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[muted wadi]

but how would i change the overlapsphere to be a cone?

[wintry quarry]

Explained already here

[muted wadi]

oh i think i get what you mean

so if the angels that are within the overlap sphere are above or below a certain angle from the player's forward then i can determine whether or not they should be frozen?

[agile arrow]

I have this issue where it seems that the AI does not recognize the area and is just turns around on a loop. I tried baking the scene for the nav mesh but same results, this is the code:

void SetRandomNavTarget()
{
    int maxAttempts = 10; //  maximum number of attempts 

    for (int i = 0; i < maxAttempts; i++)
    {
        Vector3 randomPosition = Random.insideUnitSphere * 30;
        randomPosition.y = 0;
        randomPosition += transform.position; 

        NavMeshHit hit;
        if (NavMesh.SamplePosition(randomPosition, out hit, 5, NavMesh.AllAreas))
        {
            Vector3 finalPosition = hit.position;
            position = finalPosition;
            nav.SetDestination(position);
            return; // break out of the loop if a valid position is found
        }
    } 

    //if we reach this point, it means no valid position was found :(
    Debug.LogError("Failed to find a valid target position on the NavMesh after " + maxAttempts + " attempts.");
} 

[muted wadi]

add a debug log when a destination is set for the agent. I had a similar issue and the problem was that my script was constantly setting a new destination for the agent and so he barely moved at all

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/ofasowiruq.cs

[agile arrow]

Thank you, will try!

[deft venture]

It does messup a bit at high speeds but that's probabaly fine. However now the paddles seem to not even collide with the borders even though in my old code the paddles are not able to go past the borders, is there a way to fix that?

Old Code:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float movementSpeed;
    [SerializeField] private bool isAi;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject ball;

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Vector2 playerMove;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (isAi)
        {
            AIControl();
        }
        else
        {
            PlayerControl();
        }
        rb.velocity = playerMove * movementSpeed * Time.fixedDeltaTime;
    }

    private void PlayerControl()
    {
        playerMove = new Vector2(0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
    }

    private void AIControl()
    {
        if (ball.transform.position.y > transform.position.y + 0.25f)
        {
            playerMove = new Vector2(0, 0.5f);
        }
        else if (ball.transform.position.y < transform.position.y - 0.25f)
        {
            playerMove = new Vector2(0, -0.5f);
        }
        else
        {
            playerMove = new Vector2(0, 0);
        }
    }
}

new code:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] private float movementSpeed;
    [SerializeField] private bool isAi;
    [SerializeField] private GameObject ball;

    private Rigidbody2D rb;
    private Vector2 playerMove;

    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (isAi)
        {
            AIControl();
        }
        else
        {
            PlayerControl();
        }
    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.velocity = playerMove * movementSpeed;
    }

    private void PlayerControl()
    {
        playerMove = new Vector2(0, Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
    }

    private void AIControl()
    {
        float targetY = Mathf.Clamp(ball.transform.position.y, transform.position.y - 0.25f, transform.position.y + 0.25f);
        float step = movementSpeed;
        float newY = Mathf.MoveTowards(transform.position.y, targetY, step);
        transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, newY, transform.position.z);
    }
}

[muted wadi]

idk too well how your mechanics work, but if the paddles are going past the borders then you could try different approaches to moving them. Like using the rigidbody with rb.MovePosition

that way you should be able to stop the paddles from moving past the borders by simply using a collider

[wintry quarry]

You're mixing transform.position movement with Rigidbody movement

If you want proper physics only move via the Rigidbody

[muted wadi]

finally had this drilled into my head after messing up player controllers so many times 🥲

[deft venture]

How would I do that? I kinda just borrowed the ai control from the internet

[fluid remnant]

How do I assign all children a LayerMask again?

[wintry quarry]

You can't assign a LayerMask to an object, only a layer

In the editor you can simply select all the objects at once and change the layer in the inspector

[fluid remnant]

Ohh, how would I do it then, I'm trying to do it runtime

[wintry quarry]

It's just a simple property on GameObject
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-layer.html

[fluid remnant]

I tried this way

foreach(var t in sections)
        {
            t.gameObject.layer = placementLayer;
        }```
but give me error 
**A game object can only be in one layer. The layer needs to be in the range [0...31]**

LayerMask.NameToLayer takes only string but not very neat

I guess LayerMask is only for Raycasts?

[wintry quarry]

You're passing in something other than a number between 0 and 31

[fluid remnant]

placementLayer is LayerMask

[wintry quarry]

Layers can only be a number between 0 and 31

Layers are not the same as layer masks

Completely different things

Don't mix them up

[gaunt ice]

Layermask in number between 0 to 0xffffffff, it is bitmask

[fluid remnant]

just seems dirty to use integer

[wintry quarry]

Use NameToLayer if you want to use a string

[fluid remnant]

Oh ok what if my layers change , do I just change inspector value of string?

[wintry quarry]

Sure

Why not

[fluid remnant]

Yeah I will do that thanks!

[agile arrow]

In the update method I was doing it, now fixed it but the issue persists

[spiral glen]

how do I see how many lines are in a .txt file?

[rich adder]

string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines(path)
int numbersOfLines = lines.legnth```

[spiral glen]

swag thanks

💋

[vocal sail]

Question here:
The capsule is the player, when switch scene from another scene using asyncLoadScene, I want the player instant trigger the collider (blue box)
This works as fine in the editor play mode, but when it comes to the build, it cannot. What could be happening?

[teal viper]

The capsule is probably already intersecting with the collider when physics starts processing the new scene.

Might want to use an overlap query on scene load or just avoid that situation entirely(preferable).

[vocal sail]

After I move the collider out of the player and tried to trigger it manually, it still fails

Is there a way to check whether it is player or the collider that causes the problem in build

[wintry quarry]

sounds like it's not set up properly

[vocal sail]

can you be more specific? or code is needed?

[teal viper]

Code and/or setup in the scene. Start from sharing code and explaining how you confirm the issue.

[smoky stump]

Can anyone send me a good beginner c# tutorial

[north kiln]

Please link to large codeblocks !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:
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[north kiln]

Also, this all could be improved massively by caching variables, using Camera.main, and getting rid of whatever on earth .GameObject() is

[vocal sail]

sorry didn't know I need to do that, I'm fixing it

[rich adder]

check pins in this channel

[vocal sail]

Thanks

https://paste.ofcode.org/4qfXZVpkeptpkVuaWQZQGt

Here is my code, the first and second part is for the dialogue trigger which I intended to trigger right when the player enters the scene.

The third part is the opening, when enters the game plays the opening video, scene switch when the video ends

[teal viper]

If you need to trigger it when it enters the scene, what do you need the collider for?

Just call it on scene load or some time after it.

[vocal sail]

I made it a serial prefab that triggers in order and that one is the head

[teal viper]

Also, not sure if it's relevant to your issue(could be), but your EnterGame coroutine doesn't do anything.

[teal viper]

Not sure what that means and how it's related to the issue at hand.

[vocal sail]

I did what the Unity document demonstrates how to switch to another scene

[teal viper]

I'm sure they don't have a coroutine like that. If they do await for anything in it, there're probably more lines in it. Check the docs page again.

[vestal adder]

I believe i am supposed to attach all enemy stuff in my enemy script to a prefab but when i do that the code does not work

[vocal sail]

My idea is the player will trigger the blue box and each blue box will enable the next one, at the same time the npc will follow according to the green cylinder.

and each blue box is holding a dialogue I'm making sure that the player doesn't trigger the later one before its time

[teal viper]

That's sounds like a very bad approach. You might want to look at the timeline package for scripted cinematics /cut scenes.

[vocal sail]

hmm my initial thought is that in most games player will get to a place and trigger dialogue. Thus, I can make it like this and let the npc talk to the player with the player's pace

[teal viper]

Not necessarily. A trigger collider can be used if it's a location based cut scene. But there could be many other types of trigger conditions. For example, completing a certain quest, killing an enemy, loading a scene(your case), etc...

[vocal sail]

Did I said that after the opening video is played this scene will be loaded?

I want to do a full screen opening video -> sceneload -> trigger the first dialogue

[teal viper]

Then trigger it via code when the scene is loaded.

[teal viper]

So it sounds to me.

[vocal sail]

Does that mean I'm creating another script for this specific case?

[teal viper]

No necessarily. You could execute the code from the Game/Level manager. Probably LevelManager, since it's an event unique to the level. Could even use some kind of SO based system to configure what cut scenes play on what scene start.

[vocal sail]

hmm I see, thanks for the support kind person ❤️ truely appreciated

[eternal latch]

if I were to define a list of lists of vector3s:
List<List<Vector3>> segments = new List<List<Vector3>>();
would that be expensive, in terms of computation or memory?

[charred spoke]

Depends on what you do with the list and how many items you have in there

[wintry quarry]

Compared to what

As it is it's just an empty list BTW

If you put a lot of lists in here sure that could take a lot of memory, or a few very large lists

As far as computation goes that would depend what you do with it

[eternal latch]

oh sweet, so what I'm hearing is empty lists dont take up much memory and are pretty fast to create? (compared to maybe a regular vector3)
for some reason I thought memory might be allocated based on the maximum size of the list :P

[wintry quarry]

Simply defining it has almost no computational cost

[wintry quarry]

Memory will indeed be allocated based on the size of the list

[charred spoke]

Or rather the initial capacity but its good practice to preallocate that with some sane number

[wintry quarry]

I don't see how you're comparing this list to a vector3. It's a list of lists of Vector3s. Depending on how many vectors you put in it it will take up memory

[charred spoke]

Eg if you know your gonna have around 500 elements in the list eventually just pre allocate that and save on the resize performance cost

[eternal latch]

see, I wasn't sure if that was the case :) I'm going to look into "pre allocating" lists now, that is not something I'm familiar with 👍

[wintry quarry]

Don't worry about the preaplocation thing yet

It's premature optimization

Obviously the data has to go somewhere though

Lists don't give you free memory magically

[eternal latch]

understood, hence me asking about it and looking for best practices 👍

[whole sapphire]

How do u make a 2D object half transparent

[timber tide]

two meshes, two materials

or if you just want the opacity to be different on parts then you modify the values on the textures or change the UVs

[whole sapphire]

where

my object is currently using the default texture

[timber tide]

UVs -> blender
textures -> any art program

[whole sapphire]

so u cant do it in unity?

[timber tide]

can also do it via shaders but that's a little more harder if you've not used them

[whole sapphire]

im just trying to change the opacity

to 0.5 sth

[timber tide]

if you want to do it in unity then probably shaders

[north kiln]

You certainly don't do it with code unless you randomly add more context to the question that makes that clear

which begs the question...

[whole sapphire]

ehhhh i cant do it with code?

cuz im trying to make when the player walk behind the object it will go half transparent

[north kiln]

There's a number of ways to go about that. Depends on the render pipeline, the camera perspective with the objects, the whole setup

[wintry quarry]

Do you just want the whole thing to be at half alpha? That'd just be the alpha channel of the SpriteRenderer color

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SpriteMask.html

Ya got those if you're dealing with 2D

[whole sapphire]

oh yeah that works

[timber tide]

oh you just wanted the opacity lowered eh (sorry half awake and must have read over your previous reply)

[vestal adder]

i am doing this

private void Start()
{
Instantiate(EnemyPrefab, new Vector3(0, 1, 25) , Quaternion.identity);
}

but it spawns alot of enemies rather than just one

the script is attached to the prefab which i placed in the scene

EnemyPrefab is set to the enemy prefab in the editor

[gaunt ice]

Every prefab spawns a new prefab

[vestal adder]

ooooohhh

so how do i just spawn one in

[gaunt ice]

Dont let the prefab spawns itself

[vestal adder]

i have an issue where enemies which are instantiated after the first one is killed

all spawn with 1 health

so i tried that as a solution

i thought that would work because it would be spawning in new instances rather than copying the dead one

[gaunt ice]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-object-pooling
Not related but you should have a look

[vestal adder]

Ill do that now

[vestal adder]

i can spawn in the prefab now by having that code on a different object

but the enemy just sits there

if i put the enemy prefab into the scene and assign it to things also in the scene then it works

but then i have the old issue

For the prefab not in the scene it seems like i can only add things in its editor that are other prefabs

[whole sapphire]

how to detect if an object touch a trigger

like whats the function name

[vestal adder]

private void OnTriggerEnter()

[whole sapphire]

no reaction tho

[vestal adder]

erm

private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider)

[whole sapphire]

yeah

[vestal adder]

perhaps that

[whole sapphire]

i did that

[vestal adder]

did you do these after {}

[north kiln]

Go through this resource https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[whole sapphire]

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

public class pillarScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public SpriteRenderer spriteRndr;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("a");
        //spriteRndr.color += new Color (0, 0, 0, 127); 
    }
}

i did this

[frozen stream]

to anyone who can guide me since i’m a beginner in this, i have this assignment to make but here’s the context before i inform u ab my problems

From a 3D game i made it into 2d perspective and created a rectangular cube for the cannon

[vestal adder]

the thing entering the trigger also has to be set to a trigger i think

[whole sapphire]

nvm solved

[vestal adder]

winning

[whole sapphire]

i forgot to do trigger2D

[visual hedge]

Hello. Can someone confirm or deny, please? Basically tried to implement the 3rd person navigation with clicking the mouse on the surface (using raycast and also navmesh). But it doesnt work. The controllable player does not move towards the point. Using the starter pack for 3rd person controller. Pretty sure that code is correct and I am also doing everything like it should be done. What could prevent character from moving?

[whole sapphire]

Cannot modify the return value of 'SpriteRenderer.color' because it is not a variable i dont understand this error

 spriteRndr.color.a += 255; 
``` here is the line of code

[visual hedge]

My thoughts: something in starter pack: third person controller prevents it.

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1612

Also https://unity.huh.how/color/color-range

[whole sapphire]

man thanks alot thie website is cool

[teal viper]

Typically, you only need the navmesh agent component for moving on the navmesh. Anything else that might be moving an object would be fighting the navmesh agent potentially causing movement issues.

[visual hedge]

Yeah, but to locate the MoveTowards coordinates one needs raycast. At least that's how brackeys suggests it in tutorial.

[vestal adder]

@gaunt ice hey do you get my issue or is it not explained well

[visual hedge]

And yes. I think that somehow the beginners pack third person controller fights it. I guess I will just have to create my own third person controller and camera follow

[teal viper]

Why do you need a controller if you're using a navmesh agent?

Isn't it moving with rb/CC? You wouldn't need any of these with navmesh agent.

[visual hedge]

Till now I was controlling the character by using wasd. Now I want to swich to mouse click + navmesh.

[teal viper]

Well, then you'll need to remove or disable the previous controller. Otherwise they would be fighting for control over the character.

[visual hedge]

Oh, okay, that seems very logical. Gonna try that when I get to my pc) Thank you

[vestal adder]

How would you usually set up an enemy for a shooter cause i guess me winging it has caused issues

if you needed an enemy which died, then spawns a new one on death

how would you go about it

ill link my enemy code if someone thinks that will help

but i think the issue is with me just not getting prefabs

[nimble apex]

i had never done this before, i just want to know if its possible

void start: 
mask = maskA.gameobj;

--------------------------
//maskA.gameobj is destroyed

if (mask == null ) {
       instantiate (mask);
}

maskA referenced in field already at beginning

wait u can lol

[teal viper]

You'd have something like an EnemyManager that keeps track of the enemies. When one enemy dies, you decrement the counter of living enemies for example. Then you could also use that counter to know that you need to spawn a new enemy. At which point you would instantiate a new enemy from a prefab.

[vestal adder]

okay yes

thanks ill move the script off of the enemy

[shrewd swift]

what would be a "good way" to calculate the distance traveled in 1 axis ?

doing currentX - startX does the work, but because i am doing a infinite runner this might be costy if the player does a long run, because the UI is updated at each frame

[teal viper]

Why would that be costly?🤔

And what other alternative do you have?

[shrewd swift]

well since im doing only 1 axis yeah
idk if vectors are "more" calculations, because its just doing 3 additions instead of 1

[shrewd swift]

sometimes i feel like all PCs are running on a potato xD, I need to stop doing "bad optimizations"

[shrewd swift]

i have some ideas but probably worse that what i just said

[charred spoke]

Are you planing to calculate this for thousands of entities? If no then it literally does not matter

[static bay]

This is quite the microoptimization.

[shrewd swift]

no only player

[static bay]

Computers are pretty good at doing math nowadays.

[teal viper]

Float operations are very fast. It wouldn't make much difference if you have one or 3 of them.

[static bay]

If it was hundreds/thousands of units per frame, ya I'd be concerned.

[shrewd swift]

okay thanks guys

[static bay]

But just 1?

You're fine.

[timber tide]

I am effectively doing this with about 1000+ objects in the scene every update

[static bay]

Entities or with GOs?

[timber tide]

GOs

camera stuff

[static bay]

Individually or all within 1 monobehaviour?

[timber tide]

path finding is somewhat similar but it doesn't need to be strictly each update

billboarding stuff towards the camera and checking orientation

[static bay]

2D characters in 3D world?

[timber tide]

ye

[static bay]

Been having trouble with that, mostly with transparency sorting.

[timber tide]

I've been using opaque and alpha clipping

transparency can work but when you're working in a 3D world you're better off making your character opaque otherwise alpha blending becomes more limited

[static bay]

That does seem to be the play.

Though for some reason I'm having trouble getting opaque shaders to work with Sorting Groups.

Since my sprites are composed of lots of segments.

[timber tide]

cant use sorting groups with opaque

that's specific to transparent queue

[static bay]

What're my options then?

[timber tide]

opaque is specifically sorted through depth

rather, they both sort by depth, but transparency is only sorted via pivot while opaque is sorted per pixel

[static bay]

If I try to layer a sprite by just changing the Z then I get the classic issue of the sprites not sorting correctly when multiple "entities" are overlapping.

this issue

[timber tide]

Ah, if you're using segments yeah that can be a problem

[static bay]

Cult of the Lamb features a ton of these types of sprites.

And I'm almost 100% sure the characters are segmented.

Due to their animations and because a lot of the NPCs are mixes of different parts.

[timber tide]

I would need to play around with it to see the segment problem as I still feel like depth should be respected between different characters, but otherwise I can think of updating a single sprite

ah, yeah I see what you mean

it's more sorted by pivot here then

[static bay]

what the heck?

[daring pagoda]

I dont think i have enough concentrate or focus enough to code or make a game

[static bay]

what do you mean by sorted by pivot?

[timber tide]

if you develop a 2D top down game you usually sort by the Y, meaning that you'd render the higher values first

[static bay]

When you say a 2D top down do you mean something like CotL?

[timber tide]

no clue what that is but think stardew valley

[static bay]

sorry CotL is Cult of the Lamb

the game in the screenshot I sent

[static bay]

ya that's more standard 2D

[timber tide]

oh yeah I'd consider that topdown

[static bay]

Man transparency is literally the bane of rendering.

[timber tide]

If it's by pivot then it's probably using transparency, but I'm not sure how segmented sprites are sorted even in 2D so probably research more on that and perhaps the idea is similar here.

[static bay]

I think I'll post in #archived-shaders and see if someone has a better idea.

[crude prawn]

So basically my firerate is not working in my weaponsystem and I have no idea why. https://pastebin.com/5TEjcYGg

[shrewd swift]

just a quick question regarding Awake, Awake will be called when a script is loaded, so even if the script is disabled, Awake will be called ?

[crude prawn]

so even if i have my firerate to 0 it still shoots

[timber tide]

you dont even use firerate in your code beyond declaring it

[crude prawn]

ig its nextfire then?

[timber tide]

You tell me lol

Anyway, I'd start by using debug.log in your method and check values

compare your values and figure out what values they should be at that time

[nocturne parcel]

Awake is called when a GO is loaded, so even if you disable the script, it will still be called

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

"Awake is called even if the script is a disabled component of an active GameObject."

[uncut bay]

anyone know why I see more of the scene when I don't maximise on play?

I see this without maximising on play

and i see this when maximising

why does maximising on play cut off the horizontal edges?

[plush cave]

need to adjust your camera view

[uncut bay]

in the scene when I press on the camera it shows this window:

how should I adjust the camera

why would it be different when maximising on play? i'm just making the game full screen

[plush cave]

what is your ratio set to?

[uncut bay]

how do I check?

[plush cave]

its a drop down in the game tab

next to display

[uncut bay]

says "free aspect"

[plush cave]

change it to match your actual game aspect

[uncut bay]

😅 how do I know what my actual game aspect is?

[plush cave]

prolly 1920x1080 default

[uncut bay]

full hd (1920x1080)

I change it to that?

oh now I gotta change the sizes of all my gameobjects

[plush cave]

you shouldn't

[uncut bay]

well it kinda zoomed in, cuttin off my portals a bit, and cutting off completely the player

maybe just changing the positions is good enough

[plush cave]

try different aspects for mine it changes according to aspect thats set

[uncut bay]

ok

none of them work :/

[plush cave]

is your scale slider all the way to the left?

[uncut bay]

yep

on 1

the sizes of my gameobejct stay the same

it's just the camera which gets smaller

meaning I have a smaller space to work with 🫤

[plush cave]

show me your camera in the scene

[uncut bay]

this is free aspect

[plush cave]

the main camera is what you should see

press play and take a screen shot

[royal ledge]

In unity I know how to code most of the things that I want to actually make, but I do not think I am crystal clear on the actual good practices with C# and unity, especially within inheritence, interfaces and just general architecture on a broader scale. Since I have been learning by doing, I doubt myself which cripples my capability to code efficiently. I know how to code Java for example because i have actually studied it and learnt what's proper practice, in c# I have just put scraps and pieces from many different resources together in my head. Does anyone recommend any resource for learning the actual good practices? Maybe not beginner level, paid is fine

[uncut bay]

this is when I use "maximise on play"

this is without

[plush cave]

can you still see the sliders or no?

[uncut bay]

you mean the scale thing?

[plush cave]

yea

[uncut bay]

when I don't maximise on play I can see them yeah

oh wait

I can see them when I maximise as well

[plush cave]

take a full screen shot so i can see it

[uncut bay]

ok

maximise on play:

[sullen galleon]

https://gdl.space/necajupeni.cs why are lines being deleted properly upon mouse click release but the dots are being removed in real time?

[charred spoke]

Good practices and good patterns are language agnostic. If we are talking Unity specifics here learn more about the Composition pattern and if you want to future proof yourself get into Data Oriented design rather than OOP, DOD suits what games do as a software much better than OOP

[uncut bay]

when I don't maximise on play

🫤

[vestal adder]

i am adapting my enemy script

to be on an EnemyManager object

rather than the enemy itself

[wooden minnow]

i tried creating a camera in code, i set the stereotargeteye to none but it still shows on my vr? what am i missing?

[vestal adder]

and im not sure how to reference the enemy for some of the things

such as bullets colliding with the enemy

[plush cave]

yea your aspect ratio of your camera isn't set to a specific aspect. so you can just adjust it to the size that works for you or do some complicated stuff to figure out your cameras aspect and set it to match. thats just from my few mins of research but someone might have a more clear answer that understands the camera setting better than i do :/.

[north kiln]

But it's not? Start is not an abstract or virtual member of MonoBehaviour. It's called by reflection

[uncut bay]

oh alright thanks, i'll try and find a matching aspect

[hexed terrace]

Look up OnCollisionEnter / Exit, and TryGetComponent

[hexed terrace]

They crossposted from #💻┃unity-talk

[vestal adder]

public void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("InstantiatedProjectile"))

thats what i had before but now that its not on the enemy it wont work

since it detects what collides with the attatched object

is this something that isnt beginner im not sure

[plush cave]

can you show the code !code

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[vestal adder]

which of these links is most convenient for you

[plush cave]

also by enemy manager do you just mean an empty gameobject that has the enemy as a child?

the first one

[vestal adder]

i have it on a cube

which is not attatched to the enemy

https://gdl.space/enusasumof.cs

[plush cave]

if your calling something to collide with something else the script has to be attached to the object with the collider but let me see what you got

[vestal adder]

i comment stuff to try and make sure i know what im doing

[vestal adder]

that is good 2 know

[plush cave]

honestly im still learning a bunch so i with you

[vestal adder]

in the curly brackets of else if (health <= 0 )

i have accidentally commented out the instantiates

they get instantiated because im doing a funny troll

where enemies double when u kill them and you can see how many you get before you die

[hexed terrace]

So that you don't have to do GetComponent these fields should be declared for the type you actually want

public EnemyController NewEnemy1;
public EnemyController NewEnemy2;
public GunPickup PlayersGun;

[vestal adder]

what does that mean i should do

[plush cave]

it will show up in the inspector and you can drag your enmies into it

[vestal adder]

its already like that

[hexed terrace]

No it's not

[vestal adder]

oh lolololol

[hexed terrace]

You declared those fields as GameObject and then you do GetComponent<EnemyController>() to get the actual component/class you want

if you declare how I've shown above, you still drag the same GameObject into the field, but it will get the correct component then, and you won't need the GetComponent

And you'll do just: NewEnemy1.health = 3;

[vestal adder]

okay i see how its different from what ive done now

was being a fool

[hexed terrace]

Was being new

Which is why I pointed it out, I vaguely remember not knowing/ understanding this when I first started

[vestal adder]

fixed that up now

so ye erm bashically this script was on my enemy and now its on a separate thing to avoid all these bugs

but i dont know how to adapt it to change the enemy when its not attatched to it

so rn the box i put the script on is doing all the enemy things

[celest holly]

anyone know how to fix this weird collision bug im having with navmesh AI? Im walking into the ai and i just teleport on top of them. Im using a character controller if that helps

[languid spire]

what would help is if you posted some !code

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[celest holly]

https://hatebin.com/hbpgpulemd
thats my enemy handler code

https://hatebin.com/ddggddlqyo
and this is my character code

i really dont know whats goingg on with it

[uncut bay]

is there a way to gradually make a wall go down?

in 2d?

so when I touch a key then the wall on the edges will lower itself

[celest holly]

if u change the pivot to the top of the wall and scale it down it should work i imagine

[uncut bay]

Alright I'll try that thx

[hexed terrace]

Don't scale it

move it

[languid spire]

I dont see anything in that code which is handling collisions

[celest holly]

why is why im thinking its a physics probl;em

im just using built in character controller

[languid spire]

do you have colliders on your player and enemies?

[plush cave]

im pretty sure there is no barrier on the collider and it makes some wierd stuff happen. i went through this like 3 weeks ago but i haven't messed with the nav mesh ai stuff in a while so its lost on me again. but there is a way to set a small barrier between the colliders so you cant climb up the enemy

[hexed terrace]

A collider IS the "barrier"

@celest holly - Show a video of what's actually happening

[celest holly]

sure, give me a minute

[celest holly]

yes

[languid spire]

can you screenshot the inspectors of both

[celest holly]

Player

Ai

[hexed terrace]

The character conroller gives you a collider, you don't need (and afaik shouldn't have) another collider, remove the capsule collider

[celest holly]

sure, i just added that now to see if it helped

still getting the same problem though

[hexed terrace]

Yes, it wasn't a fix for that

I can't view the vids (cookies I cba to sort).. this sounds like the same issue
https://forum.unity.com/threads/solved-character-controller-is-lifted-up-onto-kinematic-rigidbody.450523/

[celest holly]

sounds like the character controller simply doesnt work well with navmesh agents

ill just rework my movement to a rigidbody

remember the * time.delta time

since its ran in update

you could do it in fixed update which would work better since i ts a rigidbody

then you wouldnt need the time.deltatime at al

wdym flies off

[timber tide]

 m_Rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, player.position, 2f));```
That doesn't seem like something you'd want to do

also like tim said, you want to be doing rigidbody method calls in fixedupdate and other physic methods

Try just grabbing the direction of the two and plugging that in with the speed

[celest holly]

removed the rigidbody from the AI and it works, thanks for those who tried to help

[fickle wagon]

Hi, i have one dropdown with value of (sprite, string) options, i want that dropdown searchable like when i type "a" all country name that has "a" show up on dropdown, any idea how to do that?

[timber tide]

that's another method now though

I've not used MovePosition but I suggest looking up the documentations

[timber tide]

custom editor scripting #↕️┃editor-extensions

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.AddForce.html

In the example they've got a direction (transform.up) and are multiplying it by a magnitude

also player.position is not a direction

you can get a direction from two points

[wintry quarry]

The direction From A to B is B-A, not +

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/550/Documentation/Manual/DirectionDistanceFromOneObjectToAnother.html

That's a good read, though you can skip the normalization part via vector3 method

[shrewd swift]

I have some buttons in a list
my goal is to naviguate between them using c#

when doing myList[0].Select() the button is selected
but when using myList[0].FindSelectableOnDown().Select(), FindSelectableOnDown() returns the correct button, but the button doesnt seem selected

[royal ledge]

Is the main purpose of an interface to be able to call methods of a class without knowing the specific class?

[timber tide]

Ye

If you know an object implements that interface, then you know you know the methods you can call and their return values

[royal ledge]

Aight ye makes sense

[timber tide]

and however that method is implemented inside of that object's class can differ between other object classes which also implement that interface

it also allows you to pass and contain objects by their interface types

via lists and other data structures

[wintry quarry]

Why are you starting the Coroutine every FixedUpdate

[timber tide]

another neat use is passing objects by their interface type which helps conceal some of an objects data. This allows another way to prevent classes from interacting with properties or methods, while allowing other scripts referencing it more access.

[wintry quarry]

What's the intended behavior here?

[royal ledge]

aye and a class can implement multiple interfaces?

[wintry quarry]

Calling it every FixedUpdate is foolish

Think about it

It will start a whole new sequence 50 times per second

50 new sequences every second!

[timber tide]

Yep, so technically you can chop up your properties and methods into multiple interfaces and never send the full reference of a class

[royal ledge]

welp, time for some refactoring, i had touched on unity events before for a simple canTakeDamage thing, but using interfaces feels cleaner

[timber tide]

The only big problem with them is Unity doesn't serialize them because there's some ambiguity when setting them on the editor.

[royal ledge]

Ah okey

[shell sorrel]

you can still get components by interface via GetComponent though

its just for dragging it in you need a concrete type

[timber tide]

You can do it via serialize references and other user created libraries, but like Passerby mentioned doing it via GetComponent when initializing is usually the solution (much like how you initialize dictionaries and other non-serialize types)

[undone rampart]

i made a tool which adds an attribute to filter stuff you drag in the inspector, you can filter by any type, interfaces included

[timber tide]

Or grabbing the interfaces when needed like trigger events too

[shell sorrel]

yeah SerilizedReference too, though find that feature can be rather fragile to refactoring

[royal ledge]

So on a collision event for example with ICanTakeDamage i have to grab the component?

[shell sorrel]

well for a collision event you need to do so anyways even if not using interfaces

[royal ledge]

Ye, just making sure

[shell sorrel]

but yeah if the thing collided had a IDamageable on it, you could GetComponent that from the hit collider

[timber tide]

Yeah, that's a very standard way you may see people use interfaces as far as unity goes

[undone rampart]

doesnt serialized reference just shows a serialized struct/class in a dropdown including fields from stuff those inherit/implement?

[shell sorrel]

its usecase is more for working with regular classes as referencess, since if you used serlizefield multiple fields will not point to the same objects after deserilization

[shrewd swift]

can you select a button through script without submiting it ?

[timber tide]

UI button?

[shrewd swift]

yes

[undone rampart]

yes

[timber tide]

Anything that as ISelect interface

[shrewd swift]

if nothing is focused .Select() "selects" the button without submit, but if calling it again on any button it will submit :/

[shrewd swift]

do you mean ISelectable ? found nothing with ISelect

[wintry quarry]

There's a Selectable component too, it's Button's parent class

Depending on your use case that might be more suitable than Button

[shrewd swift]

but will Selectable have the same behaviour ?

[wintry quarry]

No

[timber tide]

What is the behaviour you want

[shrewd swift]

well adding a EventSystem component fixed the issue, not sure why

nvm, i can now move button-to-button, but calling Select() on a already-selected button wont submit it

[shrewd swift]

replacing Select() by onClick.Invoke() fixed this

[rocky canyon]

EventSystem is how Unity registers and responds to input..

its necessary if your canvas has any sort of interactable UI

[shrewd swift]

thanks

[swift crag]

here's the definition of Select:

    public virtual void Select()
    {
        if (!(EventSystem.current == null) && !EventSystem.current.alreadySelecting)
        {
            EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject(base.gameObject);
        }
    }

hence why it didn't work without an event system!

[gusty hazel]

i have an issue where i recently added difficulty to my game, i added a diificulty select (using prefabs) at the start and added a if statement for each difficulty in the start of my player control script which makes it so that depending on the difficulty a multiplier is made a different number, then this multiplier is used to change health, however this just makes all my enemies move at a ridiculours speed.

[swift crag]

that's good to know about; I didn't realize that method was there

if (TryGetComponent<Selectable>(out var selectable))
  selectable.Select();

nice and tidy, vs. using EventSystem.current.SetSelectedGameObject yourself

[swift crag]

well, then your code is changing the speed of your enemies

you're going to have to show your code

[gusty hazel]

if (PlayerPrefs.GetString ("Difficulty") == "Easy") {
            mult = 1f;
        }if (PlayerPrefs.GetString ("Difficulty") == "Medium") {
            mult = 1.5f;
        }if (PlayerPrefs.GetString ("Difficulty") == "Hard") {
            mult = 2f;
            ;
        } else {
            mult = 1f;
        }```

thats all that the new code i added

[swift crag]

okay, that's fine

now how do you use mult?

[rocky canyon]

Debug.Log or visibly inspect the mult var..

[gusty hazel]

and there is no enemy speed variable in the current code]

[rocky canyon]

see whats happening

[swift crag]

one handy trick

[gusty hazel]

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D other){
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("basicEnemy")  && (playerscript.voulnerable == true)) {
            currenthealth = currenthealth - 10 * mult;
            StartCoroutine(Red ());
        } else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("advEnemy") && (playerscript.voulnerable == true)) {
            currenthealth = currenthealth - 20 * mult;
            StartCoroutine(Red ());
        }else if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("Spikes") && (playerscript.voulnerable == true)) {
            currenthealth = currenthealth - 30 * mult;
            StartCoroutine(Red ());
        }
}```

and thats the only mention of enemies in the code

[swift crag]

click on mult and hit Shift+F12

This will reveal every single place you use mult

If you find no other references, then this isn't the source of your problem.

[swift crag]

also, this logic is wrong

it will set mult to 1 as long as the difficulty isn't on Hard

if (easy)
  mult = 1;

if (medium)
  mult = 1.5f;

if (hard)
  mult = 2;
else
  mult = 1;

[gusty hazel]

ahhh

ok

[swift crag]

Your formatting makes it harder to read. You should have your IDE auto-format your code for you

in VSCode, at least, you just do Ctrl+Shift+P and type "Format" in the command palette

[gaunt ice]

shift alt f

[swift crag]

mmm weird macos button

yeah, the palette will also display the shortcut, if one exists

very very useful

[gusty hazel]

wait whatt how does it set it to 1 as long as it isnt on hard

wouldnt i need to do else if?

[swift crag]

Read your four statements from top to bottom.

[polar acorn]

Because if it's hard you set it to 2. Otherwise, you set it to 1

[swift crag]

• If the difficulty is set to "easy", set mult to 1
• If the difficulty is set to "medium", set mult to 1.5
• If the difficulty is set to "hard", set mult to 2
• If the previous condition wans't met, set mult to 1

[swift crag]

You want to use else if here.

• If the difficulty is set to "easy", set mult to 1
• Otherwise, if the difficulty is set to "medium", set mult to 1.5
• Otherwise, if the difficulty is set to "hard", set mult to 2
• Otherwise, set mult to 1

[gusty hazel]

thanks

[frigid sequoia]

Ey, do you guys know how to make a proyectile pierce X amount of times?

Like, I can make the object count how many times it goes though X stuff, but how do I avoid stuff like two "pierceable objects" being so near that are only counted as one collision?

[swift crag]

If you decrement the counter in OnTriggerEnter or OnCollisionEnter, then that won't be an issue.

Each collider overlap will produce a separate message

You just need to make sure that the pierce counter isn't 0 before applying damage

imagine if a 1-pierce projectile overlaps three enemies at once

you probably didn't want it to damage all of them

[warm condor]

hey guys, does this if statement wait for an animation to finish playing?

        if (this.playerAnimator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("TurnAround")){
            playerAnimator.SetBool("hasTurnedAround", false);
        }
    }```

[swift crag]

it checks if the current state on layer 0 has a certain name

if the state does, it sets a bool

then it terminates

i would not say it "waits" for anything

If you ran this every frame, it would set a bool once a condition was met

[warm condor]

what layer 0?

what is that?

[timber tide]

Have you implemented a way to prevent a ability from hitting more than one instance

[swift crag]

The base layer.

By default, the animator controller only has one layer

any additional layers you add would be at indices 1, 2, 3, etc.

[warm condor]

ah I see, thanks!

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, it should work just fine if the thing that the proyectile needs to hit has just OnTriggerEnter, which is just called once. But I think I would have to implement a raycast feature to detect collision for the fastest proyectiles

[timber tide]

oh I mean, preventing the projectile from hitting someone multiple times

Ah, yeah OnTriggerEnter should be fine

in some cases if your projectile is slow enough your enemy could always enter it again

[frigid sequoia]

What I mean is like imagine a game like Vampire survivor where there are like a freaking ton lot of colliders clipping with each other, and I want like a proyectile that is meant to just pierce 2 times, how do I do that?

[timber tide]

or vice versa

keep the data on the projectile

if it hit someone, decrement the counter

[lavish gate]

So i want to have a changing amount of rigidbodies in 2d box, i want when 2 rigidbodies with the same tag to report to a controller script that will then do something with these collisions. how would i do this? i would assume events but there will be can i add more and less events whenever i want?

[timber tide]

if counter is 0, destroy projectile

(better to queue it back to a object pool tho ^^)

[timid saffron]

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

public class PlayerMovement : MonoBehaviour
{
public float movementSpeed = 5f;
public float jumpForce = 5f;

private Rigidbody rb;
private bool isGrounded;

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

void Update()
{
    HandleMovement();

    // Jump with space key if grounded
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) && isGrounded)
    {
        Jump();
    }
}

void HandleMovement()
{
    float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Vertical"); // Switched W and S
    float verticalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal"); // Switched A and D

    // Calculate movement direction
    Vector3 movement = new Vector3(horizontalInput, 0, verticalInput).normalized;

    // Apply movement
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(movement.x * movementSpeed, rb.velocity.y, movement.z * movementSpeed);
}

void Jump()
{
    rb.velocity = new Vector3(rb.velocity.x, jumpForce, rb.velocity.z);
    isGrounded = false; // Set to false when jumping
}

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
    // Check if the player is touching a surface
    float slopeAngle = Vector3.Angle(Vector3.up, collision.contacts[0].normal);
    if (slopeAngle <= 45f)
    {
        isGrounded = true; // Set to true when landing on a surface with a slope angle less than or equal to 45 degrees
    }
}

void OnCollisionExit(Collision collision)
{
    isGrounded = false; // Set to false when leaving the ground or a surface with a slope angle less than or equal to 45 degrees
}

}

whats wrong with this code. everythings working fine except "a" key makes the object go right and "d" key makes it go left. while it should be the opposite

[timber tide]

!code

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[lavish gate]

was tryna find that

[lavish gate]

what does Input.GetAxis(Horizontal) return?

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, wait, yeah, sure, I was thinking that I have a CollisionEnter on the proyectile, and It would really know when it is leaving one collider and entering another, I should just have the onTriggerEnter on the enemy collider and then call back to the proyectile to keep track of how many times it has pierced something

[timid saffron]

horizsontal?

-1 and 1

[lavish gate]

Yes, thats a step in the right direction.

in unity -1 on the x axis is left and 1 on the x axis is right

[timid saffron]

oh okay then

i just started unity

thanks

[lavish gate]

Thats okay

So if you flip the -1 and 1, you go in different directions

[frigid sequoia]

It gets the Horizontal Axis (whatever is assingned to it on the Unity editor, usually AD or left and right arrows) and returns a float from -1 to 1; -1 is left, 0 is no input and 1 is right

[lavish gate]

Am aware i was just helping the guy

[timber tide]

I'm usually just casting the stuff myself via overlapsphere, but I may reimplement the triggers eventually if my projectiles continue to have problems at higher speeds. Ideally you want some hashset on the projectile itself so it knows that it has already previously hit an enemy. This way you won't run into issues where an enemy is hit multiple times from a single ability when you don't want it to. And, the projectile itself is what's keeping count of the pierces. The enemies shouldn't need to do any callbacks to the projectile, nor do they need to know about it as any damage applied will be done through a method on the projectile itself.

such that the projectile will be the one accessing the HealthProperty on the enemy, or any method you've got for that on the entities.

Also, you can consider putting a reference of who cast the projectile or any stat related info if there needs to be more calculations done when the projectile collides onto the projectile itself

[frigid sequoia]

The enemy would just have something like OnTriggerEnter (collision other) other.numberOfPiercesDone ++;

Cause as I said I think the proyectile would get really confused if the enemies are way to close, considering that it just entered the collider once, since it never left one if two or more colliders are specially close to each other

[deep grove]

bro i don't understand at all, simple code not working : i want to play an animation when a trigger is hit , made the animation made the trigger , made the code , why is't it working please help

[timber tide]

Perhaps, but it shouldnt be confused if it's actively appending to a hashset since it can always compare references of those hit and not hit, so getting similar colliders shouldnt be a problem.

if for some reason you get 3 colliders in a frame, you still decrement the counter for each enemy hit and destroy it when 0, and you can even compare distances if you want to order by that.

[lavish gate]

do you know if the collision is working?

[frigid sequoia]

I think that stuff that can hit multiple stuff in a single frame consistently should have a different version of the script entirely

[timber tide]

I actually keep the hashset for when I want to hit stuff multiple times too

but instead of checking if I hit something previously, I add previous hit time to each enemy entry

[frigid sequoia]

It happenned to me that I was detecting for collision with "player", when "player" was just a emptyobject and I should be searching for "player capsule"

[timber tide]

so I can add a cooldown of say 0.3 seconds so they can be affected multiple times over the duration without instant exploding

[frigid sequoia]

So you have like... a timer for each proyectile for each enemy or...?

[polar acorn]

Try logging other inside the function, outside the if. See if you collide with anything at all, and if you do, what that object is. See if that object has the tag Player

[timber tide]

protected Dictionary<Guid, float> entitiesHit = new();```

Actually I used a dict

lol

[swift crag]

in essence, yes

[frigid sequoia]

Also we are not seeing what trigger ant animation here, have you tried to make "PlayText" true manually on the inspector to see if it works?

[swift crag]

for each thing you can hit, you remember the last time you hit it

[timber tide]

I had a hashset, but I think once I needed previous time I needed dict

[swift crag]

A dictionary is appropriate when you have a problem shaped like:

"I need to remember an X for each Y"

[timber tide]

GUID over reference because sometimes the enemy can dequeue

and still be part of the list

[swift crag]

"dequeue"?

[timber tide]

from the object pool

[swift crag]

that is not relevant right now, I don't think

[timber tide]

oh yeah Im just saying why I use GUID over reference

because I ran into that problem

[swift crag]

unless daleo happens to also have an object pool system that assigns guids to objects as they're allocated out of the pool

[frigid sequoia]

Literally the first time I have heard about a Dictionary here

[swift crag]

that is reasonable though

let's not make things more complex than necessary, though :p

[timber tide]

No so much a timer needed, just a previous time hit to compare to

[frigid sequoia]

I just wanted to do a simple shoothing arcadey game where you kill guys, game some basic powerups (like shoot speed, cadence, damage, number of shoots, bounces...) along the way and more enemies spawn until you eventually lose

[deep grove]

animation works so it's not that

[swift crag]

private Dictionary<Enemy, float> hitTimes = new();

void OnTriggerEnter(Collider collider) {
  if (!collider.TryGetComponent(out Enemy enemy)) // give up if we didn't hit an Enemy
    return;

  if (hitTimes.TryGet(enemy, out float time)) // if we saw the Enemy before, get the time we hit them
    if (time + 0.25f > Time.time) // if we hit them less than 0.25 seconds ago...
      return; // give up

  hitTimes[enemy] = Time.time; // remember the current time
  enemy.Damage();
}

Here is how I might do this.

[frigid sequoia]

I am still learning not really sure how hard that can be though

[timber tide]

Dictionaries are good to learn

[swift crag]

A dictionary stores keys and values.

Each key is associated with a value.

here, the key is Enemy and the value is float

TryGet lets me ask the dictionary if it has a certain key

If it does, I get the value

[swift crag]

List and Dictionary are the two big data structures to know about, yeah

use List if you just want to store a bunch of things
use Dictionary if you want to store a bunch of pairs of things

imagine a shopping list vs. ... well, a literal dictionary

[deep grove]

the only thing tagged player is the main one nothing else

[swift crag]

with a shopping list, I can remember a bunch of things

with a dictionary, I can look up the meaning of a word

[polar acorn]

Try logging other inside the function, outside the if. See if you collide with anything at all, and if you do, what that object is. See if that object has the tag Player

[swift crag]

this is not a server to ask for support with games you're playing

this is for Unity development

[frigid sequoia]

But... the Dictionary thingy, is meant to be just like a general script such as a GameManager that just always stays on or it is meant to be on a specific object?

[timid saffron]

whats the key in unity to bring object to geometry?

[swift crag]

It is not a "script". It is also not a Unity component.

[frigid sequoia]

Cause I was gonna do that initially, not sure how that effects performance though

[swift crag]

It's just a kind of object you can have.

But if you're asking where the dictionary should be, it sounds like it should be on each projectile

[gaunt ice]

i wonder what the use cases of sorted set are (though i still dont know how to code tree rotation, i remember it rotates based depth)

[polar acorn]

Okay then show your unity project and what is producing the error

[swift crag]

since each projectile needs to remember how long it's been since it hit each enemy

[upbeat stream]

pretty sick if he's getting unity errors in an unreal engine game

[ivory bobcat]

This is a game development server. You should probably send your question to the dev rather than this game development server.

[swift crag]

that's an unreal engine game

so, wrong server, wrong engine

[frigid sequoia]

Maybe I am wrong, but, wouldn't I be able to do the same without the Dictionary just using the same script but only when proyectile colliders with an enemy? I am not really seeing the use rn

[polar acorn]

No, show your unity project that you are developing because that's what this server is for

[swift crag]

What are you trying to make your game do?

I want to make sure we're on the same page here.

[polar acorn]

Then why did you come to a server about unity game development

[swift crag]

OK

[frigid sequoia]

Dunno, just the expected stuff, proyectiles that hit once, that might be able to pierce/bounce, that may be able to hit multiple times (such a some short of laser or AoE). When something hit, keep track of what hit, what did it hit and what should it do

Like... I dunno, the basics on proyectile based game no?

[swift crag]

When something hit, keep track of what hit, what did it hit and what should it do

Do you mean that you need each projectile to remember every single thing it has hit?

[ruby python]

Wait......wtf just happened? lol.

[swift crag]

Or do you just mean you want piercing projectiles to pierce a limited number of enemies?

If you need to be able to remember a value for each enemy you hit, you need a list or dictionary.

[polar acorn]

<@&502884371011731486> banned from the server any% WR

[swift crag]

a list if you don't care which enemy is which; a dictionary if you do

[ivory bobcat]

He's already left but yeah

[frosty hound]

!ban 1081022170920132658 Trash

[eternal falcon]

82hundred was banned.

[swift crag]

some examples:

• Remembering how many enemies you've hit: Use an int variable
• Remembering how much damage you've done: Use a float variable
• Tracking which enemies you've hit so you don't hit them twice: Use a List<Enemy>
• Remembering how many times you've hit each enemy: Use a Dictionary<Enemy, int>

(yes, HashSet is better for point 3; keeping it simple right now)

🤫

[timber tide]

Hashset is good if you just want to know what was hit if you dont need a value

but once you add the requirement of time then you need the dict

[deep grove]

did that , still doesn't play animation, the trigger works, the animation...

[timber tide]

Hashset over list in this case, especially with a lot of enemies

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for the object "Collider"

[frigid sequoia]

Nah, I think I just need to do "this enemy was already hit for this collision, apply the stuff to it just once"; I don't think I need to remember any specifics for what I want to do

[swift crag]

Okay. Sounds like case 3, then.

You want to remember which enemies you've already hit, so that if the trigger goes off again, they aren't hit again.

That's simpler than case 4, where you're trying to remember a value for each enemy

[swift crag]

as Mao suggested, the best option here is HashSet<Enemy>. A hash set doesn't care about order and can't have duplicates.

It's also usually faster to check if something is in a hash set than in a list

It's a good conceptual fit.

List<Enemy> is mandatory if you care about the order of the enemies in the list or want to be able to store the same enemy many times

so, when you hit something, you will check if it is in the set. if it is, you return immediately

if not, you add it to the set and do damage

[frigid sequoia]

I don't want the enemy to not be able to be hit again, like I mean, if it was hit once, the bullet pashed through and somehow hit them again, I want then to take damage, what I don't want is for them to take damage from it each frame they are colliding; what I am trying to do I think is the simplest case scenario

[swift crag]

Okay, I see.

I see two ways to do that.

wait, no, I see just one way to do that. i misread (:

and that way is pretty simple: just only do damage in OnTriggerEnter

That will only fire the first instant the colliders overlap.

[frigid sequoia]

Yep, that's what I was thinking of

[swift crag]

If you need to know which enemies are being overlapped, you could store a set. Add enemies to it when you enter, remove when you exit.

I was about to suggest that, but it'd be pointless here

you already know when you start overlapping!

[ruby python]

If I'm understanding correctly, easiest way I know of to do that is to have a boolean 'flag' like "has been hit", if false do hit stuff, then set to true, if true don't do hit stuff?

On the actual enemy itself.

[timber tide]

Yeah, but my argument to that is that there is scenarios where the enemy can move back into the projectile if quick enough, or if the projectile is slow enough

[frigid sequoia]

I could do constant fire weapons like a laser of something of the sort to just activate and deactivate their collision on a timer instead of placing a CD on the enemy and that would work?

[swift crag]

that's a game design question

[timber tide]

Like, there needs to be a little more logic than simply OnTriggerEnter

[swift crag]

should there be a cooldown or not

[swift crag]

Constant-damage weapons would do damage in OnTriggerStay as well

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector for the object "Collider"

[timber tide]

Another argument about OnTriggerStay is that you can move in and out of the Stay area

;)

Does it apply damage at first tick? Or a duration>?

or do you keep track of the duration ect

[deep grove]

am i dumb, isn't that the collider

[swift crag]

what are you logging, exactly?

show us the line of code.

[deep grove]

just a cube, to test this simple code , 2 hours later same problem

[polar acorn]

Well, your log is saying you've collided with something name "Collider", so show that

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I mean like it deals damage to the enemy when the enemy OnTriggerEnter detects it is colliding with the laser, then the laser itself has a timer, so it deactivates for X time and then it activates again for brief time, triggering another OnTriggerEnter if I am not mistaken; that should work exactly like an internal timer on the enemy to able to take damage again right?

[swift crag]

That would also work, yes, but it feels more awkward than just dealing damage as long as the laser overlaps the enemy.

But it's perfectly valid.

especially if you're modeling the laser as a beam that flickers on and off rapidly

[deep grove]

that is just what i named it as in the log , want me to name it cube , same thing , it's a big ass cube

[swift crag]

Show the code. I can't guess what you wrote.

It sounds to me like you aren't logging what digi asked you to log.

[polar acorn]

So you didn't do what I asked and log the object you collided with, you just wrote the word "Collider" like that would help at all

[swift crag]

oh, you are, good!

[polar acorn]

No, nevermind you did do what I asked

Now show the inspector for the object "Collider"

[swift crag]

the Box Collider component in the inspector is not a game object

game objects are those things in the Hierarchy panel.

you are hitting a game object named "Collider"

[quick pollen]

How can I turn a Vector3 into a quaternion?

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah seems kinda weird, but I though it might put less procesing stress on the game, since it is counting just one timer isntead of one for every enemy

[swift crag]

what does this vector3 represent?

Euler angles? The direction you are looking?

[ivory bobcat]

Quaternion Euler

[quick pollen]

the direction in which an object is meant to move

[swift crag]

Okay, you want a look rotation

Quaternion.LookRotation()

[frigid sequoia]

Know nothing about optimization really, so, I have no fucking idea though XD

[swift crag]

Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.forward) produces a zero-rotation

Quaternion.LookRotation(Vector3.right) is a 90 degree rotation to the right

[quick pollen]

oh yeah, forgot

thanks!

[swift crag]

hey that reminds me though

LookRotation gives you a rotation that makes your forward vector point a certain way

but what if I want my right/up vectors to point a certain way?

I usually just do transform.right = ... if I need that

(oh yeah, Alfy, you can do transform.forward = lookDirection to rotate it, too)

[polar acorn]

Then you'd need to do math and figure out which way your forward would be pointing if your right/up were pointing that way

[swift crag]

but suppose I need a rotation

[swift crag]

fair enough :p

[polar acorn]

If you need to do this a lot, it's easy enough to come up with an extension method that does that

[swift crag]

Maybe a FromToRotation would be appropriate

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.FromToRotation.html

Usually you use this to rotate a transform so that one of its axes eg. the y-axis - follows a target direction toDirection in world space.

That does some relevant.

might need to correct the roll afterwards

[polar acorn]

Yeah, I think that'd actually be the mathless way to do it

[brave compass]

transform.forward and up setters use FromToRotation.

[quick pollen]

whoops

probably shouldnt set the dir to 0

[timber tide]

There's no timer in the dictionary method, it's just values which you previously compare to. It's honestly not that taxing and is very standard because if you dont add any internal cooldown then you're opening up to scenarios where something can be hit as soon as the next frame.

[swift crag]

ah, there you go (:

[swift crag]

I would be mostly concerned about all the garbage being generated

if every bullet has a dictionary on it, that's gonna take up a little memory for every bullet

and that has to get cleaned up later

Still, I doubt it's going to be what ruins your game's performance.

[timber tide]

gc is the problem yeah (this why object pooling and non-alloc containers is ideal)

[frigid sequoia]

I would revisit dictionaries if I need to in the future, since you both gave pretty good explanation of it, but I don't think I am really needing them right nos

[timber tide]

but you can say that for a lot of other similar methods like getting colliders

[swift crag]

Another thing to think about is where you store your data

imagine you want each bullet to die after 5 seconds

you could:

• give each bullet a float variable
• store a single Dictionary<Bullet, float> somewhere

just food for thought 🙂

[deep grove]

ok now it's says collided with cube, i put the script on the collider instead of the car, was that what i needed to do or ...
i'm new btw, first project and i already want to quit

object was the car ,

[swift crag]

Are you following a tutorial right now?

It can be very overwhelming when you're just starting and have lots of ways to mess something up.

[deep grove]

yhea , simple plain tutorial , even i can understand

want me to send?

[swift crag]

If you are, then you need to pay very close attention to what's being done

Putting components on the wrong object will break your game

if you have a component that makes you take damage when you get hit by a bullet, putting it on the bullet wouldn't work very well..

[deep grove]

so, the video is 9 minutes and i have almost 3 hours of this , no progres

[hybrid plover]

Hey ! I would like to know if someone know a good Block/Parry system tutorial for a 2D Metroidvania game somewhere ?

[swift crag]

!learn has some good beginner content that doesn't require you to follow a single long video

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[swift crag]

I find it kind of exhausting to follow along with long code tutorial videos

I get lost and miss things.

[deep grove]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS4k_lwmZHk&list=LL&index=4&t=204s

just 9 minutes 1 code , and it doesn't work for me

[swift crag]

this feels like a weird topic to make a tutorial about

it's two separate ideas that, once you understand both, are very easy to connect

i guess that's how video tutorials go, though...

[deep grove]

i mean he made his video, got his views made money,

[quick pollen]

what I suggest is whenever the player uses a parry, it creates an invisible hitbox in front of it, and anything caught inside that hitbox gets parried

[swift crag]

the two topics being:

• Detecting when a trigger event happens
• Making an animator switch states

It sounds like you're having problems with the first part right now.

[deep grove]

is there anything i missed to show that could help you, help me

[hybrid plover]

yeah thats what i was thinking about, if there is no tutorial ima create it by myself😼

[swift crag]

It sounds like you had the component on the wrong object.

Lemme make a thread.

[quick pollen]

i did it myself too

I'm also sending this because there's seems to be some weird problem with the green projectiles' movement, but I can't figure out what

like can yall see it?

        if (parriable || other.CompareTag("Shield") && !stuck)
        {
            SetVelocity(moveSpeed, new Vector3(-moveDir.x, moveDir.y, -moveDir.z));
            transform.gameObject.layer = 11;
            transform.gameObject.tag = "FProjectile";
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(new Vector3(-moveDir.x, moveDir.y, -moveDir.z));
        }```
This is what I do to reflect the projectiles

"Shield" is the tag of the hitbox of the shield

I have a parriable flag that can be set on projectiles

and I added a stuck flag which gets turned true or false whenever the object collides with something and hence stops

[swift crag]

I implemented blocking similarly to hurtboxes

if an attacking hitbox hits a blockbox, the attack ends

It was kind of fiddly, though..mostly because my animations were bad

(this was for a soulslike)

[quick pollen]

can you check what's happening at 0:14 seconds in the vid?

[swift crag]

I didn't do projectile parrying, so that's probably not relevant

[quick pollen]

it doesn't look normal

[quick pollen]

gonna need that too lol

[swift crag]

(that's just a special attack that does mega-damage if it hits a hurtbox while the enemy is attacking)

[quick pollen]

thats basically what I thought of

[swift crag]

For parrying projectiles, I guess I'd create a large "parrybox" that reflects any projectiles that hit it

[quick pollen]

it feels like at 0:14 once the projectile gets reflected it starts moving in a very jittery way

[quick pollen]

yup have that

[swift crag]

It seems fine on my end. Maybe turn off camera shake and all the other projectiles

[quick pollen]

its just a gameobject with a box collider and the Shield tag

[swift crag]

that'll make it easier to see what's happening

[quick pollen]

true

i can just create a pattern

all about these ones

@swift crag

is it just me, or do some of the projectiles just go into the ground when they are meant to get stuck in it?

also they STILL don't rotate where they're meant to rotate once they get hit

[slate gale]

looks like your arrows are moved back somewhere once they hit the ground, correct

[quick pollen]

I literally have transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(new Vector3(-moveDir.x, moveDir.y, -moveDir.z)); to make sure that the projectiles get rotated whenever they get reflected

[slate gale]

what is the origin of your arrows

transform origin

it'll rotate them around the origin

if your origin is far away from the actual arrow model, itll look funky

[quick pollen]

seems fine to me

but why tf does setting the rotate do nothing

and now they sometimes just go through the hitbox of the enemy. great.

[slate gale]

i assume that code line is directly on this spear and not on some parent object, right?

[quick pollen]

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.CompareTag("Player") && !isBeam && hitCooldown <= 0f)
        {
            other.GetComponent<HitScript>().TakeHit();
            hitCooldown = 1f;
            if (sticks)
            {
                transform.parent = other.transform;
                SetVelocity(0f, moveDir);
                stuck = true;
            }

        }
        if ((parriable || other.CompareTag("Shield")) && !stuck)
        {
            SetVelocity(moveSpeed, new Vector3(-moveDir.x, moveDir.y, -moveDir.z));
            transform.gameObject.layer = 11;
            transform.gameObject.tag = "FProjectile";
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(new Vector3(-moveDir.x, moveDir.y, -moveDir.z));
        }
        if (other.CompareTag("Enemy") && sticks)
        {
            stuck = true;
            transform.parent = other.transform;
            SetVelocity(0f, moveDir);
        }
        if (other.CompareTag("Ground") && sticks)
            SetVelocity(0f, moveDir);
    }```

[quick pollen]

the spear is the parent object

[swift crag]

do they have rigidbodies on them?

if so, you need to set the rotation on the rigidbody component

[quick pollen]

they dont have rigidbodies

wait no

they do

[quick pollen]

why

thats so weird

[swift crag]

same reason you shouldn't mess with transform.position for something with a rigidbody on it

the rigidbody is keeping track of its rotation and angular momenutm

And if you have Interpolate turned on, it's also constantly updating the position and rotation of the Transform every frame

[slate gale]

it'll interfere yea

[polar acorn]

Why is it weird to set the rotation on the component responsible for rotating the object

[swift crag]

So it'll clobber the rotation immediately

[quick pollen]

i used rb.rotation =

also how is this not a hit

[timber tide]

continous collision checking

click it

[quick pollen]

it already is

I had to do it because it couldn't detect hitting the player

[timber tide]

next -> increase radius

otherwise may need to implement some custom checking logic

[quick pollen]

wh???

notice how the projectiles get sent backwards

but when they collide with the enemy, they get rotated

[timber tide]

are they being child to the enemy

because then they get the local rotation applied

[quick pollen]

oh

when they get hit I do parent them

omg

i might be stupid

hold on

[timber tide]

I think there's some extra parameters using set parent to update it

but knowing me I'd just calculate for the heck fo it lel

also, if you are using transform methods with rb then the continuous checking probably wont work too well

[quick pollen]

I fixed it almost

it gets reversed when it hits the enemy

did it!

@timber tide yeah so the problem was

whenever I set the velocity of the projectile to be reversed

I didn't multiply the speed by -1

I multiplied the movement direction by -1

but then when I went to rotate it

I did the exact same thing

and used the new movement direction, which is reversed

and reversed it again

and yknow

x * (-1) * (-1) = x

im stupid

thanks for the help @timber tide and @swift crag :)

I'll figure out how to make it so u can actually control which way the projectile gets reflected later

rn it helped with debugging

I also have a problem with the particle systems suddenly disappearing whenever the projectile disappears, but ill figure that out later

[warm anvil]

Good morning. Hope everyone's day is going great. Sanity question but I think I know the answer. I have a rule tile which operates so far correctly for dirt but I've added ore into my game and I'm getting this appearance now. Does a rule tile work its logic off of only tiles included in the rule tile or does it perceive any tiles that are placed on the tilemap however they were placed on it?

I'll give a picture to help illustrate

the code that places the dirt or the ores is as follows:

                    var t = oreTable.GetRandomItem();
                    if (t.id == 0)
                        groundTileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), groundTile);
                    else
                        groundTileMap.SetTile(new Vector3Int(x, y, 0), t.tile);

groundTile is my ruleTile (aka place a dirt block and make it look correct based on surrounding tiles [if there or not]

my ruleTile seems correct so it kinda leads me to believe that the ruleTile isn't seeing there's a placed tile above

[devout swift]

Hello, is there a way to make when my character is on the wall, it would fall down even though I'm holding the direction button? unity2D
I'm using RigidBody to move my character. RigidBody2D.Velocity.

But when I use transform.position, it does fall. But the Animation is kind of stuttery

[frail star]

What's the best way to get something to happen over a period of time? Like in my case I have a float of 1 and I Want that to go to 0 in 5 minutes

[polar acorn]

Coroutines

[ivory bobcat]

Put it in update and move it towards zero scaled by your duration

[frail star]

Would decrementing by a smaller float work best or calculate time like 1*(5/60)...

[warm anvil]

this may help you too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvmfoRnarY

[ivory bobcat]

But assuming it's more complex than that.. you could opt for a coroutine.

[frail star]

Pffft , I didn't even think about that dang rookie mistake

[warm anvil]

if I'm reading correctly the situation is that your character is sticking to the side of a wall?

if so, add a material to your Rigidbody [2D possibly] and adjust the material's Friction to zero, call the material Slippy if you want

[devout swift]

Yes, If I keep pushing the direction key while in the air, it just sticks.

[devout swift]

What's a material?

[warm anvil]

if you're working in 2D, in your Assets hierarchy right click in a folder and choose Create/2D/Physics Material 2D

[devout swift]

Oh okay thanks. I'll try it.

[warm anvil]

change the Friction to 0 and click drag on your character, it will apply it to the Rigidbody 2D component

[devout swift]

Thanks! It works now. I didn't know about physics material and stuff. Thank you very much. I have been figuring this for the past three hours now.

Chatgpt won't tell me about this stuff. Good thing I asked.

[queen adder]

Hey guys, I'm using Navmesh to make npcs wander on a 2d Top Down game I'm making. I made a list of waypoint game objects that an npc could go to but for some reason all the npcs are choosing to walk into the upper top left corner of my map. Changing their waypoint makes them go to the waypoint I picked out so I don't understand why they don't go to the randomly picked one like they should. They aren't even going to a "wrong" waypoint, they're just choosing to walk into the corner.

[swift crag]

well, we'll need to see some code

[devout swift]

Hello there again, how do I fix this?
I tried changing PixelPerUnit

there is a line on top of my character

[swift crag]

(replying to Dayvon here)

[swift crag]

i'm guessing the corner is close to [0,0,0]

make sure you're actually picking a waypoint and not just using a default value

[warm anvil]

no problem, i've been in that same situation plenty 🙂

[rich ember]

Quick question

if I wanted to store gameObject.GetComponent<SomeComponent>() in a variable so I could call that path easier would I store that in a Component object?

[swift crag]

you should use the specific type of the component

in this case, SomeComponent

you can indeed store it in a Component variable, but I imagine you want to use the features of SomeComponent here

[rich ember]

OHHH

ok

[swift crag]

you could also store it in a UnityEngine.Object or even an object field!

but those would be even less specific and less useful

[rich ember]

so it is a PlayerMovementScript.

so I would do private PlayerMovementScript player;

easy enough

Just making sure though. If I call methods in that script I would be calling methods from the script location where I get component and not a new right? as long as I don't use the new keyword?

[swift crag]

Right.

[swift crag]

I wouldn't say you call it from "the script location"

But you're definitely calling the method on the same object as you originally got with GetComponent

[rich ember]

Ok yea. that is what i mean sorry lol

[swift crag]

if GetComponent returned the player's PlayerMovementScript, then you'll be able to keep that reference

[rich ember]

Ok sweet.

Thanks bro 🙂

[swift crag]

np!

storing these things in fields instead of constantly searching for them is a good idea

[rich ember]

yea I am tired of typing getcomponent XD especially because I keep typing getcompoent or compnent XD I can't for the life of me type it right the first time

[swift crag]

also, instead of referencing prefabs as a plain GameObject, you can reference them with a specific component type

[small mantle]

I have bought a C# microsoft.net book. I am wondering if it's still relevant today, and if learning from it is still useful. It was published around 2002 to 2003.

[swift crag]

any component that's on the root of the game object

[polar acorn]

It won't be irrelevant but it'll almost certainly be incomplete

Basic concepts like loops, referencing, etc. aren't going to change much. But that old and you are probably missing stuff like Linq and other libraries included over the years

[amber nimbus]

Hello, I right now have a problem where I have hurtboxes all set up and they work. But although the triggers are bigger then the colliders on the object it most the time the trigger does not register and the collider eats the projectile. How can I fix this?

[timber tide]

Are you using multiple triggers or something? However you are killing the projectiles should be registering how that hit is handled too

[amber nimbus]

I have actual colliders(for objects collision) and triggers(different part, different damage)

[warm condor]

Hey, does anyone know why the animation is playing twice when going from any action to crouching and when going from crouching to any action? I have only two instances in the code that allows this animation to be played, when the down key button is being pressed, the peramiter in the animator "holdingTheDownKey" is being pressed, and when it is not being pressed, this peramiter turns false. What is the problem?

[timber tide]

So, what's destroying the projectiles

[amber nimbus]

the collision collider

and the triggers dont react event though they are bigger than the colliders

[timber tide]

The projectiles have IsTrigger selected, right

[pallid verge]

is there a method which is activated before the project starts no matter on which gameobject it is on, something like Awake but not for the specific object

[timber tide]

You can do either honestly if you're letting projectiles be affected by collision, but they shouldn't be destroyed through your collisional method if you want the trigger methods to handle it

[timber tide]

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

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RuntimeInitializeLoadType.BeforeSplashScreen.html
That too so you can preload before the splash ;p

[pallid verge]

do i need to type using ... to use the methods?

cuz i cant seem to find them ;p

[slender nymph]

those attributes are right in the UnityEngine namespace

[timber tide]

They're attributes which you can plop onto any method. It's some reflection stuff

[pallid verge]

what does that mean

[slender nymph]

there are examples of how to use the attribute on the doc page

[pallid verge]

so would this work?

[limpid shoal]

Hi, I just started learning how to code (like 1-2 days ago) and I have a major problem with my programming journey. So basically I wanted to implement a script in the update or in a different void (Idk how this works) that when I click the "red" button that will gonna send a broadcast to the another script and enable the void and then cube will turn red. I tried for the couple of hours trying to understand how to make this work but I made no progress at all. So could someone please assist me with that? Thank you!

I honestly dont know how it works so idk if it may be possible

[slender nymph]

you need to get your !IDE configured

[eternal falcon]

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[warm condor]

Can someone help me here please. #💻┃code-beginner message

[timber tide]

what's the underline telling ya

[polar acorn]

Where are you calling the Red() function

[pallid verge]

i gotta make my method static but fuck that cuz it dont work no more

[ancient island]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfdCke3684
you can watch this tutorial, it'll teach you how to use buttons in general so you can adjust it to your needs

[timber tide]

oh yeah you need static

[pallid verge]

im gonna figure out something else

[slender nymph]

no because instances of this object (as well as your other objects like your AudioManager) will not exist before the splash screen runs.
also the method needs to be static

[pallid verge]

so basically i gotta make everything in this method load before the splash screen

[slender nymph]

why do you need this to happen before the splash screen? why can this not be applied in Awake?

[polar acorn]

If it's changing values of an instance of something, then no you don't. Changing the values of an instance before it exists just doesn't make sense, and before the splash screen, no objects could possibly exist

[timber tide]

Yeah, if it's singleton stuff then awake would be the idea here since it'll load up as soon as the scene loads. Actually, you'd want start if you're relying on audio manager singleton, otherwise may need some custom execution ordering or method call after instantiation.

[polar acorn]

Your speed seems to be dependent on the distance to the player. You should probably normalize that direction vector

[warm anvil]

I'm using a ruleTile, is there a way to have the ruleTile adjust if it finds any tile is found (aka not one part of the ruleTile rules?

[smoky niche]

Hey there, I made a state machine for my player and it works well, but it has one weird issue. So in the Awake() I set my currentState to an initialState so it's not null. After doing that, the currentState still returns null for some reason. However, the code for all my states do work. Even I switch between them on runtime, the currentState still returns null while debugging. It doesnt give any compiler errors. Any idea what might cause this? I added the code below.

` private BaseState currentState;
[HideInInspector] public Movement movementState;
[HideInInspector] public Climbing climbingState;
[HideInInspector] public WallSliding wallSlidingState;

private void Awake()
{
    movementState = new Movement(this);
    climbingState = new Climbing(this);
    wallSlidingState = new WallSliding(this);

    currentState = GetInitialState();
}

private BaseState GetInitialState()
{
return movementState;
}`

[slender nymph]

where is it returning null

[smoky niche]

Whenever I debug.log it, it says it's null

[broken hill]

Hey yall where can i install the UnityEvents assets?

[slender nymph]

you do realize i asked because i would like for you to be specific. you are not showing anything that would cause it to be null

[slender nymph]

what assets are you referring to? 🤔

[rich adder]

you don't...its part of the engine already

[broken hill]

well then im confused why my code isnt working, its saying i dont have access to those assets

[rich adder]

what is? show

As long as You're using the correct namespace it should work fine

[slender nymph]

share the code and the error

[rich adder]

yup namespace

[slender nymph]

make sure that your !IDE is configured. then you can use the quick actions to add the correct using directive

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[rich adder]

is your IDE conigured? it should give you suggesttions

[rich adder]

configure your ide @broken hill

[slender nymph]

there is no namespace just called UnityEvents

[smoky niche]

private void FixedUpdate() { currentState.UpdatePhysics(baseStrategy); print(currentState); }

When I print it, it says the currentState is null even though I assigned it the GetInitialState() method which gives it a value

[slender nymph]

!code

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[slender nymph]

and if it is printing null then whatever UpdatePhysics is doing is making it null somehow since it isn't throwing an NRE and preventing the log from printing

[broken hill]

whats that and how do i do it?

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

You were linked to it

[broken hill]

so i just click visual studio and it does it for me?

[rich adder]

no mate, its very simple instructions to follow

[vocal fable]

can somebody help me? i have a working jump function but before it actually jump i have to press space lot of times before it actually jumps https://hastebin.com/share/oyuyicaloj.csharp

[rich adder]

dont do inputs in FixedUpdate

[slender nymph]

don't use GetKeyDown inside of FixedUpdate. GetKeyDown only returns true the first frame the key is pressed which is unlikely to be a FixedUpdate frame

[vocal fable]

ok

[queen adder]

Is it a 2D game void?

[vocal fable]

no

[vocal fable]

thanks, i put the if statement in update and it worked tysm

[broken hill]

okay trying to set up IDE and it only shows microsoft Visual studio 2019 as an option

[slender nymph]

is that the code editor you are using?

[warm anvil]

Sorry for repeating

I'm using a ruleTile, is there a way to have the ruleTile adjust if it finds any tile is found (aka not one part of the ruleTile rules? i can share code and picture of what's occurring if needed. Thanks!

[broken hill]

yes i think so

[slender nymph]

then why is it an issue that it is the only one listed? it only shows editors you have installed

[weary summit]

Is it best if i just create an enemy AI with FSMs because im having a hard time with enumerators and coroutines. For example I don't know how I can stop a patrolling coroutine for the AI to be able to chase the player and then when the player goes out of sight, the AI goes back to patrolling

[broken hill]

because thats not what the tutorial shows nevermind i'll figure it out myself.

[weary summit]

is it easier if I just use FSMs?

[rich adder]

just stop the coroutine