💻┃code-beginner

[frigid sequoia]

I haven't done anything so big yet, so I was just wondering if I should start doing that as an habit

[rare basin]

doesnt matter

[earnest atlas]

He is asking us to comment the code

[wintry quarry]

As much as possible, identifiers should be self explanatory. Comments are for when there's something too complex or weird to understand at a cursory reading of the code

[earnest atlas]

Im not commenting on basic things mostly just What does this does

[burnt vapor]

Yes, you're learning and it shows you understand the point of your code

[summer stump]

Or for TODO reminders

[burnt vapor]

Writing code as a learning exercise at school is way different

So it's not fair to say that you should not write comments often here

[rare basin]

it's like learning how to drive, completely different driving style to pass the driving license test, then you basicalyl learn how to drive "properly" again

[warm anvil]

-to Order Initiative, probably more to the point so it proves you didn't just copy/paste from someone else and not understand what it's doing

[earnest atlas]

now I do. so adding field makes exposes non fields in unity?

[rare basin]

no lol

[earnest atlas]

I mean that it exposes non fields

[burnt vapor]

Yeah, nobody is looking over both shoulders and three mirrors before making a turn in a real life scenario, but when you learn this is important so you show you know your surroundings 😄

Even if it's super clear to you, it's now clear to the teacher

[burnt vapor]

Also very true, yep

[earnest atlas]

last year I made end of the trimester project in 1 class. C# non unity.
with 0 comments.

teacher wasnt happy

it was like 2k lines?

[rare basin]

doing projects for school is much different than doing real projects

[earnest atlas]

So what are differences?

[timber tide]

ah, ok took me a minute but I've honestly been sticking public getters on all my serialized private variables for a while now so seeing it without is alien to me rofl

[rare basin]

didin't we like explain that in 10 messages above

[rare basin]

no worries 😄

[earnest atlas]

Im kinda here and not here. Discord is on second screen

[rare basin]

not our problem kinda

[wintry quarry]

It simply targets the attribute at the backing field of an automatic property

Whatever the attribute is

[earnest atlas]

omg he is still writing

[summer stump]

What is this for?

[earnest atlas]

its getting longer xD

[burnt vapor]

Please stop spamming the chat already

[rare basin]

spam + full of errors anyway

[short hazel]

Yes! And that unfortunately does not compile. There's two Update, the class is not closed, etc.

[rare basin]

is your IDE configured Kappa

[earnest atlas]

I didnt even read a line I seen flip() and thats it

[burnt vapor]

Not only is this code completely irrelevant, it's not correctly formatted and above all full of errors. Please stop it already

[short hazel]

Ah yep good spot. Flip() is not declared anywhere lol

[earnest atlas]

Gl unity

[short hazel]

No because it's unusable

[earnest atlas]

use what

[short hazel]

It's not correct code

[summer stump]

Since this took so long to type, did you do it on your phone? That makes it tough for avoiding repeated stuff. Like you started update, but then opened another update for example

[burnt vapor]

It's literally broken

[earnest atlas]

2 updates are better then 1

[rare basin]

I did

it's not working :/

[short hazel]

Runs code in parallel

[rare basin]

got errors

[cunning raven]

Always double update

[fickle plume]

!warn 1205955428760944743 Stop spamming on the server. If you continue you will be banned.

[eternal falcon]

makrusbruh111_45325 has been warned.

[earnest atlas]

new threading. You want to have 3 thread? just run 3 updates

[short hazel]

I swear the code I see here gives me ideas for the worst programming language ever

[rare basin]

normal clamp

nothing fancy about it

eulerAngle.x is just a float

it does

[earnest atlas]

Im having issues with gun of enemies...

private void LookAtPlayerWithGun()
{
    var playerPos = _enemyController.Target.transform.position;
    var y = playerPos.y;
    var yClamped = Mathf.Clamp(y, -10, 10f);
    var targetPos = new Vector3(playerPos.x, yClamped, playerPos.z);
    _gunObject.transform.LookAt(targetPos);
}```

I wanted lookAt to not look directly at ground or 90 up

[rare basin]

then you just pretty much answered yourself

[languid spire]

actually, they dont, they resolve to 0-360 but if you want -270 you can have -270

[gaunt ice]

angle%360

[rare basin]

then maybe finally show how did you do it

instead of us guessing whats wrong

[gaunt ice]

just depend on the range (-180 to 180 or 0 to 360 or whatever you like)

[languid spire]

and yet you post no code

[summer stump]

I will just point out that it's common to do it the way they're talking about. If it didn't work, it's because of implementation

[rare basin]

tf

[languid spire]

you do if you expect any kind of help

[rare basin]

then what's the problem

you know everything

if you want to get help, show the code

we are not wizards

we dont see your code

you said eulers go between 0 and 360

that is incorrect

already explaind to you by 3 people

ok

im tired of you 😄

you can do whatever range you like

-180 to 180

0 to 360

[summer stump]

Ok then, all of us doing it that way are just imagining it I guess

[rare basin]

do you have some issues with reading things with understanding

[earnest atlas]

What is this lookup overload with second parameter?

[languid spire]

It does work, what you have done may not work but if you refuse to show us the code then you are on your own

[rare basin]

it does work 😉

[burnt vapor]

Write the first parameter and it should explain the second parameter

Otherwise,

[rare basin]

doesnt work for you != doesnt work

[earnest atlas]

Im looking at docs

Then it rotates the transform to point its up direction vector in the direction hinted at by the worldUp vector. If you leave out the worldUp parameter, the function will use the world y axis. The up vector of the rotation will only match the worldUp vector if the forward direction is perpendicular to worldUp.

[timber tide]

just use the world y axis up

[short hazel]

It's basically which way is considered up. If you look at someone while standing on your hands with feet up, the up vector will be pointing down

[earnest atlas]

yeah not what I needed sadly

[timber tide]

for the majority of cases it works, but say you're tilted at a 45 degree angle and you now want to say hey, my transform up direction is now the world up direction

something like that

[earnest atlas]

yeah I understand

[rare basin]

im done talking to you at this point

you dont understand a single word

we just said

[languid spire]

roff, do you know how Quaternions work?

[summer stump]

No...

[short hazel]

-1 to 1

[rare basin]

angleDegrees = (angleDegrees + 360) % 360

[languid spire]

so what do you think you get when you convert a Quaternion to a Euler, which is what localEulerAngles is doing

[dapper zenith]

Yo, im trying to set up some simple A* pathfinding but im having issues getting it to Scan Obstacles.

• Layer is set to Obstacle on 'ObstacleTest' GameObjects/Prefabs.
  -Obstacle Layer Mask set to Obstacle in pathfinder script inspector for A*

Scan still wont recognise the GameObjects with Obstacle Layer Mask :(((

Not sure where to go, from here. Tried adding various components it might need such as Colliders etc and still no luck.

I've 1:1 did everything in the Brackeys tutorial so not sure why :/

[languid spire]

yes, but probably not the ones you are expecting to get

[short hazel]

Quaternions are complex objects internally, but it's better to work with them compared to Euler angles. They have less limitations.
As long as you know the 4 or 5 methods to manipulate quaternions it's not that hard to deal with them

[summer stump]

But that mistake exposes your misunderstanding about eulers.

Here's all I know. I have clamped eulers before. It works as I wanted. If it did't work for you, you should show the code

[rare basin]

no clue why are you still discussing with this guy

he is CERTAIN it doesn't work

[languid spire]

Euler -> Quaternion != Quaternion -> Euler

[rare basin]

and refuses to share code

so what's the point

either a troll or idk

then why are you discussing

if you already know the answer

[timber tide]

angle axis is another method you can look into if you can't figure it out

[rare basin]

but regarding to your knowledge

it wont work

because you cannot clamp it from negative to positive

and you are CERTAIN you cannot

so how do you want to fix something, that's impossible

i've counted 4 people in this chat

told you that this is possible

[frigid sequoia]

Why aren't you using Unity's build in addon for pathfinding?

[rare basin]

and yet you are arguing with everyone

and refusing to share the code

so stop wasting our time or just show the code

[dapper zenith]

Thats a thing?

[languid spire]

and what did I say here? #💻┃code-beginner message

[short hazel]

You're better off storing the X/Y angles in variables in your script, instead of reading the Euler angles from the Transform, operating on them, and applying them back. This is because for one rotation, multiple Euler angles can represent it. So on two consecutive frames you might get two different vectors

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I am using it

[polar acorn]

Degrees can and regularly do go to negative numbers. Unity fucking loves turning euler angles into negative numbers

[frigid sequoia]

I think you can find it on the package manager if you search for NavMesh or something like pathfinding, I don't remember

[timber tide]

similarly, angle axis and store rotational degrees and append the difference in rotations

[rich adder]

its AI Navigation

[azure dust]

2.5D its like 2D game with 3D objects right?

[frigid sequoia]

True

[rich adder]

I think of it more like 3D game with 2D sprites n stuff

[summer stump]

Nah, more like 3d world with orthographic camera
Edit: on second look, I guess that's kinda what you were saying

Also, not a code question

[azure dust]

Oops sorry about that

but tnx any way

for answer

[frigid sequoia]

I think it is more like you are using 3D for most of the stuff, but it is just working in layers and one of the axis is barely used

[azure dust]

#💻┃unity-talk is this section for asking questions about this stuff?

[summer stump]

Yeah, or #archived-game-design

[azure dust]

Sorry i aks here again, but i want make sure

tysm

[summer stump]

All good!

[polar acorn]

What you've read is wrong, and you can prove that by just trying to rotate an object in code and looking at the inspector.

To clamp euler angles, the best way is to add 360 to your angle, min, and max, then do the clamp. Unity will handle the rotation being "out of bounds" and convert it back

[frigid sequoia]

When I clamp angles I usually just... clamp every axis individually; probably not the best but else I get all confused

[short hazel]

You need to post your new code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[short hazel]

Okay I expected much more lol

[languid spire]

man, at this point you are just trolling, either shit or get off the pot

[short hazel]

The usual way of applying a rotation is done with the quaternion. At least, that's how I've learnt it and been using it since

thing.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(-40, 0, 0);

There's also .rotation if you need it in world space.
Quaternion.Euler() constructs a quaternion with the specified angles in degrees

Okay so yeah the lines above are really important, since they also modify the rotation

Until line 13, where you read back the Euler angles despite the advice against doing that

Seems like you're not using two variables like you told me you'd try doing

[languid spire]

what did I tell you about this?
Vector3 localRotation = cameraTs.localEulerAngles;

no, that it will not return the values you expect it to

[polar acorn]

So despite your constant insistence of the latter, the code you've been refusing to show is the source of your problem.

When you get local rotation, you are getting one of infinite possible euler angles that express that orientation. You can do .Rotate on only the X axis, then when you do .localEulerAngles, you could get back an angle entirely in Y and Z

[languid spire]

exactly what SPR2 told you to do

[fringe plover]

I made some simple data save system that saves values from Item class, there is a list of Items that i load, but, i also want to save extra data for manager like LevelSettings, and it should not be in list, can i do that?

[timber tide]

sure why not

[fringe plover]

Am i just need to make another class like Item and put it in file? Or some extra code?

[languid spire]

no, this #💻┃code-beginner message

[timber tide]

I usually make structs of data inside of each SO that I want to serialize unique data for.

otherwise I just serialize the ID of the SO and make a lookup table of SO/Prefabs

[fringe plover]

I did same thing in my level editor lol, but how u make IDs? I just put them all in one list..

[timber tide]

Thing with SOs is you don't usually serialize by the type, but rather the ID that specifies that specific asset instance.

[fringe plover]

Oh okay..

[languid spire]

you need to store the start rotation in a Vector3, modify that in Update and assign it to euler angles

[timber tide]

so what I do is I just generate a GUID for each instance I make from a single SO

[fringe plover]

Thanks for advice

[timber tide]

and on start of the game I generate a lookup table with keys being the GUID and the instance that it points to

[fringe plover]

Okay ill try

[timber tide]

this way works for most presets, but if you do have settings like a volume slider (some float value) that you want to save, then you go with adding these values into a struct which you would serialize instead.

[fringe plover]

Thank you... i didnt even know about structs lol😅
It will help me a lot

[timber tide]

So for example, you have a GunSO that has instance Glock, you'd have a ID that refers to that Glock instance and a struct that has previous session values of upgrades, loaded ammo, ect.

[fringe plover]

Ye i do same ig, but instead i save pos, rot, and id, and when player load file it create new objects by IDs, ill may add some extra data soon, like customString1/2/3 and etc, cuz i dont want to create tons of code just to keep some stuff, like, if there is a specific item to use with object, ill just get that custom string, and i have different class that get all data from Item and does stuff, so, if ID = 19 it will just add component, and values like object to unlock and etc will be just these custom strings or etc.
Is it good idea? Im still not that good at code..

[fierce sonnet]

hi, i am currently programming a evolution simulation and i have problems with the field of view always outputing angle = 0 even though the direction changes. I have print multiple values and aslo tried Vector3.Angle and inputting vector 2 to vector2.angle or vector 3 to vector2.Angle.

// Method to check if a given position is within the angle of view bool IsWithinAngleOfView(Vector2 position) { Vector2 direction = position - new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y); float angle = Vector2.Angle(direction, transform.forward); return Mathf.Abs(angle) <= angleOfSight / 2; }

[timber tide]

Right, overall you want to minimize serialization by using some type of identifiers such as IDs.

then let your load manager handle how this object should be constructed with the limited data saved

[fringe plover]

Oh okay, thanks

[timber tide]

Enum and strings like you've mentioned can be another way to identify what components will be needed to construct these objects.

[mortal bridge]

is this a big deal?

[queen adder]

Ur I.D.E is saying that doesnt make any sense

Why have a parameter when ur just gonna hard set the value anyway?

[languid spire]

setTimer is not gonna do what you think it will

[rich adder]

setting a method parameter to not use it anywhere makes no sense

[mortal bridge]

but I am using it

[rich adder]

no ur not

[languid spire]

you are setting the parameter timer not the class variable timer

[mortal bridge]

ohhh

wait this doesnt work

[languid spire]

so why have a parmeter if you dont use it?

[mortal bridge]

I am planning to tho Im confused

researching paramters now

[rich adder]

do yourself a favor and take a basic c# course

[mortal bridge]

I did myself that favor years ago just gotta remember now

Ive not used this in a long time

[languid spire]

this is very basic programming, perhaps you are well named

[mortal bridge]

😂 thanks

[burnt vapor]

You should name your variables better

Not just with this., private fields should start with an underscore

[languid spire]

not the style police, again

[rich adder]

oh please, they're missing basic of c# you think that code style is relevant now ?

[mortal bridge]

Ive done the int part succesfully

[burnt vapor]

The issue is having similarily named variables, and this fixes it. Get off my back

[mortal bridge]

float part is kinda rough for me

[mortal bridge]

noted

[rich adder]

they should learn what is even the point of having method params

[nocturne parcel]

says who

the c# president?

[burnt vapor]

This is basic c# conventions

[rare basin]

says basic c# naming conventions

[burnt vapor]

And considering the issue is similarity of variable names, worthy to point out

[nocturne parcel]

Basic convention is starting a function with a capital letter. Underscore is definitelly not enforced.

[mortal bridge]

well what I did was pretty simple just get set and return

[rich adder]

yes _ is def for private but no one forces you and you should not care to enforce it

[mortal bridge]

I was planning on using it later

[burnt vapor]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names#naming-conventions
Private instance fields start with an underscore (_).

[languid spire]

The style police, people who cannot think for themselves and want to impose their misguided view on everyone else

[burnt vapor]

You're missing the point. This is a basic way to fix the issue that is commonly used, even if it's purely style.

[mortal bridge]

you shouldnt argue here please

he gave me a recommendation taking it or not taking it is up to me

[rich adder]

guys look

lets not argue over code style

its not relevant here

[hybrid gust]

How do I check if the PlayerInput.currentActionMap == a certain action map. I'm having trouble actually referencing the target map I want to check the epression on

[burnt vapor]

Code style is a fix to the issue they were facing, see the exception to the rule you just pointed out

Now stop the bickering unless you're actually here to help, both of you

[rare basin]

"unless actually related to" 1 line below

[nocturne parcel]

Yes, an _ will fix his problem.

[languid spire]

rolf, no it wont

[rich adder]

its not related though

[queen adder]

Thats not his problem

[nocturne parcel]

Exactly, that's the point.

[queen adder]

His code doesnt make any sense

[rich adder]

their original issue is they dont understand how method params work

[rare basin]

it was a sarcasm xd

[queen adder]

He has a float parameter he then hard sets the value anyway making the parameter portion make no sense

[earnest atlas]

https://hatebin.com/lnaifawrvh
For some reason healthbar appears really suddenly.
Even with _timeAlfaChange set to 1 second. It shoud take 10 seconds to appear instead it appears instantly.

[rare basin]

damn you should really use DOTween

for that

[earnest atlas]

dot?

[rich adder]

DO Tween

[queen adder]

Pronounced Dough Tween

[rich adder]

not dot

[rare basin]

healthbar.DOFade(0, 1)

will make your healthbar

fade to 0 alpha

in 1 second

[burnt vapor]

This notification is triggered because the local parameter matches the class-scoped variable, and therefore the local one took priority. This means assigning the variable doesn't actually do what they thought it did.

[earnest atlas]

Oh

[rare basin]

it's a free library

from asset store

[burnt vapor]

That's why the underscore fixes it

Relating to this message #💻┃code-beginner message

[rich adder]

I mean this.varname works fine to fix it..

but not original issue

[rare basin]

can do many great things with dotween

DOMove, DOFade etc

[burnt vapor]

And that's not code style?

Let's drop the argument here

[rich adder]

again ,but thats not the original issue

[rich adder]

agreed

[earnest atlas]

In packages?

[rare basin]

in asset store

[queen adder]

Yeah its a pretty popular package

[rare basin]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/animation/dotween-hotween-v2-27676

used in every of my project

[hybrid gust]

just bumping cause it got buried

[rare basin]

you have very nice function you can chain like

.OnCompleted() etc

[rich adder]

#🖱️┃input-system

[hybrid gust]

thx

[earnest atlas]

And how Im supposed to add functions from it?

[rare basin]

so you can do

healthbar.DOFade(0, 1).OnCompleted(/* do stuff after the fade is completed here */);

[queen adder]

I would check the docs as well as the new Input System is pretty complex

[earnest atlas]

Just download and import?

[rich adder]

you put it inside

[rare basin]

download and import the package

then you can use it

just add the namespace

[mortal bridge]

Ive fixed it

[queen adder]

Lets see the new code

[earnest atlas]

namespace? like using DOTween?

[rare basin]

yup

IDE might add it automtically tho

when you'll try to dotween functions

[rich adder]

the only thing shitty about dotween is the documentation

[mortal bridge]

hmm not so sure about that. wouldnt want people argue again

[rare basin]

how come it's pretty nice for me

[queen adder]

Fair enough tbh

[rare basin]

anything in particular?

[rich adder]

ehh its not a typical API docs

[rare basin]

well yea

[rich adder]

and linkable snippets with explenation of methods properly

[rare basin]

@earnest atlas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8cv-rF5j6c

watch this

should help you get started with dotween

amazing asset ngl

and for free

[rich adder]

they should use something like DocFX

[queen adder]

Unity community stay making unity useable No offense mods

[rare basin]

so basically all of your code for showing healthbar

can be litearlly just

healthbar.DOFade(1, duration);

instead of doing coroutine + while loop

[earnest atlas]

yeah Im implementin it

[sleek notch]

Hi, I want to do equip backpak but if it spawn it spawns somewhere else where I don't want it. How can I spawn object where is his parent?

[summer stump]

Show the whole editor instead of cropping

[eternal needle]

Why are you instantiating it even? Just parent the object

[languid spire]

and set localposition to vector3.zero

[sleek notch]

How can I do it?

by code

[rare basin]

why are you instantiating a object and destroying it at the same time

[languid spire]

go and look at the Transform docs

[eternal needle]

Google should easily find you what you want

[sleek notch]

okay

[nocturne parcel]

This works. Instantiate creates a clone of the object.

Then they are destroying the original

[summer stump]

It works, but it is unnecessary

[nocturne parcel]

The clone stays

[summer stump]

They just want to parent the object to themselves

They are destroying one instance and creating another just to parent it

[nocturne parcel]

Yeah, just answering that it is not destroying the same object

[summer stump]

Oh, I see

Yep, valid

[honest haven]

i see loads of people in tutorials do this, is there any point when its false already

[languid spire]

no, only for clarity

[eternal needle]

It would only matter if the variable was local to a method

[languid spire]

or not serialized, it could generate a not initialized compiler error

[honest haven]

ah ok thanks, i just do it cuz they did it

[languid spire]

tbh it's not a good idea to initialize serialized variables, they can give you a misleading idea of what the value actually is

[sacred harness]

why is it when slerp is 1 its giving me the wrong angle instead of 45 its giving me 60 while 0.1 gives me around 45 i got two objects that rotate on the x axis [0,90] average should be 45 https://pastebin.com/enBYahjA

[honest haven]

yh makes sence

sense

[rare basin]

didint you ask about the same thing

couple of hours ago

#💻┃code-beginner message

[sacred harness]

yes the other guy just left and it didnt answer why 1 was giving me 60

[rare basin]

everything got explained here

he did

#💻┃code-beginner message

you even confirmed your mistake

lol

[sacred harness]

no it didnt we just said 0.1 was updating every frame which did work like i said but didnt explain why 1 is giving me 60 if i missed it do tell

[rare basin]

read the convo again

where i linked

[sacred harness]

where do we talk about 1 giving me 60 when it should be giving me 45 am i blind?

[rare basin]

it shouldnt give you 45

[sacred harness]

exactly

[rare basin]

transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, Quaternion.Euler((averagerotation / (objectlist.Count + 1)), 90, 180), 1);

you are changing transform.rotation every frame

[eternal needle]

Using quaternion and attempting to read the euler value is a bad idea. I dont know what these magic numbers are of 0.1 60 etc but dont trust the inspector values. These are euler angles converted from the quaternion

[sacred harness]

but within 1 frame they both should be at 45 which the average just repeats itself to 45

[languid spire]

not this bloody conversation, again

[summer stump]

Please reread what bawsi just said

[sacred harness]

i did i was just answering the other guy but ill just leave it

[languid spire]

do not ever expect a Quaternion to give you understandable or expected results

[naive lion]

Anyone know how to safely exit this infinite loading loop or is alt + f4 fine?

also anyone know what causes this

[earnest atlas]

    private void LookAtPlayerWithGun()
    {
        var playerPos = _enemyController.Target.transform;
        _gunObject.transform.LookAt(playerPos);
    }```
Why this happening?? LookAt works weirdly

[summer stump]

Since it is entering play, it may be an infinite loop in your code

And yeah, just kill the program any way you wany

[harsh sandal]

Loops are usually culprits, Filling up memory.

Assuming you saved, alt f4 is fine

If you didnt save, your scene will revert to the last save

[naive lion]

speaking of which

i just found the loop culprit

[earnest atlas]

Check visual studio if you have a break point

[summer stump]

There is a single backup you can retreive if you don't open unity again, so you don't lose your progress

[naive lion]

okay yeah just checking if hard closing is fine

[harsh sandal]

When its entering play mode like that, your fine to close it. When its doing other things like compiling the project, i wouldnt risk it and just let it sit personally.

[naive lion]

awesome, thanks

[summer stump]

For compiling, it's actually safer. The code is saved externally

If it is compiling, it is already saved

[harsh sandal]

Oh really? I always just accepted my fate and went for a walk 😂

[sly wasp]

https://pastebin.com/fJJMBcy2
I'm trying to make a script to change the texture of a material, the material has a shader on it. When I use this function it won't work

[eternal needle]

It's not like a walk would magically solve an infinite loop. You have to close it

[summer stump]

The only thing lost is the unity side of things when closing unity

[earnest atlas]

What to do with look at when transform front is Y axis and not Z one?

[eternal needle]

Fix the model

[polar acorn]

Where do you call the function? Have you logged any thing to make sure it actually runs

[earnest atlas]

How to rotate this?

[rich adder]

fix the model pivot

[eternal needle]

Either parent it to a empty GO and rotate that so that it aligns, or fix the model properly and rotate it in like blender

[sly wasp]

i made the function happen in a button, i know for a fact that it works. i tried with the standard shader and it worked, just not with a shader i made

[polar acorn]

Did you name your texture property correctly

Main texture changes a texture parameter of a specific name

You can see what that is in the documentation for it

[sly wasp]

WOWW hmm is blocked

so i think i see what youre saying

one sec

[polar acorn]

Did you name your texture property correctly
Main texture changes a texture parameter of a specific name
You can see what that is in the documentation for it

[sly wasp]

so
customMat.SetTexture("Texture2D", customTex); ?

I tried that and it didnt work

[short hazel]

The name displayed in the graph and the property name are different. Make sure you use the property name, you can see it when you open the settings of your parameter.

[sly wasp]

isn't Texture2D The name?

[short hazel]

That's the display name

Open the settings and you'll see there's two

[sly wasp]

WAIT I GOT IT

I put an _ before Texture2D and it worked!!!

Thanks

[short hazel]

It won't always be like that. Sometimes it puts random numbers at the end to make it unique. Make sure to know where the property name is, and how to change it

[sly wasp]

Ok

[cobalt creek]

i made script that change var from other scriptwithout drag, is this fine or is there better/shorter way?

mainScript main = GameObject.Find("Canvas").GetComponent<mainScript>();
main.health--;

[short hazel]

The better way is to drag-drop

[cobalt creek]

thank

[rare basin]

don't use Find methods, ever

[cobalt creek]

yes thaat what i was thinking, if i drag drop i dont need Find() anymore i think

[small mantle]

I have this object as a child, so when the bullet is spawned in it moves with the player. How can I make it spawn outside the Player but still at that position? cs Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePosition);

Edit: It was wrong because I needed to do cs Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePosition.position, Quaternion.identity);

[timber tide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html

there's like 8 overloads

[small mantle]

I want to know how I can simply make my direction for where the Player shoots change according to its Y rotation. 2D (Currently I have a script for Bullet and Movement script which is where I flip the Player)

[earnest atlas]

        GameController.Instance.GunRotation = _gunObject.transform.rotation;
        Instantiate(_bulletPrefab, _gunObject.transform.position, _gunObject.transform.rotation);```

Im thying to spawn a bullet with same rotation as the gun. And its not rotating for some reason?

The gameController one is me trying to force the rotation

[timber tide]

What I like to do is get the forward direction of the player and use lookrotation to initialize the rotation of the projectiles

[earnest atlas]

its enemy rotation and I need gun rotation

the gun has LookAt

[rocky canyon]

or u can just match the rotation and then launch it forward.. same thing

[earnest atlas]

Im smelling some bs

[rich adder]

jesus that non-uniform scale

hope ur not rotating it, that will cause issue

[earnest atlas]

Its just to make it in a form of a long bulleyt

let me guess I need normal object to rotate it correctly...

[rich adder]

make sure u only modify the visuals then, never modify scale of the Main root object

ie visuals always go as child of root

and be scaled individually

idk ur original issue though lol just butting in to say that reminder

[earnest atlas]

yeah I know that issue

I made the prefab now in normal object lets see if it commits die now

Ask

[crisp moon]

I have some questions that are probably common?

ok what are some good beginner projects for a beginner and should i go with 2d or 3d?

what is the best way to learn without become reliant on videos and such?

what version of unity should i be using and how do i know if unity is for me or not?

i might have some more questions latter down the line too?

[earnest atlas]

1. I started with basic 2d then moved to 3d.
2. Do things. You will always be reliant on google.
3. Dnno download it form unity web. Im using the standart.

[crisp moon]

is there anything else you would like to add or tell beginner in the world of unity gamedev?

[earnest atlas]

I hate bullets. Im going for raycast

But with raycast enemy is just gonna shred the player omg

[rocky canyon]

• use unity learn (text based (with videos too) https://learn.unity.com/
• read the Docs often when learning new things (they'll go into detail)
• nothing wrong with videos.. you can learn from them (its up to you whether or not your just copying w/o trying to figure out what things are)
• a good example is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague this playlist.. it isn't just a game video (its a video that walks you through the basics of coding and unity)
• don't be afraid to start over if you're stuck.. learning is trial and error

[crisp moon]

Thank you both for telling me theses things.

[rocky canyon]

np, good luck 🍀

[crisp moon]

Yeah hopefully things go smoothly and such.

[rocky canyon]

make sure to get ur IDE up and running w/ unity.. it'll help you along the way by highlighting errors as you code.. !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

[rocky canyon]

visual studio community is my pick of the litter

[earnest atlas]

What you think about this?

[rocky canyon]

if u do the (via Unity Hub) method.. it'll be easier as u'll be downloading unity anyway

[rocky canyon]

looks normal, i dont like the method name

but thats just personal preference stuff

[earnest atlas]

Well imagine your enemy has raycast hit detection

[rocky canyon]

could be simpler.. "what that function does"

ReturnRandomVector()

[earnest atlas]

Im just taking a piss at that name

[short hazel]

Do not use var when the type on the right of the = is not apparent.

[rocky canyon]

^ good tip

[earnest atlas]

Well there is kinda aparent due to naming

also whatever Extension I have is telling me to throw var everywhere

[rocky canyon]

w/o the tooltips u have enabled. it'd be harder for someone to glance and know

[crisp moon]

Im curious but what was all of yalls first unity game/build? if you dont mind me asking that is or is this the wrong channel for that?

[earnest atlas]

Platformer 2d

[short hazel]

I think the random can be simplified to return player.position + (Random.insideUnitSphere * 5);
But yes it does require you to deduce the type by looking at the expression

[crisp moon]

cool, im still thinking what my first small project should be its just all daunting so far.

[earnest atlas]

Random.insideUnitSphere * 5);

What does this do?

[short hazel]

InsideUnitSphere gets a vector that points randomly, and its length is between 0 and 1

Multiplying by 5 extends the radius to 5

[rocky canyon]

private static Vector3 GetRandomOffset(Vector3 startingPosition)
{
    float xOffset = Random.Range(-5f, 5f);
    float yOffset = Random.Range(-5f, 5f);
    float zOffset = Random.Range(-5f, 5f);

    Vector3 newPosition = startingPosition + new Vector3(xOffset, yOffset, zOffset);

    return newPosition;
}```
this would be my version.. pretty similar

Passing in a vector3 instead of a transfomr.. since thats what id be grabbing anyway

[short hazel]

Also you would use -5f, 5f otherwise it only returns integers

[rocky canyon]

ahh true

[earnest atlas]

yoinked

[rocky canyon]

https://spawncampgames.itch.io/spaceshots

[crisp moon]

so its a classic space shooter? Interesting.

[rocky canyon]

yea, highscore games are the easiest to start with

[earnest atlas]

Pretty much the same first project

but in 2d

[crisp moon]

i have abunch of ideas but they seem hard and i dont have time to do them, which i heard all coders struggle with at first.

[rocky canyon]

ya, i didnt move over to 2d until here lately.. (2 years in unity)

angry birds / flappy birds are also a common starting project

[crisp moon]

did you have to learn 3d modeling?

[earnest atlas]

Okey adding that random vector

Is too funnny

[rocky canyon]

i already kinda knew how.. as i was a digital artist first

[earnest atlas]

How to upload a video?

[rocky canyon]

or.. http://www.streamable.com

[crisp moon]

someday i want to do a 3d game but im not sure if i can sense i dont have much freetime with school and all, also i struggle with learning certain types of things.

[rocky canyon]

theres 1000s of free unity assets that u can get started with

u don't have to know modelling to do a 3d game

[crisp moon]

what if there is something i cant find? what are the odds of that?

[rocky canyon]

most common things u think of for video games are there..

[crisp moon]

that is good to know

[rocky canyon]

theres chances u might not be able to find what ur looking for... but as a beginner ur probably not gonna wanna be too worried about how it looks

cubes and spheres will suffice

[rocky canyon]

lmao, that minigun is wilding out

[earnest atlas]

Never something backfired so fast and so bad xD

[crisp moon]

my dream games are either an open world game or a visual novel and im not sure how to work towards that or if its possible for me to do.

[earnest atlas]

Im interested in working on voxel

7dtd type of game.

[crisp moon]

Sounds interesting.

[earnest atlas]

It is, but most likely is on levels of insanity

[crisp moon]

possibly but i have no clue.

[earnest atlas]

same

[crisp moon]

do i need to know 3d modeling to make a 3d interior (like inside a house), or is that what free assets are for?

[rocky canyon]

theres free assets for that too.. maybe not a house

[earnest atlas]

free assets are pretty much the only assets you gonna use when you study

[rocky canyon]

but interior spaces.. besides u can make a house w/ blocks..

1 big block for the wall.. and 2 smaller blocks for the baseboards and crown molding 😄

[earnest atlas]

Enjoy you house

[languid spire]

instead of asking lots of irrelevant questions, the answers to which may never apply to you. Just start with !learn and see how you get on

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[rocky canyon]

it on up there.. pretty close to MMO

[crisp moon]

we got us a house you guys...

[sterile radish]

how can i make a static integer not save between scenes?

[rare basin]

you cant

[sterile radish]

alr shouldd i just set it to 0 on start()?

[rare basin]

just dont make it static

[dense cypress]

        //raycast direction
        Vector3 rayDir = transform.TransformDirection(new Vector3(0,-0.75f,0));

        //actual raycast
        if (Physics.Raycast(rayStart, rayDir, out RaycastHit stepLocation, 1.5f))
        {
            //make bottom of player teleport to point
            Vector3 stepLocation2 = stepLocation.point + new Vector3(0, 1, 0);


            transform.position = stepLocation2;
        }```

Trying to recreate cc step going up and with this I just fall through the floor. I think the problem is it's just putting me down constantly but I don't know how to fix it.

[summer stump]

What is its purpose?

[sterile radish]

it is an integer representing how many enemies are currently alive in the current wave

[rare basin]

just have some kind of WaveManager

[summer stump]

I wouldn't recommend making that ITSELF static, consider making the object holding it a singleton? I'm assuming static was chosen for ease of access?

Either way, when a new wave starts, just set it to 0, as you said.
So not Start() but the method that begins a new wave

[rare basin]

and make normal int

making it static is just you having no idea for good architecture

[eternal needle]

🤔 didnt I answer to you recently on this or was it someone else? You are likely being teleported into the floor at one point. The raycast will not detect anything it starts inside of so it doesnt see the floor anymore

Also use the debug draw ray methods to visualize where your ray is

[dense cypress]

I did not know debug draw was a thing but I will be using this constantly for the rest of my days

thank you good sire

[queen adder]

What is the difference between **ExecuteAlways **and **ExecuteInEditMode **Attribute?

[eternal needle]

Did you read the docs?

[queen adder]

Yes i did right now :d

It seems the main difference is ExecuteAlways executes even in prefab mode while ExecuteInEditMode protects you

[sweet osprey]

I'm trying to store multiple scripts into a single List.
I'm getting an error about how each script in the list is a "type which is not valid in this given context"
What might be a fix?

[summer stump]

Well, 1, this is a REALLY bad idea
2, you have to cast them

Oh, and you don't store the type

[sweet osprey]

yeah i figure it is a bad idea. sorry, but how do you cast them?

[summer stump]

You store an instance

[rich adder]

you already serialized it, drag the instances of script in the inspector..

[summer stump]

Why are you using MonoBehaviour instead of a parent type or interface?

[sweet osprey]

scared of c#

[summer stump]

Ok, well you are creating a hell for yourself right now. I would be scared of that first hahaha

And doing what you are doing is c#

[sweet osprey]

OK! I'll try the interface method; I think I saw a tutorial that does that instead. But, just wanted to see if this would even work. Thanks for the help :]!

[frozen stream]

If I invoke a function in update, and the timer for it to start is longer than the update cycle, will it make multiple calls of the invoked function, or will it wait for it to end first?

[summer stump]

Multiple

[frozen stream]

thanks

[short hazel]

Multiple calls, as Update will run a few times before the first invocation

[spiral narwhal]

I'm having an issue where transform position is the position of the layout game object, not the item in that layout.

        public void AddCard()
        {
            Assert.IsTrue(_handCardViews.Count < PlayerHandService.MAX_HAND_CARD_AMOUNT);
            var newCard = Instantiate(_handCardPrefab, transform);
            newCard.Create(this);
            _handCardViews.Add(newCard);

            RecalculateTransformsAndIndexes();

            var drawnCardPrefab = Instantiate(_drawnCardPrefab, _drawnCardTransform);
            drawnCardPrefab.MoveTowardsCard(newCard); // <---- Passes the instance of the created card in that layout
        }

        // MoveTowards:

        public void MoveTowardsCard(HandCardView cardView)
        {
            _view = cardView;
            _targetPosition = cardView.gameObject.transform.position; // <---- I expected this to be the position of the card (in the screenshot the one in the center right, for example). But it moves until the start of the layout object
        }

[warm anvil]

question, I'm going to start diving into menu navigation with a gamepad. Few questions:

To help prevent reinventing the wheel, is it common to use the "Input System UI Input Module" component?
If I were to use that does that mean I need to use it with buttons only? reason I ask is tutorials that I'm watching/learning involving inventory systems typically create the slots using empty gameobjects.

...start with that for now

[rare basin]

this is a code related channel

[spiral narwhal]

Assuming you use UI, all selectables (buttons, sliders, and so on) are navigatable, so that works out of the box

[warm anvil]

so that removes the option to use gameObjects as slots which can be navigated around, right?

Sorry, sound this be more in the ui-ux or ui-toolkit channel?

[spiral narwhal]

I really don't know what you mean by slots

[broken trellis]

Man, this is REALLY hard to figure out. Now my map sprite disapears and Ctrl Z isn't fixing it

[warm anvil]

think displaying an inventory grid, each one has a slot but they're really square gameObjects

[summer stump]

This is a code channel. Try #💻┃unity-talk

[warm anvil]

I'll take this to one of the other channels though. Thanks so far

[broken trellis]

Oh mb

[spiral narwhal]

They're all buttons? You can use the Grid Layout, foer example

[broken trellis]

Even then I fixed it lel.

[shell sorrel]

know this was like a hour ago, but can i tell you about my lord and saviour Random.insideUnitSphere
var pos = Random.insideUnitSphere * 5f; is the same as those 3 random ranges

[earnest atlas]

that random spread got nerfed a bit
||a lot||

[summer stump]

insideUnitCircle btw

(You have inside unitY Circle)

[verbal dome]

Well, yours is inside a sphere and theirs is inside a box so it's different

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random-insideUnitSphere.html is what i meant

but yeah guess its box vs sphere though generally find sphere more useful

[summer stump]

And the sister method (not relevant here) OnUnitCircle is great too

Oh sorry. Yeah sphere

[earnest atlas]

where its long lost brother OnUnitCapsule?

[verbal dome]

Yeah I also use sphere more often

[shell sorrel]

yeah i know, edited it

[summer stump]

Yeah just noticed sorry haha

[shell sorrel]

i do that typo way to much

[warm depot]

I'm getting a "The name 'Instantiate' does not exist in the current context" error. But I have "using UnityEngine;" in the script. Does anyone know what's happening?

[shell sorrel]

what type is this class extending from?

you might have to do a Object.Instantiate instead

[warm depot]

it's a game object

GameObject.Instantiate worked

thank you

[shell sorrel]

i meant the script

its not extending MonoBehaviour if it does not have Instantiate

[verbal dome]

You are probably used to extending from MonoBehaviour.
If you don't extend from that (or other UnityEngine.Object classes) you can't just straight up call Instantiate

[shell sorrel]

looks like a class for a fsm

[warm depot]

yes its extending from FSMState

[shell sorrel]

keep in mind you also lose StartCoroutine as well, and you need a real instance for calling that

[summer stump]

Does that, in turn, extend monobehaviour?

[earnest atlas]

        _healthBar.transform.LookAt(_enemyController.Target.transform);
        _healthBar.transform.rotation = new Quaternion(_healthBar.transform.rotation.x, 0, 0,0);```

Will this make something looked at but ignore only look at it with X rotation?

Needed only Z one. But anyway same question

[frigid sequoia]

Is this error my fault or it just a random Unity error?

[shell sorrel]

quaternion is not what you think

[shell sorrel]

use Quaternion.Euler intead

[frigid sequoia]

Cause I don't think I touched anything and I don't know what that message even means

[shell sorrel]

it means you tried to access a array or list with a index that was too high or too low so below 0 or above its count

[earnest atlas]

?? no?

[shell sorrel]

get rid of new

[languid spire]

Unity bug, restart your Editor

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I literally did not even run anything

[shell sorrel]

oh it might not be your code

[earnest atlas]

Will this work?

[shell sorrel]

just clear it and see if it happens again

[shell sorrel]

well you are putting your y value into z

is that intended

[earnest atlas]

Yes, totally 🙂

[rocky canyon]

true, i noticed someone else mentioned it as well.. thats def cleaner than randomizing 3 floats

[shell sorrel]

but yeah with a regular Quaternion the x, y ,z ,w do not repersnet what most people think they do. so generally always better to work with quaterions with the static methods it provides and not new

[graceful spruce]

Hello, how can I make it so the game chooses a random scene.

For example: I have 3 scenes of different colors, I want to make it so when I click on a button it loads anyone of these 3 scenes.

[earnest atlas]

Array with scene names

[graceful spruce]

Any documentations or videos would be helpful

[shell sorrel]

Random.Range

and make a array of scenes

[earnest atlas]

Random.Range(0,sceneArray.count)

[shell sorrel]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random.Range.html

[graceful spruce]

thanks so much ❤️

have another question, I'm planning on making a level where anvils drop on players and they have to dodge it in 2D how can I make the objects/anvils drop along x axis

I watched videos they all explain on how to make it spawn at random positions

but I want it to be random along x axis

[earnest atlas]

Sometimes I wanna hang chatgtp on a rope

[shell sorrel]

so they are droping down on the y but you want to randomly distrubute then along the x axis?

[earnest atlas]

_healthBar.transform.rotation = _enemyController.Target.transform.rotation;

How to make healthbar rotation face player. Sets its rotation to players rotation

1000iq

[modest dust]

Why even use GPT for such easy tasks

Try actually using your brain for a change

[graceful spruce]

YES

❤️

[earnest atlas]

I dont undestand vectors like at all

[modest dust]

Then learn them, there's not much to them at all

[earnest atlas]

On some absolutly subcontious level my brain denies their undesrtanding

[shell sorrel]

same function i showed you before, can use it to get a random number in a range, and feed that into the x position of the anvils

[earnest atlas]

Its like division in computer.

[shell sorrel]

so could do like float x = Random.Range(-5f, 5f);
then use that x to overwrite the x position on the objects you want to drop

[earnest atlas]

I love the fact that people are still discussing a way to get 3 random variables

[orchid phoenix]

I asked chat gpt for code that destroys objects and he just used Debug.Log("DestroyObject")

[graceful spruce]

alright I think I'll be able to do that tysm

[earnest atlas]

Even better when you ask him why something fails and it spits you back same exact code you just fed him

[modest dust]

And I love the fact that people are still struggling with basic stuff, such as vectors, and prefer to use GPT instead, which then fails as normal

[earnest atlas]

IF AI fails with vectors what Im supposed to do

[modest dust]

Learn vectors?

[orchid phoenix]

FR

[earnest atlas]

That thing is consuming like thousands times of power then I do

[shell sorrel]

its literally something you are taught in regular high school math

[earnest atlas]

I have better undestanding of quantum fisics then vectors

[shell sorrel]

not a concept that takes that long

[earnest atlas]

I just cant understand them, they evade my understanding

[orchid phoenix]

Guys, is it worth to buy an horror kit?

[cosmic dagger]

Depends, what even is that?

[earnest atlas]

If you plan on making a good game you publish yes. If you need it for school project no

If you have lots of money for some reason then dnno

[orchid phoenix]

UHFPS - Ultimate Horror FPS KIT

[earnest atlas]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/systems/uhfps-ultimate-horror-fps-kit-254506

50 bucks

[orchid phoenix]

Yea

[modest dust]

What's there to understand, it's literally just 2 or 3 float values bundled together which mean some stuff

[earnest atlas]

I know what they are, I dont understand how they work

[earnest atlas]

for what you want them

[orchid phoenix]

I've always wanted to make a good horror game

[earnest atlas]

Can you make a good horror game now without 50 bucks of assets?

[modest dust]

Here you go
https://www.ducksters.com/science/physics/vector_math.php

[orchid phoenix]

Im learning C# for now

[sweet osprey]

just wanted to update that I am now doing this the correct way lol and it is WAY code-friendlier and better. thx!

[earnest atlas]

Then you dont need 50 bucks of assets

[white quartz]

i hate chatgpt code stealers

[earnest atlas]

bruh I know this

[orchid phoenix]

I have an idea

[rich adder]

gpt code stealers?

[modest dust]

Apparently not if you're asking GPT for a solution to your problem

[earnest atlas]

is something stolen considered stolen if its stolen again

[white quartz]

yea, like asking chatgpt to generate code and using it for absolutely everything in your game

[orchid phoenix]

debug.log("CreateCode")

[rich adder]

Ohhh . was about to say GPT code is already stolen

but yeah its nonsense mostly

[earnest atlas]

Before when I was dealing with paradoxscript that is pretty much unkown language for ChatGPT it was constantly hallucinating everything

The less known language is it the more it hallucinates

[shell sorrel]

does it matter if they dont understand it, it will all fall apart when it comes to tweaking and expanding on things

[orchid phoenix]

I tried to make a sandbox game with chat gpt, there was soo many errors in the console

[modest dust]

Sooner or later everyone doing so will see that it's heading towards nothing good as soon as they try expanding their existing code or doing something more advanced, it's just a matter of time

[earnest atlas]

Yeah you defenetly dont need 50 bucks of assets 😄

[inland cobalt]

Hey all, say i have a ball, thats travelling in a general direction to the right, could be diagonally up/down etc. How would i go about figuring the 2D coordinate where it would pass a certain point? Hope that makes sense. I've drawn a rubbish paint diagram to try and clarify what i mean. (Using rigidbodies for assigning its velocity and gravity does not exist)

[white quartz]

if (chatgpt == true)
    IQ = 0;

[orchid phoenix]

I can download it for free

[rare basin]

==*

[earnest atlas]

ay aya ya

we have a pirate here

[rare basin]

and = for assignation lol

[white quartz]

sorry lol ive been coding in python for the past week so im not the sharpest on c#

[rare basin]

im pretty sure that's bannable here

[earnest atlas]

Once I tried to make chatgpt filter me a list from rubbish. Basically was just trying to get mod names without their descriptions.

[orchid phoenix]

Im pirating every game/asset and if I like the game/asset Im buying it.

[earnest atlas]

Dude

You just got told

[rare basin]

<@&502884371011731486>

[earnest atlas]

Facepalm

[orchid phoenix]

Alr, Im dead

[earnest atlas]

Yep

[orchid phoenix]

Goodbye guys

[earnest atlas]

On top with at best questionably gotten assets later you wont be able to publish anything.

[rich adder]

idiot

admit to piracy , not the brightest tool in the shed are ya

[earnest atlas]

does Standard Unity Asset Store EULA allows to publish paid games if those assets are used in production?

[rare basin]

if you buy the asset

you can use it comerccialy

obviously

[earnest atlas]

Im just not sure with all that legality

[shell sorrel]

read its license

[earnest atlas]

Im reading the standart one but so far didnt see anything about sharing

[rich adder]

asking legal advice on discord would not be your best bet

[shell sorrel]

rather do that then trust random internet people

[inland cobalt]

Anyone?

[rare basin]

simple vector math

[modest dust]

That's basically finding two lines intersection

[earnest atlas]

well its mostly just shower thought. Im not planning on releasing anything now

[cosmic dagger]

That depends if you want to learn the code or use it from the asset. Nothing is necessary to buy, only if you want to put in the work or not . . .

[earnest atlas]

And so far public free assets did the job

[inland cobalt]

I was wondering if there was a more efficient way with some built in unity tool

[orchid phoenix]

Lemme check the license

[earnest atlas]

if you want some specific point you can just check for coordinates or trigger

[chilly moat]

My brain is failing me guys I need some quick help...

How do I get a random point around P but between two radii ?

[inland cobalt]

i need to know pre-emptive to the collision though so that wont work unfortunately

[quaint crystal]

hello. is there a component that automatically creates a bounding box of all children?

[earnest atlas]

pre emtive?

[swift crag]

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2530527/how-to-generate-a-uniformly-distributed-point-in-an-annular-area

[orchid phoenix]

Anyways, Im going to buy the horror kit

[rocky canyon]

whats the problem? u cant just post random code.. and expect us to just guess and look for an unkown issue

[swift crag]

You need to pick a random angle, then pick a random radius

The radius sampling is the slightly involved part.

[earnest atlas]

buy 😄

[modest dust]

• Get your current x pos
• Get your certain desired x pos destination
• deltaX = desiredX - currentX
• desiredY = velocityY * (deltaX / velocityX)
  As far as I didn't make a mistake somewhere

[chilly moat]

no way it's that complicated...

[swift crag]

RM is the outer radius. Rm is the inner radius

[inland cobalt]

like as in the ball is travelling, but i need to know where it will hit the line before it actually does

[rare basin]

normal math

[inland cobalt]

ty!

[north kiln]

https://gist.github.com/vertxxyz/e3fa0b033a266027992a715468e7dd1f

[swift crag]

The formula is pretty simple. Most of the answer is just explaining how they got there

[rich adder]

was looking for this too haha i thought had it bookmarked

good stuff!

[swift crag]

ha, there you go (:

[earnest atlas]

Im pretty sure you can calculate that with basic physics formula.

Im not exactly sure what you want

[rare basin]

what's fisics?

[earnest atlas]

A typo I cant make go away

[rare basin]

ohh, physics

[rocky canyon]

what does it sound like?

😉 lol

[rare basin]

i thought its some fisics formula like fibonnacci

or something lol

[earnest atlas]

.1f?

[north kiln]

How have you declared ground

[rich adder]

and assigned it?

[earnest atlas]

it will spawn the sphere exactly in middle of groundCheck.position

it being 0.1 it might just not reach it

[rich adder]

always best draw the Gizmos when possible to verify those

[earnest atlas]

also considered pros of a sphere allowing to stand near cliffs and such because how it detects collision.
0.1f works more like rayhit but with more calculations

[trim gulch]

Is it possible to add Corutines to events? I'm trying to do so, but it says that the return type of the corutine function is not compatible with the current event

[modest dust]

oh and make sure to add currentY to your desiredY as well

deltaX = desiredX - currentX
desiredY = velocityY * (deltaX / velocityX) + currentY

[rich adder]

private void OnDrawGizmos() 
    {
        Gizmos.color = Color.green;
        Gizmos.DrawSphere(groundCheck.position, 0.1f );
    }```

[earnest atlas]

that ^

[verbal dome]

What did you try?

[rich adder]

just use a void method to call the Coroutine function

[earnest atlas]

You can link an event to a function. Not sure if you can do it with StartCoroutine(smthg());

[verbal dome]

Wrap the StartCoroutine into a method. Or use a lambda

[earnest atlas]

When I tried to link with lambdas whatever assist I have is complainig about something

[rich adder]

you need to debug instead of just sending unrelated info

[trim gulch]

I have a "StartFirstBattle" event, and a "StartSpawning" function in my spawner. Originally I made it with "async" to wait between spawns, but I'm building with WebGL and it doesn't seem to work, so I just turned the same StartSpawning to a IEnumerator and try to do it with corutines, but that happens

[trim gulch]

Huh

[rich adder]

I meant cs public void StartRoutine(){ StartCoroutine(Routine()); } IEnumerator Routine(){ yield return null; }

[trim gulch]

Ooooh

Okok

Thank you!

[earnest atlas]

what the hell is on the left

[rich adder]

I said debug it first visually with gizmos

[earnest atlas]

well me go sleep

see ya

[rich adder]

checksphere sucks to debug because doesn't give any hitinfo , just bool

show the inspector for the script btw the one on the gameobject

ok and can you show you put the floor in Ground layers

send full !code with website link ⏬

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[rich adder]

use components

but it sounds like you need Layers here

for grounds

just put the floor in the Ground layer

I think with the new search

this thing

wait nvm

oh yeah it does work I just renamed the object

[west sonnet]

I'm using Raycast for enemy detection. Is it better to put it in Update() or FixedUpdate()?

[fierce sonnet]

hi, i am currently programming a evolution simulation and i have problems with the field of view always outputing angle = 0 even though the direction changes. I have print multiple values and aslo tried Vector3.Angle and inputting vector 2 to vector2.angle or vector 3 to vector2.Angle.

        bool IsWithinAngleOfView(Vector2 position)
        {
            Vector2 direction = position - new Vector2(transform.position.x, transform.position.y);
            float angle = Vector2.Angle(direction, transform.forward);
            return Mathf.Abs(angle) <= angleOfSight / 2;
        }```

[rich adder]

either works, I think they get called on physics step anyway

I usually just use them as NonAlloc and inside of a coroutine

some of my enemies have slower detection rates to keep perfomance up and dont need to be super responsive , even thought 0.1f-ish is pretty responsive

[swift crag]

eh? raycasts are performed immediately

You can perform raycasts anywhere. The only thing that might matter is if you've just moved a collider

[formal arch]

is there a function that will run when the gameObject becomes active? told by my lecturer there was but forgot the name

[rich adder]

oh thats good to know

[rich adder]

OnEnable

[swift crag]

OnEnable will execute on an enabled MonoBehaviour when its game object activates

[swift crag]

the physics system won't be aware of the movement until you call Physics.SyncTransforms() in this case

[formal arch]

ty

[swift crag]

(or until the next physics update)

doing it in FixedUpdate wouldn't really help, since the physics update happens after FixedUpdate runs

[meager raptor]

hello, i'm playing around in the inspector and i'm having trouble having the unit going at a constant speed

it keeps accelerating, but if i set acceleration to 0 then it doesn't even move

do i need to hard code this in or is there something i need to do?

[rich adder]

Yeah I usually do them in Update or Coroutine, never done it in FixedUpdate myself

[swift crag]

well, if your acceleration is zero, you don't accelerate...

If you want to minimize the amount of speed changes, set the acceleration to be much higher than the speed

That will make the agent very rapidly reach its maximum speed

[rich adder]

turn AutoBraking off as wel

at least that helped mine when they reached corners or other agents it would slow down

[meager raptor]

worked thanks 👍

[swift crag]

autoBraking controls how it behaves when approaching the destination

[meager raptor]

ill do that thanks

[swift crag]

i wouldn't expect this to change how the agents interact with corners or other agents

Obstacle Avoidance settings will influence this, though

[rich adder]

worked for me 🤷‍♂️

[swift crag]

(for other agents, at least)

[west sonnet]

Trying to make an enemy detection script using Physics RayCast but I can't get it to work. This is what I've got at the moment, but from what I can see, it's not doing anything. I also can't see the option to enable the Raycast gizmo during play mode. Raycast gizmo is not appearing in my gizmo list

[swift crag]

there is no "raycast gizmo"

you can use Debug.DrawLine and Debug.DrawRay to draw lines

Is 9 the ID of a layer?

If so, this is wrong. That fourth argument is a layer mask, not a layer ID

use LayerMask.GetMask("LayerName1", "LayerName2", ...) to produce a layer mask from one or more layer names.

LayerMask.GetMask("Enemy", "Map") would be a mask that accepts Enemy and Map layers

[west sonnet]

Oh, I see

When using Debug.DrawRay, why is the direction and the length of the ray determined by the same value?

That doesn't work, right? Because in my RaycastHit2D, my length and direction are different values

[rich adder]

you mean dir*length ?

[west sonnet]

On the Unity Doc. The second value dir, determines the direction and length of the ray

[rich adder]

yea

do what I sent above

[west sonnet]

Direction multiplied by length?

[rich adder]

indeed

[west sonnet]

How does that work?

What if I needed my direction to be 90 but the length to be 5?

[frosty hound]

Provide a direction that is length of 5

[rocky canyon]

its still the same

[west sonnet]

But 5*90 would be 450?

[frosty hound]

Normalize your direction first

Then multiply it by 5

[west sonnet]

Is it possible to make it so that the RaycastHit2D not detect something is there is an object with a collider between it and the target?

[rare basin]

filter the raycast by layer masks

and raycasthit just stores info about the hitted object by raycast

it doesnt "detect" anything

[west sonnet]

Well, right now the raycast only detects my player layer mask, but if I have an object between my player and the enemy, the enemy still detects the player when within range, even with the object in between the two

[rare basin]

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

layerMask Filter to detect Colliders only on certain layers.

[rich adder]

well yeah ur object isnt in the layers

[west sonnet]

I'm using that. I have input my player layer mask, but it still detects though objects

[rich adder]

ofc

[west sonnet]

The object is in the environment layer

[rich adder]

you only made it want to detect player layer

[west sonnet]

But it should stop the raycast, right?

[rich adder]

no?

[cosmic dagger]

It will only detect objects on the layer you provide . . .

[short hazel]

Objects not in the mask will not be detected by the raycast

[rich adder]

you told it to ignore other layers besides player

[west sonnet]

Oh

[short hazel]

It's the point of a mask, to selectively ignore some layers

[west sonnet]

So, how could I go about preventing the enemy from detecting the player when an object is between them, like a wall?

[cosmic dagger]

You need to use the raycast method that returns a collider or place the group of objects on the same layer . . .

[short hazel]

Do not pass a mask?

[rare basin]

place it on the same layer

or dont pass a layermask at all

[verbal dome]

Include the wall's layer on the mask

Or yeah none

[rocky canyon]

craziness

[west sonnet]

But if I don't pass a layermask, how would it detect my player?

[rare basin]

jezus

[rocky canyon]

if theres a wall in the way it wouldnt

[rare basin]

read the docs

i sent

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

[short hazel]

Without a mask, everything is included

[rocky canyon]

if theres not a wall in the way it would.. it would detect everything that has a collider

[rare basin]

becareful without masks cuz it might detect the collider from your enemy

if you are casting it from the middle of enemy for example

[rich adder]

yup sometimes is easier to just put a ~layersToIgnore

[rare basin]

yup

[rocky canyon]

just start using the ray and debugging the hits

experimentation is the best method of learning

https://www.geogebra.org/calculator
just found this really cool calculator 🙂

[shell sorrel]

desmos is the one i use works very similar

[rocky canyon]

ohh ill check it out.. been thinking about doing some Geometry refresher and fiddling with tools like these

[opaque fox]

Is there a way to destroy a sprite once its animation finishes?

[frosty hound]

You can use an animation event at the end of the animation to call some function that handles the result of the animation completing, which could be destroying an object.

[graceful spruce]

Hey, I made a minigame on when the anvils fall on the players and they have to dodge it. when a player gets hit the other player gets a point and I set the timescale to be 0 so it pause.

My question is how can I make it continue for 2 more rounds.

[eternal needle]

I use desmos for 2d and geogebra for 3d visualization.
It was very helpful for university calc

[eternal needle]

Should be fine to have a game manager either restart the scene after grabbing the scores, or have it reset the objects and then keep track of how many rounds it's been. This would likely be a DDOL object

[graceful spruce]

[rocky canyon]

i wish i woulda discovered this a while ago

[graceful spruce]

What is a DDOL object

[eternal needle]

Just an object that lives inside the dont destroy on load scene

[rocky canyon]

woulda made the normal vector stuff game devs deal with daily alot easier to understand

to see it visualized on the fly

[graceful spruce]

oh gotcha

@eternal needle thanks a ton I got the plan now

[rocky canyon]

made a crossbow with vectors 😄

still havent figured out how to normalize one

[eternal needle]

Im sure a lot of the uni cs/math students know about it. My professor even pulled it up during the lectures because he said it's just not possible to draw some things.

Normalizing a vector is just a simple equation, divide each component by its length

[opaque fox]

Does this involve adding a state in the animator window?

[hard basin]

Hello there, can anyone help me to fix this error:

[rocky canyon]

ya, i built something a while ago with 2d grids in unity with this goal in mind.. i was gonna just have something i could click around and draw lines and vectors to help explain things in here.. and i gave up on it

[shell sorrel]

happen when building?

[rocky canyon]

this is basically what i was gonna make.. - the algorithms / equations lol

[slender nymph]

are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?

or is this perhaps when you are trying to build

[rocky canyon]

ohh okay.. i thought it was something simple like that I was really close.. thanks 👍

[hard basin]

Yeah

I'm trying to build

[rocky canyon]

i was doing the simple.. 1, 1 diagonal input problem

[hard basin]

The code is not mine, but my friend is int he bed to sleep and i have to fix for the jam ):

[rocky canyon]

or trying to visualize it atleast.. and i couldnt get the normalization to work

[shell sorrel]

those scripts are using stuff from the editor assembly which is not available while building

[slender nymph]

you cannot include editor stuff in a build. either put your editor scripts in a folder called Editor or wrap the editor specific stuff in preprocessor directives

[shell sorrel]

are these tools for editor use only or required at runtime

[hard basin]

The folder one seem easier, thank you ^^

Just like this i hope XD

[slender nymph]

just note that anything in the Editor folder will not be included in the build

[hard basin]

I've added only the IKSolver file (the one whit the Editor)

Thank you so much!

[opaque fox]

Okay so because my player character is a prefab, I can't destroy the sprite it spawns

[slender nymph]

make sure you are trying to destroy the instance in the scene not the prefab

[opaque fox]

Not sure how to differentiate between the two

[rocky canyon]

prefab is the actual file in the project folder

[slender nymph]

Instantiate returns a reference to the spawned object, keep that reference so you can destroy that object

[rocky canyon]

instance is what you spawn into the Scene

[frosty hound]

It involves adding an animation event to your animation

[opaque fox]

Ah, okay. I'm instantiating it but not destorying the correct one

[sullen gazelle]

Hey all. So very very new. First game here. Was hoping someone could help me with shooting my gun. Specifically, there is no muzzle flash. Here's everything I have so far. When I shoot, it does shoot, I know that because it makes the noise. But no muzzle flash.

[rich adder]

where are u spawning the object in relation to the barrel

[sullen gazelle]

I'm not really sure. I just put the muzzle flash onto my script thing.

Oh let me post my script too

Is there a certain way I should post it?

[rich adder]

yes !code read the bottom msg ⏬

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

well something you should probably know

[sullen gazelle]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.InputSystem;

public class GunShooting : MonoBehaviour
{
    public InputAction shootAction;

    public Camera playerCamera;
    public float shootingRange = 100f;
    public ParticleSystem muzzleFlash;
    public AudioSource gunShotSound;
    public float damage = 10f;

    void OnEnable()
    {
        shootAction.Enable();
    }

    void OnDisable()
    {
        shootAction.Disable();
    }

    void Update()
    {
        // Check if the shoot action was triggered
        if (shootAction.triggered)
        {
            Debug.Log("Shoot action triggered");
            Shoot();
        }
    }

    void Shoot()
    {
        Debug.Log("Shoot function called");

        // Play muzzle flash effect
        if (muzzleFlash != null)
        {
            muzzleFlash.Play();
        }

        // Play gunshot sound
        if (gunShotSound != null)
        {
            gunShotSound.Play();
        }

        // Raycast from the camera's position forward
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(playerCamera.transform.position, playerCamera.transform.forward, out hit, shootingRange))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.transform.name + " hit.");

            // Add logic for what happens when you hit something
            EnemyHealth enemyHealth = hit.transform.GetComponent<EnemyHealth>();
            if (enemyHealth != null)
            {
                enemyHealth.TakeDamage(damage);
            }

            // Optionally, instantiate an impact effect at the hit point
            // Instantiate(impactEffect, hit.point, Quaternion.LookRotation(hit.normal));
        }
    }
}

I had chatgpt help me make it.

[opaque fox]

So now I'm receiving constant errors of the animation not having a receiver. As far as I'm aware, the sprite (obviously) has an animator and it also obviously has a script attached to it that the animation calls.

I have a test sprite in the game world that calls the function just fine, but when the player spawns the sprite, that's where the missing receiver error comes in.

[rich adder]

whats with the AI code everywhere..

[rich adder]

this script assumes the muzzle flash particle system is attached to the weapon already

it doesnt create one

or did spambot not explain that part

[sullen gazelle]

Spam bot?

Is that a tutorial thing?

[rich adder]

did you write code you did not understand ?

[sullen gazelle]

I didn't write it. I copied and pasted it.

Before today I literally didn't know what code was.

[rich adder]

you copied it from where ?

[sullen gazelle]

I already said, chatgpt.

[rich adder]

exactly why i made my comment

spambot did not explain to you that the particle emitter you're calling play on has to be attached already to the weapon

[sullen gazelle]

Oh

Spambot is chatgpt

[rich adder]

Its best you actually learn how to code properly

pins in this channel for resources

[sullen gazelle]

I would but I don't have nearly enough time on my hands. I mean heck it's taken me about 20 hours of figuring out how to get to where I'm at now.

It's been like 2 weeks.

[rich adder]

everyone says the same exact thing

you're gonna spend more time fixing broken code you barely understand

[opaque fox]

things take time

[sullen gazelle]

I get it. But I am just making this one game and then I am probably never going to touch unity again.

[rich adder]

making a game isnt trivial

especially with little to no experience

[opaque fox]

you gotta commit

[rich adder]

"im just gona make this rq" not gonna happen

[polar acorn]

"I'm just gonna cure this one cancer and then I'm never gonna use medicine ever again"

[sullen gazelle]

I picked unity because I was told it was the easiest to make games for.

[polar acorn]

Why are you making a game when you don't want to

[sullen gazelle]

I just wanted to make a game where I shoot spiders. That's it.

It's for my dnd group

[rich adder]

easiest workflow sure, but you still need the basics

You gotta be willing to learn though..

[sullen gazelle]

Everything else is fine but coding like hurts my head just looking at it.

[rich adder]

you're lucky it aint C++

[opaque fox]

TRUE

[glacial coral]

Directly copied code from https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWdaM0Z6YkZDZ1RpcnFwbHJweFN2cWtxZTkyQXxBQ3Jtc0trMFNPZUxKeFFiUUZFRFhCTDE5dlVreGlTaW81STNDVHY4WHFQTzJxaVVyMmtZQ25wVzVPR1RuSU1ISDZlM1VmR3p6ZndPcjlra1IxNXotMlZYTWlqbThwaHZIYVpMdGstQi11RWs4WWd0REtOcVplTQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpastebin.com%2FxnbsYSSw&v=qNZ-0-7WuS8. When I implemented it in unity, it has this offset from 0, 0. I don't really know how to fix it. Each tile is 36x36, and pixels per unit is set to 36. The coordinate of each tile should be correct, each is just offset by that small amount. How would I try to fix?

[rich adder]

wtf is that link

[glacial coral]

Sorry

Whats the markup?

[rocky canyon]

hehe, 💵

[rich adder]

lol redirect flex