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[tepid summit]

idk

[hexed terrace]

Read the first line of the description as to why this happens https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input.GetKeyDown.html

[tepid summit]

i was just offering ideas

so get rid of the down

i did

[nimble apex]

if you only take F=ma and terminal velocity into account lol

without any other complex stuff

[modern sinew]

Hi all! trying to get a retro 2d platformer to work but have problems with the jump mech; it fails to check that the player is only on the ground when jump is allowed. Also I want the player to jump using the UpArrow && LeftArrow || RightArrow.

I tried several things, the last thing I have worked well if I only checked for ArrowUp for jump but I need the combo to simulate the old game I'm going for. I use Input.GetAxis for horizontal movement. (So this code still enables the player to keep jumping mid air).

`if (hit != null)
{
grounded = true;
}

if (grounded && Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.UpArrow) && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
{
body.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
grounded = false;
}`

[teal viper]

You want left and right keys pressed at the same time to act as if up was pressed? Is that correct?

[hexed terrace]

(grounded && (uparrow && (leftarrow || rightarrow))

[earnest atlas]

Unity imput system to the resque

Set it to return vector and check if its 1,0,1

[modern sinew]

No, I want player jump only when Up + Left or Up+Right are pressed. I need another function for only Up key.

[earnest atlas]

Why you want exactly those combinations?

[hexed terrace]

because they want to only jump up+left or up+right..

[modern sinew]

to mimic the old control from the Commodore 64. It's actually the joystick movement but I only have the keyboard for the pc right now. 🙂

[hexed terrace]

☝️

[scarlet skiff]

https://gdl.space/gujocaqole.cs

can someone tell me why the jump force is always the same, am i missing something?

[rare basin]

because you don't change jumpForce anywhere?

[scarlet skiff]

sorry, meant JumpIncrease

[rare basin]

anyway this is terrible architecture, you might want to change it

[scarlet skiff]

ye id need to use loops n such here too

[modern sinew]

I'll try this.

[rare basin]

entire Update() is unreadable

[scarlet skiff]

id just want it working for now

[rare basin]

because you are not nicreasing JumpIncrease anywhere

[scarlet skiff]

then id clean up

[earnest atlas]

else if 😄

[scarlet skiff]

wouldnt this run the jump method with different JumpIncrease values?

middle parameter is JumpIncrease

[rare basin]

it would

[earnest atlas]

yeah it should

[scarlet skiff]

timeSinceCharge works as it should, and relaod bar value is always at 1 when i test

[rare basin]

Debug.Log it then

in the Jump() method

clampedForce *= jumpIncrease; after this line

[earnest atlas]

Why Im getting this unity error?

[rare basin]

you already asked that like 3 times last week

it's a unity error, you can ignore it

[earnest atlas]

I couldnt have asked it 3 times

And its a unity error sure does not sounds convincing

[scarlet skiff]

seems that the jumpIncrease is either 1 or 1.25

and i can see why

the else if, right?

or wait no that doesnt make any sense

[modern sinew]

Sorry, this still makes the player able to jump in mid air. It's like it things grounded = true for too long. If I keep pressing the up repeatedly the player is "flying".

[waxen aurora]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-texture-compression.html
I've tried to setup a script to automate Build of a webgl project, the 2 outputs just differs texture compression method (1 for PC, 1 for Mobile)
I took the exact script from the Unity manual but I get errors

[hexed terrace]

right, so this isn't your problem.. your problem is that your ground check is too big

[earnest atlas]

How you are checking ground?

[modern sinew]

`Vector3 max = box.bounds.max;
Vector3 min = box.bounds.min;
Vector2 corner1 = new Vector2(max.x, min.y - .01f);
Vector2 corner2 = new Vector2(min.x, min.y - .01f);
Collider2D hit = Physics2D.OverlapArea(corner1, corner2);

bool grounded = false;

if (hit != null)
{
grounded = true;
}`

[earnest atlas]

Maybe use rayhit?

 private void IsOnGround()
 {
     if (_isGrounded) return; //If grounded just returns. This was made for animator.
     var hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, _rayDirection, 2, _groundLayer);
     _isGrounded = (hit.collider != null && hit.distance < 0.51f);
     if (!_isGrounded) return;
     _lastPositionOnGround = gameObject.transform.position;
     _animator.SetBool("IsJumping", false);
 }```

This is my rayhit logic with animator changes

    private readonly Vector2 _rayDirection = Vector2.down;```
ray direction

[modern sinew]

I'll check in to that, thanks!

[earnest atlas]

So far it have not failed me. You can change hit distance values depending on where is you character center

You know how masks work? Your ground is on different layer?

[modern sinew]

Ok, sounds great. Yes the ground is on another layer.

[timid saffron]

ball not visible when this scripts added to it

when removed it reappears

[earnest atlas]

ehm

you are setting transform to null

what was you plan here?

[timid saffron]

Even if i set it to some numbers its the same

[timid saffron]

plane?

plan cool

[earnest atlas]

what numbers you were setting it?

[timid saffron]

to make the ball progressively get bigger

[timid saffron]

really low. 0.000001

Ill show you

[earnest atlas]

what did you expect?

I think unity just rounded it to 0

not like it would be visible anyway

transform.localScale

[timid saffron]

Its supposed to multiply the original scale of the ball by that number no?

[earnest atlas]

no you are setting it to that value

[hexed terrace]

this is the value you entered, represented differently

[timid saffron]

but in 3d that number is multiplied by original scale

[gaunt ice]

no

you just set it, nothing got multiplied

[earnest atlas]

Yeah that, if you wanted to multiply it you needed to get original scalke

you could have done it like this

[earnest atlas]

transform.localscale *= multiplier

[timid saffron]

i got some parts wrong. it says frame

not original size

misremember

[earnest atlas]

beware thats gonna make your scale go to infinity

If you want to dinamically scale it save starting scale at start

[timid saffron]

why is it different in 2d than 3d?

this logic

[rare basin]

it's not

[earnest atlas]

its not?

[timid saffron]

this

then why couldnt i simply use
public vector2 ball
transform.localscale += ball

[earnest atlas]

it wouldnt multiply the size each second

its going to multiply it each frame

[gaunt ice]

2d is 3d without one axis

[earnest atlas]

well 2d is 3d in a trenchcoat

[rare basin]

you can

[keen dew]

You can, but that's not what you had. You had = not +=

[timid saffron]

yeah i forgot that

@earnest atlas

you wrote public int

so I cant set the number to 1.2 for example

there was another variable that you could do this

[rare basin]

then change it to float?

[timid saffron]

👍

thanks

[earnest atlas]

I didnt write public int

most of unity values are float

[timid saffron]

yeah you didnt. my bad. visual studio auto correccted the code i think

[rare basin]

what?

[earnest atlas]

arent they?

I mean if we dont consider classes

You can set most of things as float

[rare basin]

such as?

[earnest atlas]

I mean size, dimensions, etc

[rare basin]

ok, thats 1 component

[gaunt ice]

for geometric data

[rare basin]

most of the unity

[earnest atlas]

Let me eat in peace god sake

[rare basin]

but you are calling

[earnest atlas]

tell me what is not int

give us a list

[rare basin]

why would i waste time on that?

[earnest atlas]

then why would I waste my time on that too?

[rare basin]

just to prove some random user something

[frosty hound]

Stop bickering

[timid saffron]

I did exactly this but it gave more errors

[rare basin]

you have the error in the console

[timid saffron]

operator += is ambiguous on operands of ...

[rare basin]

localScale is Vector3

[timid saffron]

i just used += in my 3d project

it didnt give this error

[rare basin]

Changescale is Vector2

you need a Vector3 variable to add it to localScale

[earnest atlas]

+=
is value = value + something

same with every other

[earnest atlas]

transform.localscale is already a variable

[rare basin]

but what did you do here

[earnest atlas]

you dont need to name it

[rare basin]

why did you add the new keyword

and that line in Update() is completely wrong

[earnest atlas]

where is new?

Ah i see

my guy needs C# guide more then unity

[timid saffron]

yeah

Im gonna take courses on it but i gotta finish unity essentials pathway first

and they asked me to change 2d ball scale like i did in 3d

[earnest atlas]

you cant finish unity essencials without knowing C#

[rare basin]

create public Vector3 type variable

and then add that vector to localScale vector from transform component's property

[earnest atlas]

you are trying to build a roof over un-existing house

[timid saffron]

I know what the pathway teaches me

thats all

[vocal mauve]

Hello everyone i'm a new beginner for unity currently following a tutorial on udemy. Can i ask a question here regarding to a code i wrote that doesn't seem to work like i wanted to?

[earnest atlas]

dont ask to ask if you can ask us an ask

[rare basin]

sure, post the code here

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[timid saffron]

👍

we are good

no errors

[vocal mauve]

https://paste.ofcode.org/hvSgW2N38meA5CmHR6EQv7

my question is the i am trying to code in a dot aim mechanic where the sword is thrown in the generated dots arc it should be aimed whereever my mouse is but for some reason it doesn't i have taken a video of it on my phone and i don't know if it is against the rules or not?

[earnest atlas]

i belive u can

[timid saffron]

i think this is it

[hexed terrace]

but why, this is adding useless code

[hexed terrace]

Your DotsPosition() method gives the Y value gravity, which gives you the curve

[vocal mauve]

i see so there is an error in my line 81 and so on i should focus on there

[hexed terrace]

85

[vocal mauve]

Thank you man i will try find a solution over there hope i can 🙂

[vagrant pebble]

hi i have a problem

I have the code that causes the slide to be detected and the lightning to be created in its direction and position
It creates lightning in the wrong place
why is it happening?

[rare basin]

show the code maybe?

how can we know what is going on

[vagrant pebble]

ok i send

[hexed terrace]

!code

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[vagrant pebble]

!code

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[vagrant pebble]

void Update()
{
if (Input.touchCount == 1) // user is touching the screen with a single touch
{
Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0); // get the touch
if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Began) //check for the first touch
{
start_t = touch.position;
end_t = touch.position;
}
else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved) // update the last position based on where they moved
{
end_t = touch.position;
}
else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Ended) //check if the finger is removed from the screen
{
end_t = touch.position;
Vector3 direaction = end_t - start_t;
transform.position = direaction;
angle = Vector2.Angle(Vector2.right, direaction);
if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 10 && angle < 100)
{
angle = -angle;
}
else if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 110 && angle < 200)
{
angle = -angle;
}
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);
lightning.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, angle + 90));
Vector3 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
mousePos.z = distance_z;
MousePosition = mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos);
MousePosition.z = distance_z;
transform.position = MousePosition;
lightning.transform.position = transform.position;
//efect_lightning.Play();
//StartCoroutine("active_collider");
}
}
}

[rare basin]

did you read how to share code

[vagrant pebble]

i didnt understand

i dont know english very well

[rare basin]

so you didint understand and just decided to send it anyway in a wrong way

[vagrant pebble]

oh i got it

'''

void Update()
{
    if (Input.touchCount == 1) // user is touching the screen with a single touch
    {
        Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0); // get the touch
        if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Began) //check for the first touch
        {
            start_t = touch.position;
            end_t = touch.position;
        }
        else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved) // update the last position based on where they moved
        {
            end_t = touch.position;
        }
        else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Ended) //check if the finger is removed from the screen
        {
            end_t = touch.position;
            Vector3 direaction = end_t - start_t;
            transform.position = direaction;
            angle = Vector2.Angle(Vector2.right, direaction);
            if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 10 && angle < 100)
            {
                angle = -angle;
            }
            else if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 110 && angle < 200)
            {
                angle = -angle;
            }
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);
            lightning.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, angle + 90));
            Vector3 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
            mousePos.z = distance_z;
            MousePosition = mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos);
            MousePosition.z = distance_z;
            transform.position = MousePosition;
            lightning.transform.position = transform.position;
            //efect_lightning.Play();
            //StartCoroutine("active_collider");      
        }
    }
}

'''

like this?

[rare basin]

no

!code

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[rare basin]

`

'

2 different characters

[vagrant pebble]

Oh

    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.touchCount == 1) // user is touching the screen with a single touch
        {
            Touch touch = Input.GetTouch(0); // get the touch
            if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Began) //check for the first touch
            {
                start_t = touch.position;
                end_t = touch.position;
            }
            else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Moved) // update the last position based on where they moved
            {
                end_t = touch.position;
            }
            else if (touch.phase == TouchPhase.Ended) //check if the finger is removed from the screen
            {
                end_t = touch.position;
                Vector3 direaction = end_t - start_t;
                transform.position = direaction;
                angle = Vector2.Angle(Vector2.right, direaction);
                if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 10 && angle < 100)
                {
                    angle = -angle;
                }
                else if (start_t.y > end_t.y && angle > 110 && angle < 200)
                {
                    angle = -angle;
                }
                transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, angle);
                lightning.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(new Vector3(0, 0, angle + 90));
                Vector3 mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
                mousePos.z = distance_z;
                MousePosition = mainCamera.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos);
                MousePosition.z = distance_z;
                transform.position = MousePosition;
                lightning.transform.position = transform.position;
                //efect_lightning.Play();
                //StartCoroutine("active_collider");      
            }
        }
    }

Here we go

Right?

[north kiln]

You can edit your posts instead of keeping massive blocks of incorrectly formatted text around

[rare basin]

that's too easy

[vagrant pebble]

Sorry about that I'm not very good at these things

So you can help me?

[frigid sequoia]

Can I like... create a method constructor that shares values with another one but is different? Like I want a method to generate a random position in a plane around a point and one constructor is min and max distance and I want another to be like max distance and a random Y offset; and they are all floats, so... is there a way to do this or do I have to just create another method for it?

[earnest atlas]

wdym?

example

[rare basin]

you can just make a Vector3/2 type function

with different overload

public Vector3 GenerateRandomPosition(Vector3 center, float maxDistance, bool useRandomYOffset)

public Vector3 GenerateRandomPosition(Vector3 center, float minDistance, float maxDistance)

you can create as many overloads as you want

[frigid sequoia]

These are the ones I have, I want to add one that is just min and max distance; but there is already one with 2 floats as given values

[rare basin]

or you can use default parameter values

right, so you can just shorten it

to 1 function

public Vector3 GenerateRandomPosition(Vector3 center, float maxDistance, bool useRandomYOffset = false)

[rare basin]

^^ talking about my example above

you can shorten aswell by using default parameters

[frigid sequoia]

Sure, I am having issues visualizing it rn, could you make an example with my parameters pls?

[rare basin]

public Vector3 GenerateRandomPosition(float maxDistance = -1, float minDistance = -1, float randomYValue = -1)

for instance

then just check if a certain float isnt -1

and you can call that function whatever way you want

GenerateRandomPosition(); //all floats -1
GenerateRandomPosition(10); // maxDistance  will be 10
GenerateRandomPosition(10,10); //max and min distanec will be 10

etc

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, I see

[late bobcat]

guys my game is dropping fps sometimes and spiking, i think it has something to do with memory leaks https://gyazo.com/849e88b4f78faef152b7508030ad70b7 how should i move in this case?

[frigid sequoia]

So I would have some conditionals to check the given values, and for example all -1 would return like nothing at all?

[rare basin]

sure you can handle it however you want

but yes you'd need some conditional checks

otherwise it would apply the default value

which is -1

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I am not using negatives for these one, so -1 doing nothing is what I am gonna do, thxs 😄

[open apex]

In this specific code, they are using string.format for a clock
how does {0:00} and {1:00} work together? I am very confused

it works like this

[rare basin]

you can lookup string.Format() docs

[open apex]

I did😔

[earnest atlas]

Ah that 1 is placeholder index

at least this what Ive gotten

So if u want hours,minutes,seconds you will write {0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}

[open apex]

ok

that makes more sense

so the 1 is a placeholder for the next value

alright

[earnest atlas]

No, its just an index

[open apex]

aha

this stuff is really cool

I have been going over it for 10 minutes

it has really interesting properties

I was trying to create a variable in which I will hold for how many minutes the player has played the game

I realized it's easier if I just withold the information at what time he started playing and at what time he stopped

[earnest atlas]

delta time is not that variable

[charred spoke]

Why?

[fierce shuttle]

You could check the Profiler, maybe with "Deep Profile" on to see where you might be causing GC.Alloc to happen most often, if you suspect its a memory leak you should be able to see how much memory is being allocated, but it may not track down which script could be causing the leak, do you maybe have any events you subscribed to and did not unsubscribe or do any expensive operations in Update somewhere?

[open apex]

🤔

[rare basin]

noone said anything about deltaTime?

[earnest atlas]

elapsedTime += deltaTime

havent seen +

[open apex]

so I cannot save "currentTime" and than do maths on it later on?

[charred spoke]

Your previous approach of adding up delta time was perfectly valid

[earnest atlas]

Forgor to limit spawn to 1 🙂

[earnest atlas]

yeah it was. I though he set it to delta time

[rare basin]

don't off-topic

[earnest atlas]

Im just gonna block you 🙂

[rare basin]

lol 🤡

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[scarlet skiff]

debug.log says its false, even when i dont move and still am touching the ground, i have an idle animation, but it doesnt move the players feet, but could its movements somehow trigger on colliosion exit?

[rare basin]

as alraedy mentioned many times

why do you keep checking things by name

that is a terrible idea

and which debug log? there isn't any

[scarlet skiff]

yes yes, ill work on that later, even my teacher told me to make names into variable on some sort of general static manager

[scarlet skiff]

its in another script which the player has

[rare basin]

no, don't use names at all

to check for things

[scarlet skiff]

and is run in update

i understand tag can be more effecient, but im only gonna have one void

[rare basin]

where do you call these functions

[scarlet skiff]

inside an on collision

[rare basin]

so share all the related code, not the code that isn't even related to the issue

[scarlet skiff]

https://gdl.space/ukabigivux.cpp the collision code

https://gdl.space/afelenelut.cs the playerMovement code

[rare basin]

and what is the issue?

[scarlet skiff]

while still touching the ground, isTouchingGround gets set to false

[buoyant knot]

For checking ground by collision callbacks, you need to check OnCollisionStay

source: I do the same thing

[rare basin]

not neccesairly

you can set it to true on enter

and to false on exit

[buoyant knot]

not good enough

[rare basin]

no difference

[buoyant knot]

big difference

[rare basin]

such as?

[buoyant knot]

different things can happen that cause you to change your grounding variables in between, that need to be set correct when touching ground

such as if you jump when in contact with ceiling

[earnest atlas]

Im using raycast to check if Im on ground.

[scarlet skiff]

i never set my grounded variable anywhere

[buoyant knot]

or jump off floor while in contact with the same collider as a wall

[scarlet skiff]

except in thsoe 2 methods

[rare basin]

easy workaround

if(!isJumping)

[buoyant knot]

i have that sort of thing too. I’m telling you that you will want to check OnCollisionStay

[rare basin]

never had any issues and did a lot of projects without it

for ground checks, still I don't see any big difference like you said

[scarlet skiff]

commenting it out makes it always trye, so ye this was the problem

[buoyant knot]

this only works if

1. Any collision with that collider counts as grounding contact
2. player/ground properties do not change

[rare basin]

it's more of a design/architectuer issue

than the enter/exit implementation

all my Ground objects have IWalkable interface

[buoyant knot]

if you have a collider that can function as both wall and floor, you will have a problem

[rare basin]

why would I have such collider

separete one for wall, and separete one for ground

[buoyant knot]

because boxes have 4 sides lmao

[rare basin]

i don't get what you are saying

you talk about ceiling for example?

that it can be a wall and a floor at the same time?

[buoyant knot]

maybe it makes more sense for 3D, but for 2D sidescroller, you can easily touch a polygonal collider as you pass over a vertex

[rare basin]

still don't get it, since your ground check collider is on your feets

if you mean that i can somehow "touch" the ground while jumping and that will count as isGrounded = true

then you can just add if(!isJumping)

[buoyant knot]

this is what happens

first frame make contact as wall at side. next frame make contact as ground. That calls oncollisionStay

2D sidescroller

the box is not made of 4 edge colliders. it is one box collider

i can go into more detail later. but if you do ground checks by collision callbacks, you really need to check oncollisionstay

[scarlet skiff]

so like this?

[open apex]

Why wouldn't my code work?

It start from 0 again when the scene gets loaded

[frosty hound]

Of course it resets, because you're starting Timer at 1 when this monobehaviour is initialized

Which will happen each time the scene is loaded

[open apex]

doesn't PlayerPrefs save the data?

[frosty hound]

Yes of course

[frigid sequoia]

I am really confused rn; I have a Empty Prefab that just drops coins, this it meant to be called when a enemy dies; the enemy, tells the CoinDropManager what value it needs to drop changing a value, just as it is instantiated. The CoinDropManager, spawn coins prefabs and tells them a random position at which to transtion to over 1 sec, this is directly managed by the CoinDropManager and not the coins. So the enemy is destroyed with a bit of a delay after instatiating the CoinDropManager (0.2sec), the CoinDropManager has Coroutine in start that waits for a instant before dropping the coins (to let time to the enemy to set the value it actually has to drop), then in that same coroutine tells the CoinDropManager to be destroyed after 5 second (more than enough to make the position transition). So the issue is, the enemies sometimes drop the coins correctly and other they disappear mid animation, telling this error. What is happening and why it only happening sometimes?

[frosty hound]

Think through your logic a little bit

[open apex]

I am a beginner for a reason

[frosty hound]

You have a brain for a reason

Every update you're saving the value of Timer (rounded)

If your Timer starts at 1 each time this object is initialized, what's the first value its going to save?

[frosty hound]

The CoinDropManager is something the enemy spawns when they die?

[open apex]

I understand what you are saying

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah

[open apex]

But I get confused when I am actually trying to do it

[frosty hound]

And is it a child of the enemy, or in the root of the scene?

[buoyant knot]

Make a separate method for “CheckTouchGround(Collision2D collision)” to reset everything centrally. you will later add more things to it for purposes of coyote time, one way platforms, etc. Both collision enter and stay should call this method so that what you do when touching ground stays consistent

[open apex]

the script it going to run everytime the scene loads, how can I make it run only when the game starts and not save it everytime?

These kind of things confuses me

[frosty hound]

Use the Awake function to set the value of Timer to be the value of PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Timerr", 1)); so it starts with the saved value

[frigid sequoia]

I had not specified it, do they spawn as child of the instatiator by default?

[frosty hound]

No, they'll go in the root

[frigid sequoia]

Then it should be fine

[frosty hound]

Can you share your !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.

[frigid sequoia]

https://gdl.space/fiyugoxane.cs

This is the CoinDropManager

This is the relevant method from the enemy

[buoyant knot]

Also, you do not need to make separate functions for CheckGroundEnter and CheckGroundStay. OnCollisionEnter and OnCollisionStay should both call OnCheckGround

[scarlet skiff]

im not fully getting it, the exit and enter already set values to what they need to be 😰

[buoyant knot]

You can get a collision callback in enter which is actually not supposed to be a ground collision. Example: Jumping through a one way playform gives collision callbacks that you need to ignore

OnCollisionEnter and OnCollisionStay both need to call a common method that just checks ground contact in a Collision2D

whether you made this ground contact in Enter vs Stay should not matter

but both enter and stay callbacks need to send you to the ground check

does that make sense?

later on, your ground check will get more complicated. You will have more variables, and more shit to manage/juggle. If you have two separate functions for enter and stay that are supposed to do the same thing, it is very likely that at some point, you will change one without properly changing the other.

I think your current GroundColStay would be the exact function I am calling CheckTouchGround

[open apex]

I understand everything, but what is #region PlayerPrefs keys and #endergion?

[frosty hound]

How do you decide when these coins are destroyed?

[frigid sequoia]

The coins have a timer on their own, which is completely separated from these methods

[frosty hound]

And how long is the time on a coin?

[frigid sequoia]

Over 10 secs, should not overlap like at all

In fact the coins have a spawn animation and a despawn animation, they cannot despawn during the spawn animation at all

[frosty hound]

Your error suggests that a coin is being destroyed somehow, during the process of being transitioned

[frigid sequoia]

But just sometimes

[frosty hound]

Which means you need to start digging 😛

[swift crag]

#region tells your code editor that the code between it and #endregion is a..region!

It lets you fold the region up

[frosty hound]

Do you have legacy code for destroying coins as a test? Keypress? When the player touches them? Or is there a chance that it is in fact, not always over 10 seconds for them to self destroy?

[swift crag]

It's strictly for organization. It doesn't mean anything to the compiler.

[frigid sequoia]

It is complicated XD

[swift crag]

actually, I don't think #endregion even needs a name

Oh god I found the Visual Basic docs while looking this up

[frigid sequoia]

They have a timer that starts ticking when they spawn, after it ends they satart a fadingin&out animation, which speed up every iteration, when it is fast enough, they are just destroyed

[swift crag]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/preprocessor-directives#defining-regions

Okay, yes, you don't provide a name when ending a region

[frigid sequoia]

They are also destroyed when the players touches them

[open apex]

Thanks, what I tried to actually ask is what excatly is Region and what it is used for. But that's ok

[frigid sequoia]

Kinda, they have a transition for that too

[buoyant knot]

@scarlet skiff if you need to know more details, ping me later

[frosty hound]

This is why I asked. If the player touches it immediately, it's likely they transition out and destroy while the coroutine that is supposed to be moving them is happening.

Overall, you're relying on three different timers I can count alone, to all sync up perfectly. That's a recipe for disaster.

[frigid sequoia]

That's true, but wasn't they issue

They are dissapearing way out of pickup range

But yeah, I have made a conditional to stop the spawn transition if the item somehow becomes null

[frosty hound]

You can avoid the root of the issue as much as you want, but the fact of the matter is your coins are destroying themselves before the coroutine moving them completes. How that happens, at this point I don't know. You can find it and bandaid fix it, or you can resolve the actual architecturalissue, it's really up to you.

[open apex]

@frosty hound Thanks for the help, I knew what the problem was but I was thinking that I could be wrong the whole time. So I thought it would be better for me to ask for help.

I fixed it 😎

[swift crag]

Bit of an annoyance with localization: I have an entry in a string table that's just a variable. The variable is another LocalizedString. It's not assigned by default; it gets something assigned when I use it.

This causes the editor to complain that it can't find a translation.

I presume it's because it gets an empty string.

I guess I should just assign some default value for that variable, so that this thing never evaluates to an empty string?

[frigid sequoia]

How do I fix the architeture of that?

Like how else can I do this?

[frosty hound]

Without completely overhauling the general flow:

1. Don't use coroutines

2. Your CoinManager just needs to spawn in the [x] coins. It should then tell each coin where they should land. It shouldn't be responsible for moving them. So, once all [x] coins are spawned, the manager object can destroy itself (technically, you can just use an actual CoinManager singleton in your scene to do this instead of spawning a new one each time)

3. Each coin will be provided their target position from the manager that spawned them.

4. Each coin will move to that target position in their Update function. And when they've reached that position, begin counting down their timer in the Update function.

5. If the timer reaches 0, destroy self

6. If the player gets the coin first, destroy self

That way, regardless of how this coin is destroyed, it won't throw some error because nothing externally is referencing it.

[buoyant knot]

everything osteel is saying is right

one minor modification: When you plan to destroy self, call instead a “DestroyCoin()” method, and have DestroyCoin call Destroy

This will make it easier to set up object pooling in the future, or at the very least control timing

[swift crag]

It's also nice for when you realize you need to do other stuff when the coin is destroyed

immediately, rather than waiting for OnDestroy to run at the end of the frame

that also gives you a single place where you can say "actually, no, I won't be destroyed"

[buoyant knot]

all this is true

[earnest atlas]

no u in unity

[frigid sequoia]

Like I mean, yeah probably a general spawn coind manager for the entire scene; but I though it was way easier to just spawn an empty that spawned objects on its own

The timing between the transitions is not an issue whatsoever

Like it could be more organized, but is working just fine

The CoinManager prefab is working perfectly on its own

Just when the enemy spawn it is giving issues

[tall storm]

how can i increase gravity in a rigidbody

[frigid sequoia]

So I am guessing this has something to do with the step of instantiating the CoinDropManagger it self

[faint sluice]

Project settings-> physics-> gravity

[tall storm]

alr thanks

[rich adder]

if you're in 2D each rigidbody also has their own Rigidbody Gravity Multiplier

[tall storm]

im in 3d

I just started unity, until now ive been making games in godot

[rich adder]

nicee
btw this is a coding channel, general unity questions go in #💻┃unity-talk

[tall storm]

ooh ok

@rich adder btw what would be the steps in coding a gun

like a pistol

[frosty hound]

Would be faster to find a tutorial on that

[tall storm]

oh ok

[rich adder]

learn how to instantiate, or raycasts etc.

[tall storm]

yea i found one from "Brackeys"

damn nvm its 6 years old stuff probably changed

[rich adder]

nothing really changed in 6 years

[tall storm]

oh so its good? with raycasts

[rich adder]

the code is exactly the same

just UI changes

[tall storm]

alr

[rich adder]

the only code that wont work is if you find a Unity tutorial that still uses UnityScript (Javascript-like code)

[tall storm]

👍

I have an idea in mind but I first wanna learn the basics before making it

[open apex]

using UnityEngine.UI;

public class KamuSpotu : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text text;
    public float printTime;

    void Start()
    {
        printTime = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("Timerr");
        printTime = printTime.ToString();

        text.text = "Just wasted",printTime.ToString(),  "minutes of your life. lmao";
    }

}

I am trying to make it so it prints the time, at first it didn't allow me to directly print it so I tried to convert it to a string and now it's not allowing me to converts the Integer to a string.

[hexed terrace]

printTime = printTime.ToString();
why would you even try to do this line?

[open apex]

my bad

[open apex]

I am trying to convert it into a string

[rich adder]

so make a variable for string..

[hexed terrace]

yes, obviously, but you don't need that line at all

you convert it to string on the text.text line

[open apex]

I tried to print it

It gave me an error

[rich adder]

text.text = $"bla bla bla {printTime} something"

[open apex]

I didn't know

[tall storm]

i just found this tutorial for shading an outliner and he creates a "Unlit Shader Graph" or something like that but i cant find it anywhere

[hexed terrace]

you missed the $

[rich adder]

ya

[hexed terrace]

gah, edit ;p

[open apex]

Ok

I will try that

[tall storm]

@rich adder

[open apex]

text.text = "Just wasted",printTime.ToString(), "minutes of your life. lmao";
But why does this not work?

[rich adder]

ur missing +

[hexed terrace]

because it's completely the wrong syntax

[rich adder]

not commas

[hexed terrace]

you don't use , at all in string creation like that

[open apex]

oh

[rich adder]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/how-to/concatenate-multiple-strings

[open apex]

thanks 😁, which one would be more efficient/better?

[hexed terrace]

this

[rich adder]

string interpolation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[open apex]

I did replace the comma with a + before, but I replaced only one comma 😔 and I was wondering why it wouldn't work

[tall storm]

yo navarone

[open apex]

I was born a programmer 😎

hah

[tall storm]

yo

[tall storm]

could u help me with this please

[open apex]

bro I don't know how to help you

[tall storm]

oh ok

[open apex]

ask in #archived-game-design aswell

this seems to related to UI

[tall storm]

its shading

[open apex]

or design

[tall storm]

but in the video he creates smth but its no longer in this version

[open apex]

send me the video

[tall storm]

alr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d89qqVGUHtA&t=2s

[rich adder]

this isnt code question

[hexed terrace]

#archived-shaders

[open apex]

what are the minutes

[rich adder]

You already want to work on shaders? you just started 😆

[tall storm]

i want to have a black outline around cubes and stuff

r shaders complicated?

[rich adder]

yes but shadergraph makes it easier

[tall storm]

in the video he makes a "Unlit Shader Graph" or smth like that but i cant find it anywhere

[rich adder]

probably because you dont have the package

[tall storm]

Package? Like the input system one?

ooooh now i think i know how to get it

thanks

[rich adder]

why would the input system have anything to do with it

[tall storm]

like a new input system

[rich adder]

why would that be related to shader package lol

[tall storm]

idk but its a package

found it

[rich adder]

okk lol this isnt guess work

[tall storm]

thanks

[rich adder]

usually its included already in URP and HDRP

are you using BIRP?

[tall storm]

idk

i just created an empty 3d project

[rich adder]

just 3d , yes thats BIRP (built in render pipeline)

[tall storm]

a simple one

[scarlet skiff]

so one method for both exiting and entering that does different things absed on if its entering or exiting? so would be like a isExiting bool that is set to true if the shared method is called from the onCollisionExist but set to false if its the onCOllisionStay..?

[tall storm]

oh ok

[scarlet skiff]

also for some reason i can triple jump now instead of double jump

i could just set the jump counter to one, which then would prob mean double jump but yk better to find out why

[buoyant knot]

i want to get you to the point where no exit method is needed

[scarlet skiff]

oh

[livid frigate]

Hi guys, how to make a game like Mini Metro?

[buoyant knot]

maybe it’s time to set up coyote time

[scarlet skiff]

but i mean, its not that bad with it? splitting things up could make it a lil more effecient

but idk

[scarlet skiff]

coyote time?

[buoyant knot]

trust me, it will make coyote time simpler

coyote time is an amount of time where you are no longer grounded but allowed to jump

[tall storm]

yay i found it, the shader graph

thanks

[buoyant knot]

like wile e coyote, who would stand in midair for a bit

any good platformer needs coyote time. usually just a few frames

i’ll explain how to set this up real quick

[golden ermine]

Hi, this is my script for car, but for some reason, whatever motor strength I put my car always goes same speed and I want it to go faster. This is my car script: https://hastebin.com/share/cemihocuni.csharp

[scarlet skiff]

i assume that is the fix to the on collision stay allowing triple jump

[buoyant knot]

this will fix everything

right now you have
private bool isGrounded = false;
I want you to change it to this:

private float timeLastGrounded = -1f;
private bool IsGrounded => Time.time < timeLastGrounded + COYOTE_TIME;```

when you would set isGrounded to true, you instead set timeLastGrounded to Time.time

this is the timestamp of the last time we were on the floor

checking collision exit from ground is also not needed anymore because we do not need to set a flag to false. And instead of isGrounded as a bool field, we now have IsGrounded as a bool property that automatically checks the timestamp to see if we should count as being grounded or not.

do you understand what I am getting at, and why I’m doing it this way?

[sand crest]

Hi guys Saket here, I wanted to ask some doubts about my project, where can I post those doubts?

[wintry quarry]

In whatever channel relates to your question

[rich adder]

doubts about what?

[wintry quarry]

"doubt" is the Indian-English version of "question"

[tall storm]

yooooo navarone i did it

look

[sand crest]

Oh okay thank you :)

[sand crest]

About game dev, specifically coding

[frigid sequoia]

In my experience most doubts relate to code in one way or another....

[sand crest]

yeah exactly

[rich adder]

well you're in a code channel. ask away

[sand crest]

Ah I will need to phrase it in a proper way, will take some time lol

[buoyant knot]

@scarlet skiff plz confirm

[frigid sequoia]

About my previous issue, is there a way of calling a Debug.Log when an object is destroyed? Cause that would help a lot debugging

[tall storm]

How can i enable antialiasing in my project

[queen adder]

Hello! How can I see the unity console in a Dev Build (with errors, since thats what I wanna find)

[summer stump]

OnDestroy is called when an object is destroyed. So put a debug there

[frigid sequoia]

I have been looking for the documentation about that, but didn't really understand how to use it, so I might be dumb xd

[rich adder]

this isnt code qustion

[tall storm]

oh sorry

[buoyant knot]

easiest way to explain coyote time: How long does the coyote have in midair before he starts falling? Let him jump until then.

[queen adder]

he said my name

[queen adder]

anyways, any possible solutions to this?

[summer stump]

Simply make a method and name it OnDestroy()
In a MonoBehaviour of course
It is like start and update, it will be called automatically when the object is destroyed

[rich adder]

you're looking wrong then
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnDestroy.html

[frigid sequoia]

Oh okey, yeah, I might be dumb for not catching that

[queen adder]

bruh why does everyone ignore my issue

[summer stump]

Nah, just learning. All good

[summer stump]

Doesn't look like a code question

Ask on #💻┃unity-talk

[buoyant knot]

and we are having like 4 different convos on this channel at once

[queen adder]

ty for ignoring me, you should have told me earlier

[summer stump]

Grow up...
I got here AFTER your question

[polar acorn]

Sorry did you want all 40,000 people on this server to individually reply to your message with a ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[rich adder]

people answer when they have an answer... don't feel entitled to one

[buoyant knot]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[polar acorn]

39,999 remain

[rich adder]

ヽ(。_°)ノ

[queen adder]

i dont even understand what I did wrong since I suddenly get hate

[buoyant knot]

progress

[polar acorn]

39,998.5 remain

[buoyant knot]

someone replied, and you immediately responded by being an asshole. it’s reciprocal

[summer stump]

You are entitled to nothing. If people ignore you, that's just how it goes. But when I DID answer (immediately after seeing your question for the first time), you were rude about it....
Whining about being ignored is always gonna be annoying

[queen adder]

I wasnt rude, but lets just keep it like this

[summer stump]

Yes, you objectively were. But ok. Don't worry, I won't answer you anymore. Have a good one

[buoyant knot]

Yeah, i’m just blocking him. Too little time for people who refuse to learn.

[frigid sequoia]

Okey, so trying to replicate my issue with the CoinDropManager, I think it had to do not with the movement transtion but with this particular line

[stray pumice]

what would be the best way to make a line of code wait.

[rich adder]

Coroutine

[buoyant knot]

coroutine or async

[stray pumice]

thanks

[buoyant knot]

but probably coroutine

[frigid sequoia]

Like I have incremented the timer well beyond reasonable just for testing and it was giving a null reference exception for this one part only, which shouldn't but ok, I comment it out and now I am unable to replicate the coins going missing somehow

[swift crag]

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

[frigid sequoia]

I don't know how this can be

[swift crag]

A common misconception:

void Update() {
  StartCoroutine(ThisTakesAWhile());
  Debug.Log("Hi");
}

This immediately logs "Hi". Starting a coroutine will not block the Update method.

[buoyant knot]

i think you have some deeper issues

[swift crag]

You can, however, write code that "waits" inside the coroutine

[polar acorn]

If you're getting a null reference on this line, either itemToMove is null, or that object does not contain a TrailRenderer in it or any child objects

[tall storm]

How can i add headbob to my player?

[frigid sequoia]

Does this '''itemToMove.GetComponentInChildren<TrailRenderer>()''' retrun null if the object does not exist or only if the component does not exist?

[rich adder]

it cant even run if itemsToMove is null

[frigid sequoia]

Fuck, I still cannot get the code snipet command rigth XD

[frigid sequoia]

So it cause a null pointer?

[low path]

getting a component will reutrn null if that copmonent does not exist

[rich adder]

thats a null ref for sure

[polar acorn]

It returns null if itemToMove does not have a TrailRenderer on it or any of its children.
If itemToMove itself is null, attempting to call any function on it is a Null Reference Exception

[cobalt creek]

how do i use function in namespace without adding the component (
eg,

comp = gameObject.AddComponent<nsClass>();
comp.doFunc();

does it have to be compiled to a dll to avoid that or is there better way?

[frigid sequoia]

Okey, that was probably the issue then

[polar acorn]

If the function is on a MonoBehaviour object, it must exist to call that function. I don't know what namespaces have to do with any of this

[swift crag]

namespaces have nothing to do with DLLs, and they also have nothing to do with your problem

[polar acorn]

You seem to be using the word "namespace" for something that a namespace is not

[swift crag]

if the component doesn't exist, you can't use the component's methods

[low path]

can you give an example of what you want to be able to do?

[rich adder]

DLLs are just linked libraries, usually an assembly

[cobalt creek]

ok thank everyone, maybe i am confusing myself

[swift crag]

Explain your actual problem, not your attempted solution.

[cobalt creek]

figured it out, I wanted to do nsClass n= new nsClass(); because in my case it just better way to write it

[swift crag]

That's forbidden.

You can't construct a MonoBehaviour instance

Explain your actual problem.

[cobalt creek]

ok so actual problem is i dont know how to add component from namespace using AddComponent properly

it appear red with squiggly line

[swift crag]

is nsClass really in a namespace? this code names it directly.

i don't think it's in a different namespace

[rich adder]

var something = gameObject.AddComponent<Somenamespace.MyScript>();

[cobalt creek]

yes i think it is

[cobalt creek]

thank you, i think it waht im looking for

[swift crag]

then write out the full name: Name.Space.nsClass

There's nothing special about using it with AddComponent

[cobalt creek]

ok

[polar acorn]

Once you add a namespace to using then it is the same as any other class this script has access to

[cobalt creek]

got it

[craggy oxide]

How would I slow down a player's fall speed? I'm tryna make an Apex Legends type of thing where you skydive and then automatically slow down when you're about to land

[rich adder]

my eyesssss

[craggy oxide]

what?

[rich adder]

u just burnt my cornea :;(

[craggy oxide]

why?

[rich adder]

🔦 mode

[polar acorn]

Don't check for equality, it's basically impossible for it to hit exactly the position 0, 20, 0. And if you're checking height, you should just check height, not X and Z as well

[craggy oxide]

eh, i use discord dark mode and stuff, i just prefer light mode for visual studio, helps me think clearer

[rich adder]

anyway I would do a raycast to the floor to check how far from ground you are

[craggy oxide]

yeah i didn't know the command for checking Y only
that's why I did Vector3

i'm a beginner (although i passed the unity learn beginner script course so im not completely new)

[craggy oxide]

ah crap

[polar acorn]

use .y

[craggy oxide]

alright ill look up raycasting

[summer stump]

playerHeight.y

[rich adder]

cause if you have uneven ground the distance changes

[craggy oxide]

trueeee

alright thanks

[rich adder]

if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.down, out var raycastResult))
{
    if(raycastResult.distance <= distanceFromGround)
    {
        //slow down  speed
    }
}```
Something like that

[summer stump]

It may look intimidating, but they aren't tough. The most confusing part may he layermasks honestly (at least that's what I see people struggle with most)

https://unity.huh.how/bitmasks

[craggy oxide]

gotta learn it sometime anyway 🤷‍♂️

[swift crag]

the signature of the Raycast method makes it easy to plug in nonsense arguments

cool tip: use named arguments

[rich adder]

layerMask: myRaycastLayer

[swift crag]

        Physics.Raycast(origin: transform.position, direction: Vector3.forward, maxDistance: 1f, layerMask: LayerMask.GetMask("Target"))

or maybe

[scarlet skiff]

we are delaying setting isGrounded to false by 0.2 seconds. And the way we set it we do so automatically, with a bool property, meaning we dont need to check with a physics method when the player is no longer grounded (on colliosn exit)

[swift crag]

        Physics.Raycast(origin: transform.position,
                        direction: Vector3.forward,
                        maxDistance: 1f,
                        layerMask: LayerMask.GetMask("Target"))

I'll sometimes wrap the arguments when it gets too long

[scarlet skiff]

also very sorry for the late reply i had to leave abruptly

[faint sluice]

And maybe make a local variable for ray too

[rich adder]

how do you do the out again ?

[swift crag]

there is no out parameter for this

oh wait

duh

[faint sluice]

Out raycasthit hit

[rich adder]

RaycastHit lol

[swift crag]

i forgor

Physics.Raycast(origin: transform.position,
                direction: Vector3.forward,
                hitInfo: out var hit,
                maxDistance: 1f,
                layerMask: LayerMask.GetMask("Target"))

Without named arguments, this looks more like:

        Physics.Raycast(transform.position,
                        Vector3.forward,
                        out var hit,
                        1f,
                        LayerMask.GetMask("Target"))

It's easy to screw up and pass a layer mask into maxDistance

[rich adder]

oh right its hitInfo:

duh

[swift crag]

a LayerMask converts to an int, which converts to a float

and now you've made a raycast with a max length of...some random integer

[faint sluice]

I usually just end up making a serialized variable for it instead, that way can use multiple layers at once and no more converting BS

[rich adder]

dang..

[swift crag]

maxDistance does not have a default argument

it's just a bunch of overloads

[rich adder]

Oh forgot maxDistance

right

[faint sluice]

15 overloads Jesus Christ

[rich adder]

a good couple hundred lines just for Physics.Raycast declaring

interesting signature... 😵‍💫

    public static bool Raycast(Ray ray, out RaycastHit hitInfo, [UnityEngine.Internal.DefaultValue("Mathf.Infinity")] float maxDistance, [UnityEngine.Internal.DefaultValue("DefaultRaycastLayers")] int layerMask, [UnityEngine.Internal.DefaultValue("QueryTriggerInteraction.UseGlobal")] QueryTriggerInteraction queryTriggerInteraction)
    {
        return defaultPhysicsScene.Raycast(ray.origin, ray.direction, out hitInfo, maxDistance, layerMask, queryTriggerInteraction);
    }```

[swift crag]

oh yeah

#💻┃code-beginner message

this has caused Hilarious Problems in the past

[buoyant knot]

Not quite. Whenever we touch ground, we log that timestamp. We now count as being grounded from now for COYOTE_TIME number of seconds.

meaning we can jump anytime within that window, even if we aren’t actually grounded

[polar acorn]

!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.

[crisp comet]

sorry thnaks for the feedback!

i am trying to display a score on my canvas UI and the script wont recognise the text game object I am trying to use to display the score

" scoreText.text = "Score: " + Mathf.Round(scoreCount);" https://gdl.space/raw/awuzitutum

[queen adder]

Anyone know why the camera could be shaking like this?

[polar acorn]

Does the object with this script on it have a legacy text component on it

[crisp comet]

i went to 'add component' and added 'text'- not sure if thats 'legacy'

will try and check online

Yes! I thinnk it is legacy @polar acorn

[polar acorn]

Look for any other objects with the script on it. Search in the hierarchy for t: ScoreManager

You have at least one score manager with no Text component on it

[crisp comet]

hey you were right!! I had it on my canvas as well - (i also had one random test thing with it on)

[scarlet skiff]

hmm i think i get it, so if managed to jump in less than 0.2s after jumping again (czu thats the coyote timefor me rn) id be able to get a third jump, ye?

[crisp comet]

the score still isnt changing

scoreText is not assigned!
UnityEngine.Debug:LogError (object)
ScoreManager:Awake () (at Assets/3d platformer/scriptzzz/ScoreManager.cs:20)

[scarlet skiff]

but eh, i can triple jump nonetheless

wait i think i get it now

[polar acorn]

Then you still have a ScoreManager object that has no Text component somewhere

Are you spawning them at runtime

[scarlet skiff]

when we touch ground we are only grounded for a specific amount of time, but since we have onCollision stay it keeps setting resetting the time.time and therefore we stay grounded

[crisp comet]

i went and looked again and removed the ScoreManager script from canvas- and now atleast im no longer getting an error related to this script! However the score itself is still not changing

[polar acorn]

What changes scoreCount

[crisp comet]

when my player 'picks up' an object with the "coin" tag on it

[polar acorn]

Show that code

[crisp comet]

https://gdl.space/raw/awuzitutum

[rare basin]

the code of that

[polar acorn]

that's the same code

[rare basin]

also there is no need to update the score every frame

just update it when you pickup the coin

Mathf.Round(scoreCount); that is also unneccessary

scoreCount is a int

[stray pumice]

I used Invoke and it worked a lot better but thanks for the help

[rare basin]

so what are you rounding here? @crisp comet

[crisp comet]

sorry am looking into this- thanks!!!

line 62 onwards: https://gdl.space/upetodihon.cpp also i have one more script to show you, i feel it'd be more organised if this activity was all controlled by the same script- here' s the 2nd script! https://gdl.space/udedulokip.cpp

[polar acorn]

Try putting in a debug log whenever you add to the score. See if that ever actually gets called

[buoyant knot]

invoke can be harder to keep track of

Coroutines can be held as a variable and canceled partway through

[stray pumice]

Yes but coroutines paused my whole game for somereason

[buoyant knot]

that isn’t the coroutine’s fault

[polar acorn]

Show code

[stray pumice]

when i removed it it was working fien

[buoyant knot]

i reiterate, that is not the coroutine’s fault

[polar acorn]

It's almost certainly the code inside it

show it

[stray pumice]

i already delted it

its ok

[buoyant knot]

i recommend avoiding invoke in place of a coroutine

[rare basin]

a while loop ig

[crisp comet]

thanks so much!!!!

[buoyant knot]

especially don’t use invoke when you can’t figure out how to make a coroutine work

[cosmic quail]

i guess invoke is better if its being called super often and u dont want garbage collection from the coroutine (assuming invoke doesnt have garbage collection, i dunno actually)

[crisp comet]

thanks so much!!! was following a tutorial and like, am just trying to get the code to work, but yes ofc would later like to work on improving it as much as i can

[polar acorn]

Invoke uses reflection which is much worse

[buoyant knot]

yes. We are keeping track of the last timestamp that we were actually grounded. IsGrounded tells us if we should count as grounded based on the timestamp

[buoyant knot]

Invoke is so much worse

[cosmic quail]

oh dear. so basically invoke should never be used?

[polar acorn]

correct

[buoyant knot]

yep

invoke calls a method by string

you are literally sifting through the names of the different members of the class to find the method. Instead of just having a pointer built in to send you directly to the function

every single time you call invoke

you also open yourself up to Invoke(“CheckGrondState”)

unless you use nameof, and anyone who knows to use nameof knows not to use Invoke anyway

[cosmic quail]

thats good to know, thanks! i've never used it anyway but after hearing coroutines cause garbage collection i had a thought that invoke may be better then. glad i found out the truth

[polar acorn]

The best way to handle timers is to do it manually in Update using deltaTime and math. Coroutines give up some of that performance for code cleanliness, and there's a certain point where code cleanliness is worth the sacrifice

[buoyant knot]

coroutines cause garbage collection because you need to instantiate new WaitForXXX objects every time you delay a part of the coroutine to the next frame

[polar acorn]

it's a miniscule cost for a pretty sizeable gain

[ashen wind]

I'm trying to set a tile of my tilemap with a new sprite like this

gs.tilemap.SetTile(coords, paving_tile);

but even though both tiles are made from sprites that are the exact same size, the new one is a lot bigger. I can't figure out why this would be

[polar acorn]

Compared to the significant gain over Invoke

[buoyant knot]

coroutines have a small garbage collection cost, which is only a problem if you spam them everywhere in a game

[ashen wind]

does setTile automatically rescale or something?

[buoyant knot]

no

Tilemaps are usually going to be on a child of an object with a Grid component

grid defines size

tilemap basically holds tiledata on a matrix. grid lets you move between cell space and world space

[ashen wind]

so its something in my tilemap settings?

[buoyant knot]

check your Grid

[ashen wind]

I just don't understand how if they're the same size sprite it would be different for the new one

so I'm not even sure what I'm looking for

[buoyant knot]

did you make a single tile

each sprite as one tile

[ashen wind]

what do you mean

[buoyant knot]

tilemaps can only set tiles

you need a tile

how did you make the tile

[ashen wind]

I created a .asset file

[buoyant knot]

what

[buoyant knot]

oh, you’re doing it that way

[tall storm]

Hello, could someone help me with this script? The particles arent playing

void Die()
{
    onDeadParticles.Play();
    Destroy(gameObject);
}```

[buoyant knot]

you can drag a sprite to a tilepallete to automatically make a simple Tile btw

[languid spire]

why would they play when you Destroy them at the end of the current frame?

[buoyant knot]

how big is each sprite in resolution

[tall storm]

oh well when i shoot the enemy many times enough i want him to die and emit those particles

[buoyant knot]

when you sliced it

[polar acorn]

Is onDeadParticles on this object or a child of it?

[tall storm]

its a child of "Enemy" and the script is in enemy

[languid spire]

then dont Destroy until the particles have played

[rare basin]

but he isnt destroying the particles

and maybe they are unparented

[tall storm]

but i want the particles to play after the enemy dissapears

[polar acorn]

Then you're destroying the particles

[languid spire]

bet, the particlesystem is on gameObject

[polar acorn]

then they need to not be a child object of the thing you're destroying

[rare basin]

unparent them then play

or figure other way of doing that

[tall storm]

and what about the position

[rare basin]

what about it

[tall storm]

how do i set the particles to play in the center of the enemy

[rare basin]

the same way you are doing it right now

just unparent it

before destroying gameObject

[tall storm]

ooh, and the parent should be SampleScene?

[polar acorn]

The parent should be nothing

[tall storm]

oh ok

[rare basin]

what

[tall storm]

i set the parent to null

it works

thanks

[buoyant knot]

1. when you sliced it, are the regions for each tile the same pixel-wise?
2. are you comparing two different tiles on the same tilemap? Or are you comparing sizes when putting them on different tilemaps

[ashen wind]

they look the size on the tilemap, but not in game

oh wait

maybe the farm is bigger in the tilemap

[buoyant knot]

do you have two tilemaps?

and is the right side a tilemap or tile palette?

[ashen wind]

nope, only one. the right side is a tile palette, sorry

[buoyant knot]

a tile palette is just going to show you the tiles

one tile per cell

did you slice the sprites for each tile?

[ashen wind]

how do you slice

[buoyant knot]

that’s your problem then lmao

for this sort of thing, i’m expecting multiple tiles to be in one PNG file

in unity, go to that PNG file, set sprite mode to Multiple, point filter, no compression. Then go to sprite editor

then draw a little box (which should be the same size every time) around the area that should be the sprite for the one tile.

click in the little green highlight square to see the name etc, change the name to be something useful. Save

now when you look at the PNG in unity’s project view, it should show a little tab of multiple images, one for each sprite that you just sliced

[ashen wind]

ok but I'm confused. the whole png should be exactly one tile

[buoyant knot]

nope

each PNG should contain MULTIPLE tiles. otherwise you will make your life more complex with tons of tiny little files

and tracking them down and all that shit. trust me, it is better to slice.

[ashen wind]

you're saying I need to take all of my sprites and copy paste them into the same png file, then cut them again?

that seems like a lot of work for no reason

[queen adder]

Thats what a spritesheet is

[buoyant knot]

you don’t need to, but it’s prettt weird to have made so many separate image files in the first place

A typical file used to make tiles typically looks like this. all in one file

you do not want to mess with this exact same file into like 100 separate PNGs

[queen adder]

Thats where the slicing part comes in.

[buoyant knot]

slicing is where you define each little region to be a separate sprite

[ashen wind]

ok, i've made a spritesheet

[buoyant knot]

since you had your farm and grass in separate files, I bet they had different resolutions

ie different pixel x pixel measurements

(which is really bad)

[buoyant knot]

now slice, and show us the sprite editor

also there is an auto slice function in unity. If you ever use it, ALWAYS set it to “Safe” mode, or else it will delete your old sprites, and break anything that references those sprites you just deleted

i don’t know why this is not default

[earnest atlas]

_target = GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<Transform>();

Will this give me transform position of object in real time?

[rare basin]

don't ever use any Find methods

[ashen wind]

this look right?

[earnest atlas]

Serializing playfield player GameObject is not fun in mutliple entities

[tall storm]

How do i check if a particlesystem is done playing

[earnest atlas]

IsAlive or you can just use length to destroy it

[rare basin]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ParticleSystem-isPlaying.html

[tall storm]

if i use isAlive it doesent work

[rare basin]

dont use is alive

use isPlaying

[scarlet skiff]

why does give an error, i do infact give it an object reference..

[earnest atlas]

private ParticleSystem _particleSystem;

void Start()
{
    _particleSystem = GetComponent<ParticleSystem>();
    StartCoroutine(DestroyAfterParticleEffect());
}

private IEnumerator DestroyAfterParticleEffect()
{
    while (_particleSystem.isPlaying)
    {
        yield return null;
    }
    Destroy(gameObject);
}```

I have this class in all effects

So far it worked fine

[rare basin]

you are using isPlaying

but you suggested him to use IsAlive()

[buoyant knot]

“method” should always be set to “safe”

[polar acorn]

Where do you assign playerMov

[rare basin]

it's a function

now a property

[scarlet skiff]

in the inspector

[buoyant knot]

also 360 x 360 is massive for a tilemap

[queen adder]

I think ur assinging the class itself and NOT a instance / Gameobject in the scene

[scarlet skiff]

and ot gets passed from that script to the initiated bomber

[polar acorn]

Then there exists at least one Bombardment that does not have it set

[tall storm]

oh isPlaying works

thanks

[buoyant knot]

if you you have a 1080p display, and your tiles are 360x360, then that image will get compressed if you try to show an area taller than 3 tiles.

which is very bad

[rare basin]

np

[scarlet skiff]

it is a Gameobject in the scene

[buoyant knot]

standard tile sizes are 16x16 or 32x32. Maaaaybe 64x64 for some really chonky stuff, but 360x360 is not going to end well for you, @ashen wind

[polar acorn]

Search t: Bombardment when the error occurs and find which one has no playerMov set

[crisp comet]

sorted it out! Thanks for directing me towards the other script. i didnt realise the coin tag + scoring was being handled by another script. chat gpt helped me - "It seems you've included the OnTriggerEnter method inside the Update method of your MovementScript. This is not the correct placement for OnTriggerEnter." thanks so much!!! also thank you @rare basin

[scarlet skiff]

the ones with Bombardment dont exit in the scene they only get initiated via the spawner, which has a reference to the player

[late burrow]

can i make my custom variable have required input when creating new() one

[polar acorn]

So show that code

[polar acorn]

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

[languid spire]

yes

[queen adder]

Your using the coroutine that references the playerMov before you assign it

You start the coroutine inside of Bombardment as soon as the game starts but u only assign PlayerMov on a Button press inside of the Update Function inside of the BomberSpawner class

[scarlet skiff]

bomber spawner: https://gdl.space/bifomesama.cpp
bomber script: https://gdl.space/anolujikog.cpp

[scarlet skiff]

i assign it right after initiation tho

[polar acorn]

These aren't relevant. Where do you assign playerMov to a Bombardment

[queen adder]

Again u dont

[polar acorn]

Also what is this

Why does Bombardment have a reference to itself

that is never used

[scarlet skiff]

in the bomber spawner, here

[polar acorn]

where

[scarlet skiff]

bomber.playerMov = this.playerMov

[polar acorn]

nothing in this sets the playerMov of a Bombardment

[polar acorn]

No, the Bombardment

Not a Movement

[rare basin]

why did you name the Movement type variable

bomber

it is sooo confusing

also what is this line

bombardment.bombardment = this.bombardment

[scarlet skiff]

i put the bomber prefab there, but movement script can be shared with bomber and archer

[rare basin]

this doesnt kinda make sense

[polar acorn]

None of this matters

[scarlet skiff]

ye i realize now

[polar acorn]

Where are you setting playerMov on a Bombardment

[scarlet skiff]

im not rly sure what u mean now 😰

Bombardment has: public PlayerMovement playerMov;

which is only given a reference upon initiation

via the spawner

which has its refrence from the inspector

[rare basin]

yes but where do you assign

the playerMov from the Bombardment class

through inspector?

[scarlet skiff]

ye the spawner has it

[rare basin]

stop

listen to what we say

no one asked you about the bomber spawner script

Bombardment class has a playerMov variable

where do you assign it?

[queen adder]

Thats BomberSpawner

Not Bombardment

Bombardment is the one with the NRE

[rare basin]

where do you assign playerMov of the BOMBARDMENT

[scarlet skiff]

in the BomberSpawner script.... ...? is that wha u mean? sorry bro i dont get it

[queen adder]

Thats not bombardment

Thats a movement class

[rare basin]

jezus

[polar acorn]

Where though

[queen adder]

Those arent the same class

[polar acorn]

Where in the spawner do you set it

[queen adder]

You never assign the Bombardment.playerMov you Think you did

[scarlet skiff]

should i be doing this instead?

bombardment.playerMov = this.playerMov;

or both

probably

[polar acorn]

If you want to assign the value on a bombardment yes

But where are you even getting this bombardment from anyway

You aren't spawning it

And you said there's none in the scene

So what is this bombardment

[scarlet skiff]

i think i got conused cuz both movement and bombradment had a variable that does the same thignb with the same name

[rare basin]

thats why i said this is a terrible idea

to name your Movement a bomber

[scarlet skiff]

it is a component of the bomber prefab

[queen adder]

Yeah^^^

It was throwing us off

[rare basin]

you spawn your bomber prefab

as a Movement

[polar acorn]

So where do you set the bombardment variable on this object

[honest haven]

Im using Time.timescale = 0 to take a chunck of my game pausing away. but i want the animator on the player to play. so on the player controller under update im doing _animator.Update(Time.deltaTime * 1f); but its not working. what am i doing wrong

[cosmic quail]

i dont think multiplying something with 1f does anything FYI

[summer stump]

If timeScale is 0, deltaTime would also be 0 I believe

[cosmic quail]

theres tutorials for playing animators while game is paused btw like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwNlOrD6vFM

[honest haven]

cheers

[rare basin]

you can use unscaledDeltaTime

timeScale-independent

[honest haven]

thank you

[silver flicker]

Hey, can anyone explain / give me a video explaining how to find the displacement of a 2d object through recording 2 positions (specifically the recording of the 2 positions) I've tried searching for it but nothing explaining the recording of 2 positions

[buoyant knot]

wdym? just have a component record current position in LateUpdate or something.

[silver flicker]

Lateupdate ill look that up thanks

[buoyant knot]

you will possibly want to do this in FixedUpdate after physics sim, tho

[silver flicker]

should physics calculations always be recorded in fixed?

[buoyant knot]

in my case, i call Physics2D.Simulate manually, so I can call code naturally right after all collision callbacks are done. This lets me call an event action called OnAfterCollisionCallbacks

[buoyant knot]

always

[silver flicker]

ok cool

[silver flicker]

thanks a lot

[buoyant knot]

do not do any physics in update.

[silver flicker]

ok thats all i need

tysm

[buoyant knot]

sure

btw you need to set Physics2D similation mode to script to do it that way

Physics2D does not want you to call Simulate unless you set that mode

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D-simulationMode.html

[silver flicker]

oh ok