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[swift crag]

Or you could just use the character controller's isGrounded property

no, there was not

[short hazel]

Type or namespace name

[swift crag]

but I suspect that you're missing a carManager class

[quick edge]

No this one is not good

Ok thanks

That's really strange

[swift crag]

i don't know how big your grounding check sphere is

[copper magnet]

yeah well whoever posted the code snippet i copied did not publish their entire project

[swift crag]

it's not good if you call Move several times; isGrounded tells you if you were grounded after the last move

You should combine your velocities together and move once

[quick edge]

You mean the playerVelocity and the direction ?

[swift crag]

Add them all up and call Move() exactly once, yes.

It should be fine if you do the gravity movement last, I guess

but if you do the horizontal movement, then check if you're grounded, you'll get false

because you didn't hit the ground!

[fierce shuttle]

Its possible their code snippet was meant to be intended as an example for a particular problem in their project, and not tested copy+paste code

[copper magnet]

yep thats my guess as well

[quick edge]

I can't do that. I Move horizontaly If my character is grounded. I apply gravity if my character is in the air

[swift crag]

why not both?

you still experience gravity when on the ground

[quick edge]

Yes but if I do that the gravity keep increasing

[swift crag]

Set it to zero if you're grounded!

[sacred orbit]

check if the player isGrounded then just set the gravity to 0 every frame

[swift crag]

so, every frame, you'll do this

[quick edge]

Ok

[sacred orbit]

great minds think alike ig

[swift crag]

if (controller.isGrounded)
  gravityVelocity = Vector3.zero;

gravityVelocity += Vector3.down * Time.deltaTime * 9.8f;
...

[sacred orbit]

does anyone know why this doesn't work?

    public void warningText(string text1)
    {
        StopCoroutine("warningTextCoroutine");
        StopCoroutine("changeText");
        StartCoroutine(warningTextCoroutine(text1));
    }

    IEnumerator warningTextCoroutine(string text)
    {
        instructionsPanel.SetActive(true);
        iText.text = text;
        typeWriter.writer = text;
        typeWriter.StartTypewriter();
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(8);
        instructionsPanel.SetActive(false);
    }

[swift crag]

The controller's job is to figure out how to move without going through walls

It's okay to constantly "push" into the ground

[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]

use Debug.Log to check if your code is running at all

also, if this is on a game object that's getting deactivated, that will kill all coroutines on all components on the object

[sacred orbit]

sorry I should have been more specific

The code is running, I Wanted to ask why the StopCoroutine isn't working

my brain forgot to specify lmao

[quick edge]

I'm sorry @swift crag but I don't understand. I don't want my character to be able to move while in the air, so how can I merge the two Move ?

[swift crag]

ah, you can't mix and match

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

[sacred orbit]

why not just make hasBought bool public?

[swift crag]

If the character is not grounded, don't let the player change their velocity

[quick edge]

Oh okay

[swift crag]

in every place you call Move right now, replace it with something like

totalVelocity += moreVelocity;

then call controller.Move(totalVelocity); at the end

[sacred orbit]

sorry, I don't fully understand why you mean by mix and match. Should I specify IEnumerator in the StopCoroutine?

[swift crag]

If you want to stop a coroutine by name, you must start it by name too

Here's what you can do instead

private Coroutine myCoroutine;

void Foo() {
  StopCoroutine(myCoroutine);
  myCoroutine = StartCoroutine(Bar());
}

It's fine if myCoroutine is null or a completed coroutine afaik

[sacred orbit]

so this should work, correct?

StopCoroutine(IEnumerator warningTextCoroutine());

because I used IEnumerator

[swift crag]

No. That would try to stop a coroutine made out of the return value from warningTextCoroutine()

but that's a completely unrelated enumerator to the one that's already running

[swift crag]

Coroutine is returned by StartCoroutine()

You could also do this, though

private IEnumerator theEnumerator;

void Foo() {
  StopCoroutine(theEnumerator);
  theEnumerator = Bar();
  StartCoroutine(theEnumerator);
}

this seems more awkward, though

[swift crag]

also, you would not put IEnumerator in there. that's invalid syntax.

warningTextCoroutine() returns an IEnumerator -- an object that gives you values when you ask for them

StartCoroutine takes an IEnumerator and asks it for new values once every frame, by default

[swift crag]

So in this code, I save the IEnumerator in a field. That lets me pass it to StopCoroutine() later.

[sacred orbit]

ooooh ok

[swift crag]

In this code, I save the Coroutine you get from starting a coroutine

[sacred orbit]

sorry, I started using C# only a few days ago so I'm quite new to this

[swift crag]

I presume that, on the inside, Unity keeps track of something like

actually I dunno exactly what it'd be like

it would know which coroutines you started with a string name

and it would know which coroutine each IEnumerator object was used to make

So if you start a coroutine by handing StartCoroutine an IEnumerator, it won't have any clue what you mean when you ask to stop a coroutine by string name

all it knows is that you gave it an enumerator

[sacred orbit]

so with this code:

stopcoroutine doesn't work

[swift crag]

StopCoroutine(warningTextCoroutine(text1))

This would try to stop a coroutine you never even started.

[quick edge]

This is more readable

[sacred orbit]

yes

[quick edge]

Ok

[swift crag]

Running warningTextCoroutine(text1) executes that method until it hits a yield, then it stops

[quick edge]

This was optimisation, not a solution to my problem right ?

[swift crag]

No, it's going to make isGrounded more consistent.

[quick edge]

Oh ok nice

Thanks either way

[sacred orbit]

yes, I wanted to stop the coroutine before it starts just incase it has been called before

the coroutine starting is based on input

[quick edge]

So in general I shouldn't move in two seperate occasions ?

[sacred orbit]

so if the player inputs the same button multiple times I want to stop the coroutine before it starts again to ensure there is no overlap

[swift crag]

You will need to store the Coroutine returned from StartCoroutine().

then pass that to StopCoroutine() later

StartCoroutine(Foo());
StartCoroutine(Foo());
StartCoroutine(Foo());

This would start three separate coroutines. Each one is running the Foo method.

StopCoroutine(Foo());

This would do nothing, because each call to Foo() has produced a completely separate object

The fourth one was never passed to StartCoroutine() in the first place!

I think it can be confusing if you're used to passing method names to StartCoroutine

[sacred orbit]

ooooohhh I just assumed Coroutines worked in a similar way to functions but I guess they don't

[summer stump]

It isn't gonna do that. It starts a brand new one (unrelated to any already running), and stops that, but lets any other ones keep running

[swift crag]

StartCoroutine("Foo");
StartCoroutine("Foo");
StartCoroutine("Foo");
StopCoroutine("Foo");

This would stop one of the three coroutines.

I never use string names, personally

[summer stump]

Not sure what you mean. But functions would kinda run the same way (except serially).

[sacred orbit]

so could I just use StopAllCoroutines()?

[swift crag]

sure, but why not just store the Coroutine objects?

[slender nymph]

yeah using the strings requires reflection. passing the returned IEnumerator from a method is cleaner and can support local methods

[swift crag]

IEnumerator GimmeNumbers() {
  yield return 1;
  yield return 2;
  yield return 3;
}

GimmeNumbers is a method that gives you three numbers: 1, then 2, then 3

[terse raven]

How would I keep my charatcer grounded on slopes. Whenever I sprint down a slope I just fly. I have changed some of the mass variables and other aspects to try and make it stay grounded but nothing has worked

[swift crag]

The only thing that's "special" about it is that it can pause itself to yield values.

when you run a coroutine, you give Unity the result of calling a method like GimmeNumbers()

Unity asks the enumerator for a new value once per frame.

[swift crag]

each time I call Foo(), I create a new enumerator, totally separate from the rest

they have nothing to do with each other

if I call Foo() a fourth time, I get a fourth, completely new enumerator

[swift crag]

You'll want to do something involving the slope's normal

A normal vector is an arrow pointing straight out of a surface

Imagine you're on a 45 degree slope. An arrow pointing straight out will be pointing both up and right.

The green arrow is the normal here.

You'd want to move the player in the blue and red directions.

...rather than in these blue and red directions

[terse raven]

hmmm, I have no idea how I'd go around that

[swift crag]

I'd have to think on it for a minute!

You could use Quaternion.FromToRotation(Vector3.up, normal) to get a rotation from the second image to the first image

[terse raven]

no worries I'll have a look

[sacred orbit]

sorry to bug you again, final question:

if I store the coroutine object does it make another coroutine object every time it runs or is it always store under one object?

[swift crag]

where normal comes from a raycast

[swift crag]

You'll make a new one every time

Imagine that Coroutine is like a ticket at a deli counter

or a receipt

So the first time you run that method, the field will be null

because you never stored anything in it at all

the second time, it will hold an object that identifies the first coroutine

If the first coroutine is already over, then passing that "ticket" to StopCoroutine does nothing

If it isn't, then unity will stop asking the first coroutine for new values

[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

[uncut dune]

It depends

Where do you want to check it?

In that script itself

[sterile radish]

would it matter?

[uncut dune]

Well if you just want to check if it is bought

Just do

bool bought;

Qnd set it to true in the place it gets sold

[lavish roost]

Where or how are your specific items saved

[sterile radish]

i want it to be like a certain item. and when that item gets bought, another item recieves a buff. (for example, when A item is bought, the click multiplier of B is multiplied by 2)

[uncut dune]

When u leave and return to the game?

[uncut dune]

Are the items always in the scene or do they get spawned in?

[lavish roost]

Well i mean he has to have an Item list of some sort and if not i recommend adding one

[sterile radish]

they are in another scene called "Shop". and they are always in that shop scene

[uncut dune]

I see you have a game manager right? Are you atoring those items there?

You could ads an unityevent to that one item

And u can still use that same script foe the other items

[sterile radish]

i store them like this, my game manager doesn't handle my items

[uncut dune]

Ok so

Like the effects of the items each one of them has the script that gives them the effect you want right?

[sterile radish]

yes, i use a struct to put the effects i want each item to give
https://hastebin.com/share/ifafocikaj.csharp

[uncut dune]

Ok then it aint that hard just make a variable maybe public or serialized

That holds that script

[lavish roost]

Yup

[uncut dune]

Then you assign the object you wanr to it

[lavish roost]

Make an object of item with name, cost, etc

[uncut dune]

Then you can make a function that says that when the item u want gets bough

Bought

The other one that was assigned

Gets buffed

And you can make in manny different ways to check if its the item you want maybe use a bool and an if statement

Or use an if statemente and check if the variable of the other script isnt null

It does the thing

Or a unity event

I think the easiest would be a unity event

[sterile radish]

okay and i do this all in a seperate script right?

[uncut dune]

Have you ever used unity events?

[uncut dune]

Nope

[sterile radish]

no but i could try

[sterile radish]

oh okay

[uncut dune]

Ok so go to the script you sent

[lavish roost]

You assign the Script to your Items in the scene

[uncut dune]

And write public UnityEvent eventWhenBought;

[true pasture]

I feel like I should be able to avoid putting lines 184 and 185 in every single case. But How can I do that with local variables?

[uncut dune]

After that not sure if the thing u code in will automatically add the using UnityEngine.UnityEvents;

And then put in the script that will get the buffs

[slender nymph]

put it outside of the switch statement

[uncut dune]

A public function that applies the buff

[sterile radish]

but all my items have the same script

[uncut dune]

And there is not problem

Because the unity event will only do what you assign it to

So tou can only assign the event to the one object

[true pasture]

unassigned use of local variable myTween

[slender nymph]

assign null on the line you declare it on

and don't forget to null check it in your anonymous method

[uncut dune]

Can you take a screenshot of your buff script rll quick?

[sterile radish]

okay i will send in a sec

thank you so much for your help btw! 🙏

[true pasture]

oh thanks, I though I tried that, maybe i did var tween = null instead of Tween tween = null

[uncut dune]

No worries!

[sterile radish]

i think i got it working
https://hastebin.com/share/ivinebidod.csharp

[uncut dune]

YES VERY WELL

[sterile radish]

yo wait this is so useful

i can literally do this with any item i want

thank you bro 🙏 🙏

[uncut dune]

You could also instead of putting the function to add the buff there you could put it directly in the script u want to buff

And u just drag the other object to there

[sterile radish]

true

[uncut dune]

So no need gor as manny varia les

[uncut dune]

Also is it working already?

Because where you want to make the event be called

So when u buy the item

You have to put

eventWhenBought.Invoke();

[uncut dune]

No problem! Really glad I helped

[sterile radish]

it buffs the item after i buy it again right?

or does it just buff it automatically?

[uncut dune]

Every time u buy it it will get incoked again

So whatever you put in the function you assigned

Will run again

So yes

[sterile radish]

ah okay

and do i put the evnt on the item being buffed or the item that is going to the buff it?

[sterile radish]

for some reason it's not working?

[uncut dune]

Have you invoked the event

[uncut dune]

Like this

[sterile radish]

oh wait

i invoke it in the Buy function right?

[uncut dune]

You invoke the event

Where you buy the item

Where tou subtracted the money

[sterile radish]

yeah

[uncut dune]

Also have you assigned the event on the inspector?

[sterile radish]

yes

[uncut dune]

Ok then it should qork

[sterile radish]

i feel like im doing something wrong tho

i assign the evnt on the item that is going to buff the other one right?

[deep bear]

In this hand of cards, I have it so that when the mouse is hovering over one of the cards, it shifts up slightly and then back down when the user stops hovering over it.

But I also want it to appear in front of the other cards, and then back behind them when the user stops hovering. How can I achieve this?

[swift crag]

How are you rendering cards?

Are the sprites, or are they images in a canvas?

[deep bear]

They're just images on a canvas

[timber tide]

if they are transparent then you can use the rendering queue

[swift crag]

Image order depends on their order in the hierarchy. You could reparent the currently-hovered card so that it appears after all of the other cards when it's being hovered.

This could be annoying if you're using a layout group though

[timber tide]

but Fen's solution is usually what you'd do

[deep bear]

Yeah I am 😅 maybe I need to change that though

[swift crag]

I'm not sure how I'd do that.

(in a nice way, that is :p )

[deep bear]

Haha yeah, I was thinking it was a bit janky 😅

I might honestly just ditch the layout group and manually change their position

[swift crag]

you could display another copy of the card on top of the original, maybe

you would make it non-interactable

[deep bear]

Oh damn not a bad idea at all.

[timber tide]

yeah make a placeholder card

I do something similar with drag elements

[opaque kettle]

I need help with my 2d game, I have a system of roads which are each seperate Gameobjects, identical and square, each have 8 points to connect to another road, i need to somehow check if each road is connected by itself, or another road with a certain Gameobject, they should connect via Triggers any ideas how I would do that.

[deep bear]

Awesome! I'll give that a shot, thanks everyone!

[wraith mango]

The sun gets stuck at a rotation of about 90

Code:

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

public class RotateSun : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    public float speed; 
    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(updateSun());
    }
    IEnumerator updateSun()
    {
        while(true)
        {

        while(transform.eulerAngles.x < 182)
            {
                yield return new WaitForSeconds(.1f);
                transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3 ( transform.eulerAngles.x + speed, transform.eulerAngles.y, transform.eulerAngles.z );
            }
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(4);
        transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3 ( -1 , transform.eulerAngles.y, transform.eulerAngles.z);
        }

    }
}

oh it didn't embed

one second

[verbal dome]

Use a float variable for the sun X angle instead of reading from eulerAngles

Note that the euler angles that you see in the inspector are not always the same as the value that eulerAngles gives you

[wraith mango]

okay

one seconnd

[wraith mango]

alr i got it working tysm

[small mantle]

I am using rb.Torque() to rotate my snow boarder. My question is I want to check when the Player has made a full rotation, either from rotation right or left. How can I do this?

This is the code I'm using: cs if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow)) { rb.AddTorque(torgueAmount); } else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow)) { rb.AddTorque(-torgueAmount); }

[verbal dome]

Nice 👍

[verbal dome]

Full rotation since what? Since they left the ground? Like are you trying to detect snowboard tricks, 360 etc?

If that's the case, I would probably check the rotation difference after each physics frame (FixedUpdate).
I would do it with either getting the difference between last and next eulerAngles.y with Mathf.DeltaAngle
Or Vector3.SignedAngle around Vector3.up

Then add that angle difference to some float value

And ofc reset that value when you hit the ground again

[muted wadi]

i have an issue that I'm not sure how to tackle. I have code that allows the player to rotate a held object by pressing right click and dragging in the desired direction, but when the object has done a full 180 in the left or right directions, the up and down inputs get reversed. How could I fix this?

{
    // Rotate the picked up object with the mouse right-click
    playerInput.x = (Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * xTurnRate) * Time.deltaTime;
    playerInput.y = (Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * yTurnRate) * Time.deltaTime;
    playerInput.Normalize();

    objectYRot -= playerInput.x;
    objectXRot += playerInput.y;

    pickedUpObject.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(objectXRot, objectYRot, 0);
}```

[small mantle]

Yes, you are correct.

How would I use Vector3.SignedAngle in my case?

[verbal dome]

Something likecs float angleDiffY = Vector3.SignedAngle(lastFrameForward, transform.forward, Vector3.up);

And ofc you need to store transform.forward in lastFrameForward after the calculations

Does that make sense?

[small mantle]

No, I've never used this method.

[verbal dome]

Did you check the documentation?

Also, instead of Vector3.up you can use transform.up or whatever is your character's updirection, if you want the rotation relative to the player's axis instead of world axis

[small mantle]

No, let me check it

It seems like it only checks when the object reaches a 360. Is this true?

[verbal dome]

No, it gives an angle between -180 and 180

It's the angle between those two vectors, around the axis you specify as the last parameter

[true pasture]

ive having a problem where line 174 never finishes yielding. I think its because myTween is not acting like id expect since I declared it like Tween myTween = null; I don't know where to start fixing it though

[small mantle]

Okay

You use lastFrameForward, what can I use instead? And what is it?

[sharp jay]

(!myTween.isActive() || myTween == null)

[true pasture]

if its null how could acess it earlier?

[sharp jay]

A null tween is still a "myTween"

it's just empty.

[verbal dome]

#💻┃code-beginner message
It's just the transform.forward of the last frame.

@small mantle

You need to store it in a variable in your class

[true pasture]

does my switch statement not set it to a tween?

its definitely running the switch statement with the correct case

[sharp jay]

depends if the incomming case is correct.

[small mantle]

I'm printing the result, and if I replace it with Vector3.up or Down it prints 90.

[verbal dome]

Show your code

[small mantle]

float angleDiffY = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, transform.forward, Vector3.up);

[verbal dome]

Not sure why you put Vector3.forward there

[tender breach]

How do I assign a variable to only one clone instead of all of them?

[small mantle]

I was checking to see what it would print 😅

[verbal dome]

Instantiate returns the cloned object. Modify that

var obj = Instantiate(prefab);
obj.myVariable = 123;

[flat slate]

i need help i want to check if the current letter from my text is equals to "." but i dont know how to do that

[small mantle]

What do you mean store it? What variable would I store it in?

[sacred orbit]

Does the parameter for changeText work here?

[System.Serializable] public struct BeginningInstructionText
{
    public string text;
    public float time;
}


    public BeginningInstructionText[] beginningInstructionText;
    public BeginningInstructionText[] fireInstructionText;


IEnumerator changeText(struct arrayName[])

can I use struct like that to define an array?

[verbal dome]

Have a Vector3 lastFrameForward variable in your class. Then cache/store/assign the current frame's transform.forward in that variable, after you do the angle calculations

So that you "remember" your last forward direction

[verbal dome]

Did you try it?

[small mantle]

So put lastFrameForward in this code: float angleDiffY = Vector3.SignedAngle(lastFrameForward, transform.forward, Vector3.up); ``` Then Right after just make it transform.forward?

[verbal dome]

Yep

[hidden citrus]

is it possible to register an event to another object's onEnable?
I have this and want to make it "onEnable of target inventory GameObject, run the AddListener and Invoke"
onInventoryChange.AddListener(() => UpdateInventoryUI());
So anytime it "opens", invoke and "Update the Inventory UI". this is assigning/calling it from another class, rather than putting it directly on the object and looking for onEnable

[sacred orbit]

yeah but I didn't know if that was the issue or if it was something else

[tender breach]

I don't understand.

[sacred orbit]

but I doubt I can define arrays that way

[verbal dome]

This part looks wrong: IEnumerator changeText(struct arrayName[])

[small mantle]

This? ```
float angleDiffY = Vector3.SignedAngle(lastFrameForward, transform.forward, Vector3.up);

    lastFrameForward = transform.forward;```

[sacred orbit]

yeah that was the iffy part

I don't know how I can define arrays like that

[verbal dome]

Yeah, that gives you the angle difference (delta) from last frame to current frame.
Now you can add that to a float variable that you keep in your class

[small mantle]

I am so confused at what is happening. What was the point of angleDiffy?

[verbal dome]

You don't use struct as a type, use BeginningInstructionText[] instead

[sacred orbit]

yeah I just realized that 😭

[true pasture]

are lists of tweens not allowed? its always a null list apparently? I declared it like this

[sacred orbit]

thank you

[verbal dome]

I just explained that

that gives you the angle difference (delta) from last frame to current frame.

Didn't you want to track your rotation over time?

[small mantle]

Yes, but it prints 0? It isn't changing with my rotation.

[slender nymph]

Initialize the list. Tweens aren't serializable so unity isn't doing it for you

[verbal dome]

Where did you put this code?

Can you post the full script in a paste site?

[small mantle]

In Update

[ionic zephyr]

Could someone define Exit Time?

[small mantle]

I only have the Rotate code that I showed early, which is in FixedUpdate. I don't think I need to post it.

[verbal dome]

The minimum amount of time (in % or seconds depending on the settings) the animation plays before it can transition to another one

[true pasture]

thanks!

[small mantle]

@verbal dome ```cs void Update() {
float angleDiffY = Vector3.SignedAngle(lastFrameForward, transform.forward, Vector3.up);

    lastFrameForward = transform.forward;

    print(angleDiffY);
}

void FixedUpdate() {
RespondToBoost();
RotatePlayer();
}

[verbal dome]

Okay, then you will sort it out yourself

[ionic zephyr]

Thanks a lot!

[verbal dome]

This part looks correct to me.

Though I would probably put it in fixedupdate

[lavish tinsel]

hi, I have an editor question. Is this the correct channel to ask?

[north kiln]

btw, don't scale mouse input by Time.deltaTime. It will introduce frame-rate dependence and lag

[small mantle]

I just tried that, it still prints 0

[verbal dome]

Is this script on the object that rotates?

[muted wadi]

this shouldn't be an issue if I use fixedUpdate though right?

[small mantle]

Yes

[north kiln]

No, but it shouldn't logically be scaled by fixedDeltaTime either—it just won't cause any issues

[muted wadi]

what would you suggest instead?

[verbal dome]

Try moving the code from Update to FixedUpdate, after RotatePlayer
Also print(angleDiffY * 1000) to see if it's just a really small number

[north kiln]

Just not scaling by deltaTime at all?

[lavish tinsel]

I'm a bit confused by the following:

• if I reference a scriptable object, like PlayerScoreManager in a prefab - I'm not able to drag and assign a scene object of ScoreManager
• If I do the same to a non-prefab, it works fine

I was really hoping to see the console output of this, but I cannot figure out how to get the debug info/stack. I want to get more info on the Type Mismatch so I can learn.

I'm sure there is a reason for this

[small mantle]

It is just 0

[swift crag]

mouse input is an absolute value. it is not a rate of change. it should not be scaled by deltaTime.

[north kiln]

- playerInput.x = (Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * xTurnRate) * Time.deltaTime;
+ playerInput.x = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * xTurnRate;
- playerInput.y = (Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * yTurnRate) * Time.deltaTime;
+ playerInput.y = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * yTurnRate;

It's the opposite, it is a rate of change; it's the amount the mouse moved over the time of that frame

it is already a delta

[verbal dome]

Then I don't know, I guess transform.forward is not changing.

Or... Your transform.forward is actually up or something?

[small mantle]

This is a 2D game btw

[verbal dome]

Well... That's probably the issue

I mean, it is

You should've mentioned that tbh

[muted wadi]

honestly this isn't really a concern when it comes to this specific mechanic because its just for rotating a held object, but i do use this method for the player's mouse camera

[verbal dome]

And, if you just posted the rest of the script like I asked then I would've noticed it @small mantle

[north kiln]

of course it's not pre-multiplied or anything, so you could argue it's also absolute. I like to view absolute values as fixed across frames though, like a joystick being held is absolute

[small mantle]

I forget this isn't a 2D only coding channel. Sorry for that.

[verbal dome]

All good. You can probably just change transform.forward to transform.up or transform.right

[small mantle]

Okay, let me try

[verbal dome]

And change Vector3.up to Vector3.forward/back

Because that's the "up" direction in this case, I assume

It's top down perspective, right?

[small mantle]

Side Scroller, or Platformer perspective

It's printing huge numbers up to 1000+

[verbal dome]

Okay so you are only doing backflips/frontflips?

Ok let's forget the SignedAngle.
Use Mathf.DeltaAngle(lastRotation, rb.rotation) to find the angle difference

Store rb.rotation in lastRotation

It's a float

[small mantle]

I'm confused on what to convert into what variable from the last example you gave me.

[verbal dome]

Replace the whole SignedAngle line with that DeltaAngle line
Replace the lastFrameForward variable with a lastRotation variable (and change it to a float)

I hope you understand how it works though. Otherwise I'm just spoonfeeding here

[small mantle]

I did what you said, here is what I have ```cs
float angleDiffy = Mathf.DeltaAngle(lastFrameForward, rb.rotation);

    lastFrameForward = rb.rotation;

[verbal dome]

And instead of storing the transform.forward in the variable, use rb.rotation instead

If you did everything I just said then it works

[small mantle]

It prints numbers up to 13 and -13. How can I check with a "if" method? Simply, how can I check when I fulfilled the flip.

[verbal dome]

Check what?

You add the angleDiffY to a float variable.

[ancient island]

anyone familiar with unityEvents?

on Events.cs I have this function

public void OnPlaneSpawn(PlaneController plane)
    {
        m_planes.Add(plane);
    }

well this is of course an event. In Spawner.cs I have this

[SerializeField]
    private UnityEvent<PlaneController> onPlaneSpawn;

// later on...
// inside a function
ObjectSpawned newPlane = SpawnObject(m_planePrefab); //SpawnObject returns a struct that has the gameObject and a bool telling if it was successfully instantiated or not
            if (newPlane.success) {
                PlaneController controller = newPlane.obj.GetComponent<PlaneController>();
                onPlaneSpawn.Invoke(controller); // here I invoke the function and the error is pointed
                m_planeSpawnTimer = 0f;
            }

in the inspector I of course set the unityEvent as the image shows
Then when I the game has to invoke the function it gives me the following error

ArgumentException: Object of type 'UnityEngine.Object' cannot be converted to type 'PlaneController'.
bla bla bla...
Spawner.FixedUpdate () (at Assets/Scripts/Gameplay/Spawner.cs:48)

[verbal dome]

@small mantle When that float goes below -360 or 360, you have performed a back/frontflip. Use an if statement

[small mantle]

I'm just confused on how I can check that in a "if" statement. How can I check that its between both -13 and +13?

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-events/dynamic-values

[verbal dome]

With the < and > operators. But I don't know why you would want to check that

[twin bolt]

How do i fix rigidbody movement jitter, its very noticable (for me), in builds. I tried interpolation and movement is called from fixed update. I want to keep rigidbody movement, since its the only way i'll be able to move other rigidbody objects, but this is bad.

[small mantle]

I'm trying to check if the player did a 360.

[verbal dome]

Again, make a new float variable in your class that stores the total angle that you have rotated since you left the ground

Add angleDiffY to that variable every frame

[verbal dome]

^And then this

if(totalAngle < -360f) Debug.Log("Sick backflip bro");

[ancient island]

Damn bro I love you

[small mantle]

This? cs float check360 = 0.1f; angleDiffy += check360;

[verbal dome]

I didn't say "add to angleDiffY"

I said "add angleDiffY to that"

Also the check360 float has to be a class variable (not a local variable in your method). Otherwise it will reset every frame

[small mantle]

What should it be at default? totalAngle?

[verbal dome]

totalAngle is what I'm talking about. You just decided to call it check360

It should be zero by default, of course.

[small mantle]

Yes, I changed the name.

[small mantle]

When I make a full round, it just keep adding. So its always going to increase?

[verbal dome]

Yes, or decrease, depending on which way your rotate.

When you hit the ground you want to set it to zero again

[small mantle]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

[verbal dome]

(Please tell me it makes sense now)

[true pasture]

so If I know this case is running and the tween is being set how could the tween never stop being active? It mentions isActive has weird behavior with recyclable tweens. Im using a local variable which I dont think is the "recyclable" they are talking about. I need to wait till the tween is done then remove it from the list

[small mantle]

Yes, much more

[twin bolt]

Question, would setting the cameras position every frame, to be with the player, be better than it being as a child of the player?

[muted wadi]

in my opinion yeah. My method of having a player camera is to assign an empty to the player that acts as a marker for where the camera should be when it follows the player. It's kind of the same but fixes some issues relating to movement

[twin bolt]

One of my main issues is jitter.

[muted wadi]

are you sure there is actually jitter happening because it could be your computer

[twin bolt]

I'm getting 90 fps, i doubt its my computer

[muted wadi]

my home laptop doesn't show jitter but my uni laptop does even though its the same script and setup

if you're confident that it's not a computer issue then it could be an issue of you using fixedupdate for your camera inputs and player movement inputs

generally the advice given to me is to use update for both the camera inputs and player movement because that inconsistency is what causes jitter

[summer stump]

What is the -1 supposed to do here, in your own words?

Edit: oh, it's gone

[muted wadi]

yeah i found the issue

[summer stump]

The layermask right? Haha

[muted wadi]

also from my understanding the -1 is the layer ID for the layermask that it's targeting, and -1 means all layers

[sterile radish]

why do some of the sentences in my dialogue break like this?
https://hastebin.com/share/xubikaqote.csharp

[muted wadi]

its because my camera was intersecting the player's collider, so it couldn't hit the object because it was first hitting the player 😭

[summer stump]

Hmm, I think that is not right about it being all layers. But maybe
~1 would be everything except 00..001 (so 11..110)

[muted wadi]

ah i see

i guess for my level of use right now it might as well mean everything

[summer stump]

Note that I said ~ (tilde) not - (minus sign)

[muted wadi]

if thats what tilde does then what does minus do?

[summer stump]

Nothing helpful in this case.

[radiant sail]

sorry for late reply i went to bed
im using a prefab for the muzzleflash right now
the code im using is here

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class look : MonoBehaviour
{
    Transform cam; 
    Camera mainCam; 
    void Start()
    {
        mainCam = (Camera)FindObjectOfType(typeof(Camera));
        cam = mainCam.GetComponent<Transform>();
    }
    void Update()
    {
        transform.LookAt(cam);
    }
}```
i just wanna know how i can make the transform.LookAt method change the rotation the gameobject is facing because the plane that is looking at the camera is pointing sideways to the player so they cant see it

[summer stump]

A layermask is a bitmask. It takes every bit and uses it as a flag. If it's a 1, it's on, if a 0, it's off.
Negative one looks to be something like 0010110100110001 in a signed int

[teal viper]

No, I think -1 is might actually be correct. Due to how negation works in C# and most other programming languages(2's complement).

[summer stump]

Really? Ok. I was trying to look it up but can't find anything useful

[muted wadi]

i read it in a tutorial so I assumed it to be correct

but i dont think i've seen it referenced in unity documentation

well, i realised i didn't need the layermask parameter anyway and honestly can't remember why i put it there originally

[radiant sail]

anybody know how i can add a offset rotation to the transform.LookAt method

[rocky canyon]

just add the offset to the (thing ur lookin at's transform)

LookAt(theThing.transform.position + new Vector3(0,0,0))

[eternal needle]

Use the quaternion look rotation method then add your own offset after with the result. Or use an offset to the position before passing it into the method. Depends what offset you need

[rocky canyon]

or afterwards, yea.

[teal viper]

Just tried it out.

        int i = -1;
        Console.WriteLine ($"binary: {Convert.ToString(i, 2)}");

It prints 111111...

[summer stump]

Ok nice. Good to know. Really appreciate you taking the time

[tender breach]

How do I respawn pieces in a falling block game after they hit the ground?

[radiant sail]

how do i apply it because im new to c#
transform.LookAt(cam * Quaternion.LookRotation(90, 0, 0));

[robust condor]

@tender breachMove them or Destroy and Instantiate new ones?

[north hawk]

Guys i need playfab

Can u give playfab

[summer stump]

Use OnCollisionEnter or OnTriggerEnter and see if the collision is from a block. If it is, destroy it (or as Zyme said, move it)

[arctic harbor]

so i'm working on a 2d platformer with a speed boost mechanic. it's specific to the player and affects the ui's color and player sprite color. right now pretty much anything player related is in a single PlayerController script. would it generally be better practice to split it into separate scripts like PlayerController (for basic movement), BoostLogic, and another script for the ui and sprite color change? none of these are used by anything else

[summer stump]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/sdks/unity3d/installing-unity3d-sdk

[robust condor]

@arctic harborUse events

[verbal dome]

So you need a rotational offset?

[radiant sail]

Yes

[verbal dome]

The parameter in LookAt needs to be a Vector3, so that won't work like this.
You could do something like transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(cam.transform.position - transform.position) * Quaternion.Euler(90, 0, 0)

Multiplying by that Quaternion.Euler is what "adds" to the rotation

[radiant sail]

Ok Ty

i put that in the update replacing the lookat right?

[verbal dome]

Or if it's simpler for you, first do LookAt normally, then transform.Rotate after that

[eternal needle]

not really sure what you want the offset to be exactly so i cant suggest much

what osmal said is what I initially was thinking for a rotation offset, if you want it to be a position offset then #💻┃code-beginner message this should be fine

[twin bolt]

Question, if i set the players cameras position to the body, should i use update or something different?

[summer stump]

Usually LateUpdate

[twin bolt]

Okay thanks

[modest current]

Why does unity error when It cant find a key in a dictionary?

[twin bolt]

Now i have one issue, the player is moving, but it doesnt take in account of the cameras rotation, how do i fix this?

[arctic harbor]

just looked it up and i don't see how to use it as a sort of toggle. i want the ui and player to glow when boosting, and normal when not. boosting itself is only available under certain conditions as well

[verbal dome]

That's a C# thing, not a Unity thing.
You can use TryGetValue to be safe

[modest current]

I'm trying to check if a key exists but if it's been removed it obviously wont find it so it causes an error so I cant even skip it before error

[prisma blaze]

if an object has 2 colliders, and another object collided, how do i know which of the 2 colliders were hit? the oncollisionenter function is in the object with the 2 colliders

[summer stump]

You can if you use TryGetValue
That's kinda what it was made for

[robust condor]

@arctic harborWhen you activate boost you send out an event, and other script like GUI and whatever can listen to this action and act upon it.

Separation of concerns, so you put an event listener in your GUI handler

[twin bolt]

Why cant i move my player when the player is looking completely down? ``` targetVelocity = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));

        targetVelocity.Normalize();

        Vector3 cameraForward = Vector3.Scale(playerCamera.transform.forward, new Vector3(1, 0, 1)).normalized;

        Vector3 moveDirection = cameraForward * targetVelocity.z + playerCamera.transform.right * targetVelocity.x;

        Vector3 moveVector = moveDirection * playerSpeed;
        rb.velocity = new Vector3(moveVector.x, rb.velocity.y, moveVector.z);```

[verbal dome]

Because cameraForward is completely zero when you look down

[twin bolt]

Oh, how can i fix this then?

[verbal dome]

For example, get a rotation that only uses the camera's Y angle

Then rotate moveDirection with that quaternion

Quaternion.Euler(0, playerCamera.transform.eulerangles.y, 0)

[twin bolt]

Well my issue is not rotating the player, its about moving in the same direction of the camera.

[verbal dome]

Ok well I didn't talk about rotating the player at all

[twin bolt]

I'll try this

[verbal dome]

If you do that then get rid of cameraForward

[twin bolt]

so transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, playerCamera.transform.eulerangles.y, 0)
?

[verbal dome]

Nah, make a new Quaternion out of that

Then multiply moveDirection with that quaternion to rotate moveDirection

Hmm wait

[twin bolt]

What will that quaternion go into then?

[verbal dome]

You should change the moveDirection line to cs Vector3 moveDirection = thatRotation * new Vector3(targetVelocity.x, 0f, targetVelocity.z)

So you have a velocity on the XZ axes that you rotate with the camera's Y angle

The end result should have a Y value of 0

[twin bolt]

Here it is now ``` targetVelocity = new Vector3(Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"), 0, Input.GetAxis("Vertical"));

        targetVelocity.Normalize();

        Vector3 moveDirection = Quaternion.Euler(0, playerCamera.transform.eulerAngles.y, 0) * new Vector3(targetVelocity.x, 0f, targetVelocity.z);

        Vector3 moveVector = moveDirection * playerSpeed;

        rb.velocity = new Vector3(moveVector.x, rb.velocity.y, moveVector.z);```

it works but my movement is delayed.

[verbal dome]

I don't think anything here would cause a delay

[modest current]

I still get the same error even with TryGetValue 🤔

[verbal dome]

Show the error and your code

[twin bolt]

I'm not sure at this point

[arctic harbor]

That doesn't address how boosting is a toggle. I can send out an event to change the UI color upon starting a boost, sure, but then I'd have to send out another event when boosting stops. Boosting can be stopped simply by releasing the boost button or by expending the boost resource. It seems more intuitive to just have a isBoosting boolean and have things look at that

[modest current]

It might be too complicated

[verbal dome]

Oh god is this that voxel thing you showed yesterday

[modest current]

yeah it's really frustrating that I cant just check if the xyz index exists that would solve all my problems

[verbal dome]

As suggested, you could just use a single Dictionary with Vector3Int as the key

[tribal zephyr]

hey i need a little help, i made a procedural room generation script, but this weird bug happens, it seems like sometimes the rooms generate in a circle and block the player off from progressing throughout, as shown in the video, it only happens sometimes

[small mantle]

I want the Player to have their Camera Change, but I also want the Player to be pushed. How can I do that without making more bools? I just don't want to make more bools because code will start getting messy. cs void Update() { if (playerFlipped) { followCam.m_Lens.OrthographicSize = followCam.m_Lens.OrthographicSize + 1f; rb.AddForce(Vector2.right * flippedBoostPower, ForceMode2D.Impulse); playerFlipped = false; } }

[teal viper]

If you keep these implementation, you'd need to call TryGetValue on every single dictionary in that chain.

[tribal zephyr]

does anyone know how to solve this?

[robust condor]

@arctic harborDepends how large your project is and how you want the structure to be. Everything can be solved in multiple ways. If you have a lot of things "looking at" stuff you are creating dependencies that can break if you change something. If you use events it is easier to decouple the scripts. The new input system for example works this way. You send event when you press down a button, and event when you stop pressing and act upon it. And how are your other scripts going to look at the boolean continuously?

[boreal tangle]

does someone know whats the point of skinWidth in creating a player controller using translate?

[verbal dome]

It helps to avoid getting stuck or shaking, as far as I know

[arctic harbor]

Hmm. It's just a simple platformer

[rich adder]

don't use playercontroller with translate..

[teal viper]

Impossible to say anything without knowing how your procedural generation is working and debugging through it.

[boreal tangle]

I meant making a player controller using translate

[arctic harbor]

Right now I have a BoostLogic method that runs in FixedUpdate of PlayerController and an isBoosting check inside of it. I added the UI color change to the isBoosting check afterward

[rich adder]

why ? do you not want collisions

[boreal tangle]

I do but I have seen people say it allows more control and I can use ray cast to do collisions

[rich adder]

probably not worth doing it with translation

[boreal tangle]

I wanna at least try. If it gets to tedious il go back to physics

[teal viper]

What skinWidth? Where do you see it?

And what makes you think that there's any point at all?

[boreal tangle]

in a video about how to make a playercontroller they use skinWidth to shrink the bounds of the collider and raycast from those bounds to stop the player from getting stuck. I thought about doing it because I was struggling getting the movement I wanted with physics and Thought I would get better results with translate.

[rich adder]

there are better ways to fix getting "stuck"

[boreal tangle]

I'm only using it because the tutorial is

[rich adder]

🤷‍♂️ sounds like a poor tutorial

[teal viper]

It does sound like a pretty bad walk-around ignoring the real issue.
That being said, we know literally nothing about the issue that you're mentioning, so can't really say anything about it.

Nor did you explain what object does the skinWidth property belong to.

Or any other info about your setup.

[boreal tangle]

So would it be better to just use physics?

[rich adder]

depends, what is the original problem? when is it getting "stuck"

usually that can be fixed with step height/ skin or also the Physics settings

[boreal tangle]

The problem wasnt getting stuck. I was just confused about what skinWidth was and its purpose when I was following the tutorial.

[teal viper]

What class/type does this property belong to? Can you answer that one question?

What skinWidth are you talking about?

[arctic harbor]

How would you make the event system work if the boost resource is tied to the player? I'd assume you would still need a GetComponent<PlayerController> in the event manager script. And then send an event upon starting a boost and send another event upon ending a boost?

[meager gust]

Two colliders can penetrate each other as deep as their Skin Width. Larger Skin Widths reduce jitter. Low Skin Width can cause the character to get stuck. A good setting is to make this value 10% of the Radius.

also like other people have said, stop using translate if you want any form of collision

you're looking for CharacterController.Move()

[boreal tangle]

whats wrong with just raycasting

[meager gust]

for movement?

[boreal tangle]

for collisions

[meager gust]

because it's silly

the character controller, and most other 3D character controllers use depenetration

they move into an object, then figure out how much to move until they're just out of the object. to simulate a hard collision

then the render occurs. etc

[teal viper]

What if you spawn already colliding? Or move so fast that the raycast wouldn't hit anything?

[boreal tangle]

ok I get it. But do you think unity's physics can make movement on par to platformers like hollow knight or celeste?

[teal viper]

I mean, you could compensate with raycasting ahead the amount you would move and do overlaps too. But that would basically be a shitty copy cat of the physics system.

[meager gust]

unity's physics engine is just physx.

which is used by most of the gaming industry

[teal viper]

The movement part is up to you.👆

[boreal tangle]

ok Thank you

[rich adder]

*if you're in 3D

[meager gust]

yes

[rich adder]

those controllers use also raycasting , like down for things like coyote time and whatnot

[boreal tangle]

ok ty

[robust condor]

@arctic harborWhat is a boost resource? A pickup? When you use the BoostAction function you send OnPlayerBoostEvent?.Invoke(this) and then in any script that cares about this action, like GUIHandler you subscribe to it in OnEnable and OnDisable. You don't need to reference PlayerController because the messaging is done via events

And then OnPlayerBoostEndEvent?.Invokte(this)

Something like this:

public class GUIHandler : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Subscribe to events
    private void OnEnable()
    {
        OnPlayerBoostStartEvent += OnPlayerBoostStart;
        OnPlayerBoostEndEvent += OnPlayerBoostEnd;
    }

    // Unsubscribe to avoid memory leaks
    private void OnDisable()
    {
        OnPlayerBoostStartEvent -= OnPlayerBoostStart;
        OnPlayerBoostEndEvent -= OnPlayerBoostEnd;
    }

    private void OnPlayerBoostStart()
    {
        Debug.Log("Player started boosting.");
        // Color the GUI or something
    }
    private void OnPlayerBoostEnd()
    {
        Debug.Log("Player stopped boosting.");
        // Fix GUI color
    }
}

[modest current]

How come c# wont allow you to modify a dictionary while iterating over it?

[robust condor]

Race conditions?

[meager gust]

no

[robust condor]

@meager gustElaborate

[meager gust]

Race conditions generally involve threads. Updating a dictionary value invalidates the iterator

[verbal dome]

So is the problem that you have unreachable rooms?
You would need some kind of graph structure to make sure it's all connected

[arctic harbor]

The player has a resource bar for boost. There are no pickups. The player gains boost resource by moving

[modest current]

How am I supposed to make changes to a dictionary then?

[glass urchin]

So, if I want an animation to start a specific frame, how do I do that?

[eternal needle]

show your code, what changes are you trying to make?

[meager gust]

put your objects in a list

iterate the list, and mess with the dictionary while you're doing it

[rich adder]

u can just loop thru the kvp

[meager gust]

it wouldn't let him

[rich adder]

you need a list like you said, iterate thru keys

[modest current]

I'm trying to change and remove some values of my voxel data

[eternal needle]

yea makes sense, you're trying to add values to the keys while iterating through it

[modest current]

Only reason it doesn't work but I'm trying to understand how I can possibly get around this

maybe different type of loop

[meager gust]

just told you. make a struct with your key etc info, put it in a list, iterate through the list while accessing the keys in the dictionary

[tribal zephyr]

How could i do that?

[tribal zephyr]

Yeah

[tender breach]

How do I make instantiate only spawn one sprite via OnTriggerEnter2D? https://pastecode.io/s/0q8w5e2f

[rich adder]

whats wrong with it now?

also mixing physics and translate = bad

[tender breach]

I want the gameObject to spawn once via OnTriggerEnter2D, but it spawns mulitple times.

[rich adder]

are objects passing the trigger multiple times ?

[tender breach]

No, only once

[eternal needle]

do u see an issue with this?

[tender breach]

Didn't you read the code?

[rich adder]

OnTriggerEnter is a one frame event

also what bawsi said

[tender breach]

No

[eternal needle]

i really wasnt expecting that as an answer

[summer stump]

You set it to true and immediate check if it is true.

You see no issue with that?

[tender breach]

Honestly, no.

[summer stump]

How?

[eternal needle]

then maybe take a break from unity and do some basic c#

[rich adder]

you don't know what your own code does?

why did you put that there then

[summer stump]

If you set it to true. Then it will not be false. So why even set it or check?
The if will ALWAYS be true

[tender breach]

So what should I change the code to?

[rich adder]

if(!spawn){
spawn = true;
//etc..```

[summer stump]

Not to set it to true before checking if it's true

[tender breach]

Oh

How do I do that?

[robust condor]

I have two singletons, the second relies on the first to have registered some values in a struct and both run Awake() and the second singleton gets no reference error in OnEnable(). Can I delay the second singletons awake, or set an execution order or something. Or a better pattern

[rich adder]

what, i literally (wrote it)[#💻┃code-beginner message]

[teal viper]

Let's start simple. What's the intention begins these 2 lines in your code?

Spawn = true;
if (Spawn == true)

[tender breach]

I'm trying to spawn a gameObject only once when Spawn = true.

[rich adder]

also don't forget code runs from top to bottom

[teal viper]

Okay, and when is it supposed to be true?

[tender breach]

When it touches OnTriggerEnter2D

[rich adder]

but if you keep setting it to true it will keep doing it lol

defeats the whole purpose of a bool

[unborn moon]

lol, the code have too many if condition

[teal viper]

It does that already even if you remove these 2 lines.

[unborn moon]

it makes me remember the guys who did yandere simulation

[twin bolt]

What would you guy's say is the best method of crouching for 3d First person games?

[rich adder]

best method in what sense?

shrink the collider/move the center. done

[rocky canyon]

move the world upwards

[summer stump]

I don't believe in best for most things. But what nav said is very common

[twin bolt]

Yea i'm doing that, but i want to move the camera down.

My setup is very janky

[rich adder]

move the cinemachine target to the head bone or something

[teal viper]

Fix the setup then

[twin bolt]

        {
            GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height = Mathf.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height, CrouchHeight, Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
            GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center = Vector3.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center, new Vector3(originalScale.x, CrouchCenter, originalScale.z), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
            Joint.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Joint.transform.position, new Vector3(Joint.transform.position.x, -1.71f, Joint.transform.position.y), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed * 10);
        }

        if(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height == CrouchHeight && Joint.transform.position.y == -1.71f)
        {
            Crouching = false;
            isCrouched = true;
        }

        if (GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height == OriginalHeight && Joint.transform.position.y == OriginalCameraHeight)
        {
            Standing = false;
            isCrouched = false;
        }

        if (Standing)
        {
            GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height = Mathf.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height, OriginalHeight, Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
            GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center = Vector3.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center, new Vector3(originalScale.x, originalScale.y, originalScale.z), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
            Joint.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Joint.transform.position, new Vector3(Joint.transform.position.x, OriginalCameraHeight, Joint.transform.position.y), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
        }```

[rocky canyon]

Cinemachine

[summer stump]

Cinemachine

Edit: oh double 🦥

[rocky canyon]

        private void CrouchCheck()
        {
            // a little jerky
            if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftControl))
            {
                isCrouching = true;
                // Height and Center deltaMaxs need to match
                characterController.height = Mathf.MoveTowards(characterController.height,1f,(7f * Time.deltaTime));
                characterController.center = Vector3.MoveTowards(characterController.center,playerSettings.crouchingVector,(7f * Time.deltaTime));
            }
            else if(!obstacleOverhead)
            {
                isCrouching = false;
                // Height and Center deltaMaxs need to match
                characterController.height = Mathf.MoveTowards(characterController.height,2f,(5f * Time.deltaTime));
                characterController.center = Vector3.MoveTowards(characterController.center,playerSettings.standingVector,(5f * Time.deltaTime));
            }
        }```

[twin bolt]

I'm doing it here, but it goes very slow, and doesnt stop at 1.77

[rocky canyon]

else move ur height, and ur center the camera (if parented) should follow along

but cinemachine fr

[twin bolt]

I had the camera as a child before, but had to remove it because of jitter, so now i have to move it manually.

[rich adder]

prob wrong lerp

[rocky canyon]

does it pretty smoothly

[twin bolt]

Here it is: ``` if (Crouching)
{
GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height = Mathf.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height, CrouchHeight, Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center = Vector3.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center, new Vector3(originalScale.x, CrouchCenter, originalScale.z), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
Joint.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Joint.transform.position, new Vector3(Joint.transform.position.x, -1.71f, Joint.transform.position.y), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed * 10);
}

    if(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height == CrouchHeight && Joint.transform.position.y == -1.71f)
    {
        Crouching = false;
        isCrouched = true;
    }

    if (GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height == OriginalHeight && Joint.transform.position.y == OriginalCameraHeight)
    {
        Standing = false;
        isCrouched = false;
    }

    if (Standing)
    {
        GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height = Mathf.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().height, OriginalHeight, Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
        GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center = Vector3.MoveTowards(GetComponent<CapsuleCollider>().center, new Vector3(originalScale.x, originalScale.y, originalScale.z), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
        Joint.transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(Joint.transform.position, new Vector3(Joint.transform.position.x, OriginalCameraHeight, Joint.transform.position.y), Time.deltaTime * CrouchingSpeed);
    }```

[rocky canyon]

but theres still a bit of jerk.. but its very subtle

[rich adder]

interesting.. why this way instead of coroutine vector3.lerp?

[rocky canyon]

i was young

havent revised it any since then

[rich adder]

fair enuf haha

[rocky canyon]

MoveTowards works a bit differently.

i used it so i wouldnt have to create a 2nd variable for two parameters

just to do the lerp the correct way

[rich adder]

so messy , these should be diff methods. and cache those components

[rocky canyon]

but ya, if i were to do it again id just do some proper lerps

[rich adder]

this dude does it pretty well coroutine here
https://youtu.be/-XNm7dPVVOQ?t=738

[twin bolt]

Would translate be bad to use.

[summer stump]

If you have a rigidbody, then definitely. If not, then probably

[sterile radish]

how would i add choices to this dialogue system?
https://hastebin.com/share/cofeqawero.csharp

[rich adder]

probably SO or something

I would personally use Ink instead of building my own

[rocky canyon]

you'd have to make a couple more lists, one of responses, and another for the response to ur response..

[sterile radish]

whats lnk?

[sterile radish]

oh alr

[rocky canyon]

then when click it responds.. waits for u to respond back.. and then responds according to how u responded..

it'd be much bigger and more complicated than what u have now

[rich adder]

Its a really good asset for this stuf plus choices

[verbal dome]

ink, not Lnk

[rich adder]

ah yes ink not lnk

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/ink-integration-for-unity-60055

[sterile radish]

okay ill check it out

thanks!

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY0Sk93YUhA&ab_channel=ShapedbyRainStudios

heres a video that implements Ink

[rich adder]

this guys video helped me greatly

also this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nK-tQ_vc0Y

[rocky canyon]

mobile dev, here i come 🙂

was waiting til i got a phone with a gyro

christmas provided

[rich adder]

android is dumb easy, IOS not soo much esp if you're on an old mac with old xcode

[rocky canyon]

ah, thankfully im windows, xbox, and android

[rich adder]

I'd love to get myself some VR for development 😮

[rocky canyon]

AR seems like it could be cool

still pretty early.. time to get ur foot in the door with something

[rich adder]

yeah esp the face topology stuff / filters

[twin bolt]

How do i make .movetowards not infinitely move, and stop at the target point.

[rich adder]

you should just do it this way
#💻┃code-beginner message

[rocky canyon]

while loops, coroutines, wrapping it in a basic conditional..

// do math to find out if your near target

if(not near target) --> keep movetowards-ing
else (if near target) --> don't

[twin bolt]

How do i scale a object from its pivot from a script?

[timber tide]

transform.scale

actually it may just be localscale

[twin bolt]

oh so it works automatically?

Okay i'll try it.

[timber tide]

uh, if you consider setting it via script is automatic

unless you mean by transform handling matrix transformation then sure

[amber spruce]

so i have my player not destroy on load and when they enter a specefic scene i want to reset their location

how can i do that

[summer stump]

Have a script on an object in the new scene and have the position as a variable. Have it set the players position to it via player.transform.position = resetPosition

I give this method for its sheer simplicity. There are many other ways

[amber spruce]

how do i reference the player to it

[summer stump]

Well, you could have the player register itself to a singleton, and get it from that singleton (i recommend that over making the player itself a singleton), or use findobjectoftype.

Or anything from here
https://unity.huh.how/programming/references

[sacred orbit]

does anyone here know anything about git for collaboration in unity?

[summer stump]

I'm sure most everyone here does
It's the industry standard

[sacred orbit]

cool, I have a super specific question

[wintry quarry]

Lots of people know lots of things. If you have a question, ask it

[cunning rapids]

This code makes the muzzle flash look at your main camera

[sacred orbit]

if I want to merge two branches on git, is it possible to combine the additions on both branches when merging?
For example:

[wintry quarry]

that's what merging does

[radiant sail]

i fixed my issue already it was this
transform.LookAt(cam);
transform.rotation *= Quaternion.Euler(90, 0, 0);

[sacred orbit]

???? I looked it up but it said that it just overwrites what is on the branch

[wintry quarry]

Not sure where you read that

[cunning rapids]

This will rotate it 90 degrees in the x axis, yes

[wintry quarry]

it's called "merge" for a reason

[radiant sail]

yes, the muzzle flash was pointing itsself at the camera at the wrong angle that was my issue

[cunning rapids]

But I'm guessing you are making an instance of the muzzle flash prefab?

[radiant sail]

yes

it works fine now so ye

[sacred orbit]

okay so, let me put this into practical terms so I can better understand. If I have a base game on git and a friend and I are developing it at the same time. One of us uploads to branch 1 and another uploads to branch 2. If we were to merge these branches it would combine the files that both people added, right?

[amber spruce]

hey so none of my code deals with gravity i use a rb2d for that but for some reason i still fall even if i set it to kinematic

[wintry quarry]

You always merge one branch into another. The branch that is merged INTO, will contain the changes from both branches after merging.

e.g. if you do

git checkout a; // check out branch a
git merge b; // merge b into a

branch a now has the changes from both branches. At least on your local machine.

[amber spruce]

it seems i had so much built up velocity it didnt matter lol

[cunning rapids]

You can just set the rotation of the instance directly when you Instanciate it

[radiant sail]

but then it wont follow my camera when i move too fast

[sacred orbit]

I know this is restating the exact same thing but I want to be 110% clear before I mess up any files
so if branch one has A,B, C, and D
and branch two has A,B,C, and E
if I merged branch 2 into branch 1, branch one would have A,B,C,D, and E?

[wintry quarry]

it's very hard to mess things up with git. Just make sure you've committed and it won't be a problem

when you merge it will create a merge commit

if you don't like the results you can just roll back that merge commit

[wintry quarry]

Are these commits? Yes.

Do note that whenever you merge there's the chance for conflicts

[cunning rapids]

public Transform FirePoint;

//some shi here

Instantiate(Prefab, FirePoint.position, FirePoint.rotation);

@radiant sail

[sacred orbit]

alright one more question and I will get out of your hair.

What if branch one has A,B, C, and D
and branch two has A,B, and E without C
if I merged branch 2 into branch 1, branch one would have A,B,C,D, and E or A,B,D, and E?

[wintry quarry]

what does E without C mean

[sacred orbit]

sorry, should have been more specific.

branch twos previous commit had A,B, and C. This commit got rid of C, but branch one still has it

[cunning rapids]

It doesn't have to, but I'm pretty sure you can make the instance follow the fire point as well

[wintry quarry]

I'm not 100% sure I follow here. Are you talking about a revert commit?

[cunning rapids]

Something like Vector3.MoveTowards or Vector3.Lerp to make it move smoothly towards the FirePoint transform @radiant sail

[sacred orbit]

not really, one second I will try to explain better

[radiant sail]

ok

[sacred orbit]

Branch 2 and Branch 1 both have file A,B and C.

One commit, Branch 2 gets rid of file C but Branch 1 still has it.

If we merge branch 2 into branch 1, what happens to file C?

[wintry quarry]

Wait now we're talking about files? I thought we were talking about commits

[sacred orbit]

???? we were always talking about files

[wintry quarry]

It depends. Did branch 1 add the file? Or it just didn't remove it?

[wintry quarry]

I was talking about commits

[sacred orbit]

just didn't remove it

[cunning rapids]

Also, if you leave too many instances, memory might accumulate over time if you keep the unused Prefab instances. A quick solution might be a coroutine to delete all unused instances. But if you want to latch onto this system consider maybe making an object pool. I still recommend maybe just enabling/disabling the muzzle flash Prefab instead of cloning a new one every time you shoot

[wintry quarry]

Then it will be removed. Because the commit from branch 2 will be applied and remove the file

You need to think in terms of commits, not files.

[radiant sail]

i already delt witrh that, i made a script where i can set a certain time and the intance deletes itself

[amber spruce]

so i decided to use findobjectoftype and my player is a clone of a prefab so would i include the (clone)??

[cunning rapids]

Alright, that should work as well

[robust condor]

I'm trying to hold a gameobject on mouse cursor, but it keeps flickering and bouncing as if the transform pos gets reset every frame or something

[queen adder]

coroutine update pattern looks cleaner, is it not?

easy timers

[wintry quarry]

well the Update version of this will be much more consistent

If that matters in your game.

[queen adder]

isnt waitforsecond timing things well?

like 100x of waitfor5sec is almost very very very close to 500 seconds perfect?

[wintry quarry]

WaitForSeconds(animationDelay) will wait until the next frame after that amount of time passes. So for example if animationDelay is 5, then it might wait 5.02 seconds if that's when the next frame after 5s runs. That means your timer is off by 2 hundredths of a second. This error will compound over time

in contrast the other thing you have is properly accounting for these interframe timing errors in the timer variable

note that you can achieve that same thing in a coroutine too

you just have to use the same timer technique and yield return null

[queen adder]

or.. maybe i can add an extra float that captures the deltaTime and reduce than on the next WaitFor

but would be like quite uglier than the update, yea

[wintry quarry]

Not sure how that would actually work, and sounds more complicated

[queen adder]

WaitForSeconds(animdelay - lastdeltaTime)

[wintry quarry]

let's say the frame timings are:
4.98, 5.03
Time.deltaTime would be 0.05. Where do we get the 0.03 we actually need from?

I don't think you can do it without your own timer, which is exactly what the other method is.

maybe if you made a CustomYieldInstruction version of WaitForSeconds that has a .TimingError property

[queen adder]

right yea

[wintry quarry]

that would, of course, be holding its own timer inside itself

so again it's kinda the same timer solution just with a fancy wrapper

[amber spruce]

whats the best way to add every gameobject that has the layer Player to a list

[slender nymph]

for what purpose

[amber spruce]

so i can reset there posistion

[slender nymph]

that's not very descriptive at all

[amber spruce]

so bascially i have multiple players from another scene when they get in the new scene i want to reset there position

so they dont get to the new scene and fall

[slender nymph]

if "every gameobject that has the layer Player" is just the player objects, then have them register themselves with some spawner or manager or whatever when they spawn

[wintry quarry]

this isn't really what layers are for

just add them to the list as you spawn them

[amber spruce]

they are spawned in another scene\

the list is on a object in the new scene

[slender nymph]

or have them subscribe to the onSceneLoad sceneLoaded event and reset their positions themselves

[wintry quarry]

keep the list in the first scene and/or in a DDOL object

pass the list to the second object as needed

[amber spruce]

ok thanks

[robust condor]

Vector3 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
mousePos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos);
mousePos.y = 0;
_currentObjectOnCursor.transform.position = mousePos;

Why does this not instantiate object at correct pos? The object is way off the mouse cursor

Ortho camera if it matters

[slender nymph]

off how? also keep in mind that it will set the Z position to that of the camera's position so the object will be too close to the camera to be visible

[robust condor]

Half the screen down from cursor

[slender nymph]

so the issue is the Y position then. which you are conveniently setting to 0

are you sure you don't mean to be setting the Z axis to 0 there?

[robust condor]

But the Y is up?

[slender nymph]

yes, and if the object is ending up below the cursor's position then its Y position is lower than the mouse cursor's y position

because you are setting its Y position to 0

[robust condor]

I need it to spawn on 0 on the Y axis

[gaunt ice]

is the camera orthogonal or perspective?

[robust condor]

Ortho

[slender nymph]

okay so why are you surprised that the object ends up at Y 0?

[gaunt ice]

oh you have said that, i overlook it, btw 2d game is x-y plane by default

[slender nymph]

take this poor drawing for example. let's say that black line near the bottom represents Y: 0. the red spot on the cursor is the cursor's position, the blue spot is where your object will end up because you are setting it's Y position to 0

[summer stump]

FindObjectOfType takes a type, not the name of the gameobject.
For example, say you have an object called "Player (Clone)", and it has the script PlayerData on it, you could do FindObjectOfType(PlayerData) but you could not do FindObjectOfType("Player (Clone)")
You COULD do Find("Player (Clone)") but I strongly recommend against the base Find method. There is also FindObjectWithTag (if I remember the name correctly).

However, saying all that, you generally want to avoid any of the find methods. They are quite inefficient. The base Find() method is also very brittle

[slender nymph]

the red dot is your cursor, yes?

[robust condor]

Yep

[slender nymph]

and 0 on the Y axis is where that block is located, yes?

[robust condor]

I assume so

[slender nymph]

so then what is the issue? it's going exactly where you are telling it to. your mouse cursor's X and Z position and 0 on the Y axis

[robust condor]

It looks like this if I spawn it on the cursor

[north kiln]

so you need to set the Z coordinate

[slender nymph]

too close to the camera as i already pointed out

[robust condor]

I guess I need a two step solution. Because I only want it to move after the cursor on X and Z axis

[slender nymph]

you want it to be a bit ahead of the cursor's z axis, or just at 0 on the Z with your camera at -10 since that is typically how you would do it with 2d

[sacred orbit]

what is the best way to collaborate on a unity project at the same time?

[slender nymph]

git

[charred spoke]

git

[sacred orbit]

wouldn't that cause alot of conflicts?

[slender nymph]

how so?

[charred spoke]

Only if you fail to use git correctly

[sacred orbit]

I just tried it out, different additions to scenes will cause conflicts

[slender nymph]

yes, do not work on the same files at the same time

[sacred orbit]

when merging*

[slender nymph]

this is typical with any version control

[charred spoke]

Thats where conflict resolution comes in

[sacred orbit]

yeah but there is no option to just combine data, instead you must pick between one set of data and another

[sacred orbit]

yeah, that's why I was wondering if there is a way to collaborate at the same time

[slender nymph]

if you mean working on the same files at the same time in real time, then no. learn how to properly use version control

[charred spoke]

There is a option to combine data but if two people changed the exact same thing then there is no way to combine. Lets say I move a cube to -5 on the X and you move it to +15 on the X. What should happen now? The cube goes to +10 ? Thats not correct at all since now both our work is lost. Hence a choice has to be made

[sacred orbit]

So if I created a cube on a scene in one branch and create a sphere in another branch and try to merge them it won't cause problems, right?

[north kiln]

Smart merge also improves merging for Unity asset files https://unity.huh.how/info/git#configure-smart-merge

[charred spoke]

Yep I was just about to mention the YAMLMerge

[sacred orbit]

what does it mean by "can merge scene and prefab files in a semantically correct way"? Is that being able to fully merge scenes without conflicts?

[north kiln]

It means it has some awareness of how yaml is structured so it doesn't just treat it entirely as text

without it git's default merge can mangle the yaml

[robust condor]

How to check if Vector3 is 0,0,0?

[slender nymph]

just compare it to Vector3.zero

[ivory bobcat]

a == b

Try asking in the non coding channel #💻┃unity-talk
Delete the message here and repost it over there.

[prisma blaze]

why does the raycast not hit the collider? the collider is on a cube with a transparent material

 void GroundCheck()
 {
     float distance = 1f;
     Vector3 dir = Vector3.down; Vector3 raycastOrigin = transform.position;

     Debug.DrawRay(raycastOrigin, dir * distance, Color.red);

     if (Physics.Raycast(raycastOrigin, dir, out hit, distance))
     {
         isGrounded = true;
     }
     else
     {
         isGrounded = false;
     }
 }

this code works here (mesh collider)

[rich adder]

Debug.Log($"hit: {hit.collider.name}");

[prisma blaze]

i'm getting a null reference on the first one

[rich adder]

wdym on the first one? and did you put this inside the Physics if statement

[prisma blaze]

i put it after

on the transparent cube, no colliders are hit

[rich adder]

then its probably not long enough ray

should be at the feet anyway, why is it in his mid

[prisma blaze]

i just drew the ray at the position.
the ray works for the ground, i thought it would work for the cube since he can run on it too

[wintry quarry]

If this is a default capsule or character controller, 1 unit down from its center will not be long enough

The default capsule is 2m tall

[prisma blaze]

the scale is 1, i change the ray distance to 1.5 and it worked

i don't know why it works on the ground but not on the cube he's literally running on

[wintry quarry]

Right scale 1 on a 2m tall object means it's 2m tall. 1m is not enough to reach the ground from the center

[prisma blaze]

thanks for the help

[hasty spire]

how would i make a player appear at the location of a game object?

like how would i teleport a player to a gameobjects location

[wintry quarry]

Just set its position to that object's position.

Of course this could be complicated by whatever movement mechanism you're using

[hasty spire]

so like make the players transform = the targets transform?

[wintry quarry]

Position

player.transform.position = otherObject.transform.position;```

[hasty spire]

right

and if i have a serialized field for the transform of the object can i just put that variable.position?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

Of course

[hasty spire]

is this the best way to do screen transitions?

[wintry quarry]

Screen transitions?

Wdym by that

[hasty spire]

i made a screenbox, and i wanna go to another screenbox when i hit the edge of the first one

so i check if the player is there then i activate the next one and deactivate the current one

teleporting the player into the next one

thats how i did it

[wintry quarry]

Is it the... Best way? I don't really know how to answer that

What do you mean by "best"?

[hasty spire]

nvm

[unkempt thunder]

Any good toturial to start programming in unity

[rich adder]

check pins

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel. and the pathways on the unity !learn site are a great place to get started with learning unity after you know the basics of c#

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[unkempt thunder]

Is there another thing i need to learn before starting becuase i already learned c#

[slender nymph]

did you just stop reading at the first .?

[rich adder]

you already know all of c# ?

[unkempt thunder]

Most of it

[rich adder]

then you should be familiar with reading an API
https://docs.unity3d.com

unity is just an api

[gaunt ice]

c# in unity different from c# outside a little bit btw

[rich adder]

and I doubt you know most of c#

[languid spire]

no it is not

[gaunt ice]

also the async await part

[rich adder]

async and await work fine

Task.Delay has issues though well nvm that 😛

[slender nymph]

works fine for me, what do you mean it has issues?

[rich adder]

weird I gotta try again, idk last time it just never returned from the delay for me

it just kept "waiting" in limbo, i prob did something wrong tho 😛

[slender nymph]

i will also note that i'm using 2023 with the Awaitable class

[rich adder]

Ohh

[slender nymph]

though i can test it again with a method that returns Task instead

[rich adder]

last time i did it was 2021 prob why. I will try my 2022

[slender nymph]

yep works just fine for me. are you sure you weren't perhaps trying to use part of the Unity API off the main thread and that thread just shut down instead?

[static cedar]

Task.Yield reduced my framerate.

Then I started using UniTask.

Works a lot better.

[rich adder]

yeah possible, I did it a year or so ago

well it worked this time 🤷‍♂️

async void Awake()
    {
        await Task.Run(() => Debug.Log("Print before Delay"));
        await Task.Delay(400);
        await Task.Run(() => Debug.Log("Print After Delay"));
    }```

not sure what I did wrong last time

[slender nymph]

probably just accessing unity stuff off the main thread. especially if you were using Task.Run, that schedules tasks to run on the thread pool

[rich adder]

its strange because I only put Task.Run this time, but just tried it without it and still works, who knows what I did last time

just glad it works here too now 😅

[gaunt ice]

oh, the language itsslf is the same but the way of development should be different from other c# application?

though it is same for developing in different frameworks

[rich adder]

depends which framework you pick

most of the .net core are the same though

I love MAUI and Blazor

the dependency injection system there is grand

but its same as WEB API

[hollow zenith]

How can I save/load data in WebGL without using playerprefs?
Json, File.WriteAll solution doesnt work(the file is not saved in the webgl).

[rich adder]

Webgl has browser storage

lemme find the link

[languid spire]

Console app, winform app, mvc app, uwp app, unity app, all require different approachs if that is what you mean, but all can use identical C# and .Net

[hollow zenith]

What do I do to use browser storage?
docs say to use Application.persistentDataPath, I guess that I cant use File.Write in webgl?

[rich adder]

PlayerPrefs it will store it here
https://developers.google.com/web/ilt/pwa/lab-indexeddb#overview
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.html

[hollow zenith]

On that note, if I need different save system for webgl, is there a way to detect if we are on webgl build so I can call correct save/load script?

So playerprefs is the way to go?

[languid spire]

yes, you use PersistentDataPath and you can use System.IO

[rich adder]

its one way to do it sure

you can also just use local files anyway

[hollow zenith]

System.IO doesnt seem to work with webgl for me

Or maybe its json that doesnt work

[languid spire]

works for me

[rich adder]

what doesnt work exactly do you get error?

[hollow zenith]

    private void SaveGame()
    {
        GameSave save = new();
        save.Gold = Gold;
        string saveData = JsonUtility.ToJson(save);
        string filePath = Application.persistentDataPath + "/Gold.json";
        System.IO.File.WriteAllText(filePath, saveData);
    }
    private void LoadGame()
    {
        string filePath = Application.persistentDataPath + "/Gold.json";
        if (System.IO.File.Exists(filePath))
        {
            string saveData = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath);
            Gold = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameSave>(saveData).Gold;
        }
    }
}

[Serializable]
public class GameSave
{
    public float Gold;
}

No error

just doesnt load the data

but it saves(the "filePath" shows if I do Debug.Log(filePath); in webgl

But the indexdb is empty(for that specific path)

[rich adder]

this will not save to indexeddb

[languid spire]

yes it will

[rich adder]

it goes in your User/AppData/LocalRow

[languid spire]

not in WebGL

[hollow zenith]

I need it for webgl 😄

[rich adder]

ohhh ok never used persistentDataPath on webgl yet sorry

[languid spire]

one thing, use Path.Combine to make your filepath

[rich adder]

remove / when doing this ^ cause it adds them for you

[hollow zenith]

got it

so I have to use playerprefs if I want to save data on webgl?

Is there a way that works for both webgl and PC?

[rich adder]

they both work

[hollow zenith]

or do I need to somehow figure out in the code which build is running?

[languid spire]

what you have should work for all platforms

[rich adder]

persistent datapath takes care of that

[hollow zenith]

it doesnt work on webgl, both local and when I upload to itch

Is my code correct tho?

[rich adder]

itch is tricky

idk if its the same afaik they recycled the machines

[languid spire]

is your browser set to clear user data?

[hollow zenith]

it shouldnt

[rich adder]

also Debug.Log inside your webgl

[languid spire]

indexdb is saved locally by the browser if set up correctly

[gilded pumice]

Does anyone have any good learning material to explore classes a bit more? As I understood at the beginning of a script "using xyz" allows the script to access a library and thus a set of tools/built in methods unique to that library that otherwise the computer wouldn't understand what you are asking of it. But then there's MonoBehavior which is a class that your newly created class inherits from which...appears to do something similar to what I thought "using libraries" did? Access to additional methods/tools unique to the MonoBehavior class? I know this is probably programming 101 stuff but I want to understand that relationship further. I'm guessing because I started in the context of interacting with unity that some more fundamentals were brushed over since the unity engine deals with that stuff for you.

[rich adder]

pretty much (Namespaces) where the scripts/class is located , think of them as Grouping scripts together
Monobehavior class itself has properties and methods that are inherited from their parent class

[wintry quarry]

You're wrong about accessing libraries.

The only thing using does is let you omit the namespace part of the class name

You don't need using statements at all

[languid spire]

using statements 'import' namespaces which contain classes, Monobehaviour is a class in the UnityEngine namespace

[wintry quarry]

You could write for example UnityEngine.GameObject and System.Collections.Generic.List all over your code. You wouldn't need using directives at all if you do that

The using directives just let you... not have to do that

[languid spire]

you could say it exposes the contents of a namespace

[wintry quarry]

: MonoBehaviour makes your class derive from the MonoBehaviour class. It's a completely different concept

[north kiln]

you could say you were declaring you were going to use the contents 🤨

[hollow zenith]

So the webgl still doesnt save/load data with my code above(localstorage)

indexDB/idbfs doesnt have my data

[languid spire]

do you get errors in the web developer console?

[hollow zenith]

webgl developer console? Do you mean in the browser console?

[rich adder]

also Debug.Log(Application.persistentDataPath) make sure its going where you think it is

yes thats browser console

[languid spire]

yes

[hollow zenith]

https://i.gyazo.com/3db3f20740ed3e7cd5ccc07ea2041265.png

None as far as I can see

[gilded pumice]

ok I think I understand. I'll have to look up namespaces a bit more then. thanks for the feedback

[hollow zenith]

It doesnt call "LoadGame" because it cant find the file

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you've got some CORS errors

[hollow zenith]

But thats for unity cloud?

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[languid spire]

what is 'Game Saved 0' ?

[hollow zenith]

/idbfs/3fa30eb70475efdc120a28c777ab1461/Gold.json

[rich adder]

so check local storage in browser

[wintry quarry]

Pretty sure for webgl you have to read/write with UnittWebRequest not System.IO

I could be mistaken

[hollow zenith]

Do you mean indexed DB?

[languid spire]

no, system.IO works fine

[gilded pumice]

yeah the learn to code doesn't seem to go over classes too much. Is it right to say then that monobehavior is the parent class for pretty much all new scripts created in the unity engine by default? or is parent class something more than just the class from which another inherits?

[hollow zenith]

https://i.gyazo.com/f71c1139269d5ce366ffadf4c35b324e.png

[rich adder]

so its saving?

[hollow zenith]

doesnt seem like it

its empty

[languid spire]

notice how it is saved per domain

[wintry quarry]

It's the parent class you inherit from when you want to make a component (aka a thing you attach to a GameObject)

[rich adder]

you only need to select url not folder

i think, unless you made that FILE_DATA