💻┃code-beginner

[queen adder]

lemme look at layoutgroups messages

[amber spruce]

yeah its because of the gif

it skips every like couple frames

[queen adder]

but it's actually blurry?

[amber spruce]

huh even just recording my screen doesnt show it

[queen adder]

try removing the setfloat ing the fixed update

[amber spruce]

This video kinda shows it

[queen adder]

i dont even know why you need that there

oh the sandivistan effect ig

[amber spruce]

no clue what that is but i guess

[amber spruce]

yeah that

[queen adder]

yea, try removing one of the set floats

that may be messing up the animation timing

remove the one in the input catcher

not sure about new input system, but can you try placing that in Update instead?

then the velocity will become a class field that is updated by the input system

[amber spruce]

still is a little glitchy but its better

[queen adder]

controlling animation in fixed is glitchy yea

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Modules/IMGUI/LayoutGroup.cs is this the layoutgroup csref?

[slender nymph]

no. it's part of the UI package
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/uGUI/blob/2019.1/UnityEngine.UI/UI/Core/Layout/LayoutGroup.cs

[cosmic dagger]

Nah, LayoutGroup is UGUI, that is IMGUI . . .

[queen adder]

so painful navigating github, cant ctrl+click thingies

[slender nymph]

so download the repo

this code is also already on your computer as vertx has pointed out to you multiple times

[queen adder]

ig this what i need, hopefully

[scarlet skiff]

what am i doing wrong here, its always fully filled, as if it ignores fill amount

[swift crag]

is the image actually set to the "Filled" mode?

the default mode is Simple

[slender nymph]

and is this code actually running?

[wintry quarry]

Note also that in order to change the image mode to Filled you have to assign a sprite to the Image. It can be a 1x1 white pixel image, but it must have a sprite assigned regardless.

[scarlet skiff]

wait what why does my image component not even have that option

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[scarlet skiff]

ah okay thanks

[swift crag]

yeah, this is a bit of a nuisance

i was looking into creating a filled, sliced image once

the code is scary

a mask is a decent approximation, but those edges are hard ):

[rocky lava]

does anybody know how to get rid of this box and get the little line back? it overrides the text instead of adding to it

[slender nymph]

press the insert key

[rocky lava]

oh

thank you! ❤️

[queen adder]

works now ig, had to use a coroutine though

[scarlet skiff]

wait so in the tutorial the guy gets the fill to be in the x axis, mine fill in a wierd pattern, bottom left, top left, top right, bottom right

how do i make it X fill only

nvm found it

[cosmic dagger]

Because you need to change how you fill it, there are options. Make sure to follow the tutorial correctly . . .

[vast vessel]

how do i get a scene, from a loadSceneOperation, or its name, so i can use it in setActiveScene?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync.html

LoadSceneAsync returns an AsyncOperation you can check the status of and then get the scene object from when it's finished.

[vast vessel]

so i store the asyncOp then get its scene?

[rare basin]

try it and see

[polar acorn]

Once it's done loading at least

[vast vessel]

even tho i am setting the newly loaded level, my objects are still instantiating in the scene that was initially loaded(my scene manager scene) do you know what im doing wrong?

AI_Test is the scene loaded through the coroutine

oh wait i think i now what i messed up...

gimme a sec

i was setting isLoadingLevel to false, my bad. sorry for the ping

[spark ravine]

Is there a way I can create functions, that I can call from every project?(like Vector3) or something?

[polar acorn]

Every project, no. You'd have to put the code in that project to use it there

[cosmic dagger]

Create your own package and import it into each project . . .

It's just like importing Unity packages. When you update your package, you hit the update button in the package manager to grab all the changes . . .

It's great for core functionality that you use as a base on any project and extension/utility methods . . .

[spark ravine]

How do I acess them then without having to create a refrence to them everytime?

[slender nymph]

wdym by "create a reference to them everytime"

[spark ravine]

Having to do private Script scriptname and in the code scriptName.Function

[cosmic dagger]

That's accessing an instance method, which is only accessible from an instance . . .

You want to create a static method that can be accessed from the class itself . . .

[languid spire]

make them static, but beware this can have unforseen consequences

[verbal dome]

If you want helper functions you can make a static class. Then add using static ClassName; and you can call its methods without specifying ClassName each time

[cosmic quail]

make a static class with static methods, then u can call those methods from everywhere

[spark ravine]

Such as?

[cosmic dagger]

Either that or extension methods . . .

[spark ravine]

ok but then I still have to do name.instance.Function, right?

[languid spire]

'there can be only one'

[spark ravine]

so only one static method or one per name? lol

[cosmic quail]

also vector3 is a struct so u can put a struct somewhere and use it anywhere

[cosmic dagger]

No, you access it via the class: MyClass.MethodName . . .

[spark ravine]

ok thanks I will look up extesion metohds, instance methods and structs

[cosmic dagger]

I would read about static methods and extension methods . . .

[spark ravine]

kk

[languid spire]

static classes and methods can only work with static variables, so by making the class or method static you are limiting yourself to only have one version of the variable. The singleton pattern is, of course, an exception/workaround to this

[cosmic dagger]

Smith family reunion, nice!

[languid spire]

hmm, with a name like Josh I doubt we're related, there are lots of different Smiths

[cosmic dagger]

There is an infinite amount. I just like the fact that John, Josh, and Steve were all united, speaking at the same time . . .

[unkempt maple]

this is my script for dashing but when i dash i won't move forward, any ideas?

[keen dew]

Best guess is that movement code overrides the velocity

[static cedar]

I was thinking of friction and drag coming to play.

[languid spire]

AI generated code?

[unkempt maple]

yes

[static cedar]

I guess, too many comments.

[rich adder]

not only two many but completely obvious and stupid

[languid spire]

then read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[rich adder]

dashDistance - Distance To Dash

no shit

[static cedar]

Always coming back to that vid by code aesthetic.

[cosmic dagger]

Getting the direction by focusing the distance and time doesn't make sense . . .

[west sonnet]

In 2D, how can I gradually move an object using script? I don't want to use Vector3 because that'll just snap the object to it's new position, I want the object to 'slide' to it's determined position

Do I use Lerp?

[rich adder]

nothing ai generates makes sense

[languid spire]

we are not here to fix crap generated by AI because OP is too lazy to write their own

[timber tide]

ye

[rich adder]

MoveTowards

its already smoothed

[west sonnet]

Well, I want to make a fist for an enemy that will move back a little, then spring forward. Like a punch

So I would use Lerp for that, right?

[timber tide]

maybe a curve

[static cedar]

I thought it was for UI.

[rich adder]

if you want a possibility to clip through walls sure ( moving transform directly = clip through walls)

[west sonnet]

Hmmm I've never used curves before

[rich adder]

otherwise use rigidbody + forces

[west sonnet]

Hmmm okay. I'll see what I can do

Thanks

[timber tide]

animator good for like very specific movements like abilities

[languid spire]

@unkempt maple NEVER DM someone without their permission

[west sonnet]

Using a Rigidbody isn't working because when I attach one to the Enemy's fist, it either makes the collision between the first and the player's body act weird, or the fist starts flying off the body towards the player

My enemy will have 'Rayman' style hands. No arms, just floating hands that will punch

[unkempt maple]

☝️ 🤓

[rich adder]

if you want optimal collisions hits figure out a way to make it work with rb

[unkempt maple]

lets talk in private and not here

[summer stump]

No. That is not how this works
Don't DM people without asking first

[unkempt maple]

why not

[wintry quarry]

make a thread if you want your own conversation room

[cosmic dagger]

They just said no private convo's . . .

[summer stump]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[low path]

why not is because you don't command somebody to talk to you

[polar acorn]

It's literally the first rule

[unkempt maple]

okey daddy

[summer stump]

Plus you JUST called them a nerd, why would they even help you anymore?

[unkempt maple]

i dont want his help i want to explain him something in peace

[summer stump]

Weird...

[polar acorn]

Calling someone a nerd on a game development help discord is like... yeah. We know. That's why we're all here.

[rich adder]

"Im using AI because I just ran out of gas and need to get to my house this one time , if you can just help me out this time"

[cosmic dagger]

Then create a thread and hope they'll read it . . .

[low path]

or at least just ask nicely

[unkempt maple]

there is no need to ask for people like him

[languid spire]

Ain't gonna happen, too late, move on

[unkempt maple]

yeah big daddy said move on

[west sonnet]

I want to make the enemies fist move back and forth, to simulate a punch, when the player enters the trigger which is infront of the enemy. Would doing this by code or animation be better?

[low path]

either approach is valid and it depends on how you set up the enemy. is it gonna be just one sprite?

[west sonnet]

Yeah

[polar acorn]

Using code gives you the option to very easily parameterize it to do things like adjusting the wiggle direction and amount.
Using animation gives you the option to actually animate it later with an actual animation.

I'd say go with whichever one you're more likely to want to expand to later.

[west sonnet]

Hmmm, probably code. I'm just struggling to figure out how to do it

[low path]

if you have a punch animation, use that. you can use the animation system to perform specific actions on specific animation frames. take a look at this https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[polar acorn]

The easiest way would be to use a Tweening library like DOTween. It's not terribly hard to code simple movement like this but a tween library is really nifty to have and if you got it you might as well use it for the simple stuff too

[west sonnet]

Never heard of a tween library before. Will look into it

It makes moving objects easier, right?

As in animating, but using code?

[polar acorn]

Yeah, it creates "in betweens", so you give it a start thing, and end thing, and a time to do it in, and it changes that value between those two endpoints over the given time. You can use it for basically any continuous value, not just position.

[west sonnet]

Oookay

So I could use it to create smooth movement?

[ivory bobcat]

It would manage the interpolation for you.

[polar acorn]

At any time the start and end points are fixed quantities at least

[west sonnet]

hmmm ooooookay

Since importing DoTween, I have an error message saying 'Failed to find entry-points:'. What does this mean?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show the actual error and stack?

[timid hinge]

hi, i cant drop a sprite on the animation anyone knows why?

[rich adder]

this is not a code question

[timid hinge]

what is it then?

[west sonnet]

Trying to use DoTween. This is my code at the moment, I want the object to move and then move back to it's starting position but it's just moving, then not returning. Anyone know why?

[polar acorn]

#🏃┃animation

[timid hinge]

thanks

[polar acorn]

Because you're only tweening to that location, nothing about this moves it back. You're probably going to want a sequence that moves it somewhere, then back

[west sonnet]

ooh, I thought the SetLoop would bring it back? I'm following a tutorial and it did for that guy

[west sonnet]

So is the SetLoop pointless here?

[rich adder]

loop itself doesnt mean it will go to first frame again backwards

if there is loopmode to reverse then sure

lookup the LoopType

the docs for dotween sucks a donkey I can't link you directly to it
https://dotween.demigiant.com/documentation.php

[quiet merlin]

Hi y'all, i got an issue, I need a variable to be from 0 - 1, but it's currently between 0.21 - 0.72, because the object i'm clicking on doesn't take up the whole width of the screen
how do i convert variable to 0 - 1 rather than doing this?

the variable is basically input.mousePosition but converted using ScreenToViewportPoint() so clicks are resolution independant

I can show you my code for more context but I would like to know if it's possible to get an idea of how to fix this issue?

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.InverseLerp.html
InverseLerp, does the opposite of a lerp. Takes a value between two arbitrary endpoints and gets the normalized 0-1 value of it

[stiff stump]

how can i find gameobject by name and the gameobject is disabled in hierarchy

[dark laurel]

FindObjectOfType(includeInactive: true)

[brave vapor]

Can someone help me with my code. I tried to run it already a buch of times. I am trying to make a zombie's health go down when it hits an object tagged as "Bullet" but it just doesn't work and I don't really know why

Here's the code:

using UnityEngine;

public class ZombieController : MonoBehaviour
{
public Transform player;
public float speed = 2f;
public int maxHealth = 20;
public int bulletDamage = 10;

private int currentHealth;

private void Start()
{
    currentHealth = maxHealth;
}

private void Update()
{
    if (player != null)
    {
        Vector3 direction = player.position - transform.position;
        direction.Normalize();

        Quaternion toRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction, Vector3.up);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Lerp(transform.rotation, toRotation, Time.deltaTime * speed);

        transform.position += transform.forward * speed * Time.deltaTime;
    }
}

void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
{
    if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("Bullet"))
    {
        currentHealth -= bulletDamage;
        if (currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            Destroy(gameObject);
        }
    }
}

}

[polar acorn]

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[earnest atlas]

-_-
Sometimes I hate it so bad.

[polar acorn]

But it sounds like a person talking, which is all it actually does

It doesn't know anything about code, it just puts words together in ways people do

stop asking ChatGPT things

[earnest atlas]

I had issues with thing not working

[polar acorn]

It's not an oracle it's a very complicated markov chain

[edgy fox]

is it possible to set an object as invisble without disabling its meshrenderer or giving it an invisibility mask? I have an object that needs to cast shadows and thus have its renderer on but also has a mask used for LayerMasking, is there another possible solution?

[timber tide]

you can hide a renderer and cast shadows

shadows-only option on the renderer itself

[edgy fox]

oh yeah that exists

[swift crag]

The only thing that the spam generator should be used for is to generate spam

[earnest atlas]

It fails even at that 🙂

[swift crag]

no, it's GREAT at creating spam

[earnest atlas]

I tried to make it create dummy data for me. It takes forever for it. its faster to write it with code

[opal ridge]

Does someone maybe have an article abour Camera.main.screen... I'm wanting to make it so the player looks to the cursor in 2d top-down, but im not sure which to choose

Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint This for example

[rocky canyon]

heck ya, looks good

[earnest atlas]

I've made small collider on player but its not detecting collisions?

    void OnTriggerStay(Collider other)
    {
        if(!other.CompareTag("Ground")) return;
        GameController.Instance.IsOnGround = true;
    }

    void OnTriggerExit(Collider other)
    {
        if (!other.CompareTag("Ground")) return;
        GameController.Instance.IsOnGround = false;
    }

Solution found on stackoverflow.

Ground is tilemap with tag

[prisma hound]

private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D other)
    {
       if(other.gameObject.tag == "Powerup")
       {
        powerUpEnabled = true;
        PowerUpStart();
        other.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        Invoke(nameof(PowerUpEnd),timeLeft);
       }  
       if(other.gameObject.CompareTag("Portal"))
       {
        isTeleport = true;
        initialPosition = transform.position;
        originalVelocity = rb.velocity;
        rb.velocity = Vector2.zero;
        rb.gravityScale  = 0;
        objMesh.enabled = false;
        Invoke("TeleportFinal",FindObjectOfType<CamFollow>().teleportTime);
        
       }    
    }
   
   void PowerUpStart()
   {
    rb.mass*=3;
    physics2D.bounciness = 0.5f;
    coll.sharedMaterial.bounciness = 0.5f;
    Debug.Log("Power up started");
    
   }

    void PowerUpEnd()
    {
        Debug.Log("Power Up ended");
        rb.mass/=3;
        coll.enabled = true;
        coll.sharedMaterial.bounciness = 0.97f;
        powerUpEnabled = false;
        timeLeft = 3f;
        
    
    }

So what this code basically does is that it reduces my ball's bounciness. This worked perfectly fine in 3d(with all the necessary code changes like changing from Collider2D to Collider) but in 2D it doesnt seem to change my ball's bounciness

also i tried using both physics2d.bounciness and coll.sharedMaterial.bounciness but both are not working

in my 3d version i used coll.Material.bounciness

[gleaming wagon]

any problem with my calculating logic? whenever a non planet collides the score just becomes negative...

[earnest atlas]

Is a planet is always false

[gleaming wagon]

nope

i set it to true

in the inspector

and the score becomes positive

but as soon as a non planet collides it just becomes negative

[earnest atlas]

Make score static I had similar issue

[gleaming wagon]

Example: a planet collides 5 times making the score 5, a non planet collides, suddenly the score is -6

[earnest atlas]

Of score just being forgotten

Oh?

[gleaming wagon]

lemme try

[earnest atlas]

Maybe make score++ and score--

It shouldnt multiply

[gleaming wagon]

yeah that fixed it

weird tho

[prisma hound]

:((

[gleaming wagon]

I thought private is shared

[vapid mesa]

hi, when i start my project my camera rotation is good but when i start it the rotation change

[earnest atlas]

Private is private

[vapid mesa]

pls

[pallid verge]

give more info dawg

[opal ridge]

I'm trying to get the plane to look at the mouse cursor, in 2D top-down. It looks like it's moving, but just on the Y axis it seems like?

Vector2 mouseWorld = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(mousePos);
transform.forward = mouseWorld - mousePos;``` 

After some digging I found that WorldToScreenPoint can only be used in Vector3, is that correct? If so, what do I use to get the Camera.main. to what ?

[ivory bobcat]

What is a physics2D?

[rare basin]

this is a code related channel

[prisma hound]

You can ignore physics2d

[ivory bobcat]

If you're working with 2d, you need to use the 2d variants.

[prisma hound]

Yes i did

[ivory bobcat]

Not knowing what physics2d.bounciness is, I'm simply going to assume that it's something incorrect.

[prisma hound]

Bro ignore that

If i delete that statement nothings gonna change

Im talking about coll.sharedmaterial one

In my 3d version of this game the code works

But in 2d it doesnt

When i look at the physics material attached to my ball in the 2d version the bounciness gets changed to 0.5 but it doesnt bounce less

It bounces to the same height

[opal ridge]

Anyone ?

[ivory bobcat]

I've got no clue if you know what you're actually doing but 2d uses the 2d physics material and 3d uses the 3d physics material.
Using a single type for both is likely your issue.

[prisma hound]

I told you

That i use 3d in 3d

And 2d in 2d

I used collider2d in 2d and collider in 3d

I literally wrote thay

That

[earnest atlas]

void Start()
{
    colliderHeight = GetComponent<Collider2D>().bounds.size.y;
}


void FixedUpdate()
{
    var hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, new Vector2(0, -1));
    if (hit.collider == null) return;
    //This just does not want to work...
    var groundDistance = hit.distance;
    GameController.Instance.IsOnGround = groundDistance < colliderHeight;
    Debug.LogWarning("Distance to ground: " + groundDistance);
}```

Why its not working. Its hitting something Idnno what

I have disabled This

[low path]

i'm not sure your code even tries to do what you want. you have the coordinates of the mouse in screen space. then you try to convert those coordinates from world into screen space and then you use that to make a forward vector. but mouse pos is in screen space already.

[low path]

if you want to make the plane look at a point, you need to get "world coords" of your click. you can try doing this by intersecting a vector from camera to an invisible plane that defines your 2d space. that gives you a point in your 2d plane. then i think your plane's "forward" would be that point minus the origin of your plane.

[ivory bobcat]

WorldToScreenPoint can only be used in Vector3, is that correct?
Yes, but that isn't an issue as Vector2 is simply a Vector3 with one less component.
You need to use the screen to world function to convert your mouse position to world space.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint.html
Make sure to adjust the z value of the converted point to your necessary value if needed (it'll be at the camera's depth.. default at negative 10)

[ivory bobcat]

Are you certain it's hitting something?
Consider showing the console logs.

[earnest atlas]

It is hitting aparently itself

EVEN tho I have disabled that

Im about to go checking rigidbody speed and just throwing this code out the windows

Im just making corutine thats going to wait 0.1s before checking rb speed again and then letting player jump

I hate raycast

[ivory bobcat]

Well, the raycast starts at the origin of the object so it would most definitely hit that object without filtering any layer masks.

[earnest atlas]

I dont understand how layer masks work, I dont have time to understand them, Ill just make it normal way instead of using rest of my day dealing with that mess

[rare basin]

then don't expect anyone explaining it to you

when you dont have time to understand them yourself

[ivory bobcat]

Whatever floats your boat

[earnest atlas]

Ive spent last hour trying to make it work

[rare basin]

you can learn filtering raycasts by layermask

in literally 5 minutes

[earnest atlas]

Or I can make corutine that waits 0,1s and does not needs any raycast

[rare basin]

do whatever you want

[opal ridge]

So, should I do the z axis - the distance the camera is in screentoworld?

so for example - 7.51

[short hazel]

The most common errors with layer masks are:

1. You passed a single layer instead of a mask.
2. You passed it at the wrong place in the method, which means your ray distance is the mask, and vice-versa

[earnest atlas]

I'll probably deal with layers and masks when my Ahdh calms down.

[short hazel]

Masks convert to numbers seamlessly so it's very easy to make mistake #2 and not be aware of it

[opal ridge]

so im displaying the cursor cords i do that minus the camera?

[low path]

sorry, one way to get a click location in world space is to do a ray cast from camera to the surface you're querying

[rare basin]

Camera.ViewportToWorldPoint

[low path]

but you can just use something like https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint.html

[opal ridge]

Do I place a new Vector3 in there or just the mousePos + 7.51 (z-axis) or even both? Sorry I am trying to understand here precisely what is happening haha I thought of it way too easy

[low path]

you can do new Vector3 with mouse.x, mouse.y, and then whatever z your 2d stuff is at

[rare basin]

did you read the docs?

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ViewportToWorldPoint.html

[low path]

you can use viewport but if you use screentoworld, you can directly use the mouse coords. otherwise you will have to normalize mouse coords to [(0,0), (1,1)]

[opal ridge]

I'll have to run for a bit. I try it out later, thanks so much for the help guys!

[agile hornet]

Hello, so I'm spawning two game objects that both get destroyed and I would like create a count(on debug console) that displays the number of times the spawn is destroyed. Meaning whenever the game objects collide the count increments. I have everything setup with the collider components and all that. But when I run the script it does not increment, I'm not sure what is wrong, any help is very much appreciated, thanks.
Here is the code snippet :
void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{

   fed++;

   Debug.Log("Score:" + fed);

    Destroy(gameObject);
    Destroy(other.gameObject);        
}

[polar acorn]

Show the full !code

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[agile hornet]

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Unity.VisualScripting;
using UnityEngine;

public class DetectCollision2 : MonoBehaviour
{
private int fed = 0;

// Start is called before the first frame update
void Start()
{
    
}

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


void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
{  
    
   fed++;

   Debug.Log("Score:" + fed);

    Destroy(gameObject);
    Destroy(other.gameObject);        
}

}

[polar acorn]

1. Actually follow the instructions for posting code
2. The only time you increment fed is right before this object is destroyed so it's never going to ever be more than 1

[short hazel]

Each script on an object has its very own copy of that variable. When you destroy the object, the variable and its value is lost forever

[agile hornet]

I had thought this was the case. How can I go about incrementing the value, if the object is being destroyed. Or what is the alternative?

[short hazel]

The easiest way by far is making the variable static. That way it's "shared" across all scripts, and its value persists until the program stops running.

[agile hornet]

Okay, but even if I do it after. It's still not incrementing.

[polar acorn]

Well, incrementing a value after an object is destroyed ins't going to make it last any longer

[queen adder]

Is this going to get me executed, or is this acceptable

[polar acorn]

You should learn how to use Enums

[queen adder]

(Is there a better way of doing this that's gonna blow my mind)

[polar acorn]

and a switch statement

[queen adder]

Thank you I will research them

[polar acorn]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/enum

[agile hornet]

Thanks, will try and see how it goes.

[agile hornet]

Okay, how could I go about it?

[polar acorn]

Don't put the fed variable on the objects that are going to be deleted. Put that variable on something that sticks around and have that thing increase in value whenever one of these objects is hit

[agile hornet]

Mate, thanks alot it worked!!

[quick pollen]

also i dont get why u use ints to store the race

[queen adder]

What should I use instead

[quick pollen]

a string?

like if ur gonna use a method that inefficient to set stats, you might as well use a string lol

[queen adder]

It is a string

[quick pollen]

thats just the name of the int in ur array

[queen adder]

It's a seperate object, it only needs the int

[night mural]

ok yeah using an int to resolve to the string is pretty silly

[night mural]

see if this helps https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/introduction-to-scriptable-objects

you can make a ScriptableObject for reach race and include data other than their name

[quick pollen]

either scriptableobjects or just use static fields probably

or even better, structs

you could technically use an array of structs to create a race list

[agile hornet]

It works, but could I make it that the score is displayed once and incremented from there and not repeated as this. Thanks again.

[quick pollen]

so u dont have to make comparations for any reason

[night mural]

i'm not sure it's helpful to suggest every possible way to solve the problem

[quick pollen]

u just have a race that contains that value in itself

[quick pollen]

well im just saying a few solutions

[queen adder]

Isnt that just objectively less efficient

[quick pollen]

he can choose any he wants

[polar acorn]

An enum, as I said earlier

[quick pollen]

yeah digiholic is right, an enum is the best start

[queen adder]

not you digi, i mean the person telling me to store it as strings

im still watching vids on enums

[polar acorn]

I know I was just putting you back on track

Strings are not the answer

[night mural]

you can use an enum to replace both pieces of what you have now but i'm not sure that actually gets you anywhere

[quick pollen]

it'd be better for clarity I believe, but yeah I suppose ur right its not really relevant

[polar acorn]

I don't know what you mean, it doesn't look like anything is repeated there

[night mural]

magic strings bad

[quick pollen]

debug log prints something into the console and thats it. it can write on it but it can't change something you've already written

[quick pollen]

i think he wants a single Debug.Log() message in his console and have that changing depending on his score

[silver sun]

i tried this and other methods/ways for 5 hours straight,

private string Owner = "electrum-bowie";
private string Repository = "myRepo";
private string Token = "hidden";

public async Task UploadWavFile(byte[] bytes)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Token))
    {
        Debug.LogError("No access token.");
        return;
    }

    try
    {
        string fileName = "speaker.wav";
        string commitMessage = "Upload " + fileName;

        string apiUrl = $"https://api.github.com/repos/{Owner}/{Repository}/contents/audios/{fileName}";

        var fileContent = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
        var requestBody = new
        {
            message = commitMessage,
            content = fileContent,
            branch = "main"
        };

        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("token", Token);

            var jsonBody = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(requestBody);
            var content = new StringContent(jsonBody, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

            var response = await client.PutAsync(apiUrl, content);
            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        }

        Debug.Log("File uploaded successfully.");
    }
    catch (HttpRequestException ex)
    {
        Debug.LogError($"Error uploading file: {ex.Message}");
    }
}```
i just get:

Error uploading file: An error occurred while sending the request.
or
Error uploading file: 403 (Forbidden)
please.. this is so easy..

[quick pollen]

at that point ur better off using some sort of UI element tho

[polar acorn]

Logs don't change

[quick pollen]

thats what I explained right above that yup

[short hazel]

The server refused the request. Make sure the API key is valid. Try sending the request using another program, like Postman

[agile hornet]

What I meant is that it print the score: 1, then score: 2, then score 3 and so fourth. But I would like for it to print score but the values should increment and not the entire statement. Hope that was clear.

[quick pollen]

also idk how thats #💻┃code-beginner ill be honest lol

[silver sun]

is the code correct? i don't get
Error uploading file: 403 (Forbidden)
anymore...

[quick pollen]

networking stuff doesnt look beginner

[quick pollen]

Yeah I understood, you can't do that in Debug.Log(), because it just prints something in ur console and thats it, that can't be changed
what you can do is add a UI Text and have that display the score for u

[silver sun]

it is though, depends on what beginners begin learning on :/

[uneven nacelle]

I made a simple animation to a cube which uses navmesh, if I have root motion on, the sheep won't move, if it's disabled the animation won't work, anyone knows a fix?

[agile hornet]

Yes, this is what I meant.

[short hazel]

Well yes it's valid, since the request is sent and it's the EnsureSuccessStatusCode() that throws the exception you catch right away

[quick pollen]

have u ever made a console application?

basically something like a "Hello World!" script

and printing it in ur command prompt or terminal

[silver sun]

With the Code above, i only get:
Error uploading file: An error occurred while sending the request
I just want to know what did i miss.

The Access Token is valid

it has all permissions active

[quick pollen]

well if you start learning on something advanced that doesn't make the thing "beginner" lol

but tbf at this point ur better off just getting help here yeah

[silver sun]

it makes the thing beginner from the perspective of Unity Knowledge

[quick pollen]

well, difficulty is subjective

[short hazel]

Start debugging and inspect the ex variable, it may have more info in it

[quick pollen]

but lets not get into this lol

[queen adder]

I've got the enum setup, but how can I choose it through code? Basically what I'm trying to do in the image

[quick pollen]

whoa, calling an Enum?

[short hazel]

Races.Human for example

You cannot access them dynamically like arrays or lists

[quick pollen]

actually im gonna shut up cuz i dont know much about enums lol

[queen adder]

Ah, right

[agile hornet]

Thanks mate, I'll go check UI Text and see how it works out.

[queen adder]

So is there no way to translate 'int' to enum or vice versa

[quick pollen]

this is a question of my own, don't you need to like instantiate it or smth using like new?

[short hazel]

I guess gameMaster.characterRace = raceSelected; if both of these are of the enum type

[languid spire]

yes, you an cast Enum to int for example

[buoyant knot]

just cast

[queen adder]

Race selected is an int as I use it to scroll around a list

[quick pollen]

ur welcome, I suggest you use TMP so u have a lot of options later

[short hazel]

Okay so you can convert one into another by casting it

[quick pollen]

ngl idk what casting means sorry for asking in parallel, im curious now

[short hazel]

= (Race)raceSelected;

[buoyant knot]

public enum Cardinal {Up, Right, Down, Left }

Cardinal dir = Cardinal.Up;
Cardinal dir2 = (Cardinal) 3;
int x = (int) dir;

[short hazel]

And yep it works both ways

Enum <-> int

[buoyant knot]

this should give all the examples

[earnest atlas]

Any way to make Unity alive again? I had infinity while loop that killed it

[quick pollen]

oh wait right, kinda like when u have

float someFloat = 6.4f;
int castedInt = (int)someFloat;

right

[short hazel]

Yep

[polar acorn]

Force quit, restart

[night mural]

you must ask the opposite question -- if you have an infinite while loop then unity is stuck alive and you must kill it instead

[quick pollen]

cool, I just forgot what casting means then, I knew of this already ofc
ty :)

[earnest atlas]

Yeah that is the way Im doing it now

[buoyant knot]

close it. look at console logs to see where yoy messed up

[earnest atlas]

I know where I messed up

In my belief that Corutines are running in parrarel

[timber tide]

was it a while loop

[quick pollen]

@earnest atlas task manager or alt+f4 is my go-to

[quick pollen]

isnt the whole point of coroutines is them being able to run in parallel?

[earnest atlas]

if (!_isGrounded) // Double jump...........
{
    if ((_rb.velocity.y <= 0f))
    {
        if (Mathf.Abs(_rb.velocity.y) > -0.01f && Mathf.Abs(_rb.velocity.y) < 0.01f)
            _isGrounded = true;
    }
}```

[earnest atlas]

Well they arent.

[quick pollen]

wtf-

[earnest atlas]

Cause a while loop in corutine made unity die

Im trying to disable double jump in the air

[quick pollen]

ah yeah thats the issue

[languid spire]

nothing in Unity runs in parallel

[quick pollen]

overall while loops u have to be really careful with

or any loop really

like for loops are kinda more safe

[earnest atlas]

for loop 100000

😄

[quick pollen]

true that, I kinda meant like

[timber tide]

only loops you need is forloop

[quick pollen]

technically that'd still execute, would freeze unity a bit tho

[earnest atlas]

just a normal freeze 🙂

[quick pollen]

not really true

sometimes you want multiple things to happen in a single frame

thats what whiles are for in Unity

[gaunt ice]

for(;true;){}

[timber tide]

all loops can be made from forloop

[quick pollen]

but you probably don't want to have a loop run every frame

[wintry quarry]

likewise all loops can be made from while

[wintry quarry]

Many times you do

[quick pollen]

well true, but its kinda about convenience

[timber tide]

yeah but while stinky

[quick pollen]

well, not unintentionally, thats for sure

[earnest atlas]

even the AI bot is telling me to use raycast...

[quick pollen]

having an if statement run every update is ok usually, if not inefficient

[wintry quarry]

there's nothing inefficient about an if statement in Update

[quick pollen]

but a while loop without knowing what ur doing isnt the best

[wintry quarry]

writing any code without knowing what you're doing is bad

[quick pollen]

having a lot of them can slow it down tho?

especially ones that only need to be checked in specific times

[wintry quarry]

It's more about total number of operations than anything to do with the actual keywords used in code

[quick pollen]

true that, but a messed up if() is much better than a messed up while() lol

[quick pollen]

yeah that's what I mean

[queen adder]

Wait it's that easy

[quick pollen]

like why would you check something like, idk, how much ur score is as an example every frame

[languid spire]

yep

[queen adder]

Thank you all

Will make things a ton easier to work on without a dictionary

[languid spire]

the question is, why is it not already of Type Races?

[queen adder]

Sorry?

[wintry quarry]

why is the raceSelected field not simply a Races field?

Also best practice for enum naming is Race not a plural like Races

[languid spire]

no, the raceSelected field is not Races, why?

[wintry quarry]

The fact that you need to cast means you used some other type... int?

Just make it Races directly

then you won't need a cast.

[wintry quarry]

this isn't showing it

show where you define the raceSelected field

[queen adder]

It's just a private int at the top outside of the void

[wintry quarry]

why isn't it a private Races?

[queen adder]

because I wasnt sure if enums could be used in the race scolling menu I use ints for

[wintry quarry]

(also again that enum should conventionally be called Race not Races)

[gaunt ice]

It is for ui i guess, and the order of enum is the same as display

[wintry quarry]

you can cast to/from int if needed for something like that

[queen adder]

Yes but I literally seconds ago put the enum in place

I think you joined the chat after they helped me

[gaunt ice]

And once you change the order whole thing broken

[west sonnet]

On the right is my enemy. I have a fist (white square) parented to a fist pivot which is parented to the enemy body. The fist pivot has a collider on it, and the fist has a script that references that collider. On collision, it should send a debug message saying 'Hit' but it's not and I can't figure out why

Here's my code

[queen adder]

It can most likely be changed, but it seems fine as it is because I don't really need to touch that part anymore, it's modular and should allow for infinite expansion

[wintry quarry]

You need a Rigidbody2D for OnTriggerEnter2D

[west sonnet]

So would I need it on the fist or the fist pivot?

[wintry quarry]

whatever is moving

[languid spire]

also why punchTrigger as a class scope variable and a parameter variable?

[west sonnet]

Should I have the rigidbody set to Dynamic, Kinematic or Static?

[languid spire]

in this case, i guess, kinematic

[west sonnet]

It keeps pushing my enemy back for some reason

It seems like it's because the fist is on top of the enemy body (In 2D). Is this not possible?

[languid spire]

then your collider is not marked as trigger

[raven kindle]

I have made an end game screen for my 2d endless runner game, when the gameover function is called, i want to toggle my game over screen, i have tried using this and its throwing an error.

[slender nymph]

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

[west sonnet]

Omg yeah, thanks

[slender nymph]

and if this is the line the error is on then no GameOverScreen object is active in your scene

[raven kindle]

so its already on?

but i dont see it

[languid spire]

no, not there at all

[raven kindle]

in my start function i call gameoverscreen.off()

[slender nymph]

let me guess, that disables the gameobject?

[raven kindle]

I am new to all this, first time making an end screen

[slender nymph]

and have you bothered reading the docs for FindObjectOfType?

[west sonnet]

What would be the best way to make the enemy check if the player is in front of them and if so, to attack?

But only if the player is in front and within a certain distance

[raven kindle]

I thought it was just used to call functions from other scripts

[slender nymph]

a physics query like a raycast, overlapbox, etc

[slender nymph]

try reading the docs sometime https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.FindObjectOfType.html

[raven kindle]

So it doesnt work on inactive objects?

[west sonnet]

Overlapbox would be used with a collider, right? and Raycast is a component I'd add onto the enemy and then configure with script?

[raven kindle]

And its inactive?

So i cant use it to call function but assign values or something?

[slender nymph]

this isn't godot where a raycast is an object in the scene. raycast and overlapbox are both types of physics queries that check for colliders in a specific area

[slender nymph]

did you actually read the page i linked?

[raven kindle]

Yeah i did

[west sonnet]

Yes but to use Raycast, I add it to the Enemy via the inspector, right?

[slender nymph]

no because it isn't a component. it's a method you call in your code

[slender nymph]

and you didn't find anything in there about finding inactive objects?

[raven kindle]

It doesnt return inactive objects

Would i just use something like this to call the function instead? myObject.GetComponent<MyScript>().MyFunction();

[slender nymph]

and you didn't find anything in there about something you can do to find an inactive object?

[slender nymph]

a serialized reference in the inspector would be 100% better than using FindObjectOfType

also use the component type for your variable so you don't need to use GetComponent

[west sonnet]

Ooooh

[quick ruin]

Can I make color.a value 1 transparent and 0 full color?

[slender nymph]

no. also why

[earnest atlas]

Doesn't alfa exist for exactly that issue?

[quick ruin]

currently starts at red, want it to go red as it loses health

[earnest atlas]

Its already red.

[swift crag]

do some math

[slender nymph]

okay but why do you need the alpha channel to be 1 in order to be transparent?

[swift crag]

instead of asking to completely change how color itself works, you should consider just changing the number you calculate...

[slender nymph]

1 - percentage will get the right number

[quick ruin]

oooooo

thanks

[slender nymph]

although that does not account for the percentage potentially being greater than 1

[swift crag]

Mathf.InverseLerp(1, 0, percentage); would properly clamp the result, as would Mathf.Clamp01(1 - percentage);

I'd just skip the percentage step

Mathf.InverseLerp(ogHealth, 0, health);

[slender nymph]

yeah that's even better

[swift crag]

InverseLerp tells you what percentage a value is between two points

InverseLerp plus Lerp is basically a remap

[raven kindle]

What would i put as myObject?

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[polar acorn]

How are you getting the reference to call .Off()?

[raven kindle]

i dont know, i just want to call a function from a different script

i am so lost

[polar acorn]

You said you were calling .Off in Start, right?

[slender nymph]

so get a reference to it

[raven kindle]

Yes

[polar acorn]

Right here

[raven kindle]

Yes its also giving an error

[polar acorn]

Ah, okay

So then you should read the thing boxfriend linked twice

[raven kindle]

okie

[raven kindle]

Would this be right?

to reference it?

Then i call gameOverScreen.Off()

[polar acorn]

What's the error say

[raven kindle]

A field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method, or property

[polar acorn]

You cannot use GetComponent outside of a function

[raven kindle]

ah ty

[swift crag]

You're very limited in what you can use in a field initializer.

[raven kindle]

i already have loads of references

[swift crag]

why not just assign those in the inspector?

[raven kindle]

But this has gone red now

[slender nymph]

this is also not going to work anyway if the GameOverScreen component is not on this object

[raven kindle]

okie ill do it in the inspector

[swift crag]

https://unity.huh.how/references/serializing-component-references

[raven kindle]

do i drag the script to the box?

[slender nymph]

drag the object that has the component on it into the box

just like the gif shows

[swift crag]

there are no "scripts" in your scene. i don't like using that term

there are components attached to game objects

the page I linked shows exactly what to do

[swift crag]

hey, there's an example of a short video that complements a written article!

love to see those

[raven kindle]

but how would i reference this? like public gameObject gameoverscreen?

[slender nymph]

no, use the component type GameOverScreen

just like the page linked says

[queen adder]

Your script essentially becomes a component.

[swift crag]

your script file defines a kind of component

[swift crag]

always reference the type you actually want.

[raven kindle]

how would it look?

public xxx gameOverScreen

[polar acorn]

What type are you trying to reference

[raven kindle]

i just want to call a function from another script

[swift crag]

that doesn't answer digi's question

[polar acorn]

So what type are you trying to reference

[raven kindle]

idk what type, game object?

[polar acorn]

Okay, what function of GameObject are you trying to call?

[raven kindle]

the one in my script

do i need to use the name of the game object?

[polar acorn]

So do you want to reference your type or GameObject

[raven kindle]

right, so the type will be GameOverScreen?

[swift crag]

bingo

[polar acorn]

Yes

[raven kindle]

then what goes at the end?

[swift crag]

you are referencing a GameOverScreen

you are not referencing a GameObject

[raven kindle]

just public GameOverScreen ?

[swift crag]

you have to give it a name.

[polar acorn]

The end of what

[raven kindle]

ohh right

soo public GameOverScreen gameOverScreen works?

[swift crag]

yes

[raven kindle]

ty

[swift crag]

as would public GameOverScreen blorp;

gameOverScreen is a good name for the variable.

but I just want to point out that variable name doesn't matter

[raven kindle]

ah i got it mixed the other way around

[swift crag]

additionally, game object names mean nothing

it doesn't matter what you name a game object; its type is always GameObject

[raven kindle]

right

[swift crag]

similarly, it doesn't matter if you name your variable fooBar and also have a game object named fooBar

these are unrelated concepts

[raven kindle]

then how can i call it?
gameOverScreen.Off();

[swift crag]

correct!

[raven kindle]

ahh thanks

[swift crag]

assuming that you'ver assigned a valid reference

if you haven't, you'll get an exception

[raven kindle]

okie

ty for help

this is all OOP stuff right?

[swift crag]

i wouldn't really call this "object oriented programming" stuff

[swift crag]

I guess this counts.

But most of this has been about just declaring a variable.

[raven kindle]

yeah

copilot keeps suggesting this

do i need this?

[polar acorn]

no

[raven kindle]

or i have declared it in the inspector instead

[swift crag]

if you want to grab a completely random GameOverScreen that may or may not exist, I guess

[raven kindle]

would i need this if i didnt use inspector?

[swift crag]

It would be an alternative, yes.

[raven kindle]

i see

[swift crag]

you should favor serialized references assigned in the inspector

they allow you to specify which object you want

[raven kindle]

right

[swift crag]

and also make it very clear what a component requires

[raven kindle]

i will change my other ones then

[swift crag]

I do sometimes just use GetComponent when I know component A must always exist alongside exactly one component B

[raven kindle]

When i am calling other functions, its not bringing up error like it did for this
FindObjectOfType<ScoreManager>().AddScore(1); works fine

[swift crag]

yeah, just mark those with [SerializeField] (if they aren't public) and then assign them in the inspector

[raven kindle]

and i never referenced it either

[raven kindle]

yep will do

[swift crag]

its not bringing up error like it did for this

I don't understand what you mean.

[raven kindle]

Like when i tried to use FindObjectOfType<>.function, this brought up error

[polar acorn]

Because it failed to find

[raven kindle]

for the calling over gameoverscreen

oh

but how comes it finds this one?

[polar acorn]

If it can't find an object, it returns null

[swift crag]

You mean that an error happened at runtime?

[raven kindle]

yeah

[swift crag]

Then yes, it failed to find an instance of the class

I thought you meant you got a compile error.

[raven kindle]

The runtime one

But when i add score it has no problem

Though i never referenced the script ScoreManager

[polar acorn]

Because that one is able to find the object

[swift crag]

It doesn't matter if you've already assigned a reference in the inspector

[polar acorn]

You should still probably change that to a direct reference

[swift crag]

FindObjectOfType<T> just searches the current scene for a T

It doesn't matter whether or not you have a variable that holds a reference to a T

[raven kindle]

okie

should i change all the functions i called using the FindObjectOfType<>?

bcause there is kinda alot of them

[polar acorn]

In general, you should avoid using any Unity function that starts with Find

[raven kindle]

okie

[swift crag]

If you are using it, try to stick to doing it once

Grab the ScoreManager when you spawn and hang on to it.

[slender nymph]

just FYI you should switch to using the SceneManager API instead of using Application.LoadLevel

[swift crag]

Sometimes it's perfectly reasonable to use

and oh man, I've never even seen Application.LoadLevel

[raven kindle]

no idea what that means

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.html

[raven kindle]

imma have ptsd from these docs 😭

it seems to work fine the loadscene

[swift crag]

it's obsolete

so it may be removed in the future

notice the warning your IDE is giving you

[slender nymph]

ha, Application.LoadLevel is even just calling SceneManager.LoadScene now
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/2d4714b26573c9f220da0e266d62f42830c14ad6/Runtime/Export/Application/Application.cs#L436

you should switch anyway to ensure an update does not break your code though

[swift crag]

note: you'll need to add using UnityEngine.SceneManagement; to use SceneManager

Your IDE should suggest this for you if you don't add it, though

And if you're ever unsure "where" something comes from, look at the doc page

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager.html

[gritty notch]

im working on a game and im trying to come up with a simple and clean way to handle items. right now i have an item scriptable object with name, rarity, and type (weapon, tool, consumable, tile) but the thing is i want further classification like in tool i want pickaxe (with pickaxe power, etc), axe, and more. and when i left click with an item in hand i want to get exactly what type of weapon it is. idk if im explaining this properly but does anyone know an effective way to do this?

[earnest atlas]

item.id,name,type,etc

[raven kindle]

PlayerPrefs.SetInt("TotalDistanceTravelled", PlayerPrefs.GetInt("TotalDistanceTravelled")+1);

Does this work to increment the playerpref?

[earnest atlas]

It doesnt look like a setter?

[rare basin]

try it and see

[raven kindle]

it doesnt work

[rare basin]

then why do you ask?

[raven kindle]

just wondering if this code should work

or if its something else in the program

[earnest atlas]

If you know it wont xD

[slender nymph]

how do you know it doesn't

[rare basin]

it should work tbh

[raven kindle]

its not displaying

[earnest atlas]

Also it looks a lot like Database request for data

[raven kindle]

thats why i ask if it should work

[slender nymph]

show where you display it

[raven kindle]

so now i know its something else

[rare basin]

and where do you call it

and what does the text display

did you log the saved int?

[rare basin]

what does it display

[raven kindle]

i call it after the game ends

[rare basin]

is this being called at all?

[slender nymph]

please show the full !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
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[raven kindle]

okie for which class?

both of them?

[rare basin]

everything that includes that system

[earnest atlas]

Is there any VSstudio plugin to work better with unity? For some reason method names are not highlited?

[rare basin]

wdym

[slender nymph]

make sure it is configured 👇 !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)
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• VS Code
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• Other/None

[raven kindle]

https://pastebin.com/PvAXa60g
https://pastebin.com/s2311VVR

warning about this code btw

[earnest atlas]

Its completing things like functions and such of unity. But methods nope

[slender nymph]

wdym "methods nope"

[rare basin]

learn how to ask questions please

[earnest atlas]

Like start,awake,etc

[slender nymph]

what about them

[rare basin]

wdym, they nope

[earnest atlas]

Not autocompleting at all

[slender nymph]

in what context. because it works perfectly fine for me

[raven kindle]

do you know why it doesnt work?

[earnest atlas]

In when you want to call some unity method like:
Update, start, Awake, OnTriggerEnter, etc

[rare basin]

call them?

[earnest atlas]

I mean this

[rare basin]

thats not calling a method

[earnest atlas]

Im not native eng and have absolutly no idea how to call that

[rare basin]

how to call what? you are not calling any function here

[earnest atlas]

What im doing then

[slender nymph]

looks like you've got some compile error that you need to fix so that it can realize what you are actually trying to do

[earnest atlas]

I do not

[charred spoke]

Your !ide is not configured properly then

[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

[wintry quarry]

you do - that's why void has a red underline

[rare basin]

it is configured

[earnest atlas]

void has RED underline because of me writing that update

yes

[charred spoke]

Show us your console

[wintry quarry]

mouse over the underline and show what it says

[earnest atlas]

Its considering that void Upda as incomplete

So its complaining about missing semmicon

[wintry quarry]

The first error I believe translates to "unexpected token void" something like that?

[earnest atlas]

yeah because its reading next line

[rare basin]

delete that line void Upda

save all files

can you enter playmode?

[earnest atlas]

Ignore that error

Issue is whatever Im doing not autocompleting at all

[wintry quarry]

Make sure intellisense is enabled: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/using-intellisense?view=vs-2022#intellisense-options

[scarlet skiff]

why does one of em work...? i simply js switched the order..

[wintry quarry]

that line of code is impossible for a human to read. Break it up

[swift crag]

That's unreadable.

[low sandal]

how do I make a AI navigation that is able to play animations (attacks) every now and then ifykyk?

[rare basin]

jezus what is that monster

[swift crag]

You don't get bonus points for putting everything on one line.

[earnest atlas]

one line challange

or how to make teacher give u a 0

[swift crag]

playing animations is unrelated to moving around

i am unclear how this is an "if you know you know" situation

[low sandal]

yea

it is (sorry)

[wintry quarry]

Your actual compile issue is you closed the parentheses )) and THEN put && !attacking but it's really hard to notice that since the line is so long

[low sandal]

but if you look at the game Muck and their AI it attacks every now and then

[scarlet skiff]

there, broke it up

[low sandal]

and thats what im trying to get for my VR game

[scarlet skiff]

oh thanks

[wintry quarry]

this isn't really breaking it up

[earnest atlas]

I think it is working?

[wintry quarry]

Breaking it up would be:

bool isMoving = player.velocity.magnitude > 0;``` ^to replace all the player velocity checks

and then using isMoving in the if @scarlet skiff

[swift crag]

that's one line of code that's been hit with a hammer

[rare basin]

cache that Mathf.Abs pls

[swift crag]

break out chunks into separate variables

then you can do a big a && b && c && d at the end

[untold fjord]

why does collision not work when animation is running

[slender nymph]

please see #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help

[scarlet skiff]

even better

[earnest atlas]

omg that &&

[scarlet skiff]

id need one of moving in 7 axis, and one if moving in x axis, and even those lieki need one if moving up, one if moving down etc..

[swift crag]

this is certainly more readable than mashing it all onto one line

but I have trouble parsing what some of th ose lines mean at a glance

[scarlet skiff]

elaborate pls

[slender nymph]

you have so many Find calls in this code i'd bet the playerpref is never actually being set due to runtime exceptions like NullReferenceExceptions when Find doesn't actually find the correct object

[swift crag]

storing them into a variable with a descriptive name would be superior

[raven kindle]

i thought my code killed you

[earnest atlas]

yeah even 1 nullreff kills the script 🙂

[raven kindle]

okie i will try clean it up

[untold fjord]

when my 2d stickman idle and walk animations are running, collision doesnt not work, is it because the rigidbody component gets disabled when animations are running, since it also configures the transform

[slender nymph]

yes that is precisely why

[rare basin]

instead of doing 2x Mathf.Abs(player.velocity.x) and 2x for y, you can just cache it in a variable then use it, simplier and cleaner

[untold fjord]

well i have payed close attention to the properties

nothing changes

[polar acorn]

https://www.habrador.com/tutorials/programming-patterns/6-state-pattern/

[untold fjord]

how could i prevent that if the changes are beyond the properties

[slender nymph]

what does that even mean?

if you are disabling your rigidbody then you need to not do that

[untold fjord]

i cant just press a button to stop it

[untold fjord]

im not

physics is

maybe

[slender nymph]

don't make assumptions about what is happening and pass them off as something you are doing

[scarlet skiff]

im afraid im unfamiliar with "cashe" 😬

[untold fjord]

i look at the collision while the project is running, it does not get visibly disabled, nor does the rigidbody gets visibly disabled

[polar acorn]

store it in a variable

[swift crag]

to cache is to store something and re-use its value

[polar acorn]

and then use the variable

[polar acorn]

So then why did you say the rigidbody is getting disabled

[slender nymph]

then why would you say it is.

[raven kindle]

Is there a way to easily sort out animations? (My game automatically moves to the right soo it is always running except when playerspeed is set to 0, then its idle) i cant use keypresses as the game will be managing players speed

[swift crag]

there's a nominal performance benefit, but it also just makes the code easier to read

bool splinesReticulated = // Horrifically complicated code here

if (splinesReticulated) {
  ...
}

[rare basin]

animator.SetBool(Mathf.Abs(player.velocity.x) > 1 || Mathf.Abs(player.velocity.x) < -1)

could be done cleaner by caching the abs value

float absValue = Mathf.Abs(player.velocity.x);
animator.SetBool(absValue > 1 || absValue < -1);

[polar acorn]

Why not just make a parameter that has your X and Y velocity, and use the Animator window to determine which animation to play based on those values

[slender nymph]

#↕️┃editor-extensions

[untold fjord]

let me word it this way, i think, the rigidbody does not run the physics code, when the animation is playing, because they both configure the transform, and i want to play the animation without losing its collision

[scarlet skiff]

thanks ill keep this in mind

[dry tendon]

thanks!

[slender nymph]

your animator is overwriting the position set by the rigidbody. it is not disabling the rigidbody or making physics not run, it's just overwriting it by controlling the position manually

[polar acorn]

This looks like you've made one boolean for every single animation state in your animator and then setting it based on a convoluted confluence of variables.

Why not just use the Animator as it was intended and put these conditions on transitions, and feed in things like your velocity and various other booleans as parameters those transitions can read?

[polar acorn]

If your animation is modifying the root object's transform, it shouldn't be. You should be animating a child object of the actual thing that's moving around and doing the colliding

[untold fjord]

so how could i preserve the collision?

[dry tendon]

but it could be either code or editor extensions too... i'm doing all by code with imgui

[languid spire]

this converstaion has been going on for what seems like weeks @scarlet skiff

[slender nymph]

it's editor code. therefore it is #↕️┃editor-extensions

[untold fjord]

the animation only configures the transform of the limbs, not the parent. which also explains why when i tried to debug the issue, the box collision inside the parent worked, but the box collision in the limbs didnt

[scarlet skiff]

wouldnt that need like a LOT of transitions? and wouldnt u then kinda get lost, if there is a problem with an animation, id just look at all the conditions since they are all in one place and id fix it there

[slender nymph]

by "collision" do you actually perhaps mean OnCollisionEnter/Exit messages rather than actual physics collisions?

[dry tendon]

Perfect!

[scarlet skiff]

regarding what exactly

[polar acorn]

Each animation state would require one transition for each other animation state that this state can change into.

[untold fjord]

i mean that my character just goes through the floor

[languid spire]

your refusal to use the Animator correctly and digging yourself deeper and deeper into a hole

[polar acorn]

This is literally what the Animator was designed to do

[untold fjord]

i have researched alot

this issue has not been talked about

[polar acorn]

it replaces the legacy animation component because doing it the way you currently are is absolute fucking misery and no one liked doing it

[slender nymph]

well then it's because you are controlling the position of your objects using the animator instead of moving them in a physics friendly way. this is not code related so you can ask for help in setting up your animations in a way that still allows physics to work in #🏃┃animation

[scarlet skiff]

if you have jus ta few animation that does become a lot of transitions quickly tho

[polar acorn]

You have like six animations and your code had to be rewritten like six times before any of the people here, some of whom have been programming for literal decades could even read it

Stop caring about having a dozen transitions

[scarlet skiff]

from what i have understood when you get a lot of animations you could benefit from calling them frm a script rather than a transition, and for me its working fine, it was a simple syntax error that i didnt notice that was the source of this problem, sometimes you need a fresh pair of eyes, considering i most likely wont be adding another animation, i think i did fine

[languid spire]

Ask yourself this question, 'If my was was better why am I still having so many problems with it?'

[earnest atlas]

Any good tutorial on layerMaks for raycast

[slender nymph]

why would there be a tutorial for that?

[polar acorn]

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[scarlet skiff]

the answer was apparently a syntax error so ye. Not saying its better it just works fine for me. Only had 1 major issue and it was with logic, and considering id use the same logic for transitions, i dont think it could have been avoided, but i cant be sure i suppose

[raven kindle]

My rb2d.velocity.x is 0 when the player is moving, whys this?

[slender nymph]

how is it moving

[raven kindle]

transform.Translate(playerSpeed * Time.deltaTime, 0f, 0f);

oh is it because rb2d is not moving it?

[slender nymph]

that doesn't use velocity. it doesn't even use the rigidbody

[polar acorn]

Well, yeah. You're teleporting the object. That doesn't use the rigidbody at all

[raven kindle]

how would i move it using rb2d?

[polar acorn]

Either AddForce or set the Velocity usually

[slender nymph]

yeah just set the velocity to playerSpeed

[raven kindle]

ok

[slender nymph]

or rather a Vector2 using playerSpeed as the X axis

[earnest atlas]

Wait layermask all this time was this?

shift bites to get your layer?

[languid spire]

bits

[slender nymph]

yes. or you can just do it the sane way and create a LayerMask variable and just assign it in the inspector. no bit shifting required. don't even need an understanding of bitmasks for it

[polar acorn]

yes

[earnest atlas]

Nononono sane me.... rubber room with rats... rats made me crazy....

[scarlet skiff]

i mean.. its 8 animations, would be 36 transitions, but idk i mean those same transitions would also have logic in a script so mgiht as well call them from there...? idk bro

[polar acorn]

Can every animation transition into every other animation

[languid spire]

Any State

simple star configuration

[scarlet skiff]

with very few exceptions

[polar acorn]

Then you'd need 8 transitions

[scarlet skiff]

but good point

[polar acorn]

Any State -> [Animation]

per animation

[scarlet skiff]

i totally overlooked Any State

thanks, ill keep you points in mind for the next project

[languid spire]

man, I told you this on day one

[scarlet skiff]

😅

it still feels alien to me, i suppose i gotta try it some day

[bold saffron]

For some reason the buttons in my main menu don't work, all of them have on click commands and don't work. there is one button with no on click command that works but I don't know why

[earnest atlas]

float hitData;

if(Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, _rayDirection, out hitData, 10, _groundLayer)
{

}```

Any idea how to output hit data in same if?

[untold fjord]

figured out the issue

[languid spire]

hitData is not a float

[short hazel]

This code does not compile

[earnest atlas]

I know that, Im just looking at one guide

[languid spire]

don't, look at the docs

[earnest atlas]

its not docs

Ray ray = new Ray(transform.position, transform.forward);
        RaycastHit hitData;
        if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hitData, 10, layerMask, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore))
        {
            // The Ray hit something less than 10 Units away,
            // It was on the a certain Layer
            // But it wasn't a Trigger Collider
        }```

This guide online has if outputing hit data

tho its 3d

[languid spire]

so where do you see hitData declared as a float in that?

[earnest atlas]

Issue its declared nowhere and I have no idea what is it

[languid spire]

what?
float hitData;

[earnest atlas]

I was just guessing

[cosmic dagger]

figure out which one you're suppose to use. the first example you posted uses Physics2D.Raycast, the second example is Physics.Raycast. they have different overloads . . .

[slender nymph]

look harder. it is declared there

[languid spire]

don't guess, LOOK AT THE DOCS

[earnest atlas]

didnt someone just tell me not to look at docs?

ah there appears comma

[languid spire]

there was a comma in there you apparently missed

[earnest atlas]

happens a lot

[polar acorn]

It is declared

it's in the section you've posted

it's right there

[quick ruin]

Could I insert a new material into Material[] with code?

[earnest atlas]

Im blind

[slender nymph]

not that the Physics.Raycast code they posted is going to be useful anyway since they are trying to use Physics2D.Raycast which doesn't have an out parameter

[polar acorn]

Arrays are fixed size. You cannot change the size of an array at runtime. If you're going to be adding to it over time, use a List

[earnest atlas]

this is the answer for me yay

[polar acorn]

Right, but still, it is there

[slender nymph]

oh i know. i pointed that out to them already

[slender nymph]

no, the answer for you is to read the fucking docs mate. you would have seen how to use it if you'd bother spending any time actually making an attempt at understanding instead of guessing then immediately coming here

[earnest atlas]

Ive looked up a guide that had that code I came here when my tries to make it work DIDNT WORK

[languid spire]

RTFM, how many times must you be told!

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.Raycast.html

[slender nymph]

you looked at a guide for a different method, assumed it would work for the actual method you are using instead of literally just looking at the documentation, then came here when the code for a different method doesn't work for the one you are using

[earnest atlas]

Ive came here mostly cause I thought I messed up "out" cause I dont tend to use it at all.

[slender nymph]

and had you bothered reading the docs you would have seen you didn't need it at all

[earnest atlas]

I wanted to use fancy out considered I rarely use it I though I messed up with it

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[earnest atlas]

 try
 {
     if (_isJumping) // Jump logic
     {
         var hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, _rayDirection, 2, _groundLayer);
         if (hit.collider != null)
         {
             if (hit.distance < 0.36f)
             {
                 _rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * _upwardForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
             }
         }
     }
 }
 catch (Exception e)
 {
     Debug.LogException(e);
 }```

Randomly player starts jumping much lower then he should. Any idea what can be the cause?

[ivory bobcat]

What's the expected height and what's the actual height?

And when do you call these lines of code?

[earnest atlas]

FixedUpdate

[ivory bobcat]

Other than that, when do you reset jumping state?

Is there a possibility that you're jumping more than once sometimes? (or less than once sometimes)

[earnest atlas]

Exepected on left, bugged on right.

[ivory bobcat]

Set the jumping state to false after jumping?

[tender breach]

I want my game object to only spawn once, but it's spawning multiple times. https://pastecode.io/s/acyrxrce

[earnest atlas]

    void OnEnable()
    {
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.Enable();
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Movement.performed += OnMovementPerformed;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Movement.canceled += OnMovementCancelled;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Jump.performed += OnJumpPerformed;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Jump.canceled += OnJumpCancelled;
    }

    void OnDisable()
    {
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.Disable();
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Movement.performed -= OnMovementPerformed;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Movement.canceled -= OnMovementCancelled;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Jump.performed -= OnJumpPerformed;
        GameController.Instance.PlayerControls.PlayerControl.Jump.canceled -= OnJumpCancelled;
    }

    private void OnJumpPerformed(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        _isJumping = true;
    }

    private void OnJumpCancelled(InputAction.CallbackContext context)
    {
        _isJumping = false;
    }

unity input system. Class is generated in another constant singleton script

Why Im calling it each time? Because it decided that its not gonna link any other way

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming that you're applying force more than once - have not been made aware of when jump state resets yet.

[tender breach]

Bumping this

[earnest atlas]

So you mean my expected jump is like 3times stong as it should?

[ivory bobcat]

Try logging to see how many times jump was fired

[tender breach]

Yes, I formatted the code

[earnest atlas]

No, force is applied only once

2 jumps and only 2 times code was called to apply it

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe change the if condition to when true and set it to false insidecs if (Spawn == true) { Instantiate(puyo2[puyotypeIndex], new Vector2(-12.5f, 5f), puyo2[puyotypeIndex].transform.rotation); Spawn = false; dropSet++; }

[ivory bobcat]

Can you show the logs?

[polar acorn]

I'm confused as to why you've got a try-catch. That's concerning

[earnest atlas]

I had some weird issues that contols just stopped working

I though it crashed somewhere on jump

so I added that

[timber tide]

Why don't you go follow a tutorial, anthony? There's bunch of tetris like tutorials and it's probably worth it if you keep getting stuck on this one script

[earnest atlas]

one sec adding log. I had break there

[polar acorn]

Every time you collide with anything while Spawn is false, you spawn an object.
When you collide with any object in the first five layers, Spawn becomes false until the end of time

[earnest atlas]

Yeah its correct.

[polar acorn]

Meaning once you collide with something in those layers, every other object you collide with causes a spawn

[tender breach]

Let me rephrase that, I want it to spawn when it touches the same gameobject or the ground.

[earnest atlas]

Wait no its called twice?

[polar acorn]

Also learn how to use && and ||

[earnest atlas]

Great now I need to somehow fix that

[ivory bobcat]

Consider resetting the jump state to false after jumping

You can have zero to many fixed update frames between every update frame.

Assuming button cancel occurs on Update and not fixed update

[earnest atlas]

Cancel happens on unity input

Its just fixed update happens twice while player is on the ground

Im just making a corutine

[ivory bobcat]

Which is either update or fixed update.

[earnest atlas]

No idea

[ivory bobcat]

The new input system should have means to control this

Assuming you did not configure it, it's on update

[earnest atlas]

private IEnumerator Jump()
{
    Debug.Log(DebugJump++);
    _rb.AddForce(Vector3.up * _upwardForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.5f);
    _coroutine = null;
}```

This should probably fix it

[ivory bobcat]

Meaning, you could have told it to jump in update and had no jumps or many jumps (undefined behavior either way)

[earnest atlas]

if (hit.distance < 0.36f)
{
    if(_coroutine!=null)return;
    _coroutine = StartCoroutine(Jump());
}```

[ivory bobcat]

You still might not get any jumps at all..

[earnest atlas]

it can jump at best every 0.5s

[queen adder]

Hi all, what's the best way to save basic variables so they can easily be accessed by other scripts.

[earnest atlas]

GREAT

now there is a small jump

[ivory bobcat]

Update 1
    isJump = true
Fixed Update 1
    Jump()
Update 2
    isJump = false
Fixed Update 2
Fixed Update 3
Update 3
    isJump = true
Fixed Update 4
    Jump()
Fixed Update 5
    Jump()
Fixed Update 6
    Jump()
Update 4
    isJump = false
Update 5
Update 6```

[wintry quarry]

What do you mean by "save"? Like in a save file?

[queen adder]

I intent to implement that after, but just say store for now

[earnest atlas]

So i need to set jump to false?

[ivory bobcat]

Just set it to false after jumping to get consistent jumping.

[tender breach]

I don't understand. What variables am I supposed to make = false and true respectively?

[earnest atlas]

Setting it false made it worse 🙂

[polar acorn]

I'm simply pointing out what your current code is doing. Essentially, once you've collided with any object on a layer 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, you set Spawn to false, which means that from that moment on, every single time OnTriggerEnter2D is called, it'll spawn a new object

[earnest atlas]

Someone call an exorcist. I cant take this anymore

[ivory bobcat]

Increase the force. It should not be occurring more than once per jump input now.

[earnest atlas]

One jump is short, other is long, next 3 short, long short long no jump yes jump

[tender breach]

So I should put it in start?

[earnest atlas]

I wanted to make Player to be able to auto jump

[ivory bobcat]

Consistency is what you ought to be aiming for.

[polar acorn]

You need to decide when you actually want to spawn the object

[earnest atlas]

Well thats exactly whats got worse 😄

[polar acorn]

Under what conditions should something spawn

[tender breach]

If it's touching the ground or the top of the same gameobject.

[ivory bobcat]

Define "auto jump"

[polar acorn]

What do you mean by "the top of the same gameobject"

An object cannot collide with itself

[earnest atlas]

You dont need to press jump repeatedly jump to continue jumping

as I had it before it was working like that

[crisp comet]

Thank you 🙏

[earnest atlas]

I had vector3 in the force multiplier. Lets see if it fixed that

[tender breach]

I meant a clone of the object.

[earnest atlas]

and I instantly fell in the void

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, any time an instance of this object collides with the ground, or another instance of this object

[tender breach]

Yes

[slender nymph]

it's absolutely bonkers that you decided to record a vertical video on your phone to demonstrate this issue instead of just a few screenshots. it is also basically impossible to read the code in that video. but you need to go through this: https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages

[ivory bobcat]

Should probably google about how to approach small, medium and large jumps
Assuming you're wanting button held down to apply higher jumps

[polar acorn]

Okay, and since all collisions inherently happen between two objects, when two of these objects collide into each other, you want them both to spawn one?

[earnest atlas]

No i dont. I want it just to jump with constant force and not this random Lottery of jumps

[ivory bobcat]

Acquire jump from the button down and reset it after jumping...

[crisp comet]

Thanks for the feedbacl!!!