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[north kiln]

Oh, I would just cache the info from Update if I saw that

[timber tide]

yeah that's the work around

[weak palm]

oh interesting-- that wasn't the case for me but good to know jic! Thank you again!

[vernal minnow]

Alright, the bullet now shoots in the correct direction but is shooting from the same spot regardless of where the character is facing

The video is definitely helping me organize my code better aswell so thanks

[timber tide]

get the position and direction of the player and grab a position a unit or so ahead of their forward direction

[vernal minnow]

I believe it is pulling from its location, I think I may have modified it's spawn on accident

I'll review my code as I'm adding comments to see what's messing with it

[timber tide]

what you may be doing is getting an offset of the player position but in world coordinates

[gritty lion]

I need help with moving VisualElements programatically

    // Create the image on root
    _icon = new Image();
    panel.visualTree.Add(_icon);
     
    _icon.style.position = Position.Absolute;

    // Make it follow this visual element
     _icon.schedule.Execute(() =>
    {
        Vector2 direction = new Vector2(slotContainer.resolvedStyle.left - _icon.resolvedStyle.left, slotContainer.resolvedStyle.top - _icon.resolvedStyle.top).normalized;
        Vector2 newPosition = new Vector2(slotContainer.resolvedStyle.left, slotContainer.resolvedStyle.top) * direction * speed * (executionTime * 0.001f);
     
        _icon.style.left = newPosition.x;
        _icon.style.top = newPosition.y;
    }).Every(executionTime);

This is not working somehow

[vernal minnow]

Yep, it's offset by .5 on the x coordinate, thanks

[gritty lion]

All it does is stay on top left corner of the root

[eternal falcon]

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[timber tide]

maybe the ide just telling ya that this code wont execute

[summer stump]

You are assumably looking at it when using the Editor? Not when built?

[outer tree]

anyone have an idea as to why the code isn't working? its c# and im trying to teach myself with some vids rn any help is appreciated 😁

[timber tide]

good starting point is to learn to print to console

in unity we use Debug.Log

it can print out of the contents of a variable as well as strings

[wintry quarry]

Not enough force.

More accurately you should be using ForceMode.Impulse

[outer tree]

in place of the rb.AddForce?

so instead i would do something like

rb.ForceMode.Impulse(Vector3.up * 500);

would that work 🤔

[ivory bobcat]

That doesn't look like proper syntax

[outer tree]

oops sorry i shouldve mentioned i found out the error

it was on line 14

RigidBody should've been Rigidbody

took me half an hour to find 😠

[ivory bobcat]

rb.AddForce(..., ForceMode.Impulse);```

[polar acorn]

Configure your !IDE and never lose time to spelling mistakes again

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

In place of? No. It's a parameter to AddForce

[robust condor]

Can someone explain why you would call a delegate using an event instead of just running the functions subscribed to the event?

[polar acorn]

The delegate just defines what kind of functions can subscribe to the event

[robust condor]

So basically like an if check?

[lethal kestrel]

more than welcome, brackeys was a key part of me starting and understanding both unity and c# code

now i study both at university

[north kiln]

When the thing that fires the event shouldn't know about the functions.
I have a custom animator that fires an event when the time changes, why would that animator want to be explicitly hooked up to every inane thing that wants to read that time? It shouldn't

[robust condor]

I legit don't see a difference except the extra roundtrip:

using System;

public class EventRunner
{
    public event OnEventDelegate OnDelegateEvent;
    public delegate void OnEventDelegate(Object sender, EventArgs e);
    
    public event EventHandler OnNormalEvent;
    
    public void Run()
    {
        OnNormalEvent?.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
        OnDelegateEvent?.Invoke(null, EventArgs.Empty);
    }
}

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {        
        EventRunner eventRunner = new EventRunner();
        
        eventRunner.OnNormalEvent += MyFuncNormalEvent;
        eventRunner.OnDelegateEvent += MyFuncDelegatEvent;
        
        eventRunner.Run();
    }
    
    public static void MyFuncDelegatEvent(System.Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("RunDelegateFunction ran");
    }
    
    public static void MyFuncNormalEvent(System.Object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("MyFuncNormalEvent ran");
    }
}

[north kiln]

This is a dumb example

[hazy delta]

Hello, I've been following a YT tutorial on making a dialogue scene code. The code here has 0 issues and errors, but when played, does not show the output the code is supposed to give. Can anyone help pinpoint the mistake?

hold on wrong code

[rich adder]

Use the debugs and check whats called and whats not

[hazy delta]

yes it shows in the console that the code is active but its not making any changes to the scene in the game

[rich adder]

which logs ? changes to scene? what you mean?

[hazy delta]

you're asking me to check the debug log right?

[rich adder]

"it shows in the console"

which one

[rich adder]

so if you press spacebar nothing prints?

[hazy delta]

nope, and not only that this script is part of another script that is supposed to be triggered when a button on the game is pressed

[slender nymph]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[hazy delta]

I'm actually thinking it might be this script that holds the problem bcs there are no colors on the FindObjectOfType code (which is a stupid reason probably, im still new)

[north kiln]

Your code looks very underhighlighted, are you getting proper autocomplete and error highlighting?

[hazy delta]

..i dont know, I dont understand how its not highlighted and just assumed its normal

[north kiln]

!ide it's not

[eternal falcon]

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[hazy delta]

if i delete the FindObjectOfType, the rest of it gets highlited

so the problem is that?

[hazy delta]

the link said i need to make sure my visual studio is up to date and it is though

[north kiln]

It says a number of other things also

[rich adder]

screenshot the whole VS editor window too

[hazy delta]

um, like this?

[north kiln]

If it says Miscellaneous Files, it's not configured properly

[rich adder]

not configured

[hazy delta]

what does that mean and what am i supposed to do to solve it?

[gaunt ice]

follow the bot message

[rich adder]

that dont even look like VS 2022

[hazy delta]

....its supposed to be 2022?

its...2019

[rich adder]

no

but you said you had the latest

which is not 2019

[hazy delta]

but it says its there are no updates needed

does that mean i have to delete and install the 2022 ver then?

[rich adder]

anyway updating is prob the least important step

there are more important ones prior

[hazy delta]

i see

[slender nymph]

because it's not a regular update, it's an entire other version of visual studio. you don't need to install 2022 if you don't feel like it. but it is a decent improvement over 2019

[hazy delta]

ohh

[rich adder]

^ faster, better intellisense etc.

[hazy delta]

so what do i do with the misc thing?

i pressed it but it does nothing

[slender nymph]

follow the bot's instructions like you've been told #💻┃code-beginner message

[hazy delta]

what is the dropdown list?

[slender nymph]

was visual studio not listed in the options for the external script editor setting?

[hazy delta]

it was and i selected it already

[slender nymph]

then why are you attempting to follow the instructions for when it isn't listed in that settings menu?

[hazy delta]

i thought i was supposed to follow all of the instructions of all of the links

[slender nymph]

you are, but you should also apply some common sense. the instructions immediately before that are to select Visual Studio in a dropdown menu for the External Script Editor setting. this immediately follows it for if it isn't listed or you want to select a different/custom version of it. you do not need to do that part if you've selected the version you want to use already

[north kiln]

It does say Select one:
If VS is selected in the External Tools preferences then that part is done. Make sure VS has the Unity workload installed in the VS Installer and the VS Editor package is updated in Unity

[hazy delta]

oh..sorry

where is the VS editor package ?

[slender nymph]

select the Unity Registry in the package manager if you do not see it listed in the In Project view

[hazy delta]

ah, i checked and its already installed and ✅

[slender nymph]

make sure to restart visual studio by closing it then double clicking a script from within your project after completing the guide to ensure that it reloads the project

[hazy delta]

ok i did it

[slender nymph]

does it still say Miscellaneous Files?

[hazy delta]

no

the code looks like this now, but it still doesnt make any changes in the game itself

[tacit estuary]

DialogueManager isn’t saved

[north kiln]

there's also an error in this script underlined right there 🤔

[tacit estuary]

Also what is the underlined error?

[hazy delta]

FindObjectOfType

[rich adder]

prob deprecation nvm thats 2023 I think

[hazy delta]

its still not colored

[rich adder]

hover the error

[hazy delta]

wait the underline is gone and the FindObjectOfType is colored now

i cant screenshot the hover description but it basically just says the code with a (+1overload) at the back

[rich adder]

its fine then

[hazy delta]

but the code still doesnt make any changes

[rich adder]

did you save DialogueManager

use the debugger and step through

[hazy delta]

yes

what is the debugger?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/debugging/debugger

put some breakpoints and check your variables

in vs is called Attach to Unity

prob one of the first tools you should learn

oh wow apparently unity has this instruction page
https://unity.com/how-to/debugging-with-microsoft-visual-studio-2022
never noticed

[near wadi]

Why does this work
transform.position = Vector3.zero;
But this does not?
transform.position = new Vector3.zero;

[whole sapphire]

have error and idk why]

[north kiln]

Because new Vector3.zero; is not a thing, you cannot new a property.
Vector3.zero; returns a new Vector3 with the coordinates (0, 0, 0). You can't call new on it, it's not a type

[north kiln]

well, not showing what the error is won't help anyone fix it

[whole sapphire]

body is rigidbody2d

[whole sapphire]

where to see error

like i can't even run it

[north kiln]

Hover over it and read it

Vector2 is underlined

[whole sapphire]

'Vector2' is an ambiguous reference between 'UnityEngine.Vector2' and 'System.Numerics.Vector2'

[near wadi]

Ok, i hear you, but am still a bit confused.. why does this work then?
transform.position = new Vector3(0, 0, 0)

[north kiln]

Because Vector2 is a type, and you are creating a new instance of it

via its constructor

[near wadi]

Oh, i need to double verify that, that works

[whole sapphire]

so what shouldi do

[north kiln]

Sorry, I wasn't replying to you, you had a different issue.
Don't use: using System.Numerics

[hazy delta]

thanks, i wasnt able to open the first link

[whole sapphire]

use what le

[near wadi]

Thanks

[north kiln]

The using statements at the top of your file; you have that, and you shouldn't be using that namespace

[stuck mango]

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

public class PlatformAttach : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.tag == "Rigid")
        {
            other.transform.parent = transform;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.tag == "Rigid")
        {
            other.transform.parent = null;
        }
    }


}

I've created this code to make player stay on my moving platform, i made it move by using animator with "Animate Physics" Everything seems okay till the platform starts moving. Meaning that i cant move on it, my ability to move my player comes back after it stops. Whys that?

[hazy delta]

ok so i tried using the debugger and selected the codes to see what happens when the game is played but nothing exactly happens?

the code still make 0 changes and it doesnt show me why

[ivory bobcat]

Are you getting any errors?

[eternal needle]

parenting for movement wont really be that good, and it seems your movement system is via the animator. Combining the animator with another movement system (a transform moving) isnt likely gonna work or have expected results. Not really sure what the physics part is for, the docs tell you what animatePhysics is for
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animation-animatePhysics.html
How are you moving the player?

[stuck mango]

Im moving my player by rigidbody.moveposition

[eternal needle]

ah is the platform moving by animation?

[stuck mango]

Yes.

[hazy delta]

i dont think so? im kind of confused on what to do

[eternal needle]

the combination of MovePosition and having the parent also move might be causing weird results in that case then, can you show the movement code?

[stuck mango]

Yeah right

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

public class MovementScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float speed;
    private Rigidbody rb;

    public Transform orientation;

    float horizontalInput;
    float verticalInput;

    public Vector3 MinHeight;
    public Vector3 StartPoint;

    Vector3 moveDirection;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        rb.freezeRotation = true;
    }

    void Update()
    {
        MyInput();
    }

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        MovePlayer();
 
    }

    private void MyInput()
    {
        horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
        verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");
    }
    private void MovePlayer()
    {
        moveDirection = orientation.forward * verticalInput + orientation.right * horizontalInput;

        rb.MovePosition(transform.position + moveDirection.normalized * Time.deltaTime * speed);
    }
}

very basic one

[hazy delta]

i dont think so? im kinda confused on what to do here

[merry condor]

hello there! I am just getting started on my game making journey and wanted to see if anyone has any tips on how to start learning code? i dont want to get stuck in youtube hell and just repeat tutorials

[timber tide]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[timber tide]

also make sure you know your c# before diving too far into unity

[merry condor]

thanks!

[deep grove]

i managed to do it but it's not exaclty at the edge of the screen

[graceful citrus]

what are you trying to do? (game looks great btw)

[deep grove]

the arrow , it should point towards an objective at the edge of the screen , i folowed a tutorial for 2D and made it for 3D but i have that problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzeHh-3bp4&list=LL&index=6

and it's poinitng at me insead of the objective

i'm new to coding btw

[deep grove]

so i think it has to do something with the ui camera if i make it bigger then it's at the edge but kinda on top

[honest haven]

whats the best way to set up a run animation uning get key. Im unsure if run should come from walk and can go back to walk if i let go of key down. is this the best way to set this up? if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift)) { currentState = PlayerState.Running; _animator.SetBool("isRunning", true); } else { currentState = PlayerState.Moving; _animator.SetBool("isMoving", true); }

[languid spire]

your code is not logical, the else condition will execute under ALL other circumstances

[honest haven]

yh whats the best way to go from walk to run

i mean i could check if current state is walk

[languid spire]

huh, change if you are walking and you want to run?

[honest haven]

is the logic on the animatior wrong?

[languid spire]

That looks ok as long as your transitions are set up correctly

[quick edge]

Yo! Quick question. My maths are off here. I have three points A, B, C (Camera, Character, Target). I want my Camera to be exactly behind my Character while looking straight at the Target (I want a segment from A to C crossing B). How can I do that?

My idea was to take the direction from player to target, and then set the camera position as player "_player.transform.position - (distanceCameraPlayer * directionPlayerToTarget)"

But i'm not sure if it is correct

[gaunt ice]

your camera position is based on player.forward while its orientation based on its position and target, not sure what "behind" means

[quick edge]

I forgot to mention it's a FreeLook camera. Don't know if it can help

[quick edge]

Behind means like this :
Camera Player Target

[gaunt ice]

they are collinear

[quick edge]

Is this a question?

I want them to be colinear yes

[gaunt ice]

no, behind something usually mean -transform.forward, imagine the player looking up then if the camera is behind the player:
^
|
PT
C

back to your problem, you can construct a PT vector first, and P-some dist*PT can be the camera position
C<-- -PT*dist -----P----PT--->T

[quick edge]

ok my bad

[quick edge]

Like this ?

[gaunt ice]

yes

[quick edge]

Ok perfect! Thanks for the help!

[gaunt ice]

-vector is collinear while in opposite direction

btw normalize PT first

[quick edge]

Yes 👍

[deep grove]

can you take a look at this

[quick edge]

What are you trying to do ? An arrow behind your car that point to the cross ? (the same thing as me or not)

[deep grove]

not behind the car , at the edge of the screen

[vocal marlin]

Hey, just wondering if there's any difference between this int(Mathf.Floor(entityHeight)) and this int(entityHeight) Ignore the variable names

[quick edge]

Like, at the top or smth like that ?

[languid spire]

assuming entityHeight is a float value then there is no difference. casting from float to int will always round down

[deep grove]

around the screen

i sent a tutorail for it but it's in 2D

[quick edge]

Ok

[vocal marlin]

k ty, also i realised i wrote it wrong but it deosn't matter as it solved now anyways lol

[languid spire]

I saw, but I figured out what you meant

[quick edge]

Ok, sorry I can't help you then I didn't start learning UI. I thought it was a problem with the direction

[deep grove]

np

[split dragon]

Hi. Although I am 99% confident in myself, I'd rather ask you: Using, which is indicated in gray, does this mean that it is not used in the script, and it can be safely deleted?

[languid spire]

yes

[split dragon]

Thanks

[novel shoal]

which topics should i study after the code beginner pathway?

[languid spire]

probably more information than you need but you should always remove unused using statements because although the script does not use them they do create a dependency in the compiled dll

[woven arrow]

Hi, I have a problem with my Unity Code:
https://gdl.space/kemuburucu.cs

Would make me really happy if someone could help me ^^

[gaunt ice]

why are you serialize the reference but not reference it directly in inspector?

[languid spire]

SFX is a GameObject, why would you think GameObject has a PlaySound method ?

[woven arrow]

I can't drag the object because its not destroyed on load. But serialize makes no sence

[gaunt ice]

didnt notice that, btw is your ide configured?

[woven arrow]

I added a PlaySound Method in the Script of my SFX GameObject

[languid spire]

what script?

[oblique ginkgo]

Yes, but you're trying to call a method on the GameObject itself, not the script

[woven arrow]

SFX Script
https://gdl.space/afanugukud.cs

[languid spire]

so you need

SFXScript sfxScript = SFX.GetComponent<SFXScript>();
sfxScript.PlaySound("grinchDeath");

[woven arrow]

So i have to call it on the script?

[gaunt ice]

the method is belong to your script not the gameobject

[woven arrow]

Ok, I think I know how to fix it now, thank you

[dark hatch]

probably zoomed out too much. press 'f' key with object selected

[honest ingot]

wtf thank you lol

[frozen pawn]

Hi guys, I have two deferent custom classed lists and now i wanna check if they are equals or they are not, I do it like "If (list_1 == list_2)" and i don't get any error but they program always says they are not, even though their values are equal... any thoughts?

[languid spire]

you are comparing references which, of course, will not be equal

[frozen pawn]

so how can i compare the variables ? their variables i mean

[languid spire]

by implementing your own compare method

[frozen pawn]

jeezz, I think i understand

is there any ez way to do it in like an hour ?

[languid spire]

Everything is easy, when you know what you you are doing, if you mean 'can I learn and implement this is an hour' then probably, no

this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.list-1?view=net-8.0
and this https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.icomparable-1?view=net-8.0
give you all the information you need

[trail wharf]

how to add the 3rd on screen stick, apart from left and right gamepad sticks, i am using android stick but somehow not working, what am i doing wrong?

[ivory bobcat]

Are you trying to compare if they've got the same elements or are you trying to see if they're the same instance?

[frozen pawn]

well said, thank u so much

[frozen pawn]

yes elements and their variables, like u know, the name, the speed, the positions...

[quick edge]

Yo! In term of optimization, when should I look for it ? When my project is close to the end ?

[charred fossil]

Hi everyone, I am currently making a first person shooter and would love some help with an issue that I have encountered using Raycasting to "shoot" my player with my Enemy. It is not detecting that my player has the "Player" tag even when it does and I have no idea why. I would love some help as I am obviously new to Unity and I am so so stuck.

[buoyant knot]

middle to late, or when performance is so bad that something you did literally can’t work

[ancient island]

I think good practices during development will make your game optimized enough

[buoyant knot]

like, if you add a small feature that drops your FPS dramatically, you need to take care of that for that feature to be included

[quick edge]

Ok thanks! Is there Unity specific things that I should really be careful about ? (this is really vague I know)

[rich adder]

Debug.Log raycast hit , Debug.Log the method etc.

debugging should be first thing you learn

[quick edge]

Ok 👍

[ancient island]

use CompareTag whe asking for the tag, if you compare strings it wont work

[charred fossil]

I've been doing that but the value of hit is constantly returning null

[rich adder]

show !code

[eternal falcon]

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[ancient island]

gameObject.CompareTag("someTag")

[charred fossil]

That's what I have used to reference the tag but it doesn't work. I'll do the code thing so you guys can see it

https://paste.ofcode.org/fYk7RhXdicesRefdT6qn6N

It's the damagePlayer method on this paste of code

[rich adder]

gpt code

[charred fossil]

I've done that too but it hasn't helped

[rich adder]

exactly

[languid spire]

AI code, without a doubt

[rich adder]

also ur not printing hit.collider

[languid spire]

not even gonna read it

[rich adder]

so much wrong here

[charred fossil]

wait what no it's just the damagePlayer method that is AI because I was trying to fix it

[rich adder]

well it made it worse then

[charred fossil]

I just got the same error

wow sorry ig

[rich adder]

show the error then

[charred fossil]

It's not an error it's just that the if statement for whether or not the gameObject that the Raycast collided with has the tag "Player" is never true and I don't understand why

[valid pulsar]

I am working on a script to print text into a box. I am trying to add something to change the text size as it prints and i want a bool in the that i can toggle to show or hide a graph with a line in it you can adjust that will be used to determine text size. I found this(https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72732460/unity-how-to-let-my-variables-show-up-in-the-inspector-if-a-boolean-is-true-an) which would work in a normal scenario but im storing all the data in a struct array so i can have different settings for different part of the sentence. I also need help getting a graph to show in the inspector because i cant find anything on that.

[rich adder]

tags are not the same as layers, direction looks wrong, you're not printing / debugging
first you should learn how to debug things instead of listening to AI spam generator
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

[charred fossil]

Ok I'm sorry it was a last resort as I've been stuck for a couple days now. Don't see why you have to be so rude when it is a beginner feed

[rich adder]

take it as you will 🤷‍♂️

[languid spire]

we do not, as a server rule, solve problems made by AI generated code

[charred fossil]

My problem wasn't AI generated that was just a couple lines that I took from AI because what I had before wasn't working at all. Wow kinda thought this discord was gonna be a bit more beginner friendly

[languid spire]

doubt, your complete script screams 'AI generated'

[charred fossil]

Why?

[rich adder]

we just know

[charred fossil]

It's for my A level computer science course work

[languid spire]

We see a lot of AI generated code, we have learned to recognise it

[charred fossil]

Well not very well obviously because it's not AI generated

I used a lot of Brackey's tutorials

and a few random ones from youtube

and a bit of just me trying to figure stuff out

[ancient island]

just because it has comments it doesn't mean its AI

[timber tide]

liar, no one actually writes comments

[charred fossil]

I have to for my course work

[ancient island]

thats true, but those comments doesn't even match the code

[rich adder]

mate

// Function to kill the player
void Die()

no one writes comments like this

[charred fossil]

Yeah because I have to comment for my course work

wtf

I am supposed to comment everything

[ancient island]

I dont think an AI would comment this as "Bullet code"

lol

[rich adder]

alright forget this lol
I told you what you should do anyway, if you want to solve your issue learn to debug or go back to ai

[charred fossil]

haha yeah...

[timber tide]

comments look legit just because you've plastered function everywhere and not method so ill give you that

[charred fossil]

I promise you the only thing AI is the damagePlayer function and that's just because I got so fed up with it not working I wanted to see if chatGPT could fix it

[cosmic quail]

whats the raycast hitting then?

[languid spire]

why is there not a single Debug.Log statement in the whole of the script?

[charred fossil]

Because once I've sorted it I delete it

I don't need to keep seeing that something is working

I only Debug.Log stuff that I am currently looking at

[cosmic quail]

true but add in some debug logs to figure out whats going wrong in the part thats broken right now?

[charred fossil]

Yeah I am doing that now. I am trying what @rich adder told me to do with the Draw line thing now

[timber tide]

debug your raycast without the layer mask and get that hitting anything, then use the layer mask and see if that's the problem

anything with a collider^

[charred fossil]

Ok cool I'll try that now

thank you

[rich adder]

that wont be much help if the if statement never hits hit.collider would just be null

Debug.DrawRay is the only sensible thing

[cosmic quail]

is the player even on the Player layer btw?

[charred fossil]

It's tagged with "Player"?

[rich adder]

layers are not tags

[cosmic quail]

maybe u should have shown a screenshot of ur player's inspector since the very start of this question

[charred fossil]

My bad I'll do that now

That's the player one

[cosmic quail]

the layer is called whatIsPlayer

not Player

[rich adder]

oof

[charred fossil]

Yeah I know

[cosmic quail]

in the code you call it Player

[charred fossil]

just tried with whatIsPlayer and still no such luck

Yeah I mixed up referencing tags with Layers

I'll try by referencing the layer I really hope this works

[bold nova]

Why do I get this exception?

ArgumentException: JSON parse error: Invalid value.

public void SaveGameInfo()
{
    GameInfo dataTosafe = new GameInfo();
    dataTosafe.bestScore = this.bestScore;

    string jsonData = JsonUtility.ToJson(dataTosafe);

    File.WriteAllText(Application.persistentDataPath + "/savefile.json", jsonData);
    Debug.Log("Data saved");
}

private void LoadGameInfo()
{
    string path = Application.persistentDataPath + "/savefile.json";

    if(File.Exists(path))
    {
        GameInfo gameInfo = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameInfo>(path);

        this.bestScore = gameInfo.bestScore;
    }
}

GameInfo class only contains one int

[short hazel]

Your json text might be invalid or corrupted, post the contents of the file

Also for safety please concatenate file path with Path.Combine() instead of with +, it handles more cases and won't produce invalid paths

Path.Combine(Application.persistentDataPath, "savefile.json")

[oblique ginkgo]

uh no

the issue is

youre trying to parse json from the file path

not the contents of the file

but yes

use path.combine

[rich adder]

You need File.ReadAllText

then put that in FromJson

      var jsonData = File.ReadAllText(path);
             GameInfo gameInfo = JsonUtility.FromJson<GameInfo>(jsonData);```

[bold nova]

Yeah, youre right, everyhing seems to work now, thanks!

[twin bison]

Hi guys, I'm creating a brick breaker clone and I try to get into the observer pattern. What is the way to implement observer pattern when I have for example 50+ bricks? Do I have to subscribe to each of the bricks event? Or is there another way? Each brick has this script:

void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collisionInfo)
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
        BrickDestroyedEvent?.Invoke();
    }

On my GameManager I subscribe to the prefab itself which does nothing, I think I have to find all of these and add a listener for each of them? It doesn't feel right to me

[short hazel]

Subscribe in the script that Instantiates the bricks if you're doing so by script

Or you can find all the bricks by script once, and loop over them to subscribe

[twin bison]

oh so in my BrickSpawner script i should get a reference to the GameManager and then subscribe like so?

[twin bison]

yeah thats what i would do but it doesnt feel right to me, what if I need it in another place and there are 1000 or more objects that submit an event?

[short hazel]

The subscriber count doesn't matter, as there's only one receiver, the game manager

One brick out of 500 notifies the manager that it has been destroyed, not the inverse

The brick can pass itself to the event in case the manager needs to know which one raised the event: Destroyed?.Invoke(this)

[twin bison]

So for your first suggestion something like this might work?

private void SpawnBricks()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < Rows; i++)
        {
            for (int j = 0; j < Columns; j++)
            {
                Vector2 spawnPos = new Vector2(transform.position.x + i * (BrickPrefab.transform.localScale.x + Gap), transform.position.y - j * (BrickPrefab.transform.localScale.y + Gap));

                GameObject brick = Instantiate(BrickPrefab, spawnPos, Quaternion.identity, transform);
                BrickController brickC = brick.GetComponent<BrickController>();
                GameManager gameM = FindObjectOfType<GameManager>();

                brickC.LooseEvent += gameM.OnBrickHit;

                _bricks.Add(brick);
            }
        }
    }

[twin bison]

Awesome that makes sense, thank you so much 🙂

[rich adder]

cache your component in awake for game manager

should directly spawn it as BrickController instead of GameObject , save a GetComponent

BrickController brick = Instantiate(BrickPrefab, spawnPos, Quaternion.identity, transform);```

you have to change BrickPrefab to BrickController type from GameObject

[short hazel]

I'd also rename the very abstract LooseEvent to something like in your example, Destroyed or something.
No need to specify "Event" in the name, as long as you name it as a verb in the past tense, it's directly visible that it's an event

[queen adder]

Thank you all very much. Very useful information

[stray badger]

Hi, so what I want to do is make an object follow a point in space. The point in space can be thought of as a game object which is a child of the player, so when the player moves the point moves relative to the player hence moving the object to follow the player

I know how to make the follow part but how do I calculate the point in space?

[wintry quarry]

Haven't you already answered this question yourself? A simple approach is to make an empty child object of the player and use its position

[quick edge]

Yo! I have a hard time understanding the difference between Rigidbody, CharacterController and the concept of Collider. Can someone redirect me to a good video for this or explain it to me ?

I didn't find any video CharacterController vs Rigidbody that explains the difference in details

[rich adder]

soooo many threads on this wdym

prob not videos but plenty of google results on unity asnwers/forums

[quick edge]

As I say I wanted a video

[dim stream]

Hi, I have just exported my first game but I have two problems, the quit button doesn't work and the menu text in unity is fine in size but when opening the executable the text is very small. If someone could help me I would appreciate it very much

[swift crag]

well, you won't always find a video

especially for things that you can summarize in a paragraph

[rich adder]

make sure you set correct Scale With Screen size and proper anchoring

[rich adder]

reading hard

[swift crag]

A collider defines the volume an object takes up. It can be a non-trigger, meaning it's an actual solid shape, or a trigger, which doesn't block objects and is only used to detect when things are overlapping.

A Rigidbody participates in the physics simulation. It can both affect and be affected by other physical objects. It's fully simulated by unity's physics system. Rigidbodies can collide with other objects if both of them have colliders.

A CharacterController isn't handled by the physics system. It's just a way to move around without going through colliders. A CharacterController includes a capsule collider.

[quick edge]

And I also searched for threads but I don't understand what is the "best". The general answer is "rigidbody" = physic, "CharacterMovement" = simple movement (without actually using physics)

[swift crag]

there isn't a "best"

[queen adder]

As a programmer ur gonna have to read alot of threads / documentation, Stack Overflow, unity Threads is all essential

[rich adder]

no such thing as "best"

[swift crag]

which is best: apples or a power drill?

[swift crag]

The interpretation here is correct, though.

[dim stream]

how can i put the scale with screen size

[quick edge]

Yes I searched for threads and I read some but they just throw basic answer with no depth

[queen adder]

Reminds me of superliminal

[rich adder]

on the Canvas Scaler

[timber tide]

just start with rigidbodies

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/HOWTO-UIMultiResolution.html

[dim stream]

thank you

[timber tide]

and if you come to a part where you have to ask yourself how to do something differently, then you can consider the cc

[queen adder]

I always have a hard time making the camera follow a rigidbody Personally so i try to stick with CharacterControllers (Except in 2D)

[swift crag]

I haven't tried to do a first-person rigidbody controller before

[queen adder]

^^^^Thats my problem

[swift crag]

I know that can be a headache with jittery cameras

(even if you're interpolating)

[queen adder]

It always jitters

Idk about a 3rd person controller which is what i think oof is doing

[rich adder]

the old Standards assets used Rigidbody movement

[quick edge]

Thanks. But what is the goal of the CharacterController. Why should I choose one instead of another ?

[timber tide]

if you like to do more work

[queen adder]

You gotta stop questioning it

And just try it brother

[quick edge]

I'm sorry but no

[rich adder]

only you can know that by trial and error

[swift crag]

a character controller is not physically simulated

[queen adder]

I helped you like two days ago i think?

[quick edge]

This makes no sense

[swift crag]

you directly tell it how to move each frame

[quick edge]

Yes but it wasn't that helpful sorry

Not to be mean

I just have more questions

[swift crag]

the only thing a CharacterController does is move you without going through colliders.

[quick edge]

It was kind of you

[queen adder]

its confusing tbh

[swift crag]

a non-kinematic Rigidbody can be shoved around by other physics objects

[dim stream]

if i have the executable, if i click on build it generates another executable or replace the first one?

[swift crag]

a kinematic Rigidbody is closer to a CharacterController, since it's not affected by physics forces

[queen adder]

You could also try a different game engine Dont ban me unity

[rich adder]

CC is like a mix of Kinematic RB and dynamic rb (velocity part)

[swift crag]

however, there is still a key difference: it'll still only move in physics updates

[clear seal]

am i going far like this or no?

[swift crag]

a CharacterController moves immediately when you ask it to.

[swift crag]

You're on to something here, but it looks awkward right now

[rich adder]

wtf

[clear seal]

ik it's confusing very confusing

[dim stream]

if i have the executable, if i click on build it generates another executable or replace the first one?

[swift crag]

If you have five different states you can be in, you should use an enum, rather than five bool fields

as long as they're mutually exclusive

so if you can't be idle and ready and reloading all at once, you can just do this instead

[clear seal]

i am making a musket

[rich adder]

so many nested if statements

[swift crag]

public enum State {
  Idle,
  Ready,
  Reloading
}

[timber tide]

holding both f and q key hurts my fingers

[swift crag]

it's like four of them 🥱

[rich adder]

too may for my taste

[clear seal]

ik i am gonna try to change it

[rich adder]

mind as well use && then

[swift crag]

I presume you're trying to simulate all of the various steps of reloading a musket

[clear seal]

yeah idle then make ready after aim, shoot, used,relaod repeat

[clear pine]

Heyo!

Can someone tell me if it's possible to query the current lobby a user is in to get data?

[quick edge]

Do you have examples in which one is more suitable than the other?

[swift crag]

I would suggest writing a method that tells you if the weapon is ready to fire. It could look like this...

[rich adder]

#archived-unity-gaming-services
#archived-networking

[clear seal]

how do i make it pressed once

and not keep holding it

[swift crag]

you would need to remember that you've already hit a button (or buttons)

What is pressing those buttons supposed to do?

Change how the musket is being held?

[clear seal]

yes

and what state it's on

very important

[swift crag]

I would have an enum for the various grips you can have, similar to what I showed here.

private Grip grip;

private bool hasPowder;
private bool hasBall;
private bool hasPanPowder;

public bool CanFire => grip == Grip.Normal && Loaded;
public bool Loaded => hasPowder && hasBall && hasPanPowder;

[clear seal]

but how does it work?

[swift crag]

It might be like this

[clear seal]

wut

[swift crag]

CanFire is a property. It runs a method when you read it.

[clear seal]

um i think it's supposed to be like this

[swift crag]

Debug.Log("Can I fire the gun? " + CanFire);

that will print true if grip equals Grip.Normal and Loaded is true

[swift crag]

maybe you're unfamiliar with the syntax I used there

here's an equivalent

[stray badger]

that was extremely obvious sorry for the idiotic question

[swift crag]

public bool CanFire {
  get {
    return grip == Grip.Normal && Loaded;
  }
}

You could also just make it a method, I suppose

public bool CanFire() {
  return grip == Grip.Normal && Loaded;
}

Properties are nice because you use them a lot like variables

if (Loaded)

[clear seal]

well

[swift crag]

a CharacterController should be used if you want tight control over movement. this is appropriate for a first person shooter, for example

[quick edge]

If I understand correctly. If I don't need realistic physics in my game it is more logical to use a CharacterController than a rigidbody because it will take less effort for the same result (better result) ?

[swift crag]

it's inappropriate if you need the player to be heavily affected by physics

[clear seal]

oh and should i use a get component to desactivate character controller and script?

[quick edge]

The problem is I don't know where to draw the line of "heavily" affected by physics or not

[timber tide]

Do you want to make your own physics or not

[swift crag]

if you don't want to figure it out yourself, basically

[quick edge]

What does that mean ?

[swift crag]

You have to tell the CharacterController exactly how to move.

If you want to make the player rocket jump, you have to figure out how to make that happen yourself

you can't just use Rigidbody.AddExplosionForce

[quick edge]

Let's say I want to make a souls like. For me CharacterController is better because the game don't have that much physics, is that right ?

[timber tide]

probably

[swift crag]

I'm using a character controller in my own soulslike game, yes

[timber tide]

rigidbodies are really good for accumulative forces and high speed projectiles

[quick edge]

And I can make everything with the characterController, no limitation? Elevators, flying platforms, health system?

[swift crag]

a health system is completely unrelated to how the character moves

[cosmic dagger]

A health system has no relation to a character controller. Everything else depends on how you can integrate moving objects in regards to the character controller . . .

[swift crag]

The other two require some work.

If you want to do more advanced character movement, consider this guy

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/kinematic-character-controller-99131

it's a free asset that implements a much more elaborate character controller

It does a great job of handling moving platforms

but it also requires more from you than just using a default CharacterController

[quick edge]

I'm saying that because OnControllerColliderHit is only called when the CharacterController is Moving
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.OnControllerColliderHit.html

And I got a problem with that

[swift crag]

yes, because that's used to detect when you move into an object

this has nothing to do with things hitting your collider

[rich adder]

why would you use that for damage anyway

[swift crag]

A CharacterController includes a capsule collider, and you can detect when this collides with things using the usual physics messages.

[quick edge]

Oh ok, what should I use when something hit my character ?

[rich adder]

OnTriggerEnter also works btw

[quick edge]

So I can use OnCollisionEnter Exit etc ?

[rich adder]

or use a raycast / physic queries

[timber tide]

would be more specific to your weapon than the character

oh but to be hit right

[rich adder]

no OnCollision are for rigidbody only , thats you have OnControllerColliderHit

[timber tide]

can always just cast upon the weapons as well if you want specific hitboxes

[swift crag]

well,

[quick edge]

But wouldn't that be easier with a rigidbody ?

[swift crag]

i would not say that's correct. i will go check again to be sure, though

[rich adder]

done it so many times i'd be surpised to be wrong on that one

id love to know though

[timber tide]

doesn't matter your method, casting with fixed time uses the physics timestep anyway, but rigidbodies does have some extra interpolation for checking

for collisional purposes

[rich adder]

casts/physics queries only care about colliders

[timber tide]

you can however make your own continuous collider checking methods if for reason you're not registering the hitboxes between colliders

more likely to happen if smaller hitboxes, or quicker movements

[cosmic dagger]

#archived-shaders

[quick edge]

Is CharacterController something specifics to Unity ?

[swift crag]

so I'm partially right!

It looks like a character controller behaves like a kinematic rigidbody

[rich adder]

wdym

[swift crag]

So it will cause messages when it enters a trigger collider with a kinematic rigidbody

It will also...eventually cause a message when it enters a trigger collider without a rigidbody

it's inconsistent, though

[rich adder]

afaik you dont even need rb on the trigger for CC saw ur second msg 🙂

[swift crag]

And if a non-kinematic rigidbody hits it, collision messages can be sent

notably, not if the character controller tries to move into it

[swift crag]

I made the capsule stop once the trigger message went off

it's weird

it notices, eventually

I think I'm relying on this behavior in one of my games. oops

[rich adder]

thats strange mine triggers the message as soon as edges intersect

or maybe im just remembering wrong 😵‍💫

I think OP was asking about if OnCollisionExit would work though, that afaik doesn't work at all on CC does it ?

Kinematic rb needs a dynamic for it on other collider, so maybe if the other collider had dynamic rb it would work on cc?

[swift crag]

both Exit methods work fine

[swift crag]

note that this does not include you trying to move into a wall

i get the proper messages when i drop the cube on the capsule

but if the CharacterController tries to move into the wall, it just stops short as expected

and no physics messages occur

[rich adder]

ahh so its basically like the other dynamic calls it just cause it hit Any collider, makes sense

[queen adder]

I'm making a space invaders game to learn the engine but for some reason I cant get the collision detection right. from the tutorials I've seen I don't notice anything wrong. can I please get help thank you in advance.

    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }```

[rare basin]

did you check OnCollisionEnter2 documentation?

and trigger conditions for it?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[swift crag]

that link will walk you through all of the ways physics messages can go wrong

[queen adder]

Okay I'm taking a look at it now!!! thank you.

I SEE THE ISSUE I HAD TO WRITE OnTriggerEnter2D

TY GUYS

[trail wharf]

hello folks, I'm making a game that requires 5-6 on screen sticks, something like this, I have mapped 2 on left stick and right stick of gamepad, how to add other gamesticks for android ?

[rare basin]

is this a code related question?

[trail wharf]

I tried to connect using android gamepad stick but that's not working for some reasons, what to do?

[rare basin]

this is a code channel

[trail wharf]

somewhat yeah

I also entered in input system, this channels more experienced and active, saw someone asking raycast related question too so

[rare basin]

then share a code

you have issue with

[rich adder]

the same way you added the first two sticks

[trail wharf]

But there are only 2 sticks for gamepad, if I add another as a left stick do both work?

[short hazel]

You might need some code to "redirect" the physical joystick input to your third virtual gamepad
Unless I didn't get your question

[wary saffron]

alright so i want to make a game i got the objects and stuff im just basically bored and stopped coding pre 2021 and im trying to get back into coding after on and off things for 3 years

basically i just need help creating graphic area and also other things and advice on it

i got the player controller its a litteral bean and it had sound attached to it

im trying to get to the more advanced part and boost my coding algoritem and combine different genres into one

and also art styles

cutsences and whatnot

[trail wharf]

So I'm using the 2 joysticks as I show here for movement and view, the third is for various player skill moves, and I'd like to make 2-3 more joysticks but only 2 are working right of the bat
I've mapped triggers of animations of skill moves to the third joystick too and initiated that in the player controller and it works with right stick but as soon as i make the third stick android stick or another, it stops working

[sullen zealot]

how can i get coordinates of click on button?
smth like this:

GetComponent<Button>().onClick.AddListener(() => Debug.Log(coordinates???));

[bright hull]

im doing an enemy AI but when I start game enemy is not coming to player. its going up

[trail wharf]

can you tell me what I'm missing in this scenario dude,
#if ENABLE_INPUT_SYSTEM
public void OnMove(InputValue value)
{
MoveInput(value.Get<Vector2>());
}

    public void OnLook(InputValue value)
    {
        if(cursorInputForLook)
        {
            LookInput(value.Get<Vector2>());
        }
    }

I've made another vector2 for other skillmoves too
Problem is the joystick scripts from input function work for gamepad but not for other sticks

[ruby barn]

Does anyone know if Localization gives any event on change? I need to recalculate the rect transform depending on the new text

[swift crag]

You can listen to StringChanged on a LocalizedString

or use the OnUpdateString unity event on a LocalizeStringEvent, for something component-based

[short hazel]

It's a bit confusing because I don't know whether you're referring to the physical joysticks on the gamepad, or the virtual ones on your UI

[rich adder]

wdym by gamepad and not other sticks?

[ruby barn]

could u give me an example on that ?

[trail wharf]

I convoluted my explanation, gimme 1s

[trail wharf]

1s

these are the 4 joysticks to be present as in game flick mechanisms and I'm using onscreenstick script as a way to link my input system to them
problem is onscreenstick only covers 2 gamepad sticks as part of it's stock functionalities i think and I need more than left and right gamepad stick, I need at least 5 2d vector sticks

[rich adder]

your issue is in the InputSystem Asset

[trail wharf]

I mean I can't link other 2d vector bindings to onscreentouch UI, like I've given zxcv as a keyboard composite and it works also if I have a onscreenstick connected to right stick of gamepad but not for other sticks available

[rich adder]

also why do you have the clone of the same script so may times

[trail wharf]

That script links inputsystem to onscreen joysticks

as far as my understanding goes

[short hazel]

I don't think that "On Screen Stick" components use the Actions Asset at all

Seems like they take a key binding directly

[trail wharf]

as soon as I swap left stick gamepad for android joystick it stops working, that's my only issue

[swift crag]

unless those scripts are defining new controls for the input system to use, I wouldn't expect them to show up in the menu here

(i have never done such a thing before, so i'm not sure how that'd even work)

[trail wharf]

alright I now understand somewhat a lil bit more after reading this script, android stick it seems is controlled by the android section of the plugin, it's just not a drag and drop for other input bindings as is for gamepad and keyboard bindings
most of the youtube tutorials seem to doing with only 2 sticks since most games only require 2sticks, I'll see what I can make do of the android scripts and if I can cook something, most likely burnt toast incoming

[green island]

can i somehow dedect what deleted a gamobject because a gamobject gets deleted the frame that i spawn it and i dont know why

[wintry quarry]

do you have any code that calls Destroy?

[swift crag]

Add an OnDestroy method and log something in it or attach a debugger.

[green island]

yes in the object itself but i checked with debug.log but that function doesnt get called

[swift crag]

...i'm pretty sure that runs instantly when you destroy an object, at least

rather than at the end of the frame, when the object actually gets cleaned up

[wintry quarry]

how did you test that? Show code

[green island]

tried it but i dont know wich script deleted it

[swift crag]

this is where a debugger would be useful

break in OnDestroy, then step out to the culprit and look at the name in the debugger

[green island]

 void Update()
 {
     if (!IsOwner) return;
     if (SceneManager.GetActiveScene() == SceneManager.GetSceneByName("Game"))
     {
         
         var player = Instantiate(playerprf);
         player.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().SpawnAsPlayerObject(OwnerClientId, true);
         player.GetComponent<PlayerMovement>().ch = ch;


         var cam = Instantiate(camprf);
         cam.GetComponent<CamaraMovement>().player = player.transform;
         cam.GetComponent<CamaraMovement>().CamerHolder = player.transform.GetChild(1);
         cam.GetComponent<CamaraMovement>().chatGo = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("Chat");

         Debug.Log("deleted gamobject");
         gameObject.GetComponent<NetworkObject>().Despawn();
         Destroy(gameObject);
     }
 }```

[green island]

how do i use the debugger

private void OnDestroy()
{
    Debug.Log("im dead");
}``` this funktion gets called

[clear seal]

i followed brackey tutorial about reloading

and

my reload time just dont exist

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "my reload time just dont exist"?

[clear seal]

it's supposed to wait 13 second before shooting again

[wintry quarry]

And? What happens instead?

[clear seal]

no cooldown i can still shoot

[wintry quarry]

Ok you'd have to show your code (not just that one function, the whole script)

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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

[clear seal]

all my code or just some part

[charred spoke]

The part where you call the coroutine and the part where you check isreloading would be nice for a stsrt

[clear seal]

using UnityEngine;

public class GunSystem : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float damage = 10f;
    public float range = 100f;
    public Camera fpsCam;
    public ParticleSystem muzzleFlash;
    public AudioSource firedSound;
    //public ParticleSystem SmokeParticle;

    public int maxAmmo = 1;
    private int currentAmmo = 1;
    public float reloadTime = 13f;
    private bool IsReloading = false;

    void Start()
    {
        if(currentAmmo ==  1)
        {
            currentAmmo = maxAmmo;
        }
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0))
        {
            Shoot();
            muzzleFlash.Play();
            firedSound.Play();                   
        }

        if (IsReloading)
            return;
        
        if (currentAmmo == 0)
        {
            StartCoroutine(Reload());
            return;
        }
    }

    void Shoot()
    {
        
        //SmokeParticle.Play();

        currentAmmo--;

        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(fpsCam.transform.position, fpsCam.transform.forward, out hit, range))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);

            HealthSystem target = hit.transform.GetComponent<HealthSystem>();
            if(target != null)
            {
                target.DamageEater(damage);
            }
        }
    }
    
    IEnumerator Reload()
    {
        IsReloading = true;
        Debug.Log("Reloading...");

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(reloadTime);

        currentAmmo = maxAmmo;
        IsReloading = false;
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

You're not doing anything to check if you're reloading or not when you shoot

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0))
        {
            Shoot();```

you're just shooting no matter what when you click the mouse

I would expect you to check the IsReloading variable before shooting

I would guess that this part:

        if (IsReloading)
            return;```
Is supposed to be BEFORE the Shoot stuff

but you put it after

make sure when you follow a tutorial that you follow it exactly

[charred spoke]

I would not put it past Brackeys to have made this mistake and silently corrected it later on haha

[clear seal]

i used to think brackey tutorial were outdated

[golden otter]

they are slowly being

i guess

[charred spoke]

They are also mostly garbage in my opinion

[clear seal]

i mean yes his average video are from 2019-20

and he stopped making vid 2021

so yeah

you are right

now i am in the fun part

[summer stump]

They are a bit outdated, but the real issue is that even when they were coming out new they were just bad and often wrong. The amount of issues people STILL make to this day because of bs from Brackeys is amazing

[clear seal]

animation🥳

[clear seal]

some tutorial i tried did not work so i gave up and found other like dave game developpent and fps builder

and natty

[serene barn]

hey, so I'm doing the junior programming lesson and I'm just wondering how do I rotate an object when it's on another object?

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "on another object"?

you can rotate objects by setting their Transform's rotation or localRotation in code, or by calling the Rotate method on the Transform.

It all depends on the nature of the rotation you want.

[serene barn]

So I've got a plane with propellars but the propellars aren't moving when the plane moves, so the objective is to get the propellars to move when the plane is moving

[wintry quarry]

the simplest thing would be to call Rotate on its Transform

obviously you'd need to do this every frame and you'd want to rotate at different speeds depending on what's going on

at a basic level something like:

propeller.transform.Rotate(0, 0, Time.deltaTime * throttle * propSpeedMultiplier);```

[serene barn]

update

[wintry quarry]

Yes in Update generally

That's where you do things that need to happen every frame

[cinder shoal]

Thread

[serene barn]

like what is propellor, do i need to reference in as a game object

public float GameObject propellors;
void update()
{
propeller.transform.Rotate(0, 0, Time.deltaTime * throttle * 
propSpeedMultiplier);
}

like this?

[wintry quarry]

It would be a GameObject in my example. You could and probably should also directly reference the Transform

[serene barn]

of course throttle needs a value

[wintry quarry]

what on earth is a float GameObject?

also Update needs to be capitalized

[serene barn]

its so it can appear in the inspector so u can refrence it

[wintry quarry]

float GameObject is nonsense and has nothing to do with the inspector

[cinder shoal]

That's not how that works

[serene barn]

yes i know its a rough type up

[wintry quarry]

it can only be either float or GameObject. Not both. In this case it should be GameObject

[cinder shoal]

You could use [SerializeField], but it'd already be exposed to the inspector since it's public right now

[serene barn]

oh shit sorry yea is would be public GameObject sorry

and then the name so the script can read it off the inspector

im dumb I dont even need the game object

line

I spent to long if this was that simple

[polar acorn]

What do you think float means

[serene barn]

A numeric number that has a decimal number or a floating number

[polar acorn]

Okay, and do you know what a GameObject is

[quick pollen]

Is there a way to parent an object using script?

[serene barn]

Yes, I do, I create a line with public GameObject object; So i can add a hierarchy object to that box in the inspector

[quick pollen]

Or, to be more specific on what I want to do, I want to make it so whenever an object collides with an other, it kinda gets stuck to it in a way
parenting sounds like the easiest method

[serene barn]

so i refer to that object

[timber tide]

transform.parent

[polar acorn]

So, since you know what float and Game object mean, you should have been able to realize float GameObject made no sense without us having to tell you

[serene barn]

Yea but i was over complicating the task

[ivory bobcat]

What's accepted for the most part: [Accessor] [Type] [Name]What you've done [Accessor] [Type] [Type] [Name]

[quick pollen]

oh so its a part of transform, thanks!

online it said its a thing in gameObject itself

unfortunately its not what i want

thanks though

gotta think now

[timber tide]

can just set the position to the parent

or other gameobject directly

• local offset

[quick pollen]

and I can unparent using transform.parent = null; right?

[stray badger]

!docs

[eternal falcon]

Documentation

Get the most out of Unity Editor by accessing our documentation!

💻 API

📖 Manual

[stray badger]

This is for me

[quick pollen]

@timber tide this works? lol

works better than I expected ngl

[edgy fox]

for LayerMasks does it only interact with hitboxes of that layer or does it interact with hitboxes of that layer and above

and is there a way to make rays more visible with Debug.DrawRay

[wintry quarry]

Only the layers in the mask (any of them)

[edgy fox]

because this is outputting cheese when there are no objects with wallMask

[wintry quarry]

show how you created wallMask

[wintry quarry]

do Debug.Log($"Hit object {hit.collider.name} on layer {hit.collider.gameObject.layer}");

[frigid sequoia]

Can I create a method that takes a list and does stuff with it without specifying the kind of items the list may contain?

[edgy fox]

alright also is there a way to make rays more visible, theyre so small on my monitor I can hardly see them

ah got it

assigned the wrong mask in the inspector

[frigid sequoia]

Like a method that just takes a generic List and checks a variable on the List that all the different List do have even though they are not the same item

[wintry quarry]

Yep, using generics.

public void MyFunction<T>(List<T> theList) {
  foreach (T item in theList) {
    // do something
  }
}```

[edgy fox]

now the only question is how that object is actually getting hit by the rays because the rays visible in Debug.DrawRay do not show it getting hit

[wintry quarry]

your DrawRay call might not be correct (it might not match the Raycast)

[edgy fox]

the green rays are the rays and the wall is the object

[frigid sequoia]

Is that T just works like... the "i" on for loops or...?

[edgy fox]

im so dumb

[wintry quarry]

you need to do DrawRay(transform.position, new Vector3(....) * sizeX, Color.Green, etc..)

[edgy fox]

sizeX != 5f

[wintry quarry]

T is the generic type parameter. It stads in place for whatever the type of the list is

It has nothing to do with for loops

[edgy fox]

oh wait yeah 5f is duration

[wintry quarry]

the important bit is multiplying the direction by sizeX

[edgy fox]

yep I see it now

hmm but this one outputted into the console twice implying 2 of the sides hit it

it's a wall detection thing and each wall shoots out 1 raycast

and this shows it hitting as well

[frigid sequoia]

But then I can not call anything..., it gives a compiler error with the generic type

[stable ore]

why has this happened

plz help

[frigid sequoia]

I really should be using a parent for all these list that share attributes for that to work right?

[languid spire]

T does not contain a member isActive, you will need to cast it to the correct type

[ivory bobcat]

Generic stuff can only perform generic tasks

You could probably have T implied as the specific base type

[frigid sequoia]

I mean the code just lets you create List of items that can be active in the inspector and checks if X amount of them is active, I wanted to simplify it instead of making a copy pasted block of code of code for each one of them; what's the best way of doing that?

[ivory bobcat]

Examplecs public void MyMethod<T>(T t) where T : IMyInterface { }https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/where-generic-type-constraint

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, that's what I meant, I should have really build all of these using interfaces; I don't know if I know how to restructure all of it now without breaking everything

[ivory bobcat]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/generics/constraints-on-type-parameters

[frigid sequoia]

Wouldn't the generics just also work if you just do like public void MyMehod<InterfaceName>{} ; instead of adding a constrain or am I just wrong?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm sure you meant public Method(Type Name) but that wouldn't be generic

[ivory bobcat]

T constraint should be valid for the class as well (I'm assuming you're wanting mono behavior or game object)

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, no, I didn't explain myself properly; isActive is not the generic isActive that determines if a component is active or not in Unity; it is a custom Boolean that indicates if whatever it is (lever, button, target...) is in activated by the player; the Unity superclass wouldn't work

[ivory bobcat]

Then have it constrained as the specific class with the boolean variable/property

[twilit pilot]

have you created several completely different classes that each individually have an isActive bool?

[ivory bobcat]

Likely they all inherit/interface a base type with that field/property

[frigid sequoia]

Yep, they all are diferent methods since they have to check different things to be activated; I don't really now how to nest them in a superclass now

[twilit pilot]

you can define an interface, say, IActivatable, that includes the isActive property and every class which has an isActive should implement it - since they already have an isActive property, they already kind of do, you just have to add an : IActivatable to the class definition so the compiler knows what you intend

[frigid sequoia]

So... I just do like public class ButtonLogic : Monobehaviour, isActivable {} and remove the isActive declaration (since the superclass already declares it) and then just create a new script called isActivable that just contains a declararation for isActive and it should just work?

[ivory bobcat]

You'd keep your implementation

[twilit pilot]

it's an interface, not a class - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/interface

I'd read about these before continuing - this is a perfect usecase for it and a good time to learn what they are

[frigid sequoia]

I did use them some time ago, not much tough so I forgot XD

Yeah, I should relearn then, thx

[true barn]

Hi. I am having a Unity WebGL project and my prototype works on localhost. But after I released it to my server I cant connect via websocket. I can use a java client and connect to my websocket backend but I cant connect via WebGL. Is that a certificate issue maybe? Any advice on this? I have no iptables rules, dont use CORS and nginx rerouting should work fine as the ssl certificate seems to be working with my java client. Any tips are welcome.

[ivory bobcat]

This is the coding channel. Maybe try asking in #🌐┃web

[wintry dew]

How do i import a package for the Quaternion and other ones

[languid spire]

how are you trying to use Websockets from Unity in WebGL ?

[true barn]

via https://github.com/endel/NativeWebSocket

[languid spire]

not gonna work for WebGL, you need to write an Emsripten library to interface Unity with the JS Websocket code

[true barn]

you mean because i am not allowed to use native dot net system package classes, only the javascript implementation?

[languid spire]

yes

[true barn]

but i thought nativeWebSocket impl switches to javascript in webgl?

(WebGL/HTML5 support)

[languid spire]

no idea, never looked at it but if it does not contain a Unity .jslib it ain't gonna work

[true barn]

maybe this one? https://github.com/endel/NativeWebSocket/blob/master/NativeWebSocket/Assets/WebSocket/WebSocket.jslib

but to be fair it doesnt work for me so.... i thought about maybe its an issue that i have to put the full chain ssl cert pem into my app?

[languid spire]

you using ws or wss protocol?

[true barn]

wss

its a letsencrypt cert

[languid spire]

that library looks ok, basic but workable, check your browser developer console for errors

[true barn]

Export.framework.js:10 WebSocket connection to 'wss://.../..' failed: Websocket error

thats all i get

[hidden sleet]

been fixing up my ui so it fits these dimensions, but my ui slots are incredibly small. is there some way to ensure that the width always matches the container?

[true barn]

403 in access log @languid spire but the path is correct..

[ancient island]

make it a child of the panel, then use stretch on the rect transform and set left and right bounds to 0

[hidden sleet]

not seeing anything related to stretch on rect transform, where should I be looking?

[ancient island]

gimme a second i'll show you

[hidden sleet]

cheers

[quiet gazelle]

hello,

what is a good place to store downloaded assets? currently I moved all my assets to /Assets/Plugins, but for some reason some of those assets get moved to the root directory /Assets when project compiles.

[languid spire]

Plugins should only be used for code .dlls

[spiral narwhal]

If I want a game object to animate from whatever rotation it has (could be random) to zero, how would I set that origin value in the animator? Or do I have to script it? If I have to use a script, should I use a Coroutine? Or some other way?

[swift crag]

I have a number of third party assets in Plugins (some of them imported themselves into that folder already)

I do not see why things would be moved.

[ancient island]

use an empty gameObjecct as its parent, then animate the child, when you want to rotate, just rotate the parent

[hidden sleet]

I could work around it by manually setting the width and height but I feel learning how to do it automatically would be more beneficial

[ancient island]

here

[swift crag]

"Plugins" no longer appears on the list of special folders

[spiral narwhal]

Mm, but in the animation it needs to know how much it should rotate the object, no?

[swift crag]

compare:

https://docs.unity3d.com/2018.1/Documentation/Manual/SpecialFolders.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.2/Documentation/Manual/SpecialFolders.html

[ancient island]

no, when you rotate the parent, child objects will rotate with it, but animations will remain local

[hidden sleet]

thanks, still isn't quite behaving right however. still incredibly small

[swift crag]

You then need to adjust the left/top/right/bottom values.

[languid spire]

are you sure your server is set up for the correct sub protocol?

[swift crag]

Picking an anchor preset changes the minimum and maximum anchor values, then adjusts the other settings to keep the recttransform at the same size.

[ancient island]

make sure the object is a child of the container

[hidden sleet]

yeah it should be

[true barn]

what kind of sub protocol? its my first webgl project, no i am absolutely not sure 😦 but what i can say is that if i test the app with localhost in my browser it works and if i try to connect to the remote server directly in unity, it works too. only webgl on remote server doesnt connect

[spiral narwhal]

ah, but that won't be possible because I'm already scripting the original rotations.
So I think I will have to use a Coroutine

[ivory bobcat]

What's the coroutine for?

[ancient island]

can you show me scrollview's rect transform and content and inventory slots as well?

[ivory bobcat]

You could always poll the progress of the animation if needed

[spiral narwhal]

Rotating the object from its current to the target rotation in each frame

[ancient island]

ok, let's be clear, what behaviour do you want to achieve?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you're attempting to sync something relative to time with the coroutine

[hidden sleet]

here ya go

[ancient island]

set inventory slot right and left to 0

[hidden sleet]

what does the right and left mean?

[spiral narwhal]

Let r be the rotation of an object and t its desired target rotation, I would like to smoothly transition from r to t in a set amount of seconds

[hidden sleet]

since it's a stretch does that just mean essentially what the margin is?

[amber nimbus]

Hello, I have this simple code here but it doesnt work.
Debug.Log("Collision"); does work, but Debug.Log("Works"); does not work. I checked in the inspector while playing the game and the script is enabled so I have no idea why this would not work

[ancient island]

right means how much space there is between the object's right bound and the container's right bound, if you set it to 0 there will be no space. Same for left

[ancient island]

and where are animations?

[spiral narwhal]

What do you mean by that

[hidden sleet]

changed it in the prefab but now in the actual screen it's still the same :/

hang on, got something else to try

[ancient island]

you asked something about animations

[hidden sleet]

nbm didn't work X/

[ancient island]

not sure where you messed it up xD. uuuuhh... show me every rect transform inside Inventory screen (included)

[spiral narwhal]

My original idea was to use an animation to simply create two keyframes that "automatically" change from r to t without me having to do anything, but in order for that to work I would have to tell the animation clip that r is an arbitrary value of the game object, but I only find ways to set a set constant in the animation.
So I wasn't sure if that's possible in the first place, or if I should use scripting to achieve this problem

[hidden sleet]

back to square one. on the way

[ancient island]

ok there is no need of using animations. Try this https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.Lerp.html

[languid spire]

As you are getting a 403 error, than can only be issued by your server side code so I suggest you debug that code to see what exactly is causing it to respond with that error

[hidden sleet]

Last one there is the prefab for the slot

[true barn]

i just reread my code and tried to add more debug log output for the exact error. i hope this will help. thanks for your hints so far!!!!!! a thousand thanks

[ancient island]

@spiral narwhal even better: LeanTween https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/leantween-3595

[spiral narwhal]

Yup looks like what I need! Thanks!
But can I use a coroutine for this because I don't want to use an update method when I don't have to

[ancient island]

use leantween

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, you can if you want . . .

[ancient island]

is inventory screen a panel?

[hidden sleet]

yup, just a good old panel

the rest was generated through the Scroll View option

[spiral narwhal]

Eh, would rather avoid using custom packages that may change their licence in the future (as Unity showed :p)

[spiral narwhal]

Gotcha, thanks

[ancient island]

set content's left and right to 0

[amber nimbus]

Does the checkmark mean the script is enabled?

[ancient island]

well I trust it, you can make a lot of animations and you reserve from using animation automatons

[ancient island]

naturally, yes

[hidden sleet]

moves it to the left side, so it's recognising the full container, just not filling it properly now

[amber nimbus]

Well I am confused then, beacuse when I do Debug.Log(enabled) in the script it returns false

[rich adder]

DoTween is better 😛

[ancient island]

ok now inventory slot's rect transform should have changed, set left and right to 0 again

[hidden sleet]

same as above

[ancient island]

do you have an specific problem that involves it?

[desert elm]

can raycasts travel inside 2d colliders?

[ancient island]

lol, show me the transforms again

[ancient island]

if I'm not wrong, raycasts detect the outline of the collider, if its completely inside it won't detect it

[hidden sleet]

seems like it's behaving strangely

[desert elm]

will they detect the collider if they reach the edge again?

[ancient island]

gimme all the transforms as before please

[hidden sleet]

righty ho

[wintry quarry]

only edge colliders

[rich adder]

shouldn't this be inside #📲┃ui-ux ..

[hidden sleet]

probably, didn't spot there was a ui channel

[supple wasp]

@queen adder

[hidden sleet]

will move over there if Zirok needs any more

[ancient island]

why is inventory slot inside a canvas now?

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

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

[hidden sleet]

that's just the prefab view

[ancient island]

let's move to that channel, we dont want to bother

[desert elm]

so if I use a circle collider it won't work?

[amber nimbus]

As I was trying to explain it I realised what I am doing is stupid and wouldnt work anyway so I gotta figure it out differently anyway

[wintry quarry]

what are you trying to do

[rich adder]

by travel inside what do you mean?

like not make it stop ?

[supple wasp]

what's that

[ancient island]

uses to happen

[desert elm]

yes, until the raycast reaches the edge

[wintry quarry]

only with edge collider

[rich adder]

the way you should post code here, haven't you been around enough to know?
#💻┃code-beginner message

[wintry quarry]

you can also do a raycast towards the point from outside

[desert elm]

create a raycast inside a collider from one point to another to measure the distance

[rich adder]

if you have two points why you need raycast for distance?

[queen adder]

check ur input manager

[fierce marsh]

there are two type of ray cast, mouse projecting ray cast and object raycast which projects from the center of the object

[desert elm]

well, I do not have the second point-
sorry, explained it badly
To say in more detail, I have a point on the edge of a circle collider, and a point outside the collider. I need to raycast from the point on the edge of the collider to the outside point, so I can find a second point on the edge of the collider. Then, I want to measure the distance between the first and second points on the collider

[fierce marsh]

you can create an empty game object and make it a child of the object you have and then put the empty game object to your desired edge and add the ray cast script to it

simply create empty game object as a position for the ray cast and make it a child for the main object

[wintry quarry]

you mean a point inside?

[desert elm]

oh I don't have a problem with doing the ray cast, I am just asking if it you can raycast inside a 2d circle collider until you reach the edge - and, from what the others have said, I cannot

[stuck mango]

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

public class PlatformAttach : MonoBehaviour
{
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.tag == "Rigid")
        {
            other.transform.parent = transform;
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.tag == "Rigid")
        {
            other.transform.parent = null;
        }
    }


}

I've created this code to make player stay on my moving platform, i made it move by using animator with "Animate Physics" Everything seems okay till the platform starts moving. Meaning that i cant move on it, my ability to move my player comes back after it stops. Whys that?

[desert elm]

here is my code so far, and I would assume that it would create the point hit1 right on the edge

[wintry quarry]

I mean it depends on whether transform.position is inside the collider or not. Maybe show a screenshot or diagram of where this object is and where t is and where the collider is

[desert elm]

the light green cube is the transform.position/what the script is attached too, the green circle is the collider with the tag forest

[wintry quarry]

And the collider is?

[desert elm]

the green circle?

[wintry quarry]

The green?

Ok so what are you trying to figure out exactly with the Raycast?

And which object is t?

Also you're doing a Raycast by plugging in two positions, which is wrong

That would be a Linecast

[desert elm]

no
to measure the distance between t and the source ( the green square )
but I want the forest to multiply that distance-

[wintry quarry]

What is t???

[desert elm]

the target/the red squares

[shrewd swift]

is there a way to debug and "see"/know what is modifying my player position
i checked all scripts, rigidbodies and colliders, and my player is moving down in a moment were it shouldn't, i cant find what is "making it going down"

[wintry quarry]

Ok I think you're better off doing a RaycastAll here to get any interesecting forests and then just using the general mathematical formula for chord length to determine how much it overlaps the forests.
https://www.cuemath.com/geometry/Chords-of-a-circle/

[true barn]

@languid spire All i can see is a 403 when my GET call tries to upgrade to HTTP 1.1. And then in the next line the "websocket error" in console. Any last advice maybe?

[wintry quarry]

Animator?

[desert elm]

ok simpler question
could I make a raycast between these two squares without layer masking the 2D circle collider of the green circle?

thats all I need to know

not another solution thats gonna take another hour to research
all I need to know is if the raycast would work

[wintry quarry]

Why would you need a Raycast here? It won't tell you anything

[shrewd swift]

there is a animation running but its static so its not the source of the problem

[wintry quarry]

And no it won't work

[desert elm]

thanks

[wintry quarry]

As mentioned it will interesect the circle immediately and give you a distance of 0

[desert elm]

I was not getting the answer I needed so I just needed to make this hypothethical scenario

[swift crag]

i do not understand.

[ancient island]

please be clear and explain the behavior you want to achieve and the problem you have so we can help

[desert elm]

right so if I make an edge collider like this it solves my problem got it

thanks for the help

[dense root]

So I'm trying to make a raycast to my square however it appears to not work as intended, any thoughts? I'm thinking it has something to do with the layer being set and/or the collider itself

void Update()
{
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Mouse0)) 
    {
        Debug.Log("Mouse clicked");

        RaycastHit hit;

        var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit))
        {
            Debug.Log("Object clicked: " + hit.collider.gameObject.name);
        }
    }
}

[ancient island]

you can use OnMouseDown
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseDown.html

[dense root]

I'd prefer to stick with Raycast since I'm already on this track, but thank you

[ancient island]

it's simpler, you just tell the method what you want to do when an object is clicked and attach the script to an object with a collider

[languid spire]

I see you have a BoxCollider2D so maybe use Physics2D.Raycast ?

[dense root]

Oh is that what it is?! @languid spire

[languid spire]

maybe, I dont do 2D but it seems logical

[queen adder]

I am trying to rotate an object towards another object, but the only way i can think to do that is through quaternion.rotate, which means i have to call it every single time in the update() method. is there any other way to cause an object to fully rotate towards the intended target?

(so that i can put it all in one function and only have to call it once)

[swift crag]

You can make it feel like you're only doing it once by using a coroutine, perhaps.

A coroutine lets you write a method that "pauses" until it gets resumed by Unity

on the next frame, by default

[queen adder]

so if i write a co routine with the quaternion. rotateTowards inside it

[swift crag]

Right. The coroutine would repeatedly rotate a little bit towards the target

[queen adder]

okay

how would it know when to stop

how do you end a co routine

[swift crag]

it could quit once the angle difference is almost zero

exactly zero is something I'm not sure you should test for here

Quaternion.Angle(a,b) measures the angle between a and b

[queen adder]

i see

i see i see

its for a rubiks cube tho, basically what i am doing to rotate the top layer is making a new empty gameObject, setting it to the middle piece on the top's position, and rotating the empty gameObject 90 degrees, and then making all other top layer pieces children of the middle top piece and rotating towards the empty game object

if that makes sense

[swift crag]

Since you can't just have a single fixed hierarchy, right

That sounds reasonable.

[wintry quarry]

Physics2D.GetRayIntersection is the appropriate function for this

[swift crag]

sticking things onto an empty and manipulating the empty can be a lot easier than doing the math yourself

[queen adder]

yeah because they need to be unchilded afterwards since cubes can be parts of different faces

that is another problem i am having

how can i make it so that when i set their parent to the middle piece of that face, then rotate, and then unchild them, so that they keep the position and rotation they are in

[hidden sleet]

come across some tutorials that talk about a new input system that you get via a package, would you say it's best to use that moving forward as someone starting out?

[wintry quarry]

no, it's much harder to start with if you're a beginner

stick with the "old" system for now until you get better as a programmer

[hidden sleet]

alrighty then, I'll take your word for it

[vernal minnow]

I've figured out the aiming of my characters blaster, but for some reason he rotates based on his edge and not his center

[scarlet hamlet]

Hey people 🙂 I know this is just straight up maths, but do any of you know how to get the angle of a in Unity c#?
I have a two variables available: distance and height, but I've been stumbling a bit on getting Unity to return the angle itself

Does anyone here know the correct method? 😊

[vernal minnow]

How do I set the sprites center for rotating

[hidden sleet]

simply cause I'm watching a tutorial on implementing joystick movement and none of them cover anything without the new input system

[wintry quarry]

This is just trigonometry, not really a unity question

It's unclear what "distance" and "height" are in this image

maybe label them?

[vernal minnow]

Sohcahtoa

[wintry quarry]

Soh Cah Toa!

[short hazel]

Adjacent / Opposite

[vernal minnow]

Sin cosine tangent

[short hazel]

So tangent(opposite / adjacent)
Do note that in Unity trigonometric functions take in and return values in radians, that can be converted to degrees using the Mathf.Rag2Deg constant

[vernal minnow]

Yep

[hidden sleet]

in fact I straight up can't find any at all for the old input system :(

[vernal minnow]

Like input.GetAxis?

Vertical/Horizontal or am I in the wrong thing?

[hidden sleet]

in this case I need an on screen joystick like mobile games do. I've been using my keyboard so far to test but I'll need to put the thing on an android app for the project but none of the content I've found explains that without the new input system

[wintry quarry]

for an on screen joystick the new system will indeed be much easier

since it's a built in feature of it

in the old system you'd have to build that yourself from basic UI elements and code

[vernal minnow]

Oh nice, I'm trying to learn how to set up a physical joystick lol

[wintry quarry]

but you'll have to learn the basics of the new input system for that

[hidden sleet]

yeah, I think for the time being I'll go and use it. Player movement never needs to be complicated for this task as it's only a uni project that doesn't have a focus on the player controller, it's just movement on a flat plane. But for my own projects moving forward I'll stick to the old one

[vernal minnow]

How do I make my sprite character rotate at its center?

[oblique ginkgo]

In code or in editor?

[vernal minnow]

In code

[oblique ginkgo]

transform.eulerAngles = new(0f, 0f, angle);

[vernal minnow]

The sprite is rotating on its right side making his turning look funny

[oblique ginkgo]

is the sprite centred to the gameobject

[vernal minnow]

The sprite is the game object

[oblique ginkgo]

Can you send a screenshot in editor of the sprite with the move handle on the pivot setting

[vernal minnow]

Like the sprite sort point in the inspector?

[oblique ginkgo]

scene view

[oblique ginkgo]

your move handle is on center mode not pivot

[short hazel]

Pivot / Local to see where it'll rotate around

[vernal minnow]

Does the same sadly

[scarlet hamlet]

Thanks for the trig help everyone 😛
If anyone is curious, the way to get the angle value is as follows:
Angle = Mathf.Rad2Deg*Mathf.Atan(Opposite/Adjacent);

[oblique ginkgo]

its most likely an issue with the sprite, like it having whitespace on the right side

[oblique ginkgo]

that doesnt track
how are you rotating it in code?

[vernal minnow]

transform.Rotate(new Vector3(0, 0, Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * speed2 * Time.deltaTime * -10));

[short hazel]

Arrows seem pretty centered in that screenshot. Sprite is 1.5 square wide, and the arrow looks like it falls at around 0.75 squares

[oblique ginkgo]

try a different rotation method

transform.eulerAngles = new(0f, 0f, transform.eulerAngles.z + (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * speed2 * Time.deltaTime * -10));

[vernal minnow]

Lmao, it's still the same spinning

Actually that just reversed the direction