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[broken trellis]

O mb

[swift crag]

That thread suggests it's caused by an antivirus program

it's opening the .dll and screwing up Unity's attempt to modify the .dll

[broken trellis]

Omfg, it's stupid fecking Webroot screwing me up lel

[misty obsidian]

Hi guys! Does somebody know how to make auto scalling? It supposed to looks like 2nd photo

[broken trellis]

No, only VS Code and Unity

[rocky canyon]

ya the canvas has a setting for exactly that

[swift crag]

Your RectTransform anchors need fixing.

[rich adder]

check pins in #📲┃ui-ux tells you how to adjust to diff resolutions

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/UIBasicLayout.html

Give the UI documentation a read.

[swift crag]

Adjusting the Canvas Scaler will also be important, yes

[rocky canyon]

just type in the resolution u want it to scale to

in the game view you should probably preview it in the resolution u want..

if its not there u can create ur own presets..

[misty obsidian]

Ya! I set it , but it doesn't work as I wanted to, I will try with reading ui documentation

[swift crag]

Note that you hsould also test with a variety of resolutions in the game view. This'll make sure your UI works on various displays

I'll grab the game view and squish it like a stress ball

[rocky canyon]

same 🙂

when u get those solid anchors and it looks right in every possible scale 👍

[broken trellis]

Fixed it!

Webroot Antivirus is incompatible with Unity it turns out!

[quick pollen]

i am about to go insane

over fucking jumping

it just doesnt work

no matter what i try

the logic contradicts itself

[vernal plume]

me too

i screwed up my air velocity script and now bhopping gives me infinite acceleration

also how would i add a text overlay that can tell me my state, speed, etc

[rich adder]

who the hell still uses antivirus

[vernal plume]

im not finding any helpful tutorials

[rich adder]

You want strangers spying on u?

Windows already has its own Antivirus

[shell sorrel]

windows has that feature of them too

[quick pollen]

lol u will be met with an unfortunate surprise later

[rich adder]

true but at least their aint a stranger 😛

[polar acorn]

How does it "contradict itself"?

[quick pollen]

which blocks a total of 10% of viruses

[quick pollen]

I need to check somehow when I LAND

[rich adder]

I literally havent used antivirus since windows 7 I havent gotten any since

[quick pollen]

but whats the difference between having landed

and being on the ground just overall

[polar acorn]

So check if you were airborne last frame, and are no longer airborne this frame

[rocky canyon]

if ur not grounded u check again if grounded.. ^

[quick pollen]

that doesnt work because the grounded function of charactercontroller makes the grounded check flicker

[polar acorn]

I already told you how to fix that

[quick pollen]

it didnt work properly

[polar acorn]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[polar acorn]

Call .Move exactly once per frame, and make sure you have some downward movement even when grounded

then the character controller behaves properly

[quick pollen]

what downward movement

i technically already have gravity acting on it

but it just doesnt work properly

[polar acorn]

The downward movement I told you to add that you said you added but didn't work

#💻┃code-beginner message

You need to actually touch the ground, meaning you need to have downward movement, even when grounded. If you set the Y value of your move to 0 when you're grounded, then you didn't actually touch the ground, you hovered over it. Then next frame gravity kicks in and set it

then next frame you hover, and so on

[earnest atlas]

gravity doesnt works properly?

[polar acorn]

CharacterControllers don't have gravity

And when people implement it themselves they often make the mistake of setting the vertical speed to zero when grounded, when they need to set it to a small negative value

something like -0.1f

just to keep in contact with the ground

[quick pollen]

nah im one level better than that

i set it to a fucking positive value

[summer stump]

Windows defender is amazing. There is no need for a separate antivirus

[quick pollen]

it still flickers tho

[quick pollen]

its not

[earnest atlas]

huh interesting

[quick pollen]

trust me

I have decent knowledge about antiviruses

[polar acorn]

It really is. Viruses kind of don't exist any more

[summer stump]

I don't trust you, because you are objectively wrong

[quick pollen]

its always the last to get security updates

smth like malwarebytes is a level better at least

[quick pollen]

yeah for common malware

[polar acorn]

But really almost all malware gets stopped before it even reaches your machine

[quick pollen]

but get a funny usb stick plugged in or a directed attack and ur fucked

[polar acorn]

Just don't download free-bitcoin.pdf.exe and you'll be fine

At this point, receiving malware is a personal failing, not one of the machine

[quick pollen]

still protects u tho

whatever

[polar acorn]

Malwarebytes doesn't protect from a sledgehammer to the motherboard either

[quick pollen]

its not #antivirus anyway

[quick pollen]

it has macro protection tho I believe so u cant have a chip run a macro when its connected

[languid spire]

doubt

[quick pollen]

there are funny chips in things like edited chargers or USBs that run a macro the second they're plugged in

[polar acorn]

Ain't no anti-virus in the world that can protect from a hardware connection and user who clicks "OK"

[quick pollen]

u dont need to click OK

[rich adder]

yeah anti-virus is not anti-stupidity

[quick pollen]

thats true

but it can be

realtime protection

[rich adder]

besides theres more money in Web hacks like CC numbers and identity

[polar acorn]

You really just need something that can stop air-dropped malware from unblocked ads since that's the only kind the average user will ever encounter

[rich adder]

no one cares about your files anymore

people willingly upload their shit on cloud anyway

[quick pollen]

btw I did this and it didnt work

its still flickering

[languid spire]

there is no protection from people who dont read the simple messages their computer gives them, which appears to be about 95% of current users

[polar acorn]

Yeah, people don't make viruses any more because just getting a password from a data breach and trying it on all the bank websites is easier

[polar acorn]

Share full !code

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[swift crag]

that's what Windows Defender is for

you don't need anything else, especially not something that breaks Unity

[summer stump]

They are saying defender only blocks 10% of malware lmfao

[languid spire]

nonsense

[quick pollen]

https://hastebin.com/share/ifixasojak.csharp

[rich adder]

yeah surely Microsoft engineers only know 10% of created viruses

[quick pollen]

with better antiviruses you have a good chance to protect the PC even after the executable has been ran

[languid spire]

Defender is actually one of the better pieces of MS software

[swift crag]

stop talking about shit you have no understanding of

[summer stump]

Windows Defender can do that

[quick pollen]

yes defender does ask if u wanna run an application from an unchecked source

[rich adder]

that means it scanned it already and hasnt automatically trashed it

[quick pollen]

also heres the code

[short hazel]

Nah that's UAC, built-in to the OS

[summer stump]

You just clearly know little to nothing about antiviruses

[rich adder]

did not grow up in the dark ages of viruses

[eternal needle]

Windows antivirus is really good, it used to be shit which is why people still think it is.

If it was good in the past, I wouldnt have destroyed 3 family computers

[polar acorn]

Looks good, at least for the isGrounded cycling between true and false. Try logging it before you call .Move, along with moveVelocity is it actually still flickering, and if so, what is the velocity on the frame before that?

[languid spire]

I wont ask what you were doing to contract viruses in the first place

[eternal needle]

Trying to download angry birds free exe as a kid

[polar acorn]

I literally downloaded games off of Limewire, I was basically juggling live grenades. Somehow I never permanently bricked a computer

[verbal dome]

I don't use CC but I also never ever heard anyone mention this which is surprising

[languid spire]

Ah, silly, silly, children

[rich adder]

lmao same and the replacement Frostwire r whatever it was called

[polar acorn]

Okay but how else was I gonna play Ultima in a town with no PC game stores

[rocky canyon]

https://hatebin.com/yvyfghcuby
gravity works fine w/ a ground check when its structured correctly..
like digiholic mentions,

• when its grounded you keep applying a downward force (something really small but enough to keep it grounded)

• when you jump you cancel out the y velocity first so the player can move upwards (without being pushed down by the gravity it already had)

• if its not grounded you add gravity to it to bring it back downwards.. (maybe a bit more than when ur just grounded

• once it becomes grounded again it swaps back over to the small gravity force to keep it grounded

[languid spire]

mummy or daddys credit card @polar acorn

[earnest atlas]

? I had no issues with it

[rocky canyon]

oh mb wrong person

[polar acorn]

It's because the most common tutorials for CC (Brackeys) include a custom ground check which is unaffected

[vernal plume]

i mainly just had to turn down the air multiplier by a bit but like

funny

[polar acorn]

Pfft look at mr moneybags over here with parents who qualified for credit cards

[quick pollen]

I fixed it

the flickering at least

im stupid and tired

but mainly stupid

[rocky canyon]

welp, small victories are where its at

[languid spire]

lol, I was maxing my own cards out on hardware and software long before you guys were even born

[rocky canyon]

i maxed my first card out at TacoBell 😈

[polar acorn]

Yep, and the only reason I had a computer at all as a kid is because my mom snagged one on its way out to the trash from the school she volunteered at and we fixed it up.

[languid spire]

didn't know they sold hardware

[rich adder]

dam yall had CC growing up ?

[frigid sequoia]

Can I like get a gameObject by name but just withint the gameObject children?

[rich adder]

yes but why would you

getting object by name is slow , inefficent and prone to break

[polar acorn]

If it's a child object you can probably just drag it in

[frigid sequoia]

So I don't have to assing the children GameObject in the inspector

[rich adder]

never understood this..

why would you not.. you are literally ensuring the object and reference is there.

[languid spire]

that is what you should be wanting to do

[frigid sequoia]

So it is simpler to manage other values on the inspector

I dunno, I was actaully trying to avoid using the inspector for this kind of things

[rich adder]

if you're concerned about that visual space, things like [Header("Some category")]

[languid spire]

wrong

[rich adder]

or [Space(30)]

or something

these attributes help organize the inspector

[polar acorn]

The more over-engineered solution is not always the best. It ain't fancy but dragging in a reference is legitimately the best way to do it. Not at risk of losing a reference if something's renamed, proper type checking, less time spent spawning the object, faster runtime while it's going

it's pure upside

[swift crag]

I assign references when it is even slightly ambiguous what the reference should be

If I just need a list of every single component of type X that's parented to me, no matter what, I will go ahead and use GetComponentsInChildren.

[rich adder]

[Header("Attributes")]
    [SerializeField] private float speed = 5;

[Header("References")]
[SerializeField] private Rigidbody2D rb;
 [SerializeField] private Interactor inter;
        [SerializeField] private NavMeshSurface surface;```

[swift crag]

If there is ANY deviation from that case, then I assign the references or write some more complex logic to find what I need

I will basically never do this for a single reference, too.

because...just assign the damn thing!

[rich adder]

see @frigid sequoia

[rich adder]

neat

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so I should be using the inspector assignment whenever possible then?

[swift crag]

It should be what you favor.

[polar acorn]

Yep

[frigid sequoia]

I have to change a lot of things then, most of my stuff is searching for GameObjects with the playerController component by default

[swift crag]

Æugh

[rich adder]

hmm funny we were talking about viruses earlier

Due to a security vulnerability, the ability to insert FBX files has been disabled in 3D Viewer for Windows.

oof

[night sparrow]

Can anyone help me fix this My arms/guns are Showing through walls!

this is my Weapon Camera!

Not sure whats wrong at all

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, my scripts look more like this xd

[rich adder]

why are you using the base struct for Bool lol

[swift crag]

i forgot you could do that

[frigid sequoia]

? I though that was just how the boolean look in when using it

[swift crag]

okay, so a few things I don't enjoy here

[frigid sequoia]

Sry, I am like very new

[swift crag]

just reference your NavMeshAgent directly

Same thing here.

You already have fields!

[rich adder]

just boolwould suffice lol

[swift crag]

Just mark them with [SerializeField] and set 'em up

Why are you getting a GameObject here? I presume you need something more specific

like a PlayerController

I almost never have GameObject variables. I only use them when I can use literally any game object

[rich adder]

its okay in 1 script @frigid sequoia but then once you have many scripts doing this in start/awake then its a huge problem

[swift crag]

System.Boolean is the..."true" name for boolean values, I guess

Like how System.Single is what you'd really call a float

[frigid sequoia]

They are though, this is the general parent class for all enemies XD

Okey I would recheck everything later, thx guys

[rich adder]

its a bad habit to get into IMO

[frigid sequoia]

So for "Boolean" I just use "bool" then?

[rich adder]

yup

[frigid sequoia]

What's the actual difference?

[swift crag]

None.

bool is a keyword that's used as shorthand for System.Boolean

[polar acorn]

Nothing, but it's a lot more character to type each time

[rich adder]

like int you wouldnt use Int32 even though it can work

more typing = less time eating pizza

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, ok, so it doesn't actually matter if I miss some here and there, is more that is just weird right?

[polar acorn]

For this case, yeah

[rich adder]

like if someone's name is Bobby, but prefers Bob. You can use both but they prefer Bob (ok maybe bad example because computer processes it the same and has no preferences 😆 )

[quick pollen]

yeah no it just wont work

        if (jumpCooldown > 0f) jumpCooldown -= Time.deltaTime;
        if (windup > 0f && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space)) windup -= Time.deltaTime;
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && jumpCooldown <= 0f && !startedWinding)
        {
            windup = _windup;
            startedWinding = true;
        }

        if (windup <= 0f && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space) && jumpTime > 0f)
        {
            startedWinding = false;
            landed = false;
            moveVelocity += jumpVec;
            isBeingLevitated = true;
            jumpTime -= Time.deltaTime;
        }
        if(_controller.isGrounded && !landed && !startedWinding)
        {
            jumpCooldown = _jumpCooldown;
            landed = true;
        }```

no matter what I fucking try

the windup goes 0

and nothing happens

it doesnt start jumping

it doesnt do jack shit

jumpcooldown shouldnt start before you fucking land

but it starts before you even start jumping

no matter what I fucking do

[rich adder]

landing before u jump started?

[polar acorn]

I think you're overcomplicating this a bit. You want the jump to require you hold the button a smidge, and you want a certain amount of time on the ground before jumping again, right?

[quick pollen]

yes

but the problem is

the jump is weird

because the height depends on how long u hold it down for as well

so u need to wind it up

set how long u wanna jump by holding it a bit

[rich adder]

well it doesnt even seem to go above 1.0

[quick pollen]

and then start falling once you either release the key or u run out of jump

[quick pollen]

the windup? yeah thats not meant to be

the problem is

before you even get off the ground

it already sets that u landed already

because its fucked

[rich adder]

oh thought wind up is the distance u want to jump up

[quick pollen]

and if i dont set it to be landed

then it jumps forever

[rich adder]

how are you checking grounded ?

oh is just bools in keypresses

tisk tisk

[polar acorn]

So, this seems a little bit complicated. I'd start by formalizing your rules. Things like "How long do you hold the button before a jump happens", "what happens if jump is released at this particular point in time" and so on

[median ruin]

Is there a way to make the navmesh skip certain gameobjects?

[polar acorn]

From there you can start to "group" rules, and find repeated bits that can be extracted into external methods

[quick pollen]

1. You hold the jump for _windup amount of seconds before u actually jump (0.9s)

rn it doesnt even fucking matter if you release the jump key

because nothing happens if you press it

[polar acorn]

And what happens if you release it early

Do you cancel the jump entirely?

[quick pollen]

nothing happens if you press it overall

so yknow

i know thatll cause an issue

but I can just set a flag

if GetKeyUp the jump key then set the windup to be cancelled

[polar acorn]

So, release the button before a windup period is finished causes you to just cancel the whole thing, right?

[quick pollen]

yes

wtf???????

[polar acorn]

So, this seems like a state pattern. From the looks of things you've got at least four states:
Windup, Jumping, Falling, Landing

[quick pollen]

wait

im so fucking stupid its insane

my jump vector didnt even make me jump

[polar acorn]

You define conditions for when one becomes the other. Windup becomes Jumping if the button is held. Jumping becomes falling when you release it, or Landing if you hit the ground. Falling becomes Landing when you hit the ground. Oh, and a "neutral" state that windup goes to when you release the button, and landing goes to after the cooldown

[polar acorn]

Can still consider cleaning up the logic so you can more easily diagnose problems and adjust values in the future

[quick pollen]

i have no fucking clue how to

its my 3rd rewrite of the entire fucking jump script

[polar acorn]

Yeah, I'm explaining that part to you

[polar acorn]

You're making a fairly involved jumping system

[quick pollen]

no, jump becomes falling when you release it or you run out of jump

[polar acorn]

Ah, okay, so there's a time factor as well

[quick pollen]

windup becomes jumping if the button is held for the amount of seconds yes

[quick pollen]

for when you're in the air, yes

[quick pollen]

it really shouldnt be

all i fcking wanted was a windup and a cooldown

and ive been here for 4 hours

over this bullshit

[polar acorn]

And a contextual jump height

[quick pollen]

the contextual jump height worked before

and it shouldnt have any effect

[polar acorn]

Yeah, but it complicates the addition of the other things

So, first off, I'd recommend doing some reading on the State Pattern (also known as a "Finite State Machine" or FSM)
https://unity.com/how-to/develop-modular-flexible-codebase-state-programming-pattern

Because this is what we're going to be looking at. You're going to want to create the states outlined above, and have each state be responsible for checking the inputs, timers, and other variables to decide when to transition from one into the next

[median ruin]

digiholic? I can't seem to be able to exclude objects from effecting the navmesh.. none of the forum posts seem to refer to anything helpful, can't find much on wiki

[polar acorn]

@quick pollen As an example, here's how you might code the windup state:

if (CurrentState == State.WINDUP){
  if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.Space){
    currentWindupTime += Time.deltaTime;
    if (currentWindupTime >= windupTime) ChangeState(State.JUMPING);
  } else {
    DoJumpCode();
    ChangeState(State.IDLE);
    currentWindupTime = 0;
  }
}

[quick pollen]

jumpvec is STILL FCKING NULL

how the fuck???

[mortal bridge]

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[mortal bridge]

Im sorry I have to use this

[quick pollen]

how is this fucking null????

[polar acorn]

A vector cannot be null

[quick pollen]

I mean 0

sorry

but how tf is a constant that I set to be a fucking number zero

its literally here

[polar acorn]

Try logging _jumpHeight and jumpVec right after that line

[quick pollen]

whats the difference between me typing Mathf.Sqrt(_jumpHeight) and 4??

[eternal needle]

The sqrt of 2 is not 4

[quick pollen]

oh

wait

[eternal needle]

It is like 1.41

[quick pollen]

im so stupid

I meant pow....

[polar acorn]

Well, for one the square root of 2 is about 1.414, not 4

[quick pollen]

not like it matters

im still stuck to the ground

even if its 954156

[quick pollen]

no reason in logging _jumpheight cuz its readonly

imma log jumpvec

[polar acorn]

Do it anyway

Not like it'll break anything

[eternal needle]

You should be debugging a lot, and if its mysteriously changing to 0 then something is modifying it. Right click find all references to see what's affecting it

[quick pollen]

you know whats weird?

I tried logging moveVelocity

and appareantly I'm already flying

yet im on the fucking ground

im sorry

im too tired for the day

this shit is cursed

it should be flying up

after what I did

I literally wanted it to start flying up infinitely

but it doesnt

it stays on the ground

GameObject?

[eternal needle]

Do you have any code that actually applies moveVelocity to the players position or velocity? I cant find where you posted code above.

[quick pollen]

yeah its here

this is the only Move call in my script

[vernal plume]

why is it doing this

[quick pollen]

moveVelocity is like the sum of all the velocities that I want to apply

[eternal needle]

Debug it right before the move

[mortal bridge]

https://gdl.space/efojureson.cs

whats the problem here

[vernal plume]

everything became super choppy out of nowhere

[eternal needle]

A field? That would be referring to the variable in your script. A game object is an object in your scene, not a singular variable.

[quick pollen]

whats it doing again

[quick pollen]

i thought he was asking like how to have an object from the scene or smth inside a variable

[vernal plume]

If it's not very clear suddenly the movement (camera is unaffected) became incredibly slow and choppy

[eternal needle]

You tell us, what is the problem? I can see an issue but you should be looking at your errors for more information

[vernal plume]

I'm restarting my PC cuz it has an update and I wanted to see if that may have been a cause but I genuinely don't know how it happened.

[eternal needle]

Field is a common name for it, but people would understand if you said in a variable as well

[mortal bridge]

Actually I turned it off since blue I had 255 standart naming rule violations messages let me turn it on again

[eternal needle]

You should be seeing these errors in your IDE

Has nothing to do with the blue messages

[swift crag]

I'm not sure it really has a name

If you're talking about storing a GameObject in a variable, then yeah, it's a GameObject

[mortal bridge]

It showed no errors?

[swift crag]

but "object" just means "thing" -- you can store floats, ints, GameObjects, MonoBehaviours, Rigidbody, whatever

[eternal needle]

Then configure your !ide

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[verbal dome]

That can be called caching

Usually in the context where getting that object is expensive, so you do it only once and store it in a variable

[mortal bridge]

I use visual studio

[short hazel]

If you're basing camera rotation over mouse input, but involve Time.deltaTime in the calculation, don't. That's what makes movement unstable. If your FPS fluctuates you'll get more or less sensitivity in a frame, which makes it feel inconsistent.
Mouse input is already independent of framerate, so you should not multiply by deltaTime.

[mortal bridge]

It only says player doesnt exist in current context but I fixed it. still doesnt work

[vernal plume]

what should i replace here then

[eternal needle]

Yes so follow the instructions in the link. To be blunt, your code is nonsense and your IDE should be telling you that. Having a configured IDE is required to get help here

[short hazel]

Read the last sentence of my message again.

[trim gulch]

Hi! I'm trying to make a Health Counter with hearts for a 2D game, but I don't know how to approach it.

I looked it up on the internet, but the only two options I've seen are, either making the Heart sprite tiled and cropping it accordingly to the health left, or creating a different sprite for every possible case and assining it manually.

None of them really convince me. Is there any other approach I could try?

[vernal plume]

do i just remove that deltatime part?

[short hazel]

Yep

[mortal bridge]

my man it does? I told you that It shows no errors? you want a screenshot?

[frigid sequoia]

How can I assing a reference to component that is not on the Object that I am looking in the inspector?

[eternal needle]

If you have no errors then it is not configured

[vernal plume]

it didnt fix it

[rich adder]

the same way

lock the inspector first

[slender nymph]

just drag the object in

[vernal plume]

it instead just amplified my sensitivity like crazy and the movements still choppy

[rare basin]

private IEnumerator TestCoroutine()
{
   while(isAlive)
   {
      Jump();
      yield return new WaitForSeconds(2);
   }
}

would the code below be more optimized, because of caching, so it doesn't fill up GC by allocating new instance every iteration?

private IEnumerator TestCoroutine()
{
   var waitDelay = new WaitForSeconds(2);
   while(isAlive)
   {
      Jump();
      yield return waitDelay;
   }
}

[frigid sequoia]

Like I cannot drag from a child's component to the parents slot??

[frigid sequoia]

How?

[quick pollen]

OMG

[verbal dome]

Show a screenshot of the whole thing

[quick pollen]

I think I got smth right

[slender nymph]

just drag the gameobject itself in, it will get the correct component

[vernal plume]

its the movement itself, not the mouse sensitivity

[verbal dome]

Yep, though if you have multiple components of the same type on the same object, then you need to do the lock thing

[eternal needle]

This shows me literally nothing. You seem to just be ignoring my messages that if you have no errors then your ide isnt configured because it should be showing you errors in your nonsense code

[vernal plume]

thing is theres no errors listed so i gotta find it myself

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, ok

[frigid sequoia]

It doesn't if there are multiple valid slots to assing, I think

[slender nymph]

huh?

[rich adder]

also if you right click the script and hit Properties you dont have to lock inspector to drag something inside

it pops out the whole window

[vernal plume]

Another thing to note is this only started after I implemented crouching

[frigid sequoia]

Like if I drag an object with for example a rb and a animator and I have slots for both, I don't think it assings it automatically

[mortal bridge]

I know its nonsense thats why Im trying to fix it 😄

[vague dirge]

Is it possible to make Vector3.SignedAngle outputs oriented angles ? So it goes untill 360 and not 180.

[frigid sequoia]

Not sure when it does work when just dragging the whole or item or doesn't though

[slender nymph]

you have to drag the object into each slot, yes. but it will get the right component for each one when you drag it into the slot

[rare basin]

#💻┃code-beginner message

bump

[eternal needle]

Ok you've fixed the error from the first code you've shown. You shouldnt be trying to use static void main, it will not be the entry point of your program. You need to use monobehaviour and awake/start

[vernal plume]

could it have anything to do with this?

[mortal bridge]

I told you I fixed that earlier

so is that all?

[wind raptor]

Is

if(ExampleGameObject){

}

the same as

if(ExampleGameObject != null){

}

?

[mortal bridge]

are there no problems in update methods codes?

[rare basin]

yes

[wind raptor]

Specifically, ExampleGameObject is the instance

Okay

[mortal bridge]

the last 3 floats seem sus to me. I think there are some problems there but I couldnt guess what

[quick pollen]

im so broken dude

30 fucking lines of code

[vernal plume]

and another note

[quick pollen]

and it just doesnt work

[vernal plume]

its not fps related

my fps seems stable, the characters movement itself is the only thing affected

[verbal dome]

What's sus about them, and did you write this code or is it from elsewhere?

[mortal bridge]

its from elsewhere

I wouldnt write this kind of code

[mortal bridge]

seems sus based on my instincts

[eternal needle]

Your message about what you fixed was completely unrelated to the error about the method name. Also you havent said what doesnt actually work.
Are you using chatgpt? I told you about not using void main already

[mortal bridge]

my closest friend sent me this code and said find out whats wrong

[eternal needle]

Tell your friend to start over from the basics and stop doing his work for him.

[ivory bobcat]

Substitute the final formula with the values and they'll immediately see what the issue is.

[trim gulch]

Does anyone have any idea why are these visual bugs happening? (Ignore the half made game)

[slender nymph]

this is a code channel

[mortal bridge]

yes

[polar acorn]

You do know this is a Unity server right? The code you've sent seems to have basically nothing to do with Unity at all

[mortal bridge]

Finally found out

[mortal bridge]

well its c#

[polar acorn]

But it ain't Unity

!cdisc

Wait they changed the command for that hang on

[slender nymph]

it's !cs now

[eternal falcon]

Join the C# Discord server, a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. https://discord.com/invite/csharp

[polar acorn]

There we go

[quick pollen]

not like people talk there tho

[mortal bridge]

okay so is it forbidden here to ask outside the unity library?

[quick pollen]

directly, yeah

[polar acorn]

If you're asking for help for non-unity code, you would be better served going to the discord about non-unity C#

[summer stump]

Have you not been on that server? It's pretty dang active

[polar acorn]

Otherwise your answer here is going to be "Why isn't this a MonoBehaviour"

[mortal bridge]

okay. got it

[mortal bridge]

yeah. realized that.

[quick pollen]

well tbf i havent been there in a bit

but i remember one time the #chat being inactive for like 2 days straight

with only like 5 messages total

[summer stump]

There are like 40 messages in a 10 minute period right now on the chat channel
But I've never seen it that slow personally

[mortal bridge]

do they help with unity libraries there?

[polar acorn]

Well, for one, that's the off topic channel, which is already infinitely more active than the off topic channel here, which remains at a steady 0 posts per day due to not existing

[vernal plume]

this is frustrating

[ivory bobcat]

They'll probably tell you to ask the Unity server for anything Unity specific.

[quick pollen]

lmao gigachad tho

i dont even wanna get close to assembly

i already struggle with c++ plenty

[polar acorn]

Assembly Definitions are not Assembly

[vernal plume]

bro i genuinely dont understand this

[quick pollen]

tho i dont know where to go from mathematical shit at c++

[vernal plume]

out of nowhere the playermovement just stopped being smooht

[mortal bridge]

got it. no outside unity library c# questions here and not unity library questions there. great

[quick pollen]

still, it has assembly in it so im scared lol

[vernal plume]

it isnt fps or camera based the movement itself is super choppy

[quick pollen]

maybe u have multiple Move calls

that can cause weird shit

[slender nymph]

are you certain that the issue is your player movement not being smooth and not the camera updating on a different time step from the player? hint: ||it's almost always the camera||

[eternal needle]

Well that's why I wasted my time trying to tell you about not being able to use Main..

[vernal plume]

i dont understand how implimenting crouching suddenly makes the camera update differently man

[quick pollen]

maybe the scale of the camera changes?

[summer stump]

You don't have to understand, you need to debug. That will get you to the point of understanding

[slender nymph]

i haven't seen any of your code and you've not provided any actual details recently so i cannot say for sure what the issue is. but it's probably how you update your camera 🤷‍♂️

[quick pollen]

if u make crouching by halving the size of the player

[vernal plume]

jesus christ

[mortal bridge]

yeah. sorry about that. Is there anything I can do to compensate for that?

[vernal plume]

allat for the dumbest solution

[quick pollen]

and the camera is parented to the character

[vernal plume]

no idea how

but i somehow moved the player under the cameraholder group

[quick pollen]

10 bobux

[mortal bridge]

let me write a free robux generator program

[prime cobalt]

Is there a way for a cursor to follow your mouse position on a canvas in the worldspace?

[quick pollen]

u had issues figuring out main, we'll see about that lmao

[eternal needle]

Lol sorry i wasnt trying to make it seem like an issue. But more of a reasoning for why we dont deal with pure c# issues. There are differences which can result in massive confusion

[quick pollen]

id guess smth like raycasts

if ur mouse position is always in the middle of the screen

i mean the crosshair

[prime cobalt]

It isn't always in the middle

[quick pollen]

well yeah

but if we're speaking generic shooter

actually i wont get into this cuz im tired and dont wanna waste peoples time

[rich adder]

why not

[prime cobalt]

There's no actual movement, the game is kinda like fnaf where you stay in one spot.

[verbal dome]

Like you want that mouse cursor to be where your crosshair is aiming?

[prime cobalt]

Yeah pretty much

[mortal bridge]

good. Ill still write a time machine program in the future and hit you up and give you your minutes back.

[quick pollen]

raycast then id say

[verbal dome]

Yeah Physics.Raycast, if it hits, convert that hit point into the screen object's local space. Then convert that into canvas coordinates

I guess.

[prime cobalt]

Ok I'll try and do that

[verbal dome]

Or hmm might as well move the UI cursor into hit.point? Not sure how worldspace UI works

[quick pollen]

mmmm spacetime anomalies

have fun debugging the fucking universe lmao

[rich adder]

@prime cobalt

[quick pollen]

especially after what has just transpired

[verbal dome]

Time.timeScale = -1

[verbal dome]

Windows XP <3

[prime cobalt]

Nah the crosshair doesn't work like that

[frigid sequoia]

You might call me dumb for asking this but... Does this Event System do anything? Like I don't remember adding it, and it has been there for so long that I am scared of removing it and breaking something XD

[rich adder]

Ahh its not locked..

[slender nymph]

yes, the EventSystem is used for your UI stuff and if you use any of its interfaces like IPointerEnterHandler

[polar acorn]

It lets you use UI

[summer stump]

It is added automatically when you create a UI object for the first time

[frigid sequoia]

So it is added automatically with a Canvas?

Ok, I don't have to touch it at all them right?

[polar acorn]

Correct

Unless you want to change which inputs control the UI navigation

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I don't think that there is anything "interacteable" in that UI, can I remove it?

[swift crag]

There is no reason to remove it

unless you've managed to create multiple event systems

[frigid sequoia]

Is fine to have it even if the interface is just a recount of score and health for example?

[swift crag]

Yes. It won't blow up your computer.

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, it won't, but I though I was meant to keep stuff as simple as possible

[swift crag]

that doesn't mean to immediately delete everything that you don't recognize or that doesn't immediately have a purpose

[summer stump]

Simple as possible means leaving the event system

[fierce shuttle]

That sounds like a very vague question, there isnt often a "best" way to do a lot of things, since much of it depends on a lot of different factors - what are you looking for specifically? What do you need your objective system to do? What kind of objectives are you trying to make? How large/complex is this system? How do you plan to populate/create objectives? Do these objectives need to be saved or stored somewhere? Which part of the system are you having trouble with? If you havnt started anything yet or you dont have any specifics, then any "objective system" would probably be a good one, and thats not to sound harsh, just that theres many ways to approach problems and project setup and requirements play a bit part in that approach

[cosmic dagger]

I mean, the fact that Unity added it automatically pretty much answers your question; keep it . . .

[prime cobalt]

ayy it works now, thanks

[vernal plume]

odd

if i make it so the horizontal speed matches on both a flat plane and a slope

i start to deal with bounce again

but if i dont add that bit

i stick to the slope like normal again

[fiery notch]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[sour fulcrum]

not sure which channel this is the most relevant for but building a dll for both runtime and editor but running into this problem where even though i explicitly reference the UnityEngine version of ScriptableObject in both the dll ExtendedLevel comes from and my editor script trying to reference it, it asks me to reference coremodule instead

Online I only found one post relating to this suggesting to just make two versions which seems a little psycho

[cosmic dagger]

You need to add the Unity assembly to your assembly to access Unity-specific types . . .

[sour fulcrum]

yeahh but i think the one i need for runtime use is different than the one i need for editor use

found this message online which im trying to follow up now

I was taught how to deal with it.
The dll can be solved by using the one in the following location.
UnityEngine.dll:
/[UNITY_EDITOR]/Editor/Data/Managed/UnityEngine/UnityEngine.dll
UnityEngine.CoreModule.dll:
/ [UNITY_EDITOR] /Editor/Data/Managed/UnityEngine/UnityEngine.CoreModule.dll
UnityEngine.UI.dll:
/ [PROJECT] /Library/ScriptAssemblies/UnityEngine.UI.dll

[verbal dome]

Functions and booleans are everywhere

Nothing suboptimal about those

You could use OnTriggerEnter to detect when you enter an area, for example

And then display some UI text that tells the objective

Ofc it's still missing the objective logic itself

You need to think about its arcitecture, yes

Booleans don't really cost anything

I would probably make the objectives into separate objects that get added to the player's list, or set as current objective

Not necessarily monobehaviours, could be plain C# classes. Or instances of a scriptableobject

Can't really give any detailed suggestions without knowing how your game works and how you want it all to work

[ivory bobcat]

Bools and functions are completely fine relative to performance. If you're trying to make something extendable/complex.. you can opt for other solutions.

[buoyant knot]

the main cost is architecture

storing more shit means more shit to manage

[upbeat yacht]

Hi there, pretty noob in C#. I'm making a little shmup like where the player can move right/left and can fire a triple shoot. When the player flip on left i struggle a lot with the gizmos (fire points/origins of the bullets) that shoot up and down cuz there are not symetric at all with the player's right position/rotation. Have some advices or tips for flip correctly ? (i'm looking in quaternions or gizmos.matrix documentation but not sure at all) thx for ur time

[buoyant knot]

for adding booleans:
the performance and memory cost is completely negligible. but the cost to your ability to manage the state of the whole machine is NOT negligible

and that is the main consideration

[ivory bobcat]

Depends. If you've got a simple clicker with three or four states... it's very managable.

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, they are separate assemblies, so make sure you add the correct one, or both, if you need access . . .

[carmine sierra]

hi could anyone briefly explain how line renderer arrays work please?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe show more code.

How you should post !code

[eternal falcon]

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[carmine sierra]

i mean just how that bit works

I get the rest

what is the bandPositions array for

[verbal dome]

It's not a standard thing, are you following a tutorial?

[eternal needle]

It's just an array, seemingly of transforms. It has absolutely nothing to do with line renderers specifically

[verbal dome]

I assume they are transforms

[ivory bobcat]

It's something you haven't shown us.

[carmine sierra]

yeah woops

[verbal dome]

It seems to be using transforms as a source for the positions for the linerenderer. Presumably so they are easier to edit than adjusting position values in the inspector/code

[carmine sierra]

if i put in an element 2 as one transform component (for example the center between the bands) how could i reference that

in a line of code where id set the bands index of 1 vertex to that element

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe lookup a tutorial

[verbal dome]

If you want element 2, you use the indexer [] of the array

So myArray[2]

[carmine sierra]

like lineRenderers[0].SetPosition(1, bandPositions[2].position);

[verbal dome]

Note that the first element is 0

Second is 1, and so on

[ivory bobcat]

I'm not really understanding what you're wanting to do. Simply . You'll immediately know if what you're doing is practical/doable.

[buoyant knot]

4-5 booleans, ok.
19-20 booleans not ok.
It is part of a steadily increasing cost

[carmine sierra]

does this mean the second vertex of the line would set to the position of element 3 in band positions

[shell sorrel]

19-20 is still nothing

though i would look at if flags are better with that many

[verbal dome]

I would have as many booleans as I want, but keep them in their respective "Objective" classes instead of in the Player class for example

[shell sorrel]

but not for perf reasons just for keeping it cleaner

[buoyant knot]

it is when you have to juggle combinations of booleans being set true and false, while others change the flow for others being set true or false…
It’s part of why player movement scripts can get very complex

[shell sorrel]

though really it sounds like you should just be using a fsm

[buoyant knot]

i mean number of separate booleans within one class, not in a collection.

[shell sorrel]

but like would worry about just keeping it clean and easy to understand

[ivory bobcat]

I'm a believer that OOP isn't a necessity in most cases.
We often get too worked up in design where the solution we're creating often becomes more redundant than necessary.

[shell sorrel]

like at work the main character class and its support data structures like like 5 or 6 kloc

and its all still fine

[buoyant knot]

we’re talking to someone who was worried about the performance cost of adding more booleans, and my point was that the only real cost is the cost to managing an increasingly complex machine

[verbal dome]

TIL what kloc is

[shell sorrel]

thosand line of code

[verbal dome]

Yep I did google it 😄

[ivory bobcat]

Just make it readable.

[buoyant knot]

yeah. it’s just a good way to handle simpler objects

[shell sorrel]

but yeah anyone worry about performance, the order you do things is
make it work, make it clean then only make it fast if required after profiling

[verbal dome]

Yep. Nothing worse than coming back to your project and not knowing what's going on. Even worse if you work in a team

[thorn kiln]

Whats the easiest way to tell an element of a prefab to move to the right a bit on a trigger?

[verbal dome]

Does it have a rigidbody?

And do you want it to actually teleport instantly

[night sparrow]

Why does my code Debug.Log() Blank!

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

public class MainMenu : MonoBehaviour
{

    public static MainMenu Instance;

    public GameObject UICam;
    public GameObject Menu;
    public GameObject Play;
    public GameObject ChangeName;

    void Awake()
    {
        Instance = this;
    }

    public void OnNameChange(string _name)
    {
        Debug.Log(_name);
    }

    public void OnPlayPress()
    {
        Debug.Log("Pressed Play!");
    }
}

UnityEngine.Debug:Log (object)

I have the Input detect On Value Changed with string set up to the Main Menu script to the OnNameChange function

[thorn kiln]

It doesnt, and teleportant instantly is fine in this case

[verbal dome]

The parameter field is blank
E: Sorry maybe I misunderstand

[shell sorrel]

they evente has a dynamic section as well as static

guessing you are expecting to pass data along in the event?

[north kiln]

https://unity.huh.how/unity-events/dynamic-values

[verbal dome]

You can simply modify transform.position

[night sparrow]

wanting to send the Name from the text into the function

[shell sorrel]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[thorn kiln]

That'll move it to a fixed position on the screen though, won't it? The prefab is moving across the screen.

[verbal dome]

Only if you set it with transform.position =

You should add to it +=

So transform.position += someVector
Which is just shorthand for transform.position = transform.position + someVector

[night sparrow]

thanks

[harsh sandal]

Newbie question. How do most people handle saving stuff in scenes? Like i have procedural terrain generation, Is simply deactivating the chunks to unload and save them sufficient or do i need a proper save system?

Or should i be finding a way to store the data to a file or something for long-term and just read off it to generate what i need? Completely new to this part tbh

[verbal dome]

You could either store all the terrain data in a file, or just use the same random seed to generate it again

You're talking about runtime, right? Not in edit mode?

[harsh sandal]

Well my terrain is a 5 vertice, 4 triangle quad array with customizable height values by player and remove-able quads by player aswell to determine the world shape etc. And yes in runtime

[amber veldt]

Making them a prefab is an option?

[harsh sandal]

That would be a lot of prefabs but do-able

[verbal dome]

Can't make prefabs in a built game

[harsh sandal]

My mesh can generate off heightmap and i can save the heightmaps to use later, its intensive tho

[verbal dome]

If your map is customizable, then a hybrid of my first two suggestions could work too. Save only the changes that were made, and the seed.
When loading it, generate the map from the seed, then apply/replicate the changes that the player had made

[thorn kiln]

So why does transform.position += Vector3(1, 0, 0); not work? It's teling me it can't be used like a method.

[verbal dome]

This() is a method

[shell sorrel]

missing new

[verbal dome]

new This() is calling a constructor

Which is what you want

[thorn kiln]

So how do I make it move to the right an exact amount?

[shell sorrel]

what do you mean

you just create a vector with the value you want

transform.position += new Vector3(1, 0, 0);

[rocky canyon]

new Vector3(0,0,0);

[shell sorrel]

though in your example case you could just do transform.position += Vector3.right;

[thorn kiln]

Well yeah, but that doesn't let me get it down to the pixel where it ends up

[shell sorrel]

figure out exactly where you want to put it

set its position to that

[rocky canyon]

ur setting the position.. thtas what transform.position is.. its the

[shell sorrel]

if you want to do it over time so it smoothly moves there, use a lerp

[rocky canyon]

you can set it to be exactly anywhere u want it to be

use a variable.. use the variable instead of hardcoded magic numbers.. and u can just tweak the value in the inspector until it is exactly where u want it

[shell sorrel]

or find a procedural way to get the point

[verbal dome]

Since this is called from OnTriggerEnter, you need to add an offset while taking into account the trigger's position

If you want it to be precise

Vector3 pos = transform.position;
pos.x = thatTrigger.transform.position.x + someFloat;
transform.position = pos;```

You are using OnTriggerEnter right? @thorn kiln

[thorn kiln]

    private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
    {
        if (collision.gameObject.CompareTag("projectile"))
        {
            StartCoroutine(MyCoroutine(lowerPipe));
            spriteRenderer.sprite = buttonPressed;
            transform.position += new Vector3(2, 0, 0);
        }
    }```

[verbal dome]

(Sorry other josh that i pinged)

[thorn kiln]

Im basically just changing a buttons sprite when I shoot it

[verbal dome]

In that case it looks correct. Just need to tweak the vector value to your liking

Could make a serialized Vector3 and tweak that from the inspector

[verbal dome]

Forget about this, I thought your trigger detection works the other way around

[thorn kiln]

Well I want it to go from -5.01 to -2.23

[verbal dome]

So what is (-2.23 - -5.01)

[cosmic dagger]

Then just move the difference between the two values . .

[thorn kiln]

It doesn't like decimals.
"Argument 1: cannot convert from 'double' to 'float'"

[amber veldt]

Hey guys, how would you store a local position y value at a certain frame? And use it later as a direction? Not sure if I'm precise...

[thorn kiln]

2 also already moves it too far, so that's confusing

[cosmic dagger]

Use a float value, not a double . . .

[timid badge]

What PC build would be the best for making games, under $400.

[summer stump]

1.0 is a double
1.0f is a float

[summer stump]

Not a code question

#1157336089242112090 maybe

[amber veldt]

!code

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[amber veldt]

    {
        if (ninjaTimeMB.NinjaIsShootPressed && arrowInstanceGO != null)
        {
            StartCoroutine(MoveArrowInstance(arrowInstanceGO));
        }
    }


    IEnumerator MoveArrowInstance(GameObject arrowInstanceGOParam)
    {
        // Vector3 directionOfTheArrow = 

        while (arrowInstanceGOParam != null)
        {
            arrowInstanceGOParam.transform.Translate(Vector3.up * arrowSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
            yield return null;
        }
    }```

[shell sorrel]

cs goes on its own line

[amber veldt]

oh okay

[summer stump]

Unless it's blocked somewhere else, this coroutine can start multiple times?

[amber veldt]

For multiple instances of arrows, no?

[shell sorrel]

yeah but it never ends

[summer stump]

Looks like for the same instance of arrow
Can't tell from this alone though

[amber veldt]

Yes there is a Destroy(arrowInstanceGOParam) somewhere

Isn't that enough?

[spiral narwhal]

public static class StateChangeList
    {
        private static readonly List<IStateAction> _changeActions = new();

        static StateChangeList()
        {
            SubscribeAll();
        }

        public static void Clear()
        {
            _changeActions.Clear();
        }

        public static IStateAction[] GetAll() => _changeActions.ToArray();

        private static void SubscribeAll()
        {
            DrawService.OnCardDrawn += SubscribeDrawEvent;
        }

        private static void UnsubscribeAll()
        {
            DrawService.OnCardDrawn -= SubscribeDrawEvent;
        }

        private static void SubscribeDrawEvent(int ownerIndex, CardSO drawnCard)
        {
            Debug.Log("Ok");
            _changeActions.Add(new DrawAction
            {
                OwnerIndex = ownerIndex,
                DrawnCard = drawnCard
            });
        }

Why doesn't the subscription work? Ok is NOT printed to the console

[shell sorrel]

also will run mulitple times on the exact same arrow

[amber veldt]

Got it, will fix it

My question was about the direction of my arrow

[shell sorrel]

and will fight with the other coroutines over its position

[queen adder]

the thing is, dont mix Update and coroutine if you dont know what it's doing

[amber veldt]

I want to move it along its local Y axis

Meaning adding Vector.up basically

[shell sorrel]

use transform.up

[queen adder]

in this case, it will likely make the bullet very fast

[amber veldt]

it's in glocal no?

transform.up is in World Space?

[shell sorrel]

Vector3.up is world

[thorn kiln]

2.78f seems to just make the button disappear entirely.

[shell sorrel]

transform.up is local up axis

[amber veldt]

It does not work in my case

Kinda drives me crazy

[shell sorrel]

oh dont use translate

[amber veldt]

Bad idea?

[shell sorrel]

well you can adjust local position

or you pass the 2nd arg to translate

[amber veldt]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-up.html

[shell sorrel]

public void Translate(Vector3 translation, Space relativeTo = Space.Self);

[amber veldt]

it says "green axis of the transform in World Space"

Not local space

[shell sorrel]

says where?

the green axis in the scene view being world or local depends on your viewport settings

[amber veldt]

yes

But how do I get the local green axis inside the code, is my question

[summer stump]

I have no idea what the issue was, I just saw the error about doubles and floats. You have to cast to float, as I showed

[amber veldt]

if I press global, it will always be up

(world space)

[thorn kiln]

Okay, I think it's... going into the pipe? Not disappearing

[shell sorrel]

code is not effected by that

[amber veldt]

If i press local, I get the axis I want in green

[shell sorrel]

translate works in local space unless you tell it to use world space

[amber veldt]

Do you mind looking at a screenshot?

[shell sorrel]

otherwise its just a matter of using local or world position

vector3.up is world up transform.up is local up

[thorn kiln]

I can't figure out what number this thing is looking for me to tell it to determine how much to move to the right using a number I can easily find

[amber veldt]

The green axis of the transform in world space.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-up.html

[verbal dome]

Do subtraction like we suggested

[amber veldt]

transform.up is the green axis of the transform in World Space, sorry but I don't get it

Trying to read the documentation but it's driving me crazy

[shell sorrel]

transform.up is the local space green axis on a object

[verbal dome]

Here @thorn kiln Goddamnit I pinged the wrong josh again
Just calculate it with a calculator or something. Then put that value into a variable and use that variable in your Vector's x parameter

[shell sorrel]

Vector3.up is world up

[thorn kiln]

I mean, I tried. It should be looking for 2.78f to move it to where I want it to go. But that makes it disappear. If I do 2, it puts it mostly inside another object. So I don't know what number it's looking for, but it's not a number I seem to be able to find logically.

[verbal dome]

Make sure it only runs once

[queen adder]

magic numbers

[thorn kiln]

I could keep messing with it until I find the exact number, but that seems woefully inefficent

[eager meadow]

I have been unintentionally summoned

[verbal dome]

Which is why you were suggested to make a serialized variable that you can tweak from the inspector

Either a float or just a Vector3

[verbal dome]

Sorry man I did it twice

Welcome to the josh meeting

[frigid sequoia]

You guys told me I should avoid to use references by name, is there a way of doing this without that, or this is fine?

[slender nymph]

Camera.main exists

[frigid sequoia]

How can I set which is the main camera?

[cosmic dagger]

reference the component instead of using GetComponent multiple times . . .

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I am only using one, but just in case I wasn't

[shell sorrel]

make your prefab be of the type you need from the start

[slender nymph]

what does the docs say about Camera.main

[shell sorrel]

also you are calling GetComponent to see if something is null literally throwing away that reference then calling it again

hold it in a temp var, or use TryGetComponent

[shell sorrel]

via a tag

[frigid sequoia]

It says that it takes the first camera it finds (?)

[verbal dome]

Yep, you can instantiate a prefab by its component. It will spawn the whole prefab @frigid sequoia

[shell sorrel]

its the one marked with mainCamera tag

[frigid sequoia]

What do you mean by that?

[verbal dome]

Did you even read though?

[slender nymph]

read the entire first sentence of the description

[shell sorrel]

but yeah all get components in that can be avoided as well as the camera find

[cosmic dagger]

instead of assigning showDamageUI as a GameObject type, use a FloatingDamageController type . . .

[shell sorrel]

your showDamageUIPrefab you have as a GameObject, make it be the type of the component you want on the prefab. if you do that when you instantiate it returns that component reference on the instantiated prefab not the gameobject

[thorn kiln]

Well I don't feel like I should have to. If the number is like, "1.86f", there should be a logical reason for that which I could figure out. Making a slider just feels like it shouldn't be necessary for something like this. I mean, it's doing what I want in a sense, just not in the exact way I want it to.

[verbal dome]

not in the exact way I want it to.
What exactly do you want

Nice progress btw

[cosmic dagger]

i would make FloatingDamageController have a field for FollowGameObject, then you can access that from the FloatingDamageController reference . . .

[thorn kiln]

For it to move an exact amount. It's moving too far to the right and into the pipe.

[wintry quarry]

Make an empty object at the position you want

Use that object's position in code

[verbal dome]

It does move the exact amount. Maybe it is getting called twice?

Empty object is an option too.

[thorn kiln]

Thanks, Im basically done. Adding in a "pressed button" change was supposed to be a victory lap, and it's taken loger than even adding the high score function.

[verbal dome]

Another reason that I can think of why it moves more than you expect is that you have scaled the parent pipe

The pixels do look a bit streched horizontally

[thorn kiln]

If I set it to 1.5f, it only goes in this much

So there's a magic number somewhere, I just need to know how to find it logically

[verbal dome]

You could also just make a serialized Vector3 and set its local position to that

[thorn kiln]

The pipes and button are scaled, yes

[verbal dome]

I still think your pipe is scaled unevenly though

Yeah

That's why the localPosition when you were testing, doesn't match what you set the position to

[wintry quarry]

There's not really going to be logic for it, it's a consequence of the art being how the art is. My recommendation is putting the object at the right place in the inspector and either copying that local position or making an empty object at that position

[verbal dome]

Because the local position gets scaled by the parent pipe's scale

[frigid sequoia]

That's literally what I understood from the first sentence, that it just tags the first camera it finds as main

[verbal dome]

If you want to keep the parent stretched/scaled, you can set the localPosition's X value to -2.23

[frigid sequoia]

What would that change? I mean I would still need the reference to the camera

[verbal dome]

Ok it's just that you said this 👆 which wasn't very clear

[cosmic dagger]

this will remove all of the unnecessary GetComponent calls . . .

you can reference the main camera at any time, that's not an issue . . .

[mild osprey]

If I don't see "Console App.Net Core" then what do I choose instead?

[thorn kiln]

How does one do that exactly

[cosmic dagger]

🤔 context?

[slender nymph]

this does not sound like a unity related question

[verbal dome]

Get the localPosition. Modify its x value. Assign it back to transform.localPosition

[mild osprey]

Reading from the guide I was told to check out instead of Unity Learn. One of the steps says create a new project in VS with Console App .Net Core but it's not showing

[slender nymph]

that doesn't sounds like a unity learn step 🤔

[verbal dome]

@thorn kiln Try to write the code for that, if you can't we can help.

[mild osprey]

It has to do with something else someone in here sent me a link for

[frigid sequoia]

So... what you are saying I should have a a reference on the showDamageScript to the FollowGameObjectScript and assign it manually from the inspector and reference that reference from this one so I don't need to use GetComponent?

[slender nymph]

ah yes "something else". surely you can look at your own computer screen and see what you are referring to. and also console apps are still not related to unity

[mild osprey]

If you're going to be rude don't bother replying. This is still part of beginner coding and I'm dealing with an issue that will allow me to learn how to code since I am using Unity

[cosmic dagger]

Oh, I'm not sure as I don't use VS but does the material you're checking out show any instructions for installing or setting that up?

[slender nymph]

my guy, you're asking about how to do something unrelated to unity in a unity discord. you won't even bother saying what the instructions you are following are because you clearly know it isn't unity related, hence your initial lie about it being from unity learn

[mild osprey]

It does, but again I followed all the steps up to and got stuck so figured I would come back and ask. I wish I could remember who it was I talked to that sent me the link for the site to go learn C#

[cosmic dagger]

Yes, that will help . . .

[mild osprey]

But if I'm asking in the wrong place point me in the right direction please lol

[slender nymph]

!cs

[eternal falcon]

Join the C# Discord server, a programming server aimed at coders discussing everything related to C# (CSharp) and .NET. https://discord.com/invite/csharp

[summer stump]

Knowing what you're talking about would help

Was it me, sending you to w3schools?

[cosmic dagger]

Ah, I see. I would ask in the C# discord then. They'll have better info since that isn't smth used for Unity . . .

[finite chasm]

hello. noob question, but how can i find all of the bones in my list of bones and print them out using a Debug.Log() statement? when i simply do Debug.Log(chain), it just prints out the reference to the list, "Kinemation.FPSFramework.Runtime.Layers.BoneRef" instead of actually printing the list content out. same with doing it with a foreach statement. anyone know?

[mild osprey]

Funny how I'm in the beginner code and not advanced. I'm just getting started learning and asking the community for help. Chill

[mild osprey]

Thank you.

[thorn kiln]

Okay, finally Im done

[summer stump]

What? I am chill, I'm trying to help. Please stop being rude

[frigid sequoia]

If you have a List you loop through it and get the name of each component

[verbal dome]

Aeth was completely chill there lol

Maybe you are just reading everything in an angry tone

[slender nymph]

if you want to print all of the contents of a list, you will have to loop through the list and either build a string using StringBuilder to combine all of them together, or print each individually

[mild osprey]

The way they said that was not very chill IMO but ok 🙂

[summer stump]

I figured it was me that sent you somewhere, so I was trying to verify

[summer stump]

How could it possibly read that way? But alright, I won't help. Best of luck

[cosmic dagger]

They don't know what material you're asking about. They asked if it was them who referred you and tried guessing which site (the material) you were reading from. By providing those details, we could have better assisted you. That's all they were pointing out . . .

[mild osprey]

They literally said "maybe know what you're talking about" that sounds pretty rude towards someone who is new to this stuff

Could have simply told me that maybe I'm not in the right place.

[verbal dome]

They mean it's better for us to know what youre talking about

Huge misunderstanding

[summer stump]

I don't think you are in the wrong place. As many have asked, it would help to know specifically what you are talking about. Without knowing that, there is little we can do

[mild osprey]

Ok well sorry I guess if I'm overlooking it. Definitely seems like something I would say if it was being condescending

My bad

[shell sorrel]

in gamedev and programming you will find a lot of people are fairly blunt in their language

its nothing against you or anyone

[verbal dome]

We can all still make efforts to not sound like a cunt. But this was just a misunderstanding

[mild osprey]

I'm just new and have gotten a lot of "hate talk" for not knowing what I'm doing so it just filters in as people being the same way

[summer stump]

And... i've been blocked I guess...
Kinda shocking, I thought I was being the most helpful here lol

[mild osprey]

Then my apologies. Seems my filter isn't balanced right then

[shell sorrel]

i only been loosely following but think people were missing context of what guide you were following asking for the .net console app stuff

[mild osprey]

Sorry, I've had to block too many people previously

[verbal dome]

Yeah, weird

[frigid sequoia]

I can't do that (?)

Am I missing something?

[slender nymph]

your prefab variable must be a FloatingDamageController too

[shell sorrel]

what type is showDamageUiPrefab

[thorn kiln]

I'm gonna regret asking this but... how would I make my highscore display "Highscore: {number}" instead of just a number?

[slender nymph]

pretty much exactly that but with a $ before the ""

[finite chasm]

printing them like this:

foreach (var item in myList)
{
    Debug.Log(item.ToString());
}
string result = "List contents: ";
foreach (var item in myList)
{
    result += item.ToString() + ", ";
}
Debug.Log(result);

does not seem to work, all it prints is several "Kinemation.FPSFramework.Runtime.Layers.BoneRef"

[rich adder]

got blocked by bot

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, yeah, sure, thxs, that makes so much sense

[mild osprey]

I unblocked. I am sorry, just had too many people hate talking and assumed you were on that side of the fence

[rich adder]

$"Highscore {highscoreVar}"

[verbal dome]

Note that you may need to re-assign that variable in the inspector after you change its type

[slender nymph]

what information are you trying to actually print? if the type you are trying to call ToString on does not override that method then it won't print anything special and you'll need to print the individual properties you want yourself

[frigid sequoia]

So it should be something like that isn't it?

[finite chasm]

i have a list of bones, private List<BoneRef> _leftHandChain = new List<BoneRef>();
i am trying to print out to see every bone in that list.

[shell sorrel]

try it looks fine, should work as long as the prefab is the right type

[rich adder]

IFormattable 😁

[slender nymph]

again, what info from each BoneRef are you trying to print. you will need to access those properties on that type to print them since it does not sound like the type overrides ToString to print any of that info

or if this is your own type, then go override ToString in that type to return a string containing whatever info it is you want to display

[cosmic dagger]

beautiful . . . 😢

[finite chasm]

BoneRef is a struct containing a bone Transform and a rotation Quaternion. i am trying to print the name of the bone. im sorry that i'm not much of a coder, i mostly do visual and other things.

[slender nymph]

is this a type that you created?

[finite chasm]

i don't understand your question, sorry

[rich adder]

i guess thats no

[slender nymph]

did you or did you not type the code that defines the BoneRef struct

[finite chasm]

ohh

yes, i did.

well, part of it. most of it is from a FPSFramework

[slender nymph]

then override ToString in that struct and have it return the name of the transform

[slender nymph]

note that i am specifically referring to the code that defines BoneRef as a struct and its members. I am not referring to your list of BoneRef.

[cosmic dagger]

if it's a struct, how are you assigning them (the values) to the list?

[frigid sequoia]

I have been instantiating everything as a GameObject for a while now; this is way more effcient now....

[verbal dome]

Yeah, instantiating with a direct component reference is sadly not common knowledge

Among beginners I mean

[rich adder]

wait you can override ToString without IFormattable ? huh TIL

[shell sorrel]

yes

[cosmic dagger]

sure, you can . . .

[slender nymph]

yes, it's declared on System.Object

[thorn kiln]

There, I'm officially bloody done with flappy bird

[rich adder]

Ah that makes sense, no idea why that slipped me

here i was doing twice the work lol

[thorn kiln]

I dont know why I always end up doing gamedev right before work, when I should be sleeping

[finite chasm]

inside the struct is smaller functions, like BoneRef, CopyBone, Slerp, and more. in the BoneRef component, i am simply taking public Transform bone; and assigning it to a boneRef variable that is required input when calling that function:

        public BoneRef(Transform boneRef)
        {
            bone = boneRef;
            Debug.Log(boneRef);
            rotation = Quaternion.identity;
        }

[rich adder]

so do you have a field for the name?

or which name do you want to print

[verbal dome]

It could be worse: The other day I was "designing" my AI system in my sleep.

[rich adder]

it happens 😦 I think ~~secretly ~~ subconsciously not wanting to go to work and do this to get paid

[thorn kiln]

Yeah, I've had dreams like that

[cosmic dagger]

that would be fun . . .

[slender nymph]

i just want to point out that BoneRef is not a component

[cosmic dagger]

that's what i try to get them to understand . . .

[finite chasm]

i did not mean to write that, lol. im all over the place

[cosmic dagger]

if it's a struct, it has to exist on a Component or C# class . . .

[finite chasm]

im so tired im pretty sure ive made many errors already

[cosmic dagger]

now i'm confused?

[finite chasm]

about what?

[finite chasm]

from that, im trying to print the "bone" and have it actually show me the name of the bone instead of the namespace jumble

[sage thunder]

Hello, I am new to Unity and trying to get oriented. I'm trying to find where I go to write code that alters the geometry of a character. For example, if I want to take the current position of the character's vertices, do vector math on them, and then set a new position. The goal is to recreate some setups I have in Blender's geometry nodes within Unity (custom geo modifiers.) I know how to write the code for the logic, I just don't know where in unity I'd go for this sort of thing.

[rich adder]

yeah ur printing the struct type

where is supposed to get name from, you have to specifiy

[verbal dome]

Every object in C# has a ToString function that you can override. Are you familiar with virtual/override?

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mesh.html

[finite chasm]

no

[slender nymph]

override ToString and have it return the name of the bone

[finite chasm]

ill have to research how to do that because i am unsure

thank you!

[sage thunder]

That looks like the right sort of thing. Thank you!

[frigid sequoia]

I am being kinda annoying now, but for this kinds of things is more efficient to check for the name of the object, the components in it, the layer or it doesn't really matter much?

[rich adder]

oh no..

[slender nymph]

do not rely on gameobject names for logic. check for a tag or a component

[verbal dome]

Oh they even have a page for this specific case
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/how-to-override-the-tostring-method

[finite chasm]

hahah thats the page i just clicked on, thanks!

[rich adder]

there are sooo many good guides in there surprisingly MS did an excellent job..compared to what it was lol MSDN

if you want to know all c# has to offer I suggest look through those

[frigid sequoia]

So I just repeat the bottom line and check if the object has the PlayerComponent? Can I not like combine that to use the GetComponent just one?

[rich adder]

use TryGetcomponent when possible btw

saves you null check and ensures you only use component when it finds it

eg cs if(other.TryGetComponent(out PlayerController player)) { player.DoSomething(); }

[frigid sequoia]

So just that? That's so much less messy

[rich adder]

gameObject and the <> are redundant

well depends if other is collider then its ok, but yeah if its Collision then you need .gameObject for example

see how the <PlayerController> is diff green more darkened

its telling you it can already Infer the type from the out type you passed

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, I though the other was just a reference to the collider and I needed to tell it to check for its GameObject

But it seems to let me remove the .gameObject

[shell sorrel]

in TryGetComponent you only need the <T> part if you used var isntead of a typename after out

C# in alot of cases is good at infering the type arg from the method paramaters

[rich adder]

yup and if you look at the docs, there is the method right here
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.html

You can do it on all Components

if you use it on OnCollision it gives you a Collision type which isn't component so you would need the .collider or .gameObject

[wintry quarry]

It is indeed a reference to the Collider

[frigid sequoia]

Why would it let me TryGetComponent from a collider if it just returns... the collider?

Seems kinda weird

[rich adder]

wdym it returns the collider?

Collider is a component

All components are on gameObjects, so you can GetComponent from any other Component

[frigid sequoia]

So GetComponent from a component is the same than GetComponent from its GameObject then?

[rich adder]

if its attached to the same object it works the same

[shell sorrel]

correct

[rich adder]

it looks for it on the gameobject that has that component you GetComponent from

[slender nymph]

literally yes https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Scripting/Component.bindings.cs#L35

[cosmic dagger]

now you are part of the elite . . . beginners . . .

[cosmic dagger]

both Component and GameObject have a GetComponent method . . .

[frigid sequoia]

Man, I am not progresing at all with this one project, but I am learning so much

[shell sorrel]

is learning not progression?

[frigid sequoia]

Like I am looking at code from a month ago and I am like... wtf was wrong with me?

[shell sorrel]

yeah that never stops, i been programming most of my life and still find that once and a while

[rich adder]

same

[frigid sequoia]

I mean like tangible stuff, like if you show what I had 2 weeks ago and now is basically the same with some minor tweeks

[cosmic dagger]

i literally learned everything by doing the same concept/system over and over because i learned a different way and was curious . . .

[frigid sequoia]

I am fine with that though, the main goal I had with this one was to do something that was a bit bigger and problably a mess but get to know how doing something more than just a minigame is like

[shell sorrel]

when you come back to project with more knowldge it will move a little further and old problems with move a little faster

there is no just knowing everything, its all a cycle of hitting a problem, doing research and learning about the problem then implementing something

also bigger things are just lots of small things combined

[rich adder]

its like going from Play-doh to Marble Sculptures

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, but I literally downloaded Unity like 3 months ago, so the part of making small things combine without everything falling apart is kinda of a challenge already xd

[shell sorrel]

yeah 3 months is not a very large amount of time when learning a new skill

[small mantle]

I have two objects that move within a GameObject, however I want the parent GameObject to follow the position as the children. I am going to be switching between these two children objects, how can I make the parent be at the same position as the children actively?

[rich adder]

sounds like you probably need a better solution to your original problem

what is it you are doing, like what kind of game mechanic

making parent follow children goes against the whole parenting thing..

[small mantle]

I am making a shapeshifting mechanic. The player can shift into another type of itself and when it does different abilities are opened.

[sour ruin]

Hi, curious about linking animation events between different game objects. My hierarchy is Player/Model with the PlayerController on player and the Animator on model. I've put my AnimationEventReceiver on the model which I have attached as an image. The functions JumpAddForce and SetCanMove are called by animation events in the animator. These events call the respective events JumpForce and Land and I pass the animationeventreceiver component to player controller which can then read the public events. I'm just getting into the event system and I'm not sure whether or not this is a good way of doing this?

[slender nymph]

move the parent object not the children

[small mantle]

The shifts cannot be the same object as I want flexibility with the components

[frigid sequoia]

If the component is on the child of a gameObject, I cannot instantiate that component by that component right?

[slender nymph]

those can still be children objects, but just move the parent

[cosmic dagger]

the parent cannot position itself because the children will move based on the parent. try using constraints instead of parenting them . . .

[slender nymph]

you can, but it would only instantiate that child object, not the parent. and you cannot reference a prefab using one of its child object components

[shell sorrel]

no has to be on the top level of the prefab

[small mantle]

If I got the rb2D from the parent within my child would that work? Both children have their own movement system*

[shell sorrel]

if its a complex prefab with many scripts alot of people have 1 kinda controller component to repersent the whole prefab that references stuff on the child objects

like i often have a component on the root of the prefab, i will instantiate that than call a init method on it to ask it to setup everything in the prefab

[rich adder]

only thing i see wrong is not having a null check with Invoke SomeEvent?.Invoke()

other than that I pretty much do the same thing

[shell sorrel]

JumpForce?.Invoke();

otherwise if nothing subs it will null ref on invoke

[sour ruin]

ok thanks!

[frigid sequoia]

The DamageRecountCanvas has the followGameObject script (cause it is the canvas what should be looking towards the camera), but the Damage has the actual script that controls the whole thing, it works with an animator (and does other stuff like setting the text, or the size of it), and when the animator finishes the animation, it calls the method to destroy the whole canvas with an animation event, but it can only call it if they are in the same Object if I am not mistaken, so I don't think I can move them without remaking the whole thing

[shell sorrel]

yeah animaotion events calls stuff on the same object

but that script could always have reference to a other script and call its methods when it gets a animation event

[frigid sequoia]

So I make a script with just a method to the destroy the GameObject to use mainly just as a command for animation events?

[shell sorrel]

yeah could work

[frigid sequoia]

I literally just noticed that with SerializeField the references do appear in the script itslef, when inspecting it before attaching it to anything, it doesn't do that when they are just public but not serialized, or maybe I did and I was blind all this time

[summer stump]

Public fields are serialized already. SerializeField does nothing to a public field
Maybe you did a property?

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, public always shows in the inspector when the script is attached, but I did not noticed that references could be directly set from the "script asset itself"

[rich adder]

not that you should

[frigid sequoia]

I don't know if it is only when serialized

[summer stump]

Ah yeah, you almost never want to do that (I have never once seen a reason to)
But yeah, it shows when public or SerializeField

[frigid sequoia]

Why would I want to set a default reference to the script?

[summer stump]

Why would you want to? I dunno. I wouldn't want to

[wind raptor]

I have an array of ObjectA and an array of ObjectB. Each instance of ObjectB has a reference to an instance of ObjectA from the ObjectA array.

Setting aside that this I have something ass-backwards going on, given an instance of ObjectA, what is the fasted way to get the instance of ObjectB which has the ObjectA instance referenced? Seems like iterating over the array of ObjectBs and comparing each ObjectA instance can't be right...

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, all my enemies share a prefab that spawns coins when they die (and manages what kind of coins they should drop) , if I assing it on the script itself I don't have to assing it for every new enemy

Seems usefull, dunno

[eternal needle]

I use it currently for a script that each character has, when they take damage it will spawn a prefab showing the damage numbers. I find it useful because I dont need to assign it for every enemy and i can change it if i want for unique enemies

Other than that, I dont really use it

[thorn kiln]

This might be a weird question, but how hard is something like sonics homing attack to code?

[rich adder]

whats that

[eternal needle]

Instead of obfuscating what these are, just show the code because it's a lot easier to think of solutions when we know what's happening. There are a ton of solutions here

[frigid sequoia]

It doesn't let me assign a List of variants of the same thing though, it doesn't show even when serialized, weird

[thorn kiln]

It's the move where sonic jumps on the air, then you hone in on the nearest target to attack

[rich adder]

i mean thats obvious from the name, but I mean which way

[thorn kiln]

Have you never played a sonic game?

[teal viper]

I don't think there was such a feature in the classic 2d games

[rich adder]

im old, i played sonic when it was 2D

[teal viper]

But it's not hard, just get the direction to the target and move towards in the preferable way.

[summer stump]

I also remember nothing like that in sonic

[rich adder]

why not just share a video of mechanic