💻┃code-beginner

[swift crag]

in 3D, you have:

• normals: the direction different parts of the object's surface is facing
• smoothness: how clearly the object reflects light
• metallicity: how much the object's color tints its reflection

and there's no reason you can't add more maps that define more qualities of the material

[fringe plover]

I want to kill myself after coding this (not a question)

[woven crater]

so like a texture pass onto a plain color sketch?

[rare basin]

that is terrible architecture 😄

[woven crater]

@fringe plover 🤝

[fringe plover]

Holy sh-

[gaunt ice]

call back hell

[verbal dome]

#archived-shaders

[buoyant knot]

just code it better LOL

[fringe plover]

HOW

[buoyant knot]

write methods in local scope to reduce nesting

[buoyant rune]

where did all my animations go, they still play in game but i dont see the state machines

[buoyant knot]

also you can check if the opposite, then log error, and return

if (val == null){
do X;
if (next…)
..
}else do Y;

Is the same as;
if (val != null) {
doY and return;}
do X;
if (…)

[fringe plover]

okay ill try

[buoyant rune]

hello does anyone know???

[buoyant knot]

then you won’t have 69 layers of nested ifs

[tall delta]

public async Task<string> UsePromo(string code) {

    var isLogged = await IsLogged();
    if (isLogged == false) return "you need to login";

    var isValid = await IsPromValid(code);
    if (isValid == false) return "code is invalid";

    var isValid = await IsPromUsed(code);
    if (isValid == false) return "code has been used";

    return "code is valid";
}```

something like this would be my first idea

[fringe plover]

wait wha-

[verbal dome]

Hello its not a code question?

[buoyant rune]

so where do i ask

[verbal dome]

#🏃┃animation probably

[sullen rock]

https://gdl.space/tezupoxejo.cs hello, I have this piece of code that takes a set of instructions (along with timers) and outputs an 8-byte array that encodes that data for further transfer (debug.logging atm)

it seems to work, but Im looking to optimize it a bit, would love some advice with that!

[verbal dome]

Also have some patience

[buoyant knot]

yeah, just flip your if statements so you can return as fast as possible

[buoyant rune]

still does anyone know?

[buoyant rune]

sorry mate

[buoyant knot]

https://youtu.be/CFRhGnuXG-4?si=NPeHXQOFvrclNDfq

[fringe plover]

i mean the number that you said...

[buoyant knot]

he literally breaks up something that looks exactly like your code

[cosmic dagger]

they just gave an arbitrary number to get their point across (stating that you had a lot of ifs) . . .

[buoyant knot]

yep. 69 is just a standard, arbitrary number

when you only ever need a max depth of 1 for this code

[fringe plover]

okay...

[fringe plover]

okay tysm!

[tall delta]

I'd say that the readability / maintainability of the code you posted is of secondary concern.
the main issue I see is that you are doing what I assume is a web request in a synchronous manner, this will then "freeze" you game while the code is running / checking the code.
using async/await model or a coroutine should be the first point up for a refactor imo.

[fringe plover]

well, at least it works... ill change than, thx for saying

[buoyant knot]

maintainability and readability is always a primary concern

because unmaintainable/illegible code is the fastest way to get something that works, breaks later, and now you have a bunch of code that depends on code that you cannot fix

[fringe plover]

i wanted to use return instead of Action things, but i used Action cuz of weirdness of API that i use...
Maybe there was more ways to do it but tbh.. i dont know how...

[gaunt ice]

write a named function

[fringe plover]

what?

[buoyant knot]

it can even be local scope, if you need

   for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
       Increment();
   }
   return x;
   void Increment() { x++; }
}```

here, Increment can only be used within the scope of Count(, but it is at least named

[fringe plover]

oh...

[gaunt ice]

now you have an api as following

public class TheObject{
  TryThing1(params, Action onSuccess);
  TryThing2(params, Action onSuccess);
  TryThing3(params, Action onSuccess);
}
```then you can write
```cs
private TheObject theObject;
public Try(){
  theObject.TryThing1(params,OnSuccess1);
}
public OnSuccess1(params){
  theObject.TryThing2(params,OnSuccess2);
}
public OnSuccess2(params){
  theObject.TryThing3(params,OnSuccess3);
}

btw some api use singleton, you dont need the field in this case

[fringe plover]

ill try ig.. i still need to recode it... so, thanks for advice, i need to learn how to use these...

[buoyant knot]

locally scoped functions just let you to define a named function, without actually adding a member to the class

tina is referring to just writing actual member functions

the never nester video should give you ideas of how to straighten out nested code

[gilded verge]

i want to have an enemy follow the player. why is having agent.setDestination(player.position) in update gives the navmeshAgent a seizure and doesnt move?

[gilded verge]

im talking about the new navmesh system which honestly i have no idea why they changed it. it was perfect

[fringe plover]

make sure its placed on NavMesh

[gilded verge]

it is. having the function run one time is the only way it works but it doesnt follow the player. it follows the path of the player when the functino was first run.

[fringe plover]

do you mean it does move top player start pos, but doesnt follow player?

[gilded verge]

yess

[fringe plover]

make sure its on Update + player may be unreachable

im not sure ho it works, tried NM only once

[gilded verge]

it is. and the player is reachable

[gilded verge]

one sec ill send a video of how it is when it is in update

[fringe plover]

what exactly is player.position??? isnt it supposed to be player.transform.position? or you have it recorded in script?

maybe this value doesnt change

[gilded verge]

the player is a Transform instead of a gameObject. so i just took the position

here this is a video

[buoyant knot]

in general, I don’t think you want to move a transform when something else is moving the transform

[buoyant knot]

like you don’t want to move a transform when the transform is being controlled by a rigidbody

idk if navmesh is the same, but maybe it is

[gilded verge]

huh? no its the same thing the its just so the code is simpler. instead of getting gameObject.transform.position you just get transform.position

[wintry quarry]

they're not moving the Transform

[swift crag]

Is Application.quitting guaranteed to fire before Unity starts destroying objects?

I have entities that need to do some cleanup when playing the game in the editor, since I have Domain Reload disabled

I want them to be able to do this before random stuff is being destroyed

[hot wave]

thank you nitku, I think I understand how it works now it was confusing but I know how to make flow properly now

also I ate KFC earlier I am happy

[swift crag]

oh, the plot is thickening in interesting ways

i was assuming that destroying a game object destroyed its components and children in some kind of order

looks like it's more random

ah, that's not even what's happening here, though

I have an Entity that references a Brain. I need to tell that brain to disengage so that it unsubscribes from InputAction events. The brain is not parented to the entity

I tried having the entity respond to OnApplicationQuit by destroying itself, and then disengaging the brain in OnDestroy

But destruction doesn't happen until the end of the frame normally, so this doesn't do anything immediately

then Unity starts destroying everything in the scene, and it winds up destroying the brain first

(and the entity skips trying to disengage the brain, because it thinks it has no brain at all)

ugh

I guess I'll have the brain disengage itself if it gets destroyed

[hot wave]

this sounds so scary without context

I havent tried brain thingy yet, but hope you find a solution

[candid tree]

bro what should i do with my code, so i want to make my game to pick up all object in my game

using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine;

public class CarryObject : MonoBehaviour
{

    public GameObject pickAbleObj;
    ArrayList pickableObj = new ArrayList();
    public Transform handPlayer;

    public float range = 2f;

    public GameObject pickUpButton;
    public GameObject dropButton;

    private void Update()
    {
        CheckForPickableObject();
    }

    public void CheckForPickableObject()
    {
        RaycastHit hit;
        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out hit, range))
        {
            // Memastikan bahwa objek yang terkena adalah objek yang bisa diambil
            if (hit.collider.gameObject == pickAbleObj)
            {
                pickUpButton.SetActive(true);
            }
            else
            {
                pickUpButton.SetActive(false);
            }
        }
        else
        {
            pickUpButton.SetActive(false);
        }
    }

    public void PickUpObject()
    {
        if (pickAbleObj != null)
        {
            pickAbleObj.transform.position = handPlayer.position;
            pickAbleObj.transform.SetParent(handPlayer);
            pickUpButton.SetActive(false);
            dropButton.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

    public void DropObject()
    {
        // Memastikan ada objek yang dipegang sebelum mencoba melepaskannya
        if (handPlayer.childCount > 0)
        {
            pickAbleObj.transform.SetParent(null);
            dropButton.SetActive(false);
        }
    }
}

[frosty hound]

#archived-code-advanced message

Classic, doesn't actually read beyond the first sentence. If you're not going to, why even bother asking questions.

[dim brook]

im loading in a sprite with this code

and the image is alerady set to transparent

but when the game loads it in it's set as a white square at first

[static bay]

Do you know what the 4th argument does?

[dim brook]

transparency?

[static bay]

yep

alpha

[dim brook]

but if the original photo is already transparent

that wouldnt do anything right

[static bay]

Transparent in what sense? Like has transparent regions?

[dim brook]

like it's just a blank png image

[static bay]

By default a UI Image is a white square. If you set the color's alpha to be 0, then ya it'll be invisible. You seem to be setting alpha to 1 at some point before the Pokemon comes out.

[dim brook]

odd

ill keep looking ig

[wintry quarry]

why bother with GetComponent<IMage> if you're just grabbing the Transform? You can just do transform directly

[dim brook]

oh yea i just changed it and it makes no difference LMAO

[tender stag]

this unfreezes my rotation cs rb.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;

how can i just freeze the y position while leaving the other stuff alone?

[wintry quarry]

rb.constaints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotation | RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;

[tender stag]

alright now how can i unfreeze the y position?

[wintry quarry]

or if you want to literally "leave everything else alone:
rb.constraints = rb.constraints | RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;

[wintry quarry]

rb.constraints = rb.constraints & ~RigidbodyConstraints.FreezePositionY;```

[tender stag]

alright thank you so much

[buoyant rune]

not sure why death animation for boss doesnt play, i use th same enemy health script for both enemy and boss, the animation for death does play for enemy but doesnt for boss

[wintry quarry]

do they have the same animator controller?

[stone pebble]

Hi! I am in a bit of a major bit of confusion right now, so I am asking for help in this forum.

I am doing a study using unity, so my game is basically a big questionaire. I plan to collect information into a class and simply send it as a .json string to my server. Problem is the communication with the class. This class has to be non-static, sure, but the object of the user should be available to multiple scripts and receive information from multiple additively loaded scenes. I am at a loss on how to organise such a thing, whether i should use events or anything else to facilitate communication between multiple additively loadedd scenes. If anybody of you did something similar, please let me know of your solution!

P.S: I tried simplifying the issue, but it would be very unwelcome to move to a single scene, as I am loading different parts of study logic as different scenes (i.e half of people get one test and half of people get another.)
Here is my current(not working) solution

[wintry quarry]

You need to pass an instance of UserData into ToJson

not the class itself

Also your data should not be static variables

they need to be nonstatic

[stone pebble]

Yeah, i get that, but i cannot make an object of the userData class that is accessible from all the different scripts that need to get to UserData

[swift crag]

you can have a static field that holds a UserData

or do something more elaborate

[wintry quarry]

Why not?

[wintry quarry]

You either make a singleton that holds an instance, or use a static field to hold the instance

either way you need an actual instance

[swift crag]

you'll need to be able to create an instance of UserData when you deserialize

so having all of the data in static fields doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

and actual nonstatic variables inside it

[stone pebble]

Ig a singleton should work. I am trying to shoehorn singleton logic with a static class

[wintry quarry]

e.g.

public static UserData CurrentGameData = new();

void SetSomeData() {
  CurrentgameData.sceneType = 4;
}```

stop using static classes

that's not what you want

and it won't work with serialization

[swift crag]

you'll replace every instance of UserData.foo with SomeoneWithTheData.data.foo

[stone pebble]

And what if some data that I need for the userData class lies in other scenes? Do I do a [DoNotDestroyOnLoad] even though all my scenes are loaded additively?

[swift crag]

Everyone will have access to the static field that holds the UserData instance

things will work almost identically to how they do right now

[stone pebble]

So basically instead of having a static class I'll have a static object of said class?

[swift crag]

A static field that holds an instance of the class.

but yes

[stone pebble]

Can i ask a stupid question?

What is the difference between a static object of said class and a static field that holds an instance of that class?

[wintry quarry]

static reference to an instance of the class

[swift crag]

there is no such thing as a "static object"

[wintry quarry]

it's not a "static object"

the reference variable is static

[swift crag]

The static modifier on a class doesn't really do anything

[wintry quarry]

the objects instance is completely normal

[swift crag]

It just makes the compiler throw an error if your class has any non-static members

I guess it also stops you from constructing an instance of the class

But it doesn't enable anything new

[polar acorn]

Well, there's GameObjects marked static in the inspector

[buoyant knot]

static effectively means it is a part of the class definition. it does not belong to any “thing” because there is no thing to own it

[swift crag]

😭

[buoyant knot]

don’t confuse the man

[polar acorn]

Yes ignore me I'm just being a pedant these concepts have nothing to do with each other they just share a name

[stone pebble]

so basically unity "static" is just a marker interface?

[swift crag]

no, this has nothing to do with the "Static" checkbox in the inspector

forget that

[polar acorn]

static means it belongs to the class, not any instances

[buoyant knot]

god damnit now you confused him

[polar acorn]

You can sort of think of it as "belonging" the script file on disk, if that helps

[swift crag]

or maybe I've been confused instead 😭

[buoyant knot]

C# static means it belongs to the class definition

[stone pebble]

awesome

[swift crag]

You currently have a class with static members in it. This means that each of those members is part of the class, not a specific instance of the class.

The member is on the class, not the object.

[polar acorn]

there's only one file, there's only one thing with static fields and functions

[safe root]

How do I fix this error? I have it install but it says I don't

[swift crag]

You are going to make the members non-static. This means that the members exist on instances of the class, not on the class itself.

[buoyant knot]

if I make a class called circle, and define static float Pi, then Pi is now a member of the class. It belongs to the class and not any one circle

[swift crag]

You are then going to make a static field that holds an instance of UserData.

[stone pebble]

Basically I need a singleton. Whether it means making a static class or a static reference to an instance of a class (correct me if i said something wrong) doesn't matter

[strong moth]

belongs to class not instances

[swift crag]

Now you can statically access the instance and read and write its fields.

[buoyant knot]

that is literally what I said

[swift crag]

You can also serialize this instance to JSON. Then, you can turn that JSON back into an instance, and store the instance in the static field.

[strong moth]

thought you were asking a question mb

[buoyant knot]

if you make a singleton, which is a class with a static reference to one instance (that forces there to only be one instance), then the definition of your class contains a reference to the one instance

[buoyant knot]

the current question

[stone pebble]

yeah, this is exactly what I wanted with the static class

[buoyant knot]

a static class is one that cannot have instances, btw

static class means everythjng in it is static

[stone pebble]

When i have a public static class i can just assign variables directly from other scripts of mine

[buoyant knot]

woah, stop

that is not how you use static variables

[stone pebble]

Sorry

[buoyant rune]

sorry i did not see this , no tey have two sepearet ones

[buoyant knot]

static variables are super dangerous because it is tied to the definition of the class. Anything can fuck with it, it is very hard to debug because it is hard to trace

yes you should use them, but only with great care

if you need to get a reference to an instance from various scripts, then you are probably looking for either a Singleton pattern, Service Locator pattern, an initialization method that gives your script the ref it needs when instanced, or a serialized reference

Singleton => class has exactly one instance => direct reference to it

[swift crag]

a static field that you write data to when saving sounds perfectly fine to me

[buoyant knot]

Service Locator => like a telephone operator, instance A asks the service locator for something, and the service locator gets it a reference to instance B

i just need to make sure he doesn’t abuse static variables, because that is an easy way to get into very deep shit

[swift crag]

I usually do this by giving the relevant components a "Save" method. The Save method is given an instance of your SaveData class, and the component writes data to the object.

You can either explicitly call the Save methods on the relevant components, or you can have the components subsribe to an "on save" event that you invoke when you want to save the game

[stone pebble]

From my understanding, since i just need to put all of my data into a single instance, and each script corresponds to certain fields/variables that will be assigned as the script does its job. The instance is then converted to .json and sent over. From my understanding I can just get away with a singleton pattern? Pls correct me if i am wrong

[buoyant knot]

yes

my save handler is a singleton

[swift crag]

public class GameController : MonoBehaviour {
  public static event System.Action<SaveData> OnSave;

  public void TriggerSave() {
    SaveData data = new();
    OnSave?.Invoke(data);
    // write the data to disk
  }
}

The latter would look something like this.

[buoyant knot]

static classes are usually like toolboxes of functions to use. like System.Math and UnityEngine.Mathf

[swift crag]

notably, those static classes also generally don't have any state in them

they aren't remembering stuff from function call to function call

That's what can make static members dangerous, IMO

If calling SomeStaticClass.Whatever() changes what the method does the next time you call it, then anything in your game can indirectly interact with anything else in your game

[swift crag]

the state lives for as long as your game does, too

(that's part of why static members are so useful, of course)

you can shove data in a static field before a scene transition and read it later

you can completely blow up every single object in your game and reload the title screen and that data will still exist

[stone pebble]

alright

Well, I'll check out what the singleton pattern looks like and how to figure out this logic. I'll write on my success/failure

[buoyant knot]

just get a Singleton implementation

[nimble scaffold]

UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow+BuildMethodException: 4 errors
at UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow+DefaultBuildMethods.BuildPlayer (UnityEditor.BuildPlayerOptions options) [0x002da] in <06837d428b6d46f581d93f9597703696>:0
at UnityEditor.BuildPlayerWindow.CallBuildMethods (System.Boolean askForBuildLocation, UnityEditor.BuildOptions defaultBuildOptions) [0x00080] in <06837d428b6d46f581d93f9597703696>:0
UnityEngine.GUIUtility:ProcessEvent (int,intptr,bool&)

pls help guys

[buoyant knot]

https://github.com/LoupAndSnoop/GenericDataStructures/blob/main/Singleton

[polar acorn]

Look for the actual errors, not the error that tells you how many errors you have

[buoyant knot]

Using this singleton looks like

public class MyClass : Singleton<MyClass> {
protected override void Awake() {
DontDestroy = false; // Or true, if you need don't destroy on load.
base.Awake();
}
}```

[stone pebble]

Omg thank you so much

[nimble scaffold]

guys need help here

[stone pebble]

Honestly I wouldn't trust myself with base.Awake() because while i am ok at OOP, I am not good at unity documentation at all. I found a pattern like this that should work. What do you think?

[frigid sequoia]

It seems you have a console error? Send a screenshot, what you sent is not very usefull

[wintry quarry]

you don't need thread safety for Unity singletons

Also this will only work for non-monobehaviours

seems like a general purpose C# singleton, not a unity singleton

[frigid sequoia]

Wait, you are using java?Can you even so that with Unity?

[nimble scaffold]

idk whats happening

i used cs

[wintry quarry]

it's presumably an Android build

Android apps are Java apps

[nimble scaffold]

yes

yess

[stone pebble]

Why would this only work for a non-monobehavior? If you have an article that is similar, that would be great too:)

[wintry quarry]

you can't create MonoBehaviours with new

[carmine turret]

Is unities gravity meant to feel floaty?

[wintry quarry]

no

[nimble scaffold]

guys its my android game pls help i have to realease it rn

[stone pebble]

tbh i coded in c# for a couple years, and only recently actually properly learned OOP in college, so it is like relearning the language all over again

[carmine turret]

It definately feels like it has no acceleration when falling

[wintry quarry]

either a code problem or a perspective/scale problem

show your code

[carmine turret]

Im jsut using rigidbodies atm, sure thing

[rich adder]

this isn't helpful, generally you look at code errors from top to bottom since those are the first errors that fail the build

[stone pebble]

got it, thanks. So a MonoBehaviour is similar to a static class in what it does?

[wintry quarry]

not even close to a static class, no

[stone pebble]

ok

[carmine turret]

public class movement : MonoBehaviour
    {
    public float speed = 300f;
    public float jumpForce = 1000f;
    private bool _jump;
    Vector2 move;
    Rigidbody2D rb;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();

    }

    void FixedUpdate()
    {
        if(_jump){rb.AddForce(Vector2.up * jumpForce, ForceMode2D.Impulse);_jump = false;}
        rb.velocity = new Vector2(move.x * speed, rb.velocity.y);
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        _jump |= Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space);
        move = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0);

    }

}

[wintry quarry]

MonoBehaviours are C# classes that represent Unity components attached to GameObjects

[wintry quarry]

Every frame you're doing this:
move = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), 0);

setting y velocity to 0

no wonder you fall slowly

[carmine turret]

Ahh. that makes sense, should I set it to rb.velocity.y?

[frigid sequoia]

Like... don't know much about this... But seems that it is telling you that you don't have a reference to java.java?

[nimble scaffold]

guys anyother soln?

[wintry quarry]

yes or you can just do rb.velocityX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"); if you're on Unity 2023+

[carmine turret]

Ohhh okay, sounds much more simply. thank you

[stone pebble]

@wintry quarry It looks like that when using .ToJson i can get away with a simple Serializable class. I haven't made a MonoBehaviour class even in my less complex builds and it worked

[wintry quarry]

Yes isn't that what we have been talking about this whole time?

Oh sorry you were also the singleton person

[stone pebble]

exactly

[carmine turret]

This feels significationly better. thank you! Next up Im going to work out dampening on horizontal since my player just stops in mid air ahaha.

[wintry quarry]

I mean, the singleton thing you were showing was pointless/overkill

all you needed was a static variable initialized with new

I still wouldn't personally do it that way but that's the simplest approach

[stone pebble]

How would you personally do it?

[buoyant knot]

sealed class singleton is garbage

you want to be able to do the programming and logic once for singleton, make it as a generic, and then use it for different classes

[wintry quarry]

A singleton MonoBehaviour which manages the saved data object

[buoyant knot]

the class I linked has cases for the application quitting, cases for monobehaviour vs not, cases for dontdestroyonload vs not

and if you later want to make it thread safe, then you now need to update like 20 classes or whatever, instead of modifying the singleton class that everything derives from

[stone pebble]

Yeah, ig i'll have to make the app actually production safe

[buoyant knot]

if you are too afraid to use a singleton because you are bad at documentation, then you need to get better at documentation.

[stone pebble]

Honestly I do not think I should care about thread safety? But it doesn't hurt

[buoyant knot]

you can't be a programmer who sucks at documentation. you will drive yourself insane

[stone pebble]

Then i'll go get better at documentation

[swift crag]

thread safety is irrelevant when you only access the singleton from Update/etc.

[wintry quarry]

Unless you go out of your way in Unity, thread safety is not a concern.

[swift crag]

unity's update loop is single-threaded

[stone pebble]

i'll not, thanks!

[swift crag]

you have to explicitly try to wind up on another thread

[buoyant knot]

that's why my singleton doesn't have thread safety in it. But if you later change your mind and need to add it in, it is easier to do if you just need to fix one class and not 69

and that applies to any modification

if there is something about the Singleton you don't like, you just change it, and it follows to every class derrived from it.
that's why I'm not a fan of manually implementing singleton behaviour into a class, unless you have a case where you need to derrive from a non-singleton-derrived class.

[stone pebble]

A bit of an unrelated question, but did you already have another hopeless programmer come and ask you stuff to need a GitHub folder with data structures?

[buoyant knot]

yes

[nimble scaffold]

error

[buoyant knot]

you are not the first. you won't be the last

[stone pebble]

that is good to hear

[weary finch]

Early returns. Instead of

if(value != null){

}
``` do 
```cs
if(value == null){
  showerrror...
  return
}

[nimble scaffold]

my laptop is in a bad conditon and ig its my last opeing my laptop and still i cant publush my game 😭😭😢😢😿😿🥹🥹

and yeah guys can anyone tell yes or now that wuld connecting my laptop throgh hdmi cable to my tv set top box work??

[buoyant knot]

we had someone doing that exactly this morning lol

[shadow rain]

hello how would change the value of a bool parameter in animation stuff? in a script

[swift crag]

unclear how this is a code question or even a unit question

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Animator.SetBool.html

[shadow rain]

ty

wait

[nimble scaffold]

all things arent questions sire.... these are emotions

[shadow rain]

thats what i i

did

[weary finch]

xd, i forgot to replay to the right message. I was telling a extremely nested code what could be done, but I think that was a long time ago now

[shadow rain]

still thiss error?

[wintry quarry]

you need two arguments for SetBool

[shadow rain]

whoops

i know what i did

[shadow rain]

hello again : D

nice

ngl i feel im learning rlly fast

[carmine turret]

I am very mcuh not remembering the maths to do drag..

I was thinking of using lerp

but it stops instantly, which could either be my code, or the way im using lerp aha

        RaycastHit2D hit = VisualPhysics2D.Raycast(transform.position,-Vector2.up,groundedDistance, groundedLayer);
        if(hit){
            rb.velocityX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal") * speed;
        }
        else{
            rb.velocityX = Mathf.Lerp(rb.velocity.x, 0, horDrag);
        }

[rich adder]

lerp looks wrong

[summer stump]

What is horDrag?

Hopefully not a constant?

[carmine turret]

Not entirely sure what you mean by a constant, its just how much drag I want to use as a public variable

[summer stump]

I mean an unchanging value

But yeah, sounds like it is the wrong thing

[carmine turret]

Ahh yeah it is an unchanging value

multiplying it by time seems to help a bit

[summer stump]

The third parameter is supposed to change from 0 to 1 for what you are attempting

Oh, no, do not multiply it by deltaTime

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

[summer stump]

I would look into MoveTowards or SmoothDamp

[carmine turret]

SmoothDamp sounds like it might be more correct

[carmine turret]

this also looks suitable?

[rich adder]

it explains it a bit.
The correct/easies would be doing elapsedTime / duration

as shown here https://unity.huh.how/lerp/coroutines

but yeah you probab can just use the ones that dont overshoot like movetowards

[carmine turret]

I havent really tackled coroutines here

the recommended one in the link you sent does give a nice effect, but I will try the other two out shortly.

[swift crag]

there are two ways to use Lerp

One is to have a fixed start and end, and to vary t from 0 to 1

The other is to have a variable start and fixed end, and to pass a (roughly) constant value of t each time

The former gives you a linear movement from the start to the end.

The latter will give you something more like on that "wrong-lerp" page, where you start fast and end slow

[carmine turret]

I see

[swift crag]

Both are valid, but the latter is easy to do wrongly

the intuitive "just do Time.deltaTime times a constant" idea is framerate-dependent

SmoothDamp is great if you want to move towards a target with some damping

[hot hill]

i am using debug.drawline to visualize my velocity force when i start the game without moving the red line which represent the velocity is in this direction. Isnt it supposed to be 0 if we consider it a vector? (edited)

[swift crag]

You want DrawRay.

DrawLine draws a line between two points

DrawRay draws a line starting at a point and extending in a direction

[shadow rain]

ok so ive got 2 questions soooooooo how would i make the player model point in the x direction of the mouse and how would i make my anims play when the player moves?

[rich adder]

 Vector2 mouseWorldPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
        var dir = (mouseWorldPos - (Vector2)transform.position).normalized;
        transform.right = dir;```

[shadow rain]

tysm

[rich adder]

just an example, this would also include the y though.

[shadow rain]

i just dont want the player looking all weird

[rich adder]

idk what that means

[shadow rain]

ok so

the reason i want the player character only on the x is bc i dont want the model slanted or smth like that

at an angle

[rich adder]

so you only want a flip based on mouse pos? not aim towards mouse?

[shadow rain]

idrk

[rich adder]

wdym ur the one making it lol what do you want to do

[shadow rain]

it would be nice to make it rotate from the hip actually

might try that

is there not a thingy called lookat?

couldnt i do

new Vector3(Cursor.Lookat());?

[rich adder]

what I sent will look at the cursor

[shadow rain]

should i put it in a new script?

[rich adder]

it shoud be in update yes

[shadow rain]

okedoke tyty

should it be vector3

[rich adder]

it can but you have to 0 out the z manually

or just copy how I wrote it with the casting, up to you

[shadow rain]

hmm ok ok

in the console it says screen point to world isnt a camrea thing

[rich adder]

I mispelled the first time 😛

check the edit

[shadow rain]

okeodke

[rich adder]

its ScreenToWorldPoint

[shadow rain]

oOoOOo tyty

hav u ever used any other game engines

[rich adder]

Game Maker, Source SDK, Unreal,Godot, Three.Js .. thats about it

[shadow rain]

lol what has happened

[rich adder]

oh you're doing 3D?

[shadow rain]

ive used a bit of gamemaker, godot dont rlly wanna do unreal and roblox studio

[shadow rain]

yes sry shoul've specified

im quite fond of roblox studio

[rich adder]

Okay yeah then totally different ballgame lol

[shadow rain]

lol

[rich adder]

what kinda game are you making

[shadow rain]

i retro knight game

shaders

[rich adder]

Ohhhhh so its FPV

[shadow rain]

fpv?

sry

[rich adder]

First Person View ?

[shadow rain]

ooft sry

shouldve guessed

never rlly saw that tbh

[rich adder]

if you want to rotate the player with the mouse You have to GetAxisRaw horizontal then plug that into the player Y rotation

[shadow rain]

alright

camera.getaxisraw?

[rich adder]

nah

Input

any FPS tutorial really has such a thing shown

[shadow rain]

ok

thats my camera script

could i not use that

[rich adder]

is this not already rotating player ?

[shadow rain]

only the camera

[rich adder]

what is Orientation

you shouldnt have to rotate both

[shadow rain]

idrk

i built of a yt vid

[rich adder]

once you rotate player on Y if camera is already as child it will rotate properly

[shadow rain]

is i put my character into camera it will rotate?

[rich adder]

no your camera has to be child of player

then you can just rotate player on Y it will rotate cam on Y too

[shadow rain]

should i put cameraholder into player then?

[rich adder]

yes

[grave zenith]

could anyone help me with creating a ring of light around my player? its a 2D, top down project, i want the world to be completely black outside of the ring of light, i feel like ive looked all over for something similar but i cant find a thing. im reading that using Universal RP is the way forward but i've never used this type of lighting system before so im pretty lost

[shadow rain]

okedoke

[rich adder]

unity2DURP has built in 2D light, you can use that

[grave zenith]

@rich adder is that a seperate package or is it included in Universal RP?

[rich adder]

it should be part of URP

[shadow rain]

like that

[grave zenith]

ah right, ill have a look. thank you

[rich adder]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal@16.0/manual/Lights-2D-intro.html

[rich adder]

yes you have to reference the correct transforms though

put script on player and change the fields to be Transform and do one for player and one for camera

Transform player
player.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);

[shadow rain]

got it working

i just put it into camera and did what u said

ty ty u r the goat

actually one more thing

how would i make the player model not phase through the camera

[rich adder]

near clip maybe, show what you mean

[rich adder]

yea you'd have to lower then camera Near from 0.3 to something lower, under Clipping Plane

[shadow rain]

what would u say to?

[rich adder]

you have to keep lowering until it works for you , I dont have an exact number lol

[shadow rain]

okedoke ill try it

[shadow rain]

lowering it?

u sure

its better when i make it higher

nvm

nothing rlly seems to work

no matter what i o

do

ahh

wait

it doesnt seem to work

[rich adder]

idk what any of this means?

[shadow rain]

yk how u said to lower

[rich adder]

so whats not working?

[shadow rain]

it keeps clipping

[rich adder]

so put it even lower.

like 0.02 or something

[swift crag]

If the camera is stuck into your body, you're going to get clipping

[shadow rain]

now when i turn my camera it turns around th eplayers bod

body

[rich adder]

ohh you dont want that?

wait they are mis-synced

did you leave the rotation on the camera Y too ?

[shadow rain]

idk

[rich adder]

yeah that is hella wrong

[shadow rain]

okekode

what can i do to fix it then?

[rich adder]

please send code properly

so I can show

[shadow rain]

isnt it like !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.

[rich adder]

yes use the proper format

[shadow rain]

alright no problem

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

public class CameraController : MonoBehaviour
{
    public float sensX;
    public float sensY;

    public Transform orientation;
    public Transform player;
    public Transform camera;

    float xRotation;
    float yRotation;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
        Cursor.visible = false;
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        float mouseX = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse X") * Time.deltaTime * sensX;
        float mouseY = Input.GetAxisRaw("Mouse Y") * Time.deltaTime * sensY;

        yRotation += mouseX;

        xRotation -= mouseY;
        xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);

        transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, yRotation, 0);
        orientation.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
        player.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);
    }
}

[rich adder]

something like cs camera.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0, 0); player.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0, yRotation, 0);

[shadow rain]

alright

[rich adder]

or you might need += for camera with eulerAngles

[rich adder]

why do you have so many

[shadow rain]

🤷‍♂️

[rich adder]

get rid of the first two lines as those dont make sense

the last two are more explicit on whos what

[shadow rain]

without transform i ant move left anr right

[rich adder]

rotation should not affect movement..

are you sure you only removed the first two

did you assign the new two fields ?

[eternal needle]

If your rotation affects movement, your model is not centered

[rich adder]

ah yes, make sure pivots are correct with that too

[wintry quarry]

Has this person actually shown the inspector of the script and the hierarchy window to show which object is which and what's assigned where?

[rich adder]

good question , we should've probably did that first lol

@shadow rain show us the script and which object its on, with fields showing

[acoustic crow]

!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.

[acoustic crow]

Script: https://gdl.space/arevidahef.cs
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_pFMnqkgtw
Description: The issue, as seen in the video, is that when I start a world where I manually place enemies, they move along with the player and change position accordingly. However, when I try to spawn enemies in a different world using a spawner, intending for the enemies to fly towards the player's position, it happens that, as shown in the video, the enemies fly past and do not follow the player.

I want the enemies not to be behind the player but in front of the player, and as soon as one spawns, it should move towards the player and behave as shown at the beginning of the video.

I hope someone can help me 😦

[void siren]

Hello, I have some code that for some reason just won't work. The movement part of it is fine, it's just the part where it says stuff about colliding. When the bullet collides with an obstacle it doesn't destroy. I have box colliders on both of the objects (bullet and obstacle) with the bullet having "Is Trigger" turned on. Can anyone help?

The obstacle has the correct tag.

[wintry quarry]

How are you assigning the player reference when you spawn the enemies?

[wintry quarry]

OnTriggerEnter2D is spelled wrong, and therefore definitely not running

[void siren]

There is no way i did that lol. I triple checked everything 0.0

[wintry quarry]

In the future use Debug.Log to make sure your code is running properly

[void siren]

What's that?

[wintry quarry]

The first thing you should have learned when starting Unity

it prints a string to the console window

you should be using it to debug your code

[void siren]

Alright thank you

[acoustic crow]

@ bob ``` private void OnTriggerEnter2D(Collider2D collision)
{
if (collision.CompareTag("Enemy"))
{
Destroy(other.gameObject);
Destroy(gameObject);

 }

}```

try this

@void siren

[polar acorn]

What calls OnTriggerEnter2d?

[wintry quarry]

there's no need to change anything really except fixing the misspelling of OnTriggerEnter2D

[void siren]

I got it working now but thanks

[wintry quarry]

CompareTag would be slightly better though

[shadow rain]

ok

[void siren]

pretty sure it just checks if the trigger box collision thing has entered another box collision thing? i have no clue

[acoustic crow]

@wintry quarry what do you mean?

[void siren]

Oh alr

ty

[wintry quarry]

I mean, you have a player reference that your script uses to follow the player. How are you assinging it when you spawn enemies in during the game?
if you're NOT assigning it, then naturally they won't know how to follow the player

[polar acorn]

Nah, that calls OnTriggerEnter2D. Not OnTriggerEnter2d.

[rich adder]

OnTriggerEnter2d is a custom method you made.
OnTriggerEnter2D gets called by unity

[void siren]

oh mb im slow

asdjasdasj ds leave me allooinen

[rich adder]

alr why do you have 3 fields + transform.rotation one in the script

[rich adder]

so the script is on PlayerCam?

[void siren]

🤓 Uh, ☝️ bullying will NOT be tollerated!🤓

[acoustic crow]

@wintry quarry i have puplic gameobject player and i have a prefab that i used?

[rich adder]

send this again doesn't answer the original question

[wintry quarry]

You need to assign the reference on the spawned enemies or they won't know which object to follow.

in code

[acoustic crow]

thats not true sorry

[wintry quarry]

It is true, sorry

If you think you have it assigned, show it

[polar acorn]

Just a roundabout way to explain why the spelling matters. Functions only run when something specifically calls them. Unity obscures this fact sometimes by calling functions of specific names at specific times, and therefore it is vital to get the spelling right, since naming a function OnTriggerEnter2d and then calling it on your own is fully valid C# code, which is why it's not actually an error

[acoustic crow]

then why does it work in the other world?

[rich adder]

why are you spamming this screenshot

[shadow rain]

what do u want me to ssend?

[wintry quarry]

Because you placed those objects manually in the scene and assigned the reference manually, in the scene, at edit time

that's not possible when you spawn a prefab

[rich adder]

I asked which object is this script on and why now do you still have 3 fields + the transform.rotation

[void siren]

Yeah, I'm a bit uh y'know and I didn't see the spelling mistake after 15m of re-reading the same code.

[shadow rain]

it is on playercam

[acoustic crow]

ok and how do I do that with a code?

private game object

findobejctwithtagplayer? or what

[wintry quarry]

In the code that spawns the enemy

[acoustic crow]

yes i know

[rich adder]

not to worry Capitalization is something you need to get used to in c# is case-sensitive

[wintry quarry]

pseudocode:

var newEnemy = Instantiate(enemyPrefab);
newEnemy.player = thePlayer;```

[acoustic crow]

but what i must add

[wintry quarry]

just... you know... actually assigning it

this assumes you are using the script type directly for your prefab, not GameObject

[rich adder]

ok that answers only half the question, also it can just be on the root of the player since you now have the fields

[acoustic crow]

ouu okey i try it i just see var the firstday

[wintry quarry]

If you use GameObject (you shouldn't), you have to use GetComponent to get the script component then assign

[wintry quarry]

var isn't the important bit here

[void siren]

If there was some plugin that did that thing thats like if you press tab it would finish the code, then it would be helful asf

[wintry quarry]

it's just shorthand for GameObject or EnemyScript

[void siren]

unless there is and I havent found it

[wintry quarry]

a configured IDE will do this automatically

[shadow rain]

what is the other half?

[void siren]

Im using visual studio and it does it for me on python but not this?

[woeful smelt]

hi, I'm trying to create a TMP_InputField programmatically:

TMP_InputField inputField = inputFieldGameObject.AddComponent<TMP_InputField>();

// ... code that adds the text component and placeholder ...

inputField.caretColor = Color.white;
inputField.selectionColor = new Color(0.0f, 0.5f, 1.0f, 0.75f); // blue selection
inputField.caretWidth = 1;
inputField.interactable = true;
inputField.enabled = true;

I need to create it via script because this is a content mod for a game that I like a lot, so I don't have access to the unity engine interface.

the input field itself is showing correctly but the caret cursor is not appearing... the blue selection is also not appearing when I select the text or when I press CTRL + A.
I can send the full code if needed. can someone help me?

[wintry quarry]

did you configure your VS?

For use with Unity?

[void siren]

uh, idk how.... im gonna look for a vid rq

[acoustic crow]

bob you dont did that 🙂

i know

[wintry quarry]

There's a lot more to the default TMP Input Field template object than just adding the component

[wintry quarry]

!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

[void siren]

lol

[void siren]

ty

[woeful smelt]

I can send the full code
I think I added everything

[wintry quarry]

Have you created one in a scene and looked at it and all the child objects it has etc?

[rich adder]

about the fields ?

[stone pebble]

Hi! I am just dropping in to thank you guys for your help a couple hours ago(I am the person that wanted to shove a static class into a method). The singleton pattern worked really well and I ended up with 3 singletons to manage my data better. Y'all are great!

[woeful smelt]

this?

[wintry quarry]

yes, look at the child objects it has and all the components they have etc

the text area, the text object itself, etc

[woeful smelt]

ok, I'll check it

[void siren]

this is confusing

[wintry quarry]

and notice how it has the viewport and text component assigned etc

[void siren]

"In unity, open up windows, packages" what

[wintry quarry]

Yes, follow those instructions

[void siren]

im not seeing and windows packages

any

[wintry quarry]

where are you reading

[woeful smelt]

so I need to make everything the same as in the editor by myself? no one has ever created a input field programmatically in unity? 😭

[void siren]

vs coe

[acoustic crow]

PraetorBlue I apologize for saying your tip wouldn't work.

It works now thanks to you, thank you brother

@wintry quarry

[woeful smelt]

for me to use

[rich adder]

are you on VS or VSCode?

[void siren]

code

[wintry quarry]

Unity has prefabs so you don't need to do this

[void siren]

i thought they were the same till u sent the links mb

[woeful smelt]

prefabs? like, code snippets?

[wintry quarry]

just press the cloud button or Window -> Package Manager

[wintry quarry]

no

like prefabs

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

[woeful smelt]

I need to do it using code

[wintry quarry]

I understand that. Doing it in code is going to be annoying

[rich adder]

they are not, click VSCode one and make sure you do all the steps including installing.NET Sdk if it doesnt automatically, notice you need restart after that

might need to regen project files in External Tools after too

[wintry quarry]

Unity has prefabs to avoid that annoyance, but you're not using them so it will be annoying

[woeful smelt]

ok, thank you

❤️

[wintry quarry]

Honestly if you could use UI Toolkit it would probably be simpler

you could include the UXML and load it all from there
not sure if that's supported in whatever you're doing.

[shadow rain]

alright, Im clueless at what too send could u explain it a bit more?

Im terrible in unity

[void siren]

i already have that installed

[acoustic crow]

@woeful smelt do you use chatgpt? or you make this alone

[wintry quarry]

ok, continue following the instructions. that's just part 1

[void siren]

omg

im gonna sound stupid but...

where is preferences

0.0

[acoustic crow]

what do you mean?

[wintry quarry]

Oh also VSCode's integration is really just not as good as VS

[void siren]

VS sucks

[wintry quarry]

K, I'm just telling you

[acoustic crow]

Visuall Studio is perfect for Unity

[wintry quarry]

The Unity integration is much better

[void siren]

VS makes me want to cry when i use it

[void siren]

its telling me to go to preferences

[remote jacinth]

Does anyone have a Korean font asset for me please? Because I can't convert with Text mesh pro

[wintry quarry]

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

[void siren]

is there a link for evertything

[wintry quarry]

yes

[acoustic crow]

wtf i dont unterstand why they make it so complicated

[void siren]

ok, i looked in the edit thing 30 times

[wintry quarry]

Common theme you looking at something a lot and missing stuff 😉

[eternal needle]

Why, it is as simple as double clicking a file in unity then just editing the text.

[acoustic crow]

Install unity and then in the module you can add Visual Studio which will be installed automatically and I have no idea why they make such a fuss out of it with strange links and websites

[void siren]

i code on other stuff too

not only unity

[eternal needle]

As do many people here

[woeful smelt]

I used chatgpt, why? the code is outdated?

[cosmic quail]

chatgpt may give terrible code that dont work

[acoustic crow]

// ... code that adds the text component and placeholder ...

i see this lol ...
Don't try to use chatgpt for something like that, learn it yourself, there's no point in having an AI close everything then you won't learn anything

[woeful smelt]

no, I added that comment

[eternal needle]

Which part are you talking about? The guide for configuring is very straight forward

[woeful smelt]

so I don't have to send the full code here in the chat

[rich adder]

to be fair VS for mac is pretty much gone so VSCode is the only option for us :\

but OP prob has windows so idk lol

[woeful smelt]

I wrote that 😭

[acoustic crow]

@woeful smelt Just don't use Chatgpt for that 🙂 You won't learn anything

[woeful smelt]

you're making it look look like I just copied the chatgpt unfinished code and sent it here

[rich adder]

wouldn't be the first, many people do that lol

[woeful smelt]

I don't do it

[acoustic crow]

Yes ... Fivem developer daily shit lol

[woeful smelt]

the full code is just too big

here

[short hazel]

Modding is not something we help with here, see #📖┃code-of-conduct

[woeful smelt]

the game has an official modding api

[short hazel]

Doesn't matter

[slender nymph]

then you should be asking for help in that game's modding community rather than here

[rich adder]

then they should have their own discord for modding no?

[woeful smelt]

but this is a unity related question

[slender nymph]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[woeful smelt]

about creating a TMPInputField

[short hazel]

Prohibited content and behavior
[...]
Discussing the modding or decompiling of third-party projects.

[slender nymph]

and the correct answer would be to create the input field using the editor. but you cannot do that. so go get help in the game's modding community

[short hazel]

Even if they have an API and allowed modding, it's still not allowed to be discussed here.

[slender nymph]

also #1201856945791705108 message

[woeful smelt]

I understand why they wrote that rule... so people won't mod games without consent

[slender nymph]

that isn't the only reason.

[analog glen]

Hello. I have this code to make light disapear and then appear while holding button f to make light flickering

        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.45f);
        ww.SetActive(!ww.activeSelf);
``` it works in editor, but not in build

[acoustic crow]

code beginners is for beginners who develop games with the unity enginge and not modding for fivem or anything like that

[analog glen]

in build it is very laggy

[woeful smelt]

it's not fivem

[rich adder]

dont send 3 lines of code expecting us to know whats going on

we need more context

[wintry quarry]

this has nothing to do with holding any buttons. Share the full script

[analog glen]

    
{
    [SerializeField] GameObject ww;
    [SerializeField] GameObject ee;
    [SerializeField] AudioSource dzwiekswiatel;
    [SerializeField] GameObject rr;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.F))
        {
            StartCoroutine(B());
            StartCoroutine(C());
            StartCoroutine(D());
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F))
        {
            dzwiekswiatel.Play();
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F))
        {
            dzwiekswiatel.Stop();
        }
    }
    IEnumerator B()
    {
        ww.SetActive(!ww.activeSelf);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.45f);
        ww.SetActive(!ww.activeSelf);
    }
    IEnumerator C()
    {
        ee.SetActive(!ee.activeSelf);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.45f);
        ee.SetActive(!ee.activeSelf);
    }
    IEnumerator D()
    {
        rr.SetActive(!rr.activeSelf);
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.45f);
        rr.SetActive(!rr.activeSelf);
    }
}
``` There are 3 lights

[wintry quarry]

you're not doing anything to prevent multiple coroutines from running simultaneously

also making three different functions for three different lights is just wasteful

you could just put them in an array and use one function

[analog glen]

Could you explain bit more? Sorry I'm new to unity hah

[wintry quarry]

Update runs every frame

so every frame while the F button is pressed, you will be starting new coroutines

these will overlap with the other coroutines you already started

[eternal needle]

Add a debug to your coroutines at the start to see how many coroutines you are starting

[wintry quarry]

and cause chaos

[woeful smelt]

PraetorBlue had already helped me with everything I needed... but all of Just1n's messages made me feel bad... he keeps assuming things, like I just copied something from the chatgpt and came here, and also that I am programming mods for fivem? anyway, everything Just1n said to me felt like an attack and really didn't help in any way. Anyway, thank you for the help PraetorBlue. I'm leaving

[analog glen]

So how I can make light flickering effect that make light disappear very fast? Make variable that block running another for 0.45f?

[wintry quarry]

what is the effect you want to achieve?

[analog glen]

very fast light flickering

[wintry quarry]

When?

while the button is held?

or somethign else

and do you want randomness?

or something else?

[analog glen]

I mean it not must be randomness just like it was it appears and then after 0.45 of secund it disapears and again again

[wintry quarry]

and do you want all the lights to follow the same pattern, or no?

[analog glen]

yes

[wintry quarry]

and how does the F key relate to the behavior?

[twilit pilot]

you're already doing it for the audio source - start a coroutine that flickers the lights on the frame the key is pressed down, and then stop it again when the key is released

[analog glen]

it make them appear. They are on default not active then it make it active and then again disappear

[wintry quarry]

ok but when you release the button then what?

And when you hold it should they continuously flicker on and off?

It's unclear

[analog glen]

There is a dark corridor. After using button f light starts to flicking so you can see there

[wintry quarry]

Since you're not being incredibly clear, my best guess is you want something like this:

[SerializeField] GameObject[] lights;
Coroutine flickerRoutine;

void Update() {
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F)) {
      flickerRoutine = StartCoroutine(Flicker());
    }
    if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F)) {
      StopCoroutine(flickerRoutine);
    }
}

IEnumerator Flicker() {
    while(true) {
        foreach (GameObject light in lights) {
          light.SetActive(!light.activeSelf);
        }
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.45f);
    }
}```

[wintry quarry]

"f starts to flicking" is unclear. I press F once and it flickers forever? It only flickers while holding F? I press once and it flickers for some time and then stops?

[analog glen]

until you release it. After releasing it it stops

[rich adder]

the code they sent does that, try it

[analog glen]

okey

[analog glen]

Thanks

😄

[honest vault]

why does it do that

[wintry quarry]

you're setting your camera position to 0

or near 0

on the z axis

Part of the problem may be that you have offset set to zero on your script

[honest vault]

yea it worked i changed the offset z axis to -1 and it now works fine

thanks for the help

[analog glen]

Sometimes light stay turned on

[wintry quarry]

show your code

and the inspector

[analog glen]

using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class Mechanika2 : MonoBehaviour
    
{
    int blokada = 1;
    [SerializeField] GameObject ww;
    [SerializeField] GameObject ee;
    [SerializeField] AudioSource dzwiekswiatel;
    [SerializeField] GameObject rr;
    [SerializeField] GameObject[] lights;
    Coroutine flickerRoutine;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    IEnumerator Flicker()
    {
        while (true)
        {
            foreach (GameObject light in lights)
            {
                light.SetActive(!light.activeSelf);
            }
            yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.05f);
        }
    }
    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F))
        {
            flickerRoutine = StartCoroutine(Flicker());
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F))
        {
            StopCoroutine(flickerRoutine);
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F))
        {
            dzwiekswiatel.Play();
        }
        if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F))
        {
            dzwiekswiatel.Stop();
        }
    }```

[wintry quarry]

which object is this script on

[analog glen]

on empty gameobject

[wintry quarry]

Is the object ever being deactivated or destroyed? Are you changing scenes?

[analog glen]

no

[wintry quarry]

that's the only way I could imagine this stopping. Or maybe you put another copy of the script on something elsewhere

[analog glen]

it stays only sometimes

[polar acorn]

Search your hierarchy for t:Mechanika2

See if there's any other instances of this script in the scene

[analog glen]

Only that

meybe it stays that when you release button in wrong moment

[modest dust]

I would rather say, that you do not deactivate the light when stopping the coroutine

They may be currently active, so you'd need to deactivate them manually after stopping the coroutine

if (Input.GetKeyUp(KeyCode.F))
{
     StopCoroutine(flickerRoutine);
     foreach (GameObject light in lights)
     {
          light.SetActive(false);
     }
}```

i.e. you're stopping the coroutine when it's waiting to deactivate the light

You also have double if statements checking the same thing, so merge them together (light flicking & sound play)

[wintry quarry]

Ahh good point

[void siren]

how would i change this to make it spawn at a random y position rather than at the origin of the object

[wintry quarry]

ah that was not so clear - yeah caesar has the answer

[rich adder]

make a new V3 and randomize the Y value

[wintry quarry]

Vector3 pos = transform.position;
pos.y = Random.Range(min, max);
Instantiate(Enemy, pos, Quaternion.identity);```

something like this

[whole isle]

is there a way to change vairabled all at once instead of going each script one by one

[wintry quarry]

in what context?

[void siren]

ty

[whole isle]

for example i changed my variable heart to health and i wanna change it in the powerup script health script etc

[analog glen]

thanks for help 🙂

[void siren]

wait so where would that go

[wintry quarry]

Your IDE should have a Rename feature for the variable

[whole isle]

oooo how do u use that

[rich adder]

I mean, would've explained it no problem..

[wintry quarry]

Usually right click the variable name and select Rename

ther may also be a hotkey

or Refactor -> Rename

[whole isle]

would it change the variable in other scripts aswell

[wintry quarry]

Yes that's the whole point

[void siren]

wa da hell

now the enemies are spawning but i cant se them

wait

1s

[whole isle]

lol ty

[void siren]

yeah idk

[wintry quarry]

All my code does is change where they spawn

anything else would be a problem elsewhere

[void siren]

theyre spawning outside of the box i put 0.0

[wintry quarry]

is there a reason you expect them not to?

What min/max values did you put?

[void siren]

oh god

yeah i put a biiiig number

min 0 max 1080

lol

oops

[analog glen]

How I can use variable from another script into other?

[rare basin]

did you try googling it?

[wintry quarry]

You're already doing that in your script

[void siren]

alr works

[wintry quarry]

For example when you do dzwiekswiatel.Play(); you are accessing the Play() function from another script (The audio source)

[void siren]

ty for the 7th time today

[wintry quarry]

You can do the same thing with your own variables and functions

[analog glen]

even if that script is on different object?

[wintry quarry]

yes

as long as you get a reference to it

[analog glen]

dzwiekswiatel.Play() is from that script

[void siren]

praetor, do you live in this channel

[austere hedge]

I am getting odd behavior with number inputs. Out of all the numbers, pressing 1 is the only key that gets triggered. Sometimes even "1" doesn't get triggered, and I have to hit stop and hit play again for "1" to work once again. Can I get some help on this please?

The behavior is the same whether I use the numpad or the normal numbers on the keyboard.

[polar acorn]

Are you getting any errors in your console, even in other scripts?

[austere hedge]

I only have the one script running on this scene, but there are no errors showing.

[polar acorn]

Show the full !code for this script

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[austere hedge]

https://paste.ofcode.org/ak9nZz55aggj9hmp2YTLa7

[tall delta]

I don't really know much about the new input system, but if '1' is the only one that works. could that be related to the fact that that's the only one you enable?

[austere hedge]

Ah.

Forgot to enable the rest...doh.

That doesn't explain why it only "sometimes" worked though, but I'm going to enable the rest right now and see what happens.

[void siren]

whys this grayed out

[void siren]

how do i changf that

i wanna move it

[polar acorn]

Why

The position of a canvas doesn't matter

[swift crag]

This is correct.

[void siren]

right in the center of my screen

[polar acorn]

yeah

[swift crag]

The position of the canvas in the world doesn't really matter when it's in "Screen Space - Overlay" mode

[polar acorn]

what about it

[void siren]

i want it top left

[swift crag]

The canvas is drawn directly onto your screen after the camera renders.

[polar acorn]

The canvas's position is completely irrelevant

[void siren]

0.0

[swift crag]

press F with the canvas selected to focus the scene view camera on it and set it up as you desire

you can look at the game view to see how it's going to look in-game

[austere hedge]

Okay, the rest of the keys work. And I think the keys stopped randomly working because I was clicking into the console. Thank you for your help digiholic and simex.

[void siren]

ty

now theres this white line

[swift crag]

and is this in the game view or the scene view?

[void siren]

game

[swift crag]

do you have Gizmos turned on in the top right corner?

[void siren]

yeah

whats that?

i turned it off now theyre gone

[swift crag]

turn it off if you don't want to see gizmos

gizmos are used to visualize things like colliders

[void siren]

ah

[swift crag]

stuff that would normally be non-visible

[void siren]

so if that were to be public no one would need gizmos

with it turjed on

dumb question nvm

[swift crag]

"that"?

i don't know what "that" means

[void siren]

yeah im a bit brain dead

i meant the game

[swift crag]

i don't understand how the game itself could be "public"

[void siren]

downloaded

published

for others to dowenload

download

[swift crag]

Gizmos aren't included in the built game.

They only render in the editor.

[void siren]

anyywaayyyss lets not talk asbout this bc im sounding more and more stuodi

stupid

[lusty flax]

how do i make my LineRenderer tile my texture?

[wintry quarry]

Give it a material with tiling

[silver timber]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LineRenderer-textureMode.html

[frosty hound]

You can start by uploading your !code to a bin

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[tall delta]

I assume that the ledge grab transition is true, while the 'any state' transition to the blend tree is true at the same time

[granite atlas]

can anyone familiar with Gorilla Tag help me?

[frosty hound]

If you're grabbing the ledge, you probably should have a bool that you're doing so, so it doesn't call it every fixed update.

[tall delta]

without know what trigger/bools etc, the transition are bound to, helping with this is going to be hard

[lusty flax]

my texture isn't tiling, after a certain point it just begins to stretch

[lusty flax]

(linerenderer)

[silver timber]

change your textures import settings *wrap mode to repeat instead of clamp

[lusty flax]

where do i find this menu

[tall delta]

and the conditions from AnyState to jumpBlenTree?

[silver timber]

in your textures import settings. select the texture asset in your project and then find the "Wrap Mode" settings in the inspector

@lusty flax

[lusty flax]

ok

[carmine turret]

So. currently my character "sometimes" (very very rarely) gets stuck of youre going at exactly the right speed when hitting the edge like this. it "should" be slipping off as it normally does but isnt. is there an equivalent to capsule collider for 2d?

just gonna replace the raycast with it

[lusty flax]

thank you! it worked!

[tall delta]

there is your problem, as long as grounded is false, you can go from any possible state to the jumpblendtree. but that's also a condition from ledge grab, casuing a loop. AnyState to jumpBlenTree should maybe also have the condition canGrabLedge = false, or something to that effect.

[silver timber]

you want CapsuleCollider2D component?
or Physics2D.CapsuleCast?

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-CapsuleCollider2D.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D.CapsuleCast.html

[whole isle]

my hearts was like this but i changed the vairable fullhearts to filledheats now it dosent show when its filled

[carmine turret]

capsulecast, thank you!

[carmine turret]

Show some code :3

[whole isle]

ok

[carmine turret]

otherwise people cant really help you

ew that is weird!

[rich adder]

!code

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!code

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[carmine turret]

beat me too it

paste the code properly so people can edit it and such ^^

[whole isle]

https://paste.ofcode.org/u58e5dpkFixVvMTLt5rwxE

like that?

it was working before

when it was fullhearts

but once i change the vairable it dosent

[polar acorn]

Show the inspector of this object

[silver timber]

is the reference to the sprite still assigned? it probably got lost when you renamed the variable

[whole isle]

ahhh the image is gone

ok it works now lol soz for the trouble

[silver timber]

yea Unity saves what values you have set in the inspector using the name of each variable. When a variable name is changed the original value is lost unless you add the [FormerlySerializedAs("fullhearts")] attribute

[swift crag]

you need to reassign the reference after renaming the field

oops, i was scrolled back

[carmine turret]

Could I use Collider2D.cast for a similar outcome? It seems go?

[silver timber]

I don't really know what you're trying to do or how you're trying to do it. Can you provide more context?

[carmine turret]

Actually dont worry, it doesnt seem to have a layermask argument

Ill just use circlecast ^^

thanks though!

[lusty flax]

how do I stretch a sprite in a LineRenderer? it works, but it's a bit squished which makes it look odd

[silver timber]

are you tiling it via material or the line renderer's texture mode?

[lusty flax]

material

[silver timber]

do you want it to tile based on the distance of the line, or stretch regardless of the line distance?

[lusty flax]

regardless of distance

(as in, it tiles the same but the image is 2x longer or smth)

[carmine turret]

I would like some opinons, Im starting work on a grappling hook mechanic and Im wandering if I should a. use a distance joint and set the target to click location, or b use a hinge joint and set a rigidbody at click location as the joint

[silver timber]

just to be clear, do you want A or B

[lusty flax]

Option A

[silver timber]

thats done via this setting I mentioned previously
#💻┃code-beginner message

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LineRenderer-textureMode.html

[lusty flax]

using Texture Scale?

[silver timber]

yes haha set it to Tile and it tiles

[lusty flax]

yeah but i tried that before

the tiling thing works, but when I try to change the scale it just doesn't want to

First image has TextureScale.x = 1, and the second is TextureScale.x = 2

i just want it to stretch

[silver timber]

Can you change the tiling in the material?

[lusty flax]

I can't change it

[silver timber]

I don't know exactly why its disabled, but probably because it's a sprite shader. The line renderer is not a sprite renderer so you can just use a regular Unlit shader for your material

[lusty flax]

changing it to an unlit texture kinda broke it

[silver timber]

It needs to be transparent since your texture has transparency

[lusty flax]

oh wait

wait

yeah

transparent

[silver timber]

Also if the Texture Scale wasn't working before maybe it will now. The sprite shader might not have been playing nice with how the line renderer works. Texture Scale works for me with the Unlit shader

[lusty flax]

wait my texture is no longer being translucent like before

[silver timber]

show me the material inspector

[silver timber]

That shader has alpha clipping

Which means if the alpha of a pixel is above the "Alpha cutoff" value it will be fully opaque, otherwise it will be fully transparent

I can't see the full shader name but I'm guessing that's "Unlit/Transparent Cutout" when you want "Unlit/Transparent"

[lusty flax]

when I changed it to "unlit/transparent", it still doesn't become transparent (i think this is because i set the transparency through the "color" component of the LineRenderer)

[carmine turret]

Is linerenderer the best option to draw a line with texture between two points (a grappling hook for example)?

Or is there another method

[lusty flax]

linerenderer works

[carmine turret]

aighty

thank you

[warped roost]

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@warped roost There's no need to test out the bot. It works.

[warped roost]

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[hollow zenith]

Why does OnEnable execute before Awake?
https://i.gyazo.com/a98184c7eda415793b00f514e57e25a1.png
Unity docs say that Awake should happen before OnEnable.
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ExecutionOrder.html

Is there an order in which I should be executing my scripts?

Would this be a good way:

void StartGame()
{
  InitializeObjects(); // creates instances of game systems like inventory system, player controller and their events.
  UIManager.Init(); // loads all UI elements and set them to Active which should execute all OnEnable functions which will subscribe to events
  LoadData(); // Load game data from save file if needed or just default starting data(like getting first character in the game)
}

[eternal needle]

Did you add any logs to see if this was truly the case? Maybe one object just isnt created yet unless these are both in scene

[hollow zenith]

I found out the issue, apparently Awake and OnEnable are called in this order within their scripts.
So 1 script might call Awake + OnEnable while another only Awake.

[eternal needle]

It is generally a good idea to define some order like this if the order matters. Helps you pass around data too, for example if something needs data that only happens after LoadData() but LoadData relies on something else happening first.

[hollow zenith]

I was just trying to use this:

    private void OnEnable()
    {
        Game.Instance.areaManager.onAreaUnlock.AddListener(OnAreaUnlocked);
        Game.Instance.areaManager.onAreaActivate.AddListener(OnAreaActivated);
    }

    private void OnDisable()
    {
        Game.Instance.areaManager.onAreaUnlock.RemoveListener(OnAreaUnlocked);
        Game.Instance.areaManager.onAreaActivate.RemoveListener(OnAreaActivated);
    }

It was recommended to me many times, but it seems like a bad idea, I might as well use Init function instead of relying on OnEnable

Or I have to load all ui + data in correct order to make sure they can subscribe to all events.

[lusty flax]

how can i add a ton of objects to a list quickly without having to tediously go through them all individually (i have over 50 sprites to add)

[teal viper]

Select all, drag and drop

[lusty flax]

when i select, it exits the sprite atlas inspector screen

[teal viper]

Lock it. There's a lock button at the top right. Also, this is not a coding question.

[lusty flax]

oh, yeah right

where should i have posted this (to post stuff like this there instead, next time?)

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[lusty flax]

kk

(i was confused cause there's no im-stupid-and-don't-know-how-to-use-the-UI-help channel) 😅

[simple valley]

how do i make my camera look speed the same when using a mouse and controller

because right now the mouse is way faster

[teal viper]

Add a speed modifier parameter that is different based on wether it's mouse or a controller.

[wintry quarry]

Add mouse sensitivity settings.

Note that this doesn't even make sense because you can move your mouse at any speed, they're not analogous control schemes

Also show your code

[rancid tinsel]

how does (vector2)transform.position differ from vector2.zero here?

[wintry quarry]

Because I bet there's a bug in it

[rancid tinsel]

*first line of both methods

[wintry quarry]

Your code is framerate dependent for controllers

[simple valley]

those are the only 2 scripts that involve the camera

[rancid tinsel]

you might want to send it through

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[rancid tinsel]

i recommend gdl.space personally

[wintry quarry]

CircleCast doesn't make any sense with Vector2.zero there

You would just do OverlapCircle at that point

[rancid tinsel]

whats overlapcircle?

[north kiln]

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