💻┃code-beginner

[wintry quarry]

Depends which form you use

For the int form, it will not

[brazen narwhal]

yea int

[wintry quarry]

for the float form, it will (though very unlikely)

[brazen narwhal]

that's good to know

[wintry quarry]

As it says in the docs, no.

[brazen narwhal]

thanks

[wintry quarry]

you can always check the docs for this kind of thing

[brazen narwhal]

yea true

my bad

[craggy oxide]

woohoo it works

that is actually so cool

custom gravity

this opens up a whole bunch of doors

thank you praetor and others

[ashen trail]

is there anything wrong here?

[wintry quarry]

yes, your IDE is not configured

that's the main problem

Get it configured
!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

[wintry quarry]

I can tell because despite the obvious errors in your code, there is no error underlined/highlighted.

[static cedar]

It does?

[wintry quarry]

It does what?

[ashen trail]

I've been trying to firgure something like that out for a will, I thought it had to do with extentions in vs code

[wintry quarry]

follow the instructions linked, it will sort you out.

[ashen trail]

really helpfull thx

[ashen trail]

Do I have to restart unity for it to work?

[wintry quarry]

https://unity.huh.how/ide-configuration/visual-studio-code this might be helpful

[ashen trail]

thx

[rose imp]

Has anyone used boat attack to get assets? Any tips on how to get it to download?

[wintry quarry]

Looks like the instructions for downloading the project are here:
https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/BoatAttack?tab=readme-ov-file#getting-the-project

[rose imp]

thats what im trying to do, but I am unfamiliar with how the GIT works

[wintry quarry]

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/cloning-a-repository

( you do need git and git lfs installed, as noted)

[stone elk]

is joyStick.gameObject.SetActive(true); the best way to enable and disable my joystick?

[wintry quarry]

wdym by "best" way? That will certainly deactivate the GameObject your Joystick component is attached to.

it's unclear what type joyStick is though

[stone elk]

because im using a floating joystick and i make it disappear and reappear, i am able to see it. but i dont want to be able to view it untill im using it

does that make sense?

[wintry quarry]

sure it makes sense but I still don't know what you mean by "best way"

that will deactivate the object

[stone elk]

like i want a way to deactivate it and then reactivate it without seeing it

becuase i can still see it from where i last used it

is there a way to do that?

[wintry quarry]

what's wrong with what you have?

[stone elk]

its works. i feel like it would probably look better without it in the way.

[wintry quarry]

So if it works what's the issue?

[stone elk]

i want it to be invisible when i reactivate it so it is still usable.

sorry if my explanation is not very good

[wintry quarry]

Do you understand the difference between a GameObject and the components on the object?

[stone elk]

components is the things inside the gameobject i think like the scripts.

[wintry quarry]

anyway if you want the joystick to be invisble wouldn't you just remove or disable whatever the visible components are on it?

E.g. the Image component or SpriteRenderer or whatever it's made of

[stone elk]

ill try that

[wintry quarry]

I honestly still don't understand your question

There's no context here. You say "When I reactivate it", but what does that mean? What's the context in which you're deactivating it?

Is it supposed to be visible at some point and invisible at other points? And still functional during some of the time that it's not visible? Confusing.

[stone elk]

the code i showed above activates or deactivates the joystick. i want it to be always invisible but usable in some points of the game and unusable.

but when i activate it, i can see it, wich is what i dont want

that makes more sense?

[wintry quarry]

if you always want it invisible you should remove whatever components render it

or set their alpha to 0

that's a completely separate thing from activating/deactivating it

[stone elk]

ill try disabling the script instead of the gameObject

think that'll work?

[wintry quarry]

I don't even know which script you're talking about

[wintry quarry]

I already made my recommendation here

[stone elk]

are you talking about the code that i showed above?

[wintry quarry]

which code?

The SetActive line?

I'm not talking about any code

[stone elk]

yeah

but i need the component

[wintry quarry]

which component

you're speaking in such abstract terms. You are aware I can't see your project right?

I don't know anything about your joystick

[stone elk]

ill just try to see if i can fix it on my own. if that doesnt work, ill try doing what you said before.

[rose imp]

I have those both downloaded, i just dont see it as an option when I make a new project

[wintry quarry]

you don't see what as an option? Who said anything about making a new project?

BoatAttack is an existing project

it wouldn't be a new project you are creating

[stone elk]

why do you want me to do that.

[wintry quarry]

I don't want you to do anything. You are the one that said you wanted it to be invisible.

[stone elk]

could you help me what this means?

[wintry quarry]

Not until you share some details about this "joystick" of yours

what it's made of

how it's rendered

etc.

presumably there's either an Image component or SpriteRenderer

[stone elk]

its a floating joystick.

its an image

[wintry quarry]

ok so set the alpha on the image to 0

now it's invisible

[timber comet]

Basically, alpha in a Color is just how much visible is a Ui element

[stone elk]

i get it now. that could work

[timber comet]

Anyway you don’t want to have an Ui element always invisible and active in the scene

Its bad on performance (IF NOT WRONG)

[wintry quarry]

I mean everything affects performance but you need what you need

[stone elk]

i want it to be invisible until it is used. which is how a floating joystick works by default. but i dont want it to be usable in the menu so i disabled it.

and then enabled it

when u play

[timber comet]

Is it not generally bad to keep active something due to the fact that, you need to render it anyway? Invisible or not?

[wintry quarry]

what's the cost of rendering this thing?

is it going to bring the game to its knees?

There's no need to be concerned here

[timber comet]

Idk, just saying. You probably know much better than me

[wintry quarry]

everything is a tradeoff.

It's not worth spending a lot of effort to shave 1 nanosecond of performance out.

[timber comet]

K, thanks for the explanation

[rose imp]

hmm I think what i am failing at is getting it to a local file, any tips?

[wintry quarry]

getting what to a local file?

Did you follow the instructions to clone the repo?

My tip is to follow the instructions. That will put the project on your computer.

Then you can open it.

[fickle plume]

Also disabling/enabling objects on canvas can be much costlier, because it will update everything on the canvas.

[timber comet]

Really?

[fickle plume]

Just hiding from view is more performant

[rose imp]

i have the CL working, and the files show up in my account on github, just not sure how to get them local (the boat attack)

[wintry quarry]

WDYM by CL?

and what do you mean they show up on your account on GitHub?

There's no reason they should "show up on your account"

all you' need to do is clone the repository to your local computer

you can do that by following the instructions I linked above

[rose imp]

could I just send you screenshots of what ive done to try and see where im going wrong

[wintry quarry]

Yes you should be showing what you tried and asking clarifying questions

[lavish gate]

using singletons, throwing a null reference exception when its called, causes?

[wintry quarry]

Same as any null reference exception - you tried to dereference a null reference. I.e. you didn't assign whatever field you're trying to access

first step is identifying which field is null

[lavish gate]

Its saying no when i call the method inside the singleton

[wintry quarry]

Be specific

[wintry quarry]

then your singleton reference is null

i.e. your instance field or whatever

[lavish gate]

Ah yeah need to initialize it

oopsie

thanks for your help

[faint sluice]

If I use Mathf.CeilToInt(Mathf.Log(value,2)));

Will there be any scenarios where floating point error occurs, and sends wrong value (off by one)?

Like, if I send value 4 , and some day eventually it sends me 3 instead of 2?

[wintry quarry]

It's not a random cosmic occurrence.

it is perfectly deterministic

[faint sluice]

Oh that's great to know

[faint sluice]

Idk why I always thought floating point errors are kind of random and everytime it will be slightly different

[wintry quarry]

you need to enter the full url

gh repo clone https://github.com/PATH-TO/REPOSITORY

tbh I really don't recommend the github cli though

just use the basic git cli

git clone <url>

to get the url:

[wintry quarry]

read the instructions again

not just the url

[wintry quarry]

look

[lavish gate]

gh repo clone {the link}

[rose imp]

you are all incredibly patient and I appreciate you

[wintry quarry]

man fuck the github cli

just use the git cli or any git GUI

btw it's also possible that Access Denied is coming from it trying to write files inside your Users/Brandon folder. What happens if you just run touch test?

[rose imp]

this looks better, is it right?

or should i use this?

[wintry quarry]

why are you running git lfs migrate?

you should merely be cloning a repository

[mossy sphinx]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[quartz mural]

Can someone help me debug my code

[low path]

Depends, what problem are you having?

[rose imp]

but I’m trying to get the boat attack program downloaded and am really struggling, if anyone could do a messenger call or something to help me figure it out I will gladly pay you

[gaunt ice]

download as zip

[quartz mural]

im making a pokemon game

for my coursework

during the battle

the player is movin in the back

and its causin errors

[languid spire]

fix the errors

[quartz mural]

idk how

its not syntax

[languid spire]

neither do we as we have not seen either the code nor the errors

[teal viper]

Do you know how to read an error?

[quartz mural]

``c
private bool IsWalkable(Vector3 targetPos)
{
if (Physics2D.OverlapCircle(targetPos, 0.2f, GameLayers.i.StuffLayer | GameLayers.i.InteractableLayer) != null)
{
return false;
}
return true;
}

[languid spire]

and that is?

[modest dust]

First of all, you should ask yourself why does the player even move during battle

Movement should be locked, do so when starting a battle

or have a separate battle scene whatsoever, but you'd still have to lock your player during the battle animation start (that is, if you have any)

[languid spire]

@quartz mural you are not going to get any help if you don't answer questions

[opaque matrix]

is there a way to pause an animation and reverse it from the moment it is paused during an execution?

[modest dust]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/5oj5ap/pausecontinue_animator/

https://forum.unity.com/threads/how-to-pause-an-animation.1171709/

Try googling stuff

There are tons of already answered questions online

And as you can guess, setting the animator speed to a negative value will play it in reverse

[opaque matrix]

Alright thank you!

[calm hull]

is there any good tutorial for huds on 3d unity?

or its the same as in 2d model unity

like with the canvas and so

[rare basin]

UI is the same in both

also not code related question

[calm hull]

oh there is other for ui didnt know

ty

[true elm]

Heyah, I edit avatars for VRChat, and when VRChat switched over to using 2022 unity version, I noticed that whenever I switch playable layers, or use presets, or even switch animation settings, there is a window that pops up and stays for 2 or more minutes which says things about the unity core finishing executing. It's very stressful because I cannot find anything online about it other than people saying they have the problem but not knowing how to fix it. The only thing I found was clearing the shader cache might fix it, but that only sped up a little bit. Is there a solution to fix this issue?

[hexed terrace]

This isn't a code issue, so shouldn't have been sent here. And it just sounds like one of the progress bars that pops up while Untiy is doing something.. nothing there sounds like a problem

[languid spire]

This is not a Unity problem, the core scripts running is caused by non unity code being processed so I would suggest you contact the VRChat SDK publishers and complain to them

[crimson ibex]

Hello, apologies for my newbie question. Most tutorial suggest to use NavMesh+InputAction+Raycast to move a GameObject onClick of mouse in a 3d game. Is that the case ? Or should I look deeper into Physics documentation ? I do not have a use case for NavMesh except the movement on click of mouse.

[ivory bobcat]

Lookup a tutorial and try it out

[crimson ibex]

I tried NavMesh. Its working well, except seems like an overkill. I was using Physics to move on press of Key. I wished to know if NavMesh is the better way to do it, or should I read more Physics

[true elm]

Thank you for the information! I will try to message VRChat help now that I know it's nothing to do with Unity itself. ♥

[west sonnet]

Why isn't this working? I'm trying to access a variable from another script on the same object

[true elm]

Oh and thanks as well Carwash, I am new to the discord, I wasn't sure where to post it, next time I will attempt to look harder for the correct channel.

[fresh shell]

How can I code in a simple Wait(float seconds) function?

[languid spire]

because that is very far from C# syntax

[fresh shell]

I tried something like this:

public static class Static
{
    public static IEnumerator Wait(float time)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(time);
    }
}

But all that does it make the editor and game freeze

[hexed terrace]

depends what type of movement you want. Something like NavMesh is only needed if you want to do path finding, if you just want to move in a straight line, then path finding isn't required

[ivory bobcat]

Either Unity coroutines, invoke or a self implemented timer.

[ivory bobcat]

You need to place your code in the coroutine.

[gaunt ice]

this code does only one thing
yield return a waitforsecond object

[crimson ibex]

Thanks. I wish only straight line movement. And handle few collisions only. I will check Physics more. Thank you.

[west sonnet]

I'm confused. How can I access a script on the same gameObject?

[hexed terrace]

lots of tutorials on that , google -> unity how to reference other objects

[languid spire]

the getcomponent bit is correct the left hand side of the statement is not

[west sonnet]

I know that I can access an object parent using transform.parent.gameObject., but how could I acess the parent of the parent of a gameobject?

[languid spire]

another transform.parent at the end ?

[low path]

you could just do trasnform.parent.parent.

since parent is a transform

[west sonnet]

oh, I see

[hearty cargo]

hey its my day 1 of unity

[low path]

good luck

[hearty cargo]

i was going through a tutorial of unity on youtube

a simple one

flappy bird

but the code isnt working

needed help

[hexed terrace]

please type in full sentences

[hearty cargo]

okay sorry

[languid spire]

may I suggest you first read #📖┃code-of-conduct

[hexed terrace]

When you're following a tutorial, if there's works and yours doesn't.. you did something wrong/ missed something, re-watch the tutorial

[ivory bobcat]

How to post !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[languid spire]

spelling mistake in your very first line, these things are important

[west sonnet]

Got this line of code here that checks if the parents parent of the object collided with has a script called EnemyFollow and if the bool is true, which it should be. The parents parent of this object is the enemy's body, which has the EnemyFollow script on it. But whenever one of the enemies hit me, I get an NRE. Not sure why. Can anyone help?#

[hexed terrace]

Don't do all that .parent stuff, use GetComponentInParent<T>()

[west sonnet]

Hmmm, it seems like adding " == true "" has fixed it, I think?

[low path]

honestly you can debug those on your own by just breaking down the lines and asserting or debug.logging when one of those things is null

you'll learn more and we are just guessing

[west sonnet]

Ookay

I'm just very new to Unity, sometimes i don't even know where to begin

[low path]

in general, you can get anything done if yuo just break it down to its smallest piece. debug.log what you are asking about, and put stuff into the inspector

one of the most powerful things about unity is how good of a visual debugger it is

[verbal dome]

No, that is never needed and doesn't change anything

if(myBool) is the same as if(myBool == true)

[west sonnet]

Is it possible for me to use the "collision" in my "OnTriggerEnter2D" in my method below?

[hearty cargo]

Hey I'm sorry for the individual messages earlier
I'm new to unity and was trying out a tutorial in youtube but while running the game, the game is sensing input from the keyboard like how it is in the code

This is the code

[low path]

yes, you can use it, that's why it's passed into the function

[night mural]

i think they are asking about their method, which they can use that object in if they pass it as a parameter

[low path]

right...

[west sonnet]

I can use it in the OnTriggerEnter2D, but can I use it in the PunchEnemyKickBack()?

[west sonnet]

Yeah, I think so?

[night mural]

you can if you pass it along

[low path]

it's just a component of an object

[night mural]

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

[low path]

and yes you need to pass it in. look up variable scope...

[ivory bobcat]

So what's the question?

[hearty cargo]

Is there anything wrong with the code which is causing the keyboard input to not be taken

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe try placing a debug log inside the update function

If you get spam in the console window of unity, the function is being called.

Next you would try placing it in the if-statement

[blissful yacht]

Does anyone have a yt channel which teaches unity and focuses on teaching unity instead of doing a project

[ivory bobcat]

There's Unity !Learn (most of their videos can also be found on YouTube)

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[ivory bobcat]

It's completely free either way

[calm hull]

where can i ask UI questions

[ivory bobcat]

What kind of ui questions?

When in doubt, you can try in #💻┃unity-talk but this would be the beginner coding channel.

[calm hull]

what the difference between text and textmesh? i try to drag to a button and it isnt the same type. Where can i find the normal text?

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe you should stick with tmpro, it's better.

[blissful yacht]

Alr ty

[calm hull]

the type is TextMeshPro?

@ivory bobcat

[hidden sleet]

I'm currently in a situation where I have one prefab in my assets that acts as an in-world item, this has a script that holds the scriptableObject that item relates to. I wanted to have it so that inserting a string will then perform the right tasks to create the correct in world object, which sounds like the factory pattern would fit. I've been trying to follow Unity's factory design pattern overview video, although I am still trying to wrap my head around how it works.

In this situation then, I want it so that there's a text box on screen, and you type in a string. Pressing a button should then run the factory for that item, giving the prefab the correct item type. How then can I make it so that it chooses the right factory based on a string without it being a mess?

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

[ivory bobcat]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@1.1/api/TMPro.TMP_Text.html
The above would be the base class. You can explicitly refer to the tmpro or tmprougui if you want as well.

[calm hull]

Great!

working now

thank you

this clone is because its a child class?

[ivory bobcat]

It looks like you cloned something in the scene

[calm hull]

im using heritage

for that object

i cant?

[trail heart]

(Clone) is appended to gameobject name when it's created via instantiation
Gameobject name does not affect any components like text, so I assume you are setting the text to the gameobject's name

[calm hull]

yes

how i do it otherway? with a getter?

[hidden sleet]

I believe I have completely butchered this factory pattern, my word. Are there any decent sites that cover these patterns so I can understand them better? My way works for what I want it to do, but it doesn't seem like it follows the pattern properly

[robust hawk]

Hi

[hidden sleet]

Currently experiencing the strangest thing, I feel like i'm just missing something. Both the strings are exactly the same but it just skips over the rest of the if statement. cs inputString = textInput.text; Debug.Log(inputString); foreach (var item in itemDatabase.Items) { if (item.itemName == inputString) { materialFactory.SpawnMaterialPrefab(item); Debug.Log("Spawned " + item.name); break; } }

[verbal dome]

Check this #💻┃code-beginner message

Maybe its a similiar issue

[hidden sleet]

Oh i see. What do they mean by the input field of it? I just get it through .text

[gaunt ice]

tmp input field

[verbal dome]

It adds an invisible character to the .text

[hidden sleet]

that's what I'm using

well that seems to be working now :)

what a strange issue

no matter

[verbal dome]

Seems kinda annoying, yeah.

[hidden sleet]

Ah the joys of messy code

[warm pawn]

i need help I have all the Transicions set to Condition _example but it only plays one am i doing it wrong?

[verbal dome]

#🏃┃animation

[warm pawn]

sorry cludnt find it 😄 thx

[fervent abyss]

Hi,

I want to make a Light Flickering effect, and put morse code as flickering.

Whats the best way to do that? Coroutine?

[vast sparrow]

im new to unity and coding is there anything that can help me get more info about the code ?

[rare basin]

yes

internet

and google

[foggy magnet]

I find ChatGTP is really helpfull, just paste small or large bits of code in and ask it to explain it to you, say you are a beginner so it knows what level you are at.

https://chat.openai.com

[young warren]

please don't recommend AI. especially for beginners

there's no way to verify the answers it gives

[foggy magnet]

I've been coding in Unity for 15 years or so, and before that C++, C, Assembler. So I definitely have some experience in programming.

But I still go to ChatGTP almost daily, for things like regex, it just completes it for me almost instantly

[foggy magnet]

Oh don't worry, its really good nowadays, it makes hardly any mistakes at all, and knows loads about Unity.

[young warren]

the difference is you have the experience to verify the answers yourself

they don't

[foggy magnet]

Yes, but doesn't thaat apply also to stack overflow, or random git projects, or googling. Or, the Unity documentaiton also 🙂

[young warren]

if you really want to compare answers given by a community that is open for discussion, hence can be verified vs generated answers from a language model, then i don't wish to continue this any further. we'll agree to disagree

[young warren]

there's the Unity documentation. there's also Unity Learn which is unity's official tutorials

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[foggy magnet]

Look like you have two suggestions here then rocksys 🙂

[languid spire]

in that case, qualify your 'use AI' answers with ''I know what I am doing, this may not apply to you as you said you are a beginner'

[cosmic dagger]

i would create an array of times for the morse code, then loop and run a timer for each time. when that time experies, flick the light on/off, and move to the next timer . . .

[foggy magnet]

I'm only giving recomendations though, as to what I would do I'm not saying its the only way, in fact reading back what I oriiginally said it is plain I'm giving an opinion because I started with "I find ChatGTP is really usefull...."

Its clear it isn't for everyone, but I'd be being disingenuous if I was to pretend it isn't useful to me every day.

As an example of how it works >for me< , is I have a Junior Unity developer here in the office with me now. And when giving him tasks, I will now write for him a specification for him to ask ChatGTP about. It is working really well so far.

[rare basin]

lmao that sound's like a terrible learning path for your Junior

[languid spire]

absolutely, if a junior of mine was caught using AI he would be looking for a new job

[rare basin]

same

well, depends on what

if for some data comparision for exmaple, then sure

but for coding? cya

[foggy magnet]

You are welcome to hold that opinion. I'm delighted with the results so far.

Look, Itotally understand a lot of people have negative opinions about AI, for lots of reasons, it can be challenging in many ways. I've not got any more to say other than those examples of where it is working for me.

But I'm really not trying to convince anyone, just that I'd be dishonest iif I was hiding this information away and pretending it wasn't useful right?

I hope you can take my words at face value, and not think I'm threatening you or your habitual way of doing things.

[rare basin]

sure

[languid spire]

you are delighted in how you are training your juniors to be competent programmers?

[rare basin]

im just feeling sorry for that juniors thinking they are learning the proper way

that's all

[foggy magnet]

Yes, I can give you examples of the tools and systems he has created in the last couple of weeks, and even show you the GTP generated source code. But msg me privately, lets not fill up this chat with AI debate.

[rare basin]

imagine having Senior above you, and he's ordering you to learn from chat gpt

absolutely ridicilous

[foggy magnet]

Well that's how it is here. I'm not sure if I should argue if it is ridiculous or not. Its just working well like that. Take from it what you will.

[rare basin]

Sure just expressed my opinion

if chat gpt code is good for you

then alright i wont argue

[foggy magnet]

That's great, I wasn't looking for an argument. Just trying to help a beginner with some advice on what is working here for me.

[languid spire]

back to my point, don't do that, what works for an experienced programmer will definitely not work for a beginner

[cosmic dagger]

my issue with recommending ChatGPT is that they are a beginner. a lot of code generated from AI is incorrect; they are new and just learning, they can not know and will expect what they receive to work. this will greatly hinder them, making it harder to learn the language

since you have prior experience, you can comprehend the incorrect information ChatGPT gives and know what to ask it. that is a big difference for a newcomer . . .

[foggy magnet]

Msg me privately, and I'll show you some examples of ChatGTP 4 answering unity questions and generating code. I am assuming from your chat so far that you are going to be a bit blown away by the current state of play.

[static cedar]

I got disappointed when i asked the formula for exponents that can allow for imaginary or negative fractional powers.

[undone rampart]

he forgot the unity part

[foggy magnet]

Ok, I feel like I've over spammed this very nice channel already. So anyone that would like to chat privately, and I can show more of how ChatGTP handles Unity questions.

[undone rampart]

i would like to chat privately, just because im bored af

[dense nest]

Anyone know how can I send heart rate data to Unity with polar chest strap?

[languid spire]

can the data be accessed via the web?

[dense nest]

Idk, i'm ok with any method

[languid spire]

you need to know

[rocky canyon]

its a bluetooth device, theres a github repo for getting inputs in unity for the H7

[dense nest]

I asked gemini and it told me to use Excite-O-Meter plugin

[strong wren]

Figuring out a way to get that information to a PC would be a good start. From there you can work backwards.

[dense nest]

there's even github link to the code, i'll read it

[dense nest]

do you have any link to the document or something? i'm really new to these kinds of thing

[rocky canyon]

its the first result in google

has a link to the github

https://github.com/ElliotMebane/HeartRateMonitor_Win_And_Hololens_SampleProject

[dense nest]

ok thx

i'll try checking it out

[buoyant forge]

Hello, I don't know where to ask for help so I ask it here. anyone knows why I always get this error message when I try to export an animation ?...

[polar acorn]

This isn't a unity class

I am, in fact, blown away. By how it just straight up does not understand what it is pasting back at you. It just puzzle pieces together bits of code it scraped from stack overflow

[foggy magnet]

In this case though, isn't it just that there is no special Unity stuff to use. I mean, Unity doesn't supply its own Complex number class does it? Maybe it does, I'm not sure in this case.

[polar acorn]

Good luck running that main method buddy.

[foggy magnet]

oh right, i see what you mean now 🙂

[polar acorn]

The fact that you don't even see how it won't work shows that you don't know enough code to be able to utilize ai

[cosmic dagger]

the problem here is a beginner would not know how to run or use this code at all, confusing them further . . .

[foggy magnet]

I added Unity Engine instead of Unity to the question..

But yeh, this is perhaps best demonstration of how to use ChatGTP.

It can be almost perfect, but stil useless sometimes without human input.

[polar acorn]

And again it fails. Using doubles, using C# Math instead of unity Mathf

[foggy magnet]

I love how it it mentioned the link to stackoverflow though

[low path]

i mean... there's no reason a "complex" or "exponentiation" class needs to derive from monobehaviour to be fair

[low path]

also not sure why you'd give the exponentiatoin function an entire class itself...

[foggy magnet]

Funny enough though, my originaly suggestion wasn't to use ChatGTP for code generation ( although I do do that on a daily basis ) but for pasting code and asking it to explain it to you.

Again, if anyone wants to chat privateley I'll be happy to show examples. Its something I find really mindblowing

[foggy magnet]

Its just an example from earlier, someone else mentioned this algorith, so I typed it into ChatGTP as an example

[cosmic dagger]

true, but how would a beginner understand this or implement it? someone already knowledgeable could break this down and rebuild it for unity, but they'll (beginner) just copy/paste and expect it to work. that's the real issue at hand . . .

[low path]

right...

i think the best we could say is that chatgpt gives plausible results if you know enough to figure out the mistakes but if you have no clue, it's not necessarily going to be helpful

[cosmic dagger]

because a beginner in the chat was asking for learning material and where to get started . . .

[polar acorn]

The problem with using ChatGPT as a tool is that by the time you're a good enough programmer to sort the bullshit from the useful information, you're a good enough programmer to no longer need it

[foggy magnet]

I can say, with total honsety, that it is working really well on a day to day basis here. In fact, literally 5 minutes ago I was at the desk with the Junior programmer who is currently using ChatGTP to make a 'mouse over' tool tip object.

I'm amazed at how fast and smoothly it is going for him. It isn't without problems, but my input into this has been very small. And he is learning a lot about the code and unity in general as he buildsit.

[low path]

i think the best you could say about it is it's a good natural language search engine

[rocky canyon]

id feel shafted as a jr being told to use chatgpt.. imho

[foggy magnet]

I think what we can say about it is less interesting than what it can be used for.

That's why I just keep coming back to the fact that I'm using it every day, for stuff I could do but I want to save time. Like creating a semi complex regex capture for me.

I'm also using it with the Junior developer here, and it has been very useful. Is working really well.

I also use it when I'm programming in a language I don't have experience in, such as Python. This works well because I can still sanity check the code it produces , and ask it quetrions about the Python syntax I don't understand.

I also used it succesfullly to make an iOS app ( using Swift/XCode ) and even had it instruting me on what to layout in the interface builder, and how to connect the widgets to my code. This was a complicated app using the camera, openCV and some bayseian inference algorithms.

[foggy magnet]

He says he enjoys it. Maybe he enjoys being shafted, I won't be clarifying that part with him.

[west sonnet]

Can ya'll please help me understand this error message? I'm trying to pass the "collision" from the OnTriggerEnter2D into the PunchEnemyKickBack() Method

[hexed terrace]

you've left the param to send blank

[gaunt ice]

Collider2D is not Collision

[undone rampart]

i dont see a problem for a junior to use chatGPT, as long as he knows how program already

[foggy magnet]

I'm not sure if you've seen the latest AI Video Sora from a few days ago. The difference in the quality today compared to Will Smith eating Spaghetti a year ago is mindblowing.

A similar improvement has been happening in LLM like ChatGTP. So I think a lot of opinions on ChatGTP code generation and understanding are easilly updated just by going to https://chat.openai.com and getting it to write you some code.

[nimble jacinth]

did you get that from moist critikal

[undone rampart]

yeah, saw it, its awsome

[polar acorn]

If they know how to program, they likely don't need it

[foggy magnet]

What is moist critikal?

[nimble jacinth]

yikes

[languid spire]

And I think you have a very poor understanding of how LLM's actually work

[undone rampart]

i will have to dissagree, me for example, i have almost 4 years of unity experience and 5 in general programming, but i work as a junior in unreal which i am still learning how to use, and since unreal documentation is practically non existent i use chatGPT to explain unreal's API's and also do math for me cuz i suck at math

[foggy magnet]

I'm with v0lt on this one 100%.

Withough wanting to embareses anyone, I think this conversation is one sided, because the two people using ChatGTP daily, are both singing its praises.

And the people who used it in some previous version months ago have written it off.

Just go there and test it again, you will be pleasently surprised I promise 🙂

[nimble jacinth]

firstly, you sound like a nun and secondly where do i ask questions for basic and common knowledge

[foggy magnet]

You are right, the advancements in AI even in the last 2 years has left me really unable to comprehend the finer details.

ANd i studied Artificial Inteligence at University College London, so you'd think I'd have a better grasp of it right?

[rocky canyon]

im not debating AI, AI is a great tool, and has advanced ten-fold.. but in terms of a Jr dev being told to learn with ChatGPT.. just seems to me the same vibe as going out and getting guitar lessons and the instructor sending you to youtube

[foggy magnet]

Even if someone sounds like a nun, so what? That doesn't make what they are saying incorrect, or correct, so why even bring it up>

[nimble jacinth]

i never said you were wrong? i just pointed out you sound like a nun

[rocky canyon]

how often do u communicate with nuns?

sounds prejudice to me

[nimble jacinth]

my mom went to a catholic school

[rocky canyon]

ahh gotcha

ruler to the hand punishments for u i bet

[nimble jacinth]

where do i ask questions about unity's mesh filter thingy

[rocky canyon]

if its code related here..

[hexed terrace]

in the channel appropriate for it, this is a code channel. Use id:browse to find one

[rocky canyon]

if u just have general questions about the mesh filter component use #💻┃unity-talk

[frigid sequoia]

I actually learn more from two 10 minutes videos from a random guy on YouTube than in 1 year of class with a certified tutor

[rocky canyon]

shitty tutors then 😄

[undone rampart]

i feel like there is a bit more nuance then just learn with chatGPT, i pretty much tought unreal myself with chatGPT, tinkering and googling stuff, but prior knowledge also helped a lot, my senior only helps when when i hit a roadblock

[rocky canyon]

being self taught solo dev is alot different then working under a Sr

[undone rampart]

i am self tought with unity, but i only use unreal at my job during work time

[rocky canyon]

cool, keep it up 👍 knowing both engines is good stuff

[undone rampart]

eh, i dont rly like unreal, i only use it cuz its my job, unity will always be the one i want to master

[rocky canyon]

if unreal had as much resources as unity, i'd probably be using both by now..

only time i fiddle with Unreal is for artistic stuff

[hexed terrace]

getting waaay off topic now

[earnest atlas]

If you subscribe to a function inside an object that gets destroyed then you must add OnDestroy code to unsubscribe the functions?

[rare basin]

usually yes

onenable - subscribe, ondisable - unsusbrice for example

[earnest atlas]

OnDisable also runs on destruction?

Also how to detect if a gameobject from the list is destroyed?

Trying to get a component out of it and see if it fails?

[gaunt ice]

just check if it is null

[rare basin]

google?

or test yourself

in 1minute

[earnest atlas]

Im kinda not at pc atm. Im just gonna leave it on destroy

[earnest atlas]

Im doing this as of now, debugger has issues with use of lambda expression to clean a list of objects. So I thought I messed up.

[rare basin]

dont use anonymous functions then

[earnest atlas]

_initializedObjects.RemoveAll(obj => obj.gameObject == null);

will this clean null objects

[rare basin]

[glossy eagle]

Hi. Quick question, why is it that I cannot drag and drop the "GSA_scriptableObject" assets into the following variable in the inspector please?

public GSA_scriptableObject[] GraphicPresetsArray;

The code for the GSA_scriptableObject is the following:

[CreateAssetMenu(fileName = "GSA_scriptableObject", menuName = "ScriptableObjects/GSA_scriptableObject")]
public class GSA_scriptableObject : ScriptableObject
{
    public GraphicSettingsAsset settingsAsset;
}

huh

[cosmic dagger]

Check the error message and make sure it is true . . .

Is the file name the same as the class name?

[glossy eagle]

oh so I can't change the name of the scriptable object asset? Because that is what seems to be breaking it

[languid spire]

that is not what the error is saying

[glossy eagle]

well but not changing the name seems to fix it lol

[languid spire]

the name of the asset bears no relationship to the type of the asset

[glossy eagle]

I do get this error tho, but I can just remove it and continue

[gaunt ice]

what is the whole stacktrace?
your code or unity?

[blazing estuary]

how to check for a collision with a specific tag in OnCollision Enter()

[rare basin]

[languid spire]

check the tag

[blazing estuary]

yeah how

[blazing estuary]

what do i even google

[cosmic dagger]

Sure, what have you tried or searched? There are tons of examples online . . .

[glossy eagle]

no idea, but for now it works, so I'll just not touch it again haha. Thanks for the help everyone 😄

[languid spire]

what has a tag?

[cosmic dagger]

The same question you asked us . . .

[rare basin]

"how to check for a collision with a specific tag in OnCollision Enter()"

lol

[blazing estuary]

ok

hey it works

nice

i found it in a unity discussion

[languid spire]

it's easy to work out for yourself
What has a tag? a game object
What has a gameObject property? a component
What components does a collision have? a collider
so the answer is ...
collision.collider.gameObject.tag

[cosmic dagger]

Always search your questions on Google or YouTube first. 90% of the time, there's an answer with code, a video, or a tutorial . . .

[earnest atlas]

for (var i = 0; i < _initializedObjects.Count; i++)
{
    if (_initializedObjects[i] != null) continue;
    _initializedObjects.RemoveAt(i);
}```

This aint finding null objects...

Im pretty sure someone told me that GameObject do not become null when destroyed

wait it worked

[wintry quarry]

this code is busted

[earnest atlas]

Some serialization issues I guess

[wintry quarry]

you would have to do a reverse iteration to reliably remove things this way

[earnest atlas]

Yeah

I remembe rnow

Tho it doesnt really matter

[wintry quarry]

likewise you could also do:

_inializedObjects.RemoveAll(o => o == null);```

[earnest atlas]

only one object at a time gets destroyed

I had this before and it didnt work and debugger couldnt show me steps on lambda

[wintry quarry]

there's no reason a debugger wouldn't be able to step on the lambda

[earnest atlas]

It tells me its outside the environment

[wintry quarry]

what tells you that

[earnest atlas]

the visual studio points of intrupt

[wintry quarry]

if you want to really make it debuggable do this:

bool Remover(UnityEngine.Object o) {
  return o == null;
}
_inializedObjects.RemoveAll(Remover);```

[earnest atlas]

Im not sure what happend but I cant turn my Scene perspective?

[wintry quarry]

What's stopping you?

[earnest atlas]

it just gone

the axys on the top righ

[wintry quarry]

Are you in 2D mode?

[earnest atlas]

gonna restart it and see if it comes abck

No idea if I am,

[wintry quarry]

The 2D button will be highlighted

[vast vessel]

is there a difference between returning true and false or null in a coroutine?

[naive lion]

hey guys, im currently working on implementing a tutorial or level progression system in Unity, and i just wanna know the most effective approach. im trying to establish progression conditions such as requiring the player to defeat an enemy to open a door, and then setting the next progression condition once the door is open
would using a finite state machine approach be best or are there any other reccomendations before i comit to a FSM

[earnest atlas]

true it was

[wintry quarry]

Those will all be treated as "yield for one frame"

The only special things Unity is looking for from a coroutine are YieldInstructions and CustomYieldInstructions

[buoyant knot]

the player should have some monoscript that listens to events that can generate exp, does relevant level logic, and then invokes events when its status changes.

[summer stump]

This is... a bit off-topic here.

Post to the wrong server by accident?

[earnest atlas]

yes

[low path]

lol

[earnest atlas]

lmao

[low path]

good game tho

[earnest atlas]

it is

[low path]

i'd probably do something like have a tutorial manager that orchestrates the whole thing, including listening for appropriate events and setting the scene variables as needed. the manager would have a list of tasks that each defines what needs to be done, what to change, etc... and you'd progress through them as you finish... not sure if that's the best approach but that's what i'd do...

[earnest atlas]

 private void CleanDestroyedEnemies()
 {
     for (var i = 0; i < _initializedObjects.Count; i++)
     {
         if (_initializedObjects[i] != null) continue;
         _initializedObjects.RemoveAt(i);
     }
 }```

I noticed that for some reason first kill always gets kinda skipped? It feels like OnDestroy runs slower then this check and cause of that that enemy gets skipped

[rare basin]

that wont work

think about it

you are modiyfing the collection

when iterating over it

reverse the for loop

[wintry quarry]

OnDestroy takes a whole frame to process yes

it doesnt actually destroy the thing until the end of the frame

is there a reason you're doing this instead of just _initializedObjects.Remove(theDestroyedObject); when it is destroyed?

[earnest atlas]

because destroyed object has no reference to the objective and objective has them objects serialized

[wintry quarry]

have it fire an event

have an event listener remove it

[earnest atlas]

I have a bit different even that looks at the score and it fires the check

Im gonna add other event then I guess

Where should I fire this event even?

inside OnDestroy?

[wintry quarry]

in the code that destroys the enemy or whatever it is that's being destroyed

[rare basin]

you should remove it from the list aswell, not only Destory() the object

[earnest atlas]

To delete it from the list I somehow need to detect who makes the call and differentiate the objects

as of now I think it will be easier to just delay the check with corutine delayer

[rare basin]

that doesnt sound good

[wintry quarry]

the event can do that

[earnest atlas]

pass the game object instance with event and just delete the object like that?

[summer stump]

Why are different objects calling delete on it?

[wintry quarry]

public delegate void EnemyDiedHandler(Enemy source);
public static event EnemyDiedHandler OnEnemyDied;

public void Die() {
  OnEnemyDied?.Invoke(this);
  Destroy(gameObject);
}```

[rare basin]

isn't Action<Enemy> OnEnemyDied just simplier?

[earnest atlas]

Not sure why delegate here?

[wintry quarry]

I always prefer custom delegate types for clarity, but it's a personal preference

[low path]

events need delegates

[earnest atlas]

I did not use delegate for events?

[rare basin]

events are delegates?

[wintry quarry]

impossible because events ARE delegates

[earnest atlas]

private Action<float> _function;

[wintry quarry]

the only thing I did you might not be used to here is define a custom delegate type

[wintry quarry]

Action<float> is a delegate

[low path]

Action<float> is a built in delegate

[earnest atlas]

Ah

[wintry quarry]

so you did indeed use delegates

[earnest atlas]

I ment delegate name

[wintry quarry]

right as I said, it's just a preference. It's not that important to the point of this

which is to use events

[rare basin]

what if I want to add some functions to unique enemies? then it cannot be static right?

[low path]

if you want each one to have its own set of callbacks, it can't be static

[wintry quarry]

Not sure I understand what you mean. The event can be static, that's not related to any other thing about the enemy

[rare basin]

i meant what @low path said

[wintry quarry]

sure

[earnest atlas]

Should I pass enemy or gameObject?

[wintry quarry]

but I don't see that as a requirement in general

[rare basin]

so that each instance of my enemy has his own OnDied action

yea im just asking 😄

[wintry quarry]

I think it's always better to passs Enemy because you can just do .gameObject on it to get the GameObject

[earnest atlas]

as of now Im storing gameobject

Okey

[rare basin]

how would I handle the references then? static event is super easy and accessible everywhere

let's say I have ScoreManager (singleton) and want to increase the score each time an enemy dies

[low path]

this is like the perpetual discussion re the "simplicity" of globals

[rare basin]

but i don't have static OnEnemyDie event

each enemy has his own callback

[earnest atlas]

Will this do?

[rare basin]

whenever spawning enemy i should add AddScore() from ScoreManager to OnDie event?

[low path]

yeah, then your score manager needs to listen to an enemy manager which fires off an onenemycreate(enemy) event. then you hook up the score manager to that specific enemy... or your manager can directly fire off the event...

[rare basin]

oh that way

[low path]

it's more work to plumb all the stuff like that

[rare basin]

i was tihknig it othey way around

so each enemy hooks to the scoer manager

[earnest atlas]

Are events better then checking on fixedupdate?

[low path]

the reason you use events is to decouple stuff

[wintry quarry]

yes

[low path]

or really to reverse the flow of dependencies

because you have a hierarchy of central to peripheral things

you don't want your central components to be dependent on peripheral components

[rare basin]

so i should have ScoreManager that has a reference to EnemiesManager

[low path]

because then every time you make a new type of peripheral thing you have to change all your main stuff

[rare basin]

and EnemiesManager should have a list of enemies

and OnEnemyAdd callback

[low path]

that's what i would do

[rare basin]

and in ScoreManagre you listen to OnEnemyAdd from EnemiesManager

right?

[low path]

yes that's what i would do

[rare basin]

seems nice and clean

thanks

[low path]

to me that is the cleanest way

[earnest atlas]

I have score in GameManager.

With most of events

[rare basin]

you shold follow single-responsibility rule

instead of making one big GameManager

for everything

[earnest atlas]

Its not that big

136 lines

[low path]

it's not big now

[earnest atlas]

And most of it are storage

[rare basin]

that's not relevant

to what i said

[earnest atlas]

I know i did that

[rare basin]

single-responsibility

[earnest atlas]

Where I needed

[low path]

i mean.. it's fine to have a 136 line class like that

[low path]

but i think at some point if it gets significantly bigger, you will probably want to refactor...

[earnest atlas]

yeah its just too small to make 4 different classes

[rare basin]

that's a bad assumption

[low path]

oh but you do have four different classes

[earnest atlas]

because those scripts have quite different roles and are more complex then data storage

[rare basin]

then why is it called GameManager

when it's a DataStorage

[earnest atlas]

It got its name as inheritance from my previus project from where I yoinked it

its like generation 3

[tawdry rock]

Can someone help me investigate why my models do ballerinas moves or fly away when they die, it should be ragdoll? I set them up properly. I use animation on them, when they die i disable the animator first then the agent, then enable the ragdoll so they just should fall right? I also checked every rigidbody velocity when enabling ragdoll and it's 0,0,0 so there is no force applied or stored to them in any way (shooting them with raycast btw). So i dont understand why its happening. colliders don't touch each other either.

[young warren]

maybe share the death script?

[tawdry rock]

the important part of death script:
` anim.enabled = false;
agent.enabled = false;

if (!isRagdollActivated)
{
isRagdollActivated = true;
rd.EnableRagdoll();
}
this.enabled = false;Ragdoll's script enableragdoll method:
foreach (var rigidbody in _ragdollRigidbodies)
{
rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
rigidbody.useGravity = true;
}
`

[earnest atlas]

 private void OnKillsBasedLogic([CanBeNull] EnemyController enemy)```

Why ? becomes can be null?

[polar acorn]

...what

Can you rephrase that question

[earnest atlas]

I tried placing EnemyController? but it automatically becomes CanBeNull

[wintry quarry]

I guess you're saying your IDE added that attribute?

It's not that important

[earnest atlas]

yes

[wintry quarry]

it's just telling you the parameter can be null

you can delete it if you want

[earnest atlas]

Well i want it there

[rare basin]

then leave it

[quartz grove]

Hey guys !
I m new Game developer , I m really noob at this
I hope from the pro guys to give me the best way to start and learn faster

[pine bone]

Hello guys, i have a question about making my build system. I have a 2d game where you can build your own spaceship, you can place rockets/stabilizers/booster etc. What's the best way of implementing them? Should i create a different script for each rocket or connect them to a base script. Also whats the best way to make a booster increase all of the rockets speeds in the ship?

[polar acorn]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! I got an error on my console in Unity Editor but the error is only seen at the top right of the console with no message at all. Do you know why this is happening? Also, It's happening when my player enters the trigger of the other game object.

[wintry quarry]

wdym "top right of the console"?

[queen adder]

Could u share a screenshot?

[sage mirage]

Of course!

Give me a minute

Also to note I am making a flappy bird game were I am using Object Pooling method to instantiate my game objects so thats actually happening whenever my player reaches the other instances of the game object and not the original one.

[summer stump]

You have the errors hidden (see how the background is different than the other two)

Click the red icon to show them

You can hide logs, warnings, and errors by clicking those, which can be helpful if you are flooded with one of those and want to view a different one

[queen adder]

I feel like it should be more obvious in the Editor UI lmao thats so ez to miss lmao

[sage mirage]

I dont see it on my console btw

[queen adder]

Click on the Red Icon

[sage mirage]

when I disable my messages then I see it

I did that

[queen adder]

In the Console

[summer stump]

Then it was just above where you were. You have a LOT of logs

[sage mirage]

I mean I have to disable the messages first

[queen adder]

Share a new Screenshot so we can confirm

[sage mirage]

otherwise I see no error message

I scroll it up and down

and nothing

[summer stump]

Then you missed it. It was there if errors were not hidden
You have a LOT of logs

[sage mirage]

They can be hidden?

[summer stump]

That's what you did in the first place...
#💻┃code-beginner message

[sage mirage]

I have prefabs

[summer stump]

What.....?

[sage mirage]

I have them as prefabs

[summer stump]

Have WHAT as prefabs?

[sage mirage]

Logs and other game objects I want to instantiate

[summer stump]

Logs aren't prefabs....

[queen adder]

Oh u mean u print something in the console when u spawn something?

[summer stump]

That makes no sense

[sage mirage]

I have my logs as prefabs

[slender nymph]

do you mean logs as in like from a tree

[queen adder]

[buoyant knot]

You will need:

1. A data structure to hold information about a ship, which can validate to make sure valid input is added. This data structure must be serializable to save.
2. Interface or abstract base class for a part that can be added to the ship. Ship data structure holds objects of this type. Requires serializable interface plugin for interface.
3. A Build System monobehaviour that interfaces with the ship’s data structure, to mange using input to put things into the ship. This should use methods in the ship data structure to validate edits to the ship.
4. A save manager monobehaviour to handle saving and loading the ship to/from a file. This should (again) validate to make sure the file contents are valid on load/save.

Then you can make classes for specific parts that use the interface above, for actual gameplay elements.

[sage mirage]

logs for my flappy bird game

XD

No console logs

XDF

[queen adder]

Eithr way....

[summer stump]

Oh, why are you bringing them up then?
You mean like models of wooden logs? That was super confusing when we were talking about console logs

[queen adder]

Ur warnings were turned off

Just turn them back on and maybe stop putting so much into ur console

[sage mirage]

Have you played flappy bird ever?

XD

[summer stump]

Yeah... but it was in the middle of a conversation about why you couldn't see an error in your console. Are you trolling?

[queen adder]

Flappy bird doesnt have logs?????

Its a bird going thru mario pipes?????

[sage mirage]

Do you really think I am trolling?

[summer stump]

Yes

[sage mirage]

I am a serious guy and try to make something

I am here to get help

I dont want to waste my time

[pine bone]

I already have a build manager that handles the build system of the ship, i just want to add the functionalities. Should i use abstract classes

[sage mirage]

by trolling

[buoyant knot]

i would use an interface, and download a plugin for serializable interfaces

[pine bone]

bro just click everything except the red icon to only show errors

[queen adder]

Pretty much

Share a screen shot of a updated console

[sage mirage]

Oh

[pine bone]

what is a serilazable interface

[buoyant knot]

do you know what an interface is

[sage mirage]

So I have to disable messages and warning and then I will see the errors?

Thats what I did

[summer stump]

No. You just have to NOT disable errors

[queen adder]

You have to enable them

[sage mirage]

I disable messages but not warnings and only leave error enabled and it worked

[summer stump]

If errors are not disabled, then they will be there

[sage mirage]

I saw the error

oh ok

[queen adder]

Just turn them all on

[sage mirage]

I mean

[pine bone]

yes

[buoyant knot]

and you know what it means for a class to be serializable

[sage mirage]

I am not disabling errors but when I scroll up and down I dont see the error its like it doesn't exist

I have everything enable

[pine bone]

i only use it to make it show up on the inspector

[summer stump]

To be fair, he had way too many logs going for some reason. So he missed the error before

[queen adder]

Can u see the error?

[sage mirage]

Maybe I miss something because there are 999 messagves

[summer stump]

Remove some of the useless debug.logs in your code

[buoyant knot]

serializable means you can save the variable to a file (through normal means)

[queen adder]

If ur logging to ur console every frame ur not going to see 1 error message out of 1000 messages

[sage mirage]

I have to clean up my code a little bit yeah

[queen adder]

Turn off the constant logging

[sage mirage]

Thats what I am going to do

[buoyant knot]

unity inspector just tries to show entries in inspector view for things that are serializable, if it can

[summer stump]

You can also collapse the console messages
You don't want to always do that though

[pine bone]

so whats the reason to add it to all components of the ship? couldnt i just add it to the parent object

[buoyant knot]

classes/structs/etc that are not serializable cannot be saved in a simple way

[acoustic crow]

No problem! Here's the translation in English:

Hello everyone, I'm facing an issue in my Unity project and could use some assistance. Here is a description of my player script:

public class PlayerAction : MonoBehaviour
{
public float MovementSpeed = 5;
public float Speed = 5;
private Rigidbody2D rb;
public GameObject kamera;
// Mobile Steuerung
// public FixedJoystick joyStick;

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

void Update()
{
    CircleMovement();
}

void CircleMovement()
{
    float vertical = Input.GetAxis("Vertical");
    transform.Translate(Vector2.up * MovementSpeed * vertical * Time.deltaTime);
    transform.Translate(Vector2.right * Speed * Time.deltaTime);

    kamera.transform.position = new Vector3(transform.position.x, 0, -10);
}

private void OnCollisionEnter2D(Collision2D collision)
{
    if (collision.gameObject.tag == "Enemy")
    {
        Debug.Log("Player collided with Enemy");
        Die();
    }
}

void Die()
{
    Destroy(gameObject);
}

}

The player is tagged as "Player" and has the default layer. It has a circular shape, represented by a Circle Collider 2D. The enemy is tagged as "Enemy," on the default layer, and has a rectangular shape, with a Box Collider 2D.

Despite the logic specified in the script, the player does not get destroyed when it collides with the enemy.

[buoyant knot]

one object can only actually be serializable if everything it contains is also serializable

[eternal falcon]

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[sage mirage]

Better use a link for that

[queen adder]

ChatGPT helps with Languages to?

Thats actually sick

[buoyant knot]

if you say your ship is serializable, and it contains an IShipPart field, but you have no way to serialize interfaces, then you can’t actually serialize the ship to save it to a file easily

[pine bone]

ok then do i have to add a script to every single child of the object to save it? also whats the best way to make functioning items as i said

[acoustic crow]

yes for next time the code is not big you can see the problem @sage mirage

[buoyant knot]

that’s why I say to use an interface

ISaveableShipPart or something

[queen adder]

Whats ur problem?

[pine bone]

im not asking how to save it i just want to know how to connect all of them to the base ship class, or do i have to

[queen adder]

Hungriger

Is it the Movement? The Camera? The Trigger?

[summer stump]

It's the last paragraph

The player doesn't die

[queen adder]

Oh shit i didnt read that

[summer stump]

Sounds like a physics message issue.

[buoyant knot]

the ship data structure needs to contain each part. Which it should probably do interface. You could also use specific classes to enforce that only a specific type goes into each slot

[summer stump]

@acoustic crow does the player have a rigidbody?

[buoyant knot]

but it depends on how interchangeable parts are into slots

[acoustic crow]

no he need one?

[summer stump]

Yes

For OnCollisionEnter to work

Well, OR the enemy needs one

Just one of the two

[buoyant knot]

if you use a bunch of specific base classes (eg Rocket, Shield, Door…), then you block the ability to put different types of objects onto the same slot

[queen adder]

Does the player have a collider and does the enemy have one?

Double check the tags

[buoyant knot]

like if you later change your mind and want to allow putting Fins on the same “slot” as a Door or Thruster, then you fucked yourself if you stored specific variables for each slot.

[pine bone]

my game doesnt have slots you can expand the ship infinetly, also with interfaces, how can i make the rockets apply more force when there are multiple boosters

[buoyant knot]

the ship’s data structure should make it easy to query specific types of parts

[acoustic crow]

@summer stump okey the player have now a rigidbody and i make rb.gravityScale = 0f; that the ball dont fall

[buoyant knot]

the ship’s data structure doesn’t actually do any physics. No game logic. At all, period.

[acoustic crow]

but id dosent work

[queen adder]

Hungriger....

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[acoustic crow]

yes i said that in the text

[buoyant knot]

it’s one and only job is to store a representation of the ship, with references to specific parts, and let tou query to know what you have

[queen adder]

U set the gravity to 0

Meaning theres no gravity

[pine bone]

thats what im asking how can i do it

[summer stump]

That seems to be what they wanted

[buoyant knot]

i’m explaining to you to use interfaces lol

[summer stump]

Check the tags
Best to use CompareTag

[queen adder]

Oh shit im so dumb

I cannot read for some reason

[buoyant knot]

you need a separate monobehaviour that takes in a ShipData and actually does game logic, like determining force vector from thrusters etc

[acoustic crow]

he have the tags

[buoyant knot]

but you can’t do any of that until you make a data structure for your ship

[summer stump]

Alright, start putting Debug.Logs throughout the code. See where the issue is exactly

[buoyant knot]

which should primarily contain simpler data structures of IShipPart, or whatever interface

[pine bone]

thats what im asking

[buoyant knot]

the details depend on how the ship is structured

if it is like the GumiShip from kingdom hearts, I would have an IShipPart[,,]

[pine bone]

ok so for example if my rockets fire when the w key is pressed, should i loop through every shippart and fire the interface

[queen adder]

No?

I feel like an event being triggered that the main ship could listen for would be better

[buoyant knot]

if your ship is like zoids, where specific slots on the zoid can only house specific types of components, then these would probably be different specific variables, each of which have an IZoidComponent

because the big gun slot of a zoid cannot have a rocket, for example

[pine bone]

any component can be placed anywhere

[buoyant knot]

the monoscript that interprets the ship’s data structure is responsible for figuring out how to query

you could even store a sparse matrix like List<Tuple<int, int, int, IShipPart>> (but Tuples are not serializable, lol)

i would look through all the parts in the ship, and cache what I find for specific things that I need direct references to. Such as a List<Rocket>, which gets populated each time I go across a rocket

does this make sense

you want to separate the serializable data structure from the monoscript that does logic

data structure’s job is to hold data, and know how different parts can be stored/placed on the ship.
Logic monobehaviour’s job is to look at the ship data, and know what to do.

[pine bone]

ok im asking how to make the logic

[fading rapids]

fixed it nvm

[opaque fox]

Trying to get the main camera to render all the trees, but I can't seem to. I tried making a script to force the draw distance to be a certain value but some trees still don't show up even after inputting distance values in the ten thousands range

The far bit of the main camera is also within this range

[grim raft]

Hi, I'm actually trying to create a car driving system, everything works but I have a problem: my car's front wheels align to the direction the user wants to steer (and it works) but I can't make the wheels "roll" anymore

[rare basin]

you are using Lerp in a wrong way

not related to the issue probably

but still, that's a wrong way to lerp properly

https://gamedevbeginner.com/the-right-way-to-lerp-in-unity-with-examples/

the last parameter is interpolation point

[grim raft]

Oh, thank you

[plucky moth]

wow

i made big progres

see

im really happy

[polar ermine]

Is there a way to rotate terrain details, like grass?

[plucky moth]

chat gpt !

i past you on pv

its long

[polar ermine]

Oh ok

Chatgpt doesnt undertand this quastion

[rich adder]

yeah goodluck getting spambot to do something useful

[plucky moth]

sorry

[sage mirage]

To tell you the truth chat is useful sometimes but not always so don't undervalue it.

[cosmic dagger]

Use https://streamable.com . . .

[sage mirage]

You have basically to use all the information you have to get help from it

With limited info it won't help a lot

[rich adder]

Im perfectly aware of its capabilities, and point still stands

[rich adder]

You can literally give it all your script and still wont have a clue what to do

[sage mirage]

Because it is a machine like every machine that learn from data.

[rich adder]

an LLM is NOT a think machine

its simple pattern matching

it doesn't have actual thought or foresight

[sage mirage]

Now, I am dealing with an error that neither chat was able to find the solution. It recommend me to do some modifications but nothing changed actually. So, check here my screenshot

[rich adder]

and you're surprised ?

[sage mirage]

No a lot to tell you the truth

[calm hull]

my visual isnt detecting the c# lenguage. Whats the extension i need to download? it dont even show the errors

[sage mirage]

Find it more useful to get help here

[wintry quarry]

Looks like you probably destroyed your pooled object instead of returning it to the pool

[rich adder]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[sage mirage]

Give me a minute to send code

 {
     if (other.gameObject.CompareTag("Gem"))
     {
         CollectObject(other.gameObject);

         // Instantiate gem particle effect
         GameObject gemParticle = GetPooledObject(gemParticlePool);

         // Check if a gem particle was successfully retrieved from the pool
         if (gemParticle != null)
         {
             // Set the position and activate the gem particle
             gemParticle.transform.position = other.transform.position;
             gemParticle.SetActive(true);
             Debug.Log($"{name}Gem particle not found!", gameObject);
         }   

     }```

[rich adder]

or you know, actually start learning what you're doing instead of relying on GPT so when something breaks you have a clue where to start debugging

[hearty trout]

i just started game dev in unity and I am trying to make a save system for my proceadually generated world and I am thinking of having all game obj being set as a child to a empty game object and the saving the size ,rotation ect: of the empty game obj would that work or do i need to do something completely different? becuase idk if that would work ...

[sage mirage]

You wont learn from chat I understood that at the beginning

[rich adder]

store the data in a plai old object

serialize it, and done

[sage mirage]

You just ask for the solution

That way you wont learn to solve errors and different issues on your own

[summer stump]

#📖┃code-of-conduct
Against the rules to use chatgpt for answers. Anyone can ask it themselves (and get crap as a result), so no one really needs you to ask it for them

[hearty trout]

so how would i store it.

[wintry quarry]

I mean this code doesn't tell us anything new or change what I think your problem is. The problem also wouldn't be here it would be where you destroy or return the object to the pool

[rich adder]

such a bad way of thinking. Hopefully you will learn soon enough

[sage mirage]

Wdym?

[hearty trout]

*as I said i am kinda new and i dont know how i would store in the obj and what method i should use to save it so it might seem simple to u but i have like 0 idea 💀

[rich adder]

first create an Object that has the data you want to save.

[sage mirage]

Yeah the error is at line 138 thats why I sent that.

38 and 36 sorry

138 and 186 sorry

XD

[rich adder]

to create an Object in c# you do cs public class PlayerData{ public string Name; public int XP; }

for example

[hearty trout]

Yeah i could look at that and through a tutorial get that down

but i am trying to save procedealy generated world and building placement for an rts

[rich adder]

working on a newer one myself 😛
but if you look online plenty of resources

[rich adder]

inconsequential to the process tbh

its all the same, procedual or not.

[languid spire]

then, tbh, you are in completely over your head, start with something simpler

[rich adder]

rts def might be a bit of "biting off more than you can chew"

[hearty trout]

ima remove the procedealy generated landscape

but i stil wanna make an rts

[rich adder]

fine enough.
might want to dive into some c# fundamentals first though

[hearty trout]

true that

[languid spire]

just try to save and load anything, then move on from there

[hearty trout]

like data eg: player xp and lvl ect:?

[languid spire]

what else?

[hearty trout]

wdym

[languid spire]

there is nothing other than data to save and load

[sharp wyvern]

how about a high-score file. store a username and a score.,

[wintry quarry]

yeah but the root cause of the error is elsewhere

[hearty trout]

so how to rts ppl make rts games.....

[rich adder]

with deep knowledge ?

[sage mirage]

Do you have time please to make a thread now and help me maybe fix the issue? I am going to send you in thread all information needed. But before making that thread let me check it one more time or two maybe i fixed it.

[languid spire]

by having lots of experience

[rich adder]

I shown you example

[hearty trout]

yep

ok ima just gain deep knowledge ig

by having 23413131 grueling years or practise

[sharp wyvern]

the answer for that is prolly to extensive for this place..

[rich adder]

if you dont start you never gonna gain the XP

[hearty trout]

true

[rich adder]

procrastination wont get you far lol

[sharp wyvern]

I'd suggest you start with a simpler concept than RTS. somthing like "asteroids", to get that XP

[hearty trout]

mhmm

[sharp wyvern]

asteroids is a "drop in the bucket" comapred to the work required to make a real time strat gae

[hearty trout]

mhmm ok

[sage mirage]

@wintry quarry Problem is fixed I have checked it second time and found out what was causing the issue. Thanks! No need for threads for now.

[summer stump]

No one is saying "don't make an RTS"
They are saying learn the fundamentals first
Start with making a ball roll.
Then make something chase the ball.
Make BrickBreaker
Make Battleship
Make a simple platformer

Work your way up, learn as you go, get experience, then you will be ready for an RTS

Also don't ignore the prototyping stage

[shell sorrel]

RTS is fairly high in complexity

[summer stump]

You can make projects just to do one facet of the game and learn from that

[shell sorrel]

would want other thigns under the belt first

[hearty trout]

kk

I understand

[shell sorrel]

also don't start with your dream first games are about learning more then anything

[hearty trout]

so like make 3 simple projects

3 advanced

for an eg

and then jump to something a bit more complex or sum

[rich adder]

no one can say, you will feel it out yourself

[shell sorrel]

or things of smaller scope that share common features to what you want to eventually do

[hearty trout]

true

so do a project that focuses on procedeal gen

and then based on animation

ect

[rich adder]

a simple game that a bot AI runs around and grabs fruit or something

[hearty trout]

to build up core features for the game

[cosmic dagger]

the number of projects does not matter, it's if you learn anything from them . . .

[hearty trout]

very true

wait someone just sent me dis on sum gc when i asked same ting

If you're procedurally generating, then track the data you're using to generate. Then you can save those instructions to execute again later.
If the world is destructible, that complicates things.
Saving the type of the objects, seeds and their transforms can be fine enough, it really depends on the functionality of your system.
There's third party tools that can serialize the whole scene, but this is not ideal from a storage or update capability perspective.

yeah ima stick with a simple fundemental project....

[queen adder]

I recently started unity how do i get better aat unity

[wintry quarry]

practice

[summer stump]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

practice, push yourself

[hearty trout]

I know how to use box colider, tags, simple ai , simple simple raycasts, moderate blender skills so I think I should keep adding skills to my toolbox till I am ready to proceed with my main /goal / dream game and you should do the same!

[quick edge]

Yo ! When pressing the attack button I want to be able to move for 1 second, after the second passed I want to be unable to move. How can I achieve that ? I tried using WaitForSeconds, but it doesn't work as intended (and it's normal)

[rich adder]

show what you tried

[green island]

i need someway to have like a update function that i can put into every script and on one script call them all

[quick edge]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[rich adder]

maybe an event would work

[green island]

this needs to get called 60 times a sec would it still work?

[quick edge]

I can't really show my code because it's not a simple function. But it's something like this :

private void f1()
{
   StartCoroutine(f2());
}

private IEnumerator f2()
{
   // allow movement
   yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
   // prevent movement
}

But if i'm not mistaken, what it's doing is. Allow movement then wait 1 second and prevent movement. Not, allow movement for 1 second then prevent it

[polar acorn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[wintry quarry]

this code looks fine. Show your real code if you want better/accurate responses and advice

[rich adder]

yeah ofc
well not sure what your use case is though, it might not be the best option..

[quick edge]

The real code isn't what I told in my message and it's calling other script. That's why I don't want to show it. But if you tell me the code is fine it's probable that the problem is something else. Thanks for the help !

[wintry quarry]

well the real code could certainly have a problem

this is missing a lot of context

[quick edge]

Yes I know but that's fine, I will find it myself. You will need to read to much line for a simple problem don't want to bother you

[queen adder]

Help me out here. I watched GMTK’s video on a mini game and how to make it and I understood most of it but I had some questions:

1. What does transform.position do?

2. What do the different types of vectors (like vector3)?

I’ll come back if I have more questions

[quick edge]

Thanks !

[quartz grove]

Hello

[wintry quarry]

1. It's a property that allows you to get or set the position of an object.
2. This isn't a full english sentence/question

[quartz grove]

Should i learn c# with Unity or learn c# first without unity lib

[cosmic dagger]

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

[wintry quarry]

I recommend the latter tbh

[queen adder]

Oh yeah my bad the question was what do different types of vectors do? Like vector3

[wintry quarry]

they don't do anything. They just hold information

[rich adder]

do both. But doing it without worrying about UI or extra APIs is cleaner learning to absorb the basics.
Example the C# Console application can teach a lot and its quick to compile/ test code

[queen adder]

Oh thank you this is extremely useful

[wintry quarry]

A Vector3 is simply a collection of three float variables named x, y, and z

they can mean different things in different contexts

for example it might be representing a position, or maybe a set of rotations around world axes

[cosmic dagger]

the unity documentation covers the core unity API. make sure to bookmark it and keep it open during development. go ahead and look up the vectors you asked about . . .

[scarlet skiff]

https://gdl.space/kukogivuga.cs what detects if player should become invincible, relevant: Line 74 and 313
https://gdl.space/gacukeciyu.cs health script
https://gdl.space/yokedaquyu.cpp player collision just in case

problem: idk im unable to figure out how to stack the animations properly

[queen adder]

Also should I be using tutorials?

[rich adder]

so you solved your earlier issue ?

[queen adder]

Cause I’ve heard people say they don’t help

[cosmic dagger]

you have to learn somehow . . .

[scarlet skiff]

that one was due to spelling error

but i got this one now

which is similiar

i think

[rich adder]

ok then..

[quartz grove]

Guys what this guy talking about the awful changes

[cosmic dagger]

everyone has a different experience. two people learning the same thing can have separate outcomes . . .

[wintry quarry]

Those changes were reversed

[rich adder]

misinformed tool

[queen adder]

So would you recommend it?

Watching Tutorials for specific things

Like idk how to code 2d movement should I copy paste someone’s code?

[rich adder]

do your proper research, don't just believe everything someone tells you . They're talking out their ass

[quartz grove]

So which better to start with

[quartz grove]

I ll do thx

[rich adder]

IMO unity is the easiest..

but everyone is different

try out yourself, they're all just tools for the same job

[quartz grove]

Yes so i m just looking for the easiest one

[rich adder]

its subjective to some extent

[quartz grove]

They say that godot gives free themes

[scarlet skiff]

what about current problem? 😮

[quartz grove]

and whats that : )

[rich adder]

free themes? I rather not care about that lol
I care that Unity also has a vast variety and amount of free assets on asset store

[quartz grove]

and about the awful changed which idk it , what did unity change ?

[languid spire]

really, that is a priority for you?

[quartz grove]

Idk whats the themes he talks about

[cosmic dagger]

just pick an engine and run with it. this is not smth you should worry about if you're just learning . . .

[quartz grove]

its something can use on game dev ?

[summer stump]

If you make a million dollars in a year and a million downloads, you have to pay 2.5% revenue, which is half of what unreal does.

Very awful changes indeed

[quartz grove]

or just the engine style