the problem?

[static cedar]

I think i'd prefer you to paste the entire !code.

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[median mortar]

That my Meshes and Materials assigned to the SO aren't assigned to my added components on the Arrow GameObject using the Arrow class.
How do I assign the Meshes and Materials specified in my SO to my Arrow GameObject properly?

[teal viper]

Are there any errors in the console?

[median mortar]

Oh yeah, doesn't seem to be allowed anyway.
`Not allowed to access MeshFilter.mesh on Prefab object. Use MeshFilter.sharedMesh instead``
My bad, f'ed up my debug console

[teal viper]

Well, the error pretty much explains it

[median mortar]

Yeah, thanks anyway 😄

[old gorge]

Hi, I've seen a few resources that suggest to use the Animator built-in state machines liberally for when you need a FSM even if it has nothing to do with animations.
Is this a common practice ?

[lavish terrace]

unity editor cancels all assigned List<> contents when entering playing mode from editing mode any idea why ?

[teal viper]

Probably doing with it something in code in awake/start/onenable

maybe even update

[lavish terrace]

yea the thing is non exist

update ? hmmm

[teal viper]

You're clearing it or creating a new list

share the code

[lavish terrace]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class BossKilledScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject RewardUI;
public BossScript bossScript;
public LootSystemScript lootSystemScript;

public List<KilledRewardScript> RewardsUI = new List<KilledRewardScript>();
public List<RewardScriptableObjects> Rewards = new List<RewardScriptableObjects>();

public bool Rewarded = false;

void Start()
{
    bossScript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Boss").GetComponent<BossScript>();
    lootSystemScript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("LootSystem").GetComponent<LootSystemScript>();
}

void Update()
{
    if (bossScript.BossKilled == true && Rewarded == false)
    {
        Rewarding();
    }
}

void Rewarding()
{
    RewardUI.SetActive(true);

    int RewardNum = 0;
    foreach (RewardScriptableObjects Reward in Rewards)
    {

        if (lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId] == false)
        {
            int RewardRNG = Random.Range(1, 101);

            if (Rewards[RewardNum].RNG >= RewardRNG)
            {
                lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId] = true;
                RewardNum += 1;
                RewardsUI[RewardNum].ItemImage.sprite = Rewards[RewardNum].RewardIcon;
            }
            else
            {
                RewardNum += 1;
            }
            Debug.Log(Reward.DisplayName + " " + lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId]);
        }
    }

    Rewarded = true;
}

}

[teal viper]

!code

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[lavish terrace]

it is a bit messy in here

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class BossKilledScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject RewardUI;
    public BossScript bossScript;
    public LootSystemScript lootSystemScript;

    public List<KilledRewardScript> RewardsUI = new List<KilledRewardScript>();
    public List<RewardScriptableObjects> Rewards = new List<RewardScriptableObjects>();

    public bool Rewarded = false;

    void Start()
    {
        bossScript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Boss").GetComponent<BossScript>();
        lootSystemScript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("LootSystem").GetComponent<LootSystemScript>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (bossScript.BossKilled == true && Rewarded == false)
        {
            Rewarding();
        }
    }

    void Rewarding()
    {
        RewardUI.SetActive(true);

        int RewardNum = 0;
        foreach (RewardScriptableObjects Reward in Rewards)
        {

            if (lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId] == false)
            {
                int RewardRNG = Random.Range(1, 101);

                if (Rewards[RewardNum].RNG >= RewardRNG)
                {
                    lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId] = true;
                    RewardNum += 1;
                    RewardsUI[RewardNum].ItemImage.sprite = Rewards[RewardNum].RewardIcon;
                }
                else
                {
                    RewardNum += 1;
                }
                Debug.Log(Reward.DisplayName + " " + lootSystemScript.ItemID[Reward.ItemId]);
            }
        }

        Rewarded = true;
    }
}

[teal viper]

Can you remove "using Unity.VisualScripting;" line?

[lavish terrace]

oh yea lemme try

same :/

[teal viper]

make the lists private

[lavish terrace]

wouldnt that make them unassignable in unity?

[teal viper]

Not if you use the proper [SerializeField] attribute

[lavish terrace]

aight

[teal viper]

[SerializeField] private List<KilledRewardScript> RewardsUI = new List<KilledRewardScript>();

[lavish terrace]

same :/

its not the update method

i removed it completly and still same problem

it caused by smth else

and it is not refrenced in other scripts aswell

[teal viper]

It can't be referenced if its private.

No errors in the console?

[lavish terrace]

no

i did change the name

and it got fixed

idk why

[teal viper]

Are these actually scriptable objects..?

[lavish terrace]

uhm not these but other ones

[eager elm]

Stop calling your Scripts 'Scripts'

[lavish terrace]

what should i call scripts other than scripts?

[teal viper]

So it's fixed?

[lavish terrace]

i think so i just need to find a solution for this new error

[eager elm]

just leave out the 'script' part

[lavish terrace]

typical domino effect

[teal viper]

What error?

[lavish terrace]

noooo it is better so u can have boss and bossScript at the same time

[teal viper]

Why would you need both? lol

[teal viper]

Seems like there are more Rewards, than there are RewardUI

[lavish terrace]

boss is the boss game object while bossScript is the bossScript

[teal viper]

How the heck are you gonna mix up scripts and gameobjects?

[gaunt ice]

do you know that monobehaviour has a field that reference back to the gameobject?

[lavish terrace]

idk its how i learnt unity

this.gameobject ?

[gaunt ice]

yes

[lavish terrace]

yea however if im gonna refrence the boss from the player script

[gaunt ice]

so you just need to reference the script

[teal viper]

You don't need the this. btw

[teal viper]

Then you can name your variables differently. Script/class names have nothing to do with it.

[lavish terrace]

script, rigidbody, etc etc

[whole isle]

when i change the health the hearts done decreae

[lavish terrace]

yea ik its just how my brain recognize it

is it that bad tho ?xd

[teal viper]

It's confusing

But you do you

[lavish terrace]

ah

its solo work after all so

[gaunt ice]

update wont run in edit mode

[rare basin]

hearts[i].enabled = i < numOfHearts;

no need for the if/else

[royal ledge]

Is Muliplayer event system known to be unreliable? I have it working perfectly instantiating a UI menu for each player, however if i load that scene from my lobby, it doesen't work at all, every component has been linked as it should be (Player root/First select) but i get no response from the UI even though the player inputs works absolutely fine, i don't know how to trouble shoot it. I can see it has the "first selected" selected but i can't get it to move at all.

[whole isle]

shall i remove that line

[gaunt ice]

actually i dont even know if you are in play mode or not....but i guess

[rare basin]

this is a code related channel

[rare basin]

i just gave you alternative, simplier, shorter replacement for your if/else

[whole isle]

im not in play mode

[rare basin]

do whatever you want with it

[gaunt ice]

then ofc update wont run unless this class is execute always

[prime lodge]

why this loop repeats infinitly
i wanted to make it repeat only one time

[royal ledge]

Aren't components just code visualized in unityxD?

[whole isle]

ur confusing me so what shall i do with hat lin e

[rare basin]

read again what i said

[gaunt ice]

technically everything is code and visualized by your gpu finally sent to screen

[rare basin]

!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.

[eager elm]

it doesn't repeat infitinetly, you are just calling it (probably) every frame.

[rare basin]

why do you use a loop

if you want to do something just one time?

[prime lodge]

yes

[whole isle]

shall i replace this with that u wrote

[rare basin]

as i said man, do whatever you want with this

you can replace it or not

[teal viper]

Components are serialized objects.

[whole isle]

would it solve it tho

[gaunt ice]

no

[rare basin]

it's just simplier than having if/else

i showed you alternative for that

[gaunt ice]

read what i had said

[rare basin]

not related to your issue

[whole isle]

ok i understand now

[eager elm]

you can set dead to false, or even better have another bool that you set to true once you call the code you want to run only once.

[whole isle]

do u know how i can attempt to solve the issue

[gaunt ice]

turn on play mode

[eager elm]

show all of your code

[whole isle]

mb guys when i start the game i does work

soz

[eager elm]

Create a new method with all the code in your Update function and call it UpdateHeartDisplay()
Call that method in
Update() and OnValidate()
OnValidate() is called in the editor whenever you make changes to the script, so it will now also update before you enter playmode.

[whole isle]

ty

[whole isle]

why is there an issue idk how to fix it

why isnt this called player health

[languid spire]

if you bothered to go and learn some basic C# you would know how to fix it

[teal viper]

Tip: PlayerHealth is a type name.
Or supposed to be at least.

[polar acorn]

Do you have a script with that name

[whole isle]

yh

[polar acorn]

Show it

[whole isle]

nvm it keeps showing up as (script)

even thought when i go on it its called PlayerHealth

[polar acorn]

Show it

[polar acorn]

The code

[teal viper]

this is file name

file name != type/class/script name

[languid spire]

inb4 it NewBehaviourScript

[polar acorn]

It should be equal but it's not im guessing

[polar acorn]

No, PlayerHealth

It's like pulling teeth

[teal viper]

This is a variable declaration.

[polar acorn]

The. Lid.

[gaunt ice]

the class inside the PlayerHealth.cs, show the class together with file name
and
!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[whole isle]

im trynna call the PlayHealth script into the dealing damage script

[polar acorn]

Show the fucking code already

[whole isle]

that player health

[polar acorn]

Finally!

Notice how it isn't called PlayerHealth

Fix that

[teal viper]

Does that look like PlayerHealth?

[whole isle]

mb i thought u can just rename it

[teal viper]

You can rename it now to the proper name.

[whole isle]

yh i chanhed it thx

[languid spire]

called it #💻┃code-beginner message

[rare basin]

you can have different class name and file name but only in the newer unity versions iirc

[rare basin]

also you might want to restructure your code architecture

SlimeDealingDamage, what if you have skeleton and zombie and more enemy types?

will you do SkeletonDealingDamage ZombieDealingDamage etc for each?

you can make generic DamageDealer class for example and just set different parameters for each enemy (via scritpable objects or directly in the inspector), you can then make other classes based on this class for Boss for example, and with overriding certain functions etc

[whole isle]

thx for the tip ill change that

the charachter not taking damage ive looked at the code and console

and cant figure out what to do

[modest dust]

Why have an Update method when you can do all of that within TakeDamage method

[verbal dome]

Start putting Debug.Logs in your methods to see if they are even running

[whole isle]

im trynna learn how to do that never done that

[modest dust]

Also check your damage field within the inspector to check if it's actually non-zero

[whole isle]

the damage is set at 2

[modest dust]

Then do a Osmal said

[whole isle]

do i have to go here

[verbal dome]

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

[whole isle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOwckFoP7QM

im watching a vid

[verbal dome]

[whole isle]

or is reading better

[verbal dome]

You should learn to read the docs first, yes

The video might have some useful tips but start with docs always

[whole isle]

for my code do i debug.log("Player")

nvm

[hallow heath]

this is the first time i got null reference error but no details. I cannot figure out what scripts causing this error. why this happening?

[gaunt ice]

turn on the stacktrace?

[whole isle]

would this be corrrect

[modest dust]

This might be too deep, put a debug into your OnCollisionEnter2D as this is where it all starts

To see if it even calls that method

[verbal dome]

Yeah but add some text to it so its easier to identify rather than just a number.
$"Health after TakeDamage: {health}" or "Health after TakeDamage: " + health

[tawdry mirage]

i'm trying to precalculate circle segment mults by chord.
each step increases chord length by 0.001 and it is just array for 1000 doubles.
the problem is that with chord length close to zero, central angle in radians is close to Pi, and it decreases as chord length increases, it should be opposite, rigth?

for (int i = 0; i < lengthMultsByChord.Length; i++)
{
    if (i == 0) continue;
    double chordLength =  1d * i / lengthMultsByChord.Length;
    double centralAngleRad = 2 * Math.Acos(chordLength / 2);
    double centralAngle = centralAngleRad * 180 / Math.PI;
    lengthMultsByChord[i] = ((centralAngle / 360) * 2 * Math.PI);
}

i think i can just inverse angle, but how it works?
assuming r = 1

[verbal dome]

But the main idea is to see if the functions are running at all @whole isle

[whole isle]

i can check the health whike running cause i can see on the script and the heart

and it dosent decrease

[verbal dome]

Ok but you still dont know if the functions are running or not unless you do some debugging.

[hallow heath]

thank you, set the stack trace logging to full in console menu shows the details.

[polar acorn]

Why are you trying to log a function

What are you expecting that to do

[whole isle]

some1 told me

[polar acorn]

No, they didn't

[whole isle]

i guess i misunderstood

[polar acorn]

At no point did anyone tell you to try to log a function

[swift crag]

You were told to log to check if the function was being called.

[whole isle]

k i changed it

[tawdry mirage]

Debug.Log("it works");

[rich adder]

also should use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.CompareTag.html

[whole isle]

ohhh so if the function works it will say itworks

[swift crag]

Correct.

[whole isle]

makes sense now

okay i understand

[whole isle]

would i check the console for the message

[modest dust]

All Debug.Log() does is send a log message to your unity console, which you can then read, so the input parameter should be a string or something convertible to a string

Also reading the docs is helpful

[swift crag]

you can also pass a second argument as the "context" of the log. clicking on the log entry will take you to the context object in the hierarchy.

Debug.Log("I worked", gameObject);

(or in the project window, if it's an asset)

I have some editor scripts that check for any invalid assets

e.g. I forgot to give something a description

it'll log a warning, and clicking the warning will take me to the bad asset

[rich adder]

; means you're ending a statement

which is invalid on an if statement makes if statement pointless

[whole isle]

k i got rid of it

imma run the code and check console

[swift crag]

Restart your editor.

that's a problem on unity's end

There's a bug with the code that draws graphs (like for animators, I think) that makes it spew those errors

[polar acorn]

Well, it's valid, but it means the if statement is entirely pointless, it contains no code

[rich adder]

yeah mb, ill fix it 😅 its still compiles fine but the if useless yea

[rich adder]

oh wow

wtf

[whole isle]

its gone now somehow

the message is still there actually but the game loaded

this is the only thing i get

but i dont think it related

[rich adder]

you have empty Animation Event on your animation clip

[whole isle]

found it and got rid of it

[polar acorn]

Yeah that sounds like a good way to reset the animator state

[whole isle]

nothing shows up in console log

[rich adder]

thats good

[polar acorn]

Did you actually open the console to check

[whole isle]

mb i thouight i was on console log let me chek

still nothing

[polar acorn]

Then nothing ever calls TakeDamage

[whole isle]

oof

i got no clue what to do

[rich adder]

so your collision don't work ? https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages (follow this guide)

[verbal dome]

Next check if OnCollisionEnter2D is being run and log the other object/its tag too

[whole isle]

have u guys look at my code

does it work

for taking half away

[verbal dome]

Put some thought into it

[whole isle]

i tried doing bothj

collison2d and collisom

then i tried doing Collison2D by itself

ill try playuer

[modest dust]

Trying random things won't help

[verbal dome]

You are accessing the tag right above it. I didnt tell you to log the collision itself, but the tag.
Also a comma is not how you print multiple values here

[whole isle]

so i would need to look in the other function

[whole isle]

do i need to add another debug log underneath

[verbal dome]

Im so confused how you come up with this random stuff from simple instructions

[whole isle]

😭

[verbal dome]

Probably best if you read everything 4 times

Log the tag and name of the object you are colliding with

[whole isle]

wdym when u say tag

[gaunt ice]

.tag

[whole isle]

oh

[polar acorn]

You are literally already using it

[whole isle]

i thought it was a terminology

mb

[rich adder]

 private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        Debug.Log($"Hit object: {collision.gameObject} with tag: {collision.gameObject.tag}");
    }```
if you're curious about $, its called [String Interpolation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated)

[whole isle]

thank u

nothing happeningggg

[rich adder]

then you did not follow this ? #💻┃code-beginner message

[whole isle]

what the diffrence between Kinematic rigid boddy trigger and the 3rd 1

[merry spade]

Sorry if this is the wrong channel, but I think the "beginner" channel could help me with everything so, I am trying to add a package through Git URL but its not working, I tried adding a manifest line but then there is written, that I need to have Git installed on my System, so I installed it and added it in my system environment variables. But still its not working... please help me

[slender nymph]

Kinematic Rigidbody refers to a rigidbody that is set to kinematic and does not have a trigger collider.
Kinematic Rigidbody Trigger refers to the same thing but with a trigger collider

[meager sentinel]

Someone knows how to place the IDE for modding a game in VSC? Idk if it's the same for unity, since i have it installed and no errors show for unity (It's a unity game obviously, and idk if i am on the wrong channel, if i am please lead me to the channel where i should be)

[whole isle]

would a trigger collidee be like my charchters sword

[rich adder]

modding is not supported on this discord
#📖┃code-of-conduct

[slender nymph]

how should i know whether your character's sword has a trigger collider or not?

[whole isle]

k im pretty sure it does

[slender nymph]

rather than being "pretty sure" you can just look at its collider and find out

[median mortar]

Hi guys, how can I use a ParticleSystem defined on an ScriptableObject on my GameObject?
Having a ParticleSystem that holds a reference to a flame prefab

public class ArrowSO : ScriptableObject
{
    public ParticleSystem ParticleSystem;
}

Want to instantiate the ParticleSystem hold by the SO and play it on my arrow, but watching in debug _ParticleSystem stays stopped

public class Arrow : MonoBehaviour,IArrow
{
    ...

    [SerializeField] ArrowSO _Type;
    Awake(){
    ...
    if(Type.ParticleSystem != null)    
    {

        _ParticleSystem = Instantiate(_Type).ParticleSystem;
        _ParticleSystem.Play();
    }
    ...
}

How can I use a ParticleSystem defined on a ScriptableObject?

[whole isle]

yh it is each time i click the sword then the clollider turns on

[slender nymph]

that's not what trigger collider means. there is a checkbox that is literally called Is Trigger on the collider

[whole isle]

its turned on

[slender nymph]

you need to instantiate the ParticleSystem

[meager sentinel]

there's nothing about modding in that channel i think, i passed it 2 times

[subtle canyon]

Also you define _Type but you are using Type

[subtle canyon]

Wow you know the server rules line by line or something?

[meager sentinel]

oh k i guess.

[median mortar]

My bad, was just from copying the code over to Discord

[subtle canyon]

oh

[slender nymph]

no, i just know how to read

[rich adder]

dam im slow to send today

[eager elm]

Did you understand what you are doing wrong?

[whole isle]

i think this is my problem

[polar acorn]

why

[whole isle]

nvm it not mb

[median mortar]

Thought I already instantiate it by _ParticleSystem = Instantiate(_Type).ParticleSystem; or do I have to do it like

var SO = Instantiate(_Type);
_ParticleSystem = SO.ParticleSystem;

[whole isle]

i thought the ticks were suppose to be like that

[eager elm]

both are wrong. You are Instantiating the ScriptableObject and not the ParticleSystem

[subtle canyon]

So you are telling me that the moment he said modding you went to the rules and checked if his message didnt break any rules? I dont think anybody does that. You can only say that instantly when you know that rule from before

[slender nymph]

i've also been here long enough that i know modding is not permitted. and if you knew how to read you would know that i wasn't even the person who pointed out that modding isn't permitted here, i just pointed out that they were wrong about modding not being mentioned in the rules

[polar acorn]

You should try reading things instead of just looking for copyable things and blindly copying

[median mortar]

So how is it done then?
Do I have to use AddComponent<ParticleSystem>() and copy the values from the SO?

[eager elm]

you need
ParticleSystem particleSysClone = Instantiate(_Type.ParticleSystem);

[polar acorn]

He literally said "It's not in the rules" with a link to it. Then we clicked on it and found it, it's like eight lines down

it's not hard to find

[median mortar]

Oh so you can also instantiate a ParticleSystem by itself? Didn't know that

[subtle canyon]

Well that's what I said previously that you know the rules of the server but you are the one who said "No, I just know how to read. "

[eager elm]

You can Instantiate any unity object

[polar acorn]

Yes, because that's how they found the rule that they highlighted. By reading. Reading the thing the other guy said wasn't there

[whole isle]

preachhh

[median mortar]

So ParticleSystem is inheriting MonoBehaviour and thus can be instantiated?
Does everything that can be seen in the Inspector work that way?

[wintry quarry]

no it's inheriting UnityEngine.Object and hence can be Instantiated

[polar acorn]

Note that if you instantiate a reference to a component, it clones the entire object that component is on

[subtle canyon]

My point was that he had to know that discussion about modding was not allowed in this server which he admitted himself.

[polar acorn]

Instantiate clones an entire GameObject, so you can pass in the object or anything on it

[median mortar]

OK, good to know, time to refactor some stuff 😄
Thanks!

[whole isle]

@rich adder soz for the tag but i went through the entire thing and couldnt find the problem

[polar acorn]

1. They weren't the person that originally pointed it out
2. They've been here for 3 years and there's like twelve rules it's not hard to learn

[slender nymph]

christ you're really set on being right, aren't you? well if you want to familiarize yourself with what is and is not allowed here you can go read #📖┃code-of-conduct yourself

[polar acorn]

So which object has the rigidbody2d

[rich adder]

show both objects colliding, their inspector

[subtle canyon]

I never said it is hard to learn the rules, I was just amazed that he knew them so well considering I am fairly new to the server

Also I wasnt even talking to you @polar acorn

[whole isle]

for slime

player

[languid spire]

you will find that all of us regulars know the rules and we enforce them as much as the mods do

[whole isle]

preachh

[polar acorn]

Okay so you didn't follow the instructions on the page

[whole isle]

i did

i changed it to continus

[subtle canyon]

ohh that's amazing, in all the other server's I had been no one bother's rules

[whole isle]

tuff this 1 does

[rich adder]

no

not referring to that at all

you're using wrong method for your collider types..

[languid spire]

it's self preservation and for our own sanity

[polar acorn]

On this page, which link did you click
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[subtle canyon]

nice

[whole isle]

i wam working in 2D

[rich adder]

ok

Trigger or Collision

[polar acorn]

On this page, which link did you click
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/2d-physics-messages

[whole isle]

collison message

[rich adder]

and are you using colliders or triggers?

[polar acorn]

Where on this grid would you place your two objects

[rich adder]

this will never work with OnCollisionEnter

[whole isle]

(2,3)

[polar acorn]

Why

Do you know what a trigger is

Do you notice how both of your objects have both a rigidbody and a trigger

[slender nymph]

they are also both kinematic so even if is trigger was disabled for both that wouldn't even be the right one

[whole isle]

😭

[polar acorn]

And notice how that's an empty box

meaning it will not work with this function

[whole isle]

so what do i ned to do

[polar acorn]

You need to actually figure out what you're doing instead of changing random checkboxes

it's not magic, all those changes mean things

[ivory bison]

Is that new, never seen it

[whole isle]

ill remove trigger

on slime

to make it a rigid boddy]

[polar acorn]

You've been here for days coding by successive approximation, you need to actually do some guided learning on !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[whole isle]

ill do that from tmr

[polar acorn]

It's on Vertx's frequently asked question site
https://unity.huh.how/

[whole isle]

i just wanna finsih this health systme

[ivory bison]

Thanks

[rich adder]

then do it correctly lol

[whole isle]

so i should remove triggers for my player body

and slime

[subtle canyon]

Bro I think instead of just asking for help and copy pasting other's codes you can learn and write the code yourself.
If you are having a problem you can ask here but you are practically having these guys babysit you which is not appropriate at all.

[whole isle]

ill stop asking for help after i finish the health

i promise

[hollow carbon]

when i start my game i cant see my spaceship

so how could i do the backround transparent so that i could see the game objects?

the image should be on the Backround

[slender nymph]

first, this is a code channel. second, you're not really providing enough context

[hollow carbon]

be mad

[verbal dome]

Did you mistype "my bad" or are you being a dick

[hollow carbon]

[hollow carbon]

mimimimi

[slender nymph]

someone clearly doesn't want help

[hollow carbon]

bro i just only ask a Question

[untold idol]

def the latter

[languid spire]

in the wrong channel

[hollow carbon]

Hahahahah

[hollow carbon]

ok

[untold idol]

Markus wreakin havoc in the Unity Discord Server

[hollow carbon]

what?

[hollow carbon]

what channel should i use?

[languid spire]

id:browse Find the right one for your question

[hollow carbon]

ok but why are these people so toxic here

[languid spire]

nothing toxic about it. There are rules, we obey those rules, so must you

[summer stump]

You were the most toxic person here. Someone pointed out the rules and you insulted them.
And then antagonized people

[polar acorn]

Asking the question in the relevant channel only serves to actually get your question answered instead of ignored but if you want to be ignored you do you

[spark ravine]

Lol literally just did the Unity Tutorial Create with Code:

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

public class MoveForward : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;

    void Update()
    {
        transform.Translate(transform.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed);
    }
}

For some reason the object doesent move along the local z axis, but rather the world z axis.
Thought transform.forward is local and Vector3. forward is global and sometimes it works like that too...

[rich adder]

afaik Translate default is self no ?

[solemn fractal]

Hey guys.. was checking here on how to communicate or transfer data between scenes.. and found some ways to do it.. any tips or best practices on that? Never done it and I might need to do it now first time. thank you!

[rich adder]

when is "sometimes"

[swift crag]

Link us to the tutorial page you're on.

[subtle canyon]

Well there are several ways

1. Scriptable Objects
2. Make a save file and save your data in there and you can retrieve it in another scene
3. Have a DontDestroyOnLoad Gameobject store important variables

[swift crag]

You're correct in that transform.forward is the forward direction of the transform and Vector3.forward is global.

[spark ravine]

last tutorial project

aka last script that did the same

[wild cargo]

Also static non-monobehaviour classes

[swift crag]

Show us that last script, then.

[spark ravine]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/lesson-2-2-launch-projectiles-by-instantiating-prefabs?uv=2021.3&courseId=5cf96c41edbc2a2ca6e8810f&projectId=5cdcc312edbc2a24a41671e6#5ce3479eedbc2a274fe5904f

[solemn fractal]

hmm yeah.. i dont know found kind of dumb of unities part.. u need to save or go around just to transfer data between scenes.. i dont know.. any ways i got the idea now. thank you!!

[subtle canyon]

yeah

[swift crag]

Notice the difference.

transform.forward is a vector pointing in the forward direction of the transform. The vector is a world-space vector.

transform.Translate interprets the vector you give it in local-space, by default.

[spark ravine]

ah lol

ty didn't know that

[swift crag]

So transform.Translate(Vector3.forward) moves you forwards by 1 unit in your forward direction

[subtle canyon]

Actually for most cases non-monobehaviour classes should be go to option. I forgot to mention them lol

[spark ravine]

never used transform. Translate

[swift crag]

transform.Translate(transform.forward) will be unpredictable

Suppose you're pointing straight up

[spark ravine]

always jsut used transform... += ... xD

[swift crag]

transform.forward will be an up-vector: [0, 1, 0]

[spark ravine]

or mostly rigidbodys

[subtle canyon]

same

[swift crag]

Passing that to Translate will move you in your local up direction

[wild cargo]

Yeah they're of great use, for example I'm using them to keep a cache of all loaded save data and stuff

[swift crag]

which will make you move sideways

It'll work perfectly if you aren't rotated at all

in that case, local-space and world-space directions agree exactly

and transform.forward will be equal to Vector3.forward

That's why your code sometimes worked

[spark ravine]

yeah lol xD

ty

[swift crag]

I would not think of Vector3.forward as being "global"

A vector, by itself, doesn't have any context

Vector3.forward interpreted as a world-space vector points in the world +Z direction. Vector3.forward interpreted as a local-space vector points in your +Z direction

[spark ravine]

ok and when the function itself usees local space it is reversed I guess?

[swift crag]

well, in that case, you got some weird double-conversion going on

oops, free cube

[swift crag]

var a = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward);
var b = transform.forward;

These are the same thing

You wound up doing this

var a = transform.forward;
var b = transform.TransformDirection(a);

b is...extra-transformed

it doesn't really make sense

[spark ravine]

ah ok got it XD

[swift crag]

var a = transform.InverseTransformDirection(transform.forward);
var b = Vector3.forward;

these are also identical, btw

Transform* goes from local to world space. InverseTransform* goes from world to local space

[old gorge]

any thougts about that please ?

[verbal dome]

Not super common from what I know but it's a valid option

[swift crag]

yeah, it is a state machine

[verbal dome]

Probably not common because it is rarely spoken of

[old gorge]

ok thanks

[languid spire]

It's an interesting concept but I would be concerned about the unnecessary overhead compared to just rolling your own state machine system

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I have a question. I want to pause and unpause my game whenever the game is running and it is not game over with an ESCAPE button how to do that?

So, when the game is over to not allow the player to interact with that button.

{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape))
    {
        if (pauseIsActive)
        {
            StartCoroutine(ResumeAfterDelay());
        }

        else 
        {
            StartCoroutine(PauseAfterDelay());
        }          
    }

}


IEnumerator ResumeAfterDelay()
{
    yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(pauseMenuScreenDelay);
    pauseIsActive = false;
    pauseMenuScreen.SetActive(false);
    audioManager.mainGameMusicAudioSource.UnPause();
    Time.timeScale = 1f;
    Debug.Log("Pause menu screen is disabled after delay!");
}

IEnumerator PauseAfterDelay()
{
    yield return new WaitForSecondsRealtime(pauseMenuScreenDelay);
    pauseIsActive = true;
    pauseMenuScreen.SetActive(true);
    audioManager.mainGameMusicAudioSource.Pause();
    Time.timeScale = 0f;
    Debug.Log("Pause menu screen is enabled after delay!");
}``` 
I have this code on my UI manager script here!

[verbal dome]

Use a "game over" bool and just check that?

[sage mirage]

So, here is where I am interacting with that button and pausing and unpausing actually

I have made one time before this functionality but now I got confused!

[rich adder]

whats confused on

May I recommend a global event?

public static event Action<bool> OnGamePaused

then anything that needs to stop doing stuff, ie like UI you can disable interactor/raycast

unless I misunderstood the q sorry xD

[sage mirage]

Oh, that's seems cool! How to use it do I have to copy paste that somewhere in my code?

[rich adder]

put it inside a GameManager script or something

then anyscript that needs to know game is paused you subscibe to it in Enable

[sage mirage]

So, what that does actually can you please specify?

[rich adder]

its just an event. if you pause game you can have other scripts do stuff depending on if game paused/unpaused. isn't that what you wanted?

[eager elm]

I think he just wants the player to not be able to pause the game once the game is over.

[rich adder]

OHH

ops.. i shall go grab my caffeine now..

[eager elm]

Just add a bool for gameOver in there.

[sage mirage]

Yes that's what I want

[rich adder]

yeah def a bool but may I suggest enum instead ?

[sage mirage]

Yes!

[rich adder]

imo its cleaner to have your gamestate be enum

instead of a bunch of bools

public enum GameState { Playing, Menu, Paused, GameOver} //etc.

I usually have something like this with also an event OnStateChanged?.Invoke(currentGameState)

[harsh owl]

currently when i accelerate my car quickly stops because of the drag value of my rigidbody. how can i make my car not stop so quick without changing my drag values (cant change them because my suspensions wouldnt work well anymore), im using AddForce for accelerating the car

[rich adder]

why would it break suspensions

[swift crag]

i bet it'd get too powerful and fling the car around

I suspect you just need to tune your suspension as well

maybe the suspension spring joints need more damping

I've been going through similar things recently

trying to find a good combination of parameters that doesn't just explode the object

[harsh owl]

yea thats what is happemning

whenever i fall and land its like constantly bouncing

[swift crag]

Damp the spring joints themselves

[harsh owl]

yea i just got it

[summer stump]

There is this
!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[summer stump]

And good resources pinned to this channel

[harsh owl]

quick side question, should i use an empty parent object for my car and attach the rigidbody and driving script to it or just have the carmesh be the main parent with all the scripts and the rigidbody?

[swift crag]

i prefer the former

(in general, not just when doing physics)

that makes it way easier to swap out the model

[harsh owl]

thanks

[summer stump]

Which one? Unity.learn?
Go to pathways and do the "essentials" pathway, then the "junior programmer" pathway

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I want to know when we declare a bool variable called gameIsActive what we mean when we want to use it somewhere in our code. I mean the game is active when the play mode is active or when the game is running like the player is playing the game?

This bool variable confuses me sometimes and I don't know in which cases to use it that's why I ask.

[wintry quarry]

A bool is just a variable that can have one of two values : true or false

[sage mirage]

I know that XD

I mean this specific variable. I mean where can I use it.

[wintry quarry]

what we mean when we want to use it somewhere in our code. I mean the game is active when the play mode is active or when the game is running like the player is playing the game?
I don't really understand this question. The scope of the variable really depends on where you declare it

You should learn about the various different types of variables in C#:

• Member variables
• Local variables

And modifiers like static etc.

As a general rule anything you do in code is something that will exist in your game program when it is running, The exception is if it's a serializeds variable somewhere you can then assign it in the editor/inspector.

[vast matrix]

Im following a ground check tutorial vid and in the vid he was able to see the BoxCast and I cant here is my code ``` void OnDrawGizmozs(){
Gizmos.color=Color.red;
Gizmos.DrawCube(transform.position-transform.up*maxdistance, BoxSize);
}
bool GroundCheck(){
if(Physics.BoxCast(transform.position, BoxSize, -transform.up, transform.rotation, maxdistance, LayerMask)){
return true;
}
else{
return false;
}
}

[wintry quarry]

Did you enable gizmos?

[sage mirage]

Thanks for that! I know all of that you say I am using C# and learning it already a year or so and I have learned the basics. I just got confused with that specific gameIsActive variable like if we use it when the play mode is active or when the player is playing the game and for example when the game is over then game is not active so bool will be false.

[wintry quarry]

I have no idea what variable you're talking about

gameIsActive sounds like some custom variable you made

[vast matrix]

idk how

[wintry quarry]

press the gizmos button

[vast matrix]

first time using them

[wintry quarry]

on scene view or game view

whichever you want to see

[vast matrix]

I dont see one

[wintry quarry]

top right

[sage mirage]

Public bool gameIsActive; when we declare it on our own

[wintry quarry]

there's nothing special about that

you could have called it public bool ajlskhdlakjhrfelkjhrf;

[rich adder]

learn the enum like I suggested and set your gamestate with that @sage mirage

[wintry quarry]

it's just a normal bool variable

[sage mirage]

I mean when you call it with a name and you want to use it for something specific you will not call it fjdhvuduirth

[wintry quarry]

sure buyt my point is jthe name of the variable is irrelevant

the variable will behave the same no matter what name it has

[vast matrix]

Still cant see them

[rich adder]

ur missing a comma

[vast matrix]

where?

[wintry quarry]

do you have any compile errors?

[vast matrix]

nope

[wintry quarry]

You sure?

[vast matrix]

yes

ok thx

idk just following the tutorial

[verbal dome]

You are asking us about the use case of a variable that you yourself made, can't really answer that

If someone suggested it and there is some context then ask whoever suggested it

[vast matrix]

welp I give up on this tutorial

Ill use another one ig

[rich adder]

send tutorial

[vast matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxCVHBMdTWo&ab_channel=VionixStudio

[rich adder]

timestamp for boxcast

[vast matrix]

lemme try to find it

between 3:00 and 6:50 imma try to find the exact moment tho

about 4:10

[rich adder]

oh ig you did copy the same

[rich adder]

show the inspector for those values then

PlayerController

[vast matrix]

heres the full image

[wintry quarry]

You spelled OnDrawGizmozs wrong

it should be OnDrawGizmos

[rich adder]

OnDrawGizmozs

[vast matrix]

so thats what ive been doing wrong

[rich adder]

oh nvm im too slow today

[summer stump]

This isn't really a code question.
#🔀┃art-asset-workflow maybe?

[vast matrix]

Now that I actually got to see the boxcast if my player moves the boxcast also moves making it impossible for him to jump sometimes

[blissful phoenix]

Would you say this Kart Controller is a good alternative to RCC?

[harsh owl]

nah man xd

[ocean wolf]

Is there a glaringly obvious reason the Scale of these GameObjects returned via method are incorrect and do not update whatsoever?

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

[rich adder]

you're overwriting size each iteration

[ocean wolf]

so I need a Vector3[] for scale as well

[languid spire]

scale is set to the last value of the itteration, so yes if you want a scale per object

[ocean wolf]

thank you

[languid spire]

not sure why you have 2 identical loops though @ocean wolf

[ocean wolf]

@languid spire how so?

oh you mean for gameobjects and length/scales

[languid spire]

        for(int i = 0; i < TPRP.Length; i++){
            colliderLengths[i] = (point[i].transform.position - associated[i].transform.position).magnitude;
            scale = new Vector3(width, width, colliderLengths[i]);
        }

        for(int i = 0; i < TPRP.Length; i++) {
            go[i].transform.position = TPRP[i];
            go[i].transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(point[i].transform.position - associated[i].transform.position);
            go[i].transform.localScale = scale;
            go[i].GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().material = blue;
        }

make them one loop

[ocean wolf]

yeah idk why I haven't done yet

lmao

ty

[languid spire]

then your scale is ok

[ocean wolf]

@languid spire @rich adder cheers fellas

[autumn tusk]

why am i getting this error in particular? i dragged an item into the "spookyenemy" field

[summer stump]

Maybe you have a different instance of the component somewhere

Or you unassign the reference in awake or start

[autumn tusk]

this is my code

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class tutorialSpawning : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] public GameObject spookyenemy;
    [SerializeField] GameObject spookyscaryskull;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            Instantiate(spookyenemy,transform.position,Quaternion.identity);
            Destroy(spookyscaryskull);
        }
    }
}

[summer stump]

Then the first thing I said

Type "t:tutorialSpawning" into the hierarchy search bar

[autumn tusk]

ok found it

there was an unused object sitting there

[tender breach]

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

[timber tide]

probably worth it to post some script of the problem

[tender breach]

Me?

[slender nymph]

yes, but please screenshot what your code looks like in your IDE to get started

you didn't do that yesterday when it was requested of you

[slender nymph]

this is not your ide

[short hazel]

Lord almighty that code style

[slender nymph]

screenshot your code editor

[summer stump]

My god. Why!?

[tender breach]

What?

[slender nymph]

why am i not surprised it's vs code after seeing this god awful formatting

[short hazel]

Put it all on one line at this point

[slender nymph]

also i can see you didn't listen to a thing that was told to you yesterday considering you're still trying to use the individual components of transform.rotation as if they are actually in degrees

[tender breach]

How do I fix that?

[slender nymph]

at this point it would be quicker and easier if you just started over and learned the basics first

[short hazel]

And focus especially on code style while learning, please

[blissful phoenix]

Oh, well alright then

[eternal needle]

That's how every conversation has been with them. They post a question, people react, how do I fix it, they dont respond further and come back another day

[polar acorn]

Just gotta wait until people who'll just hand out the solution for free with no follow up questions are out. Like prodding a jenga brick until you find one that's loose

[eternal needle]

This is a special case, no one is reading that code

[languid spire]

I must say, that is probably the worst block of code I have ever seen and that is saying a great deal

[polar acorn]

I've seen worse

[tough lagoon]

Hah sadly me too

[polar acorn]

At least the variables aren't all sequential single letters

[zenith cypress]

Don't give them ideas

[timber tide]

cant say my first tetris game looked all too well haha

[tough lagoon]

My favorite part is that it's a screenshot. You literally have to review it as is 😄

[slender nymph]

in all fairness i did specifically request a screenshot so we could see if they are using a configured IDE. and of course they are using vs code and screenshot it in a way that doesn't make that very clear

[rich adder]

tobe fair to VSCode even that formats your code with C# devkit

idk wassup with theirs

[tough lagoon]

I'll leave it at - at least they are trying and didn't copy it from chatgpt

[languid spire]

I'll say one thing for their code formatting, at least the misplaced ; was blindingly bleeding obvious

[queen adder]

i get some fps drop because of this scene what can i do for optimization

[rich adder]

that grass tho

probably what lagging

[queen adder]

what can i do for it

[timber tide]

is it on a terrain

[cosmic dagger]

First time I've seen that code format structure. Sheesh . . .

[queen adder]

yea a train

and water

thing

[timber tide]

grass should be somewhat optimized, but the verts would still add up

ideally I'd look into baking the fort meshes together

[rich adder]

yea terrain grass is just billboard yes?

is fort static ?

that should at least bake it into a whole mesh

[timber tide]

oh yeah static should work (probably better if you don't want to deal with the culling)

[queen adder]

how can i do static

[rich adder]

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

also do occlusion culling

so you only render what you see

[sly wasp]

Hey
I made a “private Coroutine deathPlayer”
And then to call it I did
deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(“Animation));

That works fine, but to stop it I did
StopCoroutine(deathPlayer);
The coroutine did not stop

[rich adder]

show the full !code (use link)

[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.

[sly wasp]

What I described there is the only things that are important

[rich adder]

context of the code is more important

[sly wasp]

I don’t see the point in using that since it will show the same thing

[queen adder]

i couldnt find this section

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[languid spire]

deathPlayer = StartCoroutine(DeathPlayer(“Animation));
really?

[frosty hound]

That is how you stop a coroutine that is playing, yes.

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk
also is the Rendering section (window => rendering)

[sly wasp]

What do you mean “really?”?

[slender nymph]

well what you've posted would be a compile error

[languid spire]

well that line of code will not even ccompile

[sly wasp]

The thing is it didn’t work

[rocky canyon]

https://hatebin.com/nzwvlfqihy

eye-bleach I tried to fix the formatting.. Not sure if i got it exactly correct, but the {s starting blending in to each other about 2 if statements in.. lol

[slender nymph]

share the full code as requested

[frosty hound]

Hence 🫴 #💻┃code-beginner message

[sly wasp]

*(“Animation”)

Meant to put that

Ok

I’ll show it then

[frosty hound]

But anyway, not interested in people who are resistant to help. Hopefully someone else can.

[eternal needle]

That is why you just show your code properly from the start. You cannot show 2 lines of code then claim all is correct. If all is correct then you dont have an issue

[frosty hound]

(But likely you're calling the coroutine multiple times 🏃‍♂️)

[sly wasp]

https://hatebin.com/ohhukwzzdr

[slender nymph]

we have a winner

[polar acorn]

Never presume you know what is relevant to share and what isn't ever again.

[sly wasp]

I just put that there for a sec, I’ll explain it now

[slender nymph]

you never bother checking if the coroutine is already running when you go to start it

[languid spire]

damn, are we having a 'bad code day' or what?

[slender nymph]

that is also a gigantic mess of conditions

[sly wasp]

That would be a good idea, I think that would work

[sly wasp]

You must be misunderstanding
When I missed the quote I was actually typing it from memory, in the actual code it works

I mistyped it

[rich adder]

the parameter is the last thing they're prob referring to

[languid spire]

I meant your code, have you never heard of caching GetComponent?

[sly wasp]

Why would I need to

[rich adder]

or caching soundclips..

[visual hedge]

any reason why my editor / game stopped seing OnRightClickEvent? It was working just fine and then suddenly (no idea what I did wrong) it stopped working and rightclick event doesn't get registered at all

[sly wasp]

I don’t want to make a giant mess

[rich adder]

ironic

[languid spire]

first rule of programming, never repeat anything you dont have to

[modest dust]

It's an even bigger mess with all these GetComponents and Resources.Load

Like dear lord, it's been a while since I've seen this many in one place

[rich adder]

sfx.GetComponent<AudioSource>().PlayOneShot(Resources.Load<AudioClip>("sfx/Hr_run_jump"));

this can literally be
someAudioSource.PlayOneShot(Hr_run_jump);

or hell use a dictionary/lists of Sfx someAudioSource.PlayOneShot(soundFxDict[c_run_jump]);

[sly wasp]

I meant of mentioning audio clips

At the top

[rich adder]

You can literlly load those in from resources

just in awake

put them in dictionary

lookup each sound by const of names or something

do something else other than what you're doing now lol

[slender nymph]

prefer a bunch of fields over dozens of unnecessary getcomponent and resources.load calls

[dry tendon]

Hello everyone! I'm working on a Unity project and need help creating a custom function in C#. I want it to behave like Start or Update but with a 3-second delay after the game starts. Is there a recommended way to do this and allow different scripts to define their own behavior for this function, similar to Start? I've tried Invoke but seek a solution that supports different implementations in various scripts. Any advice or examples would be appreciated! Thanks!

Did i express good myself?

[rich adder]

coroutine

update can work too ig but with a timer

then invoke an event to sub to

[golden otter]

for delayed functions Invoke should be enough tho

[dry tendon]

hmm... i want to do it on many scripts... so my intention is like to create function like start , for example delayedStart, callable from every scripts just one time from each script... idk if i'm expressing good myself...

[rich adder]

I try to stay away from unity's invoke

[golden otter]

why?

[rich adder]

iirc it uses reflection

/slow

idk if its still like that

I dont use it

[eternal needle]

You can do coroutine as suggested, but I have to ask what is the purpose of this? This sounds like you're trying to combat some execution order in a poor way

[golden otter]

oh right

[dry tendon]

I feel the beggining of the game it's like not as fluid as i would like... idk if its cause i'm doing too much things on start / awake... so i hope executing some things later would make the game start a bit more fluid (i have a loading screen, so i dont care calling a bit later some things

[timber tide]

Using forces (rigidbodies), I'm looking for a way to generate a very specific radius of gravity instead of a lesser field of gravity over an area. Would that be possible or should I just consider doing my own transformation logic

[slender nymph]

fun fact but you can turn Start into a coroutine and just put a delay right inside of it if you need to

[dry tendon]

that's another posibility

i'll first try it with a corrutine to try... thanks @slender nymph @rich adder @eternal needle @golden otter 🙂

[safe carbon]

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision) {

  if (collision.collider != null)
  {
      rb.velocity = new Vector2(0f, 0f);
  }

}

am i using it wrong

[rich adder]

yes

is your rigidbody 2D ?

[slender nymph]

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

[golden otter]

what about this:

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision) {
    rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
    rb.isKinematic = true; // disable physics
}

[rich adder]

its prob cause its a 2D game

[safe carbon]

yes

its a 2d game

[slender nymph]

this still wouldn't work

[rich adder]

then you prob want to use 2D physics messages 🙂