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[rich adder]

and yeah FSM is fine

[slender nymph]

again, it only shows the editors you actually have installed. if you are using Visual Studio 2019 then you should be following the instructions for visual studio and not visual studio code.
there is absolutely no issue with it only showing the editor you actually have installed

[weary summit]

I use the StopAllCoroutines method but the ai seems to be chasing the player but at the same time following the path of its patrolling waypoints, it doesnt chase in a straight line

[rich adder]

what does the doesnt chase in straight line have to do with corouitne

but if you want to clean up your behavior def go with FSM

you still should learn how to manage coroutines properly

[weary summit]

then i will just go ahead with fsm because coroutines are giving me a headache

[weary summit]

I want to but I am still a complete beginner

[rich adder]

There is nothing diffcult about them

its just a method, the only thing you have to keep in mind is that every StartCoroutine creates a new coroutine regardless of how many are running

[weary summit]

youtube tutorials do help but they arent really complete but I will still search

[weary summit]

can you clarify a bit more if that wont bother you?

[polar acorn]

If you call StartCoroutine(SomeRoutine) and then immediately call StartCoroutine(SomeRoutine) the line after, there are now two coroutines running that have absolutely nothing to do with each other

It will not stop the previous one and restart it

[weary summit]

oh I see now

[rich adder]

Ideally you would store it in a Coroutine
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Coroutine.html
(the docs is a bit unclear on how because it uses IEnumrator variable 🙄 )

or put a bool

[weary summit]

exactly, thats why I came to ask here

[slender nymph]

vertx's site to the rescue with better documentation for StopCoroutine https://unity.huh.how/coroutines/stopcoroutine

[weary summit]

anyways thank you people, I will continue to try to get a hang of them but I will also use state machines for my AI because ive been trying different things for 3 days and I dont think its that hard to make an AI

[slender nymph]

state machines and coroutines are not mutually exclusive. in fact you can think of a coroutine as individual state machines

[weary summit]

Ok I will give it a read

[weary summit]

I will look into it, hopefully I can pull off an AI thats better than Redfall's AI

because I definitely havent seen worse

[amber nimbus]

I dont know if u care, but in case you do the projectile was too fast for the trigger to register. So all I did is use an OverlapSphere to check for all triggers hit when it got destroyed by the the actual Collider

[ancient island]

hey guys, can someone please help me find where is the setting to mask 2d trail renderers? i need to set it to 'visible inside mask' but I cant find the option in the inspector

[neon fractal]

not enough information to understand what's wrong, you probably don't have the conditions for it to NOT switch back

[slate gale]

obviously bcs the tutorial person has other IDE's installed, is my guess

The Red Class needs a reference to whatever class that Red function (the 'void' is in).

There's different ways to go about it, but easiest is probably to make a SerializeField in your class:

// (top of your script)
[SerializeField] ThatClassNameWithTheRedMethod colorChanger;

private void Start() {
  // Your stuff...
}

private void Update() {
  // Execute the 'Red()' method inside the specified instance of the class that contains the method, from this script.
  colorChanger.Red();
}

Now you can drag and drop any object carrying the class containing the 'Red()' method, in the editor, when selecting the object carrying the class above ^.

In your other class, make sure the 'Red()' method is set to 'public'!

public void Red() {

}

If you don't want to have the class containing the method to be on an object, look into static classes or methods in C# and Unity.

[warm condor]

this is the only code that changes the peramater

        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.S)){
            playerAnimator.SetBool("holdingTheDownKey", true);
        }
        else{
            playerAnimator.SetBool("holdingTheDownKey", false);
        }
    }```

[neon fractal]

you probably have something wrong with the arrows that indicate which animation will be turned on, that is

Anim A --> Anim B
Anim B <-- Anim A
Anim A --> Anim B
...

[warm condor]

no that is not it, it has only one arrow pointing at it. Is it maybe because of the animation being too short, or maybe because of a setting in the arrow?

[gusty hazel]

can prefabs mess with movement that works like this

``` step = speed * Time.deltaTime;``

[neon fractal]

Maybe you don't have a looped animation and you have a checkmark for switching after the end of the animation?

[gusty hazel]

because im using them in a different script to change the multiplier for an enemies health and the speed is somehow sped up

[warm condor]

how do I check for that?

[neon fractal]

Wait for me to open the unity

[gusty hazel]

press on your animation file, its in the inspector

[slate gale]

Are you moving using Rigidbodies or just setting positions?

[gusty hazel]

just transform

[slate gale]

And is the value of 'speed' the same in both instances?

[gusty hazel]

transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards (transform.position, target2.position, step);```

this is how its used

[slate gale]

Unity overwrites the script value with the editor value, in case you set it from the editor.

[gusty hazel]

it doesnt change in the inspector

but the thing just flies accross the map

[slate gale]

3d or 2d game?

actually nvm, thats not relevant

[gusty hazel]

i did it in the editor first but then i hard coded it

its 2d

neither way works

[slate gale]

do they both run on the same script i assume?

[gusty hazel]

no

thats the thing

[slate gale]

theres no other script on them also causing movement?

oh

so they dont have the same script on them

[gusty hazel]

it was fine then i introduced difficulty chosing and it broke movement if difficulty is selecred

[gusty hazel]

so the movement is in the enemy controller

then ive got this in the player controller

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

[slate gale]

where do u use the mult var

[gusty hazel]

    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 ());
        }```

ive been told its poorly formatted but this is the best that the auto format does on monodevelop

[slate gale]

ah but mult only changes the damage so it shouldnt impact speed

[gusty hazel]

yeah

but the speed only ever messes up when i use the difficulty porefab and works fine without

[slate gale]

can you send the code of your entire script on difficulty prefab

or is it rly big

[gusty hazel]

ill send it in 2

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe have it so that it only changes on key down or key up (it seems to be calling the change too often): if Get Key Down Set bool true else if Get Key Up Set bool false

[warm condor]

ahh, so i check if HasExitTime is true?

[warm condor]

ohh yea that makes more sense

[gusty hazel]

public class PlayerHealth : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float currenthealth;
    public float totalhealth;
    public SpriteRenderer sprite;
    public bool dead;
    EnemyController enemyscript;
    PlayerController playerscript;

    public Slider HealthSlider;

    float mult;

    void Start ()
    {
        totalhealth = 100;
        currenthealth = 100;
        dead = false;
        enemyscript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("basicEnemy").GetComponent<EnemyController> ();
        playerscript = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag ("Player").GetComponent<PlayerController> ();

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

    void Update ()
    {
        if (currenthealth <= 0) {
            dead = true;    
        }
        /*Healthbar code*/
        HealthSlider.value = currenthealth; 
    }

    public IEnumerator Red ()
    {
        sprite.color = Color.red;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.white;
    }


    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 ());
        }
    }

    private void OnTriggerEnter2D (Collider2D other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject.CompareTag ("Healing")) {
            currenthealth = currenthealth + 20;
            StartCoroutine (Green ());
            Destroy (other.gameObject);
        } 
    }

    public IEnumerator Green ()
    {
        sprite.color = Color.green;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.white;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.green;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.white;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.green;
        yield return new WaitForSeconds (0.1f);
        sprite.color = Color.white;
    }
}

thats the whole thing

[rich adder]

!code

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[slate gale]

you could also send it as file, there'll be a collapse button haha

[neon fractal]

No, if you want it to be looped, check the box and make it turn off under a certain condition

[rich adder]

use links for large code

[slate gale]

damn

[gusty hazel]

ops

[slate gale]

my boy was waiting to say that haha

np

haters these days

[warm condor]

I checked it and the LoopTime is checked off

[neon fractal]

turn on and off when needed

[neon fractal]

if it is a walking animation, it should be looped

[broken hill]

!code

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[warm condor]

ohhh it works! Wait what does LoopTime do?

what is it for?

[gusty hazel]

https://hatebin.com/qbyqfizerf thats the enemy code @slate gale

[neon fractal]

if your animation ends, it just stops and that's it, but this way it will constantly repeat

[warm condor]

ahh I see

[broken hill]

how do I do an if statement to see if the game object is active or not? https://paste.ofcode.org/CXruPysAbHcmXeViRY5pfG

[ivory bobcat]

Who's hating on what?

[warm condor]

well thank you

[slate gale]

people mad cus they cant rotate their scroll wheel is all

nothing much\

[slate gale]

i dont see much issues, but i see you set step to timedeltatime * speed in void start, but that wont do much

i think u need to put step in update

timedeltatime gets the time between past frame and current

[visual hedge]

what can cause those artifacts? It has something to do with player follow camera. THis thing looks like a sphere and everything on it's edges is getting blurred or distorted and it also gives everything within a metallic shine

[slate gale]

maybe that void start runs at another time e.g. when u instantiate it and the frame time will be different and cause issues

@ivory bobcat the guy was just lurking chat to run the !code command, is what im talking abt

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[slate gale]

kinda extreme imo

[neon fractal]

Maybe you have screen blur turned on in the post process?

[spring skiff]

What can be the issue if my game crashes on startup but didn't crash on another binary?
My game works as windows x64 on my Windows ARM64 PC, but using the Windows ARM64 version of my game on my Windows 11 arm64 System make it crash in the mainmenu after 0.1 seconds.

Any idea why?

[visual hedge]

it's not blur per se... it's more like spherical distortion. Idk it bends textures... Where do I check?

[timber tide]

ya got some ghost sphere haunting your scene

[gusty hazel]

god bless you @slate gale its worked

[timber tide]

not really a coding question though

[slate gale]

lmao honestly didnt expect it would hahah

gg mate

happy programming

[neon fractal]

Oh, it's hardly related. You'd probably be better off asking these channels #archived-lighting #archived-hdrp or #archived-urp

[ivory bobcat]

Seemed appropriate. There were practically two messages posts, both above 12 lines - message flood. Nothing new 🤷‍♂️

[visual hedge]

thank you

[slate gale]

im not saying it was inappropriate, just a bit weird the guy only joined chat to say that message, and besides, it wasnt busy no one was rly bothered by it.

but yes it was a long code snip

couldve been shortened or put in link but since it wasnt busy at the time i didnt think it rly mattered, is all

[charred field]

anyone know a good tutorial or fourm post on snowboard movement?

[tawdry totem]

it isnt readind the magazineSize and bulletsLeft, but it displays at a 0.

[charred field]

sweet pfp

[tawdry totem]

same

[vestal adder]

Hello

how come the first enemy i instantiate works fine, but the ones i instantiate after its death dont do anything

https://gdl.space/omodenazic.cs

[wintry quarry]

Because your script is only updating the first enemy

Why is the enemy behavior on the script that spawns them

[polar acorn]

You set enemyInstance to the first enemy, then immediately overwrite it with the second enemy

[vestal adder]

i am kind of winging it lol

okay so if i just do one enemy, it may work?

[vestal adder]

what would you have done differently

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/ajidefogul.cs

here is my code

[fierce shuttle]

Why are you dividing botth values your trying to display? Its possible the division is resulting in a decimal that gets rounded to 0

[queen adder]

why does WasPressedThisFrame() return nothing all the time?

[vestal adder]

this diddnt work for me

[polar acorn]

This wasn't a suggestion I was pointing out what you were literally currently doing

[vestal adder]

why

[polar acorn]

I don't know I was hoping you would tell me

[vestal adder]

oh ye thats because i wanna spawn two enemies

[polar acorn]

Okay so why do you immediately overwrite the reference to the first with the second

You are only calling Destroy on the second one

[slender nymph]

how do you know it returns false all the time?

[queen adder]

wait a minute

ah nevermind

it actually works

its just the output that doesnt work

for some reason

[lavish tinsel]

I think I have an issue with an option or selection unchecked, but maybe it's my code?

My problem is that I have a UI button that, if I click it, then become the "target" of my character's Interact action until I click on the gamemap to "unset" the button somehow being selected.

    public void OnBuyCropButton(CropData crop)
    {
        if(money >= crop.purchasePrice)
        {
            PurchaseCrop(crop);
        }
    }

    void TryInteractTile ()
    {
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast((Vector2)transform.position + facingDir, Vector3.up, 0.1f, interactLayerMask);

        if (hit.collider != null)
        {
            FieldTile tile = hit.collider.GetComponent<FieldTile>();
            tile.Interact();
        }
    }

    public void Interact ()
    {
        if(!hasBeenTilledAlready)
        {
            Till();
        }
        else if(!HasCrop() && GameManager.instance.CanPlantCrop()) // if you don't have a crop and you can plant a crop
        {
            PlantNewCrop(GameManager.instance.selectedCropToPlant);
        }
        else if (HasCrop() && currentCrop.CanHarvest()) // if you have a crop and it's ready to harvest
        {
            currentCrop.Harvest();
        }
        else
        {
            Water();
        }
    }

is there some setting to "unselect" a button after you have pressed it?

maybe it's a quirk with the new input system and choosing <Space> as the interact button?

[slender nymph]

how do you know? specifically what debugging steps have you taken to see whether your moveSpeed variable is the value you expect it to be?

[queen adder]

i used debuglog the waspressedthisframe return value every frame

[tawdry totem]

is for burst weapons and i am diving by 1, and even if i dont divide it doest show

[queen adder]

and it returns some trues when i spammed shift

[vestal adder]

i would just like to know how to have the new enemies i instantiate work

[queen adder]

so now i know its actually giving input

it just doesnt change the speed

i gotta figure out why

WOW

my dumbass set sprint speed and walk speed to the same variable

[polar acorn]

If you want this script to control those enemies, you need to reference both enemies

But honestly why does this script actually provide functionality to the enemies? It should just spawn them and they should have scripts that handle their own behavior

[vestal adder]

i have been having issues with scripts attatched to enemies

dont know how 2 manage it this is my solution

[polar acorn]

You're having issues without scripts attached to enemies as well

[vestal adder]

lol

[polar acorn]

So maybe you should do the one that makes sense and fix that

instead of trying to fix the one that doesn't

[vestal adder]

if i were to attatch this script to the enemy

how would i do the references in the editor on its prefab

[polar acorn]

You don't attach this script to the enemy, you have the script that makes enemies and the script that tells the enemy objects how to behave into different scripts

[vestal adder]

i know that part

i am so close to making my script work tho so i wouulld like to fix that if its possible instead

[fierce shuttle]

Hmm, are you certain that block of code is running and your text is updating? If you typed something specific instead of your variables, does your text reflect that? If so, then are you certain your values are both above 0?

[tawdry totem]

yes from both

the magazine size updates on the inpector

[fierce shuttle]

Are you calling that logic from Update?

[tawdry totem]

i dont think so

[neon fractal]

hi Peter

[tawdry totem]

the 3th one here

[fierce shuttle]

Ah, if your changing the value from the inspector, youll also need to update your text, unless your initially setting the value before entering play mode (you also seem to have many clones today)

[tawdry totem]

humm let me try it

[tawdry totem]

i put it like this and still it does not work

[polar acorn]

What

Does that even compile

[slender nymph]

it's gross to look at, but it is perfectly valid

[tawdry totem]

yeah

its not how that look on the code

[polar acorn]

I guess it's like a multi-variable declaration, but only the first one gets a default value?

[tawdry totem]

i was testing if it works

[wanton hearth]

Can anyone who knows DOTween help me?

I'm super confused about some unexpected behavior. The first tween works as expected, however the next two somehow SKIP the index (if the first one tweened index 0, the next 2 tweens index 1), even though I've verified i = 0 before and after all three of those tween statements.

for(int i = 0, i < numNeeded, i++)
{                 
   objectToTween[i].transform.DOLocalMoveY(myTargetVector3, delay); 
   DOTween.To(() => objectToTween[i].transform.position, x => objectToTween[i].transform.position = x, newPosition, delay);
   DOTween.To(() => objectToTween[i].Color, x =>  objectToTween[i].Color = x, newColor, delay);
}

Yes I know I'm using the generic way in the last 2. It's because I'm actually tweening values that aren't supported in DOTween's shortcuts way' (Vector3 and a Color value not attached to a MeshRenderer). I changed the two because I thought that would be too confusing to see in the code

[short hazel]

Ahh, good old lambda variable capture fooling people again

[swift crag]

oh I know what this is

yeah it's The Thing

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/programming/specifics/anonymous-methods-and-closures

[polar acorn]

I will never stop stepping on that rake

[swift crag]

there's a single i variable and it lives for the entire duration of the for loop

[polar acorn]

The bane of my existence

[swift crag]

everyone is capturing the same variable

i remember writing a long post on the unity forum explaining why this is totally impossible and there must be something else wrong

then i tested it

egg, meet face

[sacred egret]

Really? my canvas is always way bigger then the camera size

[slender nymph]

yes, that's because it is a screen space overlay canvas and has nothing to do with the world size. a screenspace overlay canvas will draw directly to the screen and does not rely on the camera's size or viewport

[tawdry totem]

I HATE WIZARDY MAGIC COMPUTERYNG, aparently restarting the program 3 times fixes it

[sacred egret]

how should i fix it

[slender nymph]

make your camera a normal size again

and check the docs pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how the canvas works

[wanton hearth]

Jeez, I would've NEVER guessed this is a thing!! Changed the 'i''s to a local integer variable and it works as expected! 😭

[swift crag]

it's a surprise tool that will hurt us later

[wanton hearth]

I need to get around to properly learning what the heck lambdas really are

All I know is I get angry when I see people using them, because I feel they're ugly and I don't understand them lol

[sacred egret]

is 200 a normal size

[slender nymph]

dear god no. normal is around like 5 assuming you are referring to orthographic size

[polar acorn]

It never stops. I've been programming for 20 years and I still lose entire days to this exact problem.

[slender nymph]

keep in mind that typically 1 unit is supposed to be 1 meter in world space.

[swift crag]

orthographic size is just how much can be seen by the camera at once

[wanton hearth]

OH NO!! 🥹

[swift crag]

If your game makes sense when your camera view is 200 meters wide, then use 200

But I doubt that's the case here.

[sacred egret]

Oh alr i had put the canvas on Screen overlay thats why it was way bigger i think

[swift crag]

again, the apparent size of an overlay canvas is not meaningful

it's getting drawn directly onto your screen; your camera's position and size is not involved at all

It's a common error to try to move the camera to "see" it

[ruby ember]

guys is is possible in unity to change the HDR and Fog color setting using dropdown you choose a different color and it changes

[timber tide]

You can serialize a Color on the editor

[ruby ember]

but i want to do this using code

[timber tide]

Serialize the color then plug it in

oh you want it in game eh

[ruby ember]

yes

[ruby ember]

like in the dropdown in the screenshot

[timber tide]

Is the drop down box your implementation or an example that you're aiming for

[ruby ember]

example

i didn't add system yet

[timber tide]

You'd want to use the drop down via UI

make yourself a set of colors and plug those values into it

[swift crag]

you will be using a TMP_Dropdown

[ruby ember]

that's what i did

[swift crag]

you give it a list of options; you can then check the currently-selected option and make a decision based on that

[empty dagger]

how do I access a bool variable from a different script? nothing seems to work

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[queen adder]

how do i code health in a game?

[polar acorn]

With numbers usually

[queen adder]

like, how can i make global variables

throughout scripts

[polar acorn]

Why would health be a global variable

[queen adder]

oh youre right

hmmmmm well

[ivory bobcat]

Lookup a tutorial. It depends on what your task is.

[queen adder]

i was thinking how can i access a variable in another script?

[swift crag]

tada!

[queen adder]

oh

thanks fen

and ah i should say thank you to you two digiholic and dalphat for helping regardless

[swift crag]

The big idea is that you need to get a reference to the object you want to get a value from

you might set this up in the scene by dragging an object into a field in the inspector

or you might find it at runtime with GetComponent

if the component I want to get a value from is called Foo, I might do this:

[SerializeField] Foo myFoo;

and then drag an object from the scene into the "My Foo" field in the inspector

then, if I want to get a value that Foo has ...

public class Foo : MonoBehaviour {
  public float money;
}

...I can just write:

myFoo.money

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[sacred egret]

why is the score almost always equals to 1 https://paste.mod.gg/jhlmvdufloiv/0

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the console tab

[ivory bobcat]

So score incremented five times.

Either they were different instances or reset multiple times.

[sacred egret]

all 5 times are diffrent instances its flappy bird game

[ivory bobcat]

So every instance would have their own score and each would have a starting value of zero.

[sacred egret]

yeah

[north kiln]

👀

[polar acorn]

[polar acorn]

So it's working as expected. 5 different instances each have their value increased by 1

[ivory bobcat]

So maybe have only one instance of score?

[polar acorn]

So they all have 1

[sacred egret]

not really shouldnt it go 1 2 3 4 etc.. since im using Score++;

[polar acorn]

Why

[ivory bobcat]

They are different instances

[polar acorn]

If I have a dollar and you have a dollar do either of us have two dollars?

[sacred egret]

how do i make it a same instance

[polar acorn]

Which one's score do you want to increase

[sacred egret]

i want it to increase each time it exsits the collision

[ivory bobcat]

Decouple the score variable to a different script and reference the single instance. A new score should not live with each of these five instances of this script.

[polar acorn]

Which object's score do you want to increase?

[ivory bobcat]

Either that or the dirty solution of a static variable Score

[sacred egret]

the score is attached to the object in between the pipes that detects the collisions that is also the parent to the pipes

[queen adder]

how do i make it so that there is only one instance of a class that can be accessed across scripts?

i want to do this so that i can implement a health system

[polar acorn]

So each set of pipes has their own score

[polar acorn]

The singleton pattern but that's not how you should be handling health

[queen adder]

how should i handle health?

[polar acorn]

On the object that has health

[ionic zephyr]

Is the static property that turns GameManager global for all scripts or is it the acessor (get return)??

[ivory bobcat]

Detach the score variable from the triggering script. Make the script reference the single score in the game and increase that single score's value.

[ionic zephyr]

using Singleton*

[sacred egret]

Sorry to be still still bothering you but are you talking about something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKGzSYXPQwY he starts talking about the points in about 4: 40

[polar acorn]

...get return?

[polar acorn]

That is a property
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/properties

[ionic zephyr]

hmm sorry I dont understand what it says

like get okay to get the property value of instance

[polar acorn]

A property is a member that provides a flexible mechanism to read, write, or compute the value of a private field. Properties can be used as if they're public data members, but they're special methods called accessors. This feature enables data to be accessed easily and still helps promote the safety and flexibility of methods.

[ivory bobcat]

static would make the member a part of the class and not other instances of the class. You'd use it with singletons to ensure that each new instance of the class destroys themselves if the member isn't null. Wherever the class is accessible by code, the member belonging solely to the class can be accessed - new instances of the class will not have their own instance of this member.

[ionic zephyr]

who is the member

[ivory bobcat]

The variable (property)

[buoyant knot]

he pays $50/yr for VIP access

top tier member

[kindred pawn]

What does Argument2: cannot convert from ‘UnityEngine.Vector3’ to ‘float’ mean

[ivory bobcat]

You've got a vector 3 there but they expect a float

[ionic zephyr]

what i dont get is what the acessor is for then

[ivory bobcat]

What part of it? Read but no write?

[ionic zephyr]

maybe what I am missing is what is the acessor exactly

[ivory bobcat]

To prohibit others from changing it but give others access to it to see if it's null or use it.

[buoyant knot]

function takes a float, but your variable is a Vector3, so the program doesn’t know what to do

[ionic zephyr]

but the acessor is the whole
static private GameManager instance;
static public GameManager Instance
{ get { return instance; } }?

[polar acorn]

Accessor's are public, private, and a few other more esoteric ones you probably won't ever use

[ionic zephyr]

what, really?

private and public are accesors?

[polar acorn]

Yes

Oh, actually, they're access modifiers

[ionic zephyr]

oh okay

[polar acorn]

I got my terminology wrong, ignore me

[ionic zephyr]

I was loosing my mind

[polar acorn]

Accessors are the stuff inside the get of a Property

[ivory bobcat]

I don't get your question or concern. This might be due to lack of c# basics. Format is generally [accessor] [type] [name] (let's not mention attributes)

[ionic zephyr]

could you point it out in this code I sent?

[ionic zephyr]

Maybe is a matter of translation, in Spanish when we do a Singleton we do an "Accesor"

which I THINK is this part
static public GameManager Instance
{ get { return instance; } }

[slender nymph]

that is the entire property

[ivory bobcat]

Singleton is a pattern (multiple things put together to accomplish a task). The keyword accessor is a c# keyword for who can read and write to the member.

[sacred egret]

would just ataching the script to the bird and changing the CompareTag("Player") with CompareTag("PointDetector) work

[ivory bobcat]

Probably not. You'd need to acquire the score component/script of the bird then increase it.

[ionic zephyr]

okay so, in that pattern what does this part do exactly?

[polar acorn]

It creates a static property that holds a GameManager object, is named Instance, and has a getter that returns instance

[ionic zephyr]

okay, im starting to get it

and what does the getter do

[ivory bobcat]

It was linked before what a property was, which should go over it's parts #💻┃code-beginner message

[ionic zephyr]

but wasnt a variable a property?

[sacred egret]

idk why but it somehow worked

[slender nymph]

no. properties are special methods that just look like variables. they expose variables to other objects using their getter and setter

[polar acorn]

Properties are things that can be used like variables, but are actually functions

[ionic zephyr]

example?

[slender nymph]

this is an example of a property

[ionic zephyr]

the whole line?

[ivory bobcat]

Everything

[polar acorn]

An example of a property:
#💻┃code-beginner message

[ionic zephyr]

but it is getting the private quality of instance?

[slender nymph]

that property is the equivalent of this:

private static GameManager instance;
public static GameManager GetInstance() { return instance; }

but instead of using a method called GetInstance, you just use the property which-again-is just a method that looks like a variable

[ionic zephyr]

oh oh oh okay okay

Im starting to see it

and why not directly using a public static GameManager

[ivory bobcat]

They look like fields but are actually functions under the hood. They can have backfields as well (with certain setups) making them functions plus fields, all in one.

[ivory bobcat]

You'd want to not give people access to the member directly, thus using a getter function or property.

[slender nymph]

because then anything can change the object stored in the variable at any time. properties are meant to control what can access a variable and how it is accessed

[ivory bobcat]

Consider asking yourself, why should you ever have private members?

[ionic zephyr]

Because I don´t want that everyone could change my code

[ivory bobcat]

And why's that?
||Because something wasn't meant to be changed and can break everything if changed||

[soft steppe]

does the order of scripts in a gameobject matter when calling (saying i call b's functions (being second script) from another object ,does script A get called first even tho another object called B (A is being called every frame)?

[slender nymph]

no

[ionic zephyr]

okay okay I see

Okay so by doing this I have made instance accesible from any script?

[nova swift]

Anybody know a fix for an object's rigidbody returning wrong y velocities when they are moving on a composite tilemap? Or if there's an alternate known method out there that can create a physics collider shape via a script, without directly using a composite collider.

[ivory bobcat]

Anyone who has access to the type, yes.

[ionic zephyr]

whats the type?

[slender nymph]

you're gonna need to provide more context than that. what you mean it returns the wrong y velocity?

[ivory bobcat]

Game Manager etc

[ionic zephyr]

okay and then why is static used?

[ivory bobcat]

The class owns the member not the new instances

[buoyant knot]

another way of saying it, is that static members are a part of the definition of what constitutes the class

[ivory bobcat]

Without static, every new instance of the class would have their own instance of every member. Not with the static modifier.. with the static modifier, there's only one member and it belongs to the class (the type - part of its definition)

[ionic zephyr]

with member you reffer to

[buoyant knot]

example; Circle class might define radius (which is different for every instance), and static pi. Pi is just part of the definition of a circle, and is not owned by any one individual circle

radius (not static) is separately owned by each individual circle

[nova swift]

Well, if I move the player left and right, when they are running on top of the tilemap with a tilemap collider 2d, and it's composite, the rigidobody 2d components shows incorrect values for the y velocity in the inspector, even though it's really supposed to just be 0.

[ivory bobcat]

Use the static modifier to declare a static member, which belongs to the type itself rather than to a specific object.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/static

[slender nymph]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/members

[nova swift]

It's particularly annoying when I need to do physics check that require it to be 0 or under, but the rigidbody "returns" incorrect values.

It shows 0 on regular colliders that aren't part of the tilemap's composite one, so I'm pretty sure it's the tilemap

[slender nymph]

and what is the actual value of the velocity when you check it using code? do not rely on inspector values

[ionic zephyr]

Okay okay, so with "static" I have made "instance" implicit part of the class and not of every instance of it right?

[buoyant knot]

yes

[ionic zephyr]

so what is the purpose of this?

[buoyant knot]

i assume you’re making a singleton?

[ionic zephyr]

yeah

[nova swift]

If I do a check that let's say, turns a bool to true, and it needs the player to be on ground and have a y velocity of 0 or below, it holds true to the inspector values, so it works on normal colliders, because the y velocity is 0, but not on the tilemap

[buoyant knot]

ok, that is how you make a class with exactly one instance

so you keep a reference to the ONE singular instance

which is better than making the whole class static if you want to be modifying variables

[slender nymph]

you said the Y velocity is not correct. what is the actual value it is returning when you attempt to check it via code where that actually matters. do not just look at the inspector and assume it is wrong because of what you see there.
show your actual code and provide the details if you want to get help

[buoyant knot]

most of the things in my game where I need lots of things to access it, and there is guaranteed to be exactly one at all times, I make it a singleton

[nova swift]

Alright, do you want me to use something like Debug.Log to return rb.velocity.y?

[slender nymph]

yes. you need to verify your assumptions

[nova swift]

Give me a sec then

[ionic zephyr]

i think im more or less getting it but still I dont get what is its effect, sorry I´m beginner

[soft steppe]

wht is wheel colider

[slender nymph]

look at that, the velocity is such a small number it is effectively 0. now show the code where it isn't doing what you want it to

[ivory bobcat]

Don't use it if you don't know what it is 😆
Other than that, if you are only ever wanting one instance of something, you could restrict it with the Singleton pattern. Having pseudo global access to the instance field is just an extra - often abused and fine in game development.

[ionic zephyr]

Im learning it

[nova swift]

Really just the part that checks rb.velocity.y <= 0:
if (rb.velocity.y <= 0 && isBallCheckCooldown <= 0 && unBubbleCooldown <= 0)
{
if ((isOnWater && Mathf.Abs(rb.velocity.x) > 18) || !isOnWater)
{
isBall = false;
if(rb.velocity.y > -1)
{
rb.position = new Vector2(rb.position.x, rb.position.y + 0.02f);
}
}
}
Should I be using a different method to compare the y velocity?

[buoyant knot]

let’s say your game has a bunch of enemies. and you need one thing to keep track of everything. so if you want to wipe everything, you can ask this one “EnemyManager” to destroy every enemy. I would make EnemyManager a singleton, so every individual enemy can tell my EnemyManager that it is around. And each enemy tells EnemyManager when it dies to know not to count it anymore

Then my menu (or whatever) can tell EnemyManager to kill everything (like when I’m unloading an area)

there should never ever be 2 EnemyManagers. We are keeping a single log of eveery enemy, and we don’t want to mix and match and get two logs that aren’t properly synced

and it should not be static, because that has a ton of negative side effects we don’t want to get into

make sense?

[slender nymph]

!code 👇 and also why do you need to check that the velocity is less than or equal to 0 here on just the Y axis? knowing that could help improve what you are actually doing. but if you just want a bandaid fix without addressing the root of the actual problem, just use a slightly bigger number to compare it to like 0.001 or something tiny like that

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[ionic zephyr]

yes, I get that

[ivory bobcat]

If it were a spawner and you're wanting multiple instances, you'd want to not opt for a Singleton but simply pass references or subscribe to callbacks. It's necessity is purely if you're wanting single instances. Ease of access should really ought to be a secondary charm.

[ionic zephyr]

okay so

to sum up

static private GameManager instance. I make this private variable

[nova swift]

Thanks for the code command thing, didn't know about it. I'll try using a slightly larger number, but the reason I am making the check is the following:
Sonic's charatcer uncurls from the ball state when they land on ground. The player can also jump onto one way platforms where they will be grounded for a short period. I need to check if their y velocity is smaller or equal to 0, so they only uncurl from the ball state on the way down, and not up.

[ionic zephyr]

which creates a variable GameManager type

GameManager here is a class? an instance of the class?

[kindred pawn]

what part of this code is causing unity to say "Assets\playerMovement.cs(22,57): error CS1503: Argument 2: cannot convert from 'UnityEngine.Vector3' to 'float' " and how do i fix it?

[ionic zephyr]

what is it refereing to?

[slender nymph]

configure your !IDE and it will show you where the error is

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[kindred pawn]

ive tried but i cant find the error squiggles setting

i spent like all of yesterday tryng to, it sucked

[slender nymph]

if you cannot follow the simple instructions to configure vs code, then consider switching to a real ide like visual studio which is easier to configure and less likely to randomly break. but it is required to have a configured ide in order to get help here

[kindred pawn]

yeah, im trying

[nova swift]

Using the very small number seems to have worked. Thanks! I still find it strange that the issue was only present with the tilemap collider, but I guess not everything can be perfect.

[slender nymph]

it's just some floating point precision issues. same reason you should never compare a float is exactly another float, there may be some super tiny difference like what you were seeing where the Y velocity was 0.00000007 instead of just 0

[ivory bobcat]

Once you get it done, all of your syntactical errors will magically go away (it ought to even prohibit you from making mistakes by not being able to provide suggestions). Poorly copy and paste results will be underlined with squiggly marks. It saves everybody a lot of time.

[kindred pawn]

yeah, thats cool and all but i just cant find where to enable it, ive tried every combination of google search it just does apear

[ivory bobcat]

Follow the guide. Determine which step you've gotten stuck at.

[kindred pawn]

the guide hasnt helped, i can get to my setting n stuff, but it doesnt show the setting i need to enable

it gave me autofinish, but not error squiggles

[ivory bobcat]

Is this VS or VSCode?

[kindred pawn]

i thing VSCode

[ionic zephyr]

So guys what makes that i can se the variable in other scripts is the get return public or the static????

[kindred pawn]

ye VSCode

[teal viper]

Wat?🤔

[ionic zephyr]

so in a singleton pattern

[gaunt ice]

Public is access modifier it has nothing to do with static

[ivory bobcat]

Did you do those three steps? I'm assuming the first two were completed (installation of Unity and VSCode - differs from VS)

[kindred pawn]

yep

[ionic zephyr]

static private GameManager instance;
static public GameManager Instance
{ get { return instance; } } in this code, what makes I can access instance from other script is?

[ivory bobcat]

So did you install the extension?

[kindred pawn]

ye

[slender nymph]

that is what the public access modifier is for

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show us an image of the extension installed?

[gaunt ice]

Ignore the static here, can you access private outside the class (usually)

[slender nymph]

where's the unity one

[ionic zephyr]

so you store the class in "instance" but how does that make that there is only one instance of the class?

i dont see the relation

[ivory bobcat]

Where's the unity for visual studios code?

[kindred pawn]

also there

[buoyant knot]

look up a singleton implementation in unity on youtube

[gaunt ice]

Static wont change the accessibility of members

[kindred pawn]

it told me to get those the first time i opened it

[ionic zephyr]

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

public class GameManager : MonoBehaviour
{
static private GameManager instance;
static public GameManager Instance
{ get { return instance; } }

// Start is called before the first frame update
private void Awake()
{
    if (instance == null)
    {
        GameManager.instance = this;
    }
    else
    {
        Destroy(gameObject);
        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }
}

}

[ionic zephyr]

I have this

[slender nymph]

!code

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[ionic zephyr]

https://gdl.space/yejagijomi.cs

[ivory bobcat]

Next, did you update the package for your unity project?

[slender nymph]

Destroy(gameObject);
DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);

what do you think this is doing?

[distant veldt]

creating an instance allows you to access it from anywhere. you only need/want one instance of it or you can get errors that why you check if the instance exists and destroy it so you dont make two of them

[ionic zephyr]

Yes but I dont get the relation between this and that necesarilly instance has to be part of the class and not the instance

what could happen if "instance" was part of the instance and not the class

[slender nymph]

i was not answering your question, i was legitimately asking what you think those two lines are doing together like that. why are you passing the gameObject to DontDestroyOnLoad right after you destroy it

[ivory bobcat]

It wouldn't be the Singleton pattern and you wouldn't be able to access it without an instance of the class.

[teal viper]

Instance is not a part of the class, what is stored in the static field is a reference to an instance.

[kindred pawn]

i think so

[slender nymph]

remove the highlighted package

[ionic zephyr]

what?

[ivory bobcat]

It should be "Visual Studio Editor"

[kindred pawn]

yeah

thats right below the highlighted one

[teal viper]

I think you need to go over the OOP basics in C# context. You need to understand what type, instance, reference and static are.

[ivory bobcat]

Remove the older code one above

[ionic zephyr]

I know what they are bro

[gaunt ice]

Static members are members of class not the members of instances of class

[teal viper]

Doesn't sound so from your questions.

[ionic zephyr]

okay I get that

[kindred pawn]

k, it did tell me some other thing needs it tho so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[ionic zephyr]

but why is that necessary for the Singleton to work

[teal viper]

Because singleton implies static access to an object.

[kindred pawn]

nvm, it just wont let me remove it

[ionic zephyr]

believe me, I know what they are

[gaunt ice]

You can ask the class to return an instance of that class for you and you dont care where the instance comes from

[ivory bobcat]

After you finish, setup your external editor configuration in Unity

[kindred pawn]

it already uses that one, and when i go to remove the VSCode Editor, or the VS Editor it wont let me cuz they're necicary for some other thing

[slender nymph]

unlock the engineering group then you can remove the vs code editor package

[twilit pilot]

in short, it's not, it's just an implementation detail to make it easy to access the singleton instance of a class through the class itself

[ivory bobcat]

It's a part of the pattern.

[ionic zephyr]

but it should have its explanation right?

[ivory bobcat]

It's not a pattern isolated to unity itself. Searching should give you lots of results.

[kindred pawn]

did that, its still telling me its a dependency and i cant remove it, but the external tools thing says that 2.0.22 is enabled so

[ivory bobcat]

Regenerate the project. Does everything work now?

[kindred pawn]

nope, theres still no error squiggles, and i have the same error msg

[ivory bobcat]

Well, we know where the error is, it's very obvious. Were there any issues when restarting VSCode?

Any pop-up in the bottom right?

[kindred pawn]

yeah, these

[ivory bobcat]

Right, so Net SDK is missing

Here's a tutorial that goes over everything you've done so far and a bit more https://youtu.be/-AgcVsS-rtQ?si=yo27AvkRd3eBgci9

[kindred pawn]

thx

[round scaffold]

[shell herald]

can someone help me out here? what i want to achieve is that the Instantiate snippet of the code gets done once the "Fire2" Axis is released. what am i doing wrong?

[round scaffold]

i think get axis raw gives u vertical and horizontal inputs

are u looking for GetMouseButtonDown?

[ancient island]

when I use a camera to render a texture, how should I handle camera size? I was trying camera.orthographicSize but even if I set a default value on inspector, it sets back to 5 when I hit play

[ivory bobcat]

What's happening right now?

I'm assuming it happens immediately or all of the time.

[rich adder]

!code

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[rich adder]

I cant read screenshot image well 😦

[shell herald]

it gives me 1 if pressed or 0, when i put the Instantiate snipped into the "if (Input.GetAxisRaw etc) section, it works. however im guessing that its something with the drawTime timer that doesnt work properly

[rich adder]

are you using Cinemachine

[ancient island]

nop

[shell herald]

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

[ancient island]

this is my camera, if it helps

As I said, when hitting play 'Size' jumps back to 5

well that screenshot was taken in play mode

[slender nymph]

if it happens when you enter play mode then you probably have some component assigning it to 5 in Start or Awake

[rich adder]

it doesn't really answer the question about cinemachine, but I suppose u havea script then doing it

[shell herald]

wym?

[ancient island]

I have a script it is only 1 line of code
m_camera.orthographicSize = 1f / m_camera.aspect * unitsSize / 2f;
I have the same script attached to another camera and it assigns it 10.27778 due to screen dimensions

[slender nymph]

show the entire inspector for the camera object that is being affected by this issue

[rich adder]

why is Fire2 an axis?

[ancient island]

8.888882 is my default value, before I hit play

not really useful because script should set it to 10.2777

[slender nymph]

is Camera Size the only other component attached to that object?

[ancient island]

it has another component

[shell herald]

because all inputs are axes in the old input system

[ancient island]

but it doesn't do anything with camera size

[slender nymph]

show the contents of both of those components using a bin site

[ancient island]

ok

https://justpaste.it/c7u4k

[slender nymph]

how did you manage to find a bin site that terrible

[ancient island]

i can remove camera shake component from the affected camera

[ancient island]

lol

[slender nymph]

in the future please use a site that has line numbers and syntax highlighting. the bot has several in the !code embed below 👇

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[rich adder]

no they should just be Buttons..this would make it easy with a simple GetButtonUp method

[slender nymph]

but try changing the camera's tag. i'd bet you'r accessing Camera.main somewhere else and it's affecting this camera since it has the MainCamera tag

[ancient island]

I'm sure those scripts are the oly ones that handle cameras

anyway I did it

nothing happened

[slender nymph]

wdym nothing happened? nothing as in the issue persists or nothing as in the camera's orthographic size was not changed to 5?

[ancient island]

issue persists

idk where else to check

[rich adder]

check anything that references it

[slender nymph]

well then either your math is wrong or the aspect property of the camera is not what you are expecting it to be.
or you are referencing the camera somewhere else

[ancient island]

math is ok because same script works perfectly for main camera

[slender nymph]

well then i guess there's nothing wrong. good job fixing it

[ancient island]

basically I just cloned main camera

but I think it has something to do with render texture

because camera becomes square

and it's the only thing that differs from main camera

[slender nymph]

so then like i said "the aspect property of the camera is not what you are expecting it to be"

and that means your math is wrong

[ancient island]

this is weird

where is the enable button?

[rich adder]

enable only appears when MB callbacks are use

eg Update/ Start etc

[shell herald]

dang, never knew this was an option, yeah it works

[ancient island]

it has awake

what does MB mean?

[slender nymph]

Awake is not affected by the enabled state of the MonoBehaviour

[rich adder]

MonoBehaviour

[ancient island]

so is it wrong?

[slender nymph]

is what wrong?

[ancient island]

should I change it to start instead of awake?

[slender nymph]

why

[kindred pawn]

its probably a super simple fix that im not seeing but how am i sposed to fix this?

[ancient island]

rb.velocity.y

[slender nymph]

well rb.velocity is a Vector3. you cannot have an entire Vector3 in a single axis of a Vector3

[kindred pawn]

thx

[rich adder]

also its important to read the errors they usually hint to the problem

[kindred pawn]

yeah, i do, im just kinda dumb

[rich adder]

eh with time it will become clearer

[kindred pawn]

my thoughts exactly, i only started trying making games yesterday, and i think its going well so far

[rich adder]

well goodluck! a least ur ide is configured so you're pretty much ahead of most xD

[kindred pawn]

i only just did that like 15 min ago

[rich adder]

every victory counts 💪

[kindred pawn]

fr

[obsidian needle]

I'm working on a small state machine, and I'm struggling with understanding how to pass one variable between different files. do you need a new instantiation of the class the variable comes from in each file it's used? And would I need to use the same name across files?

Also I'm not really understanding when you need to use the new keyword. how come sometimes I see someone set
SomeClass name = new SomeClass();
but sometime I see someone write only
SomeClass name;

[kindred pawn]

all the struggles will be worth it when i make some really cool thing down the line, i mean just getting a white bean to move was cool

[rich adder]

references

https://unity.huh.how/references

[rich adder]

btw you only instantiate class like this, when its a regular class and not MonoBehaviour

[obsidian needle]

is this about the top or bottom code snippet

[rich adder]

top

[boreal tangle]

is it possible to stop the animator from animating a gameobject on a certain layer?

[swift crag]

"on a certain layer"?

like, when the GameObject is put onto a specific layer?

(rather than animator layers)

[boreal tangle]

I mean the animator layers. I know theirs stop playback but that stops all animations

[rich ember]

Hey guys. Quick question. I have a unity script on my player for player movement. Everything is stored in methods. Well I call the methods and using a Debug.Log I determined the methods do get called but. chaning my velocity variable doesn't actually change the variable. However if I reload the script BUT LEAVE GAME RUNNING it will work? It is like the script is not loading properly. is there something I can do to make sure a script loads properly or what am I doing wrong

[slender nymph]

show relevant code and logs

[rich ember]

Ill post in a bit. I am away from my unity. was just wondering if maybe this was a common issue

thanks anyway though

[weak tiger]

Can I get suggestions to learn c# scripting

[slender nymph]

there are beginner courses pinned in this channel

[weak tiger]

I think it is not necessary to just learn and remember everything we need to just understand the code

Because I am having a lot of problem in writing script

Although I have cleared by basics of c#

Every time i get something new and I don't know how to remember it

[rich adder]

you remember it by doing it over, and over and over and over

[weak tiger]

Okayy

[polar acorn]

There's really not much remembering. There's understanding and reassembling the blocks yourself every time since you know what they all do

[fierce shuttle]

Also try taking notes, having a notepad open as you follow tutorials or script in Unity, and write down things that confuse you, things you search up etc so you have a reference point that makes sense to you that you can refer to, I find as you work on code its less about memorizing, and more about recognizing patterns, like seeing "null reference exception: object reference not set to an instance of an object" ive seen enough times I usually know what "object" is null and why

[queen adder]

Hey everyone i have a problem with my code that only happens when i run it twice

typeWriterAnimation = LeanTween.value(0, text.text.Length, text.text.Length * 0.05f / _text_speed).setOnUpdate(length => text.maxVisibleCharacters = (int)length).setOnComplete(_ => hasTextRolledOut = true);

I get a NRE but only when i play it twice

[summer stump]

I recommend taking physical notes on paper. Helped me when learning anything new
Also allows you to review the material in your own words

[queen adder]

Im guessing it has something to do with the lambda expression

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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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.

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/ziyevoyeso.cs

[teal viper]

Gotta provide more info. What throws the error? Can you take a screenshot of the error details?

[polar acorn]

What is DialogueUIManager line 123

[teal viper]

typeWriterAnimation = LeanTween.value(0, text.text.Length, text.text.Length * 0.05f / _text_speed)
            .setOnUpdate(length => text.maxVisibleCharacters = (int)length).setOnComplete(_ => hasTextRolledOut = true);

I'd guess that text is being destroyed at some point while the tween is still running.

[queen adder]

Oh that might be it

Let me check

[queen adder]

This worked thank u !!

[runic rivet]

So I've got two scripts, one is the player script and the relevent code from it is

        audioManager.PlaySoundFX(deathSFX, deathVolume);
        level.LoadGameOver();
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }```
Now the level.LoadGameOver(); it is referring to has this following code.
```    public void LoadGameOver(){
        //SceneManager.LoadScene("GameOver");
        StartCoroutine(GameOver());
    }
    IEnumerator GameOver(){
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1);
        SceneManager.LoadScene("GameOver");
    }```
The problem is that when Death() runs I get the following error.
```Coroutine couldn't be started because the the game object 'SceneManager' is inactive!
UnityEngine.MonoBehaviour:StartCoroutine (System.Collections.IEnumerator)
Level:LoadGameOver () (at Assets/Scripts/Level.cs:10)
Player:Death () (at Assets/Scripts/Player.cs:108)
Player:ProcessHit (DamageDealer) (at Assets/Scripts/Player.cs:102)
Player:OnTriggerEnter2D (UnityEngine.Collider2D) (at Assets/Scripts/Player.cs:94)```

I've tried adding debug's and a debug in any method other then the coroutine shows up just fine. Additionally if instead of using a coroutine to delay the scene load I just load the scene from the LoadGameOver() method everything runs fine. I have also tried using

    Debug.Log("Scenemanager received the command to start the coroutine");
    if (gameObject.activeSelf) {
        StartCoroutine(GameOver());
    } else {
        Debug.Log("The scene manager is not active for some reason");
        // Additional error handling or alternative action if needed
    }
}```
And the first Debug.Log will get logged but then it's like unity ignores the rest of the code and throws the exact same error. I've been stuck for a while and would appreciate any ideas.

[ivory bobcat]

When do you call load game over?

[runic rivet]

Second line of Death()

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the console logs. You've got some race conditions with objects already destroyed attempting to run coroutines.

[runic rivet]

Everything the console logs other then my Debug.Log statements is posted. or did you want the Debug.Logs as well.

[polar acorn]

Are the scripts containin Death and LoadGameOver on the same object?

[runic rivet]

No

[polar acorn]

Show the full !code of both scripts

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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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
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[runic rivet]

alright

https://gdl.space/lopocoweza.cs

[polar acorn]

Add this code to the Level script:

void OnDisable(){
  Debug.Log($"{gameObject.name} has been disabled");
}

Keep all the other logs you put in. Then show the console leading up to the error

[runic rivet]

I don't think the scene manager is actually ever disabled. The disabled message only showed up when I stopped the game

Thinking about it, this script setup was working just fine until I moved some of the Players stats out of the player script and into a PlayerStats script. Could that cause something like this?

[polar acorn]

Do you have "collapse" toggled in the console?

If so, disable it and make sure the order is what you think it is

[runic rivet]

it was enabled, I disabled it but got the same results

[polar acorn]

Are you sure you're not triggering the coroutine twice? If so, one of them would finish and change scenes while the other coroutine is still running

[runic rivet]

Would that result in a scene change? If so then that's not happening. If it is happening, the only cause I can think of would be if the player is getting OnTriggerEnter2D called multiple times at the same time. I could use a bool check in process hit to make sure of wether this is the case or not I guess

[polar acorn]

If the scene isn't changing then it definitely seems like the object is disabled when the coroutine tries to start

Did you try logging gameObject.activeInHierarchy before attempting to start the coroutine?

[runic rivet]

I had not, I can try that

it says false

[polar acorn]

Then it's disabled.

Completely unrelated to any of the code here, the object is just simply off

[runic rivet]

enabled and disabled is the little check box to the left of the object name right?

[polar acorn]

Yes

[runic rivet]

Then I have no idea what I'm doing I guess, cause that box is checked on, and while testing it I never see it get unchecked.

[polar acorn]

What about it's parents

[runic rivet]

in order to remove them as a variable I took it out of it's parent and got the same results. but the parent is never inactive as far as I know anyway.

[polar acorn]

Send a screenshot of your full unity window, with this object selected and the hierarchy visible

[runic rivet]

I’ll send it tmrw, I have to go to bed tonight.

[craggy oxide]

are there any specific tutorials you'd recommend, that you'd feel beginners could learn a lot from

[misty spruce]

imo Brackeys is the best unity youtuber for beginners. He makes everything very approachable and easy to digest. But, his stuff could be outdated, and he doesn't really go in depth. Once I felt like Brackeys wasn't cutting it, I watched Code Monkey instead. He's extremely active and makes a video on almost everything. He also goes very in depth and a lot of his code is good enough for production

[raw crater]

What can I use Interfaces for?
How is it in relation to a struct?

[charred spoke]

No youtube code is good enough for production

[charred spoke]

An interface is simply a contract that enforces the implementation of certain functionality. A struct is a value type you define that can hold data and functionality

[eternal needle]

Definitely not, there's a ton of errors, misinformation, and just a lack of room to expand in his work. everything works purely for the purpose of the video, then you have people in here ask how they can add X functionality and it requires an entire rewrite. While also pointing out to them they shouldnt use deltaTime for mouse input

[misty spruce]

Assuming you're talking about Brackeys. From what I've seen, his videos are targeted for beginners, so there's definitely going to be a lot missing. I've noticed that his code can be improved on, but I can personally look past that if I'm a beginner. He's a great introduction and explains everything in a way that even a complete beginner can understand. Having millions of views for beginner Unity tutorials is impressive and imo seems to prove that he is very skilled at teaching beginners

[charred spoke]

It simply proves the all mighty algorithm chose him. Imho Brackeys teaches many wrong practices that stick with beginners

[eternal needle]

on top of what Uri said, he makes decent quality videos (visually) where it seems like he knows what hes talking about, this helps with the views. beginners wont be questioning anything because they dont have the knowledge.
Ive taught beginners, and i have doubts that anyone would really learn from his content. It will be people copy pasting then assuming they've learned. Imo if someone wants to truly learn, they should start with c# alone and not even do unity. Otherwise all "learning" will be fragmented pieces of code without understanding the fundamentals

[gilded pumice]

just a question, is learning json and data persistence for the first time supposed to be overwhelming? It feels like a lot of information was thrown very quickly and that perhaps I won't fully understand it for a very long time lol

[eternal needle]

I wouldnt say it should be. The code itself is very simple, like maximum 10 lines for the entire reading and writing of a file.
You may just need to experiment more with it, and start with simpler cases. Try saving just a string for example.

[languid spire]

learning json? JSON is a data format, very little to learn about it

[gilded pumice]

using the syntax within c# to store and retrieve information

is what I meant

[languid spire]

as for File IO, the simplest of C# console programs should teach you most of what you need to know in an hour or so

[gilded pumice]

well the concept seems simple, the execution just seems a bit laborious. Creating classes and instances of those classes across multiple scripts and then memorizing the json syntax on top of it. I guess it's just a matter of using it over and over to get familiar, I was just caught off guard with the sudden influx of information compared with the rest of the course lol

[languid spire]

I'm sure no one ever told you that designing and building computer systems was easy. It does require you to absorb vast amounts of information and concepts of which you will be unfamiliar

it just takes time and practice, eventually it may become as natural as breathing

[eternal needle]

Memorizing the json syntax? It is simply a method call, which is the same syntax as most of what you'll do for using the unity api. And you dont even need to remember it, just Google it. No one remembers everything, we look at the docs all the time

[languid spire]

tbf you don't even need to do that, Saving/Loading to and from json is pretty standard so you write your own utility method to do it then you only need to remember that you wrote it

many possible reasons
ANY compile errors
script not attached to an active game object
to name but 2

of course, how else would it run?

did you attach the script to the object it is cloning?

Think about it
CloneObject->Start->cloneobject->start etc etc until Unity him go bang

objects should not clone themselves

you put the cloning script on any gameobject except cloneObject

[plush cave]

is it more efficient to find by tag or by layer? or is there a better way?

[neon fractal]

tag

[languid spire]

better way is not to use Find at all, dependency injection springs to mind

not sure what your question is, explain

[eternal needle]

Realistically this shouldnt even be a consideration, if you're doing this on a LARGE amount of gameobjects then performance could be a consideration. In that case, attach the profiler and see for yourself exactly what the difference is.
You might not want to use a layer purely for the purpose of searching because then you must consider other things like camera and physics for every single layer.
Another thing is you shouldnt really need to do either of these as Steve wrote

[slender nymph]

typically your "original object" that you spawn clones of would be a prefab asset not in the scene at all

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

[languid spire]

are you expecting the cloned object to be in the same position as the original?

[slender nymph]

also you should 100% start with some basic courses to learn unity. the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good place to start

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[languid spire]

that is prefabs as @slender nymph mentioned

[plush cave]

ill check out the profiler and see how much my perfomance is hit, and go from there thanks.

[shrewd swift]

i am doing a procedural generation level manager

should i make an another class for my custom window, or is it ok to use the same class where the generation logic is ?

[languid spire]

custom inspector?

[shrewd swift]

yes

well i just realized you have to use EditorWindow

[languid spire]

seperate class and put the script into an Editor folder

[shrewd swift]

i'll do that
but this means that from my LevelGenerationManager class, i need to get the value of myWindow

because the goal is to trigger specific methods or set parameters from the custom window

for example:

in generate() inside LevelGenerationManager, there is a debug bool set to false by default, i want that before executing it get the values for the custom window

idk if its possible or even if its the good way

using the context menu was also another way, but i wanted to have a custom window rather that clicking on the 3 dots on my script component

[languid spire]

that wont work, editor scripts do not exist at runtime.
what I tend to do is to use a ScriptableObject as a go between i.e. EditorWindow->ScriptableObject->Runtime class

[shrewd swift]

i see what you mean, but i dont understand how i would do this

do you have any recommended ressources or page doc i could start to look at ?

[languid spire]

sorry, no, I just do it

[shrewd swift]

no worries ty for the help

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message
please do yourself a favor and learn the basics

[languid spire]

of course, you set cloneObject to your prefab in the inspector instead of the game object from the scene

[shrewd swift]

btw box ty for running the array test

[halcyon geyser]

Ye

[languid spire]

yes

[burnt vapor]

Can you please learn basic c# and stop asking here

[last igloo]

o damn

[burnt vapor]

These type of questions should not be needed. The point of this channel is helping you with starting with Unity, not figuring out how c# works. There are courses for that.

Please try to !learn these things

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[burnt vapor]

Wrong one, but you can also check the pinned messages for courses 😛

[last igloo]

@queen adder this youtube will help he does c# in unity

[uncut bay]

How can I make a wall go down like a door in 2d unity?

so when the player touches the key, the wall on the right goes down in a smooth manner

I already got the OnTriggerEnter2d method for the key but what code will make the door move?

[slender nymph]

lerp its position

[uncut bay]

what does "lerp" mean

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/overview
also you know google exists, right?

[uncut bay]

I tried google

wasn't helpful

thx tho

[slender nymph]

try spending more than 10 seconds using google next time 🤷‍♂️

alright, guess you don't want help then

[uncut bay]

I do, but I spent a large portion of time yesterday trying to find a solution, I even tried solving it on my own, and I spent like 10 minutes today googling again, it's pretty annoying when someone just tells you something like "try spending more than 10 seconds using google next time", I don't know about you but I don't like it when people talk to me in such a condescending tone, especially strangers

[burnt vapor]

Finding out what lerping is is the most Googleable question I have seen in here so far

It's rude to say but very needed considering the amount of questions that come in these channels

[uncut bay]

oh lerping, I'm talking about googling the wall issue

mb

Thought he was telling me that I shouldve found about lerping through google

sorry

[burnt vapor]

So the idea is that you trigger the wall however you want, and then adjust its position. Then using lerping you want to move the wall to this new position.

[uncut bay]

👍 thx

[burnt vapor]

This could be done with a Coroutine

[uncut bay]

alr

[vast vessel]

guys, can you tell me how to fix this error?

[timber tide]

Does your previous class, or those before it have a constructor

[vast vessel]

yea

[timber tide]

you need to include those params into all inherited classes via base keyword for each constructor they're included in

[vast vessel]

its there tho

[timber tide]

usually if you right click on the error it'll do it for you

public CastableAbility(ICastableAbilitySO storableObject, IEntity entity) : base(storableObject, entity)

[vast vessel]

in the error list or on the part of code that is highlighted red?

[timber tide]

Yeah, it'll have an option to implement them for you

similar to how you let the IDE auto implement interfaces for ya

[vast vessel]

nope. not here

look at the code. you can see that i have implemented it

[timber tide]

Ah, maybe because you've edited the constructor already

[vast vessel]

wdym i still have the error

[timber tide]

yeah, you still need to add base keyword

[vast vessel]

i dont know what that means

[timber tide]

it's a c# thing where inheriting from previous class that has a constructor other than the default

[timber tide]

you need to implement the same parameters in the inherited class like this ^

[vast vessel]

on what line do i do this?

nvm got it

[agile trail]

Is there a way to easily get global co-ordinates of specific points within a scene?

I want to be able to easily place points within a navmesh (but within a certain boundary of said navmesh only),

Meaning maybe something like:

+--------------+
| A | | B | | C |
+--------------+

Maybe in phase 1, I only want points to be placed in region A. And in phase 2, only points be placed in region B (and so forth).

I am planning on raycasting from a greater z-axis to intersect with the proper z-axis on the floor and thus place points on the navmesh that way. But I'm having difficulties getting the global co-ordinates.

As an aside, are there better ways of going about this?

[twilit pilot]

not entirely sure what you mean - a raycast hit is already in world space, as is transform.position - what are you doing that you think it isn't?

[eternal needle]

How are you currently "placing" points? I just put a empty gameobject around where I want things to spawn, the position of the gameobject is the global position

[swift crag]

yes, the raycast hit is already in world-space

"global coordinates" would be world-space positions

what is the problem you're actually having? are things spawning at the wrong spot?

[languid spire]

try NavMesh.SamplePosition

[gritty notch]

anyone know why this happens when using IDragHandler?

code:

public void OnBeginDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("Begin drag");
}

public void OnDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    m_RectTransform.anchoredPosition = eventData.delta / canvas.scaleFactor;
}

public void OnEndDrag(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("Eng drag");
}

public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    Debug.Log("Pointer down");
}

[timber tide]

It happens because something is off with your OnDrag I'd assume ;p
Not sure what dividing by a scale here does for ya

[keen crescent]

A bit of a general question: How valid is the approach of using a static "Game Manager" vs. using delegates/events for my game? Is it strictly better to implement events? If so, why?

[timber tide]

Why not use both

they arent exclusive

[gritty notch]

canvas scale is not 1 so its off when dragging, the problem was i had to do recttransform.anchoredpos += instead of =

[cosmic dagger]

You'll find it hard and design a game without utilizing events. They help keep your system(s) as loosely coupled as possible. Game managers (singletons) abound as well. Why not use both?

[agile trail]

I need to cast from some xyz coordinate in world space, but i don't know where to cast from

[timber tide]

Try Mouse.current.position.ReadValue(); or Input.mousePosition instead

[agile trail]

in order to cast in the first place I need some xyz position to cast from. I can visually see where i want to cast, and mouseclick works, but i can't do it programmatically or at least idk how

[twilit pilot]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ScreenPointToRay.html

[agile trail]

ya but then I need to spawn the camera and move it around manually to cast it. My use case is to spawn many points programmatically within specific areas (A,B,C) during different phases

+--------------+
| A | | B | | C |
+--------------+

maybe i will spawn 5 points randomly in A during phase 1

then 20 in B during phase 2

etc.

[twilit pilot]

how do you know what A,B,C are?

[agile trail]

wdym

they're regions in a navmesh

i have no idea how to get their coords

[timber tide]

Actually if it's the event system you can just do transform.position = eventData.position, no?

[agile trail]

I have a visual idea of where I want A,B,C to be

but idk how to derive it in the code

[dusk acorn]

Hi Pals,
I'm a beginner with some experience in coding. I would like to know what's the best way to create a simple 2D board game like Rummikub with draggin cards feature and having a board which allow to placement from the player hand board the cards?

[twilit pilot]

it sounds like you want to define what A,B,C actually are

[agile trail]

how

[polar acorn]

Then you're going to need an actual definition of what those are

[agile trail]

how??

[twilit pilot]

create a position and bounds that defines them

[agile trail]

like dude my navmesh is just 1 contiguous plane

[agile trail]

how

[polar acorn]

Decide how you want to determine those regions and then do that

[agile trail]

yes magically

i don't know what to actually do can i have some keywords

[polar acorn]

You need to formalize the rules, not just "I kinda feel it out"

[twilit pilot]

effectively you spawn a cube, a cube is centered on a position and extends its bounds according to its size

[agile trail]

ok

[twilit pilot]

and now you can get the position of that cube

or whatever shape you want - you define the bounds

[polar acorn]

Like, is it dividing a mesh into thirds? Is it three regions of equal spacing starting from some point? What are the regions?

[agile trail]

so i get the location(s) where that cube intersects my navmesh and assign that as the 'limits' for A,B,C?

[polar acorn]

You need to decide what they are

[agile trail]

it's not equal thirds

this is an oversimplification

it's a navmesh

i need to divide my navmesh into 3 areas

which spawn 'pointobjects' during different phases

but idk how to get the boundaries for A,B,C

[polar acorn]

Okay cool so that's some information on how you're determining the region, just keep coming up with more of those until you actually know what you want

[agile trail]

dude

i just want to know how to define it

in the code

or in the editor

why are you being condescending like this

[timber tide]

do you know how to make a navmesh

[polar acorn]

That is something that literally only you can do.

[swift crag]

your problem is kind of ill-posed

[timber tide]

if you do then make navmesh 2 more times

[swift crag]

So yes, one option is to just make multiple nav mesh surfaces

[polar acorn]

Because it is literally impossible for anyone but you to know how you want to define these regions

[swift crag]

The first thing that comes to mind for me is to just make some box colliders

and to sample a random point inside the collider

[agile trail]

i just followed this tutorial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHV1ymlw-P8

it doesnt say how to divide the baked navmesh into the separate regions

[swift crag]

yes, because that's a very specific task you're trying to accomplish

you probably won't find a tutorial that does exactly what you want

[swift crag]

Another option is to have multiple nav mesh areas -- you can have up to 32 of them

Normally you just have walkable + non-walkable + "jump" areas

You would use nav mesh modifiers to assign different areas to different parts of your mesh

However, I'm not sure what would be an easy way to then randomly sample points within a specific area.

[agile trail]

the player character/agent needs to traverse A,B and C

so i don't know if having different areas is the solution

they need to be able to cross A,B and C

but the points must be spawned inside those specific boundaries only

[swift crag]

explain what you're actually making your game do here

not "spawn things on a nav mesh"

like, what's the gameplay here?

[agile trail]

it's for determining randomized movement

[swift crag]

no implementation details

[agile trail]

i literally don't know what you want from me

[swift crag]

I want an explanation of what gameplay you're trying to create.

[agile trail]

it's not gameplay

i just want to be able to spawn points, maybe programmatically, maybe randomly, such that it can direct specific placement of some agent int he navmesh

the player agent can move through A,B and C regardless

[swift crag]

"gameplay" means anything the player experiences in your game. the way goombas walk around in a mario game is part of the gameplay

[agile trail]

but the other agents should be limited to A,B,C

[swift crag]

Are you trying to make enemies that randomly wander around an area?

[agile trail]

at the specific phases

[agile trail]

yes but not necessarily randomly

like randomly may be strategyA

then linearly strategyB

then some other programmatic implementation strategyC

and so forth

[buoyant knot]

sounds like a strategy pattern

you even said the word lol

[swift crag]

a lot of things sound like a strategy pattern :p

[agile trail]

so what am i actually supposed to do to divide the navmesh

[swift crag]

okay, so each character is fenced into a certain area

and you need to be able to pick points within that area

[agile trail]

no, you do not pick

the computer/script picks

[swift crag]

by "you" I mean you, the programmer

[agile trail]

the programmer doesn't pick

the computer picks

[buoyant knot]

lord help us

[swift crag]

do you want to be helped

[agile trail]

it should spawn like 20 points in a certain space

honeslty fuck you guys you are just trolling me for real

[buoyant knot]

Lord give me the strength to not to throw a javelin through this man’s chest, for he does not understand the trials he puts us through, Lord

[swift crag]

this is ridiculous. we're trying to help you and you're being combative.

[twilit pilot]

My guy the computer cannot read your mind. I've already given you a simple and workable implementation above, if you have a question about that feel free to ask it, but at this point I'm not sure what you're even trying to ask.

[toxic latch]

If I have a function that I want to increment a value on a prefab, how should I go about referencing the prefab? Do I pass the name of the prefab into the function when I call it, and then change the value on the prefab within the function?

[swift crag]

Do you really want to modify the prefab?

It's not invalid, but it is unusual

[buoyant knot]

when you instantiate the prefab, you get a ref to the gameobject you just spawned

[swift crag]

you definitely won't pass a name in, though -- you just reference the prefab through a serialized field, as you would an object in the scene

[buoyant knot]

and since you instantiated it via code, you also already have a ref to the prefab

[polar acorn]

If you don't even know what you want how the hell are we supposed to know? There are tons of ways to define a region in code but step 0 is to know what regions you want to use

[toxic latch]

Derp — you're right, I want to modify an instance. 😎

[swift crag]

it sounds to me like they want to be able to create a subset of the navmesh surface

imagine intersecting the navmesh with a cube

That's actually an interesting question. It would be useful for the game I'm working on right now.

[buoyant knot]

and then use different strategies to define different movements on that navmesh

[polar acorn]

Right but how. All I know about the region is "it is not equal thirds"

[quick edge]

ahahahah

[toxic latch]

What exactly do you mean by "get a ref"? The name you give the prefab upon instantiation?

[swift crag]

Thing myThing = Instantiate(thingPrefab);

[buoyant knot]

when you call Instantiate(prefab), the output is the GameObject you just made

[swift crag]

thingPrefab is as reference to a prefab with a Thing component on it
myThing is a reference to the freshly instantiated Thing

var enemy = Instantiate(enemyPrefab);
enemy.health = 100;

[polar acorn]

Wait hang on I think this guy's game might be SCP-055
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055

We can only describe it by what it is not

[toxic latch]

enemyPrefab being the name of the prefab being instantiated?

[swift crag]

names are not relevant here

[SerializeField] Enemy enemyPrefab;

enemyPrefab is a field on our component.

it's a variable that's stored in the component.

the prefab could be named "Enemy" or "Glorbo" or whatever

[buoyant knot]

enemyPrefab is the prefab

it’s the blueprint to make a gameobject that you keep as an asset file (not in the scene)

the gameobject is the actual instance that lives in the scene during runtime

[swift crag]

A field of type Enemy can refer to any Enemy component

it could be one on a prefab, or one on an object in the scene

[twilit pilot]

not sure it was that deep - think he literally just needed to manually place an anchor point for A and instantiate an object within a radius of it. Hard to pierce through that extreme beginner mental model of how a computer works though

[swift crag]

That would be a simple option, yeah

basically sticking the enemy on a leash

Intersecting a navmesh with a volume would be really neat, though

I have an AI routine that searches for the player after losing sight of them

right now, it fires a bunch of navmesh raycasts in a circle and then randomly wanders inside that area

I guess I can just randomly sample points within a box to get the same result as some fancy intersection-with-a-volume, though

but that would stop the enemy from taking a long path out of the room into a neighboring room, since there'd be no path to the other room

[polar acorn]

Possible but until they tell us what they actually want all we can do is guess

[buoyant knot]

they want the computer to figure out how to do it for them

[toxic latch]

Still learning about SerializeField; what exactly is that doing in this particular case?

[swift crag]

It tells Unity that it should show that field in the inspector and remember its value

Unity automatically serializes public fields. You have to be explicit for anything else

Leaving fields private reduces the amount of clutter you see when other classes use the component

(To “serialize” is to turn a code object into data.)

[buoyant knot]

serialized = is saved in a file

[twilit pilot]

nice, there's a lot of subjective decisions to make with AI pathfinding like that, part of what makes it difficult to help as it seems like a beginner usually has an opinionated idea about how it should work based on some game they played, but can't articulate that in programming terms (or even describe it at all)

[buoyant knot]

not serialized = not saved in file

[twilit pilot]

yeah

[buoyant knot]

by default, public fields in Monobehaviours and ScriptableObjects are serialized. non-public fields are not. If you want the behaviour to be different from this, you need to use SerializeField or NonSerialized

[toxic latch]

And what exactly is 'var' here?

[swift crag]

var is a keyword to save some typing

[buoyant knot]

var is a keyword to declare a variable without showing the type

[swift crag]

When the type of a local variable is obvious, you can write var instead of the entire type

[buoyant knot]

you should not use it, at all. Until you have a lot more experience

[swift crag]

var x = 3; // x is an int

I think it's good to understand exactly what type you have, yes

[swift crag]

I don't use it in this situation

[buoyant knot]

i basically never use it.

[swift crag]

It's handy in foreach loops

foreach (var module in modules) {

}

I sure hope I know what module is

[buoyant knot]

i did that once. i thought module was of type IMyInterface, but i forgot module was of type SerializableInterface<IMyInterface>. Which didn’t throw a compiler error, but then makes everything super wrong

never again

[swift crag]

splat

[bright zodiac]

you've been missing the most used and loved feature not just in c# but in any other languages 😄

[swift crag]

var is also useless if you need a less specific type, of course

[languid spire]

until you come to read your code and then what?

[buoyant knot]

i used to love that about python, that you don’t need to declare types. that was 15 years ago. Now, I prefer the handrails

[swift crag]

you spend more time reading code than writing code

much more, even

[languid spire]

I don't

[polar acorn]

I have used enough python to know that I never want loose typing ever again. Keep var the hell away from me

[swift crag]

christ, I would not want to write a game without static typing

Although I would not say var is in the same boat

[languid spire]

absolutely, var should never be used

[swift crag]

It's exactly the same static typing that you get from an explicit type.

it's not dynamic

[buoyant knot]

it’s ok in Python when learning, and you don’t know much. then it’s time to move on to more controlled typing

[swift crag]

which does punt type-checking to runtime

[languid spire]

except your code is less readable, not a good thing

[polar acorn]

You look at a function in Python and you have to go through a call stack like eight functions deep until you find the function that originally set the variable to determine it's type

or

You look at the type in the parameter line of the function

Option B seems much better

Down with var

[buoyant knot]

agreed

[polar acorn]

#varisoverparty

[swift crag]

but this has nothing to do with what you just said..

you're describing a lack of static types

[buoyant knot]

that is literally the issue that var causes

[polar acorn]

I know I'm just traumatized by python

[swift crag]

var is only legal when declaring a local variable

[whole sapphire]

how do i get a variable from another game object

like how do i get the run speed from another script

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[buoyant knot]

use GetComponent to get a reference to the component with the variable. Then you have a reference to the thing with the variable

[swift crag]

well, then you'd need a reference to the game object :p

🐢 all the way ⬇️

[buoyant knot]

we’ll cross that bridge if he asks

anyway, I would not teach beginners about var, at all

[distant robin]

!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:
```cs
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```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[buoyant knot]

they have enough to learn, without having to learn something that will actively screw them over

[whole sapphire]

public GameObject statsManager = GetComponent<ScriptableObject>();

sth like this..?

im dum]

[swift crag]

#💻┃code-beginner message read this.

[buoyant knot]

btw is there a simple plugin to get keyboard input for a string?