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[deft monolith]

Hi again! Thanks for the help earlier. So I tried using slerp, but I'm still getting the same problem of the rotation applying on its own axis. So for example, when it rotates 90deg on X axis, I later want to apply a 90 rotation on the Z axis, but it will apply Z axis locally which is Y in world axis.. Why can't I wrap my head around a good solution here..

[late burrow]

whats the best way to spin a disk based on cursor position

[frosty hound]

That could mean a bunch of different things. How is it going to work, mechanically?

[wintry quarry]

It's not essentially any different from any 2d/topdown "aim-at-cursor" implementation I would think

[sleek notch]

Why it doesn't work

the cameras are gameObject

[polar acorn]

So, if camGunner does not exist and you press C, you want to enable camGunner? That doesn't make much sense

[sleek notch]

I don't know how to check if it is active

[hollow field]

Feel like I should know this but I'm a bit rusty. I currently have a Game Object with a Canvas as a child and a Text (TMP) as a child of the Canvas.
I am trying to instantiate the object and change the text. I currently have

GamObject NewDot = Instantiate(Dots, new Vector3(Random.Range(-10, 10), Random.Range(-5, 5)), Quaternion.identity);
NewDot.GetComponentInChildren<TextMeshPro>().text = i.ToString();

but it keeps returning " reference not set to an instance of an object" for the 2nd line.

Any tips?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject-activeInHierarchy.html

[polar acorn]

Then it would seem that NewDot doesn't have a TextMeshPro component on it or any of its children.

Considering you said it was a canvas, you probably want to get a UI TextMeshProUGUI instead of a world-space TextMeshPro (or just use their shared parent type, TMP_Text)

[languid spire]

<TMP_Text>

[hollow field]

yep that was it

thanks both

its been too long since I did Unity stuff. more used to the old fashioned Text fields

[dark oak]

Hi guys, I'm having issues using unity 2017.4: finding text mesh Pro: how can i fix This?

[languid spire]

bit late to the game, for 2017 TMP was an asset now it's a package

[dark oak]

what version of unity do i install for windows 7 that has TextMash Pro?

[languid spire]

win 7 32 bit, none, win 7 64 bit, docs say anything up to 2021, whether it works or not is another question

[jaunty wing]

Does anyone know how I would go around clamping the camera to 90 degrees?

PlayerCamera.transform.Rotate(-MouseDelta.y * Sens,0,0);

[slender nymph]

don't use transform.Rotate if you want to clamp the rotation. instead keep track of the current desired rotation in a float variable that you add to when you have mouse input. then you clamp that and assign it as the rotation using Quaternion.Euler or something

if you search "clamp camera" in this discord you'll find plenty of examples of how to do that

also obligatory: use cinemachine. it already has clamping built in

[jaunty wing]

Thanks

👍

[delicate portal]

I implemented a pickup and a drop system for my FPS game, but if I drop a 'pistol' for example, it starts flying in the Y axis upwards. It has a rigidbody, and I'm just enabling gravity when dropping and adding some force relative to the player's forward vector. Why can it be? Also other objects dont do this, they work just fine.

[wintry quarry]

if you don't enable gravity what happens?

[polar acorn]

Probably colliding with itself or a child object

[jaunty wing]

// Mouse & Camera Movement
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;

        DesiredRotationX += Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * Sens;
        DesiredRotationY += Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * Sens;

        var ClampedRotationY = Mathf.Clamp(DesiredRotationY,-90f,90f);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f,DesiredRotationX,0f);
        PlayerCamera.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(-ClampedRotationY,0f,0f);

My Player is rotating correctly on the X axis but my camera doesn't move with the player

On the rotation

it keeps looking in the same direction

[wintry quarry]

you've put the script on the wrong object and/or assigned the wrong object to the PlayerCamera reference OR your hierarchy is set up incorrectly

[jaunty wing]

Yeah but the Y rotation is working correctly

[wintry quarry]

Yep ^

show how the hiearchy is set up

[wintry quarry]

and the inspector of the script (and which object the script is on)

[wintry quarry]

PlayerCamera.transform.rotation should be PlayerCamera.transform.localRotation

[jaunty wing]

That works

Thanks

[delicate portal]

The object stands still, but the force never gets applied and the drop doesnt happen

[delicate portal]

Well child objects only have mesh renderers, how can it collide with itself?

[rotund hull]

how can i delete a tile in a tilemap in code

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2023.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/Tilemaps.Tilemap.SetTile.html with null

[dry tendon]

Good night everyone... I have one little question related to boxhelps... and if someone could help me i'll really appreciate it: How do I make Right BoxHelp automatically adjust vertically to the size of Left BoxHelp in real time in this case? so that in height the right always measures the same as the left. This is the both boxhelps code https://paste.ofcode.org/rHEZVn9pNbh8KGBgFxnKjB

[little oak]

why does this happen?

[swift crag]

you asked for a child transform that didn't exist

look at line 48

[little oak]

wym doesnt exist

[swift crag]

an object has three children

i ask for the fourth child

the fourth child does not exist

[little oak]

but it does

its just in a prefab

the top one works

[swift crag]

well, yes, the if (chance == 1) block doesn't try to get any children

[little oak]

that block uses the parent instead of the children

but it works

[swift crag]

yes, I would expect the first block to work just fine

[little oak]

then how can i instantiate children of a gameobject seperately?

[swift crag]

I noticed that you're using transform.GetChild

not pipe.GetChild

[little oak]

oh

lol

[swift crag]

it also seems very weird to get child transforms of a prefab and instantiate those individually

[little oak]

im dumb

[little oak]

why does it seem weird

[slender nymph]

why would you need to? your pipes are always the same distance apart from each other. just instantiate the parent object at your desired position and the children will be positioned relative to that

[swift crag]

especially since there is probably important logic on the root object of the prefab

[little oak]

i want the pipes to be touching

[swift crag]

just move them after instantiating the prefab

[little oak]

nope

[little oak]

you can do that?

[swift crag]

of course you can

why would you think you can't do that?

[little oak]

but theyre children

[swift crag]

but you've already demonstrated you know how to get the children of a transform

[swift crag]

just do that on the instance

[swift crag]

your code completely loses the MiddleTrigger object

[little oak]

what even is transform lol

[swift crag]

that seems like a problem to me

[little oak]

it doesnt

theres a seperate script

in the prefab

[swift crag]

which you aren't instantiating...

[little oak]

its apart of pipe

OH

yes

youre rirhg

[swift crag]

every game object has a Transform component on it. the Transform tells you where an object is, how it's rotated, and what size it is

along with what objects are children of it and who its parent is

[little oak]

OHHHHHHHHH

so i can just change the transform.getchild

[tacit birch]

bump, still need help with this if anyone knows what's wrong T T
Been trying to find workarounds for the past few hours to no avail and it's burning me out now looool

[swift crag]

well, first, you can't do transform.GetChild because transform is the Transform component on whatever object this component is attached to

your Pipe Spawner component or whatever this is

[little oak]

but you said

[little oak]

oh, not the prefab

[swift crag]

correct

[little oak]

mb

[swift crag]

it's your transform

[little oak]

so pipe.getchild

.transform?

[swift crag]

what is the type of pipe?

[little oak]

gameobject

its the parent

[swift crag]

okay, so you need to get its transform property

then ask for a child

[little oak]

alr ill be back

[swift crag]

GameObject instance = Instantiate(pipe);
instance.transform.GetChild(0)

e.g.

[little oak]

and thatd instantiate it?

ur getting it on that second line but ur not calling any functions

  Transform pipeTop = instance.transform.GetChild(0)

dont u need to do this

and then modify pipeTop

[polar acorn]

You haven't actually said what you want to do with it yet

So that part is left up to you

[little oak]

this lol

works fine it seems

[slender nymph]

okay but again, why do you need to change the positions of the pipes individually? just change the position of the parent object

in fact you can just tell the parent object to spawn at a specific position

[little oak]

but i want them to be touching

the pipes

[slender nymph]

what do you mean you want them to be touching?

[little oak]

the pipes need to meet

instead of having a gap

[slender nymph]

and you can't do that in the prefab why?

[little oak]

i need them to sometimes touch and sometimes not

beautiful

[timber tide]

how do you get through that then

[little oak]

youll shoot through and break it

not sure how ill implement that yet

its supposed to blow a hole thru

i gotta figure out how to do it

trying to delete an instantiated object after a while using this but it doesnt work

i even tried destroy(instance)

[swift crag]

what does "doesn't work" mean?

[little oak]

the object isnt deleted

[swift crag]

no errors in your console?

[little oak]

nope

[swift crag]

what is that code destroying?

[swift crag]

no, it's destroying gameObject

[little oak]

what is it meant to destroy?

[swift crag]

gameObject is whatever object your component is attached to

[little oak]

yes

thats why i tried instance first

[swift crag]

what class is this screenshot a part of?

[little oak]

u mean script?

[swift crag]

no, what class is this screenshot a part of?

your script file declares a class

[slender nymph]

instance would be the newly instantiated object. which of course won't be in the deadzone right after being instantiated 😉

[little oak]

exactly thats why i throw it into the abyss

[swift crag]

it might be something like public class Foo : MonoBehaviour { ...

[little oak]

oh

[swift crag]

okay, you just destroyed the spawner's gameobject

the spawner is gone

[little oak]

i changed it to instance

gameobject like u said destroys the component connected

so it shouldnt work

[swift crag]

this will still only check if the instance is out of bounds once

the moment you fire the arrow

[little oak]

ohhh

[swift crag]

Perhaps the arrow should have a component on it that checks if it's out of bounds

[little oak]

OH

i have an idea

ok im dumb

[little oak]

yes

thats probably what i shud have done

works, beautiful

i need to start using my brain

[timber tide]

this is where you learn to debug.log

when you have a long chain of dot operators going on, you want to check if each and everyone of them is null, ideally start with the last element

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception
at a guess i'd say the collider you hit doesn't have a parent

[timber tide]

actually you debug from the start because it'll still throw a exception with logging if the null is earlier

one or another lol

[stuck palm]

Im having an issue where it still executes the bottom code even if it touches the player, how can i fix this?

the first if statement should stop that

[wintry quarry]

Not possible unless the player doesn't have the playerscript

Add debug.log

Print the object you're hitting

[stuck palm]

does an audiosource play its assigned clip when it starts up?

[wintry quarry]

If play on awake is enabled

[stuck palm]

thats probably it thne

[sacred egret]

why dosent the dash work https://paste.mod.gg/natwraudpsky/0

[slender nymph]

you overwrite the velocity in Update

[sacred egret]

thx

[queen adder]

https://paste.mod.gg/qjxfjwnjzftc/0

Someone help me fix this, the issue is explained at the top

[slender nymph]

your raycast has nothing to do with opening doors. your keypad will open a door whenever E is pressed

if you remove that code from the keypad's update method and instead check for input when your raycast hits something in your PlayerInteract component it will do what you expect it to

[queen adder]

can you teach me how to do the last part?

[slender nymph]

i just explained how

check for input in your PlayerInteract component. not in the Keypad component

[slender nymph]

you do know i have no idea what you've just tried because i cannot see your code in your code editor, right?

but you're probably calling Interact on your PlayerInteract object instead of on the Interactable component you get with that convenient GetComponent call you have (though that should probably be a TryGetComponent call since you null check it immediately anyway)

[slender nymph]

also if the error is not underlined in red in your !IDE then it needs to be configured 👇

[eternal falcon]

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[stuck palm]

if i do audiosource.play, then while its playing i change the clip and play the new clip does it stop the old clip

[queen adder]

so, ive placed the check for input here, and when i click e on the keypad nothing happens

[slender nymph]

why would you put it there

[north kiln]

Also, I don't see anything underlined in red, did you fix the error or is your IDE not configured?

[queen adder]

it doesnt underline anything in red ever ☠️

[north kiln]

Configure your IDE 👆

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[queen adder]

wrong thing, i repasted it there accidentally

so i meant, i pasted it here:

and it returns with this after i paste it

[slender nymph]

configure your ide. it is a requirement to get help with your code here

[queen adder]

ok 👍

sec

[long tangle]

how do i fix this

i cant open any of my projects

[slender nymph]

that wouldn't prevent a project from opening. it's just an editor issue

[long tangle]

nvm i fixed it

just the layout

[queen adder]

done,

error:

[slender nymph]

yes, i already explained what you should be doing instead

#💻┃code-beginner message

[north kiln]

Look at your braces and indents, it's a mess

[queen adder]

2nd day coding bro 😭

[slender nymph]

also is that not you checking input in that last if statement to call the BaseInteract method?

or did you not write this code so have no idea what it actually is?

[rich adder]

time to do it proper then

[queen adder]

i wrote it, just followed a tutorial, i know what some of it does, my intent was to have the interact in the raycast script so that it would verify under the hitinfo

[slender nymph]

yes you already have that. that's what that last if statement is supposed to be doing

[queen adder]

i moved the getkeydown check to the Interactable.cs file, and when I did it removed the error, but just doesn't work

[slender nymph]

okay you clearly have no clue what your code is actually doing. i suggest you start by learning the basics instead of blindly copying random tutorials

[queen adder]

where or from who would you reccomend i start learning?

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel and the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good place to learn how to use the unity engine

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[queen adder]

do I learn using the C# courses first or learn how to use the engine itself with !learn?

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[slender nymph]

c# first imo, but it's up to you

[meager sentinel]

Idk in which channel to talk about this, but when i try to install VSC ide the unity asset do not appears, and it seems like there's no place where i can download it

[slender nymph]

!vscode 👇

[eternal falcon]

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If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

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[meager sentinel]

Am already on that page and i still dont find where to install the asset

[slender nymph]

what asset

[meager sentinel]

Visual studio editor in the package manager

[slender nymph]

well have you looked in the package manager to see if it is already installed? because unless you've uninstalled that manually then it should already be there

[meager sentinel]

Oh, am sorry. I din't check the unity registry

[queen adder]

do i read the documentation then or just follow the courses?

[timber tide]

ya not getting far without knowing your c#

[slender nymph]

surely you can figure that out on your own?

[meager sentinel]

I know this may be a very begginer question, but someone can pass me a tutorial in the DM about how to alternate a bool between different scripts? Basically i want to make that in the start you dont have a gun, but when i pick up the object i want to make the bool of the script that checks if the gun has been picked true

[timber tide]

Well, you need a way to get a reference to the gun, so youll need a method to pickup on your player. The item itself can have a collider such that you'll cast in the area when you call your pickup method.

[meager sentinel]

I kinda dint understand (i dont natively speak english)

[timber tide]

Probably best to lookup a tutorial on youtube as you're dealing with quite a few concepts here.

[meager sentinel]

I search something like:How to change variables between scripts in unity?

[timber tide]

Well, you need the reference to the item first which is the bulk of the code.

[meager sentinel]

welp i just found a 1 min tutorial that helped me, ty tho

[amber spruce]

GameObject smokespawnedin = Instantiate(SmokePrefab);
DontDestroyOnLoad(smokespawnedin);
Smoke = smokespawnedin.GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();

why doesnt this work it spawns in and is added to the dontdestroyonload but smoke doesnt get set to the particle system

[wintry quarry]

Maybe there's no particle system on the prefab

[amber spruce]

there is

[wintry quarry]

BTW why not just use ParticleSystem As the prefab reference type then you won't need GetComponent

[amber spruce]

didnt know you could do that

[wintry quarry]

Maybe this isn't what's assigned to that reference

[amber spruce]

how would i do that

[wintry quarry]

public ParticleSystem prefab;

void Spawn() {
  ParticleSystem instance= Instantiate(prefab);
}```

Exactly as you'd expect

[polar acorn]

Also a DDOL particle system is... Odd

[amber spruce]

its a really weird way of doing stuff that im doing

but it works

hopefully

[polar acorn]

Why though

[amber spruce]

because basically the player and the ps need to be seperate but when the player moves through scenes it needs to follow

its a smoke screen ability the player has

[frosty hound]

Really, the player (and managers) should be in a root scene and all your other scenes are loaded aysnchronously.

That way you don't have to deal with DDOL's, since it's always the same object.

[meager sentinel]

This happens when i trigger an object that is supossed to dissapear when i pick it

But it only appears when the starting voice is sounding, otherwise it will not even trigger any of the debug logs

[frosty hound]

The object you're destroying has the camera on it? 🤷‍♂️

[meager sentinel]

Nope

[north kiln]

Seems self-evident that you are

[frosty hound]

Where's the camera in your first screenshot?

[eternal needle]

thats a cursed == true at the end of that statement

[north kiln]

why not actually print useful logs, with the object name and passing it to the context parameter

Also, your code seems very under-highlighted, which would indicate that your IDE may not be completely configured

[meager sentinel]

I have passed the entire day configurating it without it working

[frosty hound]

And also ... where is the camera in your first screenshot 🤔

[meager sentinel]

It's on the bean (the player)

[frosty hound]

Where in your first screenshot is the "bean"?

[meager sentinel]

Oh

i just saw in scene

the player gets deleted

not the object

[frosty hound]

Hence: #💻┃code-beginner message

[north kiln]

Well, you definitely need to revisit the configuration steps and make sure it does work, because programming without a properly configured IDE is a waste of time. !ide

[eternal falcon]

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[meager sentinel]

am sorry, am stupid

[meager sentinel]

Already did all the steps and it stills not working, all i unlocked was a light bulb and nothing else

[livid tundra]

You am is not are 🤗

[meager sentinel]

What?

[livid tundra]

Did you install C# library with Visual Studio installer? Might come with Unity debug tools if you chose that option

[meager sentinel]

I use VSC

[livid tundra]

Oh right

Mine works... 🤔

Did you restart your computer yet?

[meager sentinel]

Oh i had to?

[livid tundra]

If you only just got Unity and just started trying to code VSC with C#, you might just need to restart

[meager sentinel]

Well, am goin gto

[livid tundra]

Ok

[meager sentinel]

I used VS in my old computer, and somehow it got configured automatically or smth

[livid tundra]

Were you coding with C# back then?

[meager sentinel]

yep

[meager sentinel]

I fixed my dumb mistake, but the thing is, the trigger only works when the audio is sounding, not when the game is chill

[summer stump]

C# dev kit extension should install an sdk, and you either need to restart or manually add it to your computers PATH variables for it to work

[near wadi]

Edit: Fixed below
I am taking basic tutorials in c# for Unity. All iwant to do is add a vertical offset of 1 to the instantiated prefab.

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            Instantiate(projectilePrefab, transform.position, projectilePrefab.transform.rotation);
        }

this is launched from the position of a Farmer character that moves left and right. if i do this:

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            Instantiate(projectilePrefab, transform.position = transform.position + new Vector3(0,1,0), projectilePrefab.transform.rotation);
        }

it moves the Farmer up 1 every time i press space, too. the goal is to have the instantiated Carrot at a height of 1, always

Ok, i should not have added the second transform.position after the equals.
This seems to work

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            Instantiate(projectilePrefab, transform.position + new Vector3(0,1,0), projectilePrefab.transform.rotation);
        }

[verbal dome]

This line: cs transform.position = transform.position + new Vector3(0,1,0)
Will move your original transform up every time because you have an assignment =

[near wadi]

Thanks

[verbal dome]

You probably just want transform.position + new Vector3(0,1,0)

[near wadi]

Done, in the message above your response. 🙂

[verbal dome]

Ah

[chrome wasp]

Okay so I have been trying to figure something out for over an hour

I am trying to make something like a computer, where when you hit a button a tab opens, and when you hit that again a tab closes

I have it so that it can detect when you hit the button, and even do so much as make it appear or dissapear when holding down on it

But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it toggle

`using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Hide : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Square;
public GameObject App;

void Update()
{

    if (Input.GetMouseButton(0))
    {
        Square.SetActive(false);
    }
    if (Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
    {
        Square.SetActive(true);
    }
}

}`

that is my code

I have another code for another thing

[slender nymph]

instead of using GetMouseButtonUp/Down keep a bool that determines what state it should be in, flip the bool each time the button is pressed (but not when released) and pass that bool to SetActive

[chrome wasp]

so like

bool variableName = true ?

[slender nymph]

i mean, that is how you declare a boolean variable, yes. i don't know what you are expecting that to demonstrate here though

[chrome wasp]

im not super familiar with bool

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel. you should start there

[chrome wasp]

Okay thank you!

[chrome wasp]

wait so I would set it like that to start, and then whenever I input it flips it?

[slender nymph]

give it whatever state the tab should be in. true == on. false == off

[chrome wasp]

alright

[ivory bobcat]

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    Square.SetActive(!Square.activeSelf);```

[chrome wasp]

`using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Hide : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Square;
public GameObject App;
public bool onOrOff;

void Start()
{
onOrOff = false;
}
void Update()

{   
    if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        onOrOff = !onOrOff;
    }
    if(onOrOff == true)
    {
        Square.SetActive(true);
    }
    else
    {
        Square.SetActive(false);
    }

}
}`

okay so

I got it to work

thank god

[slender nymph]

please go learn the basics of c#

[chrome wasp]

but it happens when I click anywhere on the screen and I wanted it in just a square

okay

[polar acorn]

What is the point of that bool

[chrome wasp]

which

[slender nymph]

if(onOrOff == true)
{
    Square.SetActive(true);
}
else
{
    Square.SetActive(false);
}

this is honestly painful to see. you know you don't have to check the current status of the bool, just pass it right into SetActive

[polar acorn]

Just toggle the object inside the input if statement

[chrome wasp]

ah

well i mean

it works

listen okay I know I don't really know how to program but I'm just trying to get through this part before I dedicate a ton of time into learning

I have no idea how to get this to only work when hitting a specific square though is my main issue

[timber tide]

You need some type of raycasting method

if you're going to use the mouse controls

[chrome wasp]

isnt raycasting a beam though?

If my object is a square then how does that work with raycasting

[wintry quarry]

The beam hits the square and detects it

So your code knows which square to toggle

BTW if you deactivate it, it won't be possible to Raycast it anymore

You should only disable the renderer or something

[chrome wasp]

how would I go about disabling the rendering?

Disabling the whole thing was all I could find on google

[wintry quarry]

As with most components you get a reference to it and do .enabled = false on it

If these are 2D squares you can use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.GetRayIntersection.html

Assuming they have 2d colliders

[chrome wasp]

thank you!!

[sturdy wren]

why can't i click my button?

[slender nymph]

#📲┃ui-ux
but also you don't seem to have an EventSystem in the scene

[ruby ember]

i don't know if im in the correct channel

so i added a new FPS controller and im kinda having some issues with gravity i was trying to find tutorials but it dosen't work for me and i only added public float gravity

[slender nymph]

CharacterController does not apply gravity automatically unless you use SimpleMove. but if you use that you cannot jump

also !code

[eternal falcon]

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[ruby ember]

i don't need jumping system

[sturdy wren]

eventsystem doesn't change anything

[slender nymph]

well at the very least it is required to get input for the Button component and other UI stuff

[ruby ember]

one question what does this do?

[slender nymph]

it's how you share code correctly

[ruby ember]

how can i share it?

just copy and paste the code in here?

[slender nymph]

you read what the bot told you to do and share it that way

[lunar tapir]

Hi, I have a 2D game and I'm trying to rotate my player whenever it moves in a direction. I'm simply setting transform.up to the moveDir like this:

transform.up = normalizedMoveDir;

However I notice that when the move direction is directly downwards, it changes the X rotation of the player instead of the Z rotation. In every other case it changes the Z rotation correctly. But when I move directly downwards it changes the X rotation. Any idea why this is happening?

[slender nymph]

instead of assigning transform.up you could get the desired angle for the Z axis and just set the rotation using Quaterion.Euler instead. it's probably flipping around the X axis because it's the quickest way to get to the desired rotation or something equally as simple as that

[lunar tapir]

ah ok, so setting transform.up is not reliable?

[slender nymph]

well you see what a possiblity of assigning it does. it's not that it isn't reliable, it's that it really only cares about pointing the Y axis in that direction. it doesn't care about the X or Z axis

[lunar tapir]

I see, got it, thanks!

[tawdry mirage]

how to use Invoke? Invoke(nameof(StopSelf), flightDuration); right? what difference between nameof(MethodName) and "MethodName"?

garbage?

[slender nymph]

if you were to change the name of the method without using the refactoring tools it would give a compile time error instead of a runtime error. it's just generally better to use nameof when you want to use the name of some method or variable instead of hardcoding the string

[tawdry mirage]

but it generates same amount of garbage?

[slender nymph]

pretty sure they are both interned at compile time so yeah, i guess you could say its the same amount of garbage

[tawdry mirage]

thanks! so, if i want to reduce garbage collector calls to minimum, i should go with tons of "if" in Update instead of Invoke?

[slender nymph]

i mean, it's not related to garbage collecting the strings. invoke uses reflection which is where its performance impact comes from

[tawdry mirage]

i hope i understand this)

[vast haven]

Hello! Does Unity support C++?

[gaunt ice]

you can write plugin in cpp

[vast haven]

Ah, so I can't write anything other than plugins via CPP.

[slender nymph]

correct. C++ is used for native plugins, and C# is used for regular scripting of your objects

[vast haven]

Ah.

Do you guys think it's worth it to learn C#?

Or should I just move to another engine that utilizes CPP like UE.

[slender nymph]

do you want to use unity?
if yes, then you'll want to learn c#
if no, then why are you here but also it depends on what you do want to use

[vast haven]

I simply want to create, indie games, Unity seems like the best option.

Are there any good C# Unity tuts?

I have a strong understanding of CPP, not sure if that changes anything. 😅

[slender nymph]

there are beginner c# courses pinned in this channel. and the pathways on the unity !learn site are a good place to start learning the engine

[eternal falcon]

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[vast haven]

Got you.

Thanks for all the help!

[icy grotto]

hi, just wondering why is it that both characterSkills and CharacterSkillsList have been cleared when I only called .Remove for characterSkills?
GetRandomSkills() was called 3x in a coroutine.

[slender nymph]

lists are reference types. that first line in the method makes them the same list

[gaunt ice]

they are the same thing

[icy grotto]

ohhhhhhh

that's a good learning for me.

[slender nymph]

you can copy a list by passing it into the List<T> constructor or calling ToList on it

[icy grotto]

would have been a disaster, glad i've asked here

[vast haven]

What's the big difference between C# and CPP? 🤔

[icy grotto]

Thank you so much!!

[icy grotto]

thanks also!!

[gaunt ice]

cpp class and struct are the same but not c#, completely different things

[teal viper]

There are a lot of big differences.

[arctic harbor]

i was just thinking about this. if i make some variables on PlayerController, it makes sense to me to have them private and make getters and setters for them, but in this particular example, Rigidbody2D and Rigidbody2D.velocity are already accessible anywhere. i can still make a getter/setter for the velocity of the rigidbody attached to the player, but is that really the right approach?

[charred spoke]

We do it like this yes

Otherwise you need to get the rigidbody over and over again and chances are you are also getting the player controller as well

[arctic harbor]

or maybe done like a other.GetComponent<PlayerController>().SetVelocity(testVelocity); , and inside PlayerController, private Vector2 playerVelocity; and public SetVelocity(Vector2 velocity) { GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().velocity = velocity;}

[charred spoke]

Well dont get the component in the Set method. Get it once in Start for example and cache it to a variable

[arctic harbor]

okay sure

but i mean like, should i have PlayerController itself have a private velocity variable

[charred spoke]

Not needed you can set it directly to its private rigidbody variable

[arctic harbor]

with getters and setters for that, and the setter operates on the velocity of the attached rigidbody2d component within PlayerController?

[charred spoke]

Unless you are doing internal velocity calculations

Like gravity friction etc

[arctic harbor]

so PlayerController has a private Rigidbody2D rb;, rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2d>(); inside Start(), and then a public SetVelocity(Vector2 velocity) { rb.velocity = velocity; }

is that the general approach i should be taking

[charred spoke]

Again it depends this will set the velocity directly overwriting any AddForce that happened before it

[arctic harbor]

well yes, but just as an example

if i want an object on the scene to set the velocity of a player that touches it or smth

basically if i want a gameobject external to the player to modify the player's velocity, then PlayerController should have a private Rigidbody2D variable that is cached with GetComponent in Start(), with some public methods that other classes can use to modify the player's velocity?

[charred spoke]

Again Im just making sure you understand what setting the velocity directly does. For example in our boomer shooter we have a AddExternalVelocity method on the CharController that ADS to the current player velocity. This way a jump pad adds vertical velocity while preserving player momentum. As a rule we never set velocity directly we only add

[arctic harbor]

yes i am aware of that, but what i'm clarifying rn is have a private rb2d on the player and have some public methods that operate that instead, right?

[charred spoke]

Well technically the player is always falling onto the jumppad and we wanted a trampoline effect so what the jump pad does is it takes the current player velocity inverts the y adds its force too it and set the new external velocity. The whole system is a bit more complicated than this but this is the main idea

[arctic harbor]

okay sounds good. i'll work on refactoring some of my stuff

on that note though, i get that adding velocity will preserve existing momentum and stuff, but how did you solve the problem of your player having a negative vertical initial velocity when they hit the jump pad?

ie they jump/fall onto it. if you're simply adding a velocity, then running into it will produce a different height than falling onto it

oh okay. doesn't seem applicable to my use case but that's pretty cool. gonna try playing with dot products of the player's velocity and the transform.up of the jump pad

thank you for your help

[delicate portal]

I implemented a pickup and a drop system for my FPS game, but if I drop a 'pistol' for example, it starts flying in the Y axis upwards. It has a rigidbody, and I'm just enabling gravity when dropping and adding some force relative to the player's forward vector. Why can it be? Also other objects dont do this, they work just fine.

The rigidbody's velocity's changing constantly

[eternal needle]

this code probably doesnt relate to the issue then, if it works for all other objects. Check your pistol specifically, maybe its colliders are constantly colliding/trying to depentrate thus moving up. Maybe your have another script which just moves it up and forgot

[delicate portal]

it was the animator's fault, I just disabled it when dropping

[dim halo]

how can I change the background color of the text button in the unity

[gaunt ice]

the background color is driven by the image iirc

[rare crater]

Can someone help, I don't know why my Roslyn is eating up so much memory? I've only begun my project a few days ago.

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe expand on the details

[fringe plover]

Why it doesnt detect pathfinding/NavMesh?

i have installed it

[true yacht]

What is this namespace, sorry

[fringe plover]

💀

[short hazel]

English please

Do these errors only appear in VS, or also in the Unity console?

[fringe plover]

both

i mean in unity too

[short hazel]

Make sure the package is installed via the Package Manager

[fringe plover]

it is

[short hazel]

Unity says otherwise, it seems

[fringe plover]

ill try restarting unity

[short hazel]

Are you sure it's not UnityEngine.Pathfinding instead of just Pathfinding by itself?

[fringe plover]

i treid them, doesnt work

[true yacht]

Em check using UnityEngine.AI or smth with UnityEngine namespace maybe? Cause all unity namespaces are in UnityEngine namespace usually

[fringe plover]

not all, TMPro doesnt require UnityEngine.

[true yacht]

You are probably right, but check UnityEngine.AI namespace

[fringe plover]

doesnt help too

[fringe plover]

i tried

[true yacht]

Okay

[short hazel]

Or you can check the docs, it will display which namespace the types are in.
Or you could make a variable of a type, and use the VS Quick Actions to complete the namespace for you

[ivory bobcat]

Type your wanted code and auto import

[true yacht]

In addition you can go to packages folder and check out some files there

[ivory bobcat]

NavMesh should be in the Unity AI namespace https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMesh.html

[fringe plover]

I check docs and everything else, it just doesnt want to usePathfinding

[true yacht]

Unity.AI.Navigation

[ivory bobcat]

That doesn't seem to be a thing. Comment that line out.

[fringe plover]

i commented

nothing changes

[short hazel]

Now use the quick actions to import the namespace

It's the light bulb icon that appears when you hover over an error with your mouse

[true yacht]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/navigation-ai-experimental-cant-find-navmeshsurface.1168856/

Looks similar to your problem

[little copper]

i have the same script on 2 object how can i make them work separately?

[ivory bobcat]

They are separate - assuming different instances of the same component script.

[true yacht]

What do you mean, can you explain in more details with code example?

[fringe plover]

what icon?

idk what you mean

[short hazel]

The light bulb icon

[fringe plover]

oh i see

it says that i can add System.IO to using but when i do it i get more errors cuz its NavMesh path

[short hazel]

Yep so it's not detecting that the package is installed

Restart VS and try the same thing again

[fringe plover]

i did

Nothing changed

[short hazel]

Then close VS, go to Edit > Preferences > External Tools, and click the Regenerate Project Files button. Then open VS again

[ivory bobcat]

Where did you get this code from? Are you certain it wasn't supposed to be https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshPath.html?

Wherever you got it from, make sure to copy all steps exactly as they've done.

[fringe plover]

Well, i got it from some guy, and this it not my game

[opal cove]

Hey, do any if you know a good tutorial to sart scripting and actually understand what you’re doing?

[fringe plover]

depends on what you want to do

[ivory bobcat]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[fringe plover]

Yeah this one is good one too, but i did only 3 lessons end went to youtube

[opal cove]

Just get started, cause I did a game by watching some tutorials on what I wanted to implement but I didn’t understand what I was doing

[opal cove]

Thx

[fringe plover]

same

but i just continued learning and now i mostly code with no tutorials

[opal cove]

Like the only thing I coded mostly myself is a button to switch scenes

[little copper]

how do i remove a game object from an array

[short hazel]

Arrays are fixed size, so you technically can't remove an element.
Prefer using a List<GameObject> if you need to dynamically add and remove items

[charred spoke]

Or set it to null

[little copper]

okay thanks

[charred spoke]

But that brings other problems

[naive harness]

So, I am setting my game state based on Axis input from idle to running, which works; however, if I immediately switch the cursor key from holding right to left, my character slides over the floor with its first frame rather than utilizing the running animation

is this some limbo state that I enter into that does not properly run animator?

[verbal dome]

Have your Animator window open while playing so you can see what transitions etc. are happening in real time

[naive harness]

I suspect it has to do with this:

"If you’re using Input.GetAxis it will return 0 when both are pressed."

(reading something on Reddit)

            spriteRenderer.flipX = false;
            state = MovementState.running;
        }  else if (dirX < 0) {
            spriteRenderer.flipX = true;
            state = MovementState.running;
        }```

[solid yew]

Hey, this might be a stupid question. Which axes does Rigidbody.angularVelocity use?

Is it world or local axes

[naive harness]

Ahhh, interruption sources, interesting

[rare crater]

I have a scriptable object and I'm trying to pass a generic script into it but its not letting me add anything? Any ideas why?

[wintry quarry]

What exactly are you trying to add to it?

[rare crater]

Just a script that plays additional functions etc

[wintry quarry]

Wdym a script?

What precisely are you dragging

The script itself?

[rare crater]

yes, for each scriptable object I have a script that I'm trying to add into the scriptable object.

[wintry quarry]

You don't drag scripts into such slots

You drag GameObjects with that script attached to them OR if it's a ScriptableObject then an asset of that type

What exactly is SkillBase?

MonoBehaviour?
ScriptableObject?

[rare crater]

Skillbase is monobehaviour

[wintry quarry]

Then you'd need to drag a GameObject with one attached to it into that slot. Also since this is an asset itself, only a prefab would fit there

Assets cannot reference objects from scenes in the editor

[rare crater]

mmm okay, im not referencing anything in the scene anyway. But does that mean I have to basically create 3 objects for each skill?

Sounds cumbersome, I'm only doing this because I cannot access monobehaviour within a scriptable object. Is there another workaround?

[wintry quarry]

I don't really understand why SkillBase is a MonoBehaviour

[rare crater]

i figured cuz a scriptable object doesn't inherit monobehaviour so

I'd be locked out on creating certain functions

[wintry quarry]

So? But why does it need to be a MonoBehaviour in the first place

[rare crater]

umm i dont really have a concrete reason why, but isn't there some limitations because it doesn't inherit monobehaviour

like lets say instantiation, or whatnot. Anything that would be in a normal unity script

[wintry quarry]

Instantiate has nothing to do with MonoBehaviour

It's a static method in UnityEngine.Object

You can call it from anywhere

[rare crater]

mmm okay

I guess i'm going about doing it the wrong way

[hoary locust]

Hello there! Does anyone know any resources to do something similar to this in unity? Where the game scales up or down dynamically depending on the window and not using a fixed resolution?

[wintry quarry]

You mean the UI scaling?

[lament birch]

you can use the Canvas Scaler component
the actual world already scales depending on the window height

[wintry quarry]

#📲┃ui-ux question not code

[hoary locust]

Not UI. The game itself.

[wintry quarry]

The game itself always scales according to screen resolution

You don't have to do anything special

[hoary locust]

i meant the game itself in the background, i probably shouldnt have pressed pause in the game

[hoary locust]

really? weird because it looks fine in the game window but when i made a build half the screen was basically cut out

[wintry quarry]

Wdym by half the screen cut out? You sure you're not talking about UI?

[hoary locust]

I think? Maybe I am. Unsure now. I will move to ui just in case lol

[hoary locust]

alright ty

[glad field]

        if(victimPiece == "Knight" && attackerColor == thisColor){
            curCount++;
        }
    }```

Identifier expected

did i screw up with syntax or something else?

[short hazel]

Yes

You need to give types to the function parameters

[glad field]

what python does to a mf

thanks

[queen adder]

Hi guys. I know physics things should go into FixedUpdate but I'm not sure where just adding fixed velocity should go also in fixedupdate?

myRb.velocity = moveVector.normalized * moveSpeed;

[wintry quarry]

Yes, also in FixedUpdate technically but you can get away with that in Update

[queen adder]

Do you also have a why for me just to wrap my head around this? 😄

[wintry quarry]

What do you think velocity does?

[queen adder]

setting a constant speed into x direction

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't do anything until the physics simulation runs

When the physics simulation runs it moves the object

FixedUpdate runs at the same cadence as the physics simulation

[queen adder]

ah okay that makes sense yeah, just setting it on its own does nothing

[wintry quarry]

So by setting it during FixedUpdate that's the appropriate time to make changes to it right before it gets used by the simulation

[queen adder]

hence why i can also put it in udpate but best practice would be to put it still in fixedupdate?

[wintry quarry]

Yes

[queen adder]

ok thank you very much 🙂

[upbeat stirrup]

Would it be more efficent to instantiate prefabs with a Vector3 offset or a "Spawn Point" gameobject? Or does it not matter?

[wintry quarry]

you're definitely prematurely optimizing

[upbeat stirrup]

Ok, thanks

[waxen oracle]

Is it possible to have an image/object show up a fixed position on the screen

such as a health bar ect, im confused about how to achieve this

[timber tide]

easier to do with UI

[waxen oracle]

wdym Ui

[timber tide]

unity UI canvas component

which you can specifically use screen coordinates

[waxen oracle]

thats probably what im looking for

thanks

[cosmic quail]

@upbeat stirrup actually i dont think thats premature. a spawn point gameobject would require you to have an extra gameobject in your scene, depending on how many you have it may start affecting performance since gameobjects have a performance overhead. and if it becomes a problem later then fixing this would waste a lot of time (manually going through every single one of these prefabs, removing the spawn point gameobject and assigning a offset instead)

[upbeat stirrup]

Alr, thanks alot!

[queen adder]

quick question

i am trying to have it so that if you are holding left shift and press a move it does the reverse

 if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.U) && !isRotating) MakeMove("U");
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.U) && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift) && !isRotating) MakeMove("rU");

it doesnt appear to be working

[languid spire]

what? why the ;

and the repeating conditions

[short hazel]

It's pretty unlikely you'll be hitting both U and Shift down in the very same time frame (of 16 milliseconds at 60 FPS)

[queen adder]

yeah i thgoutht that

thought

[short hazel]

You should use GetKey for the Shift key

[queen adder]

does that mean if im holding it down

[short hazel]

Yes

[queen adder]

cool let me try it

[short hazel]

Wtf images don't seem to load on my side, anyone else?

[queen adder]

images wont send for me

[short hazel]

Yeah I've seen the Discord Status page, they're aware of it

[swift sedge]

since when is discord down like that?

[willow scroll]

yes, I guess you'll have to use e.g. imgur

[compact saddle]

think its back

[waxen oracle]

For some reason, i cant move a text mesh pro which is the child of an image, into the text mesh pro public field of a script attached to the image, why is this?

[fringe kindle]

Is there a way to destroy an item's parent?

[willow scroll]

yes

Destroy(transform.parent.gameObject);

[fringe kindle]

As in when you latch on to the bottom part of the vine (where the collider is), and after a few seconds, the whole vine itself disappears

[languid spire]

Destroy(transform.parent) or Destroy(transform.root) if there multiple levels in the heirarchy

[rich adder]

because types dont match or ur putting scene object into prefab

prob the former

[fringe kindle]

I'll try that

[waxen oracle]

it should def match

[rich adder]

prove it

[waxen oracle]

and theres no prefab

public TextMeshPro textcomp;

thats the line i have exactly

[rich adder]

ok show what ur dragging into it

screenshot it

[meager sentinel]

Guys, i have a cube that is supposed to represent a coin (with a trigger), the thing is. When you start the game a audio sounds, but when you touch the block after the audio sounds nothing happens, i even have a debug log and the log dont even works, the trigger only works when the voice is sounding, anyone could help?

[rich adder]

why would audio at all have control over trigger

unless you specified so somehow..

check console for errors

[meager sentinel]

idk i just placed it as a audio that sounds at awake

[meager sentinel]

there are no errors

it looks like this

when the audio is over

[rich adder]

this helps nothing

cant tell whats happening

[meager sentinel]

basically u can noclip the cube without it dissapearing

the code makes it to destroy when u enter on trigger

[rich adder]

show code

[meager sentinel]

Am placing it via unity since it takes a year to load VSC

[rich adder]

types dont match

[waxen oracle]

trying to drag the selected text into image

is that not text mesh pro

[polar acorn]

So whenever this object collides with anything you destroy whatever object thing is

[rich adder]

you're trying to drag a textmeshpro ui into textmesh pro

change type to TMP_Text

[waxen oracle]

alright

thanks

[meager sentinel]

thing is a variable (GameObject) that it's the same cube that enters on trigger

[polar acorn]

It is not. It's a TextMeshProUGUI. They have a shared parent type of TMP_Text if you want to use either

[polar acorn]

Show full !code

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[meager sentinel]

https://hatebin.com/glnypylaft

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, where are you assigning thing

[fringe kindle]

Instead of deleting the vine, this comes up after 1 second

This is the code I got

[rich adder]

whats on line 64

[meager sentinel]

In the same cube

[polar acorn]

Then something on that line is null but you're trying to use it anyway

[polar acorn]

This object has no parent

[languid spire]

then transform does not have a parent

[polar acorn]

Okay, so whenever this object collides with anythinf, delete the cube you've dragged in. Do you ever get your debug log

[fringe kindle]

I thought it does

I'm trying to destroy the entire 'quickvine parent'. Section 6 is where my character swings from, and has the collider

[meager sentinel]

I only get it when the audio is sounding

[rich adder]

which object has the script

[fringe kindle]

My Third Person Controller

[polar acorn]

Audio has nothing to do with this

[rich adder]

so how would it destroy this..

[fringe kindle]

The collider is attached to the Section 6

[polar acorn]

Does that have a parent

[fringe kindle]

No

[meager sentinel]

idk why but when the audio ends the trigger dont works

[polar acorn]

Then why are you trying to destroy it

[meager sentinel]

log dont even appears

[polar acorn]

Show your audio code

[rich adder]

then collision isn't happening

[meager sentinel]

there's no audio code, it's just a gameobject that has a audio that plays on awake

[fringe kindle]

Because of a game mechanic I came up with. I'm adding vines to the game where you only have a second to swing off of them before they disappear and you fall

[polar acorn]

Then it 100% is not affecting any of this

[meager sentinel]

But then why the ontriggerenter dont works when the audio is over?

[rich adder]

get the reference to the correct vine when you swing on it then

[polar acorn]

No I mean why are you trying to destroy the parent of your third person controller when it does t have one

[fringe kindle]

I'm not trying to

I'm trying to destroy the parent to the section I'm holding on to, i.e. the vine itself

[polar acorn]

My guess is because you have code that destroys something when the audio ends and you're destroying the thing with either the script or the collider

[languid spire]

he just copy/pasted the code I gave him without thinking about it

[meager sentinel]

Oh man am sorry for annoying, it was just that i have like a circle but there's 2 cubes instead of 1, then i was triggering one cube that dint do anything

[rich adder]

then reference that vine and destroy it

on swing

[polar acorn]

Then you should call destroy o. The parent of that instead of the parent of the object this script is on

[fringe kindle]

I tried doing it with 'other.', which has the tag I applied to the vine section, but it didn't work earlier

[polar acorn]

Show the inspectors of both objects involved in the collision

[languid spire]

because other is a collider not a transform

[meager sentinel]

The other cube was just another type of script that wasnt on place, am sorry for annoying

[wintry quarry]

Definitely premature. One extra object is not going to cause a noticable performance difference. Later on it can be fixed easily if it does, but you might save a lot of development time being able to visually position the object in the editor

It would not take a long time to fix later either

But it's so exceedingly unlikely to be a performance problem unless there's thousands of these things in the scene

[rich adder]

what exactly doesn't work ?
other would give you info of the collision between the two

[boreal tangle]

does someone know how I change the width of a orthographic camera. I can change the size but I need the camera to be long and changing the size only leads to a bigger cube.

[rich adder]

afaik that depends on the aspect ratio

also not code question

[boreal tangle]

oh sorry

[vast vessel]

Hey guys, i want to implement this function for humanoid characters, that when called will disable the animator, and then it will enable the rigidbodies on every limb that has one. I have that part done but its the next part that i dont know how to do.
I want to add a force to each limb, so that they would continue moving in whichever direction with the same speed they were already moving in, when the animator was active.
How do i achieve this?

[rich adder]

so a ragdoll

[vast vessel]

Yes, i want to have death animations that will turn my rig into a ragdoll at some point

I will call the function uaing animation events in the death animation

[rich adder]

yeah so whats the problem rn?

[vast vessel]

If i only used a death animation the character wouldn't interact with the world, and if i only use ragdolls the rig will just drop to the floor. I want to have a death animation, that mid way through the animation turns the character into a ragdoll, and have evrey limb thrown in the same direction they were moving in before the character turned into a ragdoll

Read the original message in its entirety please

[rich adder]

eh..I know what you're trying to do

Im asking which part you cannot figure out since you seem to have the process already in mind

[vast vessel]

How do i know how fast a evrey limb was moving so i can calculate the force required for each limb when the ragdolling function is called

[rich adder]

normally animator already moves the limbs so it can just continue from there, you can also keep track the velocity

another way to track is checking where the limb was last frame compared to current frame and that gives you move direction

[vast vessel]

So a coroutine that saves the location of each limb, waits for end of frame, gets the location for each limb again and subtracts it from the previous frame and then does the ragdolling?

[rich adder]

something like that

you want (currentPos - lastPos).normalized or something

[vast vessel]

I dont think i would want normalized since i need the limbs to move at the same speed as when the animator was active

[vast vessel]

Dosnt this have problems with different framerates?

[rich adder]

why would it be problem

[sleek notch]

How to fix this acceleration of vehicle?

[vast vessel]

Maybe you get a random lag spike causing incosistant frame rate, making it so the prevpos-newpos is higher then it should be.
Some calcultions with time.deltatime should be able to fix it ig

[wooden leaf]

Hello everyone. I'm just digging into Unity and coding and I've gotten stuck. I'm following a tutorial, copying the code written, yet I'm getting the error "The associated script can not be loaded. Please fix any compile errors." The only thing I see different is that my script is colored differently, I thought maybe there was a simple fix somewhere. Any help is appreciated.

[rich adder]

dont multiply mous input with time.deltatTime btw

[vast vessel]

Check the compile issues in the console

[sleek notch]

You must have anywhere red underline

[gaunt ice]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[vast vessel]

Mouse input is already a delta why do tutorial youtubers do this anyways lol

[eternal needle]

Because one guy did it, and they all copy from each other. Most youtube tutorials are shit, especially when it's for beginner concepts

[rich adder]

generally copying off each other

[swift crag]

it's also a natural mistake if you don't understand why you use deltaTime

if your understanding is "I use deltaTime so that things are framerate-independent", then of course you're going to use it there

[wooden leaf]

I don't think the console helps with this?

[swift crag]

that is not the compile error

there will be at least one other error in your console

[gaunt ice]

please configure your vscode first then it will underline the lines with errors

[wooden leaf]

I thought I did that, but things kinda got messy

[vast vessel]

Any way to sample a frame of an animation in code? Like for getting the position of a transform, on a specific animation, on a specific feame?

[wooden leaf]

Oh shoot! things are happening, the unity extension wasn't fully installed yet

[gusty sorrel]

why does addforce induce a bit of rotation even if applied perfecly through the center of mass, while addforceatposition keeps my rocket flying straight?

[swift crag]

It shouldn't. Can you show the code you're using?

(both versions)

[timber tide]

you can get an array of keyframes and compare against current time

one or another

[gusty sorrel]

i dont know what changed but now they are both working???

i changed a different unrelated part of the code and somehow it got fixed??

[mellow elbow]

is there any good way to learn raycasts?

This is mind melting

[rich adder]

they're like the easiest thing to learn lol

[mellow elbow]

I have a tiny brain

[rich adder]

you make a Ray and get some data from it

[mellow elbow]

It's easy to understand but hard to grasp fully

[timber tide]

pick point, give direction and distance

[rich adder]

learn to make the visual debugs for it for easier understnding

[timber tide]

the harder concept is the bitwise layer mask

[mellow elbow]

Docs are not making it clear for me

[rich adder]

yes their example is stupid

"Optionally provide layermask"
why not just show the layermask type instead of bitshifting

also TransformDirection method randomly put in there lol savage

[shrewd swift]

in edit mode, can I apply the same effects that this eye icon from code ?

i suppose this get the GO and all childs, and disable the renderer ?

[rich adder]

most likely yes.
everything in unity editor is done via code anyway

[mellow elbow]

I will understand in time

[rich adder]

which part are you confused on exactly ?

[shrewd swift]

okay ty, now i have to find it xD

[rich adder]

look into this class
there might be another, gotta look better
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneVisibilityManager.html

there is also . nvm
~~https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object-hideFlags.html~~

[mellow elbow]

What does what

[rich adder]

like what?

[cosmic quail]

just watch tutorials and youll get it eventually

[rich adder]

**keep doing it

watching will not engrain knowledge, repetition does

I used to keep the whole raycast line inside a copy & paste clipboard because i never knew how to make one. the more I used it, the more it made sense and became muscle memory

[timber tide]

public static bool Raycast(Vector3 origin, Vector3 direction, out RaycastHit hitInfo, float maxDistance, int layerMask)

Vector3 origin : starting point in space represented by a Vector3
Vector3 direction : direction vector from the starting point represented by a Vector3
out RaycastHit hitInfo : struct of information from which object that was hit by the raycast (you declare the variable inline using the out ketword)
float maxDistance : distance value represented by a float
int layerMask : bitwise component to filter out layers which you want to ignore or hit

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/RaycastHit.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LayerMask.html

[mellow elbow]

Ill just take from an example and play around with that

[mellow elbow]

Tysm

[spring skiff]

What I am searching for, if I want to collect items by pointing the middle of my screen to an objects while pressing [E] to collect the item?

I jsut find some cheap guides that only use colliders where it doesent matter in what direction the player is looking but This is not enough!

The player needs to look at the items + beaing inside of a collider, to make sure the player is in range to collect it and to make sure the playing is pointing with the middle of his screen to this item.

[cosmic quail]

is it a first person game? u dont need the collider in that case

[rich adder]

Trigger + raycast should do

[gusty sorrel]

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift))
    throttle += Time.fixedDeltaTime;
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftControl))
    throttle -= Time.fixedDeltaTime;
if (Input.GetKey("z"))
    throttle = 1f;
if (Input.GetKey("x"))
    throttle = 0f;
Mathf.Clamp(throttle, 0f, 1f);

why does throttle go outside the limit? i can just keep holding shift and it goes beyond 1

[cosmic quail]

a raycast should be enough, cause you can give it a range. no need for a trigger

and u wanna have an interface on your collectible items

[rich adder]

which limit ?

thats not how Clamp works..

[gusty sorrel]

wdym

[rich adder]

you never assign the clamp

[ivory bobcat]

d = clamp (a, b, c)

[gusty sorrel]

oh

im stupid

thanks

[spring skiff]

why does this matter and why do I not need the collider?
If you want to collect a flashlight, you need to be in range because you dont have 20 meter long arms to collect this item if its to far away.
Plus you need to look at the item.

[cosmic quail]

raycasts can have a range.

[queen adder]

can anyone help how do i fix this idk what it is?

[rich adder]

show the full stack

[queen adder]

like this?

[rich adder]

Seems like an Editor error

[queen adder]

so hiw do i fix it?

how;

[rich adder]

try restart unity maybe ?

what did you try doing prior to error ?

[queen adder]

just make a map idrek tbh

[rich adder]

could be Probuilder bug

[mellow elbow]

Did you delete the map

[queen adder]

no

[cosmic quail]

basically, when you press E, you shoot out a raycast from your face with a length of 1 meter or whatever, you can decide how long it is. and if it hits something with your collectible interface then you pick it up. look up raycasts and interfaces

[mellow elbow]

Do this then

[spring skiff]

okay, thx.

[rich adder]

do note , the receiving objects do need colliders for raycasts to work

[mental chasm]

Hello I'm new to Unity and coding and starting my first project, I have a ball im controlling and trying to increase the movement speed when holding down shift, but I don't know how to write the code for that. This is what I thought it would be but clearly it's wrong lol

[rich adder]

this is presssed not holding, also read the error it tells you whats wrong

[mellow elbow]

Show the errors I wanna see

[rich adder]

more likely you're trying to pass ShiftKey as a keycode in a button(string) function

addorce Im gonna guess youre multiplying two vector3s

[rich adder]

ohh

AddForce wants a vector3 not a float

[mental chasm]

should I change addForce?

[rich adder]

wwhat?

[rich adder]

no you need a direction

[mental chasm]

oh

[rich adder]

Vector3 would be that, find out which direction you want

[mental chasm]

Ohhh ok I changed m_MovePower to moveDirection

[chrome wasp]

I was wondering if I could get help with an error but I dont want there to be two converations at once should I make a thread?

[wintry quarry]

yes a thread is a good idea

[rich adder]

no need just post the question

or yeah make thread

dont listen to me I just didnt have my coffee today

[mental chasm]

but my ShiftKey is unrecognizable, whats the Shift key name in Unity or do I need to add it somewhow?

[wintry quarry]

Do you mean this? https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/KeyCode.LeftShift.html

[mental chasm]

YES

thank you!

[rich adder]

but you cannot use Button for that btw

[chrome wasp]

Unexpected preprocessor directive

[rich adder]

change it to GetKey instead of GetButton

[mental chasm]

ahh okay thank you

[rich adder]

GetKey is held and GetKeyDown is pressed once

[odd marsh]

so im trying to mod a game and need to make an inputfield but its not working, do yall know how to fix this

[mental chasm]

awesome thank you I didnt know

[rich adder]

we don't really offer support for modding sorry

[odd marsh]

ah

alr

[rich adder]

more likely you're missing namespace though

[wintry quarry]

if you mouse over that, your IDE will give you the suggestion to fix it by adding a using directive

[mental chasm]

the code works thank you guys so much for the help!

[rich adder]

[odd marsh]

it does not unfortunately

[mellow elbow]

I want my raycast to activate a button if it hits it, how should I go about doing this

[dry tendon]

I have one little question related to boxhelps... and if someone could help me i'll really appreciate it: How do I make Right BoxHelp automatically adjust vertically to the size of Left BoxHelp in real time in this case? so that in height the right always measures the same as the left. This is the both boxhelps code https://paste.ofcode.org/rHEZVn9pNbh8KGBgFxnKjB

[rich adder]

depends..what is a Button

a physical object in the world space ?

[mellow elbow]

Yea

A cube

[rich adder]

make script that does what you want when hit, make the method public

[mellow elbow]

How do I reference the method

im stuck on that

[rich adder]

you dont , just call it from the script you find on raycast hit

[sleek notch]

rb.AddForce(transform.forward * reverse * Input.GetAxis("Vertical")); how to do it reverse?

[wintry quarry]

wdyb by "reverse? just a force in the opposite direction?

[sleek notch]

transform.back doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

-transform.forward

[mellow elbow]

Ok so even if its in another script I can just call the method because it's public?

[sleek notch]

I did it but still same

[wintry quarry]

it will be opposite

[cosmic quail]

@mellow elbow am i correct saying that an interface is the best option for this

[rich adder]

yes if you find the script through hit ray, and method is public yes

[wintry quarry]

What is your reverse variable doing?

Shouldn't that be -1 if you want to reverse it?

[rich adder]

yes but it might be a little too advanced for #💻┃code-beginner

its good practice to use Interfaces absolutely

[sleek notch]

same as speed

[mellow elbow]

What is an interface

[sleek notch]

Just it have to be different number

[wintry quarry]

same as speed? Why? that's weird. Show more of your code

[rich adder]

its a very special type

[wintry quarry]

under what circumstances do you want to reverse

[cosmic quail]

if you want the best option use an interface, if its just some beginner project where u dont really care about the best option just do something like hit.gameObject.GetComponent<Button>().PressButton();

[mellow elbow]

ah

[rich adder]

always use TryGetComponent imo

[sleek notch]

It works but not. It goes reverse about 0.05 and forward goes nice

[mellow elbow]

Difference being?

[rich adder]

in case Button isnt found you don't null ref (trying to run a method on something that wasn't found potentially)

[cosmic quail]

yea cuz what if you interact with something that doesnt have a Button component

[sleek notch]

Anyway thanks it work

[rich adder]

just dont name your component Button lol

cause there already is a class like that UnityEngine.UI.Button

[cosmic quail]

and thus begins the hardest decision of all... what to name it instead 😄

[mellow elbow]

It doesnt have a button component

[cosmic quail]

whatever the name of your component is

[rich adder]

its just an example of a class you can make

[mellow elbow]

ah okay

The component is the name of my script right?

[rich adder]

naming is probably one of the hardest things in coding

xD

[rich adder]

you want the collider first

[cosmic quail]

hit.collider.gameObject

[mellow elbow]

I see

[rich adder]

btw gameObject is redudant

if(hit.collider.TryGetComponent(out ButtonScript btn))
btn.Press() //some public method on the button```

[odd marsh]

i am a moron i somehow forgot to add unity.ui to my references

[mellow elbow]

Like this?? cause it says it doesnt exist in the current context

[rich adder]

no

not at all

you need a reference to ButtonScript

stored in a var

[mellow elbow]

OK so I store it first

[rich adder]

yes

[cosmic quail]

@mellow elbow like this

[mellow elbow]

as what type of variable

[rich adder]

ButtonScript

but yes what I wrote is a shortcut

[mellow elbow]

ah

[rich adder]

its the same as this

ButtonScript button = hit.collider.GetComponent<ButtonScript>();

        if(button != null)
        {
            button.Pressed();
        }```

[chrome wasp]

how do you do this btw

with the box

that the code is inside of

[mellow elbow]

Three `

[mellow elbow]

then end it with three `

damage```

[chrome wasp]

test

thanks!!

[mellow elbow]

you can also just see by copying the text

Thanks navarone

[rich adder]

you got it working ?

[mellow elbow]

Yes :)

It returns on the logs that I hit it

[rich adder]

nice!

[fringe kindle]

Is there a way to make the character movement less jittery when in the air? Or is it just my laptop?

[wintry quarry]

well for one you should enable interpolation on your Rigidbody

[fringe kindle]

That didn’t really do much

[rich adder]

it should, also how are you moving character (code wise)

[fringe kindle]

I’m using the Third Person Controller

With some extra bits of code added in where the character is ‘grounded’ when on the bottom of the vine, so it can jump off

[rich adder]

are you talking about the CharacterController one?

[fringe kindle]

This one

It's the one I got off the asset store

[rich adder]

yes that would be character controller, mixing that with Rigidbody collisions is tricky

something you did to controller though is making that weird glitch, you have to show hat you did

the TPC controller script alone doesn't do that afaik

[fringe kindle]

I think it's coming from me disabling and re-enabling the TPC whenever I was in the vine's hitbox

[rich adder]

how are you moving it on the vine box then ?

also CC prefers to be moved on the Physics update with Move

[fringe kindle]

It's attached to the collider's position as it swings

Before you ask, I followed a video tutorial on getting swinging to work

It demonstrated the code working with a cube and I was trying to replicate the effect with a proper character controller

[rich adder]

was the cube just a rigidbody or what

[fringe kindle]

It was a rigidbody, yes

With a constant force to give it movement

[rich adder]

CC is just tricky to sync with rigidbodies properly

maybe convert to a rigidbody only whilst swinging

[frosty hound]

This conversation already happened yesterday 🤔

[fringe kindle]

I have it so that the rigidbody is kinematic whenever I'm not on the vines

Completely disabling it outside the vines makes my character plummet to the ground

[rocky canyon]

anyone know any resources or some tips that might help me make a click -> move top down style selection system.. does the clicker mechanic need its own state machine? you reckno?

[desert elm]

is there a way to combine multiple gameobjects into one?

[wintry quarry]

In what sense?

what are you trying to accomplish?

[desert elm]

In the scene window. I just spammed a gameobject with a sprite render to create a placeholder level layout, but I want to turn all of these gameobjects into one- is that possible?

[wintry quarry]

You want to create a single sprite out of all of them?
Or you just want to be able to move them all at once?

What are you hoping to accomplish ultimately

[desert elm]

to not have the hierachy full of "Forest(xx)"

[desert elm]

yeah, that

[wintry quarry]

Put them all under an empty parent object and collapse it

[desert elm]

oh that works thanks

[swift crag]

You can select a bunch of objects, then right-click and click "Create Empty Parent", btw

[honest haven]

My player will not move https://gdl.space/izapivuneq.cs just animating in spot

[idle elk]

Hi Can i ask a few question

I dont whats the problem .. im using player prefs to save the data .. and debug say its display but in my screen the stone dont appear

[swift crag]

you'll have to show us the code you're using

[idle elk]

Sure

[rocky canyon]

!code use a paste-bin website.. the compression on thats awful.. i can barely read it on a PC, mobile has no chance

[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.

[rocky canyon]

tell me what this says 👀 lol

[idle elk]

using UnityEngine;using UnityEngine.UI;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
public class PyramidStoneSceneController : MonoBehaviour{
public Image stoneImage; // Reference to the Image component in the UI public Sprite spriteForOneStone;
// Set these values according to your desired position
public float newX = 0f; public float newY = 0f;
public float newZ = 0f;
void Start() {
// Log the initial local position Debug.Log("Initial RectTransform position: " + stoneImage.rectTransform.localPosition);
// Retrieve the collected stones for the previous level
int collectedStones = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("StonesCollected_Level" + (SceneManager.GetActiveScene().buildIndex - 1), 0);
// Debug log to show the retrieved stone count Debug.Log("Stones retrieved: " + collectedStones);
// Display the image based on the number of stones collected
DisplayStoneImage(collectedStones);
// Set the local position of stoneImage stoneImage.rectTransform.localPosition = new Vector3(newX, newY, newZ);
// Log the final local position
Debug.Log("Final RectTransform position: " + stoneImage.rectTransform.localPosition); }

void DisplayStoneImage(int stoneCount)
{ // Debug log to show the stone count
Debug.Log("Stone count: " + stoneCount);
// Display the image only if there is one stone if (stoneCount == 1)
{ // Set the sprite for the Image component
stoneImage.sprite = spriteForOneStone;
// Debug log to show when the stone is being displayed Debug.Log("Stone displayed!");
} else
{ // Set the sprite to null or an empty sprite if you don't want to display anything for other cases
stoneImage.sprite = null;
// Debug log to show when no stone is displayed Debug.Log("No stone to display!");
Debug.Log("Assigning sprite: " + spriteForOneStone);
stoneImage.sprite = spriteForOneStone;
Debug.Log("RectTransform position: " + stoneImage.rectTransform.position); }
}}

Sorry for that

[rocky canyon]

use a paste bin website..

[rare basin]

i think that will fix it

[rocky canyon]

click one of those links in the embed i sent.. and copy and paste it.. it'll give u a link

[idle elk]

Orite sure