💻┃code-beginner

[queen adder]

all right thank you then

its my bad

[jade quarry]

can i ask how would I change the speed at which the thingy moved ? (using Speed)

[vale karma]

you should probably go through the absolute basics. these are quite simple coding concepts

like a tutorial from one of the big utubers, they explain really well the simplistic side of things

[jade quarry]

any recomendations ?

[vale karma]

https://youtu.be/XtQMytORBmM?si=XVDWpsP2qJ764uWD

do absolutely everything he suggests, do it twice, start changing things up, variable names, add things, recreate the wheel, and most of all complete it

[jade quarry]

aright thx

[vale karma]

np

[summer stump]

That video probably doesn't go over this, because navmesh's aren't really an absolute beginner subject, so I just wanted to point out that the NavMeshAgent component has a speed property in it
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AI.NavMeshAgent-speed.html

So just agent.speed

[foggy lion]

Is it possible to duplicate the current scene and then load into it through code?

[teal viper]

copy paste the scene file, add it to the build settings and load it through code

[foggy lion]

I can't duplicate it through code? I have a endless level game and it displays the current level (Based on the current scene number)

I also have a score counter that is related to the current scene

So I was hoping that it was possible to duplicate scenes through code

[teal viper]

In the editor, you probably can. At runtime, no.

[foggy lion]

Thats a shame

I guess I could use a int that isn't destroyed upon reloading the scene

[teal viper]

Yeah, it feels like you tried to approach the problem from an extremely weird angle

[foggy lion]

I do that a lot lol

[radiant frigate]

can i get a little help? im kinda struggling with 1 thing with the particle system

(trigger warning, my friends is laughing hard asf, and sounds like a chimp straight out of the zoo)

the issue is that it somehow does more than 1 cycle and more than 3-5 particles per cycle

(had to do a zip since it was to big for uploading it to discord)

[foggy lion]

Hey so my idea worked, but now it (the score counter and other stuff) seems to be duplicating

Eh its fine for now

I need to go to bed any way

I can always work tmro

[teal viper]

Use https://streamable.com/ to upload share videos if they are too long.

[silent vault]

Hello, if I want to make a multiplayer FPS game, what is the best method to use for bullet ? Physics bullet or simple raycast ?

[teal viper]

These are different approaches design-wise. So you need to decide which one you want.

[radiant frigate]

https://streamable.com/w9llz8

[teal viper]

Physics bullet is gonna be harder to implement though, especially in a multiplayer context.

[stuck jay]

Physics bullet if your game is very low poly and has low resolution textures, otherwise use raycasts

[teal viper]

It's hard to say, but I guess it's because you have a burst interval of .01, so it keeps on spawning 100 bursts per second.

[radiant frigate]

so i should change it to 0 or 1?

[frozen mantle]

haven't opened VSCode in a while for my project, got this after updating, should i regenerate my project file or "upgrade" my project to an "SDK-style" project?

[teal viper]

Depending on what you want, yeah

[radiant frigate]

i want it to just happen once

[teal viper]

Try following the !ide config guides:

[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

[teal viper]

Then set it to 0. And also make sure that the particle system is not looping in the main module.

Also, this is really not a code question.

[radiant frigate]

true

i enabled that for testing and forgot to unable it

[radiant frigate]

srry it was before because i was trying to call it with code and one thing lead to another and i forgot to change places

[frozen mantle]

thanks, tho i found that regenerating my project files fixed it. Still thank you for your time!

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so this is kinda of a way too generic question, but when should I use events instead of, you know, have it build in the object script itself?

Cause I have been looking about it and I am not still sure what the advantage is supposed to be

[static bay]

What do you mean?

[frigid sequoia]

For what I know is meant to be sorta of listener of something happening and then sending like a pulse to several other scripts subscribed to it to do something in response, but I don't quite see the advantage of that over just, having the scripts be the listener themselves

[static bay]

How would you make the scripts "the listeners themselves"?

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I guess performance, but like how many simultaneous scripts you must have for this to be even noticiable?

[frigid sequoia]

Just write the trigger you have on the event system on the scripts that are suscribed to it?

[verbal dome]

With events you can get notified when something changes, instead of having to continuously ask if it changed

[static bay]

Uuuuh can you clarify?

[frigid sequoia]

How so? Like they don't check every frame to see if the thing they are checking for is changed?

[verbal dome]

Yeah

[verbal dome]

I also dont get this

[static bay]

Ok good, I was worried.

[frigid sequoia]

I am figuring "check for button to be pressed to open several doors"; you could have an event listener checking for the button press and tell all doors to open when is pressed, or you could have each door trigger when that specific button is pressed instead of using a event listener as intermediary

How much less is efficient is this supposed to be?

[static bay]

And how would these doors check if the button has been pressed?

Wait

When you say "EventListener", which implementation are you referring to?

A UnityEvent?

A C# event?

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, just in the same you would do in the event listener? With collision detection and a boolean I guess

[static bay]

OnTrigger/CollisionEnter?

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, I though they were the same, you are getting me more confused now

[verbal dome]

Why use collision detection etc. when you can just make the doors listen to the button's C# event?

[static bay]

For that door example I would literally just make some DoorManager script, give it a reference to all appropriate doors, have a method called "OpenAllDoors" and call that method through the Unity Button's OnClick event.

[frigid sequoia]

Shouldn't the button event have a collision detection anyways to, you know have something to listen to?

[static bay]

Is this a UI Button >_>

[verbal dome]

Like when it is physically pressed? Sure, but not related to events

[static bay]

Or some "button" gameobject in the real world?

[verbal dome]

I was thinking physical lol

(Ingame)

[frigid sequoia]

I am not refering like an UI button with an "onclick" method, I was thinking more of something a puzzle game, portal-like, where it check if something is on top

[verbal dome]

Sure, you probably want to detect the button press by physics or something.
But its not related to how you make the doors know that the button was pressed

[static bay]

Alright. Point is I would 100% make it so all your buttons or interactables or whatever work through events. You could end up with tones of buttons/levers/pressure pads that do all kinds of things when their conditions are met.

Use a UnityEvent specifically, and hook it up in the inspector.

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, so what I am saying, is I guess you do gain significant performance if there is many things that you want to trigger when X happens, but in an somewhat contained scene, do you really gain much by having events instead of having every "doorScript" check for the "buttonScript" to see if they should be oppening instead?

Cause is seems kinda the same but with more steps

[static bay]

Ah, okay. So you're suggesting the doors check the state of the button every frame?

[verbal dome]

That would work. It just doesnt scale very well. For a small project its fine

Getting used to events is good tho

[frigid sequoia]

Yeah, pretty much, I am actually wondering now why do events only check for changes but normal scripts cannot do that

[static bay]

Ok now I understand. Like Osmal said it doesn't scale well. Lots of doors checking the state of the button every frame is sort of a waste. It's really not an fps problem until you get literally hundreds of doors, but the main issue with that set up, in my opinion, is structural.

A doors job is just to block the player, to open and close. How and when it opens/closes is irrelevant and not its job to figure out. Like I said before imagine if you instead wanted a lever to open the door. How are the doors going to know they need to check the state of a lever instead of a button? It's much better to flip it around. It's the button or levers job to notify the door that it should open/close.

[frigid sequoia]

I actually did something similar in a small project before, I just had all stuff than could trigger other stuff have a parent class with a "isTriggered" bool and just assign that to the thing I want to be triggered when the they are

But, yeah, I must say that project was kinda of a mess structurally

[static bay]

Let me get a code example for you. 1 sec.

Put this on your button.

public class Interactable : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] UnityEvent onInteract;
    [SerializeField] UnityEvent stopInteract;

    public void Interact()
    {
        onInteract.Invoke();
    }

    public void StopInteract()
    {
        stopInteract.Invoke();
    }
}

And this for your door.

public class Door : MonoBehaviour
{
    public void Open()
    {
        //Handle your door opening logic.
    }

    public void Close()
    {
        //Handle your door closing logic.
    }
}

On the inspector of the Interactable you'll see slots.

Slot in the Door object, and call the appropriate functions. @frigid sequoia

Whatever triggers the button should just do a GetComponent for Interactable and then call one of those two functions.

Now anything in your game can work with any interactable if they work through that Interactable component.

[silent vault]

Indeed. My main issue with raycast solution is that the ray only seems to use one vector to calculate if it hits anything, it's not a line like an actual bullet. I'd like to use a 3rd person view meaning the check would need to cast from the weapon to the middle of the screen.

Is it possible to do with a raycast ?

[teal viper]

It's not a line, but a ray. A line can fit in a ray. You can also do a linecast if you want. I'm not really sure what the problem is..?

[silent vault]

Ok nevermind my question, I found a tutorial online, cool.

[static bay]

Maybe he's talking about fall off?

Like gravity pulling it down over time?

[teal viper]

That wouldn't be a line either. That would be an arc

[silent vault]

No, I'm talking about line of sight. Most tutorial about raycast will jsut tell you to raycast using the center of the camera. This might work in a FPS because the gun would be conveniently placed in the center too.

[teal viper]

You can raycast from wherever you want.

[silent vault]

But with 3rd person view, the bullet is not shot from the center of the screen, so the raycast need to be calculated differently. And most tutorial don't explain that

[teal viper]

Maybe look for tutorials that cover 3rd person shooting then.🤷‍♂️

[silent vault]

That's what I'm learning about now

Yes indeed 😉

Looking one right now, thanks

[static bay]

You can define whatever start point you want for a raycast. If you're worried about the fact that the position of the muzzle doesn't match the sight line of the player...

ya all FPS need to deal with that

definitely some solved solution out there

No wait you want a 3rd person.

[silent vault]

Yup indeed. This will solve my issue. I was using physics bullet but I'm worried with many players, it might slow down the server and moreover, the hit collision is a bit quirky when bullets go too fast.

[static bay]

Ya. "Hit-scan" weapons are basically raycasts.

Rockets and other slow moving projectiles are usually actual physics objects.

[silent vault]

This is called hit-scan weapons ? I didn't know

Yes, for rockets and projectiles, that would use real bullets indeed but that won't be hundreds of bullets flying around with such weapons ahha

[static bay]

Well that's more of a Shooter game term. Hitscan weapons usually mean there's no travel time with the bullet, which is what you'd get out of a raycast.

[minor patio]

...the reference is null...
...the reference is null..!
...THE GODDAM REFERENCE IS NULL!!!

[static bay]

Make it not null.

[silent vault]

Oh, thanks for the explanation, I didn't know about this.

[static bay]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitscan

[silent vault]

An interesting read. The part about adding a delay to make it more credible is quite smart, didn't think about that.

[static bay]

No problem. Hitscan is a good approximation because bullets travel ridiculously fast, usually hundreds of meters a second.

A real bullet would likely travel the length of the entire map in a handful of frames.

So fuck it.

Shits too complicated to actually simulate.

Let's shoot lasers instead.

[silent vault]

Indeed lol

I'll jsut have to look for a proper trail tutorial since i'd like to simulate a nice bullet trail like my current physics bullets leave behind.

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, now I get it, so you are not procesing anything at runtime, you are just invoking the methods from runtime when needed, yeah, that makes so much more sense to me now, thxs for making it more visual

[timber tide]

basically just render a line

[static bay]

Ya pretty much. Just to help with your vocab a bit, "at runtime" just means when the program is running.

[silent vault]

But a simple line between point A and B would not really show the bulelt travelling, would it ?

[static bay]

Events are still executed "during runtime".

[silent vault]

It would be a laser but I'd prefer a bullet representation

[static bay]

We're just not updating them "every frame".

[frigid sequoia]

I mean, you could kinda call "runtime" when the whole game is running, since it is the main thing, but yeah I got what you say

[static bay]

Just one more example to really hammer home the advantages of events. Imagine a PlayerHealth script and a PlayerHealthUI script. How does the UI know to update the health? Sure, you could give PlayerHealth a reference to PlayerHealthUI, and update it whenever the health is changed, or make PlayerHealthUI check the state of PlayerHealth every frame.

Or.

You give PlayerHealth a event called "OnHealthUpdate" which takes in an int/float.

and call a method on PlayerHealthUI to update the visual.

[frigid sequoia]

I am doing just rn. When the player takes damage, the health value changes, and the UI get updated, but at any other time is that method used in any way

[static bay]

Now PlayerHealth has no idea the UI exists, and PlayerHealthUI has no idea who it's getting its info from.

[frigid sequoia]

So I am guessing is kinda the same

[static bay]

And this is nice because you can easily cause more things to happen when the player takes damage.

Screen shake?

Blood splatter?

Scream noise?

Just slap it all into that health update event.

Nearby enemies can even subscribe to that event and increase their aggression when the player gets hurt.

Creating some type of swarming behaviour.

Point is, PlayerHealth as a class doesn't care/know about any of this.

It's just screaming "hey this value got updated', and whoever cares about that can do whatever in response.

[frigid sequoia]

I am just kinda having all that on the playerController takeDamage method, that's seems more organized though. Mine is kinda bloated

[static bay]

As you learn, you'll eventually start making smaller and smaller classes.

Each handling one thing, but working together.

[hot wave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zfnxcKFaJg hihi I managed to make a code that follows holding directly from the cursor (not directly, it is intersecting but is a different story, still directly from the middle part form raycast), now I am not sure how to make something similar to this video, i have a feeling it is transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, targetRotation, ishouldputthecodehere); at the end, but instead of rotation, it is position i think, and 'ishouldputhtecodehere' says how fast or slow it could go there, maybe this is the one i need to change to copy the one in the vid? or more complicated?

i kind of want to put weight as well and mouse speed to affect the object

[spring quail]

Hey, so far I have 2 scenes on my project and I manage to make menu so the player can go from the scene "main menu" to the "level1" using "SceneManager.LoadScene(_mainMenu);". I put the same postprocessing on both scene but when I play and load a new scene, the postprocessing and light effect seems to disappear

My bad, postproceesing seems to work, it's only about lightning, don't know why

Oh ok I think I fixed it, it needed to generate lightning in the rendering lightning settings, and it creates a file that will store the lightning information and apply it while loading new scenes

[stuck jay]

Does Destroy(this) refer to the script or the GameObject?

[keen dew]

the component

[stuck jay]

I have a script called "HealthRegenOnCollision" that adds HealthRegeneration.cs on collision to the collider, functioning as poison, but I don't know how to prevent the object from adding more than one script so that there'd be only one poison HealthRegeneration script. The only solution I came up with is adding an if statement that prevents the object from adding the script if there's already a HealthRegeneration component. But I want both poison and health regeneration to apply.

[hot wave]

you want to make a script, but want to say if it is poison or health?

[stuck jay]

I already have the script, HealthRegeneration

Actually I think I found a solution

[tall delta]

So you do want more than one HealthRegeneration on a gameobject. But not more than one type maybe? One way to solve this is to add an ‘type’ enum to the HealthRegeneration then make sure to never add more than one type at a time (or maybe you want to reset / increase the duration of type) if you come into contact with the same source again. You could also add a ‘source’ property to HealthRegeneration and track that the same source can’t add more than one component. As you can see there are many ways to deal with this, but it does depend on the game design.

[hot wave]

i think you could make a dictionary, or if else

but I am just a beginner, might not be the best solution

personally, I'll add public int itemType; in the health or poison thingy

[stuck jay]

I came up with a similar solution a while after placing this question here, I already have a bool to check if it's a status so in the OnCollision script I'll just only allow it to add the script if isStatus is false

Gonna tag this for the future, it might not work if I decide to implement a health regeneration status

[stuck jay]

Also, why not just use an Enum for itemType?

[tall delta]

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

I made a quick example of what I was trying to say, but I got gpt to write it for me and I haven't checked how solid it is / if it actually works.
but it might help as an example 🙂

[faint agate]

In this clip, there is a bug where if I move too fast in the air. My camera does some kind of glitch, and it pushes up where I can see my body. any tips on why that is and how I can fix?

[spiral narwhal]

How would we know without seeing the camera controller script

[faint agate]

one second

https://gdl.space/hirenejacu.cs

https://gdl.space/ququcocafe.cs

[quick pollen]

https://hastebin.com/share/goyeveduke.csharp
so I have this script here

and I have the problem where I can't call the coroutine I want inside of a coroutine

I just get An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine(IEnumerator)'

which makes 0 sense

the main issue is that this is a class inside of the main class

and that class does not derive from Monobehaviour

[languid spire]

it makes perfect sense, your class does not derive from Monobehaviour

[quick pollen]

but I can't have it derive from monobehaviour either

[languid spire]

so pass a monobehaviour as a parameter into a method that starts the coroutines using it

[quick pollen]

i cant really do that

idk what you mean by pass a monobehaviour as a parameter, for first

should I have a completely different script just for running a single coroutine

[languid spire]

say you have this

class MyClass : MonoBehaviour

void StartSomething() {
   burstPattern.StartSomethingElse(this);
}
and then in BurstPattern you have

void StartSomethingElse(MonoBevaviour mono) {
   mono.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(10));
}

[quick pollen]

actually before I look into this

what if I do this

just creating the IEnumerator inside of Update

[languid spire]

that makes absolutely no sense

[quick pollen]

this is confusing

so a completely new script

for that

basically 3 lines of code

[languid spire]

any mono script will do, I mean you must be calling StartCoroutine from somewhere coz it's not in BurstPattern

[quick pollen]

my main monobehaviour/class is PatternHandler

[languid spire]

and that tries to start WaitAfterStart ?

[quick pollen]

ig I can use that?

[quick pollen]

inside of Update, yes

[languid spire]

so that where you need something like
burstPattern.StartSomethingElse(this);
to pass the PatternHandler as a parameter into a method on BurstPattern

[worthy merlin]

Is there even a point to regions. The one video I watched was suggesting it but honestly, feels like its useless. Why not comment above the text

[languid spire]

It can be convenient for collapsing large blocks of code in the ide but other than that, no

[worthy merlin]

oooooh

Ok I see it now. guess we are using that 😄

[tall delta]

as someone else already said, you can't start a coroutine like this. it needs to 'belong' to a game object / monobehaviour. two easy options:

1. use a static reference to start the coroutine: GameManager.instance.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRateCT * i));
2. make it an async function instead of a coroutine

[quick pollen]

I think I got it

[languid spire]

Except async methods cannot call Unity api's which Shotgun is doing

[quick pollen]

        internal void startWaitCoroutine(MonoBehaviour mono, float fireRate)
        {
            mono.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRate));
        }
        internal IEnumerator WaitAfterStart(MonoBehaviour m)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToStartCT);
            for (int i = burstCount; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                startWaitCoroutine(m, fireRateCT * i);
            }
        }```

this is in the class which doesnt have a monobehaviour

[tall delta]

what are you on about, yes you can

[quick pollen]

then I do this in the monobehaviour class bp.WaitAfterStart(this);

[languid spire]

you could just have done

internal IEnumerator WaitAfterStart(MonoBehaviour mono)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeToStartCT);
            for (int i = burstCount; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                mono.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRateCT * i));
            }
        }

[quick pollen]

oh

lemme try that

nothing happens

and i have no clue how to even debug it

this is the full file https://hastebin.com/share/iwabihabeq.csharp

SprayPattern rn is completely irrelevant

[icy junco]

i have a question about making a menu where you can choose ladout is it better if i put the ladout manager on the player prefab or make a new script and just put it in my scene

[languid spire]

not
bp.WaitAfterStart(this);
but
StartCoroutine(bp.WaitAfterStart(this));

[quick pollen]

omg im so stupid

i swear if this makes it work

it actually did

thank you!

I just need to figure out why it fired twice

[wintry quarry]

I don't see how it would make sense on the player prefab at all. As far as making "a new script" actually I would expect something like a load out management system to involve dozens of scripts.

[languid spire]

the important thing is do you understand WHY it works?

[quick pollen]

yes, I do

well

90% basically

[languid spire]

rofl

[quick pollen]

it feels unconventional

[languid spire]

my middle name

[quick pollen]

because if PatternHandler derives from MonoBehaviour, and BurstPattern is a class inside PatternHandler, then why doesn't BurstPattern also derive from MonoBehaviour

or at least let me use the coroutine

[languid spire]

not the way c# works

BurstPattern does not derive from PatternHandler, it is a class private to it, that's all

[quick pollen]

yeah I get it

[languid spire]

you could if you could make PatternHandler a Singleton then you could do
PatternHandler.instance,StartCoroutine(..);

[quick pollen]

yeah, problem is its not a singleton

okay its working flawlessly

thank you!

I had some jank going on which triggered it to fire twice but i got it

[languid spire]

tbh I'm not a great fan of nested classes unless there is a really good design reason for them being so

[quick pollen]

idk if this counts as really good design reason

i just dont want to hardcode patterns

so this makes it very easy and fast

[languid spire]

whether those classes are nested or not makes absolutely no difference

[swift crag]

The only thing that's special about a nested type is that it can access the private members of its containing type.

(and that anything outside of the containing type has to refer to it as ContainingType.NestedType

[hot wave]

ah, what is enum?

[swift crag]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/enum

[hot wave]

I havent tried yet

[swift crag]

An enum is an enumeration type. It's a type with a specific set of values.

[languid spire]

let me give you a good example of nested class usage :-
I have a Database class which is responsible for all database access
I have a nested Interface ITable which defines the access for a database table
I have 4 nested classes each implementing ITable
Now it makes no sense for any of those classes to be used outside of the Database class because it is only within that class that they can hold relevant data

[swift crag]

You literally enumerate all of the type's values

enum Season
{
    Spring,
    Summer,
    Autumn,
    Winter
}

[hot wave]

ah, it is like dictionary?

[swift crag]

No.

[stuck jay]

To keep it short, special variable that you assign. Instead of making itemType 0, 1, 2 etc, you can make itemType equal to Heal, Damage, etc

[swift crag]

A dictionary is a data structure, not a type.

Season is a brand new type (just like declaring a class or a struct)

[stuck jay]

Seasons are always used as an example for some reason

[swift crag]

Seasons and colors.

[hot wave]

aah, I need this

[swift crag]

Dictionary<Season, int> is a dictionary mapping Season to int

seasonDict[Season.Spring] = 123;

Season.Spring is a value of the Season type

Just like 0 is a value of the int type and "Hello!" is a value of the string type.

[hot wave]

is like, bookpages, then dictionary is like library?

[swift crag]

no, I would not say that

well

maybe

Dictionary<Key, Value>

[quick pollen]

thats almost what I'm doing
technically PatternHandler is a database, and BurstPattern is an ITable, if we use your example
ok not exactly, more like BurstPattern is a class implementing an ITable but yknow

[swift crag]

Key is like the words in the dictionary, and Value is like the definitions.

Dictionary<GameObject, float> stores a float for each GameObject key you give it

List and Dictionary are the two most common data structures I use.

Lists holds a bunch of things. Dictionaries store a value for each key.

[languid spire]

so BurstPattern and SprayPattern would be Tables? Then it makes sense

[golden ermine]

Hi guys, I have a problem with my Saving system in Unity. When I click on Save button it should make .json file with all game data saved and when I load the game from main menu it should just load me that data but for some reason it doesnt. Here is saving script: https://hastebin.com/share/efobihiduv.csharp and here is GameState script where I save all variables: https://hastebin.com/share/riniyipemi.csharp . Also in Saving script my Debug that says "save" doesnt appear but it worked before and I havent changed anything...

[hot wave]

thank you fen, lord

I will try adding them

[swift crag]

"but for some reason it doesn't" is very vague

it sounds like your saving script isn't running at all if nothing is being logged

[quick pollen]

well yeah, they're tables of what "patterns" i want

[hot wave]

maybe the code is unreachable in save

ah, but it worked before?

[golden ermine]

Im very confused because my saving script worked 5min ago and I saved my game, then I loaded game from main menu and worked perfect, I tried again with different values(different player and cam pos and death count) I saved and loaded and then it loaded save values that I saved before. It didnt overwrite .json file and I dont know why. Then I deleted that .json file and now it wont even save nor load data...

[languid spire]

Understood, generally for code cleanness I would put nested classes at the bottom of the enclosing class so as not to pollute the logic of that script, style police, I know, but my 2 cents

[hot wave]

ah, is it in unity stored thingy, like in the scripts and the unity editor

like when I assign 10 as speed in script but set as 15 in unity, or diff case

[quick pollen]

oh, yeah that's valid @languid spire

[golden ermine]

oh okay, what should I do then

[worthy merlin]

Ok so my current heading recently broke in my code. Basically I am trying to get a 0-360 heading where it counts up clockwise and once it hites 360 it returns to zero.

To calculate heading I use:

currentHeading = rb.rotation < 0 ? 360 + rb.rotation : rb.rotation;

but it always goes into the thousands.

[hot wave]

not sure if it is what is causing it or if that is the case

[quick pollen]

tho most of the logic is inside of those nested classes themselves

the only logic except those ones is just the update calling them

[languid spire]

you still have a pretty hefty Update method which kinda gets lost in the mess

[golden ermine]

i think it isnt cause I didnt change anything inside unity inspector of game objects

[quick pollen]

    void Update()
    {
        stunTime = EnemyStagger.StaggerInstance.stunDuration;
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.H)) phaseNumber++;

        foreach (BurstPattern bp in phases[phaseNumber].shotgunPatterns)
        {
            if (stunTime > 0f)
            {
                bp.activated = false;
                bp.burstCount = bp.burstsFired;
                bp.started = false;
                StopAllCoroutines();
            }
            else bp.activated = true;

            if(bp.activated && !bp.started)
            {
                bp.started = true;
                print("Test");
                StartCoroutine(bp.WaitAfterStart(this));
            }
        }
    }```
this is essentially all my update method does rn

I just need to implement this same coroutine solution for the spraypattern too

which should be the exact same length

[languid spire]

In C it was always declare first, use after. Luckily in C# we are not so bound to this

[quick pollen]

I also added a StopAllCoroutines() because I use recursivity in one of my corotuines

        internal IEnumerator RepeatPattern(MonoBehaviour m)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeBetweenBursts + burstsFired * fireRateCT);
            for (int i = burstsFired - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                m.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRateCT * i));
            }
            if (loopPattern) m.StartCoroutine(RepeatPattern(m));
        }```

this is probably not the nicest way of doing it

especially because when a "phase" ends, all firing stops and everything

without that stopallcoroutines it just kept on adding more and more RepeatPatterns

[queen adder]

Oh....

[swift crag]

I'd suggest keeping a list of the relevant coroutines.

them you can just stop everything in the list

[quick pollen]

well, rn I only have 2

so yknow

[languid spire]

internal IEnumerator RepeatPattern(MonoBehaviour m)
        {
           while (loopPattern) {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeBetweenBursts + burstsFired * fireRateCT);
            for (int i = burstsFired - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                m.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRateCT * i));
            }
            }
}

[queen adder]

Would that many coroutines going off be a perfomance issue?

[quick pollen]

it should be fine

[queen adder]

If it ever becomes a problem you can cache the WaitForSeconds

[quick pollen]

theres only one RepeatPattern coroutine going off at the same time

[languid spire]

possibly, something for the profiller

[queen adder]

You dont have to new it up every time you start the coroutine, slight perfomance increase in case you ever need it

[quick pollen]

problem is looppattern is a bool which is set in the inspector

its basically to see if you only want a pattern to run once, or for it to have a delay and repeat once its done

[languid spire]

then you still have infinite loop potential

[quick pollen]

yes, thats why I used a StopAllCoroutines(); whenever the phase ends

[languid spire]

nasty, cowards way out

[quick pollen]

ikr

I could use some bool to check if the phase is going on or not

actually

i think i have that already

oh yeah i do

whoops

[haughty tinsel]

Hi I am searching for some help would anyone accept to help me ?

[queen adder]

You dont have to ask to ask. You can just state ur problem brother 🙂

[quick pollen]

yeah but it still kinda "caches" them up so ill just use StopAllCoroutines to be extra safe

[queen adder]

Ah i remember this

[quick pollen]

it shouldnt have fired those 3 at the end

[signal cosmos]

I have a question related to Zenject. I have a MonoBehaviour script and a service. Where should I implement the movement logic, and what should I do with the basic components (e.g., Rigidbody2D, etc.)? I'm not quite sure how to properly design this. Can you help me, please?

[haughty tinsel]

Thanks. I am doing a project for school but I don't really have the programming skills so I asked chatGPT but now I face a problem that ChatGPT doesn't help me to solve : My Coroutine never stops. I put some Debug.Log as you can see and only the "Desactivation" appears, not the "Reactivation".

[thorn holly]

Does it log AfterWaitForSeconds?

[haughty tinsel]

No

[swift crag]

Deactivating a game object kills all coroutines on all MonoBehaviours attached to it.

Are you disabling a game object in DesactivateScript?

[haughty tinsel]

public void DesactivateScript()
{
Debug.Log("Desactivation");
peutSeDeplacer = false;
}

[quick pollen]

aw yep

[haughty tinsel]

I make a bool false

[quick pollen]

you deactivate it

[swift crag]

That does not deactivate a game object.

[queen adder]

What does the bool do?

[quick pollen]

oh wait

whops

[swift crag]

unless you use that boolean to deactivate a game object elsewhere

Share the entire script, please. !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.

[quick pollen]

i also dont get why u need a coroutine to change your scene

[haughty tinsel]

if (peutSeDeplacer && !enDeplacement)
{
DetecterDeplacement();
}

[quick pollen]

just send the full thing

instead of going on a wild goose chase message by message

[haughty tinsel]

Because my player is doing a weird thing when i change my scene. I think you would remake all my scripts but i Don't really have the time

[haughty tinsel]

okay

[swift crag]

use one of these websites to share the entire script.

[quick pollen]

use a link from above

yea

[haughty tinsel]

I don't understand this utility

[swift crag]

go to https://gdl.space

paste your code into the site

click the save icon

copy the URL of the page (which will have changed) and paste that here

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/mepeloyuvu.cs

okay thanks

[swift crag]

also share the script that contains this code

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/jorazunide.cs

Sorry for the french variables/functions names

[quick pollen]

id guess it has to do with this

[swift crag]

SceneChanger is probably being destroyed.

It needs to still exist after the new scene loads.

[quick pollen]

huh?

ok nvm

[haughty tinsel]

It's for another thing

[swift crag]

StartCoroutine runs the coroutine on the object that called StartCoroutine

[quick pollen]

I can semi-understand french bbut also why tf have a function for a function that already exists

[swift crag]

If that object is destroyed, the coroutine stops.

[haughty tinsel]

Oh you're probably right because the script is on an object that is on the ancient scene

[quick pollen]

thats the issue yep

[swift crag]

it's reasonable to write a predicate, especially since the logic might become more complicated later

although it is a bit silly here

[swift crag]

I would suggest keeping something in the DontDestroyOnLoad scene. Run the coroutine on that object instead of on SceneChanger

You could even run this on the player object...

[quick pollen]

I'd say this makes it more complicated just in itself

[quick pollen]

or have SceneChanger be in DontDestroyOnLoad

[haughty tinsel]

Like the SceneChanger is on the Player and it verify if the other has a tag which would activates the Scene change ?

[swift crag]

Are there many SceneChangers in your game?

[haughty tinsel]

Yes

But 1-2 by Scenes

[swift crag]

What you can do is have the SceneChanger call a method on something in DontDestroyOnLoad

And that thing then runs the coroutine

Maybe call this the "Scene Controller"

[haughty tinsel]

The Scene Controller would stay on all scenes and just runs coroutines ?

[swift crag]

It would be in DontDestroyOnLoad

[proven herald]

I'm looking for a mathematical formula for failure rate based on times fired that would be easily tweakable, thoughts?

[swift crag]

So it would not be in a specific game scene.

[swift crag]

Do you want failures to be completely random, or do you want them to get more likely over time?

[quick pollen]

totalOutComes/favoredOutComes?

[proven herald]

the more shots fired the more likely, probably just a formula that gives a % chance of failure based on the amount of shots fired

[quick pollen]

oh nvm

[swift crag]

you could just use an AnimationCurve if you want to tweak it interactively

[haughty tinsel]

How would I put in DontDestroyOnLoad

[quick pollen]

or some BLM system

[swift crag]

you already use it in SceneChanger

DontDestroyOnLoad(other.gameObject);

[haughty tinsel]

Yes for the player doesn't get destroyed

[swift crag]

What you could do is check if a "Scene Controller" already exists

[proven herald]

maybe just like

shotsFired / likelynessOfFailure / 100 and then cap it

[swift crag]

If one doesn't, create a new one from a prefab and call DontDestroyOnLoad on it

You could also do this when the game starts

[quick pollen]

divided by 100?

[swift crag]

This would be a good place to use FindObjectOfType.

SceneController controller = FindObjectOfType<SceneController>();

if (!controller) {
  controller = Instantiate(sceneControllerPrefab);
  DontDestroyOnLoad(controller.gameObject);
}

controller.ChangeScene(targetScene);

[proven herald]

idk that's how i'd get a percentage

[swift crag]

Add a key at 0,0 and at 500,0.01

[haughty tinsel]

okay and the Coroutine is in this scripts ?

[swift crag]

now you have a 1% chance of failure at 500 shots

[swift crag]

Yes, you'd put the coroutine in the "Scene Controller" component

[haughty tinsel]

okay thanks i'll test that

[swift crag]

you just need to make sure the object you run the coroutine on still exists

[swift crag]

That's why I was thinking of just doing this

player.StartCoroutine(...)

[haughty tinsel]

oh

[swift crag]

That might actually be the best way to do this

[haughty tinsel]

Okay

[swift crag]

As long as the player object is never deactivated

Find the player and start a coroutine on them

StartCoroutine is a MonoBehaviour method. You can call it on any MonoBehaviour.

[haughty tinsel]

Sorry but what's a MonoBehaviour ?

[swift crag]

public class SceneChanger : MonoBehaviour

It is the class you inherit from to make your own components.

[haughty tinsel]

Oh okay

Thanks

[quick pollen]

a is the likeliness of failure while x is the number of attempts

y is the chance of failure between 0 and 1 (100%, 0%)

[haughty tinsel]

I can't access the Coroutine which is on the player from SceneChanger

[swift crag]

You do not have to move the method.

player.StartCoroutine(ChangeScene());

It doesn't really matter where you got the coroutine from.

It matters who you give it to with StartCoroutine

[haughty tinsel]

I a

I am really sorry but I don't understand how to do it I get the error "'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'StartCoroutine' and no accessible extension method 'StartCoroutine' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)"

[grizzled zealot]

I am trying to rotate a vector to match the gameobject's rotation. It should be Vector3 posOneAhead = transform.rotation*Vector3.up; but I get a compile error that I cannot multiply Quaternion with a Vector3.

[wintry quarry]

that should actually work just fine. However you could also just do transform.up to get that same result.

I suspect your error is coming from a different line of code.

Not sure what you are asking to fix, but also this isn't a code question.

[tall delta]

I guess you want 'transform.position' not 'transform.rotation'?

[grizzled zealot]

I want transform.position + transform.rotation*Vector3.up

Basically, one step ahead of what it's facing now.

[tall delta]

posOneAhead = transfrom.position + transfrom.forward;

[wintry quarry]

transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.up)

or what simex wrote

[grizzled zealot]

And how do I get 90 degree to the left?

[wintry quarry]

-transform.right

or TransformPoint(Vector3.left)

[ivory bobcat]

new position = position + forward * speed

[haughty tinsel]

@swift crag Are you here ?

[ivory bobcat]

-transform.right would be the left direction

[swift crag]

Do you have a "Player" class?

A component you put on the player object.

[haughty tinsel]

No

I have a tag

[polar mica]

Hey, i have a little question, I want to make a Ball Game and every ball should have its own float variable, but just use one script on a Prefab. And if i put the Variable up, all Balls get this Number, but i want that just one specific one has it. Can someone help at this?

[swift crag]

Show me the inspector for the player object.

[wintry quarry]

Show your code. In normal circumstances a variable on the script is unique to that one object.

you did something wrong

[swift crag]

Any of your components would work.

[swift crag]

also, if you don't want to run the coroutine on the player, you can just use DontDestroyOnLoad to prevent SceneChanger from being destroyed

and have it destroy itself when it's done

[wintry quarry]

this script doesn't look like it lives on each ball

this looks like a singleton

[haughty tinsel]

But why do I get an error ?

[swift crag]

Because GameObject does not have a StartCoroutine method

[wintry quarry]

If it is on each ball it doesn't matter much because if your other code is using instance to access it, it's all only accessing that ONE instance.

[rose galleon]

Like this?
transform.position = new Vector2(dashPower, 0);

[swift crag]

Only classes that inherit from MonoBehaviour have that method.

[haughty tinsel]

So i need to try the second option ? This one ?

[swift crag]

It sounds simpler to me.

[haughty tinsel]

But the GameObject will stay between the scenes for some time

[polar mica]

Oh okay, i understand, thank you, so i have to change the instance, and retrieve the value somehow different

[wintry quarry]

If you explain what you're trying to accomplish maybe I can suggest a better solution.

How and when are you trying to read the Value number and what are you trying to do with it?

[frigid sequoia]

I have been locked not knowing how to write on a method for a while. How do I... increase a value over time given the time and the value I want to increase but do it on a exponential rate?

[wintry quarry]

Well "exponential" is pretty vague but generally just means the rate of increase is itself increasing

so something like:

float rateOfRateIncrease = 1; // acceleration in units/s^2
float rate = 0; // rate of increase in units/s
float currentValue = 0;

void FixedUpdate() {
  currentValue += Time.deltaTime * rate;
  rate += Time.deltaTime * rateOfRateIncrease;
}```

[haughty tinsel]

Thanks Fen it was the problem you were thinking but i, now, have another problem

[languid spire]

value += increment;
increment *= increment;

[swift crag]

An exponential function's rate of change is proportional to its current value.

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/iconamidaz.cpp I changed my script and now I have this problem : "NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
SceneChanger+<AttendreChangementScene>d__5.MoveNext () (at Assets/Scripts/SceneChanger.cs:53)"

[wintry quarry]

then:

void FixedUpdate() {
  float rate = someRatio * currentValue;
  currentValue += rate * Time.deltaTime;
}```

[buoyant rune]

maynn how do i make my character damage the enemy
lemme show u the code
this is my enemy attack script
https://gdl.space/penowabiga.cs
works fine when the player is in zone it gets damaged
https://gdl.space/dafobaloco.cs this is the script for patrol behaviour
this is within the player controlller script

i literally dont undestand why it doesnt work

[wintry quarry]

What debugging steps have you taken?

Have you added any logs to make sure any of the code is actually running?

[buoyant rune]

havent added logs no

[wintry quarry]

that's step 1

add logs in OnTriggerEnter. Log the object you collided with. log its tag. Log whether it has the Health component on it. etc.

[frigid sequoia]

To be more especfic I want to do typical thing where score increases by X but it doesn't happen instantly, but more like... it goes really fast at the beggining and slows down at the end of the transition. So.... it would be the reversal of your solution?

[polar mica]

Every time the Ball touches a Wall the Value gets one up. And after a Time the Value gets addet to another Variable

[languid spire]

so this
player.GetComponent<DeplacementPersonnage>().ReactivateScript();
which means that player does not have a component DeplacementPersonnage. Assuming player is not null

[worthy merlin]

How do you get a rigidbody Velocity to convert to a Vector3 slerp. I need the Vector2 velocity value to become its 3rd argument

[wintry quarry]

what do you mean by "after a time the value gets added to another variable"?

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand this sentence. What are you trying to accomplish?

[wintry quarry]

Sounds like you just want Mathf.SmoothDamp

[haughty tinsel]

Yes thanks I thought of the same thing

[wintry quarry]

or perhaps DoTween.DoMove but with an easing function like this https://easings.net/#easeOutExpo

[worthy merlin]

So my goal is to make the Main Camera follow my player object. While I got the player down it is struggling to keep up with its velocity, so I wanted to make it follow the player by matching the players velocity

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

public class CameraFollow : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Vector2 FollowSpeed;

    public AdvancedPlayerMovement status;
    public Transform target;

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        FollowSpeed = status.currentVelocityRaw;
        Debug.Log(FollowSpeed);
        Vector3 newPos = new(target.position.x, target.position.y, -10f);
        transform.position = Vector3.Slerp(transform.position, newPos, FollowSpeed*Time.deltaTime);
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

Slerp is for direction vectors

[haughty tinsel]

Okay Fen I am really sorry for the waste of time but it didn't fixed my problem to have a coroutine...

[wintry quarry]

not position vectors

[swift crag]

Yes, SmoothDamp would accomplish that. SmoothDamp approaches a value without overshooting it, and it moves faster when it's further away from the value

[swift crag]

Show me your new code.

[worthy merlin]

correct, but what slerp is doing for this is moving the camera in the direction of the player

[wintry quarry]

TO be perfectly honest you should really just use Cinemachine - which has damping features.

[haughty tinsel]

But the Coroutine activates ect it's not the problem. My Player does the weird thing anyway

[wintry quarry]

it's inappropraite. Lerp would be more appropriate but still not totally appropriate

Vector3.SmoothDamp would be good

[worthy merlin]

Cinemachine 👀

[wintry quarry]

but yeah - use cinemachine

[swift crag]

Cinemachine solves most of your camera problems for you.

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/adivojataf.cpp Here my code if you want

[wintry quarry]

you will get this behavior in a few clicks with cinemachine

[worthy merlin]

roger

[frigid sequoia]

This sounds like exactly what I am looking for, I am gonna try to mess with that thxs

[quick pawn]

I have a question - I've tried to hardcode a value into a script for turnSpeed, but it's not updating outside of the script. Is it because it's set to public and you can edit it from the gui?

[languid spire]

yes

[worthy merlin]

The one downside of youtube tutorials, they don't provide alternatives

[haughty tinsel]

@swift crag Could I add you, I could show you what the weird thing my player does

[swift crag]

No. Just describe the problem or record a video.

[haughty tinsel]

okay

[wintry quarry]

yes it's serialized so it's saved to the scene or prefab file now and has to be modified there.

If you want to hardcode it, don't serialize it

[quick pawn]

Ok. Are there any security issues with making variables public/is it a bad practice? Or will whatever my scene settings are set to be the ones pushed out when you compile and publish a game?

I've always been taught to set variables to private and put a setter/getter to change the variable

[wintry quarry]

Public variables are bad practice.

Yes the settings in the scene will go out in the build

[haughty tinsel]

@swift crag My game is not beautiful I know but the problem is happening the second time i take a scene changer

[quick pawn]

Is the alternative what I've been taught for general programming up to this point? Just make a getter/setter and call it from the other scripts?

[wintry quarry]

Yes, use accessors as needed

[swift crag]

okay, and what is the problem?

[night mural]

It's good to default to private but not because of 'security' -- assume that whoever has your game also has access to anything you ship with your game

[swift crag]

yes, it's a design issue, not a security issue

[haughty tinsel]

The movement of the playe

[swift crag]

You will need to explain.

[quick pawn]

Ok, thanks for your help @wintry quarry @swift crag

[haughty tinsel]

The first time it spawns normally but the second time after spawning it moves to its ancient position and I don't understand why

[haughty tinsel]

I didn't ask it to move

[swift crag]

Maybe it's always putting you where you were supposed to appear in the old scene

like you're positioning the player before you change scenes

[haughty tinsel]

Okay but if in my scripts i put the ChangeScene before the player positioning it doesn't change anything

[haughty tinsel]

What should I do ?

[spiral narwhal]

New to the convo, but I believe Fen means that you have something like this pseudo code:

SceneManager.LoadScene(...)
MovePlayer(...)

Check if the behaviour you happen after loading the scene is in a Start method

[haughty tinsel]

You want my script ?

[spiral narwhal]

Sure

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/ezobidahif.cpp

[languid spire]

OK, lets look at this

private void ChangerScene()
    {
        // Charge la scène
        SceneManager.LoadScene(Scene);

        StartCoroutine(AttendreChangementScene());
    }

what do you expect of the game object running this script when that code executes?

[haughty tinsel]

It loads the scene

[languid spire]

and then?

[haughty tinsel]

And the start the coroutine

[spiral narwhal]

Why is the code in French

[haughty tinsel]

Because it's my bad sorry

[languid spire]

but it does not exist anymore because you've just loaded a new scene

[haughty tinsel]

No i changed this so the gameObject stay in the scene

but it doesn't fix the problem

[languid spire]

so this is on a DDOL object?

[haughty tinsel]

DDOL ?

[languid spire]

Dont Destroy On Load

[haughty tinsel]

yes

I destroy it after with Destroy(gameObject);

[languid spire]

Ok, and when you destroy a game object you also destroy it's coroutines

[spiral narwhal]

1. You have made it DDOL on TriggerEnter, if colliding with a player. Usually this is done in Awake
2. Why do you need to DDOL your objects in the first place? Why don't you perform whatever AttendreChangementScene does in Start?

[haughty tinsel]

yes but the coroutines have already been done

[languid spire]

unlikely

[buoyant rune]

my player controller script - https://gdl.space/uqenesahul.cs
health script - https://gdl.space/ofugokivap.cs
enemy attack script - https://gdl.space/fapijutoli.cs
enemy patrol script - https://gdl.space/udovokeweh.cs

can someone help me please, Im creating a 2d platformer game and I need to be able to attack the enemy, so far my attack animation just plays but doesnt actually deal damage what do i have to do to make it deal damage.

[swift crag]

the Destroy call is at the end of the coroutine.

my understanding is that the coroutine is completing properly

the player is just appearing in the wrong place?

[haughty tinsel]

Fen would explain better i don't know

[haughty tinsel]

yes but it doesn't always happen

[swift crag]

the point is to make the SceneChanger survive the scene loading process

I originally suggested just making a SceneController that is created once and handles all of the scene changes

[languid spire]

that makes sense

[swift crag]

Perhaps you just have the wrong spawn point in one of your scenes.

[quick pollen]

easiest way is to

1. have an empty gameobject
2. parent it to the player
3. stick a boxcollider2d on it and make it as big as you want it
4. make sure its a trigger
5. give it a tag like "PlayerHitbox" (doesnt matter much)
6. have the enemy do something when they collide with a trigger that has the "PlayerHitbox" tag
7. use a script to activate and deactivate that hitbox/gameobject whenever the animation plays

[spiral narwhal]

Oh it's used to load another scene? I thought it reloaded the current scene

[haughty tinsel]

I can give you the script but the spawn point is the position of the exit point

[spiral narwhal]

Are you sure your box cast is working properly

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/nakefocizu.cs Look at ReinitialiserPosition()

[haughty tinsel]

Exactly

[spiral narwhal]

It is used to reload the scene?

[haughty tinsel]

No to change the scene

[buoyant rune]

empty gameobject withinthis ?

[haughty tinsel]

to load another one

[spiral narwhal]

Okay, yes then you do need DDOL

[quick pollen]

yea

[spiral narwhal]

You want to keep the scene changer, and something else?

[quick pollen]

this is 3d but its the same idea

[haughty tinsel]

yes but it doesn't fix my problem

[quick pollen]

I use this one for parrying projectiles

[haughty tinsel]

My problem is this

[quick pollen]

projectiles have a check in them, where if they touch an object with the "Shield" tag, they get parried

[spiral narwhal]

To be honest I still don't understand the problem. If you want the scene changer to remain, you use DDOL in Awake. Whatever you want to happen after the scene loads, you put in a Start method.

[haughty tinsel]

My problem is the player moving to its ancient poisition when i change the scene

[spiral narwhal]

So where do you set the position after loading the new scene

[buoyant rune]

how do i make it so at this exact frame only it deals damage

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/nakefocizu.cs Look at ReinitialiserPosition()

[polar mica]

The Ball falls down and hits Walls. Everytime the Ball hits the Wall, the variable should add 1 and save it, like a cache. When it is on the Ground the Cache should add to a Money System, which i already have. But if i spawn 2 Balls the Value gets reset

[spiral narwhal]

You can execute an event at that position in the animator

[spiral narwhal]

What calls ReinitialiserPosition

[haughty tinsel]

it's depending on the position of the exit i took

[languid spire]

crappy AI code, again

[quick pollen]

@buoyant rune

effect

[haughty tinsel]

https://gdl.space/munajoqege.cpp last line of the OnTriggerEnter2d

[quick pollen]

what do you use for starting the animation

[buoyant rune]

the players idle animation

[haughty tinsel]

Yes I know but i really wanted to make a game and It worked since there

[buoyant rune]

if thats what u mean

[spiral narwhal]

Okay this is way too much code I don't even understand the language of, so basically I would do this:

1. You want something to remain after loading, you use DDOL on Awake
2. Whatever exit you take stores whatever variable you need in the DDOL object
3. Unity's Start method is called when the scene reloads
4. You use the variable you set to position the player wherever you like

[quick pollen]

also your enemy script here already has damaging implemented

it just uses Raycasts

[spiral narwhal]

If this doesn't help you, you should rely less on AI and learn C# and Unity fundamentals

[buoyant rune]

yes my enemy can damage me but the problemn is i wnat to be able to damage it aswell

i just dont know how to implement it

[haughty tinsel]

I know I should do it but now I don't really have the time

[quick pollen]

basically it draws a line from the enemy forward, and checks if the line touches the player

[languid spire]

The problem is that the AI knows nothing about coding and therefore nothing about floating point precision, you should do

[quick pollen]

well u have the tools

[spiral narwhal]

If you don't have the time to learn, you definitely don't have the time to make an entire game

[quick pollen]

howd you add the enemy attack script if you cant add the player attack script tho

[quick pollen]

not what I meant

whats telling your character to start the attack animation

which part of the code

[swift crag]

We don't have the time to help you with AI-generated code.

[buoyant rune]

within my player controller script

when i left clcik it plays the animation

[spiral narwhal]

But the animation works right?

[buoyant rune]

yep

[quick pollen]

on that same place you can activate the damage hitbox
you can serialize it as gameobject and use *gameobjectname*.SetActive(true)

[spiral narwhal]

So what happens afterwards and what is supposed to happen?

[buoyant rune]

if the enemy is within the sword hitbox, it should deduct x amount of enemy HP

[haughty tinsel]

I don't want to make an entire game it's just a simple game for a school project it's not that i don't have the time to learn it's tha I don't have the time to learn as I need to finish the prototype in 2 days

[haughty tinsel]

Okay sorry for wasting your time i'll search by myself

[languid spire]

If you don't have time, why should we waste ours on you?

[haughty tinsel]

Because you know how to code and I don't

[swift crag]

this is even worse; the whole point of a school project is to learn

[quick pollen]

I'm trying to explain to him how he should approach the problem instead of spoonfeeding the code
rn he has nothing for attacking

[languid spire]

wrong answer

[quick pollen]

you assume we know how to code lol

or that chatgpt knows how to code

it just fetches information from the internet

[buoyant rune]

serialize the sword hitbox?

[spiral narwhal]

Can you post the code that checks if the enemy hits the sword hitbox?

[quick pollen]

u know how u can type [SerializeField] GameObject *gameobjectname*; to serialize set what it is in the inspector

do that with the hitbox

[quick pollen]

he did

[spiral narwhal]

Ah gotcha

[quick pollen]

lemme link it for u

#💻┃code-beginner message

[spiral narwhal]

Just joined the convo ^^

[quick pollen]

the enemy uses a raycast

[buoyant rune]

alr, within this method im assuming^

[quick pollen]

all good :)

[quick pollen]

well thats a monobehaviour/script not a method, but yea

[buoyant rune]

oh okay

[haughty tinsel]

So nobody wants or know how to solve my problem ?

[rich adder]

"dont have time to learn"
why should we bother if all this is in passing

[spiral narwhal]

The problem is you wanting to code a video game without knowing how to code

[rich adder]

even worse, its for school

[spiral narwhal]

If you wanted to learn, sure...

But you don't even want that

[rich adder]

they apparently don't want to do their own school work

[buoyant rune]

should it be like this or like that

[grizzled zealot]

I want to implement a snap-to function where another game object gets snapped into a grid and then glued to another (FixedJoint2D). In the OnCollision2d function, I update the position of the transform and then immediately add the FixedJoint2D. It seems that I have to give the gameObject one more frame to update before adding the FixedJoint. How can I do that?

[rich adder]

You cannot serilize local var in the inspector

[haughty tinsel]

It's not that I don't know how to code I know some basics just not for C# In Unity and for bugs I don't know where it comes from some code of theses cripts are made by myself

[rich adder]

sounds like a bunch of excuses to me

[haughty tinsel]

I just wanted help by someone who knows more than me

[quick pollen]

this is why AI generated code is infamous.
Sure, it can make some things faster, but it will not teach you anything just copy pasting code
On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même, friend

[spiral narwhal]

Then why code your game in C# and Unity in the first place? I'm so confused

[haughty tinsel]

Because it's the thing i started to learn

with Unity Learn

[quick pollen]

you serialize at the start of the class

[buoyant rune]

yep did that now

[quick pollen]

goodgood

[spiral narwhal]

So you do want to learn. Then learn, that's what I said ten minutes ago. It's no good trying to get us to magically get your AI code to work. If you truly want to learn, go to YouTube and learn. I'm sure there are great materials pinned somewhere here as well

[buoyant rune]

should the code for the player attack be something similar to this

[spiral narwhal]

That's the last I'll say in regards to that

[rich adder]

nothing you sent was part of any unity learn courses

[quick pollen]

if you want to. Personally I suggested a simpler solution, but its not like the one u have

that one draws a Square in front of the enemy, and if it finds the player inside of it, it tells it to get hit

its not great from what I can tell, based off of the fact that it'll deal damage to the player even if the square hits a wall or the ground
actually not even that, but if it hits a wall or the ground you'll get an error in the console
it doesnt check if it hit the player, it checks if it hit anything

[haughty tinsel]

I am wrong okay, i maybe shouldn't have asked ai to do it but when I came here to ask questions it wasn't for the firt problem i faced. I solved other problems by myself and ChatGPT was not helpful for everything. I came here after hours of thinking and searching but nothing worked

[rich adder]

ok so what do you hope to accomplish with code you sent ? and how's that related to Unity Learn or your um School assignment?

[quick pollen]

oh wait am i being stupid

why is this a thing

[spiral narwhal]

A further improvement would be to use events. When you detect the collision the event is fired. That way the script doesn't even need to know about the other script. Plus, you can use it as a general component-based system, which is great for reusability and you can even edit it in the inspector

[quick pollen]

isn't this something that should be in Start or serialized?

[rich adder]

not for a raycast hit

[quick pollen]

oh I think I get it yeah

but itd be simpler to check if the touched object is the player or not, if it is, return true, else return false

o well

[buoyant rune]

I think for now i;ll keep it hjow it is

[quick pollen]

it wouldnt take much to fix it

but sure I suppose

tho for player attacking id suggest using the trick I said above

[haughty tinsel]

First you need to know that I didn't have to make a game it could be anything that people would see to sensibilize them to something in link with food/health. I chose to make a game because It's what I want since i am a child and I thought that i could do it with the help of an AI it wouldn't be that difficult. And it is not my only problem is this one otherwise I would probably have finished.

[buoyant rune]

this one??

[quick pollen]

yeah

[haughty tinsel]

Wrong answer sorry

[tall delta]

well because it's for school makes it worse imo, because that's means that you have the resource of an entire university as well as AI and community help behind you. yet, you still didn't pay enough attention in class, ask fellow students, or the professor for help. and now you want us to fix AI code you don't understand

[rich adder]

Well now did you realize that coding isn't just a "quick" thing ?

[iron hull]

Hey lads, so im trying to spawn a bunch of rigidbodies ontop of eachother in a circle radius and have them push out of each other, is there a way to get rid of these overlaps someway through settings or would i be better off coding it?

[quick pollen]

qucik

[haughty tinsel]

It's not an university and I don't have the ressources

[quick pollen]

that has nothing to do with it honestly

I'm still in high school, they dont teach us jack shit

yet u can still learn

[rich adder]

sounds like you need a simpler project

[haughty tinsel]

I knew that and it's not a problem for me my problem is that I don't understand how to solve lmy problem

[quick pollen]

im saying this as an above average student at an elite school btw
its easy to say this when u dont even pay attention to the lectures

[spiral narwhal]

You said it yourself, you have severely underestimated the amount of work making video games entails. Choose something else for your project

[rich adder]

learning to solve problems IS game development lol

[haughty tinsel]

My game is proably the simpliest

[quick pollen]

i still dont get wtf hes trying to do

[haughty tinsel]

Yes and doesn't it the right place to solve my problem I don't understand ?

[buoyant rune]

america or uk high school?

[quick pollen]

better, romania

[buoyant rune]

oof

[haughty tinsel]

isn't it*

[grizzled zealot]

What is a good way to make a rigid connection between two gameobjects that also transfers rotation? Using FixedJoint2D is ok, but it doesn't transfer rotation to the other gameobject.

[buoyant rune]

uk teaching for computer science at least before university is really bad

[rich adder]

yes but when you actually wrote the code and have an idea or two where its broken. We cannot help with broken code written by a SPAM generator , I mean AI

[quick pollen]

the problem is that the source of your problem is not yourself
youd at least have an idea what the code does if you wrote it yourself

[rich adder]

it wouldd literally go over your head anything we try to fix

[spiral narwhal]

As a teacher myself, i would never ever teach Unity in CS haha. Why should your teachers teach you Unity?

[rich adder]

for example.. Comparing floats with == will never yeild a good result

floats are not precise

therefore are diffcult to get a == to work

all those clearly wasnt explained by spambot :

[quick pollen]

wdym Unity in CS?
also I didn't say that they should, I just said that they don't even teach the things we're meant to be taught properly

[haughty tinsel]

I understand what it does just the movement of the player with the math calcul okay I don't understand everything

[quick pollen]

isnt your problem with like scene loading or smth

[haughty tinsel]

No

[quick pollen]

also what math

[spiral narwhal]

Oh sorry I interpreted that "they don't teach us" as such

[haughty tinsel]

Mathf.RoundToInt

[quick pollen]

at least ceil/floor it yea

[rich adder]

or just use Mathf.Approximately or >= | <=

[haughty tinsel]

It's a part of the problem but it comes from the player spawning

[quick pollen]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.RoundToInt.html

        // Prints 10
        Debug.Log(Mathf.RoundToInt(10.0f));
        // Prints 10
        Debug.Log(Mathf.RoundToInt(10.2f));
        // Prints 11
        Debug.Log(Mathf.RoundToInt(10.7f));
        // Prints 10
        Debug.Log(Mathf.RoundToInt(10.5f));
        // Prints 12
        Debug.Log(Mathf.RoundToInt(11.5f));

[spiral narwhal]

Now we're back to mouth feeding haha

[haughty tinsel]

Thanks

[rich adder]

negative.
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Approximately.html

[quick pollen]

i think the IDE also tells u in a nutshell what some functions and such do

[quick pollen]

he just asked about Mathf.RoundToInt so I sent Mathf.RoundToInt

[rich adder]

they have no idea what they want

[quick pollen]

i could kinda guess

more info never hurts tho ig

[haughty tinsel]

You're talking to me ?

[quick pollen]

half u, half navarone

[haughty tinsel]

I think my problem is that the player has not finish its movement when it collides the Scene changer so the scene is changed but the player still move from where it spwaned to where it should moved

[quick pollen]

well no they still teach us some interesting stuff

tho I have to go to tournaments and such to actually get to be taught the "not braindead" stuff

like this is the first time I actually got a bit stuck on a lecture in informatics

there's also Backtracking which fucks with my brain

its a simple concept I just can't visualize it in code

[rich adder]

where is the oriignal question

[haughty tinsel]

Far

[gaunt ice]

you probably know you have to understand recursive first

public dfs(State state)
```what you have now, and what you can do next

[quick pollen]

wait are u telling me or

[grizzled zealot]

I used transform.setParent(go.transform), but the two rigidbodies still behave independently. Is there something else I have to set to then make both behave in sync?

[gaunt ice]

yes

[quick pollen]

ah ok

whats dfs first things first

I know what recursivity means

I've been using it for a while now and I got comfortable with it

[haughty tinsel]

And between the original question and now Fen helped me and I understood the coroutine wouldn't solve my issue

[quick pollen]

also I'm doing stuff in c++ so I'm not gonna get much into this topic

it was more of a thing to mention than an actual relevant issue

[rich adder]

also you need at least a configured IDE

[gaunt ice]

depth first search, since backtracking is travelling on the recursive tree

[quick pollen]

        internal IEnumerator RepeatPattern(MonoBehaviour m)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(timeBetweenBursts + burstsFired * fireRateCT);
            for (int i = burstsFired - 1; i >= 0; i--)
            {
                m.StartCoroutine(Shotgun(fireRateCT * i));
            }
            if (loopPattern && activated) m.StartCoroutine(RepeatPattern(m));```
I actually used recursitivity today, right here, so yknow

[rich adder]

maybe a fixed joint?

[haughty tinsel]

I use Visual Studio

[grizzled zealot]

I tried FixedJoint2D, but it gives me weird behaviour.

[rich adder]

I can see that.. It's not configured though

[quick pollen]

oh yeah, basically going forward until you meet a stop condition, then slowly going back into each rec branch

[haughty tinsel]

How to configure then ?

[rich adder]

!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

[haughty tinsel]

Thanks

[quick pollen]

rn im looking into permuations without the formula

with divide et impera

    private static void permute(String str, int l, int r) 
    { 
        if (l == r) 
            Console.WriteLine(str); 
        else { 
            for (int i = l; i <= r; i++) { 
                str = swap(str, l, i); 
                permute(str, l + 1, r); 
                str = swap(str, l, i); 
            } 
        } 
    } ```
this is the method I see for it pretty often

[haughty tinsel]

It's configured now

[gaunt ice]

strings have length so the r parameter is redundant, just check if l>=.length

"a bit" out of topic

[rich adder]

show

[quick pollen]

its divide et impera

oh wait

nvm yea ur right about that

that code is from geeksforgeeks

just wanted to show an example

ill try smth like "all paths from top left to bottom right in a 2d matrix"

[rich adder]

thats not even Visual Studio..

you have to show that VS is configured

[haughty tinsel]

i don't know what you want to see but

[gaunt ice]

not divide and conquer
the all paths problem is divide and conquer and can be solved by dp. btw the topic should end right now,, not related to unity anymore

[rich adder]

ok now its actually useful editor

you have a compiler error

[haughty tinsel]

Oh Thanks that's why i din't had the colors...

[rich adder]

right

[quick pollen]

yeah I realized in a sec
yeah true that, i think ill try. also yeah lets end it

[haughty tinsel]

Where ?

[rich adder]

you can click here now it will show you where is the error

[haughty tinsel]

it was a semilicon if it's the right name ';' this thing missing

I don't have anymore

[opal portal]

hello there, donno if i should ask this here or otherwhere, but here's my question

im animating a gameobject with a position animation, but even when the animation is not playing, the gameobject (player) cant move through inputs with rb, is there anyway to prevent that?

[swift crag]

The animator will control every property that's animated by any state.

Maybe this would be a place to use root motion.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RootMotion.html

It pushes the animator's transform around instead of directly controlling it, basically

[opal portal]

oh nice

[swift crag]

I have not tried using this with generic animations before, though. Only with humanoid ones

But it sounds like the process is roughly the same either way

[opal portal]

gotcha, i'll give it a try, tnks

[swift crag]

alternatively, turning off the animator should make it give up its control

I want to say it will, at least...

[opal portal]

meh, i would prefer to make the movement manually with scripts or other way

but i think root motion will work

[swift crag]

is the animation meant to actually be used to move around the world?

or is it just there to make your character wiggle around

[opal portal]

nop

[swift crag]

Okay, then there's a much simpler fix

Parent the animated object to an empty

• Player
  • Visual

[opal portal]

just like a little effect when swinging a sword

[swift crag]

move the Player around

the Visual can do whatever it wants

[opal portal]

but this wont let me move the collider, will it?

[swift crag]

Which collider?

The sword collider?

[opal portal]

the player collider

[swift crag]

Put the player collider on the Player object

(and the character controller / rigidbody)

[opal portal]

kk gotcha

well yeah makes sense xd

[quick pollen]

where men fall

[queen adder]

Can we avoid GetComponent's Garbage(40B)?

[rich adder]

Serialize it in the inspector?

[queen adder]

Can't

It is uh runtime object

[quick pollen]

holy fck what are u optimizing lol

[rich adder]

I use TryGetComponent which doesnt allocate when not found but idk if that would help here at all

[queen adder]

I hate those little garbages :d

[queen adder]

Thank you!

[quick pollen]

it has like 0 effect? 40 bytes?

[queen adder]

Yep almost zero

[quick pollen]

is that like a youtube challenge

[swift crag]

yes -- GetComponent doesn't actually return null when it can't find anything

it gives you an invalid unity object

actually, does it even produce garbage when it succeeds?

[queen adder]

Yes

[rich adder]

yea thats wat im confused on (i havent tested profiled this myself)

[queen adder]

I did it for you, it does

[rich adder]

i recall also reading that the in-editor behavior is different than it does in build,
I could be wrong though. It was a while back

[queen adder]

Oh you may be right. I didn't test in build

[haughty tinsel]

Hi it's me again sorry for before and thanks at everyone who tried to help me I understood my mistakes and I won't use AI again. I'm here because I want to make a PNJ ask questions an let the player answer. At the end of the questions, the PNJ make a review of what is good or not according to the player answers. I'd be thankful for any help.

[rich adder]

PNJ?

[haughty tinsel]

NPC

PNJ is in french sorry

[rich adder]

You would need to learn strings and maybe dictionary

and how to create a c# object

probably need arrays too

[haughty tinsel]

Hum okay thanks

[quick pollen]

personnel non-jeuer or smth

[haughty tinsel]

personnage non-joueur yes

[quick pollen]

right mb lol

[haughty tinsel]

np

[quick pollen]

review of what is good or not according to the player answers
wdym here

[rich adder]

checking the answers against the questions

[haughty tinsel]

Hum I can explain but I found a video after posting this message that explains what I need sorry it's mb

[quick pollen]

so like
What's 1 + 2
a. 3
b. 5
c. 9
?

[rich adder]

yes they would store all the answers then check them

[haughty tinsel]

It's because it's a quizz based on the health of the player

[quick pollen]

lmao imagine
what's 1 + 2

1. 2
2. 3
3. 1

2? ur stupid

[haughty tinsel]

So it gives advices based on the answers of the players

[quick pollen]

3? ur also stupid

1? ur gone

[quick pollen]

yeahh I get it

[rich adder]

int whatAmI = 9 / 2

[quick pollen]

four

i cant type the number 4 lmao

or maybe cast error

[rich adder]

correct

[quick pollen]

in python its even more fucked tho

[queen adder]

Uh becareful i got banned 10 mins while saying rude words to none by unity bot

[rich adder]

uh oh potty mouth

[brazen rivet]

What would be the easiest way to make a super simple system of 3 hearts. Something where I could easily add and remove hearts. The old way I used to do it was a hardcoded system, having each heart be its own GameObject, but that system really sucks.

[rich adder]

just use an Int lol

[quick pollen]

depends on how severe it is i believe

[spiral narwhal]

int hearts

[rich adder]

for UI just use an Image component inside a horizontal stack

[brazen rivet]

There's a reason I'm in #💻┃code-beginner lmao. Still learning

[wintry quarry]

An int for the number of hearts and a list to keep track of instantiated prefabs to display them

[rich adder]

fair enough

the basic types are the best to learn first and foremost

[brazen rivet]

Ah so, Instantiate heart objects in a row with a set distance between them. When the play loses health remove one?

[brazen rivet]

I'm aware of the basics of programming. Just didn't know how I'd use an int to display the different amounts of hearts.

[rich adder]

I would use this tbh
https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.ugui@1.0/manual/script-HorizontalLayoutGroup.html

[wintry quarry]

Yes more or less.

But yeah use the UI tools

[brazen rivet]

I'll check them out

[wintry quarry]

You don't need to manually position them

[brazen rivet]

Yeah that'd make life easier

I'll checkout the documentation and come back if I have any questions

[rich adder]

oh right, so you would basically keep an array to track the hearts

[north merlin]

why does this coroutine keep updating without stopping? void Start()
{
StartCoroutine("FindTargetsWithDelay", visionCheckFrequency);
}

IEnumerator FindTargetsWithDelay(float delay)
{
    while (true)
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
        FindEnemy();
    }
}

[wind raptor]

Is there something equivalent to "Awake" that I can call for inactive components?

[rich adder]

just call the method directly

[north merlin]

    {
        StartCoroutine("FindTargetsWithDelay", visionCheckFrequency);
    }

    IEnumerator FindTargetsWithDelay(float delay)
    {
        while (true)
        {
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(delay);
            FindEnemy();
        }
    }```

why does this coroutine keep updating without stopping?

[swift crag]

yes, you can just do this:

StartCoroutine(FindTargetsWithDelay(visionCheckFrequency));

[rich adder]

You can call functions on script that is on disabled object, as long as you have the reference stored @wind raptor

[swift crag]

I would check the value of visionCheckFrequency

If it's serialized (i.e. not private), look in the inspector

[north merlin]

it does what i want but i just want to understand y

[undone rampart]

because you put inside of it an infinite loop

[north merlin]

the while true?

[undone rampart]

ye

[summer stump]

while (true)
🤷‍♂️

That means loop forever

[north merlin]

i take it unity defaults to false

[rich adder]

huh

[north merlin]

typo

[summer stump]

No, that would make it NEVER loop

[rich adder]

while loops have nothing to do with unity

its a c# thing

[summer stump]

while loops run when the condition is true

If you pass it true, the condition will always be true

[brazen rivet]

Lmao yeah that makes sm more sense than the dumb solution I had come up with

[north merlin]

thnx. iunderstand now

[summer stump]

I think you don't even want a loop at all, right? So remove the while entirely

[rich adder]

no worries, we learn by making mistakes. Some of us made those mistakes earlier than others 🙂

[north merlin]

no i want the loop. Its my ai vision

[wind raptor]

I'd rather not require something else to call Awake on it if possible. This is my class.

public class PuzzleDetail : MonoBehaviour
{
    public static List<PuzzleDetail> Instances { get; private set; } = new List<PuzzleDetail>();
    private void Awake()
    {
        Instances.Add(this);
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " puzzle detail added");
    }

    public void Select()
    {
        foreach(var p in Instances)
        {
            p.gameObject.SetActive(false);
        }
        this.gameObject.SetActive(true);
    }
}

Is there not any function like Awake or Start that can automatically be called on startup?

Even if disabled/deactivated?

[rich adder]

if you want to stop it make the coroutine bool a variable you can switch or store coroutine in variable and use StopCoroutine

[summer stump]

Then I am confused. What was the issue in the first place?

[north merlin]

I just wanted to know why it worked. If i understand it i can apply it

[rich adder]

it wont call Awake you would just call an Init method..

if the object is disabled how do you expect anything from itself to run..

[wind raptor]

Yeah it's just the outside script needing to call Awake or an Init method that I was hoping to avoid.

[rich adder]

why though its a perfectly normal pattern

[swift crag]

I do wish you could pass arguments whilst instantiating it

[wind raptor]

Sure, I get that. I didn't know if there was some magic "AwakeEvenIfDisabled" method

[swift crag]

C++ can do that! (it's mildly frightening)

[queen adder]

No need any other things. Using a Singleton that has a list of objects and an awake method that calls other awake's from the list would help if it fits your case. Or literally RuntimeInitializationMethod attribute

[rich adder]

also just to be clear you mean disabled object not script?
cause awake does run if script is disabled but object is active

[wind raptor]

Not a singleton. I have a reference to "Instances", not Instance.

GameObject is inactive

[rich adder]

you could potentially do that, just have the object be enabled and script itself is disabled

[queen adder]

That is what i am saying. A singleton can stay enabled and others can be disabled

[rich adder]

ah yeah you could use the attribute

[queen adder]

But be aware that attribute will work for static methods only

[autumn tusk]

how do i fix this choppiness when it comes to this crosshair and pointing weapon

set my cam to late update

i think whats going on is the scripts fighting with unity's physics engine

[wintry quarry]

You'd have to show your code

[autumn tusk]

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

heres the crosshair code

[wintry quarry]

Something more is going on

[autumn tusk]

heres the shotgun code

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

[wintry quarry]

you have this thing as a child of the ball or something