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[amber spruce]

makes it less laggy

and you wont get shot from smth you cant see

also whats the best way to keep track of when all the enemies die

[sullen zealot]

something like this will work?

var obj = Instantiate(...);
obj.creator = transform;

[fickle plume]

See the step 3, you don't want to expose via public vars it defeats the purpose

[sullen zealot]

use a public count variable which is equal to numberofenemies in an empty gameobject then extract 1 everytime an enemy dies

[queen adder]

why does it look like this?

[amber spruce]

so have this in my enemeies death function

EnemySpawner2 enemySpawner = FindObjectOfType<EnemySpawner2>();
enemySpawner.remainingenemies--;

[queen adder]

is it meant to be like this?

[fickle plume]

This will create random instantiation coordinates in a rectangle between the two of them as well.
Get the middle point and if you need to randomize it use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random-insideUnitCircle.html to variate around it

[sullen zealot]

yeah its good

[queen adder]

nvm i solved the problem

[amber spruce]

well the y will be the same

[sullen zealot]

yes

[queen adder]

it has to set the RenderCamera with the Main Camera right?

[fickle plume]

variation there will sometimes create coordinates right on top of one of them as well

[amber spruce]

yeah but it will be a low chance since its a pretty big area

[sullen zealot]

what about this:

var obj = Instantiate(...);
obj.GetComponent<objScript>().Initialize(transform);

and in the obj script:

private Transform creatorTr;
public void Initialize(Transform tr)
{
  creatorTr = tr;
}

[fickle plume]

When instantiating you get a reference from it, you don't need to get component again
Also if your Initialize return the object you can inline it as well.

public ObjScript Initialize(Transform tr)
{
  creatorTr = tr;
  return this
}```

Then var obj = Instantiate(...).Initialize(transform);

And class name should be capitalized too to not create confusion

[amber spruce]

this a good way of spawning them when you go through that

[woven crater]

this is my Scriptable Object. can i make so that i can set Teir_Value any type and value in the editor?

[rich adder]

it should work already no?

[desert elm]

this will just delete the gameobject this script is attached to after a frame, right?

[timber tide]

pretty much

[woven crater]

i mean the item in enum sometime is int and sometime is float

[rich adder]

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

[woven crater]

nvm i can just use float

[split dragon]

Hi. I want to make a zoom change through a script. How to access the zoom change in the screen through a script (what is the name of this thing). I tried to find it on the Internet, but I didn't find it.

[rich adder]

why? this is editor only..

[split dragon]

Ok. Thanks

[amber spruce]

hey so quick question so i have a variable that gets increased by 1 when a enemy spawns and decreases by 1 when a enemy dies that way i can keep track of when all the enemies are dead but if i just check if it is 0 then it will fire before the enemies spawn how can i fix this

[rich adder]

are you using Update loop?

[desert elm]

I guess you could add another check that would prevent the code from firing for some time while the enemies spawn

[terse belfry]

hey guys im jw cos im new to 2d unity what would be the best way to make an infinite flappy bird game?

like im talking about generating new chunks of the level

ik how to implement the actual gameplay

[amber spruce]

yeah

 void Update()
 {
     if (remainingenemies == 0f)
     {
         NoEnemiesLeft();
     }
 }

[rich adder]

why not just use An event when something happens. Eg enemies Updated like Removed or Add

no need for Update loop here

[ionic zephyr]

guys does somebody know EXACTLY why is FixedUpdate related to Physics

[rich adder]

because thats what unity made it for

[ionic zephyr]

but why essentially?

[fickle plume]

It's a method that allows to run the code in step with physics calculations

[ionic zephyr]

what do you mean by in step

[rich adder]

consistency of physics

[fickle plume]

on the same frame

[rich adder]

If you're moving rigidbody on Update for example , you're mooving it outside of its intended physics loop and you get weird sync issues , innacuracy more

[ionic zephyr]

ok, i think im getting it but I still need help at understanding whatis THE PHYSICS LOOP

[rich adder]

this will explain everything
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TimeFrameManagement.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.FixedUpdate.html

[ionic zephyr]

I already read that and still dont understand

[rich adder]

then idk 🤷‍♂️

[graceful oar]

Anyone good at photon / parrelsync that can help me by any chance?

[rich adder]

#archived-networking

[ionic zephyr]

I mean, the thing is, Physics Loop is independent of any method in our script?

it is just something that exists?

[rich adder]

our scripts only call to the engine apis, the physics update is already running regardless of our inputs/scripts

[ionic zephyr]

oh okay okay

so the only way we can acces that loop is with fixedupdate?

[rich adder]

pretty much

you also have Time.fixedDelta time

[desert elm]

hm, I need to instantiate game objects that immediately delete themselves after one frame, but I can't just copy an existing gameobject since it would delete itself- how could I do this?

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-fixedDeltaTime.html

[ionic zephyr]

okay and what about ticks

what are they

[fickle plume]

You can also use coroutines to run on fixedUpdate frames

[verbal dome]

'Tick' isnt used that much in unity context but usually it means one physics frame (or rendered frame)

If your physics is set to run 50 times per second (default) then you could aay that the tickrate is 50

[ionic zephyr]

i dont understand teh concept of physics "running"

[fickle plume]

If object is falling, its fall processed every physics frame. It is different from Update frames in that FixedUpdate will guarantee fixed amount of frames to run, they could be late, in that case it will try to hurry them up later, but they will run. Update doesn't care how much frames it will run, and runs as fast as it can.

[desert elm]

is it possible to add a component to an instantiated object

[ionic zephyr]

okay. Maybe Im asking a really dumb question

but what exactly is a frame

[gaunt ice]

addcomponent, it returns the newly added component

[fickle plume]

This is a frame https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html
All that happens during a frame.

[ionic zephyr]

so why are there update frames and physics frames

[rich adder]

because Update is needed to run something every frame

or we would have to make our own ticks

for every object

[verbal dome]

To ensure stable physics simulation even if your framerate is bad/not stable

[ionic zephyr]

alright Im really confused

[fickle plume]

Everything you do to the instantiated object will happen on that frame when you create it. It will only be deleted the next frame.

[verbal dome]

The Fixed in FixedUpdate means that it runs a fixed amount of times per second, regardless of your rendering speed

[desert elm]

yes thats what I want to do

[rich adder]

what is the point of that? also that expensive

you should at least pool them

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, thats what i understand but I dont get why we talk about physics frames and logic frames

[verbal dome]

I just tried to explain that

[desert elm]

I want to create an explosion radius, that only exists for a frame to check if something is inside of it

[rich adder]

goctha.. You should still cache it then and just disable/enable the same one

Instantiating and destroying makes a lot of garbage

[ionic zephyr]

And I appreciate it but I still dont know

i mean

[verbal dome]

You could just use one of the Physics.Overlap methods

No need to create an object for it

[ionic zephyr]

is fixed update called before update?

[rich adder]

you literally were sent the link twice

[ionic zephyr]

yes man I know

[rich adder]

it tells you exactly the order..

[desert elm]

oh that works

thanks

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/TimeFrameManagement.html
read (Fixed Timestep)

At the start of the each frame, Unity performs as many fixed updates as necessary to catch up with the current time.
etc..

[verbal dome]

Yes but only if it needs to. So only if fixedDeltaTime amount of seconds passed since the last fixedupdate

[ionic zephyr]

ok thanks for all I guess

[verbal dome]

It can run twice or more too if your framerate is less than the fixed delta time/physics timestep

[gaunt ice]

actually whether update or fixed update runs first doesnt matter, you can have multiple or none fixed update in one update cycle (also for long run game you cant tell which one run "first", since there is no such concept)

[ionic zephyr]

But if fixedUpdate is the only way to acces the Physics calculations, how is it possible to calculate that stuff inn Update as well

Im really lost please help

[verbal dome]

In some cases you can tell that fixedupdate runs first. Like when reading GetKey. If you cache the GetKey in Update and use it in the next FixedUpdate, you will get 1 frame delay on that input, but if you read it directly in FixedUpdate then it is up to date

[sullen zealot]

hello!
if i call ontriggerenter function in antoher function it will just run the function as if it was a normal function?

[verbal dome]

A bit confusing and Im not great st explaining it 😅

[rich adder]

make a method they both can call

eg move the suff from OnTrigger to another method

then only call method

 private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        //some code
        //some code
        //bad

        //instead do
        Method();
    }

    public void Method()
    {
        //code
        //code
    }```
now you only need call method

[sullen zealot]

ok

but would it work if i just called the ontrigger?

[wintry quarry]

It would but it's very awkward

[rich adder]

OnTrigger is a special unity method let it be lol

if you're manually calling it something is flawed in your design

[desert elm]

hm- right, another problem I have is that I need to change a value on any gameobject within the "explosion" (i.e decrease health)

[split dragon]

Hi. I need to find out: Did I access the "speed" variable correctly, which is in another script? It's just that when I launch it, speedFire does not change in any way, unlike speed.

[sullen zealot]

i have 2 gameobjects with 2 different boxcolliders and i want to call the first trigger function from the second gameobject.

[desert elm]

which could be done by spawning an object, not as much with the physics2D.OverlapCircle
( I think, i am probably wrong )

[rich adder]

if they are child of rigidbody it should get called if either touches something no?

[sullen zealot]

like if the second bject is triggered the first to act as if it was triggered

[rich adder]

it should work like that afaik

child collider sends hit from rigidbody no?

[sullen zealot]

yes

but its not a child

[rich adder]

oh..

[verbal dome]

It gives you an array of colliders

You can loop over them and do whatever you want

[rich adder]

btw they both get the trigger/collision messages

so idk why it would be a big deal to put script on other object if thats what does logic

[gaunt ice]

actually update call is still the most suitable place to call any GetKey since fixed update (you can still call it in fixed update) can still miss the rising edge to stable event transition
key event has four states: idle (getkey==false) rising edge (getKeydown==true) stable (getkey==true) falling edge (getkeyup==true) (clock indeed....), all transitions of state are happening on update so fixed update can miss
lets say if the transition from rising edge to stable happening on t=0.0048s (at 3rd update frame) and you check it in 2nd fixed update frame (0.040), you miss it

[sullen zealot]

bc i want the first object to ignore the second object's trigger if it is triggered by the wrong object

[desert elm]

yeah, but I am not sure how I can have the script doing the explosion tell the gameobjects caught within it to decrease their health

[sullen zealot]

bc if i make it a child it will never know if the trigger was called by itself or by the child

[verbal dome]

You can TryGetComponent the health script from the collider for example. Or GetComponentInParent

[desert elm]

oh right, that

[split dragon]

Hi. I wanted to make the variable "speedFire" depend on a variable from another variable "speed" in another script. I wrote this line, but after starting the game, the speedFire value is set to 0, and the speed value changes. What's wrong?

[languid spire]

no doubt speed is a value type

[polar acorn]

Does speed change after you set speedFire

[split dragon]

speed and speedFire have the data type: float

[languid spire]

so value types. This is basic C# knowledge you should already have. the difference between values type and reference types

[rich adder]

you should cache the reference and make a property

    public PlayerController player;
    public float Speed => player.moveSpeed;

if you want to link them easy

[polar acorn]

Are you changing speed after changing speedFire

Speed doesn't "track" changes. You set the variable to whatever speed was when that line of code ran

You shouldn't have a speedFire variable at all if you want it to track, just use speed (after you cache that getComponent call into a variable you can reuse)

[split dragon]

Too smart for me. I'll figure it out later. Thanks

[languid spire]

ffs guys, I'm trying to get him to understand WHY this is so

[split dragon]

Oh, thanks. Now I kind of get it

[polar acorn]

So am I, just not using the words "value type" and instead explaining what that means

The concept is more important than the terminology

[languid spire]

except the terminology is how you find the right docs

[rich bluff]

where is it called from?

[woven crater]

hey can i export an indivitual sprite to a png file?

[rich bluff]

from unity you cant with built in tools

[last orbit]

Hello,

can someone help me.

I can't change the color in the fbx that I'm trying to edit here.

how come?

[rich bluff]

you can open the atlas and cut the sprite you need into a new file, with any graphics program

[rich bluff]

you need to create new material and assign it to the model

what you have selected is not the mesh itself

its an empty root object

which has several meshes under it

each will need a material assigned

you can also do this through the imported object ui

click on the fbx in projects panel and find materials tab

and this is a coding channel

[knotty drift]

do you have to convert color to color32 or do they work interconnectedly

can I assign a color value to a color32 variable?

[rich adder]

you dont have to convert they can be used interchangeable

unity already does it for you

[knotty drift]

alright thank you

[rich adder]

Color32 should be faster afaik, so use that when possible

only 4 bytes (color32)
floats (color) are 4 bytes each channel

[woeful hedge]

How to use smoothDamp() to move smooth to a given coordinate over a period of time through a coroutine?

chatGPT believes that the smoothTime parameter is the time it takes to arrive, but that doesn't seem to be true.

[robust condor]

public void OnClick(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    if (!context.performed) return;

    var device = playerInput.GetDevice<Pointer>();
    bool hitUI = IsRaycastHittingUIObject(device.position.ReadValue());

    Debug.Log("Did we hit UI? " + hitUI); // Always true

    if (device != null && IsRaycastHittingUIObject(device.position.ReadValue())) return;

    LeftClick();
}

private bool IsRaycastHittingUIObject(Vector2 position)
{
    if (_PointerData == null)
        _PointerData = new PointerEventData(EventSystem.current);
    _PointerData.position = position;
    EventSystem.current.RaycastAll(_PointerData, _RaycastResults);
    return _RaycastResults.Count > 0;
}

[rich adder]

did youDebug the raycasts results ?

[robust condor]

When clicking on ground

When clicking on GUI

So it is hitting the camera??

When I hit an object:

[rich adder]

I never seen this through inspector hmm I assume because camera has that physicsraycaster that sends info

[robust condor]

I use Odin

public List<RaycastResult> _RaycastResults = new List<RaycastResult>();

My instinct says to check for intances of Graphic raycaster

[rich adder]

thoseare what start the ray on canvas no ?

I actually never looked into it so I can't say for sure

im having issues with some other UI related stuff lol

[robust condor]

Do you know how to check for module graphic raycaster in the result?

[stuck palm]

if (isThrowing)
        {
            lr.enabled = true;
            DrawTrajectory();
            ThrowProgress++;
            print("tp: " + ThrowProgress);
            return; 
        }

I have this code where throwprogress is basically the force that the player throws at. I had this in fixedupdate but the trajectory line was really laggy, but now that i put it in update the throw force is increasing too quicckly, how do i fix this?

[robust condor]

In _RaycastResults

[rich adder]

not sure

[robust condor]

The raycast can not take layermask apparently

I could have checked vs UI layer

[rich adder]

something very wrong if its showing that though

I think there is Blocking Objects option on raycaster

nvm thats for colliders

[rich adder]

how were you moving the box in fixedupdate

oh the line nvm

use Time.deltaTime if you want consitency in update

wait what is throw force? the line ?

[stuck palm]

throwprogress is a number that is clamped to 100

so its like

100% * a force that is defined elsewhere

[robust condor]

public void RaycastAll(PointerEventData eventData, List<RaycastResult> raycastResults)

No options

[rich adder]

show how you move the box

oh nvm

[rich adder]

this is just the force for the box to be thrown

[stuck palm]

yeah

[rich adder]

then yeah use time.deltaTime

ThrowProgress += TIme.deltaTime * multiplier;

[stuck palm]

okay, thanks

[robust condor]

How can I check against this if it is null?

[rich adder]

selected?

cant u just use this
https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.EventSystem.IsPointerOverGameObject.html

[robust condor]

No

"// Can't use IsPointerOverGameObject() from within InputAction callbacks as the UI won't update
// until after input processing is complete. So, need to explicitly raycast here."

[woeful hedge]

does someone knows why SmoothDamp() takes too much time?
I set smoothtime parameter at 0.461 and the result take 2+ seconds although I had break codes which defences float issues

IEnumerator IntroMove(Vector3 target, float time)
    {
        Vector3 Start = transform.position;
        doesMoveCoroutineEnd = false;
        destinationX = target.x;
        destinationY = target.y;
        Vector3 velocity = Vector3.zero;
        //Debug.Log(Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target));
        float deltaTime = 0f;
        if (!doesMoveCoroutineEnd)
        {
            while (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target) > 0.01)
            {
                deltaTime += Time.deltaTime;
                Debug.Log(deltaTime);
                this.transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(this.transform.position, target, ref velocity, time);

                // if (deltaTime > time + 0.1f)
                // {
                //     Debug.Log("bruh");
                //     transform.position = target;
                //     doesMoveCoroutineEnd = true;
                //     yield break;
                // }
                yield return null;
            }
        }


        transform.position = target;
        // Debug.Log("------------Task End------------");
        doesMoveCoroutineEnd = true;
    }```

[woeful hedge]

this is the last log of IntroMove

IEnumerator CaneGunFire(int FireNoteIndex, Vector3 loaction)
    {
...
        timeLeft = player.noteEndMS[FireNoteIndex + 1] - (player.CONSTANT_TIME * 1000);
        timeLeft = Mathf.Round((float)timeLeft) / 1000;
        Debug.Log(timeLeft);

        //yield return StartCoroutine(SmoothMove(new Vector3(transform.position.x + 8, transform.position.y, 0), (float)timeLeft));
        yield return StartCoroutine(IntroMove(new Vector3(transform.position.x + 8, transform.position.y, 0), (float)timeLeft));
       ...
    }```

[woeful hedge]

this is timeleft

so actually I excepted SmoothDamp IntroMove will end near 0.461 seconds, but the result is 2.07 seconds

How to solve this problem?

[languid spire]

why are you setting timeLeft twice? nvm, i read it again

Debug.Log all the values

[woeful hedge]

wait for me

[amber spruce]

hey so i have 3 different enemies each has a different controller script which also deals with health and stuff how do i have them take damage

[woeful hedge]

end of IntroMove()

[languid spire]

these timeLeft = player.noteEndMS[FireNoteIndex + 1] - (player.CONSTANT_TIME * 1000); are the values I wanted to see

[woeful hedge]

wait

and it is just converting ms to second I remember

        Debug.Log("TimeLeft = " + player.noteEndMS[FireNoteIndex + 1] + " - " + (player.CONSTANT_TIME * 1000));
        Debug.Log(Mathf.Round((float)(player.noteEndMS[FireNoteIndex + 1] - (player.CONSTANT_TIME * 1000))));
        timeLeft = player.noteEndMS[FireNoteIndex + 1] - (player.CONSTANT_TIME * 1000);

[languid spire]

wait, you should be reducing time by deltaTime every itteration of the loop

[woeful hedge]

at where?

IntroMove() 's deltaTime has declared 0 at first

[languid spire]

here
this.transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(this.transform.position, target, ref velocity, time);
you are using time as a constant

[woeful hedge]

oh

[split dragon]

Hi. I have a problem: I wanted to do all the sound activation in 1 script (to make it easier and everything in 1 place), I kind of did everything right, but when I start the game, for some reason all the sounds are activated immediately, and they stay that way forever (even though all the objects on which they depend are turned off). What did I do wrong?

[woeful hedge]

I just remembered this thing runs in coroutine

💀

wait I'll try

uh so should I rewrite like this?

this.transform.position = Vector3.SmoothDamp(this.transform.position, target, ref velocity, time-deltaTime);

which is the time left for end

[languid spire]

yes

[native flicker]

how could i know when sombody closes the app?

[languid spire]

which platform?

[native flicker]

android

[languid spire]

OnFocus

[woeful hedge]

Thanks, It was really helpful

👍

[native flicker]

alright thx

[rich adder]

dont do stuff like GetComponent, in update

also disable PlayOnAwake on AudioSource

[thorn holly]

I have some pretty basic code here, but i can't seem to manipulate anything in the nodes[] list. Does anyone know why? https://gdl.space/pefomeduxu.cpp

[split dragon]

And in which void should I do it?

Or do I need to create a separate void for each object?

[languid spire]

because you only access node zero

[thorn holly]

well yeah, but node zero doesn't move either

[rich adder]

void just a return type for a Method, they're not called voids lol

[thorn holly]

oh wait i know the problem

nvm mb

[split dragon]

Ok. Thanks

[rich adder]

and you should Set it in inspector

[lavish roost]

i have a question about scriptable objects

when using scriptable objects should you add values that can change to them or should every value be fixed but accessible, im having an issue with my item scriptable objects, basically im changing the amount of the item but it changes the whole scriptable object for every item

how are you supposed to handle values that change inside of a scriptable object?

[languid spire]

short answer, don't

[lavish roost]

so whats the right way to handle the amount the correct way

[languid spire]

seperate serializable class

[lavish roost]

so just an object with the item scriptable object + amount

[languid spire]

yes, per instance of the objects using the SO

you can create an instance of the SO for each object, which will allow them to update their own values, but then you still need a way to serialize and save/load it at runtime

[lavish roost]

is it possible to set the variables in the SO to public get, private set so i can avoid doing it by mistake?

[rich adder]

ofc

[languid spire]

yes if you use [field:SerializeField]. they are called Properties btw

[gaunt ice]

field:serializefield

[languid spire]

although why anyone would write code 'by mistake' is beyond me

[hushed ingot]

What version of unity do i need to use to not pay the actrivity fee

[languid spire]

any current version

[amber spruce]

hey so im struggaling with damage here is my takedamage function

public void TakeDamage(float damage)
{
    currentHealth -= damage;

    if (currentHealth <= 0)
    {
        Die();
    }
}

how exactly would i pass the damage i want to deal from another function

[hushed ingot]

oh so they removed it

[amber spruce]

TakeDamage(Damage);

would it be like this

[languid spire]

no

[hushed ingot]

Then how come i dont need to pay

[languid spire]

because, if you bothered to do any research, you would know that it starts with Unity version 6

[hushed ingot]

Chill

[languid spire]

then don't be lazy

[hushed ingot]

😉

[rich adder]

I wouldn't worry about it anyway, you think you will have a million dollars revenue and million downloads ?

[languid spire]

rofl

[hushed ingot]

You think so, thanks

[rich adder]

I'm if you're making that kind of cash the last thing i'd worry about is the 2.5%

[hushed ingot]

OKay thanks

[languid spire]

Another one who's bought the mansion in Malibu and the Ferrari even before they've started to design their game

[hushed ingot]

Yes its already on the way 🙂

[languid spire]

Ain't gonna happen kid

[rich adder]

Ferrari Cake

but its only a Acura

[hushed ingot]

ohhh thats sad

[languid spire]

Fact of life, sorry, the truth hurts

[amber spruce]

so would it be like this??

[rich adder]

use interfaces

or just look for this class specifically

then pass the value in the method as you did any other methods you used..

[hushed ingot]

😎

[shrewd swift]

in Visual Studio 2019 can I change the color of variables ? or give a special colors to all "Unity" related methods

[rich adder]

this is literally something you should try before asking here

[amber spruce]

well it doesnt seem to work weridly

[shrewd swift]

feels to white

[rich adder]

define "doesn't work"

[rich adder]

why are you using 2019

and yeah ofc you can change everything

[shrewd swift]

default one, 2022 takes ages to update for some reasons

[safe carbon]

so OnTriggerEnter in contrast to Oncollision checks if the check mark in clicked but it is still a collision detector?

[rich adder]

Triggers are no collisions

[shrewd swift]

does 2022 changes colors ?

[rich adder]

You can change those colos in the Text Editor section in both

[shrewd swift]

any tips reagrding where ?
i cant find any panel or settings regarding Unity tools in VS

[safe carbon]

but their both used for detecting collisions no

[rich adder]

Tools > Options > Fonts and Color

[languid spire]

Tools->Options->Environment->Fonts and Colors

[rich adder]

ah yeah they're in the Environment collapsable

my shits always expanded 😆

[shrewd swift]

ty guy

[rich adder]

No

Triggers detect Collider in Trigger

they're not collisions

Collisions are solid

[shrewd swift]

doesnt looke like there is a way to customize Unity stuff

[safe carbon]

yeah that sounds right i was just wording it wrong

[shrewd swift]

oh so its "user"

i thought it wasnt unity related

ty again

[rich adder]

yeah these have nothing to do with unity

they're common types for coding

[split dragon]

Hello again. I have a problem with the character, or rather with the speed. In my script, there is activation by the keys: "C" and "LeftControl". because of the 61 lines, the 40 line does not work. (when I press C), the speed remains 10. I understand why this is so (because the shift is not clamped, and therefore the speed is 10). How to fix it?

[rich adder]

dont ever use == with floats first off

they're usually slightly imprecise and never exactly the value you want

you should not check controller height for speed

rather make a crouched boolean

[rich adder]

you press the key once it hits the else right after so not sure what ur doing there. can you explain more what you're trying to do?

[split dragon]

use "<=" and ">="?

[rich adder]

or https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html

[split dragon]

Ok. Thanks

[rich adder]

what are you trying to accomplish cause I see a few flaws here . esp Timespeed doesn't have a time.deltaTime you will get all sorts of weird results

your decrease will happen fast if you have high FramesPerSecond

also once it hit 0 it never gets put to 0 or a bool to stop so it will keep decrease

[split dragon]

So that's the problem: at low FPS it is spent slowly, and at high FPS it is spent quickly. Thanks again. I was wondering what the problem was.

[thorn holly]

The heavens have shined upon to me, for by nothing short of a miracle, my code worked first try.

[lunar tapir]

Hi,
I have a base class named FS_Unit which stands for File System Unit, and have 2 derived classes File and Directory.
I want to make File and Directory scripable objects, while also making them inherit from FS_Unit class. I cannot inherit from both FS_Unit and ScriptableObject.
What can I do?

[amber spruce]

how do i stop all other animations for a character

[lavish roost]

you can only inherit from one class per class

you could make it so directory inherits from file and fs unit inherits from directory

[lunar tapir]

then again, I wouldnt be able to make Directory into a scriptable object because it inherits from File already

Basically, is there a way to create an object into a scriptable object when it already inherits for a class?

[rich adder]

animator.Stop() ?

wdym

[languid spire]

easiest way, if all your classes are serializable, make an SO with a Directory variable

[amber spruce]

StopPlayback???

[lunar tapir]

Ah that works, thanks!

[rich adder]

does it work ?

[amber spruce]

idk i was asking if thats the same thing

because i dont see a Stop

[pliant mist]

I wanna make a 3D enemy movement script that just flies directly towards the player but cannot turn quickly meaning if you dodge it will miss

is there a good tutorial, most 3D tutorials are more like a top down game displayed as 2d

I guess I could get the rotation from the front of the enemy to the player then marginally change the rotation

[rich adder]

yeah I just misremembered should be that one

[sullen zealot]

hello!
is there an equivalent in c# for c++ pair<T,T> ?
besides tuple

[rare basin]

dictionary?

you could just literally google it

[amber spruce]

anyone know why i have it set a bool to true but it just keeps repeating the first frame of the animation

[rare basin]

instead of asking there

[sullen zealot]

i only found tuple

on google

[rare basin]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/166089/what-is-c-sharp-analog-of-c-stdpair

[amber spruce]

i want it to play the animation and hold the last frame

[pliant mist]

How do I find out how much rotation is need for one object to face another?

[amber spruce]

just stays like this lol im assuming smth is wrong with my code but not sure how i would fix it

 private void Die()
 {
     if (enemyController != null)
     {
         enemyController.IsStunned = true;
     }
     if (enemyController2 != null)
     {
         enemyController2.IsStunned = true;
     }
     if (enemyController3 != null)
     {
         enemyController3.IsStunned = true;
     }
     animator.StopPlayback();
     animator.SetBool("Dead", true);
     StartCoroutine(Destroy());
     //Destroy(gameObject, 3f);
 }

this is the die function

[stuck palm]

whats the opposite of ignore collision

Physics.IgnoreCollision(GetComponentInParent<CharacterController>(), itemdrop.gameObject.GetComponent<Collider>());

[ivory bobcat]

Consider using the third parameter https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[dawn juniper]

Why doesn't the "public GameObject island" appear as a variable in the controller when I have added the script to it?

[stuck palm]

oh okay, is ignore true by default then

[tacit estuary]

Take a look at the example. The method returns the degrees between 1 vector and another vector ahttps://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.SignedAngle.html

[ivory bobcat]

Are there any errors?

[languid spire]

check your console for errors

[pliant mist]

thanks, I'm gonna give rotate towards a shot as well

[dawn juniper]

nothing comes out

[dawn juniper]

nothing comes out

[ivory bobcat]

Are you using a custom inspector?

[dawn juniper]

if I click on the script, the GameObject is there.

[dawn juniper]

no, I have just created the project

[languid spire]

screenshot console

[pliant mist]

how do you just move something 3f forward regardless of direction

like it can face in any direction but I want it to move "forward"

[verbal dome]

For example Quaternion.FromToRotation or Quaternion.Angle depending on what you really need

Or Quaternion.Inverse and multiplication

[dawn juniper]

I didn't touch anything in Unity, I just created an empty GameObject and created the script, then dragged the script onto the gamenObjecy called Controller.

[dawn juniper]

I didn't touch anything in Unity, I just created an empty GameObject and created the script, then dragged the script onto the gamenObjecy called Controller.

[verbal dome]

Forward relative to the world or relative to itself?

Sounds like you just want Vector3.forward

[languid spire]

The only thing I can think of is Domain Reload is disabled, try closing the project and opening it again

[dawn juniper]

okey

[pliant mist]

yea I used the moveforward velocity rb thing

[dawn juniper]

does not work😢

[languid spire]

what Unity version?

[amber spruce]

anyone know for this??

[dawn juniper]

2022.3.16f1

[languid spire]

odd, sorry I'm out of ideas, this all looks fine

[verbal dome]

From what state do you transition to this one?

[amber spruce]

any state

[verbal dome]

I figured so

[amber spruce]

can it not be from any state?

[verbal dome]

Any state includes that Enemy1_dead state as well

Theres an option "can transition to self' in the transition I think

Uncheck that

[sullen zealot]

try resetting the component

or reimport the script

[amber spruce]

it seems to now not even trigger it

[dawn juniper]

nothing happens

[dawn juniper]

no problem, thanks for the help

[sullen zealot]

u tried this too?

[dawn juniper]

yes

[sullen zealot]

idk then

does this happen to all your scripts?

or only this one?

[flat slate]

my Particle system wont start per script

can someone tell me why?

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[dawn juniper]

yes, in all scripts

[flat slate]

https://gdl.space/gowoqowiwa.cpp

[sullen zealot]

in all projects or only this one?

[queen adder]

I need help on something, where should I write?

[sullen zealot]

just say what you need help on

[verbal dome]

Have the animator open next to the game view when playing, this way you can see what's going on.
You probably have some other transition that is triggering too

[sullen zealot]

do you ever call IsPressed() ?

[flat slate]

what do you mean?

[summer stump]

Depends on what you need help with of course. #🔎┃find-a-channel

[rich adder]

!support

[eternal falcon]

Where can I get help?

Take a look at #🔎┃find-a-channel

:warning: This is not a channel for official support.

Please do not ping admins, moderators, or staff with Unity issues.

[flat slate]

oh yeah i do

per button

all teh other things in the scripts are working

just not the particles

[dawn juniper]

yes

[queen adder]

I want to make a map based game (strategy similar to hoi4) I have maps ready but I don't know how to do it (I followed the guides but I don't know how to use it). If you have any advice, I would be very grateful, sir.

[sullen zealot]

i think its because you never stop the particle systems

[flat slate]

okay

i try

[sullen zealot]

also when playing or starting them check if they are alerady playing.

[flat slate]

okay

[sullen zealot]

something like this:

if(!particlesyst.isPlaying) particlesyst.Play();
if(particlesyst.isPlaying) particlesyst.Stop();

[rich adder]

if you never coded before this will not be easy at all

start with a more basic game

[pliant mist]

game jam scripts are some of the grossest stuff I've ever written

how do I make a object spawn randomly inside a sphere but also not too close to the center?

[queen adder]

like 2d platform ?

pixel game ?

[sullen zealot]

yes

[flat slate]

The problem is that the particals only starts when im in the scene view

[rich adder]

sure anything that can build you up

[queen adder]

thanks

[rich adder]

if you plan on doing strategy go though you might want to look into many of those patterns

[sullen zealot]

wdym not too close?

u want it to spawn on the sphere or inside?

[queen adder]

okey

[rich adder]

Random.insideUnitSphere

[flat slate]

still not working

[icy cape]

This might be a really stupid question but why am I unable to attach a script with generics onto a game object. It extends MonoBehavior

[sullen zealot]

show script

[languid spire]

because cannot resolve the generic in the inspector

[icy cape]

public class Projectile <T> : MonoBehaviour where T : Entity

[sullen zealot]

do you get any errors?

[icy cape]

oh bruh fr

[languid spire]

how do you expect to specify a value for T ?

[flat slate]

no

[sullen zealot]

idk then

[flat slate]

wait

maybe it works now

no doesnt

[summer stump]

They want a donut shape.
@pliant mist My naive first thought is use OnUnitCircle and do a Random.Range(closestRange, furthestRange) and multiply onUnitCircle by that

[rich adder]

Vector3 center;
float size;
int ite;
int maxIte = 10000;
Vector3 FindPoint()
{
    while (ite < maxIte)
    {
        var point = center + Random.insideUnitSphere * size;
        if (Vector3.Distance(point, center) > minDist)
        {
            
            maxIte = 0;
            return point;
        }
        maxIte++;
    }
    return Vector3.zero;
}```

[lavish dirge]

is there a flag/filter or other mechanism to search only for all scripts that are referenced in the hierarchy? e.g. I'd like to find all scripts used by a particular prefab with several dozen objects

(also, is there a better channel for editor questions?)

[gray crest]

im having a really simple problem but i cant work it out

using UnityEngine;

public class OneWayPlatform : MonoBehaviour
{
    private Collider platformCollider;

    private void Start()
    {
        // Assuming the collider is attached to the same GameObject as this script
        platformCollider = GetComponent<Collider>();
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        // Check if the colliding object is the player
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Player entered the platform trigger.");
            // Disable the collider temporarily to allow the player to pass through
            platformCollider.enabled = false;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        // Check if the colliding object is the player
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Player exited the platform trigger.");
            // Re-enable the collider when the player exits
            platformCollider.enabled = true;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
    {
        // Check if the colliding object is the player
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Player is within the platform trigger.");
            // You can perform additional actions while the player is within the trigger zone
        }
    }
}

my player is just a cube and so is my platform, this code is on my platform. OnTriggerEnter but not the other two. why?

[rich adder]

did GPT not help lol

[cosmic dagger]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[gray crest]

you can tell how bad it has gotten, nope

I just dont know where ive gone wrong

[summer stump]

You disable the collider in Enter it looks like, which makes Stay and Exit not work for it

[shrewd swift]

i have an issue
i am doing a sort-of rope with hinge joint, and i am attaching my player to the last "part" of the rope
the rope is composed of multiple cylinder of scale 0.1, 1, 0.1
when moving the last cylinder, the player is deformed
when the scale of the cylinder is 1,1,1 i got no issues

is there a way to fix this ?

[gray crest]

of course yes! but then I would i create a one way platform?

[rich adder]

use Dot Product prob

[rich adder]

attach things with scale 1,1,1

never attach things with scales already modified imo

separate your visuals with your root objects

[shrewd swift]

wdym ?

[rich adder]

graphics/visuals should always be child of root object

so that root can be mantained at a reasonable 1,1,1

[shrewd swift]

mh, how can i attach the player to the last part without attaching it to the actual last cylinder

[rich adder]

wdym to the last part

[shrewd swift]

can you bake a scale in Unity like in UE ?

[rich adder]

no

[shrewd swift]

i dont understand how i can make the player attached to the last cylinder if the player has to be child of the root

maybe i can try adding at runtime a hinge joint on the player

[rich adder]

what

[lavish roost]

is it possible to increase this green border size without changing the image size?

[rich adder]

the Cylinder you are talking about the mesh right ?

just Rightclick it and make new partent

[shrewd swift]

the rope is multiple cylinders with hinge joints and rigibodies

[rich adder]

then only attach to parent

[summer stump]

The green border is the collider. Just increase the size of the collider component

[rich adder]

to make a child object that is called "Attach to"

[lavish roost]

it doesnt have a collider

[rich adder]

that has scale 1,1,1

[rich adder]

you messed up when you made cylinders not separated from the chain but eh

[shrewd swift]

you mean doing this ?

[summer stump]

Hmmm. Show that again without cropping it

[rich adder]

right

well no

is cylinder the the one that moves?

then yea

[shrewd swift]

well that was already here

[shrewd swift]

yes

endRope is empty object at scale 1 1 1

[rich adder]

what about player

[summer stump]

Ah, UI element.
Why do you want the green square bigger?

[shrewd swift]

player is 1 1 1
but when attached to endRope is has to be 10 1 10 because the cylinders are 0.1 0 0.1
to keep ratio

[lavish roost]

i have a drag function in the inventoryItem script and its based on the size of the green border but its too small

[rich adder]

cylinders cannot be 0.1

you have to fix that

again seperate mesh from main obj

[shrewd swift]

well i can make a mesh in third party editor

[summer stump]

Ok, try messing with the raycast padding then

[rich adder]

never have visual on your root

[lavish roost]

thats it omg

[shrewd swift]

i dont understand what you mean by that

what is the "main obj"

[lavish roost]

the raycast padding is the green border apparently

[summer stump]

Good to know haha. I wasn't sure
Glad it worked

[lavish roost]

thanks

[rich adder]

hold up

[shrewd swift]

i totaly understood that my cylinders cannot be != than 1 1 1, or my player shouldnt be parent to != than 1 1 1 objects
but then, how do i make the player like its attached ?

[shrewd swift]

how do i make the player "attached" to the rope then ?

[rich adder]

wdym how

[shrewd swift]

if the "root" is somewhere else

[rich adder]

wdym somewhere else

[shrewd swift]

actual setup:

-rope
--cylinder0
--cylinder...
--cylinder4
---endRope
----?player?```

[shrewd swift]

well you dont want my player to be child of a a cylinders

[rich adder]

and rope should have a rigidbody with collider then

only resize colliders

dont resize gameobjects

unless they are visual child

[shrewd swift]

"rope" only has a rigibody

[shrewd swift]

wdym with "visual" ?
somthing that isnt invisible for the player ?

[rich adder]

the rope is not a chain of hinge rigidbody ?

[rich adder]

visual means the Graphics, like the mesh/sprite

[shrewd swift]

rope is an empty GO with a rigidbody, with multiple cylinderX (each of them has: rigidbody, collider, hinge joint)

[shrewd swift]

well my rope is a viusal then

[rich adder]

the cylinders should be child of slices with the actual colliders

they are nothing more than visuals

the "slices" are the sections

[shrewd swift]

i dont understand the link with how to fix the issue tho

[rich adder]

should only be collider,rb,and hinge

[shrewd swift]

in one big mesh ?

im fk lost now

[rich adder]

i told you because your problem is parenting to something scaled will result in what you saw

scale in inhereted through parent to child

[shrewd swift]

yes
so without changing the scale of the cylinders, what is the possible solutions ?

[rich adder]

child is relative scaled to parent

[rich adder]

what is the scale of Rope

[shrewd swift]

1 1 1

only cylinderX are deformed to != 1 1 1

[rich adder]

and you are parenting object to End of Rope with scale 1,1,1

[robust condor]

Is it more common to use this.Function() or just Function() in Unity?

[rich adder]

then end of rope should only be child of rope

otherwise fix the cylinder scale..

not that confusing

[shrewd swift]

but if i do this, the "endRope" will not be at the end when moving

[rich adder]

this is almost never needed unless you have naming conflict (eg your parameter has same name as memeber field)

or you're passing/registering yourself(the script) to something

[robust condor]

I know, but convention

In TS you kinda need it

[summer stump]

Function() is more common, and is convention, in C# (not just unity)

[waxen oracle]

Is there a way to have code activate when there is a collision (im new to unity and c sharp)

[rich adder]

its not a requirement its implied

already

[rich adder]

yes

did you google, there are dozens

[rich adder]

well if cylinder 4 has a rigidbody with hinge and moving then obv it need to be attached to cylinder

but you have to fix the scale

idk how else I can explain it tbh

[waxen oracle]

everytime i google something with unity i get rly conveluted results i figured ill ask first

ill try google

[shrewd swift]

okay
seems weird that there is no solution that having 1 1 1 scale

[rich adder]

how's it weird ?

scale is inherited I just explained it

[shrewd swift]

feels limited

[unkempt goblet]

having lag issues in main game any common reasosns/fixes?

[rich adder]

no you just don't know how to separate visuals from root

get used to doing it

[shrewd swift]

before i leave, what scale is using unity ? so i can model 3D object it another sofware without rescaling ?

[rich adder]

1m

[shrewd swift]

ok ty

[rich adder]

you have to debug/ Profile. every project is different

[unkempt goblet]

how do i do that?

[rich adder]

like what ?

[waxen oracle]

Massive blocks of code for simple tasks usually but ive found a good website for this

[rich adder]

lookup Profiling

[waxen oracle]

Btw do u know any good rescources to learn C sharp outside of unity

It would be pretty helpful to understand the language itself

[unkempt goblet]

ty ty

[rich adder]

microsoft website

[waxen oracle]

Alright

thanks

[rich adder]

check the pin

link is there

Intro to c#

[unkempt goblet]

@rich adder this is what i got

it works fine in the engine but as soon as i build and play the game it starts lagging

[rich adder]

then you have to debug the build

profile it

put it in devmode and connect it to profiler
watch a few videos on this , profiler is quite complex but tell you exactly whats going on

[true swallow]

can anyone help me with this? my canvas text isnt showing at all even though it is first in the sorting layer?

[unkempt goblet]

ok ok ty

[rich adder]

not a code question

[true swallow]

oh sorry where do i get help?

[unkempt goblet]

probably #📲┃ui-ux if i was to take a guess

[true swallow]

thanks alot

[flat slate]

i have a problem i think it has to do with the settings from it but my particles do not start when i am just in Game view but they do when i am aswell in the Scene view. do someone know how to fix that?

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk
also if its 2d make sure they're infront of the camera

[robust condor]

How can I do this in C#. Instead of looking up by string I want to look up by variables but I want it in a child called "actions", like this:

InputAction pauseGameAction = PlayerInputHandler.Instance.actions.pauseGameAction;

Instead of:

InputAction pauseGameAction = PlayerInputHandler.Instance.pauseGameAction;

[flat slate]

ye they are

i show you

[rich adder]

this is prob not code related though, wrong channel

[flat slate]

i dont know where to ask then?

[rich adder]

i linked you

there is also #✨┃vfx-and-particles

[flat slate]

okay thx

[gray crest]

Best way to create one way platforms with 3D rectangles?

[rich adder]

idk about "best" but you prob use dot product

combined with a OnTrigger for check if collider still crossing

[pliant mist]

how do I check the tag of a solid collider colliding with another solid collider?

does 3d not have triggers?

[summer stump]

3d does have triggers.

And when you say check the tag, do you mean in OnCollision or OnTrigger?

If the former, collision.gameObject.CompareTag()

If the latter, collider.CompareTag()

[waxen oracle]

Im trying to add a greyscale filter to my code but my screen just becomes either black or pink, the problem cannot be the shader, as ive tried it with a blank one.

using UnityEngine;

public class greyscale : MonoBehaviour
{
private Material mat;
public Shader shad;
public bool grey = true;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
mat = new Material(shad);
}
private void OnRenderImage(RenderTexture source, RenderTexture destination)
{
if (grey == true)
{
Graphics.Blit(source, destination, mat);
}
}

}

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

[past brook]

how do you call a function from another script, nothing i looked up seems to work or be in date

[wild cargo]

You need a reference to the other script

[rich adder]

calling functions from another script hasnt changed since c# was around..

[past brook]

how do i add it, ive been getting a barrage of error messages using getcomponent

[rich adder]

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

[wild cargo]

Add a field, something like "public YourScript myScript" should do it

Don't worry about [SerializeField] for now

[agile mesa]

Hi Guys i need help the code under //1 and //3 works but for some reason the code under //2 dosent work
https://pastebin.com/VHefRLzf

[clear seal]

Can someone help me for this script, yesterday i got told that i need to do this but it didn't work

[rich adder]

start by properly closing your brackets

[clear seal]

i didn't see this lul

[rich adder]

no delete this and use links

Large Code belong in links

[agile mesa]

like this?

[rich adder]

except use a site from the bot

pastbin sucks a donkey

[agile mesa]

should i change it or just for next time?

[rich adder]

next time

half the page is wasted on bs

man you need to learn an Array

[safe socket]

what are arrays used for in Unity? Know what they are from Comp science knowledge but curious as to how its used

i can imagine inventories

[rich adder]

they are just collections

[celest holly]

is spawning a script on each individual bullet to move it inefficient? is there a better way to code this?

[rich adder]

you literally use collections in everything substantial you do

[rich adder]

probably. just put a rb on it and make it move from gun itself

you still need scripts on bullets anyway if you want to do on impact fx maybe

[celest holly]

i couldnt think of a way to do this within update as there would be multiple bullets at once

especially with the collision

[rich adder]

what exactly you expect to happen with //2

[rich adder]

when you spawn something you literally get its instance

but anyway at level you're at don't worry about it

[celest holly]

okay, ill just stick with multiple scripts then

[rich adder]

if it gives you problems profile it later

[celest holly]

the only other thing i was gonna try was a list of the bullets and looping through them each time but that freaked me out a bit lmao

thanks for helping

[rich adder]

this is actaully the concept of pooling. You recycle the same bullets for perfomance

instantiating and destroying is expensive in comparison

[safe socket]

how would you implement though do you just use it in scripts like in other programming stuff or is there a certain component (or something of the sort) for it which you would add to something like an empty manager

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/collections/commonly-used-collection-types

you use them like any other languages usually

[agile mesa]

when two of the same touch the spawn the boy3 prefab but when they touch they just bounce off

[robust condor]

Why is my visual studio using 4GB ram lol

[agile mesa]

oh yeah did you install any updates for it?

[vast ivy]

What’re u running xD

[robust condor]

Nothing, just have 4 scripts open

[rich adder]

well you got a lot going on there, you have to debug

are the other ones working ?

[agile mesa]

yes

but i forgor some code

https://hastebin.com/share/obatohofiw.scss code i forgot

[rich adder]

debug your if statements make sure they are what you expect them to

[clear seal]

can someone quikly tell me how do i use a variable to change key

[frosty hound]

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

[rich adder]

myb nvm

[frosty hound]

Could have quickly just looked it up yourself too

[north kiln]

They are trying to change the key based on a variable, the IDE is not helping with that

public KeyCode Key would be the most sensible way, instead of trying a string

[rich adder]

ohh wops just saw that field

screenshot was cut for some reason 😅

[clear seal]

doesn't work

:(

[rich adder]

although you can see editor which type you would need to store @clear seal

[north kiln]

🆒

#854851968446365696

[rich adder]

show what you did

[clear seal]

`using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

public class PlayerOneSoccerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public float speed = 10f;
public float Rotation = 10f;
public KeyCode Key;

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

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if (!Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Key))
    {
        transform.Rotate(0, 0, Rotation);
    }
    else
    {
        transform.position += transform.up * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

}
`

[rich adder]

Key is a keycode already, no point of typing keycode twice

[north kiln]

Just pass the Key variable to the function instead of trying to use it as an accessor to KeyCode

Also, use three ```, not one of them for a codeblock

[rich adder]

@clear seal
btw if you plan on using collisions, you should probably not move like this
transform.position += transform.up * speed * Time.deltaTime;

[clear seal]

ok thanks

[bleak prism]

This might sound dumb, but do you guys think i should make a prefab out of this

And when a player is spawned

it just spawns the prefab

Bcs rn i just have the player forced on the map right

[rich adder]

making player prefab is fine

[bleak prism]

And i want to make him spawn

On a certain location

[rich adder]

you only need to spawn once anyway

after that its just teleporting

[ashen wind]

I have two boxing ai that are hitting each other and I want to do a check on collision enter to see what part of the other fighter the boxing glove hit

[queen rock]

Hello. I am struggling with a smooth rotation

void Update()
    {
        // Moving towards waypoint
        Vector3 dir = target.position - transform.position;
        transform.Translate(dir.normalized * (speed * Time.deltaTime), Space.World);

        // Frontside of the enemy looks towards the next waypoint
        Quaternion lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(dir);
        // Smooth rotation
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, lookRotation, Time.deltaTime * rotationSpeed);

        // Has enemy reached the waypoint ?
        if (Vector3.Distance(transform.position, target.position) <= 0.2f)
        {
            GetNextWayPoint();
        }
    }

Right now, the enemy looks towards the next waypoint and does a smooth rotation after he reached the waypoint. But I want that the enemy begins the rotation before he reaches the waypoint. For example 0.5seconds before he reaches the waypoint, he starts the rotation. So the rotation time is equal before and after the waypoint. How do I do that?

[ashen wind]

so I'm doing this

            if (col.gameObject.tag == "boxingGlove")
            {
                Debug.Log(col.gameObject);
            }

but it's logging collisions before the fighters even start hitting each other

[rich adder]

what is it logging in name ?

[wild cargo]

So from point A-.-B---C you want it to start rotating towards C at the . symbol?

[ashen wind]

gameObject.name?

[rich adder]

yea

[queen rock]

Exactly. Enemy starts at A. Starts the rotation slightly before B. And finishes the rotation slightly after B. Looking/rotating towards C.

[ashen wind]

hand, lower arm, chest, spine, head

[rich adder]

idk what those mean ..

i have no context on your setup

[ashen wind]

somehow there are a bunch of collisions between the boxing glove and parts of the gameobject it's attached to

and I want to filter those out

[rich adder]

do you have joints?

[ashen wind]

yes

[wild cargo]

And does the time until it starts rotating to C have to be in seconds, or at like half the path? Like if the distance from A to B was 20, do you want it to start rotating to C at travelDone = 10 or when there's literally x amount of seconds until B is reached?

[ashen wind]

I want to only check if it's hitting the other boxer

[rich adder]

thats why they intersect

[rich adder]

use layer based collisions

or put Physics.IgnoreCollision method inside

[woven crater]

why calling randomshootangle() does not change the value in each loop

[ashen wind]

will this affect the physics or just the detection in code

cause I don't want the different parts of the gameobject to stop colliding with each other

[rich adder]

are the colliders meant to collide with each other

[ashen wind]

very yes

I just want a way to differentiate them without putting a unique script on every sub-gameobject

[queen rock]

It would be better if the unit is in seconds because if it's always half the path, then the rotation time depends on the distance between each waypoint. That wouldn't be so helpful because the distance between two waypoints can differ 🙂

[rich adder]

put them inside a list of colliders the one you want ignored and do a foreach loop in the beginning with the Physics.IgnoreCollision @ashen wind

[wild cargo]

Then I believe you could do some sort of prediction in the pathfinding agent while it's moving to see, using the seconds as a factor, when it would reach the path point x

Then start rotating when it does

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private Collider[] collidersToIgnore;
[SerializeField] private Collider[] boxingGloves;
private void Awake()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < boxingGloves.Length; i++)
    {
        foreach(var col in collidersToIgnore)
        {
            Physics.IgnoreCollision(boxingGloves[i], col, true);
        }
    }
}```

[ashen wind]

but what does physics.ignoreCollision do? won't that stop them from colliding with each other?

[queen rock]

A prediction? Do you mean some sort of checking whether the enemy is x-meters away of point y?

[clear seal]

i dont get it, i searched for a tutorial, none respond to my demand, i asked some friend, they dont rlly know abt unity scripting

[rich adder]

yea isn't that what you want?

[wild cargo]

Also (little off the rails), to make the script more consistent, I recommend you to use Transform.MoveTowards() instead of Translate, because the latter can overshoot, thus the reason why you have an epsilon distance check in the end of that snippet

[north kiln]

if (!Input.GetKey(Key)) ?

[ashen wind]

inside the oncollisionEnter function, I want a conditional that checks if the thing the boxing glove is hitting is a body part of the opponent

[rich adder]

time to go back on basic C#

[ashen wind]

I don't want the physics to operate any differently than it does

[rich adder]

make an Enum

[clear seal]

i am currently learning on unity. learn and none mentionned it

[wild cargo]

You could take the speed of the agent, multiply it by seconds (this gets you the amount of distance covered in x seconds), then when that distance is bigger than or equal to the actual distance to the path point you initiate the rotation logic

[rich adder]

this is more like something you learn better doing regular c# courses
passing values/types in the parameters is like essential stuff you need to know

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/tour-of-csharp/tutorials/

[ashen wind]

you mean attach a script to every child gameobject with an enum in the script?

[wild cargo]

This would get more complicated if you have some slowness/speed systems in place but assuming you don't, it should work like this at a high-level

sorry meant to quote the other reply I made

[rich adder]

no? you can just check the parent of the collider hit..

[queen rock]

I intend to add towers which slow enemies. Does this interfere with your logic improvement thing?

[ashen wind]

but there are a ton of parents, and even the top gameobject is parented to the environment

[rich adder]

why are player parented to environment

and it doesn't matter cause its the first script it finds (GetComponentInParent) for example

you only need 1 script on the appropriate player

[wild cargo]

Well, one way I can think of having this be accounted for is using a ratio of travel left for the rotation logic, with the ratio being something like "current travel left / started rotation at travel left"

[queen rock]

using UnityEngine;

public class EnemyMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 10f;
    public float rotationSpeed = 5f;
    private Transform target;
    private int wavepointIndex = 0;
    private Waypoints waypoints;

    void Awake()
    {
        waypoints = GetComponentInParent<Waypoints>();
        if (waypoints != null)
        {
            target = waypoints.points[0];
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Waypoints script not found in parent objects.");
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // Moving towards waypoint using MoveTowards
        Vector3 currentPosition = transform.position;
        Vector3 targetPosition = target.position;
        transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(currentPosition, targetPosition, speed * Time.deltaTime);

        // Frontside of the enemy looks towards the next waypoint
        Quaternion lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(targetPosition - currentPosition);
        // Smooth rotation
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, lookRotation, Time.deltaTime * rotationSpeed);

        // Has enemy reached the waypoint ?
        if (Vector3.Distance(currentPosition, targetPosition) <= 0.2f)
        {
            GetNextWayPoint();
        }
    }

    // Getting the next waypoint
    void GetNextWayPoint()
    {
        if (wavepointIndex >= waypoints.points.Length - 1)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
            return;
        }
        wavepointIndex++;
        target = waypoints.points[wavepointIndex];
    }
}

I implemented your "Move Towards" suggestion and it works just fine (for now) 🙂

[wild cargo]

Also, you no longer need the "if (distance < some value)" check, just check if it's literally the target position because MoveTowards is that accurate

Distance uses sqrt under the hood so better save performance that way

[rich adder]

use links for large code like this

[brazen cedar]

Hellooo

How can I make this folk stop bouncing? And how can I make it face the player?

[rich adder]

depends?

[robust condor]

Dafuq is this?

[brazen cedar]

It's using a velocity set to move towards the player

[wild cargo]

Probably a hub for hosting Visual Studio services on any CPU

[robust condor]

What services

[rich adder]

then its probably wrong or you're using conflicting forces

[wild cargo]

Idk, maybe some Chinese tracking software or something

jk

[rich adder]

also google rotate object towards target in unity

[brazen cedar]

Thaanks

[robust condor]

Is this normal?

[wild cargo]

Have you tried googling that?

[woven crater]

can someone help me with this random seed issue?

[robust condor]

@wild cargoWell it could be normal since the intellisense is pretty advanced. And don't everyone in here use visual studio?

[wild cargo]

Yeah that's prolly it, and most probably also use VS but others may use some other IDE like Rider

Depending on their preferences

[fierce shuttle]

It doesnt look like you use the angle you provide, I woul maybe just return something like angle + Random.Range(-spread, spread), then log what the result is, its also possible the spread from your weapon is small or the same number

[austere monolith]

im having trouble with my camera, the little window that shows what it sees isnt accurate and when i zoom the camera out, everything is pixelated

[tender breach]

My rotation issue never got fixed.

[austere monolith]

im having trouble with my camera, the little window that shows what it sees isnt accurate and when i zoom the camera out, everything is pixelated

[polar acorn]

<@&502884371011731486>

[north kiln]

!mute 1038535490133037127 1d spam

[eternal falcon]

azedev was muted.

[tender breach]

Thank you.

[slender nymph]

make sure that your Game View window isn't zoomed in

also this is a code channel

[austere monolith]

thank you i almost gave up to such a stupid thing

[blazing plank]

I've got a quick question about the unity line renderer. Does anyone know why it doesn't change the line to the color I set?
The only way to change the rays color is to give it another Material

[frosty horizon]

Can someone tell me why when I click ctrl p it deletes my changes every second time?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[blazing plank]

ah, sorry, my fault

where should I post my question instead? Can't find a suitable channel

[frosty horizon]

you have to find the solution yourself

[rich adder]

maybe #✨┃vfx-and-particles or #💻┃unity-talk

[clear seal]

i know the tansform movement doesn't work with colliders and rigid body

i got a problem there

how do i make it move so it does not go trough the objects

[rich adder]

reference rigidbody and addforce or velocity

[lavish roost]

is it just me or is coding a fully working inventory that works like one in minecraft unexpectedly difficult

[robust condor]

It is a lot of work

I spent 10 hours coding my damn camera

[lavish roost]

i was thinking it will take 2 days max or am i just slow

[clear seal]

is it okay if i say it's not okay?

[frosty hound]

Not without showing your work

[clear seal]

hold on trying to make some possible correct changes

public class PlayerOneSoccerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 10f;
    public float Rotation = 10f;
    public KeyCode Key;

    private Rigidbody rb;

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

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (!Input.GetKey(Key))
        {
            transform.Rotate(0, 0, Rotation);
        }
        else
        {
            transform.position += transform.up * speed * Time.deltaTime;
        }
    }
}

here you go

[slender nymph]

at no point here are you attempting to move via the rigidbody. you're also not even using the right type of rigidbody

[clear seal]

oh yeah i forgot to remove

[rich adder]

there were even examples in the link 😔

[clear seal]

ik

hold i think i am on smth

no😔

[robust condor]

I'm trying to alter my zoomspeed but it doesn't matter if I set it to 100 or 10000, it is equally fast...

cinemachineVirtualCamera.m_Lens.FieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(cinemachineVirtualCamera.m_Lens.FieldOfView, zoomValue, zoomSpeed);

zoomValue = 1f, zoomSpeed = 50f to 10000f

Also tried with deltatime

[spiral narwhal]

public abstract class CardEffectTriggerSO : ScriptableObject {}

Would an empty class in Unity be acceptable if it is a base for ScriptableObjects? Generally, there is no good excuse for empty classes, but I just need to be able to select CardEffectTrigger SOs from other SOs

[teal viper]

There's no law against it, so you're not gonna go to jail for doing that🤷‍♂️

[lavish roost]

im doing the exact same but with delta time and it works

[teal viper]

What is zoomSpeed equal to?

It needs to change from 0 to 1 over time for a proper lerping.

Should probably read a bit about how lerp working.

[lavish roost]

yeah he needs to multiply by time.deltatime

[teal viper]

No, he doesn't.

That might work since it brings the value under 1, but it's still not a correct way to lerp.

[robust condor]

@teal viperanything between 50f and 10000f

Same result

[lavish roost]

public class Camera : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private GameInput gameInput;
    [SerializeField]
    private float zoomSpeed;
    [SerializeField]
    private float fieldOfViewIncreaseAmount = 4f;
    [SerializeField]
    private float fieldOfViewMin = 10f;
    [SerializeField]
    private float fieldOfViewMax = 80f;
    private CinemachineVirtualCamera virtualCamera;
    private float targetFieldOfView = 34f;

    private void Start()
    {
        virtualCamera = GetComponentInChildren<CinemachineVirtualCamera>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        HandleCameraZoom();
    }

    private void HandleCameraZoom()
    {
        float zoomValue = gameInput.GetZoomValueNormalized();
        if (zoomValue > 0)
        {
            targetFieldOfView += fieldOfViewIncreaseAmount;
        }
        if ( zoomValue < 0)
        {
            targetFieldOfView -= fieldOfViewIncreaseAmount;
        }

        targetFieldOfView = Mathf.Clamp(targetFieldOfView, fieldOfViewMin, fieldOfViewMax);
        
        virtualCamera.m_Lens.FieldOfView = Mathf.Lerp(virtualCamera.m_Lens.FieldOfView, targetFieldOfView, Time.deltaTime * zoomSpeed);
    }
}

this is my camera class and the zooming works fine (zoomSpeed is 2 in the inspector) your speedvalue might just be too high

[teal viper]

Did you even read my message? It needs to from 0 to 1. If it's above 1 it's gonna be the same as 1.

[teal viper]

This is incorrect way to lerp.

[lavish roost]

it will never reach above 1 though

[knotty gust]

how would you go about creating a checkpoint system similar to the one present in games like doom(i essentially need the map to be loaded to the same state it was in when a checkpoint was passed)

[teal viper]

They are setting it to values above 1.

[teal viper]

You need to implement saving/loading system and then combine it with triggers in the scene to trigger saves.

[lavish roost]

do you mean in my script

[robust condor]

@teal viperOkay, how to zoom faster than 1?

[knotty gust]

saving/loading the map? ive implemented that type of system for the player but i cant figure out how to do it for the map

[teal viper]

No. It was a response to Zyme.
Your script still does linear interpolation incorrectly though.

[teal viper]

You seem to not be listening.
How do you think lerp works?

[knotty gust]

ive tried saving the data for the triggers in a dontdestroyonload object but then the address for the triggers gets changed when the map reloads

[lavish roost]

thats not possible

but 1 is already insanely fast so theres probably something wrong in your setup

[robust condor]

@teal viperSo I cant have a fast and smooth zoom with lerp

What should I use instead?

[teal viper]

Yes. You need to save all the state that you want to save. And I don't get what you mean by saving data for the triggers and why that would matter.

[teal viper]

Yes you can. Can you answer my previous question? Tell me how lerp works.

[knotty gust]

i meant basically what you said by saving state, but after i save state how would i load these changes back into the level when the scenes loaded again?

[teal viper]

After loading the scene, check if there is any saved data to be loaded, if there is, load it and adjust your scene accordingly. If it means spawning enemies at exact locations in certain states, do that. If it means repositioning the player and adjusting it's ammo, health and other stuff do that as well.

[knotty gust]

when im saving the data how would i load it back into the level if the scene is reloaded, when ive tried loading the saved data back in i would get null references.

i tried having code that would add anything that would need to have its state saved to a list in a dontdestroyonload level manager but since everything was loaded again any references it had would be gone

[teal viper]

It would need to be saved to a file or stored in a place unaffected by scene unload(like DDOL or static fields)

[teal viper]

You don't save references. Consider that all of the objects in a reload scenes are entirely different objects.

Basically, you save plain data and then use it to recreate the state(create any new instances of needed). If you need to get a reference to an existing object for some reason, you could save it's I'd and get it by the Id at loading time.

[knotty gust]

okay that makes sense i was just wondering what format i would be saving it into

so it could be read after

[teal viper]

Json or binary if that's what you're asking. Xml is also an option I guess.

[lavish roost]

can someone recommend me a book or video series to learn about clean coding especially game code?

things like when to use interfaces, recursive methods, structs etc?

[knotty gust]

i mean like what variables would be used and how it would be set up to take in the data from the files and make something from it

like if i didnt want a barrel to reload

after its destroyed would a new line be created in a file with a copy of its id and the bool thats triggered be sent to the file

and that be used to recreate state?

[teal viper]

Then you save it's state as destroyed:

public class objectState
{
    int objectId;
    int onjectState; // 0 for destroyed
}

Then, when loading the data you get the object by ID and if it needs to be destroyed, you destroy it. The example I provided is very plain and real code might need to be a lot more complex than that, but the idea is the same.

[knotty gust]

ahhh yeah that should be fine thank you

just to make sure that would be present in the script of the object and not be its own class right?

[teal viper]

It can be either. It depends on how your loading system works. Usually, you'd serialize/deserialize a plain class like that with JsonUtility or something.

When you're saving, you could iterate all the savable objects and call something like:

ObjectState objectSaveState = savableObject.GetSaveData();
string saveString = JsonUtility.ToJson(objectSaveState);
//Write the string to file or combine it with other save data

[knotty gust]

ight i see what you mean thanks

[steep shoal]

!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.

[knotty gust]

for the objectIDs here though, when loading these back in how would you go about comparing the ids to objects in the scene.

[teal viper]

You could keep the objects in the scene that need saving/loading in a dictionary where the ID is the key. Or if the Id is simply a number from 0, then they could just be in a list/array. Then use the Id as the index.

[knotty gust]

ohhhh

[teal viper]

In a GameManqger/SaveManager or something.

[knotty gust]

so i would have the data loaded to the level manager

the dictionary would be on the level

and on load the data would be transferred to the level and state would be set then?

[teal viper]

Sounds about right.

[knotty gust]

thank you man

was stuck on that for a few days

[teal viper]

Well, saving systems can get pretty advanced, so it's not an easy topic for beginners.

[true pasture]

im not familiar with enums so how do I reference the enum from another script. myType is the enum variable on the stats script. im trying to check if the type is Player or Enemy

im trying to acess it from the myStats script but can't seem to figure it out

[teal viper]

== EnumType.Value

[true pasture]

oh wtf, i swear i tried that

thanks

[supple wasp]

I don't know why I get 2 errors. Can someone help me? I'm trying to do the SlowMotion when I press the V key and this comes up.

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the console errors

[spring skiff]

wow, "Application.Quit();" doesent work anymore in the latest 2023.2.3f1 version.

Hello dear player,
please press ALT+F4 in the future because exiting the game via Exit button will no longer supported anymore.

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.ienumerator?view=net-8.0

[north kiln]

and have you added the namespace?

Just use your IDE to add it via its suggestions

[ivory bobcat]

Are you testing this from the Editor or the application?

[spring skiff]

I am testing the uploaded depot on Steam.

[ivory bobcat]

What platform?

[spring skiff]

Windows x64

[ivory bobcat]

Not sure. Docs say it's perfectly fine outside of the Editor and with exclusion of iOS.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application.Quit.html

[north kiln]

There's nothing in the issuetracker about it

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you've got something else going on.

[spring skiff]

I did not touched anything since Unity 2021 and it worked everything fine there. Then I updated to the 2022LTS and to the latest 2023f1 and now the exit button doesent work anymore.
LIke I was known it earlier on the linux build of Unity 2021.

[north kiln]

Well, check for a borked button, an exception occurring before your quit call, returning false in wantsToQuit

If none of those, test it in a blank project and report a bug

[vale karma]

I have been watching and kind of blindly following code i dont really understand. Is there something im doing wrong in the learning process?

[teal viper]

Yes. The moment you realize you don't understand a line of code, stop there and research it until you understand it.

[north kiln]

Yeah, the blindly following

[vale karma]

im familiar with most basic things in unity, and the simple code and syntax, but when it comes to using any of it i suck

[vale karma]

ill try that method

[spring skiff]

Well, I made a fresh new project with just a exit button and quiting worked just fine, but I also made a print("ApplicationQuit was Executed."); over my Application.Quit in my Main project and see atleast in the Unity Editor console, my Code does reach it.

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.XR.Management;


public class ExitGame : MonoBehaviour
{
    private AudioSource audiosource;
    private bool beendenaktiv = false;

    private void Start()
    {
        audiosource = GameObject.Find("snd_Buttonclick_Ausgabe").GetComponent<AudioSource>();
    }
    public void StartTheEnd()
    {
        audiosource.clip = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("click_mainmenu");
        audiosource.Play();

        beendenaktiv = true;
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        //Solange die AudioSource eine .ogg abspielt, wird die Anwendung nicht beendet:
        if (!audiosource.isPlaying && beendenaktiv == true)
        {
            // Das beenden von XR hat zu folge beim beenden des Spieles, das der Standard VR Home
            // geladen wird und die VR Brille nicht stuck ist!
            if (XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader != null)
            {
                XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader.Stop();
                XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader.Deinitialize();
                Debug.Log("XR also stopped by Quiting Game!");
            }


            beendenaktiv = false;

            print("ApplicationQuit was executed.");
            Application.Quit();
        }
    }
}

[north kiln]

Does it hit it in the build though

[vale karma]

it wont exit in unity, if you run the game as an application it should execute whatevers there

[spring skiff]

I think so?
Atleast the console says that Apllication.Quit does get reached by pressing the button. so why not in the build?

[spring skiff]

It wont exit, but it will reach the print

[north kiln]

so why not in the build?
I don't know, that's why you need to test

[vale karma]

go to build settings and see if all the scenes are added.

[north kiln]

You've got to drop any assumptions you have to figure out where things are breaking

[teal viper]

One important element of understanding the code is answering the question "what does it do in the context of the whole algorithm?" And "why this code and not different? What does it contribute to the whole program?"

[vale karma]

yea, im thinking im just not seeing the code enough, like school you study one thing multiple times, but trying to build the smallest of games is difficult bc im doing everything in one go

[teal viper]

Yep. You should slow down and break down your code.

[spring skiff]

OK I did.
Its all the XR stuff thats keeping the game away from quiting.

            /*if (XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader != null)
            {
                XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader.Stop();
                XRGeneralSettings.Instance.Manager.activeLoader.Deinitialize();
                Debug.Log("XR also stopped by Quiting Game!");
            }*/

after I commented it out, quiting was now working.

[vale karma]

what kinda games should i look to make to start out? i made flappy bird, cubonics, and a million other attempts at harder games.

oh, pong as well

[teal viper]

Maybe instead of working on a new game, go back to these projects and try to implement some changes.

[vale karma]

good idea, ill try that now

[tender breach]

How do I make an array to make an object a random color?

[summer stump]

Color[] or Color32[]
For the former, get three random values between 0 and 1 (probably between .1 and .9 to avoid white and black)
For the latter, three values between 0 and 255

[tender breach]

But how do I make the sprite the color I want?

[ivory bobcat]

Since this is the programming channel, I'll only target the programming aspect of game development.
How do you feel about C#. It'll be great if you're comfortable with Procedural and Object Oriented Programming.
Have you worked with other libraries/frameworks before? Most would likely introduce you to patterns of subscribing-to/implementing callbacks and whatnot.
If you're fine with the two above, the remainder of what you'd learn from tutorials would mostly be about how specific tasks are approached and interacting with a particular types.

[polar acorn]

.color =

[summer stump]

Then don't do it randomly I guess. If you mean a pallette, then just change the colors in the array. Get a random index from it

[tender breach]

What do I put before the .color?