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[wicked blaze]

i tried something but didt really work

[modest dust]

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

Showing something in the inspector isn't the only purpose of using 'public'. Read about encapsulation

[novel shoal]

showing them in the inspector and using them in other programs and classes*

[modest dust]

public fields are serialized by default in the inspector, other than that it's just about the access

[novel shoal]

but what's the point of making things private if they don't affect anything?

[celest flax]

I'd like to check if a list contains every value in either an array or another list using just an if-statement. What would be a good way to do this?

[modest dust]

encapsulation.

[novel shoal]

it's just faster to make everything public

[novel shoal]

gotta read it

[spiral oak]

And more prone to bugs that are very complicated to solve

[modest dust]

Read about ensapsulation, it's worth it. Most fields should be private (or protected/internal)

[gaunt ice]

do you know what is hash table

[novel shoal]

searched in the unity docs but found no results

[modest dust]

Encapsulation isn't a unity thing.

[gaunt ice]

encapsulation is oop concept

google it and you will get the results

[novel shoal]

i haven't studied oop yet tho

in the learn.unity pathway there wasn't oop

[gaunt ice]

there actually is, but just one chapter iirc

[modest dust]

Just search for "C# Encapsulation" or simply "Encapsulation"

[spiral oak]

Unity uses C#, which is an object-oriented programming language. So literally everytime you program in Unity you're using oop

[dire torrent]

whats confusing about it? I would suggest learning basics of programming before getting into unity.
I would spoonfeed you code but that probably wont be healthy for you either. And I assume you're asking here because you wanna learn rather than just getting spoonfed code that could be provided to you by chatgpt or elsewhere 😄

[novel shoal]

ik that script are classes and every component is a class too

[dire torrent]

yea would highly recommend learning the language (which includes oop) before game dev. It's gonna end up saving you so much time and headache haha

[novel shoal]

i come from python, there i learned about oop, i also did a full course with classes too, but since i hadn't used them ever since i forgot about them

[dire torrent]

i see

[novel shoal]

i did a course about it which included classes, but since i never used them in 2 months i forgot how to even make one

[celest flax]

I looked it up an kinda understand I think? Is it like a mix between hashset and dictionary?

[quick edge]

(already posted this yesterday, but maybe someone can help me today ;) )

Yo! I have a problem. I have created an empty game object (a pivot) as a parent of a Camera. When I'm not in play mode if I rotate the pivot the camera rotate around it like supposed, but when I'm in play mode it doesn't work anymore. The camera rotate around itself. I don't understand why. I didn't find any solutions on the internet. Can you help please?

Edit : Someone told me to remove "* Time.deltaTime" so now this isn't in the code naymore

https://gdl.space/luviwaxuwa.cs

[novel shoal]

i cannot remember stuff without using them at least a bit, in fact i hate latin and can't remember anything

[gaunt ice]

hash table is data structure, it is just a name to desrcibe something that can offer you a O(1) lookup for given key
dictionary is hash table (or hashmap)

[spiral oak]

Well, in Unity you will have the chance to use oop a lot

[novel shoal]

but where is the pathway chapter with classes? i finished it but never used them

[gaunt ice]

btw the name is not important

[spiral oak]

I dont know, I just took a C# course before getting into Unity. I didnt use Unity learn, short tutorials were enough for me as I already knew C#

Just researching about what I want to do before actually doing it works for me

[novel shoal]

it took me 2 months to do the pathway since i am 16 yo, so it's been 2 months since i have even read about a class

[novel shoal]

i wanted to do a full course so that i could know about a lot of topics if i needed to use them

[dire torrent]

is this script on the pivot or the camera?
also keep Time.deltaTime or else the camera will rotate faster for the person with higher FPS than a person with a lower FPS.... unless that's what you want.

[quick edge]

On the pivot

[quick edge]

Someone told me that's not the case because the mouse Delta is already in Time.deltaTime

[spiral oak]

Well, thats not a bad idea, but I recommend you to also research yourself, don't just stick to Unity learn

[dire torrent]

ohh yea new input system, yea idk much about it so it probably is lol my bad

[quick edge]

np

And something I didn't mention. When I'm in play mode and I manually rotate the pivot, the camera rotate on itself instead of rotating around the pivot

[dire torrent]

what do you mean whern you say "camera rotates around itself instead"

[quick edge]

The camera rotate locally, not around the pivot

If that makes sense

[dire torrent]

ah

[novel shoal]

if i need i can do it, obviously there are a LOT of things i don't know about unity yet, so if i ever needed them i can still look them up on yt

[quick edge]

I'm not on "center" mode. I'm on "pivot"

[dire torrent]

make sure your script is on the pivot gameobject
because only way the camera would rotate locally is if the script was on the camera itself

or maybe you have a script on the pivot AND the camera

[lunar tapir]

Hi, I am trying to make a cyborg futuristic hacking game.

I have this OperatingSystem script which goes onto cyborgs with a serialized list of Applications

public class OperatingSystem : MonoBehaviour {
    private Root root;
    [SerializeField] private List<Application> applications;

    private void Start() {
        root = new Root();
        applications.Add(new TerminalApplication(this));
    }
}```

Here is my application class. It is not a MonoBehaviour but all its fields are serialized ( as far as I understand ).
```cs
[Serializable]
public abstract class Application {
    [SerializeField] private string name;
    [SerializeField] private bool adminPerms;
    [SerializeField] private OperatingSystem os;

    public Application(string name, OperatingSystem os = null) {
        this.name = name;
        this.os = os;
        if (os != null) { adminPerms = true; }
    }

Here is the TerminalApplication class which inherits from Application.

[Serializable]
public class TerminalApplication : Application {
    public TerminalApplication(OperatingSystem os) : base("TERMINAL", os) {}
}```


It should show the list of applications in the inspector as far as I understand, but it is not showing (as seen in the screenshot). What might be wrong?

[quick edge]

That's not the case

[dire torrent]

hmm interesting

[quick edge]

I don't understand at all x)

I saw one person having the same problem on the Internet, but nobody answered the solution

[wicked blaze]

remembering that chatgpt exits makes me sad cause most people just go there and get the code

[dire torrent]

yea its not a healthy approach to learning to code imo either since coding is more about problem solving yourself haha

[dire torrent]

ohh i see the issue

[quick edge]

no way

[dire torrent]

you're modifying the camera's position

[wicked blaze]

trueeee

[dire torrent]

not about rotation but when you move the camera

[quick edge]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yes

[dire torrent]

you need to move pivot

[ancient island]

hey guys, I'm designing my game's UI and I wonder which is the lowest screen resolution I should design for? I've been working on 800x400 portrait (yes, it's forced to be portrait) provided by unity, but when arranging some stuff they simply don't fit into the screen (with other game components) or they are too small for larger screen resolutions. I already know about canvas scaler and configured it to my needs, but the problem persists so I wonder if people actually uses 800x400 phones

[gilded pumice]

hey guys how can I reference a public variable in a different script (attached to a different game object if this helps) I've already referenced the script and that works fine for calling methods from the other script, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to reference a variable

[quick edge]

I set the camera behind the character. This prevent the camera from "rotating" around the pivot because in reality it's not rotating but moving around ?

This is the problem ?

[ancient island]

if the variable is public it is the same as calling a method

[dire torrent]

shouldnt the camera already be offset from the pivot?

and then you can just move the pivot on the exact player's position without offset

[little garden]

im not sure how to compute the time dialation seconds

[quick edge]

Yes, that's a good idea

Thanks! It was simple my bad x)

[languid spire]

if referenceing a method is
script.method();
then referencing a variable is
script.variable;

[dire torrent]

no worries haha

[gilded pumice]

yeah but it is still giving me a null reference

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && hardGameManager.phaseNumber > 0)
{
phaseWalls = true;
phaseVisual.gameObject.SetActive(true);
hardGameManager.phaseNumber -- ;

[languid spire]

on which line?

[gilded pumice]

the if line

it doesn't like hardGameManager.phaseNumber

which is script variable with public variable from that script

[languid spire]

then hardGameManager is null, so you're not referencing it correctly

[gilded pumice]

am I supposed to use the assigned variable to the script or the actual name of the script here?

I thought it was the assigned variable that I declared in start

hardGameManager = GameObject.Find("Game Manager Hard Mode").GetComponent<HardModeGameManager>();

[languid spire]

do you even check to see if that line works?

[dire torrent]

imma dm you in a lil while after a work call to help you understand without spoonfeeding 😄

[wicked blaze]

omg, thanks soo much

[hidden sleet]

currently watching a tutorial on saving data using json, but they say they'll be using the BinaryFormatter, however someone here yesterday said that isn't wise as it was depreciated or something. What else could be used then?

[modest dust]

Unity serialization doesn't support inheritance. Use this instead: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SerializeReference.html

[wicked blaze]

I took some time and red you message again and came up with this, it actually works!

i made it myself

[dire torrent]

awesome

[wicked blaze]

im suprised it actually works

but im happy

and now i dont really know what else to add

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/krsdqjzsbd
unity states that at line 32 there is an empty statement

[dire torrent]

line 31 has a ; after while :D

[novel shoal]

right

[wicked blaze]

i have sprinting, crawling, crouching, what else is an good feature

[lunar tapir]

thanks! issue is solved

[wicked blaze]

i wanna try to add things myself to see what i have learned

[novel shoal]

i'm trying to do wall jumping :)

[wicked blaze]

damn

cool feature

[dire torrent]

also i think you just need to use if instead of while there since Update is essentially a loop itself

[novel shoal]

i'm 99% sure it won't work tho

[wicked blaze]

i can see the basic picture of what you wanna do

[novel shoal]

makes sense

[gilded pumice]

the one in start certainly does as I've been able to call methods from that script just fine. I'm getting the null reference error specifcally on that line (the if conditional). It is not a compilation error, it only kicks it out when I press the space bar during test. I certainly don't see any errors with syntax but I'm also pretty new

[languid spire]

null ref is a runtime error not a compilation error. it means something is null. so on this line

if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && hardGameManager.phaseNumber > 0)

the only thing that could be null is the hardGameManager variable

[wicked blaze]

hmmmm is adding some hand movement to the game an good idea just for the player to not be an capsule

some capsule hands 🙂

xd

im going to try to make an item pick up feature and try to learn something new

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/uwdbpyjgqm
if the bool isOnWall is true and i try to jump no force is applied (in the inspector i set the values to be -5x and 5y)

[swift crag]

Rigidbody.velocity += new Vector3(0, wallDrag, 0);

This runs every frame, so the amount the velocity changes per second will depend on your framerate.

[hidden sleet]

currently working on a saving and loading system, I guess I can put the save function in the on application quit method?

[swift crag]

Consider using AddForce -- and doing it in FixedUpdate, too.

[swift crag]

That's a reasonable choice, yes. I would also save at other times, like when you switch levels, or every few minutes

Application.quitting won't fire if the game crashes or gets forcibly closed

[hidden sleet]

switch levels sounds good, not sure how I would get it to recognise that the scene has been switched though

[swift crag]

SceneManager.activeSceneChanged

that event fires when the active scene changes (unsurprisingly)

You could also just save the game when you decide to load a new scene

[hidden sleet]

shrimple as that

[swift crag]

since you'll presumably have code whose job is to load levels

[swift crag]

note that this isn't why your jump is working

[hidden sleet]

at the moment I lierally just have a button that switches scenes and that's it, got no custom loading stuff yet

[swift crag]

Although, maybe other parts of your code are changing your velocity so quickly that you can't get off the ground at all

[novel shoal]

i did both, but the wall jump thing is still not working

[swift crag]

add some Debug.Log statements to find out exactly what is going on

also, if you're now in FixedUpdate, you will need to change how you get input

specifically, GetKeyUp is flaky in FixedUpdate

because it only returns true for one frame

you might get two frames before another physics update happens

[hidden sleet]

what's the difference between fixed and regular?

[novel shoal]

sp getkeydown

[swift crag]

Same issue.

[swift crag]

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

Update runs once per frame

FixedUpdate runs right before the physics update

which normally happens 50 times per second

[swift crag]

What you can do is check input in Update, then use the input in FixedUpdate

bool wantsJump = false;

void Update() {
  if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Space))
    wantsJump = true;
}

void FixedUpdate() {
  if (wantsJump) {
    wantsJump = false;
    // do a jump
  }
}

like so

[warped roost]

what is the best and most efficient way to learn c#?

[novel shoal]

@swift crag using debug.log, it prints something to the console, but it adds no force

[languid spire]

lots of practice

[hidden sleet]

I learnt it back at secondary school, which was a good way to point me in the right direction, but from scratch I'm not really sure what the best way would be

I've got an absolutely huge handbook that I've written which contains all the things I've learnt though

oh, I seem to have an issue. When you quit the application by pressing the play button again is it suppose to clear out this inventory?

[dire torrent]

the json? yea unless you store it in a file

[hidden sleet]

well in this case the inventory should already have stuff in it

since I'm aiming to save it when the application closes

but does putting it there mean the object already has its data wiped before it can save or something?

[buoyant knot]

uh, that is dangerous business

[hidden sleet]

in what way

[buoyant knot]

on application quit, several things might be null

[hidden sleet]

yeah that's what I was thinking

not sure how else to handle it then

[buoyant knot]

same thing happens in OnDestroy

[hidden sleet]

unless I save every time an item is picked up perhaps?

[buoyant knot]

don’t save on application quit

save at specific points like autosaving

[dire torrent]

just save in between or when you click the quit or exit to menu button :O

[buoyant knot]

openning and writing files is expensive shit

[hidden sleet]

don't have any kind of auto save system at the moment

[swift crag]

you should save often, but not too often (:

tighten bolt. do not overtighten. do not undertighten.

[swift crag]

does that method fire after objects are destroyed by the scene unload?

i've never thought about that

[buoyant knot]

you also don’t want to save if the player expects it to not be saved

[swift crag]

I'm only ever saving data that isn't on scene objects anyway

[dire torrent]

maybe make a save button too on top of periodical saves if player chooses to keep on autosave

[hidden sleet]

well this is only meant to be a uni project, it's scale is absolutely tiny. I suppose saving on scene change might work, but it's only played for a couple of seconds in total

[buoyant knot]

i’m not exactly sure. but it is dangerous

especially if you force quit or something

[novel shoal]

this is my issue

[buoyant knot]

or stop the process, or crash

[hidden sleet]

Yeah I figured it wouldn't be wise, just didn't know of when else itll be appropriate

[buoyant knot]

find a trigger where it makes sense to save

something that happens not super frequently

[hidden sleet]

scene change might be useful, but I also don't want them to pick something up then quit and lose it

[buoyant knot]

or a button the player can press

most modern games have manual save, autosave, and a button to turn off autosave

[hidden sleet]

I mean, this is literally all I have at the moment. You walk over the boxes and it adds stuff to an inventory which carries over to the next scene, this isn't going to have a save slot system

[novel shoal]

guys please

[buoyant knot]

then just add a temporary button for testing, and add a proper save trigger later

[hidden sleet]

alrighty then

not sure when that trigger could possibly be though

[buoyant knot]

see if your rigidbody has continuous collision detection mode. it should

[hidden sleet]

since the user should be able to leave at any point, they could potentially pick up one thing then leave the game which is valid

best way I could describe it is a pokemon go type thing where you can just load it up, pick something up then shut it off

[buoyant knot]

in discrete collision detection mode, you will be clipping into the wall every time you move

[hidden sleet]

but I assume that just stores it all on a database somewhere else, not locally

[dire torrent]

i think it'll be a good idea at this point to not use velocity for movement but just move using AddForce
a mixture of both is gonna be pretty inconsistent to use and will result in more issues down the line

[buoyant knot]

i use both when I want to make .velocity methods override added forces

[hidden sleet]

also why is everything red

[dire torrent]

i mean i would still use .velocity to clamp the speed or to make it stop moving when no input is pressed to avoid sliding
but other than that, i'd use AddForce for everything else related to player movement

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/zghpcroddo
changed it to addforce

[buoyant knot]

AddForce impulse mode directly modifies velocity instantly btw

it’s just something you need to be aware of

AddForce (force mode) adds a force vector to be added in at start of similation.
Changing velocity changes velocity as of right now

[dire torrent]

doesnt set it though, just adds force instantly :o

[buoyant knot]

it does

at least in Physics2D

[novel shoal]

now i cannot jump anymore lol

[buoyant knot]

AddForce in impulse mode directly changes your velocity from one line of code to the next. and does not change totalForces

maybe 3D is smarter

[dire torrent]

because you're doing AddForce(horizontalInput, Rigibody.velocity.y, 0) so you're constantly applying force on the y axis

that's probably not the only issue but should be an issue

[buoyant knot]

your jump method should probably set rigidbody.velocity = new Vector2(rigidbody.velocity.x, jump speed);

[dire torrent]

you can do it with AddForce

that code is fine, try changing the number, increase it

[novel shoal]

i changed everything to addforce

[dire torrent]

and Rigidbody.AddForce(new Vector3(0, jumpForce, 0), ForceMode.Impulse);

i think that's the issue... you arent making a new Vector3

[buoyant knot]

setting y velocity makes your jump a specific height from start position, every time, even off of a falling platform.
AddForce impulse mode will make your jump just add force from your starting velocity, so jumping from falling platform can still have a downward velocity

depends on what you want. both are valid

[hidden sleet]

if the json here is just {}, even though the serialisable tag is on the slot that the container is a type of, is that just down to the fact that the item itself can't be properly serialised?

[buoyant knot]

i prefer set velocity, which is more cartoony, and simpler for the player to know where they will end up

AddForce maintains reference frame, and conserves momentum

[novel shoal]

horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
Rigidbody.AddForce(new Vector3(horizontalInput * horizontalSpeed, 0, 0),ForceMode.Impulse);
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isGrounded)
{
Rigidbody.AddForce(new Vector3(0, jumpForce, 0),ForceMode.Impulse);
isGrounded = false;
}
@dire torrent

[dire torrent]

looks fine and yea loop's point is valid, if you want to air jump that's gonna be a bit iffy

[buoyant knot]

that will work, but in 2D, you should use Vector2

[dire torrent]

he's doing 2.5D :D

so 3d objects

[buoyant knot]

is your rigidbody in dynamic mode?

[novel shoal]

it is

my bad

[dire torrent]

put a debug.log and see if the code is getting called

[novel shoal]

the wall jump works only once

[buoyant knot]

use Debug.Log when you call AddForce to know if it is getting called at all

because it could be adding the force followed by something blocks it, OR it just never tries to add the force at all

[dire torrent]

i suppose another solution would be to just reset y velocity whenever jump is pressed and then add force if wanting to do that

[buoyant knot]

and make sure your rigidbody is in continuous collision detection mode

default is discrete, which is wrong

[novel shoal]

i think the issue is that i add a -5 force on the x axis on the wall jump

even if the wall is on the left

but idk how to make it so that it's +-5 depending on the direction of the movement

[hidden sleet]

strange, I can serialise the whole class but not the list in the class. So when serialising, can you not just directly pass in a list? Does it have to be a class with a list in it?

[buoyant knot]

you need to detect the wall

[novel shoal]

how?

[hidden sleet]

raycast perhaps?

[novel shoal]

what?

[hidden sleet]

well to detect the wall the first one I'd try would be a raycast to the left or right that juts out a short distance, and if it intersects the wall, which could have a tag on it, it knows it's on the wall

or a collider perhaps

[novel shoal]

i need to see a tutorial on what raycast is

[hidden sleet]

I watched Game Dev Beginner's one on it recently, was pretty good

[buoyant knot]

I would use .Cast on your collider

In 2D, raycast has a very similar cost to casting your whole box collider

[swift crag]

A raycast is like shooting a laser into your scene.

The laser stops when it hits a collider.

It's part of a small set of physics queries that are all extremely useful

[novel shoal]

i checked unity's tutorial on raycast

[buoyant knot]

i never raycast. I always use Cast on my colliders, because it gives me more complete info

[novel shoal]

so i have to create a ray on collision with a wall, whose origin is the player and check which is the nearest wall?

[buoyant knot]

and the moment you shoot 2 raycasts for one collider, it straight up costs more than .Cast

[spiral oak]

Hey, I'm a bit unsure about something about C#: If I use a using clausule when using unmanaged resources (in my case StreamWriter), there's no need to make the class IDisposable, right?

[novel shoal]

it's a bit confusing lol

[buoyant knot]

there are a few ways to cast.

ContactFilter2D contactFilter = // make a contact filter that only shows terrain with walls
List<RaycastHit2D> hits = new();
int hitCount = playerCollider.Cast(Vector2.left, contactFilter, hits);
then check hits for valid hits

[novel shoal]

can't also i do transform.position - collider.transform.position and check wether it's positive or negative?

[buoyant knot]

there are several ways to make that better, but that is the general idea

[languid spire]

using automatically calls dispose when the scope closes

[buoyant knot]

you can also call playerCollider.GetContacts, which gives you all the contacts for the player collder. Then sift through them to check for a wall

[hidden sleet]

what happens then when you call collider.Cast instead of just raycast?

[novel shoal]

can i do this?

[buoyant knot]

collider.Cast checks moving the whole shape

[spiral oak]

The thing is that I saw a class in an asset which uses StreamWriter inside an using clausule as well, but the class does implement IDisposable with an empty Dispose method. So there's no point on doing that, right?

[hidden sleet]

so would that essentially perform multiple raycasts across the whole collider to the lefT?

[hidden sleet]

oh wait no it sends out the whole shape

ah

[languid spire]

but that would be Idisposable for the class not for the Streamwriter?

[hidden sleet]

like sending out a ghost of yourself

[buoyant knot]

if you shoot a raycast, it’s like a laser, which would have gone straight though and missed both green shapes

[hidden sleet]

does that also exist in 3D or is it just 2d?

[buoyant knot]

idk about 3D

i just know it’s super convenient in 2D

[hidden sleet]

sounds like it would be

[spiral oak]

Yes, I saw that as the class uses StreamWriter, it implements IDisposable. But I dont understand why

[languid spire]

because he is making the class itself disposable, that has nothing to do with the StreamWriter

[hidden sleet]

goodness me my project is already becoming a mess

[spiral oak]

Thank you, then it seems that it's just a mistake of the asset creator. He made the class IDisposable because he thought he had to do it when using StreamWriter, so that was confusing me

[gaunt ice]

you use some idisposable class doesnt mean your class have to be idisposable

[spiral oak]

Thanks, thats what I was asking basically

[languid spire]

implenting IDisposible does give you more fine grained control over garbage collection, perhaps he was just giving you the option to use it

[spiral oak]

So there's actually a point on making an empty Dispose method?

[languid spire]

yes

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/owqifyfnlt
it's not detecting the direction

@dire torrent

[dire torrent]

what do you mean

[gaunt ice]

you must implement the dispose method even if the method body is empty

[spiral oak]

Then I guess it makes the garbage collector delete the class instance when the using clausule ends. Am I wrong?

[novel shoal]

on collision i did transform.position.x - collision.gameobject.position.y to check the direction of the player on the wall

[languid spire]

No, that is correct, it can be very important, especially in game dev, to control exactly when objects are collected and not just leaving it to the collector. But this falls into the subject of extreme optimisation

[dire torrent]

have you thrown a Debug.Log to check the direction?

[novel shoal]

in the editor it's public but it's 0

[ivory jacinth]

Hi could someone help me with this error

[languid spire]

not unless you post a proper screenshot

[spiral oak]

Thank you so much, I finally understand. I will start using it too

[novel shoal]

@languid spire can you help me, too?

[languid spire]

no

[novel shoal]

lol

[dire torrent]

hmm there used to be Collision.hitPosition or something i cant seem to find it on the Unity documentation but i think your playerPosition and Collision.transform.position is probably the same lol

[ivory jacinth]

Better?

[novel shoal]

Collision.transform.position is the same as playerPosition, but collision.transform.position is different

[dire torrent]

I imagine you could do collision.GetContact(0).point.x but idk

sorry yea collision

[dire torrent]

hmm then idk it should be setting the playerdirection fine

[novel shoal]

i forgot to use collision.gameobject.transform.position, and instead used collision.transform.position

[hidden sleet]

there's a difference?

[languid spire]

you've probably got a package compatibility problem, so check which packages you are using

[spiral oak]

Thats exactly the same
The transform of the collision is the same transform as the transform of the GameObject of the colisión

[dire torrent]

shouldnt make a difference

[novel shoal]

idk now it's set as positive

[shut bronze]

Hey Guys, I have a pretty advanced problem. I am currently working on a registration screen in Unity while storing the user data on a MySQL Database. Does somebody here have experience on the subject?

[novel shoal]

but it doesn't change if the collision is negative

[languid spire]

yes, what is the problem?

[shut bronze]

The storing of the Data is working fine, but I hav implemented a function where the php Code should echo a Error Code when the Username is already taken. The function is working, but i don't get the Error code that should be echoed

[languid spire]

that sounds more like a php problem rather than a sql problem

[shut bronze]

Is it ok if I pm you? To further explaine what I am having issues with?

[languid spire]

no, I don't do php

[shut bronze]

Ok

[dire torrent]

ohh it could happen when your player's X is negative
so
if player is left of the wall player.x - collision.x could be -3-6 and now you get -9 which means you apply force on the right side when you should be applying force on other side

or wait bad math on my end

nvm idk lol

[novel shoal]

if it’s negative i apply a force on the right

@dire torrent actually you are right, i switched them and it works

tyyyy

[polar acorn]

This is why you ask your question instead of asking someone to commit to answering before they know what the question is.
https://dontasktoask.com/

[languid spire]

also a typical X Y problem

[novel shoal]

gotta suffer to reach perfection

[hidden sleet]

why is it that so many times when I try to do the 'attach to unity and play', VS goes into play mode but unity itself just freezes up and does nothing

[polar acorn]

Did you hit a breakpoint in code

[hidden sleet]

nope, it's just doing nothing

[polar acorn]

Does the game run normally without being in debug mode

[hidden sleet]

perfectly fine

its just like just spending an absolute preparing itself to run in debug

oh and now somehow implementing file saving has broken my ui... neat

[languid spire]

how is that even possible? System IO has absolutely nothing to do with UI

[fickle plume]

@dire torrent No off-topic media, please

[hidden sleet]

must have been something else I changed while trying to get it to work. No matter, will fix it later

[novel shoal]

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

public class EnemyBehaviour : MonoBehaviour
{
public float minXValue;
public float maxXValue;
public float xSpeed;
public Rigidbody rb;
void Start()
{
rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}
void FixedUpdate()
{
rb.velocity = new Vector3(xSpeed, 0, 0);
if (transform.position.x < minXValue || transform.position.x > maxXValue)
{
xSpeed *= -1;
}
}
}

this should invert the enemy direction if it gets out of selected bounds, but, using a cylinder as an enemy it's buggy and doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

well it's going to invert the direction every single physics frame while it's outside the bounds

not to mention you're inverting it AFTER you already set the velocity this frame
so there wil be a 1 frame delay before it takes effect

[ivory bobcat]

Define buggy?

[burnt vapor]

Please properly format your !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
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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.

[novel shoal]

it inverts every single frame

even if it's inside the bounds

[wintry quarry]

how about this:

    public float speed;
    float currentSpeed;

    void Start() {
        currentSpeed = speed;
    }
    
    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        float xPos = rb.position.x;
        if (xPos < minXValue) currentSpeed = speed;
        else if (xPos > maxXValue) currentSpeed = -speed;
      
        rb.velocity = new Vector3(currentSpeed, 0, 0);
    }```

[amber spruce]

https://pastebin.com/FMp66y25 anyone know what this error means

[wintry quarry]

Looks like a problem in SkinChangedServerRpc at Assets/Scripts/MultiplayerPlayerController.cs:163

[amber spruce]

 [ServerRpc(RequireOwnership = false)]
 private void SkinChangedServerRpc(int variable)
 {
     SkinNetwork.Value = variable;
     Skin = variable;
 }

 public void SetSkinWizard()
 {
    //CharacterSelect = GameObject.Find("CharacterSelect");
     //SkinNetwork.Value = 2;
     SkinChangedServerRpc(2);
     animator.runtimeAnimatorController = WizardCombo[0].animatorOV;
     animator.Play("Attack", 0, 0);
     m_Coll.size = new Vector2(0.35f, 0.66f);
     m_Coll.offset = new Vector2(0f, 0f);
     CharacterSelect.SetActive(false);
 }

those are the 2 functions it has a problem with

[wintry quarry]

based on the rest of the trace possibly you have a NetworkObject that was not properly initialized

[amber spruce]

so for example im trying to doa character select screen should the canvas or buttons be network objects

[ivory bobcat]

Which line is 163? (initially when the error occurred)

[amber spruce]

like should they have a network object component

        SkinNetwork.Value = variable;

this is 115

        SkinChangedServerRpc(2);

[wintry quarry]

no

Whatever object MultiplayerPlayerController is on needs to be a NetworkObject

[amber spruce]

it is

[ivory bobcat]

That's the line that's giving the error so it would imply that Skin Network is null

[wintry quarry]

and how was it created?

[wintry quarry]

Nah the NRE trace would end there

[amber spruce]

a network manager

[wintry quarry]

the NRE is happening inside some deepish networking stuff

[ivory bobcat]

Where do you instantiate it? What is the variable referencing?

[wintry quarry]

which kinda implies to me the network variable is somehow not set up properly, or the network object itself isnt

[amber spruce]

so i get the errors when i try and click on of the buttons on the character select screen

everything works fine otherwise

[ivory bobcat]

So you get the error because something is null. Which is expected - the entirety isn't working properly.

[prime lodge]

how to make x increase when y is decreasing

in script

[ivory bobcat]

Two options:

• Record the previous value and check if it's changed.
• When you change the value, update the other.

[prime lodge]

but i mean in equation

[frosty hound]

x ++
y --

is the equation

Unless you have something more elaborate? But not according to your initial question

[amber spruce]

so weirdly 1 button works the other 3 dont

[gilded pumice]

Does anyone have an idea why a UI won't update a number?

public void PhaseAbilityNumber(int phaseToAdd)
{
    phaseNumber += phaseToAdd;
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && phaseNumber > 0)
    {
        phaseNumber--;
    }
    hardPhaseText.text = "Phases Left " + phaseNumber;

}

The code works in every way except it doesn't decrement phaseNumber visually (it still obviously recognizes that the number has been subtracted) I'm sure the answer is simple I just am unsure what to do. I tried moving the if statement to update but that didn't work either. It's like the "phaseNumber" part of the .text isn't updating

[prime lodge]

i need to make weight reliant to hunger IF the hunger decreases the weight will increase

[gilded pumice]

it updates positively but not negatively visually

[prime lodge]

but i have no idea how to do it

[ivory jacinth]

Hi could someone help me

[gilded pumice]

you need to set a number to the array, even like 0

[languid spire]

obvious syntax errors

[gilded pumice]

an int

[languid spire]

what is line 21 and 22?

[ivory jacinth]

Where ?

[amber spruce]

so each character is a button and the samurai one works but the other 3 dont i get the previous error when i try pressing the other 3

public void SetSkinSamurai()
{
    SkinChangedServerRpc(1);
    animator.runtimeAnimatorController = SamuraiCombo[0].animatorOV;
    animator.Play("Attack", 0, 0);
    m_Coll.size = new Vector2(0.31f, 0.7f);
    m_Coll.offset = new Vector2(0.06f, 0f);
    CharacterSelect.SetActive(false);
}
public void SetSkinWizard()
{
    SkinChangedServerRpc(2);
    animator.runtimeAnimatorController = WizardCombo[0].animatorOV;
    animator.Play("Attack", 0, 0);
    m_Coll.size = new Vector2(0.35f, 0.66f);
    m_Coll.offset = new Vector2(0f, 0f);
    CharacterSelect.SetActive(false);
}
public void SetSkinKnight()
{
    SkinChangedServerRpc(3);
    animator.runtimeAnimatorController = KnightCombo[0].animatorOV;
    animator.Play("Attack", 0, 0);
    m_Coll.size = new Vector2(0.38f, 0.64f);
    m_Coll.offset = new Vector2(-0.02f, 0f);
    CharacterSelect.SetActive(false);
}
public void SetSkinButter()
{
    SkinChangedServerRpc(4);
    animator.runtimeAnimatorController = ButterCombo[0].animatorOV;
    animator.Play("Attack", 0, 0);
    m_Coll.size = new Vector2(0.46f, 0.83f);
    m_Coll.offset = new Vector2(0f, 0f);
    CharacterSelect.SetActive(false);
}

those are each characters functions

[frosty hound]

So the issue implementing your already decided on math, or are you asking for math help?

[languid spire]

did you not read the error messages?

[prime lodge]

yes

[ivory jacinth]

yes i read the messages

[frosty hound]

You can't answer "yes" to two given questions in a sentence.

[ivory jacinth]

this is the script

[gilded pumice]

this doesn't contain the error

[ivory jacinth]

So where is the error?

[languid spire]

Vector 2 ?????????????

[gilded pumice]

its line 22, character 34 according to your error message

[ivory bobcat]

Line 22 of the Player Movement script

[languid spire]

Obvious Syntax Error

[ivory jacinth]

what should I write there?

[swift crag]

given that your avatar is the python logo, I presume you've written python before

[ivory bobcat]

Vector and 2 needs to be joined

[languid spire]

what do you think should be in place of Vector 2 ?

[swift crag]

foobar = 3
print(foo bar)

[ivory jacinth]

yse

yes

[swift crag]

this is clearly bogus

you've made the same mistake

[ivory jacinth]

I dont know?

[languid spire]

I give up

which is correct c# syntax?
Vector 2
Vector2
?

[ivory jacinth]

this one Vector2

[languid spire]

so why are you not using that?

btw your !IDE is probably not configured otherwise it would have shown you this

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[ivory jacinth]

thank you very much @languid spire

[quick edge]

Yo! I want to Clamp an (euler) angle between -90 and 90 but angles in Unity are between [0, 360] (from what I saw). I saw people create functions to convert it between [-180, 180] but my question is. Is it easier to Clamp a Quaternion ?

[languid spire]

you cannot clamp a Quaternion

[quick edge]

R.i.p...

[ivory bobcat]

Those values wouldn't be euler values

[quick edge]

Then the only solutions is to convert to [-180, 180] ?

Or whatever I want ?

[swift crag]

well, that would involve converting your quaternion into euler angles

can you explain what you want to accomplish first

not "clamp an angle"

what are you making your game do?

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/njslecvgho
now it doesn't work anymore, it flips forever

[quick edge]

I have a camera on a player. I want the camera to be locked between -90 and 90 degrees (on top of my character or on the bottom)

I used Mathf.Clamp() but it doesn't work because the transform.position.eulerangles.x is between 0 and 360

The solution I found is what I said earlier. But I want to know if this is the correct way to process (if there is one)

[swift crag]

i would suggest just storing the pitch you want the camera to have in a float

and then directly set the camera's rotation based on that

[wintry quarry]

whya re you doing this?

        if (gM.isGameActive)
        {
            gameObject.SetActive(true);
            currentSpeed = xSpeed;
        }```

[quick edge]

    private void HandleRotation()
    {
        float xAxisMouse = _playerInputActions.GroundedGameplay.CameraMovement.ReadValue<Vector2>().y;
        float yAxisMouse = _playerInputActions.GroundedGameplay.CameraMovement.ReadValue<Vector2>().x;
        
        transform.Rotate(-xAxisMouse * _rotationSpeed, 0f, 0f, Space.Self);
        transform.Rotate(0f, yAxisMouse * _rotationSpeed, 0f, Space.World);

        yPivotAngle = transform.rotation.eulerAngles.x;
        yPivotAngle = Mathf.Clamp(yPivotAngle, _yMinimumRotation, _yMaximumRotation);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(yPivotAngle, transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y, transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z);
    }

This is my code actually

[swift crag]

float yaw;
float pitch;

void Update() {
  yaw += // yaw input
  pitch += // pitch input
 
  yaw = Mathf.Repeat(yaw, 360);
  pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch, -90, 90);

  camera.rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(yaw, Vector3.up) * Quaternion.AngleAxis(pitch, Vector3.right);
}

This is how I usually do it.

[novel shoal]

if the game is not active the speed is 0

[wintry quarry]

reading back individual euler angles is always a bad idea

[wintry quarry]

that's not what that code even does though

[quick edge]

How should I process ?

[quick edge]

Thanks!

[wintry quarry]

tracj your own variables

[swift crag]

You can definitely turn a rotation back into a pitch and yaw

But it's annoying

[novel shoal]

also if the game is not active the gameobject is not active

[wintry quarry]

then you don't need to do anything

[novel shoal]

why?

[wintry quarry]

why not pause the game e.g. with timeScale when it's not active

[swift crag]

            Vector3 flattened = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(entity.transform.forward, Vector3.up);
            yaw = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, flattened, Vector3.up);

            Vector3 rotated = Quaternion.AngleAxis(-yaw, Vector3.up) * entity.transform.forward;
            pitch = Vector3.SignedAngle(Vector3.forward, rotated, Vector3.right);

This is how I figure out the right pitch and yaw when taking control of an entity in my game

[wintry quarry]

if the object isn't active it won't move anyway

[gilded pumice]

Why does this visually update when I add but not when I subtract? do I need to pass 2 parameters to this method for that? It seems to functionally decrement, but it doesn't update the number on the screen (only positively) any ideas?

public void PhaseAbilityNumber(int phaseToAdd)
{
phaseNumber += phaseToAdd;
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && phaseNumber > 0)
{
phaseNumber--;
}
hardPhaseText.text = "Phases Left " + phaseNumber;
}

[quick edge]

What is "yaw" and "pitch" ?

What does that mean ?

[novel shoal]

well yeah but that’s not the problem

[swift crag]

Yaw is left-right rotation. Pitch is up-down rotation

(and Roll is...rolling!)

[novel shoal]

the speed changes between -speed and speed every frame

[quick edge]

Repeat is just a modulo ?

[quick edge]

Ok thanks

[swift crag]

Not exactly, because C#'s % operator isn't actually the modulo operator

it's the remainder operator

-1 % 5 == -1

oh, well

yes, that's right! :p

Repeat is the modulus operator. It's just that people often call % "modulo" when it really isn't

[ivory bobcat]

Define "visually update". It'll only decrement on number being greater than zero and space key pressed.

[swift crag]

(please, microsoft, give me a %% operator)

[quick edge]

Ok thanks!

[swift crag]

GetKeyDown is only true for a single frame

[gilded pumice]

I am using .text to dynamically update on screen

[swift crag]

Perhaps you wanted GetKey?

[gilded pumice]

perhaps, I'll try it

[lunar tapir]

Hi, how can I create a Text Input action in the new Input system?

[quick edge]

So if I only want Y rotation the "yaw" serves no purpose ?

[swift crag]

I don't know what you intend for this code to do

[swift crag]

No, yaw is rotation around the Y axis.

[quick edge]

ok lmao

[swift crag]

But you want X-axis rotation in your code

That's what you're using

[quick edge]

Then the other one serves no purpose ?

[swift crag]

You called it "y axis", but that's probably because it's coming from the Y part of player input

[ivory bobcat]

Wrong channel, try #💻┃unity-talk or #🖱️┃input-system

[lunar tapir]

alright

[swift crag]

If you only want to tilt the camera up and down, you're only changing its pitch, or its local X rotation

[quick edge]

Okay

[delicate portal]

Hey what can I do against camera object clipping and stuff like theese?

[gilded pumice]

yeah the issue isn't that it's not registering, it is, it just isn't updating visually, the number on the screen won't go down even if the program recognizes that it did!

and it will go up which makes the mystery even worse

[swift crag]

how do you know the program "recognized" that the value went down?

[rich adder]

use raycast to retract the weapon or make the player collider big enough
(using two cameras is also an option but come to avoid this technique because you won't get any shadowing , if that doesn't bother you then use camera stacking)

[ivory bobcat]

Place a log to print the value after updating the string text

[gilded pumice]

because when the value is 0 you can't use that resource anymore, even if it says higher on screen

[ivory bobcat]

Likely how you're calling this with a negative value simply likely isn't occurring instead

[swift crag]

prove it by logging the reduced value, as well as the value of hardPhaseText.text at the end

[gilded pumice]

I'll give it a go

[quick edge]

I don't think this works for my case. I want to Clamp the transform rotation not the input?

[swift crag]

The point is that you track the pitch value you want

and then directly set the rotation based on it

you aren't just adjusting the existing rotation

note that you'll probably want to switch to local rotation here

so that the camera is being pitched up and down relative to its parent

[ivory bobcat]

You don't clamp the rotation. You'd clamp your own managed variables and only update the rotation values with your variables.

[delicate portal]

Sure, does it hel if I make the gun collider bigger? or If the raycast hits, lets say within 1 meter, the gun rotates/or the collider increases size, or something like that?

[rich adder]

putting collider on the weapon wont stop it from glitching through the wall if your player keeps pushing into the wall, you'll get weird collision
the collider resizing makes more sense on the player(since its moving) not the weapon

[quick edge]

Don't know if this can help you. But i've seen a indie game developer talk about this. The general solution (if I remember correctly) is to have two different things the in game object and the visual. The visual is like an "image" that isn't in your world but in your screen (if it's understandable)

If it's not in your world it can't clip

[rich adder]

yea I suggested that already, its called camera stacking

[quick edge]

My b

[rich adder]

that wont give you shadows on the weapon from the world you're in, which is a major drawback

but if you dont care about that then its fine

[naive wharf]

I've got a bunch of objects with the same script and one manager object with a manager script. Now I want the manager script to have a list with every object that has the other script. What would be a smart way of doing that where I wouldn't have to drag and drop the objects in the list in the editor?

[swift crag]

it can also be a bit of a performance hit to have multiple cameras

I like to go with the physically accurate approach of pulling the weapon back

[rich adder]

same

[swift crag]

if you also accurately fire from the gun's muzzle, rather than just raytracing from the center of the screen, this could have some gameplay implications

[ivory bobcat]

Drag and drop if possible else have whoever instantiated those objects, initialize them.

[rich adder]

do you spawning them at runetime? add them to list when you spawn. otherwise a simple FindObjectsOfType or something in awake should be fine to cache

[naive wharf]

all the objects are there at the start i dont spawn them in

[rich adder]

whats wrong with the inspector then? its usually the fastest solution

[naive wharf]

not if i have 30 objects

and i need to change them

[rich adder]

the amount is inconsequential

you can select all and drag them in array

[naive wharf]

when my game evolvs

[naive wharf]

oh true

[rich adder]

what does that mean?

[swift crag]

If you're always adding and removing objects, I would just grab them all in Awake

[naive wharf]

well I need to add new ones and remove old ones while developing and i think its annoying to have to reasign them

[swift crag]

or have each object report itself to the manager

void Awake() {
  Manager.instance.Register(this);
}

this sort of vibe

[rich adder]

if you type t:MyScript in hierarchy search, you will find all your objects btw so you dont have to go through the hirerchy

[swift crag]

I have an EntityManager that keeps track of all entities in my game

at the end of the entity's Awake method, it registers itself

            EntityManager.Instance.Register(this);

[ivory bobcat]

It's incremental. You'd provide the change as change occurs. Automation is usually less performant - the cost of your efforts with precaching vs potential error prone runtime loading.

[swift crag]

forgetting to drag an object in is going to be a major source of errors, IMO

[naive wharf]

that also

i used to do that

but now all my old games are broken

[swift crag]

If the goal is to just get every object of type X, doing it at runtime will be way more reliable.

If you have more specific needs, then the issue is murkier

[naive wharf]

let me try this

[ivory bobcat]

Having a missing dependency is greatly more confusing. You'd at least be able to validate with the inspector in the editor.

[swift crag]

for example, if you care about the exact order of objects, and also need to exclude certain objects based on non-trivial criteria, you might just want to set it up in the inspector

[swift crag]

but, by definition, there would be no missing objects

because you got all of them!

[ivory bobcat]

If you didn't drag an object in, it's not meant to be in

[swift crag]

or you forgot to drag it in

it sounds like Pixel wants to get every instance of X.

[junior parrot]

Hi, why doesn't BoxCast detect the stairs when the player is in the middle of them?

Code:

void ClimbingStairs()
{
    if (CheckUp(stairsLayer))
    {   
        rig.velocity = new Vector2(rig.velocity.x, Input.GetAxis("Vertical") * wallMovementSpeed);
    }
}

// Check Up

private bool CheckUp(LayerMask layer)
{
    return Physics2D.BoxCast(coll.bounds.center, coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.up, 1f, layer);
}

[rich adder]

make editor script that mixes FindAll and Inpsector xD

[novel shoal]

are you italian?

[swift crag]

If you can express the criteria for which instances of X to get through code, it's going to be very, very reliable to just get them through code.

[swift crag]

not a lick!

[novel shoal]

isn’t “modulo” italian?

[swift crag]

maybe

but it's a common term in mathematics

[rich adder]

latin

[swift crag]

there you go, latin

[swift sedge]

just about everything stems from latin

[ancient island]

which type of collider are you using for your player and for the ladder?

[novel shoal]

anyway i have not solved this yet

[junior parrot]

for the player I use BoxCollider2D and for the Stairs I use Tilemap Collider with Composite Collider 2D

[novel shoal]

mb

[ivory bobcat]

Which is fine. I'd just not ever promote automation unless human effort is beyond manageable. We won't remember these self initializing procedures and debugging can be annoying.

[swift crag]

to the contrary, I automate everything I possibly can

[ancient island]

try looking in the composite collider options, there should be an option to select whether you want it to be "outline" or "polygon". Make sure to choose polygon

[swift crag]

I am a fallible meatbag

[rich adder]

had to take latin in my middle school
Italian schools..

[swift crag]

for example, my game's settings menu is generated completely automatically

I hand the game a hierarchy of settings definitions and it spits out menus and sliders and buttons

When I add a new setting, it automatically appears in the settings menu

I can't forget

[junior parrot]

Oh thanks, it worked!

[swift crag]

and I can't accidentally modify one of the prefab instances so that it looks a little wrong

[novel shoal]

are you italian too?

[rich adder]

yas

[swift crag]

I automate anything that I can express through code.

[novel shoal]

i am taking latin in middle school too

[rich adder]

exactly xD

but yeah lets not go offtopic

[novel shoal]

i couldn’t do informatics since my parents wanted me to do latin bc “it makes you reason”

[novel shoal]

right

[ancient island]

nice! the issue was that te box collider was detecting the outline, so at the middle of the ladder you were inside the collider so the boxCast didn't catch it. When you set it to polygon, the collider is set also inside the outline

[woven crater]

do i want to use object pooling when spawning enemy.....?

[rich adder]

smart.
when I went to school we had windows 98 and had to learn Office, thats about all the "information technology" we got . Poor school

[ivory bobcat]

When a setting is missing and you don't recall what you've done with it, how it's found or which script does the initialization.. it can be tedious if your system isn't well built.

[rich adder]

but anyway can you repost your issue @novel shoal

[swift crag]

I don't know what you mean by "don't recall what you've done with it"

they all live right here

I do have an editor script that makes sure every setting has valid localized strings and is included in the hierarchy

data validation, basically

a setting with no category makes no sense; there is nowhere to put it

It's all very uniform.

I guess it would be bad if my code was bad

but that's a tautology. everything is bad if it's bad.

[ivory bobcat]

For example, Play button is missing but it's obviously in the scene. You've set this up 3 years ago and do not recall which component script is managing this.

[swift crag]

if it's obviously in the scene already, then it's clearly not being created automatically

[ivory bobcat]

Or if whatever is expecting it to be there simply isn't able to properly acquire it etc

[novel shoal]

the enemy gameobject should basically just go back and forth between two given ranges, but it doesn’t, instead its speed becomes negative or positive every frame

[swift crag]

you're describing a very vague category of problems

[ivory bobcat]

Automation was referring to referencing already existing objects in scene as the op had described

[novel shoal]

me? i answered to my code

[swift crag]

I would probably not grab a reference to the play button from code

There is only one play button, after all.

But if I had several levels, each of which had varying numbers and kinds of enemies, I'd be very unhappy if I had to make sure every single one was dragged into the EnemyManager's enemy list

[ivory bobcat]

But.. everything can be automated 🥹

[swift crag]

i do not understand what your point is

[rich adder]

why are you doing this way

[ivory bobcat]

No user awareness is necessary if the code base is perfect

[swift crag]

this does not feel very productive

[novel shoal]

that’s the only way i thought about

i could also use a coroutine

[normal mango]

thinking about a mechanic where the player can walk to each "door", and a snapping arrow appears that points to each other door, too which the player can teleport too. any suggestions on starting to make this?

[novel shoal]

yeah that seems the best thing to do

[rich adder]

What I would do is when enemy reaches a point you rotate 180 instead of making -speed

so speed can always be positive

[novel shoal]

and can i use coroutines instead of points?

[swift crag]

Each door should know which door it connects to. Each door should also have an arrow sprite positioned next to it.

When the player hits a trigger collider on the door, it tells both itself and its linked door "show the arrow!"

[rich adder]

why would coroutine change anything

whats the objective of that?

[swift crag]

If you want to draw an arrow between the two doors, you'll need a LineRenderer or something. You would give each door its own LineRenderer, and you'd set its points appropriately when the player runs into the trigger

[novel shoal]

it’s easier to make it go for some time and then flip it than to do it with points

[rich adder]

like a timer you mean?

sure that can work

[swift crag]

public class Door : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] Door linkedDoor;
  [SerializeField] SpriteRenderer arrow;

  public void ShowArrow() {
    arrow.enabled = true;
  }

  void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other) {
    if (other.TryGetComponent(out Player player)) {
      ShowArrow();
      linkedDoor.ShowArrow();
    }
  }
}

It'd look a bit like this

you'd write similar code to hide the arrow

[novel shoal]

they go in a direction for, say, 5 seconds, then flip, then 5 second to return to the starting position, then flip

and so forth

[rich adder]

that can work, you have to also consider obstacles / wall, what happens if you bump into those
also is this 2D or 3D ? because you're using Rigidbody and not Rigidbody2D??

[coarse compass]

Hi, I want to Raycast to a navmesh. But navmeshes are not colliders. Is it ok to add a mesh collider to the navmesh surface or is this dumb af? What would be a better solution?

[ivory bobcat]

if at target
    if target is point A
        set target to point B
    else
        set target to point A```

[swift crag]

just in case you find this later, this doesn't sound like you want -- https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.Raycast.html

this method checks if a ray crashes into a navmesh edge

[coarse compass]

Yeah I know I found that

Not what I want as you said 🙂

[swift crag]

Maybe you can just use SamplePosition?

Especially if you can raycast onto the colliders that are used to create the navmesh in the first place

raycast onto a floor collider -> SamplePosition to snap onto the mesh

[rich adder]

yeah def raycast on collider then use SamplePosition

[swift crag]

This won't work if you're using renderers, not physics colliders, to create the mesh

I don't like doing that, though :p

i always switch my surfaces to hierarchy only + physics colliders

[coarse compass]

I'm already using that but I specifically want to raycast downward from points high up above the navmesh. SamplePosition has a "spherical" range.

[rich adder]

same, that makes my "scenery" objects have navmesh

[novel shoal]

it’s a 2.5 game

[coarse compass]

Ok so basically using the base geometry instead of the navmesh

got it

[rich adder]

gotcha

[novel shoal]

anyways i can put the time of the coroutine in a variable and change it for every enemy depending on its position

[rich adder]

yeah

[ivory bobcat]

If the time is off though, the object may not be where you'd expect it to be 🤔
Sounds like potential future problems but it likely will work.

[visual hedge]

Pokemon-ish type of game.
Each player / character has the list of the "pokemons" he owns. "Pokemons" are also upgradeable and so on.
Player is also upgradeable and so on.
Serialization: Do I serialize both player data and pokemon data as player data or do I separate the pokemon data from players data and serialize (I mean save the data into json or binary) them separately?
Together: CharName.dat
Separately: CharName.dat + CharNamePokemons.dat

[coarse compass]

I guess I could also use SamplePosition and then NavMesh.Raycast to see that point fall on the border, which means it wasn't above the navmesh but next to it 🤔

Not sure how NavMesh.Raycast behave with a source position that isn't on the NavMesh

[rich adder]

curious, what is the usecase here?

[novel shoal]

i can set time off?

[ivory bobcat]

You could be missing frames and potentially traversing farther or shorter than the wanted distance. But likely this will not happen. Just sort of reminds me of older Bethesda games running at frames > 60 or lag

[rich adder]

ohh Navmesh raycast apparently is not what i thought it was xD
It rays from point to another point, it has no direction . Apparently the best solution would probably be Raycast + Sample Position to find that point on navmesh itself

[coarse compass]

I'm creating random points with Poisson Disc Sampling over a rectangular area, and then I want to project those points to the navmesh, discarding any that wouldn't hit the navmesh. Using SamplePosition with a small range does that but if there is lots of height variations on the navmesh then I need to increase the range and I'd get lots of points on the borders of the navmesh.

[coarse compass]

Yeah that does make the most sense. I can simply use the ground geometry that is already there.

I'll generate the points really high up and raycast down to infinity

[rich adder]

yea as long as the ground has collider should work perfectly this way

[twin bolt]

Does anyone know how this code could bug out my pickup system, where gameobjects that the player is holding, moves freely around while the player is looking around? If the player is just moving and not looking around, the item stays in the right position. ```#Movement///
float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");

        // Calculate the movement direction relative to the camera's rotation
        Vector3 forward = playerCamera.transform.forward;
        Vector3 right = playerCamera.transform.right;
        forward.y = 0f; // Ensure no vertical movement
        right.y = 0f;   // Ensure no vertical movement
        forward.Normalize();
        right.Normalize();

        Vector3 desiredMoveDirection = forward * verticalInput + right * horizontalInput;

        // Apply the movement to the rigidbody
        rb.velocity = desiredMoveDirection * playerSpeed;

///

#Camera Movment
///
yaw = playerCamera.transform.localEulerAngles.y + Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity;

            if (!invertCamera)
            {
                pitch -= mouseSensitivity * Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
            }
            else
            {
                // Inverted Y
                pitch += mouseSensitivity * Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
            }

            // Clamp pitch between lookAngle
            pitch = Mathf.Clamp(pitch, -maxLookAngle, maxLookAngle);

            playerCamera.transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(pitch, yaw, 0);

///```

The item is a child of the playerCamera

[short hazel]

I'd advise against reading and writing to localEulerAngles directly.
Store the rotation in degrees in your script, as two variables, and modify those instead. Then assign to localRotation using Quaternion.Euler(x, y, z). This is because there can be multiple Euler angles that represent the same rotation, so on two consecutive frames you might be getting wildly different XYZ values

[twin bolt]

ok

[twin bolt]

Okay i changed, but i'm still dealing with the objects not staying with their parent

[short hazel]

Is the parent scaled other than (1, 1, 1)? That might be the cause of them warping

[wintry quarry]

dynamic rigidbodies will not follow their parents

warping is also a possibility

[twin bolt]

No, their not warping, there quite literally moving, within the players hand. Basically like your in space.

[twin bolt]

Yes

[short hazel]

Is the movement consistent or random?

[twin bolt]

Consistent, moves only when i move AND look around at the same time.

[short hazel]

Show the Inspector of one of these pickups while they're a child of the player

[twin bolt]

Screenshot or video?

[short hazel]

Screenshot, just to see what components are attached to it

[twin bolt]

https://i.imgur.com/oJPKc4Q.png

[short hazel]

Does it need to have a rigidbody? What I usually do is have the base item as a prefab, and make a variant of it for the pickup

See if the problem goes away when removing the Rigidbody

[twin bolt]

Rigidbody, is for dropping it, and it being "pushable" while on the ground.

[twin bolt]

ok

[short hazel]

Yeah I have these separated. A prefab for holding, and a prefab (variant) for picking up

[twin bolt]

and your right, the rigidbody is the culprit

How is the rigidbody doing this?

[short hazel]

They run on the Physics system, which is updated at a different rate than the rest of the game (eg. Update vs. FixedUpdate)

[twin bolt]

So how can i fix this without making multiple variants of an object?

[short hazel]

You can't

Make prefab variants. Updating the root prefab will also update its variant

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

[spiral narwhal]

How do I change the z-index of UI Images if I cannot change the hierarchy? (it is used for layout reasons)
In this example, if I hover over any card, it should be the topmost card

[novel shoal]

void FixedUpdate()
{
if (gM.isGameActive)
{
gameObject.SetActive(true);
}
rb.velocity = new Vector3(xSpeed,0,0);
StartCoroutine(MoveForSecond());
gameObject.transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0);
}
is this ok?

[carmine elm]

how can i acess an int variable from another script

[novel shoal]

make a reference to the inspector

[swift crag]

someone asked about this a few days ago and I didn't have a great answer then

[cosmic dagger]

the z-index is just the z-axis of its position. you can change or if the sort order (if the cards are placed on a sorting layer) . . .

[spiral narwhal]

No, it's a UI image, not a sprite

[cosmic dagger]

you can't change the sibling index of each child from the hierarchy?

[swift crag]

the order is being used for layout already

[rich adder]

SetSibilingIndex

[swift crag]

that was the issue we ran into last time

I guess you could just run the layout once, then turn it off

[carmine elm]

how can i do that

[boreal sundial]

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[spiral narwhal]

Mm, that's an idea. Thanks

[cosmic dagger]

check the general section of the pinned messages (from this channel) . . .

[swift crag]

You could also lay out a bunch of empty/dummy cards

then make the real cards follow the dummy ones as long as they're in your hand

[short hazel]

gameObject.transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0); can be simplified down to just transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0);, since component scripts have direct access to transform.
Also the rotation should be done with the Rigidbody, if the movement is done with it too

[spiral narwhal]

I think I will have a single "Detail" card instance that moves to the currently hovered card. Could be a birt risky because of anchored positions and stuff, but maybe it works

[novel shoal]

if the script you are trying to access to is the game manager, just declare a variable in your script: public GameManager gM;
and then access its component gM = gM.GetComponent<GameManager>();
and then you can access every value in that script by using something like gM.(insert variable name/method name)

@carmine elm

[swift crag]

Yeah, that's a reasonable idea. It's what we came up with last time this was asked here (i forget when exactly)

The only problem is that you need to seamlessly get rid of it when you grab the card, and make sure it always overlaps properly

[novel shoal]

rb.rotation =new Vector3(0,180,0);
doesn't work, how do i rotate it with the rb

[short hazel]

"doesn't work" - what does this mean?

[novel shoal]

cannot convert from vector3 to quaternion

like, what the hell is a quaternion

[short hazel]

Yeah, you need to use Quaternion.Euler(vector)

It's how Unity represents rotations

[novel shoal]

what the hell is a quaternion

[spiral narwhal]

Yeah. Really wish Unity allowed setting a separate z index, just like with sprites

[swift crag]

yeah, that's just down to how UI rendering works

[cosmic dagger]

okay, for what?

[short hazel]

You don't want to know how it works inside

[swift crag]

it is a rotation

the specifics are irrelevant -- just like how you don't actually care how a Transform works

[novel shoal]

huh? dude you are scaring me

[short hazel]

You can search for it on Wikipedia but I'm not liable for the brain damage induced from reading the page

[novel shoal]

transform is a class that has position, rotation etc. values withint it

[swift crag]

It is a way to store a rotation. It works better than Euler angles

[swift sedge]

its a rotation matrix

[swift crag]

It abstracts a Matrix4x4

a 16-element matrix of floats

Quaternions are weird math, but you don't really care about the weird math

I kind of wish Unity just called it a Rotation

[novel shoal]

rb.rotation =Quaternion.Euler(0,180,0);

[swift crag]

Yeah, that's what you need to do.

Quaternion has lots of methods for creating and messing with rotations.

[swift sedge]

rb.rotation = new Rotation(0, 180, 0);

[novel shoal]

i'll (maybe) understand quaternions at university (not likely)

[swift crag]

you know how complex numbers work?

they're complex numbers 2

[novel shoal]

i have not done them yet at school, but kinda

[swift crag]

real number: a
complex number: a + bi
quaternion: a + bi + cj + dk

[novel shoal]

huh, maybe i shall quit the idea of doing anything math related

[swift crag]

they're a bundle of joy

[novel shoal]

fr

[swift crag]

but again: we do not care about how they work

I don't care how they work!

I've also forgotten how transformation matrices work. Been a hot minute since I did those in college.

I just let Unity deal with it

[novel shoal]

how old are you?

[swift sedge]

all you really need to use is Quaternion.Euler which has x, y, z

[short hazel]

God that method name is awful. FromEulerAngles() would be better

[swift sedge]

the best question to ask on social media:

[swift sedge]

Roblox uses FromEulerAnglesXYZ() for their CFrame rotation matrix

[novel shoal]

rb.rotation =Quaternion.Euler(0,180,0);
it doesn't flip the object

[novel shoal]

the fact that it has constraints on the axis affects it?

[novel shoal]

😒

[short hazel]

Check other places where you could be overriding transform.rotation directly

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/ddlbjmddqs
nowhere

[short hazel]

And yes constraints will prevent it from moving/rotating on the enabled axes

[novel shoal]

with transform.rotate instead of rb.rotation it used to work

[short hazel]

If you just need to flip a sprite, then use spriteRenderer.flipX instead of rotating the whole object

[novel shoal]

can i enable the rotation only when i need it to and then disable it?

[buoyant knot]

does your gameobject have colliders

[prime cobalt]

Is there a command to get a component in a parent of a parent or do I have to make a self refrence loop?

[buoyant knot]

if you move transform.rotation, that does not update the colliders etc

[novel shoal]

no it's an enemy which has to go on a direction for some time and then flip to go on another for that amount of time

[summer stump]

GetComponentInParent should go all the way up the chain iirc
But it returns the FIRST hit

[prime cobalt]

Oh ok cool

[naive wharf]

I made a gravity simulation using rigidbodys and a script that adds a force to them but making a stable orbit is really hard because you have to restart the scene and slightly tweak the initial velocity until its stable. So I want to make a script that shows me where the object will go in the future but i have no idea how to do that. I've looked at other peoples code that did similair stuff but they dont apply to my case, how could I even approach this?

[novel shoal]

it's not flipping at all

[buoyant knot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2021.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/Component.GetComponentInParent.html

[novel shoal]

but with transform.rotate it used to rotate

[novel shoal]

can i?

[buoyant knot]

2D rigidbodies have rotation as a float, not a quaternion

[short hazel]

Yes, the constraints is made up of a flags enum value you can toggle from the code.
But before editing the code, disable the constraints to see if they're the cause.

[novel shoal]

i'm using 3D stuff

[buoyant knot]

and it has a rigidbody, not rigidbody2D?

[novel shoal]

exactly

[buoyant knot]

for that, I would try MoveRotation

.rotation tries to move it instantly

[novel shoal]

it's not rotating but it's also adding a z force and the enemy cube falls even though the game is a 2.5

[buoyant knot]

like a teleport

[novel shoal]

okk thx

[split dragon]

Hi. I have a problem that I need to select several array elements at the same time to change the volume of the sound on the slider at the same time. I tried to write comma separated (0, 1, 2, etc.) or from 0 to 10, but there can only be 1 value in the array (the console told me so). Is it possible to get around this somehow and call several array elements at once through 1 line? Of course, I know that you can create a new int, etc., but is there an easier way?

[novel shoal]

rb.MoveRotation(Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0)); @buoyant knot

[summer stump]

You simply can't provide an index like that

You want a loop (foreach or for)

[buoyant knot]

this will make a kinematic rigidbody rotate to that rotational state next physics update while respecting collisions

[split dragon]

Ok. Thanks

[buoyant knot]

and automatically interpolate during non-fixed frames

[small mantle]

I just installed the Input System, but its not showing up in code?

[novel shoal]

so is thir right?

[buoyant knot]

should be

[swift crag]

go to Preferences -> External Tools and hit the button to regenerate project files

[buoyant knot]

but that is a really fast rotation

[swift crag]

and also restart your code editor

[novel shoal]

that's what it's supposed to be, it's not supposed to be noticeable

instead, it should be instant

[buoyant knot]

well, that rotation will take 1 fixed frame, potentially many normal frames. so 0.05 s by default

[small mantle]

The Unity Editor, or Visual Studios?

[buoyant knot]

rb.rotation is instant, but does not respect colliders

[swift crag]

Visual Studio is your code editor.

the thing you use to edit code files

[robust condor]

Can the tile system rule placement feature be used at runtime? When a player places a tile, I want it to change the terrain so that the edges get a cliff for example. So it knows if it will be a corner piece or not

[novel shoal]

it's not working, what the issue with transform.Rotate()? it's the only one that worked

[buoyant knot]

rb.rotation should automatically move the transform as well, but I’m more used to 2D

i would debug.Log to see the transform.rotation and rigidbody.rotation before and after. For rb.rotation, and transform.Rotate()

[small mantle]

It worked, thank you!

[buoyant knot]

because it’s possible something else is overwriting the change

[novel shoal]

there is nothing that overwrites it

[buoyant knot]

then do this

[novel shoal]

now even transform.Rotate does not work

[buoyant knot]

sounds like it was never really working

that’s the problem with moving transforms. there are side effects

[novel shoal]

void FixedUpdate()
{
if (gM.isGameActive)
{
gameObject.SetActive(true);
}
rb.velocity = new Vector3(xSpeed,0,0);
StartCoroutine(MoveForSecond());
transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0);
}
what could overwrite it?

[buoyant knot]

just print with debug.log

Debug.Log(transform.rotation.ToString() + “ - “ + rb.rotation);

[languid spire]

that code makes no sense. what happens if gm.isGameActive is false?

[short hazel]

Do note that transform.Rotate() will not wait until the coroutine has finished running. It will be executed immediately.
Co-routine, runs "separately" / "concurrently"

[tawny rain]

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[buoyant knot]

also, you are doing this in fixed update, every fixed frame rotating to 0,180,0. Meaning you move once and never again?

[novel shoal]

if gm.isGameActive is false the game is in the starting screen/gameover screen

[languid spire]

so why are you executing the rest of the method?

[serene barn]

does anyone organize there code?

or do you just look at it and are like "good enough"

[novel shoal]

if the game is not active the rest of the method doesn't apply since the gameobject is not set as active

[languid spire]

that makes no sense

[short hazel]

If the game object is not active the method does not run at all

[novel shoal]

i know

[short hazel]

So your if statement will technically never pass when this object is disabled

It's not needed to have it right now

[novel shoal]

i need to put it in the game manager?

[short hazel]

Anywhere else that is active, so the code to enable your object runs

[hard cloak]

Please can someone tell me the simplest way to make a gameobject active when a player hits a boxcollider2d trigger box?

[slender nymph]

do you know how to set a gameobject active?

[hard cloak]

SetActive(true) right?

[slender nymph]

yes. so do that in OnTriggerEnter2D

[novel shoal]

@short hazel
https://hatebin.com/bwbiakeqcj
it still doesn't flip the object

[novel shoal]

or with OnCollisionEnter

[slender nymph]

that wouldn't work with a trigger

[slender nymph]

you're starting the coroutine every FixedUpdate. after a certain point it will start rotating constantly as all of the coroutines begin to end

[novel shoal]

if it starts a coroutine it should wait until the coroutine ends before executing that code

[slender nymph]

why would it do that?

[novel shoal]

idk

that’s what i thought

[slender nymph]

you thought wrong. there is nothing preventing you from starting multiple separate instances of the coroutine because you do nothing to check whether it is already running or not

[novel shoal]

and how do i make it running only when it’s not running? by using a bool?

[slender nymph]

that is one way, yes

[novel shoal]

https://hatebin.com/yinqfnivzf
@slender nymph now the object is standin still

[slender nymph]

what is xSpeed set to

[novel shoal]

one

[slender nymph]

okay and does anything else like friction or a drag affect its speed?

[novel shoal]

before putting a bool in the coroutine it used to move

[slender nymph]

because it sounds like now your speed is too low to overcome those forces since you are no longer resetting the velocity every single fixed update

[slender nymph]

that doesn't answer the question i asked

[novel shoal]

so i just need to make the speed higher?

[slender nymph]

maybe, you didn't bother answering the question i asked

[novel shoal]

i don’t know about that rn

i had to close my pc

[slender nymph]

then come back when you can troubleshoot your issue

what do you mean by "it just defaults to all of them"

also you should consider changing that to a for loop now so you don't have to come back later and fix the for loop whenever you've got it set up. also you do not need to access a gameobject's gameObject property to call SetActive on it. you're already access the gameobject

[spiral narwhal]

public void Rotate(float degrees)
        {
            var transformContainerRotation = _transformContainer.localRotation;

            _transformContainer.localRotation = new Quaternion
            (
                transformContainerRotation.x,
                transformContainerRotation.y,
                degrees,
                transformContainerRotation.w
            );
        }

When I pass Rotate(2f) for example, in the inspector the rotation turns out to be something ridicilous like 164f. No matter if it's rotation or localRotation. Does anyone know how to properly rotate the container?

[slender nymph]

well for one, quaternions are not in degrees

[short hazel]

Quaternion XYZW are not angles in degrees, do not modify them manually

[spiral narwhal]

That's fair, I just mean the z value in the inspector though

[spiral narwhal]

Oh

[slender nymph]

and even if you were assigning using Quaternion.Euler rotations can be expressed in many different ways so what you see in the inspector may differ from what you set in code

[spiral narwhal]

Maybe my approach is overkill too. I want to change the rotation of hand cards based on their index in the hand. So for example card 1 and 10 have a rotation of -5 and 5, cards 2 and 9 have a rotation of -4 and 4, and so on and so forth.

private void RecalculateTransforms()
        {
            var hasMiddle = _handCardViews.Count % 2 is 1;

            if (hasMiddle)
            {
                for (var i = 0; i < _handCardViews.Count / 2; i++) _handCardViews[i].Rotate(2 * i);

                for (var i = _handCardViews.Count / 2 + 1; i < _handCardViews.Count; i++)
                    _handCardViews[i].Rotate(-(2 * i));
            }
            else
            {
                for (var i = 0; i < _handCardViews.Count / 2; i++)
                    _handCardViews[i].Rotate(2 * i);

                for (var i = _handCardViews.Count / 2; i < _handCardViews.Count; i++)
                    _handCardViews[i].Rotate(-(2 * i));
            }
        }

Never mind the unneccessary split between conditions, it's just easier to test right now

[slender nymph]

also if you just want to rotate by a specific number of degrees, you can just use transform.Rotate

for(var i = 0; i < weapons.Count; i++)
  weapons[i].SetActive(i == selectedWeapon);

[spiral narwhal]

Yes I think that sounds good. I would use the one with three floats for x y and z degrees and set x and y to 0 and z to the desired amount right?

[slender nymph]

keep in mind that transform.Rotate does not set the rotation to what you pass, it rotates by that number of degrees

i would personally not even have those other checks and just parent your weapons to the weapon slots or whatever. then have the weapon slots determine whether anything is equipped there

[spiral narwhal]

Aww man.

[slender nymph]

yeah so use Quaternion.Euler like i suggested before

[spiral narwhal]

Ok, thanks

[delicate pewter]

Uhm, why am I getting the error "Type or namespace "FreeTickets" cannot be found..." when im doing super basic stuff...

public FreeTickets fc;

In a different script

Not even sure what to show here..

[slender nymph]

do you have a type called FreeTickets

[slender nymph]

is it in a namespace?

[delicate pewter]

Yes

But so is everything else and it works

same namespace

[slender nymph]

have you imported that namespace into the other file?

[delicate pewter]

Oh...

Ty lol

[slender nymph]

make sure your !IDE is configured so that you can easily fix these issues using the quick actions and so that you can also automatically add using directives

[eternal falcon]

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[quick edge]

Yo! Quick question, is it better to use Cinemachine or do my own camera system ? I want to do a simple camera capable of colliding with wall, follow and rotate around the player.

[slender nymph]

cinemachine

[serene barn]

so I have this bullet and it spawns with the key press but unity is saying there's no rigidbody attached to the bullet clone

[slender nymph]

is there a rigidbody attached to the bullet clone?

[serene barn]

it's a clone from a prefab

[slender nymph]

and is there a rigidbody attached to the bullet clone?

[quick edge]

Why? There is not a single situation in which I should do the all thing myself?

[serene barn]

yes

[slender nymph]

you can if you want. but cinemachine will be better

[quick edge]

Ok perfect

Thanks!

[ancient island]

no need to reinvent the wheel, it is better to focus on your game

[slender nymph]

show it

[quick edge]

I'm gonna learn to use cinemachine then. Cinemachine allow you to do 99% of the job ?

[slender nymph]

now show the relevant code and the error

[serene barn]

//from bullet
public class Projectile : MonoBehaviour
{
    // start of void (ridigbody)#1
    Rigidbody projectilRidigBobody;
    void Awake()
    {
        projectilRidigBobody = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
    }
    //end of start

// ----------------------

    //start of Launch
    public void Launch(Vector2 direction, float force)
    {
        projectilRidigBobody.AddForce(direction * force);
    }
    //end of Launch

// ----------------------

    //start of Collision

    void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other)
    {
        Debug.Log("projectil has touched" + other.gameObject);
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }

    //End of Collision

// ----------------------
}
//from character
  public GameObject projectilePrefab;
   void Launch()
   {
       GameObject projectileObject = Instantiate(projectilePrefab, rigidbody2d.position + Vector2.up * 0.5f, Quaternion.identity);
       Projectile projectile = projectileObject.GetComponent<Projectile>();
       projectile.Launch(LookDirection, 300);

       animator2.SetTrigger("Launch");
   }
   //End of Launch

[slender nymph]

well that error is correct. there is no Rigidbody attached to that object at all

there is a Rigidbody2D though which is a completely unrelated component

[serene barn]

because it's a clone

[slender nymph]

no becaues it doesn't have a Rigidbody component

[serene barn]

AHHH

ITS BEEN A LONG DAY

[swift sedge]

"RidigBobody" ?

[serene barn]

oh now i cant someone at all until it hits something

[serene barn]

Please not

just go with it

and it's not colliding with anything

[slender nymph]

does it have a collider

[hidden sleet]

Trying to resolve item saving and loading, but I'm having issues. I've got an item database that contains items with IDs and Ids with items as two separate dictionaries. The player script will call load inventory when spawned which will simply read the file corresponding to the input string, then the database should assign the items and ids. I can see that the inventory is correctly filled with the item, but then in my inventory this line here breaks because the database is null. The database is assigned in the scriptable object for the inventory, but as soon as I run it, it just dissapears and I've got no clue why

[serene barn]

alright its all fixed thanks a lot

[slender nymph]

share the full !code for the inventory class

[eternal falcon]

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[hidden sleet]

https://hastebin.com/share/ajivimetoj.csharp hope this works

not used it before

seems like it's all there

[slender nymph]

you're overwriting the entire class inside of LoadInventory with whatever you have serialized. this includes those references to the other objects which you cannot just write to disk like that
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/JsonUtility.ToJson.html

If the object contains fields with references to other Unity objects, those references are serialized by recording the InstanceID for each referenced object. Because the Instance ID acts like a handle to the in-memory object instance, the JSON string can only be deserialized back during the same session of the Unity engine.

[hidden sleet]

oh I see, cause of the this it's saving the entire class which loses the reference

[queen adder]

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

public class doortry : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject character;
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))
        {
            Debug.Log("collide");
            character.transform.position = new Vector3(25f, 25f, 25f);
        }
    }    
}

i get collide msg on log but it doesn't teleport my character

[slender nymph]

are you using a CharacterController

[queen adder]

yes

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/character-controller/teleportation

[tribal minnow]

hey guys, i need help with the unity starter assets third person controller. the mouse speed goes sooo fast when the fps drops .
how do i fix that ?

[short hazel]

Do not multiply mouse input with Time.deltaTime

Lower FPS => greater deltatime => increased sensitivity

[tribal minnow]

so i should just remove the * deltaTimeMultiplier here ?

[swift sedge]

yes

[tribal minnow]

ok i will try that

thanks

[short hazel]

Seems like the condition above fails

It's not detecting your input as a mouse, if it was the multiplier would be 1 as per the ternary expression

[hidden sleet]

Changed it so that it should only load the inventory item container rather than the whole class, but now the json string is just empty. I've already gone and added the serialisable tag to everything but it's still being a nuisance

[slender nymph]

well the issue was more so where you load the save and overwrite the assignments that were serialized in the inspector

i only linked the ToJson doc so you would understand why that was happening

[hidden sleet]

yeah it seems like the database is sticking there which is nice

not sure why this is suddenly happening though

[tribal minnow]

it worked thank you bro

[sacred orbit]

is it possible to set the value of a public gameobject variable to null through script?

cause gameObject = null; doesn't work :/

[languid spire]

gameObject is a property of the script, you cannot set that to null but you can set other GO variables to null

[short hazel]

See my next messages because there's an issue with the code (the asset's code?). It was multiplying by deltatime because it did not recognize your input device as a mouse.

float deltaTimeMultiplier = IsCurrentDeviceMouse ? 1.0f : Time.deltaTime;

Do you have a controller plugged in that could affect the value of IsCurrentDeviceMouse? Try to look where that variable is set for more clues

[tribal minnow]

hmm no i dont have any controllers only the mouse

[short hazel]

(Steering wheels / HOTAS included in the "controllers" devices)

[swift crag]

what are you trying to accomplish here?

[tribal minnow]

and it does say its a keyboard and mouse

[tribal minnow]

what are HOTAS

[short hazel]

Hands On Thruster And Stick

Aviation thing

[swift crag]

as Steve said, you can't just set a mono behaviour's gameObject property to null

if that's not what you're doing, show your code

[sacred orbit]

whenever I switch to a different item it changes gameObject variable "heldItem" to the gameobject that you switch to (all this works well and is simplified here so I don't have to explain it) problem is, when you drop an item the heldItem variable doesn't change and can cause some wacky issues, so I want to make that heldItem variable be nothing

[swift crag]

okay, so set it to null

what's the problem?

[sacred orbit]

gameObject = null;
doesn't work :/

[robust condor]

Set the variable to null

[sacred orbit]

thats

[hidden sleet]

would this need to have some serialisable tag on it for it to properly serialise into json?

[sacred orbit]

what I am doing

[robust condor]

No

[hidden sleet]

or just the type in the list

[robust condor]

heldItem = null

[swift crag]

Show your code.