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[deep bear]

Sorry for the noob question, but what is Unity's built in EventSystem used for?

[wintry quarry]

Mouse/touch/pointer interactions with UI (And non UI) objects

[deep bear]

So it should not be used for linking things like button clicks to events that other objects listen to?

[wintry quarry]

The event system facilitates the button click handling itself

[deep bear]

Do you have a link to a good tutorial by any chance? I tried searching on YouTube and they all seemingly were using their own custom event systems

[wintry quarry]

A good tutorial for what exactly? What specifically are you trying to do?

[deep bear]

So basically, I'm making a card game. I have a button that when pressed, toggles the deck view on/off.

[wintry quarry]

Ok and what problem are you having with it?

[deep bear]

Right now I'm using a custom "EventManager" object that has this script attached.

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[deep bear]

Ah thank you.

So this is the script:
https://gdl.space/oditaqasem.cs

Then on the button in the inspector, I have this

[wintry quarry]

Ok... seems fine so far

what's the issue?

[deep bear]

And then this is my "BattleUI" script: https://gdl.space/sibuwikihi.cs

[wintry quarry]

The only issue I see so far is that your DDOL singleton event manager button onclick setup is going to break when the scene changes.

[deep bear]

So right now, this works if the "BattleScene" is the first scene to be loaded. However, if I transition to it from another scene, it doesn't work

[deep bear]

Yeah this exactly my issue

[wintry quarry]

yeah basically this screenshot right here is the wrong approch

instead of linking the button directly to that function in the inspector you should make a script ON the button with this function:

public void WhenTriggerBattleButtonClicked() {
  EventManager.current.TriggerBattleDeckButtonClicked();
}```

and link that

this way it will always use the correct EventManager instance

[deep bear]

Oh cool, thank you. So just do it programmatically rather than through the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

well you'll still use the inspector

you just need another layer of indirection so that it's using the correct EventManager instance

[warm condor]

do you guys have any idea to why the function rb.AddForce isin't adding any force. It has been a weird problem and nothing is making any sense.

{
    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)); //This line and the one above it are not adding any force
    }
    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)); //This one as well is not adding any force
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

Well first off adding the current y velocity as part of the force is defnitely a mistake

second, you're either not adding enough force, or you're overwriting the velocity elsewhere in your code

[warm condor]

what do you mean?

[wintry quarry]

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

that should definitely be 0

why would you add the current y velocity as a force there

makes no sense

[warm condor]

ohhh yea I see what you mean

[warm condor]

I have a hunch that that is the case but I don't see how

here Ill send you the code

[deep bear]

Oh I see. So I'll keep it the exact same in the inspector, but just add that bit of code to the button's script?

Or will I reference the WhenTriggerBattleButtonClicked in the inspector?

[wintry quarry]

reread my message
#💻┃code-beginner message

[deep bear]

Ah okay awesome, misunderstood but it makes a lot of sense now. Thank you

[warm condor]

I am pretty sure that I am overwriting the velocity in my code, but the thing that I don't understand is that the addForce function is suppesed to increase the velocity at a certain point before it goes back to its initial velocity

well at least that is how I understood that function

[vital spade]

hello everyone, I'm trying to add a sound effect into my game however the effect plays with like 150ms delay, I did change the project settings to best latency btw. I'm thinking it's maybe caused by this "dead air" before the sound starts. I tried cutting out that part using an audio editor but unity added a bit of it back on import and I can't seem to be able to get rid of it fully. Any suggestions are appreciated

[ancient island]

that shouldn't happen. If you properly trimmed that silent part, unity should import the audio file as it is

maybe your program added it, maybe you didn't save the file...

try again and if it doesn't work i'll try to help you

[warm condor]

so @wintry quarry, what do you think could the problem be?

[wintry quarry]

If you do this:

int speed = 4;
speed += 1; // this is like add force
speed = 4;
``` what do you think the speed will be at the end of this?

like I said, if you're overwriting velocity, it doesn't matter what forces you add

the only thing AddForce does is change the object's velocity

[warm condor]

I see, then how do I go around this problem? because I can't really think of a way do something about it

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to explain what you're trying to do

[warm condor]

well, what I want is that when the player makes a suden change of firection, I want to add force to that direction where he has changed

[wintry quarry]

You're talking in terms of forces. Maybe explain in terms of the actual behavior you're trying to achieve

[warm condor]

well, there are three functions in the update, there is the recording the horizontal speed, there is the adding the force when studently changing directions and there is the move function, that checks which keys are being pressed to make a certain movement. It also has acceleration functions and decelliration function. At first I was thinking of adding the sudden movemnt function into the move function but it seems a little too hard

I was also thinking of disabling some functions , switching them from one function to another, but idk how to even do that

[swift crag]

Don't use the MP3 format

Although, that looks like an Ogg Vorbis file

MP3 requires the file length to be a multiple of some small amount, which can result in dead air before the audio starts

I don't think that's a problem with OGG, though

[vital spade]

oh okay thank you

[swift crag]

oh right -- "Vorbis" in that screenshot means it's stored by Unity in the Vorbis format

not that the file it came from is using Vorbis

Unity imports whatever audio format you give it and then stores it in another internal format

[teal gulch]

Hello, I want to implement a lever that can trigger functions of other objects referenced in lever inspector. I just don't know how to reference functions of other objects in inspector, maybe someone could help me with that or suggest another way of doing this?

[swift crag]

You'll want to use UnityEvent

you know how Button has that "on click" list in the inspector?

that's a UnityEvent

[SerializeField] UnityEvent onLeverPull; will add a field called "On Lever Pull" that can invoke a method on another component

If you need to pass a value along -- maybe whether the lever is up or down -- consider UnityEvent<bool>

That would be able to call any method that takes a boolean

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Events.UnityEvent.html

[teal gulch]

Thank you very much! Don't know how I missed that feature 😅

[amber spruce]

public List<AudioClip> SamuraiAudio;

this would allow me to make a list of various audio clips right

[buoyant knot]

I would make a function to specifically ChangeWeaponTo(int ID) which handles that

like your UpdateWeapon, but with an argument of the new id

[gaunt ice]

selectedWeapon = Mathf.Abs(selectedWeapon - 1) % weapons.Count;

you want 0 -> weapons.Count-1
then it gives abs(-1)=1%weapons.Count probably 1

[buoyant knot]

i would

[gaunt ice]

just change it to event based, store the current weapon you use, when switch the weapon, disable current weapon and assign new selected weapon to current weapon

[buoyant knot]

you also won’t need to iterate. just go to the one current weapon and turn it off. then go to the new weapon ID and turn it on, and assign the current weapon id

[wintry quarry]

you would need to actually pass in the argument

[buoyant knot]

i might even change the selected weapon int to be a property with a backing field

[wintry quarry]

but yeah the for loop is a little much. Just disabling the old weapon and enabling the new is all you need

[wintry quarry]

this is how I'd do it too

[buoyant knot]

because it’s basically a getter and setter

[wintry quarry]

that being said I feel like what you have should actually work as is

try adding some log statements to see what's going wrong

[buoyant knot]

also don’t iterate

[wintry quarry]

e.g. in your loop you can print whether you're activating/deactivating each weapon

[buoyant knot]

weapons[current].gameobject.SetActive(false);
weapons[newID].gameobject.SetActive(true);
current = newID;

[bitter oar]

Help! How would i check if a Vector3 is to my players right or his left?

[buoyant knot]

in a property, maybe i can help with syntax:

private int CurrentWeapon { get => _currentWeapon; set {
weapons[_currentWeapon].gameobject.SetActive(false);
weapons[value].gameobject.SetActive(true);
_currentWeapon = value;
}}

[wintry quarry]

From the player's perspective? Or from a global coordinate system perspective?

[bitter oar]

no, from a 3rd person camera

[buoyant knot]

i would use transform.left or something, take a dot product, and see if that dot product is positive or negative

[wintry quarry]

Yeah but like... From the player's perspective, or on absolute terms?

[buoyant knot]

positive = left, negative = right

[wintry quarry]

in absolute terms you just compare the x coordinate of their positions

[bitter oar]

player

[wintry quarry]

if you want it from the player's perspective then you'd do something like:

Vector3 localPos = player.transform.InverseTransformPoint(theVector3);
bool toTheRight = localPos.x > 0;
bool toTheLeft = localPos.x < 0;```

[buoyant knot]

you have to define a vector for what is the player’s left. get a vector from player pos to the point. and then dot product.

[wintry quarry]

this gets the position in the player's local coordinate system, and just checks if the x is positive or negative.

[buoyant knot]

Transform also has methods for this stuff, like praetor is showing, but for simple stuff I prefer to do it like this. because those methods confuse me sometimes

[native flicker]

how could i use arrays inside different files?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "inside different files"?

[gaunt ice]

i think he means in other scripts

[wintry quarry]

what are you trying to do with the arrays?

[wintry quarry]

In general cross script communication works the same way, regardless of whether the field or property is an array, an int, a GameObject or anything else.

[native flicker]

making a cost var with diff prices in it

[wintry quarry]

Basically it makes no difference if it's an array

You do the same as ever - get a reference to an instance of the other script. Then you can freely interact with all its members through that reference.

[native flicker]

so i got this script
script 1

public class Data
{
    public BigDouble money;
    public BigDouble[] cost;
    public BigDouble lvl1;
    public Data(){
        money = 0;
        lvl1 = 0;
        cost = new BigDouble[]{10, 20};
    }
}```
script 2

public void Textfix()
{
    if (data.money < 1000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + data.money.ToString("F1");}
    if (data.money >= 1000 && data.money < 1000000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + (data.money / 1000).ToString("F2") + "k";}
    if (data.money >= 1000000 && data.money < 1000000000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + (data.money / 1000000).ToString("F2") + "M";}
    if (data.money >= 1000000000 && data.money < 1000000000000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + (data.money / 1000000000).ToString("F2") + "B";}
    if (data.money >= 1000000000000 && data.money < 1000000000000000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + (data.money / 1000000000000).ToString("F2") + "T";}
    if (data.money > 1000000000000)
        {moneyText.text = "Money: " + (data.money / 1000000000000000).ToString("F2") + "q";}
    if (data.cost[0] < 1000) ///this one
        {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + data.cost[0].ToString("F1");}
}```

and then i get this error
this is the error IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.

and there reference is set correctly

[wintry quarry]

cost must be an empty array. You'd have to show how you initialized the data variable

[native flicker]

public Data data;i have this

[buoyant knot]

do
public Data data = new();

[wintry quarry]

ok and where are you initializing it? That's just a declaration.

[native flicker]

right after i create my class

[wintry quarry]

where?

Show code

[buoyant knot]

actually, index out of range exception means it is initialized; but the index is too big

[native flicker]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using TMPro;
using System;
using BreakInfinity;
using UnityEngine.U2D.IK;

public class Manager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Data data = new();```

[native flicker]

still same error

[buoyant knot]

which line gives index out of range? is it the one with cost[0]?

[native flicker]

yes

[buoyant knot]

call Debug.Log(data.cost.Length);

[languid spire]

show inspector of Manager

[buoyant knot]

oh, also because it is public, unity might try to serialize it. i wonder if that is the problem

[languid spire]

is Data marked as Serializable?

[buoyant knot]

you probably also want [NonSerialized] public Data data = new();

[native flicker]

its 0

[native flicker]

wym?

[buoyant knot]

if it is serializable, Unity may try to save the old Data value you have stored

which is wrong here

[native flicker]

nope still 0

[languid spire]

you have a public variable data in a Monobehaviour, that means Unity will try to serialize it if the class is marked as serializable

[native flicker]

yes but i did NonSerialized before data and still same error

[buoyant knot]

try to call Debug(cost.Length); in the constructor for Data

[buoyant knot]

we want to clear out all the bad things it could be, even if it’s not the cause for this specific issue

[languid spire]

I still want to see the Inspector of Manager

[native flicker]

this?

[buoyant knot]

yeah, it isn’t serialized, which is good

[native flicker]

i get this ArgumentNullException: Object Graph cannot be null. Parameter name: graph System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.ObjectWriter.Serialize (System.Object graph, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[] inHeaders, System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.__BinaryWriter serWriter, System.Boolean fCheck) (at <17d9ce77f27a4bd2afb5ba32c9bea976>:0) System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Object graph, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[] headers, System.Boolean fCheck) (at <17d9ce77f27a4bd2afb5ba32c9bea976>:0) System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Object graph, System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Header[] headers) (at <17d9ce77f27a4bd2afb5ba32c9bea976>:0) System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter.Serialize (System.IO.Stream serializationStream, System.Object graph) (at <17d9ce77f27a4bd2afb5ba32c9bea976>:0) SaveSystem.<SaveData>g__Save|6_0[T] (System.String path, SaveSystem+<>c__DisplayClass6_0`1[T]& ) (at Assets/Scripts/SaveSystem.cs:30) SaveSystem.SaveData[T] (T data, System.String filename) (at Assets/Scripts/SaveSystem.cs:21) Manager.Update () (at Assets/Scripts/Manager.cs:188)

[buoyant knot]

if you put Debug.Log(cost.Length) in Data’s constructor, what is the result?

[ancient island]

does anyone know about a better way to make a timer? I've been doing this for now:

m_milliseconds = Mathf.FloorToInt((m_pointsTimer % 1f) * 100); // m_pointsTimer is increased by Time.deltaTime every frame

        if (m_pointsTimer - 1f >= 0) {
            m_pointsTimer -= 1f;
            m_seconds++;
            if (m_seconds >= 60) {
                m_seconds = 0;
                m_minutes++;
            }
        }

        m_timerLabel.text = (m_minutes < 10 ? "0" : "") + m_minutes + ":" +
                              (m_seconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + m_seconds + "." +
                              (m_milliseconds < 10 ? "0" : "") + m_milliseconds;

I need a better aproach or a built in Unity timer because at game over I have to decrease the timer down to 00:00.00

[buoyant knot]

coroutine

[native flicker]

the msg above

[buoyant knot]

and you get that when you press play?

[ancient island]

yeah but I have to display it, coroutines wont work because of that

[native flicker]

Data..ctor () (at Assets/Scripts/Data.cs:20)

``` and still 0

[buoyant knot]

coroutines can work. and you probably want to use ToString formatting arguments

[buoyant knot]

and this is when Debug.Log is put AFTER you assign cost = new… ?

[native flicker]

oh lmao, wait

its 2

on start 0

[buoyant knot]

and data = new() only once when you declare data?

[native flicker]

yes i think so

[buoyant knot]

but the constructor is being called, because you see the debug log

[native flicker]

i also removed NonSerialized and now no errors and var is now 2

yes

its fixed now, tysm

[cosmic quail]

interesting, the documentation says nothing about UnityEvent<bool> 🤯 where did you learn this? also is UnityEvent<bool, int> also possible? And UnityEvent<bool, int, int> etc depending on how many parameters your method has?

[buoyant knot]

i would also make data a property.
public Data data {get; private set; }

automatically not serialized, and data can’t be assigned in different places

[native flicker]

alright thak you for all your help

[buoyant knot]

then click on the set keyword, and ctrl+R (or ctrl shift R?) to find all references to it

so you can make sure it is only assigned once

[native flicker]

alright thx

[buoyant knot]

gl

[cunning rapids]

Ah shit sorry for the late reply

I was very busy

Did you figure it out?

Also, guys, should I use an object pool?

For the muzzle flash?

Here

[sterile radish]

why can't i access this public void on my button's On Click event?
https://hastebin.com/share/zujevevawa.cpp

[native flicker]

so i tried adding another array but it doesn't work, i get the same issue as above, when its starts its set to 0 but the other one does work

    public void Textfix()
    {
        if (data.cost[0] >= 1000 && data.cost[0] < 1000000)
            {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.cost[0] / 1000).ToString("F2") + "k";}
        if (data.cost[0] >= 1000000 && data.cost[0] < 1000000000)
            {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.cost[0] / 1000000).ToString("F2") + "M";}
        if (data.cost[0] >= 1000000000 && data.cost[0] < 1000000000000)
            {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.cost[0] / 1000000000).ToString("F2") + "B";}
        if (data.cost[0] >= 1000000000000 && data.cost[0] < 1000000000000000)
            {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.cost[0] / 1000000000000).ToString("F2") + "T";}
        if (data.cost[0] > 1000000000000)
            {cost1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.cost[0] / 1000000000000000).ToString("F2") + "q";}
        if (data.lvl[0] < 1000) ///this line
            {lvl1Text.text = "Money: " + data.lvl[0].ToString("F1");}
        if (data.lvl[0] >= 1000 && data.lvl[0] < 1000000)
            {lvl1Text.text = "Money: " + (data.lvl[0] / 1000).ToString("F2") + "k";}
        
    }```
```C#
public class Manager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Data data {get; private set; }```
```C#
[Serializable]
public class Data
{
    public BigDouble money;
    public BigDouble[] cost;
    public BigDouble[] lvl;
    public Data(){
        money = 0;
        lvl = new BigDouble[] {0, 0, 0};
        cost = new BigDouble[] {10, 125};
        Debug.Log(lvl.Length);

    }
}```

[buoyant knot]

why is data serializable? should it be?

[native flicker]

yes its cause everything is stored there for save system

[buoyant knot]

use debugger then, to look into it

[wintry quarry]

because it has 3 parameters
the UI only supports one parameter

[buoyant knot]

put a breakpoint and look at wtf is in data during textfix

[native flicker]

textfix is just so its like 100M 1B those stuff and i need to check how much is inside those vars to know wether its in millions or smt like that

also debugger i tried that but i can't find any solution

same error as before but its all the same

[buoyant knot]

debugger doesn’t mainly show errors. debugger should let you see the contents of variables

get in there and look at the contents of data

[spiral narwhal]

The predefined type 'System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsExternalInit' must be defined or imported in order to declare init-only setter

What does that mean

Oh, it seems Unity does not support records like this

[cosmic dagger]

You can't use record I believe . . .

The docs should have a specific example on using record with Unity . . .

[brave compass]

It's the primary constructor that is the problem.

[solemn wraith]

Hi, I'm having an issue with my camera controller which you can see here: https://gdl.space/metemicame.cs . In particular, the GetCameraSize() function is the issue; As I say in the large comment at the top of the file, at step 5 I would like for this to return the smallest orthographic size where all the points can be seen. My issue is that this isn't working -> Not all the points can be seen. I'm sure it's just a tiny issue with my logic or something, but I can't pin point it. I would appreciate any help

[brave compass]

It generates a property with an init setter, which is not supported in Unity. Except, the only thing missing is this System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsExternalInit type. You can define it yourself.

[buoyant knot]

unity doesn’t support record keyword

[spiral narwhal]

Mmm, this is what I found:

Record support
C# 9 init and record support comes with a few caveats.

The type System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsExternalInit is required for full record support as it uses init only setters, but is only available in .NET 5 and later (which Unity doesn’t support). Users can work around this issue by declaring the System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsExternalInit type in their own projects.
You shouldn’t use C# records in serialized types because Unity’s serialization system doesn’t support C# records.

Does this mean I need to import that package somehow to use records?

[buoyant knot]

because Unity doesn’t believe in new versions of C#. only some minor support

nope, Unity will not support it

[brave compass]

Unity supports records, and can support init properties if you define this System.Runtime.CompilerServices.IsExternalInit type yourself.

[buoyant knot]

unity has never supported records for me

[brave compass]

Which version?

[spiral narwhal]

Eh.

Reserved to be used by the compiler for tracking metadata. This class should not be used by developers in source code.

Better leave my hands off this if the docs ask you to stay away

[buoyant knot]

i’ve been on the recent version i believe.

[native flicker]

the data is set, but when the game starts it gets cleared

[buoyant knot]

most recent as of June 2023

[buoyant knot]

yeah. you set it to new

[native flicker]

im lost rn

[brave compass]

It's simply an empty type that the compiler relies on for metadata. There's no issue with defining it yourself.

[buoyant knot]

do you want the Data field to get serialized in the Manager monobehaviour

[brave compass]

Just a file with this is enough:

namespace System.Runtime.CompilerServices
{
      internal static class IsExternalInit {}
}

[native flicker]

not needed but i just want so all arrays work

thats all

[buoyant knot]

then you definitely do not want to serialize it

[spiral narwhal]

Okay, I'll check it out!
Funny that Unity doesn't include those 3 lines then haha

[native flicker]

then what do i need to change in my code?

[buoyant knot]

click on the “set” keyword for data, and search all references

look for where it gets assigned

i think it is ctrl shift R on windows

or maybe ctrl R

we’re looking for every time data gets set

and we want that to be a single time

[native flicker]

alright

how?

[sterile radish]

i want to use this function as a sort of buying mechanic for my cookie clicker game. i tried adding it to my buy button for my shop items however it seems that UI can only have one parameter in a function. how else would i go on about implementing buying items in my game?
https://hastebin.com/share/kamoxidefi.cpp

[buoyant knot]

what do you mean

click on “set” where you wrote private set

then ctrl+R

(or ctrl-shift-R, don’t remember)

[native flicker]

Ooh alright

[buoyant knot]

now at the bottom of visual studio it should show you every time it is used

links to every line

[native flicker]

Alr

[solemn wraith]

what do you mean by only 1 parameter?

are you having issues with having 3 arguments to the function?

[sterile radish]

yes

[solemn wraith]

well is this function in a monobehaviour?

[sterile radish]

yeah

[solemn wraith]

It's probably not the best solution but why not try using a struct?

[cosmic dagger]

Button events can only use methods with one parameter when attempting to add a method from a MonoBehaviour in the inspector . . .

[solemn wraith]

I don't mean to be rude, but I'm also still looking for some help regarding my own issue.

[cosmic dagger]

As SDS stated, you can creete a struct with your parameters as its fields, but you need to subscribe the method to the button listener via code . . .

[sterile radish]

okay ill try using a struct, thanks guys!

[sterile radish]

sorry i'm pretty new to structs. what would i need to put inside the struct? should i store my parameters in the struct and use a new method to call that struct?

[gaunt ice]

struct="light weight" class
and you can treat it as class

[solemn wraith]

I'm not exactly the most knowledgable but I think something like this should work:

[System.Serializable]
public struct ShopParameters {
   [SerializeField] public int parameterName,
}

public void Buy(ShopParameters param) {...} 

[sterile radish]

oh okay that makes sense

thank you!

[cosmic dagger]

They are similar to creating a class but you use the struct keyword instead. You can find a tutorial online to give you an example. The fields of the struct will be the same names as the parameters for the method . . .

[dire torrent]

not sure if this is the right channel for this
for some reason i cant seem to do anything with TextMeshPro in code.
using TMPro; gives me this error: ```
error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'TMPro' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

here's the package in package manager too :O

[solemn wraith]

did you import tmp essential resources?

[dire torrent]

yep i get this when i click on it

[solemn wraith]

did you like save your file maybe?

[dire torrent]

yep

even vscode shows an error saying TMPro type or namespace couldnt be found

[wintry quarry]

do you have an assembly definition in your Scripts folder?

[solemn wraith]

well I have no clue then

[dire torrent]

sorry what assembly definition? :O

[wintry quarry]

Any assembly definition

Do you have one or not?

Take a look

it would be a .asmdef file, it will look like a puzzle piece icon in project window

[dire torrent]

ok yea i got one

[wintry quarry]

That's your problem

why is that there

either remove it, or add the TMP reference to it

[dire torrent]

its a project im using
aight will add reference

thanks

[wintry quarry]

you mean an asset?

[dire torrent]

its a project i cloned from github for embedded web browser

[wintry quarry]

Sure but why are your scripts inside that package's asmdef?

It should be in its own folder

In fact it should have been imported as a package and not in your Assets folder at all

[dire torrent]

this sample unity project was setup in that github too

[wintry quarry]

You installed it improperly from what you're describing

https://github.com/Voltstro-Studios/UnityWebBrowser/tree/master#install

[dire torrent]

oh yea its separately in Packages folder
this is just a template project i was using since it was already setup 😄

[wintry quarry]

if it's in Packages you can delete the stuff from Assets

In any case there's absolutely no reason your custom script inside Assets/Scripts should be covered under this assembly definition

[solemn wraith]

Hi I'm still looking for help in my problem thanks.

[warm condor]

do you guys know how to use this function?
ForceMode.VelocityChange

[wintry quarry]

that's not a function

it's a member of the ForceMode enum

Typically you use it with AddForce:

rb.AddForce(someForce, ForceMode.VelocityChange);```

[warm condor]

oh i see, then how do you use it in the AddForce funtion?

[wintry quarry]

as a parameter

[warm condor]

ahh alr, ill try it out

is it only used for the y axis or can it also be used for the x axis as well?

[wintry quarry]

i have no idea what this question means

it applies to the entire force

[cosmic dagger]

You provide the direction of force when calling the AddForce method . . .

[warm condor]

so can you do this?
rb.AddForce(ForceMode.VelocityChange, someforce);

[wintry quarry]

no

[wintry quarry]

like this

You have to give the parameters in the order they're defined:
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForce.html

[cosmic dagger]

Take a look at the unity docs for the method. It has examples and details on each forcemode . . .

[warm condor]

wdym?

[solemn wraith]

The first parameter has to be a vector I think, rb.AddForce(new Vector3(), ForceMode.VelocityChange)

[cosmic dagger]

You provide (enter) the direction of force. It can be on any axis: x, y, or z . . .

[polar acorn]

What do you think ForceMode.VelocityChange means

What are you expecting it to do

Because I do not think it means what you think it means

[warm condor]

I think it adds the force on an object in a certain way. For example, ForceMode.Acceleration makes it accelerate where as ForceMode.Impulse interprets it as an impulse

[solemn wraith]

Can someone please help me? I think I'm just messing up some simple logic but I can't pin point it

[polar acorn]

Yes that is correct but do you know what acceleration or impulse mean

You still have to give it a force. The force mode is not itself a force, it just determines how that force gets added

[steel pelican]

Hey

[hidden sleet]

If I have an empty object acting as a group for objects to be a child of, if I want them all to behave like they are stuck together would I need to remove the rigidbody from all the children and give one to the parent instead?

[polar acorn]

Yes

[warm condor]

ahhh I see, that makes sense

[hidden sleet]

cheers, wasn't sure if adding one to an empty object would work since it doesn't have any physics properties

[rocky canyon]

use a primative collider that surrounds the general shape of all ur pieces together

or.. keep the colliders u have..

[warm condor]

can you use these different types of forces to avoid overwriting another force?

[rocky canyon]

the rigidbody will take all child colliders into cosideration

[ivory bobcat]

Could probably do some complex/bizarre joint connection system with the bunch of rigid bodies as well - constrains the objects together.

[rocky canyon]

hehe maybe a bunch of fixed joints might wor

[polar acorn]

No

Forces don't overwrite, they add

That's why it's called addforce

[steel pelican]

when i am trying to build my game for ios with unity then i am getting this error again and again and i am unable to fix it :

Linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

[ivory bobcat]

Every time you apply force to an object, you're giving it more force - direction can be negative but it's technically adding forces to the already existing force being applied to the object.

[rocky canyon]

u could add a positive force.. and then add a negative force..

would likely be close to cancelling each other out

but probably never exact

[warm condor]

damn I see. The thing is that I want to add a force when the player sudently changes dorections, but my move function is setting the velocity to a deffined speed, making the AddForce not adding any force.

[steel pelican]

anyone please ??

[polar acorn]

Then you will need to not do that

[ivory bobcat]

Doesn't sound like a coding issue, you should probably try moving your message to #💻┃unity-talk

[native flicker]

it is set 2 times, in time there and 1 time here C# private void Start() { data = SaveSystem.SaveExists(dataFileName)/// this line ? SaveSystem.LoadData<Data>(dataFileName) : new Data(); data.up1 = 0; ///lastFocusTime = DateTime.Now; Debug.Log(data.lvl.Length); Textfix(); imageChange(offlineImage); } what do i change or do?

[hidden sleet]

oh that's neat. So one rigidbody on the child should behave as I want it to

now for the moment of truth

welp

got close X/

[ivory bobcat]

You might want to summarize what you've done thus far and what the issue is.

[native flicker]

so here is the thing thats going on now

[solemn wraith]

How can I force screen orientation to be landscape and lock orientation? Currently I have:
Screen.orientation = ScreenOrientation.LandscapeLeft; in my Start() but it doesn't seem to work

[native flicker]

this was whats going on before

[wintry quarry]

almost certainly oyu're dealing with an uninitialized serialized (aka all empty/default) copy of your class.

but without seeing more code it can't be said for sure

[native flicker]

but weird thing is, i left my pc for 2h, did nothing and its F* fixed 💀
I just restarted untity and all errors are gone...

so ye thx for trying to help but im good now ig

[warm condor]

but how? I tried playing around with the if statements, but will will always end up getting complicated, I am trying to find a simple way out

oh wait, is it possible to disable some functions and enable other functions?

because I was maybe I can enable a function at a specific moment and then let the other function do its thing after when a function has done its purpose

[ivory bobcat]

You'd get the entire set together (rigid body physics as a component)

[warm condor]

I don't understand, what is a set?

[ivory bobcat]

The entirety of the rigid body physics system with the component

[warm condor]

yea? I guess so.

I've got only one rigidbody in my game object, so yes

[charred spoke]

Its what digiholic told you. Dont set your velocity directly use AddForce

[cosmic dagger]

You should not mix setting the velocity and using add force. Setting the velocity will override any force applied . . .

[uncut dune]

Trying to make a wand moving around my player and when the mouse gets further I want the wand to go a bit further from the player and its the last line of code that is doing that. and for that I should just be able to twick the x value of the want and it works if I change it in inspeactor but for some reason that last line of code is also changing my y value Idk why

[warm condor]

ahh I see, is there any diffrence between Adding forces and setting the velocity? I thought that adding forces makes the movement feel snappy where as adding forces makes the movement mode rolly, like a ball

[ivory bobcat]

You're assigning one of the values zero in the vector 3

[wintry quarry]

You can think of it this way.
Setting velocity:
velocity = x;
Adding force:
velocity = velocity + force;

effectively they do the same thing - change the velocity

but adding force takes the current velocity into account and adds to it

[uncut dune]

the z

and the y

the y should keep being 0

and it changes

Im hella confused

[wintry quarry]

Snappiness or not just depends on how much force you're adding and when.

[wintry quarry]

first thing's first. Is this an orthographic camera or a perspective camera?

[uncut dune]

ortho

its 2d

forgot to sya

[wintry quarry]

ok - you're being a little careless with your z coordinates here.

note that even in 2d, all these things will have a z coordinate
ah nvm you're using Vector2s everywhere.

[ivory bobcat]

If the y value is changing, maybe this function isn't occurring every frame to constrain the y value?

[tawdry dome]

I'm trying to open the Ruby 2D Adventure Beginner tutorial on unity hub, but I can't open the assets on the store
This is the tutorial: https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/welcome-to-2d-beginner-adventure-game?uv=2022.3&courseId=64774201edbc2a1638d25d18#
The assets is called StarterAssets.unitypackage but when I try to add it to unity hub as a project, the file doesn't show up to be selected, and when I select the entire folder it says it is invalid.
I've tried opening the StarterAssets thing but it opens up unity start icon then it dissapears and nothing happens.
When I've gone on the website to download the assets, when I open it in the unity hub, the unity hub has a little loading screen then nothing happens.
Any help on how to open this tutorial? Thanks
This is the asset on the store : https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/unity-learn-2d-beginner-tutorial-resources-urp-140167?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=education_global_generalpromo_2019-05-03_learn&utm_content=video_2d-beginner-project.
I'm not sure if this is different to the one on the tutorial page, but I can't manage to download it anyways.

[uncut dune]

but when I cut that line of code off it keeps being 0

[uncut dune]

yah I would just want it to be 0

should I set it 0?

[wintry quarry]

nvm I think it's fine because you're explicitly using Vector2s

[ivory bobcat]

You've likely got something else going on

[wintry quarry]

though you are definitely being a little inefficient with how you construct them

[uncut dune]

I just checked if I set the x value in that to a constant it stops moving with its parent object

not sure why

yah the parent of it moves

[wintry quarry]

are you wanting all this stuff to be relative to the parent? You should use localPosition instead then

but be careful because the mouse pos is in world space

[ivory bobcat]

The values you see in the inspector are the local position and whatnot

[uncut dune]

ohhhhhhhhh

ok I will try using the localposition

so the position is like setting despiting there existing a parent?

[wintry quarry]

yes

it's setting world position

if the parent is at +5 and you set position to 0, your local position will be set to -5

[hidden sleet]

so setting localPosition to 0 I assume will align it with the parent?

[uncut dune]

thank you its almost working

[uncut dune]

yes I guess so

[hidden sleet]

Currently got an issue where I can't drag a a group of objects around once they've merged. Got this for the drag and drop and I thought I needed to check whether a parent exists then set the transforms to that. I can move each individual one but once they've merged together I don't even get the mouseDown breakpoint reached

Yeah I click on them like this and they don't move like before

[sterile radish]

how would i subscribe a method to a button's onclick listener through code?

[hidden sleet]

does the parent empty also need it's own collider for you to then be able to click on it?

Since it looks like the OnMouseDown method is never fired for me

[wintry quarry]

button.onClick.AddListener(...);```

[sterile radish]

thanks

[hidden sleet]

oh my, fixed it. Turns out I just needed to put my drag and drop script on the group empty object

my word I think this is the messiest way of doing this possible

just the whole component and script system gets a bit tough to wrap my head around. Had to put the objectSnap script on this just so I could pass in an instance of it since I have a delegate that needs to be fired when two items snap

surely this can't be how you are supposed to do it

[wintry quarry]

well what does the ObjectSnap script do? Is it supposed to be on one of the snappable objects?

If so it doesn't make any sense to put it here

[hidden sleet]

it's only supposed to go on the snappable ones, yes. I just couldnt figure out how I could make it so that the CreateNewStructure method runs since it needed a reference to the object snap

[wintry quarry]

If you want the BuildManager to know when any objects snap, you would need to either:

• Switch to a static event and subscribe to that (and pass a ref to theobject in the event)
• have BuildManager dynamically subscribe to each snappable object (possibly by having them register themselves with the BuildManager in Awake)

[hidden sleet]

but this seems to convoluted I know it's not the right way

so given this, I could just set that event to static it should work for the most part?

[delicate portal]

Hey I'm working on an FPS shooter where the enemy is controlled by AI. Whenever an enemy dies, a script should apply force to its rigidbody, but instead it doesnt do anything, what can go wrong? (death is made with ragdolls)

[hidden sleet]

at first glance I'd assume it's cause rig doesn't have anything assigned to it in the inspector

[delicate portal]

It's getting it in the script

[twin hill]

hi guys how can i fix this the collider is not moving forward when the animation is playing, and when the animation finishes, the character goes back to the starting point of the animation and my collider and script in the Parent(BaykusEnemy) :/

[delicate portal]

On playtime it works

[twin hill]

this is the animation

[wintry quarry]

well you'd likely want to pass in the snapping object itself in the delegate

but yes, because then you can subscribe to the static event without an instance

the instance will come as a parameter

[marsh prairie]

guys I still cannot solve this issue. I have a house prop. It has doors. When I add Mesh Collider for it, it closes all the house. I cannot go through the door. Is there only way to fix this by adding manually box colliders around all walls, roof ?

[wintry quarry]

if you set the collider as convex it cannot have holes

to be perfectly honest, manually placing a few box colliders will probably be the most performant solution

[marsh prairie]

if I set it to Convex then all physic props and me goes out after I hit Play button. Everything then is outside

[wintry quarry]

right exactly

I'm saying DON'T set it as convex

[marsh prairie]

if I have like around 100 house props now and every of them are the same.... this is the hardcore to play with box colliders 😦 how to do for the roof ? :/

[wintry quarry]

Make it a prefab

you then only need to do it once

[hidden sleet]

If you pass in the snap object in the delegate though, how can that work here since I need that object first before being able to call the actual method?

[wintry quarry]

You shouldn't be calling it here at all

the ObjectSnap class should be calling it

[rocky canyon]

yup, just make ya a box collider for the wall and add it to the building.. leaving a gap for the door

u want ur colliders as simple as possible for hte most part

[marsh prairie]

hmmm Thanks PraetorBlue 🙂 looks like i gonna have so much boring work 😦

[rocky canyon]

esp if u have lots of physics in ur game

[wintry quarry]

not really

you make the prefab once

then stamp it around your world as many times as you want

[rocky canyon]

^ make a wall, a window, and a door block

3 prefabs.. for everything

[marsh prairie]

yes but other houses ar not the same .... i have lots of different houses .... 😦 and all of them I plan to make enterable

[wintry quarry]

ok well yes each one should be a prefab'

possibly prefab variants of some base house prefab

[buoyant knot]

one prefab can contain other prefabs

[marsh prairie]

how about that V form roof for bos collision ?

[hidden sleet]

but the objectsnap class doesn't have the CreateNewStructure method.
I think i'll definitely do more research into this, struggling to figure it all out

[rocky canyon]

u ever gonna be walkin across the roof?

[wintry quarry]

Depends how accurate you need collisions to be

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't need to, that's the whole point of the event

[rocky canyon]

if so.. u take 2 cubes and rotate them to make a peak..

ezpz

[marsh prairie]

🙂

[buoyant knot]

let’s say you have a red wall and blue wall. these two should be prefab variants of a wall prefab.
let’s say you have a house with 4 walls. That should be a house prefab, which contains 4 wall prefab-connected objects in it

[rocky canyon]

OR.. an alternative.. make the doorways a threshold.. that u load into..

then it drops u inside the house..

then no messy door colliders to mess with 😄

[marsh prairie]

but if I have a weather conditions, and there are no box colliders for the roof, it means that rain/snow will go into house ?

[rocky canyon]

yup, this is just basic game developing trouble shooting..

[hidden sleet]

if you aren't supposed to do this at all here then how is the method in here going to be fired?

[rocky canyon]

do u turn off the weather while ur inside? if theres windows can you turn it off? does ur weather effects actually collide with things? etc etc

[wintry quarry]

Example:
https://hatebin.com/sdhqvnleza

[buoyant knot]

you can always define a zone with no weather, depending on how you make weather

[marsh prairie]

its open world, you can explore, and weather doesnt change if youre inside

[rocky canyon]

yea, but sometimes u have to deal with stuff like that for performance.. say ur inside a house with no windows.. or even better an underground tunnel..

[buoyant knot]

i would then make a monobehaviour for a roof, which defines a region under it to block weather

[rocky canyon]

why spend the resources running the weather when ur not gonna see it?

[buoyant knot]

or monobehaviour for a house or something

[rocky canyon]

why not keep track of what the weather was originally? u can turn it back on when u exit.. or get to the top floor

etc etc

[marsh prairie]

hmmm 🙂

[buoyant knot]

i think he means if you are looking outside door, you should see dry indoor and rain outside in one frame

[rocky canyon]

but ya, its ur choice.. i like to disable stuff on the outside when ur inside

no need on using that extra resources

[hidden sleet]

Just realised I've been a complete fool and forgot to reference the class. I really need a break...

[rocky canyon]

true.. in that case id probably make tiny volumes to put in front of each window

[buoyant knot]

depends on how you define weather tbh

[rocky canyon]

facts

[buoyant knot]

if every raindrop has a sphere collider, then just use colliders. but that shit will get expensive

[rocky canyon]

thunderstorm rolls in

gfx card melts

[marsh prairie]

😄

[buoyant knot]

either way, you need some way to represent the volume where you expect no weather

but that is a very different question

[marsh prairie]

Chat-GPT always has solutions 😄

Certainly! If you want your player to collide with the house but still interact with doors using the 'E' key, you can use a combination of colliders and raycasting. Here's a simple example script:

Create a new script (e.g., DoorInteraction) and attach it to the player or an empty GameObject in the scene.

Set up Colliders:

Give your house GameObject a MeshCollider for collision with the player.
For the doors, you can use primitive colliders like BoxCollider or SphereCollider for each door.
Write the Script:

but i tried a lot of of its offers but none worked for that house PROP 😄

[buoyant knot]

i too believe in sphere colliders for doors

[marsh prairie]

😄

[buoyant knot]

doors are always hard tbh. there are many videos detailing how to do doors

[marsh prairie]

yep, different ways to do it, but still the house prop is my headache

[rocky canyon]

graphics and interactions always seperate

member that and ur fine.. ur house prop is a graphic..

the colliders would be its own thing sharing a parent

u could keep mesh renderers and filters on it and enable and disable them as u need while building it out

when finished.. just remove all the mesh rendererer stuff. and keep the colliders

[hidden sleet]

what's the hardest part about them?

[rocky canyon]

the only time i have issues with doors is when i want them physically accurate and try to use unity's hinge joints

😅

[buoyant knot]

3 things make doors hard. 1) Loading/spawning things, 2) colliders meeting at a sharp angle and moving with a hinge, and 3) graphics on each side of the door

[rocky canyon]

i animate my doors.. always have them open outwards, simple solution

or sliding doors.. (#sci-fi)

[buoyant knot]

japanese sliding doors are extremely easy to implement relative to doors with hinges

[rocky canyon]

lol..

[hidden sun]

does anyone know why transform.pos has other value than it should have? When i set it to an int, it s auto adding 0.5

[hidden sleet]

at least I'm prepared for what would lie ahead when I need to work on them in the future 😬

[buoyant knot]

or metroid prime energy doors that just appear / disappear entirely

[rocky canyon]

bead doors are even easier

[hidden sleet]

even doors are beyond what I can realistically do at the moment

[marsh prairie]

ok, I see You guys are active today. How do I bake NavMesh for my big terrain ? ..... is it possible to bake like manually ?

[buoyant knot]

i can feel the GPU melting

[rich adder]

Hitman Absolution

[rocky canyon]

lol, nah u just walk thru it.. its a colliderless plane +:D

with bead texture

[hidden sleet]

or do what SC Chaos Theory does

[toxic latch]

a game object can exist simply as a means of utilizing scripts, correct? or are they explicitly intended to be "physical" objects within the scene?

[hidden sleet]

have most doors be fabric ones you walk through

[rocky canyon]

u described a basic "GameManager"

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/II6wP--KtDE

[rocky canyon]

oh fck that

lmao

how do they do that i wonder?

verlet rope sim?

with some colliders spaced out

[rich adder]

prob just a bunch of hinges

[rocky canyon]

gross

lol

[rich adder]

xD

[rocky canyon]

does look cool tho

[rocky canyon]

im not so sure now that they changed the navmesh stuff

u could usually mark ur stuff as static / navigation and inside the navigation window u could click bake

and it would run a bake manually.

[rich adder]

just do realtime baking

[hidden sleet]

is a navmesh always required for any ai to be able to walk on it?

[rocky canyon]

yes

navmeshagent must stand ontop of a navmesh

or else it'll bitch at you

[hidden sleet]

gotcha

[rich adder]

if you want proper A* and RVO

[hidden sleet]

saw a gdc talk about that a little while ago but I've not looked into it much yet

[rocky canyon]

A* is the shit

[eternal needle]

The value you see in inspector is local position, the debug is world position

[marsh prairie]

hmmm navarone , you mean when I Play game, i bake it to terrain surface ?

[rocky canyon]

its wat unity uses.. but u can get assets/ external repo's that have much more for A*

u can have flying enemies for example with no nav mesh

[hidden sun]

ty

[rich adder]

for big terrains prob easier than a giant navmsesh

you bake as you walk

[marsh prairie]

maybe you have a quick tutorial for that ?

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/runtime-navmesh-generation

[marsh prairie]

i would walk onto the playable area only

[rich adder]

ah unity nuked the page without replacement..smart

[marsh prairie]

yeah

[hidden sleet]

wondered how that'd work with flying ones. I imagined creating a navmesh as a sort of volume would be the solution but that sounds rather strenuous

[rocky canyon]

same link lol

[marsh prairie]

😄

[rich adder]

https://youtu.be/RuoK7w1OIT0

this dude has the best Navmesh agent videos

[marsh prairie]

already watching

[fickle plume]

I think they moved quite a few tutorials into Pathways courses and never redirected properly.

Still can be found on YouTube Unity channel though

[rocky canyon]

most of the flying enemy stuff ends up being custom

depending on whetehr ur making a 2d gmae, 3d game, or w/e

[rich adder]

or just offset the visuals from the actual agent

and it looks like its "flying" xD

[toxic latch]

if you have a game that is primarily text-based other than basic icons to represent a character or item, etc., in what form does an item possessed by the player 'exist'? Like if the player has an AK-47 rifle, but that rifle is only really represented as an inventory icon and a +3 attack bonus, how should you bring that rifle into 'existence' i.e. when the character comes to actually possess it? Specifically if you want to be able to add a scope for a +1 attack bonus (it seems a lot of people use scriptable objects for inventory items but as I understand it you cannot edit their variables at runtime and thus cannot at the scope for +1 attack for example)

[rocky canyon]

this is absolutely practical for smaller 2d type platformers

make the graphics bob up and down above the capsule 😄

[rich adder]

thats howI faked some drone enemies, but in 3d

[toxic latch]

so could you just use a game object even though the object doesn't need to be represented physically within the scene?

[wintry quarry]

Often I would use a reference to a ScriptableObject that describes the weapon. The SO may itself have a reference to a prefab that you could instantiate to bring it into the real world, as well as a reference to a sprite to show it in the inventory UI for example

[rocky canyon]

the navmeshagent doesnt need the collider right above the ground mesh does it?

im wondering how ud walk beneath it?

[wintry quarry]

There's nothing stopping you from wrapping the SO reference in another object at runtime to apply things like this

for example

class InventoryWeapon {
  WeaponSO baseweapon;
  List<Modifier> modifiers;
}```

[marsh prairie]

looks like that guy wrote his own NavMesh Bake script

[rocky canyon]

absolutely..

[rich adder]

i just put the actual collider on the mesh/graphic, so it can easily go under stuff

[rocky canyon]

when people talk about seperating graphics from logics thats what they mean... the graphics are a seperate part of the piece.. if u remove them completely u basically have an invisible object (holding all the logic)

[toxic latch]

and there is nothing "wrong" with this in terms of best practices?

[rocky canyon]

no, not that i can think of... how else would u run logic in the game, without the chunk of code being in the game itself somehow

[gilded pumice]

Hey guys I'm on the create with code 2 unit and am getting this error and I've checked all over up and down to try and see where the (almost certainly) syntax error is and I just can't find it.

Difficulty Button https://paste.ofcode.org/3bhXhbSgwNXWY6EQJXRvvNk

GameManager https://paste.ofcode.org/mmmkXGWihTJbzBg42DUdEG

Error Message: Assets\Scripts\DifficultyButton.cs(26,21): error CS1061: 'GameManager' does not contain a definition for 'StartGame' and no accessible extension method 'StartGame' accepting a first argument of type 'GameManager' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

any help would be appreciated

[rocky canyon]

GameManager.cs doesnt have a StartGame() function

or w/e the StartGame is

[toxic latch]

right, and I guess what I'm trying to clarify my understanding on is that even though I have a weapon defined within my script(s) for example, it doesn't really exist within the game until it's attached to an object... is that right?

[wintry quarry]

did you save all of your scripts?

[rocky canyon]

ya, it has to be inside the hierarchy to run..

unless ur code sepcifically references it some other way

[gilded pumice]

yes

[rocky canyon]

this is a common way to enable and disable stuff

say u have a Gun.. u can keep that object attached to the player and disabled..

once u enable it.. (u can enable the graphics with it) and the logic (the code that works the gun)

[gilded pumice]

wait. no the game manager script wasn't saved

[rocky canyon]

and voila you have a gun object

[gilded pumice]

lol

[rocky canyon]

that'll do it too 😄

[gilded pumice]

uggggggggg just save both scripts with one save lol. thanks though

[rocky canyon]

for example my GameManager runs alot of things in the game but as u can see in the scene view..

[slender nymph]

obligatory "use cinemachine"

[rocky canyon]

its just an empty gameobject sitting at (0,0,0)

[sacred orbit]

I’m quite new to c# but I’m pretty sure your Lerp is wrong

[hidden sleet]

are those empties literally only there to create space in the list?

[rocky canyon]

affirmative

[hidden sleet]

fair enough

[sacred orbit]

It’s jumping to the final position because you have the return value set immediately

[rocky canyon]

once im closer to finished product ill go back and delete most of em

[slender nymph]

well your lerp is FPS dependent. the more frames you have, the faster it will lerp

[rocky canyon]

because each one is keeping track of a transform..

[hidden sleet]

also from the links you've all sent here I've come to realise that my game dev tips and tutorials youtube playlist is growing incredibly large

[rocky canyon]

its a waste of performance.. (not alot) but it'll add up

so when its time ill remove em

[rocky canyon]

they add up 😄

i was thinking the same..

ur lerp should be continuously running i think..

in a seperate loop or something..

[hidden sleet]

I tend to find one good tutorial, check out the person who made it and then save like 15 of their other vids including the start of other playlists. It's a rabbit hole i tell you

[sacred orbit]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

i bet all that happens at once.. during the keypress.. and it doesnt have time to smooth

[eternal needle]

It can but that's not how you've coded it. You made it just be at 20% between start and end

[sacred orbit]

Pretty sure you set the percentageComplete in a while loop and call the lerp in a separate function

Then use percentageComplete as your 3rd parameter

Let me get on my computer and I can show you the way I’ve been coding lerps, 1 sec

[rocky canyon]

MoveTowards ftw

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp

the issue wasn't where the Lerp call was. it was the fact that you were moving 20% of the way from startPosition to finalPosition each frame so after 5 frames it's already there

[sacred orbit]

Give me 1 sec mish I will show you

[slender nymph]

read the overview and the wrong lerp section in that link to learn how to correctly use lerp

also when working with rotations, you probably want slerp instead

[sacred orbit]

oops

[rocky canyon]

those are back ticks `

not ' quotes

[sacred orbit]

yes

my badf

[slender nymph]

oh and you are lerping a value you use to rotate rather than the rotation itself which is odd

[rocky canyon]

 void SmoothRotate(Vector3 rotationAmount)
    {
        // Calculate the target rotation
        Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(rotationAmount);

        // Store the current rotation
        Quaternion currentRotation = Camera.main.transform.rotation;

        // Slerp the current rotation towards the target rotation
        Camera.main.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(currentRotation, targetRotation, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
    }```
edit: i still dnt think this is completely correct, Im bad at lerps too 😄

[sterile radish]

how do i view and edit a struct in the inspector?

[sacred orbit]

float percentageComplete = 0;

 while (percentageComplete < 1)
 {
     yield return null;
     percentageComplete += Time.deltaTime / 4;
     lerpFunction();
 }

void lerpFunction()
{
gameObject.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(Quaternion.Euler (startAngle), Quaternion.Euler (endAngle), percentageComplete);
}

[slender nymph]

make it serializable and then you have to have a variable of that type that is serialized on a component

[sacred orbit]

@queen adder this is how i've been lerping, dont know if it's the best but it works

[hidden sleet]

Are back ticks not a thing on mobile? Straight up can’t find them

[slender nymph]

note that this will only work in a coroutine

[sacred orbit]

oops, didn't add that

[slender nymph]

this probably depends on your device and the keyboard you use on said device. and is entirely unrelated to unity or coding

[sterile radish]

i tried that but it doesnt work for some reason

[rocky canyon]

click the symbols button

[slender nymph]

then you did something wrong and should share what you tried

[rocky canyon]

and then its on the 2nd page of them

click the 1/2 button

it lists more

and its in the middle left

[sterile radish]

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

[slender nymph]

you didn't mark the struct as serializable or have a variable of that type in your component

so the only two things i said you need to do were ignored

[hidden sleet]

Can’t spot em, will look em up later on, not too important. Just didn’t want to paste loads of stuff without it being in a code block

[rocky canyon]

2nd one to the right on top row

[rocky canyon]

use a third party website its easier

https://hatebin.com/

for example

[sterile radish]

oh okay ill try that. also what do you mean by having a variable of that type in my component?

[slender nymph]

i mean that you need a variable of type ShopParameters in your BuyItem component

there wouldn't be any serialized variable of that type without it

[rocky canyon]

[System.Serializable]
public struct ShopParameters
{

}```

public class ShopManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public ShopParameters shopParams;

[sterile radish]

ohh okay i see

thank you guys!

[rocky canyon]

boxfriend is the MVP i just follow

[queen adder]

Can somebody please explain why I'm getting this error?

The code works exactly like it should

[languid spire]

AI_Script is null

[slender nymph]

you likely have one of those components in the scene where AI_Script has not been assigned in the inspector. or you are overwriting its assignment somewhere

[queen adder]

That's it thanks

[slender nymph]

also unrelated to your code issue, but the inconsistent naming conventions, namely the seemingly random inclusion of Snake_Case, is kind of annoying. standard c# conventions don't use snake_case at all, types should typically be PascalCase, class variables either camelCase or PascalCase depending on their access modifier, and local variables as camelCase

[queen adder]

Thanks for the feedback, I know a lot of people would disagree with my choice but I never use camel case, I use pascal for everything other than constants

[slender nymph]

well you're still randomly using Snake_Case which is the biggest issue with your naming here
the most important thing is that you are being consistent. which you are not

[robust condor]

What is an easy way to snap cubes together? Imagine the default cube, put one in the middle, then I pick up another cube and instantiate it on the cursor, now I want it to snap to all 4 sides on the Z and X axis to that cube (or any other cube) only and when pulling the cube close to that cube it snaps into the side so they always form a perfect grid. Pretty much like holding down V in the editor

[queen adder]

Any variables which are not pascal are typos

[slender nymph]

then AI_Script, AI_Weapon_Enable, and your class names are typos

[queen adder]

every new word is caps, how is that not pascal?

[slender nymph]

PascalCase does not use underscores between the words. that is only done in snake_case. and that's been my entire point this whole time

[queen adder]

Ohh right I see, well I must have gotten the two mixed up

naming conventions are something I never had in mind

since all my projects are solo so only I need to understand my way of coding

you are right though I should start doing it the industry standard way

[slender nymph]

i'm not even saying to follow the standard coding conventions. i'm saying you should at least be consistent with your naming conventions.
but if you do want to follow the standard conventions then check this out https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions

[spiral narwhal]

public class BoardService : Service, ICardSearchable

public interface ICardSearchable
{
        public bool CardsExist()

Why can I not call BoardService.Instance.CardsExist (it doesn't find CardsExist)

[slender nymph]

is CardsExist a default interface method where the implementation is defined in the interface, or does the BoardService class define the implementation?

[spiral narwhal]

No only the interface defines it

[slender nymph]

that's why. only variables of the interface type will have that method on them. you can't even just call CardsExist within the BoardService class without casting to ICardSearchable first

[desert elm]

does this still work?

[slender nymph]

it is recommended to instead use the CompareTag method rather than string equality when checking tags

but otherwise, yes it does still work

[spiral narwhal]

Mmm. Maybe I'm approaching it wrong, but this is what I want:

In a card game, there are different locations where cards can be (deck, hand, board, etc.).
All of these have services that are ICardSearchable. That interfaces demands that the service should implement
protected IEnumerable<CardSO> CardSet(); as a way to get the set of cards of that location (the hand for example has a list of cards, the deck as a stack of cards, and so on).
CardsExist itself is but an algorithm that shouldn't change for any card location. It should be available to outside methods.

[swift crag]

That's all you need to do. If it's not showing up, you probably have a compile error.

Unity won't use your new code until there are zero compile errors.

[desert elm]

then what am I doing wrong?

[swift crag]

well, your syntax is wrong

[languid spire]

col not collision

[summer stump]

Your curly braces are messed up

[bleak vale]

I want to move object smoothly when collision enter. I cant do this with * time.deltaTime since its only in 1 frame. How can I do this?

[slender nymph]

okay well your issue is that BoardService does not implement the method, it's on the interface. you could case BoardService.Instance to ICardSearchable to be able to call that method. or you could instead move the implementation of the method to the class instead of the interface.

[summer stump]

@desert elm

[swift crag]

you could use a coroutine

i should point out that there's nothing special about Time.deltaTime here

[bleak vale]

wdm nothing special?

[swift crag]

you're asking how to do something over several frames; you could do this without factoring in deltaTime just fine

[bleak vale]

Thats what I am asking

How can I do this without time delta time

[swift crag]

you are absolutely going to use Time.deltaTime.

[bleak vale]

Oh

[swift crag]

I cant do this with * time.deltaTime since its only in 1 frame.

This is just a weird thing to say, which is why I brought it up.

[desert elm]

oh right forgot those for the method

I see the issue

[spiral narwhal]

Mmm, that seems like a strange limitation in C#. I shouldn't have to "redefine" a method in a class.
The reason I don't want to move the implementation to the class is that if the algorithm changes, I would have to change the implementation in every single class, instead of just one in the interface.

[swift crag]

C# does not permit multiple inheritance

Interface implementations are not inherited.

They're strictly only accessible through the interface type itself.

[slender nymph]

this is how default interface methods work. they do not exist on the class, they only exist on the interface therefore you need a variable of the interface type to access them

[swift crag]

It's useful for ensuring backwards-compatibility when adding members to an interface

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html

have a look at this.

[spiral narwhal]

So my best choice is to just do something like public bool CardsExist() =>CardsExist(); ?

[swift crag]

no, because the CardsExist implementation only exists on the interface type. If you want to access the interface method, you'd need to cast this to the interface type and then call the method on it.

what you wrote would just be infinite recursion

[buoyant knot]

that is an infinite loop

[spiral narwhal]

Oh I think I get it. So a class that implements a public method does not know that it has that public method?

[swift crag]

It absolutely does.

[buoyant knot]

it does

[swift crag]

Interface methods aren't virtual

[buoyant knot]

but multiple classes can have that interface

[bleak vale]

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

public class PressurePlate : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] Transform interactObject;
    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        StartCoroutine(Move());
    }
    private void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
    {
        interactObject.position -= Vector3.up * 2f;
    }
    IEnumerator Move()
    {
        interactObject.position += Vector3.up * 2f * Time.deltaTime;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
    }
}

@swift crag I dont know if it is what u meant

[buoyant knot]

so, you know how enemies in mario can spawn from spawnpoints or pipes or blocks or billblasters?

[spiral narwhal]

So more like this: public bool CardsExist() => ((ICardSearchable)this).CardsExist()

[buoyant knot]

spawnpoints and pipes need to know if what they spawned died, so things that get spawned need some some of reference to the thing that spawned it to let it know.

[swift crag]

actually, let me take that back. that was incorrect.

[buoyant knot]

but they are all totally different, so i would make an ISpawner interface. Then anything that is spawned holds an ISpawner. ISpawner has public void OnSpawnedThingDied();
My pipe, spawnpoint, bill blaster, and block all have a behaviour that implements ISpawner. They do different things when OnSpawnedThingDied() is called

[swift crag]

It was unrelated to what you were doing.

[buoyant knot]

pipe needs to check if it was at its spawn limit. spawnpoint needs to know to turn off forever. block doesn’t care. and bill blaster knows to turn back on.

[swift crag]

When you implement an interface, you must provide a concrete implementation of every method in the interface.

Default interface methods allow you to not implement a certain method. The default is used if you don't provide one.

[spiral narwhal]

I think my issue was that I did not think of casting. It should be a nice implementation if I just cast to the interface and call that method 👍

[swift crag]

Indeed. That will work.

[buoyant knot]

and all the enemies or whatever that spawn do not care what kind of thing spawned them. they just have a reference to an ISpawner

[swift crag]

It does lead to some annoying copy-pasting

[buoyant knot]

does this make sense?

[bleak vale]

Can someone explain to me why its not working?

[swift crag]

This coroutine sets the position once.

It then waits for 2 seconds before ending.

That doesn't sound like what you want.

[bleak vale]

Yeah

I want it to move smoothly 2 vectors up

[visual hedge]

Do I have to somehow do the "disenvoke" for the event? Or it's a one-time trigger thing?
Not asking about unsubscribing, only about if there's opposite to .Invoke()

[swift crag]

then you'll need to set the position many times.

[swift crag]

I do not understand what you mean. You can't.."un-invoke" a method, for sure

[buoyant knot]

interface can define a common non-virtual implementation in itself btw

[swift crag]

right, that's the default interface method.

[bleak vale]

U can by CancelInvoke()

[swift crag]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-8.0/default-interface-methods

[slender nymph]

yes, the default implementation was what was being discussed

[visual hedge]

Oh yeah, haven' thought about that as a method 🙂 Okay, you solved that for me, thanks )

[swift crag]

that's unity's Invoke method

which lets you send a message to an object after a delay

[buoyant knot]

i think AA is gone rn.

[swift crag]

I guess we are talking about that, though

I was thinking of UnityEvent/event

[visual hedge]

yeah, I meant UnityEvent

[swift crag]

yeah, Invoke will run the method exactly once

[visual hedge]

sorry, it's a bit of html talking in me. IF we open the tag, we better close it at some point )
Or if we instantiate some game object, we better destroy it after it's no longer needed. That was the question basically.

[swift crag]

I do not understand.

[visual hedge]

no wonder, because it's silly question

I think one has to be a bloody noob to understand what I am asking 😄

[cunning rapids]

Guys, should I use an object pool here to optimize the muzzle flash effect?

[rich adder]

why are you spawning new one each time?

wildly unnecessary

[cunning rapids]

It's a prefab holding all the particle data

[rich adder]

unrelated to my statement

[cunning rapids]

I'm just creating an instance of said prefab since all the particles play on awake anyway

I don't know how else to apply said effect

[rich adder]

Enable/Disable the object

not that difficult

[swift crag]

well, you will need to create one burst of particles per shot

[vast ivy]

It’s a #💻┃code-beginner , they’re not in here if it’s easy for them xD

[rich adder]

ps.Emit()

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem.Emit.html

This is what you need.

[cunning rapids]

It's not a single particle system

It's multiple

[rich adder]

so for loop

[swift crag]

then do it for all of them!

Set the systems to emit 0 particles per second

[rich adder]

yes, 🙂 better to start early to do it right

[swift crag]

You can then call Emit on them to make them spit out particles on-demand

You might need to switch the particle system to use world space, not local space, if you weren't parenting each of those systems to the gun.

[queen adder]

i made an ai enemy that can go so distances and chase us when we close to it, but when i changed its position now it is not working

[swift crag]

Otherwise, the effects will appear to be stuck to the gun

[cunning rapids]

Give me a sec

This is how it looks like

[rich adder]

what is "not working"

[cunning rapids]

And I can provide with my code

[queen adder]

i mean it has moving animation but doesnt change position

it was working

before i changed its position

[bleak vale]

So I dont really have to use time.deltaTime?

Since I have to repeat this code

[swift crag]

you sound confused about what deltaTime tells you

let me explain in a thread

[cunning rapids]

time.deltaTime measures the time between every frame

whereas just time is fixed to real-time

[queen adder]

i send a video about it to unity-talk

[swift crag]

Set each particle system to emit no particles. It's in the "Emission" tab in the inspector.

Then attach this prefab to the end of the gun and leave it activated.

Add ParticleSystem fields to your weapon component and drag the references in.

[cunning rapids]

And then?

[swift crag]

When you fire, call Emit on each particle system

the number you pass is how many particles spawn, so you'll need to pick a good number for each one

[cunning rapids]

I tried making a public ParticleSystem variable before but it didn't let me drag objects that were in the scene but only prefabs

[swift crag]

Prefabs can't refer to scene objects, yes

but it sounds like you already have a weapon prefab here

do all of this setup on the weapon prefab.

[rocky canyon]

particle systems are trial and error for me.. sometimes u can nest the 2ndary particles under the root.. and fire off the top one..

all the ones below will follow suit

[cunning rapids]

So how must I drag in the particle systems into the inspector if it won't let me do it directly from the hierarchy?

[swift crag]

You're going to need to clarify what you're doing.

Do you not have an instance of this prefab attached to the gun?

[cunning rapids]

Nope

[swift crag]

well, do that!

[cunning rapids]

Prefabs

[rocky canyon]

if the prefab needs to reference something in the scene, you either need to have the thing start in the scene with the references ready to go..

or grab teh refernences during runtime

after the prefab starts to exist

[cunning rapids]

Gun inspector

[swift crag]

You're not going to be instantiating the prefab over and over anymore.

You're going to have one instance on the gun

it will already exist; it's not being created by your weapon code

[cunning rapids]

Oh alright

So do I do something like this? (Give me a second please)

[serene barn]

i got a new bug that seems intresting, my character is NOW stuck at 0, 0

[swift crag]

Something like that! Here's how I would do it

[wintry quarry]

better to use an array than numbered variables!

[cunning rapids]

Alright, thank you

[swift crag]

[System.Serializable]
public struct ParticleInfo {
  public ParticleSystem system;
  public int count;
}

[SerializeField] List<ParticleInfo> particleInfos;

void Shoot() {
  foreach (var info in particleInfos) {
    info.system.Emit(info.count);
  }
}

Now you can make a list of particle systems and how many particles you want to emit!

[cunning rapids]

Then I attach the particle systems into the gun's hierarchy?

[swift crag]

nice and neat, no recompiling needed every time you want to change a number

[swift crag]

You'd attach your prefab to the gun, yes

and then reference its particle systems

[rocky canyon]

nesting particles is a good way to not have to fire off all 3 or w/e at a time

[swift crag]

If you did this, you'd set the "Particle Infos" list to hold 3 elements, then drag the particle systems into each one

[rocky canyon]

just fire off hte top most particle.. the child particles will fire also

[serene barn]

it seems so weird but im not too sure if its the player controller or something else

[swift crag]

and then punch in how many particles to emit from each one

[cunning rapids]

Done

[rocky canyon]

if u attach it to firepoint u can save urself the trouble or moving everything

[swift crag]

Yeah, you should align it properly.

[rocky canyon]

just move the firepoint , the particle system will follow

[quick edge]

Yo! I have a small problem and I don't really know how I can find a workaround. I use a CharacterController and I apply gravity like so :

private Vector3 playerVelocity = Vector3.zero;
private float gravityValue = -9.8f;

playerVelocity.y += gravityValue * Time.deltaTime;

And it works fine. The problem is, if the CharacterController is close to the ground but less than 9.8 units from the ground it will stop falling while not touching the ground. I guess that's because if the CharacterController fall another 9.8 units it will be in another object and the CharacterController doesn't allow you to cross objects. But I want my character to fall until it touches the ground. How can I do that ?

[cunning rapids]

My fire point is in front of the player, but my FXPoint makes it look like it's firing from the barrel

Easier to deal with ADS

[swift crag]

9.8 meters shouldn't come up here -- you only accelerate by a tiny bit each frame

[serene barn]

fixed it

[swift crag]

although

can you share the entire script?

[quick edge]

yes!

There is many other things in the script

[swift crag]

I need to see how you're reading the velocity back from the player controller

use !code to share large scripts

[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.

[swift crag]

large code blocks up top

[quick edge]

https://gdl.space/azodecedac.cs

here's the script

[cunning rapids]

I turn it off completely or??

[swift crag]

Yes.

You're going to use Emit() to emit particles.

[swift crag]

ah, so you reset playerVelocity if you're on the ground

[cunning rapids]

Right, of course

[wintry quarry]

I don't think it has anything to do with your code. I think your CharacterController is probably just not aligned with the Renderer on your character

[swift crag]

That'd be my guess

The default makes you float, since the capsule is centered on the origin

[quick edge]

Don't know if this help you

[rocky canyon]

       private void ApplyGravity()
        {
            // if our controller is grounded and our simulated gravity is less than the gravity we defined
            if(characterController.isGrounded && gravitySim < playerSettings.gravity)
                gravitySim = playerSettings.gravity;
            // we set it back to the defined value

            // to simulate gravity we keep adding scaled gravity to the player (the above conditional keeps it clamped for us)
            gravitySim += playerSettings.gravity * Time.deltaTime;
        }```

this is my gravity function... if im grounded i keep it constant

if im not.. i added my force

[visual hedge]

ScriptableObject inventory: One has to create item database in order to save the data.
Do I have to make skill database in order to save the data about the scriptable object skills that characters have?

[quick edge]

I think the problem is what I said in my first message. But I'm new so I'm probably wrong

[rocky canyon]

making sure ur order of logic fits ur needs is important too..

i get my input, then i do my ground check, finally i use all the information ive gathered to move the player appropriately

[quick edge]

Did you see the picture ?

[rocky canyon]

could u make a video, or screenshot what it looks like

the picture shows that ur graphics (the ball thing) is aligned to the bottom of ur capsule.

but its also not in play mode..

[quick edge]

You want me to show it in playmode ?

[rocky canyon]

things can change alot once u press the play button

wouldn't hurt

[quick edge]

Sorry I don't know how to hide the InputAction icon

[cunning rapids]

I think I understood it after reading the documentation.

Something like this should theoretically work, correct? ```cs
private void EmitParticleSystems()
{
if (system1 != null)
{
system1.Emit(1);
}

    if (system2 != null)
    {
        system2.Emit(1);
    }

    if (system3 != null)
    {
        system3.Emit(1);
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

from the screenshot alone to me it seems the ground's collider doesn't match up with teh actual ground plane

[slender nymph]

if you ever find yourself differentiating variables only by adding a number ot the same name, you should be using some sort of collection like a List or array

[rocky canyon]

i can kinda see the wall behind to the right.. also floating a bit off the ground

[cunning rapids]

Yes, I've seen this suggestion and I'll implement it directly after playtesting. Thank you

[rocky canyon]

mine floats a bit

[quick edge]

Yes but it's not supposed to. And I guess the problem is that in this exact situation the CharacterController can't substract 9.8 because the CharacterController will be in the ground.

[rocky canyon]

but nothing like urs

[quick edge]

But I don't know what to do xD

[rocky canyon]

create a 3d cube..

put ur player on TOP of the cube..

and see if theres a gap

[swift crag]

That might just be the Skin Width

[rocky canyon]

^ i was thinkin that too

if not the ground collider

[north hawk]

Guys uhh

[quick edge]

If I manually move my character the thing works

Don't know if it help

The problem is the gravity don't do its job

[north hawk]

Do you guys use gtag fan games

[swift crag]

Gravity is working fine. It’s just that there’s a slight margin around the collider

The character controller doesn’t give up if it sees an obstacle. It moves as far as it can.

[rocky canyon]

^ what he said... ur lookin for the error in the wrong place

[cunning rapids]

@swift crag , the emit system works nearly flawlessly, only issue is that it doesn't follow the rotation of my weapon

[swift crag]

I ran into this recently

[quick edge]

And how should I correct that ?

[swift crag]

Move your character visual down

[rocky canyon]

u have to use local rotations and not world rotations

[rocky canyon]

thers a setting in there where u change the particles simulation space

[cunning rapids]

Brilliant! Thank you

[rocky canyon]

or.. it could be the facing direction.. if that doesnt work..

[swift crag]

With the space on Local, the smoke will stick to the gun

[quick edge]

But this will change nothing ?

The visual doesn't have any hitbox

[rocky canyon]

yea, thats what i was thinkin after i said it.

[swift crag]

If the problem is that you’re floating slightly, this will fix your problem

[rocky canyon]

may need to do a combination of settings in the particle

and the actual code

[swift crag]

This has nothing to do with the ground being “in the way” for that last little bit of falling

[rocky canyon]

the player basically thinks its grounded now..

[swift crag]

If the problem isn’t fixed, please show us a video

[rocky canyon]

thats fine, just move the graphics to be TRUELY groundewd

[cunning rapids]

Will do

[quick edge]

This is my character. I don't understand what you want me to do

[rocky canyon]

move the graphics down

[quick edge]

Ok

Like this ?

[rocky canyon]

sure, if that works out when ur player is moving about

[swift crag]

I would suggest restructuring a bit

• Player <- has the CharacterController
  • Model <- has the renderers and stuff

[swift crag]

Alternatively, change the center of the controller a bit.

[rocky canyon]

graphics should be decoupled from the logic

[quick edge]

I create an empty game object named Model and child "Md_Char..." and "Root" ?

[rocky canyon]

you should be able to change out the graphics whenever u want, and it not affect the controller at all

[quick edge]

Yes I can do that

[rocky canyon]

ahh then it shuld be fine.. if u can make sense of the hiearchy then thats all that matters

[swift crag]

Is "Player" a prefab created from a model you imported?

[quick edge]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

unless ur showing it around askin for help, then it may confuse others..

[swift crag]

and is "Md_Char_Low_Poly_Man" an object with a skinned mesh renderer?

If so, then you need to parent "Player" to a new game object

and put the controller on that new object

[quick edge]

Yes

Ok

[swift crag]

^ this happens beacuse the controller has a little extra "padding" around it

the thickness is based on the Skin Width

This helps it to collide properly and avoid getting stuck.

i just noticed that in my own game. time to fix that!

[quick edge]

Like this then ?

Still happening

(English isn't my first language so i'm probably not understanding what you want me to do)

[sterile radish]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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```cs
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```
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[terse raven]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    public PlayerScriptableObject playerObject;
    public GameObject playerGameObject;
    public Rigidbody playerRigidbody;

    public float maxVelocityChange = 4f;

    float currentMoveSpeed;
    float xInput;
    float yInput;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        currentMoveSpeed = playerObject.movementSpeed;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        GetPlayerInput();
        MovePlayer();
        PlayerRotate();
    }

    void GetPlayerInput()
    {
        xInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        yInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
        {
            currentMoveSpeed = playerObject.sprintSpeed;
        }
        else
        {
            currentMoveSpeed = playerObject.movementSpeed;
        }
    }

    void MovePlayer()
    {
        Vector3 moveDirection = new Vector3(xInput, 0f, yInput).normalized;
        Vector3 force = moveDirection * currentMoveSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime * 1000f;
        force = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(force, currentMoveSpeed);
        playerRigidbody.AddForce(force);
    }

    void PlayerRotate()
    {
        //stuff
    }
}

Hi there I have this code for a player movement in 3D. However when the player moves its slightly jittering, any way to solve this?

[sterile radish]

how would i go on about checking if the player has bought a specific item using this approach?
https://hastebin.com/share/ifafocikaj.csharp

[swift crag]

Now move "CharacterModel" down a little

The controller will still look like it's floating a little.

But the model's feet will be on the ground.

[cunning rapids]

@swift crag It works!! Thank you for your help. I appreciate it

[quick edge]

Like this

[swift crag]

Yes. That will compensate for the skin width.

[keen dew]

Physics based movement should be done in FixedUpdate

also MovePlayer is needlessly complicated, forces shouldn't be multiplied by deltatime and it looks like ClampMagnitude is there just to fix the problem that it causes

[quick edge]

But it still doesn't count as grounded

[copper magnet]

I copied an old Unity code snippet and im getting this error :

was there previously a namespace named carManager ?

[terse raven]

Thank you!

[swift crag]

Perhaps you need to change where you do your grounding check as well.