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[swift crag]

since it may have a non-zero rotation

thanks to Coordinate Space Hell

[summer stump]

Yeah, that's fair.

I made it sound like there was no reason to, I was more curious why in this case it was needed

[warm anvil]

Thanks for the reply Sexy. I'm still learning how unity works with situations with a canvas and grids for in this case an inventory system.

That being said, still lot to learn - I wouldn't really call it hyper specific - I'd honestly think this would be a pretty common occurrence really. two grids on the same canvas (plus or minus a few other components) but will most likely have these components from what I've seen)

The ask is can a gamepad cursor travel between the two grids automatically or as you and I think are saying is that input has to be reviewed when you reach a border and move to the next grid if performed - again, or, does the native grid component just know what grids are on screen at any given moment

hope that makes it a bit clearer than mud 🙂

[timid saffron]

cache?

[swift crag]

The default navigation mode is "Automatic"

It tries to find a Selectable object in the direction you navigate

You can test it out using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

It often works well, but it can have weird hangups

[faint sluice]

Grid component only organises it's children in grid like structure, it doesn't care what platform you are making the game for, where the mouse is or where the gamepad cursor is. So if you want your gamepad cursor to interact with grid in any way, you have to code it

[swift crag]

You may wind up needing to manually define navigations for each selectable element

[summer stump]

Gameobject instance = Instantiate

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-SelectableNavigation.html

[summer stump]

Just save it as a variable

[warm anvil]

cool - thanks guys!

[swift crag]

"Explicit" mode lets you assign a Selectable for each of the four cardinal directions

[faint sluice]

Oh wow this is new for me

[timid saffron]

like this

[faint sluice]

Is it for controllers only or works for PC too?

[swift crag]

as I said, keyboard arrows can be used to navigate

as can WASD

[timid saffron]

well nevermind i dont know caching or using stuff later ill look into it later

[storm imp]

first one is his second is mine what am I doing wrong?

[faint sluice]

I'm off to watching some tutorials then, I never knew what the yellow arrow lines were in UI xD

[swift crag]

go read the documentation I just linked first

and the rest of the UI documentation, tbh

[swift crag]

I have no clue what the problem is

what is the problem?

[late tapir]

How do you resolve this error, any ideas?

[swift crag]

Are you attempting to convert a project from the built in render pipeline to the HDRP?

...you have both URP and HDRP packages installed

[late tapir]

yes

[swift crag]

is there a particular reason you have both

[storm imp]

he didn't get this pop up what did I do wrong?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIsRH7hXpDQ timestamp 2:00

[swift crag]

oh yeah, this error message is a really confusing one

[late tapir]

I was downloading assets to decorate the terrain

[swift crag]

I remember encountering it before, but I forget what causes it

[faint sluice]

Did you recompile the script as I asked you to 5 times already

[swift crag]

you can't just install a bunch of render pipelines and use them all at once

[summer stump]

No, I mean the instantiate line. Line 23 would be
variable = Instantiate

Instantiate returns a reference to the thing you instantiated

[faint sluice]

Also your script reads new behaviour script, but I don't see it in assets

[swift crag]

my advice, in no particular order:

• this isn't a code question. ask it in #💻┃unity-talk
• don't install the URP and HDRP packages together; that makes no sense
• don't randomly try to change render pipelines just because one asset you downloaded requires them

[timid saffron]

👍

[storm imp]

yes that fixed my problem

[signal bronze]

Whats wrong here? Everything works except the timeScale shit, why?

[slender nymph]

what makes you say the time scale isn't working

[signal bronze]

That when i press Escape the game is still running behind the PauseMenu canvas

[slender nymph]

and are you doing anything that actually uses the time scale?

[rich adder]

I bet they have no idea what Time.timeScale does

[signal bronze]

Its suposed to stop the game clock isnt it?

[rich adder]

"the game clock?? "

[signal bronze]

thats what my friend said, maybe it has a different meaning in english

dont know

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Time-timeScale.html

ops

[signal bronze]

ill check it out

[unreal imp]

Guys, is there any way to fix this? I want my bullets to come out of the gun and after being fired to focus on the camera but not suddenly, but little by little they become centralized in the camera when fired, here is the code I use

        Vector3 direction = (crosshair.transform.forward - bulletSpawn.transform.forward).normalized;
        Rigidbody rb = bullet.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
        if (rb != null)
        {
            rb.velocity = direction * shootForce;
        }

the result (they don't even shoot) =

[rich adder]

When timeScale is set to zero your application acts as if paused if all your functions** are frame rate independent**. Negative values are ignored.

[lost anvil]

Why isnt the drawer opening?

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

public class DrawOpen_D1 : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable
{
public bool isOpen = true;

public void Interact()
{
    Debug.Log("open");
    transform.Translate(0, 0, -2);

    if (isOpen == true)
    {
        transform.Translate(0, 0, 2);
        Debug.Log("close");
        isOpen = false;
    }
}


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

}

[rich adder]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[lost anvil]

mate

[signal bronze]

The scale at which time passes.

This can be used for slow motion effects or to speed up your application. When timeScale is 1.0, time passes as fast as real time. When timeScale is 0.5 time passes 2x slower than realtime.

When timeScale is set to zero your application acts as if paused if all your functions are frame rate independent.

I just read it

But the code is suposed to work like that isnt it?

[sterile radish]

hi! im making a tower defense game and i wanted to show the range of a tower to the player. how would i go on about doing that? is there a way to change the radius of an object through code?

[rich adder]

considering what the docs says, what are you observing to see timescale has taken effect or not ?

[rich adder]

yes ofc

two very different questions btw

[signal bronze]

not

[rich adder]

what

[rich adder]

Which item are you observing

[rich adder]

post it properly or get no help, its pretty simple

[sterile radish]

really? how can i do that?

[rich adder]

which part, you asked two different questions

and the standard answer to "Can it be done"

is usually Yes

[sterile radish]

oh i meant the changing radius part

[rich adder]

well, what is radius in context of your object

[sterile radish]

my tower's range

[rich adder]

@lost anvil its not diffcult, read the bot message it tells you how. I cannot read it properly on the phone

[swift crag]

so you want to draw a circle that represents the range of the tower?

[lost anvil]

its not that deep but okay

[swift crag]

objects don't really have a "radius". They have a position, rotation, and scale.

[swift crag]

Do you want help or are you just here to be a contrarian?

[rich adder]

dont be a jackass

[swift crag]

<@&502884371011731486>

[signal bronze]

what u mean what item? like in the inspector? or in the camera? or what

[rich adder]

which item that depends on time.scale are you observing to see if changes are working ?

[lost anvil]

you did yeah i didnt know i had to put my code or whatever a certain way and i didnt see the point of it

[rich adder]

you dont see the point, but we do and thems is the rules

[lost anvil]

yeah because im new chill out lad

[rich adder]

why would you make it diffcult to read the code if you want help on it?

[sterile radish]

yes, although like you mentioned im not sure how to do it when objects have only a rotation pos and scale

[rich adder]

thats counter intuitive and waste of time rn

[iron parrot]

!mute @lost anvil 2880 take a couple of days to grow up and stop being an edgelord or don't come back at all

[eternal falcon]

keraunos5900 was muted.

[swift crag]

well, you could make an object that shows up with a radius of 1 when its scale is [1,1,1]

then just scale it

[rich adder]

Define what radius is through code ?

[swift crag]

Unity won't have exactly what you want built-in

you need to use the systems it provides to create new systems

[sterile radish]

okay ill try this, thank you!

[signal bronze]

the pause menu i guess, when i press ESC its shows up and all that works but the game is still running behind it, like it lets me move the camera and i can still hear the sound of it

[swift crag]

If it's a 2D game, a SpriteRenderer should do the trick

[rich adder]

how are you moving the camera?

[signal bronze]

let me make a video to show u

ill be back in a minute

Here, i now think it actually stops the game but i thought it didnt because of the sound and the camera (sorry xd), how can i fix that?

[rich adder]

that doesnt answer What i originally asked

how (script) are you moving the camera?

unless you're using * Time.deltaTime
typically a camera look system doesn't have anything that pauses on timescale

[signal bronze]

the camera and movement is from a free asset i took from the store

its too big to be sending ss

[rich adder]

then to "pause" you have to do it like everyone else does it

disable the scripts

[signal bronze]

ill try

[rich adder]

learn events and make an event

[naive lion]

        {
            if (rayHit.collider.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>().enabled)
            {
                gameObject.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>().Damage(damage);

            }```

Is this the proper way to damage via a raycast?

[rich adder]

no

flimsy af

[naive lion]

noted, what would you recommend

[rich adder]

TryGetComponent for the rayHit
and cache the EnemyHealth on itself

[naive lion]

ah alright

awesome thanks ill use that

[rich adder]

if (Physics.Raycast(mainCamera.transform.position, direction, out rayHit, range, whatIsEnemy))
        {
            if (rayHit.collider.TryGetComponent(out EnemyHealth enemyHealth))
            {
                    enemyHealth.Damage();
            }
        }``` 🙂

[naive lion]

            if (rayHit.collider.TryGetComponent(out enemyHealth))
            {
                enemyHealth.Damage(damage);
            }```

moreso this then?

[rich adder]

exactly

[naive lion]

o>

got it great thank you

[rich adder]

but u dont need EnemyHealth enemyHealth = null;
you can just put it on same line like my example

[naive lion]

sick thanks again

[dire tartan]

so ive got a ragdol made up of 3d objects and connnected by configured joints i have a script so whenever something is grabbed by the hands it holds the object but if moving too fast the object goes inbetween the body parts and the character breaks

[rich adder]

try maybe enable Continuous collision checking

[signal bronze]

@rich adder I did it, but now i have a problem with the cursor, like when i close the menu its suposed to go away but when i click it doesnt

[timid saffron]

How can I make array [3]'s spawn time 5? (int animalnumber= Random.Range(0, animalprefabs.lenght)

[dire tartan]

where do i do that

[rich adder]

on the rigidbody

[rich adder]

show current code, also when you press escape and mouse appears its usually editor only that stays unless you click back in the window

[rich adder]

the same way you said

[rich adder]

!code

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[rich adder]

!screenshots

[eternal falcon]

No

Be mindful, if someone requests your code as text, don't send a screenshot!

[signal bronze]

whats that?

[rich adder]

use your eyes and read it

[rich adder]

also nothing in your code tells the cursor to "go away"

[signal bronze]

thats a good point

[rich adder]

 Cursor.visible = isPaused;
Cursor.lockState = isPaused? CursorLockMode.None : CursorLockMode.Locked```

[timid saffron]

good?

[summer stump]

You have an extra }

[timid saffron]

yeah i mean except for that

the logic is it good

im sure it can be more optimized tho

[rich adder]

yes for example avoiding repetition of similiar code

[signal bronze]

now it works perfectly

thanks bro, u r a great teacher

[rich adder]

[rich adder]

using Coroutines much nicer and modular in comparison of Invoke or InvokeRepeating

since you cannot pass arguments to method, in Unity's Invoke/Invoke repeat

[storm imp]

how come I can't add the montreal botanical garden in winter image that I put in the sprits folder onto the Source Image?

[rich adder]

probably because its not a Sprite

also not a code question

Texture and Sprite are not the same

[storm imp]

neither was the snow trees but it worked

[rich adder]

select snowtrees and show inspector
Then select botanical and show inspector

I can tell from here its not a sprite
the others were, how much you want to bet 😏

[dire tartan]

im pretty sure the issue is in my grab script but im not sure whats wrong about it

am i allowed to send vids to show issues?

[rich adder]

ya

code too

[summer stump]

Yeah. .mp4 will embed it

[storm imp]

Texture type wasn't set to Sprite (2D and UI) for botanical

[dire tartan]

i thought it was mp4 my bad

[rich adder]

thats literally what i just fucking said

[storm imp]

problem solved

[summer stump]

Have you done this yet?
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[graceful citrus]

core.AddForce(new Vector3(context.action.ReadValue<Vector2>().x, 0, context.action.ReadValue<Vector2>().y) * 500, ForceMode.Force);

how do i alter this so that the movement is relative to the camera? i tried a couple things but they didn't work very well

[river roost]

#archived-networking

[river roost]

transform.TransformDirection with the cameras transform

converts it from world space to local space

[dire tartan]

im using configurable joints to make ragdol movement but whenever something is grabbed the hand goes further then it should how do i limit that?

[graceful citrus]

what do you mean? i don't understand what you mean by "converts it from world space to local space"

[river roost]

World space is the "normal" space, where position Y is up and negative Z is back
Local space is what you use when you move an object, where the blue arrow is the positive Z direction

Your inputs are in world space but need to be converted to the camera's local space

[swift crag]

Local +Z is the direction you are facing

[river roost]

oh yeah sry

[graceful citrus]

i know that part

but like

[swift crag]

No, you're correct, Bobbo

[graceful citrus]

how do i word this...

[swift crag]

in local space, your forward vector never changes. It's always (0, 0, 1)

[graceful citrus]

i don't know in what context i put "tranform.transformdirection"

[river roost]

I had it as positive Y is forward which is obv wrong

[swift crag]

Ah, you changed it :p

[swift crag]

In world space, your forward vector is constantly changing

[graceful citrus]

where do i throw in "transform.transformdirection"

[swift crag]

Transform.TransformDirection takes you from local space to world space

If you want to know which world-space direction is "right" for you, transform Vector3.right into world space

[river roost]

Transform the input vector to the cameras local space

_cameraTransform.Transfor....

[timid saffron]

https://codeshare.io/9bOX1X

[vague dirge]

Quick question, I have an issue that I never understood : I have a character and a checkbox to know if it's on ground, and if it is on ground I set my gravity velocity to 0, but when my program runs, my character sinks into the ground ; despite 0 force being applied, why so ?

[timid saffron]

how would you combine them two

using less codes and avoiding repetitive codes

[rich adder]

for example make
SpawnRandomAnimal
get an index

so if you want a specific animal just pass the index

void Method()
{
  SpawnAnimal(3)//spawn horse
  SpawnAnimal(Random.Range(0, animalNumber.Length)); //random animal
}

void SpawnAnimal(int animalNumber)
 {
     var selectAnimalPrefab = animalPrefabs[animalNumber];
     Vector3 spawnPosition = new Vector3(Random.Range(-spawnRangeX, spawnRangeX), 0, spawnPositionZ);
     var instantiateAnimals = Instantiate(selectAnimalPrefab, spawnPosition, selectAnimalPrefab.transform.rotation);
 }```
ofc you gotta play around with the spawn time stuff in a coroutine too

[carmine sierra]

how can I instantiate at the position of an object which isn't the object the script is inside of

[graceful citrus]

ohhh

i kinda get it

[summer stump]

Get a reference to that other object and use its position

https://unity.huh.how/references

That's all the detail I can give without more detail from you

[carmine sierra]

it's the second parameter that needs to change right

[jaunty heath]

lookup the manual of Object.Instantiate

dont guess

[rich adder]

also configure your IDE

if its not suggesting the signatures

[astral notch]

transform.position is the position of the transform the script is attached to. You need to get the transform of the object or position you want to instantiate it at, and use that instead

[thorn holly]

We need more info. Is the character a rigidbody or a kinematic body? Does the player and the ground have a collider?

[astral notch]

if your character is on ground and is using velocity i am assuming it has a rigidbody? If so it should not sink into the ground no matter your set gravity scale,. Unless you are doing really high values

[vague dirge]

Yes, exactly

[thorn holly]

…so is it a rigidbody?

[vague dirge]

Yes a kinematic body

[slender nymph]

you cannot assign velocity or use forces on a kinematic rigidbody. how are you actually moving it

[vague dirge]

With transform.position

[rich adder]

oof

[thorn holly]

How are you checking if it’s on the ground?

[vague dirge]

Maybe it's not the best option I dunno

[summer stump]

It is not

[thorn holly]

Definitely not

[vague dirge]

With a checkbox

[thorn holly]

What do you mean a checkbox? How are you checking? What code are you running to see if it’s on the ground?

[summer stump]

That doesn't make sense as a response to the question

[thorn holly]

Unless you have a super custom movement system, just use default rigidbody

[slender nymph]

pretty sure they mean Physics.CheckBox

[summer stump]

So with CheckBox() not a checkbox

[thorn holly]

Alright there’s a bigger underlying issue here

I’d reccomend remaking your movement system unless you’ve spent a ton of time on it

[timid saffron]

how do I make the spawnanimal variable in void(method) run in void spawnanimal?

[queen adder]

i didn't know if i should put it on wich channel but help

i am trying to make the unity window change places

but only the canvas does

for my html site

[vague dirge]

The thing is I had first a Character controller and i used .Move(), and now I'm trying to switch to a RigidBody, but the only provided method that could replace it that I found was rigidbody.velocity. But know I'm using a kinematic, so the only thing I found was directly moving the transfotm

[queen adder]

ok

[summer stump]

Wait, misread

You trying to do it with code?

[thorn holly]

What kind of movement system do you want?

[queen adder]

yes

wait

[thorn holly]

Just a simple platform we movement?

[vague dirge]

You mean it's a bad strategy ?

[queen adder]

here

[thorn holly]

Yes, directly modifying position for your movement is a bad idea

[summer stump]

Rigidbody.MovePosition()

[queen adder]

tryna make it lower on my site

the whole window

[vague dirge]

But it teleports my object to the vector coordinates, or I did it bad

[rich adder]

wdym

[summer stump]

It does, and so does setting transform.position
But MovePosition is what you use with kinematic rigidbodies

[slender nymph]

#archived-networking

[vague dirge]

Wait what

[fiery fjord]

Will do

[vague dirge]

Okay gotta check things in my code, thanks

[summer stump]

Both moveposition and transform.translate or transform.position = will teleport the player

But moving the transform while using a rigidbody makes them fight and is not a good idea

If you have a rigidbody, use the rigidbody

[timid saffron]

Ive been trying to implement the example you wrote into my code. you wrote spawnanimal(3) but i need to make spawnanimal variable actually spawn animals so Ill have to copy and paste the code in spawnanimal codeblock

or if theres a way I can make it access the codeblock below

[summer stump]

So you would be doing that in html or javascript or whatever you are using for the layout of your site, not from unity itself

[queen adder]

yes

[rich adder]

spawnanimal is not a variable, its a method

[queen adder]

but i mean you still gotta know some unity to do it

idk what to do

[summer stump]

Not really

[rich adder]

just do it however it works and is easier for you, dont worry about "optimizing " at this point in time

[summer stump]

It shouldn't actually have anything to do with unity at all

It would be the same as moving an image or video lower

[thorn holly]

Wdym spawn animal variable?

[timid saffron]

yeah. I couldnt implement your way of code into mine anyway. I guess we will add DLSS and FSR to my game and call it a day

[timid saffron]

here

this spawnAnimal doesnt do anything

i have to make it spawn animals

[rich adder]

you're changing SpawnRandomAnimal to SpawnAnimal
nothing more @timid saffron

[vague dirge]

But the thing is I was gradually changing my transform position with a +=, but I can't do this with MovePosition(), that why I was saying that the last teleports the player and not the first one

[thorn holly]

Well what code is within the SpawnAnimal method?

[summer stump]

You can absolutely gradually change the position with moveposition
The docs have good example code

[vague dirge]

Okay gotta check em thx

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

Assuming they didn't modify it

[thorn holly]

Well it should work then, if that’s your code

[pine bone]

Hello guys, i'm making a modular ship building system but i'm stuck.

newAttachment.ConnectTo(attachment);
UpdateAttachmentVisibility();

The ConnectTo function sets the positions of the attachments together, and the update attachment visibility function loops through all attachments and make them visible if they are available. However the updateattachmentvisibility function runs before the connection, causing some weird glitches. How can i make the update attachment always run after the connection is done

[timid saffron]

wait i think im doing it

[thorn holly]

So you want to wait until all the attatchements are done and then run UpdateAttatchmentVisibility once afterwards?

[swift crag]

It doesn't run before the connection. ConnectTo runs first.

Perhaps you have code that runs in Start or Update

and that needs to execute before UpdateAttachmentVisibility runs?

[pine bone]

But when i turn this into a coroutine and add a 1 second delay between them, they work fine

[swift crag]

yeah, sounds like you have code in Start that needs to execute first

[pine bone]

  public void AttachmentClicked(Attachment attachment)
  {
      ShipModule selectedModule = shipModules[selectedModuleIndex];
      GameObject moduleObject = Instantiate(selectedModule.prefab);

      Attachment newAttachment = moduleObject.GetComponentInChildren<Attachment>();
     // StartCoroutine(AttachmentClickCoroutine(newAttachment, attachment));

      newAttachment.ConnectTo(attachment);
      UpdateAttachmentVisibility();

      print("Clicked on attachment");
  }```

This runs when the user clicks on an attachment

[pine bone]

I want to wait until this line finishes completely
newAttachment.ConnectTo(attachment);

[swift crag]

Yes, and that already happens

Your code doesn't run out of order

Programming would be a nightmare if line 2 could run before line 1

[pine bone]

But why does it work when i put a 1 second delay between them

[swift crag]

Because you probably have code that runs in Start

and that needs to execute before UpdateAttachmentVisibility works properly

[thorn holly]

Async await coming to make your life a living hell:

[swift crag]

Start runs on the first frame after something is created

[swift crag]

await still enforces an order :p

[swift crag]

I can't tell you anything more specific without seeing code, but that's the most plausible explanation

[graceful citrus]

ok yeah ive been trying for like half an hour but i really still can't figure out what this means

[pine bone]

The attachment script doesnt have a start function, it only has awake which sets the variables

[swift crag]

i wouldn't word it that way

transform the input vector from the camera's local space to world space

When you push the W key, you want to move forwards

But what is forwards?

If you just move in the world forward direction, then you move in the same direction no matter how the camera is rotated

You want to move in the forward direction of the camera

[pine bone]

And the attachments visibilities get set as the new created part is at the center of the world

[swift crag]

Share the relevant scipts. !code

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[swift crag]

Vector3 moveDesire = new Vector3(moveInput.x, 0, moveInput.y);

We want moveDesire to be from the POV of the camera.

And we want to convert it into a world-space direction

We accomplish that with _theCamera.transform.TransformDirection(moveDesire);

[graceful citrus]

i get all of this

i understand local and global and all that

[swift crag]

then what's the problem?

[graceful citrus]

the problem is i don't understand how to do that

how do i make it from global to local

idk what i do to turn my code into that code

[swift crag]

i'm not sure you understand it

since you just said "global to local"

which is precisely backwards

all you need to do to go from local space to world space is to use transform.TransformDirection

it takes a local-space vector and returns a world-space vector

that's it

If your camera is rotated 90 degrees to the right, TransformDirection will turn a forward vector into a right vector

[pine bone]

Attachment.cs

BuildManager.cs

[swift crag]

If it's rotated 180 degrees to the right, it turns a forward vector into a backward vector

[graceful citrus]

but where? where do i use "transform.transformdirection"

core.AddForce(new Vector3(context.action.ReadValue<Vector2>().x, 0, context.action.ReadValue<Vector2>().y) * 100, ForceMode.Force);

within this

to replace new vector3?

[swift crag]

break that line up. it's a long mess

[swift crag]

create a vector first

call it moveVector or something

[swift crag]

Who calls Initiate on the Attachment class?

It looks like that assigns spriteRenderer and coll

you didn't actually say what the problem was

does it involve those two variables?

[pine bone]

no one

[graceful citrus]

wait

do i just literally replace new Vector3 with camerTran.TransformDirection

lmfao

i just did that and i think it worked

[swift crag]

well, no, you pass the vector to TransformDirection

[pine bone]

look at line 114, when i use it with a coroutine with 1 second delay between functions, it works fine. but if i dont do it, the attachments visibiliets at the center become weird, but it gets fixed when i reopen the build mode

[swift crag]

I don't know what "become weird" means

[pine bone]

it acts like if the new placed object was at world center

[swift crag]

Do these objects have rigidbodies on them?

[pine bone]

no

[timid saffron]

works

optimization 😎

wait

better now

you like the optimizaton?

[rich adder]

yeah getting there

[swift crag]

hmm, I'd have to stare at this a bit longer to offer more suggestions.

[pine bone]

it says that these 3 attachments collided with the new created object

[swift crag]

Oh, you know

Try running this before updating visibility

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.SyncTransforms.html

[pine bone]

what

[swift crag]

When a Transform component changes, any Rigidbody or Collider on that Transform or its children may need to be repositioned, rotated or scaled depending on the change to the Transform. Use this function to flush those changes to the physics engine manually.

Yeah, that's almost certainly the problem.

The physics system doesn't realize you've moved the colliders until the next physics update

[timid saffron]

ehh. 45 minutes of work will do this max

[swift crag]

So the collider positions are bogus

[timid saffron]

actually if i didnt misunderstand your code it would have taken much less

[swift crag]

It thought they were still at the world origin, or wherever they happened to start out at

[pine bone]

does it matter if i use physics2d or 3d

[swift crag]

Yes, it does

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

I do 3D almost exclusively, so I always forget about 2D...

The other method wouldn't help

[pine bone]

oh my days

it worked thank you so much

[swift crag]

nice (:

that's a tricky one

[pine bone]

lol

i would have never been able to fix this

thank you

[rich adder]

I could've given a better example but was on mobile so was hard to type it out all 🙂

[timid saffron]

no the example was fine 🙂 i didnt know the thing you write after void could be used in other voids

[summer stump]

And sometimes you're halfway through typing up some code and someone else posts the same thing in half the time

[timid saffron]

thats why I was confuesd

[rich adder]

those are methods not voids

[summer stump]

void is a return type. They are not thingd

Think of methods as just a keyword that replaces the code
It is the EXACT SAME as writing the stuff inside the method where you call it

[timid saffron]

yeah I dont know their names fully so I just call them thing thanks 🙂

But I got the logic

so thanks

[rich adder]

Next is replacing Invoke repeating with Coroutines 🙂
so the Time Between spawns can be also changed on the fly

[west sonnet]

How can I move an object relative to it's parent?

I have an object. When it's collided with, I want it to move to the top of it's parent object

I know how to parent it via script, but not exactly sure how to move it

[rich adder]

transform.localPosition

parenting already moves it relative to parent tho

[west sonnet]

But right now, the object basically just sticks to it's parent wherever they collide, but I want the object to basically teleport above it's parent when they collide

[rare basin]

transform.localPosition set it to 0,0,0

then it will be at parent's position

[west sonnet]

What if I want it to be above? 0, 10, 0?

[rich adder]

object.SetParent(theParent)
object.localPosition = new Vector3(0, 10, 0)

[slender sinew]

yes

[rare basin]

0,0,0 is the paren't position

5,0,0 is 5 on the x relative to parent position

etc

[storm imp]

time stamp 8:19 what does he mean by the opposite? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIsRH7hXpDQ

[rich adder]

8:19 there is no mention of "opposite"

8:27

they are doing the Opposite of setting it active..

pretty self explanitory

[graceful citrus]

i want to animate the legs on a ragdoll character. im pretty sure if i animate the legs in any way, even when i move to an animation not involving the legs, the legs will become rigid and move towards position and rotation (0,0,0). is there a way around this?

[graceful citrus]

the errors seem to be cut off

[timid saffron]

0 errors

so I tried coroutines (first time) as navarone suggested but this coroutine doesnt seem to work

my goal was to set horsespawn time to 10

[rich adder]

omg why SendMessage

should never use that

[shell sorrel]

just call the method you want directly

[rich adder]

they have no errors

those are IDE messages / suggestions

[timid saffron]

How

is the logic correct? @rich adder

[rich adder]

the same way you called other methods?

[shell sorrel]

well where does SpawnHorse Exist?

[rich adder]

yeah the method right under it

[shell sorrel]

oh its literally on the same object

just do SpawnHorse(); instead of send message

[rich adder]

please tell me you did not write that from gpt

[timid saffron]

https://forum.unity.com/threads/invokerepeating-vs-coroutines-performance.497208/

here

[timid saffron]

I get method name expected error

[shell sorrel]

show the code

[rich adder]

you named your local variable the same as your method

so it puts using the local variable priority

and you cannot run a string like a method xD

[timid saffron]

ok

we cool now

[shell sorrel]

generally people use lowercase first letter for local variables

also why is the var even called SpawnHorse

[rich adder]

get rid of the useless parameter lol

[shell sorrel]

its not being used, but also where its fed in, you have SpawnHorse2 and SpawnRandomAnimal, with the function not using the data at all

[rich adder]

btw this will spawn the Same animal for both routines

[timid saffron]

it doesn work anyway it constantly spawn horses now

[rich adder]

exactly

[timid saffron]

i think coroutines are big brain for me right now i should probably look into them later

[rich adder]

if you want them to be separate coroutines pass in a Func/Action

[shell sorrel]

would just make so you can pass in the function for it to call

or use a enum and a switch

[timid saffron]

well I dont know enum or switch or func action so this probably is too much for me right now Im deleting the part with coroutines for now and return to Invokerepeaters

[shell sorrel]

or you could just have 2 coroutine functions

instead of sharing them

[timid saffron]

code example please?

like this

https://codeshare.io/zlyE3W

this is my code right now

[rich adder]

they mean make One for Horse only and one for the rest

[rich adder]

no this is making it worse

and why is SpawnHorse2 still there lol

[rich adder]

    private void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(SpawnCoroutine(SpawnHorse, slowerTimerSpawnInterval));
        StartCoroutine(SpawnCoroutine(SpawnRandomAnimal, timerSpawnInterval));
    }
    IEnumerator SpawnCoroutine(Action theMethod, float CoroutineInterval)
    {
        while (true)
        {
            theMethod();
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(CoroutineInterval);
        }
    }```

[rugged iron]

When I run SceneManager.LoadScene(SceneManager.GetActiveScene().name);
it keeps buffering and doesn’t reload, does anyone know why?

[rich adder]

wdym buffering?

[rugged iron]

Like it shows it’s loading but it says app not responding

[rich adder]

hard to say, maybe You might have an inifite loop somewhere.

[shell sorrel]

does the loaded scene also call to load the same scene

or contain code with a infinite loop

[rich adder]

Ahh yes good question, maybe its recursively calling

[rugged iron]

It runs using
button.onClick.AddListener(Restart); in Update()

[shell sorrel]

also why would you want to load the active scene

is it for like resetting things?

[rugged iron]

Yeah

[shell sorrel]

yeah its because you added Restart to the button many many many times

[rich adder]

esp without cleaning up

[shell sorrel]

so when the button is clicked its calling Restart thosands of times

[rugged iron]

Alr

[shell sorrel]

you only want to add the listener once

do it in Awake

not Update

[rugged iron]

Thanks

[rich adder]

OnEnable AddListener
OnDisable RemoveListener

i generally do that

[rugged iron]

Kk

[shell sorrel]

or the above, is a good option since that will disable the button for you if you disable the object

[rugged iron]

Ok ty

[carmine sierra]

how do I do that?

Ive been searching but cant find an instance where they transform an object in another object's script

[astral notch]

transform means an objects values in world space. position rotation and scale. To get a reference to another objects transform, a beginner way is to make a public variable called "public Transform otherTransform". Now in the editor, you can select which transform is to be targeted by this variable. Then you can use otherTransform.position

[carmine sierra]

ohh okay

thanks ill try that

[silver wasp]

Hello! I have a really weird problem, I'm making a small multiplayer game with joystick controls and all that, I'm using netcode for gameobjects, and my player is like being overridden by the second player, do anyone know about some good unity 3d mobile tutorials? or where could I get someone to help me review my project?

[astral notch]

If you are still stuck, this explains what I mean with a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYm-xjeXkvY

[rich adder]

word of advice, you should gain more unity experience before diving head first into Multiplayer

[carmine sierra]

why is it though that you can't just write gameobject.transform.position?

or gameobject.position

[astral notch]

position is not a property of a gameobject, it is a property of a transform

[rich adder]

also definitely doesn't belong in #💻┃code-beginner thats a bit of an oxymoron

[astral notch]

you can write gameobject.transform.position in a script, itll target the gameobject the script is attached to.

[carmine sierra]

so would it be gameobject.transform.position

[silver wasp]

where could I go?

[rich adder]

#archived-networking

[carmine sierra]

but instead of gameobject the other object that I actually want to move

[astral notch]

yes

[carmine sierra]

like weapon.transform.position

would i need to use getcomponent on transform

[silver wasp]

Okay, thanks! I just need a little help in the right direction

[timid saffron]

why is this coroutineInterval isnt being used

[astral notch]

so you have two ways here. Either you make a reference to your gameobject and then use getcomponent transform to get its transform. OR you directly reference the transform

[carmine sierra]

okay i get it thanks

[storm imp]

So would it be canvasImage.setInactive(true)?

[rare basin]

[storm imp]

Where do I put it? cuz as you can see in the video he doesn't show where he's putting it is it directly after public void HideImage()?

[rare basin]

put it wherever you want it to execute

dont blidnly cope/paste code you dont understand

[timid saffron]

I fixed it by manually adding 10f here

for now it works

I dont know why it wont use coroutineInterval I write in pharantesis but it works for now

[shell sorrel]

pass the variable coroutineInterval would work

you got 2 things with the same name again

for a function paramater coroutineInterval

and a field with the same name

yield return new WaitForSeconds(coroutineInternal); would do that then delete the
private float coroutineInternal = 10f; you got at the top

[astral notch]

A good habit could be adding _ before private variables

[shell sorrel]

well in this case it is just duplicate

i use the _ convention but also just dont end up with duplication of names like that because its confusing

[astral notch]

yup

[queen adder]

I need an alternative text engine/solution that can draw the entire text as 1 draw call instead of each letter individually, which seems to be the way Textmeshpro works. So if you have overlapping letters and fade out, theres an undesired alpha overlap. Don’t have this issue in Godot or html5 canvas.
The text outline is applied to each character individually so the alpha overlap is really visible when your text is 50% transparent in a canvas group

[shell sorrel]

TMP is not doing each character as a draw call

but it is doing a quad for each character

[rare basin]

do you even know how draw calls works?

if there would be 1 draw call per 1 character

most of bigger unit games will be unplayable even in 30fps lol

[shell sorrel]

am assuminmg there problem is with how TMP builds its mesh to draw

[queen adder]

i have tried for 2 years to fix this

and just draw the whole thing as one

i think the whole system has to be changed or rewrite shaders

this is most simple repro i can do in a new project

just change character spacing to a negative value and change opacity of canvasgroup

[shell sorrel]

you might be able to fix this with the blending mode in the shader

[queen adder]

in Godot you can just make a node with a canvaslayer and everything under it will fade as one like a flattened png

[shell sorrel]

dont know without testing

[queen adder]

i tried that

changing the blend mode broke antialiasing

and made the text choppy

but it did fix the issue

[shell sorrel]

chances are what Godot is doing writing all the SDFS in into one buffer then putting that on geo and running the shader on it

while unity is putting each char onto a quad in a mesh, then running the shader on it

[queen adder]

yes thats probably what godot is doing

and i need something like that in Unity

another solution i saw was to use RenderTexture

but it complicates things so much

when i have lots of texts that i'm trying to animate, position, and scale for different aspect ratios

[carmine sierra]

Why do some tutorial videos for 2D unity set mouse position as a vector3 then set the z to 10?

[carmine sierra]

I know the camera's original z is 10 but why should the mouse be

[queen adder]

im not talking specifically about godots text implementation , because im not sure

all i know is godot 4 added canvaslayer where EVERYTHING under the node is like 1 flat png

i didn't know it would be so hard to do in Unity

i can do it in html5 canvas too

with pixi.js

i considered buying Super Text Mesh asset for $95 but i dont know if it has the same problem, there's no free trial

[shell sorrel]

unity is 3d at its heart no matter what, so issue comes from that since it wants to approach everything with meshes and shaders

[queen adder]

😦

[shell sorrel]

if the chances to blending mode could not do it

[queen adder]

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_canvasgroup.html

[shell sorrel]

then its a hard thing to fix if wanted for all text

[weary robin]

some of my code isnt wokring

idk where

[shell sorrel]

sicne more or less comes down to rendering texture to a buffer instead of using it directly

[queen adder]

Note: The CanvasGroup uses a custom shader to read from the backbuffer to draw its children. Assigning a Material to the CanvasGroup overrides the builtin shader. To duplicate the behavior of the builtin shader in a custom Shader use the following:

idk

[shell sorrel]

then rendering that buffer out as a image later

[queen adder]

i really need a solution

Blend One OneMinusSrcAlpha

i dont even know which combo would do it

[short hazel]

The faulty code will be underlined red, in your code editor directly. If that's not the case, configure it using one of the links below
!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

[weary robin]

i forgot which i install visual studio code from

[queen adder]

this is with blend off

[weary robin]

how can i check

[short hazel]

If it's Visual Studio Code, then you need to click the 3rd link

[weary robin]

ok

ty

[short hazel]

And do not post the same question in multiple channels

[queen adder]

i tried all of these:

Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha // Traditional transparency
Blend One OneMinusSrcAlpha // Premultiplied transparency
Blend One One // Additive
Blend OneMinusDstColor One // Soft additive
Blend DstColor Zero // Multiplicative
Blend DstColor SrcColor // 2x multiplicative
``` no work

[weary robin]

yea i just posted it again because somebody said they would help me in that channel so i posted it there again so they wouldn't have to switch back and forth

[timid saffron]

okay i pass it

done

[quick kelp]

post this here before but deleted it cause i thought i solved it

i didnt solve it i still cant figure this out

[rare basin]

!code

[shell sorrel]

!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

[languid spire]

one thing is obvious, movespeed and runspeed end up being exactly the same

[queen adder]

AFTER 2 YEARS I FIXED IT

with 1 line

BlendOp Max

in the shader

[short hazel]

The second if statement is weird also, "if sprinting then sprinting = true"? Did you mean if (!isSprinting)?

If you're not sprinting, then start sprinting
Makes more sense

[timid saffron]

im curious why thats the case

[vague dirge]

I'm currently trying to use RigidBody.MovePosition(), but it almost doesn't move when I start playing. I then saw that I had to put it in FixedUpdate(), but do I need to put the line of code that set the velocity, that is in my Update ? Because I just moved the MovePosition, but it doesn't seem to work

[shell sorrel]

one botton sets _moveSpeed to _runSpeed the other sets _runSpeed to _moveSpeed

so they will become the exacty same value on both vars

[timid saffron]

i know. im just trying to understand wwhy that guy did something like that

[languid spire]

you really need to learn to read code

[shell sorrel]

they should just have a _currentSpeed

that they set to either move or run speed as needed

[quick kelp]

im adding a current speed now

[timid saffron]

I read it 😦 i was trying to say im curious as to why that guys movespd is equal to ruunspeed

not about u

[quick kelp]

as i just realized what was happening

[languid spire]

then you read it but did not understand it

[short hazel]

It's probably a mistake. The second one should have been something like _moveSpeed = _walkSpeed; to return back to walking speed

+1 on following naming conventions though :)

[timid saffron]

because you know movespeed is generally like for normal moviing and runspeed is well its supposed to be more than movespeed i was cuiriouus why they were equal

[shell sorrel]

because the code made them equal even i the starting values were not

[short hazel]

Again, it's a mistake. moveSpeed here refers to the current moving speed, not some preset speed

[quick kelp]

implemented a walkspeed to update the movespeed that fixed it
thanks guys 🙂

[timid saffron]

can you share it?

[winter prawn]

Is it better to serialize private variables than just making them public?

[quick kelp]

its litterally making a walk speed serialzefield then just replace what code was there

[shell sorrel]

well do you want it public or not

its a nice option since it lets you expose and save it in the inspector but not let other objects change it

[jovial sable]

Hows it going, I want to learn how to code c# but dont know where to start. Any Ideas

[shell sorrel]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[unreal imp]

why my tracer isnt rendering? 😭 Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(new Vector3(Screen.width / 2f, Screen.height / 2f, 0f)); RaycastHit hit; if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, shootRange)) { if (hit.collider) { LineRenderer tracer = Instantiate(tracerPrefab, muzzle.position, gunHolder.rotation); tracer.SetPosition(0, muzzle.position); tracer.SetPosition(1, hit.point); Destroy(tracer.gameObject, tracerDuration); } if (hit.collider.CompareTag("Toilet")) { hit.collider.GetComponent<ToiletBehaviour>().hitsReceived++; } }

[polar acorn]

Are you sure if this code is even running

[timber sphinx]

Any idea why my AI is not moving on a NavMesh that was generated during runtime using NavMeshSurface? It's showing an error "GetRemainingDistance" can only be called on an active agent that has been placed on a NavMesh.", My AI IS ON THE NAVMESH and when i bake it normally not at runtime then it works.

[spiral narwhal]

Instantiate(this) will create an exact copy right? So I should use a prefab to instantiate a "base" object, right?

Because right now, using Instantiate(this), it seems to be in the exact same state as the copied object

[shell sorrel]

its not a exact copy

but very close in most case, but non serilzied stuff just starts at its defualt values

[polar acorn]

It will clone the object this script is on

[spiral narwhal]

Ok

[queen adder]

@shell sorrel i fixed the earlier text issue with BlendOp Max

it was that simple

actually it only works for white text

[spiral narwhal]

Why do I get this random Unity exception?

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
UnityEditor.Graphs.Edge.WakeUp () (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.DoWakeUpEdges (System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] inEdges, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] ok, System.Collections.Generic.List`1[T] error, System.Boolean inEdgesUsedToBeValid) (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUpEdges (System.Boolean clearSlotEdges) (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp (System.Boolean force) (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.WakeUp () (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)
UnityEditor.Graphs.Graph.OnEnable () (at <871096295abe423b9c0af38ec6fe4bf2>:0)

[languid spire]

Unity Editor bug

[spiral narwhal]

Ok

[vague dirge]

Ok, this may seem smth extremely simple but I'm freaking out since hours on this problem : I had a CharacterController component that I used to move my chracter. To manipulate more freely the hitbox of my character, I decided to switch to a RigidBody. I made all the necassary tweaks, except the most important : I can't succeed to replace the CharacterController.Move() function. I tried to use RigidBody.MovePosition or RigidBody.velocity =, but my character is extremely slow or just freaks out. Thanks for the help 🙏

[rocky canyon]

if its slow it probably needs alot more force to move it.. its not going to have the same kind of values the character controller was using

they'll usually be higher (without a multiplier of some sort)

[polar acorn]

There is no direct replacement to the Move function. You'll need to rework the way you calculate your movement to actually use physics.

[ivory bobcat]

One uses rigid body physics and the other use some custom game physics

[vague dirge]

Also some unadviced me to change directly transform.position, so I should use MovePositon ?

[ivory bobcat]

Modifying position of a transform would be teleporting

[vague dirge]

I could work wit += no

[queen adder]

Adding BlendOp Max to the TMP shader fixed my issue with additive overlapping text alpha, but it doesnt work for black text, the black text just becomes invisible!

[vague dirge]

I tried and it seemed ok

[ivory bobcat]

+= to what?

[queen adder]

the darker the color, the more invisible is becoming

:/

[vague dirge]

Like gradually incrementing the positon by some direction vectors

[north kiln]

and you don't understand why?

[ivory bobcat]

Teleporting?

[storm imp]

why do I have so many errors? I got them after making this

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

public class MediaImage : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject canvasImage;
    public TourManager tourManager;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        canvasImage.SetActive(false);
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        (canvasImage.activeSelf && Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.Escape))
        {
            HideImage();
        }
    }

    public void ShowImage()
    {
        canvasImage.SetActive(true);
    }

    public void HideImage()
    {
        canvasImage.SetActive(false);

[vague dirge]

yes

[queen adder]

i do understand why, because its no longer the max value color

of #FFF

and becomes #000

but this is bad, i need it to work for black text too..

[north kiln]

It's no longer the max color of the background vs what's rendering

[ivory bobcat]

Teleporting will not comply with the interpolation settings. Move position takes it into account but it's for kinematic rigid bodies.

[queen adder]

its against the rules to commission people in this server, right?

well this sucks, i solved the issue but not for black text lol

[north kiln]

The bad solution is to just have another variant with min blend lol

[queen adder]

this is what it looks like with min blend

i need to invert it

i think

whats transparent should be black

[north kiln]

Ah, it mins the alpha channel, weird

[queen adder]

i struggled with this issue for over a year

[shell sorrel]

well the BlendOp would depend on what the Blend line is also doing

[storm imp]

There's still three errors

[north kiln]

and what is this line of code meant to be

[short hazel]

And the bottom of the code is missing, somehow

[north kiln]

perhaps offscreen, but yes it seems like it

[queen adder]

no clue what blend line means

anybody used Super text mesh from the asset store before and know if it has same issue?

[storm imp]

The canvas would have to be showing and the Escape key would have to be pressed

[north kiln]

would have to be? There's no logic on that line, just two statements that evaluate to a boolean

[shell sorrel]

and what do you see missing in that line

[storm imp]

Is it a ;?

[north kiln]

(true)
{

}

^ invalid code

[shell sorrel]

stop guessing, and look at it

[storm imp]

There's no ;

[dawn sparrow]

Yes

[north kiln]

No

[shell sorrel]

no

[storm imp]

But he doesn't have one in the tutorial

[dawn sparrow]

wht

[north kiln]

Please, what type of statement is that line trying to be

[dawn sparrow]

oh brackets

[shell sorrel]

its many things we are working on the statement first

[north kiln]

If you have a tutorial just compare the line character by character

it'll be obvious as hell

[dawn sparrow]

yeah no you're right, i was just correcting myself saying the line won't need a ; even in ots correct form cause of the brackets

[storm imp]

I did this is what he has

[summer stump]

The tutorial wrote it differently than you did

[summer stump]

Yes, that is not what you wrote

See the missing word?

[shell sorrel]

and what is on the very left of that line

[north kiln]

just compare the line character by character

[storm imp]

if

[short hazel]

Comparing it character by character on that line should fail at the very first character

[summer stump]

Where's digi, I think this is the third time his counter will go up from the same person

[summer stump]

And look at the left of the line YOU wrote

[north kiln]

They didn't make a claim that it wasn't the tutorial though

so it's not counter-worthy

[summer stump]

Ah, I read this
#💻┃code-beginner message
As saying they had the same thing as what the tutorial had

[storm imp]

fixed it now I still have this error

[shell sorrel]

look at the end of HIdeImage

also look at the end of the whole class

[summer stump]

Yes, that was only one of the multiple errors

Have you done this yet? !learn

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

If not, STOP and do it

[polar acorn]

I'm still counting it

"I did it exactly like the tutorial so why does theirs work and mine doesn't" counter:
Number of times it wasn't exactly like the tutorial: 146
Number of times it was exactly like the tutorial: 5
Number of times the code literally did not exist: 1
2022-07-19 to 2024-2-11

[languid spire]

was told this yesterday and the day before

[shell sorrel]

you need the basics of programming first, before trying to push through a tutorial

[slender nymph]

fixed it
are you sure about that?

[north kiln]

Do not
- Respond with new issues you have not researched.

We can't just post every little issue you have one after the other. Go away and look at it for a single minute

[storm imp]

I need a ; at the end

[shell sorrel]

you are just guessing, and not understanding or even comparing it with the code from the tutorial

[summer stump]

Please stop ignoring people. Go do the learn course. Don't come back and keep guessing

You're about to at least be muted, maybe banned, by vertx for ignoring what they told you

[shell sorrel]

once you get some of the basics of C# under your belt, these are the kinda issues you will see and know how to fix instantly

like it will be impossible to no see them

[polar acorn]

It should not take ten people five days to tell you how to type the same things as a tutorial. This is no longer asking for help this is crowdsourcing your job to random people on the internet

[queen adder]

how do i remove tmp essentials that i imported to a new project?

[north kiln]

You delete it from your project, it's just in your Assets folder

[storm imp]

what's the difference between his code?

[polar acorn]

scroll down

[hazy crypt]

Hey guys, Im playing around with adding relative force to an object and it would be super helpful if I could show the object transform, is that possible?

[storm imp]

and mine?

[shell sorrel]

look at how methods end normally, look at how yours ends

[storm imp]

I can't that from the video

[shell sorrel]

also just look at the intro stuff in the learning content

[north kiln]

well apply your brain

[shell sorrel]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[short hazel]

It's pretty obvious that the second function is not ending the same way as the first one, suggesting the file isn't finished yet

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/compiler-errors/cs1513

[polar acorn]

It's almost like all functions have the same structure that is required to make code compile so there's no point in showing the end of a file and you're supposed to actually know what you are doing enough to know that

[tough lagoon]

Another way you ask it is, what's the difference between ShowImage() which has no issues, and HideImage(), which has an issue? The main problem is some tutorials on YouTube are sketchy and you really should go through a curated place like unity learn.

A second hint is what you see when you hover over the red error

[storm imp]

the curly brace and the end

[tough lagoon]

Give it a try!

[storm imp]

I did and still get an error

[tough lagoon]

Can I see the code?

But yes, a good rule to follow - for every open brace you should see a closed brace.

[shell sorrel]

you are missing a other brace

the one for closing the class

[tough lagoon]

And don't forget to hit save after you write it.

[north kiln]

Shockingly the same information in the resource I just linked

[storm imp]

yes

[summer stump]

Stop. Ignoring. People.
Do. The. Learn. Course
!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[summer stump]

Like damn, this is beyond ridiculous

This is not a forum for people to do the work for you

[carmine sierra]

you didn't close the function

[hazy crypt]

Hello all, I have a rigidbody that is flying across the world by itself

Not sure why

heres the code

Im not giving it any inout when I play the scene

and its flying east

Like a burd

Its off east for winter

If i comment out the euler angles line then it is okay

Im guessing thats the issue but im new to coding and wondering how to properly use it

I cant wrap my head around the documentation page so I would appreciate some help

[carmine sierra]

hard to read it

change the theme

[shell sorrel]

!code

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[hazy crypt]

Lik e this?

transform.eulerAngles = new Vector3(0f, 0f, 0f);

I got it

This is the line that causes the bug

[shell sorrel]

what is the intent of that line @hazy crypt

if its a rigidbody it has buttons for freezing rotations on it for you

[north kiln]

Is there a reason you're not just using rigidbody constraints to lock rotation?

[hazy crypt]

I would like to learn how transform.eulerangles works

[north kiln]

Probably best to learn while not driving a dynamic rigidbody

[hazy crypt]

I want to use this to add a rotation to my player character, I just wanted to start experimenting with a line that did nothing and add inouts to it

if that makes sense

[north kiln]

dynamic physics bodies shouldn't be manipulated directly via their transforms

[hazy crypt]

I had read that somewhere but im unsure how to achieve my goal i i dont

[shell sorrel]

the rigid body will have methods for rotating it adding forces like torqe to it

[visual hedge]

Turn based game. Battles / fights are happening in the BattleScene.scene
There are many different lists, including each team/side list, and so on. After battle there's transfer to outer world scene.
Question: Do I have to clear the lists after battle end? Does this information make some informative trash?
For example I have the list of all the buffs each unit has in the battle. What happens if I don't clear the list after battle? That list is not on some scriptable object. Just List<Buffs> buffs = new ();
Or are all the lists get basically trunkated automatically and this data is not gettign stored anywhere after scene exit?

[hazy crypt]

Yes im just not sure which to use to achieve the correct output

Ive tried adding torque and adding force, both relative and not and I ant seem to get it

I worked on a game years ago but I did everything except the ode and Id like to revive the project solo

heres the game

https://youtu.be/azY2ioL4KWo?si=x_GD1nh24o5XqrYL

This is the movement Im tying to reccreate

The ball only rolls forward/backward, but rotates the whole character left and right to face a new diection

[visual hedge]

This looks fun 🙂 Sorry I have no idea how to help you, just giving you a shoutout )

[hazy crypt]

haha thanks

It was very fun

[shell sorrel]

well where does the data exist like on a object in the scene?

[visual hedge]

it's like gO to which script is attached. Each time battle starts, new lists are created. And I kinda started wondering what happens with lists from previous battles.

[hazy crypt]

oh wait I can freexe some planes o rotation

[shell sorrel]

well if you are unloading the scene, then the lists are gone if htey were on objects of that scene

[hazy crypt]

you said that

That could be the ix

fix

[visual hedge]

great, thank you

[craggy oxide]

how can you stop a function from running more than once

[shell sorrel]

have a bool you set true the first time the function runs

then return early out of the function if that bool is true

if (hasRun) return;

[urban rampart]

Hi everyone, I have a prefab object that needs to create a reference to a different script upon being created in my scene. I'm trying to use FindObjectOfType however it is always returning null.

Line of code to find object: manager = FindObjectOfType<RoomPicker>();

RoomPicker is the script thats on an empty object in my scene (it is enabled)

I've been trying to debug this for the last 4 hours and I'm not sure what to try next

[rocky canyon]

the code should work considering RoomPicker is present, like you said..
my guess w/o seeing any code is a race condition.. your'e using the manager before it gets a chance to find the object..
perhaps all this codes trying to run in a single frame.. or perhaps the code should be run somewhere other than where it currently is.. like OnEnable vs Start.. hard to say w/o context

[urban rampart]

give me 1 second to put it into a paste bin, the find object is in the scripts start() function

https://gdl.space/raw/febehekevu

[rocky canyon]

When you load a lot of objects when a Scene starts, all the awake calls will be guaranteed be run before a single start call ( though the order is not guaranteed at all). So this is when you initialize script variables. Then all the Starts are called before any Update is. This is where you get hooks into other scripts (Since they should all have initialized themselves in their own Awakes).

Now when you instantiate an object mid scene, Awake is called directly after the object instantiates, then the rest of your code continues from the instantiate line. Start is guaranteed to be called before the *NEXT* frame's update, but not necessarily anytime during this one.

[urban rampart]

that is good to know, but I also just found my problem

I had it as start() when it need to be Start()

[rocky canyon]

well. that should have gave you a compile error

or atleast a console error.. saying it wasnt used

but yea capital unity functions

[urban rampart]

it was only giving an error when I tried to click the button and it didn't have access to the other script

[rocky canyon]

Start() Awake() Update() etc

[urban rampart]

thank you very much for the help (what make me double check was you typing Start in your first message)

[rocky canyon]

i tend to try to remember Awake -> Set up Self
Start -> Set up Others

that way you avoid some of those times

[carmine sierra]

I got this error after writing a variable in wrong then correcting it afterwards?

[meager gust]

show code

[cosmic dagger]

Remove the System.Numerics namespace. . .

[meager gust]

or that

[cosmic dagger]

It's unneeded . . .

[carmine sierra]

it wasn't there

but I found an issue in the code which fixed it anyways

not sure why it had an effect on every single vector though

[cosmic dagger]

The error states that System.Numerics was in the code . . .

[cosmic dagger]

What was the issue?

[carmine sierra]

didn't return any values from a function

unless system.numerics was added and removed automatically it isn't there

[fickle stump]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[fickle stump]

Hey there, it's me again with another question:
I'm working on a VR Scene where I have multiple windows that I'm interacting with, to close them.
After closing them I want to send a message to my script where it say's that i closed ALL windows. However I'm unsure how to track the statues of multiple windows without creating a check for every single one of them.
Do I create an Array and check if any of these windows are still not interacted with? Or what's the correct approach

Code here: https://gdl.space/utihiyetag.cs

Thanks in advance for the help

[wet shore]

!cs

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[modest dust]

You can just create a counter with an initial value of how many opened windows there are. Once you close a window, decrease that value, and if you open a window - increase it. Every time you close a window just check if the counter reached 0 and if it does then do whatever should happen then.

[fickle stump]

oh wait that actually makes so much sense

[visual hedge]

lines

var source = sourceObj.gameObject.GetComponent<UnitAttributes>().Stats;

and

var source = sourceObj.GetComponent<UnitAttributes>().Stats;

basically do the same, right? And yes, <UnitAttributes> is MonoBehaviour.
and sourceObj is another script (mono behaviour class) attached to that gameObject

[queen adder]

how can i make parts of my ui fade all as 1 object

like a flattened png does when you change transparency

[rich adder]

loop

[teal viper]

Yes

[queen adder]

i think u need rendertextures

[queen adder]

no i need it to fade and not multiply alpha..

[visual hedge]

thank you

[rich adder]

Dotween the alpha?

[queen adder]

no

when i fade the canvasgroup with dotween, all the children fade separetly and it looks terrible

unity is the only engine ive used that does not have a simple solution for this

[rich adder]

oh this s a UI question

#📲┃ui-ux

[queen adder]

its kinda

yea

[fickle stump]

actually uhm is it ok if i dm you?

because i think it's actually more complex than anticipated/I'm not smart enough to fix this

[shell sorrel]

everytime you open a window increment a int or add the window to a list

when you close one, subtract one, or remove it from the list, then return control when it reaches 0

[fickle stump]

It's a bit more complex than that I assume. Because I need to check first if the window is active or not and if it's not active then i have to add it into the list to check if it's interacted with

[shell sorrel]

ok that sounds pretty simple though you can just maintian a list of them all and check for what ever you need to on it

[fickle stump]

A list? How do you mean that?

[carmine sierra]

this line should instantiate 'weaponPrefab' at the position of 'SpawnPoint', right?

[rich adder]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/lists-and-dictionaries#

[fickle stump]

taking a look

[carmine sierra]

it isn't though

[rich adder]

why not

[carmine sierra]

yeah just found out it wasn't set active

when it instantiates though it flies a bit up then freezes

[rich adder]

hard to say without much detail 🤷‍♂️

[fickle stump]

Ok i am a bit overwhelmed by that

._.

[carmine sierra]

besides the commenting, could anything in the code be the problem?

(not saying the commenting would be an issue)

[rocky canyon]

ur trying to grab the rigidbody from the prefab reference

instead of grabbing it from the instantiated prefab.

(the one in the scene)

[carmine sierra]

so should i save it as a variable THEN grab the rigidbody

[rich adder]

A list is a very basic thing

[rocky canyon]

pretty much yes

u want the rigidbody from the prefab clone (the one u spawn into the scene)

[fickle stump]

What I thought would work making a script for my windows that checks which status the window has (opened or closed).

And the only way to get all of them and check if they are all set to false (closed) is with a list?

[rich adder]

imagine a box where you put all your stuff, but they are all the same thing
Like a box of fruits, you can only put Fruit inside the box @fickle stump

[carmine sierra]

but how can I instantiate it and save the variable

[rich adder]

if you have a list of windows to check their status yes

[rocky canyon]

same way you assign any other variable

[rich adder]

if the Size is fixed then Array works fine

eg. if you dont add or remove windows to list of mantained windows to check

[carmine sierra]

and that would result in it being instantiated also?

like that?

[rich adder]

Should probably learn the first basic collections if you intend on making a game

Array, List and Possibly a Dictionary.

very Important

[rocky canyon]

                    GameObject newClone = Instantiate(groundSelectPrefab,hit.point,Quaternion.identity);
                    Rigidbody clonesRB = newClone.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

                    clonesRB.AddForce(transform.forward * Mathf.Infinity,ForceMode.Impulse);```

ive never done it but i think you can just instantiate it as a rigidbody

if it has a rigidbody component.. could be wrong tho id have to try it real quick

Rigidbody clonesRB = Instantiate(groundSelectPrefab,hit.point,Quaternion.identity).GetComponent<Rigidbody>();

clonesRB.AddForce(transform.forward * Mathf.Infinity,ForceMode.Impulse);

[carmine sierra]

why are you adding a force and using maths at the end

[rocky canyon]

im pretty sure that works.. but its ugly.. theres probably a better way to do this even.. but thats the gist.. spawn it first.. then manipulate its specific components

[rocky canyon]

just dummy code..

[carmine sierra]

oh okay

[rocky canyon]

doesnt mean anything other than u can use the rigidbody reference

clonesRB.isKinematic = true;

[rocky canyon]

i wonder what would happen if u gave a rigidbody infinity force as an impulse 🤔 rofl

[carmine sierra]

doesn't work for some reason?

[rich adder]

read the errors

there is always a reason

[rocky canyon]

whats the error say yea

[rich adder]

u prob orgot ;

[carmine sierra]

yeah fixed

[north kiln]

I don't know why you're still here not posting actual errors

[slender nymph]

unsurprisingly you cannot

[north kiln]

I spent like 20 minutes trying to get an error message out of you yesterday

[rocky canyon]

good job unity 🙂

i was expecting a crash maybe

[carmine sierra]

me?

[rich adder]

duh

[carmine sierra]

yeah haven't built a habit of checking the console

[north kiln]

But your error is right there, underlined

Just hover over it

[rich adder]

why did we spend time configuring it if you're not gonna use it

[shell sorrel]

most compile errors the ide will know about and for runtime errors you need to check the console

[carmine sierra]

i do use the ide but it just underlined in red

so assumed I had to find the issue myself

[rich adder]

yes which is what you try to do before resorting to asking basic question ide answers lol

[rocky canyon]

you do need to figure out why the error occurs.. some times it tells you str8 up whats wrong, other times it takes a google or two.. always useful regardless of which scenario

the ide catches stuff before u make it into unity.. unity will catch most of the rest.. (like the inspector/ scene/ type stuff)

[carmine sierra]

is this not working because the instance is not instantiated yet, or because it's just flat out wrong?

the 'none gameobject' gets instantiated later

[summer stump]

That's not how you write getcomponent

Only types go in the angle brackets, not variables or references or anything else

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

[rich adder]

Would only work if WeaponSpawn was a namespace and weaponInstance was a class 😈

[rich adder]

thats not how you access elements inside another script

. is the right operator to use , you're just using it wrong

[carmine sierra]

sorry to ask this but it's just cause I can't access the project rn but could i instead write: weaponspawn = currentAmmo.getComponent<Weaponspawn>();
weaponinstance = weaponspawn.weaponinstance;

[summer stump]

Sure, that sounds right. The GetComponent works at least. Assuming WeaponSpawn is a class name

[carmine sierra]

and it is fine even if the instance is not in the game at the beginning of the run test?

[rich adder]

what is currentAmmo

weird naming

You can just store it as WeaponSpawn so you don't need GetComponent

[carmine sierra]

it is a code for a slingshot so the current ammo loaded onto the slingshot is currentammo

[rich adder]

but its GameObject, thats weird name for a GameObject

[carmine sierra]

not sure how id do that tbh

[rich adder]

the same way you are storing GameObjects in the inspector

[carmine sierra]

ohh

would i make the data type a c# script?

[rich adder]

yes

[shell sorrel]

when you have a field in the inspector of a certain compoent type, you can just drag in any GO that has that component on it

[spiral narwhal]

How do I prevent a Sprite from blocking OnMouseEnter?

[rich adder]

the class is a type