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[rare basin]

check the scale if you copied/paste them

or just make new buttons and tweak them

would be faster than debugging it

[stuck palm]

maybe this is why?

the green line is probably the size

yeah that fixed it

@swift crag ur system works well enough but when i decide to switch to using mouse, it highlights two at the same time

how could ufix this?

[swift crag]

It's a non-trivial problem. I haven't figured out the best way to handle it.

You could auto-select whatever your mouse cursor is over, but then that causes headaches for people using both the mouse and keyboard to navigate the UI

You can make the "hover" and "select" colors different, at least

I use these tints, for example

[stuck palm]

fair enough

unrelated, sometimes when i want to load a scene, it doesnt load the scene i want to go to and just loads the current scene instead. any idea how i could fix this?

[swift crag]

well, how are you picking which scene to go to?

and are you getting any warnings in the console?

[stuck palm]

no, nothing is going wrong in the console its so weird

it works fine the first time i go somewhere but the second time it breaks

i'll record video

[swift crag]

show me your code.

[stuck palm]

hold on

i need to test something

figured it out

i had a script that broke it because i didnt want to keep going between scenes

[amber nimbus]

can I somehow disable the influence of a parent GameObject? I dont want the child object to move with the parent object

[swift crag]

then don't parent it

you can unparent the child during Awake if you need this to be in a prefab

[amber nimbus]

yeah that sounds good

thanks

[swift crag]

that's what I do in my game -- I have a ragdoll that can't be parented

I make a new "root" object, parent the entity to the root, and then parent the ragdoll to the root

(the root is there to make it easy to destroy everything later, but I could also just keep a list of game objects that all need destroying)

[stuck palm]

@swift crag the issue still seems to be happening in my pause menu, its loading the wrong one for some reason. despite being set to "HubWorld", it loads "menuscreen" for somer easoon

the debug even says its going to hubworld

but it goes to the home screen and idk why 😭

[swift crag]

where is that being logged?

the code you sent doesn't have any log statements in it

so it's possible that something else is also trying to load a scene

[stuck palm]

public class ExitToSceneButton : MonoBehaviour
{
    public string sceneToLoad;
    private FadeInAndOut fade;
    void Start()
    {
        fade = FindObjectOfType<FadeInAndOut>();
    }

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        FadeInAndOut.FadeInCompleted += LoadScene;
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        FadeInAndOut.FadeInCompleted -= LoadScene;
    }

    public void Click()
    {
        print("loading to " + sceneToLoad);
        StartCoroutine(fade.FadeIn());
    }

    private void LoadScene()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene(sceneToLoad);
    }
}

my button code

[swift crag]

log it inside LoadScene instead

I'd also log when you subscribe to/unsubscribe from the FadeInCompleted event

notably, if you have two ExitToSceneButton components in the same scene, or two exist anywhere, both will try to load a scene

[stuck palm]

Just realised, there are two buttons that try to load it

[swift crag]

since all they do is respond to FadeInCompleted

[stuck palm]

I didn't even realise

There are two buttons with this component on

[swift crag]

I have similar behavior in my own game, but all scene loading is done by a singleton GameController

[stuck palm]

That makes so much sense now

[swift crag]

You ask the controller to enter a scene, and it starts a fade effect

then when the fade is over, it loads the scenes

i need to make it log a warning if it's in the "loading" state and gets asked to load another scene

i think that happens if I mash the "start" button..

[stuck palm]

i think i can just make it subscribe once its clickjed? that would work better

obviously not as good as a proper controller

[swift crag]

That's an option, yes. You can unsubscribe in both OnDisable and in LoadScene

[stuck palm]

but like i think that would avoid the issue

[swift crag]

unsubscribing excessively is fine

[stuck palm]

how can i delete a player input from the game? lets say if a player wants to leave or whatever

i have this player input manager thing

and i want the player input to get destroyed if it exits to main menu

[buoyant knot]

a script would need to do that

[cinder void]

my first week using Unity....I'm very confused as to why my GameObject can be detected using the OnPointerEnter / OnPointerExit....but my UI Buttons aren't....unless I place them at the edge of the screen, then they only show up in the debug info once I move my cursor on/off screen. I'm considering just changing all my Buttons to GameObjects at this point

[buoyant knot]

gameobjects cannot be detected like that

[stuck palm]

it says there are player join and leave messages though?

[buoyant knot]

gameobjects can only be detected via components on them

[polar acorn]

UI objects use IPointerEnterHandler and IPointerExitHandler instead
https://docs.unity3d.com/2017.4/Documentation/ScriptReference/EventSystems.IPointerEnterHandler.html

[cinder void]

Yeah I tried that method and it just didn't work for me, but then I am very new

[buoyant knot]

Unity’s UI system is kind of weird

[cinder void]

oh wait this is for Game Object though?

I wanted to be able to detect when I hover over buttons

[swift crag]

No. these are for UI objects.

You implement an interface and then add the method that interface calls for.

[buoyant knot]

let’s backtrack first

Gameobject contain components

[cinder void]

'//Attach this script to the GameObject you would like to have mouse hovering detected on' thats why I was confused I guess

[amber nimbus]

Alirght I tried unparenting a GameObject using transform.DetachChildren() the script is on the parent and it does not seem to work, the child stays a child anyone know why?

[buoyant knot]

components have logic/script associated with them

[polar acorn]

This is for UI objects

which are game objects

like everything else

[buoyant knot]

gameobjects cannot do ANYTHING without components

[swift crag]

ah, yes, I was being unclear there.

[cinder void]

yeah, hence why I had to put scripts on them, I got that

[swift crag]

the two things we care about are...

• UI objects: things like Image
• Physics objects: things with physics colliders attached to them.

That is the distinction.

hence why we have GraphicRaycaster and PhysicsRaycaster

[buoyant knot]

i’m not sure that the two are mutually exclusive

[swift crag]

You could mash both together, yeah

[buoyant knot]

let’s not confuse the man

[cinder void]

So let's start with the basics....I put a UI Button into the project, then to make that detectable by cursor what script do I use???

[buoyant knot]

u have a gameobject that is a child of a child of a child… of a canvas. This gameobejct is tied to the UI. This gameobject can have components in it that work with UI

you also have a gameobject automatically put into scene called EventSystem. EventSystem takes in inputs, and manipulates UI elements. Such as causing mouse position to activate buttons

[cinder void]

got that

[buoyant knot]

EventSystem is automatically added when you add a canvas

[high hearth]

somebody help me?
the object not accompanies the character's hand

[buoyant knot]

Ok, now the gameobjects in the canvas use special UI only components, like button, rect transform, and grid layout group to do their thing

Button is the one responsible for making a button.

[cinder void]

yeah well I know how to make my game object a button, I've done that haha

but I wanted to add a UI Button into the game, which I can hover over and detect in the console

my debug only shows my cursor entering/exiting that button when the button is placed around the edge of my canvas

and I'm like what

so this was frustrating me and I built a new 'button' using a blank GameObject, and for some reason that could be detected anywhere when I gave it the script

[buoyant knot]

so for this, it sounds like you need to use OnPointerEnter

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Selectable.OnPointerEnter.html

which needs to be on a class derived from Monobehaviour, implements IPointerEnterHandler, is on the gameobject, and has a function with the exact signature:

public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)

which is in the UI space

ie it has a rect transform

[swift crag]

(so, attach it to the same object as the Button component)

[buoyant knot]

if any of those 4 requirements are not met, your function will not get called

[cinder void]

can I just send you a video of what I am experiencing because it probably isn't clear

[buoyant knot]

i can’t rn

[cinder void]

I have a GameObject button that is detectable in the console
I have a UI Button that is detectable in the console, but only when placed at the edge of the canvas

so I am trying to figure out why it is only detectable when placed there

[swift crag]

Show us the inspector for this UI button.

Show every component on the object.

[swift crag]

now show us the "Verb Button" script

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[cinder void]

https://gdl.space/upacoweral.cpp

[earnest atlas]

What should I use to make animation of 2d objects? Simple ones like rotation.

[swift crag]

Okay, this looks fine. It implements the right interfaces.

[shrewd swift]

what can cause a FindFirstObjectByType not work ?
i am loading a scene and trying to get a object that exists, but unity isnt finding it, i wonder why

[swift crag]

When you click on the button, does it visibly change color?

you can change the colors in the "Button" component. The defaults are a bit hard to see.

[earnest atlas]

What type are you searching? Why are u searching for a type?

[swift crag]

they're trying to find a unity object in the scene

[cinder void]

It used to. Now it doesn't

[swift crag]

(generally a MonoBehaviour)

[shrewd swift]

a custom script type

[swift crag]

Okay, so you aren't getting UI input at all.

Is there an EventSystem in your scene? You can search for it in the hierarchy

t:eventsystem

punch that into the search box in the hierarchy window

[cinder void]

yeah

[earnest atlas]

Post the line u are using to search for it

[swift crag]

Show me the hierarchy with the button object selected. Include all of the other children of the canvas -- let me show you an example...

[shrewd swift]

looks like the script is only awake after the find

[swift crag]

I have "Choice Entry(Clone)" selected

[swift crag]

gonna have to see some code here

[earnest atlas]

Post the entire function (if its not long) where you try to find it?

[cinder void]

you mean like this?

[swift crag]

Yeah.

I'm wondering if another UI element is getting in the way.

[earnest atlas]

I still don't really understand what he is searching to need anybytype.

[swift crag]

to find an object

[shrewd swift]

    public void Restart()
    {
        SceneManager.LoadScene("Game");
        Time.timeScale = 1;
        MainMenu mainMenu = (MainMenu)FindFirstObjectByType(typeof(MainMenu));
        mainMenu.StartClick();
    }

[earnest atlas]

Yeah but whats the goal

[shrewd swift]

i didnt find a better solution for now to get the reference

[cinder void]

it's been a complete mess, just been experimenting with everything

[swift crag]

You can check if this is the case by making a new empty canvas

[cinder void]

but now my mind is at 'why do the butons not light up like they used to'

[earnest atlas]

Is that a script?

[swift crag]

copy just the single button onto it and deactivate the original canvas

[earnest atlas]

You are searching for

[cinder void]

yeah I should do that Fen

[swift crag]

this will ensure you don't have any other UI elements in the way

[shrewd swift]

the function is inside a script yes

[swift crag]

Children draw in front of parents, and later siblings draw in front of earlier siblings.

[shrewd swift]

wait ik why it doesnt find it

[swift crag]

A common error is to have a huge Image element that's blocking all of your buttons

[shrewd swift]

the code is prob executed before the reload

[cinder void]

this is what I was worried about

I'll try a blank one

[earnest atlas]

Maybe make a courutine that is delayed by 1s ?

To let the scene load

[swift crag]

Correct.

[shrewd swift]

i need to do stuff to a objetc that is loaded, so I can only execute the code after the scene loaded

[swift crag]

LoadScene loads the scene at the end of the frame.

It doesn't interrupt your code

[swift crag]

Is this on an object in the DontDestroyOnLoad scene?

[earnest atlas]

I fixed issues my scene loading issues like this, search happend before object got loaded.

[little oak]

the game object wont show up unless im click on it

[shrewd swift]

can i just make a load scene with params, then in my Menu read the params from SceneManager.sceneLoaded ?

[earnest atlas]

You can

[shrewd swift]

i need to look how the scene params work

[earnest atlas]

You can also use the same DontDeleteOnLoad object to store data

[shrewd swift]

nope

[swift crag]

This object is getting completely destroyed by the scene load

[earnest atlas]

Yeah

[late bobcat]

Guys i've a question, my game starts lagging when multiple collision occurs, how can i optmize collision?

[shrewd swift]

yes

[swift crag]

so it seems kind of pointless to do anything in it

[faint osprey]

Instantiate(enemyDiff1[0], (activeRooms[0].transform.position + dungeonSpawns[Random.Range(0, 9)].position)); why does this not like the addition of the the two transform.positions arent they both vector3's

[swift crag]

that's not the problem

[polar acorn]

What does the error say

[swift crag]

read the error.

[faint osprey]

it says cannot convert vector 3 to transform but when u hover over both they both say vector3

[earnest atlas]

Maybe remove transform?

[swift crag]

yes, they're both Vector3

FunctionThatWantsAnInt(1.0f + 3.0f);

[polar acorn]

Okay, and do you see a version of Instantiate that takes an object and a Vector3 as its only parameters?

[dusty hull]

is there any way to apply a physics material through code?

[polar acorn]

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

[swift crag]

this will produce an error because the function does not want a float

[rich adder]

ofc

[charred spoke]

How many collision are we talking about here ?

[dusty hull]

how?

[rich adder]

Reference the Collider and apply it?
keep a reference to material as well

[little oak]

bru my messages drowned

[earnest atlas]

I think he has issues with whatever code he runs in the oncollision (trigger or enter)

[cinder void]

@swift crag I'm having a moment....I just copied the button onto a new canvas/scene and I can't see the button? I probably need sleep

[late bobcat]

like a lot. If you know vampire survivor you get the idea @charred spoke

[polar acorn]

@faint osprey
Look at the documentation. See the only form of Instantiate that has two parameters, and see what types those parameters are. Is that the version of the function you want?

[swift crag]

"Canvas" and "Scene" are two wildly different things, so we need to know which one it is..

[cinder void]

yeah I just realised I dont have a canvas LOL

[swift crag]

Create a new Canvas from the GameObject menu

Then you can attach a Button to it and try interacting with it.

[charred spoke]

Well I suggest you learn to use the profiler and see what exactly from the collision is taking up time. If its just the collisions you can try using a simpler collider, or get into DOTS

[late bobcat]

@charred spoke so you kinda get the idea, don't mind sprites ahah

[charred spoke]

This does not seem like a lot. Check your profiler

[late bobcat]

kk @charred spoke ty

[rich adder]

 [SerializedField] PhysicMaterial physMaterial; 
  [SerializedField] Collider theCollider;
        public void ChangeMaterial()
        {
            theCollider.sharedMaterial = physMaterial;
        }```

[dusty hull]

ok thanks will try

[little oak]

how can i make a gameobject visible if its overlapped by another gameobject?

[rich adder]

turn the renderer on?

[little oak]

it is on

[rich adder]

so start it off

[little oak]

#💻┃code-beginner message

wdym

[languid spire]

change it's position relative to the camera

[polar acorn]

Is that object even visible. Is something in front of it or is it just invisible?

[cinder void]

@swift crag now it's just the blue screen. I see the button in the window but not in game mode

[little oak]

something is infront of it

[prime cobalt]

How could I give a cone of light a hitbox that travels as far as the light itself? So like things know if there's a flashlight being shined on them or something.

[polar acorn]

So then put that thing behind it instead

[little oak]

how lol

[rich adder]

use a mesh+collider or physics cast rays in cone shape (takes some math)

[polar acorn]

by changing the position of the object so that it is no longer in the current position but a different one

[languid spire]

irl, how would you make something visible if it was behind something else?

[little oak]

put it infront

[languid spire]

so do that

[little oak]

i tried changing the z value

doesnt work

[swift crag]

I’d have to see what you’ve done. Perhaps your button is positioned wrongly

[prime cobalt]

can physics raycasts find everything within an entire cone instead of just a single point?

[rich adder]

yea if you put it in a loop

you can create a cone shape from multiple rays

[cinder void]

how comes when I first started all of this I had no problem, and now I can't even do the basics 😂

[polar acorn]

Is it visible if you disable the blocking object entirely

[swift crag]

This is becoming more of a #📲┃ui-ux problem, so you should ask about further issues there. The channel also has some resources pinned

[little oak]

yes

ok

[cinder void]

am I dumb

[rich adder]

You could also use Dot Product with certain angle, and then Raycast to check obstacles in way / length

[polar acorn]

Then it's definitely blocking the object and you'll need to position it further from the camera

[little oak]

but im changing the z value

[static bay]

You're working with sprites right? Change the values here.

[polar acorn]

are you actually moving it further from the camera

and not closer to it

[static bay]

Your background might be sorted higher.

[little oak]

oh that worjed

dub

[prime cobalt]

Ok I'll try that out

[languid spire]

the z may not be what you want. move it towards the camera

[little oak]

i always put everything in the same order lol

i made it higher

[swift crag]

ui problem

[polar acorn]

That should only be checked if the objects are at the same depth, but it seems like that was the case

[little oak]

wdym background was sorted higher

[static bay]

Nah with sprites the sort order takes priority over depth.

[polar acorn]

I thought the position was respected with an orthographic camera, I'd need to open up Unity to double check

[static bay]

Don't think so.

[polar acorn]

But I haven't done much 2D so it's entirely possible I'm wrong

[static bay]

Could be wrong.

[swift crag]

Position is used.

[little oak]

what are u guys yapping abt

[swift crag]

ah, yeah, but "Order in Layer" beats position

That's right.

[static bay]

Sprite sorting is kind of a whole thing. Basically your background sprite was always on top because reasons. Changing the sort order of the cracks is telling Unity to always render the cracks ABOVE the background.

[swift crag]

The red sprite is physically behind the white sprite, and its "Order in Layer" is 1

[little oak]

interesting

[polar acorn]

Weird. So, position is checked before layer, but not before order in layer? That's kind of... backwards, isn't it?

[little oak]

counterintuitive init

[swift crag]

sorting layer also makes the red square appear in front of the white square

[static bay]

Here give this a read.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/2DSorting.html

[little oak]

is there darkmode on unity docs

[swift crag]

Ah, I could be seeing different behavior because this is the scene camera (in orthographic mode). I also don't do a lot of 2D myself!

[slender nymph]

Not without a third party extension. Also not a code question

[little oak]

lol that wasnt the first question i asked it was abt the topic

[static bay]

Sorting Layer and Order in Layer I believe is the highest priority of sorting you can do with sprites, then it's Render Queue of the material, and then it goes down to distance to camera.

[polar acorn]

Huh. That's like, the opposite of what I had thought it was for like, years.

[swift crag]

That's also the opposite of what I expecting, haha

[polar acorn]

One of these days I should actually try to do something in 2D so I can understand how it all works

[swift crag]

I've only ever been interested in dealing with things that overlap

so I guess the misconception was just as good in that case

[static bay]

Nah you probably want to do it this way. Imagine something doesn't sort correctly even with proper Sorting Layer and Order because it was 0.001 units closer to the camera.

It would be absolutely mind numbing to sort anything in the transparency queue with a perspective camera.

Also @little oak, consider using this component. It'll make sorting complex sprite objects/characters a lot easier.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SortingGroup.html

[late bobcat]

guys, do you have any good updated tutorial on how to use unity profiler?

[swift crag]

yes: the documentation

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

consult the "Profiling in the Unity Editor" section of "Profiling your application" for info about using it in the editor

[pastel dome]

so how would one typically offset a camera in 3rd person so that it appears over the shoulder instead of direct center of the player

[rocky canyon]

back and to the left..

[stuck palm]

my player has been destroyed, but stuff in the playerscript is still running and idk why

[pastel dome]

@rocky canyon they usually use child object?

[rocky canyon]

destroyed or disabled? a destroyed script isnt gonna continue to function

[rocky canyon]

thats a pretty static and mechanical feeling way

id use cinemachine

has a built in camera that has orbits

[pastel dome]

i like static lol u havent seen what ive been through xD

[rocky canyon]

if ur loookin down on the player the camera goes closer.. if ur lookin up at the player hte camera goes closer..

[stuck palm]

destroyed, i have no idea how this keeps happening

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=537B1kJp9YQ&ab_channel=Unity

[buoyant knot]

that also means any small wiggling of player position immediately gets transmitted to camera.

you want some amount of damping

[pastel dome]

i really hate cinamachine

might be for bad reasons but i think its bad

[buoyant knot]

That is truly not our problem

[rocky canyon]

check out that video, its really not hard.

but if want a player locked camera u can use a child yea

[slender nymph]

sounds like you just don't understand it and instead of trying to learn how to properly use it, you're just complaining about it

[buoyant knot]

we provided you a simple camera technique. If you just don’t like it, then you should figure out your own way.

[pastel dome]

not really complaining my boy just feel like the only person not using it

[craggy oxide]

how would I go about creating an "IsWalking" boolean that can detect all WASD inputs so that I can optimize my code

[buoyant knot]

I don’t use it because I am in 2D

[rocky canyon]

the main camera stays around just like it normally does.. (only with cinemachine you use the virtual camera) and the normal camera snaps to the virtual camera's position..

[wintry quarry]

I think you subscribed to the sceneChanged event and forgot to unsubscribe when your object was destroyed.

[rich adder]

same way you create any other variable

[rocky canyon]

the virtual camera is what controls all the cam movement

[slender nymph]

how would that optimize code in any way? 🤔

[buoyant knot]

but I also needed to make a whole big system for my camera to work. Probably about 1 month of coding on my camera, with all the little knick knacks.

[stuck palm]

yeah i just checked that

[wintry quarry]

Vector2 moveInput = new(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
bool isMoving = moveInput.magnitude > 0;```

[craggy oxide]

because then instead of saying

Input.GetKeyDown("w)
Input.GetKeyDown("s")
Input.GetKeyDown("a")
Input.GetKeyDown("d")

i can just say IsWalking and its yeah

[rocky canyon]

same, i built my entire camera system, its a god cam, looking down and panning etc

and YET i still used a cinemachine as the camera ;D

[pastel dome]

hehe thats cool

[slender nymph]

yeah no. that's not what you need. you should learn how to use Input.GetAxis instead of querying each key individually

[craggy oxide]

why are you so rude for man

im new

[craggy oxide]

thanks

[pastel dome]

i was looking at warframes camera and noticed the offset was pretty much a child

but ya warframes definitly pans in an out the further you go up down

[slender nymph]

ah yes, suggesting a better alternative when the point of your question was to "optimize" your code is definitely being rude 🙄

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats the cinemachine follow camera setup

the farther up or down the camera the smaller orbits it uses

[buoyant knot]

My system is for a maker style game. It mostly has logic on gameobjects that can interact with game world. These objects either 1) set camera to target them, 2) prevent camera bounds from crossing them, or 3) tell camera to smoothely pan to the opposite side of a wall.

[quick ruin]

im finding if a child is active to turn on movement, is this performance wise bad

[fluid remnant]

if statement no, GetChild maybe

[buoyant knot]

I really like this system, because it really integrates camera into gameplay/game world

[late bobcat]

hey there, any idea on how to improve this? https://gyazo.com/24e509c91af1e2d1cbb75c95ede78821 While entering multiple collision game starts lagging. I'm trying to understand how the profiler works but it's tough

[slender nymph]

why not just put the movement component on the child that may be deactivated? then you don't need to do any GetChild calls or check if it is active since Update will not run when it isn't active

[pastel dome]

i just wish cinemachince code wasnt so long or id go into it

[buoyant knot]

because you can use specific things/interactions to break/move these camera targets/barriers, to let the player effectively move the camera as a part of the game

[pastel dome]

lol cinamachince lite tm

[buoyant knot]

my non-cinemachine camera scripts combined are easily 7000 LOC

[rocky canyon]

im trying the same.. when i zoom in i want it to feel like ur using a telescope, (so zoomed in u get that little cam shake) zoomed out it goes away 😄

[rocky canyon]

ur thinking of it the wrong way.. the cinemachine components just do what they do. (rarely do u need to get into that code to do anything)
u still declare a camera in ur own scripts (only u can declare it as a virtual cinemachine camera) and u then u can enable it, disable it, move it, parent it, or w/e

[pastel dome]

lol i like learning camera code though

i might change it and make it like a drone or hawk

anyway thanks for your help

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HpC--2iowE&ab_channel=Brackeys

well its hard to find a third person camera tutorial that isnt cinemachine, but brackeys has one i guess!

[buoyant knot]

third person camera is hard because walls will get in your way

[rocky canyon]

yup

good luck with clipping

[buoyant knot]

we went through the entire N64 era without devs figuring out how to stop walls from obscuring your view

[rich adder]

cinemachine collider does ok job but can be improved

[buoyant knot]

learn from what came out in the end. don’t repeat their struggle and still shitty cameras

[rocky canyon]

ya, its hit or miss even with the cinemachine collider

u pretty much need to design ur level in a way that compliments what ur camera can do

[rocky canyon]

super mario 64 was okay

[buoyant knot]

super mario 64 was amazing.
the camera was suck

it all averages out

[rocky canyon]

lol, back when the camera might as well been its own character

hitting all those yellow buttons just to get a decent angle to walk forward

[cosmic dagger]

Pressing the yellow arrows for the prefect view was its own game . . .

[rocky canyon]

lol, this guy gets it 😄

when those buttons gave out on ur controller, it was a whole different level

[charred spoke]

Im not familiar with the 2d physics engine but reading online it seems that you have too many moving shapes or one large collider overlapping too many shapes. What colliders are you using ?

[craggy oxide]

I understand the basics of Unity C# but i can't really put any of it to practical use, I don't know how to combine anything yet

What do I do

Any easy exercises that could teach me to connect stuff together?

[polar acorn]

Try things

You're not going to fast track this. You're just going to have to do

[rocky canyon]

yea, ^ what type of game do u wanna make.. start small.

[slender nymph]

the best advice anyone can give to someone who has already learned the basics is to just start making shit

[craggy oxide]

ima be real ive tried starting small and its too big hahaha

[rocky canyon]

https://learn.unity.com/project/john-lemon-s-haunted-jaunt-3d-beginner?utm_source=learn_recommendation

[craggy oxide]

yeahhh judging by that thumbnail that is wayyy too advanced

[rocky canyon]

unity learn is still a good resource, for putting the stuff together

[craggy oxide]

i need something that is like, the bare minimum, even if its a tiny snippet of code, a very easy challenge

just something to help me connect the dots

i know what booleans are, i know what strings are, i know it all, but i cant seem to put them together in my head

[polar acorn]

Just like make game

[craggy oxide]

but what game??

[polar acorn]

whatever you want

[rocky canyon]

think small, basic clicker games maybe..

angry birds, flappy bird, temple run

[polar acorn]

You can try whatever you want. Just don't expect to finish something complicated

[slender nymph]

this is not actually "understanding the basics" then. you know a few random things but don't actually understand it yet. if you really need something that basic, then go through a structured course that teaches the concepts you need to understand in a way that actually makes sense. don't just do a bunch of random disjointed tutorials

[late bobcat]

i'm using polygon collider for my player and same goes for enemies. Now i've put that enemies won't collide between them and it improved for sure. But it is still laggy if there are 40-50 enemies

https://gyazo.com/4df9e79f296858b548ac68aa1161b93f here's the enemy inspector

[polar acorn]

Don't use Polygon colliders, use a basic collider

[late bobcat]

now i've tried reducing the fixed time update from 0.002 to 0.003

[polar acorn]

there's no reason these characters can't have box colliders

[late bobcat]

but then hitboxes aren't gonna be accurate no?

[rocky canyon]

^ or capsules

[late bobcat]

just asking

[rocky canyon]

how accurate do they need to be?

[polar acorn]

Why do you need hitboes to be accurate

[rocky canyon]

do u have a finger damage modifier?

[late bobcat]

not yet eheheh

[rocky canyon]

usually 2 colliders are enough for anything

[late bobcat]

i'll put box colliders then

[rocky canyon]

a body and a head

[late bobcat]

perfect

i'll try it out and tell you how it goes

[polar acorn]

You'd only need that if they actually have different behaviors

[late bobcat]

different behaviors like?

animations etc?

[polar acorn]

Do your characters have different body parts that do different things when they collide with things

[rocky canyon]

bad collider

good collider

[late bobcat]

no not yet tbh, just wanted to add punch animations for enemies

but it shouldn't affect hitboxes

[polar acorn]

irrelevant

[late bobcat]

perfect

ty

[lost kelp]

hello, i'm trying to save data in a file for my game using application.persistentdata, but it keeps telling me that there is no authorisation, how do i fix this

[rich adder]

fix the path make sure its correct

[swift crag]

don't crosspost. i just wound up answering this over in #archived-code-general

[late bobcat]

and another thing. Is there a way to make it so i don't have to use 2 different colliders for one object if i want it both to collide and trigger? Right now my enemy object has two collider. One is set to is trigger and the other is not, so that the hitboxes have some sort of physics collision. Question is, is there a way to use just one to use less resources?

while achieving the same result

[slender nymph]

it depends. what is the trigger collider used for?

[rich adder]

nothing wrong with really doing that tbh

[late bobcat]

enemy colliding with the player and dealing dmg @slender nymph

@rich adder i wanted to optimize the game a bit, and putting 1 less collider for each enemy would've improved a bit maybe

[slender nymph]

and why does that need a separate collider? why can that not just be the non-trigger collider

[late bobcat]

because then enemy overlaps with player

they can sit on top of eachothers

not good looking

[rich adder]

difference is prob negligible , you can look into the physics class queries

[polar acorn]

Just put them on a layer that is set to not collide with itself

[slender nymph]

you do realize i am not suggesting to make the player's main collider a trigger, right? so that would be the opposite of what you just said

non-trigger colliders do not overlap unless they are being moved without physics

[late bobcat]

@polar acorn ye enemy cannot collide between themselves if that's what you're saying

so if i put on capsule collider 2d on the enemy object and set it to trigger it won't overlap with my player object?

@slender nymph

[slender nymph]

what do you think "non" means in "non-trigger"

[late bobcat]

but i'm talking about "is trigger" colliders

[slender nymph]

and i asked you why you need one in the first place

[late bobcat]

to detect collision between enemy and player object

[slender nymph]

why can that not be done with the collider that is not a trigger?
(#💻┃code-beginner message)

[timid hinge]

hi did anyone know why this is not installing?

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[timid hinge]

its downloading for 10 hours

[late bobcat]

@slender nymph you're probably right

sorry but i'm kinda new to unity

[charred spoke]

This is still a code channel

[timid hinge]

i restart unity and install the lattest version of unity

[late bobcat]

so i just use oncollisionenter @slender nymph ?

[timid hinge]

where can i ask

[slender nymph]

yes you can use that when you expect two non-trigger colliders to collide. then you won't need a second collider on the object that is just a trigger collider for doing exactly what the non-trigger can do

[late bobcat]

ye that's right

ty @slender nymph

[charred spoke]

Also @late bobcat you can get away with the simplest collider a circle

For this type of game

[late bobcat]

Using capsule rn

still good no?

[charred spoke]

Try and see

[late bobcat]

okok

love you guys

[charred spoke]

Computation wise it would be capsule -> box -> circle

[late bobcat]

where circle takes less resources i guess

[charred spoke]

Yes

[late bobcat]

aight

[charred spoke]

Cant get simplier that a circle

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

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

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[late bobcat]

games looks supersmooth atm and i can still optimize stuff @slender nymph @charred spoke 😄

[cobalt creek]

StartCoroutine(sayHi("hi", response=>
{                   
        Debug.Log(response);
}));

public IEnumerator sayHi(string greeting, System.Action<string> callback)
{
    Debug.Log(greeting);
    callback("hello");
    yield return null;
}

Is there easier method than this to pass and return value for coroutine, or how i can improve it?

[final plinth]

i'm using cine machine and moving my mouse down make the camera goes up how do i fix this.

literally no code behind it

[slender nymph]

literally no code behind it
then why ask in a code channel? #🎥┃cinemachine exists

[wintry quarry]

this code isn't returning anything. There's no clear reason this code should be a coroutine at all either since there's no delay going on.

[swift crag]

it's just a minimal example

This is reasonable, although the syntax is ugly in that StartCoroutine line, yes.

[slender nymph]

since coroutines cannot return objects and they also cannot have out or ref parameters then a callback you pass to the method would be the ideal way to get data out of the coroutine. or you can store stuff in fields, but that isn't always ideal

[swift crag]

You can create the anonymous function ahead of time

[late burrow]

random range 0,3 will have equal same chance for 0 1 and 2 right

[swift crag]

You can also pass in a method instead of an anonymous function

StartCoroutine(sayHi(MyMethod));

[polar acorn]

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

[late burrow]

it had weird way of calculating

so i always need add 1 to random range

[shell sorrel]

how it acts depends on if its float or int

[polar acorn]

What do you mean "a weird way of calculating"

[shell sorrel]

but its even chance of 0, 1 and 2 for a Range(0, 3)

its exclusive of the upper range, but inclusive of the lower

[late burrow]

because when im splitting it in half it starts getting confusing

as i still need add 1 for calculation

[cobalt creek]

thank all who responded, i will debug.

[shell sorrel]

now Random.value is better for a lot of things though

[swift crag]

Explain what you're trying to do.

[late burrow]

if (Random.Range(0, shells[0] + shells[1] + 1) < shells[0])

weighted chance

[shell sorrel]

that will not give you a reliable weighted chance

[late burrow]

i have only 2 values defining weighted chance

[dusk minnow]

the cube moves left to right continously and when i jump it sometimes glitches in the wall and gets stuck

anyone knows why? setting vel to move it

[swift crag]

show your code

we can't guess what you wrote

[dusk minnow]

mb, one moment

https://paste.ofcode.org/LncBAkabSEPn6jpgZDp6Tr

[swift crag]

have you checked if OnCollisionEnter is ever called?

you've got several debug.log statements commented out

[dusk minnow]

Oh yeah theyre for test, yes the direction gets changen, OnCollisionEnter is called as usual

[swift crag]

okay, so then this part:

the cube moves left to right continously

is not a problem?

It sounded to me like you were saying the cube never changed direction

[dusk minnow]

nope

wait i send a ss

stuck

[swift crag]

if you ever get stuck in the wall or against the wall, OnCollisionEnter won't get called repeatedly

check what your direction is when you're stuck

[dusk minnow]

one sec

-1 is left +1 is right for understanding

check if player doesnt move then change direction?

[swift crag]

Yeah, so you're against the wall, but you're also moving towards it

[dusk minnow]

velocity is somehow 13?

so running in da wall

[swift crag]

I noticed that you switch directions even if the collision was from below. What if you're hitting the white blocks?

[dusk minnow]

had the issue, if its below it doesnt change

the parts have different tags/layers

[terse osprey]

can somebody help with this error?

[rocky canyon]

using Unity.Mathematics;``` both of these using statements have a `Random`

ur script doesn't know which one to use.. the error tells u how to fix it..
decide which one u want to use and call it
UnityEngine.Random.Range(1,101);

or you can set the entire script to use a certain one..

using UnityEngine;
using Random = UnityEngine.Random;```

oooor, just get rid of the mathmatics namespace.. unless ur using it

[swift crag]

your IDE might have imported Unity.Mathematics at some point

[terse osprey]

thankyou for the help this fixed it

[rocky canyon]

i hate when it does that

like, whats even good in that namespace?

[late bobcat]

https://gyazo.com/fa513b63507761a5d3e9aee06f640a35 guys why am i getting "An object reference is required for the non-static field, methor or property 'Animator.SetFloat(string, float)'?

what am i doing wrong 🤔

[shell sorrel]

you need a instance of animator

[rocky canyon]

ur using the Class Animator

and not an instance of that class

[shell sorrel]

so use GetComponent to get one

[late bobcat]

oh i see

ty

[rocky canyon]

Animator myAnimator;
myAnimator.SetBool...

[shell sorrel]

or use lowercase animator looks like you already got a field for one

[swift crag]

it's got some good noise functions!

[rocky canyon]

ohh true true

[late bobcat]

i'm dumb

[potent echo]

Hey guys, So it seems I've run into a bit of a problem: I'm writing a script to detect figure out whether a gameObject is colliding with something from a certain direction (the ground and walls, namely). However, the ground and walls are on the same layermask due to them being part of a tilemap. This apparently causes a bunch of problems with raycasting, as the cast doesn't know the difference between a wall and the ground.

Is it possible to detect the ground seperately from the wall (maybe using a Physics cast instead of Collider2D cast now that I think about it)?

[cosmic dagger]

Can you place them on separate tilemaps?

[potent echo]

I don't think that's possible, since the ground can be the wall, depending on which angle the gameobject is colliding with the tilemap from.

For example, a corner could be both the ground and the wall, depending on the collision.

[cinder lynx]

Hello! I need help. I was following "Learn Unity Beginner/Intermediate 2023 - Code Monkey" and than I encounter an error. Basically I selected the wrong prefab and then when I trade it and put everything the right way it only interacts with the main prefab. Video: 2:48:30. Can anyone help me please? I already checked and I'm applaying the scripts on the prefab page(the right way).

[north kiln]

Post the error and the video

[cosmic dagger]

Hmm, I see. I wonder how they handle that? Actually, couldn't you check the position of the tilemap to the hit point and determine which side it came from?

[potent echo]

How would you implement that?

[rocky canyon]

culd use seperate box 2d colliders and put them along the walls

and have an additional check on that when that edge-case happens

[potent echo]

Technically that works, but makes working with the tilemap a lot harder (especially for larger maps)

But it works nontheless

[rocky canyon]

can u get the centerpoint of the tile when u hit? i could think of another way, where u do some math to get the angle between the center point of the tile and the player.. if that angle is > than 45* or w/e (which would be the where the tile's corner meets) u could know whether u hit the top of it or the side of it

[cinder lynx]

https://youtu.be/AmGSEH7QcDg?t=11328

[potent echo]

can u get the centerpoint of the tile when u hit?

Unfortunately not, since my tilemap's collider is just one big piece (due to a compositecollider without which there'd be other collision issues)

[potent echo]

I'm guessing that means this wouldn't exactly work due to the tilemap's origin position

[rocky canyon]

ya, i woudlnt know of a way to do it w/o having the exact center point of the tile, and the tile needing to be perfectly square

theres other methods tho

[cinder lynx]

any clues?

[north kiln]

Is the error you're talking about the "look rotation is zero"?

[cinder lynx]

no. it's the fact that I can only interact with one counter

nvm

[north kiln]

That's not an error, unless you're referring to a logic error. You'll have to post your !code so someone can help you look into it

[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.

[cinder lynx]

I just solve it!

Thanks anyway

[polar acorn]

🦆

[buoyant knot]

are you using rule tiles?

i ask because one of those tiles looks not correct

[paper seal]

hello guys! I'm doing like a spider man game first person game and i wanted to implement front flips. I used chatgpt but it was really buggy and it woudn't work properly. With this code, when I press "Q", my player does a front flip as expected but when its in about 180 degrees angle, it starts flickering a lot and sometimes when the flip is over im facing the wrong direction... can someone help me please? https://paste.ofcode.org/36BScLxvi5zJfaQgzafGYXU

[potent echo]

No I placed everything manually (Including that odd-looking grass block for testing).

[rich adder]

you should probably learn properly instead of using gpt

[eternal needle]

you have 2 different places where you are assigning the camera rotation, that is probably why it is acting like this. also using eulers might not work as expected here, rotation is stored as a quaternion. When you give it an euler, it converts to quaternion, then you convert back when reading as euler. It can give you different numbers that result in the same rotation

[barren vapor]

Chatgpt doesn't always see the correct way of fixing smt. Basing your work on that will turn out on loosing so much time on generating the same script over and over with new bugs piling up.

[rocky canyon]

chatgpt is good at lookin for syntax mistakes and stuff (but ur IDE can do that)..
the only thing i think chatgpt is decent at is refactoring.. or helping u refactor

[shell sorrel]

maybe i am just used to the tools i already got, but dont find it great for that either

[paper seal]

i wish I could but idk how🙁

[rich adder]

check the pins in this channel

[polar acorn]

ChatGPT is a text generator. Use it to generate text. It doesn't know code, so it doesn't really help with code. Sometimes people talk about code so it can sometimes accidentally say something useful, but only if that thing was said often enough that the LLM thinks that's what people talk like.

[paper seal]

it was happening that with me, everytime i was doing the flip it was looking in the same direction and chatgpt didn't know what was causing it, than I realized it was because the y axis was set to 0 lol

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/anojikufet.cpp can anyone help me with this? my wave goes straight to 5 after the first wave and all the zombies spawn in the same place

[cosmic dagger]

Sorry, AFK. I saw someone use OnCollisionEnter and GetContact to use the Contact.point with WorldToCell to get the cell position

Once you have the cell position, you can get the tile with GetTile or use CellToWorld to get the tile position . . .

[eternal needle]

add a debug to see how many coroutines you are starting

[dense root]

How I debug.log this method?

cImage.changeImage();

Debug.Log(cImage.changeImage());

[stuck palm]

I have an issue where when a DDOL object is initialised in the scene, and then i go back to that scene, a copy of that DDOL is made and i dont want 2 of them

how can i avoid this issue?

[polar acorn]

You're starting a coroutine every frame for 2 seconds before the first one actually spawns a wave. Then 2 seconds of coroutines all finish one after another because their waits are all done waiting.

[polar acorn]

Like that, assuming it returns a value

[grizzled pagoda]

so should i reduce the coroutine time?

[polar acorn]

In start, check if another instance of this object exists already. If it does, self-terminate

[polar acorn]

You should wait to start the next coroutine until the next one is finished

[cosmic dagger]

ChatGPT documents my code/packages. It's great for writing summaries. Oh, and unit test. I use it as a first draft for unit testing . . .

[stuck palm]

how can i check for "other" instance? if i do findobject wont it just find itself

[polar acorn]

Usually by having a static reference to an instance of this object. If it's null, set that instance to itself. If it's not null, destroy self.

[cosmic dagger]

Your DDOL should be a singleton (pattern), which by default, checks if another instance already exists . . .

[polar acorn]

This is known as the Singleton pattern

[grizzled pagoda]

i reduced it to zero but now it spawns to 3rd wave, should i make a variable for this?

[stuck palm]

how do i do this singleton thing? i think its finally time i just do it cus i keep hearing about it

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

What did you reduce to 0

[cosmic dagger]

It's relatively simple. You can find any tutorial online or on YouTube. Unity may even have one. Digi has a simple example to follow . . .
#💻┃code-beginner message

[grizzled pagoda]

the time for the coroutine, the delay

[dense root]

So I'm trying to play sound however it does not appear to want to play... ideas?

public void changeImage()
{
    Debug.Log("changeImage()" + "readInput.currentWord: " + readInput.currentWord);
    if (readInput.currentWord == "manzana")
    {
        oldImage.sprite = apple;
        audioSource.PlayOneShot(appleSpaClip);
    }

AudioSource is assigned too

Volume appears to be set correctly

[polar acorn]

You want to prevent starting a coroutine until the previous one finishes. Right now nothing is stopping all of your coroutines from starting one after another.

[grizzled pagoda]

should i implement the delay somewhere else? before i call the coroutine in the first place?

[polar acorn]

You should put in some method of checking if the coroutine has started before starting the new one, and then un-set that when the coroutine finishes

[grizzled pagoda]

oh yeah

just a boolean should be fine

[open apex]

why do I not have the "Credits" choice?

[swift crag]

Show the inspector for this Credits object.

[stuck palm]

https://gdl.space/ejukurifew.cpp
idk if i've written this right, but i've followed a tutorial and made my gamemanager inherit from singleton and the issue still persisrs

[tender breach]

The spawn variable updates now, but now a gameObject won't instantiate. https://pastecode.io/s/2hum7dzq

[shell sorrel]

you dragged in the wrong object, or it does not have the script on it

[open apex]

The function was not public

I made it public

[cosmic dagger]

Does the GameObject you dragged into the slot have the script attached to it?

[open apex]

fixed

pro programmer 😎

[open apex]

yes

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/izaqifihom.cpp

[cosmic dagger]

@open apex Also, make sure the method is public or it will not display . . .

[tender breach]

Bumping this

[stuck palm]

is it because im not using the instance thing?

[cosmic dagger]

Inherit from Singleton? Did you create a Singleton class?

[stuck palm]

thats a singleton class yeah

[cosmic dagger]

Singleton is not a Unity class by default. You'd have to create one that has all the code. Did you copy/place code inside of that class?

[stuck palm]

i created a class, thats the link i sent

[tender breach]

The spawn variable updates now, but now a gameObject won't instantiate. https://pastecode.io/s/2hum7dzq

[eternal needle]

Format your code. No one wants to read this. Mods warned you already a few times to format or stop posting

[cosmic dagger]

Ahh, I missed the link. Mobile scrolls fast . . .

[tender breach]

How do I format?

[stuck palm]

what do i do with this singleton code? i created the class but not sure how to do it

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah . . . I can't read this, especially on mobile. Hit that format button . . .

[shell sorrel]

when you want something to be a singleton you extned from it instead of MonoBehaviour

[eternal needle]

Depends on which IDE you are using. Google the IDE name and how to auto format the code

Your brackets are all messed up so it's really tough to see where a statement begins and ends

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[stuck palm]

Thats waht i've done

[cosmic dagger]

This is the first part of the process. What did the rest of the tutorial say/do?

[tender breach]

https://pastecode.io/s/iyuh3gfq

[stuck palm]

something about just referencing using an instance or whatever

thats it really

like gamemanager.instance or whatever

[shell sorrel]

thats all there is too it

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/kibimapizi.cpp can anyone help me with this? i need to delay my coroutine so that it doesnt go straight to the 3rd wave/index. How would i do that

[cosmic dagger]

Any class you want to have DDOL will derive from it. No need to do anything else . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Yep, that's it . . .

[stuck palm]

so if i dont use the instance it just doesnt work?

[shell sorrel]

what are you expectations

[polar acorn]

Maybe it's just because searching on mobile is ass but I don't see any instantiate happening in this code at all

[frosty hound]

I'm replying to this so I have an official final caution. If you post unformatted code again in the future, you will be muted. If you continue, you will be kicked.

You have been told over three times by now.

[shell sorrel]

you simple access it with TypeName.Instance as a shortcut to let you reference that from anywhere now

[polar acorn]

Oh, hang on I see it, it was mobile searching

[swift crag]

The instance will only be created when you access the instance property

(unless a component already exists in the scene, of course)

[polar acorn]

I'll let someone on a computer handle this

[stuck palm]

right

[shell sorrel]

or you can just put it in a scene manually and it will find the existing instance

[swift crag]

I explicitly access a few instance properties when my game starts up

    void Initialize()
    {
        LoadData();

        foreach (var mode in DefaultGameModes.Instance.gameModes)
            mode.CreateConfig();

        // make the menu load itself
        var x = MainMenu.Instance;

        gameSessionsStat.Increment();

        State = GameState.MainMenu;

        Application.quitting -= OnQuit;
        Application.quitting += OnQuit;

        DontDestroyOnLoad(gameObject);
    }

[stuck palm]

so instead of creating like a field in the class, i just reference GameManager is a type?

[swift crag]

I don't understand your question.

SomeSingleton.instance <-- after you evaluate this, the instance is guaranteed to exist

[stuck palm]

okay

does that spawn just the class or the prefab?

[swift crag]

It does exactly whatever the instance property does

You can just read it!

[shell sorrel]

it creates a gameobject then adds the class to it

[stuck palm]

i see

[swift crag]

(or are you talking about my code?)

[shell sorrel]

read the code

[stuck palm]

idk if that works for my instance though

i mean like

my use case

[swift crag]

well, what's your use case...?

[stuck palm]

i have this game manager object with multiple components on it

[shell sorrel]

its simply a way to get a reference where ever you need it, and create it if it does not exist

[swift crag]

If you need to instantiate an entire prefab, then you need a completely different singleton implementation.

[stuck palm]

😭

[swift crag]

Read the dang code.

It does exactly what it says it does. No more, no less.

You can't just pray that it magically does what you intended

[polar acorn]

So, Instantiate runs in Start, if Spawn is false. If dropSet is 1, Spawn becomes true, otherwise it's untouched. So, either Spawn starts as true or dropSet is 1 when Start runs

[stuck palm]

okay im gonna look up prefab singleton then

[shell sorrel]

there is a findobjectoftype it uses before creating it, so he could just manually create the instance in scene and use it for access only

[swift crag]

now, fortunately, it's also really easy to make a singleton that instantiates a prefab

using UnityEngine;

public abstract class SingletonPrefab<T> : MonoBehaviour where T : SingletonPrefab<T>
{
    private static T _instance;

    public static bool Safe => _instance != null;
    public static T Instance 
    {
        get
        {
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                _instance = Instantiate(Resources.Load<T>("SingletonPrefab/" + typeof(T).Name));
            }

            return _instance;
        }
    }
}

you can probably ignore the Safe property

[dense root]

So I'm trying to map two different words ("りんご” and "manzana") to the same currentJapWord and currentSpaWord... any thoughts on how to do that? Like how do I assign two different words with the same meaning to the same current word?

private void Awake()
{
    foreach (Word word in allWords)
    {
        mappings[word.English] = word;
        mappings[word.Spanish] = word;
        mappings[word.Japanese] = word;
    }

    // Find the InputField dynamically during runtime     

    if (japInputField != null && spaInputField != null)
    {
        // Set the focus back to the input fields
        japInputField.Select();
        japInputField.ActivateInputField();

        spaInputField.Select();
        spaInputField.ActivateInputField();

        // Set currentWord for both languages
        //currentJapWord = GetRandomWord().Japanese;
        //currentSpaWord = GetRandomWord().Spanish;

        currentJapWord = "りんご";
        currentSpaWord = "manzana";

[swift crag]

I use that to test if an instance currently exists. It's relevant when the game is shutting down

i don't want to instantiate things while the game is shutting down

[stuck palm]

ah but i need to use resources, how do i use resources?

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

e.g.

[stuck palm]

do i need to explicitly mark a folder as a resources folder or

[shell sorrel]

also dont over use resources, everything you put in the folder gets included in your game even if never used

[shell sorrel]

any folder named Resources

[stuck palm]

im probably only gonna use it for like 3 things so no problem there

[swift crag]

yeah, you would not want to throw a huge pile of models into Resources

[swift crag]

Read the link I just sent.

[grizzled pagoda]

how would i do that? i have boolean that should stop it but it doesnt

[swift crag]

then your code is wrong

i'll need to see it

[stuck palm]

does your prefab code account for if two of the same type exist?

[swift crag]

I only ever create instances of these types by accessing the instance method, so that's impossible

I do not have a MainMenu prefab in any scene in my game

that was the entire motivation for this SingletonPrefab class - I didn't want to have a menu prefab in every scene, and I didn't want to have to worry about making sure I always started the game from a scene with a menu prefab that'd get DDOL'd or something

When the game starts, the prefabs are instantiated

[stuck palm]

oh right

[swift crag]

it works really nicely

[swift crag]

the GameController is responsible for making everything else happen

nothing else "starts itself"

[stuck palm]

i already have a gameManager prefab open in the scene, that could be t he problem ig

i see, the game manager isnt getting reinstantiated when i reference it again from the first time

[tender breach]

I don't understand.

[polar acorn]

Find out which of those cases is preventing your instantiate from happening

[tender breach]

Ok

[round umbra]

https://gdl.space/wugohoguge.cs
hello im having a small issue

i have a
float currentHighScore
float reactiontime

if (reactionTime < currentHighScore)
o want the highScore to update

when you first play the game currentHighScore = 0f;

but reactionTime can never be < currentHighScore

i would be wierd if i set it currentHighScore to 100f; couse then the highscore wil be 100 at the start
is there an other way than this aprouch?

[rocky canyon]

ur first reaction wouldn't compare to the highscore,

it would just log the reactionTime as the new highscore, then ud compare

[polar acorn]

Show code

[grizzled pagoda]

https://gdl.space/yapihuvuso.cpp

[polar acorn]

You set is spawning to true after the wait

Meaning it won't block the coroutine from starting until it's already done

[grizzled pagoda]

oh

[polar acorn]

You want to set your book before the timer and then un set it after

[grizzled pagoda]

yeah

i got it it works now

@polar acorn thanks a lot! man idk how i missed that thanks a bunch

[round umbra]

works i add a bool isfirstAttempt and did this

if (isFirstAttempt || reactionTime < currentHighScore)
isFirstAttempt = false;

and i also check if there is a score saved from last sesion then isFirstAttempt also be false

[tender breach]

I can't find the case that's preventing the instantiate from happening.

[polar acorn]

What have you tried

[tender breach]

I tried removing dropset++ and Spawn = True, but I kept getting the problem.

[polar acorn]

How about instead you just log those values in start and see what they are

[tender breach]

Okay

That didn't work

[frosty hound]

Logging isn't a fix, it's to help you understand the issue.

[polar acorn]

If it didn't print anything then this code isn't running

[tender breach]

Oh, I just moved dropset++ to another place in start.

[polar acorn]

So if you didn't do what I asked you to do why did you say that you did but it didn't work

[tender breach]

I didn't know what you meant.

[polar acorn]

If you don't know what debug log is you need to stop everything and do the beginner tutorials linked in the pins.

[rocky canyon]

sounds good!

[polar acorn]

Debug log should literally have been the first line of code you ever wrote

[late yew]

I'm trying to make a twin-stick shooter where the player follows the cursor, but when they sprint I don't want them to look at the cursor, and instead at the direction of travel. This is the code I have, but it's not working, even while running the character continues to look at the cursor. Any idea why?

void RotatePlayer()
{
    if (isRunning == false)
    {
        transform.LookAt(new Vector3(cursorToWorldPoint.x, transform.position.y, cursorToWorldPoint.z));
    }
    else if (isRunning == true)
    {
        transform.LookAt(new Vector3(xForce, transform.position.y, zForce));
    }
}```

this is being called in update

It's actually only facing the x value of the cursor, as soon as it passes where it sits on the screen, the model does a complete 180

[dense root]

Any ideas why I cannot tab into my next inputfield? I even have interactable set to true

[shell sorrel]

think tab might want nav for moving down so could setup the rest of the references under navigation

[open apex]

Is there any reason why this wouldn't work?

[shell sorrel]

use * not +

[dense root]

No dice

[amber spruce]

how do i draw this area with gizmos like with the offset

Physics2D.BoxCast(m_Coll.bounds.center, m_Coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.down, .01f, jumpableGround);

[open apex]

isn't that times?

[rich adder]

You can’t add two rotations @open apex

Only multiply

[shell sorrel]

Quaternion is not a regular number, that is how you combine 2 rotations by applying one to the other with multply

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion-operator_multiply.html

[rich adder]

Sorry wrong reply @shell sorrel lol

[shell sorrel]

who also got rotate as a field, how are you setting it, quaterions are not what you think they are, the x y z and w components are not angles like you think

[dense root]

Odd, even the visualizer is showing that it should be able to tab between thw two, am I missing something in code?

[open apex]

I thought of Vector3 and I thought there would be something similar for rotations 😔

[rocky canyon]

this was the best way i seen quaternions explained

[shell sorrel]

there are methods you can use instead

[silver sun]

i am trying to call an OpenAI API like:

  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4-vision-preview",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
          {
            "type": "text",
            "text": "What’s in this image?"
          },
          {
            "type": "image_url",
            "image_url": {
              "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg/2560px-Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
  }'

here's my 8 hour progress:

https://pastebin.com/Fs8MpWwu (just the relevant parts)

here's my error:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
line 58 on PasteBin.

don't bother explaining, i know i'm not sending the parameters correctly, but that's the issue...

i've done this before:

`"model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
  "messages": [
   {
    "role": "system",
    "content": "You are a helpful assistant."
   }
  ]
 }```
**
but not:**

```py
"model": "gpt-4-vision-preview",
  "messages": [
   {
    "role": "user",
    "content": [
     {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "What’s in this image?"
     },
     {
      "type": "image_url",
      "image_url": {
       "url": "blahblhah"
      }```
i switched the channel because i think a "general" programmer would of known how to fix it by now...

[rich adder]

V3 is opposite , you add those together or multiply by a float

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Quaternion.Euler.html like this

or AngleAxis or many others you can see for certain purposes

you can find them all as static methods on Quaternion

[rocky canyon]

A * B is (A Rotates B) where B is the original oreientation and A is the rotation thats happening to it

[open apex]

I didn't know there was a w

[rocky canyon]

this was helpful to me when i read it

[shell sorrel]

like i said a quaternion is not what you think it is, so you are best to use the methods on it, and not directly working with its data

[rocky canyon]

ya, only those still plugged into the matrix can visualize quaternions

https://quaternions.online/ heres a fun interactable

[shell sorrel]

yeah many methods to work around it though like AngleAxis, LookRotation etc

[rocky canyon]

im a euler man myself..

even tho im told to use quaternions 😄

[shell sorrel]

most of what i do is do some vector math to get a direction then LookRotation that

[rocky canyon]

        if (Input.GetMouseButton(1))
        {
            rotateCurrentPos = Input.mousePosition;
            Vector3 difference = rotateStartPos - rotateCurrentPos;
            rotateStartPos = rotateCurrentPos;
            newRotation *= Quaternion.Euler(Vector3.up * (-difference.x / dragRotationSpeed));
        }```
ya, i pretty much use` Quaternion.Euler `like its going outta style

[open apex]

I am just trying to rotate z to a 180 😔

[timber tide]

Imagine getting gimbal locked

cant be me

[frosty hound]

@silver sun Do not crosspost. #archived-code-general

[shell sorrel]

transform.rotation = Quaterion.AngleAxis(180, Vector3.forward)

[open apex]

I did the * you told me,
But it does 180 times 0 which make it still 0

[open apex]

thanks

[rocky canyon]

ahh, i havent used the .AngleAxis just yet

[open apex]

The problem is, I don't know why. I don't understand what I am reading sometimes

[shell sorrel]

make it *= if you want to rotate 180 from where it is already

[silver sun]

i know the rule, i read them, did you want me to delete the old one? because only after i realised that it's not a beginner channel.

[rocky canyon]

if you've commited a crosspost.. then yes, probably delete 1 of em

[frosty hound]

It was already removed, and you reposted it in #💻┃code-beginner. So knowing the rules is questionable.

Just pick one channel and stick with it. It's up to you if it's beginner or general.

[amber spruce]

hey so i could use some help with something so basically my player is colliding with the ground fine as you can see with the image thats my code for the boxcast and for some reason it will randomly say it isnt colliding with it and wont let me jump any idea what im doing wrong here

public bool IsGrounded()
{
    return Physics2D.BoxCast(m_Coll.bounds.center, m_Coll.bounds.size, 0f, Vector2.down, .01f, jumpableGround);
}

[silver sun]

because it was pretty far up anyway... what a thing to compare about "breaking the rules"..

[rocky canyon]

i was just answering what i'd do.. u asked

[amber spruce]

when i mean randomly i mean i have a hard time reproducing it it takes like 5 minutes to reproduce it

[rocky canyon]

hmm, is it a certain area of the level?

[silver sun]

okay, noted. but my bad i intended to reply to Osteel

[rocky canyon]

or just generally anywhere

[amber spruce]

so it seems to trigger around a certain point in the level and then no matter where i go it doesnt fix but it also triggers other spots its just one spot normally is the main spot it occurs

i beilive its something to do with that part but im also not entirly sure

[rocky canyon]

the 0.1f in ur boxcast may be too small for all scenarios (on flat ground yea,, but maybe in other situations its not big enough?)

[amber spruce]

yes but when im back on flat ground that should be fixed no?

like i cant jump anywhere after this happens

[rocky canyon]

other than that its ur basic groundcheck 101:

• is the playerobject and ground set up with the correct layers
• is the layermask including these layers
• check the size and position of the boxcast
• check the distance
• etc

[rocky canyon]

like i cant jump anywhere after this happens

thats an important tidbit of information ☝️

sounds more like maybe an error.. if u get a null error or somthing in the code, that code will just stop working

do u have any errors in teh console when it happens?

[amber spruce]

nope no errors or even warnings

[rocky canyon]

do u call the bool in the code? (like in all the right places?)

maybe the code bypasses it for some reason

[amber spruce]

i tried in update setting a public variable to it so i could see and after the glitch happens its just always false

[rocky canyon]

but im talkin about teh bool .. unless u use the bool, (the physics boxcast wont run) and then ur groundcheck will never be true anymore.. unless its called. maybe the code for that bit is broken

best to send the code anyway, in a pastebin site or something so we have some context

these types of errors usually aren't just the singular ground check thats wrong, its usually a multi-piece problem

[amber spruce]

here is the whole script
https://pastebin.com/Cg5Unzbg

[rocky canyon]

im gonna go ahead and guess it has something to do with u having 2 bools for grounded. and trying to manage both of them.. as well as the coroutine that has to wait half a second to set m_Grounded back to false

im still looking thru it.. not seeing it right off the bat.

[amber spruce]

wdym 2 bools for grounded m_grounded2 was just so i could visualise what it is at all moments

it was happening before i added that

and the half second wait was because before it would instantly set it to false letting you double jump because you technically where still touching the ground

[rocky canyon]

i think its ur .1f like i said originally..

heres my test using the bool raycast return like you have with a .1f (never gets grounded b/c the player is too thicc)

and heres my test using the bool raycast return like you have with a .75f (works as intended)

[amber spruce]

yeah so that seems to fix it

[rocky canyon]

    private void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        coll = GetComponent<BoxCollider2D>();
    }

    private void Update()
    {
        isGrounded = IsGrounded(); // updating every frame (so we dont miss any ground detections)

        float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxis("Horizontal");
        Vector2 move = new Vector2(horizontalInput,0f);
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(move.x * speed,rb.velocity.y);

        if(isGrounded && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
        {
            Jump();
        }
    }

    private bool IsGrounded()
    {
        float raycastLength = 0.75f;
        RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(coll.bounds.center,Vector2.down,raycastLength,groundLayer);
        TestGround = hit.collider != null;
        return TestGround; //used a TestGround boolean that I exposed in the editor
    }

    private void Jump()
    {
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x,jumpForce);
    }``` just used your code and stripped out all the animations and extra noise so i could focus on the groundcheck

ya, that was my first guess and gut reaction, and thats what it ended up being on my end

[amber spruce]

i also just realised the gizmos is 0.1 and the actual boxcast is 0.01

so it may not have been colliding lol thanks for the help

[rocky canyon]

yea .01 is extra tiny

[amber spruce]

yeah didnt think about that i thought it was .1 lol

[rocky canyon]

another thing is, learn about Gizmo's

u can draw them using code.. and it'll really help out trying to visualize these things..

    private void OnDrawGizmos()
    {
        // Draw a raycast line to visualize ground detection
        Gizmos.color = Color.green;
        float raycastLength = 0.75f;
        Vector2 raycastOrigin = coll.bounds.center;
        Vector2 raycastDirection = Vector2.down;

        Gizmos.DrawLine(raycastOrigin,raycastOrigin + raycastDirection * raycastLength);
    }``` ^ that example

[amber spruce]

yeah i was drawing them already lol

[rocky canyon]

oh okay 👍 just trying to give ya some things to help

sounds like ur pretty good tho

[amber spruce]

yeah thanks any way

[rocky canyon]

np, 🍀

[white yew]

Would recommend OnDrawGizmosSelected() in case I want to only see the gizmo on the object(s) selected in hierarchy.

[rocky canyon]

true true

[north kiln]

Sure.
https://unity.huh.how/building/build-errors/build-error

Did you read the paragraph that tells you what that error means?

Great, so you have some gradle errors. Ask about them in #📱┃mobile

[grizzled pagoda]

what does this all mean?

[rich adder]

You're trying to build but have some UnityEditor classes that you cannot export

put scripts in editor folder or wrap in #if editor

[rocky canyon]

^ MenuScript is gonna have to be modified

[sour fulcrum]

        public bool DetectChanges<T>(T firstValue, T secondValue)
        {
            return (firstValue.Equals(secondValue));
        }

can i get a vibe check on this, would this work as intended for objects like monobehaviours, so's etc.?

[teal viper]

How is it different from doing an Equals directly?🤔

[sour fulcrum]

Oh it's a validation thing i'm gonna have some optional debug logging in here in theory

[teal viper]

Okay. I don't really get the question then. It would work the same as if you're doing an Equals directly.

[rocky canyon]

whats this do? im curious

[polar acorn]

This is identical to just doing ==

[sour fulcrum]

Sorry, new to generics and wasn't sure if me passing in stuff like monobehaviour, scriptableobject etc. generically would make it fail an object comparison like this

[rocky canyon]

ahh, Type == Type?

[sour fulcrum]

nah i want object instance

[rocky canyon]

Object == Object ? im just curious what its for

[polar acorn]

Syntactically, this is all sound, but functionally, it's the same as ==

[teal viper]

Equals can be overriden though, so the behavior might vary depending on the object.

[sour fulcrum]

For full context i'm developing a custom content api mod for Lethal Company and I want to detect and log user changes to values in the custom content via config files

[polar acorn]

If you want to detect changes you're going to need some sort of previous value to compare it to

[rocky canyon]

ooo.. and if u modify something in one object the comparison is supposed to fail??

[sour fulcrum]

thats what i'm doing, no?

[polar acorn]

This is checking if two objects are equal, the hard part is actually getting the previous value

[teal viper]

Reference types check reference equality. So even if the contents are the same, 2 objects would never be equal

[rocky canyon]

as far as i know ur just comparing two objects, if its the same object

[rocky canyon]

didnt expect this

[sour fulcrum]

the two object are the previous and new value

[sour fulcrum]

oh?

[rocky canyon]

b/c its different *entities? (identifier, GUID?

[polar acorn]

For reference types, == and .Equals check if they're literally the same instance

[teal viper]

Unless you(or unity) override their Equals method

[polar acorn]

Also, if they are the same instance, if you change a variable on one of them, that variable would be changed on both variables pointing to that same instance

If I have a cat, and I tell you about my cat, and then I put an adorable little bowtie on him, the cat that we're both thinking of now has a bowtie

[sour fulcrum]

yeah yeah forsure

i think were on the same page here

[rocky canyon]

ya, okay yea thats what i thought i read. lol

[teal viper]

To put it simply, your method doesn't really detect any changes.

Unless you're planning to use it for value type mainly.

[sour fulcrum]

The name of the function might be a little misleading,

I don't want to detect if something has changed. I want to check if setting x to y would be changing it

[teal viper]

Well, then no. It would always return false if x and y are different instances.

Even if it doesn't change anything.

[sour fulcrum]

yeee but if x and y are the same instance it'll like detect that correctly right

[rocky canyon]

i doubt it

i mean if ur asking if its the same instance with different data /values

[polar acorn]

If X and Y are the same instance then they're the same instance and changing anything wouldn't matter

[sour fulcrum]

what your saying here is exactly what i want to log

which is the purpose of this function

[teal viper]

If they are the same inatance, then yes, that would work. But what's the point of the check then?

[rocky canyon]

ya, if its the same instance how is anything supposed to be different?

[eternal needle]

what is the actual purpose of the function?

[polar acorn]

I'm not sure what you mean. If they're the same instance then they're the same instance, how are you going to detect if one of them has changed

[rocky canyon]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[sour fulcrum]

one moment

eg. i want to use it like

        public void DebugDetectChanges<T>(List<T> firstList, List<T> secondList)
        {
            string debugString = "Detecting Changes" + "\n";

            if (firstList.Count != secondList.Count)
                debugString += "List Count's Differ, Changes Confirmed!";

            if (firstList.Count >= secondList.Count)
            {
                foreach (T item in firstList)
                {
                    debugString += "Detection Check #" + firstList.IndexOf(item) + " - (" + DetectChange(item, secondList.IndexOf(item)) + ")" + "\n";
                }
            }
        }

        public bool DetectChange<T>(T firstValue, T secondValue)
        {
            return (!firstValue.Equals(secondValue));
        }

[cosmic dagger]

It seems you need to check if the value of a field on an instance is different than the new supplied value . . .

[teal viper]

If the user have created a new instance of a type and tries to assign it somewhere. Is that what you want to check?

[polar acorn]

Okay, in that case, == works fine

[sour fulcrum]

its mad at me

[cosmic dagger]

You need a constraint for T . . .

[sour fulcrum]

( might be misusing generics, i'm new to them)

[teal viper]

What does the line of code look like?

[sour fulcrum]

return (!(firstValue == secondValue));

[rocky canyon]

generics confuse me. so its an extra layer of complicated when i watch them get debugged by others lol

[cosmic dagger]

You're comparing the types, not a value of the type . . .

[sour fulcrum]

ah

[north kiln]

That's not true though

[rocky canyon]

ya, thats why i originally asked at the begining, do u mean Type==Type

ohh.. nvm lol

[teal viper]

I think you just need a constraint how random pointer initially.

[north kiln]

The problem is a lack of constraints

[sour fulcrum]

I have two lists of values and i want to have a easy way to check if there are differences in the two lists

the two lists will always be the same type but i want to do this check with multiple types if you know what i mean

[cosmic dagger]

If one is a reference type and the other is a value type, a null assignment will be an issue . . .

They need a type as a common denominator . . .

[north kiln]

They are the same type, both T

You won't be able to use ==, but you can use Equals, and should add IEquatable<T> as the constraint

[cosmic dagger]

IEquatable will use its—the type—default Equals method. So it disregards the type mismatch, doesn't it?

[north kiln]

DetectChange(item, secondList.IndexOf(item)) this is nonsense however

[sour fulcrum]

Howso?

[north kiln]

why are you comparing an item to an index

it's nonsense

[sour fulcrum]

oh very true

thank you

[north kiln]

it should also not compile

[violet spear]

hey

[near wadi]

howdy

[gaunt ice]

There may be differences if the two lists count are the same (assume they are not same instance)

[violet spear]

can you jump in my call with me and my buddy please

[near wadi]

no, that is not something i do, but we can text here

[polar acorn]

No

[violet spear]

ok thats fine

[polar acorn]

We'll move into here because it is a bit more of a code thing anyway. Send a screenshot of the object that has your script on it

[violet spear]

so when i start a new project and then i add canvas then add script through canvas on add component then typ to say hello

[polar acorn]

So show a screenshot of your canvas with the script on it

[violet spear]

i got it sorry for the inconvience guys i didnt know you had to drag the script over and attach it to canvas or main camera

[unique furnace]

Coding is an ass that is full of farts.

[polar acorn]

That is usually where the farts come from

[near wadi]

Coding is a class that's full of art

[unique furnace]

I started watching an instructional video at 11am today and have been stuck trying to get this message to appear until this very moment

I have read 6 miles of forums and had no one help me change a setting that properly linked unity to VisualStudio

[polar acorn]

!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

[polar acorn]

We literally have a bot command explaining how to do that

[unique furnace]

I have learned this now. Thanks

[young smelt]

Paste of code isn't working, any alternatives?

[near wadi]

!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.

[young smelt]

To be honest I kinda got lost in the tutorials but here
https://hastebin.com/share/azusepehic.csharp
Basically the terrains are creating fine but I am not seeing shit in the game view I only see them in the inspector. And once I move past the observable distance, it does actually hide the ones outside said distance. After looking at it for a while, I noticed the mesh filter is not getting applied and stays empty which is weird because I do in fact do that in the UpdateTerrainChunk right after checking for if the mesh data has been gotten. Pls tell me if u want to see other parts of my code

[near wadi]

Hey, just wanted to remind you about the learning portal. It is wise to take the Junior Programmers Pathway. at least, the first couple sections
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[stone elk]

how can i change my textmeshpro outline colour through script?

[young smelt]

wait I sent explanation of what happened and a link to hastebin but I think it got blocked

Yh I can't reply it

[near wadi]

your message and link came through fine to me

[quaint terrace]

I have a scriptableObject. And every Time i call it it has to be initialized. Whats the point of ScriptableObjects if they have to be built everytime i call them?

[teal viper]

They don't. What exactly are you doing? Share code.

[quaint terrace]

    {
    //print("Looting something "+index);
    ItemDatabase itemDatabase = ScriptableObject.CreateInstance<ItemDatabase>();
    Item newItem = itemDatabase.GetItem(index);
    print("Index: "+index);
    print("NewItem: "+newItem.Name);
    foundItem = items.Find(item => item.Name == newItem.Name);```

and unless i put Awake{initinializeItems();} inside itemDatabase, i cant access any of the items.

[teal viper]

Doesn't seem like a correct way to use SOs.

The whole point of SOs is that you can reference an instance of it as an asset.

Here you're just creating a new instance every time.

[quaint terrace]

but when i public ItemDatabase itemdatabase; unity yells at me and says instance of object is not found.

[timber tide]

damn it unity

[teal viper]

Do you actually assign it in the inspector?

[quaint terrace]

scriptableObjects cant be assigned in the inspector, it has to be a monobehaviour

[timber tide]

they can be assigned like any other object script

just not as a component

[eternal needle]

assigning it in the inspector is like the first thing you see online when learning SO

[teal viper]

Ofc they can. That's the whole point of them😅

[quaint terrace]

well then i am missing something, because i cant assign a script unless it is a component

[charred spoke]

You are mixing things up. You cant put a SO on a gameobject you can put it in the field of a component that is already on a gameObject

[quaint terrace]

i am not allowed to put any scripts into a field unless it is attached to a gameObject.

[charred spoke]

Yes you are

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