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[leaden dove]

im not gonna leave becuase someone said something i dont like

sorry

[north kiln]

Please move on from the argument and just ask the full question

[leaden dove]

it doesnt matter anymore

[summer stump]

They are looking for coders

I linked collab links for them, and it made them upset i guess.
Was just trying to help 🤷‍♂️

[north kiln]

Missed that part, great

I'm a little confused, because I don't believe you will get a normal at 45deg unless there's a mesh collider with a chamfer.
I'm also unsure what this code would do in Update, surely if it worked the cube would rotate at a million km/h because it would repeat the logic every frame?

[gaunt ice]

does your raycast always hit object?

[rich adder]

you should not use 2D colliders

if your game is gonna be 3D / 2.5

[summer stump]

Still checking if tag is null

[north kiln]

Still just checking the tag and not the collider or hit

And randomly passing 512 as a layermask?

[lusty girder]

what might be a simple way to make the Capsule face towards the corner (by script), if it can't use a normal off the corner?
i agree i need to move it out of update

[grand sigil]

I want to know what is the index of a gameobject is through a script. Specifically i want to put a GetIndex process in the script where the gameobject i want to know its index is placed. How do i do this?

[north kiln]

You probably need to go back and describe what you're trying to do, why is there a capsule that you're trying to rotate explicitly to the corner of a specific cube?

[grand sigil]

Like, i instantiate(from a different script) a bunch of gameobjects and i want each of them to be assinged a number based on their index.

[north kiln]

Have a manager (perhaps a singleton) that provides an index that you increase when an object is assigned one

[lusty girder]

Trying to make Climbing logic. Playercapsule is currently able to latch onto and climb along the edges of a Cube, but gets stumped when it meets a corner, because it just wants to keep facing forward instead of starting to rotate around the corner
(Playercapsule moves by detecting points along the edges via raycasts and moving to closest one in direction of movement)

[grand sigil]

So basically an int that starts at 0 and increases per instantiate?

[heady wyvern]

how can i check?

[grand sigil]

Ngl, havnt thought of that and that is much simpler

Thanks

[gaunt ice]

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

[rich adder]

put it inside if statement like SpawnCampGames said earlier

[heady wyvern]

so remove .tag correct?

[heady wyvern]

ok

[rich adder]

the first one yes

but just wrap the whole Raycast in if() but honestly still think you should use 3D colliders for a 2.5D game unless your player never moves around 3D world

2D colliders will be awkward

[heady wyvern]

wait

[rocky canyon]

more like this

[heady wyvern]

so delete that raycast line and replace with that

[rocky canyon]

if(raycast..

• if hit

[heady wyvern]

ok

[rocky canyon]

you can use ur raycast you have now

[north kiln]

I would probably perform a CapsuleCast, that way the normal is actually based on the interaction of the capsule and the corner.
Practically, casting towards the cube would pick one of the two faces. It's only when something interacts with the corner will the normal actually be at an angle to it

[rocky canyon]

ohh with 2d u cant.. as long as it 3d ya

[north kiln]

If you debugged the normal you have now I imagine it would be perpendicular to one of the two corner's faces, and that's why your capsule isn't rotating

[summer stump]

Yes. Whatever you have to written at the end of the dot chain is the thing you are checking. You want to check the collider, so nothing should come after it except the !=

[rocky canyon]

u declare the hit

and then just the raycast..

[rich adder]

turns out you can

[rocky canyon]

u cant shove a declaration in there

[rocky canyon]

oh cool

[rich adder]

vertx has mentioned there is a implicit cast to bool for null check for it

[rocky canyon]

neat.. i didnt know that.. but like someone said earlier.. if its 2.5D its probablybest to use 3d raycasts

[lusty girder]

Yes that seems to be what is happening. Thanks for the advice, I'll try that!

[rocky canyon]

but not 100 on that

[rich adder]

agreed, unless its a fixed camera scenario 2D colliders will be diffcult even with sprites

[rocky canyon]

i use sprites but big primative colliders around them

[rocky canyon]

chunky colliders like this.. and use 3d raycasts

[rich adder]

thicc boy

[rocky canyon]

its working well so far

i suggest that other guy do something similar.. instead of the 2d fiasco.. but maybe it fits his needs idk

[rich adder]

navmesh agents with sprites

[rocky canyon]

😉 lol

[rich adder]

what makes you think you declare something inside an if statement ?

instead of guessing maybe you should follow a basic unity course in !learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[heady wyvern]

ty

[rocky canyon]

no.. declare the variable outside no iff needed.. and then ur physics2d.raycasy line. becomes an if statement below it

RaycastHit2D hit;

if (Physics2D.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition), Vector2.zero, Mathf.Infinity, 512))
{```

then.. in if the raycast hits something u can check thie hit

[rich adder]

layer 512 they wont get very far

[rocky canyon]

lol idk what that is..

[heady wyvern]

its to the Clickable Layer

[rocky canyon]

but also i noticed his hit isn't in the raycast..

[heady wyvern]

under my target

[rich adder]

use layermasks

[rich adder]

how did you come up with 512 ?

[heady wyvern]

Debuglog and it was showing 512

[slender nymph]

Can't do that, physics2d doesn't use an out param for the hit the method just returns the hit

[rocky canyon]

ya, im getting mixed signals.. i gotta check myself.. b/c i came back to the issue and someone said there was one that returns the bool..

[heady wyvern]

i followed this one guide but

[rocky canyon]

so thats true.. and it doesn't have the hit.. u have to do that extra?

[slender nymph]

RaycastHit2D has an implicit cast to bool

[rocky canyon]

ohh, okay imma look thru the docs here in a sec..

[teal viper]

512 should be layer 10

[gaunt ice]

1<<9

[rich adder]

not a practical way to set layers, learn the LayerMask type

[rocky canyon]

thats pretty smart tho..

to debug the layer

[rich adder]

magic numbers

[rocky canyon]

i wouldnt have thought of that

[teal viper]

Right, 9.

[north kiln]

Did they debug GetMask or something? Such a bizarre way to do it

[heady wyvern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvYscMXOMWo&list=PLX-uZVK_0K_6JEecbu3Y-nVnANJznCzix&index=15

6:15 is where that 512

[north kiln]

lol

[rich adder]

bad tutorial

[north kiln]

I hate that

[heady wyvern]

ill have to watch watch nav sent for beginners

[rich adder]

als you copied wrong

[rocky canyon]

yup i thought that too.. made a full circle.. his code was pretty much fine at first..

just need to check for the collider before doing tag comparisons

[rich adder]

yes the Learn tutorials are better than this tbh

[heady wyvern]

ty for the help. everyone lol def gonna start watching those

[grand sigil]

if i use Random.Range which will pseudorandom pick a number from 0 to 8, should i make the maxvalue 8 or 9? Since im seeing a lot of examples where the max value isnt chosen. Just want to confirm this

minvalue would be 0

and i will be using System.Random

[rich adder]

int is max exclusive

[grand sigil]

So the max wont be chosen? Im not too familiar with those terms

[rich adder]

Oh the System not unity

[grand sigil]

whats the difference between them?

[rich adder]

I think its still max exclusive

[grand sigil]

thats what i noticed, both docs on the system and unityengine are the same

[rich adder]

they have more or less different methods

Unity one also includes things like color or rotation

etc

[grand sigil]

but max exclusive means that the value will be excluded from the possible int it can choose?

[rich adder]

yea

[grand sigil]

ic

[rich adder]

so if you want max 10 you put 11

[grand sigil]

so for this, ill put 9 as the max value then

[rich adder]

yea

[heady wyvern]

@rich adder

do i just go in order

[summer stump]

For the first two or three. Then only if you want to do VR and AR

Of course haha

[small mantle]

I am making a game that will have many different GameObjects with different values. Just like games with many characters I want to make a system for stats that all will use. Such as having variables for weak, average, strong, and very strong when applying values for Character Stats. I want to know if there is a way to make a list of variables with custom names that will be able to be set in for Floats in the inspector

Instead of the numbers, I would like a drop down list to appear that I can pick from. The item from the list I choose from will be a float variable.

[vast sparrow]

how do i wright the () other kind of these

[summer stump]

Not sure what you're asking

[frosty hound]

() {} [] <>

Take your pick

[summer stump]

{} <>

Too slow

[vast sparrow]

{} these

[summer stump]

Curly braces are what I call them (and commonly see them called)

[vast sparrow]

how do i write them on my keybord ?

[summer stump]

Mine are next to the backspace button, and one row down

Just gotta... look for them 🤷‍♂️

[vast sparrow]

thanks

[small mantle]

Is it possible to make a drop down list for Serialized floats in the inspector?

[timber tide]

such as a list of floats?

or like enums that represent a value of floats?

[slow reef]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;

public class scenechange : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float launchForce = 10f;
    public float destructionDelay = 2f;

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        // Call the ChangeScene method after the specified delay
        Invoke("ChangeScene", destructionDelay);
    }

    // Method to change the scene
    void ChangeScene()
    {
        // Load the scene with index 1 after the delay
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
    }
}

is there anything wrong with this code

what this does is

its in a gameobject

and whe you touch it

you get flung into the sky

you do in fact get flung

[frosty hound]

Can you type your entire thought out before hitting enter?

[slow reef]

but it doesnt change the scene

[slow reef]

sorry, it's how i type naturally

[frosty hound]

Yes and it's silly

First of all, you can just call a function with ChangeScene(). (I just noticed there's a delay, so what you have is fine)

[summer stump]

Do you have a scene with index 1?

[slow reef]

yes, it's listed in the build settings

[frosty hound]

Secondly, put a Debug.Log inside of your OnCollisionEnter to see if it's actually calling that function

[small mantle]

For floats

[summer stump]

Nm, forgot how invoke works lol

[timber tide]

if you're trying to represent a field with a value using the inspector from a selection then use enums and resolve it at start (or onvalidate for SOs)

[slow reef]

It didn't call the function when i used Invoke, but it did when I just called the procedure point-blank. Is there a way I can add a delay in the procedure, or would I still have to use Invoke?

Let me try using a coroutine.

[frosty hound]

You can use Invoke. Or you can change your ChangeScene function into a coroutine and add a delay.

[summer stump]

Coroutine or timer

[summer stump]

Most important thing is the debug log to verify that OnCollisionEnter is firing though

Because the launched into the air part is happening elsewhere. It doesn't prove this code is running

[slow reef]

The OnCollisionEnter is firing, but the procedure isn't.

[summer stump]

How are you sure?

[slow reef]

I added a debug log in the OnCollisionEnter right before it Invokes the procedure. I also added on inside the procedure itself. The one outside outputted, but the one inside didn't.

[summer stump]

Ok nice. Sounds good

[summer stump]

Now, one more question, is the obejct with that script being destroyed anywhere else?

[bright zodiac]

yes, it can be done pretty easily with uitoolkit's "DropDownField" by just chucking in a List<string> to it's choice = myFloatList property and all you need is to parse it back to float onValueChanged

[slow reef]

No, it isn't.

[bright zodiac]

or even better, use a popupfield and wrap the float in your own class

[slow reef]

The object is never destroyed at all, actually.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;

public class scenechange : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float launchForce = 10f;

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("collided");
        // Call the ChangeScene method after the specified delay
        StartCoroutine(ChangeScene());
    }

    // Method to change the scene
    IEnumerator ChangeScene()
    {
        Debug.Log("right b4");
        // Load the scene with index 1 after the delay
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
        SceneManager.LoadScene(1);
        Debug.Log("should've loaded scene");
    }
}

I converted it into a coroutine, but the code is back to not changing the scene again :/. It outputs "collided" and "right b4," but doesn't output "should've loaded scene."

It only works if the procedure is directly called, and doesn't if it's either called through an Invoke function or is converted to a coroutine.

[night mural]

I don't have any context before this message but if you are loading a new scene and this object is in the previous scene, this object would no longer exist when the other scene loads and so would no longer be running its coroutine

[summer stump]

The coroutine ends when the scene begins to load anyway

[night mural]

well it sounds like they are expecting to see the restuls of Debug.Log("should've loaded scene"); but aren't

[summer stump]

It happens at the end of the frame, which is after the debug, if you meant that

[summer stump]

The whole scene isn't loaded either, which is the main issue

[night mural]

It outputs "collided" and "right b4," but doesn't output "should've loaded scene."
is what i'm addressing...but yeah if the scene also doesn't load then that's probably more important to figure out

[summer stump]

Yeah, the debug would run even if the scene did load is all I meant. Since that happens at the end of the frame after the debug call

[night mural]

oh you're right and the message is actually misleading 😄

[summer stump]

Ahh, I see what you mean now.
Yeah, it wouldn't log it in the new scene for sure

[night mural]

When using SceneManager.LoadScene, the scene loads in the next frame, that is it does not load immediately. This semi-asynchronous behavior can cause frame stuttering and can be confusing because load does not complete immediately.

[summer stump]

Oh it's the next frame! Good to know. Thanks

[night mural]

^ from the docs so i guess it's probably that and the solutoin is to use the Async one

yeah i didn't know any of this cause i've always just used the async one

[slow reef]

ok thanks, i didn't know that the object deleted (though now that i look at it, it seems obvious)

[night mural]

Yeah, i guess it's less that the object gets deleted and more that the world it existed in no longer exists? but the end result is the same which is that the object is no longer running the coroutine.

But normally what Aeth said is right and what I was saying is wrong, just this one method behaves weirdly and you should probably use the async one instead

[slow reef]

Does the scene need to be in the build settings to use Async or not?

[night mural]

if you want to load a scene it needs to be in the build regardless of whether you load it asyncronously or not

[small mantle]

On my Player there are many Children. These children are basically their own character as they have their own components. However, only one is active depending on which which the Player decided to shape into. Now I want to know if there is a way I can refer to the current child that is active. This is what my scene view looks like:

[small mantle]

I think I figured out the issue, just because I to explain it. Nevermind*

[lusty flax]

i have a little if statement to create coyote time and jump buffering for a platformer, but it makes it so if you double tap jump really fast, then you can do a sort of double jump boost to go higher. I do not want this to happen. How can I fix this? would it be by adding a very slight (0.2s) jump cooldown, or is there a better solution?

if (timeSinceGrounded < 0.2f && timeSinceJump < 0.2f && !isJumping)

[summer stump]

The isJumping bool should handle that.
How is it set?

[lusty flax]

when you jump

it only resets once you touch the ground again

[summer stump]

Then i don't understand how you could be able to double jump
Show the jump code

[lusty flax]

{
    if (!isInputtingJump)
    {
        isInputtingJump = true;
        timeSinceJump = 0;
    }
    if (timeSinceGrounded < 0.2f && timeSinceJump < 0.2f && !isJumping)
    {
        isJumping = true;
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(rb.velocity.x, 0);
        rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpPower, ForceMode2D.Impulse);
        timeSinceGrounded = 1;
        timeSinceJump = 1;
    }
}```

[lusty flax]

isInputtingJump gets resetted here:

{
    isInputtingJump = false;
}```

[summer stump]

It SHOULD be correctly stopping double jumping. Nothing seems like an issue here. Hmmm

Have you tried GetKeyDown instead of GetKey?

[lusty flax]

getkeydown only works on the first frame input

i want to allow buffering so i don't like using getkeydown for this

i found the issue

{
    if (isJumping)
    {
        Debug.Log("grounded");
    }
    isJumping = false;
    timeSinceGrounded = 0;
    if (abilityCharges < 1)
    {
        abilityCharges = 1;
    }
}```

I added this `Debug.Log();` line to check if the game was somehow detecting that the character is still on the ground after the 1st input

it is...

huh

[slow reef]

Sorry, I forgot to ask earlier. What do you mean by Async Scene Loading?

SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync(1);

Is this what you meant?

[night mural]

yes, though if you read the docs you may find there's slightly more to it than that

[slow reef]

Alright, thanks!

[lament birch]

how are you detecting isGrounded() and in what update method is that code with the log? Update or LateUpdate?

[lusty flax]

isGrounded used OverlapBox (2d) and this all runs in Update

[lament birch]

sorry I meant FixedUpdate not LateUpdate lol

[lusty flax]

time variables are multiplied by time.deltaTime

[slow reef]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;

public class scenechange : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float launchForce = 10f;

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("collided");
        // Call the ChangeScene method after the specified delay
        StartCoroutine(ChangeScene());
    }

    // Method to change the scene
    IEnumerator ChangeScene()
    {
        Debug.Log("right b4");
        // Load the scene with index 1 after the delay
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("lvl2");
        Debug.Log("should've loaded scene");
        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            yield return null;
        }
        SceneManager.SetActiveScene(SceneManager.GetSceneByName("lvl2"));
    }
}

I feel I am doing something wrong...

[night mural]

does that compile? i think LoadSceneAsync needs a mode

so does LoadScene, come to think of it

oh no it has a default

don't mind me

[lament birch]

then I think I see why it still detects the ground
it's a combination of two things:
you might get 2 or more Update frames before the rigid body actually moves (as it's updated in FixedUpdate which runs independent of the regular update cycle), so even with a pixel perfect ground detection you might still be detected as being on ground in the next frame(s) as the character hasn't moved yet
in addition, an overlap box check, depending on where the bottom edge of that check is relative to the character's bottom edge, might take a bit of an offset until it doesn't overlap the ground anymore
a quick fix might be to only allow jumping if your y velocity is <= 0

[night mural]

I don't think you need to set the active scene (it should happen automatically when you load the new one in single mode) but i don't think it should cause any problems

if you're still having issues, try hooking your code up to a button or something instead of triggering it from a collision to isolate some of this

[lusty flax]

thanks!

[slow reef]

by "load the new one in single mode," do you mean "SceneManager.LoadScene("lvl2", SceneManagement.LoadSceneMode mode = LoadSceneMode.Single)"?

[night mural]

kind of, but the assignment you have there is the documentation telling you that's the default value so you're already doing that in your code

[slow reef]

Oh. So just "SceneManager.LoadScene("lvl2")"? (Sorry if I'm not understanding 😔 )

rahhhh still not workingmf!!!

[night mural]

though you should use LoadSceneAsync

or you haven't actually gone anywhere

[slow reef]

i did tho

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;

public class scenechange : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float launchForce = 10f;

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        Debug.Log("collided");
        // Call the ChangeScene method after the specified delay
        StartCoroutine(ChangeScene());
    }

    // Method to change the scene
    IEnumerator ChangeScene()
    {
        Debug.Log("right b4");
        // Load the scene with index 1 after the delay
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);
        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("lvl2");
        Debug.Log("should've loaded scene");
        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            yield return null;
        }
        SceneManager.LoadScene("lvl2");
    }
}

or is the last line useless

[night mural]

well that's doing both which is definitely not right

you don't need the last line

[slow reef]

nothing happens either way

[night mural]

well i would try this

[slow reef]

ight

[night mural]

you see the logs? just once for each? make sure that your coroutine is definitely being started and just the one time

put a log after that while (where you had the extra LoadScene) too, you should be seeing that now

if you aren't i would imagine you'd have an error

basically copy the docs exactly (but with your scene) and make sure that works, then adapt it to your use case

[slow reef]

i tried changing it from collision to just the defautl void Start() and it worked

so something fishy is goin on

[night mural]

Yeah something about calling it from the collision doesn't work, though offhand i'm not sure what. I would noramlly guess that it's being triggered repeatedly, but with OnCollisionEnter it shouldn't be (and your logs would show that clearly)

[slow reef]

my friend says it might be because i have a while loop w/ no waits

[night mural]

nah they are wrong -- you just said yourself that it works when you start it in start

[slow reef]

alright

[night mural]

the while will yield each frame that the scene is still loading

[slow reef]

idea: collision enables a separate script which uses void start()

[night mural]

nah you don't need to get that complicated

have a boolean that you set on collision and check that in update

[slow reef]

genius

[night mural]

see if that helps

it's possible that you can't trigger scene changes from a physics event, though i'm not sure why that would be and i can't find anything saying it

[slow reef]

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.SceneManagement;
using System.Collections;

public class scenechange : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float launchForce = 10f;
    private bool isActivated = false;

    void Update()
    {
        if (isActivated == true)
        {
            Debug.Log("Starting scene change process...");
            // Start the coroutine to change the scene after a delay
            StartCoroutine(ChangeScene());
        }
    }

    private void OnCollisionEnter(Collision collision)
    {
        isActivated = true;
    }

    IEnumerator ChangeScene()
    {
        Debug.Log("Waiting for 2 seconds before loading the scene...");
        // Wait for 2 seconds before loading the scene
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(2f);

        // Load the scene asynchronously
        AsyncOperation asyncLoad = SceneManager.LoadSceneAsync("lvl2");

        // Wait until the scene is fully loaded
        while (!asyncLoad.isDone)
        {
            // Output the progress of the scene loading
            Debug.Log("Loading progress: " + (asyncLoad.progress * 100) + "%");
            yield return null;
        }

        // Scene loading is complete
        Debug.Log("Scene loaded successfully!");
    }
}

didn't work 😔

[night mural]

can you post the log output?

[night mural]

umm set it to false too

when you consume it

999+ logs?

[slow reef]

yeh because i didnt set it to false lmao

ignore the first 3

[night mural]

um did you do anything to your timeScale?

[sour fulcrum]

I know in a lot of cases parents and contraints work well for this but if i have a moving platform and my player is on the moving platform it's possible to adjust the position correctly via doing some position math in fixedupdate on the elevator right? could someone refresh my memory on that

[slow reef]

i dont think so?

[night mural]

does it work without the 2 second delay?

[slow reef]

i dont think so, let me try

let me also try turning the object into a trigger

[night mural]

well you know that part is working since the collision is being triggered/the coroutine started at least from the logs

[slow reef]

yeah but idrk my friend is telling me to try random things

[night mural]

you should try specific things with specific goals in mind instead 😉

[slow reef]

yeah hes just a bit

[night mural]

for instance isolating precisly where your code stops running (before the wait? after?)

[slow reef]

no!!!

[slow reef]

alright

[cosmic dagger]

Yeah, IIRC, you add the platform movement to your player movement . . .

[sour fulcrum]

would that just be having like a cached position that i set in update and get in fixedupdate thats added on?

or is fixedupdate after the movement happened

trying to figure out what exactly i would be wanting to add

[night mural]

it seems like the coroutine starts, but none of the while loop actually runs, which i guess takes us back to where we started (the simplest explanation for that would be if this object were destroyed in the next frame, preventing the rest of the coroutine from ever running)

another explanation could be that your timeScale is set to 0 so time isn't progressing and your coroutines aren't ticking...not sure what else

[sour fulcrum]

i guess the difference between last frame and this

[cosmic dagger]

You have to add the amount the platform moves each frame . . .

[cosmic dagger]

Yep, exactly . . .

[sour fulcrum]

ya ok that makes sense

[slow reef]

yo i think its workinf

one sec

[sour fulcrum]

i guess best place to grab last frame would be lateupdate then? im assuming update works too but

[cosmic dagger]

Use LateUpdate bc that's after the movement has occurred . . .

[sour fulcrum]

every . is a bullet going straight through my heart 😭

[night mural]

don't take it personally, they always do that

[cosmic dagger]

Haha, I thought you knew that by now 😀 😄 😁

[sour fulcrum]

im getting pretty pog in c# and a lot of unity quirks but my kinda math/physics knowledge is really rough

no high school education so fundamentals in that regard can trip me up

[slow reef]

it worked

apparently i had to just change it to a trigger :PPP

[slow reef]

thanks for the help btw

[lusty girder]

Does a capsulecast 'hit' indeed hit against objects in the capsulecast's way? I'm moving objects directly into the "line of fire" of a capsule cast, and have print("Hit something"); inside the If(Physics.CapsuleCast) code, but it never seems to register a hit...

[languid spire]

you probably want to start by visualizing the ray to make sure it's going where you think it is

[fierce shuttle]

If you need something to help visualize, you can use Debug.DrawRay to get an idea of the direction and distance, or mess with Gizmos for more accuracy, though personally I find Vertxyz "Debugging Utility" git project super helpful for this kind of stuff as it accurately visualizes all the cast shapes, their distances and when they hit something

[radiant sail]

how can i make the 0's just not affect the rotation instead of setting the rotation to 0
basically only rotate on the x & z axis and just ignore the y axis in this example :)
Quaternion targetRotation = Quaternion.Euler(1, 0, 1);

[modest dust]

Just replace that 0 with whatever y rotation you have right now

[radiant sail]

OH 💀 im so dumb tyyy

[languid spire]

and dont use targetRotation.y to do that

[radiant sail]

im not THAT dumb lmao

[languid spire]

lol

[radiant sail]

i just realised that method does not work with the thing im doing

lemme try smth differed

yea it dosent work
basically i have a object that i want to rotate only on the x and z and that object is parented to an object that will handle the y axis rotation and since thats the way im handling it, the value of the transform.rotation.y alwase = 0 which means its the exact same result as just putting 0

[modest dust]

Then use local rotation?

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

[radiant sail]

tysm i didnt even know that was a thing

[naive lion]

can confirm… why did i never use these

[mossy sphinx]

!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.

[radiant sail]

that didnt fix my issue but i found out what DID fix the issue, basically instead of making the parent only control the y axis while the child controls the x & z i just reverted my code to before i tried fixing this and just made the parent controll all the movement and not only did this fix my one small issue, its also fixed like 90% of every other issue i had...
thanks for trying to help me with my whacky ass code tho, i appreciate it :)

[twilit cliff]

I'm a newbie to programming, in the screenshot attached, the method is used to spawn objects randomly inside multiple squares precisely.

Can anyone help me elaborate the calculation made inside the method that I'm not able to understand a bit how exactly it works

[timber comet]

They set the x/y value of the vector by adding to it a minValue and random value (from 0 to 4) and multiply that random value with another value (I think an offset)

[ancient halo]

Hey there. so I am experimenting with multithreading in unity and have this script to simulate a wave but I cannot get past the error:
UnityException: get_transform can only be called from the main thread.

Like I am so confused...

Code: https://sourceb.in/zGbRcr7kcD

[gaunt ice]

use ijobparallel for transform

[vast vessel]

not code related but i cant find anywhere else to post this.
is there a way to bring the changes from your latest commit in github desktop, to uncommited changes so you can discard some of them?

[twilit cliff]

My question is, I don't understand how this method helps spawn objects within specific radius position 😭

Please do help me understand in the easy way possible since I don't come from CS background

[twilit cliff]

A DM explanation is much appreciated and truly helpfull on this so that I can share more details with you 😭🙏

[verbal dome]

Note that transform.rotation is a Quaternion, not euler angles

So using rotation.y doesn't make sense

[north scroll]

hai, I need help putting on an fbx file of a model into my game, but it seems I cant simply drag it to the player's sprite or add it as a new component, how do I go about doing this ?

[vast vessel]

is there a way to only revert some things? i dont know how to say this... i want to revert an unpushed commit, but still keep some of the changes

[verbal dome]

Drag & drop the child mesh of the FBX file into the inspector of the object you want to add it to

It will add a MeshFilter and MeshRenderer for you

Sprite doesn't work here, as it's a mesh not a sprite

[acoustic crow]

wie kann ich ein code hier rein schicken

how i can send a code here

[languid spire]

!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.

[timber comet]

It basically takes a minValue (like 4), then they add to it a random value (From 0 to 4) which should be the min and max value of that radious in x and y, and then multiply it for an offset (like 20)

[timber comet]

This is at least what I understood

May be wrong tho

[twilit cliff]

Thank you for the explanation 🙏

[north scroll]

sry, what would the child mesh of the fbx be ?When I click on the fbx, I only get these options...

[timber comet]

Mivalue is an offset itself from the point 0,0

[acoustic crow]

@languid spire i dont understand the message !code from unity dyno bot what must i do now

[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.

[north scroll]

also, i just dragged over the fbx to the player and like pinned it in front of the capsule ive been using as the player, and it seems to work. But still curious on ur way to do this

i had to adjust it tho to be overlapping with the capsule

[verbal dome]

Show the FBX in your project browser window

Yeah dragging the FBX itself works too, if it's the only mesh in it (I think)

[languid spire]

read what it says and do it. if you want to post a large block of code use a paste site, if you want to post a small block use the inline formatting

[verbal dome]

If you click the arrow on it you can see the child meshes

[north scroll]

oh sry

[verbal dome]

So yeah you can drag the correct mesh from there if you want

This is a code channel btw.

[north scroll]

oh, sry, which channel would I go on? Also, it seems the first thing I tried included the colors and stuff, so ill just stick to that, ty !

[verbal dome]

#💻┃unity-talk Is ok for this kind of stuff

[languid spire]

that counts as a large block'

[acoustic crow]

okey wait

[languid spire]

doesn't matter.
you decrement currentAmmo twice for every shot
you check input in FixedUpdate which will be inaccurate

[bold nova]

I have a simple animation on a player charachter in my 2d game, during that animation i try to call an animation event method that detaches one of its children. For some reason that child object occurs in random positions after detaching. The problem is not in colliding with other objects (i tryed to debug.log any collision) and not in animation (child object jumps even if i just call detach method as a regular method, not as animation event) and it's not about velocity (i tryed to set it to 0, but it had no effect) So, why it can be happening?

[verbal dome]

Hmm, try using a coroutine with WaitForEndOfFrame and then detach it?

[final kestrel]

I want to enable the footsteps after waiting for 1 seconds to prevent spamming the auidoclip. It starts after one seconds when I move but It does not stop when player has no movement. https://hatebin.com/mbcmpncfow What am I doing wrong here?

Stopping works when I log but the coroutine does not stop.

[verbal dome]

First thing I noticed is that you aren't setting isFootstepCoroutineRunning to false anywhere

[final kestrel]

yes you are right. Where do I set it to false? I am confused.

[verbal dome]

Probably at the end of the coroutine and also when you call StopCoroutine

[final kestrel]

Did those but it still does not stop when there is no movement.

[verbal dome]

I'm also not 100% sure if caching the IEnumerator in footstepCoroutine works or not. I usually just do StartCoroutine(MyCoroutine())

[verbal dome]

Where are you telling it to stop the audio?

[rare basin]

footstepCoroutine = PlayFootstep();

pretty sure that wont work as you expect

footstepCoroutine = StartCoroutine(PlayFootstep());

[final kestrel]

Well when coroutine stops it disables the source no?

[verbal dome]

No, that doesn't magically happen

[final kestrel]

I do this in update then

[rare basin]

dont start coroutine in update

not a good idea

[verbal dome]

Unless it's in an if statement

[final kestrel]

it is in an if statement.

[verbal dome]

You need to manually stop/disable the audiosource when you want it to stop

[final kestrel]

hm I do that in the second if in update maybe

after stopping the coroutine

Okay it works now. Wow

[verbal dome]

Show your updated code just to be sure

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/kcfddkqfoy

Here it is.

[verbal dome]

Pretty sure you have to change `the second condition in this: if (!_player.isMoving && isFootstepCoroutineRunning)

What if the coroutine stops? Then you can't stop the audio

if(!_player.isMoving && footstepSource.enabled) would make more sense

For stopping the audio, I mean

Maybe make a 3rd if-statement

if(!_player.isMoving && footstepSource.enabled)
{
  footstepSource.enabled = false;
}```

[final kestrel]

Can you explain this one? I did not get it

Like how does it stop if I keep moving?

I thought stopping the coroutine would stop playing the sound. That was my mistake as you said. Gotta be more careful T-T.

Thanks for the answers

[rare basin]

why would it stop playing the sound

the coroutine is not your audiosource

stopping it wont stop the audiosource

[fringe plover]

Sup, i use Handled.Vibrate(); to make vibration on phones, but its too long, is there any other way to do it?

[noble summit]

how hard is it to learn saving 1 - 10

[fringe plover]

what saving?

[noble summit]

saving system in game

saving data

[rare basin]

with player prefs? very esay

[fringe plover]

it was hard to make binary formated one.. 7 ig, but now its ez for me

[rare basin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzAzT1UEbAM

PlayerPrefs.SetInt("saveKey", intValue);

[fringe plover]

Player prefs are ez to hack u know...

[noble summit]

how would you regain your save data

[rare basin]

GetInt("saveKey")

[noble summit]

i mean physically in the build

[fringe plover]

same

[noble summit]

like how would you get it and enter it to regain your save

[fringe plover]

Player prefs are saved on PC

[rare basin]

the same way i wrote it

SetInt/GetInt (save/load)

[noble summit]

but how do you do that in the game itself

[rare basin]

GetInt()?

what do you mean

int loadedValue = PlayerPrefs.GetInt("yourSavedKey");

[fringe plover]

maybe make player able to save its own custom data?

[noble summit]

nevermind ill figure it out once i get home

[final kestrel]

You are right. I understand now thanks.

[fringe plover]

someone?

[rare basin]

you can only tell the phone to vibrate

not how long to vibrate

this is usually tied to the phone OS and nothing you can do about it

[fringe plover]

oh ok..

[brazen canyon]

But this problem appears ?
These "strings" are different ?

[languid spire]

WriteAllText

just read the docs please

[brazen canyon]

I'm so sorry
T-T

[zinc osprey]

Hi, can you make code run every frame without using Update()?

[languid spire]

yes, Coroutine

[zinc osprey]

Ok thx. I wanted to avoid this because checking a bool every frame seems like a waste of resources, but I realized I'll be destroying that object very soon anyway so it won't be a problem. Out of curiosity if that object were to stay in the scene forever, how big of an issue is that?

[burnt vapor]

You can use a Coroutine which waits for a frame if you use yield null. Additionally you have Task methods that allow you to delay for specific milliseconds. lastly Unity 2023 has awaitables, which allow you to await until the end of a frame.

[languid spire]

if checking a single bool every frame is the worst of your problems you are doing very well indeed

[burnt vapor]

Checking a boolean has no effect on performance and you should not worry about performance in general except for the usual "don't use find methods every frame" and such.

[rare basin]

and nested loops

in nested loops

etc 😄

[burnt vapor]

.NET is very performant, and polishing performance could be done later. Even then you are better off benchmarking code to figure out what actually needs to be improved

If you really want to improve performance, you could try and lift the work of the garbage collector. There are method and features that allow you to manipulate memory better, but this is a very advanced topic.

[languid spire]

btw, Input.mousePosition is a Screen position, you need to convert this to a World position

[zinc osprey]

It's for inventory, on canvas so it works, but thanks.

[zinc osprey]

This is all I have right now so I don't have performence issues yet xD

[burnt vapor]

if you spawn those things often you could also look at object pooling. It's a simple yet efficient way to improve the performance of your game.

[pine umbra]

Hi everyone, is there more effective way to get access to method from other (non-static) class than inherit from it?

[low path]

What do you mean get access to a method from it?

Like call it? If you mean just being able to call it, the “best” approach is highly dependent on situation.

[grim raft]

Hi, why do the wheels seem "laggy" when I focus on the car? When I'm not focusing the car they work fine.
(I'm updating their position in the Update function using raycasts)

[worthy merlin]

Hello, I am wanting to grab a variable known as playerScore and read it in that file in an if statement. Unlike other languages where you can just import them. I am unsure of how I can properly import this variable into another script to use in my update function.

Been googling for 3 days and nothing i've found has been working so far

[fading rapids]

does anyone know why this is ending up behind the canvas when i start the game

[low path]

The Unity way of doing this is to add a serializable reference in the class that wants to access the variable and then to assign to that reference the object whose variable you want. Then you use a method like getvalue() or a public get property to get the value of the variable.

[wintry quarry]

Because it's a sprite renderer.

To show images in the UI use the Image component

[fading rapids]

Ah okay ty

[pine umbra]

yeah, for example

[low path]

Please provide more info about what exactly you are trying to do.

[fading rapids]

when i drag my image into it it rescales how do i make it it will be the scale of my image

i got it

[dapper zenith]

Is there a less messy way to create a Back Up copy of a script so Unity doesnt get confused with the duplicates and i dont have to always go in a change the class name inside VS as well?

[wintry quarry]

What reason would you need a backup copy of a script?

[low path]

Use source control.

[wintry quarry]

Are you using version control? Learn to use version control

[foggy magnet]

If you just want a quick a and hacky way to do it then just rename the .cs to .csBAKUP

[dapper zenith]

Thats what i was wanting sorta, i cba to use Github at this stage

[teal drift]

I have a player with some basic movement and animations, and I changed to the "new" input system because I thought it would scale better, and just to test it I tried doing the same thing as before, but if I reset the animation when the direction vector is (0, 0) it will always trigger and my animation will not appear, and even if I put it at the start and let the other 4 if conditions override it they only last a single frame, and I'd like for a hypothetical OnMoveEnd function, so I can disable it when the key that is being held down gets released

[foggy magnet]

Its obviously not a great way to maintain your source control history, :), but I must admit I've done it occasionally.

[teal drift]

my player input is set to "send messages", is there a function in any other setting that allows this

[low path]

Honestly using git for source backup and version control for a solo project is really easy and you’ll never go back once you figure out the two or three commands you need.

[wintry quarry]

This is an animation problem not an input problem

You need to set up your Animator for this stuff and use StateMachineBehaviour for the transition notifications

[teal drift]

I checked that on google but wasn't able to find the notification for that

could you tell me what to set it to

[pine umbra]

Well, for example when I have script which generates new room like in rogue-like and it uses method from class which contains all data about sample rooms (what doesn't allows to make it static). Do I have any other ways to get access to this method other than inherit from it? In that case I have to attach all gameObjects which my parent-class does but it is totally unnecessary

[wintry quarry]

As mentioned: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/StateMachineBehaviour.html

[teal drift]

I mean to say that these were confusing me and I couldn't figure out what to use to invoke a function or something

[low path]

You don’t need to inherit from it. Just have a reference to a public method in your data class and call that method using the reference.

Inheriting from it in this case is a bad idea.

[wintry quarry]

You're on the wrong track completely

Why are you trying to pick a function from PlayerInput

You'd put your own script there and a function from your script

I have no idea which event this is for though

[pine umbra]

Sorry but I think i dont understand what u mean

[teal drift]

ah I see

I thought there was a built in thing for it and I was looking for so long

all my functions were private

thank you

[pine umbra]

If I want to reference data class have to be static

or i have to reference to a obj

[low path]

No, either make the data class inherit from monobehaviour or scriptableobject and then you can drag a reference to it to your generator object in the inspector. Then you can call the method on that object.

I think you should do a c# tutorial in isolation from Unity to get some of the fundamentals.

[pine umbra]

mkay, maybe I should.. Anyway thx

[hallow iris]

can any one give me some suggestions on level desing

and a level that can be parkor able

for 2d

[low path]

Not a code question and also highly dependent on your game design.

[buoyant knot]

#archived-game-design

[worthy merlin]

So when I make the variables I should do something like: public float playerScore { get; set; } = 5 and then use something like playerScore.get() to fetch its value?

[buoyant knot]

btw the mario maker community will have extremely deep knowledge when it comes to answering your question

[buoyant knot]

no

[worthy merlin]

ouch

[buoyant knot]

the most common pattern will be:
public float score {get; private set;}

the point is to keep the setter protected by restricting its access

but allow more classes to read the value

[worthy merlin]

But would the method be correct? playerscore.get()?

[buoyant knot]

you don’t need to call it like that

[worthy merlin]

oh?

[teal drift]

ok I experimented for a while and I can't figure out how to make it only end when the key is released, not when it finishes animating once. I want it to animate the movement on loop until you release the move key, not once it animates once

[buoyant knot]

you can do
float myVariable = score + 4;

you do not need to explicitly call .get, as it it a property

you can also do:
score++;

which calls the setter and getter, each

get and set are keywords. they do not need to be written like methods, if that makes sense

[low path]

Yeah but you don’t need .get. Properties syntactically act like variables. So you can just say whatever = property. No .get().

[buoyant knot]

also
public float score {get; set;} = 5;
is kind of pointless, because that might as well be made a non-serialized field.

you’d only do that when you want to actually add code

like

private int _score = 5;
public int Score {
get { return _score; }
set {
   if (_score == value) return;
   _score = value;
   OnScoreChanged?.Invoke();
} ```

in this case, I’m actually doing stuff whenever score gets set. So it has a backing field (_score), and I can do stuff whenever it gets set

eg Score++;
this will set _score to one higher than the current value, and then invoke OnScoreChanged

@worthy merlin understand?

[hallow iris]

Ooooooo thanks will they have knowledge regarding vertical levels

[buoyant knot]

yes

[worthy merlin]

I hope so lmao.
So I have it setup with that now in my LogicScript however in my PipeMoveScript the playerScore is not recognized within my update.

    void Update()
    {
        if (playerScore >= nextAssignment)
        {
            moveSpeed *= speedPercentIncrease;
            nextAssignment += 1;
        }

[buoyant knot]

is playerScore defined in LogicScript?

[hallow iris]

I am working on a game with like a confined vertical platforms and you need to parkore to get to the top it is my first game I am working on it Is just to learn unity but I still want to make it something playable

[vagrant gale]

Hi guys, I have a Resource folder with a couple hundred of prefabs. I want to loop through all of them and change the materials GPU instancing to "true". How do I access the actual material files for each of the game objects?

[rare basin]

t: Material in proect

select all, set gpu instancing to true

[vagrant gale]

the materials are all over the place in my project and many of them i do not want to change. I only want to change the ones that belong to the objects in my resource folder

[rare basin]

you cannot tell which material belong to the object and which not

[vagrant gale]

could i not load the prefab and check the renderers material list for this?

the problem i have is that the material on the renderer is only an instance

[spring kayak]

Hello, any ideas on how a katana attack can be implemented on unity? i thought about making a script on the enemy object and it reduced its hp oncollision with an object weapon

[strong wren]

I would have the weapon affect whatever it hits.

[spring kayak]

how would you do that? i mean lets say we use the oncollisionenter method, then what?

[strong wren]

Get health component of whatever it hit and do its thing.

[zinc osprey]

Hello, can someone explain why this debug is giving me this error?

[timber comet]

Did you put: public class Something : Mononehaviour (<- This)

[zinc osprey]

yes

[timber comet]

Got it, you need: using UnityEngine.Ui;

Put it with the other using stuff

And you should be good

[zinc osprey]

ye it works

thx ❤️

[timber comet]

Np

[swift crag]

yeah, there are a bunch of namespaces that Image can come from

[short agate]

Hi, I don't even know if this is where you ask this type of question. I have this problem, I've been learning for about 4 days just how to make games, I'm following a tutorial, but my character looks like this when I jump on the wall, so the bug appears and the player manages to get around it and jumps off the walls. I've already reviewed everything and I don't know what else to do...

[swift crag]

I do not understand what the problem is.

"but my character looks like this"

is this a visual problem? a gameplay problem?

[shell sorrel]

like a visual thing, or is this gettin stuck on colliders you dont think it should be?

[rocky canyon]

classic velcro wall?

[short agate]

Both, it visually looks like this sometimes if you just jump on the wall, and it also affects the game, since if the player wants to "cheat" he can keep jumping on the walls....

[rocky canyon]

yup, velcro wall

[empty dust]

pretty sure he addresses that in the vids no?

[rocky canyon]

on ur colliders/rigidbody you can use a low friction Physics material

and it'll slide right off

[short agate]

No, I think it must be the collider. tilemap collider 2d. but I don't know what to do. He gets shaking sometimes too, when you press him against the wall

[rocky canyon]

? is it a rigidbody playr?

how u moving it?

[swift crag]

okay, so the problem is that you're getting "stuck" on walls

[rocky canyon]

it shouldnt be shaking at all

[empty dust]

let me check my unity i was follwing the same tutorial lol

with the deadpan german guy right?

[short agate]

As I don't speak English, I'm translating, maybe they're not extending it hahah, I'll send a video

[empty dust]

lol okay that maybe it

maybe screenshot how you've set the terrain up too

[worthy merlin]

Yeah its defined with public int playerScore { get; private set;}

Srry for the delayed response. in School rn

[shell sorrel]

ok but how are you moving the player

[rocky canyon]

whats ur first language?

[short agate]

portugues brazil

[empty dust]

have you placed the terrain and background on seperate layers?

[short agate]

yes

[shell sorrel]

you are not moving your player using the rigidbody but its transform directly, that is the root of all these issues

[short agate]

I'm following the tutorial hahah

he had no problems with his

So to solve it I would have to change how the character moves? I thought there was something wrong with the collider jkkk

[low path]

the issue is that while iterating over a collection, you are removing items from that collection, which messes up the iteration. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7193294/intelligent-way-of-removing-items-from-a-listt-while-enumerating-in-c-sharp

[buoyant knot]

then PipeMoveScript needs to access a playerScore, which is on a particular instance of a LogicScript

[low path]

you should also move the "getcomponent<enemyManager>" to outside the loop, at least assuming there is only one manager

[buoyant knot]

if you just write playerScore, it will check its own class for that variable, but won’t find it because that’s not where you put it

[amber spruce]

why doesnt this work

Spectating.activeSelf.Equals(true);

i debugged it and after that is done it still is false

[swift crag]

did you actually check the value of activeSelf

oh, I think I see what you're thinking here...

[amber spruce]

Spectating.activeSelf.Equals(true);
Debug.Log("Spectating is: " + Spectating.activeSelf);

yep

[swift crag]

that just checks if activeSelf equals true

it doesn't mean "set it to be equal to true"

[amber spruce]

oh it doesnt

[swift crag]

yes. Equals is defined for every single kind of C# object

it's used to test if two objects are considered equal

[amber spruce]

k thanks

[swift crag]

activeSelf is read-only

[amber spruce]

i fixed it

[swift crag]

just use SetActive to change the active state of a game object

[shut spade]

when does it happen?

[queen adder]

Seemingly randomly. When I add a component, when saving a prefab, when switching to another software tab, at any moment in any scene, etc..

Sometimes happen many times in a row, sometimes doesn't happen for an entire day

[shut spade]

i think it could be a corrupted file, lack of memory or an script that might crash it idrk

[swift crag]

I'd delete the Library folder and let everything re-import

see if the editor behaves any better after that

it'll take a while to do that

the editor will forget a few things, like which scene you had open

[queen adder]

A few hours?

[swift crag]

no, probably not that long

especially for a small project

[rich adder]

like 5-20 mins depending on your pc / project size

[queen adder]

Oh ok that sounds ressuring haha

What if that doesn't work?

[rich adder]

well try that first, then come back 🙂

[queen adder]

Sure

[rich adder]

you are using unity 2019?

[queen adder]

Yes

[coarse shore]

anyone got a good yt channel that teaches unity in different parts and explains it rlly clearly?

[rocky canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCGBMmMOFw&list=PLFt_AvWsXl0fnA91TcmkRyhhixX9CO3Lw&ab_channel=SebastianLague

[languid spire]

does not exist but !learn does

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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

[coarse shore]

TYSM

ill watch both of them

[rocky canyon]

unity learn is more like txt / video / project type lessons

[rich adder]

structured course *

[rocky canyon]

there ya go ^ its that

[languid spire]

but Sebastian is definitely not for a rank beginner

[rocky canyon]

so you wont be watching unity learn.. more like engaging, reading, watching, doing

[rocky canyon]

that series is pretty good for beginners.. it helped me get concepts of variables methods etc from the first few videos..

but i agree as he does standalone projects they're pretty code heavy and he doesnt explain much

[languid spire]

Sebastian is very good, but he expects a lot of thought from his viewers, something which appears to be sorely lacking nowadays

[rocky canyon]

yes agree'd, some of his stuff he forgets to show bits of code that makes the entire system work.. so u sometimes have to go solo and figure out that missing piece 😅

[coarse shore]

imo, he's explaining things quite clearly, but that might be bc im already doing python at skl so some of the terms r linked

[rocky canyon]

yea ull be good using both

[languid spire]

everyone wants a magic 'Make my game' button

[coarse shore]

nah, i want a "make me understand" button

[rocky canyon]

awesome! lol

[languid spire]

nice try, doesn't exist either

[coarse shore]

btw is c# " or ' sensitive?

[rocky canyon]

oh and !ide not sure uve done this

[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)
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• VS Code
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

[coarse shore]

like does it matter which quotation we use for strings?

[rocky canyon]

but make sure ur stuff is configured correctly before u go hamm on the code

i think " is encouraged

[languid spire]

yes it matters, ' is char " is string

[rocky canyon]

c# is also case sensitive

very moody language imo

[coarse shore]

i had a unity arc for like 4 days and then i said "nah i aint doing this" so i already got this stuff

[rocky canyon]

but straight forward

[coarse shore]

basically like python

[rocky canyon]

wtf is unity arc?

like you went on a unity learning spree for 4 days?

[coarse shore]

yes pretty much

[summer stump]

Python and c# are significantly different in many ways. It's one of the more difficult language jumps.
But of course most programming concepts are the same. There are variables, loops, condition flow, etc

[rich adder]

negative

[rocky canyon]

i made a bot with python and i had enough.. i much prefer c#

[coarse shore]

i was talking abt the case sensitive part

is it similar right?

[summer stump]

I know

Yes

[coarse shore]

oh

alr

[rich adder]

aren't most langs case-sens lol

[rocky canyon]

i mean similar as in both are languages that can make stuff..

[coarse shore]

true

what does void mean?

[summer stump]

Nothing
The method returns nothing

[swift crag]

void is a special type that means "nothing"

[rocky canyon]

well i mention that because 5/10 problems i see ppl with are just simple spelling errors

[swift crag]

you can't create a variable of type void

[coarse shore]

sebastian uses void to make a function, what does void do in that?

[rocky canyon]

if ur function u write doesn't need to return anything back then its void

[swift crag]

you don't use void to "make a function"

void is simply the return type of the function

[rocky canyon]

functions can return data back

but you'll learn that farther on

[swift crag]

public void Whatever(int parameter) { Debug.Log("The value of the parameter is: " + parameter); }

[rich adder]

farts

[swift crag]

this declares a method (a function that is part of a class) named Whatever

it takes one int parameter..named parameter!

and it returns void, meaning it doesn't give you anything back

[coarse shore]

oh i see

[swift crag]

Every method declaration must have a return type

[coarse shore]

when would u need to use void?

[swift crag]

when your function doesn't return anything

[rich adder]

perhaps take a c# course

[coarse shore]

yh i prob should

lol

[rocky canyon]

   int AddNumbers(int a, int b)
    {
        return a + b;
    }

    void SayHello(string name)
    {
        Debug.Log("Hello, " + name + "!");
    }```

void doesn't give anything back.. it only takes in the string and Displays it with "hello" attached

int is an integer of course.. so that function AddNumbers can take in two ints.. and return back one.. (in that case its just adding them)

and both of those are private

[rich adder]

T AddNumbers<T>(T a, T b) where T : struct
{
    dynamic aa = a;
    dynamic bb = b;
    return aa + bb;
}``` 🤯

[rocky canyon]

exactly

lmao

[coarse shore]

how would u call them, would u just do "int AddNumbers(1, 2)" ?

to call the first function

btw ik that u dont need to put 1 and 2

u can put any numbers

[rocky canyon]

using UnityEngine;

public class Example : MonoBehaviour
{
    void Start()
    {
        int result1 = AddNumbers(1, 2);
        Debug.Log("Result of AddNumbers: " + result1);
    }

    int AddNumbers(int a, int b)
    {
        return a + b;
    }
}```

anytime u needed those two ints added ud just call it like normal.. in that case we declared a new int called result1 and set it to be w/e that function returns

so result1 equals 3 when it runs

[coarse shore]

alr i understand

so to call it u js do AddNumbers(1, 2)

[rocky canyon]

;

[coarse shore]

oh yh

mb

[rocky canyon]

yea basically

[coarse shore]

alr ty

[rocky canyon]

    void Start()
    {
        int number1 = 1;
        int number2 = 2;

        int result1 = AddNumbers(number1, number2);
        string resultString = "Result of adding " + number1 + " and " + number2 + ": " + result1;

        Debug.Log(resultString);
    }

[rich adder]

string resultString = $"Result of adding {number} and {number2} : {result1}" 😏
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/tokens/interpolated

[fathom bramble]

Hey all!

I uploaded my unity project to GitHub so I can work on it from multiple devices.

But this only worked if I used a .gitignore which ignored some of the larger directories in the project folder such as Library.

But if I clone my repository on my other device, will unity project still work? Will those folders auto generate from the editor?

Thank you!!

[rich adder]

yup

[languid spire]

yes

[fathom bramble]

Thanks! Was I right in assuming they’d autogen then?

[languid spire]

yes, you could have tried this in the time it's taken to ask this question

[fathom bramble]

I couldn’t have 🙂 my other device is back at home and I don’t go back till tomorrow. Currently visiting parents and I created the project here on my laptop

I guess I could have tried cloning it into a new repos

Either way, thanks!

[tepid cove]

where can i find the link to setup vidual studio code so its not all blue?

[summer stump]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[tepid cove]

cheers!

[languid spire]

odd, I always thought the point of having a laptop was to take it with you wherever you went

[fathom bramble]

I do! I have my laptop with me here and my desktop back home. I made the project here but want to be able to work on it on both

Though I realize now that I guess I could have cloned the repos into a different folder on my laptop as a test

Either way, the assurance helps

[hearty trout]

Hey Ima have my first game be a turned based movement strategy game where you pilot your character to explore all 3 duegons or sum and then have them have keys and when key = 3 u can do the boss battle ig how does that sound instead of an rts to start 💀 AKA a tactis engine game ig

[languid spire]

no, you miss my point, tomorrow when you get home you will have both your desktop and your laptop, so it's simply a question of connecting your laptop to your desktop in order to be able to work on your project from your desktop

no cloud required

[fathom bramble]

Very good point. I just like GitHub because the cloud backup aspect and version control is nice

Though I totally see what you’re saying

Is unitys source control better than GitHub’s? Never tried it

[languid spire]

imao, it's crap

stick to git

[swift crag]

I didn't enjoy using it when it was still branded as Plastic

[fathom bramble]

Fair enough ^^

[swift crag]

Lots of weird problems with the editor integration

I could not trust it to work correctly

[rich adder]

its hot garbage

[languid spire]

if you really want a good laugh (read cringe) install the Version Control package and then go and look at the source code

[rich adder]

Unity still trying to compensate for bad investment, kinda funny they are beating a dead horse at this point. No amount of "in my face" about VC in hub is gonna make use that trash

[languid spire]

it's rubbish, worse than that, it's dangerous rubbish because it lulls unsuspecting users into a false sense of security

[rich adder]

yeah exactly, the ones who come here and have a problem is usually unity's VC and not git, very rare you get git problems

[languid spire]

git is great, when you take the effort to learn it, in the wrong hands it too is dangerous as we see too often here

[coarse shore]

this might be a confusing question but can a class be inside of another class?

[languid spire]

yes

[coarse shore]

alr ty

i thought i was wrong to assume that 💀

[languid spire]

not a problem. you just reference it as MyClass.OtherClass

[coarse shore]

would u call the class the same way u call a function?

[rich adder]

You can nest many many classes, should you ? prob not

[misty helm]

I would say, you probably want to avoid it.

[coarse shore]

alr

lol

[misty helm]

I'm not sure where to ask this.
Does Unity Version Control have an equivalent to Github Issues?f
And Can I make a Project Public?

[rich adder]

here we go again..

we were just talking about this

[rich adder]

check the docs?

its not very intuitive system

your best bet is to ditch that mess and just stick to Github + git

[misty helm]

good to know. Thanks

[summer stump]

Basically yes. You access the inner class via the outer class

[languid spire]

pretty sure a UVC project cannot be public

[coarse shore]

i see, alr tysm

[final kestrel]

Hey guys. I have a question. I have a footstep sound that is 2 seconds long. One step starts at 0 and the other at 1. Which leaves the last second empty. I have this code here that handles the audio source responsible. I used coroutine because I wanted to prevent w spamming and the sound. I put a delay to stopping time as well. The script works what I want it to but there is a problem. I want it to complete the footstep if its already started and not immediately stop after the delay. Do I need 2 footstep sounds or can I do anything in the script? https://hatebin.com/adejjjcfdp

[polar acorn]

An Issues page is still useful internally

[languid spire]

not saying it's not, just answering the question asked

[polar acorn]

Ah, right, I literally only read the first half of their question and then my brain just... stopped. I didn't even realize there was more afterwards

I think it's the f typo after the question mark, my brain just went "Yep it's a float" and stopped reading

[languid spire]

rofl

[queen adder]

Ok I deleted and reimported the Library folder and unfortunately it's still doing it. I deleted a component on a prefab and unity froze. Maybe the problem is when the project saves but I'm not sure. (and only happens in the editor)

[rich adder]

does your version of unity work fine with blank/new projects ? try making a copy of proj and open it with another version of Unity?

[queen adder]

Doesn't converting a project into a newer version of Unity potentially cause errors?

[rich adder]

sometimes, but you are doing it on a copy so it doesnt hurt

[languid spire]

minor or patch version change, usually not

[rich adder]

its worse going backwards

ie from newer to older

[languid spire]

Unity does not support project regression

[rich adder]

ya if you know what ur doing some stuff can be fixed, by manually messing with the manifest

[languid spire]

export/Import if you want to regress, it's the only sane way

[swift crag]

as long as you don't go back to a version that serializes your assets differently, you'll...probably be okay

wink

[queen adder]

Yeah I can try that, it's just strange the log doesn't say anything about the freezes

[rich adder]

wish I knew this years ago when I had to fix a 2020 project back to 2019 . I was infant back then tho

[rich adder]

well if its frozen how can it output any information

also did you try a new project to make sure it isnt your Unity version ?

[ashen wind]

I'm trying to get a ui object to follow the mouse, so I have this

    void Update()

        if (icon_dragging)
        {
            icon.rectTransform.position = Input.mousePosition;
            Debug.Log(icon.rectTransform.position);
        }
    }

and it's printing out the mouse position, but the ui object isn't moving at all

[modest dust]

So basically you have 2 footsteps in one audio file and want the currently playing footstep sound to complete when the movement stops?
Just have 2 separate audio clips and play them alternately.
Also I believe there is no need for any coroutines here or (de)activating the audio source all the time, just check the methods and properties available for AudioSource, you can change the clip and call PlayDelayed(delay_in_seconds):
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioSource.html

[ashen wind]

I feel like I'm missing something obvioous

[rich adder]

are you sure you don't want to move with .anchoredPosition ?

[languid spire]

like actually reading the RectTransform documentation and seeing how to move a RectTansform correctly?

[ashen wind]

ok please don't be rude. I read the docs

I'm still not clear on the difference between anchoredposition and position though

and switching it to anchoredposition didn't seem to do it

[final kestrel]

All right thanks. Is it common practice to do footsteps like that? I mean using 2 different sounds for right foot and the left?

[languid spire]

did you see
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.SetPositionAndRotation.html

[rocky canyon]

yes, its better than 1 sound

[ashen wind]

yeah but I'm not sure how to implement it. this doesn't work

icon.transform.SetPositionAndRotation(Input.mousePosition, icon.transform.rotation);

[summer stump]

I use more than 2. Using random.range to draw from an array or if it's a bunch of actors I will build a few sequences of randomized ones

[queen adder]

I've been using this version for years and only did this in the last couple of months. I suspect it's a package from the asset store that it's doing this, maybe, but I have no real reason to belive that

[final kestrel]

I will write the whole thing using Audiosource methods then. And figure out how to play them succeedingly.

[rich adder]

[SerializeField] RectTransform rt;
    private void Update() {
        rt.position = Input.mousePosition;
    }```

[ashen wind]

yeah but that's a regular gameobject right? mine is a ui object parented under the canvas

does that make a difference?

[rich adder]

Nope

[summer stump]

That is a ui element

Since it is using rect transform

[rich adder]

the "regular object" is the one with the script

not relavent

[ashen wind]

        GameObject icon_obj = new GameObject("icon");
        RectTransform trans = icon_obj.AddComponent<RectTransform>();
        trans.transform.SetParent(transform);
        trans.localScale = Vector3.one;
        trans.anchoredPosition = new Vector2(0f, 0f); 
        //trans.sizeDelta = new Vector2(150, 200); // custom size
        icon = icon_obj.AddComponent<Image>();
        gameObject.AddComponent<BoxCollider2D>().size = trans.sizeDelta;

this is how I declare it

is something in here messing with the code or something? like the anchoredPosition or the parenting?

[summer stump]

You're adding a recttransform?

[rich adder]

btw recttransform can just be casted from transform

RectTransform trans = (RectTransform)icon_obj.transform (assuming your object does have RectTransform)

[ashen wind]

I figured it needed a recttransform to be a ui element

[summer stump]

Seems like what you want is a prefab...
Because doing it this way seems like it's breaking things

[rich adder]

it becomes Rect element usually if its spawned as child of a canvas

also yeah just use a prefab it and instantiate

[low path]

at the very least, a prefab would let you play around with the settings until it behaves right

[acoustic crow]

https://github.com/Just1n12354/MyGameProblems

The coins are not being saved, can everyone help me

[rich adder]

wher

SaveCoin is blank

[queen adder]

Yeah lol?

[summer stump]

No, not smart enough

But it may have to do with SaveCoinUpdate being empty
And CoinToString never being called

[rich adder]

 void SaveCoin()
    {

    }
    void SaveCoinStart()
    {
        
    }
    void SaveCoinUpdate()
    {
        
    }```
help my coins arent saving

[queen adder]

Also this should 100% be its own class

[polar acorn]

Man people will do anything to avoid using a pastebin huh

[queen adder]

Did u copy and paste the code?

[rich adder]

never noticed this built in functionality in github

[molten saddle]

can enyone help me?

[rich adder]

https://dontasktoask.com

[molten saddle]

hey

but i need help

[queen adder]

Just ask

[rich adder]

read the link ive sent

[frigid sequoia]

How could I store all the base materials of a object and replace all of them for another material for a while and them back to the original ones?

[summer stump]

They were saying you should just say your question, and yeah, we may be able to help

[swift crag]

you could just store the .materials property of the renderer

[molten saddle]

here

[swift crag]

the array you get is a copy; it won't change when you replace the materials

[rich adder]

you clearly have a copy of this class method

[neon fractal]

Why does the beam go further than its range?

[queen adder]

Why did u copy the method so many times?

It says u defined the same method like 5 times

[frigid sequoia]

I have srqched that this does return an array of all the materials, but how do I assing one particular material to all the material slots?

[summer stump]

Those line numbers!

[molten saddle]

just tell me how to fix it and ill be going

[summer stump]

Remove the methods that are copied

[swift crag]

Store the array into a variable. Assign the materials into the array. Assign the array back to the materials property.

[rich adder]

only use 1 method?

[molten saddle]

oke

[swift crag]

The array the property returns isn't the array that Unity is using to store the materials. It's as new copy every time you get the .materials property.

So modifying its contents directly won't do anything

renderer.materials[3] = ...

[languid spire]

more to the point, why are you trying to do multiplayer when you obviously do not know c# basics?

[swift crag]

this sets index 3 on the returned array

[molten saddle]

thanks

[swift crag]

which doesn't do anything to the renderer

[rich adder]

yes perhaps learning basics of c# before you try to Mod anything..

[molten saddle]

ok bye

again

dang it

[summer stump]

You have to implement those methods

[queen adder]

Ur deriving from a interface

[eternal needle]

Helping for modding or decompiled code isnt allowed here

[queen adder]

Meaing you HAVE to define those methods that are in the interface

[frigid sequoia]

So I have to get the array from .material, save it as a variable, modify the array and store it in other variable, and give the modified array as the new .materials?

[swift crag]

Correct.

And if you want to remember the original materials, store materials in a field before you do that

[molten saddle]

witch one

[rich adder]

bold of you to assume they know what an interface even is

[swift crag]

I presume this is some kind of gorilla tag mod

[summer stump]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[low path]

if i'm reading this corrrectly, i believe what you are doing is casting a circle 5 units from the origin of your guy, where the circle has a radius of castRadius. i think that what you want to do is cast it at a distance of 0, with your cast radius.

[queen adder]

I would hope so

[summer stump]

#📖┃code-of-conduct

[swift crag]

yes, which sounds wrong

Sounds like you want:

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

Or if you want to use a specific collider:

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

[neon fractal]

Thank you, I hadn't noticed.

[low path]

i think using a circle collider might simplify things for you? https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CircleCollider2D.html

[ashen wind]

ok I switched everything to be prefabs instead of dynamically generated

but it still doesn't move

the debug says the values are changing

but the inspector doesn't

[low path]

did you show your object hierarchy?

[rich adder]

are you sure you referenced the correct object?

[ashen wind]

i'm getting a null reference exception now on icon.sprite = sprite;

even though icon is referenced in the prefab

Icon is an Image component

so it has a .sprite property

icon is null

that's the problem

but I can't see why it would be when I've given it a reference in the prefab and I'm spawning the prefab

[rocky canyon]

you have to spawn the box and then get its icon.. if i think im seeing this right.. you can use a reference of something inside the prefab.. i think ur referencing the prefab from the project window. and not the instance of hte prefab that u actuallly spawn in the game

is that right?

[ashen wind]

ok nvm the null reference exception was unrelated and i solved it

but the image still doesn't move

[wind raptor]

I have a ui button that calls a function on an event trigger. On the same gameobject as my button, I have a script with a boolean member. Is there a way to either call a different function based on that boolean member, or to call a function with that boolean member as a parameter, while keeping things mostly in the inspector?

[rich adder]

you still havent answered my original q :\

[ashen wind]

let me test that

[wind raptor]

How can I access this parameter?

[worthy merlin]

Google didn't do a great job explaining this; Does a static Variable not get reset whenever I reload my scene?

I got a playerScore variable and despite the scene restarting it starts on 10 instead of 0

[queen adder]

Click on it?

[wind raptor]

from a script

[eternal needle]

Your static variables have no knowledge of what the scene is. It is a value associated to the type, not an instance

[queen adder]

Show the script?

Does the DoThing() method have a bool parameter?

U cant access parameters from a method?

[wind raptor]

Yes, I want to be able to change what gets sent as that boolean parameter within a script

[worthy merlin]

Hmmm. guess I should find a way to fetch a variables data in another script without static then

[queen adder]

When the method is called do some internal logic instead of trying to change what parameter gets passed into it

Have a field on the class thats a bool and check it that way

[wind raptor]

Basically I'm trying to create a "latching" button. When clicked, it calls a function. When "unclicked", it calls a different function. My boolean parameter was just an attempt at a workaround.

[queen adder]

U shouldnt be trying to change method parameters via the inspector IMO

Oh u should look into the OnPointerDown and OnPointerUp

When the mouse is clicked and Released

[rocky canyon]

yea. lol thats weird.. thats more like a simple way.. if u want a button to passing in false or true.. or w/e u could just call different functions instead

[wind raptor]

Sorry, not unclicked. When clicked, one function, when clicked again, a different function.

So I'm tracking, on the button side, whether the button is latched. If latched, clicking it calls a different event

And unlatches it

[queen adder]

Yeah you should do internal logic on the methods themselves to check the current state

You can still use the UnityEvent for whatever method. That method just has to check whats going on

[rocky canyon]

if ur doing stuff like latching it and tracking it.. ur logic should know everything..

no need for that exposed bool..

[queen adder]

Yeah?

[rocky canyon]

thats for the inspector

[queen adder]

When its via the Inspector thats pretty much a constant parameter for the method

[rocky canyon]

like if ur wanting a quick button to do one thing or the other.. u can tick the bool (in the inspector) for different behaviours

but if ur using the same b utton to do many things.. ur logic should just keep up with that

[queen adder]

agreed

[wind raptor]

Yeah I don't actually like that workaround where I'm changing the boolean value getting sent as a parameter. My whole goal here is to keep everything decoupled and have a button with an extra state (whether it's latched or not) which changes the event called based on whether the button is latched, while making use of the unity event system

[queen adder]

Again

[wind raptor]

I know how I could do this with additional references, but I was hoping to have this latched button object which is just as simple as possible

[queen adder]

You dont need additional references

Just have a bool that checks if its latched or not and that method can have a simple if statement

That class just needs to be on the same Gameobject as the button

[rocky canyon]

 private bool isButtonPushed = false;

    // Method to handle button push logic
    public void ButtonPush()
    {
        if (isButtonPushed)
        {

        }
        else
        {

        }
    }

    public void ToggleButtonState()
    {
        // Toggle the button state
        isButtonPushed = !isButtonPushed;

        // Call the button push method
        ButtonPush();
    }

u call the same method each time.. and let ur logic do the handling, edit: you probably could call the ToggleButtonState() and that would handle latching or w/e

[queen adder]

in ur case horsepork

if (IsLatched)

Unless were missing something?

[rocky canyon]

no reason to have that variable exposed if ur just gonna pass in a variable to change it

thats all im sayin

[wind raptor]

Here's where I lose the convenience of Unity events though. For a normal button, I can just add the function call that happens when the button is clicked. Boom, easy. What I'm trying to accomplish is the same level of convenience using my latching button. And I'd like to keep the "latched" boolean on my button object, because I visually change the button based on whether its latched

[queen adder]

If im reading this correctly

U cant do that via the Inspector at runtime

[wind raptor]

That's what I'm becoming convinced of.

[rocky canyon]

lol, yea that tickbox is for the developer

[wind raptor]

Forget the tickbox

[rocky canyon]

not the code 😄

i cant forget it.. ur logic was all based off it

did u ever share ur code?

[queen adder]

It was pseudo code

[rocky canyon]

u want a controller script for the button

[queen adder]

he didnt even name the class

[rocky canyon]

this isnt how u should be thinking

u want the script thats controlling the button to know if its latched or not

and keep up with it

if something needs to know the buttons state it can ask the script

[queen adder]

Yeah thats why i said if im reading this correctly?

[rocky canyon]

not the button object

[queen adder]

Yeah it should be inversed

Its not bad to do something by code

[frigid sequoia]

When it shows (instance) it means that if I were to modify the material, it would only affect this instance right?

[rocky canyon]

yeap

most times you need to copy the material.. change it and then reset it

[wind raptor]

And so a reference to that button script needs to be given to the object whose function I wish to call

[rocky canyon]

changing stuff on materials gets iffy

[queen adder]

Theres a class that button derives from

[rocky canyon]

or the object whose function you wish to call.. could ask the utton script

so have a reference to it

it would know ALL the states of thebuttons

[queen adder]

I cant remember the name but u can make ur own button with extra functionality if u insist on no references

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, I just wanted to swap the materials to something transparent while they do sorta of an spawn animation; but still not sure how to do the full thing though, so I have been trying different approach for the last few days

[buoyant knot]

modifying the material itself can be tricky because shaders are more complex. But swapping from one material to a different material (both of which are already made) should be fine

[rocky canyon]

https://hatebin.com/lkwyqmnjhq @wind raptor

[rich adder]

netcode

[rocky canyon]

it'd be something like this.. the button script handles all the states the button can be in

[wind raptor]

This is becoming more of an intellectual exercise than practical at this point, but yeah a reference to the button may be necessary.

One last attempt at a workaround. Can I have a serialized field for a function call from a different object? So that I could drag in an object and specify the function, just like it is done for unity events?

[queen adder]

again theres a button class

UISelectable

[rocky canyon]

Button! i dont know anything about the Button class lol

[wind raptor]

Okay yeah, but in your switch statement there, can I have callbacks to functions that were added in the inspector?

[rocky canyon]

never had to use it.. not really modifying my buttons beyond making them interactable or not

[queen adder]

It has all the same stuff u need for a button

And u can add ur own stuff to it

[rocky canyon]

ya u can

you can use the UnityEvent system i believe

to invoke but idk about any of that

[queen adder]

Theres more classes to derive from then just The MonoBehaviour inside of unity

[grim raft]

Hi, I'm applying some forces to an object to make it move in the FixedUpdate, should I multiply the forces for Time.deltaTime? When should I do that?

[buoyant knot]

check your units, and all the math will make sense

[summer stump]

You would do that for moving a transform
But AddForce applies deltaTime already for the modes that need it.
Velocity is meters per second, so it doesn't make sense to use there