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[lethal depot]

i'm getting this another warning: enemyai.sensitivity is never used

[wintry quarry]

Yep just a warning saying you're not using the variable

Because you aren't

[hoary karma]

what's wrong?

[neat bay]

Is there a setting I can enable that allows objects to pass through eacchother but still register contacts?

[languid spire]

use Trigger colliders

[neat bay]

this?

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

[languid spire]

yes

[neat bay]

but you still need a rigidbody for that to work right?

[languid spire]

yes

[neat bay]

so how do I make the rigi body pass through objects while still registering collisions?

[languid spire]

If the collider is marked as Trigger. It will register Trigger events but will not obstruct movement of the rigidbody

[neat bay]

ohh I see

thank you

[north kiln]

Scroll up and remove the namespace you unnecessarily added

[hoary karma]

thanks

[merry spade]

FIXED

I have problems with the Camera, its stuttering and lagging, I dont know from where this comes, this prototype is an early development stage so there arent many scripts that could cause that stuttering and I'm moving the Camera in Late Update

    private void Start()
    {
        isGameActive = true; // change later
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }


    private void LateUpdate()
    {



        if(isGameActive)
        {
            moveCameraOnMovement();
        }

    }


    private void moveCameraOnMovement()
    {

        currentX += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * sensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
        currentY += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * sensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        currentY = Mathf.Clamp(currentY, YMin, YMax);

        Vector3 Direction = new Vector3(0, 0, -distance);
        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(-currentY, currentX, 0);
        transform.position = playertransform.position + rotation * Direction;

        transform.LookAt(playertransform.position);

    }

playertransform is the transform component of the player seen in the video

[fluid kiln]

if i add a script component to an item, does it trigger the "start" function when it gets added?

[teal viper]

If your camera follows the player(parented to it) it's most likely that the player movement is jittery. One common cause is lack of interpolation on the rb(or breaking it due to incorrect movement/rotation)

[merry spade]

Its not parented and the camera movement is jittery even when the player stands still watch the vid

[teal viper]

Yes, it should.

[teal viper]

Can't watch it on mobile. Download speed is limited.
Maybe when I get home.

[merry spade]

oh ok

Its jumping fourth and back

even if this is the only script in my scene

[fluid kiln]

public void Start()
    {
        // Reference to this object
        myObject = gameObject;
        
        // Reference to the EnemyAI component attached to this object
        enemyAI = myObject.GetComponent<EnemyAI>();

        // Load the VFX prefab from resources
        vfx = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Starburn");

        // Load the required stats from resources
        haste = Resources.Load<Stat>("Haste");
        power = Resources.Load<Stat>("Power");
        mana = Resources.Load<LimitedStat>("Mana");

        // Set initial stats based on loaded values
        tickFrequency = 1 - haste.GetAmount() / 2000f;
        damage = 1 + power.GetAmount() * 0.1f;
        duration = baseDuration;

        // Instantiate VFX and set its parent to this object
        vfxInstance = Instantiate(vfx);
        vfxInstance.transform.SetParent(transform);

        // Start the Activate coroutine
        StartCoroutine(Activate());
    }```

Oh cause its gets attached but it doesn't seem to get the needed things

[teal viper]

Well, start from confirming that it is called indeed. Add a log or a breakpoint.

[ruby python]

@merry spade try commenting out the LookAt line for a moment and test, I've found that sometimes LookAt causes the camera to 'flip' and produce undesirable results.

[merry spade]

its still flipping

should I send a video of it?

[fluid kiln]

yep, just confirmed it, it gets called

but it doesn't take the needed things

[teal viper]

Then you'll need to provide more info on the actual issue.

[fluid kiln]

well it does take the enemy ai aswell, but it doesn;t take the the scriptable objects stats nor the prefab so the issue seems to be on the "resources.Load" rows

[languid spire]

screenshot your project view of the So's

[languid spire]

right, so why would you expect Resources.Load to work when you are not using the correct folder structure?

[fluid kiln]

oh, tought it would find them by name, do i need to give it the path?

[teal viper]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

[languid spire]

you need to go and read the documentation

[teal viper]

The first line of the docs.

[fluid kiln]

thank you guys!

uhmmm it seems to be working now with the prefab but not the SO's

i tried like this mana = Resources.Load<LimitedStat>("ScriptableObjects/Stats/Mana.asset");
and this
mana = Resources.Load<LimitedStat>("ScriptableObjects/Stats/Mana");

fixed it

just had to use the player prefab and its statmanager component instead

[neon dome]

Anyone have the right component values for drifting wheel colliders?

[deep bear]

If I have a reference to another GameObject's button like this inside another object's script, can I get access to the button's on click function and add functionality within this script?

[languid spire]

button1.AddListener

[deep bear]

I couldn't do this but it seems like something like this will work?

button1.onClick.AddListener(HandleButtonClick);

[languid spire]

should do

[analog torrent]

hello, how do i make the program give me suggestion so i don't need to write the entire line (im using visual studio code)

[languid spire]

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[woven crater]

any tutorial on how to make an item system like one in binding of isaac / slay the spire artifact that uniquely affect the gameplay? i dont know if i should use scriptable object for this cuz the item should be different in the functionality. well except sprite/description

[frosty hound]

I would use SOs personally

[woven crater]

I want to but idk how it gonna work using it. Like having each script for each item and make a single instance of it?

Thought the intended use of SOs is to create multiple instances of it

But each item gonna have a whole different function that change different aspects of the game

[analog torrent]

which one should i download for visual studio?

[frosty hound]

Just install it through Unity Hub, it'll auto configure it as well.

[teal viper]

The one you have license for. But what Osteel said.

[analog torrent]

alright.

[frosty hound]

That is the intent yes. You would create an SO asset for each artifact that has all its general info and whatever flags you want to change how the game is played.

For example, in BoI, an item SO would have a property for how it affects the movement speed.

[woven crater]

thought of that but when create instance of each item im gonna have a list of check list too choose what item it suppose to be . feel lil wrong lol

thank very much

[stuck palm]

When you have a collision, can you measure the speed of the collision with oncollisionenter?

[jovial sandal]

does some1 has a link to a tut where u can make a good ai i made a few but there just ret..d

[eager elm]

collision.relativeVelocity is the speed

[stuck palm]

Is that the speed at which they collided?

Relative to what?

[eager elm]

to each other

[neat bay]

is there a way to serialize a 2 dimensional array so it can be edited in the inspector?

[teal viper]

Not unless you make a custom inspector. But how do you imagine it? That would be a huge ass grid.

Not very convenient to edit

[frozen sedge]

any ideas why on earth start wave isnt being called?

handle picked up is called

i put a print in there so i know it is

[neat bay]

sort of just how a normal serialized array would look in the inspector but with 2 columns

[teal viper]

That wouldn't be 2d array then.

[neat bay]

how so?

[teal viper]

Any errros?

[teal viper]

Well, unless it's 2x2

[frozen sedge]

nope

[teal viper]

Which you can just have 2 vectors for. Or a matrix

[neat bay]

yeah, 2 wide, and just expand dwon is how I woudl imagine it

[frozen sedge]

DO u know whats the ? point of that question mark

could that be causing an issue

[teal viper]

That would be super inconvenient to edit.

[neat bay]

yeah I guess, but if its not possible then its fine

thanks anyway

[teal viper]

It's checking if anything is subscribed. Does it error without it?

[eager elm]

if you only have two columns you can make your own class:

[System.Serializable]
public class MyData
{
    public int x;
    public int y;
}```
And then have an array of MyData

[frozen sedge]

idk havent tried i iwll check

[teal viper]

Maybe there's a better way to do what you want. Can you explain a bit what the use case is?

[eager elm]

can you show where you defined OnPickUp?

[frozen sedge]

yes

[neat bay]

then just make a new array like this: public MyData[] data; ?

[frozen sedge]

it errors and says this

[neat bay]

sure

[teal viper]

Then you probably don't have anything subscribed to it. Can you share the whole code properly?
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[neat bay]

so I'm making a semi rhythm based game that includes flying and I want to be able to control at what time and speed the velocity changes with 1 array

it works with 2 but i just thought a 2d array would be a better way

[frozen sedge]

if this bit of code not subbing to the event?

[teal viper]

I see. Then what Gruhlum recommended is probably a better solution.

[strong wren]

It is, but are you sure that's the same instance?

[frozen sedge]

hmm i set the instance during start

[neat bay]

Ok, thank you

[eager elm]

I thought you can only subscribe to events from within the class that defines it 🤔

[eager elm]

OnEnable() is called first

[strong wren]

Instance of pickup. Accessing your singleton instance would throw a null before the assignment to the event

[teal viper]

Maybe share the whole script. As there are a few things unclear.

[frozen sedge]

tbh if i never set instance then shouldnt it have thrown an error?

i wil change to awake and see if that helps

[eager elm]

Awake and OnEnable are called at the same time I think, so it's 'rng' which one will run first

[frozen sedge]

whats called after start

i realized i set onpickup to null during start

so on enable i add an action to on pick up

but when starts called, it wipes that out

[frozen sedge]

yep alr thanks

i fixed it now

[eager elm]

just be careful, the order of scripts can change when you build the game.

[teal viper]

That's why you share the whole code...

[frozen sedge]

Ah, so what comes after start

[strong wren]

Update 😛

[eager elm]

nothing comes after Start, you should use Awake() for setting up everything on itself and Start() for setting up things with other objects. If you need more control you can have 1 script that calls those setups one after another:

void Start()
{
    manager1.Setup();
    controller.Setup();
    player.Setup();
}```

[jovial sandal]

does some1 have a idea how i can make a seprate inventory for every player i am using netcode

[frozen sedge]

alr thanks

[mental gull]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class jumpanim : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update

    public Animation jumpanimation;
    public AnimationClip jump1;
    public AnimationClip jump2;
    public float timer;
    public float animno;
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)) { jumpanimation.Play(); }

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && jumpanimation.isPlaying)
        {
            jumpanimation.Stop();

            {
                if (timer < animno)
                { timer = timer + Time.deltaTime; }

                else
                {
                    jumpanimation.clip = jump1;
                    jumpanimation.Play();
                    jumpanimation.clip = jump2;
                }

                  
            }
    
        }

        if (jumpanimation.clip == jump1) { Debug.Log("anim2 playing"); }
    }
}

SOMEONE HELP why no anim playing but still no error

im rly rly new to coding

someone an fix it for me

[strong wren]

Figure out how you want to represent your items and one over the network. Once that is figured out, figure out some collection on a component and sort out how to sync that over the network. You can ask for more details in #archived-networking.

[jovial sandal]

thx

[polar acorn]

It's not RNG, Awake always happens before OnEnable.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

[eager elm]

it does, but it goes more like this:
obj 1 -> Awake -> OnEnable
obj 2 -> Awake -> OnEnable

so if you read values from another object in OnEnable the Awake() method of the other object might now have been called yet.

[swift crag]

yes, the two methods are called in sequence

[frigid sequoia]

Ey, a quicky here; is there a way of like, make the player input on keyboard axis to be more smooth, and not just go almost instantly to 0 to 1?

[frozen sedge]

no thats for u to work out, the input axis just shows player direction

[burnt vapor]

Lerp some value based on the keyboard input, don't rely on the actual raw input being smooth

[swift crag]

consider Mathf.MoveTowards / Vector2.MoveTowards

[rich adder]

use Animation curve for acceleration

[swift crag]

Vector2 from = Vector2.zero; // [0, 0]
Vector2 to = Vector2.right; // [1, 0]
Vector3 smooth = Vector2.MoveTowards(from, to, 0.1f); // [0.1, 0]

[hallow heath]

Hello, I am using 2023.2.3f1. when I selected gameobject in hierarchy, it reset serializefield enum property in the component. is this a bugs?

[swift crag]

current = Vector2.MoveTowards(current, input, Time.deltaTime);

this will move current towards input at a maximum rate of one unit per second

[swift crag]

I haven't observed this. Can you show your code and the inspector?

Although, I guess I am on 2023.2.2f1, not 2023.2.3f1 😛

[hallow heath]

I notice this is happen if I selected multiple gameobject in hierarcy, then all enum property I've set, back to default.

[swift crag]

Do you have any custom editor code?

[hallow heath]

No

[swift crag]

That sounds like incorrect multi-object editing behavior

[severe drum]

im trying to make a dialog system for my roguelite, somethng like hades where when you enter a room event characters talk. i made a list of dialogs objects and i plan to get one dialgo randmly based on what characters are on the event. im having troube to find a way to filter my list of dilogs. like: "I want a dialog with character X and Y "

[woven crater]

can i create a copy of a scriptable object so i can modify it without effect the original?

[swift crag]

You'll need to store all of that data along with each chunk of dialogue

[swift crag]

Yes. Instantiating any Unity object will create a copy of it

[woven crater]

like this ?

[swift crag]

Maybe you'll have a dialogue set object like this:

public class DialogueSet : ScriptableObject {
  public List<DialogueLine> lines;
  public List<Character> characters;
}

then you could filter all of your dialogue sets

dialogueSets.Where(set => set.characters.Contains(theDude));

(this is using LINQ)

[severe drum]

all my dialogs are in a "DialogLibrary" prefab, when i make a new dialog i add it as a child of this prefab

[swift crag]

Yes -- modifying weaponatt will not modify the object that weapon refers to

[swift crag]

same deal; you'll want to get a list of all of the possible dialogue options, then filter them

[woven crater]

not wokin ;w; modify weaponatt will modify weapon instead

its not affect weaponatt by anymean

[swift crag]

show your code

the whole script, ideally

[severe drum]

thats kinda what im doing

foreach (Transform childItem in dialogLibrary.transform) {

        AllDialogsInLibrary.Add(childItem.GetComponent<dialogController>());

    }

just the filter im trying to solve

[swift crag]

well, you'd better put some more information in dialogController

AllDialogsInLibrary.Where(controller => controller.characters.Contains(theDude)) will give you a sequence of every dialog controller where its characters list includes theDude

[eager elm]

I recommend to instead use 2 classes, 'WeaponDataSO' and 'Weapon'.
'WeaponDataSO' only exist to hold the default values while Weapon is a serialized class that loads the values from the SO but has it's own, allowing you to change them without affected the others.

[swift crag]

That sounds like a better idea, yes.

Weapon can also reference WeaponDataSO, and just store changes to that base data

public class Weapon {
  public WeaponDataSO definition;
  public int upgradeCount;

  public float Damage => definition.damage * (1 + upgradeCount * 0.2f);
}

Each upgrade adds 20% more damage

[woven crater]

this is the weapon class

[hallow heath]

Yeah this is a bug https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/when-multi-editing-gameobjects-with-seriliazed-enum-fields-changes-are-not-reflected-if-the-the-last-selected-gameobject-in-the-hierarchy-has-a-different-value

[swift crag]

hm, but it shouldn't be happening in 2023.2.3f1

[hallow heath]

Oh thats found in 2022.3.2f1, i thought its 2023.2.3f1. Hmmm

i'll try in 2023.3

[swift crag]

the bug was reproduced in several editor versions

but it was fixed in 2023.2.0b17, which ought to mean it's not in 2023.2.3f1

[hallow heath]

It says fixed in 2023.2.0b17, but the bug still happen in 2023.2.3f1

[woven crater]

its literally what im doing rn. but idk how to copy data from the so into a new WeaponDataSO to use it inside weapon class

modify the copy seem to only effect the SOs object instead of instance created in weapon class

[swift crag]

that is not what you're doing right now

Gruhlum suggested using two separate classes

also, you still haven't shown me your code, so I don't know what you're doing

[woven crater]

ah sorry

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[eager elm]

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[swift crag]

this shouldn't happen

[eager elm]

although it should be
[System.Serialize]
public class Weapon {

[swift crag]

oops

keyword moment

there we go

you want to separate the definition from the runtime data

[woven crater]

https://hastebin.com/share/pawajepacu.csharp
https://hastebin.com/share/yuhocosuso.csharp

the seccond one is where i use the weaponatt

[swift crag]

Do you already have something assigned to the weaponatt field?

You're instantiating weapon in the Start method of WeaponHandle

and getting weaponatt in the Start method of weaponattributeHandler

If the second Start starts first, it'll run before you instantiate the SO in the first Start method.

and it'll get whatever was serialized in the weaponatt field

[swift crag]

I would strongly suggest just doing this -- it'll prevent this problem from happening in the first place.

It's also how I've done exactly this in the past (:

i made a game for a jam with mostly-procedurally-generated weapons

the base data for a weapon lived in a ScriptableObject, and then the upgrades were tracked separately

[woven crater]

ah i see the problem now. i mistake the object assign in weaponatt is the clone and yes after that fix it seem that weaponattributehandler run first and return null here

[woven crater]

so create a class inside weaponhandler called weapon and assign SO then create an instant of weapon class?

[swift crag]

or maybe WeaponData or WeaponConfig

[severe drum]

it worked very well, now i can add more filter layers, thx for the help

[swift crag]

I see two options:

• Weapon MonoBehaviour that references a WeaponBase ScriptableObject and holds all of the upgrade data
• Weapon MonoBehaviour that references a WeaponConfig object, which holds the upgrade data. WeaponConfig references a WeaponBase ScriptableObject

The latter would make it easy to save and load weapons

just make WeaponConfig serializable

Weapon would need a method to build the weapon's visuals and reset stuff

which you'd call after installing a new WeaponConfig

[woven crater]

when you say Weapon class you mean Weaponhandler or create new script called Weapon?

[swift crag]

The class you've called Weaponhandler, yes

If it represents a weapon, name it Weapon

(also, you should PascalCase your class names)

WeaponHandler, WeaponExplosionWidget, etc.

[woven crater]

yeah i know ;w; i should start doing that from now

thank you much Fen

thats very helpful

[sage cave]

ill try to explain my problem the best i can
in a function, i have an object that i want to move smoothly to another position. the problem is that it isnt in the update function and the function runs when i press a button. ive tried my best to research but due to my lack of skills in explaining, i cant find anything.

[swift crag]

You need to set a field when you push the button

then, in Update, move the object if the field is set

[sage cave]

so like, a bool?

[swift crag]

yeah

[sage cave]

i was thinking of that but it just seems so... how do i say this. unpractical???

[swift crag]

private bool moving = false;
[SerializeField] Transform moveMe;
[SerializeField] Vector3 destination;

void Update() {
  if (moving) {
    moveMe.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(moveMe.position, destination, 10 * Time.deltaTime);
  }
}

public void StartMoving() {
  moving = true;
}

i mean, how else would you do it?

you need to do something over the course of several frames

so you need to remember something from frame to frame

You could also use a coroutine, which lets you write code that suspends and resumes

or use a library like DOTween that does roughly the same thing

[sage cave]

i hate spaghetti code and this seemed unpractical for me, so i avoided it (man i am stupid)
but thanks for telling me its fine to use it

i even hesitated to put it in code-general because of it

[swift crag]

"spaghetti code" happens when you have lots of weird dependencies

like if this class had 15 different moving variables and 6 destinations

and some of the variables affected each other

[sage cave]

alrightie
well thanks again and sorry in advance

for... being a burden???? its such a simple answer, i think i just overthink too much

[swift crag]

don't sweat it :p

people are here to ask and answer questions

[sage cave]

thanks a lot man God Bless and Merry late Christmas

[cosmic quail]

is the fix also gonna get backported to 2022 LTS?

[swift crag]

that's what the bug report says, yes

fixed in 2022.3.14f1

It's possible that there was a regression in 2023.2.3f1

I can check that later

[terse raven]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float moveSpeed = 20;
    int boardMoveSpeed;

    bool onBoard;

    public GameObject mainPlayerObject;
    public Rigidbody2D mainRigidbody;

    private void Start()
    {
        
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        CameraRotation();
        PlayerMove();
    }

    void CameraRotation()
    {
        Vector3 mousePos = Input.mousePosition; //get mouse position

        Vector3 objectPos = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position); //change to world space
        mousePos.x = mousePos.x - objectPos.x; //Use trig and differences to find the angle to the mouse
        mousePos.y = mousePos.y - objectPos.y;

        float angle = Mathf.Atan2(mousePos.y, mousePos.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg; //remember to convert to degrees
        mainPlayerObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, angle)); //set rotation
    }

    void PlayerMove()
    {
        float x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        float y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        Vector2 force = new Vector2(x * moveSpeed, y * moveSpeed);
        mainRigidbody.AddForce(mainRigidbody.transform.forward * force);
    }
}

Hi everyone I have this script and I want the player to move in the direction that they are facing

however I can't seem to get it working

In the player move function I have managed to get the x and y inputs no problem but when I try to implimnent the force with a direction the player doesnt even move at all? any thoughts?

[swift crag]

how do you know you've gotten the x and y inputscorrectly?

[terse raven]

using debug.log

[swift crag]

okay, good

[terse raven]

I still get 1, -1, 0 ect

[swift crag]

You're modifying the rotation of the player transform directly whilst also trying to use a rigidbody

this can cause problems: you're fighting the rigidbody

[terse raven]

So I should be rotating the rigidbody?

[swift crag]

i would suggest setting mainRigidbody.rotation instead

[terse raven]

ahhh

[swift crag]

also, that's a pretty weak force

well, sorta

one thing to check: look at the inspector for this component

make sure that moveSpeed is 20, not 0

[terse raven]

yes I've done that, I came across that earlier. Ill try test this

[swift crag]

that would've happened if you added the initializer after attaching the component

unity will remember all of the values in the inspector

so if you started without an initializer, the default value would've been 0

[terse raven]

I see. I've changed the playerObj to the rigidbody rotation now too. Still no luck.

[swift crag]

the other thing is that I don't really understand mainRigidbody.transform.forward * force

can you even multiply a Vector3 and a Vector2 like that?

oh, you can!

[terse raven]

apparently so. I wanted to add a force in the direction the player was facing

[swift crag]

it's just promoting the Vector2 to a Vector3

then multiplies each pair of elements together

That is not what you want

You want to do this:

transform.TransformVector(force);

[terse raven]

okay lay it on me

[swift crag]

This converts a vector from local space to world space

If the object isn't rotated or scaled, this will do nothing

If it's rotated, the resulting vector will also be rotated

[terse raven]

okay so in the add force it would be mainRigidbofy.transform.forward * TransformVector(force)?

[swift crag]

no, just transform.TransformVector(force)

Multiplying the vectors isn't meaningful here

[a, b] * [c, d] is [a*c, b*d]

[terse raven]

Ohhhhh!

[swift crag]

also, transform.TransformDirection is probably more correct

[terse raven]

that would be the forces multiplying would make the force 0

[swift crag]

that doesn't care about scale

If you use TransformVector, scaling up your player will make you move faster

[swift crag]

To see what this means, try selecting your player in the scene view

Make sure the scene view is set to "Pivot" and "Local" modes

and press W so that you see the arrow handles

The arrows show you the local axes of the selected object

Press X to switch to Global mode. The arrows are now world-space directions

[terse raven]

alright perfect, but for some reason my w a s d is no reversed? A and D are doing forward and backward and vise versa. I can see the arrows now too which is good

[swift crag]

transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward) will give you an vector pointing in the blue arrow's direction

[swift crag]

Look at the arrows when you're in Local mode

red -- X -- right
green -- Y -- up
blue -- Z -- forward

in 2D games, the Z axis usually points into the screen

so your two arrows will be red and green

If you move in the positive X direction in local space, you move along the red arrow

and if you move in the positive Y direction in local space, you move along the green arrow

[terse raven]

yes I understand

[swift crag]

So you might need to adjust how your character's graphic is rotated

if the character faces in the local +X direction, holding W will appear to make you strafe left

[terse raven]

OHHHHHH!

[swift crag]

in 3D, it's obvious -- the character should face forward

I guess people usually make a 2D character face upwards

like so, where the little cube is the direction you appear to be facing

If you set your character up like this, holding W still makes you move along the green arrow

so it'll look wrong

[terse raven]

Thanks so much for ur help

basically like a full crash course on forces and charatcers lol

[swift crag]

no prob (:

getting a good handle on your axes is really helpful

i don't have to guess-and-check very often

(except when trying to attach a gun to a character's hand. i always do that wrongly)

[terse raven]

anything else you'd suggest I look into as a beginner

like basics mechanices

oops

[swift crag]

too many links

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages is great for physics stuff -- there're several ways that can go wrong

I used to struggle to get collisions and triggers working on the first try

[terse raven]

I remeber a while back when I first touches on physics in 3D and my mind was blown with how much stuff there was which is why I've shifted into 2D for the time being.

[pastel sinew]

(In Awake())
_actions.Drone.Yaw.performed += OnYaw;
...
(called in Fixed Update)
private void Rotate()
    {
        // Adjust rotation based on input
        float rotationAmount = _rotationInput * _rotationSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
        Quaternion deltaRotation = Quaternion.Euler(Vector3.up * rotationAmount);
        _rigidbody.MoveRotation(_rigidbody.rotation * deltaRotation);
    }
...
    public void OnYaw(InputAction.CallbackContext value)
    {
        _rotationInput = value.ReadValue<float>();
        Debug.Log($"Yaw: {_rotationInput}");
    }
...

Using this setup my character object keeps spinning when I stop making new inputs. Shouldnt the Input system send 0.0 in the value at that point?

Not using a player input component.

[slender nymph]

if you are only subscribing to the performed event then it won't call OnYaw when you cancel the input (release the keys)

subscribe to the canceled event too

[pastel sinew]

Ill try that.

[wintry quarry]

I find it can be cleaner simply to read the value in Update rather than using events for this kind of input handling

This is continuous input

[pastel sinew]

Still spinning.

[queen adder]

hi

when i put in my dmg overlay variable, it says "type mismatch"

here is my code

wait

!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.

[slender nymph]

either you are not dragging an Image component in, or you are trying to drag something from the scene in, which you cannot do because assets (like ScriptableObjects) cannot reference scene objects
https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/okilagijaf.cs

here is my code

[rich adder]

you cant drag scene objects there

[queen adder]

ahh

[rich adder]

told you this b4

dont store reference types like that at least.

[slender nymph]

is it logging when you release the key(s)?

[queen adder]

well

[rich adder]

use prefab

[queen adder]

prefab?

[rich adder]

that has the panel

you want

then spawn the panel

[queen adder]

makes sense

[pastel sinew]

Its not logging 0, its always the last input I did.

[queen adder]

thanks

[rich adder]

goodluck 🙂

[slender nymph]

did you make sure to save your code and it compiled after you added the subscription to the canceled event?

[narrow ore]

does anybody know how to change the amount of times per second that fixedUpdate is updated?

[rich adder]

projectsettings

its in the physics section

[pastel sinew]

It did recompile. Just made sure again.

[narrow ore]

is there a way to do it on a script by script basis

[rich adder]

why

[narrow ore]

i'm trying to make a rhythm game

[slender nymph]

then show your code using a bin site

[rich adder]

sounds like poor design

[pastel sinew]

Will do.

[narrow ore]

wym

[rich adder]

why are you changing the physics step in the first place?

and why you want it different for each script

you can also just make your own version of fixed update/ updates anyway

[narrow ore]

because if I have it set to 60 instead of 50, it'll make it way easier to subdivide seconds

[narrow ore]

you can?

[rich adder]

sure if you make a custom method, make your own tickrates

kinda advanced

[narrow ore]

idk how to do that unfortunately

yeah

i mean there's a reason i'm in the beginner channel

the extent of my knowledge is a basic understanding of C#

[rich adder]

just change it to 60 if you want 60

[narrow ore]

i'm not seeing it

you know what it's labeled as?

[queen adder]

so i made a new prefab and stored my image object from the scene into the asset

and then used said asset for the inspector's parameters

[rich adder]

sorry I think its in Time

iirc you can also change the Physics update rate to Update loop instead of FixedUpdate

at your own risk on that though

[pastel sinew]

https://gdl.space/inoxobezep.cs

[narrow ore]

What’s the difference?

[queen adder]

however when i interact with the death cube (which calls the set health function) my damage overlay stays invisible

[slender nymph]

you've commented out the subscription to the canceled event so it won't work

[rich adder]

color doesnt go to 255

that would be 32 bit color

Color is 0-1
Color32 0-255

[queen adder]

ohh

thank you

still invisible :(

[pastel sinew]

Sh*t, yeah I dont know why I uncommented .started but not .cancelled based on what you wrote initially.

Works now.

Now Ill have to fix the Move() and Elevation().

Thank you @slender nymph.

[rich adder]

ur update is set to 0?

wait nvm

[queen adder]

here is my new code for reference

[slender nymph]

why are you increasing by a specific number like that rather than a number multiplied by deltaTime? or do you not care that those with higher framerates will increase the Health variable faster?

[queen adder]

ah, ill change that then

still wont fix my problem however

[austere osprey]

guys how do i fetch the sprite needed for a reference in my script?

like normally i would just drag it into the reference slot in my gameobject but it's a prefab

[slender nymph]

are you trying to reference something inside the scene from a prefab?

[austere osprey]

i'm trying to reference a sprite that's in my sprites folder

[rich adder]

is the script running ? what is the value of the one in Update

[wintry quarry]

you can reference prefabs no problem

[slender nymph]

then why can you not drag it into the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

note the difference between a Sprite and a SpriteRenderer though

[austere osprey]

oh wait

im stupid

nvm

[queen adder]

what is this "one"

[queen adder]

oh

ahhh the update doesnt run

but the function does

because this script is not embedded in any object

idk where i'd put it though

[wintry quarry]

If this is a MOnoBehaviour then it can ONLY exist on an object

if it's not a MonoBehaviour then it can't b e attached to an object

[queen adder]

scriptableobject

oh

[wintry quarry]

ScriptableObjects don't use Update

they are more or less data containers

[queen adder]

well this is a new conundrum

[wintry quarry]

not really

if you need something to run every frame

put a monobehaviour on a GmaeObject in the scene

with Update

it can call a function on some other object if needed

[queen adder]

can we put behaviour in particals in a particale system?

[wintry quarry]

No

[rich adder]

only "behavior" they have they can send collision messages

[glass urchin]

reading some decompiled code. what does int num = this.armed ? 2000 : 30; mean

armed is a bool

[rich adder]

ternary operator

if its armed then num is 2000

[glass urchin]

I see

thanks

[rich adder]

its just a fancy if else

[swift crag]

the name is a bit silly

"ternary operator" means it operates on 3 things

like how "binary operator" means it operates on 2 things

it's like calling + the binary operator or ! the unary operator

[glass urchin]

what is Object.op_Equality and Object.op_Inequality?

I'm seeing it in some netcode parts here and I'm not sure what it does.

[rich adder]

word of advice : dont decompile code when you don't know the language its written in

also this isn't the place

[glass urchin]

That's a rude way to refuse to answer.

[eternal needle]

It's just the equality operator and inequality operator. You should try first always

[eternal needle]

And the person above is right, this isnt the place. #📖┃code-of-conduct even says dont discuss modding or decompiling

Looking at decompiled code will be mostly useless for your learning as well

[clear seal]

is it possible to make a script scene replacable?

[queen adder]

use a string variable

[eternal needle]

Make the string public or [SerializeField] then change it in inspector. Public if you want another script to change it

[green island]

im making an multiplayer game and the player needs to instantiate something onto itself but the client cant do that so i need a funktion that gets called when a player joins and get his gameobject

[rich adder]

ServerRPC

or even better
https://docs-multiplayer.unity3d.com/netcode/current/basics/object-spawning/

[clear seal]

thx

[robust condor]

What size does a "private GameObject[] enemies" have?

[slender nymph]

whatever you assign to it when you create the array

[rich adder]

right now its null 🙂

[green island]

thanks

[robust condor]

@rich adder"Arrays have a fixed size that is set when they are created, while lists can grow or shrink dynamically as items are added or removed."

[queen adder]

once you make the array, you cant change the size anymore, that's all there is to it. Unlike list where you can just add stuffs later

[slender nymph]

this is correct. but the default value of any reference type variable is null until it has been assigned an object that is not null. and at that point you are assigning a fixed size array

[narrow ore]

does anyone know how to write a script that stores the time elapsed in seconds?

[slender nymph]

have you googled it?

[narrow ore]

yes

[viral sapphire]

im going to ask this again. https://youtu.be/qQDM8AX8mOY?si=pTV4qSjosPmtMG5H how do i make something like this? the exact same thing. no modifying stuff nothing. just the exact same. im planning on making the entire rhythm heaven (i mean does anyone even know that game..?) saga in unity.

[robust condor]

@queen adderBut I can append stuff to it and it grows

[slender nymph]

if your goal is to learn how to do that, then you'll need to figure out what parts you don't understand how to do and go learn how to do those things

[slender nymph]

no you cannot. unless you mean in the inspector which is a different case

[rich adder]

Unity inspector also initializes the array for you

so =new is redundant when public/serializefield

[robust condor]

Okay so unity set a size of the array? Because I could most def append to it when it was public

[queen adder]

can u show what you are doing?

we're lost

[slender nymph]

doing so in the inspector is not actually resizing the array. it's changing the serialized data and assigning a new array of the different size

you cannot append to an array without creating a new array with the larger size

[viral sapphire]

how do i change the resolution of the window

or the camera

im using 2d btw

[rich adder]

the camera in scene ?

[viral sapphire]

yea

[slender nymph]

the camera's size is determined by not only the game view's resolution but also the orthographic size on the camera

[robust condor]

This is what I did for testing before changing to list and events:

public GameObject[] _NPCs { get; private set; }

protected override void Awake()
    {
        base.Awake();

        _NPCs = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(npcTag);
}

  private void LateUpdate()
    {
        _NPCs = GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(npcTag);
        Debug.Log("Found NPCs: " + _NPCs.Length);
    }

And this incremented as I spawned more npcs

the awake returns 0 as there are no NPCs

[queen adder]

Find is making new array each time

[slender nymph]

this is not appending new objects to the same array. this is getting an entirely different array every time you all FindGameObjectsWithTag

you're also creating a lot of garbage by calling that every single frame

[robust condor]

Yeah I know it is bad, which is why I changed it

[glass urchin]

LOL okay sure bro people are gonna do it anyway

[slender nymph]

a better option would be to use a List and have the objects register themselves with the object containing the list whenever they spawn

[rich adder]

obviously , we just saying it isn't allowed to be discussed here

[slender nymph]

"pEoPle ArE gONnA dO iT aNyWaY"
and people are going to get muted/banned for off topic discussions

[glass urchin]

legal decompiling should be discussable

[rich adder]

if its permitted then you outta ask the community of that specific game..

[robust condor]

@slender nymphYeah I am doing that now

[slender nymph]

#archived-networking

[summer stump]

#1161868835423526933

[desert elm]

question-
how do I write a quarterion if I just want it to be 0, 0, 0?

[languid spire]

Quaternion.identity

[desert elm]

nvm

[languid spire]

which is, btw, 0,0,0,1

[desert elm]

figured a different solution out

[robust condor]

So do I need to instantiate this: public List<GameObject> _NPCs { get; private set; } ?

Because this is not working in Start(): _NPCs.AddRange(GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag("NPC"));

[rich adder]

rn the list is null

properties are not serialized by unity

[languid spire]

declare an explicit backing field and new() that

[robust condor]

I don't know what that means

[languid spire]

so you are using properties and have no idea what they are?

[slender nymph]

you don't even need an explicit backing field unless you want to turn that into a full property. just slap an = new() on the end of that line

[desert elm]

(I just used an existing "placeholder" transform value )

[robust condor]

I don't know what " explicit backing field" means, no

[rare basin]

Then Google it?

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties

[rich adder]

public List<GameObject> _NPCs { get; private set; } = new()

just do that

don't put _ for properties tho

[dawn owl]

why cant i do += here? how could i make it that it takes the previous value of hue and adds colorChange every time that code runs?

float newHue += hue + colorChange;

[rich adder]

its local

you cant do += before assigning it

[slender nymph]

how would += even work there? newHue has no value until it has been assigned

[languid spire]

because you are declaring a new variable

[dawn owl]

ohh

i see

[robust condor]

@rich adderCan't use with tuple type

[slender nymph]

also even if it did have its default value, that would be just 0 and 0 += anything == anything so the += is still pointless

[rich adder]

why not

where?

[rich adder]

what ur doing i have no lcue

[robust condor]

Your code new()

[rich adder]

what version of c#

are u on

[slender nymph]

if you are on 2020 or earlier you need to use the full new List<GameObject>() instead of the target typed new

[robust condor]

Unity 2023.2.3f1

[rich adder]

can you show what u wrote

[robust condor]

public List<GameObject> _NPCs { get; private set; } = new ();

[rich adder]

ohh the space?

[slender nymph]

that should work just fine unless you've gone and done something weird

[robust condor]

Even without space

[rich adder]

nvm im buggin lol

[robust condor]

new List<GameObject>() works tho

[rich adder]

are you sure about that unity 2023 ?

did you switch .net version or something

[robust condor]

Thats what it says in the editor

I did nothing

[rich adder]

weird

it should work fine, without...strange..
dont mind gray part editor does it auto

[robust condor]

Where can I see C# version?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.2/Documentation/Manual/CSharpCompiler.html

see it should be 9

[languid spire]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/configure-language-version

[slender nymph]

go to Edit > Project Settings > Player > Other and find the Api Compatability Level setting in the Configuration category in there and screenshot what you see, preferably the entire Unity window with that setting visible

[robust condor]

I am still using visual studio 2017, can it be why?

[languid spire]

yes

[slender nymph]

why are you using such an old version of visual studio?

[robust condor]

Because unity was crying about visual studio code being deprecated lol

[slender nymph]

so you went and installed a 6 year old version of visual studio instead of the latest version that works perfectly fine? 🤔

[robust condor]

Gonna update it I guess

It was what was installed

[slender nymph]

you're like 2 major updates behind, even 2019 was installed by default with unity for the longest time

[fluid kiln]

how would you guys create an item system where items drop with randomly generated modifiers?

[rich adder]

holy shit wtf..

[rich adder]

weighted

[robust condor]

I donno why they would drop VSC support tho

Kinda sad

[rich adder]

cause its ass

[fluid kiln]

wdym?
Also, how would you implement it code whise?

[rich adder]

https://www.google.com/search?q=weighted+item+drop+unity

oh you're talking about random stats to item?

[slender nymph]

well microsoft picked up vs code support for unity. however visual studio is still far superior (and likely always will be)

[fluid kiln]

i've tought of SO's but they are unique and would be weird for multiple randomly generated items, but monobehaviour also seems like there's gonna be items with looooots of components so im not really sure haha

[rich adder]

what are you exactly having trouble with ?

[fluid kiln]

implementation, there are many ways and im trying to find the most elastic one

[rich adder]

many ways to do something yes 😄

[fluid kiln]

not to randomly generate stats, but to define what an item is and what a modifier is

[fluid kiln]

hahaha yeah i have this bad habit of complicating my life

[rich adder]

start small and expand

as long as you write proper extensible code

[robust condor]

VSC is the best editor I've used, but studio might be better for unity I guess once you learn it

[fluid kiln]

hmhm this is what im wondering what would be a proper extensible approach? ^-^

[rich adder]

yeah right. Writing any .NET app in Code is painful

maybe its kewl for like Web/JS

[summer stump]

Vsc is just vs stipped down. Which IS nice sometimes, I admit

[faint agate]

Helo can someone help me with something

[summer stump]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[faint agate]

Im not sure how to get the drag and other options by the top left instead of it being on the play screen

[rich adder]

extensible meaning you can add to it without breaking anything.

[rich adder]

not code question

[eternal needle]

Which part are you struggling with? From what I saw above, all you need is to create a random value. I would use SO and have a min/max or a list of possible values then create an item based on that

[faint agate]

How do I get these options to the top left like drag n stuff

Its stuck on the play screen

[slender nymph]

wdym by stuck on the play screen?

also #💻┃unity-talk

[robust condor]

So continuing with my npc manager I have this right now:

    private void Update()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < _NPCs.Count; i++) {
            AIBrain AIBrain = _NPCs[i].GetComponent<AIBrain>();
            AIBrain.DoNextTask();
        }
    }

Is there a better way to call 1000+ npcs to do their thing? Should I use events on every NPC instead?

[eternal needle]

Store the AIBrain in the list instead so u dont need get component.
1000 get components per frame..

[shrewd swift]

tell me if im wrong

the out keyword is a way to return a value and set it in a variable ?
its useful if you want to return multiple values without using a tuple or somethign else as the return value

other question : does the out return when reaching the end of the function ? or can it return earlier if not used anymore until the end ?

example :
with out:

void Start()
{
  int enemyCount = 10;
  modifyEnemies(out enemyCount);
  // "enemyCount" is now 5
}

private void modifyEnemies(out int numberOfEnemies)
{
  numberOfEnemies = 5;
}

usual "return" way:

void Start()
{
  int enemyCount = 10;
  enemyCount = modifyEnemies();
  // "enemyCount" is now 5
}

private int modifyEnemies()
{
  return 5;
}

[amber spruce]

how do i set smth to active if its within a certain range if it isnt then i set it to false

[robust condor]

@eternal needleIn the same list? Like a tuple or what?

[eternal needle]

I believe you must assign a value to the out parameter before the function ends, whether that be before the last } or before the return

[eternal needle]

No just store the AIBrain instead of whatever you're currently storing

[robust condor]

@eternal needlepublic List<GameObject> _NPCs { get; private set; } = new ();

[eternal needle]

What part are you struggling with?

[rich adder]

do you know what a tuple is ?

[slender nymph]

all you need to do here is change the type stored in the List

[robust condor]

Will I not lose the ability to access the gameobject if I need to then?

[rich adder]

no

assuming its MB script

[slender nymph]

every component has a reference to its gameObject

[rich adder]

all MB scripts have gameObject / transform references of the object the script is on/belongs to

[amber spruce]

im struggaling with 2 things 1 checking if it has a certain child component but thats not super important the main problem is checking if it is no longer in the range

i have this for the check the range

Collider2D[] colliderArray = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(transform.position, ShowInteractRange, interactableLayer);

[eternal needle]

You probably want to use a trigger for the range instead of this. Itll be easier since you have OnTriggerExit

Otherwise you'll need to compare the previous and current array

[amber spruce]

alright i can figure the rest out thanks

[summer stump]

public List<AIBrain> _NPCs;

_NPCs[0].gameObject

[robust condor]

Okay that worked, but now how do I fix this part if I am looking to add components instead? Do I need to loop through the results? _NPCs.AddRange(GameObject.FindGameObjectsWithTag(npcTag));

[slender nymph]

the best option would be to stop using FindGameObjectsWithTag

[robust condor]

I only use it in Start() tho, still bad?

What should I use instead?

[summer stump]

It would be better to just capture the instance when you instantiate

AIBrain prefab;

AIBrain brain = Instantiate(prefab);

_NPCs.Add(brain);

[robust condor]

But some things are already in the scene when I look for buildings I do it the same way

[summer stump]

Add them to the list via inspector then

[robust condor]

That will be way too many

[slender nymph]

then have them add themselves to the list at runtime

[robust condor]

Okay

[stuck palm]

how can i set the velocity of an object that has been created? i need it so an object is thrown th e same direction the player is facing

[slender nymph]

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

[stuck palm]

how do i do it so its thrown forward?

like is there a vector3.forward i can pass

[slender nymph]

get the object's transform.forward, multiply that by the desired speed and voila you now have the velocity

[stuck palm]

awesome thanks

[stuck palm]

i crashed unity

this crashed my unity

[polar acorn]

Well, yeah. What inside that while loop would ever change ctx.performed?

That loop cannot end

[stuck palm]

i thought other things would be able to run while the loop happened

oh well you live and learn

[polar acorn]

That's not how loops work

Literally nothing else happens until the loop ends

[stuck palm]

i see

well now i know thank you

[rich adder]

how so ? code runs top to bottom, if its stuck on while it will never get to next line

[stuck palm]

i thought other scripts would be able to run i forgot how computers work

[rich adder]

its possible only when using Async methods

[steady isle]

Can anyone link a good video to begin learning c# with

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel

[summer stump]

I recommend this text based tutorial
https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php

I do not recommend videos generally, especially not for learning the fundamentals of something like code

[steady isle]

Ok

[rich adder]

Ragdoll class
https://hatebin.com/tbziuunyqq
Limb+Limb info
https://hatebin.com/asjpqabfek

right now the ragdoll class is still in WIP but instead of RB I would just make the limb add itself to Ragdoll class @stuck palm

so ragdol in limb isn't doing anything for now

ideally Ragdoll class would just hold array of Limb

[stuck palm]

i dont need to use the action right?

[rich adder]

not if you dont want event for a hit

[stuck palm]

for my use case i dont think damage is necessary or the action

[rich adder]

yeah thats just for my FPS gun

[stuck palm]

i was just gonna do basically
if hit with an object faster than a given speed turn on ragdoll

[rich adder]

well Ideally you want a hit then no ?

[stuck palm]

i also dont think limbtypes is necessary for my use case either, im assuming thats for damage calculation?

[rich adder]

or are your colliders different from limbs

[rich adder]

yeah exactly also for giving certain limbs hit a Push with RbAddForce At Position

[stuck palm]

you right actually

i'm just gonna set up the joints

[rich adder]

yeah start with that then worry the code

[stuck palm]

is it the "character joint" component?

[rich adder]

indeed

[stuck palm]

right, i think i should make the colliders first

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/oVPI2ESkgIw

its a painful process without the wizard 😅 but doable ofc

[stuck palm]

so do i apply just like one big collider at the armature root? or do i apply small rigidbodies for each limb?

[rich adder]

I have a capsule for solid collisions and my limbs are triggers until the rigidbody is activated

my ray is set to ignore the solid collider

you dont have to do it that way ofc its for optimizations for me

[stuck palm]

its cause im using a character controller

so thats kinda got its own collider

[rich adder]

that would be a solid collider 🙂

[stuck palm]

yeah so i guess i'll just make colliders for the limbs now thne

[rich adder]

well regardless they need colliders

if they are tirgger or just solids is up to you

[stuck palm]

its hard to make changes when the colors blend in to each other 😭

[rich adder]

but CC will get in the way

so you have to use Layer based collision to ignore the main CC

[stuck palm]

yeah

thats the idea

shouldnt be too hard

i appreciate your help with this

[rich adder]

naa jus time consuming

[rich adder]

np!

[stuck palm]

so the idea is, at the root have the ragdoll, each limb has a collider and limb class

give limb class a limb type or something

what then?

[rich adder]

each limb also needs rb

[shadow shale]

say i have a simple plane, i then scale it, and some function modifies the mesh and bends it/extrudes it. I would like to iterate over the new values for the vertices, but mesh.vertices doesn't change; is there an easy way to do this?

do i just mutiply the vertices by the scale and add position offsets if the mesh has moved?

[steady isle]

this is a rly dumb question but is vscode better than jetbrains rider for unity for coding

[stuck palm]

rider better

[steady isle]

oh fr?

[stuck palm]

helps you with code smell and just generally feels better

[steady isle]

oh ok

[rich adder]

thats like comparing a ferrari with a pinto

[steady isle]

is free?

[stuck palm]

has direct unity integration so it has docs loaded up and stuff

[stuck palm]

its free if youre a student

[rich adder]

only for students

[steady isle]

at college or in general

[stuck palm]

you need a school email

to apply for github student

[steady isle]

oh bet

[stuck palm]

then you get free jetbrains products

you need a school ID too so

get that ready

[steady isle]

i aint goin throug all that im just tryna make a player than can move XD

[stuck palm]

just use VSC then

its not awful

[steady isle]

ok

[rich adder]

or use Visual Studio

which is like Rider

maybe a few missing features

[steady isle]

y are there so many versions of vs

[rich adder]

but close enough

[rich adder]

because microsoft though it was smart to make another code editor with the exact same fucking name

[steady isle]

dam

[rich adder]

yeah idk what they were thinking lol

[stuck palm]

@rich adder is the IDamageable class necessary for your code to work?

[rich adder]

its an interface

is it necessary , no . My gun just uses that to interact with anything that has that

[stuck palm]

yeah i'll get rid of it then

[rich adder]

this way my Gun doesnt care about limbs or anything

[stuck palm]

its not necessary for my thing

[rich adder]

its still good practice to use abstractions like that

[stuck palm]

where do i apply character joints?

[steady isle]

wow it takes a long time to install unity editor

[rich adder]

did you see the video

each limb has a joint

[stuck palm]

oh i didnt mb

i'll watch now

i was just busy getting all the limbs and colliders and rbs 😅

[rich adder]

depends on ur PC / internet

[potent echo]

Hey guys, I'm making a flappy bird ripoff game and I have a bug where when the bird dies (but still manages to get through a pipe by momentum) the score still increments.

I'm trying to fix this by referencing the gameOverScreen gameobject in a script for the middle gap trigger between the pipes (which is where the score is added).

Problem is, I can't seem to properly reference the gameOverScreen gameObject in the middle pipe script, since the pipe is a prefab.

[restive badger]

If it's a prefab why don't you simply assign it in the editor

[rich adder]

because prefabs cant reference scene objects

[rich adder]

this should work fine

[summer stump]

When the bird dies, deactivate its collider

[rich adder]

except activeSelf should be checked to true if you used this script

so technically it would work
if(gameOverScreen.activeSelf) return;

but yeah disabling collider is prob better

also Logic can just hold Reference to the GameOver screen and you can also access it tat way instead of 2 Find calls

[potent echo]

then I'll have to make another ref to the bird this time

i was using layers to check where the birdobject was

[unborn wasp]

hello have somone few munites to help me understand some thinks? im gonna use chat GPT too but i need help to start and understand one thing

[potent echo]

wait ur right ill try that

[verbal dome]

Ask your questions here and people will help if they can

[rich adder]

stay away from GPT as beginner

[unborn wasp]

why?

[rich adder]

because it will mislead you to think something its spewing is true

which is a flip of the coin

no memes plz @potent echo

but yes is true

[potent echo]

mb

[unborn wasp]

Ok so i want make Android aplication to randomizer image monsters from Witcher. And it was fine chat GPT generete me ok code and that was it. But now i wan to make animations of this monsters as .gif or .mp4... and its starts problem. Bcs i dont know how ask GPT to help me. And i rly dont know how to use this... what is better u think .mp4 or .gif?

[summer stump]

collision contains a reference to the bird here
#💻┃code-beginner message

collision.collider

[stuck palm]

@rich adder doesnt seem to be working very well LOL

[rich adder]

how many limbs do you have? cause wizard should still work on this cahr

just exclude the extra ones

[stuck palm]

11 bones

[rich adder]

is CC colliding with limbs?

[stuck palm]

i disabled the CC when i did this

that screenshot rather

[robust condor]

Why does this not work:

private Home _home;
...
Home home = NPCManager.Instance.GetHomeByIndex(1);
_home = home.AddTenant(this);

NPCManager:
public Home GetHomeByIndex(int index)
{
    Home home = homes[index];
    if (home == null) return null;
    return home;
}

[rich adder]

hard to tell what going, it does look like is working

[verbal dome]

I'm a bit confused, how do you currently generate those images?
Your goal is to generate animations from images? That's like ultra advanced stuff

[stuck palm]

might try the wizard, but i also dont wanna delete my work with all the colliders i made LOL

[rich adder]

this method doesnt return anything

[stuck palm]

i'll make a duplicate prefab and t ry that one

[rich adder]

yea def

[stuck palm]

would the IKs in the arms be interfering?

[rich adder]

nah i also use IK

well

depends if you have the IK active

iirc it only works with Animator active but forgot

[dry ore]

Is this a good place to ask for some pointers to some tutorials?

[stuck palm]

it is active but i doubt thats causing the seizure

[rich adder]

possibly , make a vid of issue cause its hard to see that in ss

[robust condor]

Oh derp

[stuck palm]

okay one sec

[rich adder]

sure if its code related

[unborn wasp]

With the help of GPT chat, I created a working program that generated random images as .png files. However, I would like to change these static images to moving images that I already have prepared as both .mp4 and .gif files. But here's where I'm facing difficulties because I have no idea how to approach this... That's why I'm seeking help from someone who could assist me in understanding the basics, which I could then use to work on further modifications myself.

[dry ore]

I played around with unity a year or so ago and I’m looking for some tutorials for making a 2d fighting game, I just want to make sure I’m watching something up to date/good

[verbal dome]

So you are asking how to generate videos from images in Unity.
Do you realize how advanced of a task that is? And likely something that nobody here has done

[rich adder]

rather than trying a specific game I would personally start with learning the Ins and out of the editor and then the components and then coding concepts like basic c#

[stuck palm]

okay so character controller was on, turning it off fixed it lmao

[rich adder]

haha nicee

[unborn wasp]

I thought Unity supports .gif images, and it would be just about replacing .png images with .gif ones here."

[potent echo]

If I deactivate the collider, won't the bird end up passing through objects as soon as it's dead?

[verbal dome]

So do you already have existing PNGs for the frames of those videos?

[dry ore]

Yeah I made a small game with it before, I guess I’m not looking for something for the type of game I’m making specifically but just up to date tutorials for 2d, building a level, the new input system, best practices, etc

[unborn wasp]

i have .gif files like this one

[dry ore]

Lots of stuff I find is like 5 years old

[rich adder]

code doesn't change

[dry ore]

You need to break it into frames I assume

[rich adder]

only the editor UI

[unborn wasp]

how?

[dry ore]

I mean stuff does change like the input system

[dry ore]

There’s many ways to do it, look online

Gif to png frames

[stuck palm]

@rich adder right so it fixed for a bit, but i tried something and now this is happening, any idea what might be causing it?

[rich adder]

well new Input system is a new thing but you can still use old input system

[summer stump]

Yeah, that's pretty common. And not triggering any OnTrigger message
Don't you reset the scene when it dies?

Reactivate the collider if not when you want to start over

[rich adder]

ohh weird something is wrong with one your bones

[tawdry mirage]

does Transform.Find generate garbage?

[rich adder]

yea its slow

anything uses strings is slow

[tawdry mirage]

any alternatives?

[rich adder]

GetComponent

or Serialize the field

[summer stump]

I dinno about allocating actual memory. But yeah, avoid find always

[stuck palm]

the one thats staying in the middle? thats the root armature

[summer stump]

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

[potent echo]

There's a gamOverScreen UI that appears, but you can still see the bird, and it won't be the best looking

[dry ore]

Fair enough

[rich adder]

that might be the issue

[summer stump]

It will fall out of view right?
Otherwise check if it's dead before adding to the score
Make a bool on the bird and get the bird script from collision

[rich adder]

you can see in the wizard that Hips or whatever the root is must be added too
if the bones are connected you cant separate them like taht

[dry ore]

I guess I was more so wondering if there was a good recent 2d tutorial anyone would point someone new to

[potent echo]

yeah, but since I'm using RigidBody for the physics, the bird's momentum carries it forward

[summer stump]

So? VERY normal for games like that
But yeah, since you seem to really not want that, do the other suggestion I made

[verbal dome]

Can't you just use the video directly in unity? After converting to a compatible format if neeeded
Or use a png sequence like suggested, not sure how you would play it back then though.

[stuck palm]

just fixed the issue, just realised that it wasnt connected to the rigidbody of the player root

[potent echo]

will do, thanks

[rich adder]

honestly it should work if you just do
if(gameoverScren.activeSelf) return

[stuck palm]

so now i've got the ragdolls working, how can i active and deactivate it at will?

[summer stump]

I think the original issue what that they struggled to reference the gameOverScreen
At this point I can't remember 😸

At least they get bird from collision

[potent echo]

collision.collider apparently doesnt exist when using Collider2D

[rich adder]

ohh because the Find in the start thought it was working myb.

[summer stump]

? Why would you do collision.collision?

[potent echo]

collision.collider

mb

[summer stump]

collision.gameObject.GetComponent<Bird>()
Or whatever you called the class

[potent echo]

Ah

[rich adder]

well do you have animator?

[verbal dome]

That exists though

[rich adder]

that usually overrides the physics

[summer stump]

Collision2d definitely has a collider reference though
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collision2D-collider.html

Ah, you used OnTrigger

It gives you the collider directly, not collision

[stuck palm]

yeah i have an animator, but how can i disable the physics of the root entirely? if i make it kinematic it looks like the character controller movement doesnt work

[rich adder]

why would kinematic rigidbody affect character controller

just make sure they are not set to collide with each other with the layer based

[stuck palm]

yeah you right they arent actually

i think i just did it wrong the first time

[rich adder]

how I set it up is as follow
Rigidbody limbs
Kinematic rb + Trigger Colliders
when I need ragdoll
make RB dynamic and make colliders solid

I start them all as Kinematic and Triggers already in unity inspector

having them as active rigidbodies will be awful performance if you're moving with CC

[stuck palm]

yeah fair

[stuck palm]

so if theres a collision with an object, do i have to do anything with that action whatever youve made?

[tawdry mirage]

if i do protected static Strings strings { get; } = new Strings(); in parent class, will it create new Strings each time child class created?

[stuck palm]

i was just gonna activate the rigidbody and let the collision do its thing

[verbal dome]

Each instance of the child class will have their own Strings, yes

[rich adder]

wdym im confused on that?
do you mean if like a box hits it?

[stuck palm]

yeah

the game im making is like people throwing objects around

[verbal dome]

What are you trying to do?

[rich adder]

you could potentially use OnTriggerEnter

or boxcast / overlapbox from the object

[terse osprey]

Why would the blood tag one not be working while the gas tank one is working

[stuck palm]

i was just gonna do so like if the box hits the main capsule at a certain speed, enable ragdoll and just let the collision happen but idk if because its kinematic it wont do that

[rich adder]

missing tag on hit prob?

[verbal dome]

What is "hit"? Is it a collider?

[terse osprey]

I am using an asset of the market place so I dont quite understand

[rich adder]

well depends how accurate you want
I dont use CC for that because I want actual limb specific collisions

[terse osprey]

I only added the blood one, the rest was there before hand

[rich adder]

yours can work fine in your usecase tho @stuck palm

[stuck palm]

yeah, i dont really care about limb collisions in this case i just want the player to fly off when it gets hit lmao

[verbal dome]

If the collider is a child collider then it will check the child's tag
And ofc make sure you have the tags set up snd assigned

[tawdry mirage]

i have class Root that is parent for all other classes, and it contains static variables for gameController and similar things that need to be on the scene, they assign themselves to static fields in Root in their Awake. But now i think i will just make new static class Strings instead of putting one in Root

it will do similar

[rich adder]

yeah just iterate through it and set each limb to kinematic = false and collider.istrigger = false

[tawdry mirage]

but if it is in Root it will be prettier

[terse osprey]

the tags are assigned properly, the collider in my case are on child objects while in the rest is on the parent. does this make a difference

[stuck palm]

yeah ima do that, thanks for your help with the basic framework though man, really helped me 😄

[verbal dome]

@terse osprey instead of GetComponent, use collider.attachedRigidbody to get the rigidbody. This way it works if the collider is a child

[rich adder]

sure np 🙂

[terse osprey]

I write collider.attachedRigidbody instead of component

or indtead of collider

[verbal dome]

Rigidbody rb = hit.attachedRigidbody

Instead of the line where you use getcomponent to get it

[verbal dome]

It depends how you set things up. You are currently trying to check tags and get components from the collider, which might be a child.

You can try using the rigidbody's gameobject if it exists. Otherwise use the collider

Or use GetComponentInParent instead of GetComponent

[terse osprey]

the rigid body does have a game object such as "spine" or "hips" , etc and they have the assigned tag of blood. But these rigid bodies are children of the main prefab

[verbal dome]

Btw the GetComponent<Collider> is absolutely useless here, you are already referencing the collider (hit)

Start by using Debug.Log to print the hit object's names and tags

[terse osprey]

is hit supposed to be the name of the collider, I am a little confused here. Sorry for being annoying

[verbal dome]

Yes, hit is a collider, you are looping an array of Collider

I would definitely name it collider or hitCollider though, to avoid confusion

[stuck palm]

this doesnt seem to be working and i dont know why, the layer mask has been set properly, and im not getting anything printed to the console

[rich adder]

why layers and bit shifting like that ?

[marble turret]

quick question, if I have a class containing several buttons, how can I make the button force a change in a button manager?

[rich adder]

make events in the button that button manager subscribes to

[stuck palm]

idk, its just something i saw on a unity forum and it works with the other collision thing im doing

not even the first print is showing up so its as if nothing is even colliding

[verbal dome]

Is this script on your bodyparts which have kinematic rigidbodies?

[rich adder]

public class Buttonmanager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] priavte Smallbutton[] buttons;
    void Sub()
    {
        foreach(var button in buttons)
        {
            button.OnClick += Button_OnClick;
        }
    }
    private void Button_OnClick(Smallbutton buttonPressed)
    {
      //do stuff with buttonPressed
    }
}

public class Smallbutton : MonoBehaviour
{
    public event Action<Smallbutton> OnClick;
    void Thing()
    {
        OnClick?.Invoke(this);
    }
}```

[stuck palm]

no, its on the root gameobject. looks like there isnt any collision happening

[verbal dome]

Did you say you are using CC?

[stuck palm]

yeah, but theres a kinematic rigidbody in there too

the big capsule around the player is the CC thing

[rich adder]

which one do you want to be message invoker?

[verbal dome]

Not sure if even kinematic rb works with CC

[stuck palm]

made the cc radius a bit bigger and it seems to activate it, so

[rich adder]

so many colliders I can't tell whats happening xD

[stuck palm]

yeah 😅

i'll make a recording one second

[marble turret]

@rich adder thx!

[verbal dome]

Is this script for when the ragdoll is active or inactive?

[stuck palm]

its for when its inactive

[rich adder]

tryina show u how I did hit by box go flying..but my unity been stuck like this for 20 min

random unity bullshit.

[stuck palm]

lmao, appreciate the effort anyways 😭

you can see how making the cc collider a big bigger makes the collision happen though, right?

[verbal dome]

Rigidbody probably can't use CC to detect collisions and it only works once one of the bodypart colliders hit something

[rich adder]

is box trigger?

which one has the script

[verbal dome]

Which happens after you adjust the CC radius so that it clips thru

[rich adder]

CC can only call OnCharacterControllerHit otherwise u need trigger

[stuck palm]

the box is the scan, its its own thing

[stuck palm]

i guess i could use that instead?

[rich adder]

yeah put that and detect the box from there instead

record the velocity before the hit so you can tell which direction / force it was hit with

since it 0s out onHit

[stuck palm]

how can i record that? from the moving object?

doesnt seem to work as intended 😭

[rain wedge]

Could someone help with me with the onClick event for buttons?
I'm working on the 2022.3.5f1 version of unity and its onClick event for buttons ask for parameters that I'm not familiar with, such as mode and target assembly. What am I supposed to input for them.

[stuck palm]

maybe maybe

the object can call the collision?

i mean the object can call the ragdoll activate?

[rich adder]

both can

[rich adder]

store it in vector 3 and only update it if not collided

[stuck palm]

its just cus if u watch the video you see that the ragdoll only works once the player runs into the object

[rich adder]

show the current code rq

[rich adder]

are you in Debug mode in the inspector?

[stuck palm]

 private void OnControllerColliderHit(ControllerColliderHit hit)
        {
            print("collided with " + hit.gameObject.name);
            if ((collisionLayerMask.value & 1 << hit.gameObject.layer) > 0)
            {
                print("tripping!!!!");
                ragdoll.Activate();
            }
        }

[rich adder]

well then there ya go

thats where the xtra params come from

disable debug mode

[rain wedge]

oh alright

thank you

[rich adder]

what is the print saying ?

and why Use layers just check if object has a rigidbody and speed is High

[stuck palm]

guess i could do that, yeah

[stuck palm]

its saying "collided with DroppedItem"

[rich adder]

is that when it gets hit by flying box? and what is Doppeditem

[stuck palm]

lemme record vid one sec

it will explain better

[marble turret]

Just wanted to report that this worked like a charm ❤️

[rich adder]

You're welcome! 🙂

[stuck palm]

it decided to work this time 😭

maybe it wasnt being hit hard enough or something

[rich adder]

lmao

[stuck palm]

sometimes it seems to teleport the player on top of the thrown object, though

is there a way to like

keep the momentum?

[rich adder]

pass the Box's velocity before hit to like the chest rigidbody or something ( you need a reference stored on the char)

so it goes flying backwards

[opal fossil]

is there a way to inherit animator controllers in such a way that enables the user to add additional programs? And I am not talking about animator override controller. That only allows changing animations of states

[stuck palm]

reference of the body or the velocity? soz im confused

[rich adder]

Reference the Chest rigidbody on the player
Record velocity of Box rigidbody right before it hits
when hit AddForce-Impulse mode to that Chest Rigidbody

[stuck palm]

ah right, thank you. how can i record the box's velocity before it hits again? you mentioned a vector 3. maybe like in fixed update or something?