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[native seal]

and the "lowest" tier is chosen as the best

yea, kinda confusing but based on other similar games

[radiant frigate]

wait i´ve just went thru the first line xD

can i see a bit of your game?

your code looks clean (atleast compared to mine)

[native seal]

its very work in progress rn lol

it looks very bad but im just focusing on systems right now

[radiant frigate]

i like to look at basic plane cubes move

[radiant frigate]

my game is made of prefab sprites from unity

[native seal]

heres a picture of some gameplay lol

[radiant frigate]

is it a vampire survivor type game ?

[native seal]

kind of

more similar to diablo 3 or path of exile

[radiant frigate]

ohhhh

i played diablo 4

idk if that is any close

[native seal]

yea like that

all diablos are basically the same

[radiant frigate]

so an rpg it is?

[native seal]

yes

[radiant frigate]

looks cool asf

[native seal]

thanks

its my first game so probably pretty bad overall

[radiant frigate]

it depends

compared with a AAA game of course

but compared to others guys first game

[native seal]

yeah maybe lol

we'll see how it turns out

only been working on it for the past 2 months

got a long way to go

[radiant frigate]

yeah

keep up the grind

it will eventually pay off

[native seal]

you too

[radiant frigate]

i will!

have you seen my game?

its pretty basic

[native seal]

send some screenshots

[radiant frigate]

alright

i want to show you the variety of how my system works

if i give the system 17 coins

those are the enemies

and if i give it 57 coins

67*

but it looks better in a video since it is visible how they start stacking

[queen adder]

first 2d game do i make project with 2D or 2D SRP?

[native seal]

so is it not working how you want right now?

[radiant frigate]

yes it is

im pretty happy with the results

and if i dont like something i can change it with the variables

[native seal]

nice

[radiant frigate]

imma try to record how it looks

the game is not supposed to have that much enemies thats why the lack of variety

(im working on 2 more )

wait wrong video

this is the one

[radiant frigate]

i am doing it with 2d and a friend is making it with 2d SRP and i cant find a big difference for a begginer

[native seal]

nice looks cool, like a bullet hell

[native seal]

its just the renderer that is used

[vale cradle]

I don't understand this error can someone please help me

my enemy is moving but it's not shooting fire ball when the player is in range

i get the thing saying paremeter is not set

[timber tide]

stack trace is nice, but code would help

[vale cradle]

okay

[timber tide]

oh it's the animator

[vale cradle]

sorry?

[timber tide]

animator does a string lookup and you're giving a value that does not exist in the animator

[vale cradle]

i'll share the ss just a min

[timber tide]

it's less of a code issue and more of you not setting your animation tree up correctly

or perhaps feeding it the wrong string value

[vale cradle]

in this?

[timber tide]

right

[vale cradle]

what should i do here?

[timber tide]

w/e range attack trigger should correlate to

[vale cradle]

just a min

what is w/e?

sorry

@timber tide

[timber tide]

whatever

[vale cradle]

oh

okay

I am still stuck i don't understand what's wrong

[timber tide]

Are you following a tutorials?

[vale cradle]

yes

[timber tide]

You have a variable inside of your animator called explode which is the problem, so go back to the part where you set that and follow it through.

[vale cradle]

i even checked comments and it's not helping i rechecked the whole clip too

[vale cradle]

okay thankyou so much

[minor patio]

I'm stumped: I've got a method on a button object that is being executed twice

I've tried using the debuggerer, but it just confirms that the method is finding an object twice on me

anyone like to look at spaghetti?

I'll take that as an "I'm full, thanks" XD

[ivory bobcat]

Don't ask if someone's available to look at the code. Just provide the code, hierarchy, inspector data and console logs.

https://dontasktoask.com/

Someone who is idling on the channel and only every now and then glances what's going on is unlikely to answer your "asking to ask" question, but your actual problem description may pique their interest and get them to answer.

[queen adder]

watching a tutorial and in his vscode some words autocomplete and are highlighted while in mine they arent how do i set this up

[ivory bobcat]

Configure your !ide to get proper intellisense

[eternal falcon]

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[queen adder]

thx

[minor patio]

#metoo

so I figured out from the debugger that for some reason after applying all my code the object returns to a null state

it's a proper quandry...

..but I think I've had enough for tonight...

[queen adder]

isnt it meant to say samples in that blank box next to walk left

[scarlet skiff]

WHy wont this get detected in this script

The object with the script has trigger collider, no rb
the object that wont get collided with currently doesnt have trigger collider, but i tried that and nothing happened.

Full script: https://gdl.space/nexasuquqa.cs

[lost anvil]

with this script, after the AI stops chasing and goes into the patrol state; i have set his speed in the Patrol(); function to 1.5f however it just stays at 3.5 as it was set in the slowdownchump coroutine idk why

main ai - https://gdl.space/marihudele.cs

los - https://gdl.space/caqileniqa.cs

the los script sets the patrol and chase functions

[sour cave]

Do you mean one object has collider that is checked in trigger other one has only Rigidbody?

[vale cradle]

@timber tide I fixed the error for fireball but now i am getting that the explode parameter does not exist ( for explode the fireball explodes when it touches any surface)

[scarlet skiff]

no both have colliders, one of em is trigger.

And only one has rb (tho i tried with two, even tho that wouldnt make a difference i dont think)

[sour cave]

Which one has collider that is checked in trigger?

[timber tide]

Well, you got two animations in your tree there, so explode must have been the other one. Seems like you start the first with the RangeAttack trigger, then call Explode animation when the fireball hits.

[scarlet skiff]

the one that has the script

[sour cave]

Attach the script to the object that has Rigidboday.

[scarlet skiff]

well, here is how its set up:

I have a parry hitbox, trigger hitbox, that has that script.
It is supposed to detect parryable objects and put them in a list.
Thats what the script does

[sour cave]

Please try like this.
Attach script to trigger hitbox and add Rigidbody to the one.

[scarlet skiff]

i tried that, did not work (when giving both Rigidbody)

[sour cave]

Not both.
Only one need to have Rigidbody.

[ivory bobcat]

Show us the rigid body component and collider

[scarlet skiff]

i tried that too, also didnt work

[scarlet skiff]

the parry hitbox

[ivory bobcat]

Where's the collider?

[scarlet skiff]

the parried (but wont get parried which is the problem)

[hexed fractal]

i keep getting errors that go against one another ffs

[vale cradle]

Turns out the error was in code i fixed it and it is working well now thankyou so much

[scarlet skiff]

anf this is the collider for this one

[hexed fractal]

Bro what the hell

[ivory bobcat]

Now, how are you moving?

[hexed fractal]

how is this possible guys

If i do one thing i get the error

and if i fix the error i get the other

[ivory bobcat]

You cannot assign the quaternion rotation a vector 3. It's expecting a quaternion.

[hexed fractal]

what are you on about

i know

eulerAngles

are Vector3 angles

degrees

rotation is a Quaternion

i DID that

[scarlet skiff]

different script, https://gdl.space/alezijazes.cpp

for the parry hitbox

[ivory bobcat]

rotation = Quaternion.Euler(...);```

[scarlet skiff]

based on players position (a 3rd object unrelated to this)

[hexed fractal]

Vector3 dir = transform.eulerAngles;
Quaternion dir = transform.rotation;

i do this

wait no

im confusing myself nor r u helping rn lmao

[ivory bobcat]

Your original image showed you trying to assign a quaternion the result from a vector 3 smooth damp.

[hexed fractal]

I was trying to use eulerAngles

since its a vector 3

then it told me about converting it to quaternion

which isnt correct since it takes vector3s

[sour cave]

Then convert from one to another.

[hexed fractal]

I DID

[ivory bobcat]

You need to move with rigid body physics (force, velocity etc) to properly acquire physics messages.

[ivory bobcat]

That's illegal

You cannot assign a quaternion the value of a vector 3

[hexed fractal]

eulerAngles

is a

vector3

what are you ON ABOUT

[ivory bobcat]

rotation is not a vector 3

[hexed fractal]

huhhh?

[hexed fractal]

IM NOT USING ROTATION

CAN YOU SEE THAT

[scarlet skiff]

but... it works with a different projectile... and has worked before (but i didnt save properly and now when i try to redo everything it doesnt work)

[scarlet skiff]

with the current set up i cant move it with physics its just not effecient in my situation i dont think

[hexed fractal]

bro im just tryna make my player

turn to the direction

that its moving

[lost anvil]

bump

[ivory bobcat]

You cannot assign a quaternion the value of a vector 3cs transform.rotation = Vector...//illegal

[hexed fractal]

that isnt correct

[hexed fractal]

stop repeating urself ffs

i know

[teal chasm]

Im trying to relearn c# currently, is there a vid someone can send me on animation thru unity

[frosty hound]

!learn will have tutorials

[eternal falcon]

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[hexed fractal]

I dont know how im supposed to smoothly turn my player to the direction it walks now because this clearly isnt working

[teal chasm]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

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[teal chasm]

How do i use it?

Nvm

[ivory bobcat]

Moving with the transform component is teleporting and ignores physics interaction. You'd be lucky if any messages were acquired - if something was simulated thereafter it might trigger some physics messages.

Consider using rb move position if you aren't necessarily wanting to teleport

[scarlet skiff]

can you elaborate more on the rb move position

[ivory bobcat]

If you've got a rigid body that's kinematic, you'd use https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Rigidbody.MovePosition.html else you'll have to manipulate movement with velocity or forces - I'm assuming it was kinematic but do the other if not.

Or optionally call the expensive https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.SyncTransforms.html after teleporting with Transform.

[scarlet skiff]

so this helps it not ignore physics interaction that are due to teleporting (btw it wasnt kinetmatic rb)

[magic pagoda]

heyy chat!

so, I have this script here that draws a circle and spawns some things in it.

however, the circle is drawn in the middle of the screen and I want it to be drawn around the object the script is attached to.

how can I pull this off?

[short hazel]

Add the object's position to the random calculation: = transform.position + Random.insideUnitCircle * radius;

[magic pagoda]

oo I was thinking it could be that but I wasnt sure.. thank you! ^^

[ivory bobcat]

target.position + offset would be what you'd want to pass as an argument for the position of Instantiate.

[scarlet skiff]

it still doesnt detect the laser shooter

[magic pagoda]

one small issue--

[ivory bobcat]

Probably cast the result from the stuff on the right side of the addition operator to vector 3

Or vice versa

[magic pagoda]

fixed iiit

[hexed fractal]

I love you guys

[scarlet skiff]

😔

[queen adder]

guys my raycast gets a object only once and proceeds to get the boject behind it also jsut once

[ivory bobcat]

You'd probably want to show the !code that's got conflicts

[eternal falcon]

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[ivory bobcat]

Your options are either inline for small snippets or the free services linked for large code blocks.

[queen adder]

so should i sedn the script now

[silent venture]

Hi guys, I'm new to Unity Coding, coming from Game Design background. I know I want to create ambitious things which I can design quickly on paper, but I have no idea about the complexity of the coding part.

I would like recommendations for learning approach and resource links to get myself started.

Thank you.

I have completed the Roll-A-Ball tutorial btw, that has been a good start for me until now

[ivory bobcat]

For the links: you'd paste your code there, save using the button somewhere on the service site and post the updated link here.

[queen adder]

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

public class Dooropening : MonoBehaviour
{
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        RaycastHit hit;

        if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, out hit))
        {
            Debug.Log(hit.transform.name);
            OpenDoor Script = hit.transform.GetComponent<OpenDoor>();
            if (Script != null)
            {
                if (Input.GetKeyUp("e"))
                {
                    Script.Interact();
                }
            }
        }

        
       
    }
}

bum

[ivory bobcat]

!learn

[eternal falcon]

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[hexed fractal]

Is there a SmoothDamp that works for rotation

or is similar to how smoothdamp works

[magic pagoda]

heyy Im back again! ^^;

same script, this time I wanna destroy the object after spawning a certain amount of rubies but... the object doesnt get destroyed and just keeps spawning them!,

[hexed fractal]

because i really wanna make my player rotate just like it

[silent venture]

@ivory bobcat thanks a lot. Which pathway would be best? Junior Programmer?

I am focusing on building basic games, mechanics based and prototypes at best, nothing too complex for now

[rare basin]

becaues what you did doesn't make sense

your loop runs untill i <= rubyDropCount

so i > rubyDropCount will never be true

[short hazel]

i can never be greater than rubyDropCount because at this point your for loop stops running. If you want to destroy the object after everything has spawned, then move the Destroy after the loop

Without the if statement

[magic pagoda]

moving it afterwards just destroys it after spawning a single ruby

although... brb

[short hazel]

It won't, it's just that all of them are spawned at the same position (because you compute the random once)

[queen adder]

guys wth is wrong with my code the raycast gets the object behind other object and it gets everything just once and never again

this is happening to me for the first time

[magic pagoda]

oH-

[hexed fractal]

what r u on about

lmao

[queen adder]

huh

idk man it doesent make any sense

[ivory bobcat]

Take a peak and determine what's necessary for you. The entirety of coding with Unity is vast. Depending on your level of knowledge with code and awareness of Unity, you might be fine skipping some. Maybe try looking at the junior and go from there.

[hexed fractal]

i dont understand what u are tryna say rt at all

[queen adder]

my brain it burning

i wouldnt understand it either

[hexed fractal]

your sentence was just

[queen adder]

ist complicated

[hexed fractal]

useless to me

[queen adder]

damn

[hexed fractal]

i dont understand what ur askingg

gets the object being the other object so ur blacklisting a layer?

[short hazel]

They posted their question with context a few minutes ago, scroll up

[queen adder]

the variable hit only gets the object once and when i look at it again it just doesent

get it again

only once

[ivory bobcat]

Post your console logs. I'm assuming they're collapsed.

[queen adder]

omfg

no way

i forgot

[hexed fractal]

lmao

[silent venture]

Thanks. I have covered some patterns as well. Btw I am changing from Unreal Blueprint to Unity so I have some idea about doing things, but now how Unity allows it, so I guess knowing the WAYS and syntax is gonna be priority one I guess.

[queen adder]

so sorry

lmfao

[queen adder]

i love you tho

[ivory bobcat]

You could always opt for #763499475641172029

[silent venture]

Nah, I wanna type things, love the sound of mechanical keys

Thanks, I'll walk the pathway of Junior Programmer then.

[cobalt creek]

yea I think it good if you transitioned from ue, though it takes so long to build with visual enabled/installed

[sterile loom]

could anyone help me out? my character seems to take a split second before he stops moving https://pastebin.com/0cUXTrHZ

[silent venture]

I use UE for mostly Level Design and stuff

[queen adder]

man i jsut read all the messages i jsut sent and oh god the misspleiing in those

[short hazel]

You're using Input.GetAxis, which has smoothing applied, so releasing the key it'll take a few tenths of a second to go back to 0. The effect is much more noticeable since you normalize the vector. Use GetAxisRaw for instantaneous changes

[scarlet skiff]

pls

[desert flume]

Any idea on how to recreate something like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opVI7-GoVZg

[sterile loom]

Thank you so muuuch

[desert flume]

Looks easy enough but I dont see how I can make the side walls move up infinitely

[hexed fractal]

i got entirely ignored lol

[scarlet skiff]

maybe just an animation

[desert flume]

never done animations before

[hexed fractal]

Is there a SmoothDamp that works for rotation or similar to how SmoothDamp works because i really wanna make my player rotate just like it

[short hazel]

A trick would be to not move the two ladders at all, but instead make a texture that repeats, and from a script modify the texture's drawing origin up to simulate movement

[desert flume]

Damn

you are smart

those problem solving skills are crazy

[hexed fractal]

anyoneee?

[ivory bobcat]

A vertical endless platformer that increments score on vertical movement. Could probably search and mash up a few tutorials.

[cosmic dagger]

smooth damp works on vectors or a float value. you can use it for anything . . .

[hexed fractal]

rotation is quaternions

[cobalt creek]

it also look like camera movement and just outside camera view new obstacle being created and destroyed

[hexed fractal]

so i cant

[cosmic dagger]

you can: rotate using Vector3, or Quaternion.Euler, and other methods that return a quaternion . . .

[hexed fractal]

i couldnt

i have errors with it alreadyy

so i used some Quaternion thing

and it doesnt work like SmoothDamp

[short hazel]

It's a bit more complicated to make though, you need to make a material and put your texture on it, then access that via script. Or go full custom and make a shader that does this out of the box.
The "easiest" solution would be to have two walls on top of each other, and when one goes off screen you teleport it down below the one still on screen.

[cosmic dagger]

well, i'd start by fixing the error. at least post and show what you have. you can simulate a smooth damp using slerp/lerp as well. there are many options, but it depends how you move/rotate your object . . .

[hexed fractal]

bro i told my error before

i dont think theres a way to get around it

im using RotateTowards rn

float horizontalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Horizontal");
float verticalInput = Input.GetAxisRaw("Vertical");

Vector3 movementForce = ((verticalInput * Vector3.forward) + (horizontalInput * Vector3.right)).normalized * movementSpeed;
movementForce = cameraTransform.TransformDirection(movementForce);

if (movementForce != Vector3.zero)
{
    Quaternion toDirection = Quaternion.LookRotation(movementForce, Vector3.up);

    transform.rotation = Quaternion.RotateTowards(transform.rotation, toDirection, rotationSpeed * Time.deltaTime);
}

[desert flume]

cant u just make many sprites

[short hazel]

That's what my last solution does, with 2 per side you scroll up continuously and warp them when they go off screen

[desert flume]

is 2 enough

might look laggy

[short hazel]

As long as each one is bigger than the height of your screen there won't be any issues

[sterile loom]

hey sorry to bother man, but do you know how I can a 3rd option on these lines? Basically this code is to change the animator when the character idle faces North, the Idle5 is for North East but I'd like to add another option which is North West

if (moveInput.y > 0) { if (Mathf.Abs(moveInput.x) > 0) { anim.Play("Idle5"); } else { anim.Play("Idle4"); }

[short hazel]

Scrap that off and use an animator Blend Tree! They're made for this kind of stuff

You pass the input X/Y to the Animator and it decides which animation to play by itself, look it up

[buoyant knot]

Also I would avoid hard coded strings like that. It will make you go crazy.

[sterile loom]

my concern is that when I add too many animation i'd end up with an animator that looks like this

[buoyant knot]

one thing you can do that might help (since unity will force you into strings) is to define:
private const string IDLE_1 = “Idle1”;

that is spaghetti

[sterile loom]

oh I have them as so already

[short hazel]

Not with a Blend Tree, at least. It's one state, that has multiple sub-states, so nothing like this

[polar acorn]

Have you considered not just throwing animation states haphazardly and connecting everything to everything?

You have to try to make an animator this convoluted

You have Any State and the ability to make sub-graphs and groupings to keep an animator clean

[buoyant knot]

have you ever played game builder garage?

[sterile loom]

lemme look up how to use the blend tree thanks guys

[polar acorn]

With blend trees you can easily achieve a hierarchy like this

[buoyant knot]

imagine a game making program where everything is just a big graph of nodes (like shader graph) for visual scripting.

this is actual code. not mine. but it is a thing

[shy ruin]

I’ve played it and it’s very annoying to get a clean graph.

[polar acorn]

[buoyant knot]

i do not know how people get this far, but life finds a way

and it doesn’t have to look like that. people just do

my code for reference

(not trying to flex, just to show the difference for people without context)

[sterile loom]

sorry one more thing, is there a way to use different blend trees? by that I mean for example you're using a sword, obviously you'd have different animations than with a bow

[buoyant knot]

point being, when you make any sort of graph-based code, you need to be on top of it to keep it organized

because it can easily turn to spaghetti

[timber tide]

my blend tree is usually entry -> node -> entry

but ive not really made anything intensive that dark souls

[buoyant knot]

my advice is to use space to keep “blocks of code” together. And try to make it read roughly left-to-right, top-to-bottom

just manipulating the effective “whitespace” and relative placement in 2D will do wonders

[buoyant knot]

digiholic’s code is a good example

[quartz mural]

@polar acorn

sorry?

i did what u asked no 😭

[queen adder]

unity is messing up the colours on my pixel art sprite and i dont know why? what i did was press import asset, pick the png i just made, change pixels per unit to 16 and change filter mode to point no filter

[summer stump]

#🖼️┃2d-tools

[queen adder]

ok

[desert flume]

how do i make

a rigidbody stop moving when it hits another rigidbody

due to gravity

like, if we jump, we stop going down once we hit the ground

thats what i wanna achieve

[slender nymph]

make sure the rigidbody is not kinematic so it reacts to outside forces like collisions and make sure it has a non-trigger collider

otherwise you'll need to control its velocity manually for collisions

[ruby python]

!code

[eternal falcon]

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[ruby python]

Okay, revisiting this one cause the maths is driving me nuts.

This is a small chunk of code to work out Long/Lat values based on my ships position.

The Longitude seems to be working perfectly, but the Latitude calculation is very very wrong (it hits a latitude of 90 almost immediately when moving north/south.

void Update()
{
    RaycastHit hit;
    // Does the ray intersect any objects excluding the player layer
    if (Physics.Raycast(eagleGPSRayEmitter.position, eagleGPSRayEmitter.TransformDirection(-Vector3.up), out hit, Mathf.Infinity, layerMask))
    {
        eaglePosX = hit.point.x;
        eaglePosY = hit.point.y;
        eaglePosZ = hit.point.z;
        //Debug.Log(hit.point);
    }

    longitude = (Mathf.Atan2(eaglePosZ, eaglePosX) * Mathf.Rad2Deg) - 90f;
    latitude = (float)Mathf.Acos(eaglePosY) * Mathf.Rad2Deg;

    // this bit is to flip and quarter rotate the latitude number to put it where you would expect
    // (assuming you are an earthling)
    // with 0 at the equator, 90 at the north pole and -90 at the south pole
    latitude = (latitude - 90f) * -1f;

    Debug.Log("current long = " + longitude);
    Debug.Log("Current Lat = " + latitude);
}

I'm 99.9% certain it's an issue with using Mathf.Acos but I don't know what else to use to be perfectly honest. Could anyone help please? 😕

[hexed fractal]

Is there a SmoothDamp that works for rotation or similar to how SmoothDamp works because i really wanna make my player rotate just like it

[magic pagoda]

hi chat! ^ -^

so, I have this script here that is supposed to destroy a certain type of object when the player touches it.

however, the object has two trigger colliders. a box collider 2D and a circle collider 2D.

how can I make the object get destroyed only when player touches the box trigger and not the circle trigger?

[hexed fractal]

every

single issue

you have

you are here

chatgpt or online

[magic pagoda]

bro wth

[hexed fractal]

are very normal alternatives

[ruby python]

I think Lerp and Slerp are the usual ways to do that.

[hexed fractal]

SmoothDamp is lerp right?

or uses it

[magic pagoda]

1. chat gpt isnt accurate at all

2. this is the CODING HELP chat

3. this is my SECOND time coming here today, and before today was SEVERAL WEEKS ago

[slender nymph]

first thing: don't compare tags using string equality, use the CompareTag method instead.
second: you probably want to put those colliders on separate child objects so that you can put this code only on the collider you want to affect. otherwise use physics queries instead of relying on trigger messages

[hexed fractal]

so i randomly come back to you here

[magic pagoda]

bro's mad I come to the code help chat to ask for code help

[hexed fractal]

for a 2nd time

lol

[magic pagoda]

bro wth is your arguement here

[hexed fractal]

argument* 🤓

[ruby python]

I always get them mixed up if honest. But yeah I think so.

[magic pagoda]

come back when youre bilingual.

[hexed fractal]

dw i already am

[magic pagoda]

wth is wrong with you anyway

[hexed fractal]

my native language is Welsh

lol

[short hazel]

You're just here to stir shit up right? Like yesterday evening

[magic pagoda]

f me I guess for asking for help in an ASKING FOR HELP chat

[short hazel]

Go troll somewhere else

[hexed fractal]

they getting mad

[timber tide]

just ignore the troll

[magic pagoda]

what kind of toxic troll do you have to be

[hexed fractal]

tf r u on about

ur so angry

[slender nymph]

just block them and move on. they are intentionally being obnoxious at this point

[ruby python]

Not the place dude. And tbh, I've asked more questions than him today.

[magic pagoda]

smfh... 4 chan twitter ass troll.

[hexed fractal]

you are getting angry for no reason

[radiant frigate]

you cant top me for sure

xD

[ruby python]

lol

[hexed fractal]

i told you you can use chatgpt or just google

[magic pagoda]

aight, blocked, anyhow

[hexed fractal]

THEN ask

[radiant frigate]

kewk

[hexed fractal]

its not hard to fucking get that in ur head is it

[magic pagoda]

she/her please ^^;

[hexed fractal]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[hexed fractal]

hey male

[ruby python]

Apologies

[hexed fractal]

talking like u got above average testosterone levels

[slender nymph]

<@&502884371011731486>

[hexed fractal]

if they "blocked" me

it doesnt matter

[short hazel]

Do you have multiple triggers on the same object? If you want to detect which one has been hit, then you can't! You should put them on two different objects

[hexed fractal]

🤓

[ruby python]

You know that this is ridiculously simple to answer with Google right?

[hexed fractal]

most people fake block

[short hazel]

Then why do you still talk? They can't even see your messages

[magic pagoda]

1. arent CompareTag and the equals method the same?

2. alright lemme try that!

[hexed fractal]

it gave me no good answers

[hexed fractal]

why not

[radiant frigate]

bro straight up must have had a flabbergasting notice from somewhere for acting like this

[short hazel]

Because you're just flooding the chat with your nonsense

Pushing questions up

[radiant frigate]

nathan just a question but do you really get something out of this?

[magic pagoda]

alright gotcha... so I gotta put in on a child with a different tag... alright!

[hexed fractal]

do you get anything out of looking at a screen all day and gaming

[slender nymph]

no, CompareTag actually provides relevant error messages when a tag does not exist, string equality will just return false. but also CompareTag is actually faster! it doesn't have to fetch the tag from native code then compare the strings, it just passes the string you want to compare into native code and does its thing faster there

[hexed fractal]

nope. only entertainment which wastes your time of doing something productive

[magic pagoda]

not reading the messages but lemme guess, did they say YWNBAW yet?

[hexed fractal]

so i dont understand ur question

[magic pagoda]

oo okay okay gotcha!

[radiant frigate]

bro you aint no genie who can see into the future or the past you know nun of what i do in my free time

[magic pagoda]

would there be any benefit in using == for checking tags in any scenario btw?

[slender nymph]

no

[magic pagoda]

thank you!! ^ .^

[hexed fractal]

im pretty sure you have gamed at a time of your life

[ruby python]

Yeah, usually if you need different collisions for different overlapping colliders, it's usually done by creating child objects for each of the colliders with different tags or layers. At least based on what I've seen/know

[radiant frigate]

let me explain this, it might be difficult to understand tho, what do you get from acting like this?

[slender nymph]

do not feed the troll. just let a mod ban them whenever one comes around

[radiant frigate]

kinda true

[hexed fractal]

love how i get called a troll

[modest dust]

No point in arguing with him, ignore him and move along

[hexed fractal]

while a kid gets angry over me telling them some shit

[magic pagoda]

oof, still here hm?

[hexed fractal]

they assume its an argument instantly

💀

[magic pagoda]

at this point I think that they get off to it lmao.

[radiant frigate]

i just want to know why would he do that, just genuine concern for him, maybe he is going thru shit idk

[hexed fractal]

how dare this man woman know my secrets

[magic pagoda]

absence of parental figures

[fickle plume]

Enough with the off-topic

[timber tide]

just ban em honestly

[hexed fractal]

😔

[ruby python]

So....anyway. lol.

[slender nymph]

fr, the blatant transphobia should be enough for a ban

[radiant frigate]

hi caesar!

[hexed fractal]

the fuck did you get that from

[fickle plume]

Still catching up

[radiant frigate]

wanna see how my game is going?

(if you can call it a game)

[modest dust]

Sure, but probably not here

[slender nymph]

#1180170818983051344

[dawn kestrel]

I don't understand how default positions are assigned in Unity. The white gizmo is the BoxRegion script I made, and I don't understand what caused it to be so far out.

[timber tide]

for one you got handles* assigned to center instead of by pivot, so that may cause some confusion for where you may think it should spawn

[radiant frigate]

can i dm?

[hexed fractal]

i love how this started over a missunderstanding 💀

[modest dust]

Sure

[hexed fractal]

I thought they were here throughout the day asking

but its just the fact they spawned in at the exact same time as me

[fickle plume]

!ban save 680496323882909706 Off-topic spam, transphobic comments.

[hexed fractal]

the fuck

[eternal falcon]

nathan.gb was banned.

[radiant frigate]

the timing on that xD

[ruby python]

🤣

[magic pagoda]

wait damn I called it

[radiant frigate]

what is ywnbaw?

[magic pagoda]

"you will never be a woman", something transphobes tell trans people.

anyhow, to get back on topic...

[radiant frigate]

ohhhh

[magic pagoda]

so, CompareTag is better than .tag ==, right?

[ruby python]

Yes, much much

[slender nymph]

yes because it is a bit faster but mostly because it provides relevant error messages

[kindred stratus]

Does anyone have a 4 way movement script for a 2d game I have been trying to make one for like a week with my horrible coding skills and nothing has worked

[slender nymph]

there are plenty of tutorials for that

[magic pagoda]

I have a simple one! ^ -^

but I advise you learn how to write it since that level of math is essential for gamedev

[ruby python]

Loads of tutorials about. Best to try and find one that explains what's happening and why too.

[kindred stratus]

K thank you!

[ruby python]

A lot of tutorials just go through and tell you what to type without explaining why and what each line of code is actually doing.

[magic pagoda]

a 4 way movement system would be a great thing to start learning unity tbh. you learn

• components, as well as a very essential component (rigidbody)

• physics

• inputs

aanyhow... I should have dinner now. byee chat!! uwu

[dawn kestrel]

honestly, I kinda need to just find some sort of tutorial on how positioning works in Unity, since I have no idea how the initial position of the box was assigned in the first place. Right now I know almost nothing about pivots, handles, etc.

[slender nymph]

set the tool handle in the upper left of the scene view to Pivot instead of Center so you can see where the object you have selected is actually at. right now you are seeing the approximate center of the object and all of its children

[dawn kestrel]

ah

[swift crag]

(the shortcut is X)

er, Z

X is local/world

[slender nymph]

ooh i had no idea there was a shortcut for that

[timber tide]

also from the screenshot the object selected is a child to another object, so positioning you are doing will be relative to the parent

[swift crag]

i randomly push it by accident and thus wind up in Awful Center Mode

[dawn kestrel]

though, I'm still confused as to how the gizmo ended up out so far.

[covert sinew]

When I invoke an event, can I pass a variable from it to any listeners somehow?

[slender nymph]

that's where the actual center of the selected object is. notice how in your capsule collider you've set the center of the collider so far out on the Z axis?

[slender nymph]

yes, pass it to the Invoke method as a parameter

[swift crag]

you'll need to change the type of the event, of course

System.Action<int> to pass an integer

[slender nymph]

or UnityEvent<int> if using unity events

[dawn kestrel]

this part makes sense, it's the white box throwing me off.

[swift crag]

The capsule collider is offset by a large distance on the Z axis and the box is offset by a small amount on the Y axis

[dawn kestrel]

somehow it managed to perfectly center itself on an unrelated object

[swift crag]

yes, the object's local position is [0, 0, 0]

so it's probably going to be "centered" on something else

notably, on its parent, Catapults

[dawn kestrel]

oddly, it's neither on the pivot or center of Catapults

(or TeleportSystem)

[slender nymph]

that's literally the same position as the object you showed before so it is on the pivot of catapults

[swift crag]

Why do you say that? It exactly aligns with the pivot of Catapults.

[desert flume]

im currently randomly generating those platforms

but how can I make them not generate on top of each other

[dawn kestrel]

I mean the small white box

[swift crag]

Catapults' position isn't [0, 0, 0], sure -- that just means that it has been repositioned relative to its own parent

[desert flume]

like, a new platform will never be above the currently highest platform

[swift crag]

This thing?

[dawn kestrel]

yes

[desert flume]

nvm its easy

[swift crag]

I don't know what that is.

[desert flume]

ignore my question

[dawn kestrel]

that's the gizmo being drawn by the Box Region script on Catapult (0)

[ruby python]

What's the box region code?

[swift crag]

well, that's your own code. it can draw whatever it wants

you should show us the code for this component

[slender nymph]

are you certain the gizmo is being drawn correctly

[swift crag]

notably, you may be drawing it in the wrong space (world space vs. a specific transform's local space)

or you could be calculating it wrongly, or many other things

[dawn kestrel]

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

[swift crag]

This is working in world space

If every BoxRegion component has the same size and center values, every component is going to draw the gizmo in the s ame spot

they're also all going to be doing the physics queries at the same spot

The position of the game object that BoxRegion is on will not matter at all.

[ruby python]

Okay I think I know what's happening with that, you're drawing it in world space (with your public Vector3s), so it's not referencing the parent object.

I think you should be grabbing the position of the object you want the gizmo to be attached to and use that objects position with an offset on the Z axis so that it 'moves' the box to the center of its parent object.

[swift crag]

The correct approach is to transform both center and size from local space to world space, and then use those transformed values. You'd also need to combine your own transform.rotation with direction to correct apply your rotation.

That way, center will mean "the position in my own local space" -- so as the object moves, the resulting world-space position also moves

[slender nymph]

transform.TransformPoint and TransformDirection are going to be useful here (for the physics queries)

[swift crag]

TransformVector for size if you want your scale to matter

although...i'm not sure how that'll play with rotation

as long as there is no non-uniformly scaled parent, it ought to behave well

Vector3 WorldCenter => transform.TransformPoint(center);
Vector3 WorldSize => transform.TransformVector(size);
Quaternion WorldRotation => transform.rotation * direction;

Those should do the trick.

[slender nymph]

can probably set the Gizmos.matrix to the transform's localToWorldMatrix for the gizmo to draw correctly

[swift crag]

yeah, although that doesn't help you do the physics queries properly

i'd want the gizmos to exactly match what i'm actually using

oh, right -- you need to modify the matrix to rotate the gizmo, don't you

[slender nymph]

yep

[swift crag]

that's an annoying x-factor

[slender nymph]

unless you draw it manually which is a whole other beast

[ruby python]

This might be a stupid question, but what are the gizmos being used for?

As far as I was aware gizmos are an editor only thing or am I being an idiot? lol.

[slender nymph]

they are, but this code is performing physics queries and the gizmos are likely to show where that is happening

[swift crag]

They're used for visualization

[ruby python]

Okay gotcha.

[swift crag]

making gizmos can make your life a lot easier

[ruby python]

Yeah, it was all the physics comments that threw me. lol.

[timber tide]

I toss them on anything rotation related

[swift crag]

to elaborate on the matrix thing a bit

Gizmos.DrawCube doesn't let you specify a rotation. It only takes a center and a size.

Instead, you have to change the space you're drawing the gizmo in.

The default value of Gizmos.matrix is the default Matrix4x4. It's the transform matrix for something that is:

• at the origin
• not rotated
• at the default scale

Gizmos.DrawBox(Vector3.zero, Vector3.one); // draws a cube at the world origin
Gizmos.matrix = transform.localToWorldMatrix;
Gizmos.DrawBox(Vector3.zero, Vector3.one); // draws a cube at your position, with your rotation and scale taken into account

By assigning a different matrix, you change the "point of view" that you draw the gizmo from

[rich egret]

!code

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[swift crag]

The idea I was thinking of would only account for your position and scale. It wouldn't let you draw a rotated cube.

Vector3 worldCenter = transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.zero);
Vector3 worldSize = transform.TransformVector(Vector3.one);
Gizmos.DrawBox(worldCenter, worldSize);

It's doing roughly the same thing as changing the matrix, except we can't account for our rotation.

[swift crag]

You definitely need to be able to compute these world-space values, though, so that you can run the physics query

[rich egret]

Hi, when I put 2 weapon-type items in the equip system, it doesn't let me put a legend-type item, does anyone know why?
👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇
https://gdl.space/onekifopom.cpp

[swift crag]

perhaps both WeaponList and LegendList are actually referring to the same list

we would need to see the entire script to say

[short hazel]

Yep that's the only option I see here

[rich egret]

Good thought! But I checked it, they are completely on different lists.

[swift crag]

share the entire script please

[short hazel]

Also you don't need to check if the elements are there before removing them (lines 39, 43), Remove doesn't do anything if the item wasn't there
Well it returns false, but it won't throw an exception

[violet nexus]

if anyone here is using gorilla locomotion for their game, when i load in after a few seconds, it just sends me out the map.

[rich egret]

This is what happens when I tried to put a legend (after I put 2 weapons in a row)

[rich egret]

ok just a minute

[swift crag]

that means that your item's category equals "Weapon"

don't make it equal "Weapon"

you appear to be getting the category from a TextMeshProUGUI, which is...a bit odd

[rancid tinsel]

is there a collider function that checks continuous collision?

[swift crag]

are you looking for a Cast function, like SphereCast?

[rancid tinsel]

specifically for trigger2D

[ruby python]

OnCollisionStay() I think.

[swift crag]

ah, I see

OnTriggerStay2D would be the one you want.

[rancid tinsel]

thanks

[rich egret]

It's a bug in the script, I've checked it well dozens of times, the legend is from the legends category 100%

[short hazel]

Just for good measure, even if you confirmed it, can you tell us the result of Debug.Log(object.ReferenceEquals(LegendList, WeaponsList));

[rancid tinsel]

and that would work without OnTriggerEnter?

[ruby python]

Yes.

[swift crag]

okay, but category.Equals("Weapon") is returning true

you can't really get around that

[rancid tinsel]

ok good, the IPointerDown/Up traumatised me last night lol

[rich egret]

https://gdl.space/gudawukubu.cs

[swift crag]

do you have Collapse enabled on the console?

[rich egret]

I'm just trying to find a way to put the legend after I put 2 weapons

[rich egret]

Collapse?

[swift crag]

well, make sure that category is not "Weapon", then

look at your console

there is a button labeled "Collapse" in the top left

it merges identical log messages

[covert sinew]

What does this error mean? I'm trying to use a public enum in another class as a case for a switch statement. do I need to make another enum in the class I'm using it from?

[rich egret]

I checked it, that's not the problem

[swift crag]

I suspect it's hiding the fact that

 Debug.Log("EquipItem function called with item category: " + category);

is logging "weapon" three times

[slender nymph]

your syntax for the case block is wrong
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/selection-statements

[swift crag]

There is no way for your code to reach this line:

Debug.LogWarning("Cannot equip more than two weapons at a time. WeaponsList count: " + WeaponsList.Count);

without category.Equals("Weapon") returning true

[rich egret]

Actually, not true.
When I tried to do it the other way around **(first the legend then the weapons) **it went to the list of legends.

[dawn kestrel]

hmm, I thought gameObject.transform.position would reference the world position of the object the script is on, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

[swift crag]

Okay, but what happens when you do it in the way that breaks?

that's what actually matters

it doesn't matter if your code works when you do things in a different order

the problem is that it doesn't work when you do things in this order.

[rich egret]

Just put the 2 weapons in front of the legend, that's all I do.
You want to see a video, maybe that will help?

[swift crag]

Look at the console after trying to equip the items in that order.

[rancid tinsel]

is there a way of doing this like I have here?

[swift crag]

Screenshot all of the log entries in the console after doing that.

[rich egret]

Before I find where it is 😂

[slender nymph]

you cannot yield return in a method that returns void

[rich egret]

ok

[short hazel]

You cannot yield return in a method that returns void. It causes the other error above

[rancid tinsel]

yeah thats what its saying

[slender nymph]

right because you are trying to yield return in a method that returns void

[short hazel]

Perhaps you meant to make a coroutine

[rancid tinsel]

im wondering if there is a way to achieve the effect id like

[short hazel]

IEnumerator?

[swift crag]

yes, make it return IEnumerator and start a coroutine with the method.

just like you do with Slow

[rich egret]

Oh, for me it's in another language, I understood what you mean

[rancid tinsel]

not a coroutine because i dont want to slow for seconds, i didnt change the code in it yet thats my bad

[slender nymph]

then remove the yield return

[rancid tinsel]

oh yeah that works

😭

i didnt even notice

[rich egret]

@swift crag

[rancid tinsel]

is there a way to pass the enemyMovementInstance to it?

[swift crag]

You have collapse enabled.

[swift crag]

Turn Collapse off.

Then do it again.

[queen adder]

Hi

[queen adder]

Anyone that would be willing to help me?

[swift crag]

Ask your question.

[queen adder]

Ok

[short hazel]

Syntax error, question expected

[queen adder]

So I have 0 exp in making a video game but I wanna try

[magic pagoda]

heyy chat, me again uwu

how can I destroy the parent of the colliding object along with it here?

[short hazel]

Do you have some experience with C#?

[queen adder]

Nope

[short hazel]

Then check Unity !learn that will provide the required tutorials

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[short hazel]

Do that if you want to start with Unity fast. I'd advise learning C# without Unity first though

[queen adder]

@short hazel thank you but I can't install Unity

[magic pagoda]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB9LJ9oHGOs

[hidden sun]

hi, im using unity cloud code and i use a subscription event. How do i disconnect from it ? in code?

[magic pagoda]

^^;

[rich egret]

@swift crag Did you find the way?

[queen adder]

To be honest I was more looking for a long term collaboration with a Unity programmer

[rancid tinsel]

so if i understand it correctly this should result in the enemy being slowed during collision and then slowed again on collision exit for slowLength time https://gdl.space/busobareva.cpp

[dawn kestrel]

I thought "localCenter = gameObject.transform.position + center;" would give me a variable that is the world position of the object offset by the "center" public variable, but I'm still having my gizmo appear at the world origin.

[swift crag]

There is no line that says "EquipItem function called with item category: " before the error

[summer stump]

!collab

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[swift crag]

I feel like you still have Collapse enabled (I can't tell because you cropped the screenshot)

[fickle plume]

You can access parent through transform https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform-parent.html Should look into pooling and reusing objects though. Also note that objects actually destroyed only in the end of the frame.

[swift crag]

show your code that draws the gizmo

[rich egret]

I don't think it matters but I turned it off

[swift crag]

It absolutely matters. We need to see each log message in order.

[magic pagoda]

oh this code is for a currency that the player can collect from the ground ^^;

[swift crag]

Collapse will group them together in a way that prevents us from seeing exactly what's happening.

[queen adder]

@summer stump thx ^^

[rancid tinsel]

Im getting this error right now https://gdl.space/busobareva.cpp

[swift crag]

Yes, it's off now. Now show the results of trying to equip the items in that order.

[dawn kestrel]

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

[swift crag]

notably, there must be a line that says EquipItem function called with item category: visible -- that always gets logged before it tries checks how many items you have equipped

[swift crag]

unless you have code somewhere else that also prints the exact warning message you're seeing right now

[fickle plume]

gameObject.transform.parent.gameObject

[magic pagoda]

found it already, ty tho ^^

[ruby python]

Pooling still applies and makes your game a lot more performant. And iirc from version 2021 Unity has a 'native' Pooling solution. I'll see if I can find the vid I saw this morning.

@magic pagoda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U08ScgT3RVM

[swift crag]

This does not make any sense, assuming that line 44 of EquipSystem is the only way for that warning to be logged. Your code has to go through the first few lines of the EquipItem method before it can even log anything.

If you click on that warning, is it actually coming from the EquipSystem class?

[rich egret]

Cannot equip more than two weapons at a time. WeaponsList count: 2
UnityEngine.Debug:LogWarning (object)
ItemEquip:EquipItem () (at Assets/Scripts/Systems/Equip/ItemEquip.cs:46)
ItemEquip:ToggleEquip () (at Assets/Scripts/Systems/Equip/ItemEquip.cs:34)
UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem:Update () (at Library/PackageCache/com.unity.ugui@1.0.0/Runtime/EventSystem/EventSystem.cs:514)

[rancid tinsel]

im getting this when i exit playmode, would it impact the game at all if scenes were to change etc?

[swift crag]

this is the wrong script

you've showed us EquipSystem

the error is coming from ItemEquip

[rich egret]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[swift crag]

double click on your log messages to find out where they're actually coming from

[rich egret]

Are you kidding me? All this time it was from another script?

😂

[short hazel]

ItemEquip:EquipItem () (at Assets/Scripts/Systems/Equip/ItemEquip.cs:46)
  Class  |   Method   |    Path to file                             | Line of code

[rich egret]

@swift crag It's been two weeks since the problem started. Thank you!

[dawn kestrel]

what should I be using to get the Vector3 of the world position of the object my script is on?

[short hazel]

transform.position

That gets the world position

[dawn kestrel]

https://hastebin.com/share/ividanarid.csharp weird, I did that and it's still drawing my gizmo at origin.

[swift crag]

Perhaps you are moving the object that BoxRegion is on after Start runs

[short hazel]

I knew there was a hidden question underneath that lol

[ruby python]

😭

[swift crag]

also, I don't know what boxTransform is

[dawn kestrel]

something I was gonna use for making a fully transformable gizmo, but decided better of it.

deprecated variable for now >.>

[swift crag]

something must be moving BoxRegion after its Start method runs, then

Perhaps someone else repositions them in its own Start method.

Instead of calculating the local center once, you should really just make a property that gives you the correct world-space center

public Vector3 WorldCenter => transform.TransformPoint(center);

"world center" is the appropriate name here: it's a position in world space

center is being interpretated as a local-space position in that line of code

[rancid tinsel]

would this work to not make the OnTriggerExit happen if an object was destroyed?

[dawn kestrel]

huh, it seems it was in fact the object not being in the right place at Start

[swift crag]

other should never actually be null

your problem would be the coroutine doing something after the target is destroyed

[rancid tinsel]

im getting this before the coroutine though

[swift crag]

what is line 28?

[rancid tinsel]

on the enemyMovementInstance.moveSpeed = line

[swift crag]

what if enemyMovementInstance is null?

maybe you hit a trigger collider that doesn't have an EnemyMovement on it

your script doesn't check if it actually got an EnemyMovement in the first place

Consider using TryGetComponent here.

if (other.TryGetComponent(out EnemyMovement enemyMovement)) {
  // enemyMovement will be non-null in here
}

// enemyMovement might be null out here

Actually, a more concise way is to just bail out if it fails

if (!other.TryGetComponent(out EnemyMovement enemyMovement))
  return;

// enemyMovement is definitely not null here

This creates a new variable as it calls TryGetComponent. It's passed with the out keyword, which lets the method assign something to your variable.

The method returns true if it succeeds.

So, if it returns false, we just return immediately

once we get past that check, enemyMovement is definitely valid.

[rancid tinsel]

so like this?

i assumed the issue was objects being destroyed and OnTriggerExit being called but it could be that the triggers were overlapping and triggering eachother now that i think about it

would explain the error being sent twice as well

[swift crag]

Actually, that is a good thought. I don't remember what happens when an object dies while overlapping.

[rancid tinsel]

either way now it will only do this if it gets the component

[swift crag]

That looks reasonable.

[short hazel]

You're searching the component on yourself, not on other, make sure that's correct.

[swift crag]

oh, whoops

[rancid tinsel]

would that be other.TryGetComponent

[swift crag]

Correct.

[summer stump]

OnTriggerExit does not get called when an object is destroyed inside the trigger area iirc

[swift crag]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics2D-callbacksOnDisable.html

Looks like you can control whether callbacks occur as a 2D collider is being diasbled

(which is part of destruction)

It defaults to...i don't know

[short hazel]

Only if you expect the component to be on the object you triggered with, but seeing the context that's a yes

[swift crag]

looks like true

I'll have to experiment with that later

[summer stump]

Oh, that is good to know. Nice

[rancid tinsel]

so if i understand this correctly, by setting callbacksOnDisable to false, it will not trigger OnTriggerExit when destroyed?

[swift crag]

Yes, but I wouldn't mess with that (also, you can toggle it in the Project Settings menu, so there's no need to use code)

I guess I'd change if it was actually causing problems for me

note that you often will want to know about when an object is destroying while you're overlapping it

e.g. if you're keeping a list of things you're currently touching

[rancid tinsel]

i thought it just broke my sound in the game

but my headset got unplugged

lol

[sterile loom]

what's the point of using [SerializeField] private Transform instead of public Transform?

[summer stump]

It prevents other scripts from changing or accessing the variable
[SerializeField] only allows the inspector to see and change it

[swift crag]

private fields can't be seen by other classes, which reduces clutter and reduces the number of ways class A can interact with class B

i'm actually fixing a bunch of public fields that shouldn't be public right now

[ruby python]

Public allows other scripts from changing the values, Serialize keeps it private to the current class, but exposes it in the Inspector.

[swift crag]

Access modifiers matter more when you're writing code that other people will use.

But I consider "me from six months ago" to be another person entirely 😛

[winter laurel]

Im trying to figure out how to register a highscore? I have two scripts that already link up so that I can display my current score, but how do I register and keep a high score? Im guessing player prefs but I dont really know how to use those. The two pictures are my logic script, which is where i think im supposed to store the highscore and the collosion script for registering points.

[swift crag]

in that case, people might start relying on these public fields

[summer stump]

I was about to say exactly that haha

[swift crag]

now you can't change the field without breaking everything

[sterile loom]

gotcha, also I got the animations working @short hazel 😄

still havent gotten around blend trees tho, need to read up on them I just ended up with a bunch of if/else scripts

[ruby python]

PlayerPrefs is very easy to use tbh. But I know a lot of people think that they're a bad idea. But to get a high score, it's relatively simple really. Have a High Score variable, if the current high score is null then = it to 0, then on death or game complete etc. simple compare current score and high score, if current score > high score, current score = high score, else nothing, and then throw the new high score to wherever you're saving it. When you start the game again just read in the high score and assign it to the high score variable.

[spiral narwhal]

        private void OnEnable()
        {
            InputController.Instance.InputMaster.Player.SpawnCheckpoint.performed += TrySpawnCheckpoint;
        }

Any idea why the subscription does not call TrySpawnCheckpoint when F is pressed?

[ruby python]

https://gamedevbeginner.com/how-to-use-player-prefs-in-unity/

[timber tide]

Any chance you activated your InputController

[spiral narwhal]

OnEnable is called, yes

[swift crag]

I presume that InputMaster was produced with the "Generate C# Class" checkbox.

[spiral narwhal]

Yes

[swift crag]

If so, you must enable the relevant actions or action maps.

Actions aren't enabled by default.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.inputsystem@1.7/manual/Workflow-ActionsAsset.html#referencing-the-actions-asset-through-a-c-wrapper

see the example code here

[spiral narwhal]

Ohhh yes I remember

Thank you

[swift crag]

(oops, InputMaster, not InputController)

[spiral narwhal]

This is from another project:

        /// <summary>
        ///     If the input controller script is enabled, the master is enabled as well.
        /// </summary>
        private void OnEnable()
        {
            Master.Enable();
        }

        /// <summary>
        ///     If the input controller script is disabled, the master is disabled as well.
        /// </summary>
        private void OnDisable()
        {
            Master.Disable();
        }

Is there a reason why they are disabled by default? Doesn't that just lead to lunacy like that?
I guess what I'm asking is, shouldn't the reverse be the default setting

[timber tide]

because

[swift crag]

maybe if you only have a single action map or something

(which is roughly how the PlayerInput component behaves -- it enables an action map for you)

but if you have a Walking action map and a Flying action map and a Driving action map, it doesn't make sense to have all of their actions firing all the time

[spiral narwhal]

🤷‍♂️ Maybe. But thanks for your help :D

[rancid tinsel]

is there a better way of doing this?

[polar acorn]

You can just do transform instead of gameObject.transform and .parent is already a transform so you don't need to get the transform from it

Also you could just use GetComponentInParent

[rancid tinsel]

would that work if its 2 objects deep?

as in its a child of a child of the object i want the script from

[polar acorn]

Pretty sure,

[swift crag]

digging around the hierarchy like this will work, but it's also very brittle

if you change the layout at all, you suddenly can't find what you're looking for

you should try to just directly reference things you need

[languid spire]

also transform.root.GetComponentInChildren

[wary dagger]

why is that error appearing?

[timber tide]

open the prefab and make sure all scripts are intact

also try not crossposting

[hidden sun]

hi, how i can manually unsubscribe?

[swift crag]

If you use an anonymous function, you'll have to actually save that exact delegate and unsubscribe with it later.

An identical-looking anonymous function won't work, since they're two different instances.

[hidden sun]

i unsubscribe on a scene to resubscribe in next scene

[swift crag]

Yes. If you do this:

callbacks.Kicked += () => ...

then it's impossible to unsubscribe, since you don't have a reference to that exact delegate anymore

callbacks.Kicked -= () => ... would do nothing, because that's a completely separate object

I would create methods to replace those anonymous functions, and subscribe/unsubscribe those.

[hidden sun]

oh, ok ty

[wary dagger]

how would i go on and use the "highlight" variable in another if statement?

[summer stump]

Declare it outside of the if statement

Remove the var in front and just do highlight =

Make it either a variable declared just inside the first getbutton or a class variable

[vagrant bramble]

Hi, I have a question regarding animation frame when dialogue is activated.

This is my code: https://paste.ofcode.org/363FzMs62P4y8JDvSLW45Cg

I implemented animator enabled to be false to stop the animation but now when my character is sprinting or walking and I start dialogue, it pauses at the last animation frame in either walk or sprint mode.

Is there another way to implement the code so that it defaults to my idle animation and doesn't allow the player to do any movement keys once we are in dialogue mode?

[timber tide]

I think you should refactor your code then if you need to disable your animator to force idle position.

[vagrant bramble]

What does refactor your code means?

Or should I add a SerializeField for indialogue, and then let animator detect it is in dialogue and transition animation to a idle pose?

[timber tide]

means consider changing up your logic, because if your character isn't doing any actions, they should default into an idle state, no?

[vagrant bramble]

but how would I script it in here

[vagrant bramble]

Yes, but I don't want to allow the player to be able to press the move button becuse it looks funny in dialogue that the player is running nonstop

since they can still walk but in a static position

[timber tide]

I'd first look into disabling input for that then

[vagrant bramble]

ok, so in this case I have to specific the move input to be disable right? else they can't press anything for dialogue to continue. I'll look that up

[timber tide]

if movement is tied to dialogue keys, then you could consider using a flag to determine if you should move the player

probably the most simplest way if you don't want to go into creating different input maps

[wary dagger]

why isn't the rotation part working at all? no errors or nun

[pearl lodge]

Getbutton and getbuttondown? Why not just getbuttondown? Print out the angle and see what it gives you.

[wary dagger]

cuz i need to clone the object once and then rotate it every frame when the player holds

[eternal needle]

Have you debugged what the angle is specifically? Also what's the use case for this, it does look strange

[wary dagger]

it always debugs 0

[queen adder]

what do i do?

[timber tide]

you look at the error and debug

[queen adder]

it says it cant convert float to a vector 3

[summer stump]

I would assume acceleration needed would be a float? Did you declare it as as Vector3?

Either way, magnitude is a float

[pearl lodge]

Try to print(highlight == null) if true that you are not creating an object

[queen adder]

its a vector 3

does it need to be a float?

[summer stump]

Depends on what you're doing with it

Magnitude is a float though

[queen adder]

in this case im going to add it to targeted direction and apply that as a force to an object

[pearl lodge]

Like mentioned above it depends. Right now you have a single number and saying ok now map it to x y and z? How you gonna do that with one number?

[summer stump]

Then maybe just add direction directly instead of making this accelerationNeeded variable at all

You can add vectors together. You can't add a float to a vector (but you can MULTIPLY it)

[queen adder]

okay

im just a bit confused on what to do for my grab system

A guy was telling me to add magnitude to a direction

[summer stump]

You would multiply it in that case

They just used the wrong term

[eternal needle]

Finding out why that happens would be a good start, maybe say what you're trying to do in terms if your game though so people can suggest a better way

[summer stump]

Multiplying a vector by a float will change the magnitude while keeping the direction the same

[queen adder]

so how do i know what to multiply it by

[modest dust]

The first step would be to understand what you're doing

Both from a gameplay and math perspective

[queen adder]

i dont know im just confused

my goal is just to get a object to a target point physics based

[covert sinew]

        //Make a list of the empty objects in the GridLayout panel
        List<GameObject> _gridEmpty = new();

        foreach (GameObject child in GridLayout)
        {
            _gridEmpty.Add(child);
        }

Why is this throwing a InvalidCastException: Specified cast is not valid. error?

[languid spire]

presuming GidLayout is a transform then it's children are also Transforms

[covert sinew]

It's a GameObject with a RectTransform, and the child objects I want to destroy in it have normal Transforms.

[languid spire]

ok, show the declaration for GridLayout

[covert sinew]

Hold on, I think I might have fixed it, let me check.

[wary dagger]

it is creating the object it just doesn't rotate towards the mouse

[covert sinew]

Yeah, I managed to figure out what was wrong, thank you for the help.

[wary dagger]

why does the angle always debug to 0

[rancid tinsel]

does this look okay for animating the character based on their movement speed?

[queen adder]

how do i post code?

[rancid tinsel]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

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

📃 Inline Code

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

[rancid tinsel]

i recommend the first one

gdl.space

really simple to use

[modest dust]

First of all, why would you do a foreach but still access the array by index, second of all, there's this thing called the Animator which has a speed property

[rancid tinsel]

can you access it with animSprites[sprite]?

[modest dust]

The sprite is already the Sprite you want.

[queen adder]

cool

[rancid tinsel]

oh yeah youre right

[queen adder]

 
 
if (Holding)
        {
            TargetDirection = TargetPoint.position - Grabbed.position;

            Grabbed.transform.GetComponent<Rigidbody>().AddForce(TargetDirection * 2f, ForceMode.Acceleration);



        }

[queen adder]

how do i make it so it gets exactly to the target point with physics

[wary dagger]

why does the angle always debug to 0

[rich adder]

make new var for Mouse in the world
var mouseWorldPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(mousePos)

[queen adder]

can somebody help me positioning a UI text in a sprites position

[rich adder]

is this a code question, cause this is a coding channel

[sage mirage]

Hey, guys! Why I see that instead of the text I want to activate?

[wary dagger]

still nothing

[sage mirage]

Whenever my player enters the other trigger I want to activate the text inside the text component

[rich adder]

did you Import the TMP essentials

[sage mirage]

Yes of course!

[rich adder]

can you screenshot the TMP component

[rich adder]

is the script running ?

[queen adder]

yeah, i mean doing it via script

[rich adder]

so is the sprite a world object ?

use WorldToScreen

[queen adder]

probably just change the text order in layer to a bigger number like 100

[queen adder]

i tried, and the text pops but not in the position of the sprite

[rich adder]

did you replace the var in the Atan2 btw

[wary dagger]

yh

[wary dagger]

yh

[queen adder]

@wary dagger you tried this?

[rich adder]

show me how you wrote it

[wary dagger]

tf

[rich adder]

show the console prints

[sage mirage]

Here

[rich adder]

I have a feeling your camera is Prospective isnt it..

[wary dagger]

yh

how's that a problem tho

here btw

[rich adder]

yup prospective cam

[wary dagger]

do i change that to orthographic?

[rich adder]

orthographic = no depth

do you not want depth in your game

are you doing 2D or 3D

[wary dagger]

yh but how else can i fix that

[wary dagger]

3d

[rich adder]

just project onto a plane and get that direction then

with screentoray

[dawn kestrel]

is there a function that can find a new Vector3 by taking an old Vector3 and a quaternion?

[south sky]

Yo @rich adder you probably dont remember me but you helped me out before thanks

[rich adder]

you tried a different font ?

[rich adder]

what?

[south sky]

Anyone know if you can run scripts from instantiated prefabs on start?

[rich adder]

why wouldnt you

also prefabs dont run scripts

gameobjects do

prefabs are just "templates" to a gameobject

they arent a thing during runtime

[wary dagger]

like this?

[rare basin]

Can't understand something, maybe someone can help me out with it, i'd be glad. I am generating a grid via this code

    private void GenerateGrid()
    {
        gridCells = new RoomGridCell[gridSizeX, gridSizeY];

        for (int x = 0; x < gridSizeX; x++)
        {
            for (int y = 0; y < gridSizeY; y++)
            {
                gridCells[x, y] = new RoomGridCell();
                gridCells[x, y].roomIndex = new Vector2Int(x, y);

                if (y + 1 < gridSizeY) gridCells[x, y].top = gridCells[x, y + 1];
                if (x + 1 < gridSizeX) gridCells[x, y].right = gridCells[x + 1, y];
                if (y - 1 >= 0) gridCells[x, y].bottom = gridCells[x, y - 1];
                if (x - 1 >= 0) gridCells[x, y].left = gridCells[x - 1, y];
            }
        }
    }

then I have a startingRoom at index [7,7] in the grid. The gridSizeX and gridSizeY is both 15. I don't understand why startingRoom.top is null :/

        RoomGridCell startingRoom = gridCells[gridSizeX / 2, gridSizeY / 2];

        Debug.Log(startingRoom.roomIndex.y);
        Debug.Log(startingRoom.roomIndex.y+1);
        Debug.Log(gridSizeY);

        Debug.Log(startingRoom.top);
        Debug.Log(startingRoom.right);
        Debug.Log(startingRoom.bottom);
        Debug.Log(startingRoom.left);

[queen adder]

@rich adder can you see the video?

[rare basin]

8 is less than 15, so why it didn't assign .top here?

[rich adder]

well no this only works if you hit something

is your game top view ?

[wary dagger]

45°

[south sky]

I want a box to appear in a random point out of 2 positions set on the prefab when the prefab is instantiated, any idea how I would do this.

[rich adder]

check out this vid talks about
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.html
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Plane.Raycast.html
https://youtu.be/TyAlFihknfQ

[dawn kestrel]

Let's say there's a sphere whose center is 0,0,0, and I've been given a point on the surface of the sphere in the form of a Vector3, and a rotational translation applied to the sphere in the form of a quaternion. Is there an existing Method that I can call to find what the new Vector3 location of the point would be?

[rich adder]

mkv doesnt work on discord. you need mp4

[queen adder]

ok wait its converting

want to see scripts?

[modest plover]

hello how do i make a window that changes graphics settings before opening game

[rich adder]

ah yeah Most likely, i just forgot which, need to remember it

maybe someone else knows

[rich adder]

sure but send as links

like https://hatebin.com

[south sky]

I want a box to be instantiated at a random point out of 2 positions set on a prefab when the prefab is instantiated, anyone have an idea how I code this. I dont now how I would reference the coordiante positions of the 2 points that are in the prefab

[rich adder]

when you instantiate something you get an Object in return

MyScript myObject = Instantiate(etc...
var someVariabel = myObject.MyPublicVariable```
same as
```cs
GameObject myObject = Instantiate(etc...
var someVariabel = myObject.GetComponent<MyScript>().MyPublicVariable```

[queen adder]

https://hatebin.com/iwsfmayahq

oh wait i see one problem let me fix it and see

https://hatebin.com/aanqyafqqt same problem

[rich adder]

private void Start()
{
rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();
}

public void Pop(Vector2 screenPos)
{

rectTransform.anchoredPosition = screenPos;

}

isnt this script on the pieces?

[queen adder]

yeah did that, check the second link but the problem is same

[rich adder]

no i know but its wrong

[queen adder]

pieces scripts

[rich adder]

yes but you want the textPop

[queen adder]

yes, when the piece is clicked

[rich adder]

yes but you're doing GetComponent

rectTransform = GetComponent<RectTransform>();

this is wrong if the script is on the piece

[queen adder]

its not on the piece

[rich adder]

you need the rectTransform of the text

[queen adder]

this is on a text

[rich adder]

so why does it have OnMouseDown ?

[queen adder]

i just pasted two codes from two different scripts

[rich adder]

when you send a script dont omit the class name etc.

[queen adder]

ohh wait

[rich adder]

theyre both the same script..

just changed up

[queen adder]

https://hatebin.com/qkkyfsfeya

[rich adder]

hmm curious about something, can you show one of those sprite pices you spawn

like their pivot n stuff

[queen adder]

maybe its cuz of canvas settings?

cause i tried scaling it with screen size so it fits on every screen but it actually has no point in that case

[rich adder]

yeah maybe you need to account canvas scale

iirc it just worked for me last time

have you tried regular .position =
instead of anchored pos

just curious if it prob is canvas scaling messing with it

[queen adder]

yesss thankssss

how was that shit so easy ive been sitting here for 3 hours

[rich adder]

it worked?

nicee

[queen adder]

yes yes

[swift crag]

anchoredPosition is relative to your parent.

[rich adder]

ahh true

[queen adder]

and what is localPosition then?

[rich adder]

relative to parent but world coords, the anchoredPos is the position from anchor

[swift crag]

localPosition doesn't care about the anchors (which determine whether or not your RectTransform stretches)

I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. I need to go play around with that a bit.

[kindred stratus]

How can I make my 8 directional character controller 4 directional

[rich adder]

modify it

[queen adder]

is there a way to Instantiate the gameobject youre firing the script from?