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[rocky canyon]

probably the readme thing

[swift crag]

they screwed up their TLS certificate

boing

[storm imp]

how come all three buttons go to the same photo?

[rocky canyon]

im gonna roll out my own splines system tho..

[median ruin]

it is a premade asset

[rocky canyon]

so ill just 86 this one while im here

[wintry quarry]

what does this have to do with code and what do you mean by "go to the same photo"?

[rocky canyon]

b/c u probably moved the graphics

and the parent container has the same rect/ anchors

[wintry quarry]

very good chance it has an assembly definition

[median ruin]

I don't know how find assembly definitions

[wintry quarry]

just look in the folders

it's a file with a puzzle piece icon

.asmdef extension

[swift crag]

search for t:asmdef in the project window

and filter to the folder you're currently in

[storm imp]

I have three photos and the buttons all go to the same photo

[wintry quarry]

what does it mean for a button to "go" to a photo?

[rocky canyon]

i just explained it to u..

[wintry quarry]

and again what does it have to do with code?

[rocky canyon]

the parent (rect transforms) and anchors are the same..

u just duplicated hte same button over and over

[median ruin]

there's a few

[storm imp]

I'm making a 360 virtual tour

[rocky canyon]

and moved the graphics

[wintry quarry]

that's not an answer to the question...

[wintry quarry]

Well whatever asmdef your code is inside, you need to add TextMeshPro as a dependency to it.

Or just move your code outside that folder entirely

[rocky canyon]

you did this.. thats why its showing the same button.. (the rect IS in the same place)

you only moved the stuff inside

[median ruin]

what's the attribute called?

[wintry quarry]

what attribute?

[storm imp]

when I click a one of the three buttons it should go to a 360 photo each button to a different photo but all three are going to the same photo

[median ruin]

I mean, how can I add it

[wintry quarry]

there's a list of dependencies in the asmdef, add TMP to it

[rocky canyon]

are you deaf?

or blind?

[median ruin]

{
    "name": "fps.Game",
    "references": [
        "GUID:1826c0224c0d048b88112c79bbb0cd85"
    ],
    "includePlatforms": [],
    "excludePlatforms": [],
    "allowUnsafeCode": false,
    "overrideReferences": false,
    "precompiledReferences": [],
    "autoReferenced": true,
    "defineConstraints": [],
    "versionDefines": [],
    "noEngineReferences": false
}

[wintry quarry]

no

look at it in the inspector in Unity

not in a file editor

[median ruin]

oh I see

[polar acorn]

And how does the button "go to" anything

[wintry quarry]

You haven't shown anything in your screenshots about how the buttons are configured i.e. their click listeners so it's very hard to help.

[rocky canyon]

its focusing on the RECT TRANSFORM!!!... YOU moved the graphics buit didnt move the actual Object

[wintry quarry]

I'm not sure if they're saying that or if they're saynig someting about when they click the button in the game

[rocky canyon]

yea they're talking about the Focus of the window im pretty sure..

[storm imp]

sorry

[rocky canyon]

i could be wrong.. lets listen.. 👂

[wintry quarry]

this is like the same screenshot

you have to show how you configured the on click listener

[polar acorn]

You were told what to show and then took another screenshot that also doesn't show it

[rocky canyon]

ya, now im curious of what he means by "go to another button"

[storm imp]

click listener what's that?

[wintry quarry]

the thing that controls what the button does when you press it

it's the first thing you would look at if you're worried about what the button is doing when you press it

[wintry quarry]

You should probably follow this tutorial to understand buttons in Unity:
https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/creating-ui-buttons

[polar acorn]

Where have you told the buttons what to do

[rocky canyon]

see.. thats why i thought it was the focus / bad transform positions.. i haven't even seen a event listener

[median ruin]

Is there a way to use "OnTriggerEnter" and "OnTriggerExit" on objects that are not the parent of the script?

[rare basin]

that question doesnt make sense

[swift crag]

you mean objects that the script isn't attached to?

[rocky canyon]

it trickles down the hiearchy..

[median ruin]

Yes

[rocky canyon]

but not some other object entirely. i dont think it works that way

[swift crag]

no, it doesn't trickle down

[rocky canyon]

if it has a rigidbody and colliders it does doesnt it?

[swift crag]

Rigidbodies can receive trigger and collision events involving child colliders

[rocky canyon]

it counts as a composite colldier

ya, thats what im meaning

[wintry quarry]

OnTriggerEnter has to be either on the object with the Collider or the object with the Rigidbody. It won't work anywhere else.

[median ruin]

Thought you wouldn't waste your time hmm?

[median ruin]

Hmm.. is there another way of doing colision detection?

[swift crag]

explain your actual problem

[wintry quarry]

What are you trying to accomplish

[swift crag]

not your attempted solution, mind you

[median ruin]

Want to add text to the gui when a player walks into a zone

[wintry quarry]

OnTriggerEnter seems like the most straightforward way. What's the issue with it?

Put a script on the zone object.

[median ruin]

And. have the variables attached to the prefab

[swift crag]

i don't know what that means

[rocky canyon]

^ good solution. (keep it simple)

[rocky canyon]

when you register a collision you'll have access to anything from each other..

[storm imp]

would that be in the code?

[swift crag]

I think you need to follow the tutorial you were linked to.

[wintry quarry]

I linked you to the tutorial for how to set up a button. it explains how to set up the behavior of the button

[wintry quarry]

Here's a video if that's more your thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5ZNuM6K27E

[low path]

have there been recent updates to the UI system or is it basically the same it's been for like 7 ish years?

[wintry quarry]

There's a whole new UI system

UGUI is basically unchanged

[low path]

a new new one?

[wintry quarry]

UI Toolkit is all new

[low path]

when is that from?

[rocky canyon]

when you make a button you can set up what it does when you click it straight from the inspector..
but usually you'll want to code in the behaviour in a public function from some script.. you drop the object w/ that script into the slot and pick the function (w/e u want the button to do)

[median ruin]

I'm not sure what you mean by that

[wintry quarry]

idk maybe ~5 years ago? It's still a work in progress

[swift crag]

Explain what the problem is, Rem

an actual concrete issue you're having

[rocky canyon]

but yea, watch some Button Tutorials and stuff.. you wont regret it.. considering buttons is a big part of games

[swift crag]

why can't you just put a trigger collider and a component with OnTriggerEnter together?

what about that isn't working for you?

if you explain that, we can probably help you

[median ruin]

Well it would be preferred if properties could be easily accessed from the prefab not three objects down the tree

[swift crag]

Oh, I see.

Okay, so here's what you should do.

[low path]

so there was imguig, then ugui, then they made a whole new one? hopefully it's easier to use than ugui, as that was pretty convoluted...

[swift crag]

The prefab root should have most of the logic on it.

[rocky canyon]

    void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        // Check if the colliding object has an Enemy component
        Enemy enemy = other.GetComponent<Enemy>();

        if (enemy != null)
        {
            // Call the Damage function on the Enemy component
            enemy.Damage();
        }
    }``` i simply mean.. when unity detects a collision / trigger enter or w/e *you'll then have a reference to the thing you hit*

like in this example we take the `other` variable and check if it has an Enemy script.. and if it does we can call a function from it.. (so if you had variables or w/e you needed, you'd be able to get that stuff when the collision takes place)

[swift crag]

The collider object (which is a child) should have a component whose only job is to notify the root component about the trigger

Nothing else.

Only do this if this actually makes sense, of course

[rocky canyon]

^ and thats what i meant by keeping it simple..

[wintry quarry]

That's why you make a script on the root of the prefab that has functions for all the things you need to do to interact with it

[swift crag]

If the prefab represents a single zone, or is fundamentally tied to a single zone, then go for it

If the prefab has many zones, then it doesn't really make sense to have zone configuration on the root

you'd have zones configuration

i guess :p

[rocky canyon]

designing interactions can be tricky..

i always take a bit of extra time to jot down what alls on the object.. and how i could keep things seperate.. like in the zone example, id probably put the trigger code on the trigger itself.. and keep it away from anything i got going on in the player..

but like Fen said.. its different for everyone..

[swift crag]

whiteboard it!

[rocky canyon]

facts!

[scarlet skiff]

Bomb: https://gdl.space/kuviwogoja.cs
Player collision: https://gdl.space/azaruhagay.cpp

Anyone know why the bomb sometimes fazes through? it happens with an unpreditable frequency... but seems that one of the bomb has to hit the player before it can happen?

[median ruin]

😔 feels like the same efficiency as talking to self

[swift crag]

talking to yourself can also be effective

[spiral narwhal]

If there is a list of a mono behavious (for example, List<Item> and Remove is used to remove an actual instance, will the actual instance be deleted or just the first element because it's the first of the type?

[rocky canyon]

lol.. RubberDuck FTW!

[swift crag]

Nothing is destroyed

[median ruin]

not if you self reflect negatively

[swift crag]

The first matching reference is removed from the list

[polar acorn]

It removes the element from the list, that is all

[swift crag]

you're throwing out a post-it note, not the actual object

Also note that destruction is a very specific Unity concept

C# objects in general aren't "destroyed"

Once every reference to an object has been lost, the garbage collector can clean it up. That's it.

[vague dirge]

Hi, when you use transform.y for example, it uses the y world location, but I was wondering if it was possible to set manually the y attribut of a transorm
. Like if I want the transform.y the correspond to a given vector

[swift crag]

transform.y does not exist. transform.position.y does exist.

[rocky canyon]

the most simple way ive ever seen GC explained

[polar acorn]

Well, for one, there's no such thing as transform.y

[swift crag]

You can't set transform.position.y directly because transform.position returns a copy of the position, and modifying it would beuseless

[median ruin]

why does it matter?

[swift crag]

You can save transform.position in a variable, modify the variable, and store it back in transform.position

[swift crag]

it doesn't really matter here at all!

[vague dirge]

Uh yes that's what I meant my bad

[swift crag]

but AA talked about an instance being "deleted"

so I wanted to clarify how things can even get "deleted" in the first place

[polar acorn]

It's not really an issue of mattering, that's just how C# works. It clears up memory for you when nothing is still referencing something so you don't need to keep track of memory allocation

It's not like you can change that

[spiral narwhal]

But it would be better to yield the index of the object and use the index to delete a mono behaviour from a list, right?

[median ruin]

Well bad things would only happen in edge cases?

[rocky canyon]

        Vector3 initialPosition = transform.position;
        initialPosition.y = 2.0f;
        transform.position = initialPosition;``` How *I* typically modify positions

[swift crag]

I don't know what you're describing.

"yield the index of the object"

If you want to remove an object from a list, remove it

That's it

theList.Remove(whateverYouWantToRemove)

[languid spire]

I think he means List.RemoveAt

[swift crag]

You could indeed get the index of an object, then use that index with RemoveAt

it would be essentially equivalent to using Remove

[spiral narwhal]

I guess I'm concerned about whateverYouWantToRemove being of a type that Unity can't differentiate from other objects of the same type, therefore removing another object if Remove(whateverYouWantToRemove) would be called

[swift crag]

Unity has nothing to do with List.Remove

[languid spire]

it does not remove by Type it removes by Instance of Type

[swift crag]

The list looks for the first element that equals the object you provided

[polar acorn]

If two objects of the same type can't be differentiated by Remove then it doesn't matter which one is removed

Because both are the same object

[swift crag]

or your Equals method sucks

Every kind of object can be compared for equality (it's often just reference equality)

[languid spire]

I think we have a fundamental misunderstanding of C# here

[polar acorn]

If you've set up a custom equals method that returns true for two objects, then by definition those are the same object. You've just coded it to be so

[swift crag]

true!

[polar acorn]

Whether or not you were supposed to mark those two equal is a different matter

[spiral narwhal]

Let me share actual code because it's a bit abstract now:

 public class Bee : MonoBehaviour {
  public Apiary home;
  private void Reproduce() {
    var newBee = Instantiate(this);
    home.Add(newBee);
  }
}

So here the home has the new instance of the bee.

public class Apiary : MonoBehaviour
    {
        private readonly List<Bee> _beeStock = new();

        public void Add(Bee bee)
        {
            _beeStock.Add(bee);
        }
}

Can I now use Remove of List to remove the exact instance of Bees I want?

[swift crag]

Yes.

[spiral narwhal]

Ok :)

[swift crag]

MonoBehaviour uses reference equality (as do most reference types)

Reference equality is strictly based on whether two variables refer to the same object in memory

[wintry quarry]

This isn't a "Unity differentiating things" question, it's a C#/List question, and in C# you can define how your class defines equality. By default it will be reference equality.

[spiral narwhal]

Ok

[swift crag]

Value types are different, since they, by definition, aren't references

you know, I'm not actually sure how that behaves

i tend to implement IEquatable if I'm going to be doing anything involving equality with a struct

[distant widget]

can you help me out? in my game player has animations and when i press down shift and hold it it sets animation Run to true but when i put my finger up and dont t click anything Run stays true

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

public class PlayerScript : MonoBehaviour
{
public float moveSpeed;
public Rigidbody2D rb;
public float walk;
public Animator anim;
public float walksSpeed = 4;
public float runSpeed = 9;
public bool run;

// Start is called before the first0 frame update
void Start()
{

}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update()
{
    walk = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
    bool isRunning = Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) || Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightShift);
    
    if (isRunning == true)
    {
        anim.SetBool("Run", true);
        
    }
    else if (isRunning == false)
    {
        anim.SetBool("Run", false);
    }

    if (walk > 0)
    {
        anim.SetBool("walk", true);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, 0);
    }

    else if (walk < 0)
    {
        anim.SetBool("walk", true);
        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, 180, 0);
    }
    if (walk == 0)
    {
        anim.SetBool("walk", false);
        anim.SetBool("Run", false);
    }




    rb.velocity = new Vector2(walk * moveSpeed, rb.velocity.y);

   
    





}

}

[swift crag]

!code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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// Your code here
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[languid spire]

!code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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[wintry quarry]

!code

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Posting code

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To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
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Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[swift crag]

dammit

lmao

[wintry quarry]

lmao

[polar acorn]

TRIPLE KILL

[swift crag]

please share that on a pastebin site (:

[distant widget]

okay

https://pastebin.com/w1X32yfX

[languid spire]

dont check a float for equality

[distant widget]

what? i dont get it im quite new

oh oh

now i get it

[languid spire]

floats dont work well when you do ==

[polar acorn]

It is unlikely that your value will be exactly 0. Due to imprecision, it could be something like 0.000000002

[distant widget]

i checked it but it is 0

[polar acorn]

You can use Mathf.Approximately to see if they're close enough
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html

[visual hedge]

            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.7f);
            //DoDamage();
            BSM.PerformList[0].choosenAttack.Activate(this, ChosenAttackTarget.GetComponent<UnitStateMachine>());
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.25f);

is there a way to tell to coroutine to wait until the BSM.Perf... is done executing? Or is it waiting for it by default?

[swift crag]

I don't know what that thing is

If Activate is a regular method, the coroutine will completely execute that method, then continue on the next line (as per usual)

[polar acorn]

Code can only run one line at a time ever. Once it enters that Activate function, that's the only thing it's doing. It will execute the entire function then leave

[visual hedge]

Even if that Activate runs another coroutine? The reason I was asking is because I've heard that coroutines do run simulatenously?

[languid spire]

not true

[swift crag]

If Activate does nothing but start a coroutine, then it'll return after starting the coroutine as per usual

If Activate returns that Coroutine object, then you can yield return it to wait for the other coroutine to complete

[languid spire]

wait, starting the coroutine and running it until the first yield

[wintry quarry]

The default behavior of code is that the called function executes in its entirety before continuing. This only changes for async functions and coroutines

[swift crag]

Ah, true

[polar acorn]

Coroutines run one line at a time like everything else. When it hits a yield statement, it'll defer back to where the code was before it was called. It gets checked periodically to see if the yield condition is done, and if it is, it picks up where it left off

[swift crag]

I originally thought that running an IEnumerator method intrinsically did that. No, that's just Unity calling MoveNext on it immediately.

[visual hedge]

okay, thank you.

thank you sir and madam

[swift crag]

also, they don't run "simultaneously" -- each MonoBehaviour has a list of active coroutines

Unity will go through all of them every frame, one at a time, and resume each coroutine (unless they yielded something like a WaitForSeconds that makes Unity resume them at some other time)

It's not concurrent programming.

[spiral narwhal]

Should MoveTowards be in Update or FixedUpdate

[wintry quarry]

It can be in either one. MoveTowards is a general purpose math function that can be used in a variety of contexts

[summer stump]

Depends on what you use it for

[ivory bobcat]

It's not specific to any.

It simply moves the value of a vector3 towards another vector3.

[swift crag]

indeed: it does nothing more

just like Mathf.Lerp does nothing but give you a value between two points

(and Vector3.Lerp!)

[spiral narwhal]

I'm moving transform position to move from one position to a target

[visual hedge]

is there a way to wait till animator finished playing the desired animation?

ui.animator.Play("Attack");

So basically what I have now is that coroutine does not wait till the animation is finished and goes further. And well, yield return new WaitForSeconds() doesn't quite solve the problem since I have different attack animations for different heroes with different duration so it shall be a bit more universal approach.

[swift crag]

WaitUntil accepts a method that returns a bool and runs it until the method returns true

That may be useful.

yield return new WaitUntil(() => ui.whatever == 123); will park the coroutine until that function returns true

[visual hedge]

that's what ChatGPT suggests. Should do the job?

[swift crag]

i would advise against using the spam machine to try to learn to make games

If the end of that is || ui.animator.IsIntransition(0), then it will immediately end the loop if the transition takes a non-zero amount of time

it's cut off

oh, I read that backwards

[visual hedge]

ui.whatever == 123 what do you mean by 123 please?

[swift crag]

well, I'd need to see the whole line either way

[swift crag]

it was an example of a method

[visual hedge]

                ui.animator.Play("Attack");
                while (ui.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).normalizedTime < 1f || ui.animator.IsInTransition(0))
                {
                    yield return null;
                }

that's what chatgpt suggests
AAAAnd it doesn't get the job done

[swift crag]

This would be a decent place to use a https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/StateMachineBehaviour.html. You can have code run when you enter or exit a state in the animator state machine

[swift crag]

Pretty sure this would get stuck forever until you enter a state that doesn't loop

[visual hedge]

yeah that doesn't work like I need it to anyways... will try your approach if I will understand how to do that 😄

[swift crag]

You can just check if you're currently in the "Attack" state

That would require fewer moving parts

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo.html

[rare basin]

or use enums to determine what state you are in

MOVE, IDLE, ATTACK

and make your logic based on that

[swift crag]

yes, but we have to decide when the attack is over

[rare basin]

can do via animation events for instance

[swift crag]

yield return new WaitUntil(() => !ui.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("Base.Attack"));

That should be correct. It gets the animator state info for layer 0 and asks if the current state is named "Attack"

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimatorStateInfo.IsName.html

[visual hedge]

                ui.animator.Play("Attack");
                yield return new WaitUntil(() => !ui.animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("Attack"));

asked gpt to implement your approach and it gave me this 🙂 I mean gpt is not useless

[swift crag]

I presume that Play immediately changes the active state

ha, well there you go

Although, that's wrong.

It should be Base.Attack

[summer stump]

Gpt IS useless, and it's against the #📖┃code-of-conduct to use in questions and answers here

[swift crag]

ChatGPT is excellent at producing plausible, yet wrong, code

[visual hedge]

ow... okay... sorry, I had no idea

[summer stump]

It's ok at dialogue at least
Not GREAT but... ok

[swift crag]

It mashes words together in a way that looks correct, but isn't

[polar acorn]

If you want something to happen when an animation ends, put an Animation Event on the last frame of it:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/script-AnimationWindowEvent.html

[swift crag]

This is the ideal way to do it, yes

[swift crag]

Although, it looks like it works fine with just the name. I suppose you need to specify a layer if it's not on the default layer.

        if (m_Animator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName("Jump"))
        {
            Debug.Log("Jumping");
        }

e.g.

from the GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo page

[spiral narwhal]

Is there a Mathf.Approximately for Vectors?

[rare basin]

depends on what do you want to compare

if they match?

[swift crag]

Vector3 comparison already uses some fuzziness

You probably just want Vector3.Distance, though

with some small constant

[rare basin]

Vector3.SqrMagnitude(a - b) might work aswell for ya

[swift crag]

very small fuzziness, mind you

[rare basin]

could probably achieve something with Dot product

rly depends on what do you want to do

[spiral narwhal]

Like this?

Vector2.Distance(transform.position, _plantTarget.Value) < 0.1f

[swift crag]

Yes.

[spiral narwhal]

Gotcha, thanks

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector2-operator_eq.html

== returns true if the distance is less than one hundred thousandth

(which helps deal with tiny math errors)

[paper sable]

hey, i get this error on line 18 NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Im trying to make something happen when i click but i get this error

 void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

        GameManager.input.Player.Shoot.performed += Shoot; // <- this is line 18


    }

[swift crag]

I never compare vectors for equality, since I always want a specific amount of otlerance

Then somerthing on line 18 is null.

[vague dirge]

How can I rotate the bean of my character controller ??

[paper sable]

nothing is null

[swift crag]

that's obviously false

becaues you got a NullReferenceException

C# doesn't throw exceptions for fun

[swift crag]

i don't believe the CC capsule can rotate

[clear seal]

a guy that is 51 messges late

gpt sucks

[summer stump]

If you truly believe there is nothing null in there for the object you're looking at, make sure there isn't another instance of the script somewhere

But there IS something null there

[grand forge]

can any1 tell me whats wrong its not there

[paper sable]

void Shoot is defined and the shoot InputAction is also defined to i dont think that anything is null

[grand forge]

in my unity code slot where it should say rigdid body

[swift crag]

Okay, so you don't think anything is null

[polar acorn]

You say what is wrong, we say why is wrong

[swift crag]

Now prove it.

[summer stump]

Defined? But are they Assigned?

[swift crag]

There are a LOT of member accesses on line 18

GameManager.input.Player.Shoot.performed

[grand forge]

why is it wrong im following some new turtorial bc im new i got sent it by sm1 and he said this should work

[swift crag]

we have literally no idea what the problem is

[summer stump]

The fact is, you got an error. There is no question that something IS null there. This is a fact

[grand forge]

there should be a section for my ridgid body

[polar acorn]

You literally have not said what the problem is

[swift crag]

You probably have a compile error that's stopping unity from reloading.

[grand forge]

so there should be a box for my ridgid body but its not there

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

Show the console

[rare basin]

bet IDE not configured aswell

[ivory bobcat]

It's not configured as well, so they should be directed to !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[grand forge]

this?

[rare basin]

is this the console?

[storm imp]

I watched the video in the tutorial and I still don't get what I'm doing wrong

[rare basin]

configure your ide @grand forge

[grand forge]

im new so whats that

[rare basin]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[grand forge]

where i type that then

[rare basin]

type what?

[summer stump]

No? You already shared that

[paper sable]

what could be null?

[grand forge]

im following a turtorial to try learn the code

[polar acorn]

type what

[rare basin]

you dont type anything

[grand forge]

Im so lost

[rare basin]

you configure your IDE

step by step

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[summer stump]

Literally anything between the dots

[ivory bobcat]

The console would be this: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Console.html but you'll need to have a configured IDE first to get help here (part of the server rules #854851968446365696 )

[rare basin]

chooes your code editor

and go through each step and configure it

you dont type anything

[polar acorn]

GameManager, GameManager.input, GameManager.input.Player, or GameManager.input.Player.Shoot

[wintry quarry]

well you havent shown what you're doing yet period, so it's hard to say.

[ivory bobcat]

Null Reference Exception errors occur when you're attempting to access a member (in your case field/property) of variable that's null.
Accessing with the dot threw the error because one or more of these are null.

[storm imp]

what do you mean what am I doing I'm trying to make each button go to a different 360 photo

[wintry quarry]

you have to show what code is running when you press the button

without you showing that, it's impossible to say.

[rare basin]

then add logic that should do it after you click the button

[swift crag]

imagine you take your car to the mechanic and say "I'm trying to drive the car"

can the mechanic do anything to help you yet?

[main sail]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[storm imp]

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

public class TourManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    //list of sites
    public GameObject[] objSites;
    //main menu
    public GameObject canvasMainMenu;
    //should the camera move
    public bool isCameraMove = false;

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

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(isCameraMove) 
        { 
        
            if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Escape))
            {
                ReturnToMenu();
            }


        }
    }

    public void LoadSite(int siteNumber)
    {
        //show site
        objSites[siteNumber].SetActive(true);
        //hide menu
        canvasMainMenu.SetActive(true);
        //enable the camera
        isCameraMove = true;
    }

    public void ReturnToMenu()
    {
        //show menu
        canvasMainMenu.SetActive(true);
        //hide sites
        for (int i = 0; i < objSites.Length; i++)
        {
            objSites[1].SetActive(false);

        }

        //disable the camera
        isCameraMove=false;

    }

}

[wintry quarry]

Looks like it's based on whatever siteNumber you pass into that function

you'd have to show how your buttons are configured (which is what I've been asking for this whole time and you still haven't provided)

[polar acorn]

What calls LoadSite

[wintry quarry]

You'd also have to show what you have set up in that objSites array in the inspector as well

[grand forge]

where is preferences in this thing

im blind so yh

Found it nvm

[dire tartan]

hey ive got a problem and i think i know how to fix it i just want someone who knows what they are doing to double check bassicly ive got a ragdol made up of different shapes connected with configurable joints i use its drive force to get it to be animated but an issue i have is when i turn collisions on for the hands gaps appear between the shoulder and arm if i rig the character and have the bones try to link to the model instead will that fix my problem?

[clear seal]

is this logical and technically possible?

[wintry quarry]

What is "this"? What are you trying to do?

[clear seal]

a canon loader

[wintry quarry]

why is your HealthSystem variable called ballsHeld? Seems like poor name for a HealthSystem variable

[wintry quarry]

that's very vague

what are you trying to accomplish

[clear seal]

i was abt to explain it

[mighty falcon]

yes

holding balls is logical and technically possible

[clear seal]

the player needs to take a ball and then load it to the canon manually and then repeat

[wintry quarry]

yes, possible. No your code won't do that.

[clear seal]

i didn't want to create an other script for that

[mighty falcon]

make your cannon then make a ball then make an animation of the ball going into the cannon then make a particle effect for the cannon to fire and then clone the cannonball and give it a bodyvelocity in the direction the cannon is aimed and then let it go and when it lands delete it and play an explosion effect

[clear seal]

no animation for now just some wait bla bla

[ivory bobcat]

You'll get an error if it wasn't a player that triggered this - assuming balls held is only assigned in the first if statement.

[clear seal]

canon already ready i just need to change the script

[clear seal]

yes

i guess so

idk

[native seal]

Is there a way to get a singleton to call its method when the scene changes? basically i want my save/load system to save then load every scene change

[storm imp]

what do you mean what calls LoadSite?

[polar acorn]

I mean what calls LoadSite

[rich adder]

ofc subscribe to scene change event
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-sceneLoaded.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/SceneManagement.SceneManager-activeSceneChanged.html

[storm imp]

I didn't know what you mean by calls

[glossy eagle]

Hi. One question, does anyone know how can I do like a variable where I can select multiple options please? Like when selecting a layermask, where you can select more than one at the same time

[languid spire]

enum with Flags attribute

[glossy eagle]

thanks

[spiral narwhal]

Why can I not drag a Prefab that has a Script X on a ScriptableObject that demands a field X?

[languid spire]

you can

[spiral narwhal]

The arrow doesn't list the prefab

[rich adder]

the arrow?

[polar acorn]

Then you need to learn some of the barest of bare-bones basics of C# because I literally do not know how to explain that any simpler

[spiral narwhal]

Even in the Assets tab

[polar acorn]

Consider the intro to C# guide in the pins

[spiral narwhal]

Yes the one next to the field

[rich adder]

the bulls eye?

thats not an arrow

[spiral narwhal]

Yes the selector

It just says None

[polar acorn]

Show the full inspector of this object and the prefab you want to drag in

[rich adder]

did you try just dragging in the prefab

that thing barely works sometimes at detecting assets

[spiral narwhal]

I can't do that because it automatically closes the tab once I enter the other asset folder

[rich adder]

right click it and click Properties

it pops it out into a new window

[spiral narwhal]

Right click what?

[rich adder]

the script ?

[polar acorn]

Lock the inspector

[spiral narwhal]

The prefab or the scriptable object

[rich adder]

or that ^^ lock

[spiral narwhal]

Ohhh

Cool

Thanks

[rich adder]

Anything you want

[storm imp]

this?

[rich adder]

if you right click even asset on Asset view

[spiral narwhal]

But just for learning: the preview bullseye or whatever cannot display prefabs?

[rich adder]

you can pop out its own inspector

[languid spire]

how is that a Button?

[rich adder]

usually has a hard time for me when looking for a prefab with a certain script

idk if im doing it wrong but never does so I just drag n drop

[spiral narwhal]

Mm yes I agree. But thanks :)

[storm imp]

this the inspector for button 1

[polar acorn]

Okay there we go

Do your other buttons have different numbers

[storm imp]

this the inspector for button 2

[polar acorn]

So, no

All of your buttons use the same number

[clear seal]

looks good

[polar acorn]

Wait that's literally the exact same screenshot

You still have button 1 selected

[carmine sierra]

why doesn't this work.. using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class WeaponSpawn : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject Weapon;

void OnMouseDown()
{
    Weapon.SetActive(true);
    Debug.Log("Spawned");
}

}

I have linked the gameobject

[clear seal]

void on mousedown???

[carmine sierra]

but it doesn't spawn and the console doesnt write the line either

[storm imp]

wrong one here

[carmine sierra]

is that wrong?

what does void mena

[polar acorn]

Okay so it is a different number

[rich adder]

void is a return type for a method

[polar acorn]

Show your objSites array

[clear seal]

i think you mean Input.GetKeyDown(keycode(mouse0)

[rich adder]

do you have a collider on this object ?

[carmine sierra]

oh nah i dont

[rich adder]

cause that function needs collider

[carmine sierra]

yeah it works now thanks

thought it just detected off the sprite

[storm imp]

yes, button3

[carmine sierra]

what would the difference be with this

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

not valid syntax lol

[clear seal]

how come?

[rich adder]

think you meant KeyCode.Mouse0

its an enum not method

[clear seal]

oh ye i writed it bad

[rich adder]

there is also mouse built in Input.GetMouseDown(0)

[carmine sierra]

i deleted a duplicate camera and the consoles telling me the script is missing

how can i get rid of that

[polar acorn]

Remove the component that referenced the missing script

[clear seal]

but void OnMouseDown

is bad right?

[storm imp]

KeyCode.mouse not KeyCode(mouse0)?

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

valid
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.OnMouseDown.html
but different purpose

[visual hedge]

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

public class WeaponSpawn : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject Weapon;

    void Update()
    {  
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(keycode(mouse0))
{
        Weapon.SetActive(true);
        Debug.Log("Spawned");
}
    }
}

try this

[clear seal]

mouse0 means left click

[clear seal]

that'S good

[carmine sierra]

it worked after adding a collider but when should I use the input rather than onmousedown function

[polar acorn]

That won't compile and also doesn't do the same thing

@visual hedge @clear seal If you're going to just try to guess at the solution at least make it known you don't actually know the answer or you're just going to confuse the matter

[rich adder]

do you want to click on something specific to run hat method. or do you want to detect mouse button down In general anywhere to run function ?

[clear seal]

so bascicly it act like a raycast touch?

[visual hedge]

oh... my bad, I haven't seen that that method is called thru button click

[carmine sierra]

okay yeah so is onmousedown really necessary

[clear seal]

(sorry for bad english and i never tested that just saw thumbnails)

[storm imp]

what is that?

[rich adder]

that doesn't answer the question lol

[rich adder]

it probably raycasts in the background, so yes it only invokes when the collider you clicked

[polar acorn]

That's what I'm asking you

I don't know what you put there

show it

[carmine sierra]

thought it was rhetorical, input is the one that can be used anywhere right

[storm imp]

what am I showing?

[rich adder]

indeed

[polar acorn]

Correct. The code that other people have provided (once all of the compile errors were fixed) would fire whenever you clicked anywhere. It simply checks if the button is pressed. OnMouseDown checks if you click on this collider

[polar acorn]

Your objSites array

[carmine sierra]

still dont get the difference cause couldn't both return an output

[carmine sierra]

ohh okay

thanks

so input can't be localized to clicking on a sprite

[rich adder]

everything returns an output

void is an output

Input does return an output and its bool or float if you use GetAxis for example

[carmine sierra]

yeah im waffling

[storm imp]

I obviously don't knew what that is

[polar acorn]

Then we're at an impasse here. I can't provide any further help until you tell me what that is

[carmine sierra]

does the intervals of keypress sensitivities on getaxis vary for different keyboards

getaxis is the -1 to 1 one right

[rich adder]

https://medium.com/@Code_With_K/unity-getaxis-vs-getaxisraw-ac501ad8f22

[carmine sierra]

okay but do better keyboards have better sensitivity controls?

[rich adder]

better sensitivity controls? wdym

[languid spire]

that is something you set at the driver or OS level

[rich adder]

varies on so many things too

[carmine sierra]

like a keypress from up all the way down would have 1000 different values for a get axis or 100000 for better keyboard

[languid spire]

better, no, different key type, yes

[polar acorn]

The "hardness" of a key press does not provide different values

A key is either pressed or it's not

[carmine sierra]

a half press though

[polar acorn]

No such thing

[carmine sierra]

is not a full press for getaxis right

so then getaxis is the same as raw?

[rich adder]

no? i sent you a link that explains the difference

[clear seal]

my head

[carmine sierra]

yeah i read but couldn't half a press be a 0.5 or -0.5on the getaxis

while on raw it would be 1 or -1

[clear seal]

it no no wanna think :(

[rich adder]

a half press isn't a thing lol

its either pressed or not

[carmine sierra]

so how does getaxis work

[storm imp]

what do you want the code?

[polar acorn]

You cannot half press a key

[rich adder]

off or on

[polar acorn]

I want to see that array. Where it's defined and where it's populated

[polar acorn]

https://medium.com/@Code_With_K/unity-getaxis-vs-getaxisraw-ac501ad8f22

[carmine sierra]

i read that

but doesn't that imply that there are values between 0 to 1 and 0 to -1 which would depend on how deep a key is pressed

[polar acorn]

The sensitivity of the input is defined in the input manager

it ramps up to 1 or -1 based on that sensitivity

[carmine sierra]

but wouldn't that depend on the keyboard

[polar acorn]

whereas GetAxisRaw does not do any smoothing

[verbal dome]

No that depends on smoothing settings for that key/axis

[carmine sierra]

how can the sensitivity be calculated digitally

[polar acorn]

the keyboard has nothing to do with it

[carmine sierra]

if its a physical movement

is it how long the key is pressed down

[polar acorn]

You press a key. It goes from not pressed to pressed

[north kiln]

It's an interpolation

[polar acorn]

GetAxis will smooth the value from 0 to 1 over time

[north kiln]

entirely in software (in Unity)

[polar acorn]

GetAxisRaw returns the actual state of the key, no smoothing

[carmine sierra]

oh okay so it goes to 1 if you keep it down till it can reach 1

rather than a tiny press

which would be like 0.2

[rich adder]

its mainly meant for Controller sticks/Mouse afaik

The meaning of this value depends on the type of input control, for example with a joystick's horizontal axis a value of 1 means the stick is pushed all the way to the right and a value of -1 means it's all the way to the left; a value of 0 means the joystick is in its neutral position.

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

keyboard key doesn't behave like that

[storm imp]

I guess I'm stuck at the moment

[rich adder]

sure if you don't want to share the code requested

[polar acorn]

They shared the code. They haven't shared the array

[rich adder]

ahh misread that as array in code not obj

[storm imp]

what is the array ?

[potent zinc]

I'm currently trying to check if an object is colliding with a different object the moment that it spawns, after searching on internet I can't find any way to do this. Could someone help?

[polar acorn]

The array in your script. That you coded in and populated somewhere. Show where and what you have populated it with

[rich adder]

Physics.Overlap

[fierce geode]

I mean, it seems to work despite my collider moving?

[storm imp]

this?

or this?

[rich adder]

oh boy..

[buoyant knot]

it looks like it works, but it will not actually work because moving transform does not respect collision

it will jank on you if you do not do it properly

[polar acorn]

Why do you still have two

Which one are your buttons referencing

[storm imp]

what do you mean two?

[rich adder]

TourManager script

[polar acorn]

I literally do not know how to explain the concept of the number two

[storm imp]

yes

[carmine sierra]

how would i go about stretching and rotating an objects wherever the mouse moves

whats the maths needed or can something easier be done

[rich adder]

use transform

[carmine sierra]

rather than some angle calculations

[carmine sierra]

will it make it easy or do i need to use trig

[polar acorn]

It is more than one and less than three

Half of four

[rich adder]

there are plenty of forum posts / unity answers for this

[rich adder]

you dont need trig for rotating and stretching and object

[carmine sierra]

so is maths the only way or is there something built in which would stretch and rotate the objects

[fierce geode]

so... what's the correct way to rotate?

[rich adder]

"stretching" would just be setting the transform.scale
"rotate" isn't clear how you want to rotate

[storm imp]

: (

[carmine sierra]

2d clockwise/anticlockwise

but if it's easy i probably just need to get good and ill do it when i can

[storm imp]

I don't knew anymore

[umbral marsh]

sry for interrupting but what does this button do exactly? does it destroy the object or something else? found out after a few hours that it solves an issue i got when i toggle it off and back on, so id like to access that button by script... (not ideal i know)

[fierce geode]

My best guess if there's not an inbuilt system, that I'd have to shoot a ray cast to check for any collisions.

[polar acorn]

It disables the object

[rich adder]

you need basic unity functions but you can easily do it without much math

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.SetActive.html

[umbral marsh]

thank u, i should be able to find a way to do that now

if not ill be back

[storm imp]

two what?

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

You literally sent two screenshots with bright red arrows pointing to them

how did you not notice there were two

you labeled them

[storm imp]

I don't knew I followed the tutorial

[polar acorn]

Okay show me where in the tutorial it added the second copy of the script

[rich adder]

 Vector2 worldPoint = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
 Vector2 dir = (worldPoint - (Vector2)transform.position).normalized;
 transform.right = dir;```

or do you mean rotating it with the mouse axis not position?

[carmine sierra]

idk what a mouse axis is

but the end point of the object would be fixed

and it would rotate around that point

and only it's width would stretch

but i think thats what you mean by the axis#]

[storm imp]

ok I looked back I don't see when he did that

[fierce geode]

How. How can my character go through the loop, but only through one side but doesnt even get half way up when going the other side 💀

[rich adder]

yeah but rotating according to what, mouse position, or just moving mouse Left/right up/down indefinitely

[carmine sierra]

mouse position

or the change in the mouse position after clicking down

[native seal]

    {
        Debug.Log("Updating experience bar: " + currentExperience + " / " + maxExperience);
        float targetFillAmount = (float)currentExperience / maxExperience;
        experienceBarText.text = $"Level: {level}";
        experienceBarSlider.value = Mathf.Lerp(experienceBarSlider.value, targetFillAmount, Time.deltaTime * 50f);
    }``` 

is there a reason my xp bar isnt updating smoothly? am I misunderstanding lerp?

[carmine sierra]

doesn't need to snap to the mouse necessarily

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

Coroutine would be the cleanest

or use Dotween (very nice for UI animating)

[summer stump]

No, still not right. If you press the key with GetAxis, it will go from 0 to 1, but hit each value along the way
If you press the key with GetAxisRaw, it will immediately go from 0 to 1
There is no way to do a "tiny press" nor any way to get it to only go up to .2 (or any value less than 1).

[native seal]

do you prefer dotween or lean tween?

[summer stump]

Prime tween

[rich adder]

Dotween personally

[rich adder]

any reason you like this over dotween, never tried it myself

[buoyant knot]

depends on your RB.
kinematic RB should use MoveRotation.
dynamic RB should only be moved by force.
Alternatively, if you want to teleport, then you need to do a physics query to see if the coast is clear, then change rigidbody.rotation

[arctic ibex]

Why cant I set rigidbody.velocity.x? Do i new to make a new vector2?

[buoyant knot]

that is the only way to exorcise the jank demons from your code

[rich adder]

You cannot assign a prop of the struct like that

[verbal dome]

Looks like you have an unwanted/incorrect collider there somewhere

[arctic ibex]

Is assigning a new vector 2 the only way to go then?

[rich adder]

yes

[arctic ibex]

aight, thanks

[carmine sierra]

oh okay so it really is just for controllers

[summer stump]

No, I was actually just trying to muddy the waters more haha. It apparantly doesn't allocate, unlike dotween. I dunno if that's worth if by itself.

[summer stump]

? No.
It is just a smooth lerp between 0 and 1. It's for keyboards and anything else

[fierce geode]

I think it's due to the way I apply velocity, I multiply it by the character's rotation in order for the character to always be moving relative to the way their facing; but I'm finding that around 90 degrees along the loop in whichever axis is up is when the effects trigger. On one side of the loop, once you reach 90 degrees; the velocity's seem to reverse to force you back down and on the other side of the loop, seems any forward velocity moves the character to the left.

[carmine sierra]

and its calculated off time

[fierce geode]

Also thanks.

[carmine sierra]

pressed down

[summer stump]

No! Not at all.

[carmine sierra]

lol i dont get it

[summer stump]

The instant the key down message is sent. The smooth interpolation begins

[verbal dome]

Are we still talking about getaxis/raw lol

[rich adder]

Yeah looks like interesting features too, gonna give it a try later
https://github.com/KyryloKuzyk/PrimeTween?tab=readme-ov-file#performance-comparison

[carmine sierra]

and the interpolation is based off time pressed down?

[summer stump]

I just said no

It takes the same amount of time every time (the time can be changed via settings. But once set, it will take that amount of time). It starts the instant the key pressed event is received

Holding down the key will KEEP the value at one until the key is released, when the key up event is sent, and it will interpolate back down to 0

[carmine sierra]

so the time it takes to return to 0 is compared to the other times you pressed it or something?

[summer stump]

It is compared to whatever it is set to

[carmine sierra]

okay yeah

[summer stump]

The INSTANT the key up event is received, the process begins

[carmine sierra]

so it could be useful for turning a car

in a game

[summer stump]

Sure. Or just moving a character so it has inertia

[slender dock]

where does this thing get called? i'm looking at LobbyUIMediator.cs from the Boss Room project ... i must have skipped over the Inject stuff when I was learning C#? :I~

[limber narwhal]

should i use internal or public for methods if i want to use methods in different scripts that are on the same gameobject?

[summer stump]

Dependency Injection is not something you would learn when just starting. It's a more advanced topic. That looks like zenject I think

[slender dock]

:~I ... dang it

[summer stump]

Well, internal would make it so they can't be called externally of course... public is what you would use
whether it's on the same gameobject or not is kinda irrelevant here

[median ferry]

Does anyone know how to make a ladder work? I dont need animations just need to be able to climb up thanks

[summer stump]

How do you WANT it to work? Move forward makes you go up? Or click to climb.
It depends

[median ferry]

Move forward and they climb up

Its a 3d game

[teal viper]

Inject isn't really something included in the default C#. This code must be using some kind of library or framework that implements it.

[summer stump]

Sinple way is to just have a trigger area, if you walk forward make sure it's against the ladder, and increase the y position

Could use raycasts or spherecasts in a similar way, and that would negate the need for checking direction

[median ferry]

Okay thank you

[limber narwhal]

ah okay. i wasn't sure if it was relevant or not to being on the same gameobject i think that's what confused me , unless i'm specifically creating assembly definitions internal would function the same way as public in all of my component scripts right?

[median ferry]

Would that work even if my player is instantiated into the game after it starts?

[summer stump]

Yeah, that would change nothing about this
Unless you spawned inside the trigger area, the event may not send

[rich adder]

dont crosspost

[median ferry]

Yeah im sorry

I meant to put it in the beginner

Not the general code

[summer stump]

Are you using assembly definitions? And do you need them to be separated?

[minor hemlock]

I'm making a vr game and I'm going to implement a flashbanf sort of ability, but you point your hand at another player and if their in range they become flashed

idk how though

[limber narwhal]

no at at the moment. i haven't gotten into a situation where i needed to yet i haven't really looked into them too much

[summer stump]

Then stick with public

Easy enough to change when needed.
But yeah, you were right earlier

[carmine sierra]

i know i should learn myself but why doesn't this work

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

public class WeaponFire : MonoBehaviour
{
public float X_pullback;
public float Y_pullback;

void OnMouseDown()
{
    Vector3 originalPos =  Input.mousePosition;
    Debug.Log(originalPos);

}

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

}

[rich adder]

!code

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[rich adder]

what "doesn't work" mean

[carmine sierra]

doesn't log the originalpos

input.mouseposition would save the position of the mouse right

[rich adder]

OnMouseDown is meant for being clicked on Collider

[carmine sierra]

yeah as i intended

[rich adder]

show where you put the script on the gameobject

[spiral narwhal]

var targetX = transform.position.x + Random.Range(-2f, 2f);
            var targetY = transform.position.y + Random.Range(-2f, 2f);

            if (targetX > CameraMovement.MAX_TOP_LEFT.x)
                targetX += Random.Range(1f, 4f);
            else if (targetX > CameraMovement.MIN_BOTTOM_RIGHT.x)
                targetX -= Random.Range(1f, 4f);

            if (targetY > CameraMovement.MAX_TOP_LEFT.y)
                targetY -= Random.Range(1f, 4f);
            else if (targetY > CameraMovement.MIN_BOTTOM_RIGHT.y)
                targetY += Random.Range(1f, 4f);

            _randomisedBuzzAroundTarget = new Vector2(targetX, targetY);

Is there a logical error? Because the constants are set up correctly, but the target still ignores the bounds

[rich adder]

where is the collider.?

[carmine sierra]

the green lines

it is a polygon collider2d

[rich adder]

cause it sure as hell not where the script it

[carmine sierra]

ohhhh

[teal viper]

The component. What object is it on?

[carmine sierra]

cause i put it in the empty parent right

not the actual collider objects?

[rich adder]

right

it looks for the collider on itself

(maybe children but havent tried that)

[ivory bobcat]

It'd log the mouse position relative to screen space - I'm assuming your object is in world space.

[carmine sierra]

yeah it works now 😄

[rich adder]

but yeah like Dalphat mentions, Input.mousePosition is only Screen position

not world

big differences

[carmine sierra]

so that would mess up my code when used on different devices?

diff computers

[rich adder]

what no..

Screen Position is just the position on the pixel coordinates

World position is where your gameobjects live

[ivory bobcat]

Try logging some values like the bounds and the values of x/y.

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message
You see in my example I use this method

[carmine sierra]

so should i just make it a world position thing

[rich adder]

ScreenToWorldPoint

[carmine sierra]

thanks

[rich adder]

this changes the Screen position to world

obv lol

[spiral narwhal]

I discovered the Clamp function of Mathf :)

[carmine sierra]

not sure what that means tbh but ill learn what screen-world thing is

screentoworldpoint and worldtoscreenpoint right?

[rich adder]

you see the red dot

thats where your mouse is

[carmine sierra]

yh

[rich adder]

the gray/whiteboxes is the WORLD

X,Y,Z

[carmine sierra]

for 2d would both z's be the same

[rich adder]

the function transates that position in relation to the world

[carmine sierra]

so it scales it up to the screen size?

[rich adder]

Orthocamera dont have depth so it would be Z of 0

[rich adder]

it always keeps the sizes uniform sure if you change screensize it still knows where to put the dot in the world

[carmine sierra]

i dont understand how it is different to the mouse position exactly

other than that it would calculate the depth in a 3d space right

the depth of the object being pointed at

[rich adder]

because the mouse doesnt exist in the 3D world

it lives on your screen, hence screen size aka Pixel Size

[carmine sierra]

yeah so for 2d could input.mousposition work fine

or does the screen to world world to screen thing need to be used

[rich adder]

Input.mousePosition is Pixel Coordinates

it has no relation to 3D or 2D

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Input-mousePosition.html

The bottom-left of the screen or window is at (0, 0). The top-right of the screen or window is at (Screen.width, Screen.height).

[carmine sierra]

ohh okay so it basically tracks the mouse even outside the window of the game is the issue

[rich adder]

nvm i confused myself, yes it tracks the mouse pos

[carmine sierra]

but in my case the object would always be clicked within the window and that's when I want the mouspos saved so it should be fine this time right?

[rich adder]

its not an issue, its just that if you want that to translate to the world (inside the engine) you need that helper function
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint.html

[carmine sierra]

or is there another benefit

[median ferry]

Yeah I'm so lost with making a ladder lmfao

Does Anyone have the time to help?

[rich adder]

no because the mousePosition in pixel coordinate isnt much useful to a gameobject (those use WORLD coordinates xyz)

[carmine sierra]

oh okay so if the game were windowed and in one corner of the screen even if i clicked it there it would have a different mousepos than to clicking the object in fullscreen, in the same position

so thats why I should use the world coords?

[rich adder]

just make a trigger, when you're inside the trigger "You're on a ladder"

switch up movement to go up instead of forward with WASD

[median ferry]

Alright I'll try that

[rich adder]

you are overthinking this lol

[swift crag]

world-space coordinates are a completely different coordinate space from screen-space coordinates

[carmine sierra]

yeah but is that not how it works?

[rich adder]

your mouse would be at the same PIXEL coordinate no matter what resolution

[swift crag]

you should use the correct coordinate space because it makes zero sense to work in the wrong coordinate space

[carmine sierra]

if my object is in a windowed version of the game and clicked it would return a diff position than a windowed version in a diff area of the actual screen

[swift crag]

if I ask you what time it is and you say "34 feet", that's just plain nonsense

[carmine sierra]

for input.mousepos?

[rich adder]

yes thats what its for

[carmine sierra]

yeah

[carmine sierra]

so the thing i was saying about the windowed version giving a diff position would be right or wrong?

[rich adder]

the best way to get it is to Debug Values visually and see whats happening

use OnGUI

[carmine sierra]

if you get what im asking

[rich adder]

I kinda don't know what you mean there lol

windowed or not , ScreenSpace is the same place

[swift crag]

they're asking about how screen space coordinates change with resolution

they will change, since screen space is measured in pixels

view space coordinates are normalized to the 0..1 range

[carmine sierra]

i am logging the coord when the object is clicked, if i clicked it in one space when it was in full screen then the game is windowed and taking up half the screen - the object would be a diff position on the actual screen, the mouse position logged that time would be different

it would be the same world position but not screen position

so the mous pos returned would be different

[swift crag]

Correct.

[rich adder]

the ideal thing is to be using the helper functions

[carmine sierra]

okay yeah i get it

[carmine sierra]

but is world - screen better

or is that a helper function

[rich adder]

like ScreenToWorld, WorldToScreen etc

[carmine sierra]

okay yeah

ill learn those then thanks

[rich adder]

viewport right not screen?

[swift crag]

Correct.

[carmine sierra]

can i subtract vector3s like this

[swift crag]

ah yeah, it's viewport space, not view space

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

[rich adder]

ofc you can

[carmine sierra]

to subtract the x and y components separately?

[swift crag]

you didn't get an erreor, so yes (:

and yeah, it's element-wise subtraction

which is how vector math normally works

* is not defined

[carmine sierra]

just wondering what games have you guys made?

[swift crag]

Vector3.Scale is used to do element-wise multiplication

[rich adder]

various different shit that are always at 80% completion xD

[carmine sierra]

oh yeah i don't get how scale works i put in a sprite with a certain resolution but then I can't find the resolution according to it's scale anywhere

[carmine sierra]

you got a page i wanna try them out

[rich adder]

nah just very old Jam submissions on my itch

[carmine sierra]

can you send that pls

[rich adder]

sure
https://navarone.itch.io/

[carmine sierra]

guarded looks cool but doesnt load

[rich adder]

Ohh really?...hmm gotta look at the old project and see why

[rich adder]

weird cause it works on my PC.. :

must be webgl issue ig

[rancid tinsel]

how would i find a child object with a tag at runtime?

[rich adder]

if its a child just make a field. why tag?

[rancid tinsel]

idk what that means

could you explain?

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] private Transform childObject

[median ferry]

Okay so i got my ladder to work

[rich adder]

you can do also transform.GetChild(indexOfchild) but its not robust

[carmine sierra]

i want to save the x and y values of poschange separately

[median ferry]

But if im already moving and i walk into the ladder i dont climb, i have to stop moving and press w while in the trigger

I can send an example if needed

[rancid tinsel]

would that work with prefabs?

[rich adder]

this is saving local variables

save it ina vector2 ?

[rich adder]

ofc

[carmine sierra]

bruh i thought there was just vector3

[rich adder]

Unity has Vector2 and Vector3

[carmine sierra]

my game is gonna be fully 2d so should i just use vector 2s

[rancid tinsel]

im trying to find a specific instance of a child of a prefab (in this case all my ground blocks will have a tree child gameobject that i only want to set active under certain conditions)

[rich adder]

you can use either one

both work exactly the same

[carmine sierra]

yeah it says newpos and originalpos do not exist in the context but I thought local variables could be used anywhere within the code

[rancid tinsel]

im not sure how to reference it in script though

[rich adder]

no they are local to the scope (the method)

[carmine sierra]

ohh damn

but i heard having alot of public's is bad

[rich adder]

yeah but what are you looking for exactly

a script ?

[rich adder]

you know, private is a thing

[carmine sierra]

yeah but constricted to one method i don't know how I can do that

do i need to recall the variables when I want to use them?

[rancid tinsel]

https://gdl.space/mihitemava.cs this is what i have right now, i put a comment explaining what im trying to do because it is a bit hard to explain it out of context

[rich adder]

those are local not private

[rich adder]

you declare them OUTSIDE the method, INSIDE the class

[carmine sierra]

is something like this gonna work

[rich adder]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[rancid tinsel]

and this is the structure of what "xblock" and "zblock" would be

[rich adder]

methods do not have accessors for variables inside, since they are all Local and cannot be otherwise

[median ferry]

Can someone help please

[carmine sierra]

mm yeah i need to learn the basics

[rich adder]

yes

check pins

[cosmic dagger]

Please do . . .

[rich adder]

xBlock is your instance tho

[carmine sierra]

so if they are called outside of all the methods they can be accessed within them all?

[rancid tinsel]

yes, but i dont know how to reference the actual tree part of it

[carmine sierra]

like how I initialised the gameobject outside the methods

[rich adder]

I meant make a field for the tree with a script on xBlock you access after Instantiate

but GetChild should suffice i suppose

just not solid

[rancid tinsel]

tbh your way is way easier

i dont see why i wouldnt do that 🤦‍♂️

[rich adder]

if they are Declared outside the method it can be accessed through the whole class yes

[rich adder]

if you want you can directly spawn the object As that type too instead of GameObject

SomeScriptBlock xBlock = Instantiate(blockPrefabs[0], new Vector3(j, 0, i), Quaternion.identity);
xBlock.SomeTree // do whatever with it```

blockPrefabs would need to be changed to SomeScriptBlock though
private SomeScriptBlock[] blockPrefabs

[storm imp]

I don't think I have an array for the button I have one for the site photos

[rancid tinsel]

i dont quite understand the point of that, could you explain why that could be better than what ive done?

[carmine sierra]

no errors so a private called outside all the methods can still be accessed anywhere throughout that script?

[rich adder]

well if you're looking for a scrpt called SomeScriptBlock that holds a field for the SomeTree
You avoid a call to GetComponent
as per your code

GameObject xBlock = Instantiate(blockPrefabs[0], new Vector3(j, 0, i), Quaternion.identity);
xBlock.GetComponent<SomeScriptBlock>().SomeTree```

[rancid tinsel]

i ended up just putting a script on the blocks themselves like this

is this not good?

[rich adder]

that works too lol

actually it wont work if it stars disabled..

scripts dont run on disabled gameobjects

[rancid tinsel]

ah i see

i put it on the actual block parent though so it works

[rich adder]

gotcha

[rancid tinsel]

i tried out my map at 100x100 size and the scene view is laggy 😭

not surprised though

[rich adder]

do you have LOD and other optimizations setup ?

[rancid tinsel]

no, but i dont think ill have to mess with that for this project, im just testing out what ive got so far

the map will probably be like 20x20 max

[median ferry]

My ladder works now thank you for helping @rich adder

[rich adder]

yes

[rancid tinsel]

oh yeah thank you navarone for helping me as well

[carmine sierra]

is that how I would call the mass value

[onyx blaze]

Hello, someone can help me?
I'm getting this error, but I don't know how to solve
I tried google, but don't works

FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.

That's my code
int inGameItemID = int.Parse(EventSystem.current.currentSelectedGameObject.transform.GetChild(0).GetComponent<Text>().text);

I tried to show in a Debug.Log, and the result is always a number
I don't know where is the error :/
But the error are returning this line that I showed

[summer stump]

No.
GetComponent<RigidBody2D>().mass;

[carmine sierra]

Thanks

[rich adder]

you wont be able to use GetComponent there

[carmine sierra]

so get component is like a function and then the value is called with a dot after

[rich adder]

needs to run inside a method

[carmine sierra]

damn why?

cant save it for later

[summer stump]

Oh, yeah that's the initializer huh

[summer stump]

Do it in Awake

[carmine sierra]

ohh true

[summer stump]

And yeah, GetComponent is a method, and exactly what you said. You access properties of that component via dot notation

[carmine sierra]

are methods built in functions

like getcomponent and debug.log

[rich adder]

thats just how the compiler works

[summer stump]

Methods are functions that are members of an object (like a class or struct)

[rich adder]

these fields are created before methods are

[carmine sierra]

what's wrong with this code

[rich adder]

you cannot use something that wasnt created yet

[carmine sierra]

i see the console errors but not sure exactly what

[summer stump]

You put public in Awake

[rich adder]

btw !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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

Select one:

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

[rich adder]

I noticed before it wasnt highlighting red

[summer stump]

Make ammoMass a variable in the class, then just assign it in awake

[carmine sierra]

i need it to be public though so should I put it in start() or soemthing

[rich adder]

i told you earlier, methods cannot have accessors* they already are local
*aka public, private

[carmine sierra]

oh okay

[summer stump]

public float ammoMass

void Awake() {
ammoMass =
}

[carmine sierra]

yeah true lol

[native seal]

anyone know how to stop my projectile from hitting multiple enemies that are stacked on eachother?

[summer stump]

Have the projectile remember the first enemy it hits. If it has hit something, don't damage anything else

[carmine sierra]

feels like this should work

errors are x and y_pullback and something about data types being converted

[native seal]

thanks

[carmine sierra]

also it says rigidbody2d could not be found

the referenced gameobject has rb2d

[summer stump]

Did you configure your !ide as nav said?

[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

[rich adder]

config your IDE if you want get help

[carmine sierra]

is that right

i cant find the devenv.exe

[summer stump]

If you're using VSCode yeah. The devenv is for VS I thought

Which are you using? (Looks like vs code)

[rich adder]

no its not right

also this looks like Visual Studio

are you using or

[carmine sierra]

blue

[rich adder]

ohh

so follow VSCode one

it should not say (internal)

it should show the vscode version

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity

[carmine sierra]

thanks

[rich adder]

shows us when its done 🙂

[carmine sierra]

now that it does a debug does it mean its done

the thing still says internal though

yeahh and the lightbulb it works now i think

[rich adder]

if it underlines errors then its working, try typing something see what appears

[carmine sierra]

no it doesn't do that

i need to find the file they are asking for

also quick question can you run a build if there are errors

[rich adder]

a file ?

[carmine sierra]

yeah cause it still says internal

[rich adder]

you dont need any files what are you talking about

did you click the link i've sent

[carmine sierra]

yeah

[rich adder]

the fix is there, follow the steps exactly

[carmine sierra]

okay

[carmine sierra]

yeah im not sure it doesn't work still

it says something about restricted mode which limits the extensions so i take it off but they still don't work

[rich adder]

it would not launch it in restricted mode

you did not configure it correctly im certain

[spiral narwhal]

In C# I can use return to exit a method, but if the method uses IEnumerator, how do I do that? yield return null seems to skip the frame so to speak

[slender nymph]

yield break;

[spiral narwhal]

Thank you

[shell oriole]

How do I scale the UI to fit all screens?

[slender nymph]

check the documentation pinned in #📲┃ui-ux to learn how to anchor and scale your canvas elements

[shell oriole]

where in the documentation is that?

[carmine sierra]

i think it's cause it says internal

[shell oriole]

where is that?

where is the specific doc

where it tells you that

[rich adder]

holy shit, it says internal because you did not configure it correctly, what dont you get lol

[summer stump]

The layout link

[shell oriole]

ty

[carmine sierra]

ik im just checking on yt

[rich adder]

when its configured correctly ^^

[carmine sierra]

yeah

[rich adder]

why

I sent you the guide

[summer stump]

So, do you have the Unity extension?
The Visual Studio Editor package in unity (at least version 2.0.20)?
Is there any error in the editor about an SDK?

[carmine sierra]

cause i followed the page but it doesn't work

[rich adder]

"it doesn't work"

[carmine sierra]

yes 2.0.23

[rich adder]

mate i did this 1000 times

it works fine

[summer stump]

Ok, and the other two things?

[carmine sierra]

no error about sdk

have unity extension

although i just installed it

so maybe i should restart unity?

[rich adder]

Install the unity extension, install the package , in unity select vscode . regen project files in external tools