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[wintry quarry]

It Checks for colliders that overlap a circle

[rancid tinsel]

ah i see

[last basin]

Hi guys, i Have a problem the OnDrop() func, im trying to make a little tower defense in 2D for learn Unity, but impossible to catch this func on my plots where i want to build a turret.
I made a post in the forum : https://forum.unity.com/threads/problem-with-ondrop-for-a-tower-defense-2d.1557701/

If anyone can help, thanks a lot 🙂

[frigid sequoia]

Why is this causing my object to wiggle when it gets close to the target?

[wintry quarry]

because it's overshooting

do this instead:
transform.position = Vector3.MoveTowards(transform.position, objectToFollow.transform.position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

[frigid sequoia]

I though so but I have used it in many objects before and none of them did wiggle

[wintry quarry]

it will clearly overshoot ¯_(ツ)_/¯

think about it

[frigid sequoia]

Oh, that does work much smoother thxs

Why is that?

[wintry quarry]

Because it doesn't overshoot

also - you're using transform.Translate wrong

you're using world space positions and Translate works in local space by default

[frigid sequoia]

What's the difference?. I mean, isn't world space basically the local space of the... world, sorta say

[wintry quarry]

yes but your object is not the world

your object is itself

once you translate, rotate, or scale your object away from the origin, they are completely different coordinate spaces

[frigid sequoia]

So... why is that .MoveTowards does not overshot?

[wintry quarry]

because it was written not to

they programmed it not to

It says so right in the documentation https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3.MoveTowards.html

the new position does not overshoot target

[ember tangle]

Oh nice I have a similiar question

[wintry quarry]

!code

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[frigid sequoia]

I am kinda asking it more in depth cause I was trying to avoid the overshoot my self by applying a direct transform directly when being very near the target and couldn't make it work

[wintry quarry]

Well your main issue is using Translate in local space with world space inputs

that's throwing EVERYTHING off

You can certainly replicate the MoveTowards behavior manually if you want

it's not complicated

but you do need to be using the correct inputs and working in the correct coordinate space

[sterile moon]

How could I allow something to freely flop around on the z axis based on movement around it, like gravity. Think antennas, or, towing arm that needs to be able to pivot loosely

[wintry quarry]

``` not '''

[frigid sequoia]

Ok, I will try avoidind tranlate in world space, and... kinda in general actually, MoveTowards looks way more usefull

[ember tangle]

I'm trying very modestly to make a game object rotate to an angle.

Vector3 to = new Vector3(0, 0, 18); 
transform.eulerAngles = Vector3.Lerp(transform.rotation.eulerAngles, to, Time.deltaTime);

works fine

Vector3 to = new Vector3(0, 0, -18); 
transform.eulerAngles = Vector3.Lerp(transform.rotation.eulerAngles, to, Time.deltaTime);

spins forever. I do not understand why.

[wintry quarry]

because euler angles are cancer

don't use them

[teal viper]

Joints. Not sure which one exactly. You'll need to research that.

[ember tangle]

Its a 2d game

gimbal lock doesnt matter to me

[wintry quarry]

Quaternion to = Quaternion.Euler(0, 0, -18);
transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, to, Time.deltaTime);```

the problem of euler angles transcends beyond gimbal lock

you're seeing it now

[ember tangle]

Ok I believe you

[sterile moon]

Okay, and how do I keep my towing arms attached to my truck when I give my towing arms rigid bodys and shit?

[wintry quarry]

the joint

[sterile moon]

its all parented, but if i add rigid body, it falls off the truck when game starts. If i turn off gravity, it wont mvoe with truck

[teal viper]

With joints. The joint is what tries to keep it attached. The free movement is what's coming from the rb. And the combination is what makes it wobble.

[sterile moon]

I see

[whole idol]

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Beginning_CSharp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
        }
    }
}

this might sound like a stupid question but why do you need to import all these frameworks and assets if the program works fine just like this:

namespace Beginning_CSharp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
        }
    }
}

???

[wintry quarry]

you don't need to

any other questions?

also this isn't a Unity question

[whole idol]

I know you dont have to but why?

[wintry quarry]

Why don't you have to?

Is that what you're asking?

DO you know what using does?

[whole idol]

the program works fine without it yeah but the IDE automatically loads these assets everytime right?

[wintry quarry]

It's very simple.

In your example you are using Console.WriteLine

that's a function in the Console class

the full name of the Console class is System.Console

the only thing that using System; does is let you write Console instead of the full System.Console

that's it

it does nothing else

you're not using the rest of them at all so you don't need them

[fierce geode]

Hey, how would you combine a camera's rotation along side the player's rotation. To do the whole camera-directed player. Like it goes in the direction the camera is rotated.
I did like
Quaternion yaw_rot = Quaternion.Euler(0, cam.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.y, 0);
move_vector = yaw_rot * move_vector;

and it worked fine for flat surfaces, but it caused issues when travelling up slopes, Like I needed the character to travel through a loop and the movement would always stuff itself up

[wintry quarry]

Whatever you're using that's adding those is using some C# template file that includes them all

[wintry quarry]

Vector3 surfaceNormal = // get the surface normal through a raycast or something??
Vector3 camForward = Vector3.ProjectOnPlane(cam.transform.forward, surfaceNormal);
Quaternion desiredRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(camForward, surfaceNormal);
move_vector = desiredRotation * move_vector;```
Something like this

[fierce geode]

Thanks man, been banging against this loop for like a week

[young wren]

Hi i start to work with scriptable object's and i wanted to use them as keeper of state of objects but im curious if thats possible to make it run an function or make script that would watch changes in attached value and then call funcion for example like active or disactive GameObject by value of that ScriptableObject

public class BoolValue : ScriptableObject, ISerializationCallbackReceiver
{
    public bool initialValue;

    [NonSerialized]
    [HideInInspector]
    public bool value;

    public void OnBeforeSerialize() { }

    public void OnAfterDeserialize()
    {
        value = initialValue;
    }

    public void Togglevalue()
    {
        value = !value;
    }

    public void Setvalue(bool newState)
    {
        value = newState;
    }
}

[wintry quarry]

You will need a MonoBehaviour to coordinate things

[ember tangle]

Is this still okay to use or does the conversion mess things up still?

gameObject.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z

[wintry quarry]

euler angles are cyclical and your math is going to be all messed up by that

the fact that -5 and 355 are the same angle

your code doesn't account for it

I don't recommend euler angles and I especially don't recommend reading them back from a Transform like this

you never know if you'll get -15 or 345

[ember tangle]

alright I'll just learn to read them from the Quaternion although it scares me

[young wren]

Any idea what function or somthing i would need to use

[wintry quarry]

you don't ever need to read euler angles

you shouldn't

that's the dangerous thing

[ember tangle]

Im trying to pull the z rotation value for some if statements

[wintry quarry]

For what specifically? Your question was really vague

[wintry quarry]

You don't need it. What are your if statements trying to check? There's a better way to do whatever you're trying to do than reading the angle

[young wren]

To call an function when value of exact ScriptableObject changes

[wintry quarry]

use events

[ember tangle]

private bools in the object that toggle based on the rotation angle.

[wintry quarry]

show the code

I assure you, you don't need the angle, and there's a better more reliable way.

[tall delta]

I find this question intriguing, because I remember dealing with this same 'eulerAngles' shit when I just started learning unity. I'll try my best to give a simple answer: when you try to set rotation to -18 degrees using vector.lerp, unity internally interprets this as +342 degrees (since 360 - 18 = 342) due to how it handles angle normalization. during the lerp process, instead of moving directly to the intended angle, unity recalculates the target as a positive angle. and so when you try to to "subtract" towards -18 degrees each frame, the interpolation actually "adds" a small increment towards 342 degrees due to unity's internal conversion to quaternions and back to Euler angles... so you spin ad infinitum.

that took waaay too long to write and I see that you have moved on 😄

[ember tangle]

Well I've learned a ton already and your messages adds to it so dont worry

[near wadi]

are these not valid?

            EnableDebugView(true);
            SetDebugView(DebugView.Normals);

[supple night]

Hi.
I'm trying to make a rigidbody move based on the movement of another rigidbody.
I'm using this logic:

_rb.velocity = attachedRigidbody.velocity;

But the rigidbody doesn't move at all. He just moves forward and back. I would like him to follow the other.

[wintry quarry]

follow is different from matching velocity

what do you actually want

[supple night]

I want him to follow

But not in the same velocity, honestly

I want to do something like MoveTowards

But using the rigidbody physics

[wintry quarry]

Well you can give it a vbelocity towards the object

Vector3 diff = attachedRigidbody.position - _rb.position;
Vector3 velocity = diff.normalized * speed;
_rb.velocity = velocity;``` as a basic starting point for example

[dusky hazel]

I am trying to use visual scripting for the first time, and this might be a dumb question but how do you move around in the editor? All I can do is scroll up and down and add nodes.

[wintry quarry]

I think it's middle click and drag?

something like that

[dusky hazel]

thank you!!

[tall delta]

#763499475641172029 might be a better place to ask, but it also sounds like you should maybe watch / read a few 'how to unity' tutorials

[dusky hazel]

it works

[dusky hazel]

I am using a tutorial on unity learn

[supple night]

This looks like much more promising...
I tried something like this before, but using Add Force with Velocity Change and the result was kind of different

[wintry quarry]

if you want to do it with actual forces it's much harder. You'll basically need to write a PID controller for that

[supple night]

Honestly, the result is a bit "strange". Could it be because I changed the object position using transform.position?

[wintry quarry]

which object

yes

[supple night]

If i drawline to see vector, they always are in the same position

[wintry quarry]

you should not be moving Rigidbodies with transform.position

maybe show your code

[supple night]

How i "teleport"?

[wintry quarry]

rb.position = newPosition

[supple night]

The same for rotation?

[wintry quarry]

There's also MovePosition/MoveRotation

what are you trying to do?

[supple night]

I thought these methods would be for kinematic rigidbody

[supple night]

Well, in the moment that i teleport, they are kinematic... Maybe make sense use

[supple night]

I want to simulate inertia physics 😄

Is for a test

[wintry quarry]

Good news, the physics engine does that automatically

[supple night]

I need to calculate with code

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand, nor do I understand why you're using Rigidbodies then

[supple night]

Without rigidbody i thought that not going to be possible

[supple night]

I have already achieved several promising results. But, the "stopping force", I still haven't been able to replicate

[supple night]

It's for a job test

[wintry quarry]

I don't understand if you're allowed to use Rigidbody or not

you seem to be saying you're not allowed to but then you're using it anyway

[supple night]

No

Honestly, i think i can..

I'm not allowed to use joints, for example

Anyway, i don't understand why what i'm doing doesn't work

[wintry quarry]

well you've barely shared any details about it so nobody else is going to be able to understand either.

[supple night]

If i apply the same speed, shouldn't they at least move?

var velocityChange = attachedRigidbody.velocity - enemyCharacter.Rigidbody.velocity;
velocityChange = velocityChange.normalized * 10.0f;

enemyCharacter.Rigidbody.MoveRotation(attachedRigidbody.rotation);
enemyCharacter.Rigidbody.velocity = velocityChange;

[wintry quarry]

that's not applying the same speed

also this assumes either object is actually moving via Rigidbody velocity

[supple night]

Yes

var currentVelocity = _rigidBody.velocity;    
var targetVelocity = direction * speed;

var force = targetVelocity - currentVelocity;
force = Vector3.ClampMagnitude(force, maxForce);

var lookRotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(direction);
lookRotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, lookRotation, speed * Time.fixedDeltaTime);

_rigidBody.MoveRotation(lookRotation);
_rigidBody.AddForce(force, ForceMode.VelocityChange);

The other rigidbody movement

If i do this:

enemyCharacter.Rigidbody.AddForce(attachedRigidbody.velocity, ForceMode.VelocityChange);
enemyCharacter.Rigidbody.MoveRotation(attachedRigidbody.rotation);

Nothing happens

Except for the rotation 🤣

[supple night]

This is not my final goal. But i hoped this would work

[minor patio]

I just thought I'd drop in to say I'm back on track
minor skill issue concerning properties vs fields XD

[rancid tinsel]

how would I make this instantiate as a child of the object holding the script: GameObject bulletObj = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firingPoint.position, Quaternion.identity);

[supple night]

bulletObj.transform.parent = transform

[rancid tinsel]

thank you

[minor patio]

there were som people in yesterday talking about bullet objects & instantiating vs ray-casts with a delayed event, if your goal is like a first or third person shooter...

[rancid tinsel]

tower defence game in my case

[fierce geode]

Do you guys ever go back and refactor your code mid-problem? Thinking about going back and restarting my character movement code; starting from scratch with what I've learnt to maybe overcome and find out whatever rotation is doing to my movement code.

[teal viper]

Debug. Assuming attached rb velocity is not 0, enemy character should move.

[teal viper]

You should understand the problem entirely before refactoring anything, as you're risking falling into the same problem.

[fierce geode]

I'm 50/50 on understanding the problem

[supple night]

This is another doubt. How to debug? Any recommendations? I was using DrawLine

[fierce geode]

Honestly the second reason I'm refactoring, is doing a test where basically I'm removing elements of the code and breaking it down to it's bare essentials

and seeing if the problem still occurs or if it's affected by another area I didn't consider

[teal viper]

Draw debug lines/rays, debug logs, attach the debugger and use breakpoints. There are many debugging methods.

[warm condor]

Hey. I am having a problem where the animations that I want to play are overlapping. I can I stop this from happening?

        ChangeAnimationState(playerAnimations.AccelerationBeforeRunning.ToString());//the playerAnimations is an enum containing all of the animation                                                                                          //names 
        if (playerAnimator.GetCurrentAnimatorStateInfo(0).IsName(playerAnimations.AccelerationBeforeRunning.ToString())){
            ChangeAnimationState(playerAnimations.Run.ToString());
        }
    }```

[teal viper]

You don't need to refactor for that. Just comment out code temporary to help you understand the issue. Once you understand it 100%, you can refactor the code.

[teal viper]

Wdym by "overlapping"?

[warm condor]

meaning one animation is trying to play, but the other is trying to play as well. So they are both trying to take priority.

[primal turtle]

Can someone explain this to me?

why does it not work if I add the code>

and spam clones?

[teal viper]

Then don't start them both at the same time(or when one is already playing)..?
Sounds like a logic issue.

[teal viper]

Share the video as an mp4

[primal turtle]

here's an mp4 version

[primal turtle]

was just doing that :)

[warm condor]

but idk how without making it too complicated

[teal viper]

Then make it complicated first and simplify from there if possible. Or share the working code and we might be able to help you.

[primal turtle]

Why does it spam clones when I add the update with some code?

[teal viper]

Share the !code properly too

[eternal falcon]

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[primal turtle]

https://hatebin.com/duhhupglvi

why does the update code affect the clone spawning? Before you ask, logic.deleteSegment isn't used in the instantiate process

[summer stump]

Are you gonna show the logicscript?

[primal turtle]

and deletion is only used in this script

[primal turtle]

sure

https://hatebin.com/qjuiqzuuvg

the bottum is the spawning

and a trigger tells it when to activate, but it should automatically stopped as soon as it's called as I do that before the cloning/spawning

[summer stump]

SegmentCreation

[primal turtle]

https://hatebin.com/aquunybeig

here's the trigger script aswell

[primal turtle]

what did I do wrong with it?

[warm condor]

the thing is, I wanted to try to use the Animation Event Manager, but it just seems way to complicated

I want to be able to transition from the accileration animation to the running animation

[teal viper]

What's an Animation Event Manager? Doesn't something like something included in unity by default.

[teal viper]

Then maybe define the transitions in the animator?

[primal turtle]

https://hatebin.com/duhhupglvi Clone Script

https://hatebin.com/qjuiqzuuvg Logic Script

https://hatebin.com/aquunybeig Trigger Script

[primal turtle]

video

[summer stump]

That is what is creating the clone.
Looks like the trigger script has no validation in the OnTriggerEnter

Which is a big issue

[primal turtle]

wdym by validation?

[summer stump]

Like checking what you are colliding with

Right now if ANYTHING hits the trigger you create that segment

I don't like the way everything is controlling varioua things in different scripts either

[primal turtle]

but why does it work if I don't have the Update() ??

[summer stump]

The architecture is pretty dangerous

[primal turtle]

true

how would I make it only collide with a tag or smt?

cause you're right, that'd probably fix it.

[silver timber]

check the tag in OnTriggerEnter collider's gameobject and return early if it's not the right one

[primal turtle]

documentation?

[silver timber]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Collider.OnTriggerEnter.html

[summer stump]

if (collision.CompareTag("TagName"))

[teal viper]

Start from the end that is the closest to the issue. That being the instantiation. If it runs then the if condition is being true. Investigate where that bool is set to true. Eventually you'll get to how the update is related to it.

[primal turtle]

thx

[primal turtle]

it's just confusing as they don't share any same variables which is usually what goes wrong

[warm condor]

ohh right I just got an idea from that. Thanks.

[primal turtle]

what's the difference between start and awake

[teal viper]

Well, then they do and you just don't realize the connection. They don't need to be sharing vars to affect each other. Var a affects var b, which affects var c, which affects var d. Even if var a never affects var d directly, it ends up affecting it indirectly.
Ever heard of butterfly effect?

[summer stump]

Awake runs before Start
For objects that exist before the scene starts, no start will run before every awake has completed

[silver timber]

you gotta at least read the documentation my dude

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

[supple night]

Everything alright with velocity. Checked using vector zero comparation...
I think there may be something "holding" the rigidbody.
I'm using ragdoll, but his rigidbodies are kinematic at the moment

[fierce geode]

didn't work, but I managed to find a solution. by multiplying my inputs by the right and forward of the camera's transform but with the Y's removed.

` Vector3 right = cam.transform.right;
right.y = 0;
Vector3 forward = cam.transform.forward;
forward.y = 0;

    //The horizontal and vertical speed values if accelerating/deccelerating.
    Vector3 hor_speed = (player_input.x * right) * (is_hor_accel ? accel_speed : deccel_speed);
    Vector3 ver_speed = (player_input.y * forward) * (is_ver_accel ? accel_speed : deccel_speed);`

[teal viper]

Wdym by "vector zero comparison"? Share the updated code.

Also, try actually setting it's velocity or adding force normally in fixed update. Does it move in that case?

[wintry quarry]

gonna be messed up unless you normalize it. But this is identical to ProjectOnPlane with Vector3.up

it won't work for a loop though

you mentioned a loop and inclines so I mentioned using a surface normal

[silver timber]

rigidbodies are kinematic at the moment
I'm out of the loop, but is that not the problem? If it's kinematic forces/velocity changes won't do anything

[wintry quarry]

yep - might as well not have a Rigidbody if they're kinematic

(other than for collision detection callbacks)

[supple night]

I actually using multiples rigidbodies(because ragdoll). I turned in kinematic only the ragdoll rigidbodies

[silver timber]

Kinematic = no physics movement
So kinematic ragdoll rigidbodies won't fall or do anything.

[supple night]

Even though I have another rigidbody that is normal?

[fierce geode]

well it solved my biggest problem of being able to get up the loop in the first place, the problem I think you're mentioning is that I need to reverse my controls when my character goes upside down

[silver timber]

Yes

They should all be non-kinematic if they should all have active physics

[wintry quarry]

Well you said my method "didn't work" I assume you didn't actually provide a currect surface normal or made some other error. What you are showing here is almost identical except it doesn't take the slope of the ground into account at all. And no you don't just want to reverse when upside down, there's so much more to it than that.

[supple night]

I only need physics in the parent one
The body parties could be in kinematic

[silver timber]

If you want the body parts to not move due to physics then sure, but assuming the parent rigidbody is connected to the body parts via joints it wont be able to move since it's connected to kinematic rigidbodies which themselves cannot move

[teal viper]

At this point you'll need to share more details on your setup, as it's really unclear of what's going on.

[supple night]

Sure

[teal viper]

Preferably showing the issue and all the details at runtime.

[supple night]

I have this structure:

EnemyBoy have the rigidbody that is in non-kinematic
mixamorig have the ragdoll rigidbodies that is in kinematic

[silver timber]

do you want the ragdoll to fall like a ragdoll? then make them all non-kinematic

[supple night]

Yes

They fall, then they get up

[teal viper]

Wasn't the issue being that enemy doesn't follow the player or something?

[rich adder]

do you have animator ?

[supple night]

Yes

[supple night]

Yes

[rich adder]

you have to turn that off when you want to ragdoll

[fierce geode]

It was probably just some other error from the weird ass way I've written my code, Like a comparison between moving forward between your solution(1st one) and mine. Also the white line sticking up is a line pointing in the direction of the ground normal so I'm like 10% sure its not me getting the ground normal wrong.

[supple night]

    public void SetKinematic(bool isKinematic)
    {
        _collider.enabled = isKinematic;
        foreach (var bodyPart in _bodyParts)
        {
            bodyPart.isKinematic = isKinematic;
        }
    }

    public void SetOnStack()
    {
        foreach (var ragdollCollider in GetComponentsInChildren<Collider>())
        {
            ragdollCollider.enabled = false;
        }

        Rigidbody.isKinematic = false;
        _collider.enabled = true;
        _animator.enabled = true;
        _animator.SetTrigger(OnStackHash);
    }

This peace of code make the logic. Before i apply physics, i call:

enemyCharacter.SetKinematic(true);
enemyCharacter.SetOnStack();

[teal viper]

Then the ragdoll is unrelated. Share more details on the root object as I suggested

[teal viper]

• Expand components
• Record the object at runtime when the issue occurs

[teal viper]

Like seriously, what kind of info am I supposed to get from that screenshot?

[supple night]

I dont know 🤣 I thought you could ask to expand on something in specific

[wintry quarry]

Your camera doesn't follow behind the player as it flips

my code assumed it would

what you actually want to do then is project the player's forward direction along the surface normal, not the camera forward

[teal viper]

Expand everything. And there's no use in showing the prefab, as the runtime object could be vastly different

You could keep the collider collapsed. That's about it

Everything else could be related.

[silver timber]

Are you disabling the animator after making it enter the ragdoll state?

[supple night]

The enemy that i catch, should follow player

[supple night]

No...

[fierce geode]

but wouldn't that remove the camera relative part of the movement?

[supple night]

I turn on

[wintry quarry]

only if your player is regularly facing a different direction as the camera

[teal viper]

I don't see the inspector in that video...

[supple night]

To use the "falling" anim

[teal viper]

Here's a tip: when debugging something, don't maximize the game view...

[silver timber]

Falling anim? is that different than the ragdoll state?

[supple night]

Yes

[silver timber]

Can you just breakdown in simple steps what you expect to happen so we're all on the same page?
Like

1. Player touches enemy
2. Enemy ragdolls
3. Enemy gets back up and chases player

[fierce geode]

so i'd have to set my player to always face the same direction as the camera?

[wintry quarry]

I guess it really boils down to what you want

you will probably end up needing some special handling when the player gets on the loop

[teal viper]

1. Try disabling root motion on the animator and see if that helps.

[wintry quarry]

you want to be able to just hold W and go through the loop I suppose?

[fierce geode]

Well I just want the character to be able to move around relative to the camera and go through loops.

[wintry quarry]

"go through loops" is super vague though

that's a complex interaction that you need to define in concrete terms

[supple night]

Same

[teal viper]

Okay, share you current code then.

[fierce geode]

I want the player character to run along the edge of a spiral, whilst sticking to the floor of said spiral until exiting the spiral.

[wintry quarry]

still vague

there's user input involved

and camera angles

how should those things interact with how the player moves through the loop

that's what you need to ask and answer before you can solve it

What happens when I'm halfway up the loop and I start pressing A instead of W

do I go right or left according to the camera?

If I hold W the whole way through what happens?
These all need to be defined

[cosmic dagger]

right, is it a spiral staircase, or a vertical loop (loop-the-loop) like sonic?

[supple night]

https://hatebin.com/hgojjvvdoa

[fierce geode]

like Sonic

[supple night]

The "problem" is in line 54

[teal viper]

Take a screenshot of the stack manager component in the scene. What does it reference in attached rigidbody?

[fierce geode]

I am going to program it so that when upside down, only up and down are inverted. So if you press A, you'd still go left despite it being the player's right. And that would also mean if you press W the entire time, you'd just go through the entire loop if you followed the curve.

[fierce geode]

I'm pretty satisfied with what I have now

I'm just happy I can go through the loop with minimal problems

[teal viper]

Can you show the full rb inspector of the enemy? In the video the bottom part of it is clipped.

[sterile moon]

I feel like this was way to easy of a solution for what I need to do, so, someone tell me its wrong, won't work, and theres another/better way

    void Start()
    {
        foreach (Transform child in gameObject.transform)
        {
            Physics.IgnoreCollision(gameObject.GetComponent<Collider>(), child.GetComponent<Collider>());
        }
    }

[teal viper]

I'm particularly interested in constraints at runtime when the issue happens. Are they the same?

[supple night]

Yes

Well

[teal viper]

Okay. Share the script that's on the enemy

[supple night]

They start moving

I dont know

I disabled root motion on player

[teal viper]

Can you write a full sentence in one message? What start moving? Is the issue fixed? What does the player have to do with it?

[supple night]

Barely fixed. The enemy is moving now. Slowly but moves.

[teal viper]

After disabling root motion on the player?

[supple night]

Yes

[teal viper]

That would imply that the animator was overriding the player velocity. And if you debugger the velocity properly, you'd see that a long time ago.

[supple night]

Understood

[teal viper]

Is the player rb kinematic?

[supple night]

I "debuged" with an if (velocity == Vector3.zero) Debug.Log("Is zero");

[supple night]

No. Never

[teal viper]

Well, that's not gonna help. What if it's a very small number, but not zero?

What if it's fluctuating back and forth?

If you were to debug the actual value, that would've been seen

[supple night]

I don't know how I see it, honestly

With breakpoints?

[teal viper]

In the console. Debug logs print to the console.

[supple night]

Sometimes, i miss dd function of php codes

[teal viper]

Debug.Log("velocity: " + velocity);
Or
Debug.Log($"velocity: {velocity}");

[supple night]

I didn't know the log showed vectors

[teal viper]

It can show many things. And if it didn't, you could print each of it's components separately. Surely it would at least show floats.

[supple night]

Yes

My bad

[teal viper]

Well, now you know.

[sterile moon]

alright @teal viper, now that you got a second, think you can help my dumb ass? lol

[teal viper]

To be correct, the debug log is showing strings. The above snippets just convert vector to a string(use it's ToString method under the hood)

[carmine turret]

I have a weird issue where I built my game, and now either in editor or ingame the space bar just randomly isnt doing anything for a solid few seconds.

[sterile moon]

I'm clashing with colliders like its WWII, but this time I think the Germans are winning lol

[supple night]

So, thanks for the help. I appreciate. I think I can move forward on my own from here.

[carmine turret]

It was working PERFECTLY prior to building though thats the weird thing

[sterile moon]

    void Start()
    {
        foreach (Transform child in gameObject.transform)
        {
            Physics.IgnoreCollision(gameObject.GetComponent<Collider>(), child.GetComponent<Collider>());
        }
    }

This was my attempt at taking my vehicle, and all of its movable towing arm parts and making sure none of them can collide with eachother

It does not work it appears, the arm falls, and stops at a floating point before it hits the terrain layer

Now I know for a fact I'm f'ing stupid, so save me the lecture and just tell me how stupid I am, I'm sure there is a smarter way to do this lol

[carmine turret]

Ehh weirdf. nevermind, the spacebar isnt the issue. as it prints when I press ahaha.

[teal viper]

Are you checking it in fixed update?

[carmine turret]

Yes

[teal viper]

Don't. Move it to update.

[carmine turret]

Oh sorry no

the sapcebar check is in update

but the movement is in fixedUpdate

the sparebar check seems to work fine though. Im just making the jump bool public so I can see it in editor

[teal viper]

Can you just have a composite collider?

Do each of those colliders need a separate rb?

[sterile moon]

Im unaware of that component and how it works could you enlighten me?

I think they will need s eperate RBs because its going to be moving based on physics

[teal viper]

It's not a component. It's a behaviour of colliders when they are all parented to 1 rb.

Google composite colliders.

[sterile moon]

Will do some looking. In the mean time, do you know a quick script for "if you hit somethings collider, tell me what you hit"

[teal viper]

OnCollisionEnter provides a Collision parameter that contains info about the collision. You can print the the other colliding object contained inside.

[carmine turret]

Ehhh im very confused

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt, yet it ALWAYS prints regardless...

It was perfectly fine before building the game though

    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space) == true)
        {
            _jump = true;
            print("Jump");
        }
        else{
            _jump = false;
        }
    }

the print ALWAYS prints

but the bool doesnt always change

I built the game, got one error in an entirely unrelated file, fixed that errot then this started happening

[teal viper]

How do you know that?

[carmine turret]

How do I know what?

[teal viper]

That the bool doesn't change

[carmine turret]

I set it to public and Im watching it on the editor

[teal viper]

That's unreliable

[carmine turret]

sometimes its flicking on and off, sometimes it does nothing

I see

[teal viper]

Print it instead

And print it when it goes off

[carmine turret]

As in, print in the section where jumping checks if its activated?

Okay

[teal viper]

And print where you expect it to be true too

[teal viper]

That's what the last message is about.

[teal viper]

By this I mean when it's set to false

[carmine turret]

nah if I print false, then ill never see the other prints since its printing every frame 😛

[teal viper]

You can scroll the log. Do it

It's important, trust me.

[carmine turret]

Oke

The jump script just sometimes isnt activating

Even when it absolutely should

[wintry quarry]

I'm guessing you're reading this in FixedUpdate to actually do the jump?
If so you should NOT have that else statement

delete this whole part:

        else{
            _jump = false;
        }```

[carmine turret]

If I do that, then _jump will always be triggered no?

[wintry quarry]

no

only when you press the key

FixedUpdate should consume it and then set it to false

[carmine turret]

Why would it?

[wintry quarry]

because that would be the right way to program it

[carmine turret]

I see okay.

[teal viper]

Damn, I wanted them to empirically learn that updates can run several times between fixed updates...

[wintry quarry]

oh sorry

i just kinda popped in

[teal viper]

Praetor spoiling the learning process

[carmine turret]

but this error only happened after building

it never ever happened in 7 hours of building and testing 🥲

[wintry quarry]

yeah because this is more prevalent at higher framerates

framerate dependent code issue

[carmine turret]

I see

But it doesnt explain why the issue happens in the editor too no?

[wintry quarry]

it does explain why it happens everywhere

[carmine turret]

I see okay. well it IS fixed, so I appreciate it

just gonna test it out a bit then buildd

Yup works in every situation where spacebar is needed! Thank you

[teal viper]

If you were to print where you expect it to be true(in the fixed update), your log would look like that:

Space
No Space
Check the bool

Sometimes it would look like

Space
Check the bool
No space

Your code would only work correctly in the latter case.

[carmine turret]

ahh I see.

Oh, as a side question, if I want to make a button that basically just moves the player to the starting location (reset button), does the teleport need to be in fixedupdate, or is update fine

[teal viper]

Depends

Depends on how you teleport the player.

Also, it might not need to be in any of the updates.

And on your player controller as well.

[carmine turret]

Are there other ways to check input?

currently Im just putting it next to the space check and instead of going through the bool stuff and fixed update check, Im just calling the reset function immediately.

[teal viper]

Well, does it work?

[carmine turret]

Its mainly for testing, But i wanted to know for future referall

Perfectly

But I mainly want to know for code etiquette, I imagine in multiplayer you would want it to be fixedUpdate though?

[teal viper]

Then keep it as is. If it doesn't work, debug it.

[teal viper]

Again, depends. Multiplayer would add a lot more factors into that question

[sterile moon]

I dont think its collisions doing this actually. I wonder why its stopping at this position

[carmine turret]

Alrighty

[sterile moon]

if I manually put the arm lower than that then hit play, it sends the arm 180 degrees into the cab on the hinge rotation point

[teal viper]

At this point you should share more details on the issue and your setup. Start with a video of the issue.

[sterile moon]

i dont even know how to describe whats happening at this point. getting this damn tow truck working sucks lol

[acoustic sun]

I am having issues with my game

For some reason its not showing the ground and it is not working properly

[rich adder]

not sure where the code question is, looks like your player is not on any ground

[acoustic sun]

Its not when I play and I am trying to figure it out how to fix the issue

[rich adder]

what is " not working properly" then

[acoustic sun]

So when the I am playing the game, the character is falling through the terrian. I had added box collider but it is not working

[rich adder]

box collider where

and where is the player collider

[acoustic sun]

It should be attached to the ground, but when I press play it is now showing

[rich adder]

cant tell anything thats going on here

why does the ground have a rigidbody

[acoustic sun]

The ground does not have a rigidbody

[rich adder]

you're showing the ground selected and I see Box collider + Rigidbody

[acoustic sun]

I am not sure what I should do then. I have the both added on the ground and its still making the character fall into the ground

[radiant frigate]

yo navarone whenever you are finished helping him can i also get some help? (dont want you to feel forced so say no if you dont want to, there is no prob with it)

[rich adder]

dude just ask your question, there are prob other people

[acoustic sun]

So it waas supposed to be for the wall but its on the ground instead

Thats interesting

[rich adder]

ground and walls should not have rigidbodies

why are you putting physics objects on walls / ground ?

[radiant frigate]

okay, so how can i make a script instantiate a gameobject a certain amount of times?

[rich adder]

a for loop

[radiant frigate]

oki! ty!

[wild fox]

i need some help with understanding and making changes in the template from unity asset store, can anyone help me with that?

[rich adder]

https://dontasktoask.com

[acoustic sun]

I was told that I had to add a rigid body for the ground. "This will now include the Ground object in any physics simulation, however, we don't want to have the Ground object be moved by the simulation, instead it is a solid, unmoving, object. To do that in the Rigidbody component check the IsKinematic property so it doesn't move with gravity or collision."

[rich adder]

told by whom?

[acoustic sun]

My professor

[rich adder]

and show me the rigidbody on your ground

[acoustic sun]

The rigidbosy should be shown there

[wild fox]

can you send me a dm? it will be a bit complicated to explain it here

[rich adder]

why is debug mode on?

anyway that mesh collider has a mesh inside?

[acoustic sun]

I am not sure tbh

[acoustic sun]

I added another mesh collider because I did not see the other one

[teal viper]

It is included in a simulation as a static collider without an rb. You only need the rb if you're planning to move the object.

[rich adder]

you'd have to see where the gizmos lines for box collider are placed, also mesh collider would have no outlines unless convex

[acoustic sun]

Oh so like something touching it?

[radiant frigate]

i cant manage to make it spawn enemies, is there something im missing?

i think the for loop is written correctly

[keen dew]

it's not

0 >= enemies is never true if enemies is positive

[radiant frigate]

maybe im comfusing things but if enemies is = difficulty (which is 1 for example ) + 1

that makes enemies = 2

0 mus be more or the same as enemies to stop

and each loop i take 1 from enemies

[keen dew]

The condition in the for loop tells it when to continue, not when to stop

[radiant frigate]

OH

true

i mixed things up

KEWK

ty my man

you really saved me

[next ledge]

hello i need help. how i can make hold mechanic button in rythm game?

[radiant frigate]

im a newbie so maybe im just wrong completely but maybe with getkey instead of getkeydown

does someone know why the code seems to hate number 4? i dont know if its possibilities but i have let the code loop for more than 100 times and unless i write at the start choosenSpawner = Random.Range(4 , 4); it seems to just not use it

[keen dew]

because Random.Range is max exclusive, i.e. 1, 4 chooses 1, 2 or 3

[radiant frigate]

ty!

[fringe plover]

I send big code yesterday, some people recommend me to change it and use await, is it good this time?

[burnt vapor]

If you want to use async code then I suggest you look into using Awaitable from Unity 2023, assuming you work with that version

[fringe plover]

but, is it enough to work?

[burnt vapor]

I generally don't advice using async void unless there is no other choise, but I would advice you wrap it in a try-catch block to avoid having an silent exception possibly breaking your game

[burnt vapor]

There's not much to say about that. You'd have to share more of the code. The only thing I can say is that writing async-awaitable code is better over Coroutines, if that's your question.

But even then this heavily depends on use case

The main question would be what the old code was and why async would be better? It's not like Coroutines are bad

[fringe plover]

it was just bunch of ifs yesterday

[burnt vapor]

So what is the reason all those methods used to take in a callback?

Is it some IO operation that is blocking?

Would be nice if you shared at least one method

Async code is definitely a solution to fix the callback hell you introduced initially, to answer your actual question

[fringe plover]

i wanted to use return value;, but because of API that i use (GameJolt) i didnt, ofc i was able to but i was lazy

[burnt vapor]

Right so DataStore fetches data from a file or database?

[fringe plover]

GameJolt.API.DataStore, idk tbh, it gets and sets data on GameJolt account

ofc its online operation and i had bugs with it... when i stop runing while entering code, i didnt recorded use promo and etc stuff

[burnt vapor]

So how did you fix this particular method to be asynchronous? Did you wrap it in a Task?

[fringe plover]

i didnt..

but i wrap everything in task, didnt tested yet

[burnt vapor]

What does it look like?

[fringe plover]

what look like?

oh i got it

no i didnt lol

still using normal method

[burnt vapor]

To make this take a Task, do something like this

public Task<bool> CheckForPromoUses(string promo)
{
    return Task.Run(() =>
    {
        var taskCompletionSource = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
        DataStore.Get("PROMO" + promo + "Uses", true, (string value) => {
            taskCompletionSource.TrySetResult(value != 0)
        });
        return taskCompletionSource.Task;
    });
}

[fringe plover]

ah ye i did same

[burnt vapor]

C# like this is a little rusty. This might also work:

public Task<bool> CheckForPromoUses(string promo)
{
    var taskCompletionSource = new TaskCompletionSource<bool>();
    DataStore.Get("PROMO" + promo + "Uses", true, (string value) => {
        taskCompletionSource.TrySetResult(value != 0)
    });
    return taskCompletionSource.Task;
}

[burnt vapor]

Ah yep, exactly

Anyway this is definitely better off as a Task, even if the method you use takes a callback. The whole callback hell issue is avoided and it just makes the code more readable

If you expect these methods to pass positively, you could even have it return an exception on them. Rather than checking for positive return values you can just throw an exception and have a main try-catch block in UsePromoCode to catch any issues

It would make it all a lot more readable and it ensures the code doesn't silently fail in general

[fringe plover]

ok, thanks for saying

i may will use it, thx again.

[stuck jay]

So Random.Range(1, 3) actually only has two possibilities?

[radiant frigate]

does someone know how i could make a timer in time ( seconds,not frames) between each instance?

[halcyon geyser]

Time.deltaTime

[burnt vapor]

You want to invoke things in an interval? Combine Time.time with a modular comparison. For example, Time.time % 5 spawns something every 5 frames.

[radiant frigate]

yea i know that but i cant manage to think of the way of doing it

[radiant frigate]

exactly

[burnt vapor]

An easier way could also be using a Coroutine

This way you can specify seconds specifically, and generally it reads easier

[radiant frigate]

i think i will go with couroutine since i remember having used that

coroutine was a ienumerator right ?

[burnt vapor]

Yes, it returns that

[radiant frigate]

that had yields inside

[burnt vapor]

Every yield takes an operator specifying how long it should wait before stepping into the next piece of code

[radiant frigate]

yeah i will do it with taht

and just call the courutine the amount of times i need

right ?

[neon ivy]

I've been using transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f); to rotate my player but now that my gravity isn't always down I don't know how to set the rotation from this "local" rotation to the correct rotation based on the gravity direction.
anyone know?

[teal viper]

How are you setting the gravity direction?

Share the relevant code.

[neon ivy]

to rotate the player's down to the gravity's direction I'm doing transform.up = usingPlanetGravity ? planetGravityDirection.normalized * -1 : finalGravityDirection.normalized * -1;

trying to find it xD

so I have a vector3 in the direction of gravity and multiply it by some variables to get the final vector and then to apply it I do

if (finalMovementVector.magnitude > terminalVelocity)
            {
                finalMovementVector = finalMovementVector.normalized * terminalVelocity;
            }
            velocity = finalMovementVector.magnitude;
            rb.velocity = finalMovementVector;

sorry I'm confusing myself let me rephrase

this is my movement code

private void Move()
    {
        Vector3 direction = new Vector3(moveDir.x, 0f, moveDir.y).normalized;
        if (direction.magnitude >= 0.1f)
        {

            float targetAngle = Mathf.Atan2(direction.x, direction.z) * Mathf.Rad2Deg + cam.eulerAngles.y;
            float angle = Mathf.SmoothDampAngle(transform.eulerAngles.y, targetAngle, ref turnSmoothVelocity, turnSmoothTime);
            transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(0f, angle, 0f);
            Vector3 moveDir = (Quaternion.Euler(0f, targetAngle, 0f) * Vector3.forward);
            playerMovementVector = moveDir * movementSpeed; //WIP accelerate
            playerMovementVector.y = rb.velocity.y;
        }
        if (direction.magnitude < 0.1f)
        {
            playerMovementVector = new Vector3(0f, rb.velocity.y, 0f); //WIP decelerate 
        }
    }``` and I need to change it so I can move in the correct direction now that I have a different "down".

[teal viper]

Where do you apply the movement?

[neon ivy]

private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        rb.velocity = playerMovementVector;
    }```
just in fixed update

[teal viper]

Okay. One thing you could do is get a quaternion from the new up direction, and rotate the moveDir with it before applying it to playerMovementVector

Quaternion representing rotation from old up to new one

Or down

[neon ivy]

do I just multiply the 2 quaternions then?

[visual hedge]

can I ask like really stupid question?
I watched like 6 guides about this one and still got no proper answer.
Say I have system that bans player for using certain "actions" here:

[System.Flags]
public enum BannedActions
{
    CAN_ACT = 1,
    CAN_MAGIC = 2,
    CAN_MELEE = 4,
    CAN_ITEM = 8,
    CAN_COUNTER = 16
}

very long time ago I can definitely remember I was using this system in setting up some private gameserver and to determine the enums from the list I would simply use the sum of the numbers:
Like 16+8+1 = 25.

Anyways... I haven't found a really elegant solution to determine which enum values are used.

Let's say I choose 1, 8 and 16 values. How shall the code determine which actions are banned? in elegant way...

[neon ivy]

how do you rotate a rotation xD

[teal viper]

2 quaternions..?

[teal viper]

Wat?

[burnt vapor]

<flags> & <expectedFlag> == <expectedFlag>

Iterate flags and use this

& operator filters them out

Also, HasFlag is a thing on enums that consist of flags, which does the same thing

[neon ivy]

I have the local rotation which is quaternion.euler(0,angle,0);
and the rotation from gravity

[teal viper]

Bitwise operations🪄

[visual hedge]

is it a huge rabbit hole? 🙂

[burnt vapor]

No, I just explained it

[teal viper]

Not really if you know binary math.

[visual hedge]

okay... that sounds easy and understandable for you but not for me sadly... 😦

[sterile moon]

Im working on getting a configurable joint made into a 3d slider joint set up for a part on the tow truck, but when I start the game it moves the highlighted part to a totally different position.

[teal viper]

That's usually the first thing you learn in computer science, so should be pretty simple to most people

[visual hedge]

I will try to find some documentation about this though, at least got good direction, tyhank you

[burnt vapor]

What is the confusing part?

[teal viper]

You want to align the movement with the gravity, right?

[visual hedge]

I don'y understand that: <flags> & <expectedFlag> == <expectedFlag> and where should I put that. But I will dig into documentation using this line, thank you

[neon ivy]

yes

alligning the transform.up is easy, any other rotation I have no clue

[teal viper]

Then you just need to multiply it by the rotation representing the change in gravity direction.

[visual hedge]

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [System.Flags]
    public enum BannedActions
    {
        CAN_ACT = 1,      // 0001
        CAN_MAGIC = 2,    // 0010
        CAN_MELEE = 4,    // 0100
        CAN_ITEM = 8,     // 1000
        CAN_COUNTER = 16  // 10000
    }

    public BannedActions bannedActions;

    void Start()
    {
        // Assume the player can perform magic and use items
        bannedActions = BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC | BannedActions.CAN_ITEM;

        // Check if the player can perform magic
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC) == BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC)
        {
            Debug.Log("Player can perform magic!");
        }

        // Check if the player can use items
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_ITEM) == BannedActions.CAN_ITEM)
        {
            Debug.Log("Player can use items!");
        }
    }
}

is this how it should be done? 🙂

[burnt vapor]

The binary AND operator works on the binary level.
Take this example:
4 corresponds to 0100
5 corresponds to 0101

If I were to assume I have the flags CAN_ACT | CAN_MELEE from your example, this corresponds to 5 (1 + 4)
Now check if I have CAN_ACT. Assuming you names the flags to check "flagsToCheck" this comparison is flagsToCheck & CAN_ACT == CAN_ACT.

What this does is it checks 0101 against 0001 and it basically returns the equality of the two binary numbers

So 0001

And I check if 0001 == CAN_ACT, and CAN_ACT is also 0001

0001 is 1 in this case, hence the equality

@visual hedge https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sXxwr66Y79Y/maxresdefault.jpg

This is how you can check it. Notice every jump doubles

[visual hedge]

yeah, I understand the binary part of this thing. I watched like 6 videos and I learned how this works on binary level 🙂

[burnt vapor]

You also have binary OR which returns the opposite, which in my example would have been 0100

Does this make sense then?

[visual hedge]

yeah, makes sense

[burnt vapor]

One nice thing worth learning is also bitshifting

0001 << 1 is 0010

So 4 (0100) << 1 is 8 (1000)

Also works in reverse (>>)

Not as useful, it's mostly for writing efficient networking code because it allows you to fit data in small containers

[visual hedge]

I will try to put this a bit differently:
This is the "frontend"
Kinda easy, I just check the values I need.
Basically have none, all, and singles... now I am asking here cause I need to put some code on the backend so I can turn those flags into some logic.
And here's where I struggle.

but I guess this is how it should be on backend:

    void Start()
    {
        // Assume the player can perform magic and use items
        bannedActions = BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC | BannedActions.CAN_ITEM;

        // Check if the player can perform magic
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC) == BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC)
        {
            Debug.Log("Player can perform magic!");
        }

        // Check if the player can use items
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_ITEM) == BannedActions.CAN_ITEM)
        {
            Debug.Log("Player can use items!");
        }
    }

and I guess that's what you suggested, right?

I just use same approach for each case, right?

[burnt vapor]

Pretty much

[visual hedge]

okay, so it's how it works. I just thought there might be a more elegant way

[teal viper]

That's bit masks for you. There's not any more elegant than that.

[burnt vapor]

You can also do this

if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_ITEM) != 0)

Perhaps more readable

[teal viper]

If you feel fancy, you could use a list of enums instead.

[burnt vapor]

But back to my initial point, HasFlag is a thing you know

[teal viper]

Unless you write a utility/extension method.

[burnt vapor]

if (bannedActions.HasFlag(BannedActions.CAN_ITEM))

[visual hedge]

that would kinda make things more complicated, wouldn't it? 🙂

[timber tide]

HasFlag is only one case though and if all bits are set right

[visual hedge]

a ye, this is better. Thank you verey much

[teal viper]

Not really. More resource demanding, yes.

[timber tide]

wonder why there's not more utility for bit checking

[burnt vapor]

That would be up to .NET devs because everything useful in enums is internal

Just check HasFlag implementation

[visual hedge]

altho I am noob, I was hoping there would be more to it, true.

because at this point it looks pretty much like passing a list of enums... and other side has to kinda determine which one is present in there which I thought is silly and somehow clunky so I came here... just to hear that it's the only way

[sterile moon]

Anyone have some intel on this?

[eternal needle]

I opt for a list of enums sometimes because really idc about the performance differences. Also flags are gonna be limited to what you can store in a int (32 bits)

[visual hedge]

I don't have huge 'lists' of enums anyways so 32 bits should be enough

[timber tide]

public enum BannedActions
{
    CAN_ACT = 1,      // 0001
    CAN_MAGIC = 2,    // 0010
    CAN_MELEE = 4,    // 0100
    CAN_ITEM = 8,     // 1000
    CAN_COUNTER = 16  // 10000
    CAN_MELEE_AND_MAGIC = CAN_MELEE | CAN_MAGIC //would be the combine bits
}

can do stuff like that too

but probably better to just use flags at that point

[burnt vapor]

To avoid having to count your enums:

public enum BannedActions
{
    CAN_ACT = 1 << 0,
    CAN_MAGIC =  1 << 1,
    CAN_MELEE = 1 << 2,
    CAN_ITEM = 1 << 3,
    CAN_COUNTER = 1 << 4,
    CAN_MELEE_AND_MAGIC = CAN_MELEE | CAN_MAGIC,
    CAN_ALL = CAN_ACT | CAN_MAGIC | CAN_MELEE | CAN_ITEM | CAN_COUNTER,
}

[sterile moon]

Could still use some help is anyone has a free moment : #💻┃code-beginner message

[visual hedge]

anyways that's how I implement this, right?

    [SerializeField]
    protected BannedActions bannedActions;

    public virtual void Activate(UnitStateMachine target)
    {
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC) == BannedActions.CAN_MAGIC) 
        {
            target.canUseMagic = false;
        }
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_ACT) == BannedActions.CAN_ACT)
        {
            target.canAct = false;
            target.canFlee = false;
        }
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_MELEE) == BannedActions.CAN_MELEE)
        {
            target.canUseMelee = false;
        }
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_ITEM) == BannedActions.CAN_ITEM)
        {
            //target.canUseItems = false;
        }
        if ((bannedActions & BannedActions.CAN_COUNTER) == BannedActions.CAN_COUNTER)
        {
            target.counterAttack = false;
        }
    }

and selecting the node "Everything" would mean that all those if's would 'fire', right?

yeah... gonna try that 🙂 thanks 🙂 time to get to testing part 😄

btw am I missing something maybe?
Sometimes inspector jumps right to the file folder I click on... and then it's some sad time going thru the folders to the folder I was working in before that... so if someone knows how or where to submit that suggestion: would be great to have that BACK button so it would get me to the previous folder.
And MAYBE I am missing something and such a thing actually exists?

[timber tide]

You can also make the enum type long for 64 entries over 32

[stark marsh]

im new to unity and have a question. how to i tag something multiple times? example. i have fruit. and want to tag them by their actual names, like apple oranage etc. but also want them to be tagged at fruit. how do i do this?

[north kiln]

HasFlag also boxes in Mono

[burnt vapor]

Lame, is that exclusive to Mono?

[north kiln]

Modern .NET has solved the problem for a while

[burnt vapor]

Oh I guess they updated that in newer .NET versions, I remember how the code was very different

Yeah

Ok don't use HasFlag

[visual hedge]

I am also noob but I guess you want to do that in the code and not to use tags. Search by tags is slow if I am not mistaken

[stark marsh]

im not understanding how i would edit a png image, to have code x.x

[eternal needle]

Tbh you could just change this enum to be some struct with all the bools. Then read the data from the struct to target. I'm not sure you actually need an enum here

[sterile moon]

Your going to want to create a helper class to manage what KIND of fruit it is, and then use the layer fruit to generally specify its a fruit

[timber tide]

public enum BannedActions: long
{
  ...
  CAN_COUNTER = 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000,
}

;)

may more may not be the right amount

[visual hedge]

this is exactly what I was thinking... maybe I should just use 5 bools instead of enum... kinda gets same outcome 🙂 and this is why I was wondering about why the hell system.flags is a thing if one could simply use bunch of bools

[sterile moon]

public class FruitData : MonoBehaviour
{
  private String fruitName;

  public String getFruitName()
  {
    return fruitName;
  {
{

Something like that, and then this script would go on each and every fruit object in your scene

[visual hedge]

how about making a Fruit class : Monobehaviour and that would mean something is actually a fruit?
And naming gameObject.name by their names? 🙂

just a silly idea

[stark marsh]

i appriciate the ideas, cause, idk how to approach that thought, me being a baby dev, what comes to mind first is just a simple tag

[sterile moon]

You may also want to

public class FruitData : MonoBehaviour
{
  [SerializeField] //So you can view it in the inspector
  private String fruitName;

  public String getFruitName()
  {
    return fruitName;
  {
{

You can expand on this too, for further data if you ever need it, for example

public class FruitData : MonoBehaviour
{
  [SerializeField]
  private String fruitName;
  [SerializeField]
  private float restorativeHP;

  public String getFruitName()
  {
    return fruitName;
  {

  public float getRestorativeHP()
  {
    return restorativeHP;
  {
{

[stark marsh]

like im doing a snake game off a tutorial, and im now building it to where im expanding on it on my own, and i got fruit to spawn, but i wanna make it to where some of the fruit give speed buffs while others, (like a watermelon) will make them go slower

[eternal needle]

I think bools would be nicer here because adding a new check would be 1 line
Target.something = struct.something;
You could even make a method which copies the data from the struct inside target. This way theres one central implementation of it

[visual hedge]

can you remind me why would I want to use struct instead of class here please?

[burnt vapor]

I would not worry about this and just use a class

[visual hedge]

I could also use list of bools? 🙂

[burnt vapor]

Yes

[timber tide]

Well, think of it this way, how many operations do you need to do to check if the bannedAction is NOT CAN_COUNTER, NOT CAN_ITEM, NOT CAN_MELEE, ect, ect, with bools compared to just using a mask to flip bits against? It's useful for when you need specific bits flips without going through 64 bools to check against each one.

but otherwise for small cases like this bools would be fine

[burnt vapor]

The whole point is having the data available already, so a struct/class/list/array all do this

[visual hedge]

I guess list of bools is what I ahve to go for. Especially nicely will be just looping thru the lsit at the end and setting the ones which are true to true

great, than kyou for the ideas

[burnt vapor]

In my opinion you should just use an enum because in terms of what your code does it's really no difference. An enum would even be more readable.

Do whatever you want, this really only matters with networking or when your code execute very (very!) often

[eternal needle]

You could use a class or struct, doesnt matter really here. The thing about using a list of bools is you'll need to associate an index with the target.thingy you want to assign. Itll just become another thing similar to your enum, your enum is basically checking an index right now

[sterile moon]

So you could do the helper class like this then:

using UnityEngine;

public class FruitData : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private string fruitName;
    [SerializeField]
    private float speedBuff;

    public string getFruitName()
    {
        return fruitName;
    }

    public float getSpeedBuff()
    {
        return speedBuff;
    }
}

[burnt vapor]

If you're going to use methods that grab a private field, just use a property with a getter

public string FruitName => this.fruitName;

No difference, just generally expected.

[visual hedge]

In few hours I will get to really test each of the approaches. Gonna see which is the best one

[stark marsh]

cool, thanks for the help @sterile moon @visual hedge and @burnt vapor , i did copy that last code snippet from you hailey and ill work on that when i get back from work today

[burnt vapor]

Note that if you want to use a struct, you should make sure that you don't end up changing the values inside. One key difference is that a struct is passed by value, which means other methods using the data from the struct might not reflect changes.

The benefit would be less allocation, and therefore I doubt this is something you should look into at this stage.

[sterile moon]

Your welcome to it, since you plan to have water melon give slow speed (which in snake might actually be a positive buff, more time to think, think about that), you can just use a negative float value to dictate a negative buff

[stark marsh]

the reason i was thinking a watermelon would actually slow it down, is because a watermelon is a lot larger, and weighs more than an orange, or apple

[sterile moon]

Understandable, I'm just thinking in terms of the mechanics of Snake, the big challenege is quick reaction times to get those narrow misses, and a slower movement speed would be a benefit way more than a hindrance, so you may want to make watermelons a good object, versus a bad one, and maybe use things like lolipops (sugar rush) to speed the snake up, thus making it more challenging because you have less time to think about your movements

[stark marsh]

private void HandleInput()
{
if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && direction != Vector2.down)
{
direction = Vector2.up;
}
else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S) && direction != Vector2.up)
{
direction = Vector2.down;
}
else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A) && direction != Vector2.right)
{
direction = Vector2.left;
}
else if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D) && direction != Vector2.left)
{
direction = Vector2.right;
}
}

thats my movement code. i also have a variable called public float updateSpeed = 0.15f;

the lower i go with update speed, the faster the snake goes

[sterile moon]

I dont know that I would run all those with else ifs as its not needed, could clean it up a bit

could even potentially run that as a switch case

[stark marsh]

so use switch instead of else if?

[sterile moon]

I would at least remove else if for just stacked ifs, less extra to read

        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W) && direction != Vector2.down)
        {
            direction = Vector2.up;
        }
        
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S) && direction != Vector2.up)
        {
            direction = Vector2.down;
        }
        
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.A) && direction != Vector2.right)
        {
            direction = Vector2.left;
        }
        
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.D) && direction != Vector2.left)
        {
            direction = Vector2.right;
        }

I don't know if you can switch case over key press, but it would clean up WASD style games. You could also use input manager for this, but personally I still like hard coding my key interactions like your doing too

[stark marsh]

thanks again, lots to learn it seems XD

[modest dust]

Direction check everywhere is kinda wasteful, you could just do

Vector2 newDirection = ...;
if (newDirection != -direction) {
  direction = newDirection;
}```

To check if it's the opposite of the previous one or not

[sterile moon]

I tend to stay away from the else statement unless I absolutely need to stop code from continuing the code, but even then I can just C# return: out of an if to prevent the code from continue for that frame loop

[eternal needle]

Thinking of it more, I think a struct is better here than enum by a lot. Your unitstatemachine can store the struct itself instead of each bool. Right now you have this artificial link between enum and bool. Selections in the inspector for the enum are parsed, then bools in another class are assigned based on this. It just so happens that these bools have the same name as the enum values.
With a struct, you dont need this artificial link because you can just copy the values over. A struct is better than a class here because you dont need a specific instance, you just care about the data only. Same like for vector3, you dont care about it being a certain instance

[sterile moon]

Thats a good idea, I was thinking of a way to clean that up myself, looks like you beat me

[stark marsh]

as a new dev i have no idea how to read "vector 2 newDirection = ...;" @modest dust what is ... supposed to represent?

[visual hedge]

A yeee, that's an amazing idea actually. Thank you!

[sterile moon]

vector2 just takes 2 coordinate positions on the game screen

[modest dust]

That's just a placeholder for whatever logic you'd implement for deciding the value of newDirection

[stark marsh]

i do get the vector2 part just not the rest

ah ok, i thought maybe it was a internal thing like int float bool etc

i only have a week maybe at C# - so i appriciate all the help

[sterile moon]

What type of variable is your direction

[modest dust]

In your if/else, you seem to prioritize up/down movement, so it could just be:

Vector2 axisInput = new Vector2(Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal"), Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical"));
Vector2 newDirection = axisInput.y switch {
    > 0 => Vector2.up,
    < 0 => Vector2.down,
    _ => axisInput.x switch {
        > 0 => Vector2.right,
        < 0 => Vector2.left,
        _ => direction
    }
};

if (newDirection != -direction) {
  direction = newDirection;
}

// Now the rest

[sterile moon]

Damn, throwing Lambdas at the new kid?

[modest dust]

Ah, right, we're in the beginner channel

[sterile moon]

lol

[modest dust]

Well, maybe he'll learn something new

[sterile moon]

Lambdas are fucking clean tho, I love how much they clean up code

[stark marsh]

vector2 is the variable type

[sterile moon]

im stuck on physics bullshit so I'm happy to find someone who needs help that I know how to do lol

[stark marsh]

ill copy it and put it my code for later

[sterile moon]

As a note, from someone who was once new to code, never just copy it and put it in

[stark marsh]

naw this is so i can look at it with more depth later

i dont know how active this channel is, and dont wanna be scrolling for 15 minute trying to find it in 9 hours

[sterile moon]

its funny you went lambdas because I was thinking switching over an enum for it

[stark marsh]

question, what is lambdas?

[visual hedge]

Wait untill I tell you what I am stuck on )))

[sterile moon]

A lamda is essntially an anonymous function

[modest dust]

If you're gonna use the thing I wrote, then look up and read about lambdas and switch expressions to get a better grasp on it

[sterile moon]

Enumerable.Range(2, 100).ToList().ForEach(n => Console.WriteLine(n))

This is a good basic example of a lambda right here

[stark marsh]

im not gonna "use" it per say, i copied it along with your name so i can look at it later, and know who posted it

[visual hedge]

I am working on a turn-based game. Very advanced one (it feels like this to me). And there are vaarious things I need to implement and I haven't figured out how do I enable passive skills that have a certain moments where they kick in.

[sterile moon]

My entire game is going to need physics to a high level because its designed to be an intensive simulator involving hydraulic equipment

[stark marsh]

sounds intresting

[sterile moon]

I hope it will be, but Physics makes me 🍺

[modest dust]

The best way to deal with this kind of thing is to divide your problem into smaller pieces and solve them one by one

[sterile moon]

The best way I have found to divide your problems, is to divide them up among your employees

[visual hedge]

The game I want to make is way more advanced than my skills. And My skill level increases based on how advanced mechanics in my game are getting :)) It's like digging into sand and then hitting harder layer. One has to get oit, bring more advanced equipment to dig further. Rinse and repeat

[sterile moon]

lol, kidding, kindof, I run my own business, so, I essentially do that

[visual hedge]

Yeah that is a good advice. I am doing it like this. Plus if I really hit something damn hard, I switch to something I can actually manage. Then return.

[sterile moon]

yep, same. I just started with unity and I'm building high level mechanical physic simulations because I dont have the guts to just shoot myself lol

[modest dust]

Lmao, well, that's also some sort of a good solution

[sterile moon]

id rather die slowly, with pain and anguish through Physics

[visual hedge]

I am not so well aware... but I've heard that unity is not the best engine for advanced physics simulations. Not without highcost plugins / assets. Might be wrong, I have no idea

[sterile moon]

ive thought about taking the project to unreal, but idk

unity has better support groups imo

By the time Im finished with this I think ill need a few different support groups too, tired dev support group, hates the world support group, why the fuck do I do this to myself support group

im not intested in making things unless it challenges what I already know, and in doing that, I remember why I hate that about myself lol

[modest dust]

As much as I like the freedom which C++/Unreal gives, I prefer Unity since it actually has a normal documentation (and a lot of support from people)

[sterile moon]

Hey caesar, are you good at Physics?

[modest dust]

Not one bit, thinking of physics gives me flashbacks of my high school teacher

---

[sterile moon]

Good, your now my employee, here's some problems to fix

ahhh i cant post the gif

[modest dust]

lol

[sterile moon]

bastards, ruined my joke

[modest dust]

You're in the no fun zone

[sterile moon]

check your dms. That meme is getting delivered dammit

[modest dust]

Meme received and approved by the fun council

[sterile moon]

chkkk Mission success, I repeat mission success, joke has landed

[modest dust]

Well, either way we're getting out of track here, I need to go back to my actual job before my boss notices that I'm suspiciously dormant for a while now

[sterile moon]

lol

[queen adder]

hey im still confused on how i would make the cube move to where i want it to

[ivory bobcat]

Describe what you've tried

[visual hedge]

public class SealEffect : StatusEffect
{
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanMelee = false;
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanMagic = false;
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanItemUse = false;
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanFlee = false;
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanCounterattack = false;
    [SerializeField]
    protected bool BanEverything = false;

    public override void Activate(UnitStateMachine target)
    {
        AllowedActions allowedActions = new();
        allowedActions.canUseMelee = !BanMelee;
        allowedActions.canUseMagic = !BanMagic;
        allowedActions.canAct = !BanEverything;
        allowedActions.canFlee = !BanFlee;
        allowedActions.canCounterattack = !BanCounterattack;
        allowedActions.canUseItems = !BanItemUse;

        target.AllowedActions = allowedActions;
    }
}

decided to go with class for now

thank you, that was a great suggestion

gonna set up some things and will test that today 🙂

[warped ginkgo]

Library\PackageCache\com.unity.test-framework@1.1.33\UnityEditor.TestRunner\UnityTestProtocol\UnityTestProtocolStarter.cs(18,36): error CS0246: The type or namespace name 'UnityTestProtocolListener' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
What is this.

[hexed terrace]

a compile error!

[wintry quarry]

1. If you're not using the test framework package feel free to remove it from your project
2. It's probably a good idea to go into package manager and update all your packages that have new updates, then delete your library folder and restart unity - should clear stuff like this up

[hexed terrace]

Which you wouldn't expect from a Unity package

[tall delta]

iirc the test package in unity uses the assembly definition stuff, so it can be a bit of a pain to set up. that might be the issue since you get a 'are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference' error

[finite sorrel]

Hello, I’m playing around with inputs and have a question that might seem very simple..
Does the code in green achieve the same as cyan, but without the need for extra function?

[wintry quarry]

Yes but the problem with it is you will not be able to unsubscribe an anonymous function

Best practice here would be unsubscribing in OnDisable():

void OnDisable() {
  blahblahblah.performed -= ChangeTarget;
}```

[finite sorrel]

So it’s not “free” and I’m better off using proper function

[wintry quarry]

Yeah I would say best practice is using a proper function

[finite sorrel]

Thank you

[honest vault]

i have got a problem with my code whenever i shoot the enemy he hust starts circling around and doesnt take any damage or die.

[rocky canyon]

well first off he's wobbling around because u apply forces to it w/ the bullet impact..

if u dont want that to happen on the rigidbody u need to uncollapse the Constraints section and lock it so it doesn't

shouldnt need to rotate on the x and z axis

[honest vault]

Yeah but whenever i shoot it i dont want it to go away i just want it to die after it's health is 0

whenever i shoot it just doesnt take any damage

[sterile loom]

any help? Getting this error message "Assets\Scripts\PlayerController.cs(13,26): error CS0266: Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.KeyCode' to 'float'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)"

[languid spire]

what do you think it means?

[sterile loom]

honestly no idea, new to unity. i think it's saying that I can't make the binds a float property? but I just wanna be able to have public display bind that can be changed on the inspector

[languid spire]

what it is saying is that you are trying to change a KeyCode into a float but C# cannot do that automatically for you. But you can ask it specifically to do so with a cast

[wintry quarry]

you've done something quite wrong if you're trying to convert a keycode to a float.

Start by looking at line 13 of PlayerController.cs

Always look at the mentioned line of code when you have an error (and the surounding context)

to make a public KeyCode field it would simply be:

public KeyCode myKeyCode;```

[sullen rock]

Hello! can somebody please help me optimize this https://gdl.space/ipidoyofus.cs

the script is basically supposed to recognize if a shape drawn (and displayed by a line renderer) is a T, U or something entirely different. T works, U isnt implemented yet. Before doing the U I would like to see if I can make the recognition any faster, since this feels a little slow

Edit: I have just realized that the last check makes no sense and I need to rewrite that

[sterile loom]

Is there a way to set a default value for that float?

[wintry quarry]

for what float?

There's no float involved

If you share your code maybe we could be on the same page here

[sterile loom]

1 sec

[wintry quarry]

right now all you shared was an error message

[sterile loom]

https://pastebin.com/iL6PTwDP

Basically what I'm trying to do is this, I need to have an animation for all 8 directions Idle1 -> 8, and I'd like to set a sprite anim for each of those directions when the player presses a direction. I'd like to have those keys be rebindable in the unity inspector. The code is a mess as I used youtube tutorials and chatgpt to string it together

[wintry quarry]

there's no need for the casts e.g. Input.GetKey((KeyCode)KeyLeft)

You can just write Input.GetKey(KeyLeft)

other than that - the code as you shared would not give the error you shared

did you change something since then?

[sterile loom]

no that's about it other than putting in what you guys said to put at the start

[wintry quarry]

anyway it should generally "work" this way

[wintry quarry]

You still have the error? What line does it say?

[sterile loom]

but I am getting a new error saying "Direction does not exist"

but the character does move

just doesnt cycle through the animations

[wintry quarry]

the full error messge says more than that. Sounds like you didn't create the "Direction" parameter in your animator state machine

there's a bunch of stuff you'd need to do in the animator state machine to make the animator work with this

[sterile loom]

sec lemme try and figure it out

[warped ginkgo]

Bruh, what the hell is this: JSON parse error: Invalid value. (Packages/com.unity.ads/Tests/Runtime/Advertisement/UnityEngine.Advertisements.Tests.asmdef)
Im getting back to unity after 6 months of break, and they are throwing me the most out of place errors ever lol, its really frustrating.

i probably need this package though, since that game is using advertisements (legacy)

but idk where this thing comes from

also the file they are referencing is a very weird file, im not sure what its called... maybe hex

[wintry quarry]

it's an assembly definition

when are you seeing this?

Have you tried updating your packages?

[warped ginkgo]

its just there when the project is open, and it doesnt allow me to run it...

[warped ginkgo]

i tried, im not sure how exactly to do that though

[wintry quarry]

in the package manager

[warped ginkgo]

How exactly? There doesnt seem to be any option to do that
Also I should just update the package which causes problems, or all of them?

[wintry quarry]

Start with the problematic one

To update a package you select it from the list (from the "In Project" tab) and it will have an Update button (and a little arrow) if there's an update available

[warped ginkgo]

And what if theres no such button there

[wintry quarry]

then there's no update for that particular package, or the package version is locked due to being part of a collection

[twilit pilot]

fwiw this is a known hard problem in the general case, especially if your plan is to add recognition support for more characters down the line - code like this will inevitably approve drawings that don't really look like T's or U's at all. I'd suggest looking up some tried and tested methods of general recognition if you need to go that route (Tesseract OCR maybe, or some other unity friendly CNN)

As for optimisation I imagine you'll only analyse drawings infrequently like this, and the number of points for each one wont be too high, so iterating through them several times really shouldn't be a big deal. Computers are fast.

[pulsar creek]

Unsure if this should go to code beginner or code general, but when using GetComponentsInChildren the parent object itself counts as a component.

Is there any way to avoid that?

[wintry quarry]

either skip the one in the parent when you iterate, or iterate over the children and do it on each

[pulsar creek]

How would I do that without LINQ?

[wintry quarry]

which one

[pulsar creek]

The first one

[wintry quarry]

well you'd use a for loop

and an if statement

[pulsar creek]

Seems a bit inefficient, but I'll try that

Would it work if I used .Skip(1)?

[wintry quarry]

foreach (Example x in GetComponentsInChildren<Example>()) {
  if (x == myOwnInstance) continue;
}```

[wintry quarry]

no you can't depend on any ordering

[pulsar creek]

ah, right

[sterile loom]

Hey man, could you take a look at this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQN3rYGqqP8 so he's using a public to input the sprites but is it possible to tell the code to reference the animator state instead of it being a public drop down?

[wintry quarry]

I really don't have 33 minutes to spare. Distill your question down for me.

[sterile loom]

so he's using "public List<Sprite> nSprites" (for north facing sprites) and then dropping the sprites on the inspector. basically referencing that telling the game to use those sprites when player faces north. is it possible to instead of using that, can I tell the game to look for the name of the animation through the animator instead? Like say I have an animation that is is called "Idle1" for north facing

[polar acorn]

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

[wintry quarry]

sure but wouldn't you call it something reasonable like "Idle_North"?

[sterile loom]

its just a placeholder for now as I drop all the sprites in

[sterile loom]

ffff that's it the "private animator" is what im looking for -.- thanks man

[polar acorn]

private animator?

That's just a variable

If you don't know how variables work you should really be doing !learn to pick up the basics

[eternal falcon]

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[polar acorn]

Also you are literally already doing that in the code you shared earlier

[polar finch]

Any idea what's going on here? Just started to happen and I have no idea why.

[polar acorn]

Does that console give you access to the full stack trace? It looks like you've got a check to throw a warning if distanceForSort is infinite, and it seems it is

What file is throwing the error?

[polar finch]

sec just restarting. Clicking the log entry did not reveal any stack. That's why I was confused

it's gone now

power of questioning

[desert flume]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[desert flume]

https://gdl.space/jaboxutasi.cpp

1s

[desert flume]

basically nothing works as expected

W moves you to the right/down direction

instead of up

[wintry quarry]

Add logs. See what the value of position and direction are when it moves

[desert flume]

ill just use the properties window

[polar acorn]

No, use logs

Logs tell you what it is at the moment the log is executed, not what it is when you look at it later

[desert flume]

oh

[wintry quarry]

no because those things won't be shown in the inspector nor will transform.position ever be shown in the inspector

[ivory bobcat]

Well, your directions aren't really relative to the target

[ivory bobcat]

Consider explaining what works. For example, are the directional values correct?

Was input properly acquired?

Is there a consistent pattern?

[desert flume]

now it works!

[desert flume]

everything works now

Changed nothing afaik 💀

[spring storm]

Hey is there someone I can talk to for some help? I spend 5 hrs yesterday on a tutorial just to get this error code I spent hours trying to figure out and havent gotten anywhere

[wintry quarry]

don't ask to ask. Just share your code and the full error message if you need help.

[spring storm]

okay sorry had to figure out how to share the code.

[polar acorn]

!code

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[spring storm]

Theres 4 scrips so here. https://gdl.space/sujoyexebu.cs, https://gdl.space/sexumatuye.cs, https://gdl.space/mezuwumati.cs, https://gdl.space/besucikifo.cs. Error Code: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
KeySystem.KeyItemController.ObjectInteraction () (at Assets/My Assets/My Scripts/KeyItemController.cs:28)
KeySystem.KeyRaycast.Update () (at Assets/My Assets/My Scripts/KeyRaycast.cs:43)

[polar acorn]

Something on line 28 of KeyItemController is null but you're trying to do something with it anyway

doorObject is null

[ivory bobcat]

It's complaining that the referenced door is null cs doorObject.PlayAnimation();

[spring storm]

how would I fix that, cause I know what line but I can't figure out how to fix it. I followed a tutorial and triple checked everything so

[ivory bobcat]

Make it not null either through the inspector or code

[polar acorn]

Where do you set doorObject

[spring storm]

i guess it didnt set doorObject anywhere

[ivory bobcat]

A minor concern: Capitalization is important - name case sensitive

Where start isn't referring to Unity's Start

[ivory bobcat]

Maybe.. but better not to guess and just look.

[spring storm]

KeyLockController is a script

thats where im confused

[ivory bobcat]

This is an important concern

Not really a code question (looks like a build question). Try #💻┃unity-talk (delete the message/post here to not cross post)

[fleet breach]

okok thank you

[ivory bobcat]

Did you consider this? @spring storm

[spring storm]

I genuinely dont know what you mean by it. the class im taking is a very poorly done online class so they dont really explain anything

[ivory bobcat]

Which part of my single sentence?

[spring storm]

was it really just the lowercase s?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming the problem has been resolved

[spring storm]

oh ym god it was

thank you

[ivory bobcat]

Yes, the Unity callback method is Start and not start

[spring storm]

okay ill be sure to keep that in mind next time, thank you so much again

[honest vault]

anyway i can make it dies to the bullets not when it collides with the player?

[ivory bobcat]

I'm assuming you put the script on the player and not bullets

Where the script in question would have the OnCollisionEnter callback method

[honest vault]

no i have it on the gun itself

[ivory bobcat]

Where it'd destroy the target

[honest vault]

u wanna see the code?

[ivory bobcat]

So it isn't on the bullet though. Consider sharing code.

You've got to provide it if you need help with it not working properly

[honest vault]

public class Health : MonoBehaviour
{
    public int maxHealth = 100;
    private int currentHealth;

    void Start()
    {
        currentHealth = maxHealth;
    }

    public void TakeDamage(int damage)
    {
        currentHealth -= damage;

        if (currentHealth <= 0)
        {
            Die();
        }
    }

  
    public void Heal(int amount)
    {
        currentHealth = Mathf.Min(currentHealth + amount, maxHealth);
    }

   
    void Die()
    {
     
        Debug.Log(gameObject.name + " has died.");
        Destroy(gameObject);
    }


    public int GetCurrentHealth()
    {
        return currentHealth;
    }

  
    public int GetMaxHealth()
    {
        return maxHealth;
    }
}

thats the health code i have it on both the enemy and the player

[honest vault]

Yeah i dont mind that

[ivory bobcat]

So where is your script for the physics interaction and where you call the take damage method on the target?

[queen adder]

Nice clean code

[honest vault]

haha thanks

[ivory bobcat]

So when the gun touches the enemy, they'll lose life.

[honest vault]

is that what its supposed to be?

[queen adder]

I suggest ya using some kind of code sharing website for not to block other's questions

[honest vault]

sure able to provide a link?

[queen adder]

Uh !code one of those links would be okey

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[ivory bobcat]

Unless the code is on the bullet, it'll make whoever has this script deal damage to the other target with a Health component

[honest vault]

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

heres the gun script

[honest vault]

i have the gun script only on the gun atm

[ivory bobcat]

The On...Enter method needs to be on the bullet

[honest vault]

i have also created public variables soo i can attach the bullet

[wintry quarry]

Those should be things on the bullet

[cosmic dagger]

the gun checks if a collider that enters its trigger has a Health component, then attempts to damage it. a bullet is what does the damage, not a gun. the bullet should check if it collides with a game object that has a Health component . . .

[honest vault]

i have added the gun script to the bullet, it now spawns soo many bullets and djust does the same pushes the enemy away

[honest vault]

Yeah but i did try and it just didnt work the way i wanted it to

[cosmic dagger]

well what did you try?

[honest vault]

i put the gun scipt on the bullet prefab and removed it off the gun model

[cosmic dagger]

no, the bullet should have its own script. why place the script for the gun on the bullet? the bullet does not shoot itself. think about the responsibilities of the gun. it should shoot, reload, change fire mode, etc. it does not damage anything . . .

[honest vault]

im sorry ifs its a silly question but if i have only been learning for like 2days.

[honest vault]

yea but when the bullet collides it should damage whatever it collided with right?

not the gun

[ivory bobcat]

Consider decoupling some stuff. The bullet needs the physics callback method OnxxxEnter.

[cosmic dagger]

the responsibilities of a bullet is to move/travel and damage an object it collides with . . .

[ivory bobcat]

The gun needs the spawn bullet logic

If you just put the script on the bullet as well, you'll get the bullet firing bullets

[honest vault]

isnt this what spawns the bullet? GameObject bullet = Instantiate(bulletPrefab, firePoint.position, firePoint.rotation);

[honest vault]

thats what happened

[ivory bobcat]

But it'll destroy the enemy like the gun does so, at the very least

[honest vault]

i did try a min ago it didnt destroy the enemy for some reason

[ivory bobcat]

Aye. Consider decoupling the gun stuff from the bullet stuff

[honest vault]

will do

[wintry quarry]

Why lol

A bullet is not a gun

Gun should have gun script
Bullet should have bullet script

Make things simple and logical

[ivory bobcat]

Note that OnTriggerEnter only occurs if the interaction should be a trigger interaction. Use OnCollisionEnter if it isn't a trigger interaction.

[honest vault]

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

got it working

[ivory bobcat]

The parameters differ

[honest vault]

it was easier than i thought it was

[modern smelt]

Hello everyone. How would you code a jump as Mario in 3d ?
Using forces ?

[ivory bobcat]

Depends on what you're wanting

[modern smelt]

With using unity input manager i Can détect when player triger thé jump and cancel it,but how Can i apply the stop jumping and instant fall

Classic Mario jump that go higher depend of the time that the Burton is pressed

[ivory bobcat]

You'd use rigid body physics if you want your system tied to the rigid body physics system.

Character controller or Transform/Physics-casting would be your other alternatives

[keen bramble]

I learnt roblox coding during lockdown for 2 years, and I have grown up and roblox is out my interest however coding still is, I learnt coding with the Roblox LUA Documentation however I cant find a documentation for unity step by step from start to finish

[cosmic dagger]

!learn

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[ivory bobcat]

I don't know much about Roblox api but in Unity you would be interacting with mono behavior callback methods. Consider looking at the official or YouTube tutorials.

[keen bramble]

Ok, but as a beginner should I start with this

[honest vault]

this would also help https://youtu.be/aB9LJ9oHGOs?si=f8Gx7soAegdscgzx

[keen bramble]

Most of these I know maybe like 2-3 I don't as programming is somewhat similar so I have a deep understanding in Lua + Python

Ill give it a watch

[ivory bobcat]

Make sure not to cross post next time though, it's against the server rules. (Referring to #archived-code-general message )

[keen bramble]

ok sorry

[summer stump]

There is going to be a significant hurdle making the switch from lua and python to c#
I do kinda recommend going to Microsoft's course or https://www.w3schools.com/cs/index.php just to get the foundation. Unity's course goes over coding, but I think a pure c# course could benefit you

Just an option

[modern smelt]

this is what i'm trying to do , but if i do a impulse for exemple , i cant cancel the jump force to make my player fall quicker , so what method can i use ?

[keen bramble]

Not trying to do pure C# trying to do game development, and software development however software will be my next step after game

[summer stump]

Unity uses c#

[keen bramble]

Yeah I know

[summer stump]

So if you want to use unity, you use c#. Not sure what you are saying then

It uses pure c#

[keen bramble]

What I mean is like, in python u can script in just lines as in it only has an output or u can make 2d/3d which is somewhat different

Its fine I get u

[summer stump]

I recommended those courses for the benefit you would gain in game development

[keen bramble]

Ok

[ivory bobcat]

If you just want to cancel or decrease vertical (jump) force, just maybe decrease the value by a factor if positive.

[modern smelt]

yeah to start , cancel the jump could be a first step

[ivory bobcat]

For example, if the value is greater than zero.. divide it by five or something.

[red scarab]

why does this code not run in FixedUpdate? it works fine within Update, but since its physics I thought I should put it in fixed

to be clear the debug does print

[modern smelt]

so i have to use rb.velocity ? And no more addForce to do it ?

[wintry quarry]

If the thing prints, then the code is running

what makes you think it's not running?

[red scarab]

yeah I meant it doesnt work

nothing happens

meanwhile in update, it does

[wintry quarry]

maybe your force amount is too small, or maybe some other code is overwriting the velocity

[wintry quarry]

yeah probably too small of a force

moveSpeed isn't a great name for what that is either

more like - forceAmount or thrustAmount

[red scarab]

why does being in update vs fixedupdate change the required force? also, that worked, thanks

[red scarab]

tru

[wintry quarry]

Well by default FixedUpdate runs 50 times per second. Your game is probably running at much higher than 50 frames per second, so you were calling AddForce many more times when it was in Update

so you needed less force

Also doing it in FixedUpdate guarantees that your force is properly expressed in Newtons and that it will be consistent regardless of framerate