💻┃code-beginner

[rare basin]

i know you have IDE lol

[thorn holly]

1. Configure your ide
2. Do you know the basics of c#?

[radiant glen]

Sort of but really like this is my first game

[thorn holly]

Alr

Well I’d reccomend learning the basics, it makes writing your own code and debugging much easier

Also, instead of following an online tutorial, I’d reccomend using unity learn, cause in online tutorials you don’t really learn anything, cause ur just copying whoever’s in the video

That’s what I’d personally do but if an online tutorial works for you, than go ahead, do what’s right for you

[radiant glen]

Okay that makes sense I have been trying to use unity learn when possible but for specific things I have been using youtube

[long scarab]

I made it work by sort of hack

thanks for your help nonetheless

I shifted two vertices out of the plane and made the collider convex, resulting in unfortunately not precise collider mesh, since it overlaps in places, but at least the ray hits it.

Technically I made the mesh collider 3D

[verbal dome]

Hmm okay so it didn't like a flat mesh?

[long scarab]

If anyone would know a better way how to bypass this, please let me know, it would be greatly appreciated as the current sollution is kinda meh.

[long scarab]

I think it is more about the new mesh having volume due to the 3d dimension

[verbal dome]

Yeah that's what I mean

[long scarab]

then yes haha

[verbal dome]

It's not a problem with imported meshes but maybe there's something different when you generate it yourself

[long scarab]

yeah

I thought about using sprite

SVG or something

but then I want users to be able to draw two shapes, arrow and a complex line, and the sizing and stuff would be worse than generating it 😄

actually now I think about it and it sucks because the complex shape, when having convex collider, would occupy also the empty space 😐

[faint sluice]

Just a tip, in case you want to see in real time where your raycast is being blocked, you can see it in inspector of "Event System"

Helps me a lot when I feel like some raycast should detect an object but turns out something else was blocking the ray

It shows the name of object your mouse is hovering over (if it blocks raycast)

[long scarab]

yeah I used Debug.DrawRay instead

so I could see the direction etc

but great tip!

[long scarab]

may I know where? 😄 is it the selected object?

cause I dont see the thing I hover over

[faint sluice]

Uh it's like the bottom of the inspector, try pulling the "line" up

Can't describe what it's called

And it shows up only in play mode

[long scarab]

ah yes

got it

niiice

[pale jetty]

Hi everyone, i wanted to know if any of you can see where the problem is, i want that when i click on the button, a panel close for another to open, so here is my code, but the problem is that when i click on the button nothing happen. You can see that the button named 'BoutonOutils' in the TableCraft GameObject don't work, normally when i do that, it should close the 'TableCraft' GameObject and open the 'OutilsCategory' GameObject'. Here is the code :

void Start()
    {
        isOpen = false;

        OutilsBouton = CraftingScreen.transform.Find("BoutonOutils").GetComponent<Button>();
        OutilsBouton.onClick.AddListener(delegate
        {
            OpenOutilsCategory();
        });

        //Hache
        HacheBesoin1 = OutilsScreen.transform.Find("Hache").transform.Find("besoin1").GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();
        HacheBesoin2 = OutilsScreen.transform.Find("Hache").transform.Find("besoin2").GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();

        HacheBouton = OutilsScreen.transform.Find("Hache").transform.Find("Construire").GetComponent<Button>();
        HacheBouton.onClick.AddListener(delegate
        {
            Construire(PlanHache);
        });
    }


    void OpenOutilsCategory()
    {
        CraftingScreen.SetActive(false);
        OutilsScreen.SetActive(true);
    }```

[long scarab]

Does it detect the button click at all? As in when you are debugging, via some Debug.Log or IDE debugging?

Also a hint, you you can nest hierarchy finds and use OutilsScreen.transform.Find("Hache/besoin1").GetComponent<TextMeshProUGUI>();

[raven igloo]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[pale jetty]

when i do this : void OpenOutilsCategory() { Debug.Log("Ouverture de la catégorie Outils"); CraftingScreen.SetActive(false); OutilsScreen.SetActive(true); } It doesn't detect the button and i don't know why

[long scarab]

So it does not output the log, correct?

[pale jetty]

yes

the message doesn't show up

[long scarab]

Can I see the button in the unity? Is it interactable and enabled?

Well I see its enabled

[pale jetty]

yes it's interactable

[long scarab]

And the rest of the inspector interface? 😄

[raven igloo]

Hello, my sprite is not flipping, the code and i dont know why but ive seen something a bit odd and i really dont know why, the sprite renderer in the scrip is not the same as the sprite renderer

https://gdl.space/jasevonoka.cs

[long scarab]

Also, are EventSystem and Input Modules present?

[pale jetty]

there is an evensystem

the rest of the inspector :

[long scarab]

I am afraid I have to leave the answering to others then

And you have Input Module correct?

[pale jetty]

are you talking about the input system ? if it's that then no:

[long scarab]

I mean the input module

[wintry quarry]

As far as I can tell the FlipSprite script is not even attached

[raven igloo]

oh might be a good thing to do

[pale jetty]

ah no i don't have this

[raven igloo]

but the flipsprite is in the movement sprite tho

[polar acorn]

If you open the event system while you're running the game, it'll tell you on the bottom window of it what object you're hovering over or interacting with. See what it says when you're trying to click the button, there might be something in front of it taking that click event before it can hit the button

[long scarab]

try add it and check if the button works

[radiant glen]

I am getting this error code for my code, any help would be amazing

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/runtime-exceptions/nullreferenceexception

[pale jetty]

when i click on it, the eligibleForClicl become true

[raven igloo]

ok yea i have separated the flip script to the movements script and it works juste fine thx a lot man !

[long scarab]

and does the debug fire the debug message?

"Ouverture de la catégorie Outils"

[wintry quarry]

What? I have no idea what that means. You mean you put the code in the file for the other script? It doesn't work like that

[raven igloo]

i copy paste the flip class that was on the movement script in antoher script (named flip) with only the flip class on it and it worked just fine

[languid spire]

Did you actually have 2 monobehaviour classes in the same script file?

[raven igloo]

yea that was the dumb thing

[languid spire]

ah, yes, that's a no-no, only one Monobehaviour class per script but you can have other POCO's there as well

[raven igloo]

yes at least i will be more aware

first time codin in c#

[languid spire]

this is a Unity specific thing not C# in general

[pale jetty]

no the message dosn't show up

[long scarab]

Yeah, something must be off with the listeners or something else, unfortunately I am not sure what else I could do to help for now

[raven igloo]

yea yea i guess not in c# liek all the langages u can put multiples fonctions in it

[pale jetty]

thank you for your help

[swift crag]

indeed -- this is because Unity references the script asset when you attach a component. it doesn't actually care about the C# class name

[pale jetty]

i even desactivated the raycast of the image there was on the button but nothing change

[swift crag]

That's also why you can freely rename your class without breaking existing components -- as long as you don't rename the script file outside of unity

[languid spire]

no, it's because when the Unity devs developed this system they didn't have a fucking clue what they were doing

[swift crag]

you can interpret it that way, if you'd like

[languid spire]

too many bad design decisions to take it any other way

[swift crag]

there's nothing special about script assets; they're just like any other kind of asset

[long scarab]

have you tried to check if the button listeners are assigned correctly?

[swift crag]

you reference the asset, and the asset is identified by its GUID

[long scarab]

as in if nothing is null, sometimes when using Find and other hierarchy stuff I make the mistake of getting nulls

but that'd throw Null Pointer Exception anyway

[languid spire]

yep, the whole asset database concept is a pigs ear reminiscent of the windows registry

[swift crag]

when you enter debug mode, you can change which script asset a component references. you don't reference a C# class, just like you don't reference the literal data in a PNG or the literal audio data in a wave file

[pale jetty]

i don't have any null exception error and i did verify this multiple times and it was good

[ashen coral]

Guys, please help me find the error in the code (this code is needed to control the player’s movement using a controller)

[long jacinth]

https://gdl.space/oqohopiqoj.cpp

[swift crag]

you have not provided any information.

[languid spire]

what error. add some debugs

[fickle plume]

Did you check the link I provided? https://unity.huh.how/debugging

[verbal dome]

Ok so you still didnt convert the angle to the correct -180...180 range

[long jacinth]

i swapped it

[verbal dome]

You didnt use the code example of DeltaAngle I gave you.

Im not saying to use -180 and 180 in your if-statement. It should be -90 and 90

[amber nimbus]

Hello, I was wondering If I call a Method inside a method like this:

  // some code here
  if (true) {
    DoThis();
  }
  // other code here
}```
Would the "other code here" run if there was actual code after `DoThis()` is done?

[verbal dome]

The angle you use in the if statement should be the one you get from DeltaAngle @long jacinth

[wintry quarry]

of course
code runs top to bottom, in order.

[amber nimbus]

Aight, thanks

[ashen coral]

Unity gives this: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[wintry quarry]

there's more to it than that

you are ignoring the filename and line number of the error

[long jacinth]

so i swap the -90 with the Angle variable

[verbal dome]

No, swap the eulerAngles.z with that

[wintry quarry]

BTW I have no idea how this https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497874004401586176/1201205614928478380/image.png?ex=65c8f8e7&is=65b683e7&hm=fbc8ebb9576711aef9400878fbea6476da34fb9abfadb4c742d4a4fb69a4be6c& could even compile. Seeing as it is accessing variables that don't exist. Is your code editor configured @ashen coral ?

[verbal dome]

Judging by the colors it is not configured

[young smelt]

https://paste.ofcode.org/34EQzyZPNQJsSfNxQiwkBun

Exception: Cannot add more triangles than the size of the triangles array.
MeshData.AddTriangle (System.Int32 a, System.Int32 b, System.Int32 c) (at Assets/Scripts/MapGeneration/MeshGenerator.cs:69)
MeshGenerator.GenerateTerrainMesh (System.Single[,] heightMap) (at Assets/Scripts/MapGeneration/MeshGenerator.cs:28)
MapGenerator.GenerateMap () (at Assets/Scripts/MapGeneration/MapGenerator.cs:57)
MapGeneratorEditor.OnInspectorGUI () (at Assets/Scripts/Editor/MapGeneratorEditor.cs:23)
UnityEditor.UIElements.InspectorElement+<>c__DisplayClass72_0.<CreateInspectorElementUsingIMGUI>b__0 () (at <97436df440ca462884c5332c1d8ebbe7>:0)
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent(Int32, IntPtr, Boolean&)

Saw a land mass generation video with indepth explanation and all but now I am getting this. when it comes to adding triangles to the mesh

[languid spire]

Exactly this

[wintry quarry]

Yep seems pretty clear where things are going wrong:

    public void AddTriangle(int a, int b, int c)
    {
        if (triangleIndex >= triangles.Length)
        {
            throw new Exception("Cannot add more triangles than the size of the triangles array.");
        }```

[young smelt]

I added an exception to break it once it reaches the lmax length of the triangle

[wintry quarry]

yes and you have reached the limit

[noble folio]

hey im trying to make a ball shoot system like in mini soccer star but whitout the aiming arrow can someone help me make the script?

also its gonna be a mobile game so mobile input

[young smelt]

Oh it writes exceptions like errors.!!! I fucking forgot

[wintry quarry]

note that you're adding TWO triangles for every x/y coordinate.
Not only that but every coordinate uses up THREE spaces in the triangle array.
But when you allocated the triangle array you only gave this much space:
triangles = new int[(meshWidth - 1) * (meshHeight - 1)];

[young smelt]

Thought my code was wrong

[wintry quarry]

I'm pretty sure that array is at least 6x too small

[verbal dome]

I think your triangle array size is ~~ 2x~~ 6x? too small

[wintry quarry]

i think it should be new int[meshWidh*meshHeight*6]

since you need 3 spots per triangle and you're doing two triangles for every x/y

[verbal dome]

Each "pixel" in the heightmap has 2 triangles not 1

And each triangle is 3 ints

[young smelt]

Won't it be something like new int[(meshWidh-1)*(meshHeight-1)*6] then. So that it doesn't take count of the externalmost point

[long jacinth]

in the if statement i swapped out the eulerangles.z

[wintry quarry]

only one of them should be -1

since you're only doing one check of if (x < width - 1)

so new int[(meshWidth - 1) * meshHeight * 6]

[long jacinth]

Operator '<' cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'int'

[swift crag]

Quaternion.Angle is a static method on the Quaternion class

[tender hound]

i started with entities so i created a new project downloaded entities package after this i create a sub scene and a cube but if i press play i dont see the cube at all in the game window do i need to change a setting in the camera or something?

[swift crag]

therefore, you're getting this error because you're trying to use the < operator with a method on the left side

[verbal dome]

I meant replace the whole variable

[wintry quarry]

what is rotation.Angle? That's not a thing friend.

[swift crag]

I presume you wanted to just use your Angle variable.

(which shouldn't be capitalized, since it's a local variable)

[verbal dome]

if(Angle < -90 || Angle > 90)

Notice || instead of &&

Try to understand what you are doing

If you would use &&, it would have to be both <= -90 and >= 90 at the same time

That's not possible now is it

[rare basin]

gunText.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().flipY = !(Angle < -90 || Angle > 90);

[young smelt]

Fixed it changed this

if (x < width - 1 && y < height - 1)
{
meshData.AddTriangle(vertexIndex, vertexIndex + width + 1, vertexIndex + width);
meshData.AddTriangle(vertexIndex + width + 1, vertexIndex, vertexIndex + 1);
}

and this

triangles = new int[meshWidth * meshHeight * 6];

tnks

paetroblue and the gang. thnks

[long jacinth]

ohh i got it

[ashen coral]

I realized the mistake. Thank you

[long jacinth]

thank you guys for helping the gun rotation works perfectly now

i was stupid and didnt realize what i did wrong

[verbal dome]

Heres a bonus for you to make sense of the angles:

[long jacinth]

thanks so much

[verbal dome]

You are checking if the angle is in one of the bottom sectors in that image

Np

[stark flint]

Hello i am trying to make a script for OpenXR Unity game. How do i make it so if a specific game object is picked up then a different specific game object dissapeared. Also if the object is let go off the object that disappeared comes back.

[languid spire]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[languid spire]

Get the Renderer components for both objects and then you can enable/disable them as you please

[stark flint]

however how do i check if an item is being grabbed

[cinder spruce]

how can i prevent all methods to be called at the same time inside the RandomlyChooseAttack function? Line 104

[languid spire]

that is up to how you code it, collitions, triggers, other, take your pick

[languid spire]

did you not read the bot message

[cinder spruce]

i used gdl paste

[languid spire]

no you didn't you posted the original code back here

[stark flint]

ill be honest. i am pretty bad at programming in c#. idk how that works

[languid spire]

time to start learning
!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[cinder spruce]

https://paste.ofcode.org/VcMbCZ4zFkLVe2n5yKtAE4

[languid spire]

to start with they are not all called at the same time but..

Update -> EnemyLogic -> RandomlyChooseAttack
So once this has been done you need a bool or something to stop it until the next time you want to do it

[grizzled pagoda]

hi, im having trouble with a boolean not turning true when i want to ``` public bool ZombieStop = false;
public float speed = 10f;
public float HealthPoints = 5f;
private bool PlantCollide = false;
// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    if(ZombieStop == true){
        speed = 0f;
    }
    else{
        speed = 10f;
    }
    transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed);
    if(HealthPoints <= 0){
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }
    if(HealthPoints <= 0){
        Destroy(gameObject);
    
    }
}
void OnCollisionStay(Collision other){
    Debug.Log(other.gameObject.layer);
    if(other.gameObject.layer == 7){
        HealthPoints = HealthPoints - 1;
        Debug.Log("Zombie HealthPoints: " + HealthPoints);
    }
    if(other.gameObject.layer == 6){
        ZombieStop = true;
        speed = 0f;
        Debug.Log("Zombie should stop");
    }
}
void OnCollisionExit(Collision other){
    ZombieStop = false;
}

}

[cinder spruce]

i'll create a bool called inRange and turn that bool to true in line 81 instead of calling the RandomlyChooseAttack(); method. Then i'll call RandomlyChooseAttack(); method in an if statement like if(inRange). Something like that? And where should i enter that if statement?

[wind raptor]

Coming back to this, is there a particular framework you'd recommend? If I'm just building a single, locally-hosted webpage would it be worth just skipping the framework?

Edit: and is there a framework that could provide a visual means of creating the UI, instead of having to hardcore everything?

[tender hound]

why canti see the cube in the game window?

[wintry quarry]

the camera isn't pointing at it

[languid spire]

soemthing like that, put it in update. also this

if (cooling)
        {
            CoolDown();
            anim.SetBool("DownSlash", false);
            anim.SetBool("SideSlash", false);
            anim.SetBool("UpSlash", false);
        }

doesnt make sense. CoolDown() should be called outsilde of the if

[tender hound]

the camera is on point

[queen adder]

Anyone know why the UI is doing this? it fixes itself after resizing the editor?

[wintry quarry]

why is it "entities test scene"? Is this ECS/DOTS?

[tender hound]

i wanna work with entities for the first time

[wintry quarry]

#1062393052863414313 is the place to ask about it.

[cinder spruce]

it needs to call the CoolDown(); method when the cooling flag is true. It's the cooldown system which prevent the enemy from spamming the attack

@languid spire also it sets the attack animation bools to false otherwise animations get stuck

[ionic zephyr]

Hey guys, do kinematic objects interact or overlap one and other?

and static

or do only dynamic objects (rigidbody) collide with each other?

[languid spire]

problem is it can still do it whilst cooling is true

so you're turning off the animation immediately

[wintry quarry]

kinematic objects are unstoppable forces/immovable objects

they don't react to any other objects in the scene or forces at all

[ionic zephyr]

but they are overlaped by each other?

[wintry quarry]

they're overlapped if you place them in overlapping positions

not really sure how to answer that

they go wherever you tell them to go

[ionic zephyr]

okay, what about static?

[cinder spruce]

yes on the last frame. I use an animation event to call the TriggerCooldown method

[wintry quarry]

Static Rigidbody2Ds are placed in the scene and should never move

[ionic zephyr]

so what is the point of placing a Rigidbody on them?

triggers maybe?

[languid spire]

no, look at this

if (cooling)
        {
            CoolDown();
            anim.SetBool("DownSlash", false);
            anim.SetBool("SideSlash", false);
            anim.SetBool("UpSlash", false);
        }

even if cooling is still true the bools are set to false

[wintry quarry]

to group a bunch of colliders under one physics object

[ionic zephyr]

okay, thanks!

[cinder spruce]

yes, animation bools should turn false when cooling bool is true. Bool is turned to false when cooldown method is called. It is intended to work that way

[swift crag]

are you asking about when trigger and collision messages occur?

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/trigger-matrix-2d
https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/collision-matrix-2d

these pages show when the events fire

[languid spire]

ok, gotcha so this is the problem

else if (attackDistance >= distance && cooling == false)
        {
            RandomlyChooseAttack();
        }

cooling does not get set to true until the anim if finished so RandomlyChooseAttack gets called multiple times

[cinder spruce]

hmm makes sense. Lemme check that

[languid spire]

you need to control that wilh another bool set to true in RandomlyChooseAttack and set to false in CoolDown when the timer expires

[shell herald]

still dont undestand why this code is not working. i have this script on my button prefab and want the sound to play every time the button is selected

am i not getting something here?

[rich adder]

probably missing an interface for it

https://docs.unity3d.com/530/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.OnSelect.html

also why not just use Event Trigger component

[shell herald]

i tried it with event trigger, but couldnt get it to work with mouse and controller input. do you perhaps mean the "Select(BaseEventData)"?

[wintry quarry]

yeah you need to implement the ISelectHandler interface

also ISelectHandler will work exactly the same as EventTrigger btw

[languid spire]

f.y.i. this tells you it isn't being used

[rich adder]

to be fair it would still show that with the interface too

[shell herald]

yeah, now everything works

[tawdry totem]

i tryed to create a solution to weapons clipping thru wall and other objects, by rendering then on another camera, but that shows them thru wall as well, any idea how to fix this?

[rare basin]

that is a code related channel

[tawdry totem]

this is a code related channel

[rare basin]

so ask a code related question 🙂

[rich adder]

indeed wrong channel, also you have to switch layers between pickedup and not picked up

[tawdry totem]

oh sorry then,where is rightchanel then?

[rich adder]

well #💻┃unity-talk but looks like you need code to solve your issue, unless you make 2 separate objects

eg weapon is in Default layer and then on pickup you do weaponObj.gameObject.layer = LayerMask.NameToLayer("WeaponRenderer");

[tawdry totem]

thx

[quick ruin]

need to set it back to none is there a code

[rich adder]

afaik 0 should work

[icy quail]

hi, can anyone tell me what is the difference between purple and pink filed in unity object explorer?

i hve to use that hff.... but the code doesnt see it, i can use other fields but not that one

[rancid tinsel]

what was the command for setting up vs studio with unity?

discord command i mean

[languid spire]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rancid tinsel]

thanks

@grizzled pagoda do the visual studio one

so you can see the errors

in visual studio while typing

[icy quail]

yes

wait

https://i.imgur.com/8P0DUp4.png

here

[short hazel]

Not familiar with the window, but that might be because it's private?

[icy quail]

as you can see i can select "fpvfieldofview"

[polar acorn]

Can you show the code for hffkblekiic (which is a mouthful by the way. Is there a reason these variables are keyboard mashes?)

[smoky mauve]

what does this error mean?
type is not a supported string value
UnityEditor.RetainedMode:UpdateSchedulers ()

[polar acorn]

Check the stack trace and see if any of it is in code you write. If not it's probably a unity editor error and you can probably fix it with a restart

[languid spire]

what is this, it doesn't look like a Unity project

[short hazel]

Oh, modding. Can't talk about that here

[icy quail]

really? ah sorry

[short hazel]

You'll have to find the official discussion channel of the game, wherever it is

And yeah the garbled variable names is probably because of an obfuscator on the source code

[terse raven]

Can entities have colliders on them or would that decrease performance

[smoky mauve]

restarted and gone, ty

[icy quail]

alright, thanks for help <33

[rare basin]

what

[cunning locust]

Are while loops actually used by anyone? I mean i always use either if statements or for loops

[rocky canyon]

yes

[cunning locust]

is there an example where you must use a while loop instead of for or if?

[languid spire]

while loops are extremely common, yes

[wintry quarry]

All the time

[cunning locust]

I've been programming for 2 years and i only tried to use it once, my game crashed, now i never use them and im okay

[wintry quarry]

You can use for and while for all loops interchangeably, it's just awkward sometimes

[cunning locust]

Okay so while loop doesnt have special usage that a for loop cant do

[rocky canyon]

        if(drag)
        {
            //enable elsewhere
            lineSystem.SetActive(true);
            currentMousePosition = Input.mousePosition; // start updating currentPosition
            float dragDistance = Vector3.Distance(initialMousePosition,currentMousePosition);

            if(dragDistance > dragThreshold)
            {
                initialMousePosition = currentMousePosition; // reset new position for next drag check
            }

            if(Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
            {
                lineSystem.SetActive(false);
                drag = false;
                initialMousePosition = currentMousePosition;
            }
        }``` heres an example of one of my if loops

i have exit conditions like drag = false..

now if i was a better coder id use a while loop instead

[cunning locust]

this seems fine to me

[languid spire]

how is that a loop?

[rocky canyon]

it is acceptable but could be better

its in update

it loops while drag = true

[cunning locust]

happens every frame doesnt it?

[rocky canyon]

ya

[languid spire]

then the if is irrelevant, the Update is the loop

[cunning locust]

yes but the if breaks out of the loop.

[rocky canyon]

no.. its not irrelevant? i dont want it to loop unless the condition is true

🤔

[languid spire]

if is not a looping statement

[rocky canyon]

i mean the code in theory Loops

but its not a for loop

[rare basin]

you said one of my if loops

[rocky canyon]

okay steve

[cunning locust]

Anyway, just proving my point that while loops are not neccessary

[rocky canyon]

im pretty sure while drag = true it loops

pretty much every frame

[languid spire]

ok, try that in a Coroutine

[rocky canyon]

i could make it a coroutine 🤔

[languid spire]

go on then

[cunning locust]

What is a coroutine?

[polar acorn]

Technically no loops are ever necessary because goto exists

[cunning locust]

i dissagree

[wintry quarry]

while loops are just cleaner than for loops in some circumstances @cunning locust . For example:

Queue<int> queue = new() { 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 };

while (queue.Count > 0) {
  int next = queue.Dequeue();
  print(next);
}```

A for loop would be a but less elegant here...
```cs
for ( ; queue.Count > 0; ) {
  int next = queue.Dequeue();
  print(next);
}```

[cunning locust]

a for loop is extremely neccessary sometimes

[wintry quarry]

you can write any for loop as a while loop

including foreach loops

[polar acorn]

But you could just use goto statements.

[languid spire]

foreach, yes, for no

[polar acorn]

They're tools to have in your toolbox, and discounting one because you can massage another into the same use case isn't relevant

You should still learn how to use them

[wintry quarry]

List<int> list = new() { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };

IEnumerator<int> enumerator = list.GetEnumerator();
while (enumerator.MoveNext()) {
  int current = enumerator.Current;
  print(current);
}```
^ Here's how to write `foreach` as a `while` loop

[cunning locust]

Does visual studio have a snippet shortcut?

Like when I press a shortcut key, it instantly pastes a for loop

or a switch

[short hazel]

They appear in the completion list as you type

[wintry quarry]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/visual-csharp-code-snippets?view=vs-2022#default-code-snippets

[short hazel]

for, then Tab to complete

[cunning locust]

Not quite what im looking for

a switch statement doesnt autocomplete cases

[short hazel]

For enums, it does

[languid spire]

don't worry about using shortcuts, learn how to write code yourself

[short hazel]

Else, it cannot decide for you

[cunning locust]

Yeah i know all of these, i just can't bother to type them out all of the time

[cyan pollen]

does system.random still work?

[languid spire]

apparently you don't

[rocky canyon]

public Update()
{
  if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
    {
        // Set drag to true when the mouse button is pressed
        drag = true;

        // Start the coroutine
        StartCoroutine(DragCoroutine());
    }

    if(Input.GetMouseButtonUp(0))
    {
        drag = false;
    }
}

IEnumerator DragCoroutine()
{
    // Enable the line system when starting the drag
    if (!lineSystem.activeSelf)
    {
        lineSystem.SetActive(true);
    }

    while (drag)
    {
        currentMousePosition = Input.mousePosition;
        float dragDistance = Vector3.Distance(initialMousePosition, currentMousePosition);

        if (dragDistance > dragThreshold)
        {
            // Update LineRenderer during drag
            UpdateLineRenderer();

            // Reset new position for the next drag check
            initialMousePosition = currentMousePosition;
        }

        yield return null;
    }

    // Disable the line system when releasing the mouse button
    lineSystem.SetActive(false);
    initialMousePosition = currentMousePosition;
}```

coroutine 🤔

[cyan pollen]

what happened to system.random?

[cunning locust]

Where did I give you this impression?

[languid spire]

now you have a while

[rocky canyon]

i know that was the entire point!

i could make it a while if i wanted

[short hazel]

Still exists, and will always exist

[rare basin]

what would happen to it

[languid spire]

in just about everything you have said

[rocky canyon]

but i dont want a coroutine.. so ill just use my if() conditionals until it isnt feasible

[cyan pollen]

im tryna use it and it isnt working

[rare basin]

then you are using it wrong

[cunning locust]

I just got curious if a while loop is even needed, and it turns out it's not. So i was correct

[rocky canyon]

its debateable as noticeable

if you dont need to use a while loop, dont use one.
but they aren't unneeded in no form

[dawn juniper]

Hello, I'm making a 2d game and in a level I want to see nothing that everything looks black, all black and when the character puts a torch you can see around the torch, you can see what is the map, what I mean is that everything looks black and the light of the torch let you see the map, but I've been trying things and I can not do it, anyone knows how it could be done?

[cunning locust]

I mean.. you can make fortnite with 0 while loops

sounds unneeded to me

[rocky canyon]

you can make fortnite? 👀

[wintry quarry]

while is the most flexible type of loop. All the other loops are built on top of it

[rocky canyon]

this sounds accurate ^

[wintry quarry]

You can also write English sentences without the letter "e" but there's not good reason to do so.

[rare basin]

what you are saying makes absolutely 0 sense

you can make fortnite without any for loop aswell

[cunning locust]

All im saying, if while loop wen't extinct, it wouldnt limit me in any way

[languid spire]

you can make anything without using any looping construct other than label: goto label. Should you? NO

[rare basin]

for you != useless

[wintry quarry]

You will look back at yourself saying this in 5 years and laugh

[short hazel]

Wrong, because most loops in C# compile to while loops

[cunning locust]

I doubt it? Loops are necessary

[short hazel]

Your code wouldn't compile at all lol

[rocky canyon]

not really.. u can emulate loops with if conditionals and booleans

[rare basin]

why do you need a for if you can make the same logic in while

thinking in your logic

for sounds unneeded to me

[cunning locust]

i mean techinally.. ye

[languid spire]

As I said earlier, there are several well known languages which have no loop constructs at all

[cunning locust]

its one or the other.

A for loop automatically can set a limit to the loop

which while loop can't

i mean it can, but

[rare basin]

while loop can put a bool inside the brackets

[languid spire]

of course it can

[rare basin]

and for cannot

stupid debate

[rocky canyon]

• i dont use while loops b/c im not good enough to use em yet *

i get tired of locking up my project

[cunning locust]

I think a for loop is more advanced than a while loop

[polar acorn]

Yes so when you have an unknown number of iterations that's why you would use while loops

[rare basin]

why is it more advanced

[wintry quarry]

you can emulate a loop with goto. You can't emulate a loop with if

[cunning locust]

it looks more confusing XD

[rare basin]

it looks more confusing to you = its more advanced?

[cunning locust]

this is just c#, goto doesn't exist in other languages as far as i know

[rocky canyon]

ya, i meant more *with the use of it being nested in a Unity loop (like update)

[cunning locust]

I mean is it not? Lets be fr here

[rocky canyon]

i dont code outside of unity unfortunately

[eternal needle]

Yea I feel the same about multiplication, why is it so confusing. We should just use addition, remove multiplication since it is clearly bloat

[wintry quarry]

well yeah but then there's still al oop, it's just inside the Unity engine and not in your code.

[rare basin]

no its one of the basic things you learn

[languid spire]

goto exists in ALL languages, loops don't

[rocky canyon]

facts! lol idk i just jumped in

[rare basin]

okay you just proved its kinda ponitless talking to you now 😄

[wintry quarry]

goto is the basis of all loops. Loops are built on jmp style assembly instructions which are just goto

[polar acorn]

Goto exists in literally every language and is one of the most fundamental control flow commands which all other kinds of loops and conditionals eventually compile to

[cunning locust]

I would strongly dissagree as i have years of experiance in gamemaker

[languid spire]

idiot

[rare basin]

he's trolling

[rocky canyon]

🤣 i cant

[rare basin]

at this point xd

[eternal needle]

This is clearly a kid

[cunning locust]

I was hoping to have a nice discusion over a topic, yalls reaction is not it.

I'm just debating.

[rare basin]

can't have a nice discusion if you are closed to answers

and can't take facts as a.. facts lol

[rocky canyon]

debates usually aren't hugs and kisses

this was still a debate

[eternal needle]

Likely more of a #archived-lighting question

[cunning locust]

Well it was a calm friendly debate on my end.

[rare basin]

I would strongly disagree, i have years of experience in psychology

[vapid vector]

hey guys, I just started out with unity and I was following this udemy course I got, I'm trying to make one of these hyper casual games just to learn the basics, here's a tiny bit of the player animation code. It works fine between idle and running, but I wanted to also make the player walk based on the "intensity" of the joystick, based on how far off it is, if just a tiny bit, he'd walk. I did alter the code for that but the value I was checking wasn't perfectly consistent so most of the time he'd jigger between run and walk when just pulling the joystick to a half point, if I do an if for lets say magnite > 0.5, usually walking is 0 to 0.5 and running is 0.5 to 1, but there would be odd values in between, running could have a random .4 and walking could have a random .6
any advice on what value I should be checking (I'm starting to think the vector magnitude isnt the correct one xd) or how I can get the speed to do this?

[languid spire]

except in a debate both sides need to know what they are talking about, you very clearly do not

[eternal needle]

Look at the #854851968446365696 on how to ask. No one can help by just this alone

[cunning locust]

Ah okay this wasnt exactly what i was talking about, but now i get your point. I only wanted to say that gamemaker doesnt have a built in function goto for us users to use.

[languid spire]

gamemaker is not a computer language, it is a system

[polar acorn]

I'm guessing you're getting that move vector from input somewhere, which means it might have smoothing on it

[cunning locust]

Yes therefor i withdraw my previous statements regarding the goto

little missunderstanding on my part

[polar acorn]

Game maker uses a scripting language and is not a compilable programming language. Internally, the code game maker compiles your GML to does have goto

[languid spire]

three fundamentals of loops
jmp
jnz
jz
every piece of looping code you ever write will boil down to one of these asm goto instructions

[cunning locust]

That's why gamemaker shouldnt be a starting point in programming games, this type of information is extremely helpful now that i've moved to unity

Neved heard of goto before yesterday 🤣

[languid spire]

then your education has been sorely lacking

[cunning locust]

I agree

hopefully i'll learn more here

[eternal needle]

It's not like you would hear about in doing unity solo anyways, you only hear about it because these people told you

You dont really use goto directly yourself in c#

[cunning locust]

I mean when you learn programming, someone tells you the information that you want to learn

[cunning locust]

that just confuses me now.

Thought it's commonly used by unity developers

[eternal needle]

You dont explicitly type goto in your code

[rocky canyon]

ive only ever seen Goto: logic in memes (relating to Unity)

[frosty hound]

Goto isn't commonly used at all in Unity

[languid spire]

one of the reasons that C# has so many different loop constructs is so that you dont need to use gotos yourself.
In fact if you follow strict OOP JSP principles goto should never be used by an application programmer

[cunning locust]

If i recall correctly, when i was talking to someone here about switch statements, they said that goto should be used for some sort of flow yadda yadda

[languid spire]

the break statement is technically a goto

[polar acorn]

No, people are bringing it up because it'd be absurd to write all of your loops in gotos, just like it's absurd to try to write all of your loops in only for

[rocky canyon]

complicated switch statements if its goto'ing around and about but yea, breaks, returns, etc

[cunning locust]

but it does not specify the "where"

it just breaks out of the switch

[short hazel]

You can actually goto case n in switch statements

[rocky canyon]

thats why u structure ur logic in a coherent way

[languid spire]

the where is implicit. end of scope

[rocky canyon]

u shoudn't need to tell it specifically where to go

[cunning locust]

Yea that's what i ment

While i cannot imagine a case where this would be usefull for me, it sounds like a neat feature which might be usefull

[rocky canyon]

i need to write more switch statements.. my logic never gets that robust, hopefully someday ill transcend

[languid spire]

people dont realize. case is the same as label. that is why it terminats with a :

[rocky canyon]

the more tools in ur toolchest is the important part

even if u dont use it.. knowing something is available to u puts u ahead of the ones that dont

[languid spire]

absolutely, you dont need to know the exact signature of all API's you just need to know they exist

[rocky canyon]

imagine before the internet was what it is now.. u'd have to have a bookshelf at ur ready 😄

now u can just "beep: boop:" what ur hunting

[languid spire]

look at my bookshelfs

[rocky canyon]

i have 1 math book

for vectors if i remmeber

[languid spire]

I have hundreds of coding and sdk manuals

[cunning locust]

when people coded before internet their books were already read 100 times before

[rocky canyon]

any that u would swear by?

[cunning locust]

in which field do you specialize?

[languid spire]

today, no, much better info on the net if you know how to search

[rocky canyon]

im always on the lookout for an extra ebook i can store

[languid spire]

All of them

[eternal needle]

What a wild difference in times, during my time in university I seriously never bought a single textbook.

[rocky canyon]

👀 how? lol

i bought dozens of books, and sold them back at the end of the semester

[cunning locust]

So like.. networking, front end, back end, discord bots

cyber hacking

[languid spire]

yep and much much more

[rocky canyon]

pretty sure he can do it all

[cunning locust]

thats neat

Which one brings the most money?

[rocky canyon]

cyber security

[languid spire]

50 years is a long time to learn this shit

[cunning locust]

Oh no doubt

i envy you

[languid spire]

Finance and Banking

[rocky canyon]

selling ur soul

[languid spire]

it's also more fun than game dev

[cunning locust]

That must be country specific.. in my country the money is alright in banking, but making a successful game >>>

[rocky canyon]

Capitalism! Hoorah!

[languid spire]

I'm international, I'll work for anyone who pays me enough

[rocky canyon]

..and he's bilingual 👀

[languid spire]

multilingual if you please

[rocky canyon]

i knew it!

[cunning locust]

is Steve Smith Steve Jobs by any chance

[languid spire]

my mate Jobs is dead, I'm not

[rocky canyon]

if you say so

[cunning locust]

whatever you say Jobs..

[void dawn]

Does anyone have a hard time on YouTube tutorials

[rocky canyon]

very very rarely

[languid spire]

never

[rocky canyon]

if i do, the solution is in the comments

the trick to youtube tutorials is to follow it exactly pay attention to what they click (they might not narrate every click they make)

dont be afraid to pause, and rewatch

usually they wont post a video that doesnt work..

[languid spire]

no, the trick with YT tutorials is NOT TO WATCH YT TUTORIALS because most of them are crap

[rocky canyon]

true, but if you do..

lol

[void dawn]

You can't just generalize like that

[languid spire]

bet

[rocky canyon]

imo youtube tutorials are best at exposing you to ideas, mechanics, and etc

[eternal needle]

Well itll work for the 10 seconds of gameplay shown, then you realize its impossible to develop this further

[rocky canyon]

its up to you to take those and research and fill in the blanks

[languid spire]

99% of YT turorials are made by people to make money or self promote, nothing else. They generally know nothing

[rocky canyon]

if u dont.. ur just copying what they make.

[cunning locust]

So what? Should i just read the whole c# manual to learn something?

[languid spire]

yes

and practice

[rocky canyon]

eventually yes, but thats an extreme..

no ones asking u to read the entire manual to figure out what a transform is

You dont get dropped off in mexico and learn the entire mexican language on the first encounter with a local..

[cunning locust]

What about the 10+ hour full course tutorials?

[eternal needle]

The youtubers that actually know what they're talking about, dont really make step by step guides that you'll be able to learn from. They will briefly mention an entire concept, because they're just telling you how they implemented a feature. If you dont understand the existing tutorials you're looking at who show you the code line by line, you 100% will not understand the few good tutorials that exist

[rocky canyon]

same with learning a computer language..

[rocky canyon]

Tarodev!

[rocky canyon]

never tried any of those.. u mean the payed ones?

like Udemy courses?

[cunning locust]

Not necessarily, but sure. For example rn im watching a free one on youtube, 7 hours long full course

[languid spire]

Take Brackey, heralded as the king of Unity YT tutorials by many, his code is so full of errors it's untrue and what he 'teaches' is rubbish

[rocky canyon]

you'll learn alot of concepts from it.. but they all wont just click

you'll still have to do some follow-up on ur own

[cunning locust]

To be fair, 4 hours in i just got over the loops, which are basically the same in any language

My bad, 2 hours in.

[rocky canyon]

basics aren't all that exciting

[queen adder]

where can i get help for scripting errors?

[rocky canyon]

here

[cunning locust]

I'm sure there's a debugger in unity

[queen adder]

oh lol

[hexed ginkgo]

I feel like the best way to learn stuff is to try using it in a project yk

[rocky canyon]

absolutely correct.. you learn the most by doing

[hexed ginkgo]

like a lot of stuff just doesn't make sense if you don't do it yourself

[cunning locust]

I mean noone watches a tutorial without a project opened up

i hope.

[rocky canyon]

i never watch anything without a project opened up lol

[hexed ginkgo]

yeah but I mean

you don't learn stuff by blindly copying it

you learn it by applying it yourself

[cunning locust]

I could dissagree with this

[rocky canyon]

thats the step where you get those click moments..

[cunning locust]

When you are in school all you do is copy from the board.

[rocky canyon]

"eureka moments" is a better term

[queen adder]

i have like 2 scripts, one script checks if the player is touched and then uses the method of another script to show a game over ui
everytime i reference the method, i get this error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[rocky canyon]

gameManager is not assigned

[wintry quarry]

You didn't assign this variable

it needs to be assigned in the inspector - or elsewhere

[queen adder]

oh damm

[rocky canyon]

u just told Unity that you have a GameManager class u want to be named gameManager.. but u never assigned it so unity doesn't know which one

[hexed ginkgo]

that means that gameManager is not assigned

[cunning locust]

Yeah refferencing stuff was confusing to me at first for sure

[hexed ginkgo]

go to the player object

and drag the game manager object into the slot provided under your player script component

[rocky canyon]

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/60554748/227689794-0f5b9380-7db1-4a99-91c5-0644e45e8cf3.gif

[queen adder]

the scripts are in the assets

[modest dust]

Sure, you can memorise stuff by copying, but to use it effectively in your own projects requires some amount of practice

[queen adder]

do i have to tie it with a script?

[rocky canyon]

like a prefab asset?

[queen adder]

i mean game Object

[hexed ginkgo]

yes, but if you have a script component on your player the public properties of te script will be exposed

[rocky canyon]

yea u drag the gameobject containing the "GameManager" script

[queen adder]

so i just create a gameObject for the sole purpose of storing the script?

[rocky canyon]

it has to be in the scene to run properly since its a monobehaviour

[queen adder]

ok

[rocky canyon]

so ya, just make an empty gameobject name it something relateable, drop the gamemanager on it

and use that to get ur reference

[queen adder]

my KillBlock script is in a prefab tho

[cunning locust]

Does c# have variables with different scopes? Can i make an enum or a macro which could be accessed in any script for example?

[rocky canyon]

ya, public

private, static, etc

public is accessable anywhere

[cunning locust]

I thought public just means i can edit it via the unity editor

[rocky canyon]

if u need that script from somewhere outside the prefab ull have to instantiate it first and then use a GetComponent<> or something similar to grab the reference from it once its in the scene

[cunning locust]

the components tab

[rocky canyon]

it means that and what i said..

[queen adder]

and the game Manager is inside the ui

[rocky canyon]

a private field can be shown in the inspector.. if u use
[SerializedField] private float myFloat;

[cunning locust]

Interesting, maybe i shouldnt overuse public variables then.

[rocky canyon]

and that wont be accessable outside the class u wrote it in
BUT will be visible in teh inspector

[cunning locust]

that's usefull to know, thank you!

[rocky canyon]

absolutely not.. u should get into the rhythm now of only using public variables that u want to use externally..

if not and u still want to assign it via the inspctor use [SerializedField] private

[cunning locust]

On a different topic, im learning about coroutines and i dont see the difference between them and functions..

StartCoroutine(ExecuteSomething());

IEnumerator ExecuteSomething()
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
    print("Executed.");
}

[rocky canyon]

well for starters you can't Wait in a regular function

so that code would never work in a regular function

[cunning locust]

I see, alright, is there more to it?

[queen adder]

since my game manager and kill block scripts are both in parts, i can get the Game manager script from finding its path?
and how would i find this path?

[rocky canyon]

i only use them for Delays.. but theres alot more to them

[cunning locust]

it's kinda weird that you can't wait outside the coroutine.

[rocky canyon]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.FindObjectsOfType.html

you can use this to find specific components/scripts

[cunning locust]

Hmm so what about structs and arrays?

can I make a custom Wait() function by passing in a function as a parameter of a coroutine?

IEnumerator ExecuteSomething( int func, int time)
{
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    func();
}

[rocky canyon]

u can use a coroutine just like a function in the sense of passing in variables yea

yea u can do that, not sure about the func() part.. but i know u can pass in ints and stuff

[wintry quarry]

yes

but func would need to be a delegate type

for example Action

[queen adder]

ye but the script is inside GameOverScreen, is there no way of just Canvas.GameOverScreen.getcomponnent<GameManager>?

[cunning locust]

Yeah im particuraly interested in passing a function as an argument

[scarlet skiff]

if an animaiton has "loop" ticket off and has finished playing/is at last frame, would this method still return true?

[rocky canyon]

ya u can do that.. if u know exactly what object its on.. and its GetComponent btw

punctuation matters

[queen adder]

how do i reference the object path?

[rocky canyon]

u still need a reference to that tho.. u cant just type out the name's

[cunning locust]

delegate type?

[rocky canyon]

same as u did earlier.. u pass it into a variable.. but if ur gonna do that why wouldnt u just pass in the GameManager directly

[wintry quarry]

IEnumerator WaitThenExecute(float delay, Action a) {
  yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
  a();
}

// Use it like this:
StartCoroutine(WaitThenExecute(2.5f, () => Debug.Log("Done waiting")));```

[queen adder]

like that?

[wintry quarry]

yes delegates are C#'s version of function pointers. A delegate type is.. a type of delegate

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/delegates/

[rocky canyon]

if the gameManager is attached to that exact objecct (the same one the script is on)

[wintry quarry]

System.Action aka Action is a delegate type that returns void and takes no parameters

[rocky canyon]

if u call just GetComponent<> thats where its looking

ont eh same object

[queen adder]

the kill block is actually in the prefab

do i need to do gameObject.Parent?

it that a thing?

[rocky canyon]

.parent is a thing yes

[cunning locust]

Makes sense

I thought i could just pass an array as an argument

to do the same

but i realised I can't even get arrays to work in c# 💀

 Array arr = [ 1, 2 ,3]

  struct struc {1 , 2 }

[eternal needle]

Well yea that's not the syntax, it. It's all there on the docs

[languid spire]

that aint even close to c#

[wintry quarry]

you could actually look up the syntax 😉

I don't see how an array would do the same as a delegate though

[cunning locust]

struct one should work..

[languid spire]

not even close

[wintry quarry]

Are you a Python user by chance?

[north kiln]

The collection initialiser may make confuse things if you looked it up

The array initialisation is honestly almost correct in modern c#

[cunning locust]

im used to gamemaker language

[wintry quarry]

it's almost correct except that the type is wrong

[queen adder]

i did this

[cunning locust]

public struct struc
{
  int i = 1;
}

[eternal needle]

Apparently gamemaker is like javascript and c? I was assuming C from how you tried to declare the struct

[mild osprey]

guys, how do I get the rb.velocity.magnitude in 3D? I was used to get this value on 2D but it is not working on 3D

[queen adder]

but i cant drag the gameObject to the script

[meager steeple]

would it be possible to include time.deltatime into this? or would it still run equally no matter the performance?

[cunning locust]

yeah

[rancid tinsel]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[rancid tinsel]

@grizzled pagoda

[north kiln]

It uses Time already, there's no need for delta time

[hexed ginkgo]

it runs equally because it takes time into account

[meager steeple]

👍

[hexed ginkgo]

Mathf.Sin(Time.time)

[eternal needle]

Show what you tried/more context. Magnitude exists on the Vector3 so this should be fine

[cunning locust]

Trust me that code was not how i WANTED to declare the struct 💀

[mild osprey]

I just tried

"return Mathf.Abs(rb.velocity.magnitude);"

but is returning zero

[eternal needle]

Then the value is 0

[mild osprey]

the obj is moving

[north kiln]

You don't need to abs a magnitude, it's always positive.

[polar acorn]

How are you moving it

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/simatudizu.cpp hi could anyone help me with wave spawning? the wave starts out at 2, the wavecount however is set to 0 at the start though

[mild osprey]

I'm moving the transform

[polar acorn]

So you're nver changing velocity

[mild osprey]

the rigidbody does not count this way?

[polar acorn]

you're teleporting

The velocity is 0

[mild osprey]

oh, that's the problem

[north kiln]

Also, please don't cross-post

[mild osprey]

I just wanted to quickly animate a little guy here

I will try to use a boolean then

[queen adder]

i solved it, i had to change something from my kill block spawner to attach the game Manager to the public var in the killblock script

[rocky canyon]

sounds like ur getting it

[grizzled pagoda]

could anyone look at this

[calm coral]

Hey I have this error when trying to build my game, no issues when running in edit mode

What does it mean it has a different serialization layout?

[rare basin]

that isn't a error when building a game

but more like error from builded game

[calm coral]

Yeah, when I run the built game

[rare basin]

what is Card

[calm coral]

My script

[rare basin]

well, as the pre-prorocesor directive saying

anything under Auxiliary will work only in the editor

[calm coral]

Yeah, I just added it, was having this error without this if as well

[rare basin]

yea cuz it's something related to the editor

[calm coral]

Yeah, it contains only editor runtime methods

[rare basin]

some kind of asset, i dint know what it is

[rare basin]

yea so obviously

[calm coral]

[rare basin]

you cannot use this in build xd

[calm coral]

But I don't want to

I can even delete this Auxiliary class completely and try bulding my game again

[rare basin]

then do it

[calm coral]

Same problem, even when I commented it out

[wintry quarry]

Usually this means you did something like:

#if UNITY_EDITOR
public int SomeField;
#endif```

what is Auxiliary?

[calm coral]

Contains a few helpful methods during development but it's not needed in the final build, even when I commented it out the build still didn't work

[wintry quarry]

What is IAmGood?

Where are things like displayName and username coming from?

[calm coral]

public interface IAmGood
{
    public bool IsGood { get; }
}
```An interface, nothing special

[wintry quarry]

Can you show the full Card script?

In a paste site?

[calm coral]

Why I can't send a file here? You can open it in full view or scroll on Discord

[wintry quarry]

I can't download files on this computer

it's a work computer

Discord truncates it

[calm coral]

There's no need to download it, you have this icon to view it

[wintry quarry]

It doesn't show all

[eternal needle]

totally can see the entire file...

[eternal needle]

and forget mobile, who just sees "download attachment" and thats all

[short hazel]

Just hit the arrows aside? Shows all

But yes mobile can't see those

[calm coral]

Really? I don't see that

[wintry quarry]

Anyway I want to see the Card script

[calm coral]

Aight, hold on

[eternal needle]

ah didnt even realize that was a thing, that looked like decoration to me lol

[calm coral]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[calm coral]

https://gdl.space/ifedequfow.cpp

[wintry quarry]

Possibly due to OnValidate being inside a preprocessor?

[calm coral]

It's commented out

[wintry quarry]

Try restarting the editor maybe? I'm not immediately seeing any issue

[cosmic dagger]

Not everyone can. It doesn't work on mobile, and if the file is too large, it cuts off . . .

[calm coral]

Alright, got it

[calm coral]

Still the same, restarted editor and rebuilt it and the same issue

Maybe should I get rid of [SerializeField] attributes? Will that solve the issue?

[polar acorn]

You're using Visual Studio, right? or VSCode?

[tender breach]

Yeah

[short hazel]

Horrendous code style btw

[frosty hound]

@tender breach
#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

Please press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D in that order then post the code again

[frosty hound]

You're not going to post code here if you're going to continue to refuse to format.

Your post is deleted until you do so.

[covert wyvern]

I'm trying to create an interaction with my player and NPC capsule but no output in the console to show I touched the capsule.

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

public class PlayerInteract : MonoBehaviour
{

    private void Update() {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.E)) {
            float interactRange = 5f;
            Collider[] colliderArray = Physics.OverlapSphere(transform.position, interactRange);
            foreach (Collider collider in colliderArray) {
                Debug.Log(collider);
            }
        }
    }
}

[rich adder]

so Debug.log is not printing anything ?

[eternal needle]

have you confirmed that this code is even running?

[covert wyvern]

Right, debug is not printing and the code is placed onto my player

[wintry quarry]

Either the code isn't running at all or there are no colliders within 5 units of the player.

[rich adder]

can you screenshot the object you placed this script on

full scene view no crop pls

[short hazel]

Or the code is running but you're not pressing E

[rich adder]

is your keyboard even plugged in?

[covert wyvern]

Nvm, I got the code working. Second time it's happen where i had to restart Unity

Maybe it reverted to different save and it fixed it. idk.

[candid gorge]

{
    _isGrounded = Physics.Raycast(groundCheck.position, Vector3.down, 0.05f, _groundLayerMask);

    Vector2 moveDir = _moveAction.ReadValue<Vector2>();
    Vector3 vel = _rigidBody.velocity;
    vel.x = moveDir.x;
    vel.z = moveDir.y;
    Vector3 a = transform.right * vel.x;
    Vector3 b = transform.forward * vel.z;
    Vector3 c = new Vector3(0f, 1/100000000, 0f);
    _rigidBody.velocity = (a + b + c) * speed;
    //_rigidBody.velocity = vel;

private void OnJump(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
{
    if(_isGrounded)
        _rigidBody.AddForce(Vector3.up * jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
}

Hey guys, could someone help me real quick? I'm trying to make a fps character controller but I can't manage to get the jump and movement to work together.
If I use the velocity that is commented out the player can jump but his movement doesnt follow the camera's direction, and if I use the line on top, the player moves fine but doesnt jump

[rocky canyon]

👀 lol low blow

[rich adder]

idk maybe OP forgot and was typing through discord phone 😆

[north kiln]

weird way to write 0 lol

[candid gorge]

yeah im going crazy atp, I think it has something to do with the Y coordinate being 0 but idk I've been stuck for 8 hours already

[north kiln]

1/100000000 is 0 btw; you are using integer division

[covert wyvern]

Actually it wasn't restart. My E key got stuck. I realised this after changing the key in the code to different letter. I need to clean my keyboard XD

[north kiln]

you also never seem to keep the y velocity, and just discard vel.y

[covert wyvern]

Thank you for help!

[rich adder]

I feel the pain, my keyboard usb insert is broken if i wobble cable it stops working my unity character starts indefinitely walking

[candid gorge]

I'm just trying different things to see if a miracle occurs, this is what happens when I use one line or the another

[rich adder]

velocity overrides AddForce

if you wanna jump with velocity you have to well, assign y velocity

[rare basin]

Well AddForce modifies the velocity

[rich adder]

it does but if you force velocity directly it barely does anything, only 1 frame cause of impulse prob

hence the tiny hop in vid

[candid gorge]

i see

do you have any suggestion on how could I approach it? I'm trying another thing rn imma see if it works

[rich adder]

are you set on building your own controller?

there are also premade ones like KCC or the unity regular CC

[candid gorge]

i was just trying to build it my self because I didnt find any that workds properly on the asset store

[rich adder]

in what sense ?

[candid gorge]

I downloaded a few from there and there was editor errors

so I just tried to make one myself

[rich adder]

the unity one is good to start with and easy to extend, if you want a solid one premade with features use the Kinematic CC.
guaranteed those have no errors lol

[calm coral]

Why do I have this error

It's not even related to any of my scripts

[rich adder]

just clear it

[calm coral]

And it comes back each time I play

[candid gorge]

im going to try it then

[candid gorge]

whats the unity one¿

[rich adder]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/essentials/starterassets-firstperson-updates-in-new-charactercontroller-pac-196525

[rich adder]

you tried restart unity ?

or reset layout

[candid gorge]

oh i see thx, I saw that one but i thought it was for mobile games

[rich adder]

seems the window took a poo

[candid gorge]

I'm going to try the KCC

[rich adder]

its compatible with mobile

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/simatudizu.cpp could anyone look at this real quick? It automatically spawns 2 zombies even though it should only spawn one at the start

[slender nymph]

you call SpawnZombie every frame for a quarter of a second

[north kiln]

and only increment the counter after a delay

[candid gorge]

what's up with the reloading domain thing taking 15 mins to load

[rich adder]

also if you want a specific Zombie from the prefab itself, have the Zombie be its own script and spawn sprefab as Zombie.
Put like an enum that you change on instantiation to determine what zombie it will be, or maybe use scriptable objects (cleaner but more advanced)

[grizzled pagoda]

Yeah

For now I only have one zombie in it tho

[rocky canyon]

whats the +

is this version control?

[rich adder]

seems to be , I dont have it 😮

[rocky canyon]

restart ur unity

when domain reloading gets super slow good to restart the machine (even) and it'll speed back up

[rich adder]

also if it is or getting progressevily worse might be worth deleting and rebuilding library

[rocky canyon]

^ this too.. but usually a good restart will help ya out..

library getting full of nonsense

[rich adder]

yeah lots of cache xD

I could be wrong but feels like , even when the assets are no longer there or packages the cache still present from b4

[rocky canyon]

ya i should follow my own advice

i got a 40 second playmode

[rich adder]

Playmode without Domain Reload is amazing

its how the engine Should be by default imo

[rocky canyon]

ya, but u have to remember to manually trigger it

[rich adder]

but static ruins it ig

[rocky canyon]

right?

[rich adder]

nah thats Compiling Script or w/e is called iirc

I mean compile

nvm

[rocky canyon]

lol okay, i was confused there a minute 😄

[rich adder]

yeah can't do much about the speed for that

asemdef ig

[rocky canyon]

just updated my Hub, Yay!

its been a while

[rich adder]

soo much clutter now

[rocky canyon]

ohh snap

[rocky canyon]

u sir are correct

[rich adder]

every other table like UI has disable/enabling columns, Wtf is up with this bs

[eternal needle]

🤔 is unity vc really this shit? 3 people for free?

[rocky canyon]

i didnt even read it, im guessing they arent lying

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rich adder]

gotta remake that money back somehow for buying out Plastic

[rocky canyon]

also this cloud stuff now

not sure thats just for version control, or if we can store our projects in the cloud now

that'd be a SSD saver for real

[rich adder]

also when you make a new project you have to like select an account which is annoying when you have 3 for example

why no permanent option

they have monkeys designing this hub fr

[eternal needle]

you would still want the project on your pc. Its the same as uploading a project to git then deleting it from your pc

basically, just use git. its always better

[rocky canyon]

ya, the only problem i have with git is understanding the LFS

[rich adder]

you just enable it, anything else is normal from there

[rocky canyon]

i think thats the abbreviation, but ive had one project break my repo, b/c it had lots of audio files

not sure how or what i did

but i would get some weird error it would get stuck on 99%

[rich adder]

are you using a GUI or commandline

[rocky canyon]

Fork

to do the LFS setup i think u have to use the terminal

i had to look it up everytime

[eternal needle]

you dont even need to understand it, you can get away with just sharing the files through other means. Unless you have assets that are really up there in the GB

[rich adder]

iirc its the best way yea through CLI

[rocky canyon]

i removed all the audio and made a new repo

the old one wont allow me to change anything on it

[eternal needle]

audio files individually shouldnt be that large

[rocky canyon]

it gets hung up on 99%, if i get around to it ill try to read what it was

[rich adder]

how big are these audio files individually
🤔

[rocky canyon]

thats what i was thinking too

b/c the way i understand it its big single files

is what cant be over 100mb

[rocky canyon]

they're just basic wav files for gunfire and stuff

not any over 5mb i bet

[rich adder]

tru

wave could be pretty large though ngl

[rocky canyon]

OR it possibly could be a PSD thats hidden in there

[rich adder]

they are uncompressed

[rocky canyon]

but i dont think any of those are over 100mb either

[rich adder]

hmm it usually tell you which file failed

[stuck palm]

is there a scriptableobject equivalent of getcomponent?

like can i get an array of all SOs of type level for example

[slender nymph]

what exactly are you expecting that to do? SOs are not attached to any other objects

[stuck palm]

im storing my level data in scriptable objects and i just wanna grab all the SOs and put them in a list

[slender nymph]

just drag them into a serialized list in the inspector

otherwise you could put them into a Resources folder and use Resources.Load or addressables or something

[wanton canyon]

trying to look at tutorials for randomly generated 3D terrain but I noticed every tutorial I look at creates a new mesh instead of using Unitys' built in terrain features. Is there an explanation for this? I'm worried about creating my own mesh because of the work that would entail going forward (creating UVs, randomly placed vegetation, etc) that are simple to use with Unitys' built in terrain features.

[rocky canyon]

found the error

[rich adder]

thats weird, no logs?

[rocky canyon]

im pretty sure its still broken b/c i have zipped files of this repo now on my HD

thats all i would get.. it would hang up on 99% and that same fatal error

[rich adder]

have you tried GitHub Desktop , for a GUI its pretty decent

no tree/timeline view though 😦

[rocky canyon]

i used to use Github Desktop but fork is really good

its only this repo thats broken

and i thought it was all the audio.. fun fact i finally got it updated by pushing every folder individually

[rich adder]

I bet there is a log somewhere with more info

[rocky canyon]

yea, this was dated last year.. i'll try to push it again later for shits and giggles

[rocky canyon]

not sure ive ever seen it done using unity's terrain

[rich adder]

You can with heightmaps and all that

[wanton canyon]

the one I currently use uses terrain, but it only generates small hills and I wanted to do more lol

[rich adder]

but I bet generating your own mesh is ofc always more flexible and you can cut it in chunks for performance

[rich adder]

that urs?

[rocky canyon]

doesnt unity allow u to use heightmaps with their terrain component?

might be a way to do it

[rich adder]

they do

[rocky canyon]

it once was.. ive deleted it since

b/c i really dont understand how it works

i kinda just copied it 😄

[rich adder]

oh haha still nice to use in stuff other then open world

i bet for static map gameplay would be nice

[rocky canyon]

ircc it was getting good colliders on it

the reason i stopped

[rich adder]

aren't those just meshes? so like mesh collider no?

prob kill perfomance tho

unless its static prob gets as one big mesh

idk how that works with runtime gen tho

[stuck palm]

how do you change scriptable objects data when you load?

wait

[rare basin]

What

[rich adder]

you should probably not be using it for mutable data

[stuck palm]

levels is a scriptable gameobject

[rare basin]

Unless you know what you are doing

But i doubt it

Since you ask such thing

Don't use SO for saving system

That is not a way to go

[stuck palm]

im just using it cus it makes it easier for me to set level data on the fly

[rich adder]

jesus store your path in a variable at least

[rare basin]

Don't ever use SO for save&load system

[rich adder]

if you change one you change all instances

think of it like a static class/vars

[rocky canyon]

i mean, if ur using JSON u could just make a class/struct

[stuck palm]

😭

[rare basin]

Initial stats should only be there

Not the player statistics/score

[stuck palm]

ohhhh

so like

save the player stuff in just a normal class?

[rare basin]

Yes for example

Don't ever use SO for saving things

Make a mono behaviour

[queen adder]

How to properly make this script on editor only monobehaviour? https://gdl.space/vedufademi.cs

[rare basin]

Like Dictionary<Level, LevelSavedStatistics>

[rich adder]

it can just be a regular class

no need for mono

[rare basin]

Then you can map each statistics to each level

[stuck palm]

yeah i think that makes more sense, thank you!

[rare basin]

Even better if you make the dictionary serializable

[stuck palm]

yeah i be doing that with json stuff i think

i have an idea on what to do now

thanks

[cosmic dagger]

Place it in an editor folder . . .

[rich adder]

just encapsulate the editor namespace/methods

no need to encapsulate the whole class

[queen adder]

that blocks you from adding itto any gameobject

[rich adder]

with the ifeditor

[queen adder]

editor folder and monobehaviour are quite not friendly with each other

[timber tide]

can just compile it out too be using one of those directives

[rich adder]

if its on gameobject unity serialized it and it expects it to be there

but you put #if editor on the whole class

[queen adder]

hmm turnin it into an empty class if!Editor?

[cosmic dagger]

Then just use the if editor directive . . .

[queen adder]

that looks ugly, but ig better

[rocky canyon]

the scene camera isnt the same thing s the game camera is it?
Im using a render feature for outlines and they're displayed in the gameview but not the sceneview,
its not a big issue or problem, im just being curious

[rich adder]

    #if UNITY_EDITOR
using UnityEditor;
    #endif
using UnityEngine;

[ExecuteInEditMode]
public class DisconnectPrefab : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string RenameTo;
#if UNITY_EDITOR
    void Update()
    {
        gameObject.name = RenameTo;

        if (PrefabUtility.GetPrefabType(gameObject) == PrefabType.PrefabInstance)
            PrefabUtility.DisconnectPrefabInstance(this.gameObject);
        DestroyImmediate(this);

    }
#endif
}```

or just the whole update method

[queen adder]

hmm, even if i dont need the whole file?

[rich adder]

then dont put it on a gameobject

unity expects it there

that's why serialization error, dont match

[queen adder]

did it, it feels itchy that there's no better way for it though 🥹

[stuck palm]

if i have a dictionary and try and add to the same key twice, does it override they value for the key?

[turbid path]

Intellisense worked yesterday in vscode, but today it's not. Also, when I type [ctrl + shift +p] >omnisharp no commands for omnisharp pops up and no omnisharp logs are present. My dotnet version is 6.0.412. I installed the latest mac mono version, tried regenerating unity project files, setting omnisharp.useModernNet to false, and uninstalled and reinstalled c# and unity extensions.
Any ideas? My C# log:

Using dotnet configured on PATH
Dotnet path: /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet
Activating C# + C# Dev Kit + C# IntelliCode...
waiting for named pipe information from server...
[stdout] {"pipeName":"/var/folders/m6/kv19br757x316_pn4twdxn7h0000gn/T/451100eb.sock"}
received named pipe information from server
attempting to connect client to server...
client has connected to server
[Info  - 3:35:33 PM] [Program] Language server initialized

[queen adder]

it will error

[rich adder]

what is purpose of this script exactly does it need to be on gameobject?

[cosmic dagger]

No, they are different . . .

[queen adder]

it breaks prefab instance for prefabs as you spawn it on scene

helpful for buttons

[rocky canyon]

ill just use a custom gizmo on things that use the Outline renderer 👍

that'll be sufficient

[rich adder]

not sure what you mean by "breaks"
sounds like it can just be an Editor script or Editor window script

[potent garnet]

Does anyone know why I keep getting this error? "Assets/Resources/Scripts/Utility/AudioManager.cs(45,11): error CS1061: 'Sound' does not contain a definition for 'source' and no accessible extension method 'source' accepting a first argument of type 'Sound' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

[queen adder]

when you place it from project folder, it automatically is black, instead of blue (prefab connected)

[rich adder]

so it just materializes the prefab object basically

gotcha

[rocky canyon]

Sound doesn't have a source

[potent garnet]

my good btw

[potent garnet]

ik that's what it means, but im confused, because I specified a source variable for Sound

[rocky canyon]

how do you assign source?

if its hidden in the inspector how have you assigned it to a valid audiosource?

[potent garnet]

I assigned source in the other script, in the foreach loop

[queen adder]

why would this not change the animation curve value?

just for extra info, here is the debug, you can clearly see there is a weight value

[cosmic dagger]

It depends how you add. Calling the Add method results in an argument exception. If accessing the key to assign the value, this will override the previous value or assign the value if the key doesn't exist: dictionary[key] = value . . .

[potent garnet]

alr i just removed HideInSpector

the errors got removed

[rocky canyon]

i have no clue why

[potent garnet]

yea i have no idea why either

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEngine;
public class AudioManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static AudioManager Instance { get; private set; }
    private AudioSource audioSource;

    private void Awake()
    {
        if(Instance != null && Instance != this)
        {
            Destroy(this);
        }
        else
        {
            Instance = this;
            audioSource = GetComponent<AudioSource>();
            DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
        }
    }

    // Play a single audio clip
    public void PlayClip(AudioClip clip,float volume = 1f)
    {
        audioSource.volume = volume;
        audioSource.PlayOneShot(clip);
    }
}```

[potent garnet]

thought it would jsut hide it in the inspector, i wanted it public so other scripts could access it easily but I didn't want it to be accessed from the inspector

[rocky canyon]

heres my audiomanager.. i just pass in a clip and a volume and play it. ive never seen a class called Sound like u have, interesting to me lol

[rocky canyon]

i use NaughtyAttributes and the ReadOnly attribute

[potent garnet]

oh

I didn't know that

thanks

[rocky canyon]

it helps sometimes esp when debugging

[cosmic dagger]

I like using a ReadOnly attribute as well. It's good to have . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Some people create a Sound class to assign settings to a specific sound, or a Sound array with configured sounds to use . . .

An SO is even better . . .

[rocky canyon]

ya, but did u see his setup? i dont see why the error
#💻┃code-beginner message
#💻┃code-beginner message

[grizzled pagoda]

The problem I’m having is that the spawning and wave count isn’t updating accordingly

[eternal needle]

does the error come back if you add the attribute back? could just be that unity didnt recompile when you tested it

[rich adder]

You should learn events btw

[grizzled pagoda]

How would those help btw

[rocky canyon]

im not very familiar with the HideInInspector attrib but i dont understand why it would say sound doesnt have a source when it appears it does

and then work when its removed

[potent garnet]

yea it does

[rich adder]

But regardless when you remove the item cal method on spawned that sets the spawneras references . When you destroy an enemy you cal method on spawner/counter to remove entry from list