💻┃code-beginner

[fringe plover]

i had same problems before

[sleek notch]

You can't convert float to bool. But where is any value of float?

[swift crag]

well, let's check the documentation!

[sleek notch]

I saw

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetAxis.html

public static float GetAxis(string axisName);

That doesn't look like a function that returns a bool to me.

[fringe plover]

well, youre getting value, but doing nothing else
you need to check, like, GetAxis(string axisName) >= 0.1

[wanton canyon]

I am trying to make fireflies randomly appear on my map at night. I took some code off the internet (see here: https://pastebin.com/pzfqGmFZ) and it does work - I was able to put a random game object in it and it spawned. However, when I put the fireflies particle system in it it does not work. I only have like three other lines effecting fireflies, by making them only appear at night in my program that manages the day/night cycle. Any ideas?

[ionic zephyr]

Can I use OnCollsion enter to check teh Collision between a character with CharacterController and an object with Capsule Collider? (With duckTyping)

[swift crag]

i'm not sure how duck typing is relevant here

If you want to detect when a CharacterController tries to move into a collider, use this:

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.OnControllerColliderHit.html

[swift crag]

beat me to it!

This will fire when your controller tries to move into a solid collider

[fringe plover]

someone?

pls...

[ionic zephyr]

and what about if I want the other object to be the one that checks the collision for example

[swift crag]

In that case, you can use OnCollisionEnter

The other object must have a non-kinematic rigidbody, and it must actually hit you

So a stationary object that you walk into won't fire OnCollisionEnter, because the character controller will never actually collide

the controller sees the obstacle and positions itself in a valid, non-overlapping position

[ionic zephyr]

then why do I get this

[swift crag]

because your code is wrong

[frosty hound]

Because you didn't implement the function correctly

[swift crag]

did you read the error message

[frosty hound]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnCollisionEnter.html

Take the time to look at the implementation/example in the docs.

[wintry quarry]

It's telling you exactly what's wrong

[polar acorn]

Because this message parameter has to be of type: Collision

[summer stump]

The parameter of OnCollision and OnTrigger are different

[deep robin]

Can you not use operators on shorts? Why's it red? It shouldn't need casting.

[swift crag]

did you read the error message

[ionic zephyr]

yeah but when I put Colission as a parameter It needs a String to check the collision

and I dont want that

[summer stump]

? Not sure what you mean, but it does not
You can do anything with collision that you can with collider

collision.collider

[polar acorn]

what

[ionic zephyr]

can´t do this check

[summer stump]

Collision is a struct

[polar acorn]

What does the error say

[summer stump]

collision.gameObject or collision.collider

Like we said, the parameters are different, they work different. You need to read the docs

[swift crag]

You can use operator * with shorts, but the result is going to be an int regardless. I'm not sure if the arguments are promoted to ints or if it just produces an int.

I'd have to look at the IL to know which it is

[ionic zephyr]

I read the document

and still isnt working

[swift crag]

did you actually understand it, or did you just skim through the page and then give up reading it

[summer stump]

Did you access the gameObject or collider from the struct as directed here

#💻┃code-beginner message

[swift crag]

the documentation makes it extremely clear what you can and can't do with these types

[wanton canyon]

~~I never understand unity documentation ~~

[summer stump]

Read it more
Practice makes perfect

[swift crag]

and if you don't understand something, ask about it

[wanton canyon]

🥺

[west sonnet]

I'm trying to make a reload slider bar to show the reload progress in my 2D game. I've got it working, it's just that rather than the slider gradually increasing, it just jumps from 0 straight up to 1. I've tried to figure out how to make it work myself but I can't. Anyone have any ideas on how I could go about doing this?

[swift crag]

A coroutine would work.

You'd increase the value by a little and then yield return null; to wait until the next frame

and you'd do that in a loop until the value reaches 1

[swift crag]

so you have a prefab with a ParticleSystem on it, right?

and you're spawning that prefab with the ResourceGenerator component?

[wanton canyon]

yes

[swift crag]

Does the prefab work if you drag an instance of it into the scene while the game is running?
i.e. does it spawn firefly particles

[wanton canyon]

yes

but only at night

[swift crag]

if you don't try to turn them off at night, do they work correctly when spawned by the ResourceGenerator?

if so, you have a problem with that logic

[west sonnet]

Do I need to use an IEnumerator to use Coroutine?

[swift crag]

You need a method that returns IEnumerator, yes

and then you need to pass that IEnumerator to StartCoroutine

[wanton canyon]

Just tried commenting out the stop() and play() code - still didnt work. Wondering if code I stole off internet just wont work with particle systems

[swift crag]

StartCoroutine(MyThing())

[swift crag]

I see no reason for it to not work. I would inspect one of the instances of the prefab and make sure it actually has the particle system on it, though

[ionic zephyr]

Okay so I have accesed .collider.GetComponent<CharacterController> but still the collision isnt being detected, could it be problem of the CHaracterController collider then?

[west sonnet]

What does this error message mean?

[wanton canyon]

wait, the placement generator script just has the fireflies prefab directly

[swift crag]

If a method doesn't return void, it must explicitly return a value

[swift crag]

IEnumerator is a little bit special. The compiler turns your method into a class that keeps track of what the method is doing.

[wintry quarry]

Exactly what it says - you don't have any return or yield statements in it, so it's not valid yet

[swift crag]

So you write yield return statements instead.

[west sonnet]

Is it possible to use IEnumerator and Void? Or IEnumerator must always return a value?

[swift crag]

I think you need to read about coroutines

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

this has examples that line up very closely with what you're doing

[west sonnet]

Okay, thank you!

[wintry quarry]

What would that even mean?

IEnumerator IS the return value

[west sonnet]

Oooh

[swift crag]

yes, it's not some kind of special keyword

[swift crag]

The method winds up returning the generated class

There is some compiler magic going on here. You never explicitly return an IEnumerator from the method.

[whole sapphire]

which property do u change to make a game object go unactive

[west sonnet]

object.IsActive = false/true

[swift crag]

that doesn't exist

and activeSelf is read-only

[whole sapphire]

thats whta im going to say

[swift crag]

you need to call SetActive

activeSelf tells you whether or not the object itself is activated. It ignores parents.

whilst activeInHierarchy tells you if all of its parents are active

that's what determines if the object actually counts as being active

(both of these are read-only)

[west sonnet]

Does yield in tell Unity to wait until the next frame to execute code?

and does return null make the code return nothing?

[fringe kindle]

The 'current swingable' variable is used to make the vine itself swing when the player comes into contact with it, and I need it as a 'Transform' type

[swift crag]

yield causes an enumerator to produce a new value. The enumerator is suspended until you ask it for another value.

When Unity sees this, it waits until the next frame to ask for another value (by default)

There are certain values you can yield that make Unity behave differently

for example:

yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);

[west sonnet]

Ahh, I see. So Yield is essentially what keeps the enumerator repeating itself?

[swift crag]

this tells Unity to wait one second before it resumes

[whole sapphire]

how do u get the gameObject's name

[swift crag]

public IEnumerable<int> Numbers() {
  yield return 1;
  yield return 2;
  yield return 3;
}

If you ran this through a foreach loop, you'd get...

foreach (int number in Numbers()) {
  Debug.Log(number);
}

1
2
3

[fringe kindle]

As for my answer to the second part, for context, this script is for the vine swinging and player jumping off it. It's based on a tutorial video I watched where it worked with an object that had ConstantForce. I'm trying to achieve a similar jumping effect but with a third person controller, which doesn't have a rigidbody as it is kinematic.

I hope this gives you enough info on my situation

[swift crag]

foreach gets an enumerator and then repeatedly asks it for values until it runs out

[vocal fable]

why do i get this error? CS1656 Cannot assign to 'AddForce' because it is a 'method group', this is the code

[swift crag]

Imagine that, instead of just asking over and over, you only asked once -- and then waited for a while before asking again

That's exactly what Unity is doing

[swift crag]

because you can't assign a value to a method

did you mean to call that method?

[vocal fable]

oh shit

i realised

[icy coyote]

lol

[vocal fable]

there is a plus

[west sonnet]

Is return null making the code return nothing?

[swift crag]

yield return null makes the enumerator produce a value of null, yeah

IEnumerator is allowed to yield literally anything

and null is the most convenient way to yield something unity doesn't care about

[west sonnet]

Why do I need return null? Why couldn't I have just yield?

[vocal fable]

probably because i just stole this movement from my other game without even looking how it moves lmao

[swift crag]

You can both yield return and yield break

yield break ends the enumerator immediately

Hence the need for yield return instead of just yield

personally, I wouldn't have minded if it was yield ... and yield break, but whatever

[rich adder]

Methods cannot be assigned , so you cannot use =

oh nvm u had response

[west sonnet]

I see. Thank you

[vocal fable]

thanks anyway

[swift crag]

I dunno if there's a single complete list of every kind of thing you can yield from a coroutine to get special behavior

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/YieldInstruction.html has several of them

[sleek notch]

How to set point of rotation. I want to set point of rotation in turret

[swift crag]

You probably have your scene view on "Center" mode

Switch it to "Pivot" mode in the top left

This won't actually change how the game works. It just changes how the scene view shows the handles

[west sonnet]

This is my code at the moment. When the player shoots, the bar goes from 1 to 0.1, but doesn't increase

[rich adder]

not really a code question, but you need to make sure you learn how Child + Parent relationship works
also yea what Fen said about Pivot is important

[west sonnet]

The enumerator isn't repeating

[swift crag]

this coroutine adds 0.1f to the value, yields, and then terminates

[swift crag]

because you didn't tell it to repeat!

[sleek notch]

I have in right way but I can't set the point

[swift crag]

if you want to do something many times, you need to use a loop

[west sonnet]

But it has yield, that makes it repeat, right?

Ooh

[swift crag]

no, I never said that makes something repeat

[rich adder]

wdym you can't see the point ?

[swift crag]

I said that yield makes the enumerator produce a value and suspend itself until you ask it for another value

[west sonnet]

I see

[swift crag]

Now, if you do that in a loop, you'll produce many values

[rich adder]

you have to select the Move tool, gizmos first of all to see your true Pivot direction @sleek notch

[swift crag]

and the loop will repeat every time a value is asked for

[opaque hare]

I am creating a first person car driving game. i want the camera to move and rotate according the car. how do i make the camera rotate as the car rotates.

[sleek notch]

it is rotating bad. I need where the turret is but you see

[rich adder]

Fix the gun center in blender

You would have to find out where is the middle of that turret

you can do it in Unity as well but its harder

[vocal fable]

bruh i spent like a lot of time thinking why my movement doesnt work and then realizing that i didnt even call the movement function

[sleek notch]

It's in middle

[rich adder]

whatever pivot you showed in unity, is not

did you make sure ur in Local Pivot mode

[swift crag]

I don't think you set the scene view to "Pivot" mode.

[buoyant knot]

Raycast2D is just overused for physics, when Collider2D.Cast generally does that smarter

i have a couple of times where I use Physics2D.Raycast, but not very many

[swift crag]

well, it's certainly not relevant for figuring out which 2D object you're clicking on

[polar acorn]

It's also much more expensive of an operation and really only required when you need to check a shape instead of a point

[swift crag]

where is the ray being casted from and to?

a 3D raycast goes from the camera through a point on the screen

a 2D raycast can't...do that. it's 2D

[buoyant knot]

Collider2D.Cast is very similar in cost when you have simple shapes

i’ve checked by benchmarking before. I suspect a lot of the cost comes from filtering shapes based on bounds, which both have to do exactly once anyway

[stuck palm]

is there a way to check if the Item class is an inherited class? like can i see if grabbedItem is of type HeldItem which is inherits "item"?

[buoyant knot]

in my testing, if you have a BoxCollider2D, using .Cast has a cost between 1 raycast and 2 raycasts

but it gives you a proper full query of that shape’s collision

[rich adder]

yes

if(grabbedItem is HeldIem)

[stuck palm]

oh thats interesting

thanks

[buoyant knot]

also, in my testing, I tested a worst case of having like 200 colliders all in a blob, where 100 of them are not relevant to the query (filtered by ContactFilter2D)

[swift crag]

you can also store it in a variable of that type

if (foo is Bar bar)

very handy

[buoyant knot]

oh cool

[swift crag]

            if (objective is SingleObjective singleObjective)
            {
                var display = Instantiate(displayPrefab);
                display.objectiveRenderer = this;
                display.Setup(singleObjective);
                return display;
            }
            else if (objective is ProgressObjective progressObjective)
            {
                var display = Instantiate(progressPrefab);
                display.ObjectiveEntry.objectiveRenderer = this;
                display.Setup(progressObjective);
                return display.ObjectiveEntry;
            }

for example

the objectives are inheritance-based whilst the objective displays are 100% composition with no common parent type, hence the mild ugliness

maybe I should extract a few things out...

[west sonnet]

I've got a reload bar which I currently have following my cursor position. How can I get it so that it stays just slightly below my cursor position?

[polar acorn]

Add some value to the mouse position

[west sonnet]

How can I add a value to an objects position?

[polar acorn]

With +

[west sonnet]

Input.mousePosition is a Vector3. It doesn't let me add a value to it using +

[polar acorn]

Yes it does

[west sonnet]

I can't add a Vector3 and a float together. It's also not letting me add a Vector3 and a Vector3 together

[polar acorn]

You can't add a float to a vector3

You have to add a vector3

[west sonnet]

Why doesn't this work? I tried using Vector3.down and it worked, but I need to move it further

[gaunt ice]

this is not how you create a vector3

[polar acorn]

Because that's not how you make a new vector3

[west sonnet]

How do I do it?

Is this correct?

[stuck palm]

why am i getting a null error when im trying to set the player script value from the held item?

[keen ridge]

how can I check if the pointer is over an UI element without using IPointerEnterHandler interface? Can it be done with raycasts for example? I'm using the interfaces, but there is one case when I need to detect in a single frame if the pointer is on the object

[stuck palm]

i might be stupid

never mind just reread my code

[lament portal]

Hey, not sure if thats correct channel to ask. correct me if im wrong pls. I Have a script to move an object with WASD and a script to rotate the camera up and down. However rotating left and right doesnt affect the WASD movment. Both scripts are attached to the same game object so i guess its rotating, but how to i make the rotation affect the movement?

[timber tide]

How are you moving your character inthe first place

such that are you using world direction vectors or via transform

[fringe kindle]

Good news, I managed to get the jump working but it doesn't give me any forward velocity from the swing automatically. Instead it's like I'm jumping normally

[tacit estuary]

You can use this to rotate your input direction from world space to local space https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.InverseTransformDirection.html

[thorny prawn]

can anyone help me #archived-code-general latest question

[lament portal]

a 2D vector made with input manager

[lament portal]

thanks, ill look into it

[timber tide]

ok, but still not sure what those vectors contain in gameInput.GetMovementVectorNormalized() because if you're strictly using world coordinates for movement then you're not taking in account of your transform rotation

though you've not really said why it's not working

[timber tide]

ah ok, it's probably world then so Pumpkin's solution there is one idea

[lament portal]

it does seem to affect the movement direction now, just not in the right way. I guess ill have to play around with it. Is there A way to start with WSAD input affecting the x and z that would be local to the game object?

works

[timber tide]

You usually can just get the direction from the transform yourself if you are updating the rotation

transform.left / right, ect

actually, there's not transform.left

[lament portal]

Pumkin stuff was good but I had to do transform direction instead of inversetransformdirection

[timber tide]

so -(transform.right) ;)

[lament portal]

thanks, ill look into it as well. It works the way it is but why not learn something new

[celest holly]

can anyone explain to me what the singleton pattern is good for?

[rich adder]

you need to ensure existence of something only 1 instance of it

[cosmic quail]

i know someone who can explain...

😄

[rich adder]

example a GameManager, AudioManager

but yes google has an insane amount of examples

[buoyant knot]

are there any tools to help refactor code? I have some super tightly coupled code that I’d like to break up

[rich adder]

good design patterns

[buoyant knot]

i’m going back to address sins of my past

from following tutorials too closely

[cosmic quail]

yeah for example with AudioManager, you can emit audio from any script just by putting an AudioManager.Instance.PlayAudio() anywhere. the alternative to singletons is... dragging a reference to the AudioManager into every one of your scripts that you want to emit audio from? 🤔 oh delegates could be used for this too cant they? which would be better? wouldnt delegates be more performant actually? idk

[rich adder]

a delagate would not repalce a singleton pattern

is just a method that runs another method when said event is invoked

[queen adder]

A singleton is just to ensure you have exactly one instance of something. Events are something else entirely

[cosmic quail]

cant said method be PlayAudio? and you invoke it from all of your scripts that need to play a certain audio

[rich adder]

they need to be subscribed to that event though and they still a need a reference for that

unless you made the event static which then would make it a singleton (sorta)

[cosmic quail]

what if the delegate is static? so you can subscribe it from anywhere?

[queen adder]

Not if it's a static event

[eternal needle]

You can do a lot just from your IDE, not really sure what kind of tool you are expecting though.

[buoyant knot]

I don’t need a tool to try to do it for me, but to maybe visualize dependencies so I can untangle them

[rich adder]

oh there was a tool like that in asset store

it shows you all the branching in your components / dependencies

[cosmic quail]

but this seems like a worse way cause just a singleton would be simpler than dealing with events and delegates, unless those are more performant than calling AudioManager.Instance all the time

[buoyant knot]

i see. right now, I’m trying to split a class. is there anyway to quickly visualize which methods depend on which classes, and other functions?

[queen adder]

Singletons aren't really a replacement for static events. You sometimes want to make sure you only have one instance of gameobject that's what singletons are for

[rich adder]

yeah Im trying to find the github link

someone posted some asset like that

[rich adder]

its a design choice I think too, if you want you can use both

if an event needs to be static , it doesnt need a singleton class for it

[buoyant knot]

that’s not really what singletons are for lmao

[queen adder]

What are they for then?

[buoyant knot]

singletons are so you only have one instance of a class

they don’t need any relationship to a gameobject at all

[queen adder]

Well in a unity context??

I meant an instance of a class sorry I said gameobject

[buoyant knot]

makes no difference

[cosmic quail]

well they are on a gameobject, i guess thats their relationship

[queen adder]

Exactly ^^^

[eternal needle]

Usually that one instance of a class would mean you also have 1 gameobject, the usual way to deal with duplicate instances is to destroy the duplicate gameobject

[rich adder]

not sure it was this one
but it was similiar
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/script-dependency-visualizer-57647

[buoyant knot]

only if you make it a monobehaviour, which is not a requirement

[queen adder]

Right

We / I meant instance

I used the wrong terminology my apologies

[buoyant knot]

ty. i’ll give it a shot

[last fern]

i need some help with a bit of math

if (rotationAxis.y > 0) {
            curx = cos(angletot);
            curz = sin(angletot);
            newx = forward->x * cosf(rotation) - forward->z * sinf(rotation);
            newz = forward->x * sinf(rotation) + forward->z * cosf(rotation);
            
            if ((angletot >= 0 && angletot <= 180) || (angletot <= 0 && angletot >= -180)) { //rotating left
                if (newx > 0) {
                    newx *= -1;
                }
            }
            
            *forward = {newx, forward->y, newz};
        }

i am trying to find the new normal vector after a rotation. i am using a formula currently to find the new x and new z values but the values i get dont look correct at all?

x: -0.224394 rotation: 0.258349 total: 67.7706
x: -0.995662 rotation: 1.2513 total: 69.0219
x: -0.993595 rotation: 0.206422 total: 69.2283
x: -0.180614 rotation: 1.27595 total: 70.5042
x: -0.0545774 rotation: 0.236213 total: 70.7404
x: -0.994916 rotation: 1.61707 total: 72.3575
x: -0.990943 rotation: 0.0338062 total: 72.3913
x: -0.315979 rotation: 1.11462 total: 73.5059
x: -0.0367984 rotation: 0.284685 total: 73.7906
x: -0.929816 rotation: 1.23072 total: 75.0213
x: -0.991815 rotation: 0.24885 total: 75.2702

the x values should be changing smoothly from 0 to -1 and then back to 0 but that is not happening 🤔 not sure if i am using the equation wrong or if the equation is wrong

[buoyant knot]

your agreement with this still makes no sense

because it’s just false

[swift crag]

unity can already do this for you

[last fern]

i am not using unity 😆 so i have to do it this way

[swift crag]

Quaternion.Euler(1, 2, 3) * Vector3.right produces a rotated vector

[buoyant knot]

“peanut butter is a shit condiment because you have to put it with jelly”

[swift crag]

then this isn't a unity question

[queen adder]

Bro it does lmao. An instance of of a monobehavior would be connected to a gameobject therefore if u have one instance of a monobehavoir you have one gameobject

[last fern]

ik but it is game programming related so i thought some people here may know

[swift crag]

a singleton of Component type will be related to a GameObject, yes

singletons can be of any type you want

[polar acorn]

So then why is it here

[buoyant knot]

no. the monobehaviour can just stop itself from being instantiated. so you can make 20 gameobjects from a prefab with a singleton, and 19 of them would auto-destroy the singleton monobehaviour you put on them

[queen adder]

Fen yet again proves me wrong

[buoyant knot]

you are adding things to the definition of a singleton that do not exist

[polar acorn]

Singletons don't have to be MonoBehaviours. POCOs can and often are made into singletons

[queen adder]

Right I agree singletons don't have to be tied to monobehaviours they're used outside of game development

[polar acorn]

An object being a Singleton does not provide any information, either for or against, that object being related to a GameObject

[true yacht]

Yes it runs but somthing goes not like on PC device with the same code

[buoyant knot]

Right I agree singletons don't have to be tied to monobehaviours they're used outside of game development

fixed that for you

just because you are in unity doesn’t mean you need to turn your POCO singletons into monobehaviours

[queen adder]

They are used outside of game development 💀💀

[swift crag]

Check what values you're getting when trying to rotate the character

[queen adder]

Like what are you on???

[swift crag]

loup's point is that singletons aren't tied to monobehaviours, period

not because they're used in other contexts

[buoyant knot]

there is zero relationship

[true yacht]

on PC isRot sets correctly, on mobile with the same input, etc in simulator never sets isRot true

[swift crag]

Okay. So check what values you're getting in that function.

[queen adder]

I agree with that statement fully

[swift crag]

        if(angle * Mathf.Deg2Rad <= deltaTime)
        {
            _isRotating = false;
            rotating = false;
        }

this is really suspicious to me

[buoyant knot]

it’s just wrong, you mean

if (# in radians <= # in seconds)

you should not compare values with different units

[swift crag]

You may be getting framerate-dependent behavior here, depending on exactly how the rest of your code works.

[swift crag]

it was multiplied by a "sensitivity" variable earlier

[cosmic quail]

is there a reason to make non-monobehaviour singletons in unity?

[swift crag]

sure

I have lots of singleton ScriptableObjects, for example

I also have singleton plain-old classes

er, "plain old C# objects"

that's the more common name

A singleton is something of which there is only one.

That's it.

[rich adder]

singletons are not unity exclusive

[cosmic quail]

why not just make it a static class?

[swift crag]

that IS a singleton!

[cosmic quail]

ooooooohhhhhhh

[swift crag]

by definition, there's exactly one instance

[cosmic quail]

ok that makes sense

[buoyant knot]

you should not mix up static classes and singletons

while technicallt true, that’s a really dangerous equivalency

most people do not consider static classes to be singletons

[swift crag]

oh yes, I should really say a static field

I misread.

A static class is just a class that has no non-static members

there aren't any instances in the first place

I guess it kind of works as a singleton, but that's really stretching the definition

[buoyant knot]

it’s just not a singleton, because there are zero instances

[cosmic quail]

oh. so a static class isnt a singleton? why not use a static class then instead of a singleton class

[swift crag]

Mathf is a static..struct, for example

It's just a way to ensure you don't accidentally put instance members in something you never intend to create instances of

[buoyant knot]

static classes have a ton of downsides

[swift crag]

I wouldn't say they have "downsides". It's just a way to have the compiler check your work.

[cosmic quail]

like what?

[buoyant knot]

static classes (vs singleton):

1. stored on heap (instead of stack)
2. No instance => hard to debug
3. Keep changes to variables everywhere
4. can’t be destroyed

[swift crag]

points 1-3: what?

[summer stump]

There IS an instance. It belongs to the type

[buoyant knot]

there are several parts I’m forgetting

[buoyant knot]

that’s not really an instance of the class. you can’t instantiate a static class

[summer stump]

It is defined as an instance

Just because YOU don't instantiate it doesn't mean it is NOT instantiated

[swift crag]

there is, indeed, a static constructor that executes before the first usage of any static members

[summer stump]

Oh, I thought it was ON the first usage. Good to know

[buoyant knot]

but i’m not sure it’s fair to call it an instance

[swift crag]

well, those are roughly compatible (:

[summer stump]

It is a fact...

[swift crag]

It's just before you actually get to use it

[swift crag]

is this spelled out somewhere in the C# spec? i'm digging around it right now

[rich adder]

it can because it exists

[buoyant knot]

C#’s docs just say it “cannot be instantiated”

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

the members of a static class belong to the definition of the class, and not to any instance

[swift crag]

the class itself is not an instance of the class

so I would agree on that

[rich adder]

would not say the class IS the instance

[swift crag]

Note: Generally speaking, it is useful to think of static members as belonging to classes and instance members as belonging to objects (instances of classes). end note

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/language-specification/classes#1538-static-and-instance-members

[buoyant knot]

“A call to a static method generates a call instruction in Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL), whereas a call to an instance method generates a callvirt instruction, which also checks for null object references. However, most…”

[swift crag]

you know, now that I've thought about it

[buoyant knot]

meaning, calls to methods in a static class are not calls to an instance

[swift crag]

a static class is absolutely a singleton: it's the platonic ideal of a singleton, in fact

[summer stump]

I could have sworn it was, but I can't find it.

[swift crag]

all of its members are guaranteed to exist, and they're guaranteed to exist exactly once

[buoyant knot]

because a static class has no instances by definition

[swift crag]

it is impossible for the definition of a singleton to be violated

[buoyant knot]

and therefore, a static class cannot be a singleton, which requires exactly one instance

[rich adder]

this conversation is hilarious 😆

[languid spire]

This whole conversation is moot.
If you could define Monobehaviours as static, you would, as you cannot you use the singleton patttern.
In normal C# if 'There can be only one' then its a static class

[buoyant knot]

you can’t have 1 instance if there are zero instances to be had

[swift crag]

of course, this is all more-or-less meaningless bikeshedding

[rich adder]

semantics

[swift crag]

it's a singleton if it looks and feels like one to me!

🦆

[buoyant knot]

wiki, for whatever it is worth: “In software engineering, the singleton pattern is a software design pattern that restricts the instantiation of a class to a singular instance”

static classes are not singletons

they are zero-tons

i don’t undersrand why this is controversial

[wintry quarry]

A static class is basically the same as a non-static class, but there is one difference: a static class cannot be instantiated. In other words, you cannot use the new operator to create a variable of the class type.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/static-classes-and-static-class-members

in other words - no instances. Just a named holder for static members

[swift crag]

the question is whether it's a meaningful distinction

[wintry quarry]

Yes because you can't put the thing into a collection. You can't call .HashCode() on it

it's literally not an object by the C# definition of objects

[swift crag]

Hm, that is true. There's no thing there in the first place.

and that has meaningful implications

[wintry quarry]

if you did MyFunction(object x) a static class could not be passed into that

[swift crag]

you can't pass it around

[true yacht]

also a good idea is too combine singletons with static class, implementing ServiceLocator Pattern

[swift crag]

yeah, that's a vital difference

[buoyant knot]

you can’t make a static singleton class

[swift crag]

to combine the two things

not necessarily in the exact same class :p

[timber tide]

big benefit of singleton is controlling its instance for each scene

as static would still exist between

[swift crag]

also I'm going to make a thread for this because I think it's clogging up the chat

[wintry quarry]

As long as you're saying that the static class is the service locator for singletons that are not of static class types then sure

[buoyant knot]

one distinction I forgot is that singletons allow inheritance and implementation of interfaces

[timber tide]

that too

more of a limitation to static though imo

[true yacht]

oh, this issue with animation is realy bad, still can't understand why, where are differences between PC and Mobile here

[timber tide]

later .net versions have more to static classes

[swift crag]

have you done any debugging on the values you're computing

[true yacht]

i just change this one

and it does not works

[swift crag]

if you don't check your values, you're going to get nowhere

[buoyant knot]

not a limitation. you can’t pass/return a static class as an argument, and you can’t hold a static class in a container

[swift crag]

no matter how many times you tell us it's not working!

[timber tide]

right, that is true

[true yacht]

i'm checking it one by one but still not managed to understand where the trouble is

[buoyant knot]

eg even if the language let you put an interface on a static class, you could not exploit that in any way

[swift crag]

Log all of the relevant values or attach a debugger.

https://canary.discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1195082728870264962 🥹

[timber tide]

Not that I've tried to really pass singletons around or contain them but I could see some usage

[buoyant knot]

i’m currently working with a collection of singletons that all implement an interface

collection of custom draw logic, where each one is a singleton, which corresponds to exactly one unique class with an ICustomDrawLogic interface.

so I can iterate through all singletons with the interface and call their interface methods

can’t do that with a static class

and the individual singletons do things like Move the start point, move the goal flag, handle text input boxes,…

[swift crag]

https://canary.discord.com/channels/489222168727519232/1195082728870264962

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

yes plz

[buoyant knot]

i’d like to keep this static, so I’m done

0 instances of threads plz

[timber tide]

Service Locator pattern is useful for when you do want to somehow quickly access that reference without the downside of forcing that single instance constraint.

[true yacht]

Well i tried a bit and found solution to my problem, i just put my Move and Rotate methods to Update, so only IK still staying in OnAnimatorIK and that probably works. I think the problem was that this OnAnimatorIK and Update are not synchronizing in my settings preset may be on android

[swift crag]

OnAnimatorIK can get run multiple times in a single animation update.

that is probably what caused your problem

[true yacht]

yes but something is different on PC and Mobile

[swift crag]

but did you ever actually try logging anything...?

I feel like you haven't been doing anything that's been suggested to you

maybe you just haven't been showing us what you were doing, but,

[buoyant knot]

looking into service locator pattern, I’m not exactly sure what the big deal is against it

[swift crag]

it was very frustrating to watch you ask for help, say it's not working, and then just...leave again

[buoyant knot]

it’s like a strategy pattern with persistent instances

[true yacht]

nevermind, solution already works, so thanks for trying to help

[timber tide]

basically a top layer of abstraction where a single key defines the instances

You can think of "Local Player" in multiplayer games

[buoyant knot]

i don’t see the issue

or rather why there is hate

you just have a collection of an interface, and keep tabs on a “current index”. idk where the problem arises from

[ionic zephyr]

When you load a scene what are the things you loose exactly?

[timber tide]

everything that was destroyed in your previous scene

[buoyant knot]

every gameobject

[timber tide]

but you can mark objects so they aren't destroyed when the scene is unloaded

[ionic zephyr]

DontDestroyOnLoad, right?

[timber tide]

ye

[buoyant knot]

the only thing you keep are:

1. gameobjects maked dontdestroyonLoad
2. scriptable objects, and other assets that are just always around
3. variables in static classes
4. C# objects not tied to gameobjects

[swift crag]

basically, anything that was in the scene is lost

[buoyant knot]

#4 i’m pretty sure is true as long as it isn’t only referenced by gameobject-tied objects that would be GC’d

[swift crag]

When the scene unloads, there's a nice long GC pause

grumble

my game's loading sequence feels so good if I just never unload any scenes

[buoyant knot]

just do what I do, and make your whole game in 2 scenes: main menu scene, and the everything else scene 👍

[ionic zephyr]

nice advice

[buoyant knot]

i might make 2 more scenes tops for menus, but not much more tbh

[twin bison]

HI boys. Is there like a shortcut like in javascript for doing something like this in c#?
healthBar != null && healthBar.SetHealth(amount);

if healthbar is not null, call the sethealth func

[wintry quarry]

Well you can do exactly that

that's valid C# right there

but yes there's a shortcut

however. it is not friendly with Unity objects.

[fringe kindle]

I think I know how to make the jump happen:

I gotta trick the game into thinking I'm grounded whilst on the vine collider.

Is there a way to add that in my vine script under 'OnTriggerEnter', from my ThirdPersonController code?

[wintry quarry]

SO it is not recommended to use it

[buoyant knot]

healthbar?.SetHealth(5);

[languid spire]

healthBar?.SetHealth(amount);

[wintry quarry]

if (healthBar != null) healthBar.SetHealth(amount);```

[twin bison]

Well that is nice 😄

[slender nymph]

null conditional does not handle destroyed objects though so you'll run into MissingReferenceExceptions

so go with the if statement that praetor suggested

[wintry quarry]

This would be the shortcut but if HealthBar is a MonoBehaviour it isn't a good idea:

healthBar?.SetHealth(amount);```

[buoyant knot]

a destroyed object == null, but not is null

unity overrides == null for gameobject

[polar acorn]

Your function returns nothing. If you want to and it with a bool it'd need to return a bool

[twin bison]

So if an object is destroyed healthBar? would be truthy?

[wintry quarry]

yes

[buoyant knot]

i believe ? checks for true null

[twin bison]

ok that's good info thx

[buoyant knot]

so destroyed?.DoX()
would try to call DoX because destroyed is not null. It just == null. Then it will throw an error

[ionic zephyr]

this is the before and after of the load, should I use DOntDestroyOnLoad in all this objects and scripts?

[wintry quarry]

The things you are referencing are getting destroyed because they're in the scene that was unloaded.
That doesn't necessarily mean that using DDOL on everything is the right choice

[slender nymph]

c# does not have a concept of "destroyed". when you destroy a UnityEngine.Object it happens on the c++ side then the overridden == operator will return true when comparing to null but the object isn't actually null until you assign null to the variable.
So using the null conditional operator and other operators that check against true null will return false when an object is destroyed but if you still try to access it you'll get a MissingReferenceException (which is one of unity's exceptions) that will basically be like "you're trying to use a destroyed object"

[buoyant knot]

i’m 7 months into a project, and I have 1 gameobject with 3 monobehaviours that are do not destroy on load. And that is fine

[ionic zephyr]

Also script links are missing at the top, how can I preserve them

[wintry quarry]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[twin bison]

I think I can wrap my head around this. ? is built into C# and checks for real null value and == is overritten by the engine to also make the engine think it's null

[wintry quarry]

It really depends what you're trying to do and what the lifecycle of all these objects is

[slender nymph]

yeah pretty much

[ionic zephyr]

Okay I should explain the context. It is a cannon that shoots a ball, when it reaches the target, it ends. There is a Restart button which makes a LoadScene but whenever it loads all of the links with previous scripts and GameObjects dissapear

[wintry quarry]

Why is the UI manager a DDOL object but the other things aren't?

[twin bison]

I create my game world via tiles and tilemap but in code. When I'm in editor not in play mode i dont see that world obviously. Now i know there is some unity trickery to generate the world also in editor mode - but i can't find it also don't know how its called for googling it. Can somebody guide me into the right direction please?

[ionic zephyr]

It isnt

[wintry quarry]

Also why do you have multiple InputManagers. @ionic zephyr ?

[wintry quarry]

It has to be, otherwise you wouldnt have that

[ionic zephyr]

Not really, why?

it is the inspector for the GameManager

[buoyant knot]

out of curiosity, is it possible to tell unity to request a big block of working memory from OS, to save on allocation time? or is this already a part of unity

like if I know my game is going to be consistently using 10 MB of RAM or whatever, is there a way to articulate this so I can just ask for 10 MB of RAM, and we only try to allocate more if it isn’t enough?

[twin bison]

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class CreateGround : MonoBehaviour
{

....

Omg that all it took to generate the world in editor mode. Holy hell I love unity 😄

[ionic zephyr]

It is the before and after @wintry quarry

[royal ledge]

How do i assign a prefab to a variable in a script which is applied unto prefabs during runtime, but never exists on prefabs in the editor? Meaning i can't use [SerializeField]

[slender nymph]

just pass the reference if you can only do it at runtime
https://unity.huh.how/references/simple-dependency-injection

[buoyant knot]

prefab reference needs to be serialized somewhere, and script gets reference from their, to pass on like box described

[royal ledge]

Ah ty guys

[polar acorn]

Before and after what

[ionic zephyr]

a LoadScene

it says it in the message

[polar acorn]

Okay, so it is a DDOL

[ionic zephyr]

The GameObject yes

the thing is I lost the references because it is referencing components of the previous scene

[polar acorn]

So we go back to where we were initially:
Why is the UI Manager a DDOL, but not the UI it manages

[ionic zephyr]

There is no gameObject UI Manager

[polar acorn]

Then how did you post a picture of one

[ionic zephyr]

it is a "Game" GameObject

[royal ledge]

When I use AddComponent<randomScript> is this creating a object of that class? Meaning I could do the dependecy injection in the constructor?

[polar acorn]

With a UIManager on it

[slender nymph]

and the "Game" gameobject has a UI Manager attached to it. making the UIManager DDOL

[polar acorn]

Making your UIManager a DDOL

[ionic zephyr]

Yeah, with that script

[polar acorn]

That persists between scenes

without having a UI that persists between scenes

[ionic zephyr]

Should I make it DDOL too

[languid spire]

yes and no, it is creating a new instance but monobehaviours cannot have constructors

[polar acorn]

More to the point: Why is the UI Manager a DDOL if it manages objects that aren't persistent

[royal ledge]

@languid spire You sound like my father, he always hits me with the "yes and no's", I see thanks

[ionic zephyr]

You are right, I didn´t realize that I wanted the UI to restart

so maybe the solution is making another gameObject that contains the UI Script

which isnt DDOL

[languid spire]

I'm almost definitely considerably older than your father, but when you ask a 2 part question you get a 2 part answer

[toxic latch]

if bob.age = 87 is declared in a script, and in another script we declare string name = bob, will name.age return 87?

[swift crag]

none of this would compile

[languid spire]

no

[swift crag]

That code might make sense in something like GameMaker with a big pile of global variables

and no static types

[languid spire]

JS or TS

[toxic latch]

As someone just making the leap, that's precisely the problem tbh. 😅

[swift crag]

I've had the opposite problem when looking at gamemaker code

"how on god's green earth do people make games this way?"

[eternal needle]

Ideally you should look at basics of c# first, before you struggle with c# syntax and learning unity api at the same time.
Strings do not have a .age field

[swift crag]

in Unity, you're going to want to assign references in the inspector to let one component know about another component (when both are in the scene)

You don't make a ton of globals.

public class Person : MonoBehaviour {
  public int age;
}

public class Car : MonoBehaviour {
  [SerializeField] Person driver;

  void Start() {
    if (driver.age < 16) {
      Debug.Log("Kids can't drive!");
      Destroy(driver);
    }
  }
}

..that might be a little too draconian

[polar acorn]

Strings do not have a .age field

[rocky canyon]

lmao

[orchid trout]

What are possible reasons why an editor script in unity is not changing the appearance of the associate script in Inspector?

• its in 'Editor' folder
• no errors in the console
• scripts recompiled correctly
• It works as expected in one project, when copied over to a new project, the same code in the same version of unity under the same folder structure path doesnt work

[languid spire]

missing asset

[swift crag]

do you happen to be using NaughtyAttributes in this project?

it provides a custom editor for all monobehaviours

[orchid trout]

No idea, whats that?

[swift crag]

It's a library to add things like buttons to component inspectors

[orchid trout]

Oh in that case if its some kind of package I had to install, I dont think so

Ill check though, im not the one who set it up

[swift crag]

I would do a search for CustomEditor

I'm not sure what happens when there are several custom editors to pick from

[orchid trout]

this shows up

[swift crag]

ah, I mean in your code editor

[toxic latch]

I asked a couple questions surrounding this yesterday but didn't really get to dig into it, but this is exactly the kind of thing I was trying to do, but I couldn't figure out how to change driver at runtime

[orchid trout]

Oh like in visual studio

[swift crag]

well, the nicest way would be to give Car a method that sets who is driving it

[toxic latch]

Like I can drag and drop whatever I want into the serialized field in the inspector, but couldn't seem to figure out how to get a different driver's age.

[orchid trout]

TMP has some, otherwise none

[swift crag]

public void GetIn(Person driver) {
  if (this.driver != null) {
    GetOut(this.driver);
  }

  this.driver = driver;
  // do anything else you need at this moment
}

if you need to see who's driving the car, you could either make the field public (which means you can't force GetIn to be used, which is lame)

or you could make a property that only tells you who's driving

public Person Driver => driver;

[orchid trout]

I will try to restart unity, thats always a candidate 🤔

[swift crag]

or you could write a method that just returns it

public Person GetDriver() { return driver; }

hang on

the cat is clawing me

[toxic latch]

I was trying to do so in the context of instantiating a prefab.

[swift crag]

solved. he was starving to death (food bowl not 100% full)

[orchid trout]

after restarting unity, now I get this error when I select my asset that im trying to have a custom inspector for

[toxic latch]

Like I can instantiate whatever prefab is loaded in the SerializedField in the inspector no problem, but couldn't figure out how to instantiate something else — i.e. change the prefab loaded into the serialized field in the inspector

[swift crag]

why do you need to change that field?

why not just instantiate another field?

if (makeCar)
  Instantiate(carPrefab);
else
  Instantiate(bikePrefab);

[edgy prism]

Hello, I have quite an important method in one script "CalculateStats" that is private, I want to call it from another script but it does what it says on the tin and feel like making it public might give people an easy way to mess with their stats. What is the standard way of calling it from another script without making it public? subscribing to an event?

Alternatively should I even worry about just making it public?

[polar acorn]

If you need to edit it from another script it needs to be public

that's literally the definition of public

[slender nymph]

and if you are worrying about people who are modifying your game, they will likely be able to call it via reflection anyway so there's no sense in worrying about making it public just to prevent modding or whatever

[edgy prism]

Im not sure I understand, the class is public the method is private if you mean the entire script sorry I should've worded it better

[polar acorn]

private means only the script its defined in can call it

if another script needs to call it it needs to be public

[edgy prism]

Sounds like I should just make it public but for curiosities sake, Couldnt I use a workaround like subscribing to an event sent from the second script to the first and then "Event += CalculateStats;"

[languid spire]

in terms of protecting your code, that would make no difference

[slender nymph]

sure, you absolutely can subscribe private methods to events. there is nothing stopping you from doing so. and if your architecture makes more sense to use an event for this, then do so.
but yeah, like steve said it makes no difference when it comes to "protecting" your code

[edgy prism]

No its definitely easier to just make it public I was just thinking about protecting the code

Thanks everyone for your help I appreciate it ❤️

[languid spire]

there is one thing that you can do although it will make little or no real difference, use internal rather than public

[toxic latch]

So I have a WeaponSpawner script with a serialized field (_prefab) that I've dragged my dagger prefab into in the inspector

GameObject newDagger = Instantiate(_prefab) spawns the dagger no problem

[edgy prism]

I was considering that although funny you say that cause I just learned about internal methods 5 minutes ago looking into it, if its not gonna do me much good ill just leave it public

[polar acorn]

So then do that, but with a different prefab

[swift crag]

i don't understand what the problem is. If you want to have multiple choices, you need multiple references.

[polar acorn]

It doesn't do much for Unity since your project is unlikely to ever be loaded as a dll in a third party program

[swift crag]

You should either have several fields -- one for each weapon -- or should have a list of weapons

[toxic latch]

I guess that's what I was getting to. So if I have like 50 weapons, I should probably just do a list.

[swift crag]

If you're handling all 50 in a similar manner, then yes, make a list

[edgy prism]

Thanks thats good to know

[empty dagger]

Hello, I'm trying to make it so there's seperate animations for jumping and falling, but it's not triggering the fall animation and IDK what I could possibly be doing wrong, the Debug.Log is working when it should be so IDK what the problem could be

https://gdl.space/cunobodoqu.php

[halcyon summit]

Does anyone know any common things to look for when a public override in a subclass isn't being called even though the main class's function is being called?

[slender nymph]

make sure it is actually an overriden method and not just hiding the base class's method

[swift crag]

the parent class's method must be virtual, and the child must override it

and, of course, the runtime type of the object must be the child class!

[halcyon summit]

Yeah I'm using virtual and override. In fact, a different subclass of the same base class is working just fine - but this copy/pasted alternative subclass isn't working, despite all the code being identical. Is there somewhere I should look elsewhere?

[slender nymph]

check for errors in the console and if you are still having trouble, show the relevant code

[edgy prism]

Going back to my previous question about making a method public if I just found a way to do the same thing but allowing me to keep the method private is that something I should do or does it not make much notable difference?

[swift crag]

Private members make your life easier.

I've been doing some refactoring of old code. Whenever I stumble into a public field, I have to shift-F12 it to find out all of the places that read it

...and that write it

[languid spire]

in a unity project, absolutely no difference

[edgy prism]

I mean as far as I can tell this will be the only other place that intentionally calls it

[edgy prism]

Oh really so you're saying the only reason I should care about private vs public is for my own sake of keeping track of references?

[languid spire]

yes

[edgy prism]

Ok damn that's good news for me then I was under the impression it was bad practice to make anything public unless absolutely necessary

[languid spire]

this is specific to Unity, in the real world it's a different matter

[wintry quarry]

Show the code and the calling code.

[edgy prism]

Yeah I get you probably something I should stick too for when im dealing with areas that it does matter in but just nice to know its not such a big issue in Unity. Thanks again for you help

[swift crag]

Access modifiers get a lot more important once other people start depending on your code.

changing things that people depend on can break their code

[edgy prism]

Ohh yeah thats not something i've ever really thought about tbh

[swift crag]

and "you from six months ago" is pretty close to another person (:

[rocky canyon]

you mean like multipliers to adjust values?

[edgy prism]

Hahahh I've found that out the hard way before

[rocky canyon]

i have a tendency to always add a multiplier when i use a value... multiply it by (1) even if i never use it again lol

[ionic zephyr]

https://hastebin.com/share/orakifuyid.csharp does anyone know why the state never changes to three??

the condition for the method to work is a Mouse Input

[polar acorn]

Probably because it's being set to 0, 1, or 2 every frame

[ionic zephyr]

I supposed that but the check is also being done every frame

I tryed this

[modest dust]

Because even if it does change to 3, it will change to 0, 1 or 2 straight away

your last else if is basically an else since it's a negation of the previous else if statement

[stuck palm]

how can you apply rotational force in code? to make like an object start spinning

[rocky canyon]

AddTorque if its a RB

or AddRelativeTorque

if not u gotta manipulate its rotation propertie

[stuck palm]

whats the input type for torque?

[rocky canyon]

its a force..

[rocky canyon]

a float.. and integer

[queen adder]

why does this happen when i build my app?

[stuck palm]

oh right

[queen adder]

this never happens in the unity editor

[rocky canyon]

appears ur camera is spazzing out

[queen adder]

it is

and the movement is broken

[rocky canyon]

ull have to probably share the code.. sooo many things that could be

[queen adder]

alright

[rocky canyon]

im betting the movement w/o the camera logic works

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, I´ve corrected it

[ionic zephyr]

is this fine? the if part I mean

[queen adder]

want me to turn off the camera scripts and see if anything changes?

[ionic zephyr]

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

[rocky canyon]

it would help eliminate other causes

[queen adder]

alright

[rocky canyon]

if it works fine w/o the cam movement then you know for sure its in that code somewhere

[sacred egret]

why does the jump only work once https://paste.mod.gg/mlqvjdsdoltj/0

[rocky canyon]

if the problem still exists even with teh camera stuff gone.. then its something bigger

[ionic zephyr]

It only recognizes the Input sometimes, help

[queen adder]

it seems like

the rigidbody isnt freezing its position

ill go fix that

[slender nymph]

what input are you referring to?

[ionic zephyr]

Oh sorry, a Mouse Input

GetKeyDown

[languid spire]

presumabley because your collision code is never being called

[polar acorn]

Probably because you never set jumping back to false

[rocky canyon]

^ im thinking the same..

[ionic zephyr]

This part

[slender nymph]

oh well if you aren't getting any mouse input or key presses in this class, it's likely due to the lack of actually checking any input in the class you shared

[polar acorn]

show

[rocky canyon]

that Input only happens 1 frame... meaning when u press the mouse button the attackanimation goes true.. but the very next frame.. it goes back to false..

[ionic zephyr]

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

[rocky canyon]

even if u never even release the mouse button

b/c the ifstatement only returns true the exact frame u press the mouse button..

[ionic zephyr]

Oh, you are right

[rocky canyon]

if u want it to be continously true u probably want just the GetKey() or the mouse version

[polar acorn]

So, with that resolved, question: Why do you have a single variable that seems to be controlling like three different kinds of animations instead of actually having parameters related to the animations and proper use of state transitions?

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, I tryed the Attack with bool and worked right, Im just trying another way

[honest haven]

https://gdl.space/zanidasebo.cs i am alittle lost. im trying to make my player run while holding the left shit and w key. it works if i press w and then left shift. on line 68 the direction magnitude is 0. So this is where im lost how does line 44 work?

[polar acorn]

Because that only ever runs if direction.magnitude is less than 0.1

[rocky canyon]

it evaluates whether the player's input (horizontal and vertical axes) results in a movement direction that has a significant magnitude.

[honest haven]

where are you seeing less im seeing greater than on line 44

[polar acorn]

Because the opposite of "Greater than or equal" is less than

if it's greater or equal, it runs the condition starting on line 45. Otherwise it reaches line 68 and prints 0

If it's not greater and it's not equal, it must be less

[honest haven]

so why does line 71 not print yet line 68 does

[rocky canyon]

he's saying ur leftshift doesnt run. b/c its nesting in an else statement that doesn't run at the same time ur moving

[polar acorn]

Because how would it be greater or equal to 0.1 if the condition it's in only runs if it's less than 0.1

[rocky canyon]

ur condition is just twisted up

[polar acorn]

I'm not sure why you expect line 71 to run

it physically cannot be greater or equal to 0.1, you just checked that

[honest haven]

yh my conditions are wrong just throw me off

[rocky canyon]

u can put conditions Inside other conditions

instead of confusing urself with else if and else..

u can ```cs
if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
{
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
{
currentState = PlayerState.Running;
_animator.SetBool("isRunning", true);
controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * runningSpeedMultiplier * Time.deltaTime);
}
else
{
currentState = PlayerState.Moving;
_animator.SetBool("isRunning", false); // Reset isRunning when not running
controller.Move(moveDir.normalized * speed * Time.deltaTime);
_animator.SetBool("isMoving", true);
}
}

u can do something like If( u have direction) inside this block do another check IF u have movement AND if u have leftshift pressed. etc

but, the more experience u have with them.. the more it makes sense on how to structure them

if, if else, if else, if else, else... etc gets nasty and hard to read lol

[honest haven]

i think im lost. if line 44 if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) { and line 71 if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) are the same and all i have done is left shift. why does line 71 not work. yet if i let go of shift key and press W my code works inside line 44

[honest haven]

OK thank you

[rocky canyon]

u dont even need the other if.. tbh

if it isnt a magnitude greater then it has to be a magnitude lower

[polar acorn]

Do you know what else means

[honest haven]

yes if first condition is not meet else will always run

[polar acorn]

So, if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f) is your condition on line 44.

When does that not run

[rocky canyon]

yup, so if ur not moving.,. the else in ur case runs.. which is where u also check for leftshift..

[polar acorn]

What conditions must be true for this if statement to never execute

[rocky canyon]

that doesnt make any sense lol.. if ur not moving.. why even bother checking if shift is pressed?

not like ur gonna sprint while idling

[honest haven]

it will be idle

[rocky canyon]

ya, no reason to have ur leftshift check WHILE ur idle.

https://gdl.space/fufehecohu.cs here i moved some stuff around.. i think it makes more senes like this.. study it and compare.. and u tell me

[polar acorn]

If you are specifically only running this block of code when the magnitude is less than 0.1, why would you expect an if statement checking if it's greater than 0.1 to ever execute

[honest haven]

thanks you

[honest haven]

just wanted to make the state change back

[rocky canyon]

actually it'd look more like this..

[honest haven]

to idle

[rocky canyon]

the orange block all would be running if ur moving

the else statement would be if ur not moving..

[polar acorn]

How would the magnitude be >= 0.1f if this is code is inside the else block of something that checks if it's >= 0.1f

You're checking "If this thing is less than 0.1 and also greater than 0.1" which makes no sense

[rocky canyon]

please delete this and try again !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[honest haven]

yes thanks but i dont want to be walking before im running i want to jump straight to running from idle if im holding left shift first. I think ill need to add another animator transition though

[rocky canyon]

the code part of it anyway.. no ones gonnna read that code like that 😦

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats why i was saying.. in that first if block (you know ur moving) then u can do another check INSIDE the first if.. to tell if u should be walking normally or sprinting (left shift being pressed)

but in the else statement is if ur not moving.. it doesnt matter if ur left shift is pressed in that case

ONLY if ur moving (THE FIRST IF)

[honest haven]

i understand many thanks

[earnest tendon]

hello, im trying to make a vampire survivors type game and rn im trying to set it up so whenever the player moves out of a loaded chunk it loads another chunk, but for some reson i keep getting this error whenever i move my character
this is the code thats currently giving me issues:

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

public class MapController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public List<GameObject> terrainChunks;
    public GameObject player;
    public float checkerRadius;
    Vector3 noTerrainPosition;
    public LayerMask terrainMask;
    PlayerMovement pm;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        pm = FindObjectOfType<PlayerMovement>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        ChunkChecker();
    }

    void ChunkChecker()
    {
        if (pm.moveDir.x > 0 && pm.moveDir.y == 0) //right
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, 0, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, 0, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x < 0 && pm.moveDir.y == 0) //left
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, 0, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, 0, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x == 0 && pm.moveDir.y > 0) //up
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(0, 20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(0, 20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x == 0 && pm.moveDir.y < 0) //down
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(0, -20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(0, -20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x > 0 && pm.moveDir.y > 0) //right up
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, 20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, 20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x > 0 && pm.moveDir.y < 0) //right down
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, -20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(20, -20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x < 0 && pm.moveDir.y > 0) //left up
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, 20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, 20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
        else if (pm.moveDir.x < 0 && pm.moveDir.y < 0) //left down
        {
            if (!Physics2D.OverlapCircle(player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, -20, 0), checkerRadius, terrainMask))
            {
                noTerrainPosition = player.transform.position + new Vector3(-20, -20, 0);
                SpawnChunk();
            }
        }
    }

    void SpawnChunk()
    {
        int rand = UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, terrainChunks.Count);
        Instantiate(terrainChunks[rand], noTerrainPosition, Quaternion.identity);
    }
}

this is the error
ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.

[honest haven]

Im sure in games if you hold a button and walk you run. I thought that maybe you could go straight into run. Would you say always walk first?

[rocky canyon]

lol, thats a bit better

[honest haven]

my animator is set up like so

So i would have to add another tranisiton. but im not sure if i should stick to this and walk first frame or go straight to run

[rocky canyon]

this error means ur trying to access an element of ur list or array thats not there.. the array starts at 0 and goes up, 0, 1,2,3,4,5 etc... and stops at its last element..

eitehr ur trying to access a negative number of that list.. or an index thats ABOVE the amount of elements in the list

[polar acorn]

Seems like terrainChunks is empty, if that Random.Range is out of bounds. Try logging rand and the Count of the terrainChunks list

[rocky canyon]

but like he said ^ if its empty even a 0 will be out of bounds

[rocky canyon]

u would check immediately. if u know theres input

so.. i set it to Walk speed. and then run an if() check to see if the left shift is pressed if it is i change it to my run speed

[honest haven]

Thank you.

[rocky canyon]

then after all that it uses w/e i chose for that value and just passes it into my Move() function

[honest haven]

many thanks spawn and digiholic

[rocky canyon]

no problem, remember code runs from top down lol (in a code block)

so u can do all ur checks and set up ur variables then at the very end u can use those values

[earnest tendon]

this is how i got it set up in the engine, theres already 1 chunk in place

[polar acorn]

Log it anyway

[earnest tendon]

how do i log them? been a while since ive tried that

[rocky canyon]

well with this collapsed its ur word that theres a Chunk in there

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.Log.html

[earnest tendon]

danm cant use gifs

[rocky canyon]

foreach (int item in myList)
{
    // Do something with each item in the list
    Debug.Log(item);
}```

[earnest tendon]

yeah i feel stupid now

[rocky canyon]

foreach loop would work to debug all the things in the list

or array

[polar acorn]

Just logging the count is fine

[earnest tendon]

its either because im getting tired of looking at unity all day or something else cuz i did not see that colapsed part

[rocky canyon]

lol

[polar acorn]

we don't need to know what is in it, just how much

[rocky canyon]

could be both /shrug

[earnest tendon]

true

i didnt have enough coffee in the afternoon

[cerulean quest]

dude i forgor c# syntax

[rocky canyon]

an extra set of eyes is a common fix for coding..

[polar acorn]

Then look it up

[rocky canyon]

thats why theres the RubberDuck debugging folklore

[earnest tendon]

yeah that part was empty

[rocky canyon]

just talking it out and looking over things uve already looked over can instantly pop up new information

lol

[rocky canyon]

👍 sounds like that was the issue hehe

[earnest tendon]

now it loads a chunk but this happens

[cerulean quest]

google is stupid and my questions are too specific for it to bring answers

[rocky canyon]

progress

[cerulean quest]

lemme try for a bit actually

[rocky canyon]

that error tells u exactly how to fix it tho

[polar acorn]

Then it's likely not a syntax issue

[cerulean quest]

wait wait i am looking it up

[polar acorn]

There's no way you're running into a syntax error that has never been encountered before

[misty hedge]

I may be stupid, but I'm stumped on getting a boat to rock back and forth.
I thought it'd be pretty simple: Boat.transform.Rotate(0,Mathf.Sin(Time.time),0);, which does, in fact, look very nice - but it only rocks it to the right, of course, because sine goes negative only enough to return it to its original position.
I really am struggling to figure out a simple way to make it rock to the left, too.

[earnest tendon]

they are assigned tho, i just checked

oh wait they aint, wtf, i could have sworn i assigned them earlier

[rocky canyon]

computers usually dont tell lies 😉

[timber tide]

could try pingpong time

[cerulean quest]

wait i did write the syntax right

why is this error showing up

[polar acorn]

transform.Rotate adds rotation, it doesn't set rotation. You give it an amount to rotate by. So, you start at 0, add a little bit at a time until the Sin hits 1 and then back to 0, then you subtract that exact amount back, putting you back at 0

[cerulean quest]

i am trying to make a struct with 2 vector3 in it

[earnest tendon]

ig i missed those

[polar acorn]

Because you never assigned a value to FirstPoint

[rocky canyon]

i have that same mechanic. let me see if i can find my project

[cerulean quest]

does assigning its value in a switch not count?

[polar acorn]

What happens if DoorsDirection is 0, or 5?

What is FirstPoint then?

[cerulean quest]

it cannot be

i will add a defualt value then

[polar acorn]

What data structure is DoorsDirection that can only hold the values 1, 2, 3, and 4?

[cerulean quest]

its int and when its assigned it will always be from 1 to 4

like east west north south

[polar acorn]

Yeah pretty sure int has more possible values than those four

[cerulean quest]

how do you make a 4 value data type?

[rocky canyon]

Enum

[cerulean quest]

oh yeah enum i havent ever used it

[polar acorn]

You can't. That's how I knew you didn't have one

[rocky canyon]

public enum Direction
{
    North,
    South,
    West,
    East
}```

[cerulean quest]

thx

[rocky canyon]

but that would mean changing alot of ur code

[polar acorn]

Even Enums are just ints, it will only produce a runtime error when you try to cast it, it'll happily let you do (Direction) 5 in a case block

[earnest tendon]

progress

[rocky canyon]

ahh true true

[cerulean quest]

nah its eaey

[rocky canyon]

a lot easier to read and work with tho 👍

[polar acorn]

So you'd still need a default case to assign a value to any local variables in the switch

[cerulean quest]

i have only been writing since today

[polar acorn]

But yes definitely use Enums over magic numbers

[cerulean quest]

yeah thats so helpful to know

[misty hedge]

Mhm. That's what I concluded, but my inital experiments with setting transform.rotation directly were stumped because I don't know fuckall about messing with quaternarions, sadly. Guess now's the time to fiind out, because I can't seem to set transform.rotation.x individually.

[polar acorn]

transform.rotation is a Quaternion. You're not gonna want to touch any individual components of that. Try setting transform.eulerAngles to a Vector3 instead

[rocky canyon]

you can copy ur rotation value into a variable

edit that variable and put it back in

   // Get the current rotation
    Quaternion currentRotation = transform.rotation;

    // Modify the X component of the rotation
    Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(150f, currentRotation.eulerAngles.y, currentRotation.eulerAngles.z);

    // Apply the modified rotation to the object
    transform.rotation = newRotation;```

something like that.. but theres even a shorter way to do it i cant think of rn

[polar acorn]

transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(...)

[rocky canyon]

aye! lmao thats it ^

[queen adder]

does unity recompile unchanged codes?

[rocky canyon]

coffee is jetlagged

[queen adder]

like redo everything when you reload the editor

[polar acorn]

Yes, whenever anything in an assembly changes, it has to recompile the whole assembly. That's why for large projects Assembly Definitions are recommended

[queen adder]

i see

[polar acorn]

At the very least to separate out any included assets from your own code

[queen adder]

i should restudy how to set up assemblies

tried it before, just feel too much work setting it up

does that package manager automatically separate your installed packages?

[cerulean quest]

how do you get a randomised enum?

[polar acorn]

Many packages already come with them, you'd just need to create a separate one for your code and reference them. Otherwise, just drop an asmdef in the asset's folder.

[queen adder]

        public static T RandomEnum<T>() where T : struct, IComparable, IFormattable, IConvertible =>
            ((T[])Enum.GetValues(typeof(T))).GetRandomFromList();
```I had this

[timber tide]

that's quite the piece

[polar acorn]

You can cast an integer into an enum, so for the enum example provided above, you'd generate a random value between 1 and 5 (remember the end point is excluded for ints) and then cast it to your enum

(Direction) Random.Range(1,5)

[queen adder]

took my like 20 mins and 7 other peeps helping to make it like that

[polar acorn]

(Assuming you've explicitly changed the numbers in your enum to 1,2,3,4 instead of the default 0,1,2,3)

[cerulean quest]

i cant test my code i have to trust the code for now

[queen adder]

        public static T GetRandomFromList<T>(this IList<T> list)
        {
            return list[UnityEngine.Random.Range(0, list.Count)];
        }```this is the other method btw

[cerulean quest]

how am i supposed to know that, i just did this

[timber tide]

Actually not that bad idea to getvalues then randomize it

so in this case it doesnt matter if you label them

or what for that matter

[polar acorn]

You're able to assign any number to it, so you could do X=1, Y=2, etc.

Since you did not, they're in order. X is 0, Y is 1, and so on

[queen adder]

yea, it took 7 peeps and 20 mins to figure out the most efficient way to do this job

[polar acorn]

So (Direction) Random.Range(0,4)

[cerulean quest]

ok i see

lemme fix thazt

[queen adder]

just so you can lazily do ```cs
Direction.RandomEnum()

[rocky canyon]

https://gdl.space/femibiquwa.cpp

[cerulean quest]

thx so much

[rocky canyon]

The standard sine function oscillates between -1 and 1, and if you only use Mathf.Sin(Time.time), it will oscillate between 0 and 1, causing the rotation to only go in one direction.
To make the rotation go in both directions, you need to multiply the sine result by a larger value to increase the range and introduce negative values.

[honest haven]

cheers for your help i changed them to triggers and tidy the code up. Now transitions between all 3 states.

[rocky canyon]

solid animation graph

this looks basic and clean

[fluid remnant]

 if (hitInfo.collider.TryGetComponent(out IDamageable dmg))
   {
       dmg.Damage(hitInfo.point); // Null Reference error?
   }

How can this line give Null Reference ?
I am Hitting the if statement, how can it be null?

[rocky canyon]

If the IDamageable component is attached to the game object but is not initialized (set to an actual instance), then calling dmg.Damage(hitInfo.point) would result in a NullReferenceException.

[fluid remnant]

IDamageable is an interface

[rocky canyon]

    if (dmg != null)
    {
        dmg.Damage(hitInfo.point);
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.Log("IDamageable component found but instance is null!");
    }```

try that and see if it debugs the log

[slate gale]

I'm trying to use the Video Player component to play videos on an object. I can't seem to figure out how to change the video file at runtime, if possible at all. Anyone any leads?

[rocky canyon]

the inspector should show a slot for the video file..

u just grab a reference to that VideoPlayer and set the file

[fluid remnant]

Oh nvm the error is something else but Unity was being stupid

[slate gale]

Setting it at runtime doesn't seem to actually change it

or at least

[slate gale]

I dragged and dropped another video file into the inspector field at runtime, not via code

I'll try via code next

[fluid remnant]

Double click was taking me to that line , It would make no sense since interface cannot be null , it was implemented especially if it hit that if statement TryGet

[rocky canyon]

its VideoPlayerComponent.VideoClip

[misty hedge]

Odd. Even if I do Boat.transform.eulerAngles.Set(100, Boat.transform.eulerAngles.y, Boat.transform.eulerAngles.z);, I see no change to the X component.

[rocky canyon]

lol, ole "Unity being stupid"

[fluid remnant]

This was my error 😦
var dir = limbInfo.hitPoint- Camera.main.transform.position;

[rocky canyon]

hate when Unity decides to be stupid on me like that lol

[fluid remnant]

My Camera was deleted

[teal gulch]

Just curious, how do you damage with Vector3? Because hitInfo.point returns a world space Vector3

[rocky canyon]

ya, that error was OFF by a mile then

[slate gale]

aight gonna try that

thx

[fluid remnant]

I pass the direction of my damage to whoever receives it to do something with

[rocky canyon]

Player Damaged by Vector3.up

[teal gulch]

Oh okay then

[fluid remnant]

so my enemy

their head flies back

[rocky canyon]

you may even have to Stop it and then change the clip and restart it

but i dont see those functions on it .. so just test it out and see lol

[rocky canyon]

Directional Knock-back

[fluid remnant]

big knock

[slate gale]

Oh it seems this was actually sufficient haha

vp.clip = replaceVideo;

thanks mate

[rocky canyon]

np 👍

[misty hedge]

Doing this:

 // Modify the X component of the rotation
 Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRotation.eulerAngles.x, Mathf.Sin(Time.time), currentRotation.eulerAngles.z);

 // Apply the modified rotation to the object
 Boat.transform.rotation = newRotation;```
the boat uh, spins in circles.

not ideal!

[rocky canyon]

i sent code that works

just put the sinepart on w/e axis u want

(x, y, z)

[misty hedge]

Yes that is indeed what I did.

Surprised you don't recognize your own code!

But yes - putting it on the X component causes strange vertical rocking, the Y component causes it to rotate around the Z axis, and the Z component causes some weirdness.

[teal gulch]

2D game?

[misty hedge]

3D.

[rocky canyon]

b/c it doesnt look the same

i have timeElapsed * rotationSpeed

u ahve none of that.. just Time.time like u did last time

[teal gulch]

And what should boat do?

[misty hedge]

Just a light rock side - to - side across its X axis to simulate gentle waves. Here's my original post on the matter

[rocky canyon]

https://gdl.space/femibiquwa.cpp <---- CODE again..

  // YOUR CODE
 Quaternion currentRotation = Boat.transform.rotation;

 // Modify the X component of the rotation
 Quaternion newRotation = Quaternion.Euler(currentRotation.eulerAngles.x, Mathf.Sin(Time.time), currentRotation.eulerAngles.z);

 // Apply the modified rotation to the object
 Boat.transform.rotation = newRotation;``` is not my code..

it doesn't 
- set a start time
- doesn't update the elapsed time
- doesn't use either of those in the rotation modification
- doesn't construct the angle variable with a Speed Modifier

[teal gulch]

works for me

nvm

[teal gulch]

why do you use extra vars if you can use Time.realtimeSinceStartup

[rocky canyon]

im a Var junkie..

i just prototype code for the most part.

i'll delete this before days over

[rocky canyon]

but ya, i didn't even know about that property tbh

[misty hedge]

most uncanny

[teal gulch]

yeah, it should be around y axis, not z

[misty hedge]

it is

[rocky canyon]

thats rotating on teh Z axis btw

[rocky canyon]

got to use local Rotation

b/c ur boat is all flipped upside down n shit

if it matched the world coords it would work

transform.localRotation

[misty hedge]

Flipped upside down?

It's in the same position it started the scene in

[rocky canyon]

u see this?

thats correct.. thats the way the world faces

spot the difference?

[misty hedge]

wtf

why is it like that 😭

[rocky canyon]

the way the modeller exported it.

[misty hedge]

The modeller is me

[rocky canyon]

u can use a parent container and orientate it correctly

and just use the ship as a child of it (rotated to match the way it should face)

and put the code on the parent instead

[misty hedge]

That is so scuffed but alright

It still doesn't work 🙂

[misty hedge]

oh never mind. We got it

[dark oak]

good evening, guys Can i ask a question?

[misty hedge]

That is a really stupid solution and I don't like it but I'll keep it in mind

[teal gulch]

sure

[misty hedge]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[rocky canyon]

PENDULUM

[misty hedge]

pendulum...

[rocky canyon]

i might keep this script around

im sure i can use it for something

[dark oak]

i just installed unity 2019.4 and it is not opening on windows 7 What should i do?

[rocky canyon]

first off restart your PC and try it again

[misty hedge]

Oh, and since this always trips me up: how can I make this rotation work frame-independently?

[rocky canyon]

it'll save u alot of heartache if it boots up

you can use time.DeltaTime

multiply it with the rotationSpeed multiplier

[teal gulch]

do it in fixedupdate

[misty hedge]

Already is

but being in FixedUpdate doesn't always garuntee frame-independence

[rocky canyon]

if its running in fixedupdate then its already frame independent

yea it does

fixedupdate runs at a fixed rate

doesnt change at all

doesnt matter if ur running 5fps or 340fps

fixed timestep.. is a constant

[misty hedge]

🫡

[rocky canyon]

stock settings are 50 frames/second

on the physics (FixedUpdate)

lower the number the faster the calculations

[sacred egret]

why dosent the sword activate itself https://paste.mod.gg/djfzsycqspmq/0

[rocky canyon]

do you have "e" set up as an input?

[timber tide]

update doesnr run when it's inactive

[rocky canyon]

but he's activating some other object i believe

NailBehiviour should be active

for the code to work

[timber tide]

ah, right, so question would be is if the log is printing