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[novel shoal]

so i have to make it true when i declare it?

[paper plaza]

[SerializeField] private GameObject interactable;
[SerializeField] private GameObject hittable;

Do i do like this? Or is this bad

[languid spire]

no, just make it true at the start of Start

[paper plaza]

and like i try to get the component

[timber tide]

[SerializeField] Item item; //works
[SerializeField] IInteractable item; //does not```

[polar acorn]

Yes. After the coroutine has ended

[paper plaza]

But i have to attach this script to multiple gameobjects, like zombies, items, not only items.

[timber tide]

Don't serialize by gameobject type. You want to serialize by the actual type (the primary object)

[novel shoal]

ty

[paper plaza]

So what if i make a class by the name of "Things" and zombie class and item class inheritance from it.
So i serialize field like this: [SerializeField] Things interactable;
[SerializeField] Things hittable;

so i can attach a zombie or an item

is it good?

[paper rover]

I'm pretty new to coroutines, I'm trying to fade out all wall pieces at once but this does it slowly one at a time. Is there a way to make it so it fades them all out at the same time?

Maybe the yield is in the wrong place?

[wintry quarry]

well look how you're iterating. You're going through one wall at a time and fading each one in turn

[tough lagoon]

I wouldn't call it things, as that doesn't really describe it well

[paper plaza]

it was an example

[paper rover]

How should i fix this?

[tough lagoon]

OK In that example then, I'd say not good.

[wintry quarry]

you want something like:

float alpha = 1;
while (alpha > 0) {
  alpha -= Time.deltaTIme * speed;

  foreach (GameObject wall in walls) {
    // set the alpha of each wall to the curernt alpha
  }

  // wait one frame
  yield return null;
}```
see how the loops are switched?

[timber tide]

Right, you'd want to stick to inheritance in this case for what you're asking. Interfaces for the most part should work similarly, but that support is through serialize references because you still need to be explicit about the type.

[paper rover]

ahh i see, ill try that out

[paper plaza]

how should i name it?

[tough lagoon]

Inheritance is good, and you can give them sub references to specific data stacks. Serializing all of that is AOK.

But your base class should make sense to someone without drilling into deeper context.

So InteractableBase and using that for doors, switches, chests etc makes sense. NPCBase would likewise do the same for NPCs. They could also derive one later deeper if you wanted common overlap.

The problem with Things is it isn't clear what it is or is to be used for. Is it used for UI? That's a thing. Input? That's a thing too. Is it the top or bottom of an inheritance stack? Anything that leads you to automatically answering those questions is good in practice.

That said, using inheritance and serializing it is perfect good in this case (imho).

[paper plaza]

ooh okay, now i understand, thank you

[lavish terrace]

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

public class PlayerEquipment : MonoBehaviour
{
    public PlayerScript PlayerScript;
    public Animator HelmetAnimator;
    public List<SpriteRenderer> EquipmentSprites = new List<SpriteRenderer>();
    public List<RewardScriptableObjects> Equipment = new List<RewardScriptableObjects>();
    public SerializableDictionary<Stat, float> Stats = new SerializableDictionary<Stat, float>();

    public void Start()
    {
        SetStats();
    }

    [ContextMenu("Generate Stat")]
    private void GenerateStat()
    {
        Stats.Add(Stat.Damage, 0);
        Stats.Add(Stat.Health, 0);
        Stats.Add(Stat.Speed, 0);
    }
    public enum Stat
    {
        Damage, Health, Speed,
    }

    public void SetStats()
    {
        SetStat(PlayerScript.Damage, 0);
        SetStat(PlayerScript.HealthBar.MaxHealth,1);
    }

    void SetStat(float Stat, float StatNum)
    {
        Stat = Stats[0];
        int EquipmentNum = 0;
        foreach (RewardScriptableObjects EquipmentPiece in Equipment)
        {
            if (Equipment[EquipmentNum] != null)
            {
                Stat += Equipment[EquipmentNum].Stats[1];
                EquipmentNum += 1;
            }
            else
            {
                EquipmentNum += 1;
            }
        }
    }
}

Stat += Equipment[EquipmentNum].Stats[1];

.Stats accepts 0 but doesnt accept 1 for some reason

[timber tide]

Are you ever calling GenerateStat

[gaunt ice]

btw you should rename your variable

public PlayerScript PlayerScript;

[terse raven]

Hi peeps, I want to get a position of my player in my enemy script so it can taregt the player. whats the best method to get the players position?

[gaunt ice]

it can make your script failed to compile if you are trying to access static variable in future eg singleton

[paper plaza]

[SerializeField] private GameObject interactable;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject hittable;
    private void Player_OnSelectedInteractableChanged(object sender, ThirdPersonMovement.OnSelectedInteractableHittableChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!interactable.TryGetComponent<IInteractable>(out IInteractable interact)) return;
        if (e.selectedInteractable == interact)
        {
            ShowInteractable();
        }
        else
        {
            HideInteractable();
        }
    }

    private void Player_OnSelectedHittableChanged(object sender, ThirdPersonMovement.OnSelectedInteractableHittableChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (!interactable.TryGetComponent<IHittable>(out IHittable hit)) return;
        if (e.selectedHittable == hit)
        {
            ShowHittable();
        }
        else
        {
            HideHittable();
        }
    }

I did something like this

because i want the deadbody of the enemy to make show up a canvas when the interact ray cast is touching an Interactable.

[lavish terrace]

yes but not through code tho

and btw is that from tranformice ?

[paper rover]

Works perfectly, thanks boss. you're a god amongst men

[timber tide]

you can't access the indices of a dictionary if you've not created that many entries, so make sure you're appending the values first. Also ye

[lavish terrace]

called the method, still getting the error. also u got my respect

[timber tide]

no wait you're accessing a dictionary by the keyvalue of a integer

ok wait you're accessing it wrong

Your keys are references it seems actually looks like a enum

[lavish terrace]

come again ?

i need to make it into an int so i can do a loop of some kind

[timber tide]

What type is Stat

[lavish terrace]

public enum Stat
{
Damage, Health, Speed,
}

public SerializableDictionary<Stat, float> Stats = new SerializableDictionary<Stat, float>();

[timber tide]

ok right why I'm confused

enums are technically integers, but you want to be accessing by the enum type

[gaunt ice]

the key is enum not integer, safety checking will block you
btw why you dont use an array to store the data?

[lavish terrace]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[timber tide]

I forget if you can directly access the kvp by index, but you need to foreach it

assuming you want to do it how you're doing it

[lavish terrace]

hold up

im securing the solution

[gaunt ice]

public float[] values
float x=values[(int)SomeEnum];

[timber tide]

ok right, you can iterate over a c# dictionary but through foreach iteration

same with hashset surprisingly

[gaunt ice]

void SetStat(float Stat, float StatNum){
    Stat = Stats[0];
    int EquipmentNum = 0;
    foreach (RewardScriptableObjects EquipmentPiece in Equipment){
        if (Equipment[EquipmentNum] != null){
            Stat += Equipment[EquipmentNum].Stats[1];
            EquipmentNum += 1;
        }
        else{
            EquipmentNum += 1;
        }
    }
}
```i wonder what it is trying to do, have you clipped the code?

[lavish terrace]

ok hear me out

i got a list which has a scriptableobject

each scriptableobject has a dictionary of stats

enum, float

i need to add the stat.damage ( lets say 10 damage ) to the player base Damage

player also has a dictionary of the same type

[languid spire]

you miss the point your foreach gives you EquipmentPiece but then you go and use Equipment[EquipmentNum] for exatly the same thinhg

[queen adder]

send a code (with how you think it would look like) than explaining what you want to happen

[gaunt ice]

just to remain you that

public void Set(float a){
  a=10;
}

float b=0;
Set(b);
Debug.Log(b);//b is still 0

[timber tide]

First fix up the params such that

void SetStat(Stat stat, float statNum)

If you're going to continue using enum with dictionary

[lavish terrace]

public void SetStats()
    {
        // Setting Stats for the player
        SetStat(PlayerScript.Damage, Stat.Damage, RewardScriptableObjects.Stat.Damage); 
        SetStat(PlayerScript.HealthBar.MaxHealth, Stat.Health, RewardScriptableObjects.Stat.Health);
        SetStat(PlayerScript.moveSpeed, Stat.Speed, RewardScriptableObjects.Stat.Speed);
    }

    void SetStat(float Stat, Stat PlayerStat, RewardScriptableObjects.Stat StatType)
    {
        Stat = Stats[PlayerStat]; // first set basic stat
        int EquipmentNum = 0;       // for the loop
        foreach (RewardScriptableObjects EquipmentPiece in Equipment)
        {
            if (Equipment[EquipmentNum] != null) // check if item is equipped 
            {
                // equipped = give item stat to player stat (adding up)
                Stat += Equipment[EquipmentNum].Stats[StatType];
                EquipmentNum += 1;
            }
            else
            {
                EquipmentNum += 1;
            }
        }
    }

[gaunt ice]

you can debug.log to see if the player damage got changed
again please rename your variables....

[lavish terrace]

ok gimme a sec

[short hazel]

Stat = Stats[PlayerStat] - this overwrites the value of your float Stat parameter (those should be in camelCase, not PascalCase), so the parameter itself is not needed

[timber tide]

it's also a value type which you aren't returning so there's no actual usage of it in this code

[timber tide]

which refer to ^

[short hazel]

Yeah I think they're mistakingly thinking that value types are passed by reference

[lavish terrace]

my brain is lost

too much information

the stat is updated

[timber tide]

Use this param type and nothing more

[lavish terrace]

however the playerstat isnt

[timber tide]

figure it out from that

[lavish terrace]

good point

sorry guys im new

[timber tide]

all good

[lavish terrace]

appreciate all the help

[graceful citrus]

how would i go about implementing a compass to point in the direction of a gameobject? i thought it sounded simple but im realising i don't know what the most effective way to do it would be

[queen adder]

can someone help me with my code i am getting this error: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
but i cant find anything wrong
here is the part that the error says its in:
private void Attack()
{
Collider2D[] hitEnemies = Physics2D.OverlapCircleAll(attackPoint.position, attackRange, enemyLayers);

foreach (Collider2D enemy in hitEnemies)
{
    enemy.GetComponent<Enemy>().TakeDamage(attackDamage);
}

}

[gilded pumice]

https://paste.ofcode.org/36mad2FcwkuU72qvdLtHxnN Hey all, I'm trying to make a timer that counts down (like an ability cd) that displays on the screen. My plan was to put the code in the game manager script, access it in my player controller script, assign it to an IEnumerator and call it when a Input key is used. It's the final method in this shared code that is giving me the issue. It wants me to pass a argument to the method and I don't want to because I can't do anything with it. If I swap out the variable "timeLeft" for the new argument, it doesn't work because I can't call that argument outside the method to display it on the screen (line 20 wouldn't be able to access it), I've tried thinking about rearranging the logic to be able to use an argument and I come up with nothing. I assume I'm going about the entire process wrong. Been sitting here for almost 2 hours and google hasn't helped, everything is adjacent to what I'm trying to do.

So I tried public void AbilityCooldown(float nothing)
{
if(timeLeft > nothing)
{
timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
phaseText.text = "Phase Cooldown " + timeLeft;
}
}

}

and set the argument to 0, it starts the countdown for a few milliseconds and then stops the countdown

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I want someone to explain me what's the difference between dynamic bool and static parameters?

On my inspector, I see dynamic bool and static parameters when I want to use a specific method from a class.

That's what I mean

[graceful citrus]

you forgot to assign objects to your code. you've added the script but not told it what the variables are

lol

[short hazel]

Take for example an Input Field. That has an On Value Changed event you can bind directly from the Inspector.
If you select from the Dynamic section, then you can use methods that accept a single string parameter. When the event is raised by the Input Field itself, the new value is passed to that method parameter and you can use it.
If you don't select Dynamic, then a field appears where you can provide a constant value to pass to the method, from the Inspector directly

[west sonnet]

I'm making a 2D shooter and I'm trying to get the triangle to follow my mouse, but it's following it from it's side? Can anyone help please. I want to the tip of the triangle to point towards my mouse

This is my code

[river roost]

transform.right = targetPosition - transform.position should work no?

On the needle. Although you have to remove the y

[short hazel]

Hah, same solution twice

[west sonnet]

This?

[rich adder]

yeah

[short hazel]

You probably just need transform.right = dir where dir is the direction from the player to the mouse (world coords)

[rich adder]

make sure the needle still matches when putting it in Local Pivot mode

[west sonnet]

Ahh, it's opposite in Local Pivot. How can I change it?#

[rich adder]

make a proper empty gameobject and parent needle graphics as child. Rotate empty parent

[west sonnet]

I still have the same issue though, the needle isn't facing my mouse 😦

[rich adder]

did you fix the line of code too and where did you put script ?

[west sonnet]

This is my code. Is there anything I should change?

And I got what you mean now. I should add my script to the Empty, not the needle

[rich adder]

after is fixed yeah you can just do transform.right = dir

[west sonnet]

I'm not sure what you mean

[prisma silo]

How do I choose a random game object from the scene with the same tag

For example selecting a random enemy from the scene

[rich adder]

put them in array and pick random index

[west sonnet]

Do you mean I add this to the bottom of my code?

[short hazel]

No, it replaces a good part of it

All the trigonometry you have here (Atan2) is from a very popular tutorial and is far from the easiest and simplest solution

So, taking your last screenshot, it will replace lines 17 and 18

[west sonnet]

So, I should replace those lines with: transform.right = mousePos;

right?

[short hazel]

I'd also avoid using "magic numbers" like 5.23f because as soon as you move the camera on Z, it'll break

[short hazel]

No, you need to compute a direction vector from object position to mouse position

(mousePos - objectPos).normalized if you want to do it cleanly. Normalizing makes sure the length of the vector is equal to 1

Making it a direction vector

[gilded pumice]

Can anyone help me tweak this correctly? When I call this method I'm expecting to see timeLeft decrement by 1 per second until it hits 0 (value I've passed to the nothing argument) but instead it just instantly jumps to a near zero decimal number instantly when called.

public void AbilityCooldown(float nothing)
{
while(timeLeft > nothing)
{
timeLeft -= Time.deltaTime;
phaseText.text = "Phase Cooldown " + timeLeft;
}
}

[west sonnet]

I don't understand how I can do that

[short hazel]

I wrote the code, literally

[short hazel]

You have to put the result into a variable, and use that

[west sonnet]

Okay

[short hazel]

This might freeze your game if you pass the wrong value to this method!
Use a coroutine instead

[gilded pumice]

I did, sorry let me paste both code using paste of code link

[west sonnet]

This my code now

But now it's not following my mouse at all

[short hazel]

You don't need lines 14-15

This screws with the direction calculation

Basically it was the "long form" of creating a direction vector

[west sonnet]

Okay, I've removed lines 14-15, but I still get this weird movement when the mouse is on the left side of the player

[gilded pumice]

Game Manager that has the method: https://paste.ofcode.org/VSCi6UUY6A8HyBRYydEVpb
Player Controller that uses the method: https://paste.ofcode.org/gm9aX6agysTU4XN3Fn3LF9

@short hazel this is how I've tried to implement it, this is my first day with these concepts so I'm sure its something simple and easily missed by me

[short hazel]

That's physics. Your object is colliding with the ground and glitching out

[west sonnet]

Could you give me some guidance on how to do that please?

[short hazel]

No your code is correct

[west sonnet]

But my gun doesn't have a collider attached to it and it also happens when the player is in mid air

[short hazel]

As long as both objects are in the same space, the direction will be correct. I've done both in the past (all world, all screen, even all viewport) and they worked correctly

[short hazel]

There's some position changes going on here then, it's not related to the code that rotates the object

Are you sure there's no collider, even on the child objects?

[west sonnet]

The gun is parented to an empty which is parented to the player. Only the player has a collider

Also, should my Z rotation value be changing when rotating the gun?

[short hazel]

Only Z should be rotating

[slender sinew]

shouldn't you set the mousePos.z to 0? not 5?

if the direction calculated is Vector3, it will affect the cast to Vector2 after (if the direction is not actually in 2D space)

[west sonnet]

They are all rotating

[short hazel]

If other axes change, then you've screwed up with the magic numbers and they're the ones making the calculation fail

[west sonnet]

Even with " mousePos.z = 0f " , the issue happens

[short hazel]

Basically line 11 should be removed, and to be extremely safe dir.z should be set to 0 prior to feeding it to transform.right, so the vector is "flat on the screen"

[west sonnet]

Yesssss, it's working now!

Thank you so much everyone 🙂

Wait, spoke to soon

When I turn, the needle turns and the direction becomes inverted

So the back of the needle is facing my mouse instead of the front

[short hazel]

How are you flipping the player when you need it to face left?

Setting the scale to -1 will cause that issue, because every child will also be flipped

[west sonnet]

ahh yeah, I'm setting the LocalScale to -1

[rich adder]

you should rotate 180

instead. of scale

[short hazel]

Or just flip the sprite

renderer.flipX = true / false

[rich adder]

yeah i prefer avoiding that, since it would be the player transform.right incorrect after

[short hazel]

No it would be correct because nothing on the object has changed

Except for some display setting

[west sonnet]

Why isn't it letting me do this? I'm trying to rotate it 180

[rich adder]

player would be facing left but the transform.right is still facing right

[short hazel]

Yeah they want to aim the gun to the mouse independently of the player rotation

[rich adder]

.rotation is quaternion only goes (0-1) never directly change those. also you cannot modify the single property like that

you would need to do transform.localRotation = quaternion.euler

[ruby barn]

Hey, what would be the best way to check if a new spawned room spawned in another room?
my room structure looks like this:
BiggerRoom
-> Floor
-> Floor 1
-> ...
-> Walls
-> ...

[rich adder]

overlapbox

[west sonnet]

I'm confused as to what I do now

[rich adder]

wdym

[west sonnet]

Oh wait, my bad. I was changing the Quaternion.Euler results and it was flipping the entire world

Thank you for the help it's working now! 🙂

[ruby barn]

took the script from the docs but each single part that build the room triggeres each other

[gilded pumice]

Game Manager that has the method: https://paste.ofcode.org/VSCi6UUY6A8HyBRYydEVpb
Player Controller that uses the method: https://paste.ofcode.org/gm9aX6agysTU4XN3Fn3LF9

been stuck here for awhile now. I think what is happening is the Time.deltaTime isn't working maybe because it's outside the update method. The timer goes from 10 to near 0 instantly. Is anyone able to identify the problem? I'm using a coroutine but doesn't seem to help anything

[rich adder]

are you trying to avoid spawning room in the same spot /

[ruby barn]

this does trigger the hit each second multiple times in console

[summer stump]

How complex are these shapes? Could it be represented by a grid so you could just check if an index is null or not?

[ruby barn]

only basic so far, no real complex shapes. currently thinking about just doing box colliders on the prefabs but i dont know if thats good on long term

goal is to build a modular procedual dungeon generation. Done it with grids, now i want to try this out but i need a way to detect if they collide or spawn on the same spot

[queen adder]

Any ideas why this is consistently returning false?

I've checked and the position is accurate and the layers are correct

[timber tide]

Try debugging the minimal amount of parameters

then work your way up

[queen adder]

I've tried and I'm out of ideas

I will try drawing a gizmo on it to verify 100% its not the position

Position is perfect

[timber tide]

Strange, I've actually not tried CheckSphere, but perhaps trying SphereCast OverlapSphere* instead

otherwise I could only guess it's a collider issue if you're not defining a layer mask

[queen adder]

Oh I fixed it, it was the way I added it to the editor GUI wasn't proprely translating the layer numbers

I just put it on a different script and grabbed a reference. Works fine

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! How to set my current resolution to my default pc resolution on my game in Start()?

I am making now resolution settings and when I am entering the game I don't see my current resolution there and I see another resolution I have in my dropdown list.

I did something like that!

{
    // Every variable or initialization that has to happen when the game starts in here!
    Screen.SetResolution(currentResolution.width, currentResolution.height, Screen.fullScreen);
    resolutions = Screen.resolutions;
    filteredResolutions = new List<Resolution>();

    resolutionDropdown.ClearOptions();
    currentRefreshRate = Screen.currentResolution.refreshRate;

    for (int i = 0; i <resolutions.Length; i++)
    {
        if (resolutions[i].refreshRate == currentRefreshRate)
        {
            filteredResolutions.Add(resolutions[i]);
        }
    }

    List<string> options = new List<string>();

    for (int i = 0; i < filteredResolutions.Count; i++)
    {
        string resolutionOption = filteredResolutions[i].width + "x" + filteredResolutions[i].height + " " + filteredResolutions[i].refreshRate + "Hz";
        options.Add(resolutionOption);

        if (filteredResolutions[i].width == Screen.width & filteredResolutions[i].height == Screen.height)
        {
            currentResolutionIndex = i;
        }
    }

    resolutionDropdown.AddOptions(options);
    resolutionDropdown.value = currentResolutionIndex;
    resolutionDropdown.RefreshShownValue();

I have also an error here

UnityException: get_currentResolution is not allowed to be called from a MonoBehaviour constructor (or instance field initializer), call it in Awake or Start instead. Called from MonoBehaviour 'SettingsManager'

[rich adder]

it says how to fix

you have to call it from inside a function

[sage mirage]

Yeah!

@rich adder What can you say about my issue with resolution?

I have to set my current resolution when entering the game so in start() I have to do something.

What I did was that check it out:

Screen.SetResolution(currentResolution.width, currentResolution.height, Screen.fullScreen);

That's what I did in start method like you see in the code above

[rich adder]

whats the issue

[sage mirage]

I fixed it right now anyway I just had to set my screen current resolution in start method like I did in code and that's all for one reason I had that error because I declare that Resolution currentResolution = Screen.currentResolution before Start method.

[rich adder]

yeah thats what error saying you cant run method while declaring var

[green island]

Vector3 pos = new Vector3(370,-25-(history.Count * 50),0);
Debug.Log(pos);
GameObject prf = Instantiate(messagePrf, Vector3.zero, Quaternion.identity, contentTransform.transform);
prf.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().text = message;
prf.transform.localPosition = pos;
contentTransform.sizeDelta = new Vector2(contentTransform.sizeDelta.x, contentTransform.sizeDelta.y + 50);

prf.GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>().color = color ?? Color.black;

history.Add(content);``` this is the code for an chat but the messages arent on the right coordinates first one is right on -25 but the second is on -125 but in the console it prints the right coordinates

[rare basin]

you need to use anchoredPosition

for rect transforms

[short hazel]

Or a Vertical Layout Group so it does the placement for you

[green island]

thank you that worked

[valid magnet]

Hi all, I've been following the Cloning WoW series on youtube (from 4 years ago so I can't get support there unfortunately) - and I'm at the stage where I'm trying to control character movement but I'm having some issues - is there somewhere I can get help on this? also willing to pay for the solution

[short hazel]

You can ask here as long as it's about code, provide enough info, and follow the recommendations in #854851968446365696

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[sour fulcrum]

If I have

Level : SciptableObject

and

ExtendedLevel : Level

Is there a easy way to (cast a level / create a new extendedlevel using a level) into an extendedlevel in a way where i don't have to manually re-assign all it's values?

[timber tide]

you don't need to reassign values when you extend

[valid magnet]

I have set up the camera controller so that when i hold left click it 'free looks' around the character - this is working at the correct speeds, but I also have it that when i hold right click it controls the character rotation with the camera - but the PAN (y) for this is moving at a very slow speed (the tilt x is corrcet speed)

[robust condor]

Is this bad?

private void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
{
    if (other.CompareTag("Player") || other.CompareTag("NPC")) {
        if (other.TryGetComponent<Traits>(out Traits traits)) {
            RuntimeAttributeData energy = traits.RuntimeAttributes.Get(CharacterAttributes.energy);
            if (energy.Value <= energy.MaxValue) energy.Value += 0.1f;
        }
    }
}

Do I need to cache TryGetComponent?

[timber tide]

Do you specifically needs the tags

[robust condor]

Probably not if I only check for component

[timber tide]

right, the components themselves can serve to identify group types and behaviors

usually more of a job for interfaces

[valid magnet]

Please let me know what else I should add above to get an answer to my problem ^

[robust condor]

Is there a more performant way than TryGetComponent then?

[timber tide]

That's fine, just make sure the collider object itself limited with components for identity purposes

because basically you do a linear search (I think it's through reflection) through all components on the gameobject

[wild cargo]

I reckon you could use OnTriggerEnter/Exit instead, check the tags and component stuff in the enter method and cache to a collection if it passes those checks. Then OnExit you try getting the component from the collider that exited, then if it passes remove it from the collection

[bright zodiac]

Keep the tag checking, it's more efficient than checking the component everytime (if you have lots of types with collider to check)

[wild cargo]

This is assuming the operation is frequent and you have profiled it and found a bottleneck in performance

[robust condor]

I did use OnTriggerEnter initially and npc.StartSleep() and when it was 100 I made it move out of the collider

[timber tide]

the problem with tag checking is if you have more than a handful of tags

but for what you have there it is probably the quickiest solution if we care about micro performance

[robust condor]

Does the component order in the inspector matter?

Will it hit the transform first?

[bright zodiac]

it checks for the collider bounds not the transform

[robust condor]

TryGetComponent ?

[bright zodiac]

huh?

[robust condor]

He said it's a linear search

So if I have 1000 components that would take longer I presume

[bright zodiac]

if you've 1000 of them, cache it when you spawned them for the 1st time

[timber tide]

im not sure if the ordering on the inspector matters, but it'll search through all components until a component is found

something to test but I wouldnt bet on it

[eternal needle]

The order of that could change if unity wants to change it, so best not to rely on it ever

[bright zodiac]

the order is guaranteed for GetComponents with what you see in inspector

the unordered one is the GetComponentsInChildren

[timber tide]

if they made the tag system a bitwise enum much like layer masks I'd probably use it

[bright zodiac]

why?

[timber tide]

1 operation to check against

[bright zodiac]

tags internally cached, it's super fast

thus they really want us to use it

[timber tide]

yeah but if you're searching if(playertag), if(enemytag)

[warm condor]

Hey, so I got this problem where I have tryed to use a function called AddForce from the rigidbody2d class to add a force when the player suddently changes direction. However, it is not working at all, as if it isin't even there. I have used debug.log to check if maybe the if statment that it is in is not working properly, however, the logic works perfectly fine. I have no idea how to fix this and I need help. Here is the part of the code where I am having an issue with:

{
    if(Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.A) == true && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D) == true && rb.velocityX > walkingSpeed)
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, rb.velocity.y);
        rb.AddForce(new Vector2(rightDirection * forceForSuddentChangeOfDirection, rb.velocity.y));
    }
    else if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.D) == true && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A) == true && -rb.velocityX > walkingSpeed)
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, rb.velocity.y);
        rb.AddForce(new Vector2(leftDirection * forceForSuddentChangeOfDirection, rb.velocity.y));
    }
}```

and here is my whole code

[wild cargo]

So you're saying it never executes the stuff inside the if loops or?

[warm condor]

no the if statment works fine, it is these two lines of code that is not doing what the're supposed to do

rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, rb.velocity.y);
rb.AddForce(new Vector2(rightDirection * forceForSuddentChangeOfDirection, rb.velocity.y));```

and this

        rb.velocity = new Vector2(0, rb.velocity.y);
        rb.AddForce(new Vector2(leftDirection * forceForSuddentChangeOfDirection, rb.velocity.y));

[wild cargo]

Have you debugged "forceForSuddenChangeOfDirection" to see if it's other than 0?

Copy that fast before it'll get deleted for being too long !code

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[warm condor]

do you mean debugging the function to see if it is working? If it is that then yes along with the if statments by adding the debug.log method. It works as intended.

[lusty flax]

I want to Instantiate an object from a prefab that is in my Assets folder. How do I reference this object without connecting it to the script via a public GameObject variable?

[modern plank]

https://paste.ofcode.org/rttykLcch2sYqT62ALEGN2

Hello everyone this code fora dialogue script im using and i wanna ask 2 questions:
1-How do i make that audio starts playing when the dialogue starts and stops playing when all dialogue is done
2- how do i make it that the next line starts immediatly after the first one is done instead of having to press "N" in this example

[wild cargo]

Learn about the Resources folder

[rich adder]

Resources.Load

[formal hawk]

    {        
        
        Vector3 directionToTarget = targetPoint.position - transform.position;
        
        float distanceToTarget = Vector3.Distance(targetPoint.position, transform.position);

        if (distanceToTarget < maxDistance)
        {
            float forceFactor = forceStrength / rb.mass;

            rb.velocity = directionToTarget * forceFactor;
        }
        else
            StopDrag();
    }```

I would like to use AddForce instead of directly changing the velocity, but I don't know how to do it while still having a similiar snappy movement.
Any recommendations?

[robust condor]

I have a component that I need to have default values when I create the object. Do I need to prefab the entire object with the component to save them? What if I have two components with different values and want to decide what to attach to the object? I need to instantiate a prefab as a child?

[rain brook]

In your script when you state the variables use "private int varA = //Set your default value"

Just use a equal sign.

[robust condor]

I want to tune the values in the editor

[rain brook]

Set a target velocity and change how powerful the addforce is compared to how your moving relative to the target velocity.

[true pasture]

dictionaries are mutable but this value is read only for some reason?

im new to dictionaries so i probably am missing something silly

[bold swallow]

How can I perform an action the moment the screen gets touched and only then. I have been trying for 2 hours straight at this point to make it work and I cant. Originally I used the old input system and I had this:

    Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0);
            if(touch.phase == TouchPhase.Began)
            {
                planetToFall = Instantiate(currentPlanet, Spawner.transform);
            }

and then I changed to the new one and wrote this, and Unity keeps crashing everytime I touch the screen

    UnityEngine.InputSystem.TouchPhase phase = touchPressAction.ReadValue<UnityEngine.InputSystem.TouchPhase>();
        if(phase == UnityEngine.InputSystem.TouchPhase.Began)
        {
            planetToFall = Instantiate(currentPlanet, Spawner.transform);
        }

the problem in both cases is that Instantate() runs everyframe instead of one which is not what i want

[rain brook]

If you didn't when you state dictionaries you need to have a = new dictionary after the variable.

[timber tide]

perhaps flag it after you enter the statement and unflag it if state is not Began anymore

[lusty flax]

I'm trying to make an inventory hotbar where the player presses one of the number keys to equip a certain item that they own. When I press the button, however, some of my models are off-center. Is there any easy way to fix this without having to fix some aspects of the model in blender?
I instantiate my models like this:
Instantiate(item.model, itemSpawn);

[slender nymph]

the local variable created in a foreach loop is a copy because KeyValuePair is a struct. iterate over a list of the keys and modify the values using the keys isntead

[wild cargo]

Have you checked the instantiated object to see if it has a local position of zero?

[robust condor]

Is there a way to map strings to scriptableobjects in the inspector? Since you can't use a dictionary

[wild cargo]

If it does have a local pos of zero and it is not where you want it to be, you can parent it to another game object which will work as the center point of that model, then reposition the now child model object to wherever you want

[wild cargo]

Why'd you want to do this? String IDs?

[timber tide]

make structs

[robust condor]

@wild cargoI have scriptable objects in the project and need to create components from them: Traits.SetTraitsWithClass(npc, <scriptableobject>);

[rich adder]

!code

[strong path]

there are already semicolons

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[strong path]

my apologies

[true pasture]

like this? what does .Values actually do I couldnt find it in the docs (I didnt look very hard to be fair)

[strong path]

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

public class Controller : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed = 5f;
    public float mouseSensitivity = 2f;
    public float jumpForce = 5f;

    private Camera playerCamera;
    private CharacterController characterController;
    private float verticalRotation = 0f;
    private float verticalVelocity = 0f;

    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;

        playerCamera = GetComponentInChildren<Camera>();
        characterController = GetComponent<CharacterController>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // Player movement
        float horizontalMovement = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        float verticalMovement = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        Vector3 movement = new Vector3(horizontalMovement, 0f, verticalMovement);
        movement = transform.TransformDirection(movement);
        movement = speed;

        // Jumping
        if (characterController.isGrounded)
        {
            verticalVelocity = -0.5f;

            if (Input.GetButtonDown("Jump"))
            {
                verticalVelocity = jumpForce;
            }
        }

        // Gravity
        verticalVelocity += Physics.gravity.y Time.deltaTime;
        movement.y = verticalVelocity;

        // Mouse look
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity;
        float mouseY = -Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity;

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

        playerCamera.transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(verticalRotation, 0f, 0f);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, mouseX, 0f);

        // Apply movement
        characterController.Move(movement Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

there are already semicolons, but the error is there

[wild cargo]

As Mao said, you should make structs for holding both the scriptable object and the string, then at runtime map it to a dictionary

[north kiln]

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red you need to configure it !ide

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[ruby barn]

is there a way to automatically size a boxcollider around my gameobject ?

[wild cargo]

You can lazily map them using a property, so like

[Serializable]
public struct MyMappingStruct
{
  public string myString;
  public MySO mySO;
}

private Dictionary<string, MySO> _soMappings;

[SerializeField] MyMappingStruct[] _mappings;

private Dictionary<string, MySO> SOMappings {
  get 
  {
    _soMappings ??= _mappings.ToDictionary(m => m.myString, m => m.mySO); // ??= is essentially just "if (someValue != null) then assign it to this value"
    return _soMappings
  }
}

This should give you an idea of the implementation

[robust condor]

@wild cargoStruct doesnt show up in the inspector

[wild cargo]

Use [System.Serializable]

[lusty flax]

I tried both of these and the model is still in the wrong position (the same thing keeps happening). I think this is because of the model's pivot point. What else can I do?

[robust condor]

[System.Serializable]
public struct CharacterClasses {
public ScriptableObject peasant;
public ScriptableObject knight;
}

[wild cargo]

There's no way this approach can fail, have you changed the instantiation target to be the new parent you just made?

[wild cargo]

That does not serialize? It's because you cannot use the default ScriptableObject because what fields would show up? Nothing because there is none in the base (abstract?) implementation

[true pasture]

I dont udnerstand this error. I made a copy of the list before iterating on it. I still keep getting this error though. Not sure how thats possible.

[robust condor]

Okay got it

[wild cargo]

That is not a copy of the dictionary, it is a copy of the dictionary's reference

[polar acorn]

That's not a copy, that's another variable pointing at the same data

[true pasture]

oh, how would I fix the error then?

[wild cargo]

I would attempt to use LINQ's myCommands.ToDictionary() to do a soft copy first

[lusty flax]

the target is this empty

[wild cargo]

I need more context

Like what are the close children/parents of that object?

[polar acorn]

Store the keys of the dictionary in a list using .Keys. This will be a copy, and you can loop over that safely and use that key to modify the dictionary.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2.keys?view=net-8.0

[lusty flax]

Here's the full situation:
This is my code:

void equip(ItemData item)
{
    if (inventory.Contains(item))
    {
        int childCount = itemSpawn.childCount;
        if (childCount > 0)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++)
            {
                Destroy(itemSpawn.GetChild(i).gameObject);
            }
        }
        GameObject newItem = Instantiate(item.model, itemSpawn);
        newItem.transform.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 0, 0);
    }
}

itemSpawn is set to the "Item Spawn" object in the hierarchy below. The object that I'm spawning is a model imported directly from blender as a .fbx file.

[timid quartz]

I am having a weird tilemap instantiation offset problem. I am spawning a chunk of tilemap that is 20 by 20 at vector3.zero and in the inspector, both the grid and the chunk are correctly showing 0,0 for their positions. However, the actual center of the chunk is actually at 1, -1, and the borders start at -9 and go to 11 for the x axis (left to right), and -11, 9 for the y axis (bottom to top). So it seems even though the grid and the tilemap are at position 0,0, they are off by 1, -1 somehow. Anyone have any ideas?

[bold swallow]

There has to be an easy way to do this. What is it, where should I look?

[lusty flax]

up here ⏫

[wild cargo]

I don't think the hierarchy of the instantiation parent matters all that much, what does the prefab's (model's) hierarchy look like?

[robust condor]

@wild cargoActually dont need to use string, can I get a reference to "ScriptableObject peasant" from the array looking up by type instead of looping through it?

[polar acorn]

It's a bit unintuitive, but in order to loop over the children of an object, you can just do:

foreach(Transform child in someObject.transform)

A transform is secretly also a list as far as C# is concerned

[lusty flax]

it's just an imported model

[wild cargo]

Then if you want a custom center point without messing with the pivot in blender, you should make another prefab and nest that model seen in the image into it. This way that new prefab's root object is not the model, and instead the center point of it, so you can move the child (model) freely until the center relative to the model is where you want it to be

[timid quartz]

I am starting to suspect the easy way of "fixing" this is to offset my grid by 1, -1 and calling it a day

[calm coral]

I didn't know that. By doing that child is a Transform of each child game object I am iterating on?

[wild cargo]

Yeah because in "Transform child" the Transform indicates the type of each iteration's "child", which in this case is Transform

[wild cargo]

Also for anyone interested, it prolly gets the list of children by implicitly converting into a list of all children in it when a collection of transforms is expected

[true pasture]

thanks! that error was driving me up a wall.

[verbal dome]

Transform just implements IEnumerable

That's why it works in a foreach

[polar acorn]

Yep. You can consider it working as if there were a function transform.GetListOfChildren() except the GetListOfChildren() is silent. It works like an ordinary foreach using some dark wizardry behind the scenes (Transform actually being an IEnumerable)

[static bay]

I always found that so strange.

some type of transform.children property or transform.GetChildren method would be much cleaner

there's likely some reason for this

[lusty flax]

Thanks! It worked. How would I make this collideable, though? Like, a rigidbody that can move and stuff.

[calm coral]

Yeah, I see this piece of code and it seems it's calling GetChild() with an increasing index

[robust condor]

[Serializable]
public struct CharacterClass
{
    public static ScriptableObject peasant;
    public static ScriptableObject knight;
}

[SerializeField]
CharacterClass[] _characterClasses;

How do I get the reference for peasant in this array?

Something like this but correct syntax:
ScriptableObject so = Array.FindIndex(_characterClasses, c => c == CharacterClass.peasant);

[lusty flax]

I have a model which is an empty with of the actual visible parts of the model parented to it (an empty with many meshes). I want to make this model act like a rigidbody, but how do I do this? Adding a rigidbody to the empty just makes it fall through the floor.

[wintry quarry]

It depends which one you want. The array contains multiple "CharacterClass"s

but generally you get an individual one from the array with an index. e.g.

CharacterClass cc = _characterClasses[5];```
From there you can do whatever you want with it:
```cs
ScriptableObject peasant = cc.peasant;```

I will note a few concerning things here though:

• Your class name should not end with Class. We already know it's a class, that's just noise for the brain.
• Your fields are static which means they're not actually associated with any particular instance of the CharacterClass struct. This means my example above won;'t work but it's also pretty nonsensical for this to be static, though to be honest I don't really understand what you're trying to accomplish with these fields

[robust condor]

Class is a reference to the ingame class, not C# class

[wintry quarry]

• Why are you using ScriptableObject as your reference type for those variables instead of your actual ScriptableObject derived class?

[robust condor]

But I dont want to find by hard index, instead lookup by type

[wintry quarry]

then you want a Dictionary, not an array

[robust condor]

Yeah but inspector doesn't work with dictionary

[wintry quarry]

You can put them in the inspector with an array and then populate a dictionary from the array at runtime in Awake

to get the best of both worlds

REgardless I have no idea what's going on with this:

[Serializable]
public struct CharacterClass
{
    public static ScriptableObject peasant;
    public static ScriptableObject knight;
}```
Why have a struct with nothing except a couple of static fields?

The struct is useless at that point since it holds no data

[north kiln]

it certainly isn't serializable!

[robust condor]

To populate in the inspector

[true pasture]

Is there a way to make a clone of a key, so I can have multiple of (technically the same key) in a dictionary. I know its hacky but It would instantly solve my problem. Like im adding 2 of the same CommandSO into the dictionary here and Is there a way via code like in my else statement?

[wintry quarry]

but there's no data in the struct so there's nothing to populate

the static fields don't count

[wintry quarry]

A Dictionary cannot have duplicate keys

If you want multiple things in the dictionary for a single key, make it a Dictionary<KeyType, List<ValueType>>

Or use a different key that's unique

[warm condor]

can someone help me with this please

[wintry quarry]

what is rb.velocityX 🤔 that's not a thing. Did you retype this?

[warm condor]

rb is a refrence to the rigidbody2d

[wintry quarry]

Yeah I got that part

velocityX is not a property that exists on Rigidbody2D

this should be a compile error

[warm condor]

really? I have been using it and it gives me the value of the x velocity

[wintry quarry]

show a screenshot of your IDE when you mouse over that

I would expect rb.velocity.x

[robust condor]

@wintry quarrySo essentially I am forced to do it like this?

[Serializable]
public struct CharacterClass
{
    public ScriptableObject peasant;
    public ScriptableObject knight;
}

[SerializeField]
CharacterClass[] _characterClasses;

...
CharacterClass cc = new();
NPCManager.Instance.CreateNPC(cc.peasant);
...
Convert to a dictionary, lookup to get ScriptableObject

[warm condor]

yea or that

[wintry quarry]

Oh good god

in 2023 https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D-velocityX.html

They added that apparently

that is new in 2023, interesting

[wintry quarry]

I don't really understand what you're trying to do

Again why are you using ScriptableObject fields?

nor do I understand this code snippet really.

[robust condor]

Because the assets are SOs

[wintry quarry]

but they're not raw SOs

they're some subclass of ScriptableObject

[warm condor]

so what could be the problem?

[wintry quarry]

so why would you use ScriptableObject instead of the actual concrete type

[wintry quarry]

you'd have to show the rest of your code. If you are setting the velocity directly elsewhere, it will overwrite any forces you add here

Please share it in a paste site

not uploading in discord

[warm condor]

but I already sent it here#💻┃code-beginner message

wait sorry

here

@wintry quarry

[timid quartz]

ok so I have a bunch of tilemap "chunks" which are just sets of 20 by 20 tiles. in prefab mode, it seems like their center point is just... all over the place. what controls what the "center" of a tilemap or prefab is? they are both set to 0,0,0 in terms of position and 1,1,1 for scale (default) and are the same size (20 by 20 tiles)

As you can see they are really simple tilemap prefabs but the pivot point is just all over the place

it means that when I spawn random chunks at -20,-20 to 20,20 it's genuinely just hilarious, these chunks really think they are on some sort of grid somehow

[wintry quarry]

You need to switch this to Pivot

(by pressing Z or from this menu)

then you will see the actual position of your objects

[timid quartz]

that is, I believe, only for moving things around in the scene menu

[wintry quarry]

It's for controlling where the tool handle appears

If you want it to appear at the object's actual pivot/position you set it to Pivot

If you want it to appear at the average of the bounds of all the renderers in the subhierarchy, you put it on Center

[timid quartz]

I re-ran the program with it set to center and as you can see, the origin of the instantiated tilemap chunks is still using its pivot rather than its center.

[wintry quarry]

tthe program is not affected by that

your code will always use the object's pivot

assuming you're talkking about transform.position

[timid quartz]

Ah, let me rephrase, then.... I would love it if the pivot of my prefabs was reset to the center of the prefab. is there a way to set the pivot point to match the center?

[wintry quarry]

By setting it to pivot you can see the object's actual pivot and this will let you better think about things when writing your code

[wintry quarry]

depends what the prefab is made of

[timid quartz]

it's just a tilemap, I posted the full hierarchy/inspector above, it's just 20x20 tiles

[wintry quarry]

in genral you can always add an empty parent object / move the renderer down to a child object. Then move the child object as desired to get it so the parent's pivot is where you want

for a tilemap you would actually repaint tiles

if you want to "change the pivot" for it

otherwise use the workaround with the empty parent

[timid quartz]

each chunk I've saved out has a different and very silly pivot point that, now that I think about it, might actually be the coordinates of the last painted sprite I've painted in that chunk

[wintry quarry]

Yeah it's basically due to how you created your prefabs

you weren't careful about the coordinates you were painting

so you painted different coordinate ranges on each

[timid quartz]

Ah, I see, so you're saying the relative coordinates of the sub-tilemap within the prefab controls the pivot?

[wintry quarry]

Just open one of your prefabs (with tool handle in Pivot mode)

and look at where the tiles are inside the prefab relative to the location of the root prefab object

that's your issue

fix all the prefabs so they are at the same position relative to the prefab root

[timid quartz]

there is only one object - the prefab itself - and it's only got one component - the tilemap. I see what you're getting at, though. I should adjust the tiles within the simulated "grid" so that they start at -10 and end at 10 in both directions and problem solved, since the pivot location is inherited from 0,0 within that sub grid I was painting on. funky stuff!

[wintry quarry]

yes, exactly

painting at the same coordinates in each is what you needed

[timid quartz]

that's quite strange. I suppose I had assumed the relative-to-the-sub-grid location was discarded in favor of the relative-to-the-real-grid location

ah well, as long as it works 😛

thanks!

[wintry quarry]

what's the "real" grid exactly?

[timid quartz]

the grid that I am instantiating the tilemaps onto at runtime

[wintry quarry]

Doesn't each tilemap have its own Grid?

[timid quartz]

look at this, you've saved my project! what a hero! 😛

No, it's one grid, and then the tilemaps go onto it.

I have no idea if this is performant or not but it seemed like the proper way to structure this sort of generation?

[wintry quarry]

But what components on are on those spawned clones? Just Tilemap?

[timid quartz]

just tilemap

[wintry quarry]

interesting. Never tried it that way

[timid quartz]

well and a tilemap renderer

[wintry quarry]

Yeah not sure how that interacts with a parent Grid. I guess it doesn't interact at all?

[timid quartz]

I'm kind of winging it lol, I've done a ton of 3d procedural generation but never 2d. I think the parent grid still controls them the same way that a regularly drawn grid and tilemap works

I assume I am going to have to start culling the tiles eventually for perf reasons but I'm not sure when that "eventually" is

[robust condor]

How can I create an instance of a referenced scriptableobject in the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

Since they're each using their own TIlemap Renderer I assume Unity's frustum culling will kick in automatically

[wintry quarry]

Instantiate will create a copy of anything that derives from UnityEngine.Object, including your SO

[robust condor]

Well, I give up for today

[timber tide]

giving up is not allowed

[turbid quiver]

hello, i’m new to programming, anyone would like to connect with me? i just need some people to talk with

[tough geyser]

hi, i started learning unity and the pathways on the site doesn't feel to be helping, what should i do?

[rich adder]

why is not helping?

[tough geyser]

it s just like showing you a concept game to make

not showing all the functions and classes that u can use

[rich adder]

those are in the documentation

[tough geyser]

yeah, it may help u a little bit

[rich adder]

you have to learn how to read the docs

practice more code if you want to learn code

eg
https://learn.unity.com/project/beginner-gameplay-scripting

[tough geyser]

ty

[queen adder]

I know im making a simple mistake but i cant tell what

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/anihuyobeb.cs

The raycast isnt working for whatever reason? I checked the Z positions theyre both zero. The layer mask parameter is set to bomb in the inspector and the Bomb Gameobject is set to the Bomb layer

[north kiln]

Try drawing it in the scene with Debug.DrawRay (passing a duration); I can't see anything particularly wrong with it

I'd also note that this snake-case naming convention isn't standard in C#

[queen adder]

This worked i completely forgot about gizmos / DrawRay

The raycast was above the bomb hence why it wasnt working

[queen adder]

is there a bool that gets checked when unity is about to destroy everything (for when quitting game/playmode or switching scene)?

[tacit estuary]

For closing the game/play mode, you could use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnApplicationQuit.html. Take a look at the notes towards the bottom depending on the platform you are building to. The closest thing you can do for the second one is to subscribe to the change scene loading events (very bottom of this page https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.html)

[tacit estuary]

Rigidbodies rely on colliders for collisions, not the mesh renderer. Just add a collider to your character and the floor and it should prevent it from falling through

[queen adder]

lemme lemme try

havent seen you since like before haloween though, people do carve you huh

[tacit estuary]

yeah I took a break for awhile 😅, had a bunch of class work to do

[autumn warren]

Nice name

[dark hatch]

so, i have a static file (not inheriting from monobehaviour), and in one of the static functions in it, i want to create a short delay in execution. how can this be achieved?

is having an object with monobehaviour necessary to do this

[wintry quarry]

ultimately you'll need something to orchestrate this delay. A static function on its own cannot have a delay in it directly

look into coroutines or async functions

I guess maybe async can work without a MonoBehaviour? I'm not that familiar with how async works in Unity

[north kiln]

One of async's benefits and downsides is that it's disconnected from Unity's object lifetime

So if you don't want async functions to leak out of scenes or into edit mode you should use a MonoBehaviour's destroyCancellationToken

On coroutines however: You can start coroutines in any class as long as you use StartCoroutine from a MonoBehaviour to tie it to its scheduler

[dark hatch]

hmm okay that helps

[vapid yew]

This is the first time I have written shader code. I am following this tutorial to help wrap my head around it all.

Traditionally, the code on the right of the screenshot was written in a .shader file I believe, however I am using Shader Graph in 2022.3.15f1 and can't seem to find a way to edit the custom function node through a text editor in Unity.

Can anyone help me figure out how I can follow this tutorial and write the shader code?

[eternal needle]

#archived-shaders

[dark hatch]

can the same coroutine have two instances of it run parallely (with different parameters)?

[timber tide]

you can read and set the member data of the object instance, but I'm not sure about the execution ordering. Probably related to when you start them.

[dark hatch]

i just need to make sure both will execute eventually, a frame or two of time delay is irrelevant in my case

[timber tide]

there's no parallel processing with coroutines, they run through the same update cycle as the rest of your code

[dark hatch]

ah, okay

[timber tide]

you can think of them as a standalone mono scripts without the overhead

and the benefit of sleeping them since polling in update is not always warranted when you want to check every 5 seconds or so

[deft salmon]

anyone know a basic playermovement skript i could use

to test in my project

[cosmic dagger]

Unity has starter assets you can use . . .

[deft salmon]

ok

ty

[eternal needle]

yes just StartCoroutine twice and provide whatever params you need, both will run

[scenic urchin]

Gone back to Unity after a long time for a job and got this error in a old project, in my array. Looking the docs, RemoveAt is still a thing, shouldn't this work?

[gaunt ice]

where is the docu?

[keen dew]

Arrays are fixed size, it has never been a thing. Are you looking at List docs?

[scenic urchin]

google hates me

[keen dew]

I think this is the more relevant part:

Note: This is javascript only. C# does not use this feature.

[scenic urchin]

Now that you mentioned yeah I don't remember it being a thing

I gotta ask the me from four years ago what I was doing

[gaunt ice]

there is no such thing in 2023 (2024?) so you need to change it

[keen dew]

If you need to change the collection size at runtime then use List instead

(which does have .RemoveAt)

[scenic urchin]

Thank you guys!

[scarlet shuttle]

i dont understand most of this code, its a third person camera that orbits the player but it doesnt stay behind the player when the player turns, ive been trying to google for a hour and cant figure how to do it

public class ThirdPersonCamera : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Transform playerTransform;  // The playerTransform object to orbit

    public float mouseSensitivity = 150f;

    float yRotation = 0f;

    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;

        yRotation -= mouseY;
        yRotation = Mathf.Clamp(yRotation, -10f, 60f);  // Limit vertical rotation to avoid flipping
        

        // Orbit around the playerTransform
        Quaternion rotation = Quaternion.Euler(yRotation, 0, 0);  // Only rotate around Y and Z axes
        Vector3 negDistance = new Vector3(0.0f, 0.0f, -5.0f);  // Adjust the distance from the playerTransform
        Vector3 position = rotation * negDistance + playerTransform.position;

        transform.rotation = rotation;
        transform.position = position;
    }
}```

[simple sun]

whats the camera parented to?

[scarlet shuttle]

a capsule which is parented to a player, the player is what rotates left and right

[simple sun]

yeah that bad setup, that makes the camera rotate along the player as the player rotates, am i right?

[scarlet shuttle]

it does, but not here cause the code overwrites it

[graceful oar]

I have a simple platformer game with Photon and parrelsync and for some reason when I start the game (only sometimes) some assets randomly disappear even from the scene view. Does anyone have any ideas why that happens please? I dont know how to test it since its literally random

[vast ivy]

could someone help me debug this problem, ive been on it for a while but dont see whats wrong with it.
I have an inventory system but the first slot keeps getting overriden because it thinks the slot is null or empty.
heres my inventorymanager function:

public void AddItemToInventory(GameObject pickedUpObject)
    {
        // Check if the item to add is not null
        if (pickedUpObject != null)
        {
            // Get the Item component from the picked-up object
            Item itemToAdd = pickedUpObject.GetComponent<Item>();

            // Check if the itemToAdd is valid
            if (itemToAdd != null)
            {
                // Iterate through the inventory slots to find the first empty slot
                for (int i = 0; i < inventorySlots.Count; i++)
                {
                    InventorySlot slot = inventorySlots[i];

                    // Check if the slot is empty
                    if (slot.IsEmpty())
                    {
                        // Log the slot index where the item is added
                        Debug.Log("Added item to slot " + i);

                        // Add the item to the empty slot
                        slot.AddItem(itemToAdd);

                        // Update the UI to reflect the changes
                        slot.UpdateUI();

                        // Item added successfully, so return
                        return;
                    }
                }

                // If no empty slots are found, handle as needed (e.g., show a message)
                Debug.Log("Inventory is full or no matching slots.");
            }
            else
            {
                Debug.Log("Picked up object is not an item.");
            }
        }
    }

heres my other functions:

private Item currentItem; // The item currently stored in this slot

public bool IsEmpty()
    {
        return currentItem == null;
    }

I've already checked and the slots are seperated into their own boxes so its not like theres only 1 slot to go into, the index is telling me its only trying to enter the first box, and considering the first slot image keeps getting overriden, it tells me that the IsEmpty function is not working how it should

[gilded pumice]

Guys how do I make Time.deltaTime useable with an int value instead of a float? I can see some solutions like using Math.FloortoInt but even in unity documentation there isn't a great example of how to implement it (do I instantiate a variable with Time.deltaTime?, am I forcing the float number to convert to a int in start method? etc). Here's the code in question: https://paste.ofcode.org/YGpTJHkHZK6sCRJiRRg4gu

code block in question starts at line 59. Any insight would be much appreciated

[wild cargo]

Mathf.(Floor)ToInt() will "floor" (so 6.83 => 6 etc.) the given float value to an integer, so you just put the float value in the function's params and it outputs an int using that formula

No sorry, your timeLeft variable is actually an integer, which means when you subtract Time.deltaTime from it at runtime it'll lead to a compile error

[gilded pumice]

timeLeft is a private float

oh I didn't remove the code I was playing with, mb

yes it throws an error, I was just trying to figure out where to/what to change to int, timeLeft or Time.deltaTime

[wild cargo]

But rhen why even convert 10.0f into an integer at start when you can just make it the default value in the definition, so
private float timeLeft = 10f

[gilded pumice]

I don't want it as a float, because I get a compilation error. If it remains a float, the timer shows like millionths of seconds on the UI and I don't want that

compilation error as int I mean

[wild cargo]

That can be fixed easily by rounding it into whatever decimal place in the UI script you want

The actual value should be kept as a float

[gilded pumice]

ah

[river roost]

If you just want it to show as an int in the UI just do this: ```cs
phaseText.text = $"Phase Cooldown {timeLeft:0}"; // the :0 tells it to display as a whole number, you can also do 0.0 for one decimal or 0.# to only show the decimal when there is one

[wild cargo]

Also, it seems like the bool "spaceCooldown" is never set to false, so line 59's if statement always runs, the else never does

[wild cargo]

This and also {timeLeft:n0} for regional formatting, if needed

[gilded pumice]

it is, I just left out the bottom half of the code to try to cut back on the reading others had to do (didn't figure it had anything to do with my question)

[wild cargo]

Oh alr

[gilded pumice]

is it better practice here to just paste the whole code regardless?

[wild cargo]

I'd just comment the 100 liner out to pseudo code and write what it does rather than copy paste it all

[gilded pumice]

I'm checking this now thanks, and then I have some more research to do to understand it 🙂

[graceful oar]

I have a simple platformer game with Photon and parrelsync and for some reason when I start the game (only sometimes) some assets randomly disappear even from the scene view. Does anyone have any ideas why that happens please? I dont know how to test it since its literally random

[river roost]

#archived-networking

[gilded pumice]

that worked, thanks a ton. Also @wild cargo t thank you for the additional insight

[trail hull]

Hi guys.
I am trying to build a map editor for my game.
I have a 8x8x8 grid, and i'd like to let the user create a cube by moveing the mouse and right click.
I am currently using a Raycast from mouse position, then taking the last raycasted item and create the cube at that position, but that's not what exactly i wanted because if the user wants to spawn a cube on the middle of the grid, this would be impossible because this will never be the last raycasted object.
Do you have any idea on how i can achieve this result?

[ruby python]

I'm sure there would be a better way, but off the top of my head I guess you could do a distance check on the selected 'block' and maybe have the player use the mouse wheel or something to zoom in until the required block is at the same distance as the distance check?

[gaunt ice]

raycast can hit multiple objects and you should introduce some ways so that users can select the exactly position as above comment

[trail hull]

Thank you for your answer!
it may be a solution, but i don't like much the idea of using mulitple actions, it should be kinda fast to draw some cubes so i'd avoid the possibility of scrolling the wheel or pressing a button after moved the mouse and clicked if possible

[trail hull]

Aye, is there any way for mixing let's say the raycast result and the mouse position to get the correct one?

[gaunt ice]

the ray is created by mouse pos so i dont know how you mix them together, or you have already "mixed" them together

[trail hull]

i have not mixed them, it was an idea but i don't know if that makes sense.
I thought the raycast is giving me all the slots aligned with the camera and the mouse, so i may take the mouse world position and find the slot that has the same coord inside the raycasted list, does that make any sense?

[ruby python]

Is your scene 'static' or can the player move the camera around the grid?

[trail hull]

you can move, zoom and rotate

[gaunt ice]

the set of mouse pos in world space (yes "set of", not only a single point) is represented by the ray already

[ruby python]

Okay, well if you're already zooming, my idea would work, you just need to set a 'desired' distance from the camera for the ray to hit (I think), you've got most of what you need already.

[trail hull]

isn't the raycast ignoring the Z axis since i get all the slots looking forward from the camera?

[trail hull]

yeah it would work, and i may go with that, i am just looking if there is a faster way for the user to draw the map instead of scrolling the wheel for every block, let's say an "automatic Z based on position"

[ruby python]

bit of pseudo....

If 'slot' != distance { ignore slot}; type of thing

[teal viper]

This is more of a design question than implementation. How exactly do you want the user to select the desired position?

[gaunt ice]

again the ray can hit multiple objects including the object with larger z
so you must create other mechanisms to choose the exaclty block

ray doesnt ignore any z, but you let the ray ignore it

[ruby python]

Are you giving the player any feeback on which block is selected? (ie, hologram type block that appears)

[trail hull]

I have this 8x8x8 grid that will be invisible on the future.
The user is able to move, rotate and zoom on the grid, basically just like you make on the unity Scene.
I wanted the user to be able to create a Block in the air, so 100% free and not forcing him to create block on top of other blocks just to create a cube in the middle of the grid

[trail hull]

Yup, hologram

[gaunt ice]

i think you dont understand why a mouse position on screen can generate a set of position in world (the ray)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_tracing_(graphics)

[teal viper]

That doesn't make much sense. So you'd prefer the block to be placed exactly in the middle of the grid?

For reference, unity would usually place object on surface of other objects that you drag on to.

[graceful citrus]

        if (Input.GetKey("1"))
        {
            calibration = 1;
        }
        if (Input.GetKey("2"))
        {
            calibration = 2;
        }
        if (Input.GetKey("3"))
        {
            calibration = 3;
        }
        if (Input.GetKey("4"))
        {
            calibration = 4;
        }
        if (Input.GetKey("5"))
        {
            calibration = 5;
        }
        if (Input.GetKey("6"))
        {
            calibration = 6;
        }

how should i optimise this? i see its very unoptimised but i can't figure out an effective way to optimise it

[trail hull]

That's the challenge, curently i am always drawing the cube on the last raycasted position on the grid, but this would not work if the user wants to put a block on the center of the map, because this will never be the last item unless you have filled all the layres behind

[languid spire]

array of keycodes

[gaunt ice]

loop unrolling is already optimized
if you prefer flexible way to write this, use loop

[graceful citrus]

yeah but how

[teal viper]

That's the question: how does the user decide where to place the block? How do you want to let them decide where to place the block?

[graceful citrus]

how would i do that

[teal viper]

*at what depth.

[ruby python]

If I'm understanding correctly, this is the kinda thing you want to do?

[languid spire]

array, for loop, if == ,calibration = index

[trail hull]

when the user moves the mouse on the grid an hologram of the block is placed on the position from the mouse position (the issue is here, can't find the best way to get the right block), when the user sees the correct block, then it right click and it creates the block

[trail hull]

yes that's it

[graceful citrus]

yeah i got that part but i don't know the best way to go about it

[languid spire]

exactly how I wrote ir, try to write the code then come back

[teal viper]

But how would you adjust the depth of the selected block..?

[gaunt ice]

yes, you dont understand mouse position to world position is one to many mapping
so you cant basically just use mouse position to get the block

[ruby python]

That's the issue he's having if I understand correctly.

[trail hull]

that's the question, i am not sure if there is a clever way for doing this

[trail hull]

yes

[graceful citrus]

alright i'll give it my best lmao

[ruby python]

My suggestion was to introduce a distance check of some kind as the player can already zoom into the grid and rotate around it. Can't think of another way.

[trail hull]

TheMightySpud answer is correct, using the wheel or numbers to let the user select the Z layer block, but i'd like to know if there something more automatic to get that

[teal viper]

Ok, well that's a design question then. There are many ways to go about it. One is allow the user to scroll the depth of the selection. Another one is just to place at the first hit cell. Another one is to select the farthest overlapping cell. Many ways and it all depends on your design idea.

[ruby python]

It would need to be a distance to camera check though I Think as the raycast hit distance would change based on xy position of the mouse.

[graceful citrus]

i've immediately run into an issue, how do i make an array of inputs? there is, to my knowledge, no variable type for inputs @languid spire

[languid spire]

no need, I said an array of keycodes

[teal viper]

Automatic in what way? The computer can't read the thought of the user. Unless you use some kind of neural interface.

[graceful citrus]

what like [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]?

[gaunt ice]

i have said mouse position to world position will generate a ray and IMPOSSIBLE to just use the ray to get one position. sigh

[languid spire]

no, KeyCode.1 etc

[graceful citrus]

ahh, but whats the variable type for that?

[languid spire]

KeyCode

[ruby python]

KeyCode is the variable type.

[graceful citrus]

ohhhhhhhh

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[graceful citrus]

i didn't know that! thats useful

[ruby python]

[Header("Keybind Assignements")]
    [SerializeField] KeyCode forwardKey = KeyCode.W;
    [SerializeField] KeyCode backwardsKey = KeyCode.S;
    [SerializeField] KeyCode strafeLeftKey = KeyCode.A;
    [SerializeField] KeyCode strafeRightKey = KeyCode.D;
    [SerializeField] KeyCode sprintKey = KeyCode.LeftShift;

Not an array (yet)

[teal viper]

Maybe check if there are any blocks in vicinity and place at the closest cell to them..?🤷‍♂️

[trail hull]

yeah, the solution i went for the first time was the first raycasted, but this would draw only the first layer cells, then i moved on the last raycasted and its much better since it always draw on the back, and if i raycast at the bottom of the first layer it gets he first layer since there is nothing behind, but the problem is to raycast something on the middle

[graceful citrus]

wait is it Alpha1?

and Alpha2?

[languid spire]

yes

unless you want the num pad ones

[teal viper]

What's the "something" in the middle? Is it fine to say select cell 4, 4, 4 in a 8x8x8 grid? Is that what you want?

[trail hull]

yes

[teal viper]

Then maybe avoid raycasts at all? Just use some math

[graceful citrus]

what would that be then?

[trail hull]

think i cannot avoid raycasts and only use math, i mean, how?

[languid spire]

Did you not just go and look at the KeyCode documentation when I mentioned using them?

[ruby python]

NumPad1 etc. I think. if you just type KeyCode. (with the period), your IDE will bring up a list of everything you can add.

[gaunt ice]

@trail hull

1. mouse position to world position mapping (or operator) returns a ray (ie a set of point)
2. raycast can hit multiple objects
3. so there is no any way to select exactly one objects just based on mouse position on screen

[trail hull]

Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition); returns a vector 3 not a ray

[brave tapir]

So I added visual scripting to my unity game because i thought it would just open an editor not create whole package, so my build to web failed for some reason so i deleted the visual scripting folder to see if it would help and now my game wont even play

[graceful citrus]

that would've been smary, i now see what im supposed to do

[gaunt ice]

ok you have a 2d point and you want to get a 3d point
how can you do this? one axis is missing

[teal viper]

Might be able to use a raycast all to get the overlapping cells, then loop through them to select the middlest one.

[trail hull]

okay now i see what you're saying

[gaunt ice]

so why 2d to 3d mapping actually returns a ray not just one point

[trail hull]

yes, but the user should select the depth let's say

[languid spire]

whenever anyone mentions something you do not know, the very first thing you should do is look up the relevant documentation

[graceful citrus]

you're right, thats mb

[teal viper]

How?

[trail hull]

so basically on other games 3d editors, what are them using for building the maps? I mean, does them force the user to build blocks near other blocks, does them let the user use the mouse and then scroll the wheel for the depth or how?

[teal viper]

You could cast into a plane a certain distance away from the camera

[trail hull]

that's the question, if there is a way to find it based on mouse position or something, without asking the user to select the depth or scroll the wheel

[teal viper]

Usually it's the first hit surface.

[graceful citrus]

private ArrayList<KeyCode> big = (KeyCode.Keypad0, KeyCode.Keypad1, KeyCode.Keypad2, KeyCode.Keypad3, KeyCode.Keypad4, KeyCode.Keypad5, KeyCode.Keypad6);

alright so i've got this now, which is obviously wrong but i don't know what to do if i want it to work

[trail hull]

the first on the ground right?

[gaunt ice]

actually i suggest scroll the mouse wheel and let the user set the sensitivity
a famous "3d voxel editor" is mineraft

[teal viper]

That's impossible as Tina was trying to tell you many times. Mouse position only has info about 2 axis. There's missing info for any guess.

[languid spire]

close

private KeyCode[] big = new KeyCode[] {KeyCode.Keypad0, KeyCode.Keypad1, KeyCode.Keypad2, KeyCode.Keypad3, KeyCode.Keypad4, KeyCode.Keypad5, KeyCode.Keypad6};

[teal viper]

No. The first hit object in front of the camera.

[graceful citrus]

ahh that makes much more sense

[trail hull]

but this will allow the user to always build on the first layer and will never be able to draw behind

[languid spire]

so now a for loop to loop through it

[teal viper]

Well, that's if you even consider the grid. Unity and other editors don't limit the user to a grid.

[graceful citrus]

yeah working on it rn

[teal viper]

In the first place, making it a physical grid with colliders is not a great idea imho.

[split raft]

Is it a good idea trying to make player movement without using the "Update()" method and just using send message from "Player Input" component? I don't know if it is common to turn gravity on and off depending on player's state:

[SerializeField] Camera cameraRef;
[SerializeField] float moveSpeed = 10.0f;
[SerializeField] float jumpStrenght = 6f;

Rigidbody rb;
[SerializeField] float speed;
[SerializeField] bool doubleJumpReady = true;
float lookSensitivity = 0.05f;
Vector2 moveInput;
Vector3 currentRotation;
Vector3 velocity;
Vector3 cameraRotation;

void Start()
{
    rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    currentRotation = transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
}

void Update()
{
    //empty
}

private void OnMove(InputValue inputValue)
{
    moveInput = inputValue.Get<Vector2>();

    Move();
}
private void Move()
{
    if (rb.useGravity && Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.up * -1, out RaycastHit hitInfo, 1.001f))
    {
        if (hitInfo.transform.gameObject.layer == 0)
        {
            rb.useGravity = false;
            moveSpeed *= 2;
        }
    }
    float velocityY = rb.velocity.y;
    velocity = (transform.forward * moveInput.y + transform.right * moveInput.x) * moveSpeed;
    velocity.y = velocityY;
    rb.velocity = velocity;
}

private void OnJump()
{
    if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.up * -1, out RaycastHit hitInfo, 1.001f))
    {
        if (hitInfo.transform.gameObject.layer == 0)
        {
            doubleJumpReady = true;
            rb.useGravity = true;
            moveSpeed /= 2;
            rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpStrenght, ForceMode.Impulse);
        }
    }
    else if (doubleJumpReady)
    {
        doubleJumpReady = false;
        rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpStrenght, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }
}

private void OnLook(InputValue inputValue)
{
    Vector2 lookDelta = inputValue.Get<Vector2>() * lookSensitivity;
    
    cameraRotation = cameraRef.transform.rotation.eulerAngles;
    cameraRotation.x -= lookDelta.y;
    cameraRef.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(cameraRotation);

    currentRotation.y += lookDelta.x;
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRotation);

    Move(); //Updates direction
}

[dark hatch]

oh my god bro the strength spelling hurts me on another level 😂

[split raft]

Whoops

[river zealot]

trying to make an inventory system for my game using ui item script player pickup scrip ui managmet scrip and inventory manager if anyone knows what there doing regarding this i would apreachiate input as i am getting a bit lost

[frosty hound]

What part are you getting lost with?

[river zealot]

everything my coding still are minimal and i am using chat gpt

if you are willing to go on call i can share screen

[frosty hound]

Nope. Especially if you're ChatGPTing it

Good luck

[graceful citrus]

you're not gonna get much code help if you use ChatGPT lmao

@languid spire i've done a list iterating through it, and its throwing "IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array"

[river zealot]

ok man u do u im just trying to make somthing and ive been on the platform for 2 weeks i think ive done a hell of a lot but i cant learn c sharp in a week

[languid spire]

show your code

[graceful citrus]

correction: ChatGPT has done a hell of a lot. not you

[graceful citrus]

yeah one moment

it might be hard to read idk

        for (int i = 0; i <= big.Length; i++)
        {
            if (Input.GetKey(big[i]))
            {
                calibratedMarkerTransform = MarkerTransforms[i];
                calibratedObjectTransform = ObjectTransforms[i];
            }
        }
        for (int i = 0; i <= MarkerTransforms.Count; i++)
        {
            if (MarkerTransforms[i] != calibratedMarkerTransform)
            {
                MarkerTransforms[i].GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = false;
            }
            else
            {
                MarkerTransforms[i].GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = true;
            }
        }

@languid spire the code is pretty much supposed to sort through a special compass to see what its calibrated to detect, then later down the line it runs the code to display the position of the calibrated objects

[frosty hound]

Everyone's just trying to make something, but the difference between those who are and aren't is that some have actually taken the time to learn the skill rather than going 10 layers deep with AI and having no idea how they got there.

Nobody learns a new skill in a week, thinking you should is being unreasonable to yourself.

You can always start to !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[graceful citrus]

the whole compass part works, its just calibration that needs work

[river zealot]

ive done all the other code bro not going to have afight new year new life

[languid spire]

ok 2 things

bool found = false;
for (int i = 0; i < big.Length; i++)
        {
            if (Input.GetKey(big[i]))
            {
                calibratedMarkerTransform = MarkerTransforms[i];
                calibratedObjectTransform = ObjectTransforms[i];
                found = true;
                break;
            }
        }
if (found)
        for (int i = 0; i <= MarkerTransforms.Count; i++)
        {
            if (MarkerTransforms[i] != calibratedMarkerTransform)
            {
                MarkerTransforms[i].GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = false;
            }
            else
            {
                MarkerTransforms[i].GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = true;
            }
        }

[graceful citrus]

i, don't get it

what is it doing?

@languid spire how could it not be found?

[languid spire]

If the right Key was not pressed

say I press A

[graceful citrus]

oh i see

gotcha

[keen dew]

i <= will always overshoot the array/list

[languid spire]

good point

[graceful citrus]

I KNEW IT

[languid spire]

i < big.Length

[graceful citrus]

my brain was screaming at me but i was telling myself that wasn't the case

i should've trusted myself on that one

alright im gonna implement that code now

ok @languid spire it works, but now i have a secondary issue very closely related

for some reason when its calibrated to 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 (which are all the objectives, 0 is calibrated to know where the enemy is) its pointing the same direction

which cannot be the case

[languid spire]

I have no idea what you mean by that

[graceful citrus]

i will show you a video, so its easier to explain

[opaque kettle]

I really need help with this script i use to procedurally generate a map in my 2d game, the map generates just fine. using noise, but i cannot get the "GetHeightAtPoint" working, it never matches what i generated, it seems like it tells me some random height, idk. https://pastebin.com/dYKvZj1J

[languid spire]

I don't do videos

[graceful citrus]

why? are you unable to view mp4 files?

[languid spire]

no, I just hate them,

[graceful citrus]

but it would help to understand what the device does and what the problem is

[languid spire]

no it wouldn't because I would still not know anything about the underlying code

[graceful citrus]

okay in that case

        if (calibratedObjectTransform != null && cameraObjectTransform.GetComponent<Camera>().enabled)
        {
            SetMarkerPosition(calibratedMarkerTransform, calibratedObjectTransform.position);
        }

this code runs in the fixed update

    private void SetMarkerPosition(Transform markerTransform, Vector3 worldPosition)
    {
        Vector3 directionToTarget = worldPosition - cameraObjectTransform.position;
        float angle = Vector2.SignedAngle(new Vector2(directionToTarget.x, directionToTarget.z), new Vector2(cameraObjectTransform.transform.forward.x, cameraObjectTransform.transform.forward.z));
        float compassPositionX = Mathf.Clamp(2 * angle / Camera.main.fieldOfView, -1, 1);
        markerTransform.localPosition = new Vector3(0.5f * compassPositionX, 0, -0.00453125f);
        markerTransform.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>().enabled = (markerTransform.localPosition.x > -0.4495 && markerTransform.localPosition.x < 0.4495);
    }

this is the void which it is running

the device functions as a compass, but like one of those compasses that you get at the top of your screen in some games, to show where objectives are

currently, when i set the device to detect 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 its all pointing in the same direction

which is not what it should be

it should be pointing towards objective 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

[languid spire]

Ok, so why is there absolutely no debugging in that code so you know what is happening?

[fossil ether]

Hey guys, I'm trying to render a parametric sphere mesh but it isn't getting rendered correctly. I think there's something wrong with my indexing but can't find it.
https://gdl.space/igikubudey.cs

[graceful citrus]

i know with certainty that the code works, i previously debugged it and it points at what i want for the enemy and stuff

its just that when its one of the objectives, it always points at objective 1

which is bad

[languid spire]

those statements are contradictory, either the code works or it does not

[fossil ether]

should i ask this in advanced

[graceful citrus]

the code points at things, its just pointing at the wrong things when its calibrated to 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6

does that make sense?

[gaunt ice]

dont understand how you create sphere but look like you missing one step (connect the last iteration to first iteration
ie i==UResolution - 1 and j==VResolution - 1

[opaque kettle]

I really need help with this script i use to procedurally generate a map in my 2d game, the map generates just fine. using noise, but i cannot get the "GetHeightAtPoint" working, it never matches the map i generated, it seems like it tells me some random height / the height of an entirely other map, like nothing even close to what its supposed to be. idk, because everything to me seems like it should work, but it doesnt. https://pastebin.com/dYKvZj1J

[fossil ether]

F(u, v) = [ cos(u)*sin(v)*r, cos(v)*r, sin(u)*sin(v)*r ], I'm using this parametric form of the sphere equation. I was thinking the same thing it looks like the last strip is missing but I don't know how I can connect it really

[languid spire]

one thing I can see is you should probably not be calling this if nothing has changed. So maybe make the found bool global and use that

[graceful citrus]

why would i make it global for that?

[gaunt ice]

i completely forgot how to get a point by theta and phi and radius and i dont want to do the math
you should store the result points of first iteration by theat or phi (you can use hashmap since most likely you will getting the exact result when calculate the angle) then you can just get the index of vertex back and create the triangle

[languid spire]

so that the code only executes when a key is pressed

[graceful citrus]

but it needs to constantly be running the void

    private void SetMarkerPosition(Transform markerTransform, Vector3 worldPosition)
    {
        Debug.Log(markerTransform);
        Vector3 directionToTarget = worldPosition - cameraObjectTransform.position;
        float angle = Vector2.SignedAngle(new Vector2(directionToTarget.x, directionToTarget.z), new Vector2(cameraObjectTransform.transform.forward.x, cameraObjectTransform.transform.forward.z));
        float compassPositionX = Mathf.Clamp(2 * angle / Camera.main.fieldOfView, -1, 1);
        markerTransform.localPosition = new Vector3(0.5f * compassPositionX, 0, -0.00453125f);
    }

this code needs to run every frame. that is crucial

[fossil ether]

I'm so sorry but I couldn't quite understand what you meant. Why would I need to use a hashmap instead of storing the points on surface in the vertices array

[languid spire]

well it wont run every frame if it's called from FixedUpdate

[graceful citrus]

i meant physics update, i am a fool

[gaunt ice]

simple example of create a sqaure
CB
DA
you will calculate A then B then C then D finally go back to A to create the DA edge, so you can store the index of A by hardcode or look up table
btw i think you can hardcode the iteration of index anyway, you probably will store the vertex at some determistic way
0
1
2
3
4
5
6...

[fossil ether]

okay i'm thinking

wouldn't this result the same as what I'm doing now though?
Vector3 p0 = ParametricSphereFunction(u, v);
right now i'm picking a point on the surface and right after adding it to the vertices array i'm creating a triangle using that point. I don't go through the vertices array to create the triangles

[gaunt ice]

but you only create the triangles from 0 to UResolution - 2, you block it by if statement

as the same as i only create the edge of AB BC CD but missing DA

[fossil ether]

yeah that makes sense

ok i'll try to change the algorithm then, thanks for the help

[boreal tangle]

If I wanted to draw a background for my unity game should I make the drawing the same scale as the camera or is their an easier way.

[wintry quarry]

What you're describing would be a bug, and I don't think it's the case. Possibly something is wrong with your keyboard.

[graceful citrus]

cyl.localEulerAngles = Quaternion.Euler(0,i * 45,0);

i feel like i've done this a million times, but why isn't this working?

[wintry quarry]

What isn't working about it?

Wait sorry

You are assigning a quaternion to a vector3 property

[graceful citrus]

Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Quaternion' to 'UnityEngine.Vector3'

[wintry quarry]

Oh would be localRotation =

[graceful citrus]

thats the ticket

[wintry quarry]

Or use localEulerAngles = new Vector3

[graceful citrus]

cheers

wait why tf does altering y and altering z do the same thing @wintry quarry

[wintry quarry]

Gimbal lock probably?

[graceful citrus]

what is that

sounds scary

[proven lark]

!code

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[proven lark]

    {
        anim = GetComponent<Animator>();
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
     if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Traps"))
        {
            Die();
            deathSoundEffect.Play();
        }
    }

    private void Die()
    {
        anim.SetTrigger("death");
        rb.bodyType = RigidbodyType2D.Static;

    }
    

    private void RestartLevel()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
        
    }```

I have a pretty basic death script here but im confused on why the function "Die" hass to be called in order to take effect but not RestartLevel

[graceful citrus]

you failed

[teal viper]

Both need to be called for the code inside to be executed.

[proven lark]

but i never acutally use the term "RestartLevel" in the code and it works as intended

i woudlve thought i would have had to add "RestartLevel" somewhere in here

[terse raven]

Should I use A* or NavMesh (2D)

I have around 200 enemies for context

[gaunt ice]

surprisingly navmesh use a*

[terse raven]

oh perfect

[gaunt ice]

navmesh is the graph data structure not the pathfinding algorithm

[terse raven]

Alright thank you, would you say navmesh is easy to impliment?

[gaunt ice]

navmesh needs mesh renderer afaik

[terse raven]

im not sure what that is

[gaunt ice]

i googled you dont need it now

[terse raven]

Oh okay, can you recommend any learning resources?

[gaunt ice]

you can google lots of tutorual in youtube on how to use navmash in 2d

[terse raven]

are they quite common tutorials or are they years old lol

make it so when you jump the drag is adjusted for in air movement and on ground drag for when you are on the ground

This might work

have you tried adjusting gravity to see if they does anything, changing mass might also work

I think you can let me double check

My apologies thats only in 2D. Are you accessing gravity or just using forces>

maybe using a constant gravity force will help. I'm not that brill at 3D and dont have much experience maybe someone else might have a deeper insight

[teal viper]

You do have. Either you're calling it from somewhere else, or there is similar code somewhere else being executed. Code doesn't execute magically. You need to call it from somewhere.

[proven lark]

it says theres 0 refrences in my code

i probably just dont understand coding well enough to get whats going on tho

[teal viper]

Then this is not called anywhere. What makes you think that that coe executes?

[proven lark]

the level restarts when i die

[teal viper]

Try finding LoadScene by reference

[golden otter]

you’re calling it somewhere

[proven lark]

this is the closest thing to calling it i have in the script

[golden otter]

or you’re might loading the scene by directly calling the unity api

[teal viper]

It doesn't have to be in the same script.

[keen dew]

If you see the animation before the level restarts I'm guessing it's triggered by the animator

[teal viper]

right click the LoadScene method and select "find by reference"

[proven lark]

i dont have any other code written to do with loading scenes

[proven lark]

this?\

[teal viper]

Then it's either what Nitku said or you're invoking it from a button/unity event

[proven lark]

leme rewatch the video and see if i missed something

oh wait

i think the death animation is a trigger for it

oh yeahh it is

sry i didnt realize

[terse osprey]

Hello, I wasnt to check if a bool has been false for 3sec or more. If yes then run a certain function

[polar acorn]

Create a timer float for how long it has been false for.

In update, if it's false, add delta time to the timer, then check if it's over 3.

If it's true, set the timer back to 0.

[charred spoke]

if bool false start timer if timer over DoSomething

[terse osprey]

ahh thats so simple as compared to what I found on the internet and makes so much sense

thankyou

[polar acorn]

It probably involved coroutines. Those are great for a single-purpose timer that you just start and let run, but a coroutine with multiple "exit conditions" (bool becoming true or timer ending) is usually more complex than just manually timing it

[misty obsidian]

Hello! I need help. I'm using this script to only one object in 1 scene from 2 scenes and I want to make it's optional to set up, not obligatory. How to make it optional?

The script is connected to two scenes

[polar acorn]

If not having a sharpnessCostText is a common occurrence that can happen through normal intended play, you can simply check if it is not null before attempting to set it

[graceful oar]

I have a simple platformer game with Photon and parrelsync and for some reason when I start the game (only sometimes) some assets randomly disappear even from the scene view. Does anyone have any ideas why that happens please? I dont know how to test it since its literally random

[terse osprey]

I am trying to use this to detect how long it has been since I got hit by the enemy and I am using this code to toggle the boolean but it is set to true for so of a time that the timer does not rest at all

[ivory bobcat]

You'll simply want to set the flag true in that function and evaluate it elsewhere - somewhere that occurs every frame.

[ivory bobcat]

Update:
    if isHit == true
        isHit = false
        elapsed += delta time
        if elapsed >= Time.time
            do stuff``````
Hit:
    isHit = true;
    currentHealth -= amount;```

[waxen oracle]

Is there a way to put the game in slow mo to get a better idea of what’s happening?

[polar acorn]

Only one line of code ever runs at a time. The isHit is true only when the next line runs before you set it back false

If you want to reset the timer, then reset the timer. Don't bother changing the boolean

[frosty hound]

You can pause the game at the top of the editor and then use the "next frame" button (the third one) to step through it frame by frame.

[waxen oracle]

oh thats cool

thanks

[bitter crest]

You can also alter the timescale, too, I've never used it for debugging (I'm doing it for a call-out tutorial currently) but I don't see why you couldn't do this to run your program in slow motion for testing purposes.

[waxen oracle]

how would i alter timescale

would that be in scripts

[bitter crest]

Time.timeScale simple script yeah

[waxen oracle]

ill save that for the future

sounds pretty helpful

[bitter crest]

Well also think if you want your user to have a pause button

Unity makes it easy to slow/stop/speed up the flow of game time

And also keep things separate from that if you need to (like if you wanted music to keep playing while paused, etc)

[waxen oracle]

For a pause i assume timescale would be 0?

[knotty gust]

does JSONutility.FromJSON validate variables ?

[languid spire]

only in the sense that they are the correct type

[knotty gust]

yhh okay thats good enough thanks

[burnt vapor]

You're better off using Newtonsoft/JSON.NET, because that one actually correctly parses data. I can imagine JSONUtility silently fails

[knotty gust]

are those already installed with unity/visual studio, and how would i use them in JSONutilities place

[pastel sinew]

Quick question, are the Input Systems 1D Axis broken, or is it me? It does not give me continous values. Rather I get -1, and 1.

[polar acorn]

What have you mapped it to

[rich adder]

download the package, use the new Json.net methods

the only thing JSON.net hates is unity Vector3 and whatnot
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.nuget.newtonsoft-json@latest

[pastel sinew]

Want to use one pedal for negative input and another for positive. Or should I just use Up and Down Actions instead? (Which is what I am implementing rn as a workaround)

Vertical is also Value and Axis like Horizontal on the screenshot.

[novel shoal]

for (int i = 0; i < buttons.Length; i++)
{
buttons[i].gameObject.SetActive(false);
}
is this a good approach to deactivate all the buttons in the title screen?

[wintry quarry]

Sure, could also just use foreach

[rich adder]

just deactivate the parent

[novel shoal]

making an array with them and insteand of repeating button.gameobject.setactive(false), using a for loop

[novel shoal]

coming from python i forget about it

[novel shoal]

i'm following a tutorial and i thought i could use this but yeah that's much simpler

[next stone]

Hello, in my code I return a null since I'm am not sure what to return,
I have a score that is set up so that when it reaches a score of 25 the objects will stop spawning ( this because of the return null ) then the player can walk up to the set teleporter to teleport to the next room, where the spawn area has to change but that doesn't happen.
I don't know how I can fix my problem

[opaque kettle]

can someone help me with getting something to snap to a grid, im kinda stuck at this code. https://pastebin.com/ueVU8qgK

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CursorLockMode.Locked.html

read this

[rich adder]

pastebin sucks! stop using it plz

then you didn't lock it

where are you running this function

[opaque kettle]

what should i use instead?

[rich adder]

any of these
!code

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[rich adder]

pastebin sucks

[opaque kettle]

oh, well heres the new one https://hastebin.com/share/ifetetazey.csharp

[rich adder]

why would i need "public" paste be bigger DIV than actual code 😵‍💫

put debug.log make sure that function is running

if it is you have another script unlocking it

[rich adder]

whats problem you're facing?

[robust condor]

How can I do TryGetComponent in children in a performant manner?

[rich adder]

if its locked it will be cetered, if its not locked then it wont be center. You have another one overriding it then

search your script

[opaque kettle]

It says GridLayout doesnt have a definition for GetCellCenterWorld at line 17

[rich adder]

make your own extension method

[rich adder]

i thnk that should just be Grid no ?

[opaque kettle]

yeah i thought that too, but that just gives me the same error

[robust condor]

@rich adderExtending TryGetComponent?

[rich adder]

probably using the wrong namespace one

[rich adder]

no Transform prob, GetComponentInChildren

how did you search

[rich adder]

show new error

[opaque kettle]

https://hastebin.com/share/ucayiyahad.csharp and it says Grid doesnt contain definition for "GetCellCenterWorld"

[solemn wraith]

Hi I have this custom struct inside my MonoBehaviour:cs [System.Serializable] public struct CameraZone { [SerializeField] public List<Transform> cameraCheckpoints; private Vector2 minCoordinates; private Vector2 maxCoordinates; private Vector2 centreTarget; }

and you can see I have private members, but this is not what I want. As it is serializable, I just want the currently private members to just not be visible in the inspector, however accessable and modifiable by the monobehaviour it is in. How can I do this?

[rich adder]

do you have any custom scripts named Grid ?

[rich adder]

is there a question ?

[opaque kettle]

OHHHHH

[opaque kettle]

yeah i do

[solemn wraith]

ye it accidently sent, I edited it

[rich adder]

make them properties

it works fine if you click the gameview, only time it doesn't if you press escape

[next stone]

Hello, in my code I return a null since I'm am not sure what to return,
I have a score that is set up so that when it reaches a score of 25 the objects will stop spawning ( this because of the return null ) then the player can walk up to the set teleporter to teleport to the next room, where the spawn area has to change but that doesn't happen.
I don't know how I can fix my problem

[solemn wraith]

what how?

[rich adder]

lookup properties

   [System.Serializable]
    public struct CameraZone
    {
        [SerializeField] private List<Transform> cameraCheckpoints;
        public Vector2 MinCoordinates { get; private set; }
        public Vector2 MaxCoordinates { get; private set; }
        public Vector2 CentreTarget { get; private set; }
    }```

[rich adder]

!code

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[solemn wraith]

ooh them, alright but why private set, why not just set? I want to be able to set it inside the monobehaviour, just not in the inspector. Will that work?

[rich adder]

ohh thought you want to only set them through this SO

why exactly using SO for mutable data, if you change this one you will change values in all of them

[solemn wraith]

Well, I just wanted to organise my data as a field in my monobehaviour is a list of these structs. Are you suggesting I create a custom class for this or something?

[rich adder]

depends all what you're doing, if you only need hold data its fine but just be aware that if you change 1 scriptable object you will change all data of the same SO

eg if one SO has MinCoordinates as 0,3
then anything that has so with MinCoordinates will have 0,3

[next stone]

    // Function to determine the spawned target based on the player's score
    GameObject GetSpawnedObject()
    {
        // This MAIN Object Spawner Manager function for the spawn areas || NOTE: the other Object spawner area scripts are copies from this "main" script
        if (ScoreManager.scoreCount == 25 || ScoreManager.scoreCount == 50 || ScoreManager.scoreCount == 75 || ScoreManager.scoreCount == 100)
        {
            Debug.Log($"Score is {ScoreManager.scoreCount}, no targets will spawn.");

            // Set up logic for when the score matches specific values
            teleporter.SetActive(true); // Activate the teleporter

            // Enable player movement
            if (playerMovement != null)
            {
                playerMovement.EnableMovement();
            }

            return null;
        }

        else if (ScoreManager.scoreCount >= 50 && ScoreManager.scoreCount < 100 && TargetS != null)
        {
            Debug.Log("Selected TargetS");
            maxObjects = maxObjectsTargetS; // Change maxObjects for TargetS
            return TargetS;
        }
        else if (ScoreManager.scoreCount >= 25 && ScoreManager.scoreCount < 50 && TargetM != null)
        {
            Debug.Log("Selected TargetM");
            maxObjects = maxObjectsTargetM; // Change maxObjects for TargetM
            return TargetM;
        }
        else if (ScoreManager.scoreCount < 25 && TargetL != null)
        {
            teleporter.SetActive(false); // Deactivate the teleporter

            Debug.Log("Selected TargetL");
            maxObjects = maxObjectsTagetL; // Reset maxObjects for TargetL
            return TargetL;
        }

[rich adder]

please use links like bot suggested,

not easy to read code like this, esp mobile

[solemn wraith]

So essentially the 1st field is given by the "level designer" and the remaining 3 fields are precalculated and stored to save time in each frame update. I think I may have to switch to classes but I'm not exactly sure.

[rich adder]

think SO similiarly to a static class (in terms of mutable data)

[next stone]

Sorry I edited it

[rich adder]

do you know what links are?

[next stone]

yes I do

[celest holly]

public class Shoot : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject bulletPosition;
    public GameObject bulletPrefab;
    [SerializeField] private float bulletSpeed;
    private Camera cam;
    [SerializeField] private VisualEffect muzzleFlashEffect;
    public float bulletLife = 4f;
    [SerializeField] private Animator animator;
    [SerializeField] private VisualEffect muzzleFlash;
    public bool isShooting = false;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject muzzleLight;

    private void Start()
    {
        cam = Camera.main;
        animator = GetComponent<Animator>();
        muzzleLight.gameObject.SetActive(false);
    }
    private void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0) && !isShooting)
        {
            isShooting = true;
            ShootBullet();
            HandleVisuals();
            StartCoroutine(shootDelay());
        }
    }

    public void ShootBullet()
    {
        GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, bulletPosition.transform.position, bulletPosition.transform.rotation);
        //Ray ray = new Ray(Camera.main.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.forward);
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.transform.position, Camera.main.transform.forward, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.point);
            Vector3 bulletDirection = hit.point - bulletPosition.transform.position;
            bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = bulletDirection * bulletSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
            Vector3 bulletDirection = (Camera.main.transform.position + Camera.main.transform.forward * 1000) - bulletPosition.transform.position;
            bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().velocity = bulletDirection * bulletSpeed;
        }
       
        Destroy(bullet, bulletLife);
    }

Can anyone help me figureo ut why my bullet zooms away at light speed when i am not pointing at a target? it works fine if i hit an object with the raycast

[rich adder]

!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.

[rich adder]

god people who mindlessly paste their entire classes

[rich adder]

so use them..

[celest holly]

bit entitled

ok ill put it in one of those code block things

https://hatebin.com/etcictfeey
Can anyone help me figureo ut why my bullet zooms away at light speed when i am not pointing at a target? it works fine if i hit an object with the raycast

[rich adder]

this isnt your first time around here afaik.
Shouldnt you know entire class go inside a link?

[celest holly]

it wasnt my entire class i had other functions i left out

[rich adder]

why the hell would you purposefully omit functions 🤔

[celest holly]

because its to do with visuals and stuff

unrelated to my problem

[keen dew]

It speeds away because the distance is about 1000 units away and you set the velocity to that times bullet speed, so presumably several thousand units per second

[warm condor]

hey guys, so I have prviously asked a question here, but no one helped me fix a problem I have. Can anyone check what I wrote in here to know what the problem is?#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

also the direction isn't normalized

[celest holly]

oh okay, that was my fix for when it didnth it an object

[rich adder]

so hit distance also affects it as you described in problem

[celest holly]

should i make the 1000 a smaller number?

[keen dew]

Velocity should be set to bulletDirection.normalized * bulletSpeed

[celest holly]

thank you

[keen dew]

same thing earlier when the raycast does find a target, now the bullet speed depends on how far the target is

[celest holly]

normalizingit seemed to fix all the issues

thank you very much

[keen dew]

although I don't see why you have to do the raycast in the first place, it looks like the bullet goes to the same direction in either case

[celest holly]

i was having problems with the bullet not going to the centre of my screen

the camera raycast was my solution and its working out alright

[thorn holly]

What happens when it runs?

[rich adder]

did you solve the problem or are you having problem pasting code in PasteLink provider

[knotty gust]

is there a way to get around dictionarys being non serializable

im tryna have it save from editor to play mode but it gets cleared on play

[hoary locust]

Hello there! when I try to create a URP shader it just becomes a pink missing texture. Anyone knows what's up with it?

[slender nymph]

You could either get a serializable dictionary asset or just serialize two lists and build the dict from those lists at runtime

[rich adder]

#archived-shaders

[hoary locust]

ah alright ty

[lusty flax]

i got stuck in an infinite loop how do i stop the program

[rich adder]

End Task

[timber tide]

list of structs too (kvp struct)

[lusty flax]

nono i mean im in the unity editor i don't want to lose what i've done

i got stuck in an infinite "while" loop

[rich adder]

mate no other way out but to end task

if you didn't save, you're fooked

always ctrl+s everytime I press play 🤷‍♂️

[next stone]

No, the problem is more that when I return something its clones the GameObject, since the function is referenced in a while loop.

[rich adder]

please put the entire class and send link via sharecode site like https://hatebin.com

make sure it showing how you instantiate

[warm condor]

everything runs, it just seems that the add force on the function checkIfSuddentChangeInDirection() is not doing what it is suppoesed to do

you know adding force

[thorn holly]

Does it give an error?

[warm condor]

no

[celest holly]

public class BulletCollision : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private Rigidbody rb;
    [SerializeField] private float bulletForce;
    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision objectHit)
    {
        if (objectHit.gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer("Ground"))
        {
            print(objectHit.collider.name);
        }
        if (objectHit.gameObject.layer == LayerMask.NameToLayer("Humanoid"))
        {
            print(objectHit.collider.name);
            objectHit.gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(rb.velocity * bulletForce, ForceMode.Force);
        }
    }
}

hi again, im not sure if this is programming or physics related (maybe theyre similar enough so that it doesnt matter) but a rigidbody component on a gameobject is causing my bullet to hardly ever detect the collision and phasing through it. I can send a video butim not sure if thats allowed lol

[graceful citrus]

cyl.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(-90, 0, i * 45);

no matter how i alter this, it doesn't rotate on the right axis. why can't i rotate it how i want?

[ruby python]

This may help.

https://johnaustin.io/articles/2019/fix-your-unity-timestep

[keen dew]

We don't know how you want it to rotate so that's pretty much impossible to answer

select the object in scene view and play with the rotation in the inspector until you find the right axis

[solemn wraith]

This may sound completely stupid (if you haven't solved it already), but you do have colliders on your bullet and humanoid and you have checked that collision between those layers are enabled in your project settings?

[celest holly]

yep

im trying to check overlapping objects now

i dont know why rigid bodies are affecting it

[woven crater]

https://hatebin.com/kzeyvduqzs

why it bounce so weirdly??

[next stone]

sorry I don't know how I can save me hatebin and sent it to here

[rich adder]

paste the code there, click save. Copy link in your browser address, send link

[next stone]

I did but it gives me this minus

[rich adder]

did you put any code there?

use any of these sites
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

they all do the same thing

[next stone]

I pasted my hole call but still the same result, I'll try the other sites now

[rare basin]

Hatebin never worked for me aswell it's bugged

[next stone]

https://paste.ofcode.org/33tWgX765GcJYSjC2e9jpJG

[fringe perch]

Hello my enemy (rigidbody) is rotating when hit by another rigidbody even when it has freezeRotation to true. I don't rotate of this object at all and only move it in 2d towards its target with addForce. Does someone maybe know where it could come from ?

[rich adder]

when I return something its clones the GameObject, since the function is referenced in a while loop.

what exactly is wrong and what do you expect to happen?

[celest holly]

fixed it now thank you to those who helped

[next stone]

I don't really know how to explain but I try my best,
I would like it to stop at 25 but starts again when ( already made that code ) the player went through the teleporter

[rich adder]

start what again ?

also how much of this script is written by AI

a lot of weird statements here

[dry tendon]

Hey, does someone knows how can i join a project that one friend shared me with unity version control? He has invited me with my mail... but i can't find the project anywhere and i'm incapable of start editing it hehe. Please... i need help :>

[rich adder]

#💻┃unity-talk
should be under Add Remote Project in Hub if they added you correctly

[dry tendon]

Thaankss

[graceful citrus]

i have all these different transforms, yet they all return the same vector3 position. specifically, they all return the position of the first one (uniglow). if i change one of the list items to a random cube for example, it returns the position of that cube where i want it, but for some reason these glows and the objects related to this return position 1. whats going on?

[next stone]

Most part of the scripts,
to start the target spawning again

[lusty flax]

This is a fragment of a script that I made to drop player-held items in my game. This is the part of the script that makes the item fall downwards until it touches the floor, where it stops. The problem is, since I'm using Physics.CheckSphere() to detect this, some objects clip into the floor because they are made of only one GameObject. What alternatives are there for Physics.CheckSphere() that would do this correctly?

while (running)
{
    newModel.transform.position = new Vector3(newModel.transform.position.x, newModel.transform.position.y - 0.01f, newModel.transform.position.z);
    for (int i = 0; i < childCount; i++)
    {
        if (Physics.CheckSphere(modelBody.transform.GetChild(i).transform.position, 0.01f, ground))
        {
            running = false;
        }
        else if (Physics.CheckSphere(modelBody.transform.GetChild(i).transform.position, 0.01f, incinerator))
        {
            Destroy(newModel);
            running = false;
        }
    }
    if (loopCount > 1000)
    {
        Destroy(newModel);
        running = false;
    }
    loopCount++;
    Debug.Log(loopCount);
}

[rich adder]

So start the coroutine again ?
My suggestion is to stay away from AI coding since it provides 0 learning and confusion when something breaks/goes wrong since you wouldn't know how to debug it. The code seems overly "complex" and jumbled for something probably easily done with a few lines of code

[next stone]

Yea, thanks for your given feedback, I will change it and use far less AI for those coding things, still thank you

[dry tendon]

@rich adder to add someone to my project shared on unity version control i need to do it with that option?

and then to introduce their mail there, right?

[native flicker]

If i wanted to make a idle game, is this good to calculate how much i earn when offline?

    private void OnApplicationFocus(bool hasFocus)
    {
        if (!hasFocus)
        {
            lastFocusTime = DateTime.Now;
            animator1.speed = animationSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
            animator1.speed = animationSpeed;
            TimeSpan offlineTime = DateTime.Now - lastFocusTime;
            int moneyToAdd = (int)(offlineTime.TotalSeconds / 15);
            if (moneyToAdd > 0)
            {
                moneyadd(moneyToAdd, 1);
                data.lastLoginTime = DateTime.Now;
                Debug.Log("You earned " + offline + " money while away." + offlineTime.TotalSeconds);
                offlineText.text = "You earned " + offline + " money while away.";
                moneyText.text = "Money: " + data.money.ToString("F2");
            }
        }
    }```

for android btw

[keen dew]

At some point the phone will kill the app so the values need to be saved to persistent storage

[warm geode]

Wrong channel go to code advanced 😭😭

[native flicker]

ah alr cause im a beginnner and thats why i thought this should be here

[warm geode]

What even is this abomination

[keen dew]

no this is fine

[native flicker]

ay idea how should do it?

[warm geode]

You can add strings in c#?

[keen dew]

Playerprefs should be good enough for this purpose

[native flicker]

whats that and what does it do?

[warm geode]

It stores player preferences

You use it to store data like high score, and other data