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[spring skiff]

What do you mean?
I just tried to reuse the code for my mouse movement as an alternative for Input.MousePosition.

[polar acorn]

Did you try looking up how to get mouse position in the new input system

[willow radish]

so im making a flappy bird ish game to learn unity because i just started today. and my UI works for getting points when you go through the pipes. but after 9 it goes to 1 instead of 10. and after 10 it goes to 2 instead of 20. how can i fix it so it shows the whole number?

[polar acorn]

Make your text are bigger or make the font smaller

[willow radish]

ohh okay let me try

thanks it worked!

[spring skiff]

I just reused the same code taht I already used earlier for the camera movement of the player.
But instead of:

        Vector2 targetMouseDelta = _controls1.Player.Camera_Movement.ReadValue<Vector2>();

I changed it to:

        var ray = _camera.ScreenPointToRay(_controls.Player.Camera_Movement.ReadValue<Vector2>());

[polar acorn]

Neither of those are mouse position

[willow radish]

i also have another problem where it adds a point to the score even after the game over if it goes through the objects

[spring skiff]

If I use:

var ray = _camera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

I get this Error:

UnityEngine.Input.get_mousePosition () (at <7b7960ce51044497a5379ae0d5d70e62>:0)
SoulShardsCollecting.Update () (at Assets/Game/Scripts/SoulShards/SoulShardsCollecting.cs:

[wintry quarry]

Seems pretty self explanatory, no?

[polar acorn]

Did you try looking up how to get mouse position in the new input system

[spring skiff]

self explainging in case of that its not compatible with the new input system.
But no clue how to replace it with something compatible...

[wintry quarry]

make an input action bound to mouse position and read the value from there, muhc like any other input in the new system
OR
directly read from the mouse device e.g. Mouse.current.position.ReadValue()

[spring skiff]

yes, then I landed there and their solution was claimed as wrong aswell:
worldPos = mainCam.ScreenToWorldPoint(Mouse.current.position);

https://forum.unity.com/threads/mouse-position-with-new-input-system.829248/

[wintry quarry]

further down in the same thread https://forum.unity.com/threads/mouse-position-with-new-input-system.829248/#post-6739015

that first person just forgot to write ReadValue() is all

[polar acorn]

Thankfully there's more than one site on the internet

[icy junco]

anyone knows anything from mirror i am trying to implement some networking in my game but it gives me an error

    void CmdPlayerShot (string _playerID, int _damage)
    {
        Debug.Log(_playerID + " has been shot");

        Player _player = GameManager.GetPlayer (_playerID);
        _player.RpcTakeDamage(_damage);
    }

[spring skiff]

These answers with false suggestions at the beginning are very misleading. Especially when this forum discussion goes on for so long.
But at least it works now. Thanks @wintry quarry @polar acorn

//This here finally worked!
        var ray = _camera.ScreenPointToRay(Mouse.current.position.ReadValue());

[icy junco]

Assets\Scripts\PlayerShoot.cs(115,17): error CS1061: 'Player' does not contain a definition for 'RpcTakeDamage' and no accessible extension method 'RpcTakeDamage' accepting a first argument of type 'Player' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you're trying to call a function that doesn't exist

On line 115 of PlayerShoot.cs

[icy junco]

yeah but when i call a script with namespace do i need to call a script that is attached to it also with namespace or how does this work

[wintry quarry]

this has nothing to do with namespaces

completely irrelevant to your error

you're just calling a function that doesn't exist/you never defined

[icy junco]

because i added namespace and now it is fixed but i get other error

Assets\Scripts\PlayerShoot.cs(115,30): error CS0029: Cannot implicitly convert type 'Mirror.Examples.Basic.Player' to 'MirrorBasics.Player'

[wintry quarry]

You're using two different Player classes

[icy junco]

Cannot implicitly convert type 'Mirror.Examples.Basic.Player' to 'MirrorBasics.Player'CS0029

[wintry quarry]

PlayerShoot is using Mirror.Examples.Basic.Player and the Player class is using MirrorBasics.Player

make sure you use the same one in both places

[icy junco]

is there a way i can easly change this

[wintry quarry]

yes

fix your using directives

[icy junco]

they are in both scripts the same

[wintry quarry]

doesn't sound like it

sounds like you have using Mirror.Examples.Basic; in PlayerShoot and using MirrorBasics; in Player

but I'm really just guessing here based on the errors since you haven't shared your scripts.

[icy junco]

        void CmdPlayerShot (string _playerID, int _damage)
        {
            Debug.Log(_playerID + " has been shot");

            Player _player = GameManager.GetPlayer (_playerID);
            _player.RpcTakeDamage(_damage);
        }````

this is the one giving error

[wintry quarry]

As I said, the using directives are the problem

also your GameManager is also likely involved here

it's returning the wrong type of Player

you really need to decide which Player class you want to use, and consistently use that across all your scripts

[icy junco]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using Mirror;
using Unity.Mathematics;
using UnityEngine;
using Mirror.Examples.Basic;

namespace MirrorBasics {

[wintry quarry]

Exactly as I said: using Mirror.Examples.Basic;

[icy junco]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Numerics;
using Mirror;
using Mirror.Examples.Basic;
using UnityEngine;````

[wintry quarry]

ecept since this class is IN the MirrorBasics namespace it will use the one from MirrorBasics

is there a reason you're putting your classes into random other namespaces?

[spring skiff]

Is there a way to limit the Raycast without a if statement?

Something like a preset you make and then the ray knows its only 2 meter long instead of checking if a infinity long ray was shorter than 2 meter by hitting the gameobject.

[solemn summit]

You can pass Raycasts a distance

[icy junco]

i was working on netwroking via mirror and the dude i was following said i needed to implement Mirrorbasics namespace in every script

can i just deletete it in these scripts

[spring skiff]

but how?
I tried to look but there isn't anything that works or makes sence.

It always let me show results with a if statement as a lenght check.

[polar acorn]

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

[solemn summit]

That link, maxDistance.

[wintry quarry]

there's no reason your scripts need to be in any particular namespace

but again you need to decide which of the two Player classes you want to actually use

[spring skiff]

is there a code example with "maxDistance"? Because the examples I see bellow is just another if statement again.

[polar acorn]

Yes it's on the page

[rich bluff]

you want to avoid using an if statement, but the if statement is not used to limit the distance, it is used to query the raycast for the hit

you can just Raycast() but then you will need to check if the hit has anything in it, with an if statement

if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 100))
            Debug.DrawLine(ray.origin, hit.point);

becomes

Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 100);
if(hit.collider)
  Debug.DrawLine(ray.origin, hit.point);

[solemn summit]

Raycasts and Ifs are 🤞

[spring skiff]

How you find this always so fast?
Because I'm reading this page for the 5th time and I'm stil dont see a "maxDistance" somewhere in the code.
I always find this if statement with Physics.Raycast...

[rich bluff]

ctrl + f on the page

[solemn summit]

In the example, the maxDistance is set to infinity

[polar acorn]

Because you don't put the words maxDistance in the code it's a parameter

[spring skiff]

is there a way to only set the maxDistance to the Raycast without all the other bunch of parameters to?

[polar acorn]

yes

by setting that parameter

and not the others

[spring skiff]

How does it know what parameter is what if I only write float 1f in there?

[polar acorn]

Because of which parameter you have entered 1f for

[spring skiff]

the example I see is:

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

    public static bool Raycast(float 1f); //is the smaller alternative```

[gaunt ice]

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

[polar acorn]

Where are you seeing a raycast that takes only a float parameter

[gaunt ice]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/member-overloading

[rich bluff]

• raycast.
• where?
• doesnt matter just do it
• raycasting from UNKNOWN towards UNKNOWN for 1 unit

[spring skiff]

public static bool Raycast(float 1f); makes no sense, but how you should set only the maxDistance without the others?

[polar acorn]

you don't

you have to give it all required parameters

if you don't need any other optional parameters, don't include them

[rich bluff]

do you know what method overloading is?

[polar acorn]

"I do not know who I am
I do not know why I am here
all I know is I am 1 unit long"

[rocky canyon]

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

can scroll thru and find the overload that fits ur needs

[rich bluff]

"why am i here? "
"to hit something no further than 1 unit"

[rocky canyon]

heres a basic one, u got a position, a direction, and a distance

no more, no less

[spring skiff]

The example shows:

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

how should I only set "float 1f" for maxDistance without setting values for all the others?

[rich bluff]

@spring skiff there is an alternative way of finding the overloads you need, click on Raycast method name in visual studio and press F12

it will show you all the defined overloads (variants) of the Raycast method

you can find the one that suits your needs

[polar acorn]

Don't pass values for the ones you don't need

[gaunt ice]

you need to provide all arguments for the methods unless they are optional parameters
also read the links i sent if you dont familiar with c# oop

[rich bluff]

i would like an answer, do you know what overload is?

[stuck palm]

im getting the console logs but im not getting the particle system playing until much later

and i dont know why

[polar acorn]

The particle system probably just doesn't emit right away. Consider checking the "Prewarm" box, or if you're using bursts, make sure they start at time 0

[rich bluff]

maybe you should check if its playing already, afair calling Play() restarts the PS, i may be wrong

[stuck palm]

i stop the sprintpuffs at Start()

[rich bluff]

your log shows 2000+ messages, it is likely called every frame

[stuck palm]

its called on update

[spring skiff]

how should this work?
How should Raycast know that I mean the MaxDistance?
The first one in the () is Vector 3 origin, the second is the direction and the 4th one would be the macDistance. What do I paste in all the others I dont need?
is it "none" is it "null"

if I only write the MaxDistance as only, so how should it know that its the raycast?
I think its marked as 4th area inside of the ()

[rich bluff]

please tell me do you know what a method overload is?

[polar acorn]

If you don't need them, simply do not include them. MaxDistance is literally the first optional parameter

You give it all the required ones

then give it a distance

[rare crater]

Is there a way to store scriptable objects within scriptable objects?

Or is there a code structure someone can recommend that would be a good workaround?

I basically have a list that holds skills. Both the list and skills are scriptable objects as I want all enemies and players to work off this same system.

[rich bluff]

subassets

but you are limited to one level and they are not very convenient to work with

[rare crater]

One level meaning?

[rich bluff]

you have any sprites in the project? look at how its structured

texture asset has sprite subasset

you cant have a subasset of a subasset, its only one level

[rocky canyon]

one level.. like.. u asked within

so 1 level.. would just mean.. the bottom floor..

(1) story

[rare crater]

I see

[rocky canyon]

lol. multiple levels .. would be 2 stories.. or (a scriptable object within a scriptable object)

3 levels would be scriptable object within a scriptable object within a scriptable object..

4 levels.. would be.

lol j/k

[rich bluff]

its limited this way because the subasset has a local GUID, so the full sub asset reference path is parent GUID + local

allowing unlimited nesting would probably kill deserialization and reference resolution performance

[rocky canyon]

recursive scriptable objects!

[rich bluff]

alternative is to serialize data in the scriptable with SerializeReference attribute or with Odin

with that you can have unlimited graphs

[rare crater]

😵‍💫

[rich bluff]

but you wont be able to reference serialized objects externally

[stuck palm]

checking prewarm just glitches it out massively

[rare crater]

Ill look into it. But i just thought of... Maybe ill just have a nested script class to store my levels then just have the scripts reference their respective scriptable objects for data

[rocky canyon]

? i wonder why.. prewarm just means its ready to go when u press play.. it shouldnt do anything differently than what it does when its not

[stuck palm]

ill record

@rocky canyon

[willow radish]

when i start my flappy bird clone (haha) it starts immediately, can i make it so that it only starts after the user presses space?

[rocky canyon]

ahh, i see probably has something to do with the way they're spawned.

or.. teh simulation space? idk tbh never seen that happen

[stuck palm]

i turned down the duration to 0.5 and it worked for a bit but like

particle systems seem to be a real pain for me

[rocky canyon]

ya, they're just something u get better at the more u tinker with them..

VFX graph is even more powerful than the built in Particle System and is complex too..

but with VFX graph you have more fine-control over your particle systems

[icy junco]

i have a student plan so i saw that i can use the multiplayer of unity for free is there any tutorial on how to set it up?

[rich bluff]

you can make an intro scene which loads the game scene on space

or if you want to make it all in one scene, you can start with Time.timeScale = 0, and set it to 1 on space

last is dirty and may lead to problems

[stuck palm]

i just dont understand why this happens

cclicking on the player seems to fix it

[rocky canyon]

🤔 ill do a bit of googling on the side but i have no idea

[stuck palm]

appreciate it, let me know if you have any ideas 😄

[rocky canyon]

i was going to work with my particle systems today anyway.. so may work out

[stuck palm]

it is fate

[rocky canyon]

https://github.com/SpawnCampGames/Resources/tree/main/Visual Effects

i usually just use pre-made visual effects

but for something like a dash, i'd probably make my own.. b/c for something like that i'd probably use the distance stuff.. like after moving so far u spawn a puff.. etc

Rate over distance thats the one

[stuck palm]

well either way appreciate the rewsources

[rocky canyon]

lol no worries.. i saw ur art style.. figured those might be useful to u

i love stylized vfx

[stuck palm]

thank you

i wanted to do a cartoon style with like flat colors and stuff but

[rocky canyon]

which particle pack did you use for the dash?

i might experiment with it myself

[stuck palm]

it was a bit too hard to get everything consistent so i didnt bother

[stuck palm]

are you talking about the things on the ground?

or

[rocky canyon]

the cloud puffs the one ur having issues with

[stuck palm]

oh i made them myself

[rocky canyon]

ohhh okay okay, nvm then

and they just spawn continuously like during a boolean being true?

[stuck palm]

basically, its just a normal particle system

i can give you a package if u want

[rocky canyon]

and this is the only code controlling it?

[stuck palm]

should be, yeah

[rocky canyon]

no worries.. i can make something myself real quick with just some circle sprites

[stuck palm]

i was having issue with other particle systems in my game where it wouldnt start and start super late or whatever

i guess just the particle system control was the hardest part

[rocky canyon]

i'll remember ur issue as i work on my particles.. if i find a solution or think of something ill let ya know with a ping or something

[stuck palm]

thanks man much appreciated 😄

[willow radish]

ill look into it thank you!

[vast vessel]

hey guys. im trying to set up assembly defenitions for my project but ive encountered an issue.
i cant refrance the c# class generated by the input system for my input action maps(its called Player_InputActionMap)

in the input action map as you can see i set the namespace to UnityEngine.InputSystem, and all the scripts that have a refrance to Player_InputActionMap also have a directive to UnityEngine.InputSystem which is also included in my asmdef. but for some reason i still get this error. how can i fix this? am i doing something wrong?

[wintry quarry]

Why is your generated C# class in the UnityEngine.InputSystem namespace?

Anyway namespaces and assemblies really have nothing to do with one another

[vast vessel]

then how do i refrance it?

[wintry quarry]

it depends where the code lives and where the code that is trying to reference it lives

e.g. which assembly definitions they are inside, if any

Where is the code that wants to use this class? What asmdef is it in?
Where is this class defined? What asmdef is it in?

[vast vessel]

this also dosnt work

[wintry quarry]

again namespaces have nothing to do with assemblies. They are simply part of the name of the class

[wintry quarry]

again you're looking at namespaces

which are not relevant to the assembly issue

[vast vessel]

so if my input action class is in the folder that my asmdef is in it should be fixed?

[rich adder]

^^ You have to add the reference to the DLL in the asemdef file

[wintry quarry]

it depends where both classes are

if you put them in the same assembly, sure then it will work with no additional steps

[vast vessel]

so if i put them both in the same folder it should work?

[wintry quarry]

if they are in different assemblies, then the one that uses the other must reference the one it is using

[vast vessel]

i thought assemblies looked at the namespaces of scripts to check which ones should be included in them, based on the name of the assembly. my bad

thanks

[wintry quarry]

They do not

asmdefs make an assembly that contains all the files in their folder and subfolders.

to reference any scripts outside the assembly, the other code must also be in an assembly and the first assembly must reference the other assembly. Namespaces don't come into play at all.

Of course namespaces still matter in the code but they are just prefixes to the name of the class

e.g. you may either write the full name of the class like UnityEngine.GameObject; or write just GameObject for short if you have using UnityEngine; in your file

[cosmic quail]

arent assemblies mostly useless since a game is gonna have lots of singletons that get referenced from basically everywhere so you cant really have different assemblies?

[wintry quarry]

I don't see how singletons have anything to do with the usefulness or not of assemblies

assemblies are for grouping code into reusable bundles/packages and for speeding up compile times

[cosmic quail]

i thought u cant call methods on a script that is in a different assembly

[wintry quarry]

Of course you can. This entire discussion has been about how to do that.

see: #💻┃code-beginner message

[cosmic quail]

oh wow TIL. thanks, so assemblies are useful after all

[vast vessel]

@wintry quarry hey soo uhh that did not fix it...

its placed with all my other scripts

and i still get the error

ohh shi

nvm nvm

sorry for the ping

[cosmic quail]

wait, if you reference a different assembly via an assembly, does that nullify the compile time benefit?

[wintry quarry]

No - the idea is that when you make a change in one assembly, only that assembly must be recompiled and not the entire project.

although I guess it might also recompile assemblies that depend on the one in which the changes happened.

[cosmic quail]

oh so if you're referencing lots of different singletons from every script you have, then changing a singleton will also cause all of your other code to compile again, despite having assemblies

[wintry quarry]

"having lots of singletons" has nothing to do with assemblies, again

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I have a question. How to set my current screen resolution when I am entering the game? So, whenever the player enters the game I want their screen resolution to be default?

[wintry quarry]

Why would every script you have be referencing lots of singletons?

Seems like bad code design in the first place.

[cosmic quail]

not referencing, but calling. using Singleton.Instance.MyMethod(). thats good code design right?

is there a better way to, for example, tell your AchievementManager singleton that you want a specific achievement to be unlocked?

cause lots of different things can give achievements and they could be in any script

[bright kindle]

Hi! I have an issue with the moving platform. I applied this code but the player stutters when on platform and eventually falls off.

[wintry quarry]

you're teleporting your platform with Translate rather than appropriately moving it via physics

also parenting is not going to keep your player on the platform if it has a dynamic Rigidbody

[bright kindle]

I put Kinematic

[wintry quarry]

for what

[bright kindle]

the rigidbody for platform

[wintry quarry]

right so

Read this again: #💻┃code-beginner message

[bright kindle]

I understand but I don't know how to make a code out of it

[cosmic quail]

also its not good practice to parent ur player to the platform because theres lots of potential issues that arise from that even if done right

[wintry quarry]

Using https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody2D.MovePosition.html in FixedUpdate

[bright kindle]

I still have the same issue, this is what the code looks like now

[wintry quarry]

turn on interpolation on both objects to reduce stuttering.
And again - parenting is not a good idea

[bright kindle]

what do I replace it with?

instead of using parenting

the entire script you sent earlier?

[stuck palm]

why am i getting this error in my build?

[wintry quarry]

just delete the parenting business entirely to start out with

see if friction will do it on its own

also try with a custom physic material 2d with higher friction

[stuck palm]

doesnt happen in my playtest

[bright kindle]

okay the stuttering stopped but I don't move with the platform

[cosmic quail]

you can either 1. get the platform's velocity and add it to the player,
or 2. you can just see if the player is standing on the same thing as last frame and if yes,
add its position difference to the player's position
(in both cases u raycast down from the player each frame to get the platform by the way)

im not sure which option is better though. what do you think @wintry quarry ?

[wintry quarry]

what's the code on your player look like?

If your player movement code is overwriting velocity for example. it's going to break all of this

[bright kindle]

yeah thats possibly happening

[wintry quarry]

If you only move via AddForce for example it will behave naturally

[warm condor]

Hey guys, I was thinking of implementing a jump slide mechanic, which means if the player tries to slide before landing after a jump, the sliding value would increase. My question is how do I detect if a player has just touched the ground and at the same time wants to slide?

[wintry quarry]

just touched the ground
Can be done with OnCollisionEnter, maybe starting a timer of some kind
Wants to slide
Presumably the intent of the player to slide would be related to some kind of input they are pressing?

[warm condor]

ah I see, is OnCollisinEneter a function?

[wintry quarry]

It sure is

or ask your friendly neighborhood AI "How to detect collision in Unity3D"

[warm condor]

alr thanks

[stuck palm]

had to enable read/write

now its chill

[green island]

how do i ignore collsision between two gamobject i cant use layers because its a multiplayer game and i dont want a gamobject to collide with the player that spawned it but i want to collide with other players

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.IgnoreCollision.html

[green island]

thank you

[robust condor]

I'm trying to draw sphere gizmo on each face of a cube, it works when I use a cube created in Unity, but not on a custom cube mesh. The gizmo will spawn inside the middle of my mesh cube. What is going on? ```Vector3 spherePosition = transform.position + transform.right * transform.lossyScale.y / 2f;

Gizmos.color = Color.yellow;
Gizmos.DrawSphere(spherePosition, 1);```

The bounds center is also off for some reason

[ancient scarab]

Hello! Im having some issues with a statement. Im getting this error

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class DialogManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] GameObject dialogBox;
    [SerializeField] Text dialogText;
    
    [SerializeField] int lettersPerSecond;

    public static DialogManager Instance { get; private set; }

    private void Awake() {
        Instance = this;
    }

    public void ShowDialog(Dialog dialog) {
        dialogBox.SetActive(true);
        StartCoroutine(TypeDialog(dialog.Lines[0]));
    }

    public IEnumerator TypeDialog(string line) {
        dialogText.text = "";
        foreach (var letter in line.ToCharArray()) {
            dialogText.text += letter;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / lettersPerSecond);
        }
    }
}

This is the code

[robust condor]

@ancient scarabUse textmeshpro instead

[ancient scarab]

How do i use that?

[robust condor]

TMP_Text

using TMPro;

[ancient scarab]

i dont have to change anything else?

just those 2?

[robust condor]

Well adjust accordingly if there are any warnings

[ancient scarab]

tyy

[robust condor]

And import the textmeshpro package

[ancient scarab]

Is there no other way to fix the existing problem btw?

[short hazel]

The existing problem is that you were using Text, which is old and has been replaced by TextMeshPro TMP_Text

Sure, you can still use it (it's not marked as obsolete), but it's better to use the latest tools. For the original error, you were missing a using UnityEngine.UI directive at the top.

[keen crescent]

In my game, whenever my bullet object hits a wall I'm instantiating a new prefab object with a particle system component to create particle effects. (The object is destroyed after playback) Would it be any better for performance/etc. if I had the particle system component on the bullet object itself? Can't decide between the two approaches

[polar acorn]

The best way to do this is to have an Object Pool of particle systems, and whenever one is needed, activate it and put it at the impact site. Then, when it's done, instead of destroying it, you reset it and deactivate it so it can be used again

[swift crag]

I would not expect making it part of the bullet to matter at all

(other than making your design more complicated)

[keen crescent]

I was fearing this answer 😔

thank you

[swift crag]

the answer might also be "it doesn't matter"

[polar acorn]

It's not very difficult at all, especially since Unity actually officially added pooling support

[swift crag]

with ObjectPool<T> ?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, much easier that rolling up your own

[swift crag]

i need to try using that

at least, once i start spamming prefabs

[ancient scarab]

Same issue but this time its Action..

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

public class DialogManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] GameObject dialogBox;
    [SerializeField] Text dialogText;   
    [SerializeField] int lettersPerSecond;

    public event Action OnShowDialog;
    public event Action OnHideDialog;

    public static DialogManager Instance { get; private set; }

    private void Awake() {
        Instance = this;
    }

    Dialog dialog;
    int currentLine = 0;
    bool isTyping;

    public IEnumerator ShowDialog(Dialog dialog) {
        yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
        OnShowDialog?.Invoke();
        this.dialog = dialog;
        dialogBox.SetActive(true);
        StartCoroutine(TypeDialog(dialog.Lines[0]));
    }

    private void HandleUpdate() {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Z) && !isTyping) {
            ++currentLine;
            if (currentLine < dialog.Lines.Count) {
                StartCoroutine(TypeDialog(dialog.Lines[currentLine]));
            } else {
                dialogBox.SetActive(false);
                OnHideDialog?.Invoke();
            }
        }
    }

    public IEnumerator TypeDialog(string line) {
        isTyping = true;
        dialogText.text = "";
        foreach (var letter in line.ToCharArray()) {
            dialogText.text += letter;
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f / lettersPerSecond);
        }
        isTyping = false;
    }
}

[short hazel]

Hover over the error in your code, a light bulb will appear, click it

It'll give you suggestions to fix it

[ancient scarab]

I dont see errors

thats also the problem

any idea how to get those?

[short hazel]

Then you need to configure it

!ide

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[barren violet]

Action is in the System namespace

[elder osprey]

This is my first time using the "new" input system and this is what I have for input in my movement script: https://pastebin.com/BSihe8J1. I am making a separate script for controlling the camera, how can I move the input management to a separate script to avoid getting multiple references to the PlayerInputActions?

[polar acorn]

There's no problem with getting multiple references to the map

[elder osprey]

I know, I just wanted to know so I could make my inspector look nicer.

[dapper forge]

`` [Command]
public void ChangeLanguage(string localeName)
{
var targetLocale = LocalizationSettings.AvailableLocales.Locales.Find(x => x.LocaleName == localeName);

    if (targetLocale != null)
    {
        LocalizationSettings.SelectedLocale = targetLocale;
    }
}`` Whats wrong here ?

[short hazel]

You tell us

[ancient scarab]

I have the unity thing installed but it doesnt work for some reason lol

[short hazel]

There are two steps to the guide:

1. Install the workload for Visual Studio
2. Tell Unity that VS is the code editor it needs to use

Make sure you followed the guide entirely

[ancient scarab]

OkOk

[rich egret]

hi, i need some help to add a code for enemy damage

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[rich egret]

[vast vessel]

how do i get a random vector 3 direction within a cone with a certain angle? i want to do this for bullet spread

[ancient scarab]

I followed the guide entirely and it is linked now. It still doesnt give the errormessage though.

[short hazel]

Post a screenshot of the code editor

[ancient scarab]

Like this?

[wintry quarry]

Something like:

Vector3 forward = whatever; // this is the normal aiming vector
Quaternion perturbation = Quaternion.Euler(Random.Range(-angle / 2f, angle / 2f), Random.Range(-angle / 2f, angle / 2f), 0);
Vector3 withRandomSpread = perturbation * forward;```

[vast vessel]

i dont think you can multiply vector3s with quaternions but ill try

[wintry quarry]

you would think wrong 😉

[short hazel]

Ah, VS Code. I don't use that for C# so I can't say. It's definitely not configured as some types like MonoBehaviour are not recognized (not colored properly)

[ancient scarab]

u use VS?

[short hazel]

Yes, 2022

[vast vessel]

big L

what now?

[short hazel]

Reverse, it works only on one side

Quaternion first, then the vector

[summer stump]

as praetor had it

[vast vessel]

r u joking?

[languid spire]

no he aint

[wintry quarry]

you did it in the wrong order

follow my example

[polar acorn]

The order matters. Praetor did it right

[summer stump]

Bigga big L

[polar acorn]

Multiplication is not commutative in four dimensions

[vast vessel]

weird

thanks

[ancient scarab]

Changed it

And found the error

😛

[short hazel]

That reply wasn't for you, but glad you fixed it

[ancient scarab]

No i know just wanted to let u know i fixed it 😄

[rich egret]

https://gdl.space/vedikozime.cs
Here is the code, someone know why don't the bullets hit the enemy?

[slender nymph]

you just have a random RaycastHit variable that you never assign to anywhere and seem to expect it to magically detect when some other object collides with anything?

[wintry quarry]

Are you trying to use projectiles or raycasts?

Pick one

[rich egret]

raycast

and yes

[slender nymph]

if you're trying to use a raycast, it usually helps to actually have some raycast in your code

[wintry quarry]

then you need to actually do a raycast

and i don't understand what the projectile you're spawning is for

[vast vessel]

the result dosnt come out in a circular pattern. whats wrong?

[polar acorn]

Why would it be circular? It's random inside a cone, meaning it'd be pretty unlikely for them to form a cirlce

[stuck palm]

why am i getting t his error? i didnt write "internal". it just says abstract in the script file

[slender nymph]

Station is likely either internal or private

[polar acorn]

Is Station public?

[stuck palm]

do i have to write public abstract explicitly?

[polar acorn]

If you want it to be public, yes

[stuck palm]

oh right

i didnt realise it had to be public to be able to use it

thanks

[short hazel]

Implicit means internal for types

No access modifier => internal

[vast vessel]

do you see the picture i sent? what i want is for the direction to be in a random angle, which would look like this, a cone. so if all the shots come out within this cone they should hit somewhere in a circle

#💻┃code-beginner message

[slender nymph]

it doesn't. your issue is just that you are trying to create a public derived class from a class that is not public. if your derived class was also internal then you would not have received any error

[polar acorn]

Yeah, so the bullet holes all do seem to be in that circle

[vast vessel]

noooo, the reason the end of the cone looks like an ellipse in the picture is beacuse its supposed to represent a 3d cone viewed at an angle

[rich egret]

like this?

[vast vessel]

heres another example, i want the raycasts to go in a direction that they would end up hitting somewhere within that blue circle, the base of the cone

[polar acorn]

Yes, that's what I assumed. The bullet hole clusters seem like they could come from this sort of spread

[vast vessel]

but the bullets keep landing like this

[polar acorn]

Your code has you randomizing XY, maybe what you need is ZY?

[twilit pilot]

you'd need to randomise on the plane perpendicular to the ray

[vast vessel]

hmm youre right, beacuse it works in some directions and dosnt in some others

[vast vessel]

mind explaining how?

[twilit pilot]

say your ray is R, pick an arbitrary vector A, (I don't think it matters as long as it's not R)
compute a vector U = R cross A
then vector V = R cross U
you then have vectors U,V that are perpendicular to each other and R, i.e they define the plane perpendicular to R

seems like I joined in this conversation late though and may have missed some context

[willow radish]

So i want my character (Turtle) to have an animation when you click space (so when it goes up) the video i have found recommends to use blend tree. but im not sure if i need to use float, int, bool or trigger for my animation when i press space

[trail fox]

I usually do bool

[willow radish]

what does bool do that the other dont/cant? or what do they all mean/do?

[queen adder]

Hi im new to coding c sharp and im struggling with this code since when I start the game my vehicle moves to the right infinitely. Can someone assist me pls thanks

[polar acorn]

The only one that's not obvious is Trigger, which is basically a single-use boolean. Once it's used for a transition, it sets itself to false, while a boolean only changes when you specifically tell it to in code

[trail fox]

I use bool to see if the player is in the air and when it is do the animation if Ur meant to jump

But I'm pretty new to coding

[willow radish]

ahh okay okay just a lot to take in for the first day hahaha

[polar acorn]

if you aren't hitting any buttons, endXPos is 0, meaning your lerp will move this object towards 0 on the X axis when you're not hitting a button

If you're moving in Update, you probably don't want to lerp

Just add to the position directly when you get input

[vast vessel]

how are they both perpendicular to each other AND R at the same time?

[polar acorn]

Because 3D

Take a look at your transform gizmo, it's three perpendicular vectors

[queen adder]

so would i somehow try implement line 6 into lines 34 and 39 while removing lerp

[vast vessel]

so like.... which... wha.... i dont understand any of this. can some one just tell me, when i have this U and V, what do i do with them to make this... work?

sorry if im being too much of an annoyance, cant help it.

[twilit pilot]

they are the vectors you would perturb or sample along

a little rotation on the u axis and a little on the v axis to create a cone

fwiw, you could probably keep this more intuitive if you're not familiar with linear algebra by creating the perturbation in a simple frame of reference and then rotate the whole thing

[polar acorn]

I don't know what line 6 has to do with anything, that's just a namespace. What you'd do is add to the position when you get input, and then check if that position is outside of your bounds. If it's not, move the object to that position.

[queen adder]

oh mb i meant line 46

[vast vessel]

can you show what the u and v axis actually look like so i could understand what im doing a little bit more? thanks

nevermind

[flat slate]

can someone help me making a tree spawn script

[queen adder]

but if it is above 3 what should the else statement be? Or should there even be an else statement

[polar acorn]

Just don't do anything if the move would put you out of bounds

[deft siren]

the key is not being picked up :(

the GUI appears but other then that

[polar acorn]

Are you holding the E key when you enter the trigger

[deft siren]

wdym

[polar acorn]

You're checking if the E key is currently held when you enter the trigger

[deft siren]

oh

[polar acorn]

are you holding E while entering the trigger

[amber spruce]

how do i set fullscreen to windowed fullscreen

[willow radish]

bc my character only moves up and down can i just use 1D blend type?

[deft siren]

if i put a colliderStay it will work?

[carmine ivy]

hello

[polar acorn]

Since you already have a boolean for being inside the trigger, check that in Update and if you are, check for key press

[deft siren]

ok

thanks!!

[carmine ivy]

well i have some simple questions i would like it if anyone can talk to me in dms XD

[polar acorn]

https://dontasktoask.com/

[carmine ivy]

XD

well im a beginner and i havent worked on unity in a while

does inventory and breaking and collecting system take long to make?

like breaking trees collecting wood and crafting axes

[subtle yacht]

Hi ! I have an issue in my movement script. I wanted to do a air control system but when I jump and move, It looks like the player is hovering.
If I don't move while jumping, gravity is normal and it descends correctly, but if I move I glide and descend to the ground very slowly.
https://gdl.space/ipaqapunan.cs
There's my script, can someone explain me why it's so laggy, thanks !

[summer stump]

Person A could get it done in less than a day. Person B could take a month or more on it.

Really impossible to answer

[carmine ivy]

depends on what if i just focus on that would it be possible to finish it in a short while?

[polar acorn]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[carmine ivy]

any tips that might help me start in a good path

[subtle yacht]

documentation and tutorial, it "works" for me

[carmine ivy]

oh cool thanks

[summer stump]

My tip is stop worrying/focusing on how long anything will take. It is not important at all at this point. It is impossible to even begin answering
Just learn Unity and make stuff

[carmine ivy]

ill surely look into that

[summer stump]

!learn

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[carmine ivy]

well yeah i know that but im not on a hurry i was wondering if i could make a good game for a project because i dont rly have anytime to waste then start on something else

[carmine ivy]

XD

so if i have a chance for it i will do it but im unlucky so yk i would rather make sure i can before i start XD

[polar acorn]

Then you definitely don't have time to spend talking about starting without actually starting

[carmine ivy]

i am rn but im asking on the side haha

well ig tht is a yes thanks for helpp

[ancient island]

AudioSources aren't affected by Time.timeScale, how can I deal with pausing an audio source when setting Time.timeScale to 0?

[rich adder]

use an event

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.Pause.html

[ancient island]

well, multiple audiosources

[polar acorn]

You'll have to call pause manually

[ancient island]

😫

ok thanks

[buoyant knot]

as general advice, is it better to have an audio source on every gameobject that makes a SFX? Or one audio source for all of one effect?

[polar acorn]

Multiple audio sources allow you to have sound coming from multiple locations

[buoyant knot]

as in for stereo?

my main concern is managing multiple audio sources to avoid 69 of the same SFX playing at one time, with slightly different phases

[eternal needle]

You can pool the audio sources so you only really have a few, but you just place them around as you play sounds

[summer stump]

As in 3d spatial sound, which often is translated down to stereo, yes, but isn't that simple

[buoyant knot]

is pooling the audio sources the smartest way?

my project of 6 months is still totally silent lol

i’m mostly asking for “what is the best sort of strategy to avoid dumb audio that is hard to manage?”

[eternal needle]

🤷‍♂️ you might be able to get away with just playing audio carefree. Depends on what your game is really, pooling it is just what I saw one game does

[timber tide]

was reading stuff you don't want unused clips hanging in mem so dynamically loading

but I'd assume this is more about longer musical tracks

[buoyant knot]

i’m considering pooling from a singleton, having a giant enum tied to each SFX, singleton has a pool for each value of the enum, and then classes that want sound request it from singleton using the enum as an argument

BGM would probably need to be fully loaded/unloaded dynamically

[timber tide]

singleton does seem like the idea, but I thought each unit that wants to play the audio in a proximity must have an asset of themselves.

so you need the reference to the asset

oh yeah so singleton dictionary then

[buoyant knot]

singleton can be requested to play audio at one given position, so it knows which type of SFX, and then put one of a few gameobjects at that position with the right SFX, and tells it to start playing now

assuming i’m cool with the SFX not following something, which I can live with

main question: is this smart or dumb?

[timber tide]

so what about footsteps which each independent unit would probably want one of thier own

[buoyant knot]

why the hell is “uhhh” a blocked message on this server lmao

it was a complete response with all the context needed

censorship aside, idk

[timber tide]

so you'd probably need to pool many objects per asset if that's how it works, but again I've not really touched much on audio either

would make sense if it's just a reference call but unity

[buoyant knot]

but pooling is good for one off SFX, the way I described, right?

maybe even make an SFX object prefab so it can have all the volume settings set up?

[scarlet hull]

Can someone help me with this

[polar acorn]

https://obsproject.com/

[scarlet hull]

no

cant rn

if the original works and goes fine why cant its clones do the same

[willow radish]

I really dont know how to animate it when i press space ive looked at a ton of videos but they all use transitions from idle, run to jump and stuff like that but I only have jump and i really dont know what to do

[polar acorn]

Make a transition to your jump animation with a parameter condition, and change that parameter when you hit space

[summer stump]

Fair. We'll be here when you can

[eternal needle]

Look at the #854851968446365696 on how to ask

[scarlet hull]

It's kinda late right now and download obs could take time

Could you possibly slide this one?

I would be much grateful

[summer stump]

I started to watch it and almost threw up. A little sick for the last few days, so it's not a willingness issue, it's a physical capability issue

The wild shaking is just way too much

[scarlet hull]

Ah I see

Alr imma figure something out

[willow radish]

i think ill just leave it for today nothing is making sense anymore idk what im doing lol

[rocky canyon]

is there a better way to do this? at first i tried to nest a GetKeyUp within a GetKey thinking it was clever, then realized theres no way that would work

[thorny hamlet]

how to fix this guy pls help

[slender nymph]

remove line 4

[thorny hamlet]

ok thank

[rocky canyon]

i mean, for one thing i wouldn't necessarily want to be setting x gameobject to be true every frame.. but no other ways came to mind, besides introducing a variable

[slender nymph]

x.SetActive(Input.GetKey(AnyKey));
Cursor.visible = !Input.GetKey(AnyKey);

otherwise you would need some variable to track what it is currently set to and only call the method and change the visible property when the variable changes

[eternal needle]

The code is fine already, you arent setting it every frame. If you used the new input system it might be a little cleaner but no need to worry about little stuff like this

[queen adder]

The car moves left when the player presses A which is good but how do i prevent them from going off the map when clicking it again? I tried using an if statement on line 48 since i thought its supposed to check when the current x position is the same the minimum x position which is set to minus 3.

[polar acorn]

This seems like you're making it a lot more complicated than it needs to be. Just add a value to X when you're holding right, subtract from it when you're going left, and if the new value is outside of your range, just don't move the object's transform.position

[light radish]

    public AttackRange CheckRangeOfAttack(){
        // Example: Check if the bounds of two colliders overlap
        Collider rangeCollider = shortRange.GetComponent<Collider>();
        Collider otherCollider = battleManager.target.gameObject.GetComponent<Collider>();

        if (rangeCollider.bounds.Intersects(otherCollider.bounds))
        {
            return AttackRange.Short;
        }
        rangeCollider = mediumRange.GetComponent<Collider>();
        if (rangeCollider.bounds.Intersects(otherCollider.bounds))
        {
            return AttackRange.Medium;
        }
        rangeCollider = longRange.GetComponent<Collider>();
        if (rangeCollider.bounds.Intersects(otherCollider.bounds))
        {
            return AttackRange.Long;
        }
        return null;
    }

Hey guys, having a function that returns a value based on certain critiria here, however it returns a value of a enum. Which means null cant be send back yet something has to be send back when all the other if statements fails (even though that should be happening ofcourse). What is the good practice in this scenario?

[polar acorn]

Pick one or make a new Enum option for "none"

[light radish]

It are always the simplere solutions aren;t they

Thanks

[hollow vessel]

why is my flipStrength default value is different than what it is on unity,whileas my moveSpeed default value is the same than what it is on unity

[timber tide]

it's been serialized to another value

[polar acorn]

Because you've changed one of them

[timber tide]

the value you've set in the script is the default value if you were to reset it

[hollow vessel]

ohh right, i thought value what's on script and what's on unity will synchroniniize with each other lol. how do i reset the value on unity so then it'll follow the default value on script then?

[polar acorn]

Reset the script

[hollow vessel]

uhh sorry how

[polar acorn]

Right click, reset

[rocky canyon]

true, im making a top down point click prototype.. and the selection system is going to end up being a bit complex,

• being a single click and release both starting and stopping on the target counts as 1 interaction
• a click and release can either do 1 interaction in one scenario or another interaction in another
• a click and drag (clicking on an object and releasing while off of said target) is another interaction
• lastly a click and hold (doing different things according to which scenario

soo.. the new input system may be a real solid fit

[hollow vessel]

works, thank

[carmine ivy]

do yk if there exists any free or cheap extensions for building like raft rust the forest...

[wary saffron]

i dotn knwo how to get my character to basically have a mesh model and the limbs to actually animate to the actual character

hence carrying over movement from bean to a actual player model

[polar acorn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URjXL0QXwm4

[wary saffron]

thanks

imma watch it

[polar acorn]

Wait, actually, that's like halfway through the series, here's the full playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwyUzJb_FNeTQwyGujWRLqnfKpV-cj-eO

[rocky canyon]

look into the unity rigging package too, later on.. to combine different animations
you can have the torso doing one thing, and the bottom animating different, generic animations

animation rigging*

[polar acorn]

!collab

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[wary saffron]

how do i assign my blog

[polar acorn]

what

[wary saffron]

never mind i just needed to sign in silly me sorryy

my bad i acted stupid

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[carmine ivy]

the playlist is rly gd thanks for sharing although im not the one that asked for it

[timber tide]

they do synchronize, but the benefit here is you can change the value for this instance through the editor because changing the value in the script would otherwise change all other instances (assuming you didn't change those instances specifically)

[hollow vessel]

you

you're right 😮 i could just mess with the value through editor to test out stuff instead of in script since yk itll cause more effort and yeah

[covert wyvern]

I'm receiving the error in red. When I launch the game and click anywhere to move it throws that. I don't understand because if I were to create a new project the code works fine.

[polar acorn]

Do you have a camera tagged MainCamera

[covert wyvern]

AHHHH

You were right.

I completely forgot to change it back

Thank you digholic!!!!

[slender nymph]

btw you don't have to check that the hit.collider is not null here, doing that just indicates whether the raycast actually hit anything. but Physics.Raycast returns true if it hit something so it's kind of a pointless check

[covert wyvern]

Oh? I'll review that. Currently following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZDiC0aOXDY&ab_channel=samyam

[stuck palm]

why is overlapnonalloc more efficient?

[slender nymph]

it doesn't need to allocate a new array every single time you call it. it just populates the array you pass to it

[wintry quarry]

allocating objects (such as an array) and cleaning them up (aka garbage collection) takes some time. By reusing the same array you skip doing this, paying only an up-front cost to allocate an array which you reuse

[stuck palm]

what if the amount of objects in the overlaycube exceeds the array length?

[slender nymph]

have you bothered reading the documentation for the method?

[stuck palm]

naw

[grand badger]

Friggin docs are out for our jobs!!

They’re op I have them open in a tab constantly lol

[stuck palm]

how can i draw a cube gizmo with a rotation? the docs only show position and center

im trying to debug an overlap box but i cant see what its scanning cus im using a rotation

[soft steppe]

soo rn im trying to get a perfect bounce using a 2d physic material but i cant get the object to go to the same place it dropped it seems to go higher

[rich adder]

where is the code question?

[soft steppe]

my bad wrong channel

[slender nymph]

yeah that is more a #⚛️┃physics question

[soft steppe]

thanks

[brave compass]

You set the transformation matrix of Gizmos with Gizmos.matrix. You can pass a transform.localToWorld matrix and then all subsequent gizmos will be relative to that matrix. Or if you only want rotation, you can create a rotation matrix with Matrix4x4.Rotate

[runic prawn]

I am making a chess program and have OnMouseDown, OnMouseDrag, and OnMouseUp logic attached to a controller script on every prefabricated piece. I haven't been following any guides, so right now I'm just doing things that work, but I have a gut feeling that this isn't good practice. Anyone have any suggestions, or is this alright? https://gdl.space/butoquhepi.cs

[shrewd basalt]

#💻┃unity-talk message does anyone know wtf is going on here

#💻┃unity-talk message added info

[abstract finch]

How would I be able to get the direction of which my transform needs to turn in order to look at another object/position? I.e. turn right or left.

[shrewd basalt]

use transform.left/transform.right

[abstract finch]

how would I make it find out which side to turn?

[shrewd basalt]

also Vector3.RotateTowards works better for this kind of thing

[abstract finch]

right but I need to find out which direction in order to determine which animation to play

theres turn right and turn left

[runic prawn]

I'm unfamiliar with that type of movement control, but I feel like adding a default condition where x and y == 0 might help

[abstract finch]

I have an angle calculation formula but it only gives a float based on how far they are from the front

[timber tide]

you can probably figure it out from rotatetowards

just work out last rotation vs newest

[north kiln]

reading directly from euler angles is a bad idea as they're reinterpreted from the internal Quaternion value; cache your own euler values and apply them

[abstract finch]

ok ill try

[runic prawn]

Oh I misread your comment, I thought it said when there was no camera movement, not 'also when there is no camera movement'

[north kiln]

Also obligatory: use cinemachine

[shrewd basalt]

i have no clue what this means or what you want me to do here (i am very stupid)

[north kiln]

Keep track of your own set of angles which you use to update the transform instead of reading from .eulerAngles

[timber tide]

says in the unity talk that doesnt work

oh wait wrong one

https://unity.com/how-to/unity-ui-optimization-tips

can't find the video but there's a little snippet about disabling

feeling like the video is hidden cause I cant find it now haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wxitgdx-UI&t=1410s
Ah, ok it was in that video

25 minute mark

[ivory bobcat]

Relative to what in particular?

What I mean is that usually it'd be relative to position, assortment or some other type of data

[nimble apex]

like all of them as possible

[abstract finch]

Whats the difference between Vector3.MoveTowards vs Quaternion.LookRotation? The result is the same right?

[nimble apex]

it really depends tho

[nimble apex]

i would say quite a lot of the UI has no relation or to certain position

[summer stump]

The result of one is a Vector3 and the other is a Quaternion

[north kiln]

They're absolutely unrelated?

[nimble apex]

no?

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.MoveTowards.html

Calculate a position between the points specified by current and target, moving no farther than the distance specified by maxDistanceDelta.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.LookRotation.html
Creates a rotation with the specified forward and upwards directions.
What's similar?

[abstract finch]

What i meant was that the use case seems similar, to rotate an object towards a position

[summer stump]

MoveTowards doesn't rotate things towards a position

[nimble apex]

quarternion controls ur looking(rotation mainly), like when u walk over the street, you looked at a restaurant, thats lookrotation

movetowards feels like someone pushing you right into the restaurant

[ivory bobcat]

One creates a point between two points and the other creates a rotation from two direction.

[abstract finch]

ahhh sorry Vector.RotateTowards is what I meant

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not sure where the confusion is.

[north kiln]

LookRotation constructs a rotation, RotateTowards moves a direction

[abstract finch]

it seems like both Vector3.RotateTowards and Quaternion.LookRotation use cases are the same

[ivory bobcat]

How so?

[north kiln]

Now the only relation is that they both relate vaguely to directions and rotations. There's really no similarity

[summer stump]

Same as before. RotateTowards returns a Vector and LookRotation returns a Quaternion

The docs for RotateTowards USES LookRotation to set the transforms rotation...
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.RotateTowards.html

[ivory bobcat]

You'd use rotate towards if you're wanting the next stepping towards a certain value. You'd use look rotation if you're wanting the value relative to another factor.

If what was wanted was miniscule, they may look to operate the same but they're quite different.

[abstract finch]

So Vector3.RotateTowards is like getting the direction needed to get there?

[ivory bobcat]

They both give you directions. The first with a maximum delta. The second relative to a second direction.

Different tools.

[north kiln]

Quaternion.LookRotation gives you a rotation from direction(s)

RotateTowards rotates a direction towards another one

they are not related

[abstract finch]

what would be a use case for the Quaternion.LookRotation over RotateTowards and vice versa?

[north kiln]

Why

[ivory bobcat]

The Rotate Towards doc made use of both #💻┃code-beginner message

They're used for different purposes.

It's not one over the other - they aren't subsets of each other (do not overlap)

[summer stump]

Neither can be used in place of the other

You're essentially asking why use AddForce instead of setting the mass
There is a thread of a connection, but they can't be used to do the same things at all

[teal viper]

The first one is when you want to transform a direction vector to a quaternion. The second one is when you want to rotate between 2 quaternions

[abstract finch]

ah ok i see so you need both

[abstract finch]

    {
        TurnDirection turnDirection;
        Vector3 delta = (_target.position - transform.position).normalized;
        Vector3 cross = Vector3.Cross(delta, transform.forward);
        Debug.Log(cross);

        if (cross == Vector3.zero)
        {
            turnDirection = TurnDirection.Back180;
            // Target is straight ahead
        }
        else if (cross.y > 0)
        {
            turnDirection = TurnDirection.Right90;

            // Target is to the right
        }
        else
        {
            turnDirection = TurnDirection.Left90;
            // Target is to the left
        }
        Debug.Log(turnDirection);
    }```
Im getting a return value that the target(cube) is to the right of the zombie here which doesn't make sense. The value is (0,1,0) even though the cube is clearly to the left.

[sudden glacier]

thats tuff

You considered turning it on and off again?

[abstract finch]

yea i tried that haha

[sudden glacier]

shi idk then, I usually just punch my screen

that fixes my anger issues at least.

[timber tide]

wouldnt cross here be depth

rather a direction towards the camera

[slender nymph]

yeah i don't think cross product would be the correct operation to use here

[wintry quarry]

This is overcomplicated

Just use Vector3 localPos = transform.InverseTransformPoint(_target.position);

that local position will tell you everything you need to know with the sign of its x component

[abstract finch]

alright ill try it out thanks

[wintry quarry]

Negative is left, positive is right

Likewise for the z coordinate for front and back

[abstract finch]

yea this is much better thank you

[molten pulsar]

hi i have a problem

when i import a model

and is that the bones appear to be missing in animator editor

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[molten pulsar]

oh sorry im new in the server

theres a help chanel or?

[charred spoke]

Random how ? This code will move the object in the world up direction

[slender nymph]

use id:browse to find a channel relevant to your question

[molten pulsar]

okey

thank you

excuse me for my error

[charred spoke]

Then again using Translate like this probably will not result in the desired jump behaviour

[pearl lodge]

What does this do? I'm confused because nothing has been assigned to it yet. and im not familiar with this syntax (=>)

I thought maybe its been assigned in Unity editor but no option comes up to insert a 'SceneName'

oh. yeah I am following a tutorial so this is not my code.

[teal viper]

It's basically same as saying return m_sceneActive. It's a property.

Same as a method that returns the value on the right side.

[pearl lodge]

So like this?

public SceneName SceneActive
{
    get { return m_sceneActive; }
}

[teal viper]

Yeah, that's a different way to write a property.

[ivory bobcat]

Expression body https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/statements-expressions-operators/expression-bodied-members

[pearl lodge]

Thank you.

I did not know about this documentation guide. Will definitely bookmark this. 👍

What about this one. Looks like they subsribe to 'onLoadComplete' event that is called when a scene is loaded.

I'm looking at the function and was wondering how they get the values for the parameters since no arguments are being passed in. the function is just "called" from what I can see.

[slender nymph]

the OnLoadComplete event is a delegate that requires those parameters
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.netcode.gameobjects@1.8/api/Unity.Netcode.NetworkSceneManager.OnLoadCompleteDelegateHandler.html

[charred spoke]

Well I would suggest to find a tutorial that at least uses a character controller. Simply translating like this will ignore physics collisions and lead to a whole mess of other problems

[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.

[odd mason]

hey so im trying to use animator for my doors, and im getting this what am i doing wrong?

[fossil drum]

Is it DoorOpen or doorOpen? Because you made a string with capitals, and then put a string without it in play.

[odd mason]

that just changes the string to "DoorOpen" or "DoorClose"

thats so if i want multiple doors not sure if i need that for multiple doors though, jsut adapting some code from a tutorial, and the error still happens with or without the private strings

[fossil drum]

What is your animation state called? Its saying it can't find the not capitalized ones as far as I understand.

If the state is the DoorOpen you should play that.

[odd mason]

ill shwo you

it should be the right one so idk wahts happeneing

this right?

[fossil drum]

Sure, but it's capitalized here... Which was my whole point. What if you actually play the correct name?

[odd mason]

huh i see

[fossil drum]

You are aware you are not using the private strings you defined at the top right?

[odd mason]

yeah i realized that after

will i even need those to have multiple instances? or will they all open and close seperately without it?

[fossil drum]

I don't understand what you mean with multiple instances.
Currently you are telling your Animator myDoor component to play OpenDoor. So only that Animator will open his door.

[odd mason]

i jsut mean having multiple objects with this script

when i interact with one of them will all of them open or just hte one im interacting with

[fossil drum]

Currently you are telling your Animator myDoor component to play OpenDoor. So only that Animator will open his door.

[odd mason]

ah makes sense

i completeley understand.

yeah works like a charm thanks

would you happen to know why my door is only closing? im like super unsure, thought this would work

the initate works but once it opens and i close it after the close frame it just goes back to the last frame of open

[languid spire]

your logic is flawed. Look at your code and what happens if Close is true

[odd mason]

oh goddamnit i see it now, huh i looked at it like 4 times LOL thanks!

[languid spire]

you dont need both Open and Close, just use one of them

[odd mason]

alright

[static bay]

Ya you don’t need 2 booleans to track the same state.

If a door isn’t opened then it’s obviously closed.

Unless it’s a 4 dimensional door 🤔

[stuck jay]

Random.Range doesn't work now

"int randomXAxis = Random.range(0, 1);"

[timber tide]

rip random method

[gaunt ice]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[stuck jay]

Seen it

Doesn't mention my issue

[timber tide]

there's a secret tidbit in there

[north kiln]

Yes it does

https://unity.huh.how/random/range

[gaunt ice]

a simple trick, you can hover on the method to see what overloads you are calling

[timber tide]

why does float get the privilege of being max inclusive

[stuck jay]

Apparently I need to specify UnityEngine.Random? But the example didn't, and I used to just write Random.Range

[slender nymph]

if you have the System using directive that is going to happen, just like the docs page says

[north kiln]

Define doesn't work, because it would be a compiler error if you had it that way

[stuck jay]

As in it sent me a compiler error

[north kiln]

Please specify next time so people don't presume your issue is something else

[stuck jay]

I'm aware of that, I just don't understand why Random.Range worked before and now it needs to be UnityEngine.Random.Range

[timber tide]

because you used some System method and it injected itself into your script

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.html
read the docs

[north kiln]

Without the compiler error I don't think anyone should help

[stuck jay]

'Random' is an ambiguous reference between 'Unity.Mathematics.Random' and 'UnityEngine.Random'

[timber tide]

oh that one

may just clarify it inline then

[north kiln]

Great, there you go. You are using the mathematics library, and so it's ambiguous what random you are talking about when you try to use it

[timber tide]

otherwise you can do like an alias was it called?

[stuck jay]

Did Unity update this? Because I don't remember needing to specify a couple of months back

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs0104

You have caused the conflict with your using statement, using both libraries

[stuck jay]

I didn't add the library though

[north kiln]

You added the using.

[timber tide]

If you use a method from the library without using then it'll do it automatically

but if you are using the math library too you can do something like this I believe

using UnityMathsRandom = Unity.Mathematics.Random;
using UnityRandom = UnityEngine.Random;

Or to whatever you prefer to remove any ambiguity

[north kiln]

My site mentions both of those things 👍

[timber tide]

oh specific to the random library too haha

[blazing prairie]

is it ok to overuse C# actions and funcs ?

[static bay]

define "overuse"?

[topaz mortar]

I have my items as Scriptable Objects in my game client.
But to prevent cheating (multiplayer) I need them to be server side.
I want to manage the items in the unity editor though, what's a good way to make sure my server always has the correct & latest version of the items?
Knowing we cannot trust information sent from the clients.

Would it be possible to keep the "main source" in a spreadsheet and change values there
then import that spreadsheet to both my database and Scriptable Objects?

[timber tide]

seems like research

[teal viper]

Just don't include the files in the client build and include in the server build.🤷‍♂️
It shouldn't be too difficult if your server is built with unity.

[topaz mortar]

server is not unity 😛

well it's on unity game services

but looks like the spreadsheet thing should work

[kindred halo]

do you guys know how do I detect if my characterController is colliding with another box collider?

[languid spire]

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

[kindred halo]

That shows rigidbody

[languid spire]

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

[hushed jasper]

if you are trying to detect collision between colliders, one of them must have a rigidbody or try Physics raycast overlap functions

[kindred halo]

raycast is useful but I can't see the distance properly as it stays invisible

[hushed jasper]

try using gizmos to draw the radius/other info

that way boundaries that you want to see will appear in scene view

[buoyant knot]

for PlayerInput, many things in game might want to reference that one component, so it’s better to not have it really tied to any one thing that really uses it

yes

still yes

[tulip jolt]

Does anyone know how to fix camera moving by itself? I have used a free first person controller asset by the unity store, and for some reason the character keeps moving in front with a little bit of left.

i had that issue by another code that i tried in another unity project, where the camera just floats in the sky.

might be an issue from my unity but yeah help

[buoyant knot]

like if you later decide to have multiple character objects, and swapping the character or enabling/disabling it, then you can run into trouble because your playerinput is on it

[hasty spire]

https://paste.ofcode.org/wfqBmihKe2mc643dx5cL66 im trying to add knockback to my players attack so i thought i would implement it where my enemy takes damage but i am getting a null reference exception error when hitting my enemy and i dont know why

[timber tide]

have you debugged it and made sure you're grabbing the collider of an enemy

[hasty spire]

i dont know how i would debug if im getting a null reference exeption the second i hit an enemy

[timber tide]

show code at 60

[hasty spire]

here

[timber tide]

right, along with the Trigger method

[timber tide]

oh, so the rb is on the script itself, but not what you're colliding with eh

rather what you're applying force to.

[hasty spire]

the rb is on the enemy im applying force to yhough

[timber tide]

but your rb isn't instantiated, so make sure the component is set in start or in the editor there

half asleep, but if that's the line, then yeah go log that rb is set

[hasty spire]

ah right

[timber tide]

if you're meaning to grab the rb from the collision target, then you need to GetComponent from that instead

inside of the trigger method

[hasty spire]

i got it working thanks

[timber tide]

ah kk

[hasty spire]

i forgot to do GetComponent in start

[hasty spire]

the knockback isnt working now though

im just not getting a null reference exception

[timber tide]

could be related to how your rb is set up

may be disabling physics on it

[hasty spire]

might be the constraints?

[dense cargo]

Ye, uncheck those for sure. It won't move in any direction with all those marked.

[hasty spire]

how would i make it so it still floats

because my enemy isnt walking on ground

[kindred halo]

how can I make my object move in another objects z axis?
Like I'm making a simple wall run and when my detector object touches the wall I want my player to move forward in the walls z axis.

[tacit estuary]

I’m assuming that it’s sinking into the ground a bit? Edit the collider and make it taller

[hasty spire]

thanks

[tacit estuary]

How are you moving the object?

[tacit estuary]

Just noticed this image, does it need to be a trigger collider?

[hasty spire]

yes for the enemy health script but its fine

[kindred halo]

Using a movement script?

I mean using key input

[tacit estuary]

No, I meant how are you coding it to move. Like is it a rigidbody? or transform?

[kindred halo]

character controller

[shrewd swift]

im curious, can you retreive the "tag" of a gameobject from a collider by doing collider.tag

i cant go check in unity so i am askign here
im pretty sure you can't

[tacit estuary]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.html Collider > inherited members properties

[shrewd swift]

oh ty

i only checked collider

from Collision

[tacit estuary]

You can get the z axis of your wall by finding the cross between the wall’s normal, and the world’s up position. Raycast on either side of the player, and then run Vector3.Cross(hit.normal, transform.up)

[shrewd swift]

so I wanted to do a build test and I am getting some "this namespace couldnt be found"
but when I check by opening the line in VS, i get no errors

example:

what can cause this issue when building ?

[kindred halo]

but how do I write/tell the player to follow the cross of the wall?

I'm using a rigidbody detector

If it's true then I want it to follow the walls cross

I doing like this

[keen dew]

The UnityEditor namespace isn't available outside the editor

[shrewd swift]

ah yes i forgot

ty

the thing is, how I prevent from trying to compile ?
I am using this lib in some of my scripts, it helps me for the inspector and for serializing stuff, so i need a part of it for the build

[prisma silo]

        if (Physics.Raycast(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward, out hit, playerLookRange))
        {
            if (hit.transform.CompareTag("NPC"))
            {
                pressEToDoThing.SetActive(true);
            }
            else
            {
                pressEToDoThing.SetActive(false);
            }
        }

im trying to show a ui whenever i look at an npc it works but when i look at the sky (or something which is not a game object) the ui stays on

[rare basin]

beucase it doesnt hit anything

so it doesnt go inside the if

[prisma silo]

ohhh ok

[wintry quarry]

Yeah because your code does nothing when the Raycast hits nothing

[prisma silo]

thanks

[ivory bobcat]

if (Physics.Raycast(cam.transform.position, cam.transform.forward, out hit, playerLookRange))
    pressEToDoThing.SetActive(hit.transform.CompareTag("NPC"));
else
    pressEToDoThing.SetActive(false);```

[prisma silo]

yeah thanks i figured that out

thank you everyone

[tacit estuary]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.Cross.html It returns a Vector3 that will tell you the axis to move the player on. I believe that you move in the negative direction of the axis if the wall is on the right side. Similar to how you are using input to tell the direction the character controller moves, use the axis returned to figure out the direction to move the player

[shrewd swift]

is OnTrigger[...] called on the GO where the collider is set to trigger or on both colliders

[dim halo]

I want to move the number one, but I cant, can someone help me out

[rare basin]

read the docs?

[shrewd swift]

its nor written

or at least not precised well enough because I wouldn't be here

[ivory bobcat]

The collider with the istrigger calls the callback function

[shrewd swift]

ok ty

[icy sluice]

what do you need?

you want to move it with code or just move it within editor

[rare basin]

it is

[summer stump]

At least one of the two colliding objects needs to be a trigger, but BOTH receive the OnTrigger message

[lusty halo]

I don't know why but when commiting Changes on Visual Studio Code it is loading with no progress...

[fervent abyss]

Hello! Can anybody explain me how can I make the rotation more smooth? I think I can use the Quartenion.Slerp but im struggling with the start and end points (what to put in there)

This is how I rotate the kart:

void RaycastGroundCheck(){

        RaycastHit hit;

        isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -transform.up, out hit, 1, groundLayer);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, hit.normal) * transform.rotation;

    }

(Its in Update)

[tall delta]

the quick and dirty way to do it is just:

void RaycastGroundCheck()
{
    RaycastHit hit;
    isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -transform.up, out hit, 1, groundLayer);
    var targetRotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, hit.normal) * transform.rotation;
    transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation , Time.deltaTime * 10); // or some other magic number
}

the problem here is just that slerp (or lerp) is not really intended to be used like that, but it does work

[fervent abyss]

It no work

Why is it "dirty" tho?

[tall delta]

it's a matter of preference I suppose. but for me the problems are that slerp here won't follow it's graphed value because the target and interpolation factor constantly change (but it will be smooth) and that tickles my tism the wrong way 😄 as for the dirty part we're not tracking target rotation and rotation(model) smoothing as two different concepts, we're just doing it all in the same go.

as for why it's not working, that's a bit of a mystery to me, are you calling RaycastGroundCheck every frame? maybe try a different number than 10 here? Time.deltaTime * 10

so maybe something more like this

public class GroundAlignmentScriptThingy : MonoBehaviour {
    public LayerMask groundLayer;
    public float smoothingSpeed = 10f;

    private Quaternion targetRotation;
    private bool isGrounded;

    void Update()
    {
        RaycastGroundCheck(); // calculate the 'real' rotation
        SmoothRotation(); // update the visuals
    }

    void RaycastGroundCheck() {
        isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(transform.position, -transform.up, out var hit, 1, groundLayer);
        if (isGrounded) {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, hit.normal) * transform.rotation; //align with ground
        } else {
            targetRotation = Quaternion.identity; // if we're not on the ground, maybe just point upright? I don't know
        }
    }

    void SmoothRotation() {
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, targetRotation, Time.deltaTime * smoothingSpeed);
    }
}

[rocky canyon]

you can have a varible that u slerp to.. u can control the smoothness of the slerp and just change the variable to the rotation u want

should be able to smooth it out some

but yea, guys correct about the slerp being incorrect

[rare basin]

or just use DOTween and save yourself all the issues with quaternions

[rocky canyon]

u shouldnt pass in the variable ur actually rotating as that first parameter

u need to cache the starting position first and use that instead.. so ur lerp isnt using itself to calculat

i have this same setup. and yea the key is to:

• fix the slerp and make it proper
• use good models for ur ramps and stuff.. the more faces it has the more smoother ur rotation will be..

[fresh lintel]

Hello devs, who knows? code simplified .

[rocky canyon]

u can wrap the bottom else stuff into a function..

call that function from the top else and the bottom else

[tall delta]

||I've unironically used goto in cases like this||

[fresh lintel]

will Break or return help here?

[rocky canyon]

it could.. i suck at those

lol

always have to look up what each of those do.

[rare basin]

that looks like a pretty bad architecture, i imagine it is unpleasant to work with

imagine you want to add a new feature into the already nested if/else statements

[tall delta]

but I'm not joking, nested elseif chains are the only place where 'goto' can be used.

[polar acorn]

Seems to me like you should start with the > 90, use an else if for > 70, and then an else if you still need it

[rare basin]

more like, if you are using goto, then probably your architecture is wrong

[rocky canyon]

but it could be broken into specific pieces if u want

[fresh lintel]

so no break or return can help here ? code itself very cumbersome so even i cant find begining and end

[rare basin]

ngl that code is kinda hard to read with that bracket formatting

[tall delta]

sure that's the tale / rule you tell new developers, but experience let's you break the rules 😉

[rich adder]

that formatting really is off-putting

[rare basin]

sure if your experience tells you to use goto, and chains of nested ifs then go for it xd

[fresh lintel]

ok thx. will try something

[polar acorn]

There is no loop to break out of and return ends the function. Please read what I wrote above your logic is a mess and you should reorganize your checks

Formalize your rules for what you want to happen and when

And then you can simplify

Start by identifying which outcomes you want. List them all out, and then what conditions have to be true for that specific outcome to occur

Once you do, you should see some repeated and shared conditions, which will inform the order and structure of your conditionals

[tall delta]

afai can tell, this is the problem you have:

void ExampleMethod()
{
    if (condition1)
    {
        // Some code
        if (condition2)
        {
            // Some code
            goto End;
        }
        else
        {
            // Some code
        }
    }
    else
    {
        // Some code
    }

End:
    // Code to execute after the goto statement
}

now given that, if you don't want to use goto, the only solution is to nest methods so you can use return. or rewrite the logic without the nested problem, or duplicate code.

void ExampleMethod()
{
    if (condition1)
    {
        HandleCondition1();
    }
    else
    {
        // Some code for else part
    }

    // Code to execute after the conditions
}

void HandleCondition1()
{
    if (condition2)
    {
        // Some code for condition2
        return;
    }
    
    // Some code for else part of condition2
}

[rare basin]

don't use goto please

[rocky canyon]

i use the same slerp method as you

        Quaternion toRotateTo = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, hit.normal) * transform.rotation;
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, toRotateTo, alignToGroundTime * Time.deltaTime);``` and also wrong too btw, but with a decent 'alignToGroundTime' (i use 20 in this case) it seems to be pretty smooth

[rare basin]

just refactor your architecture, it is wrong

[polar acorn]

The real solution:

if (condition2) {
  // some code
} else if (condition1) {
  // some code
} else {
  // some code
}
// some code

[rare basin]

if someone is experienced, he doesn't do chains of nested ifs, therefore he doesn't need to use goto (which is very bad practic to use), or when he does that kinda means that his skill didin't follow his experience 😄

[polar acorn]

In a modern C# program, without the bounds of needing to fit a program into a register or dealing with the file size of a punch card, you will never use gotos. All goto situations can be made easier to write, cleaner, and notably easier to maintain by just properly formalizing your rules beforehand and a few function calls

[queen adder]

what's the reason why unity cent display props in the editor by default again?

[rare basin]

I have never used goto in my entire unity journey

[rocky canyon]

same other than making memes

[rich adder]

[field: SerializeField] public float MyProp { get; set; }

[polar acorn]

Because a property isn't a variable, it's a pair of functions. If you're using an auto-property, there is a variable, but it's hidden. The default state of a variable is private and non-serialized. Since you can't actually put a public or a [SerializeField] on something that doesn't exist in your code, Unity provides a way to access that anonymous inner field with [field: SerializeField] on an auto-property.

[scarlet skiff]

how do i make it know that i mean if the player collides with the ground? i added the public game object and draggen the player there

[rich adder]

learn how references work, this is nonsense

[polar acorn]

I have extensively used goto in Fortran, Assembly, and ARM. You will never use it in a modern object-oriented language

[scarlet skiff]

uh oh..

[rare basin]

facts

[polar acorn]

The abstract concept of Collisions does not have a gameObject

[rare basin]

unless you are experienced, then you can break the rules kappa

[queen adder]

is it unavoidable in those early languages?

[rare basin]

never worked with assembly, but i can imagine it would be kinda impossible to work with it without goto

[polar acorn]

It's not unavoidable, but when you're coding for a microprocessor with like 600 bytes of ROM you need the space

branch statements are a lot bigger than gotos

[rich adder]

Basic is the same

goto is a must

[rare basin]

You should learn some basic unity tutorials first, and then watch a guide on how to detect if a object is grounded or collides with other object or whatever you need

[queen adder]

what if we have a /huhhow collision that auto links to vertx's specific page

[scarlet skiff]

i took the code from a tut

though it has one difference

[polar acorn]

No, you didn't. No tutorial would write that.

[polar acorn]

The one difference being that theirs probably properly used an OnCollision function and used a parameter instead of trying to access the class directly inside of Update

[scarlet skiff]

okay so upon rechecking the code they did not put in in update i see the probkem now

[scarlet skiff]

yes i just noticed that lol

oopsie

[rocky canyon]

yea, they put it within the collsion detection

[polar acorn]

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

[wraith mango]

How do I access data from a scriptable object

[rich adder]

make a reference to it?

same way you access everything else

[wraith mango]

ArgumentException: GetComponent requires that the requested component 'NPC' derives from MonoBehaviour or Component or is an interface.

whoops

meant to send this

[wraith mango]

this is the error it throws tho

[rich adder]

you dont need getcomponent

[polar acorn]

Is NPC a component?

[wraith mango]

oh

uh no

[rich adder]

You have to access whatever holds the SO

[polar acorn]

GetComponent gets components (shocking, I know)

[wraith mango]

i feel stupid now 😭

[polar acorn]

You'll want to get whatever component holds the NPC value

[wraith mango]

alr

[scarlet skiff]

if i understood it correctly, this returns a value based on what direction the player is moving, if its right, its 1, if its left, its -1 and up and down are 0?

[rich adder]

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

[rocky canyon]

that doesnt seem right lol

is the ramp on the ground layer.. or w/e layer ur raycasting down towards to get the normal?

[fervent abyss]

Yep, the ramp is Ground layer

[rocky canyon]

looks like the cars trying to stay str8 (like the plane) even when its going up the ramp

is ur raycast hitting it?

debug the raycast that gets the normal and see if its the ramp

or if its hitting the car's own collider or something

https://github.com/SpawnCampGames/ArcadeCarController/blob/368c3c5cf5e825399df4a52b6a826139a44f6d32/README.md#L1

heres the project i was using.. its all set up. could maybe use it to reference and compare..

[fervent abyss]

I completely forgot how I rotate the kart to align it with the sphere I confused the axis that should freely rotate and I changed it and now it works.

This is how I rotate it (works now)

transform.rotation = new Quaternion(transform.rotation.x, _rigidbody.transform.rotation.y, _rigidbody.transform.rotation.z, _rigidbody.transform.rotation.w);

I made so the the kart rotation equals rigidbody rotation but except the X axis (its the forward/backward rotation axis), now it works

Thanks!

[icy junco]

i am working on playerMovement animations
and i want to implement sliding but when i press c while running nothing happens

        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C))
            {
                rn_speed += sl_speed;  
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Sliding");
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Running");
            }

            if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.C))
            {
                rn_speed -= sl_speed;  
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Sliding");
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Running");
            }
        }```

[rich adder]

start debugging then

[polar acorn]

What function is this in

[icy junco]

this is the function that says when i am running i want to slide when pressed C

[polar acorn]

In that case your issue is the syntax error because this code is not inside a function

[icy junco]

yes its just a part of the code

[polar acorn]

So what function is this in

[icy junco]

update function

[polar acorn]

Okay good. And when is Running set to true

actually maybe just post the full !code so I don't have to play 20 questions

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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// Your code here
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[icy junco]

okay wait

    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W))
        {
            playerAnim.SetTrigger("Walking");
            playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Idle");
            walking = true;
        }

        if(Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.W))
        {
            playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Walking");
            playerAnim.SetTrigger("Idle");
            walking = false;
        }

        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S))
        {
            playerAnim.SetTrigger("BackwardsWalk");
            playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Idle");
        }

        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.A))
        {
            playerTrans.Rotate(0, -ro_speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0);
        }

        if(Input.GetKey(KeyCode.D))
        {
            playerTrans.Rotate(0, ro_speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime, 0);
        }

        if(walking == true)
        {
            if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.LeftShift))
            {
                w_speed = w_speed + rn_speed;
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Running");
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Walking");
            }
            if(Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.LeftShift))
            {
                w_speed = olw_speed;
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Running");
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Walking");
            }
        }

        if (running == true)
        {
            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.C))
            {
                rn_speed += sl_speed;  
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Sliding");
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Running");
            }

            if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.C))
            {
                rn_speed -= sl_speed;  
                playerAnim.ResetTrigger("Sliding");
                playerAnim.SetTrigger("Running");
            }
        }```

[rich adder]

lord..

[polar acorn]

the full !code, posted properly according to the bot

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
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[icy junco]

i have put it in the bot but how can i export to here?

[polar acorn]

paste the link

[icy junco]

https://paste.ofcode.org/cNsditYsAEC8EBcbTmXqTG

[icy junco]

thank you

[polar acorn]

literally nothing ever changes running

it's never true

[icy junco]

what do you mean?

[polar acorn]

I mean literally nothing ever changes running. It's never true.

[icy junco]

its true when i am walking and then press left shift?

[polar acorn]

Where do you set it

[rocky canyon]

no problem, i knew it was something weird going on

[icy junco]

Yeahhh now i see it its fixed Thanks a lot

[stuck palm]

Why is the table not getting highlighted? probably something to do with collision idk but heres the code, maybe the gizmo and overlap box are not the same?

https://gdl.space/asafiruvec.cs

code attached here

[ancient island]

Hey guys, how can I change a toggle's value without triggering its event?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Toggle.SetIsOnWithoutNotify.html

[ancient island]

nice, thanks

[icy junco]

when i am standing in idle mod or not moving my player glides over the floor anyone knows why this happens

[rocky canyon]

just guess but it does look like collision problems.. remove all the cubes but that (1) and see if it highlights

[stuck palm]

i moved the box by itself off recording and it works so